WEBVTT - Game 2 Reactions: Spurs DOMINATE Wolves, Knicks SURVIVE 76ers, Lakers get Luka UPDATE | Nick Wright 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:05.880 Welcome in We'll Driving the Great Episode four fifty five. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:09.600 This episode of What's Right with the Great is presented 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:15.240 to you by the great people at Boost Mobile. Another 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:19.880 excellent night in the NBA Playoffs since we last met 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:26.200 the The Lakers got just systematically beaten by the Thunder. 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:32.080 Such an interesting box score because the Thunder one one 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.720 of the quarters by three points, one by four points, 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:37.760 one by five points, one by six points. And that's 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.640 how a game where it felt like the Lakers were 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:47.040 actually surprisingly competitive ends up being an eighteen point loss. 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.880 Just lose every quarter by two or three baskets and 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:55.240 you lose the game by eighteen points. That happened. The 0:00:55.360 --> 0:01:00.000 Calves continue to me to look pretty unimpressive this postseason, 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.440 and that was two nights ago, and then last night 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:10.040 the Spurs got an absolutely critical, gotta have it, must 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:14.240 win game, which we will get into momentarily, and the 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:20.240 Knicks gotta got an important game to victory will potentially 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.360 at the cost of og A Nanobi, So we'll get 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:29.440 into all of those things. Also, Draymond Green I I 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:35.200 think Draymond Green may have this week have had his 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:41.720 media jumping the shark moment, So we will discuss that first. 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:47.920 I will introduce Demanse and how's it going? Good to 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:51.960 see you? I got it? When is so if you're 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.360 just listening and you're not watching on YouTube, if you 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.880 this is a great reason, like subscribe, rate review. When 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.480 is the last time you had a shapeaved head? 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:02.400 This slow? 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.760 Probably the last time that I got a haircut, Like 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.400 the first time I got a haircut in Houston. You remember, 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.400 you took me to the barbershop. I lined it up 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:12.840 after it had already grown. But before then. I feel 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:14.959 like I got buzz cuts a lot when I was 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:15.320 a kid. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.400 But you're talking about first time in Houston. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:20.400 Yeah, I was probably like eleven or twelve years old 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:21.040 or something like that. 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:23.760 Yeah. I mean, so you're talking about a like junior 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.840 high school. It was the last time you had a 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:31.200 shaved head? Yeah, I can barely remem. I don't let 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.880 me say this. I think this is the first time 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:40.840 you've ever had no hair on your head while having 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.799 hair on your face. I think the last time. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:45.320 Oh that's yeah, that's fair. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:49.919 You had a shaved head. You weren't able to really 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:55.400 facial hair. The chat is saying a lot of wimby 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.600 comps all of a sudden in the chat when Wimby 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.280 showed up all of a sudden at the after with 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.680 the monks and shaving his head. I think you look great. 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:09.560 It was disorienting almost a bit. And I'm sure it 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.840 through your Is she six months today? 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.120 She's six months? No, she's six months of two days. 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.040 In two days? Oh right, November ninth is her birthday, 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.200 so that would of course it would be on her birthday, 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.560 so six months. And I'm sure it disoriented your six 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.720 months soon to be six month old daughter. All of that, 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:34.000 and real quick before we get to the sports, just 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.840 ninety seconds here, and this is a note for demands. 