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SGA was sensational game in 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:53.040 game seven, thirty five points, three steals, three or four 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.079 from the three point line plus thirty two. 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.079 Also Jalen Williams, he got his game back. 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.600 Also he's ten or seventeen, two or five from the three, 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.399 two or three from the free throw line, five rebounds, 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:08.200 seven assents, a steal plus thirty five. But I thought 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.400 the biggest difference in the ball game was out of Caruso. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.799 They did something we hadn't seen a very long time. 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:14.960 I don't think I've seen it since high school. They 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.640 played the box in one, they played zone all across 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.760 the court and they said, ads, Caruso, we want you 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.119 to know the hell out of Jokic, and he did 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:25.080 an unbelievable job because in twenty six minutes he was 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.960 plus forty. He gave you eleven points, five or seven 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.880 from the field, what of three from the three point line. 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:34.639 He had three assists, three steals, plus forty and twenty 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.200 six minutes of action. And I don't think you can 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.880 get any more than they what they He gave them 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.760 everything they thought they would get from him. He's always 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.520 been known to the defender. Now he's added a little offense. 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:45.680 To his game. 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.840 Joe, watching this game, I thought the Nuggets came out really, 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.400 really well, but you kind of saw towards the end 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.520 of that first quarter they started turning the ball over. 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:54.920 And when you turn the ball. 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.080 Over against a team that got young, young legs, they 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.560 get out on you in transition. And they turned those 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.080 turnover and the points, and I thought they really turn 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.720 flipped the game late in the first quarter, and then 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.200 they carried it all over into the second quarter. When 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:10.200 you watch this game, I mean you probably thought, like 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.920 I was, like, Okay, the Nuggets came to play today, 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.840 Aaron Gordon sucking it up knowing that the hamstring is bad. 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:17.839 You could tell the way he was moving. It's really 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.200 and it really inhibited what he was able to do. 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.000 What you like about what you saw from the Thunder 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.760 once they seized control of this ball game late in 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.760 the first quarter. I mean that first quarter was exciting, 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.160 but it made me a little nervous for OKC because 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:34.360 you know, Denver. 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:35.440 Came out with it on they mind. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:36.560 But what not. 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:38.320 But when I was sitting there watching the game, I'm like, 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.720 it's bron gonna win the game for him because he 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.360 got off to a great start as far as gets 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:44.200 some easy bugites. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:44.720 He got going. 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.359 But I said, that ain't gonna last long, you know. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.160 And then I'm watching Gordon run up and down the court. 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:52.240 Ain't no way they supposed to let him off the 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:53.640 hook man. He supposed to put him in pick and 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.520 roll before they get into the zone. You got to 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:56.360 make him work, make. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.760 Him move him. Yes, he couldn't get up and down 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.880 that floor. Oh Jo, Yeah, So what for me? 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.440 I thought, Okay, See he came out and done they thing, 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.520 and they took care of Game seven. When they when 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.039 they finally did get a hold of the game, you know, 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:11.480 I felt like they put their foot in the gas 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.960 and they just they kept going they didn't let up, 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.200 and it's good to see the young team come out 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.559 take care of home court. Because i'mn'na be honest with y'all. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:20.560 I don't know about y'all, but I don't want to 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.200 see a hobbled Denver team going in. But you know 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.839 he would, so no, I'm glad, Okay, see handle business. 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:27.120 It was. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:28.800 It was a great game. I'm glad to see that 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:30.680 they came out and they took care of business at home. 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:32.960 Hey, hey, yeah, go ahead. 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.240 Now, I was gonna say, listen, the Kree Morris rats 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.200 at the top, especially the game of this magnitude, this 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.240 game seven. So you want, you want the MVP to 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.720 come up, the show out, winning matters most which you 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.400 back against the wall. Obviously lost the previous game in Denver, 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.719 but HGA came out on He delivered the biggest moment 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.240 of his career. Obviously took date. I'm sure there would 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.600 be more to come. Thirty five twelve for nineteen. Shoot, 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.719 he was unstoppable. He took advantage of all the mismatches. 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.520 He tossed the goddamn them and drop covers. See in 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.520 the close out, see you see John learning that I 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:07.720 see Lingo hem lingo, I hear, I hear it. He 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.680 would listen. He was efficient and he would excuse me, 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.560 and he was able to control Denver's crowd very early. 