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Both games were great games, which I think 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.880 is a setup for a great series. Although Indiana let 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.600 one get away. We'll talk about that. But as I said, 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.560 I thank you all for tuning in and subscribing to 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:41.320 the show. We'll continue to try to bring you new content, opinions, analysis. 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.400 And just good vibes, good time. So let's get into it. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.359 I had the honor of working the game last night 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:51.040 with my TNT family, which is always a great time. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.440 Had the opportunity to have Kyrie at the desk, which 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:56.840 was fun, which we'll talk about. 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.919 But the t Wolves far at home. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.280 In Game one to the Mavericks one o eight to 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:06.839 one oh five, mass are up one oh Luca had 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.040 thirty three eight and six on twelve for twenty six shooting, 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:14.160 but only three for ten from three. Now we'll pay 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.840 attention to that. Kyrie thirty points, four assists, five rebounds 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:21.160 twelve for twenty three from the field, oh for three 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:25.640 from three. A Man had nineteen points, eight assists, eleven 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:30.200 rebounds on six for sixteen, shooting five for twelve from three. 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:37.840 Focus only only took four two point attempts. Now, that 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.640 is an indicator of something which we'll get in. But anyway, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:45.200 stay focused, me too. I'm talking to you, but I'm 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:50.600 talking to myself. Well, Cat sixteen points, seven rebounds, two assists, 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:55.560 six for twenty from the field, two for nine from three. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:59.680 Let them I get in that here. Keep telling you 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:04.920 to stay focus. Well, the Timberwolves may eighteen threes. They 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:09.360 were eighteen for forty nine from three. Dallas were five 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:14.280 for twenty four from three, and I'm sorry they were 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:15.880 six for twenty five from three. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.440 Now, why is that interesting? 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.520 Because we've talked the ball about Dallas spreading the floor, 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:29.359 Dallas guys needing to shoot the three. Well, we need 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.680 Derek Jones Junior to play like he had been playing 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:33.919 in the last series. We need PJ. Washington play like 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.400 he's been playing the last series. We need Josh Green 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:38.159 to step up and hit some shots. We need Tim 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:42.080 Hardaway Junior to step up and hit some shots. That's 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:46.080 been a discussion and I think we're all in agreeents there. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:52.240 And the reason that that's been a discussion is because Minnesota, 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.520 there's no surprise. They play two bigs. They play Rudy 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.760 and Kat together and even once one of those guys 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:03.760 go out, they play nas Reed And so they're more 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:07.400 of the traditional big lineup that you've seen historically in 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:11.280 the NBA. And Dallas is PJ. Washington's at the floor. 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:15.360 Pj's Washington shooting the ball well, Pj's Washington getting putting 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:16.880 the ball on the floor, getting to the rim, putting 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:18.520 the ball on the floor, getting to floaters. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.200 PJ. Washington is doing all that and in. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.920 Turn, it puts bigs and uncomtapositions to where they have 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:27.880 to guard where they don't like the guard which is 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.280 out on the floor. They're guarding closeoutse right like you're 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:33.080 closing out PJ. Washington shooting the ball, so you got 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:34.640 to close out to the body and if he's a 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.960 step faster, then they break the defense down. Right Now, 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.039 you got Rudy Gobert got a step up like and 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.719 not just lost from PJ. Washington, but that is the 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:47.920 overarching theme, right like, you're you got these guys getting downhill, 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.800 whether that's off a drive kick, whether that's off a 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:55.719 drivekick swing, whether that's off of Kyrie or Luca getting 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.680 past their guy and now they're downhill at that big 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:02.040 and they're putting a lot of pressure on the rim. 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.240 Again, don't lose focus. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.200 So where I was going with that was this, Luca 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:12.000 and Kyrie combined three for thirteen from three and Man 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:17.240 and Kat combined five excuse me, seven for twenty one 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:17.760 from three. 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:22.920 Now, the problem with that is. 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.479 Those two along toil twenty one threes, but forty nine 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:31.440 threes to forty nine threes to twenty five. 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:34.919 With the bigger team, the team that has. