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Speaker 1: Good morning, swimmerl and welcome to the No Dunks Podcast

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Speaker 1: presented by FanDuel. It's Tuesday, May nineteenth, twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jay Skeez here in the Classic Factory and alongside

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Speaker 1: me as always Task Mellis.

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Speaker 2: Fans of the Conference finals both basketball and hockey. This

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Speaker 2: what's for you?

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Speaker 1: Next to him, it's my top shot hop boy, Trey Kirby, Hey,

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Speaker 1: hey yo, and over Yonder making the magic happen. Super

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Speaker 1: producer JD. There is great to have you back.

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Speaker 2: JD.

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Speaker 1: Hello to everybody on YouTube, hit the like button, subscribe

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Speaker 1: podcast listeners, five star ratings and reviews. On today's show,

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Speaker 1: we're going to discuss the Pelicans hiring Jamal Moseley as

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Speaker 1: their next head coach. We'll preview and predict the East Finals,

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Speaker 1: which tips tonight. I mean, I say all that, but

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Speaker 1: I don't know if we're going to get to it,

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Speaker 1: because we might just talk two hours plus about Game

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Speaker 1: one in the Last Office Finals, because holy shit, what

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Speaker 1: a game, what a start to this one. Nothing said

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Speaker 1: about Victor Webb Yama today will qualify is hyperbole. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's make that very clear. The Alien forty one points,

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Speaker 1: twenty four rebounds as the Spurs beat the Thunder one

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Speaker 1: twenty two, one fifteen in a double overtime classic to

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Speaker 1: open the Western Conference Finals. Wemby sealed it with a

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Speaker 1: pair of dunks in the final minute as San Antonio

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Speaker 1: stole home court advantage here and beat Okasey for the

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Speaker 1: fifth time in six tries this season. TK heading into

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Speaker 1: this one yesterday, he said, look, I think the crown

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Speaker 1: four best player in the world is up for grabs

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Speaker 1: here between Sga, who was awarded the MVP before the

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Speaker 1: game last night, his second straight, and Wemby after game one.

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Speaker 1: I think Wemby is wearing the crown firmly on his skull.

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Speaker 3: Best player in the world after game one, best player

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Speaker 3: on any planet perhaps as well. I picked the Spurs.

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Speaker 3: I was the only one of us, and the main

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Speaker 3: reason was they have Wemby. Last night. He was completely

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Speaker 3: the difference. The Spurs turned the ball over twenty three

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Speaker 3: times and thirty percent from three. They played Oklahoma City.

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Speaker 3: In Oklahoma City, if you have twenty turnovers and shoot

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Speaker 3: thirty percent from three, you lose against the Thunder unless

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Speaker 3: you have Wemby, and the Spurs had Wemby. This guy

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Speaker 3: most impressive thing. He always meets the moment. I'm thinking

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Speaker 3: back of every single time I've thought about Victor Webbin Yamba,

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Speaker 3: dating back to like Mets ninety two versus the G

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Speaker 3: League IG Night, thirty seven points in five blocks. He

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Speaker 3: was awesome in that one. He was awesome in the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: He was awesome at the All Star Game when he said,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna try hard. Anytime the lights are bright, he

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Speaker 3: is at his absolute best. He plays forty or more

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Speaker 3: minutes for the first time in his career, goes for

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Speaker 3: forty one points and twenty four rebounds. Somehow only three blocks. Still,

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Speaker 3: also only three turnovers, despite playing in a crowd all

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Speaker 3: night long. Sometimes he looked like Kevin Durant, Like when

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Speaker 3: he pulled up for a thirty foot three pointer to

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Speaker 3: send the game into double overtime. I was flexing on

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Speaker 3: my couch. I'm not a Spurs fan. I I on

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Speaker 3: behalf of this young gentleman. Sometimes he was shack. I

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Speaker 3: thought in double overtime he just dunked it every single

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Speaker 3: chance he got. He's like, enough these jump shots, I'm

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Speaker 3: dunking every time. Sometimes he was a Keem Elijahwan, you know,

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Speaker 3: seeing David Robinson get his MVP and that say, hey