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.400 Well, I think they think that also, Joe, is that 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.200 you can tell Denver's not used to play in a 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.160 zone because they kept giving up the back door lobs, 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.559 They kept giving up the back door, they kept giving 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.040 the ball up, giving it up in the post. And 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.080 then now the guy turns around and he got guys 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.880 wide over for threes. And they didn't know how to 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:32.840 turn and put bodies on bodies to keep people off 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:33.640 the offensive glass. 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.880 So now you see, okay, see getting offensive rebounds. 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.000 Now you see them getting easy put backs because you're 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:41.880 not you. You know, you go to play a zone 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:43.480 like okay, we're gonna play the zone, and you work 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.440 on a little bit and shoot around and you might 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.720 hit it five or six times, you know, five or 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.440 six minutes. But that's not what you normally do. It's 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:52.800 just to change up to trying to throw the team 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.760 off their rhythm. And you can tell they're not used 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.479 to playing the zone because they gave up so many loves. 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.400 They gave up the ball to the one thing you 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.080 don't want to do in his zone is give them 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:02.880 all up in the middle. 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:04.400 Right, I have a question. 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.360 I got to go ahead and and and Joe y'all 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.280 could probably attest to this and answer better than me. 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.120 Why would you change that what you're doing in game 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.320 seven defensively? Why would you even run zone when. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.240 That's something you really haven't been doing much of when 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.360 you had success doing what you've already been doing previously. 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.040 Because we're trying to protect Aaron Gordon because we know 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.000 he can't move. He can't move latterally, so we got 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.080 to try to protect it, and so we're trying to 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.520 protect it, and we're trying to give them something different 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:30.360 than what they're used to. Let's see if they can 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.480 make some shots outside. But because that's not something that 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.800 it's not like Syracuse. You play Syracuse, Jim Behin, you're 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.280 gonna see that two three zone and you might get 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.360 you might get man the man late in the game 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.840 because they're trying to get steals. But other than that, 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.920 you're gonna see two three that's what they do. So 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.880 you understand that. So now I'm just trying to change 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.880 up to look, Oh, Joe, you know we're a couple 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.240 of single high safety team. But you know what, to 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.120 give you a different look, we might sprinkle a little 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.480 quarters in there. We might figure sprinkle a little cover too, 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.280 but that ain't really what we do right right, Look, 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.960 that's not what diver does. Go ahead, o, Joe. I'm 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.080 not mad at Denver for throwing the zone. And I 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.960 thought they created them. I thought they created uh some 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.160 indecision on on the thunderpart. Early you know, they couldn't 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.239 make shots and then they started forcing to the whole. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.720 They layups, so I think it flustered them a little bit. 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:18.440 But once they kind of got the hangover it, they 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.640 just they demonested. They started making shots, they started getting 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.720 into the teeth of the defense, and it was a 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:24.440 route from there. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:24.720 You know. 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.120 They they basically seized the moment. Man, they took care 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:31.120 of this game early. Uh, this wasn't close, you know, 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.000 considering by the second quarter and you could tell it 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:35.000 was gonna be pretty much over. 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.480 There's too many turnovers, you know. 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.560 Look, in a game of this magnitude, I'm gonna let 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:42.480 you go, Joe, in a game of this magnitude of 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.440 Game seven or an NFL playoff game, you cannot turn 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.480 the basketball over. You can't turn the football over. You 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.200 play double and you're turning Think about where they're turning 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.400 the ball over. They're turning the ball over high Joe. 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.560 So now you got a two on one. They laying 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.960 the ball up the breaking their every past. Yes, they 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.840 were turning them. Turn on was in the points quickly 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:06.079 and Denver were guys hobbled. You know they don't have 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.280 but they didn't have enough fire power to come back 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.160 on the road in the game seven. Man, they needed 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.719 Jamal Murray to play great. They needed to play unbelievable. Yes, 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:17.560 they needed They needed contributions for a lot from a 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.720 lot of different people, and they just didn't get it. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:20.640 Man, they didn't get it. 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.440 Hey, listen, we also have to do we talk about 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.880 what they did offensively. Now they had twenty two turn 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.240 They had twenty two turnovers. Right, you had six years 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.160 on Aaron Gordon had for Jamal Murray supposed to have 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.040 an outer body experience, you know with Aaron Gordon being down, 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.880 but he only had got damn thirteen and then also 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:41.320 the thunder they suffocated. Joker, cad joke, joke. Yes, they 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.839 want to crowded with bodies, man, Listen, he had twenty 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.440 had twenty eighty nine. But obviously that wasn't enough. There 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.160 had to be somewhere else where points needed to come from. 