Speaker 1: I thought Phoenix was gonna get sweet swept, didn't you.
Speaker 1: I did, I really did. I thought it was over.
Speaker 1: They were getting their asses beat multiple games. The ghost
Speaker 1: of Chris Paul just pulled his groin and then the
Speaker 1: series flipped on its head.
Speaker 2: Truthfully, everything changed.
Speaker 1: Phoenix now ties the series with the number one seed,
Speaker 1: nuggets behind the usual suspects. Of course, we wanted big
Speaker 1: performances from Devin Booker.
Speaker 2: We got thirty six from him.
Speaker 1: Of course, you get thirty six from Kevin Durant and then.
Speaker 2: Nineteen from Check's notes.
Speaker 1: Landry Shammitt's Landry Shammitt four four threes in the final quarter.
Speaker 2: Of action, just nail in the coffin. After nailing the coffin.
Speaker 1: Forced the Denvers himself two big threes, two separate timeouts
Speaker 1: called by Denver like, oh shit, we cannot be letting
Speaker 1: Landry Shammitt's the last be sending us home, and he did.
Speaker 1: Shammitt was just in absolute sniper mode. Every time Denver
Speaker 1: got close. Landry Shammitt pulled up from deep and it
Speaker 1: was wet. I don't understand it, and the bench showed
Speaker 1: up for the first time. Pretty much all series scored
Speaker 1: forty the bench scored forty. They were getting like four
Speaker 1: points off the bench before Chris Paul got injured. All
Speaker 1: of the bench was in plus numbers. All of this
Speaker 1: Sun's starting lineup was negative. Wild that the series was
Speaker 1: saved by its shallow bench, but props to Jock Landell, TJ. Warren,
Speaker 1: Terrence Ross, and of course Landry Shammitt. Landale was an
Speaker 1: impressive plus sixteen for the game. He was ballin', which
Speaker 1: brings up of an interesting point to know. Is this
Speaker 1: Phoenix Suns team better without Chris Paul. I don't mean
Speaker 1: it in a Stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith way. I actually mean this.
Speaker 1: I actually think this team is better for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: MANI would not go to Terrence Ross, he would not
Speaker 1: play them, He would not play Landry, he would not
Speaker 1: play campaign. He was running out six deep getting no production.
Speaker 1: I think Landry had like two minutes in game one.
Speaker 1: I think Terrence Ross got a DNPCD. I think our
Speaker 1: man TJ. Warren DNPCD. And then all of Monnie's plans
Speaker 1: went to hell in a hand basket. And now he
Speaker 1: had to make adjustments and find some guys on the
Speaker 1: bench who he knew could score buckets. And now it's
Speaker 1: tied to two. It might have saved Monny's job. Chris
Speaker 1: Paul's injury might have saved Monny's job. And I think
Speaker 1: it's this is why Chris Paul is a turtle. He
Speaker 1: is slow, let's be honest. His playoff pedigree is built
Speaker 1: off of slow, playing it up the floor, putting his
Speaker 1: button into someone's chest when he's backing him down, even
Speaker 1: ninety four feet away from your rim, and just setting
Speaker 1: up this offense slow, methodical point god shit. But maybe,
Speaker 1: just maybe that makes the Phoenix Suns worse. Maybe just
Speaker 1: maybe they need to be playing faster, They need to
Speaker 1: be getting easier buckets in transition. Maybe DeAndre Eton thrives
Speaker 1: in a faster, up tempo offense. Same thing with Devin Booker,
Speaker 1: same thing with Kevin Durant. Maybe half court offense is
Speaker 1: hard because the defense is set. They have had all
Speaker 1: this time to settle their defense down and figure out
Speaker 1: what you want to do. But the big story, though,
Speaker 1: really revolves around Yokic and this controversy.
Speaker 2: Have you heard about it? Uh?
Speaker 1: He put up fifty three, he was incredible, twenty of
Speaker 1: thirty from shooting, but he also managed to get himself
Speaker 1: squarely involved in some conflict that could possibly affect the
Speaker 1: entire series. With two and a half minutes left in
Speaker 1: the first half.
Speaker 2: Is what happened. Jokic was scrambling out of balance for
Speaker 2: the ball.
Speaker 1: Jokic tried to get the ball, which happened to fall
Speaker 1: into a fan's hand. The fan refused to give up
Speaker 1: the ball, literally was holding onto it with like it
Speaker 1: was his baby. Jokic grabbed it, pulled it away from him,
Speaker 1: shoved the fan down, tried to get the ball thrown
Speaker 1: to him, squirted it into another fan, tried to get
Speaker 1: the ball. Then that first fan got into his face
Speaker 1: and Yokic seemed to put his shoulder into him and
Speaker 1: the fan flew to the ground.
