Speaker 1: Well, well, well, we're less than fifty days until the
Speaker 1: playing begins, and it'll be grinning, jocking for position in
Speaker 1: both conferences. I mean, obviously the Thunder and Calves still
Speaker 1: hold eight and a half six game leads in their
Speaker 1: respective conferences, but hey, they're now seating swings happening at
Speaker 1: the moment. I'm just baby straight into it and take
Speaker 1: it for how beautiful it is. The sun purple, and
Speaker 1: so are my pupils because of the damage. But it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, because we'll discuss the latest news and notes
Speaker 1: from around the league with the volumes.
Speaker 2: Jason temp on today's episode, I'm.
Speaker 1: Miles Gray and I'm Jack O'Brien, and this is Miles
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Speaker 3: SANCHI three, got it, looka do kicks ten. Okay, there
Speaker 3: you go, be driving spinning tatter number eighteen.
Speaker 4: That's been secure the Celtics or NBA champions over the
Speaker 4: doubble team night night.
Speaker 3: To be honest with a look showtime.
Speaker 1: But you guy, yes, Jason Chimpion, you're building NBA analyst
Speaker 1: former Hooper in his own right. I mean, he he
Speaker 1: hasn't seen We've seen him dunk, but he hasn't seen
Speaker 1: us dunk yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we gotta hold some things.
Speaker 1: Back to keep the relationship spicy. But Jason, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. It's great to see you.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 6: It's good to see you guys. Last time I came
Speaker 6: on was a ton of fun. Uh, one of the
Speaker 6: most fun guest appearances I've done. So I've been looking
Speaker 6: forward to coming back and a lot of spicy Laker
Speaker 6: talk to get into today.
Speaker 7: Huh hmm, what happened? I actually haven't really checked in
Speaker 7: for a little while. Did they Did they make some
Speaker 7: moves during the trade? I know they'd like to like
Speaker 7: Tiger a little bit. I know they got rid of
Speaker 7: a d LO that was big for them, so that
Speaker 7: must be cool going to Smith coming in you know
Speaker 7: what I mean?
Speaker 3: Huge? Huge?
Speaker 1: Actually, I mean that is that is that is paying difference.
Speaker 1: Uh but yeah, I mean let's get into it. Our
Speaker 1: game of the week obviously, was to keep it eye
Speaker 1: on this Lakers at Nuggets matchup.
Speaker 2: That was something that we felt, Oh, the momentum is
Speaker 2: building on both sides and this is going to be
Speaker 2: an epic test over.
Speaker 7: The coming in nine in a row.
Speaker 3: Is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, nine since mid January exactly.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Look, the Lakers just they they did something
Speaker 1: very interesting with their defensive setup and look we won one,
Speaker 1: twenty three, one hundred.
Speaker 2: It was very beautiful.
Speaker 7: I mean, who's we this is a this is an
Speaker 7: objective NBA podcast that favors No, yeah, we are partners
Speaker 7: at the National Basketball Association and nobody else.
Speaker 3: That is true.
Speaker 1: But that's why we had to change the name of
Speaker 1: the show up to mad Biases, So we need to.
Speaker 3: Get around that.
Speaker 1: So we weren't really trying to sell anybody any bait
Speaker 1: news here, but yeah, you know, per Hoops Tonight Jason Show,
Speaker 1: the Lakers went into that weekend as the number one
Speaker 1: defense over the last eighteen games.
Speaker 7: I would have never guessed that. That's that's wild. I
Speaker 7: still don't believe you.
Speaker 3: Where'd you get this information?
Speaker 2: Yeah, where'd you find that?
Speaker 3: Where'd you find it?
Speaker 6: It's just just on the NBA website. It's it's crazy though,
Speaker 6: because like it was kind of a trend. It was
Speaker 6: the Lakers had started playing good basketball for a solid
Speaker 6: month before the deadline. There were a couple of ugly
Speaker 6: losses in there, but like even there was a phase
Speaker 6: with ad where it was kind of coming together. The
Speaker 6: main difference was the team getting rid of D'Angelo Russell
Speaker 6: and bringing in Dorian Finney Smith, getting Jared Vanderbilt back
Speaker 6: healthy and getting an engaged Lebron on the defensive end
Speaker 6: gave them suddenly essentially an influx of three six eight,
Speaker 6: six y nine wings that do a lot of things
Speaker 6: on the defensive end of the floor. And so there's
Speaker 6: been a certain like influx of defensive talent that I
Speaker 6: think a lot of people have just kind of like
Speaker 6: lost over because we've looked at this Lakers roster as
Speaker 6: somewhat mediocre over the last few years, and when Ad
Speaker 6: went out with his injury, they just leaned into the
Speaker 6: same scheme that they had been doing really well for
Speaker 6: about a month, which is just switching everything, but doing
Speaker 6: a much better job of helping each other in those switches.
Speaker 6: So instead of just leaving a dude on an island
Speaker 6: to be barbecue chicken, they're gapping down alongside these guys.
Speaker 6: They're offering help, and their rebounding is a big piece
Speaker 6: of it. Like the Lakers were getting torched early in
Speaker 6: the year because Ad would get switched out in their
Speaker 6: one through five switching scheme and he'd be standing on
Speaker 6: the perimeter, Lebron be standing on the perimeter, and they
Speaker 6: just wouldn't gain rebound. And so, to JJ Reddick's credit,
Speaker 6: he's stuck with it with a group that really didn't
Speaker 6: seem to have a ton of just day to day
Speaker 6: fight in them to start the year, and with the
Speaker 6: influx of different personalities in the locker and just some success,
Speaker 6: it seems to have gained momentum and the group's just
Speaker 6: guard it. But like to make a long story short,
Speaker 6: the reason why they're guarding well is just they've got
Speaker 6: a bunch of dudes who are six eight six' nine
Speaker 6: that can guard multiple positions and that are all big and,
Speaker 6: strong and so like for being a small ball, team
Speaker 6: they're actually. Big they like. You that was the big
Speaker 6: thing that stood out to me in The denver. Matchup
Speaker 6: compared to years past when It's Dennis schroeder out, there
Speaker 6: D'Angelo russell out, There they're just they were skinny and,
Speaker 6: smaller And denver really pushed them, around AND i was
Speaker 6: just really impressed by the way that they gang rebound
Speaker 6: more than anything. Else like, It, like regardless of the,
Speaker 6: scheme you would have Thought denver would have eaten them
Speaker 6: up on the, glass and they only had a negative
Speaker 6: three margin on the offensive. Glass so like With luca coming,
Speaker 6: in it obviously isn't going to be as effective. Defensively
Speaker 6: there will be some sort of slippage, There but then
Speaker 6: you're also getting one of the greatest offensive engines in
Speaker 6: the history of the game and beautif. Things that's Put
Speaker 6: lebron into this position where he's playing on the skip
Speaker 6: pass now and he's just ridiculous catching the ball on
Speaker 6: that side of the floor driving a close.