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.040 And by the time, listen, Honestly, when I watched the game, 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.440 the way they came out, the way Dember came out, 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.360 I really thought they was finna run away with the game. 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:58.040 Need too. 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:00.440 Thought they were the run of the game. The time 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:00.800 it got. 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:02.959 Towards the end of the first I said, you know what, man, 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:04.840 this is over. Now I understand the game of basketball. 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:06.960 It's a game of runs. I've come to learn that. 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:07.280 Man. 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.880 Man, once they got that far ahead, there was no 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.560 way FG was allowing the boards to come back. 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.920 No, you and plus, look at yo, he don't have 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.320 five shot attempts, I mean nine shot attempts. So in 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.400 order for him you need, you needed him to be 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.720 somewhere in the twenties. Now, you wouldn't have been disappointed 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:27.880 if he had twenty five shot attempts. You wouldn't have 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.360 been disappointed at Murray. Now, you'd like to have Murray 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.040 had sixteen, but you like to be him a little 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.199 bit more efficient. But the most disappointing thing this seriason 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.040 was Michael Porter Jr. I understand he's injured, But bro, 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:39.640 if you can't give us any more than that, Bro, 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:40.559 you gotta sit down. 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.840 Ain't giving us nothing. But they shouldn't have nothing. They 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.320 should have known that from jump. If you haven't that, 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.760 they played six games previously for this one. If you 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.280 know NPJ and't give you nothing since, then why not 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.480 change it up? Hell, you did it defensively, you know, 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:55.400 to try to hide Aaron Gordon, so he didn't have 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:56.319 to do much on the floor. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:58.000 So why Westbrook? 0:10:58.679 --> 0:10:59.040 Why not? 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.719 And the plus and plus? Also why would you let 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:04.520 my Why would you let go and bring the ball up? 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.160 He got an injured hamstring. You see what they tried 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:08.440 to do. Like see what they were trying to do. 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.800 They were bodying and didn't move out the way. He 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.640 starts stumbling, lose the ball. He on the file. No, Bro, 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:18.319 you ain't got no balanced Your body knows your body 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.200 gonna protect that ham string for sure. 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.719 Feel that breakaway. He started running like now y'all go 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:24.680 ahead and go I. 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:28.680 Mean grade two, grade two, hey, he hey, look I 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.920 applaud him just for even suiting up and getting out. Yes, yes, 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.400 it was no grade too. Man, but yeah, I want 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.320 to get okay, see thunder. I want to get okay, 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:41.000 see thunder. Credit because Alex Caruso, he fought many. Yes, 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.440 that man, that man ain't but boy six three six 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.720 folk guarding Yokic, he just battling him, wearing them down, 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.800 making him take tough shots, not letting him blow by 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.200 him and get easy points. And I thought, I thought 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.760 it worked out great man. I got a lot of 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:57.640 respect for Caruso in the fight that he had in 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:58.360 this game today. 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:00.000 I thought he I thought, I. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.120 Thought he battled him and made him tired, because you'd 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.520 be on one side and yogis feeling comes back over 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.600 here and you feel him over here, and I'm now 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.720 I'm back behind you. So he was always in a 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:12.280 situation where he's making Yokich work for everything. 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:12.480 That he's getting. 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.439 Now when he does get the ball, here come check, here, 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:22.040 come dork, here come guys corralling him. Said and now 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.120 they're now they're corralling him and putting so much pressure 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.080 on it. And you know he tried to throw the 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:31.199 ball out. It's gone be turning over. He turned the ball, 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:35.160 like you said, O Joe. He had Gordon had four turnovers. 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.800 Yokic had five, Russ had Russ had four. I thought 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:40.880 kind of Russ turnovers like the end of the first 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.080 I kind of thought that got the Thunder out and running, 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:45.680 because he came in and gave you two quick turnovers, 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:47.559 right quick, and it was up ten, and all of 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.520 a sudden, it's a four points. It's a six point 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:54.080 ball game. And now they've got momentum, sick, and now 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.880 they've gotten momentum. And that's where in the road, you know, O, 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:58.800 Joe and Joe. When you go on the road and 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.520 you playing a team's building, you cannot turn the ball 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.800 up because you're gonna get the crowd into the game. 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.000 And as long as you can keep the crowd at bay, 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.160 the better your chances all winning. Once that crowd got 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.880 into the game, the ract Elman started to start burning 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:13.520 those that time like, give me a time back, but damn, 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:14.760 I just took one two minutes ago. 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.640 Guys, just slow it down and then turn it over again. 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:18.679 And now they're out the gate. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.719 And listen, it don't make it no better head the hell. 