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.440 This is a note for Victor. This is the most 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:50.320 important thing we'll do on this podcast for months. Anyone 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:58.280 listening who is in a relationship, and this is the 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:04.880 first mother where your significant other is a mother. Do 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.880 not fall into that trap of she ain't my mom, 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:13.920 that's don't do that and whatever. And if you're on 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:21.479 a budget, whatever, you know, again, take my advice on this, 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.680 as bad as it sounds. If you've got to cheap 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.839 out on one of the presents, this one year, cheap 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.599 out on the present for your own mother, take care 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:39.440 of take care of the present for your significant other 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:44.200 who it's her first Mother's Day. The infant can't do 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:49.320 it now added bonus points if you give a card 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.080 from the infant's perspective, like a card from you and 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.880 then also a card from the baby. I'm just saying 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:02.480 this is I truly mean it. Also. Now this is 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:07.000 specifically for Demansay because Demanse is a great and thoughtful 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:13.279 gift giver. He also is first team All American at 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.440 spending nearly as much on the overnight shipping for the 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:21.920 present as he did on the present. Because it's last minute, 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.960 your mom will not be here on Mother's Day. She'll 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.760 be traveling and she is going to be in La 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.120 seeing you guys here in a few days. So do 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:36.479 not waste one hundred and forty dollars overnighting a package. 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:38.719 Just keep it with you and you can give it 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.520 to her. You could get it there, but she won't 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.839 be here. So if it's something you want to send, 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.080 send it regular. She's going to be out of town 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.440 until next week anyway, and if not, just handed to her. Okay, 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.200 producers say, come for the take stay for the advice, 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.160 all right, Straight to voicemail brought to you by Boost Mobile. 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.359 Bryson D. Chambeau is going to focus on you Tube 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:05.640 if Live folds, okay, whatever, rustabating between TV and the Jets. 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.599 I gotta tell you, it would be stunning to me 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:15.360 if Russell Wilson's compelling on television. It would really I'm 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:17.440 not saying he can't be, but it would take a 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:24.719 real personality shift. Like his whole career, he has been 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:29.800 intentionally bland in Vanilla. Now maybe that's just like, well, 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:31.560 that's because I was the quarterback of a team. But 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:33.880 now I can out here, I can be out here 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:34.840 giving opinions. 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:36.159 But that would be awesome. 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.520 It would be awesome if he turned out and he 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:41.520 was like, no, I was just playing a character because 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.359 that's who I needed to be to be a quarterback. 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.640 But that who he's the personality shown as a quarterback 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:52.480 would not work on TV and Rick Flair hip whatever, man, 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:58.240 I'm not even talking about this. Shut up, Rick Flair, 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:02.240 honest to god, stopping like the Rick Flair's like, get 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.680 out there, Luka, donci shut up? All right? Like rate 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:12.880 subscribe review demons, Let's talk, Let's talk Spurs, Timberwolves. 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.680 Yeah, after loosening a close one in game one. The 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.720 Spurs rided the ship with the Timberwolves. In game two, uh, 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:20.960 they kind of stopped him, and it just seemed like 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.720 Minnesota didn't have it. Last night, you talked on Simmons 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.360 Pot about your about your Wolves future bit. How are 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:27.720 you feeling after that game last night? 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:31.560 Yeah, well listen if you didn't listen to simmons Pot. 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.960 I kind of alluded to it on this podcast, but 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.280 and I didn't expect Bill to ask me to tell 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:42.000 the story, but he did. And I don't often talk 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.640 about gambling amounts with you guys, but I played poker 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.120 on TV. You guys, see, you know what my risk 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:55.600 tolerance is. And the too long, didn't read version of 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.360 the story is Saturday morning, I was in Vegas. I 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:03.119 was in Vegas like twenty four hours to see the fight, 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:07.760 and I was gonna bet the fight the Kentucky Derby. 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:12.480 And then I saw that Timberwolves were two hundred to 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:20.040 one to win the championship, and I thought that was absurd. 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.200 I thought Anthony Edwards could come back. Turns out I 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.040 was right. I thought the Timberwolves had a very good 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:30.160 shot against uh San Antonio. I think I was right there, 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.920 and so I was gonna make a bet just myself. 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.080 Then I texted someboddies. They agreed with me that that 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.680 was way miss priced, way undervalued, and YadA, YadA, YadA. 