Speaker 3: Out yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: Dude he had a dunk in That denver game where
Speaker 6: he just went along the baseline and got that dunk
Speaker 6: off the skip. Pass, luca in a weird, way unlocks
Speaker 6: the main thing The lakers didn't, have which was like
Speaker 6: a consistent force that could get the defense in. Rotation
Speaker 6: they actually have a lot of really talented offensive players
Speaker 6: that can play with an, advantage But lebron's forty And
Speaker 6: austin is not a supreme, athlete and so either of
Speaker 6: them can run into walls on offense where they don't
Speaker 6: have the same, impact And luca just solves that. Problem
Speaker 6: and when you have that mixed with what should be
Speaker 6: a pretty strong defensive foundation from the last eighteen, Games,
Speaker 6: LIKE i think people would be foolish to write them
Speaker 6: off in terms of their big picture.
Speaker 7: Potential would it be foolish to Write luca off because
Speaker 7: you think he's in bad. Shape let's let's not talk about. That, actually,
Speaker 7: yeah it. Really it is.
Speaker 3: Like twenty pounds in two. Weeks.
Speaker 7: Man it is amazing how GOOD nba players who people
Speaker 7: think of as like kind of disposable or like replacement
Speaker 7: level will become by just like, change by just adding
Speaker 7: the best offensive player in the league to their. Team
Speaker 7: it just causes so many more advantages and across the
Speaker 7: board on the offensive.
Speaker 3: END i.
Speaker 6: COACH i coach my high school, kids and it's so
Speaker 6: funny Because i'll do more in the, summertime more traditional
Speaker 6: one on one, stuff but during the season we do
Speaker 6: a lot of close out king of the, court so
Speaker 6: like where the kids have to like throw the ball
Speaker 6: from underneath the, basket sprint, out and, like it is
Speaker 6: shocking to me how the difference in their effectiveness based
Speaker 6: on whether or not that close out is. There like
Speaker 6: if you ask them to score on a set, defender
Speaker 6: like high school, kids like they can't do, it and
Speaker 6: then you then you have someone sprinting at them and
Speaker 6: suddenly they can and like obviously at THE nba, level
Speaker 6: that gap between advantage and non advantage creation shrinks to
Speaker 6: a smaller type of, difference but still like he's got
Speaker 6: like if you Let Ruey hachimura just stand, still shoot
Speaker 6: catch and shoot threes like, That dude's over fifty percent
Speaker 6: on unguarded catch and shoot threes this.
Speaker 3: Year so, like good, luck you know WHAT i.
Speaker 6: Mean so like that's the. Thing you just got to
Speaker 6: get somebody that can get those. Advantages And lucas the
Speaker 6: arguably the best in the world at its.
Speaker 7: Why in action movies and kung fu, movies like, you
Speaker 7: you always have the bad guys just running at the person.
Speaker 7: Repeatedly you, know the thing that they never do in
Speaker 7: a real fight is that it creates a. Disadvantage Steven
Speaker 7: sea was, like, well, well looks like it's my lucky.
Speaker 2: DAD i couldn't have scripted this.
Speaker 1: BETTER i think obviously the offense it's for me seeing
Speaker 1: that defensive performance was the thing where now you, know
Speaker 1: low key to, Jabar i'm, like, okay, BRO i THINK
Speaker 1: i think this is.
Speaker 3: IT i think it's.
Speaker 1: TIME i think it's time to get back on that
Speaker 1: hopium again because you, know our record abysmal against The,
Speaker 1: nuggets you know WHAT i, mean like what lost thirteen
Speaker 1: of fourteen, games last fourteen games against. Them and to
Speaker 1: see because before it was just amazing to be like
Speaker 1: okay without A. D now we're just we're we're doing
Speaker 1: something so different and it's happening so. EFFICIENTLY Jj reddick
Speaker 1: who just, said, okay uh You're pharrell because you are
Speaker 1: just run joke for the whole. Time and seeing that
Speaker 1: like all of the fight and all of just how
Speaker 1: well everything was coming. Together and again even with Ruy
Speaker 1: hachimorri's three point, SHOOTING i feel LIKE i say this a,
Speaker 1: lot or we say this a lot Is. Lakers lakers
Speaker 1: fans are, like if, really if really just keeps doing,
Speaker 1: that if he keep if if if he keeps doing,
Speaker 1: that then we have something. There but, YEAH i, mean
Speaker 1: just the way this was, Unlocked i'm like. Again and
Speaker 1: to also think that this was referenced In lebron and
Speaker 1: JJ's podcast like just mere months ago talking about like
Speaker 1: what do we do About?
Speaker 2: Joker like what is like what's the like.
Speaker 7: How would you attack him? Defensively and this is how
Speaker 7: they described it on the. PODCAST i think that this
Speaker 7: really highlights like two things that we've already talked. About there's.
Speaker 7: Rebounding gang, rebounding uh is a thing That i've heard
Speaker 7: coaches talk about as a thing that you if you
Speaker 7: could just get buy in from your players to just
Speaker 7: dip into the paint every time a shot goes up
Speaker 7: rather than just like going, back you would increase everybody
Speaker 7: would get like at least one more rebounded. Game like
Speaker 7: it's it's extra, running it's extra, work but it would
Speaker 7: have a fundamentally like improved you, know statistical performance for the.
Speaker 7: Team but it's hard to get buy in on. That
Speaker 7: and like on like doing a you, know mentally taxing
Speaker 7: like defensive. SCHEME i think it's probably and and physically
Speaker 7: tax defensive. Scheme LIKE i think that's hard to get
Speaker 7: buy in on unless the best player on your team
Speaker 7: hosted a podcast with you within the past few months
Speaker 7: talking about how that is the way to do, It
Speaker 7: because then you have to be, like, hey, man let
Speaker 7: me play a clip for you you saying it. Yourself, yeah,
Speaker 7: yeah but, YEAH i MEAN i do think that's that's
Speaker 7: a great thing about having a leader Like lebron who
Speaker 7: is so you, know motivated to, win and you, know
Speaker 7: if you can get him to buy, in even if
Speaker 7: he's not physically at a place where he can be
Speaker 7: a shutdown one on one, defender defense and rebounding feel
Speaker 7: like two of the things that even if you are
Speaker 7: not improving on the personnel, side you see teams improve.
