WEBVTT - #thisleague UNCUT: Where we stand with two weeks to go ... and the most insightful relationship talk on the NBA map 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.160 Only two weeks to go in the NBA regular season, 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:07.640 so we're gonna do a deep dive on the MVP race. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.840 We mix in some Coach of the Year talk. Of course, 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:14.760 we will discuss Joel Embid's looming return to the Philadelphia 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:18.080 seventy six ers lineup. And if you didn't get enough 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:23.640 marital and relationship insight and advice last week, stay tuned 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:27.160 because we go next level on the real life talk. 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:29.960 All that is next here on a new edition of 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:31.000 This League Uncut. 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:35.519 Welcome to this League Uncut. In you'rel of twenty four 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:40.839 hour NBA news. This you lose, Chris Hands, Let's come 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.840 full work's time. It's so time. 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:52.840 This League Uncut is underway in on fire. This should 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:53.720 be a good one. 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:59.680 Hey everyone, Welcome into the latest edition of This League Uncut. 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:04.040 Mark Stein here with Chris Haynes. We are recording on 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:09.320 Monday night. It is still April Fool's Day, less than 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.000 an hour to go East Coast time. As we start 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:17.280 recording this, I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of April second. 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.880 I just was. I always had a thing with April 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:25.160 fools Day. Just don't don't love it, Just trying to 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:28.080 get through the day, want to avoid egg on my face. 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:34.240 Just always feel like some ghastly April Fools. I'm gonna 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:38.920 fall for something. So I'm in the Central time zone, 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.560 I'm under two hours to go. This should be a 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:46.160 night that we're celebrating Caitlin Clark in the Elite eight 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:50.800 nine threes forty one points. I'd much rather discuss that 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.279 than April Fool's Day. But like I said, I am 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:58.160 it's one of my many, many bizarre quirks. But can't 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:02.080 wait for April second. Almost here, so almost here? 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:06.280 So did any of your friends? Did anybody catch you 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:07.760 off guard with the Aprils fool? 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:08.040 Yeah? 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.840 I mean, look, I'm I'm sure it's happening. Knock on Wood. 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:15.160 I don't have any. I don't have any Nothing comes 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:19.600 to mind in terms of a super humbling April Fools experience. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:23.400 But I just in my old age, not as sharp 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.520 skills are fading, you know, I just when I woke 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.639 up to them, I'm like, all right, I'm gonna get 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.040 sucked into some so I'm gonna fall for some tweet 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:38.519 or something. So, like I said, knock on Wood, a 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.400 little less than two hours to go from a year 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.160 you know you're on the West coast. You still have 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.160 a few more hours to get through. But let's see 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.760 if we can get through this episode without me falling 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:49.560 prey to something. 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.639 Well, before we get to our NBA topics, I have 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:58.760 two examples of one that would be considered an April's 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.480 Fool joke, a fool's joke on me. The second one, 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:07.680 I guess is a April Fools joke that this person 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:12.519 I know uses pretty frequently every month. The first one 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.440 is one of the friends, one of these friends, one 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.920 of my guys, uh, one of my guys out here 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:22.720 I got hoop with. He sent one, Uh sent me 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:26.399 a text. And you know how you you can send 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.400 a text. Right when you send a text, you can 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.960 say something at the top and you could space it 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.440 out like keep space space space, and the rest of 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.080 it is way low at the bottom, and so when 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.200 it comes up as a text, all you see is 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.560 that first line. So my friend sends me a text. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:47.880 He didn't get me because I don't I don't uh, 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.760 I don't operate this way. But he sent me a 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:56.400 text saying did you mean to send those news on 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:57.560 your Instagram story? 0:03:58.280 --> 0:03:59.640 And so I'm like, what what what. 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.160 I wasn't scared because I don't operate like that, you know, 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.000 I don't consume content like that. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:07.880 That's not what I do. 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.040 And so that I click on it and it's like 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.920 all the way at the bottom, it finishes saying, April fools, 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.479 just kidding in case your heart dropped, send us to 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.520 ten friends to scare them. And so it had me 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.480 worried a little bit. But that's about it. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.560 So it did work to a degree a little bit. 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.839 But I was like, I don't that's not me. 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.960 Like if it was something else, like you probably got 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.920 me on something else, but news, Nah, that doesn't. Nah, 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:42.440 that's not that's not me. St So the second one, Stie, 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.479 this one is vicious. I'm not gonna call my friend's 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.039 name out on this, but this one is vicious. You 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:50.400 might not even find it funny. 