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Speaker 3: Welcome in episode one, What's Right with Nick Wright? Huge
Speaker 3: show today. You know, the other day I said we
Speaker 3: were gonna try to have a quick show. I don't
Speaker 3: know that I can promise you that today because we
Speaker 3: have so much to do. We have an NFL Draft recap.
Speaker 3: Round one of the NBA playoffs are over. Round two
Speaker 3: has already begun. Steph Lebron Part five starts tonight. So
Speaker 3: much to get to right now, however, we must get
Speaker 3: to what. And by the way, my lovely daughter newly
Speaker 3: eighteen year old daughter, Diora Diora, don't leave me hanging.
Speaker 3: She's here hosting with me. Appreciate it. She's on the show.
Speaker 3: She just had a birthday this weekend. It was wonderful.
Speaker 3: It was lovely. Here's what did not make the cut
Speaker 3: for today's show. Not on today's show, and Hopkins saying,
Speaker 3: who said I want to go? Yeah he did? Uh, DeAndre,
Speaker 3: I thought the Chiefs might trade for you. I thought
Speaker 3: someone might trade for you. You definitely thought someone's gonna
Speaker 3: trade for you. That's why there were trade rumors. Aaron
Speaker 3: Rodgers a Little Madison Square Garden double dip Ranger game,
Speaker 3: then a Knicks game, and then Lebron gives some bad
Speaker 3: wildlife advice, talking about if you see me fighting a
Speaker 3: grizzly bear, help the bear. That is actually a verse
Speaker 3: from a mystical freestyle. I preferred the tweet that he sent,
Speaker 3: which was a verse from Kingdom come back in six
Speaker 3: from jay Z. But regardless, we'll get to Lebron in
Speaker 3: a bit, But first to you or oh, that's a
Speaker 3: look at the sea. That's an unnecessary photoshop with me
Speaker 3: helping Lebron with a grizzly bear, give me a break.
Speaker 3: That is no way to start the show. We have
Speaker 3: too much to do to be distracted by this nonsense. Also,
Speaker 3: by the way, speaking of birthdays, as we mentioned yours
Speaker 3: eighteenth birthday was this weekend. Our executive producer Matt Ford's
Speaker 3: birthday is today, so happy birthday to Matt. Do your
Speaker 3: what are we starting with?
Speaker 4: So today we're going to start with the Warriors pulled
Speaker 4: off the series comeback against the Kings. Curry had fifty
Speaker 4: in game seven. Yeh, if only someone, someone on this
Speaker 4: show said that you'd regret picking the Kings. It must
Speaker 4: be hard for you as a Warriors hater and a
Speaker 4: sax Stan. Steph is entering Top ten conversations. But you
Speaker 4: still doubt the Warriors. You gave your flowers to Curry
Speaker 4: and also said the Warriors would have won if Fox
Speaker 4: stayed healthy.
Speaker 3: No, the Kings would have won.
Speaker 4: The Kings would have won if Fox stayed healthy. So
Speaker 4: which is it? Are the Warriors lucky? Or is it
Speaker 4: time for you to admit that you were wrong about
Speaker 4: them again?
Speaker 3: Can it be a little of boat?
Speaker 4: No, it's a yes or no question.
Speaker 3: It's actually not a yes or no question. Is an
Speaker 3: either or question. It was it? Was it this? Or
Speaker 3: was it that? That is not a yes or no question, ma'am.
Speaker 3: It's also a little of both. The Warriors did get lucky.
Speaker 3: Darren Fox was thirty two, seven and six on good
Speaker 3: efficiency and was taking care of the ball. He then
Speaker 3: broke his finger and averaged instead of thirty two a game,
Speaker 3: twenty four a game. The efficiency fell off the map
Speaker 3: and the turnovers double. That was a huge factor in
Speaker 3: this series, right, So that's where they got lucky. Where
Speaker 3: I was wrong is underestimating Steph's ability by himself, with
Speaker 3: some help from Kevon Looney, to just carry this team.
Speaker 3: And this is where so listen and we'll get to
Speaker 3: Lakers Warriors. In a bit, I'm sad for the Kings,
Speaker 3: for the King's part of it. Sabonis needed to be better.
Speaker 3: I didn't love some of their Game seven rotational decisions,
Speaker 3: felt like way too much. Terrence Davis. I felt like
Speaker 3: Game six they went small and may and I understand
Speaker 3: Terrence Davis was part of that Game seven. It's hard
Speaker 3: to kill them too much because they're up at half,
Speaker 3: but obviously that third quarter killed them. They couldn't make
Speaker 3: a basket, they couldn't get a rebound, and Steph went incandescent.
Speaker 3: Steph Curry Game seven, Yeah, incandescent Steph Curry Game seven.
Speaker 3: Most points in NBA history in a Game seven with fifty. Furthermore,
Speaker 3: in the last sixty years, there has been one person
Speaker 3: to score forty five in a game seven win, and
Speaker 3: that was Lebron in twenty eighteen in Round one against
Speaker 3: the Pacers. One guy's done it in sixty years. Durant
Speaker 3: scored forty eight in the game seve they lost. Dominique
Speaker 3: scored forty seven in a Game seven they lost. Lebron
Speaker 3: and o Eight scored forty five in a Game seven
Speaker 3: they lost, So only two even forty five point game
Speaker 3: sevens and wins. Step just had one of them. So
Speaker 3: that then brings up the top ten stuff. And that's
Speaker 3: where it gets tricky because it does feel like there
Speaker 3: are twelve guys for ten spots. So my top ten
Speaker 3: of the last fifty years, which you can check out
Speaker 3: on our YouTube channel, we have individual videos for every
Speaker 3: single player. It is absolutely worth your time. It should
Speaker 3: have gotten me an NBA Awards vote, but I'm not
Speaker 3: bitter about it.
Speaker 4: He's a little bit of My top.
Speaker 3: Ten of the last fifty years goes like this. Lebron Kareem, Jordan, Magic, Duncan, Kobe, Bird,
Speaker 3: a Cheme, Shack, Steph. That's how it That's how it
Speaker 3: was as of the end of last season. That's ten names.
Speaker 3: You then add Wilt and Russell. That's where you get
Speaker 3: your twelve. So where does Steph slot in? There? Has
Speaker 3: Steph now jumped above Shack and a Keem. I've gotta
Speaker 3: it's really hard because Shaq's the most dominant player I've
Speaker 3: ever seen at his peak. The Keem's the greatest defensive
Speaker 3: player since Russell. So the Steph versus Shaq and a
Speaker 3: Keem stuff is tough. But ahead of Shaq and a
Speaker 3: keem Are, Bird, Kobe, and Duncan. And this is where
Speaker 3: it gets really interesting for Steph because he's won on
Speaker 3: the same level of those guys. Duncan five titles, six
Speaker 3: finals appearances, Kobe five titles, seven finals appearances, Bird, three titles,
Speaker 3: five finals appearances, Steph four titles, six finals appearances. He
Speaker 3: is the greatest teammate in modern NBA history, with the
Speaker 3: only close competitor being Duncan. He is not the defender
Speaker 3: Kobe or Duncan was, but he is arguably the most
Speaker 3: potent offensive weapon in the history of the sport. So
Speaker 3: how do you measure that out? The issue for Steph
Speaker 3: when it comes to jumping those guys is a body
Speaker 3: of work problem. And by that I mean, and I'll
Speaker 3: be quick on this, but it is worth noting how
Speaker 3: many truly great seasons do each of them have, so
Speaker 3: Steph Curry And again, you can check this out in
Speaker 3: the video series. And keep in mind the video series
Speaker 3: was done before he won last year's title, or it
Speaker 3: might have been done right when he won last year's title.