Speaker 7: On like from year to, year if they like get
Speaker 7: a new coach or you, know they just change a
Speaker 7: couple of, things you can see teams improve. There and
Speaker 7: then to add on top of, that the biggest personnel
Speaker 7: upgrade that we've seen in MODERN nba, history it's gonna
Speaker 7: Be it's definitely made this season so much more interesting
Speaker 7: to me A sixers fan who you know is in in.
Speaker 6: Hibernation you, know it's it's actually super interesting BECAUSE i
Speaker 6: think belief plays a role, Too like it's not just
Speaker 6: the star the. Start you're making a great. Point the
Speaker 6: star buying IN i think is a. Prerequisite but if
Speaker 6: you want the star to buy, in he better believe
Speaker 6: he can win the. Title, yeah because to your, point it,
Speaker 6: sucks and, like If lebron just views himself as a
Speaker 6: second round exit in the, making then he may not
Speaker 6: be as willing to fight for all of these little,
Speaker 6: things and like one of the interesting details about how
Speaker 6: basketball has changed that's made gang rebounding particularly so important
Speaker 6: is the amount of switching and having to bring your
Speaker 6: big man up to the level of the screen to
Speaker 6: deal with pull up. Shooting when that, happens the roleman
Speaker 6: gets behind every. Time so there's rebounding mismatches all the
Speaker 6: time in. Basketball like you're when you're tagging the, roller
Speaker 6: you're tagging him with somebody who's smaller than, him and
Speaker 6: so more often than, not like that guy's gonna try
Speaker 6: to box, out but those dudes have to come in
Speaker 6: from behind and tap away at the. Ball like it's
Speaker 6: not even it's like a. Process it's like that someone's
Speaker 6: got to box out the big someone else has to
Speaker 6: come in and tap it, out and then a third
Speaker 6: dude's got to sprint in and actually get to the loose.
Speaker 6: Ball it's like it's such a team concept and like
Speaker 6: to your, point like there is mandatory five man buy
Speaker 6: in for this type of scheme to, work and it
Speaker 6: seems to have come. Together and as far as the personnel,
Speaker 6: Upgrade so what's so funny about that is LIKE i
Speaker 6: had ad before the season ranked sixth and my player,
Speaker 6: rankings And I'm i'm higher on eighty than. Most but,
Speaker 6: like even in that, context it's about the, Tiers like
Speaker 6: ad is one of the best players in that second
Speaker 6: tier of, stars, sure But luca is one of the
Speaker 6: few guys in the league that presents like a legitimately unsolvable,
Speaker 6: problem which is like you cannot guard him in any
Speaker 6: way that's going to stop him from either making the
Speaker 6: correct read to the open man or getting a. Matchup
Speaker 6: he likes one on one where he can get to
Speaker 6: a shot that he can make about half the. Time
Speaker 6: and that's what's going to be really interesting about The
Speaker 6: dallas game tonight is Like, denver you, know for all
Speaker 6: the trash we talk About luca and what he did
Speaker 6: in The boston, series, which by the, WAY i think
Speaker 6: is fair. Criticism jokic can't do anything but a high drop.
Speaker 6: Coverage if there's a criticism to throw at. Him he
Speaker 6: can't run deep drop because he can't protect the, rim
Speaker 6: he can't switch because he can't keep people in. Front
Speaker 6: he basically has to run that high drop coverage where
Speaker 6: he comes up to the level which effectively puts two
Speaker 6: on the. Ball so as a base, scheme For. Denver
Speaker 6: they exist in, rotation and that's what makes The lakers
Speaker 6: such a bad matchup for, them because The luca, thing
Speaker 6: he can just skip the ball every. Time and Now
Speaker 6: Lebron Austin ruey And Jackson hayes or whoever it is
Speaker 6: That Dorian Finney, smith whoever the fifth guy, is they're
Speaker 6: just playing four on three all. Night, LOOK i do
Speaker 6: think it's interesting to at least consider when we're Discussing,
Speaker 6: yokic WHO i still think is the best player in the,
Speaker 6: world and because of his jump shooting this, year he's
Speaker 6: even gone up a. Level but Like jokic does kind
Speaker 6: of trap you into some defensive realities that that can give,
Speaker 6: you that can give them some. Issues AND i thought
Speaker 6: that was on display as.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah the guy's a bum. Loser, yeah it's like
Speaker 7: they found his one weakness and found the impossible trade
Speaker 7: that would exploit it the.
Speaker 3: Most and how Is denver gonna guard?
Speaker 6: Him?
Speaker 3: Like, yeah? HOW i don't know that they have an
Speaker 3: answer for that matchup right?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 7: Yeah, YEAH i don't think a lot of people. DO i,
Speaker 7: mean who who is the bad matchup for The lakers
Speaker 7: in this? FORM i, mean as A i, guess, okay
Speaker 7: see is gonna be tough for them to guard and
Speaker 7: are so strong defensively around the, perimeter but, YEAH i
Speaker 7: guess they're small.
Speaker 6: Though they give up four or five inches on every
Speaker 6: perimeter player that. Matchup, now the team That i'm actually
Speaker 6: really concerned about for them Is boston for the exact
Speaker 6: same reason that they had trouble With, dallas which Is
Speaker 6: boston feels good switching because they have five good defenders
Speaker 6: And boston on the other, end can truly space, Out
Speaker 6: like you guys saw those the highlights of That jokic,
Speaker 6: scheme like there's three four bodies in the paint at all. Times,
Speaker 6: yeah in the in The boston, matchup they're going to
Speaker 6: space him out and Attack luca and make them play driving.
Speaker 6: Kick and so that that's the real team THAT i
Speaker 6: think would be terrifying for The lakers is if they
Speaker 6: ran Into.
Speaker 1: BOSTON i don't, like, DUDE i don't even like to
Speaker 1: hear that as a, sentence you, know.
Speaker 2: Because it's so.
Speaker 1: True and, YEAH i mean because this time we were just,
Speaker 1: daring you, Know Aaron gordon, like.
Speaker 2: Yeah go, ahead, man go, ahead shoot, it go, on go.
Speaker 2: On Russell wesbrook try your hand at it because we're
Speaker 2: trying to neutralize this.
Speaker 3: Threat and, YEAH i Don't, yeah they're making them. Too yeah.
Speaker 6: Exactly Gordon westbrook And Christian brown made eight threes in
Speaker 6: that game and they got blown out and they couldn't.
Speaker 3: Score, yeah that was. Wild, yeah, truly.
Speaker 7: Is boston coming out of The eastern ere, opinion since
Speaker 7: you know a lot about, Basketball i'm just is?
Speaker 3: IT i think?
Speaker 6: So, yeah if you really look at The cleveland, matchups
Speaker 6: Like cleveland definitely plays them a lot tougher Than New york.