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Speaker 3: remember me. Sometimes he was Kareem abdul Jabbar. He was

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Speaker 3: just everything last night. He was incredible. Oklahoma City shot

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Speaker 3: thirty two percent from the field when Wemby was on

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Speaker 3: the court, sixty three percent when he was off. He

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Speaker 3: could have had a game winner in regulation when he

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Speaker 3: made that twisting turning off the wrong foot, little floater

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Speaker 3: over chet Holmgren. Then you know the thunder get a

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Speaker 3: bucket from Shay and Shay and then Chad actually blocks

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Speaker 3: oneby shot right at the end of regulation but still

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Speaker 3: put him ahead, gave him a chance to win there,

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Speaker 3: to save the game for him in double overtime, after

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Speaker 3: or in single overtime after having kind of a rough period,

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Speaker 3: like he wasn't getting a lot of touches, so he

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Speaker 3: finally saw an open shot, rips it from thirty feet

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Speaker 3: at you can you can say Wenby is any height

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Speaker 3: right now, and accounts you're like, oh, he's seven foot ten,

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Speaker 3: and it's fine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're only saying seven to four last night, which yeah,

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Speaker 2: exactly four.

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Speaker 3: I've heard seven seven up to seven to seven the

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Speaker 3: other day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Man, we're just adding it inch every time that's ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: Though, This became a must win game for the Spurs

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Speaker 3: as things progressed, right, Like Shay wasn't playing well, Chat

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Speaker 3: wasn't playing well. You know, the thunder are going to

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Speaker 3: be better in this series. The Spurs had to win

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Speaker 3: one in San Antonio or in Oklahoma City at some point,

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Speaker 3: there's no Fox out there, so this one they had

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Speaker 3: to take it. And when they had to take it,

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Speaker 3: Wemby did it.

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Speaker 2: It's his world, man, We're all just living in it.

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Speaker 2: I know, we all sort of as basketball people. Basketball

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Speaker 2: is just a rare sport and that you can't anoint

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Speaker 2: the guy, say he's the best player in the game,

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Speaker 2: say he's a champion of all the leagues until he

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Speaker 2: kind of wins it. That's just the way basketball is.

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Speaker 2: But it's like he won the NBA title last night. Okay,

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Speaker 2: see may come back and win this thing. But the

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Speaker 2: way he stole a game.

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Speaker 1: Because they have lost two game ones in last year's

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Speaker 1: championship run in sort of heartbreaking fashion as well. Right,

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Speaker 1: there was the Aaron Gordon one in that series, and

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Speaker 1: then there was a Halliburton game.

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Speaker 2: They could come back. Yeah, yeah, they weren't playing Wemby

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Speaker 2: and then this is just a different world with Victor

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Speaker 2: webbin Yama. He does rise up for the game when

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Speaker 2: he needs to, simple as that. Other than his first

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Speaker 2: Summer League game that wasn't a good game, but maybe

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Speaker 2: the lights weren't bright in that Las Vegas arena, just

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Speaker 2: not great lights. This was him doing it all season long.

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Speaker 2: They sort of slow played him this year. You know,

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Speaker 2: they didn't have to play him a tony played sixty

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Speaker 2: four games. But when he needed to do it in

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Speaker 2: the All Star Game, the guy brought the All Star

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Speaker 2: Game back. In the playoffs, he has been really, really good,

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Speaker 2: even though he fell on his face. And here he

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Speaker 2: is in game one of the Conference finals, and he

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Speaker 2: basically said when he was asked about winning game one,

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Speaker 2: if it's a long series, we needed this one. And

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Speaker 2: here they are he won the thing. So it's literally

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Speaker 2: we're just watching this guy to see if he can.

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Speaker 2: He can do it now, Okay, see is changing something

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Speaker 2: for game two. There's no doubt about it. Isaiah Hartenstein

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Speaker 2: is going to the bench. I mean they realized that

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Speaker 2: Hernstein is too close to the paint and so Wemby

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Speaker 2: is able to do Wemby's stuff, and so you got

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Speaker 2: to take him out, have shooters out there. Definitely worries

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Speaker 2: if Caruso as his replacement is going to be fresh

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Speaker 2: as games go, as the game goes on, But Hertenstein's

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Speaker 2: just going to play against Luke Cornett. So I thought, okay,

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Speaker 2: see made some adjustments as the game went along to

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Speaker 2: help him out. But but, but, but but if Wemby

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Speaker 2: wants this thing, it sure feels like they can do it.