Speaker 3: I don't remember, but it doesn't matter. It was being
Speaker 3: done while he was in route to winning the title.
Speaker 3: Great seasons Steph has four first Team All NBAS, two MVPs,
Speaker 3: four total top five MVP finishes. So as far as
Speaker 3: this guy might be the best player in the league,
Speaker 3: he's unquestionably one of the five best players in the league.
Speaker 3: He has four years like that, four first team All NBAS,
Speaker 3: four top five MVP finishes. That's where it gets really
Speaker 3: hard for him against Bird, Kobe and Duncan. Bird nine
Speaker 3: first team All MVP, nine top five MVP finishes and
Speaker 3: three overall MVPs, Kobe eleven first team all in All NBAS,
Speaker 3: eleven top five MVP finishes, one overall MVP, Duncan ten
Speaker 3: first team All NBAS, nine top five MVP finishes with
Speaker 3: two wins. And it's also I know people were doing
Speaker 3: the is he better than Magic argument? I'm not ready
Speaker 3: for that. I don't think that's right. Magic had twelve
Speaker 3: seasons pre HIV twelve seasons. In those twelve seasons, nine
Speaker 3: of them he was first Team All NBA. Nine of
Speaker 3: them he was Top three MVP. Nine of them he
Speaker 3: went to the NBA Finals and won five titles. So
Speaker 3: we can't leaping him over Magic. Now. If he wins
Speaker 3: the title this year, it's different. Go ahead to your
Speaker 3: nothing you wanted to say something, I'm.
Speaker 4: Just gonna say, like, how do we get here?
Speaker 3: Like because the question was about him being top ten
Speaker 3: all time? And so we Here's the problem with people.
Speaker 3: When people do top tens, they include fifteen people in it.
Speaker 3: If you're gonna accurately and adequately do a top ten,
Speaker 3: you've got to say who's in and who's out. Now,
Speaker 3: if you want to say Steph has now done enough
Speaker 3: to jump above Shack and a keem, I'll listen to it.
Speaker 3: Has he done enough yet to jump ahead of Bird
Speaker 3: who would be next in line? I'm not quite there
Speaker 3: yet because he doesn't have the full body of work,
Speaker 3: but I think he will get there, and him versus
Speaker 3: Kobe and versus Duncan will be very interesting. Him versus
Speaker 3: Wilt is always gonna be tough because Wilt did not
Speaker 3: have the winning Wilt was not a great teammate, but
Speaker 3: Wilt was as individually dominant as any player in league history. Obviously,
Speaker 3: All right, what's the follow up here to you?
Speaker 4: How bright do you think the Kings feature is?
Speaker 3: I think it's really good, really bright, But I'm not
Speaker 3: ready to say this definitively alright in pencil not pen
Speaker 3: They might have a what are you laughing about that,
Speaker 3: I'm a wordsmith that I'm painting a picture of my
Speaker 3: words writing in pencil not pain Yeah, there you go exactly.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that would quite be a metaphor.
Speaker 4: No, it's definitely a meph.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure about that. Here's the thing for the Kings,
Speaker 3: and this is what I'll write in pencil, not pin
Speaker 3: So Bonus might not be a playoff player and that
Speaker 3: would be a killer for him. Fox is monk is.
Speaker 3: I thought Keegan Murray acquitted himself very well after the
Speaker 3: beginning of that series. But I'm not sure that sis
Speaker 3: could be a it's two, it's just seven games, but
Speaker 3: Sabonis was a problem for them all.
Speaker 4: Right, next, now we are set up for an all
Speaker 4: for an all time round two series Lakers Warriors Lebron
Speaker 4: the Steph Steph is fifteen and seven and Lebron is in.
Speaker 3: The playoffs versus Lebron in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Versus Lebron in the playoffs. Y yikes, but.
Speaker 3: Saying yikes about that stat or yikes about you messing
Speaker 3: up the read I'm not sure. Go ahead, sorry, go ahead,
Speaker 3: go ahead? Sorry? As you were if I.
Speaker 4: See where I am. Okay, sorry sorry, If Lebron loses
Speaker 4: to Steph again, how can you say that this guy
Speaker 4: is the goat and he's not even the greatest of
Speaker 4: his era. How badly does Lebron need this win for
Speaker 4: his legacy?
Speaker 3: Lebron does not need this at all. And this is
Speaker 3: where and I just gave a love letter to Steph,
Speaker 3: but this is where I will not engage. I will
Speaker 3: not engage in a is Steph greater than Lebron argument?
Speaker 3: There is no basis for it, just none. Forget the
Speaker 3: body of work stuff that I just laid out. Where again,
Speaker 3: where I said Steph had four top five MVP finishes
Speaker 3: and four first team All NBAS and Lebron just for
Speaker 3: the record, where he's at on there he has thirteen
Speaker 3: first team All NBAS and fourteen top five MVP finishes. Okay,
Speaker 3: so forget that part of it. And as far as
Speaker 3: oh what if Steph has a winning record against him
Speaker 3: in the playoffs, Check Michael Jordan's record in the playoffs
Speaker 3: against Larry Bird spoiler alert, it's oh to six. Check
Speaker 3: his record against Isaiah Thomas in the playoffs. Check shacks
Speaker 3: record against Carl alone in the playoffs, it's one to eight.
Speaker 3: Here is what actually is on the line in this
Speaker 3: series now, if either one of them win a championship,
Speaker 3: it has massive legacy implications for them both. Lebron wins
Speaker 3: a championship in year twenty, and it is no longer
Speaker 3: debatable who the greatest player of all time is. Steph
Speaker 3: wins a championship in year twenty, and I do think
Speaker 3: he probably he's not in your twenty Pardon me, but
Speaker 3: at age thirty five, that ends the Steph versus Larry
Speaker 3: Bird discussion and makes the step versus Kobe and discussions
Speaker 3: really really interesting versus Kobe and Duncan discussions. Pardon me,
Speaker 3: but here's what Steph has an opportunity to do that
Speaker 3: he's never done, and he should do it because of
Speaker 3: where they both are in their career. And I understand
Speaker 3: Lebron's thirty eight steps thirty five, so it doesn't say
Speaker 3: that different. But here's the reality of Lebron has played
Speaker 3: playoffs in regular season combined sixty five thousand minutes. Only
Speaker 3: Kareem has played more. For some context on that, Steph
Speaker 3: has played thirty five thousand minutes. Damian Lillard has played
Speaker 3: thirty thousand minutes, so all of the minutes on the
Speaker 3: court in Dame's career playoffs in regular season. Add that
Speaker 3: to Steph's career playoffs and regular season, and you have
Speaker 3: Lebron's career. So here is the opportunity that Steph has
Speaker 3: this series, win or lose. And this is why I
Speaker 3: don't care that much about the overall record. He has
Speaker 3: played Lebron in the playoff series four times and a
Speaker 3: play in once. He has never once outplayed never once.