Speaker 6: Does AND i don't want to write them off completely
Speaker 6: because you can always just imagine a series Where cleveland
Speaker 6: has home. Court they're six games, up so like you
Speaker 6: can Imagine cleveland gets home, court Maybe porzingis has an,
Speaker 6: Injury cleveland takes like a two to zero lead at,
Speaker 6: home and then suddenly it's Like boston has to win
Speaker 6: four out of. Five, LIKE i don't want to Write
Speaker 6: cleveland off. Completely The knicks have no. Chance The, knicks
Speaker 6: they're a nightmare matchup For boston because they have two
Speaker 6: guys That boston can pick, on and usually they'll pick
Speaker 6: on both of them at the same. Time but With
Speaker 6: cleveland even to the game That cleveland won earlier this.
Speaker 6: Year tatum kind of had them dead to rights late
Speaker 6: and Then Donovan mitchell got insanely hot and hit like
Speaker 6: three or four threes in a row at the end
Speaker 6: and it ended up stealing that. Game But boston's pretty
Speaker 6: much controlled The cleveland matchup this year for the most. Part, okay,
Speaker 6: see it's it's so tough for me to make a
Speaker 6: read on them BECAUSE i have this long standing, theory which,
Speaker 6: is get a bunch of twenty six year old and
Speaker 6: younger type of players in THE nba regular, season and
Speaker 6: they are gonna kick ass because they're just gonna play. Harder,
Speaker 6: Yeah like a simple way to put it, is all
Speaker 6: eight of the top eight rotation players For Oklahoma city
Speaker 6: this year are twenty six or. Younger and if you
Speaker 6: look at The celtics, Rotation tatum is the only guy
Speaker 6: in their top eight who's twenty six or. Younger, so,
Speaker 6: like how can you possibly expect like a veteran team
Speaker 6: to just bring the same amount of. Energy so Like Oklahoma,
Speaker 6: CITY i think they're not quite as good as their
Speaker 6: record would lead you to, believe but they still are
Speaker 6: pretty damn close to. That and so that's the hard
Speaker 6: part to try to like figure out and like they
Speaker 6: can bog down, offensively as we've seen several times this
Speaker 6: year where it turns into Can shay make enough? Shots
Speaker 6: and SO i Think Oklahoma city is a layer of
Speaker 6: vulnerability to them that Even boston doesn't.
Speaker 7: Have, yeah our only rooting bias on this show ultimately
Speaker 7: is we we root for the field against The Boston.
Speaker 7: Celtics we we just don't want The celtics to win the.
Speaker 7: Championship and we are losing the past year AND i
Speaker 7: feel like this year as. Well but, okay really good
Speaker 7: man beats. Hip, Yeah, Yeah i'm Gonna we're gonna take
Speaker 7: a quick break And i'm not gonna. Cry that has
Speaker 7: nothing to do with you asking that. Question my eyes are.
Speaker 7: Sweaty let's, uh let's take a quick break and we'll come.
Speaker 3: Back we'll talk about the rest of the.
Speaker 7: League and we're back and let's not talk you, know
Speaker 7: let's not talk about this.
Speaker 2: Thing mary AND i got a interesting text the other
Speaker 2: night From.
Speaker 7: Jack no no, explanation just the one hundred and two
Speaker 7: to sixty Nine Chicago bulls versus The. Sixers no, commentary.
Speaker 8: No, Commentary no we hadn't said anything all day except
Speaker 8: maybe talking about like logistics for the recording, today and
Speaker 8: then nott of nowhere one two sixty, nine three minutes forty.
Speaker 2: Four left in the third. Quarter, yeah it's cargo over
Speaker 2: the seventy six.
Speaker 7: Ers sixers ended the game on a twenty four to
Speaker 7: six run and still lost to The Chicago bulls by thirty.
Speaker 6: Two respect, man The Chino bulls that just sold off
Speaker 6: all their shot craaders in the last.
Speaker 7: Year, yeah, yes that they ended on a twenty four to.
Speaker 7: Six they were down fifty and right, right they're down,
Speaker 7: fifty ended on a twenty four to six, run lost
Speaker 7: by thirty. Two so that's not. Good, Uh and that's
Speaker 7: All i'm going to say about THE i, mean it's
Speaker 7: very sad to you, know see and be his knee
Speaker 7: kind of at the. Stage he's just too big to
Speaker 7: have the longevity THAT i think a lot of us
Speaker 7: hoped he was going to. Have a lot of people
Speaker 7: are saying that this never goes the other. Way it's
Speaker 7: like a you, know a large thing rolling down a.
Speaker 7: Hill it's it doesn't usually just turn around and start
Speaker 7: going back up. Hill but we'll, SEE i remain eternally,
Speaker 7: pessimistic but you, know at least.
Speaker 3: They're shutting him down.
Speaker 6: Finally like it was driving me crazy watching them in
Speaker 6: the last, month Where i'm, like he looks. Bad, yeah
Speaker 6: he especially on, defense he looked really. Bad and it's
Speaker 6: very clearly not helping the, team like they were getting
Speaker 6: their butts kicked in his. Minutes, yeah and it's, like
Speaker 6: what is the ultimate goal? Here it's Like Paul george
Speaker 6: is apparently banged up and not playing. Well it's LIKE
Speaker 6: i was confused as to what they were trying to,
Speaker 6: accomplish and to, me it makes a lot more sense
Speaker 6: to just shut everybody down and if you're going to
Speaker 6: try this again tried In.
Speaker 7: October, Yeah i've been saying they should be raising the
Speaker 7: white flag for white flag since the beginning of the.
Speaker 7: Season it's uh it, YEAH i mean once you, LIKE
Speaker 7: i forget what their record was at the beginning of the.
Speaker 7: Year it was incredibly, bad and at that point it
Speaker 7: was it was like we, knew we. KNEW i, Mean
Speaker 7: embiid looked this way on defense in the playoffs last,
Speaker 7: year like he was a complete liability, defensively like he
Speaker 7: can't really, move SO i Don't, YEAH i.
Speaker 3: Started two and Twelve man two.
Speaker 7: And, twelve and that was about WHEN i was, like.
Speaker 3: Maybe we try and Get Cooper. FLAG i, DON'T i don't.
Speaker 6: Know you, know what's your what's your what are your?
Speaker 6: Takes what's your take On Paul? George after having rooted
Speaker 6: for him for a half a, season obviously it's not
Speaker 6: his best, Work but.