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Speaker 2: They're here, man, he came here.

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Speaker 1: He came out possessed. That was Hakeem watching David Robinson

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Speaker 1: get the MVP before screwed up. He had ten and

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Speaker 1: ten in like twelve minutes of action. He had like

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Speaker 1: three rebound highlights in the first couple of minutes of

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Speaker 1: the game on the offense of Glass, Like, yeah, it

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Speaker 1: inspired him. He believes he's the best player in the world,

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Speaker 1: and he was trying to make a point. Our concern

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Speaker 1: with wemy was like, oh, yeah, they've slow played them

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Speaker 1: all year. Is he gonna be able to hold up

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Speaker 1: against a very physical Thunder team when he does cross

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Speaker 1: the thirty five minute mark or the forty minute mark

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Speaker 1: or in this case, what did he played nearly forty

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Speaker 1: nine minutes? Well, the answer after one game is no

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Speaker 1: problem because what he was doing, Yeah, he looked gas.

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Speaker 1: Everybody was. But in overtime alone, the guy's yeah, hitting

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, Durant or Steph like

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Speaker 1: thirty footers and then Shack or Yannis like power drive

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Speaker 1: dunks and alley oops and getting to the line and

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Speaker 1: blocking and obviously all the notpes included as well, just

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Speaker 1: guys refusing to shoot around him. He just kept bringing

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Speaker 1: it in the overtime periods when I don't think anyone

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Speaker 1: would have been like knocking him, like, okay, he got tired.

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Speaker 1: Obviously he's like hit a wall here. He didn't do that.

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Speaker 1: He's powered through that.

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Speaker 2: He seems to.

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Speaker 1: He was seeming to enjoy the physicality more as the

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Speaker 1: game went on, embracing it in a weird way where

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Speaker 1: it was like, all right, okay, figured out, as long

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Speaker 1: as they can get me the ball when Caruso is

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Speaker 1: trying to like front me or side me, were good

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Speaker 1: and I'll go to work. Amazing the fact that he

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Speaker 1: hit twelve of thirteen free throws too, I know that's

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Speaker 1: gonna get overlooked. But he steps there, he takes his time,

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Speaker 1: he does his breathing. I think they even brought it

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Speaker 1: up on the broadcast. You know, hey, what Giannis gets

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Speaker 1: always criticized for taking so long? Or's the thunder fans

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Speaker 1: need to start doing the ten second countdown?

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Speaker 3: Here?

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Speaker 2: Where's that fan who was in Indiana that was doing

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Speaker 2: it for Giannis to kompo with that that ticker, I mean,

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Speaker 2: they gotta start car.

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Speaker 3: He's getting a ten.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just because exactly think about it, what again?

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Speaker 1: And then I mean all of these awesome shots, all

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Speaker 1: these awesome dunks, all these awesome blocks. Maybe one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest plays was Wemby uh hustling his ass back

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Speaker 1: on like a three on one OKC fast break late

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Speaker 1: ended up diving to the floor and knocking it off

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Speaker 1: chet Holmgren's foot. I mean, he just completely saved a

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Speaker 1: basket just on pure energy alone. And like Holland drey

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Speaker 1: Saw had a great report on this this morning. You know,

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Speaker 1: the three from Wemby is one thing. He's a problem,

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Speaker 1: but it's this like zest for greatness that he obviously

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Speaker 1: shows in all of these games in win or lost moments,

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Speaker 1: it emerges and like that hustle play is your SuperStar's

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Speaker 1: doing that as well as doing all this other stuff.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're setting a.

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Speaker 2: Tone full of zest, full of zen. That's a great word.