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.439 All five Thunder starters finished with a plus twenty four 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.200 or better. Right, and the gays and bench they gave 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.280 you thirty four on the bench and kept the energy high. 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:28.760 Y'all game. 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.440 So not only is the crowd into it, hell, everybody 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.720 sitting on the bench getting into the game, plus the 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:35.640 starters was out there cutting the food. 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.840 Yeah, hey, you got Wallace gave him big, big Wallace 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.840 gave him big minutes, he gave him twenty nine. He 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.960 plus thirty eight. Wigas nineteen he gave you plus. He 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.400 gave you a nineteen minutes. He's plus nineteen Caruso, and 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.680 only twenty six minutes he's plus forty. 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.240 I thought that there had to be an MVP. You know, look, 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.480 I Shaye and Shape. Shae did what I thought Shae 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:54.840 would do. 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.560 But I thought it was Caruso's hounding of Yo kis 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.079 May forced him in the turnover with making him take 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.160 quick shots because he had one. He got the ball, 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.560 he forced it up quick, he got the rebound, he 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.360 put it up under it and they took it from him, 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.839 And so I thought he played. I thought Caruso played 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.360 really well, and Shape, being Shape, she is the m 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:13.640 v P. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:15.880 But I thought that Game seven MVP might have been 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:16.640 an Alex Caruso. 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.640 Yeah, I thought, collectively, as a team, they all done 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:23.880 a great job in corraling and making it tough. But man, uh, 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.240 Denver just came out of Game seven like there's two 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:27.920 game seven. 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:28.600 You know what I mean. 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.480 That's a that's a lot of that's a lot of work, Jo, 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:35.240 you know what I mean? Yes, And uh, this game 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.080 of basketball man's for the for them young legs, bro 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.880 and the OKC came and they brought it and they 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:41.320 wore them. 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:42.520 They wore them guys down. 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:44.760 Guys started breaking down throughout the series and they took 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:45.400 advantage of it. 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:46.520 Whoa, whoa, whoa. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.360 I just thought about something. Hold on, I just thought 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:50.600 about something I could have swore. I could have swore. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.320 We had a bet on the game seven, didn't we? 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.280 Did we not make a light a little bet? 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:55.000 Ya? 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.720 You mus be talking to all huh hung Did we 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:01.160 make a a light little bet on the on? 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.000 Yo? You bet you saw? 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.160 I was the one that brought it to your attention 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.360 that God was rubbing that that left hand straight. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:09.800 I want no part of that. 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.200 So that wasn't you. So that obviously, Joe, that might 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:12.440 have been. 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:17.400 That wasn't me, man, I was going for okay, see, okay, that's. 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.400 Right, Okay, we did agree. We did it great with 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.960 s g A. I'm pulling out for Game seven, right. 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.520 But we got but we wait, we got something coming 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.400 up now, this Western Conference Finals. 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.080 Now talk to me now, don't listen, don't don't whatever 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.520 you do, don't be on the wrong side of history. 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:32.800 Don't be on the wrong side of history. 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:37.240 So who you got I'm going with? And Man, I 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.040 was finna say that. Man, are you all okay? 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.000 See? You look like you want to okay? See, And 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:42.800 I'm man. 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.440 Man is basically me reincarnated, but he just on the 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:46.320 basketball court. 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.640 What you're talking about? I talk about on the court 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.840 and off the court. What's the difference? Man, Listen, I 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.320 got the t Wolves. You can take. 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:57.400 Nine. 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.320 Now, okay, I'm giving you the Knicks. I'm giving you 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.920 the Knicks. I'm taking the Listen. I'm gonna tell you 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.080 right now, listen, I already got the script. I'm not 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.320 gonna tell you. I talked to Adam Silver, right. The 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.240 Knicks are going to be in the finals no matter what, 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:11.720 because Bill's got to be paid. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:14.800 Hunky, you don't hear me, Huh, they got a good chance. 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:15.400 I hear you. 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:19.920 Bill's got to be paid. Commercials, sponsorships, endorsements. 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:20.880 They don't need to. 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.400 They're not gonna allow a small market to be in 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.680 the finals. So I'm telling you right now, everybody, well not. 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:30.600 Too small markets, because everybody small marketing other than the Knicks. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.720 Okay, so what do you see what I'm trying? Are 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:33.920 you picking up what I'm putting down? 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:34.840 Yeah? 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:35.400 All right? 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:39.880 Ties plus minus off the bench in the game seven 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:44.160 this century, Alice Caruso plus forty Wallace, Carson Wallace plus 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.720 thirty eight, monug you nobly plus thirty two. Those are 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:51.200 the highest plus minuses off the bench this century. And 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:54.120 they game seven. Like I said, I thought, Alice Caruso. 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.840