Speaker 7: Love Love, JASON i. DO i have Loved Paul. George
Speaker 7: my dad actually drafted him In indiana at The, pacers
Speaker 7: and So i've always been an admirer and thought that
Speaker 7: people were too hard on. Him it's just been a
Speaker 7: bad season for nine thousand different reasons for the seventy six.
Speaker 7: Ers So i'm not fully Blaming Paul. GEORGE i just
Speaker 7: DON'T i think he would have been like a nice
Speaker 7: accent on top of a winning. Team BUT i don't
Speaker 7: think he's like a low part of a big three
Speaker 7: at this point in his, career and probably should have
Speaker 7: known that one of the Best my, Favorite oh you
Speaker 7: mean my? Favorite is that what you were asking? About
Speaker 7: because usually when people ask me About Paul, George i'm,
Speaker 7: like you mean the? Podcaster, yeah oh, yeah he also.
Speaker 7: Plays you're not gonna believe this he also plays for
Speaker 7: my favorite basketball. Team it's crazy funny, story The. NUGGETS
Speaker 7: i do just want to read this quote From jokic,
Speaker 7: because as we, mentioned there's a lot said heading into
Speaker 7: The lakers matchup that they had won nine in a,
Speaker 7: row and after The lakers, loss he, said we had
Speaker 7: a nine game winning streak against teams that were injured
Speaker 7: and teams that were not really good or high in the.
Speaker 7: Standings maybe we tricked ourselves in that we are playing.
Speaker 7: Good and, yeah the teams they had beat were The
Speaker 7: hornet Six, Ers, Pelicans, Pelicans Magic, Suns, Blazers Blazer's, Hornets
Speaker 7: and they're just twelve and fourteen versus teams five hundred or.
Speaker 7: Better SO i don't.
Speaker 2: Know they'll figure it. Out they'll figure it.
Speaker 1: OUT i don't want them, to but it's just hard
Speaker 1: for me to think that like that feels like such
Speaker 1: a slap in the face for them that it would
Speaker 1: serve as some kind of wake up, calls especially for
Speaker 1: the dominance they've.
Speaker 2: Enjoyed over The lakers or these last fourteen. Games i'm
Speaker 2: sure that's going to inspire. Something But, jason what is?
Speaker 3: THIS? U?
Speaker 1: Are they is a confidence? Shot are there's what's your
Speaker 1: take on that? Quote is he is that him being?
Speaker 1: Introspective is that him trying, to you, know send a
Speaker 1: message to his.
Speaker 6: TEAMMATES i think you're trying to send a message in
Speaker 6: And i'm glad he did because he's he's right in
Speaker 6: the sense that they're not good enough right. Now it
Speaker 6: actually was kind of funny to see the juxtaposition of
Speaker 6: his postgame comments In Jamal Murray's Jamal murray is, like
Speaker 6: we beat them a bunch of times in the. Road
Speaker 6: this is just you, know this is once you know
Speaker 6: that kind of. Thing it's, like, bro this is a
Speaker 6: fundamentally different.
Speaker 3: Team you.
Speaker 6: Know the thing THAT i worry about with them is
Speaker 6: more on the defensive, End like even within the scope
Speaker 6: of what happened in That lakers, Game, like you, know
Speaker 6: do you remember how When lebron was in his, prime
Speaker 6: how in like game one of a playoff, series he'd
Speaker 6: almost always look a little shaky and his team would,
Speaker 6: lose and then it became kind of like a narrative
Speaker 6: where it was, like, oh it's.
Speaker 3: The feel out. Game, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah AND i almost felt that way Watching Yo kitchen
Speaker 6: that game on, offense where you could Tell yo kitchen was, Like,
Speaker 6: oh this is a new thing THAT i haven't really,
Speaker 6: seen which is like a small ball group that's legitimately
Speaker 6: swarming me and just leaving our work shooters open and
Speaker 6: over and over. Again, Yeah and it almost felt like
Speaker 6: he was not going to try to overly assert himself
Speaker 6: to solve that problem on that, night you know WHAT i.
Speaker 7: Mean see see how his team.
Speaker 6: Responds oh, Yeah and there's a version of, like did
Speaker 6: you ever feel Like jokics was really trying to bowling
Speaker 6: ball his way through everybody in that? Game, No, like
Speaker 6: he barely took a shot at, Ten he barely was
Speaker 6: barreling inside for offensive. Rebounds, so, LIKE i think my
Speaker 6: takeaway from that game had very little to do with
Speaker 6: The lakers defensive.
Speaker 3: SCHEME i.
Speaker 6: KNEW i knew The lakers would get some stops because
Speaker 6: they had been too good of a defense for too
Speaker 6: long to not be able to get some. Stops jokic
Speaker 6: can do a lot more to try to punish that.
Speaker 6: Scheme he talked about after the game about them learning
Speaker 6: and leaning into ball screens instead of post ups, more
Speaker 6: which is a good idea because most of most of
Speaker 6: their attack there was built around just going to the.
Speaker 3: Post but the other end of the floors Where i'm.
Speaker 6: Concerned if you really zoom out through the the three
Speaker 6: to four year era of this team being a legitimate championship,
Speaker 6: contender when have they not been bad on? Defense like
Speaker 6: they very briefly during the like a couple of months
Speaker 6: in Like January february of the title, year they were
Speaker 6: like eighth in defense for like two, months and then
Speaker 6: they were good in the. POSTSEASON i want to give them,
Speaker 6: credit albeit they caught some favorable. Matchups they were good
Speaker 6: on defense in that. Stretch they've been bad on defense.
Speaker 6: Entirely outside of, That they've been bad on defense all.
Speaker 3: Year we talked.
Speaker 6: Earlier about the reality of the, scheme limitations Of, jokic
Speaker 6: and like at a certain point they're going to have
Speaker 6: to reach a level on defense to be able to
Speaker 6: contend for a, title and they haven't put any sort
Speaker 6: of sustained stretch like that. Together they've leaned into their,
Speaker 6: Athleticism Peyton watson being out as, hurt but you bring
Speaker 6: In Christian, Brown Aaron gordon's getting, Minutes Russell westbrook's getting.
Speaker 6: Minutes but the tray off there is if you remember
Speaker 6: the title TEAM kcp was a knockdown. Shooter they didn't
Speaker 6: have the guys you could really sag off of that
Speaker 6: this team. Has and so even though the actual offensive
Speaker 6: metrics that this team has put together have looked really,
Speaker 6: good and by the, way that's a credit To, jokic
Speaker 6: who's having one of the best offensive seasons in the
Speaker 6: history of, basketball there are playoff realities about the way
Speaker 6: this team can be guarded now in terms of conceding
Speaker 6: things that didn't used to be the. Case it used
Speaker 6: to BE, mpj you leave. Them it's going. IN, cacp
Speaker 6: you leave. Him it's going. In Jamal, murray you leave.