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:41.760 More size, they rely on that size way more, taking 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.320 the most, the more the threes. And when we were 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:52.960 on the show yesterday, Uh, Chuck's biggest thing was these 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:54.479 guys are going to take a lot of threes and 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.719 they need to knock those threes down. And Minnesota, he 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.880 said it. Kat needs to take advantage of himself. No posting. 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:05.440 Cat really posted up against Phoenix. Uh, he really posted 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:11.120 up against the Clippers. Excuse me, not the Clippers. He 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:16.440 really posted up last series against the Nuggets. And that's 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.760 what he was his most dominant. He had He had 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.480 times in that even especially in that Game seven, where 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.320 nobody else could get anything going and he was the 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:29.880 only one to to continue to carry that team, to 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.520 continue to keep them afloat. And then obviously they got 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.400 it going. They got stops, uh, they put the cuffs 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.840 on Denver, and they were able to take the lead 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.400 in in large part, Yeah, their offense got going, but 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.040 it was in large part. 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.600 Them turning defense into offense. 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.960 And that's where against interesting because we've seen this this 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.880 Timberwolves team all year continue to grow. 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.880 But and they figured some things out. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.960 But the reality is, you do have Rudy Gobert, who 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.000 who spends most of his time at the rim and 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:05.280 the paint, and you have Kat who's on the wing. 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:07.720 But you got a man who want to get downhill 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:11.800 and when Rudy's in the dunker, if you have a 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.640 big like Lively, if you have a big like Gaffer 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.680 that don't have to that don't have to step up 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.280 in order to affect a shot that can play back 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:21.880 at the rim, because if you try to come all 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.840 the way to the rim, they're athletic enough to block. 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.200 And what I mean by step up, if you remember 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.920 a play yesterday from the broadcast, or if you just 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.679 you know, remember it from the top of your mind. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:40.000 Luca Drove he had. I can't remember who exactly was 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.120 on him, but he drove. Maybe Kyle Anderson possibly, but 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:46.640 he drove, and Jada McDaniel stepped up off the guy 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:48.199 in the dunker. The guy in the dunker is the 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.560 guy that's like right near the rim outside the paint. 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.720 There's a little line right there that's called the dunker spot. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:54.920 And you got the guy in the dunker. And I 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:56.880 always talk to you all about the guy in the 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.840 dunker being a live threat. Is it? 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:01.120 He does the same thing. 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:02.559 For your space and as if you have a three 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.320 point shooter, obviously not as much space because that's less 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:05.960 ground to cover. 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.200 But you can't leave. 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.280 The bodies like Klay Thompson on the wing you lead, 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.000 the body is over for you. 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:13.960 You can't leave the body of a live threat. 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:17.959 And Jada McDaniels, who's uncomfortable being in that position, stepped 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.400 up and Lively got the dunk. Luca dropped it right 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:28.600 underneath Lively got the dump. Well, Gaffer and Lively don't 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:32.120 have to do that when the Timberwolves drive, because they're 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.720 big enough to stay back. They're more comfortable in that position, 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:36.480 and you don't want to give up the live we 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:40.640 saw how many lives Minnesota gave up last night, and 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.600 that's a recipe for disaster because it's such a high 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:48.040 percentage play Like Gaffer and Lively, lives are probably in 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.400 seventy five eighty percent play for them, if not higher. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:52.080 And so. 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.120 When you're giving that up consistently, what is doing in 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.960 your defense is brutal like because now you got guys 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.600 that's going to overreact or not right. And I don't 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.920 think they ever overreacted to it, which was a problem 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:08.120 because they just kept getting dunks. The only time they 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:12.640 stopped getting dunks was when towards the end of the game, 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.120 Minnesota finally came up to the level of the screen 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.560 and start level of the screen and start trapping it. 