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.560 All of a sudden, I for myself and on the 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:47.240 behalf of a few friends and making accumulative ten thousand 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.120 dollars to win two million dollar bet on the Minnesota 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:55.240 Timberwolves to win the championship. That they were down to 0:08:55.440 --> 0:09:00.520 thirty to one before yesterday's game. They are now fifty 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:05.680 to one after yesterday's game on hard Rock, and which means, 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.720 by the way, that bet, that ten thousand dollars ticket 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.960 is now worth forty thousand dollars. Like it's still way 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.240 up in what the perceived value of it is. But 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:20.160 obviously last night stung, and so let's so there's the bet, 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.960 you know, context of it. We'll get to more on 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:28.079 that if we need to, as the as this season 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:32.240 and series evolves. I think the biggest thing to come 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:37.760 out of yesterday's game actually was that Io left the 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.440 game with a heel injury, which to me means his 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:45.400 season's over. He is a young player who has not 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:50.240 yet been paid, who had a calf injury, a calf strain, 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.040 and then all of a sudden it migrated down to 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.920 the heel. And you don't have to be Bill ny 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.720 the science guy to know, Hey, what is between the 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.560 calf and the heel? What is that one? Oh, it's 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.360 the achilles so io, I don't think we'll play again, 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:14.360 which no, Devincenzo, no io. It makes them even thinner. 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:19.080 And you saw yesterday that when Clark's in the game, 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.280 it just kills them on offense, and when Bones is 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.080 in the game, it kills them on defense. And so 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:31.280 it really demands a lot out of Anthony Edwards, who 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.959 yesterday looked more hampered by the injury than he did 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:39.319 in Game one, and of Terrence Shannon Junior, who has 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:43.280 been a revelation and awesome, but it's hard to rely 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:49.000 on him night in night out. With that said, at 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.120 no point did I think Minnesota was gonna win both 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:57.840 in San Antonio, And had they won both in San Antonio, 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.120 the series would just be over. The Spurs were not 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.640 gonna lose both at home and then come back and 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:08.200 win that. I think they knew that, and I think Minnesota, 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:16.400 who yesterday was a good reminder for them, that, particularly 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:24.000 given Devincenzo's injury, given Io's injury, given Anthony Edwards not 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:28.520 being anywhere close to one hundred percent, if we don't 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:36.320 come out absolutely hair on fire, we're gonna get beat. 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.520 We have to. We always have to be the more 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:44.360 desperate team anytime we want to win one of these games, 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:50.120 and yesterday they weren't. The offense was awful. The that 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:55.880 third quarter was one of the longest, most miserable slogs 0:11:55.880 --> 0:12:00.239 of basketball I've ever seen through. By the way, through 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:04.160 thirty six minutes through three quarters last night, there were 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:08.959 forty one combined fouls. Think about that, a foul every 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.640 forty five seconds for which is why the third quarter 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:17.600 took like fifty five minutes. But the Spurs had to 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:22.440 have it, and the Spurs got it. Now does it 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:26.199 change my opinion that I had after Game one that 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:30.200 Minnesota is gonna win the series. It doesn't do. I 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.920 think Minnesota's margin of error just got a lot smaller. Yes, 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:45.320 of course, but I I will if if I'm wrong 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:49.520 about Anthony Edwards being able to ramp up his minutes 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:53.360 and being able to get closer to being Anthony Edwards, 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.240 then I'm gonna end up being wrong about the series 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:03.599 and just flatly But I think yesterday was a combination 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:09.440 of a lot of factors that led to the Timberwolves 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:14.599 just not being locked in, and the Timberwolves defensively being dreadful, 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:21.680 and the Spurs everybody getting involved because it wasn't he listen, 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:28.400 Wimby was super active setting the tone early and then 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:32.120 didn't do that much and didn't have to do that 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.000 much on the offensive end the rest of the game. 