Speaker 6: Him it's going. In, Yeah Aaron gordon you can help off,
Speaker 6: of but he's working the baseline and it all comes.
Speaker 6: Together but once you tilt that towards there's one more
Speaker 6: guy we can help off, of it cuts a little
Speaker 6: bit off of the ceiling of the. Offense and as
Speaker 6: we talked about, earlier there are some realities in their defensive,
Speaker 6: limitations and so now to, me they feel very much
Speaker 6: like every other second tier contender we have in this,
Speaker 6: league which is like they could run into certain teams
Speaker 6: and kick their, butts but then they could run into
Speaker 6: other teams and get their butts. Kicked it's very match up.
Speaker 6: Oriented teams at the top of the league have more
Speaker 6: flexibility and they can survive different types of. Matchups to, Me,
Speaker 6: denver it feels like if they catch A, lakers if
Speaker 6: they catch A, minnesota there are certain teams that they
Speaker 6: can catch WHERE i just feel Like denver would lose,
Speaker 6: Now and so that doesn't mean they're out of the.
Speaker 6: Picture they certainly could catch like The lakers could end
Speaker 6: up losing to somebody else in the first. Round you,
Speaker 6: know all these different things could. Go, yeah like it
Speaker 6: happens like there's obviously a pathway. There dallas is a
Speaker 6: great example, Too Like dallas just kind of meandered their
Speaker 6: way through The Western conference and suddenly they're in the.
Speaker 6: Finals BUT i definitely think that the versatility and the
Speaker 6: types of teams they can beat is really limited with this.
Speaker 7: Build, yeah just another context to take that quote in
Speaker 7: BECAUSE i like the comparison With lebron And. Yokich they
Speaker 7: have always seemed similar to me and that they're just
Speaker 7: these like basketball computers that like always make the play
Speaker 7: that only they see that it's going to like give
Speaker 7: them the best chance at scoring on that play AND
Speaker 7: i feel Like, lebron in addition to having those feel out,
Speaker 7: games also would like know his team was not going
Speaker 7: to win before the rest of us kind of and
Speaker 7: like maybe this Is jokic having that same thing where
Speaker 7: he's just, like uh, yeah not a lot of lasers out,
Speaker 7: there you know WHAT i, Mean like The yokich equivalent
Speaker 7: of not a lot of lasers out. There SO i
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Speaker 7: Butler draymond says they're going to win the, Title so
Speaker 7: that's ALL i need to. Hear they're gonna. Win, no
Speaker 7: BUT I i liked this trade more when it happened
Speaker 7: than most of the people THAT i talked. TO i
Speaker 7: felt Like Jimmy butler was holding some things back at
Speaker 7: the heat and just, like has you, know enough left
Speaker 7: in the tank to be a problem for people who
Speaker 7: are going to see them in the in the. Playoffs
Speaker 7: i'm curious to hear where you, think, like are they
Speaker 7: in that second tier of contender that could, win could
Speaker 7: get beat in any, round because it just it feels
Speaker 7: like defensively they could be pretty. Tough but ALSO i
Speaker 7: don't know what are what are we seeing here with
Speaker 7: this five and one run from The.
Speaker 6: Warriors this is a trade THAT i was optimistic about all,
Speaker 6: season AND i was surprised that some of the ways
Speaker 6: it was discussed in terms of like gutting our depth
Speaker 6: to go get a. Star AND i wanted to be,
Speaker 6: like you got like fifteen dudes that are legitimate rotation,
Speaker 6: Players like you just all of a, sudden Here's Gy
Speaker 6: santos And Quinton post just out of nowhere that are
Speaker 6: playing meaningful, minutes or like they just have so many
Speaker 6: dudes that can do role player.
Speaker 3: Stuff, yeah and then they have had.
Speaker 6: One guy who's like a legitimate like shock, creator star,
Speaker 6: talent and the entire roster to, me it was like
Speaker 6: a textbook roster.
Speaker 3: Imbalance.
Speaker 6: Yeah and one of the biggest side effects of the
Speaker 6: bringing in Of jimmy and sending out Of Andrew wiggins
Speaker 6: and sending out some of their depth is it clarified
Speaker 6: roles for some of these guys Like Moses moody And
Speaker 6: Brandon pazemski are now just like they're starting two and
Speaker 6: they're starting, three and they're just like straight up in
Speaker 6: the same, role same, minute same, rotation kind of slots
Speaker 6: every single night, now whereas for the first two thirds
Speaker 6: of the, season they might play eight, minutes they might
Speaker 6: get A, dnp they might play thirty seven. Minutes you,
Speaker 6: Know like it was just such a random sort of
Speaker 6: event because Just kerr had so many options that he
Speaker 6: could go to in any given, game, Right and so
Speaker 6: what has ended up happening is one you took the
Speaker 6: secondary star, role which was being filled by like a
Speaker 6: combination of Like Andrew wiggins And Buddy healed and Little
Speaker 6: Brandon pazemski and like that And Johnathan, kaminga and that
Speaker 6: group was like super, inconsistent and like some nights they'd
Speaker 6: look great and they'd beat any but they could beat,
Speaker 6: Anybody like The warriors had a bunch of really impressive
Speaker 6: wins in the early part of the, year but then
Speaker 6: on the nights when those guys didn't have, it because
Speaker 6: they're role, players they would get beat by, anybody, Right
Speaker 6: AND i think it's Reinvigorated steph in his, belief it's
Speaker 6: clarified roles for guys Like Moses moody And Brandon. Pajemski
Speaker 6: they still have ten to eleven guys that they can,
Speaker 6: play and it's just given them a layer of versatility
Speaker 6: on both ends of the floor.
Speaker 3: That they didn't have.
Speaker 6: Before, now as far as the big, picture it's really
Speaker 6: difficult to rank them because we haven't really seen them
Speaker 6: play enough good teams with this new. Build BUT i
Speaker 6: have a feeling they're going to fall into that second
Speaker 6: tier where they're pretty matchup oriented because they are a little,
Speaker 6: small even With jimmy And. Steph it kind of reminds
Speaker 6: me Of lebron AND ad where it's, like we Have
Speaker 6: lebron and A, d but it's like Ken lebron AND
Speaker 6: a go toe to toe With. Shay Can lebron and
Speaker 6: A d go toe to toe With? Jokic and it's,
Speaker 6: like actually not, anymore you know WHAT i? Mean and
Speaker 6: that thing is, like Can steph And jimmy in the
Speaker 6: year twenty twenty five go toe to toe with some
Speaker 6: of the top end Town like there're three of the
Speaker 6: bona fide world beating superstars in THE nba playing The Western, conference,
Speaker 6: Right you're you're probably gonna face at least one of.