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:50.920 Sorry. 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:57.039 I have a friend right who his main job is. 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.599 He lives in Hollywood. He makes props, like he knows 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:04.800 how to like make fake human beings. He knows how 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.440 to make just any type of props you see on set. 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.080 He knows how to do this. But he has this 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:19.599 twisted amusement for when he goes into hotels, right, and 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.600 he checks out of hotels. Before he leaves the hotel. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:31.080 He knows how to put pillows, wrap them up in sheets, 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.640 and like he knows how to make it look like 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.080 it's a body in that sheet, and he just leaves 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:38.800 it on the bend. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.640 He leaves him on the bed like it's a wrapped 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:52.080 up body. And the free he said the first time 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:53.960 he did it, he had to. He wanted to. 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.080 He wanted to see the house clean, the house, the 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:00.560 house lady, the Cleveland lady's reactions, and of course the 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.280 scared the living crap out of her man. And this 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.800 is something he does on the regular. My dude has 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.520 a little twisted amusement for doing this. But yeah, it's. 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.080 April Fool for him probably every month. 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:15.440 That is some squad you roll with. 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:16.080 I guess. 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.680 I was gonna say, Oh, he's a set desire, he 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.680 makes product. What can he make for our show that 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.640 we can we can use? And then you tell a 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:32.440 story about him terrorizing poor hotel staff man. We are 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:36.479 off to a flying start here on the April Fools 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:43.080 edition this league uncut checks watch mine still has an 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.960 hour thirty plus minutes to go until it's April second 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:53.479 eagerly awaiting, eagerly awaiting. April. Second, you know what, let's 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:54.440 talk about the NBA. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.640 Chris Haynes, thank you, thank you. 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:03.880 You have gained your status as a year end awards 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:09.560 voter in the NBA. And so look, we're we're basically 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.800 two weeks to go in the regular season, two full 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.840 weeks to go as of this April Fool's Day. So 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:20.320 we are coming down the stretch of what to me 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:25.920 is an MVP race that just gets more interesting, tighter. 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.720 Three guys. I think only three players can win the MVP. 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:38.480 But honestly, as of this April first, you know, I 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.800 am not an official voter anymore. I don't know who 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:45.400 has the lead, And there has been a drum beat 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:49.960 for weeks now that it would be Jokic, Jokic, Jokic, 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.880 But look, I think Sga in Oklahoma City and Luka 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:58.080 Doncic in Dallas are right there. First of all, the Thunder. 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:03.960 The Thunder as we speak, lead the Western Conference. I 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.800 believe they finished tenth last season in the West. Perhaps 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:13.800 Producer Ryan producer Ryan back with us after a trip 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:19.040 to Asia and shout out to pinch producer Tim Minnesota. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.080 Tim got us through these last couple of weeks without 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.440 Producer Ryan. But Producer Ryan is back. Hopefully he can 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.200 check that to make sure that I'm accurate. Arise from 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.240 tenth to first in the East. Obviously, the Thunder have 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:36.760 added chet Holgrin to their team since last season. But Shay, 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.600 you'll just Alexander, if the Thunder win the West, if 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.040 the Thunder get the top seed in the West, that 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.480 is going to bolster his case tremendously. And then Luka 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.439 Doncic in Dallas, the Mavericks are the hottest team in 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.679 the league. They you know, team's success has been the 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:56.640 one thing people have held against Luka Doncic all season, 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.320 and I can tell you in the city where I 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.920 reside in a lot of people feel that that's an 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:06.440 unfair situation to Doncic because the Mavericks have been so 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:12.720 injury laid in this season and so often Luka Doncic 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:16.319 has had to carry this team shorthanded. But the Mavericks 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.880 are pretty healthy now and they are the hottest team 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.800 in the league. They just ended Houston's eleven game winning streak. 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.960 The MAVs only need a five and three finish to 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.120 get to fifty wins. So now the team's success component. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.440 Luka has that to add to a resume that has 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.600 everything else. Luka Doncic is gonna win the scoring title. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.000 He's going to be the first player in NBA history 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.560 to average thirty three to eight and eight over the 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:45.200 course of a season. So again, Jokic, Sga, Luka Doncic, 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:50.520 good luck trying to separate these three. But let me 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.600 ask you, since you are going to be casting an 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:59.240 official league ballot two weeks out, do you have a 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:04.000 way that you're what's kind of your approach looking at 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.800 the MVP race these last two weeks. 