Speaker 3: The twenty fifteen finals, Lebron was thirty six thirteen and nine,
Speaker 3: Steph was twenty six five and six, and Lebron was
Speaker 3: so dominant in that thirty six thirteen and nine they
Speaker 3: gave Finals MVP to a guy who evered sixteen points
Speaker 3: because he held Lebron to thirty six, thirteen and nine.
Speaker 3: The twenty sixteen finals, Lebron was thirty eleven and nine
Speaker 3: and Steph was twenty two, five and four. The twenty
Speaker 3: seventeen finals, Lebron was thirty four twelve and ten and
Speaker 3: Steph was twenty seven eight and nine. And the twenty
Speaker 3: eighteen finals, Lebron was thirty four nine ten and Steph
Speaker 3: was twenty eight, six, and seven. There has never been
Speaker 3: a single finals that Steph out played Lebron, not one.
Speaker 3: So I understand he has the winning record because for
Speaker 3: he's fifteen and seven for eight of those wins, and
Speaker 3: only one of those losses he had Durant with him
Speaker 3: in twenty fifteen. It was Lebron, Moscow and Della Vedova.
Speaker 3: They had healthy, evenly matched teams once in twenty sixteen
Speaker 3: and that led to one of the greatest finals ever
Speaker 3: and Lebron having the greatest three game shut in the
Speaker 3: history of the sport. So it will be good talk
Speaker 3: show fodder. It is also utter nonsense if we had
Speaker 3: and again that is not disrespectful to Steph. It is
Speaker 3: just an accurate reading of the situation.
Speaker 4: Next, okay, so you know look away demons.
Speaker 3: But you think Demanse by the way, is watching no
Speaker 3: chance watch. I disagree with you. I think he's watching it.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's watching it live. Oh he's there, Demo.
Speaker 3: Look at this. Whoa wow, he's in studio.
Speaker 5: Oh I am indeed watching bro the throw shade there
Speaker 5: I'm watching.
Speaker 4: Is this your first time, screw you?
Speaker 5: But yes, this is my first time being in the office.
Speaker 5: It's not my first time watching it live, though.
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 5: I also also sent you a little bit of money
Speaker 5: for your birthday yesterday.
Speaker 3: Did you get it?
Speaker 4: I did get it, all right.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to make sure that I didn't get
Speaker 5: a message or anything.
Speaker 3: You know, But I love you. Guys.
Speaker 4: Supposed to play Fortnite last night.
Speaker 5: This didn't text me for that either.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, hold on sibling rivalry notwithstanding diora if
Speaker 3: you could read this question, because then I do actually
Speaker 3: want to talk to Demand for a moment about this series,
Speaker 3: just because this is his team. But go ahead.
Speaker 4: Okay. So the seventy six Ers won Game one last
Speaker 4: night and the Celtics behind James Harden's forty five. The
Speaker 4: scariest part is Embiid didn't even play. What does Demonse
Speaker 4: have to say about it?
Speaker 3: Well, we can ask him directly, but I also think
Speaker 3: we have a tweet of his that we can show
Speaker 3: Demanse we not worried about it, is all I'm gonna say,
Speaker 3: laughing emoji, laughing to hide his tears and fear emoji.
Speaker 3: So what's the question here, Scoot?
Speaker 4: Everyone is going to overreact to this Celtics loss.
Speaker 3: Are you all right, So before I answer, because and
Speaker 3: you guys can then cut my mic for a moment,
Speaker 3: because I know there's to be some audio weirdness with
Speaker 3: demanse answering. Demonse are resident Celtics fan, give us your
Speaker 3: take on this game and that series in the series.
Speaker 5: Hey man, I just don't think that what the Sixers
Speaker 5: did and what James Harden did yesterday is sustainable. The
Speaker 5: Celtics is gonna pick it back up. You know, we
Speaker 5: always tend to get sloppy. I'm not worried about it
Speaker 5: one hundred percent. Think that you should fear what's going
Speaker 5: to happen next to the Lakers a lot more than me.
Speaker 5: I'm feeling good about it. I'm not worried about it
Speaker 5: at all.
Speaker 3: Okay, here's why I do think, And let's turn off
Speaker 3: Demonse's mic for a moment just so the audio works better.
Speaker 3: I do think there is reason for concern for Boston
Speaker 3: in this regard. Boston has not looked like the championship
Speaker 3: favorite that they allegedly are since the first game of
Speaker 3: the postseason. The first game of the playoffs they blew
Speaker 3: out Atlanta. It looked like that series was going to
Speaker 3: be a laugher. The second game of the playoffs, they
Speaker 3: beat Atlanta. It was maybe a little closer than you'd wanted,
Speaker 3: but it was fine. It looked like the series is
Speaker 3: gonna be a laugher. They then lose to Atlanta in
Speaker 3: Game three, lose to Atlanta at home in Game five,
Speaker 3: and then need a furious fourth quarter comeback to beat
Speaker 3: Atlanta in Game six. You then play Philly with no
Speaker 3: embeid Harden, fresh off of Vegas trip. He drops forty
Speaker 3: five on you, and some really an odd game from
Speaker 3: Jalen Brown and some odd postgame comments from Jalen Brown.
Speaker 3: Jalen Brown was six of seven in the first quarter
Speaker 3: of that game, finished the game eight of ten, so
Speaker 3: after the first quarter he took three shots the rest
Speaker 3: of the game. He's asked about the end of the
Speaker 3: game when he was trying to push in transition and
Speaker 3: then didn't and he when they ended up getting a
Speaker 3: shot like violation on the play, and he says, uh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I was trying to run, but no one was running
Speaker 3: with me. He also has this very odd hand cut
Speaker 3: on his hand that he said he got from picking
Speaker 3: up a vase. Okay, his like the Jalen Brown thing.
Speaker 3: Is something to monitor and be at least semi concerned about. Furthermore,
Speaker 3: there's another one to your further the Celtics lost a
Speaker 3: game where they scored thirty eight points on eighty five
Speaker 3: percent shooting in the first quarter. I've never seen a
Speaker 3: team shoot eighty five percent in a quarter ever. I'm
Speaker 3: sure it's been done. I don't remember ever seeing it.
Speaker 3: And this is why not taking care of business and
Speaker 3: playing with your food, or as Doc Rivers unfortunately called it,
Speaker 3: not taking care of business and playing with your meat,
Speaker 3: can come back to bite you. The Celtics, had they
Speaker 3: won Game five against Atlanta, this series against Philly would
Speaker 3: have started on Saturday. EMBIID would have missed that game.