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:40.000 He still is struggling, at least somewhat with his jump 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.520 shot now that you could argue is a little concerning 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:48.360 for Minnesota that when if Wimby starts hitting his threes 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.280 he was two of seven in yesterday's game. He once 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.520 again for the second straight game, didn't get to the 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.760 free throw line a ton. So they're guarding Wimby fine. 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:04.120 It's the fact that outside of San Antonio was fourteen 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:09.400 for thirty two from three shot thirty three free throws, 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.960 hit the league's first ever ali oop three, one of 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.600 the coolest plays of the season to beat the shot clock. 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:21.280 Champenney had a stretch of time where he went on 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:26.080 an individual twelve zero run and honest to God, I 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:31.600 don't know if anyone on the Timberwolves feels like they 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:36.320 played well. Here's one other piece of it before we 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:40.040 get demonds to some of the bigger picture stuff that 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:44.280 is just patently obvious for the rest of this series. 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:50.400 Jaden McDaniels cannot get in foul trouble the way he is. 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:59.280 Like Jaden McDaniels yesterday, in a game that Minnesota lost 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:04.720 by thirty eight, was only a minus six in his 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:12.320 twenty minutes, like he he has been defensively and with 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:16.720 the burst he gives you offensively and his length. He's 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:21.440 so important, and this entire series he's been in foul 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:26.640 trouble and so he's got to be better on that front. 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.080 I'm not listen. Mike Conley's games are gonna ab and 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:34.920 flow because, as Aunt so eloquently told us, Mike's old 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:40.280 as hell. Mike is the It's the Greg Odin Kevin 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:46.280 Durant draft class. That two through five from that draft class, 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:53.400 Demons are all still playing. It's Durant, Conley, Al Horford, 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:58.960 and Jeff Green from the seven draft class. Uh, and 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.240 so all playing you know, varying levels, but you can't. 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:06.480 Conley is gonna if you get two more solid games 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:10.720 out of Conolly this series. It's a huge win. But 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:15.000 the Jalen I think the Spurs are just totally fine 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.960 with not guarding Jalen Clark, and the Spurs are totally 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:23.400 fine with bones Hiland getting as many minutes as the 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:28.360 Timberwolves want to give them. And on the flip side, 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.280 the Aaron Fox had a bit of a bounce back game, 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.600 which is critical for San Antonio. 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.760 What go ahead, No, I mean a great bounce back game. 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:42.200 Consider the first one. 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.680 And it was early on, like he finished with sixteen, 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.440 but I think he had eleven in the first quarter, 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.520 Like that's probably more than he had, but it felt 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:54.360 like he got going early and that was, you know, 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:58.920 to steady himself. So I still think Minnesota is fine. 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:02.680 Like they just wanted the split in San Antonio and 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:07.159 they got it. I believe their worst case scenario is 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.680 now it's two to two going back to San Antonio, 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:12.720 and because I don't think they're losing both at home, 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.240 and I think there's a real chance they win both 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.000 at home and it's three to one going back to 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:21.199 San Antonio. But they are getting thinner and thinner, and 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:25.760 they are going to have to have Anthony Edwards be 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:30.000 flatly considerably better if they're gonna win this series, all right, 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:31.200 you have some follow ups here. 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.000 Wimby only played in twenty six minutes in this game. 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.760 Does it worry you moving forward? Him playing in a 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:38.680 long series, his ability to do it. 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.480 Well, his ability to play big minutes. So that's that 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:50.080 is the one of the taxes of Minnesota getting just annihilated. 