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.440 Well, I'll just say for the top two, it's fluctuating. 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:18.120 I have not I have not predicted who will be 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.840 my pick for MVP. As of right now. My top 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:27.199 two is SGA, N and the Joker. So I'm gonna wait. 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.719 You know, I got about seven games left between those 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:34.080 two teams. I'm going to wait. But I think, you know, 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.880 if we're talking, excuse me, my dog Prince is making 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.240 an appearance. I don't know what's bothering him. 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.560 I think I think Prince is Team Luca. That's the problem. 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:50.480 Yes, that's what it is. Prince, Quiet, Quiet, Okay, So 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.040 with that being said, Luke, I mean, look, Luca, I 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.520 think I don't. I don't have a argument against Luca 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:02.679 for being number three. It would be heart on my ballot. 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.640 I think it would be he has a tall task 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:10.160 to try to supplant those two I mentioned prior. But 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.280 you know, just as far as my MVP vote in general, 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.480 the number one pick is still open. I'm gonna wait 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:20.640 until the final final game before picking my ballot. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.760 And honestly, I would want to do the same. And 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:27.360 I wrote that. I wrote a story Sunday night after 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.960 I was doing studio pre and post for Ballet Sports 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:35.280 Southwest on the MAVs Rockets broadcast, and then I came 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.320 home and just wrote a story kind of touching on 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.320 where the MVP race is. And that would be my 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.439 advice to any voter. You don't have to decide today. 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.839 There's two more weeks. This race is so close and 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.640 so good, let it play out. Ballots are not due 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:54.680 until tax Day, April fifteenth, the day after the regular season. 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:59.600 Let's see where the seedings all fall. Because obviously I 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.600 do think think you know, if the thunder end up 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.839 one instead of two or three, that certainly gives SGA's 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:10.400 case and added dimension. But I again, I have to say, 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:14.760 I think with the MAVs making the climb they've made, 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.240 the MAVs are up to number five in the West. 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.480 I really didn't think it was possible for the MAVs 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:24.040 to get higher than six, and suddenly they're in the 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.280 four or five hunt. And again, if the MAVs finished 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:31.320 with fifty wins after the slew of injuries that they've 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.720 had this season, you know, they are one of the 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:39.240 top five teams in terms of starting lineups and for 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.120 most of the season the best you know, kind of 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.160 the lone playoff team that had to make so many 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:48.280 lineup changes, so they've dealt with nothing but injuries changes 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.760 and then obviously changing their team dramatically at the trade deadline. 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.719 And now they are just on a tremendous role. And 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.200 I think that's made that's what's made it to me, 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.280 a three player race. And then look, I'm you know. 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:08.360 Okay, people always you know, listen, we at certain times 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.000 we've even said we need to give the Eastern Conference 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:15.520 a little bit more love. You know, sometimes we go there, Sean, 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:19.800 are you comfortable well making the top three MVP cadates 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:25.319 all Western Conference players. There's not a player in the top. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.720 Here's the thing for me, And again my ballot is 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:32.319 mythical because I'm not an official voter anymore. But yes, 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:39.480 and look, individually speaking, Janie has had a brilliant season, 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:44.160 as good as season statistically as he's ever had. And 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.560 the man is shooting sixty one percent from the field, 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:52.040 which is just ridiculous. And then Boston has been the 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:55.640 team of the season. They won their fifty ninth game tonight. 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:00.320 They are running away with the Eastern Conference. And so 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:06.920 Jason Tatum, I'm sure, I'm sure both Yannis and Tatum, 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.600 you know these are the ballot for MVP. The official 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:15.000 ballot for MVP is five spots, and I would fully 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:21.240 expect those guys to appear on most, if not all, ballots. 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.160 But to me, my read of it, and this is 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.120 again you could disagree, I mean, we all can disagree, 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:31.400 but my read on it is because the Bucks are 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:36.160 so far behind Boston. It was eleven games entering Monday's 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:40.160 play with Milwaukee as the number two team in the conference, 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:44.160 but eleven games behind Boston, and the fact that the 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:48.200 Bucks went through a coaching change and such a tumultuous season. 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:53.600 To me, I don't think those are factors that many 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.360 voters will overlook, and I think that's what will keep 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.960 Yannis out of the top three. The Bucks are just 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.120 so far behind the Celtics and it has been a 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.360 roller coaster of a season in Milwaukee, and then Tatum. 