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.240 And once they start trapping it, obviously that's a long 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.080 way for that big to row. They weren't getting the 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:27.120 libs anymore. But to trap like that all game, I'm 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.240 not sure that that's a very sustainable covers like we've 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.360 seen that for years. We've seen teams try to trap 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.400 Steph all game. And if like you just put counters in, 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:39.000 if you put you know, different outlets in and different 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:40.719 things like that, to the trap is dead. And you're 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:46.840 always a man down and very lively is very underrated 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.200 in the pocket. Like that kid, I've watched him over 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.000 and over and over again make the right play in 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:52.679 the pocket, and I've said at times, you know, I 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.920 think he's not aggressive enough, but he seemed to get 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:57.959 more aggressive. He's not eur on in the pocket, he's 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.840 looking to go finish and he's still making that kickout. 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.040 And when you're so if your adjustment is going to 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.240 be to trap, you're always a man down. 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:16.000 And for a team that has kind of built themselves. 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.920 On the defensive side of basketball to just have to 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.280 trap and be a man down, every player is troublesome, 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:28.480 that's bothersome, that's a problem. But their standard pick and 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.760 roll coverage is a drop. And when you're it's funny. 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.800 It was funny or not funny, but just very interesting. 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.840 And playing with CP this year because CP, he would 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.839 always talk about the drop coverage, and like you know, CP, 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.280 throughout the course of his careers has seen drops all 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.520 the time. I haven't seen many teams play drop coverage 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:52.720 because no one's dropping versus steph And if you drop 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.680 verse step then I'll just nail your guy on the screen. 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.880 And he's going to come off wide open, and who 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:00.360 wants that? 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.400 And so everybody's always up at the levels of the 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:07.000 screen with Steph trapping stuff. So I haven't seen many 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:11.440 drop coverages live because that's just never However, if you 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.640 watch Chris Paul play throughout the course of his career, 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.200 he's lived in the mid range, and in part because 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.360 Biggs would always be in the drop and CP would 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.080 talk to me just about how bad the drop coverage was, 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.880 and like he's like, I could get any shot at 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.559 want versus a drop every time. And that's the thing 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:32.000 when you're playing against great guards, in which Dallas has 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.720 two great guards, and when you're playing that drop coverage 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:40.440 the whole game Number one, these guys coming off every 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:41.720 play on you in the drop. 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:43.640 It's too much of a steady diet. 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.600 You give any any great guard in this league a 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:52.439 steady diet of anything, they're gonna eat it up. And 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:56.040 that's what Luca and Kyrie they had. They picked their poison, 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.080 they had their way in the pick and roll. So 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.000 what what is your adjustment, Well, you can say all 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:03.680 they got to come up to the level of the screen, 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.080 and that's not really Rudy's strength. However, I think Rudy 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.560 has been a lot better this year with being up 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.439 at the level of the screen and not just getting 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.800 his I dotted from guards that's coming off the screen 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:15.880 because he's. 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:16.200 In a drop. 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.400 I think he's done a lot better this year moving 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:20.840 his feet when he gets out on the perimeterive even 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.760 if it's a switch, he's been pressing up. He's not 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.200 just letting the guy rhythm rhythm to death, like he's 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.920 forcing guys to make the next action. And even if 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.160 that next action is forcing this guy to blow by me. 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.240 Now I'm running back into the play, essentially going weak side. 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:36.120 I can get a rebound. 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:37.880 I could possibly catch up and get a week side 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:39.000 block if there's a drop off. 