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:54.640 Is Wimby got a quick night. Yeah, if they had 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.479 just been able to keep it somewhere from twelve to 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.320 eighteen and you can put more more minutes on Wimby 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:05.040 that accumulate over the course of the series, I think 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.480 that would have been valuable. Instead, he doesn't have to 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:09.879 play it all in the fourth quarter, I do. I 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:14.320 ain't listen. I thought Winby looked absolutely worn out at 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.399 the end of Game one. Zach Lows said it was 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.080 the third most minutes he's ever played in any game 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:24.040 in his career. And I ain't get showed up at 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:27.399 the end of that game. He should probably now be 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:33.639 fresher for game three. And he came out, you know, 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.399 guns blazing last night, as he's supposed to. But it 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.880 is every other game, every other day until we get 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.640 to Game six, and I just don't know if he's 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:47.600 built up the endurance over the course of the season 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:53.000 because of how they've used him. All right, let's talk 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.840 a little Ants here, Demonse. I know that you know 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:57.960 he's gonna be the key to the series. 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:00.159 H So Ant came off the bench a game and 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.680 Fince said that he could possibly be seeing more minutes. 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:04.520 Do you think that it'll be too late by the 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:05.280 time that comes. 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.600 No, listen, I think Anna will start Game three. That's 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:15.440 the other I kind of has to kind of has 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.240 to the idea of being able to have an Ant 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:23.240 come off the bench. Is a nice curveball to throw, 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:29.760 but they need energy and execution offensively to start the game. 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:36.000 And the other thing is and isn't is a superb defender. 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:41.320 So he's just you know, he's not their best defensive player, 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:44.680 but he's far and away their best offensive player. And 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.720 when he's out on the court, you can put out 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:53.719 really good defenders, you know, at almost every spot with 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:57.320 Jaden and Rudy and when Nas is out there, So 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.600 it just gives you a lot of options in verse ssatility. 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:05.720 So I listen, They're not gonna win the series with 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:08.840 him playing twenty five minutes a game. But I don't 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:13.040 think if you could play twenty five minutes on May fifth, 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:16.639 I think he'll be able to play more, Or May fourth, 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:19.000 I think you'll be able to play more minutes on 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:22.880 May eighth and May tenth and May twelfth. Uh, all right, 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:25.439 I want to get to the Knicks game in just 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:28.119 a second. 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All right, 0:24:21.920 --> 0:24:23.159 let's talk Nick sixers. 0:24:23.680 --> 0:24:25.720 So the Knicks won, and they had a close one 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:27.639 for the first time in a while in these playoffs. 0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:30.960 Yesterday during the tiers, you said that the Knicks are 0:24:31.000 --> 0:24:34.520 playing almost too well. Is this more like what you're 0:24:34.560 --> 0:24:36.040 expecting from them moving forward? 0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:40.840 Well, no, Listen, I thought yesterday as a really solid 0:24:40.880 --> 0:24:45.360 win by them, and they're not gonna We talked about 0:24:45.400 --> 0:24:47.119 this a lot, but they were the first team in 0:24:47.160 --> 0:24:49.640 the history of the NBA to win three straight playoff 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:52.840 games by twenty five points. Just blowing teams out every 0:24:52.840 --> 0:24:55.000 single night in the playoffs is not really a thing, 0:24:55.480 --> 0:24:57.440 as evidenced by the fact nobody had done what the 0:24:57.520 --> 0:25:01.120 Knicks did, and so yeah, it it is not surprising 0:25:01.160 --> 0:25:04.439 that they finally actually had a close game and a 0:25:04.480 --> 0:25:08.119 game that it looked like at various times Philly might steal. 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:12.440 It's also not surprising at all, Demons that Philly ran 0:25:12.480 --> 0:25:17.560 out of gas. They were a thin team with Embiid 0:25:18.640 --> 0:25:28.000 without him. They're so they're starters with EMBIID. Their starting 0:25:28.040 --> 0:25:33.359 lineup is EMBIID, obviously, Paul George Ubre, Maxi Edgecombe. Those 0:25:33.400 --> 0:25:39.159 four guys, their regular non EMBIID starters played forty three minutes, 0:25:39.280 --> 0:25:45.240 forty minutes, forty minutes, and forty seven for Maxi, And 0:25:45.359 --> 0:25:50.719 so when that happens, you're just gonna be on fumes. 0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:54.800 Our guy, Quinton Grimes had a bit of a rough game. 0:25:55.440 --> 0:25:57.880 He's got to listen. They're asking a lot of them, 0:25:58.680 --> 0:26:06.680 but he had you know, he had a decent look 0:26:06.720 --> 0:26:09.240 at a three with twenty five seconds left down five 0:26:09.359 --> 0:26:14.080 didn't hit it. And Drummond's just not gonna be able 0:26:14.160 --> 0:26:19.199 to give you a ton of productive minutes. Bona is 0:26:19.240 --> 0:26:20.720 not gonna be able to give you a ton of 0:26:20.760 --> 0:26:24.520 productive minutes, which means you are going to be playing 0:26:24.680 --> 0:26:29.920 small with Paul George as your biggest guy on the court. 0:26:30.920 --> 0:26:34.240 You're gonna be playing an undrafted guy Dominique Barlow, who 0:26:34.320 --> 0:26:38.680 actually was okay last night, probably a few more minutes 0:26:39.480 --> 0:26:45.040 than you would like. Meanwhile, the Knicks going into the 0:26:45.080 --> 0:26:51.439 game are fully healthy. And because it's not the Tibbs Knicks, 0:26:51.480 --> 0:26:56.399 it's the Mike Brown Knicks, their bench guys are used 0:26:56.400 --> 0:27:01.679 to playing. And so Carkson and Sham and Alvarado and 0:27:02.960 --> 0:27:04.560 Hucked Porty pardon me. 0:27:06.200 --> 0:27:08.080 Really do anything this scene in this game? 0:27:08.600 --> 0:27:11.720