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.240 Now maybe there's maybe there's more sympathy I think for 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.800 Tatum because Boston is going to finish with the league's 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:17.280 best record. My read on Tatum has been the Celtics 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.880 are so good and there is so much talent in 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:26.000 their top five or six. My my sense is that 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:31.960 will work against Tatum's MVP case. Example, Derek White is 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.840 the Celtics' fifth best player. He won Player of the 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.920 Week in the East two weeks ago. So when your 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.280 fifth best player is good enough to win Player of 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:45.200 the Week, to me, that's gonna affect your MVP case. 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:48.720 But again, these are just this is just my read 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:50.760 on it. The floor is now yours. You tell me 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:51.520 what you see. 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.760 Okay, two things to that. I want first of all 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:59.560 this Tatum situation. Then I'll get back to Jannis Tatum situation. 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.920 Now Here, what you're saying, Derek White, that player of 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.040 the week, the fifth best player. That just shows how 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.080 deep and how much depth they have on that team. 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:12.680 I get you, but for years, voters voted based off 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:18.160 of the best player on the best team. That's notoriously 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.480 that was the format for a lot of voters. The 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:25.800 best player on the best team typically got the MVP. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.200 Now that you know, we kind of went away from that, 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:34.600 that shift in voting. But you know, Tatum based off 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:38.040 of that format, based on how you know people voted before, 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.280 Tatum has a legitimate case for sure. I just want 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:45.640 to say that number two on Giannis Okay Stein, I 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.480 hear you talking about the Bucks are eleven and a 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.840 half games back up the number one seed Boston Celtics, 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:53.960 and they are number two in the East, and you 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.680 know everything that happened with the coaching change and all that, 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:01.120 But Stein, the Bucks still have a better record than Dallas, 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:07.520 who you're saying Lucas should be at least number three 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.679 in the MVP voting. So I don't you know, so 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.120 make what you have to say about. 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:15.879 That, yeah, because I just think it's a lot harder 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:19.000 in the eat in the West. I mean, if the 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.520 Mavericks were in the East, I think they would be 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.200 closer to the Celtics than the Bucks are right now. 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.760 But again that's a hypothetical. I certainly can't prove. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.320 Okay, but you can look at you can look at 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.960 head to head. I believe the Bucks beat the Mavericks 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:34.240 both times. I okay. 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:35.680 So if we want to if we want to make 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.919 this about two games, yes, if we want to make 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.240 it about two games, then uh and did they definitely 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.080 wanted Dallas? Because I was there and watched it with 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.040 my own eyes, I honestly don't remember. Maybe your producer 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:48.879 Ryan can look up and make sure that the Bucks 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.040 indeed swept the season series. I honestly don't remember what 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.639 happened when the teams played in Milwaukee. But look again, 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:59.239 this is that's the beauty of this and that's what 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:03.920 the NBA. Every voter can do it different. There are 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.600 no set rules, there are no set criteria, and every 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:12.240 voter sees it the way they want. 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:12.439 To see it. 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:17.000 So and look, I appreciate in the Boston case, especially 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.760 both for Jason Tatum and Joe Missoula in the Coach 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.960 of the Year race, like it's you know, the Celtics are. 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:30.280 Their regular season resume is as good as it can be. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:32.560 This is going to go down as one of the 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:39.000 great regular seasons in NBA history. And Joe Missoula, I 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.000 fear for him, is probably going to be punished in 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:45.040 the Coach of the Year race the same way that 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.640 I suspect Tatum will be in the MVP race. That 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.800 the team and the roster is considered so good that 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:58.000 for voters, I think voters are going to be more 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.760 apt to look elsewhere, Like in the Coach of the 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:06.040 Year running, I think Mark Dagnault and Oklahoma City, Chris 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:11.760 finchin Minnesota, Jamal Moseley in Orlando, and I would even 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:14.440 say Emo, Udoka and Houston with the way the Rockets 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.520 have charged in the second half to put themselves in 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:22.000 the play and mix. Again, these are my suspicions. Maybe 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:23.960 I'll be proven wrong on all of them, but my 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:27.760 suspicion is that those guys have a better those four 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:31.960 coaches have a better chance than Missoula. Because we have. 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:35.239 To stop this. You did we have to stop this. 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:40.040 We have to I'm explain why why I'm saying this, Well, 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.639 first of all, Check the producer Ryan did Check Bucks 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.359 won both games, and Dallas just want to put that out. 