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Speaker 2: Although in that it was OT three thirteen left in

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Speaker 2: the first ot and on that break that was Alex

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Speaker 2: Caruso saying, here, Jaalen Williams, just go for it. That

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Speaker 2: was their second two on one that they messed up

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Speaker 2: in this game. It's hard to mess up a two

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Speaker 2: on one. But Crusoe kind of pushed it ahead and

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Speaker 2: said I'm a little gassed because he was gassed and

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Speaker 2: said Jayalen Williams, you go do this thing. And Jalen

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Speaker 2: Williams went into Champagne who played great defense, incredible defense

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Speaker 2: to turn it around and put it on the floor

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Speaker 2: and that's when Wenby hits the floor and it goes

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Speaker 2: off Chet Holmgren. Those little teeny tiny things are something

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Speaker 2: to worry about for the Thunder because is Crusoe going

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Speaker 2: to be able to play a ton against Victor webbin

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Speaker 2: Yama because literally again they can't play Hertenstein against him

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Speaker 2: because Wemby is just too close to the pain. He's

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Speaker 2: going to roam way too close to it. So those

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Speaker 2: little teeny tiny things hurt as well as the Shay

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Speaker 2: receiving MVP at mid court. Why do that? Why do that?

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Speaker 1: Oh just the nerve to even take that pull up three.

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Speaker 1: You got Harper to slot in here tk twenty four points,

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Speaker 3: He had a sloppy gym.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he had a sloppy one, but you look at

434
00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:53,439
Speaker 2: every single one of those. I mean he a lot

435
00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,280
Speaker 2: of them were other guys too, but also you know,

436
00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,760
Speaker 2: he came through. I thought a minute left in the

437
00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:03,360
Speaker 2: fourth quarter when he made that entry pass to Victor Wenbanyama,

438
00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:05,439
Speaker 2: and it looked like Jaln Williams was kind of roughing

439
00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:09,040
Speaker 2: up Victor Wenbnyama, but the ball popped out and Shay

440
00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,480
Speaker 2: went directly to the other end fast break. One minute left.

441
00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:15,240
Speaker 2: It's a tie game. Shae could win this thing. Frankly,

442
00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,800
Speaker 2: it could have been super close. But Stefan Castle got

443
00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,439
Speaker 2: back after that pass away and was able to stop

444
00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,520
Speaker 2: Shay on the fast break and hit that ball, and

445
00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:24,720
Speaker 2: so he was just not able to score. That could

446
00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,199
Speaker 2: have been a very very big bucket, so big for Castle.

447
00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,200
Speaker 2: We haven't mentioned Devin Vesella. I thought he was awesome. Awesome, Yes,

448
00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:35,160
Speaker 2: so many things across the board, steals blocks every single way,

449
00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:38,360
Speaker 2: even offensive rebound and causing fouls. Hit a big three

450
00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:40,000
Speaker 2: at the end of the fourth quarter to twenty five

451
00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,320
Speaker 2: left from the corner, and he helped on that big

452
00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:45,000
Speaker 2: block on Chet in the second overtime. Great block, What

453
00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,720
Speaker 2: a block? So yeah, yeah, yeah Jesus.

454
00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,000
Speaker 1: And like the Castle's point with the eleven turnovers, yeah,

455
00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:54,359
Speaker 1: obviously way too many. And if Fox is in there,

456
00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:55,879
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's not in his hands as much and

457
00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,720
Speaker 1: that's reduced. But his defense on SGA in addition to

458
00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:01,840
Speaker 1: all the other guys that got switched on him, Carter

459
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:05,320
Speaker 1: Bryan obviously, I mean they were they were hounding SGA,

460
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,320
Speaker 1: and he unlocked things as the game went on because

461
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,960
Speaker 1: he is the two time MVP and was big in

462
00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,840
Speaker 1: the fourth and obviously had some huge baskets at the rim.

463
00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:17,320
Speaker 1: But just the effort alone, just to make it difficult

464
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,840
Speaker 1: at the very least, that was Castle for a majority

465
00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:21,880
Speaker 1: of the game and other guys that got a chance.

466
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, Castle sure is the main guy, but

467
00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:28,240
Speaker 3: I think this is a team defensive performance against Shay,

468
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,000
Speaker 3: and I mean Mitch Johnson should get a ton of credit.