Speaker 3: Clearly was not going to be ready for Game two,
Speaker 3: which was going to be today yesterday, and maybe miss
Speaker 3: game three. Now you go longer with Atlanta, you lose
Speaker 3: game one. Now EMBIID doesn't even have to come back
Speaker 3: for Game two, and Philly has already stolen home court.
Speaker 3: So I'd love to get more from Demons on this,
Speaker 3: but it does seem like it's The audio is not
Speaker 3: great when we go back and forth with him using
Speaker 3: the producer mic Hey. But I will say this. The
Speaker 3: other thing, someone should tell Demonse's guy, Robert Williams time
Speaker 3: Lord that the playoffs are here, because he's supposed to
Speaker 3: be their X factor and the guy's getting twenty minutes
Speaker 3: a game and is yet to have I think he's
Speaker 3: had one super high impact game, so I think there
Speaker 3: are a lot of warning signs for Boston. Conversely, Philly
Speaker 3: at some point has to get some respect considering they're
Speaker 3: undefeated in the postseason despite Embiid only playing two games
Speaker 3: fully healthy and three games at all, and they're five
Speaker 3: and zero, and right now, if you remember, you know
Speaker 3: my pick was Lakers Sixers. The two teams with the
Speaker 3: best record since the All Star Break across the entire
Speaker 3: NBA are the Lakers and the Sixers. And shout out
Speaker 3: to Harden. Playoffs have been a bugaboo for him his
Speaker 3: entire career, and not only forty five, but a step back,
Speaker 3: go ahead three in the final twenty seconds. There's this
Speaker 3: big time in the final thirty seconds that was as
Speaker 3: big time as it gets. Now, do I think Philly's
Speaker 3: a lock for the series. I don't because I don't
Speaker 3: know the health of him Bid, But the idea Philly
Speaker 3: was a ten point dog yesterday Boston losing that game.
Speaker 3: It really is a disaster for him. All right, last
Speaker 3: one of the first segment, you are.
Speaker 4: Despite poor shooting all around, Denver took a two to
Speaker 4: zero lead on the Suns. Yep, Jokics, Sorry, yeah, you
Speaker 4: got it. Jokics looked like the best player in the world,
Speaker 4: while Katie couldn't even buy a three. Yeah, you picked
Speaker 4: the Nuggets in this series. Are you worried at all
Speaker 4: that this is King's Warriors two point zero?
Speaker 3: No? I I think Phoenix is in real trouble. I've
Speaker 3: been saying that. I said it when they were beating
Speaker 3: the Clippers. They do not have a bench, and yesterday
Speaker 3: Manti Williams actually tried to He played eleven guys. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do this math quickly. Twenty six plus sixteen is
Speaker 3: forty two plus eleven is fifty three plus nine is
Speaker 3: sixty two plus five is sixty seven plus. He played
Speaker 3: his bench seventy minutes, So there's only two hundred and
Speaker 3: forty minutes in zwo of playing Diamond a game forty
Speaker 3: eight minute game, five guys on the court, two hundred
Speaker 3: and forty minutes. He played his bench for seventy of
Speaker 3: those two hundred and forty minutes. So what is that like?
Speaker 3: Right around twenty eight to twenty nine percent something like
Speaker 3: that of the game was given to the bench. How
Speaker 3: many points do you do you or I know you
Speaker 3: didn't watch the game it was on late. How many
Speaker 3: points do you think those that bench seventy twenty nine percent? God,
Speaker 3: that's satisfying. Let's do seventy over to forty quickly.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 3: How many how many points do you think those bench
Speaker 3: players combined for in their seventy minutes of action? Give
Speaker 3: me a range. Well, the least they could score a zero. Well,
Speaker 3: the team scored as a total eighty seven points. The
Speaker 3: bench played about a quarter or twenty percent of the game.
Speaker 3: How much do you think the bench scored? Hold on,
Speaker 3: I'll help you out. I'll give you this. The Nuggets bench,
Speaker 3: which played fifty four minutes, had thirteen points, So not
Speaker 3: that much. I'm gonna say twenty four. The bench scored
Speaker 3: four points. The bench was two of sixteen from the
Speaker 3: field gave you nothing once again, Damian Lee gave you
Speaker 3: twenty six unproductive minutes. Josha Koge, who was a bench
Speaker 3: player but started for you, was one of three from
Speaker 3: the field for two points. So your non big four
Speaker 3: guys were a combined three of nineteen for six points.
Speaker 3: Not gonna work. You then add to it that Chris
Speaker 3: Paul tweaked his groin shocker the sunder in dire straits,
Speaker 3: and then you have the odd Kevin Durant part of it,
Speaker 3: which is duract. Listen, Durant was not good in this game.
Speaker 3: In these playoffs as a whole, he's been good. It's
Speaker 3: been twenty eight a game, twenty eight nine and five
Speaker 3: on fifty percent from the field. He's been good, but
Speaker 3: not as dominant as I think people expected him to
Speaker 3: be good enough. Say it again, Yeah, it seems unfair,
Speaker 3: but that's what it feels like. He hasn't had a
Speaker 3: single I'm Kevin Durant, I'm gonna, you know, destroy your
Speaker 3: world game yet this postseason. He's been very consistent. Yesterday
Speaker 3: was his first bad game from a field goal percentage standpoint,
Speaker 3: but twenty seven, twenty five, twenty eight, thirty one, thirty one,
Speaker 3: twenty nine, twenty four. But they need more. And and
Speaker 3: I said this, and Brew and I don't know wild
Speaker 3: degreed or disagreed, but the minutes were going to catch
Speaker 3: up to him. Minutes played in these playoffs are in
Speaker 3: forty four, forty four, forty one, forty four, forty four,
Speaker 3: thirty six because they got blown out forty four. Booker's
Speaker 3: been excellent, not enough. I think the Suns are in
Speaker 3: real trouble. And all the Jokic stuff, I know people
Speaker 3: are going to recreate my history on Nikoli. Jokic never
Speaker 3: said the guy's a bad player. I simply said I
Speaker 3: did not think he deserved his two previous MVPs. I
Speaker 3: also said this year I would have been fine with
Speaker 3: him winning MVP if he hadn't won the previous two,
Speaker 3: because this year he fit the bill of an actual MVP,
Speaker 3: had unbelievable stats, the team was the one seed. They're
Speaker 3: a real contender. But I wasn't gonna let I wasn't
Speaker 3: okay with Yokic winning three in a row. With all
Speaker 3: that said, he was extraordinary yesterday and he's been awesome
Speaker 3: this postseason. And Lakers Nuggets in the Conference finals, which
Speaker 3: we saw in the bubble, is gonna be great and
Speaker 3: we're gonna get it again because the Lakers are beating
Speaker 3: the Warriors. I didn't actually give that just real quick here,
Speaker 3: I think Lakers Warriors is going to follow the exact
Speaker 3: same beats as Lakers Grizzlies, where the Lakers win Game one,
Speaker 3: lose Game two, win Game three and four, lose Game five,
Speaker 3: win game six. I think that is gonna be the
Speaker 3: beats of this series. And I think the Lakers out
Speaker 3: in order to hurt my ankle. In order to win
Speaker 3: a championship, the Lakers are gonna have to probably go
Speaker 3: something close to undefeated at home in the postseason. They're
Speaker 3: a quarter of the way they are at three and
Speaker 3: Zo Deora excellent first segment, Demonse, that was delightful seeing you.