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:49.879 So it's official Yanni's had a better season than Luca 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:51.879 because the Bucks won two games. It's official. 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.240 Well, first of all, Giannis is averaging a career high 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:57.560 in points, shooting sixty from the field. I mean, I 0:19:57.600 --> 0:19:59.879 think you can make a case. I think you can 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.920 make a case. Period, Stan, you can make a case. 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:05.000 I'm gonna have to bring Giannis on to see how. 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:06.399 Please do let's bring him on. 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:09.200 I want I'm not let me see how he feels 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.800 about that. You make your case case for Luca, and 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:13.840 I have Giannis make a case for himself. 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:17.080 He wouldn't. He wouldn't do that. He doesn't want to. 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:19.000 He even said he doesn't want to talk about m 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:19.760 VP stuff. 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.480 Yeah, but if he hears what you guys have to say, 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:25.840 I think he might want to talk. I think he's. 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:28.560 Actually I know who will want to talk. The analysis 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:29.760 will want to talk for sure. 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.399 Oh you know what, you know what, he might not 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.159 be a bad person to bring on, cause if Yannis 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:37.560 won't talk, the NASAs will talk. 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:39.640 I saw that clip where he said, if you say 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:42.000 anything out of order about the Bucks, He's gonna be 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:42.840 all over you. 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:44.080 Yeah. 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:46.840 I told him it's eventually coming. I'm sorry, NASA is 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:50.240 eventually coming. Man, It's eventually coming. But Steian, I have 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:52.560 to stop you on it, he said. Now now I forgot. 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:54.800 Oh yeah, we gotta stop this Coach of the year. 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:58.639 We're penalizing Missoula for having a great year, and you 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:01.920 want to talk about you know, all the players. 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:03.520 He has is so much depth. 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:07.879 I mean, this is really his first full season of 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:10.560 knowing he's the head. 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:15.120 Coach, and he's done a tremendous job. It's sine. 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:18.320 I mean, let me tell you about Listen, he may Udoka. 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:19.920 I love the brother. That's my guy. 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:24.800 E Mauka. I love the guy that's my dog. But 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:28.119 we just started this playing tournament what a few years ago, 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:31.920 and so now we're going to give Coach of the 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:38.040 Year to somebody whose team is in the eleventh spot. 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:40.760 I didn't say he would win. I didn't say he 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:41.199 would win. 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:43.879 But no, I ain't said, but he should not be 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:45.280 over Missoula is my point. 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:48.440 Okay, So, and my thing is this, we're. 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:54.960 In this certificate giving generation. Everybody should get a certificate. 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:57.439 Nobody sin I'm gonna tell you when I was in 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:00.760 elementary school, I'm gonna tell you true story, Stein, I'm 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:04.440 running track. I was on the relay team, the four 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:07.159 hundred relay team. I was the league guy, so I 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:10.480 will always start us off. So in track in elementary school, 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:13.480 I'm pretty sure it's like this today. You get a 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:16.159 medal for first, second, and third. I never had a 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:18.879 medal before. Never fifth and sixth grade. I've never had 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:22.159 a medal before. Fifth grade year. Running the relay, I 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:24.639 get us off to a great start. We're in second place. 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:28.800 Then the second, second leg goals, third leg goals, and 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:31.720 our anchor goes and then we're end up in fifth place. 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:35.360 I cried like a baby because everybody else, all my teammates, 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:39.000 everybody else is in these other events. They walk around 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:42.240 with medals on there, on there on, the on the next. 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:44.399 So I'm like, all right, I'm gonna get it next season. 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:46.800 Sixth grade season. Got us off to a better start, 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:50.680 better start number one. The first leg first, I got 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:55.119 us in first place. Then second leg, third leg, anchor, 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:58.919 we end up in fourth place, no medal. Again, I 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:03.200 cried right there in front of everybody. The point I'm making, Stein, 0:23:04.400 --> 0:23:07.639 is that there was a hunger inside of me. I 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:09.560 end up quitting track. By the way, because of that, 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:11.640 because I felt out, you know what, I can't rely 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:12.200 on my team. 0:23:15.040 --> 0:23:15.520 I quit. 0:23:15.920 --> 0:23:18.399 I quit. I quit because they didn't have the same 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:21.200 appetite I had. Because if you have the same appetite, 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:24.359 at least hold your own. If I put us in position, 0:23:24.880 --> 0:23:27.280 at least like, if we're gonna lose a spot, let's 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:30.000 lose one spot, you know what I mean, Let's lose 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:32.720 one spot. But I didn't get a medal at all, 0:23:32.800 --> 0:23:35.399 and I quit track. I quit track because of that, 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:37.560 because you know what I said, I said, I gotta 0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:40.920 I gotta do individualized sports, and I ended I didn't 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:42.880