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:45.319 Blah blah blah. But the drop coverage, the drop coverage 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:49.480 against great guards, it's a recipe for a disaster. And 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:53.320 especially like I said, great guards, like we have great 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:57.559 guards in this league, that mid range isn't great Kyrie 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:01.719 and Luca mid range and so if you're going to 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:06.559 give them that every time, it's too like it's too 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:13.720 easy for them. And even once you panic the decided 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:16.240 I maybe I'm gonna take the shot away. All it 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.080 takes is a half a second for that role guy 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.600 to get an inch behind you. And if they're athletic 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:25.840 that like Derek Lively, like Daniel Goffer, even if you're 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.600 seven three like Rudy Gobert, it's just impossible to catch 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.000 up because once your weight go a little bit this 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.720 way and that guy is rolling this way, it's impossible 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:35.320 for you to then get back up in the air 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:39.000 with a guy who's diving full speed, athletic as hell, 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.520 and you take one step this way. 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:42.520 Because oh, I'm. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.920 A little worried about Luka Doncis with this basketball and 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.480 right in the middle of the paint. I am scared 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.680 shitless of Kyrie Irving with this basketball right in the 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:55.280 middle of the paint, because I know the damage that 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:58.000 they've done. They they got mid range and floaters to 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:02.680 death again, thirty three points and thirty points. Kyrie didn't 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:08.200 hit a single three and Luca hit three, so it 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.160 wasn't the three that was killing them. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:11.800 They actually got to the paint. 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.480 Sixty two points in the paint Dallas had versus thirty 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:20.360 eight points versus the Wolves. Excuse me for the Wolves, 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:25.640 and again, what we've emphasized is the Wolves being the 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:30.080 team with the most size. However, they don't necessarily always 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.680 score off that size. Like, even with the size, you're 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.280 not really throwing the ball into Rudy Gobert. They threw 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.720 it into him a few times last night. And I'm 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:41.880 not sure a lot of teams go down by points 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.760 per possession, right, Like our ppp? What was our points 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:49.840 per possession when Rudy caught the ball in the pocket? 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.520 What was our points per possession? If Rudy caught the 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:56.080 ball and he had to make a move. I'd imagine 0:15:56.120 --> 0:16:01.080 the points per possession for them was probably eight something 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.080 when Rudy caught the ball in And for those of 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.600 you that don't understand these one like point like, what 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.880 the hell is he talking about? So say, if my 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:14.200 points per possession is point eighty seven, what that means 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:19.520 is every hundred possessions with like you're scoring eighty seven 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:24.160 points over the course of one hundred possession. That's that's 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.840 less Obviously point a seven is less than a point 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:27.560 per possession. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:30.720 That's not going to get the job done. And so. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:36.080 They've got to figure out a how to get at 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:41.800 Man Downhill and Dallas has been the best defensive team. Uh. 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:47.280 Pretty much last quarter of the season and through the 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:51.280 playoffs they've been incredible. They've they're hanging their hat on 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.440 the defensive side of basketball, which is why they could 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:58.640 win a game like last night on the road. Kyrie 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.680 played well, Luka peip well in stretches. I thought Lucas 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.840 started off great, Luca hit a big law, Luca came 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.240 back and did what Luca does and closed them out. 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:15.920 Well. The problem with that is. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:19.880 Kyrie not going to keep on over three from three, 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:22.960 Dallas not going to keep going six to twenty five 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:30.639 from three, and Minnesota shot a very respectable eighteen for 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:35.080 forty nine. So what can Minnesota do to get at 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:36.040 Man downhill? 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.160 Because ant Man spent a lot of time on the perimeter. 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.040 Now, what I will say is this, we look at 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:48.000 the last two games of at They're not his best 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:52.280 displays of basketball, and you start to ask yourself the 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:56.240 question is fatigue setting in because this is their first 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.239 time going through a run like this, and you know, 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.680 you had a very tough series of r September where 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.560 you had to pull out everything that you had in order. 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:06.840 To just get over the finish line. 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.320 And I heard something that those guys were saying last night, 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:13.280 and again I hinted at this on the broadcast. 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.640 Was I heard a man say, you know, I'm tired. 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:20.760 I was tired, and I said right there during the broadcast, 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:22.439 like listen, I have. 