Speaker 3: It's also don't care Season five, Demonse wrote on wrote
Speaker 3: on a piece of paper, what'd you say to yours
Speaker 3: so they can see him? I think, yeah, well, well,
Speaker 3: here's the thing to you ere, this is an audio
Speaker 3: and a video enterprise. So some people just listen to
Speaker 3: your podcast, so they can't see all our cool graphics,
Speaker 3: are cool studio, your lovely outfit today. They can't see
Speaker 3: any of that. They just they are just you know, listening.
Speaker 3: So I have to, you know, walk, I have to
Speaker 3: read for them. Demonzi says, season five, that's not happening.
Speaker 3: Pal season five is not happening. This Celtics could win
Speaker 3: the series. But Celtics and five is not happening. And
Speaker 3: the Suns and that Chris Paul injury. If he's out, man,
Speaker 3: it's not that he's been great, but they don't have
Speaker 3: the depth. And that was the concern with putting all
Speaker 3: your eggs in a basket with a thirty seven, thirty
Speaker 3: eight year old point guard thirty how old's drink thirty four.
Speaker 3: There's some real, real risk there, and I think they're
Speaker 3: seeing it now. Quick break, sixty second, break right back,
Speaker 3: talk a little NFL draft, and play a cool game.
Speaker 3: That's all next.
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Speaker 3: All right, Welcome back, do that every time, Welcome back
Speaker 3: in Let me have it, okay, just remind me and
Speaker 3: I'll let you have it, but it sounds bad and
Speaker 3: we both do it. I'll just let you have it.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: Your brother is in La watching from the studio. I
Speaker 3: never let him do that, but he also didn't have
Speaker 3: the audacity to even try to do that. Demonse understood
Speaker 3: his role as the co host, like we are both well,
Speaker 3: don't have to have the same argument. Next you're gonna
Speaker 3: try to argue with me a barbecue or something. We
Speaker 3: don't need to be in reruns already you're wrong. That's fine,
Speaker 3: don't worry about it. But welcome back in and you
Speaker 3: can do that in the future. What are we doing
Speaker 3: with before we get to our game?
Speaker 4: So we're gonna talk about the NFL draft has come
Speaker 4: and gone. Yep, And there's lots of talk about qbs
Speaker 4: and oh my gosh, qbs and the Lions taking.
Speaker 3: And taking a running back, taking a running back.
Speaker 4: But most importantly, do you think people already throwing the
Speaker 4: Eagle Super Bowl parade is a bit much?
Speaker 3: Okay, listen, I do like what the Eagles did. Jalen
Speaker 3: Carter could have been the number one player in the draft.
Speaker 3: Massive off field concerns, but the talent is undeniable. They
Speaker 3: think they have the culture to deal with it. At
Speaker 3: number nine, they traded up from ten to nine. I
Speaker 3: get it. The player they took at thirty Nolan Smith
Speaker 3: is the guy I wanted the Chiefs to draft at
Speaker 3: thirty one. So I'm not gonna act like I don't
Speaker 3: understand why people are loving days after the draft what
Speaker 3: the Eagles did. It should be noted on Nolan Smith
Speaker 3: that despite his insane combine measurables athletic freak tests that
Speaker 3: he had that he just ace, he was not wildly
Speaker 3: productive at Georgia last year. He only played eight games
Speaker 3: and sacks can be a misleading number. Where he only
Speaker 3: had three. The guy only had eighteen total tackles. So
Speaker 3: the upside is there situational pass rusher down to down.
Speaker 3: I say again, I wanted him on my team. But
Speaker 3: the other thing that I think Howary Roseman is really good,
Speaker 3: I also think there is some confirmation bias thus far
Speaker 3: in how we evaluate him. Okay, so let's just go
Speaker 3: through his first round picks over the last few years.
Speaker 3: Because he's been great at trading, great at being aggressive,
Speaker 3: fight drafting, Jalen Hurts in the second round. Believing in him.
Speaker 3: All that stuff is a triple plus the draft. However,
Speaker 3: last year they took Jordan Davis at number thirteen. The
Speaker 3: jury is out on him. I think he's good. I
Speaker 3: think he'll be good. Nobody can act like what they
Speaker 3: saw from him his rookie season, which was marred at
Speaker 3: the end by a high ankle sprain enough to definitively say,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, no doubt that was the right pick. The
Speaker 3: year before, they took Devonte Smith at number ten. I
Speaker 3: like that pick a lot. I think that was the
Speaker 3: right pick. Now, it's not fair to be like, would
Speaker 3: you have rather had Micah Parsons at twelve? Of course
Speaker 3: you would have, But the question is him versus the
Speaker 3: receivers that came after him. He's been better than Kadarius Tony,
Speaker 3: obviously better than Rashad Bateman. So you like that pick.
Speaker 3: The year before that, in the first round, they took
Speaker 3: Jalen Rager over Justin Jefferson. That is a massive miss.
Speaker 3: The year before that, in the first round, they took
Speaker 3: Andre Dillard, and that was a massive miss. They they
Speaker 3: took Derek Barnett. I don't know how he was there
Speaker 3: when they took Derek Barnett. They took Derek Barnett in
Speaker 3: the first round. He's fine, I don't. I don't think
Speaker 3: many Eagles fans would say, oh yeah, he's he lived
Speaker 3: up to that first round pick. And obviously the Wins
Speaker 3: extension was a disaster. So I do think there was
Speaker 3: a little too much of media group think and just
Speaker 3: drafting all Georgia guys. I think could have some downside
Speaker 3: to it, but I like their players. I like the
Speaker 3: guys they got, and if my team were drafting in
Speaker 3: those spots of two, I would have wanted.
Speaker 4: Them to take How do you think the Chiefs did?
Speaker 3: So they addressed their three biggest positions of need. They
Speaker 3: didn't move up to get Nolan Smith. They stayed where
Speaker 3: they were, and they took the Kansas City kid from
Speaker 3: k State Azuma to be a defensive end. That's back
Speaker 3: to back first round picks they've used on defensive end.
Speaker 3: Last year they obviously had two thanks to the Tyreek
Speaker 3: Hill trade. I liked Carl Loftus last year. We'll see
Speaker 3: what Ozuoma does in the second round. They they, according
Speaker 3: to the consensus boards, reached massively on Rareshi Rice, the
Speaker 3: wide receiver from SMU Now. He was wildly productive in
Speaker 3: college and they obviously liked him. I I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: act like I scouted Rashi Rice. I'm not a draft guy, wils.