Speaker 6: Them so at a certain, point LIKE i do wonder
Speaker 6: if their offense will have a little limitation when they
Speaker 6: get to that, Level but there's no doubt they're. Better
Speaker 6: they were already a top ten defense before they Got.
Speaker 6: Jimmy they're like third in defense in the six game.
Speaker 6: Span jimmy's a great defensive. Playmaker, again the clarified roles
Speaker 6: Of Moses moody And Brandon pajemski have helped. There so, like,
Speaker 6: again we need to see, more but they're definitely just
Speaker 6: like a lot more balanced in terms of what they
Speaker 6: bring to the table on both ends than what they
Speaker 6: were before the.
Speaker 7: Deadline it feels purely like like if let's say The
Speaker 7: luca trade never, happened BECAUSE i think in out of
Speaker 7: the you, know one million multi versus that have branched
Speaker 7: offs in the days since like the morning of that,
Speaker 7: trade it hasn't happened in like ninety nine point nine
Speaker 7: percent of.
Speaker 3: Them we live in the.
Speaker 7: One out of a million that that where that trade
Speaker 7: actually took. Place it's so weird that that trade. Happened
Speaker 7: we live in the one Where nico cons like didn't
Speaker 7: talk to, anybody like didn't get a, call like nobody
Speaker 7: was just, like hey, man OH i was just thinking
Speaker 7: of you and gave you a call and found out
Speaker 7: what he was thinking about, doing and, uh you, know
Speaker 7: talked to him about what.
Speaker 3: He could get.
Speaker 7: Elsewhere BUT i feel like if The luca trade doesn't,
Speaker 7: happen this is like so many.
Speaker 3: People are talking about.
Speaker 7: This, yeah like you, know like this is such a huge,
Speaker 7: trade and like now they're four and one since the.
Speaker 7: TRADE i feel like people would be pretty excited about.
Speaker 7: It all, right let's, uh let's take a quick, break
Speaker 7: and when we come, back it is going to be
Speaker 7: the rapid.
Speaker 3: Fire round of.
Speaker 7: Questioning miles is.
Speaker 3: Pissed we'll be right, back and we're.
Speaker 1: Back, Jason it's been a fantastic time speaking with, you
Speaker 1: but it now is the time for the four fourth
Speaker 1: quarter rapid fire round of. QUESTIONING i, said fourth, QUORTER
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Speaker 7: Bread, yeah the fourth.
Speaker 1: Quorter but, look this is the fastest question answer segment
Speaker 1: in all, podcasting and ALL nba podcasting and all specifically
Speaker 1: in all podcasting on AN nba show that's On. iHeartRadio
Speaker 1: it is the fastest question answer. Segment and if you
Speaker 1: get that specific with that in. Mind we're gonna ask
Speaker 1: you a. Question please don't take time to think about.
Speaker 1: It just pass that thing right. Back, Okay, no just
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Speaker 7: Rude were? Steam, Okay, jason do you accept the?
Speaker 3: Challenge let's do, It bryan start.
Speaker 7: O'clock, WOW i told you.
Speaker 3: Start off with this or.
Speaker 2: That, okay you either go with A OPTION a or OPTION.
Speaker 7: B And miles did do his left fist for this
Speaker 7: and his right fist for.
Speaker 3: That you can go with this or you can get with.
Speaker 3: THAT i think, You.
Speaker 7: Miles he doesn't look. SCARED i, KNOW i.
Speaker 2: KNOW i, tried and the usually.
Speaker 3: WORKS i used to.
Speaker 2: Blow him off Like nintendo cartridges and that didn't even do.
Speaker 2: Nothing that's, fine that's. Fine maybe this is dragging.
Speaker 7: Him maybe it is it a Choot?
Speaker 3: Jack do you want to go? First SHOULD i go?
Speaker 3: First why don't you? Go? All?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Jason this or? That this in the this.
Speaker 1: Column you can either Have shack in today's game or
Speaker 1: for THAT embiid in the.
Speaker 5: Nineties would you pick It shack in today's, Game shack
Speaker 5: in today's, game he would demolish. Everybody, yeah kind of
Speaker 5: doing half of The jokic stuff is that he's just
Speaker 5: way bigger than everybody and our centers are all skinny
Speaker 5: and run the floor now right?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 7: Interesting?
Speaker 2: WOW i love.
Speaker 7: That can you Think embid would just get bodied in
Speaker 7: the nineties just everybody's bigger and stronger back.
Speaker 6: THEN i think that's half Of embid's. Dominance what, Like
Speaker 6: yokic is. Amazing i'm just saying, like and it's like
Speaker 6: it's kind of LIKE mj in the, Nineties like he
Speaker 6: was kind of ahead of his, time so to. Speak
Speaker 6: like in his era where everyone was big and, slow
Speaker 6: he was like a lightning, bolt you. Know and the
Speaker 6: kind of thing is now everyone's skinny and, fast And
Speaker 6: jokic is just ground, bound ground bound slow dude is
Speaker 6: just too big for. Everybody but embiids like, that but
Speaker 6: a lesser.
Speaker 3: Version, YEAH i.
Speaker 6: DON'T i don't think that he'd do as well in
Speaker 6: the previous.
Speaker 7: Era Thing i've always said About, jordan IF i took
Speaker 7: that many, Shots i'd score thirty.
Speaker 3: Points a game. Too you. Know that's such a good.
Speaker 7: Point do you remember people who said, that all, right
Speaker 7: the next this or That joker with A kams defense
Speaker 7: Or shack With kareem's skyhook.
Speaker 3: Joker with A kams.
Speaker 7: Defense, yeah, okay for the reasons we JUST.
Speaker 6: I, mean he's arguably the best offensive player ever.
Speaker 3: Arguably. Yeah, oof that's. Freaky, okay that's what. Freaky.
Speaker 1: Man This Mack mood in today's game Or trey in
Speaker 1: the odds.
Speaker 3: Macmod would be amazing.
Speaker 6: Today he was another guy who was ahead of his
Speaker 6: time as just a pull up. Shooter But i'm gonna
Speaker 6: Go trey in the past simply Because mackmood would just
Speaker 6: be another guy today in terms of another quick guard
Speaker 6: who can come off with screens and, Shoot whereas Like
Speaker 6: trey back then in terms of just his his ability
Speaker 6: to playmake and the high level ball, handling he'd kind
Speaker 6: of be like he'd be like dropping an alien on the,
Speaker 6: Court like those guys wouldn't even know what to, do.