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.399 I've been very, very very. 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.919 Big on a man's interviews after these games, and the 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:32.520 reason being is because I know what those interviews mean, 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:35.920 like when you're in a playoff series, I know what 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.040 that means. Number One, I'm looking for any little edge 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.280 I can get. So if that means watching one of 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.879 your interviews to get an edge, damn it, I'm watching. 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.160 And what can that edge be? That aedge can be 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.040 one of many things, but most importantly one thing that 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:57.520 can come from watching an interview is you spot weakness. 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:02.960 And I thought, the great young leader that a man 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.720 is and blossoming into and I think he's gonna be 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:10.199 one of the best. I thought he showed weakness in 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:12.360 the interview last night for the first time. 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:15.600 And I said it on the broadcast. I'm like, yo, 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:16.760 he said he's tired. 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:19.200 You know he said this, He said that I don't 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.320 like that from a man because the ant man we've 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.800 saw this playoffs long and all his career is the 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.520 bravado is Nah, I messed this up. 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.639 I did this. We gotta be better. Nah, I was tired. 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:35.120 We tired and couldn't get up. We didn't have enough 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:40.000 like Nah, that's that's showing a little bit of weakness. 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:47.760 And guess what, kat Rudy, they're not known as the 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:51.439 toughest guys. No disrespect either one of them is just 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.959 not what their mo is. And what a man I 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:57.879 think has done for them is he's given them a 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:01.280 sense of purpose. He's given them a sense of confidence. 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:05.720 He's given them like some dog. He's given them that. 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:09.720 And that's what a great leader does. But guess what 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:13.080 the moment a great leader shows weakness, what does Cat 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:22.120 follow up? What does Cat follow up within his press conference? Oh, 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:26.359 he was tired. And as a leader, that's where you 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:31.760 have to be careful because you start to give guys out. 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:33.280 And man would never look for. 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:36.280 It out, but that don't mean nobody else on his 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:36.840 team will. 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:39.960 And so you start to give guys out. 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:43.040 You don't want to give guys out because guess what 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:46.800 if I'm the Dallas Mavericks, I'm watching that and I'm like, oh, 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:52.320 they tired, get greedy, come back in game too, greedy. 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:56.320 We're coming back in game two for blood. 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:00.400 We're coming back for blood because if we can win 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:02.639 game two, then the idea is, oh, we can go 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.760 home and close this out. It's never that easy, not 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:09.000 sitting here saying the Timberwolves are about to get swept. 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:12.800 But that's gotta be the mindset, and that will be 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:20.440 the mindset. So stay focused, ray Man. So now if 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:22.440 you're the Dallas Maveris and you're like, yo, we shot 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:24.840 twenty four percent from three, making six threes and we 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:28.119 just won this game on the road, you gotta feel like, 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:31.680 if you Dallas, we're gonna shoot better than that. We're 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:34.080 gonna even play offensively better than we did, because the 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:38.080 only guys that really played well offensively was Kyrie, Luca 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:43.680 and Spurts, Lively and Gaffer getting dunks libs that's it 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:48.000 versus the drop coverage. So it'll be interesting to see 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:53.439 what Minnesota's adjustment will be. I think Kat was incredible 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:56.760 last series. He did a great job of Garden Joker. 0:21:57.800 --> 0:21:59.560 He was the reason that they were able to win 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:02.119 that series because Rudy was having a tough time with Joker. 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.320 And I think we all have tough times with different matchups, 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:08.200 and that was a tough ass matchup for Joker, as 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:11.480 I mean for Rudy, as Joker is for most people. 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:15.480 But Cat did an incredible job. Now, one of the 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:19.359 things Cat didn't really have to guard versus. 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:22.119 The Denver Nuggets, though, was the pick and roll. You're like, 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:24.920 oh yeah, right, like Joker and Murray pick and roll. 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:26.320 They didn't guard it. 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:26.720 That way though. 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:29.840 What they did was they stayed body tight for the 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:33.240 most part to Joker coming off the screen or rotated 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:36.160