Speaker 3: I wanted them to go defensive end, wide receiver or
Speaker 3: wide receiver defensive end in that order they did. They
Speaker 3: just got to be right on the player. And then
Speaker 3: they took an upside tackle in Juanya Morris. And again
Speaker 3: they traded up in the second and third round to
Speaker 3: target both of those guys. So those were clearly players
Speaker 3: they really wanted. And so then you just gotta see
Speaker 3: if they end up being you know, last year they
Speaker 3: crushed the draft. Only Seattle had a better draft than
Speaker 3: him last year, So you gotta wait and see. They
Speaker 3: did address their biggest positions of need. Now I do
Speaker 3: want to spend a couple of minutes here talking about
Speaker 3: the other big stories of the draft. Okay, I cannot
Speaker 3: overstate what a long term disaster I think the Texans
Speaker 3: draft is going to prove to be. Everyone loved. I
Speaker 3: shouldn't say everyone. A lot of people loved it because
Speaker 3: they end up with their quarterback CJ. Stroud and the
Speaker 3: best defensive player, Will Anderson. The price they paid to
Speaker 3: go get Will Anderson in trading the twelfth pick, the
Speaker 3: thirty third pick, and this is the most important part.
Speaker 3: Next year's number one pick is bananas. It's in. The
Speaker 3: Texans could be the worst team in the league next year.
Speaker 3: They they traded away the number one pick of the draft,
Speaker 3: or maybe the number one pick of the draft, their
Speaker 3: number one pick. If the Texans loved will Anderson that much,
Speaker 3: you could just stay it too, draft him at two
Speaker 3: and then at twelve take another blue chip player like
Speaker 3: Christian Gonzales, or trade out of that pick, which you
Speaker 3: obviously could have, so you can draft Caleb Williams, who
Speaker 3: is a generational prospect next year, or Bryce may or
Speaker 3: even if you just love CJ. Stroud CJ. Stroud on
Speaker 3: this team, They're not going to be good next year.
Speaker 3: I can't believe the Cardinals. The Cardinals very likely. I
Speaker 3: shouldn't say likely. It is absolutely on the board that
Speaker 3: the Cardinals go into next year's draft with the first
Speaker 3: and second pick of the draft. They could be the
Speaker 3: worst team. The Texans could be the second worst team.
Speaker 3: So I thought the Cardinals crushed. I thought what the
Speaker 3: Texans did was back crazy, And now I want to
Speaker 3: defend the Lions for a moment, all of my smart
Speaker 3: media friends. They are in agreement on one thing. The
Speaker 3: Lions draft was stupid. They drafted these non premium positions
Speaker 3: and they didn't get the value they needed all of it.
Speaker 3: Here is my tepid defense of the Lions. I don't
Speaker 3: think drafting the second best running back in the draft
Speaker 3: at twelve is good strategy. I don't think drafting an
Speaker 3: inside backer at eighteen is good strategy. I understand that.
Speaker 3: I think the Lions looked at it like this. They
Speaker 3: must have believed that Jamiir Gibbs it's good enough in
Speaker 3: a normal draft to be far and away the best
Speaker 3: running back in a non Vjon Robinson draft. Everyone agrees
Speaker 3: that Jack Campbell is the best inside linebacker. Everyone agrees
Speaker 3: that Brian Branch, the safety that they gotten around two,
Speaker 3: is the best safety. And they must have fallen in
Speaker 3: love with Sam Laporta, a player I liked, but everyone
Speaker 3: was shocked that he went before Michael Meyer. But they
Speaker 3: had the opportunity, so I think they looked at this
Speaker 3: draft and said, with our first four picks, we can
Speaker 3: get the best or the second best player in the
Speaker 3: entire draft at four positions and instantly have for the
Speaker 3: next five years, a top level starting safety, a top
Speaker 3: level starting tight end, a top level starting inside backer,
Speaker 3: and our top level running back. I understand the positional
Speaker 3: value part of it. I understand why analytically speaking, it
Speaker 3: was not sound. But I also understand the lion's perspective
Speaker 3: of Okay, we're sitting there at where was there forty five?
Speaker 3: We could get the seventh best receiver or the best safety.
Speaker 3: We're sitting there at eighteen. We could get the fifth
Speaker 3: best pass rusher or the best inside backer. We're sitting
Speaker 3: there at twelve we could get the fourth best offensive
Speaker 3: lineman or a running back we love. I don't necessarily
Speaker 3: agree with it, but I don't think it's as quite
Speaker 3: as insane as what seemingly everyone else in the analytical
Speaker 3: community thinks it is. So those were my big draft takeaways,
Speaker 3: and now we can move on to the game.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Okay. In this game, we are going to
Speaker 4: run through each of the remaining playoff teams, and you
Speaker 4: will give us a reason why you think they should
Speaker 4: they can win the finals, or reason why you think
Speaker 4: they can't win the five, and what each team's X
Speaker 4: factor will be. Yep, we've heard you talk enough about
Speaker 4: the Warriors and Lakers, though, So we're gonna stick to
Speaker 4: the teams who can actually win.
Speaker 3: Okay, well that's that's a cheap shot at both the Warriors.
Speaker 4: And anyways, first off, the Celtics.
Speaker 3: All right, why can they win the finals? Embiid not
Speaker 3: fully healthy, home court throughout, Tatum plays out of his mind.
Speaker 3: That's why they can win. That's their path. Why they
Speaker 3: wouldn't win is a really weird Jalen Brown situation. I
Speaker 3: just I haven't loved his quotes. I haven't loved. I
Speaker 3: thought yesterday was bizarre taking three shots in the final
Speaker 3: three quarters. I think that could play a huge role.
Speaker 3: And the X factors their rookie head coach Joe Missoula,
Speaker 3: and the Joe Missoula has not exactly bathed himself in
Speaker 3: glory thus far this postseason. And even if they get
Speaker 3: out of Round two Spolstra, what they have waiting for them,
Speaker 3: and that the best coach in basketball, that could be
Speaker 3: a hell of a challenge in round three. So to me,
Speaker 3: the are X factor is Joe Missoula, without question. All right,
Speaker 3: next seventy six ers? All right, so why very simple?
Speaker 3: Outrageous depth and the MVP. That's why why not would
Speaker 3: be playoff Harden? If playoff Harden who yesterday was not
Speaker 3: playoff Harden. And that's a great thing. And the X
Speaker 3: factor is Tobias Harris. I feel like we know what
Speaker 3: we're gonna get from MAXI. We know if and be healthy,
Speaker 3: what we're gonna get from embiid. If Tobias Harris can
Speaker 3: consistently just give you what he gave you last night,
Speaker 3: which is not a ton but right or what let
Speaker 3: me see what he finished with last night? I think
Speaker 3: it was right around twenty. Tobias last night had eighteen
Speaker 3: points on sixteen shots, made two threes. That's all you
Speaker 3: need from it. It's very simple for them.