Speaker 7: Would they even let? Him LIKE i feel like you
Speaker 7: need a, Coach you need the right, Coach like if
Speaker 7: he's playing For Larry, brown he's not sniffing the court
Speaker 7: like you, know, like but like if you he had
Speaker 7: the right coach Like Don nelson or something like, THAT
Speaker 7: i feel like maybe maybe it. Works all, Right i've
Speaker 7: got good news you to go back and live one
Speaker 7: year as AN nba player and experience everything they experienced
Speaker 7: in that single. Year what player and year would you?
Speaker 7: Choose you Going jordan ninety two eighty, Eight shack two,
Speaker 7: Thousand lebron twenty. Sixteen what are you thinking?
Speaker 6: Here i'm going to Go lebron twenty. EIGHTEEN i thought
Speaker 6: he was far and away the best player in the
Speaker 6: world that, year.
Speaker 3: Even better than seven KDE i thought.
Speaker 6: THAT i thought that THAT i would argue the best
Speaker 6: individual basketball Player i've ever seen is twenty Eighteen lebron
Speaker 6: because he was still the supreme athlete at. AGE i
Speaker 6: think he was thirty three at that point in, time
Speaker 6: but that was when he had like that was when
Speaker 6: he had peaked in terms of his offensive polish, too
Speaker 6: and like do you remember the footwork and the post
Speaker 6: and the fades over both shoulders and he was dunking
Speaker 6: on everybody fifty in a finals. Game like he also
Speaker 6: just had this supreme, Confidence like the dude had eight
Speaker 6: forty point games in that playoff. RUN i just can't
Speaker 6: even imagine just being him that year and just being,
Speaker 6: Like i'm so much better than all these dudes like
Speaker 6: like that that was crazy.
Speaker 7: YEAH i mean His game one performance against The warriors
Speaker 7: in that game that he, lost that they, lost was
Speaker 7: STILL i think the best Game i've ever seen somebody.
Speaker 7: Play like it was so wild and he.
Speaker 3: Got robbed in so many.
Speaker 6: Ways remember they had a charge call overturned down this
Speaker 6: stretch in a blatant hack across his arms that didn't get.
Speaker 6: Called was It George hill who missed the free? Throw
Speaker 6: you had the J. R smith situation like he, had
Speaker 6: like so many things went wrong for the, Record i'm
Speaker 6: actually glad because they just would have been swept in
Speaker 6: five after that, anyway and like it is what it.
Speaker 6: Is but, like uh but, like, yeah he Deserved he
Speaker 6: played well enough to win that. Game it sucks that
Speaker 6: he didn't get.
Speaker 2: To, yeah, okay this is also good. News, Actually, JASON
Speaker 2: i can't believe we're giving him back to him.
Speaker 7: Giving me so much power right?
Speaker 2: Now do this, fine let's keep this.
Speaker 1: Going you can make any finals matchup utilizing all finals
Speaker 1: teams from throughout. History, okay they if they've they if
Speaker 1: they made the finals there and they're in play, here
Speaker 1: what is the matchup you're fitting together that you want
Speaker 1: to see unfold right before your?
Speaker 3: Eyes? Oh that's a good.
Speaker 6: One i'm gonna, Go, MAN i can't do the twenty
Speaker 6: seventeen twenty Eighteen warriors BECAUSE i think they're legitimately just too.
Speaker 6: Good LIKE i think they're just better than. Everybody So
Speaker 6: i'm gonna.
Speaker 7: Go with the best team ever twenty seventeen twenty. Eighteen,
Speaker 7: YEAH i don't. THINK i don't think any. Team two
Speaker 7: of the top three players in the world at the
Speaker 7: peak of their, Powers Klay thompson the best three and
Speaker 7: D guy second best shooter of all, time elite defender
Speaker 7: at that point in. Time Draymond green was a defensive
Speaker 7: player that year candidate at that point in. Time Andre
Speaker 7: goodala could still move like that. Team everyone talks about
Speaker 7: it As stephan. Kd they were insanely. Talented, Yeah I'm
Speaker 7: i'm gonna go WITH i think it'd be really fun
Speaker 7: to watch the twenty twenty Four Boston celtics against the
Speaker 7: twenty Thirteen Miami.
Speaker 3: Heat, wow just.
Speaker 6: See, LIKE i think it'd be really fun to see
Speaker 6: like Peak Spolstra lebron D, wade like like alpha dog
Speaker 6: talents versus like the depth of talent that That celtics team
Speaker 6: has the amount of witching in the sophisticated offense and
Speaker 6: defensive schemes you would see in that, series that one
Speaker 6: would be a lot of, fun like peak peak peak,
Speaker 6: Ttum like that'd be fun.
Speaker 7: Too, WELL i THINK i would like how that series turned.
Speaker 7: Out SO i like that. Answer. Yea and, finally we
Speaker 7: got to pick a game of the. Week this is
Speaker 7: the game that we and all our listeners check out talk.
Speaker 7: About next. Week we've got On, Thursday nuggets At, Bucks
Speaker 7: wolves At. Lakers On, Friday calves At. Celtics On, Sunday
Speaker 7: nuggets At, Celtics clippers At, Lakers.
Speaker 6: Bucks nuggets is gonna be a fun. ONE i don't
Speaker 6: know if you guys have had a chance to watch
Speaker 6: The bucks yet With Kyle, kuzma but like he's like
Speaker 6: just went right back in time to twenty twenty one
Speaker 6: when he cared about winning and did all the little.
Speaker 3: Things. Wow and so so THAT'S i.
Speaker 2: CANNOT i LOVE i love That.
Speaker 7: KYLE i love that.
Speaker 6: GUY i, know, Right but that'd be a fun one,
Speaker 6: too just because it's like an insanely big frontline verse is,
Speaker 6: yok and and also the same dynamic That denver always struggles,
Speaker 6: with which is pull up shooters coming off of ball
Speaker 6: screens With yokich having to come up to the level
Speaker 6: dealing With. Dane So i'm gonna go with that. One
Speaker 6: swish there got them all. RIGHT i think The bucks
Speaker 6: will get. THEM i think The bucks will get them.
Speaker 3: Too.
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Speaker 2: Week oh, maybe, MAN i can't wait to watch This
Speaker 2: Mavericks lakers.
Speaker 7: Game, yeah you guys have already seen so maybe guys have.
Speaker 2: Already seen, it so MAYBE i. Could maybe y'all have.
Speaker 7: Been, like he's gonna hate when he listened to These.
Speaker 6: Lakers guys want a good a good defensive team that
Speaker 6: can switch a totally different challenge Than.
Speaker 3: Denver i'm excited to watch.
Speaker 1: It, yeah, yeah but, anyway we'll see you next. Time
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