Speaker 2: Was a flop. It was an egregious flop. In other words,
Speaker 2: the video showed that he maybe sort of kind of
Speaker 2: went into the stands and malice in the palace him.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, just a little shove in
Speaker 1: the stands, put his shoving into the guy who was
Speaker 1: this fan that Jokic shoved This guy.
Speaker 2: A matthew Ishia.
Speaker 1: Turns out matthew Ishbia is the new billionaire owner of
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns. So Jokic shoves an NBA owner court
Speaker 1: side for refusing to give the ball up and get
Speaker 1: out of the way, and that owner, Matt Ishbia, flopped
Speaker 1: like a La Liga forward dating one of those supermodels
Speaker 1: that never smile.
Speaker 2: It was a very soft move.
Speaker 1: I respect the hell out of matt Ishbia, former spartan
Speaker 1: for pulling that. That's something that only Tom Izzo can teach.
Speaker 1: Matt Ishbia, Draymond Green, same guy, same guy. The big
Speaker 1: problem though, is that the leagues kind of fucked because
Speaker 1: they're not gonna want to suspend Jolkic for that bullshit.
Speaker 2: But it was against the rules.
Speaker 1: It was The rules are very clear. You can one
Speaker 1: not go into the stands period. You cannot put your
Speaker 1: hands on a fan for any reason. There's a tiny
Speaker 1: bit of wiggle room because they say that Jokic wasn't
Speaker 1: really in the stands, he was court side, he was
Speaker 1: on the sidelines. Very thin argument. He did kind of
Speaker 1: sort of push a fan. Even Eshbo was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to.
Speaker 2: Get I want us to win with Yokic.
Speaker 1: We don't want him to get suspended, but I am
Speaker 1: not sure what the league is going to do.
Speaker 2: It is a conundrum.
Speaker 1: The question is what would have happened if it was
Speaker 1: Draymond and not Jokic. Booker said after the game, when
Speaker 1: asked about it, he got us a point. He did
Speaker 1: his job, he did. It was a technical foul and
Speaker 1: they got a point out of it in a series
Speaker 1: that could be swayed very easily by a suspension by
Speaker 1: a star player. But listen, those Yokish, non Yokic minutes
Speaker 1: are rough. A non Yokis game is pretty much a
Speaker 1: win for the Phoenix Suns, and we got some drama
Speaker 1: on our hands and it's not been on the court,
Speaker 1: and that is a shame because after two ugly gross
Speaker 1: first two games, this series has gotten very fun, very fast.
Speaker 1: So no one wants to see the Joker suspended. But
Speaker 1: it is all in Adam Silver's hands now and we
Speaker 1: will see.
Speaker 2: What he does.
Speaker 1: The other two games are on Monday night, which is
Speaker 1: when I am recording right now. The games have not
Speaker 1: gone underway yet and I am not sure what is
Speaker 1: going to happen, so I'm going to keep my comments
Speaker 1: very general until we get back into the studio. Nick's heat,
Speaker 1: I think the Knicks are very much in trouble. I
Speaker 1: think that this team cannot shoot. If they come out
Speaker 1: in Game five and shoot like the snipers that they
Speaker 1: want to be, then maybe that changes, but I don't
Speaker 1: think so. A lot of this has to do, though,
Speaker 1: with Julius Randall. He didn't single handedly lose the game
Speaker 1: on Saturday for the Knicks, but he.
Speaker 2: Was not great. He was not who they need him
Speaker 2: to be if they want to win and move on.
Speaker 2: He's injured.
Speaker 1: I know that he's injured, but you can't shoot thirty
Speaker 1: five percent from the field from the field from the
Speaker 1: field in the playoffs. That is eleven percentage points lower
Speaker 1: than his regular season numbers, and when he was asked
Speaker 1: about it, he said, well, some of the looks are different,
Speaker 1: the defense is a bit tighter, so I've got to
Speaker 1: do a better job of finding ways to execute off
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 2: But I'll be fine. Will he be fine?
Speaker 1: Though, Like, I don't know if he will be I
Speaker 1: don't know about that chief, Like I know everyone says
Speaker 1: I'll be fine, I'll be fine, but in this moment
Speaker 1: against the heat against Jimmy Butler, I'm not sure on
Speaker 1: a bum wheel if you're gonna be All I know
Speaker 1: is that the Knicks cannot afford another negative thirty four
Speaker 1: performance from our man r Jay Barrett Ronan, We're gonna
Speaker 1: need more from you, sir. That is a season killing
Speaker 1: number right there. And if the Knicks can't hit threes,
Speaker 1: they are dead. Miami's going to pack the paint. They're
Speaker 1: gonna make it very difficult for Mitchell Robinson and all
Speaker 1: them young boys underneath the basket to get rebounds and
Speaker 1: to score. And they're gonna let all these chuckers who
Speaker 1: are bricking consistently shoot from three. Randall oh for five
Speaker 1: from three last game, Brunson oh for five from three Toppin'
Speaker 1: and Grimes combined.