Speaker 4: Next, okay, next is the Knicks.
Speaker 3: Okay, the Knicks can't win the title. I'm sorry Knicks fans,
Speaker 3: and you're mad at me.
Speaker 4: Say why they could?
Speaker 5: Though?
Speaker 4: And why not? You'd think there's nothing they could.
Speaker 3: I mean, the other teams canceled their flights. The Knicks
Speaker 3: can't win the title. They can't gonna walk out.
Speaker 4: Of here and there's gonna be a listen.
Speaker 3: And then the Knicks have been better than I expected.
Speaker 3: I was wrong about them to a degree, but they
Speaker 3: don't have enough top level talent. They just don't. They
Speaker 3: can't win the title. Why not? They don't have enough
Speaker 3: talent the X factor, call it the MSG crowd. That'll
Speaker 3: be great, but sorry, we just let's just move on.
Speaker 3: Next the Heat. Why can Why can the Heat win
Speaker 3: the title?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Jimmy freaking Butler and Eric Spolstrom, the best coach in
Speaker 3: the league and a dominant playoff player. That's that's why
Speaker 3: they can win the title. It's very simple. Jimmy Butler
Speaker 3: and now he turned his ankle and we got to
Speaker 3: see how healthy is. I bet he plays tonight. But
Speaker 3: they have the best coach and they have a guy
Speaker 3: who has been playing at the highest level of anyone
Speaker 3: this postseason. That's why they can't. Why they can't is
Speaker 3: the overall talent's not enough. They're leaning a lot on
Speaker 3: Kyle Lowry and then you get to Struce and Vincent
Speaker 3: and Caleb Martin and a Zeller brother wearing a mask.
Speaker 3: The X factor is Kyle Lowry. Does Kyle Lowry have
Speaker 3: one more great playoff run in him? If he does,
Speaker 3: man that's a backpad is a tough ass back court
Speaker 3: man in Butler and Lowry. All right, Next, the Suns
Speaker 3: why could they? Booker and Durant have the highest scoring
Speaker 3: run of any champion duo ever. That's their only way.
Speaker 3: The highest scoring duo of any champion ever is Shaq
Speaker 3: and Kobe and one at fifty nine a game. They're
Speaker 3: gonna need Booker and Durant to be sixty five a
Speaker 3: game for them to win the title. Wow, okay, why not? Depth?
Speaker 3: They have no bench, they barely have a starting five.
Speaker 3: It's very simple. Why not? And the X factor is
Speaker 3: Chris Paul's health. If Chris Paul's growing, like even if
Speaker 3: he's health I don't like him in this series. If
Speaker 3: he's not healthy, they're cooked. And the maybe there's news
Speaker 3: on that since we've been on the air, I haven't
Speaker 3: seen it. But the soft tissue injury for Chris Paul,
Speaker 3: you could see that coming a mile away. They're playing
Speaker 3: him forty minutes a night. In Round one. I kept
Speaker 3: saying this was a bad idea, and it had it
Speaker 3: already came to fruition.
Speaker 4: Next the Warriors.
Speaker 3: The Warriors is not next. The Nuggets are next.
Speaker 4: Oh yah, we said.
Speaker 3: We're not doing the Warriors of the Lakers. That was
Speaker 3: your own words. Why can the Nuggets? I'm just telling
Speaker 3: you why can the Nuggets Jokic continuing to play at
Speaker 3: an insane level, plus their overall continuity and depth of roster.
Speaker 3: It's not that they're crazy deep, like they go ten guys,
Speaker 3: but you don't need to go ten guys. But what
Speaker 3: they have right now is they have seven guys they
Speaker 3: deeply trust with a sneaky eighth man in Christian Brown,
Speaker 3: but Jokic, Murray, Gordon Porter, KCP Uncle Jeff Green, and
Speaker 3: Bruce Brown. You trust them all in the playoff in
Speaker 3: these moments, and Christian Brown's been good, why wouldn't they
Speaker 3: win the title? Michael Porter Junior, they need him to
Speaker 3: be a consistent threat from the outside. And he's a
Speaker 3: weird guy in that he doesn't have many B games.
Speaker 3: He has an A game and then some C and
Speaker 3: D games. And the X factor is the altitude. The
Speaker 3: X factor for them is a home court advantage when
Speaker 3: you are playing every other day, that is like any
Speaker 3: other team in the sport, because guys get there and
Speaker 3: they don't have the stamina for it. Like if they
Speaker 3: were to be in the conference finals, they will play
Speaker 3: either the Lakers or the Warriors. Lebron is old. Can
Speaker 3: he handle that altitude. Staff runs more than any player
Speaker 3: in league history when he doesn't have the ball. Can
Speaker 3: he handle the altitude with them having home court advantage.
Speaker 3: It's a legitimate question, and that is the X factor.
Speaker 3: How well trained their opposition is to deal with that altitude.
Speaker 3: All right, that was a really good game. Answer your
Speaker 3: questions in the C block questions and comments. That's next
Speaker 3: What's Right? All right? Welcome back in What's Right with
Speaker 3: Think Right? Episode one forty seven. You're supposed to do
Speaker 3: the welcome back in Scoot, No.
Speaker 4: Wen, I do it for the other one that you
Speaker 4: already took for me.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, all right, we'll start that next week. All right,
Speaker 3: what are the questions that we're gonna read?
Speaker 4: And so first question, Yeah, Gabrielle, I think it's Gabriel.
Speaker 3: It might be Gabrielle. My guess is a demand. So Gabriel,
Speaker 3: what is that? Because I think I've seen the metrics
Speaker 3: on our show. We're about eighty six percent male, fourteen
Speaker 3: percent female.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, he says he's going to Kansas City
Speaker 4: in a few months, and what are the top three
Speaker 4: barbecue spots? There are also Happy Birthday?
Speaker 3: Oh, Arthur Bryant's Jack Stack and Joe's Kansas City. Those
Speaker 3: are the top three.
Speaker 4: Next, Arthur King said, do the Chiefs trade for d Hot.
Speaker 3: No that now that they use the second round pick
Speaker 3: on a wide receiver. I don't know that they and
Speaker 3: they don't want to spend the money on it. I
Speaker 3: don't know, other than Tony, if they have a top
Speaker 3: flight talent in the receiver room. But they certainly have
Speaker 3: enough bodies. So right now, the Chiefs wide receiver depth
Speaker 3: chart is Kadarius Tony, who was a number one pick
Speaker 3: three years ago for the Giants, sky Moore or I
Speaker 3: guess Cadarius number one pick two years ago, depends on
Speaker 3: how you look at it. Sky Moore was a second
Speaker 3: round pick for the Chiefs last year, Rashie Rice, who
Speaker 3: was second round pick for the Chiefs this year. MBS.
Speaker 3: There's four. They signed Richie James, they like Justin Watson
Speaker 3: who was on the team, and they have a flyer
Speaker 3: on Justin Ross. So that and so, no, I don't
Speaker 3: think they're adding any more receivers. I kind of wanted
Speaker 3: them to spend an asset in the draft on a
Speaker 3: tight end because I wanted them to be able to
Speaker 3: learn from Kelsey. But they didn't prioritize that, all right, Next.
Speaker 4: Okay, so coach Mysstik asked, if there's truly twelve guys
Speaker 4: for ten spots, which he agrees on, why don't we
Speaker 4: just make top twelve the measuring stick from here on out?
Speaker 3: Listen. I'm fine with that Club Superstar, which we do
Speaker 3: every year on the show in which is being debuted
Speaker 3: next week on First Things First, Club Superstar is a
Speaker 3: very strict twelve person rule, one in, one out A.
Speaker 3: People can't throw around the superstar wards. Sorry for hitting
Speaker 3: your shoes, baby. The superstar word to you know, liberally,
Speaker 3: and it's twelve men and NBA teams are twelve men essentially,
Speaker 3: So I'm good with that. But other people aren't. People
Speaker 3: like top tens. They like big, easy round numbers, and
Speaker 3: because of that, I listen. The top twelve is inarguable
Speaker 3: the twelve greatest players in league history are, and we
Speaker 3: could argue about the order, but they are lebron Kareem
Speaker 3: Michael Magic, Russell, Wilt Duncan, Kobe Bird, steph Akeem Shack.
Speaker 3: That's twelve. After that, you then get into another section.
Speaker 3: The old timers in that section are West Oscar, doctor
Speaker 3: j Moses, the kind of bridge. The gap guy in
Speaker 3: the section is Isaiah Thomas, and the contemporaries in that
Speaker 3: section are Jannis and Durant. That's seven. They're their own
Speaker 3: bucket of guys. And then that next group, one of
Speaker 3: which is a top twenty player. The others are not
Speaker 3: are Waged, Dirk, Garnet, Mailman, Mike, and if we want
Speaker 3: to go way back, pettit Coozy that that group of guys,
Speaker 3: and it gets complicated from there. Again. I'm sure I
Speaker 3: left someone else someone out when I was talking about
Speaker 3: that next bucket of people, but I think for the
Speaker 3: most part we got it. Is there anybody I said Derk?
Speaker 3: I think I said Chrome alone. Barkley's in there. The
Speaker 3: CP three's probably in that next little group. It gets complicated,
Speaker 3: gets hard a lot of NBA history. What about Luca, Well, Luca,
Speaker 3: you know, obviously will be there. And Luca, you know,
Speaker 3: I had twentieth on the fifty graders of the last
Speaker 3: fifty years. This year kind of hurt that and he
Speaker 3: needs to put a few more pelts on the wall.
Speaker 3: But Luke obviously is gonna be there. Let's just keep moving,
Speaker 3: go ahead, all right.
Speaker 4: Adam asked well, the Warriors shooting and pace where down?
Speaker 4: Where down? Lebron more than Memphis? Who and the Lakers
Speaker 4: can guard Curry?
Speaker 3: Well, listen all in short and versa order. First of all,
Speaker 3: Vanderbilt will start on Curry, but they're gonna be switching
Speaker 3: everything and the nobody really can guard Curry. The point
Speaker 3: is can you can you affect him enough? Can you
Speaker 3: take away the other things? Can Anthony Davis make sure
Speaker 3: Looney doesn't kill you on the offensive? Class the Warriors shooting?
Speaker 3: So this is so interesting for both the Warriors and
Speaker 3: the Lakers because it's going to be a culture shock
Speaker 3: for both teams. So the Warriors go from playing a
Speaker 3: team and that's all offense, no defense, to the best
Speaker 3: defense in basketball that is going an incredibly long, incredibly strong,
Speaker 3: incredibly physical. Are the Lakers. The Kings are all finesse,
Speaker 3: so that's gonna be a tough adjustment for them. The Lakers,
Speaker 3: on the flips, I'd go from playing the worst shooting
Speaker 3: team in the playoffs Memphis, to the best shooting team
Speaker 3: in the playoffs and the Warriors. That's gonna be a
Speaker 3: culture shot. Who adjusts most to that is key. I
Speaker 3: also do think while Lebron typically treats game ones as
Speaker 3: feel out games that tonight's game is a sneak. Gotta
Speaker 3: have a game for the Lakers because after tonight, it's
Speaker 3: every other night for the entirety of the series. And
Speaker 3: tonight the Lakers they're coming off some rest. The Warriors
Speaker 3: are coming off of seven game war. So I think
Speaker 3: the Lakers need this win.
Speaker 7: Next Fozy a Gene a Gene said, Nick, you said
Speaker 7: that Giannis losing in the first round can affect him
Speaker 7: being the best player.
Speaker 4: So does Luca not making it into the playoffs affects
Speaker 4: his high rating? He also lost in the first round twice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Luca losing in the first round to the
Speaker 3: Clippers two years in a row, a few years ago,
Speaker 3: when Luca was absolutely sensational in those series and the
Speaker 3: Clippers had Kauie and Paul George for the entirety of
Speaker 3: about those series, that didn't negatively affect him. This year
Speaker 3: and being the lower rated seed losing of the Clippers,
Speaker 3: it's very different than being a one person eight but
Speaker 3: this Yeah, of course, I went into the year saying
Speaker 3: lucas the second best player in the sport. I no
Speaker 3: longer say that can't say anymore. Can't miss the play
Speaker 3: in and be healthy most of the year, just can't.
Speaker 3: That's so yeah, he's it did affect his rating absolutely,
Speaker 3: so there's no question about it. So yeah, I love Luca,
Speaker 3: but he did not the team. The MAVs were a
Speaker 3: failure and all effects. So is Lucas still a superstar? Yes?
Speaker 3: But can I call him one of the two best
Speaker 3: players in the sport anymore? I cannot doora you were
Speaker 3: excellent today? Oh you don't want a rating? No, I
Speaker 3: don't nine point zero your best one yet, Demonse.
Speaker 4: Usually last one was a nine point two.
Speaker 3: No it was I thought it was an eight point nine.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have to check the tape on that. Uh.
Speaker 3: If it was, then I'll readjust because this was your
Speaker 3: best performance yet, Demonse. It was great to see you,
Speaker 3: my son. You're doing great in Los Angeles. We love you,
Speaker 3: we miss you. Uh. Sorry that you know your Celtics
Speaker 3: are going to lose the Sixers is gonna be tough
Speaker 3: for you to deal with, but you know, such as life.
Speaker 3: If they'll Demanse, I will tell you this, if we
Speaker 3: get a Lakers Celtics finals and they're in LA, I
Speaker 3: will buy you tickets.
Speaker 4: I want everyone to know how loud he is.
Speaker 3: Right now, okay, well do you where interrupted me? If
Speaker 3: we get Lakers Celtics Finals, that would mean the Lakers
Speaker 3: have are at home for games three, four, and six.
Speaker 3: I will buy you tickets Tomanse to a great bar
Speaker 3: in Santa Monica to watch the game. I hope you
Speaker 3: enjoy that. Talk to you guys Thursday for the show
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