Speaker 2: One for eight. That is one for eighteen right there.
Speaker 2: That is no bueno.
Speaker 1: Bam Adebayo was absolutely dominant in Game three. Eric Spolstra
Speaker 1: had some big time flowers to give to bam Adebayo.
Speaker 3: Then I thought bam was a major part of that.
Speaker 3: He was all over the place both ends of the court. Uh,
Speaker 3: And the stat line probably doesn't do it any justice
Speaker 3: of the impact.
Speaker 2: UH.
Speaker 3: You know, to be able to take a challenge on
Speaker 3: a on a great player like Randall with limited help,
Speaker 3: and then Randall's so clever, he knows how to draw
Speaker 3: fouls as well, so he can't be overly physical. Uh.
Speaker 3: And then we're also asking him, you know, to play
Speaker 3: pick and roles, uh, and then rebound and finish our defense.
Speaker 3: He's our best rebounder and we need him to do
Speaker 3: that as well. And he did all of that. And
Speaker 3: then offensively, he was just so active on the offensive glass,
Speaker 3: the random stuff in the paint, and some of these
Speaker 3: didn't lead to his his scores, but they set the table.
Speaker 3: Just that aggressiveness, uh, you know, for our team. And
Speaker 3: and that's why he is who he is. He's just
Speaker 3: a winning player.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, bam Adabayo is doing everything for this team.
Speaker 1: For a small ball.
Speaker 2: Five who's probably really more of a four, he has
Speaker 2: been incredible.
Speaker 1: My question is, really is this the ugliest series in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, because it feels like it is both team's
Speaker 1: last game shot under forty percent from the field thirty
Speaker 1: six percent from the field for a team and the
Speaker 1: other team also below forty percent. All I know is
Speaker 1: the Knicks need to win to night or they are dead,
Speaker 1: dead in the water. How is Anthony Davis the best
Speaker 1: player in the NBA and also the most disappointing player
Speaker 1: in the NBA. At the same time, I don't understand it.
Speaker 1: I really really don't. The Lakers blew out the Warriors
Speaker 1: by thirty and they took a two to one lead.
Speaker 1: But the question is, do you think that Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: the Steph God, the babyface Assassin, is worried at all?
Speaker 4: I mean, they made an adjustment in terms of their
Speaker 4: match ups to try to take away a pick and
Speaker 4: roll in the pocket pass and at four on three
Speaker 4: advantage we have in the backside and Draymond being in
Speaker 4: a sweet spot like they obviously understand that's when we're
Speaker 4: at our best. So we'll make adjustments.
Speaker 1: Will make adjustments with a wink and a head nod.
Speaker 2: I know what I'm gonna do. I'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: I wish I could show you this arrogant smirk that's
Speaker 1: on Steph Curry's face that you if you are playing
Speaker 1: against him, you always want to smack. I love Steph Curry. Also,
Speaker 1: you know, really quickly, is are these the most annoying?
Speaker 1: Is this the battle royale of most annoying fan bases
Speaker 1: complaining about the same thing to one another into the
Speaker 1: void every single game. Whoever wins, the losing team is
Speaker 1: always complaining about how the other team is babied and
Speaker 1: protected by the referees in the league. Like it's like
Speaker 1: the Lakers win and the Warriors fans like, do you
Speaker 1: see this is the Lakers purple and gold Lebron James.
Speaker 2: They're always getting every single call this bullshit?
Speaker 1: Ah, And then the Warriors win is the Lakers like
Speaker 1: it's Steph.
Speaker 2: Steph is getting every call. It's so annoying the dub nation.
Speaker 1: They're just the champions, They've got championship pedigree and they
Speaker 1: get every call.
Speaker 2: Do you see this? This is bullshit?
Speaker 1: It's literally like a ping pong of rage between the
Speaker 1: two fan bases. I can't fucking stand either one. I
Speaker 1: wish they could both lose. I really wish they could
Speaker 1: both just be done at home. Can cooning mock drafting
Speaker 1: their way into oblivion right now? Because watching those two
Speaker 1: fan bases square off in the Twitter verse is like,
Speaker 1: on one hand, hilarious because it's like, yeah, every other
Speaker 1: team feels like this about both of you guys, Like
Speaker 1: that's what, Yes, you're right, and you're right.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: The last eight times though that the Warriors got beat
Speaker 1: by fifteen in the playoffs, they came back and won
Speaker 1: the next game. Our Dubs always make adjustments.
Speaker 2: You've been warned