469
00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:34,600
Speaker 3: Shaye didn't seem to see the same coverage like more

470
00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,159
Speaker 3: than two times in a row. Sometimes they're switching the

471
00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,320
Speaker 3: majority of the time they're switching. Sometimes they're playing it

472
00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:42,800
Speaker 3: straight up one on one. Sometimes they're late doubling. Sometimes

473
00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,440
Speaker 3: they're blitzing. In second overtime, they're like, hey, how about

474
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 3: his zone. I haven't seen this one yet, and it

475
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,680
Speaker 3: worked through the Thunder out of rhythm. I thought Carter

476
00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,000
Speaker 3: Bryant was great in this game. This was like a

477
00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:55,000
Speaker 3: Tony Allen style performance, where like, all we care about

478
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,640
Speaker 3: is that you stay three inches from that guy. Yeah,

479
00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,520
Speaker 3: for the entire time. You can see him going Jalen

480
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 3: Wells mode, laying his head on his chest a few times,

481
00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:05,199
Speaker 3: hit a shot which was big as well. But I

482
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,920
Speaker 3: thought his energy was really good. Like the Thunder definitely

483
00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,520
Speaker 3: had better depth last night. Their bench was better. Basically,

484
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,000
Speaker 3: only two guys got on the court for the Spurs,

485
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,879
Speaker 3: which is why you see these crazy number totals for

486
00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:17,600
Speaker 3: a game one. So I wonder if that change is

487
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,600
Speaker 3: going forward. But Mitch Johnson made all the right calls

488
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,600
Speaker 3: last night. Everybody kind of did their part. I thought

489
00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 3: Kelvin Johnson was pretty solid in his little bit of time,

490
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,480
Speaker 3: at least he was scoring out there. Bryant was helpful,

491
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,840
Speaker 3: Cornett not there. He was probably it was Harrison Barnes

492
00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:35,879
Speaker 3: did nothing as well, so that's why they didn't hardly

493
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:39,520
Speaker 3: play in the second half. But I mean kudos to Mitch.

494
00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,439
Speaker 3: He's like, I gotta roll with these guys. This is

495
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:43,280
Speaker 3: a game we can win. We have to treat this

496
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,720
Speaker 3: like there's no tomorrow. Who cares if Devin Vessel's plays

497
00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:49,640
Speaker 3: fifty minutes he had to castle. I thought he gave

498
00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:53,000
Speaker 3: great effort. It was just he's doing too much at times.

499
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,320
Speaker 3: He would play too much in a crowd hung the

500
00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:57,959
Speaker 3: thunder of super slapsy and he just got loose with it.

501
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,159
Speaker 3: He was dribbling too much. He'll be better, I have

502
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 3: to imagine, and once Fox is back, you don't need

503
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 3: him handling in those moments where it's like dumb turnovers

504
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:06,440
Speaker 3: thirty five feet from the hoop.

505
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:08,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why this game was awesome because there was

506
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 1: like no feeling out period to a game one of

507
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:15,680
Speaker 1: the Western Conference Finals. It's like, just like every both

508
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 1: coaches knew you tried, obviously, let's go get this. This

509
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 1: is gonna be a hell of a grueling series. Play

510
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 1: your best players run your best plays, I mean some

511
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 1: great action out of timeouts and decisions and switching up

512
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,240
Speaker 1: defenses in Mitch Johnson's case, Like that's what made it

513
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 1: so good to me.

514
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, this felt like it did feel like a.

515
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,399
Speaker 1: Game six or seven where coaches start doing this stuff

516
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 1: and they're like, no, we're doing it right from the jump.

517
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,879
Speaker 2: Well, diagnaut's changing what he's doing from the jump. I

518
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 2: thought the first two minutes forty six of playing Isaiah

519
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:47,639
Speaker 2: Hartenstein didn't work out so well because he was just offensively.

520
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 2: He has to stay around the lane, and even Chay's

521
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 2: first attempt, he got passed Tofon Castle. So Wenby just

522
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 2: comes up in the paint. Hi, I'm here. He didn't

523
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,959
Speaker 2: do anything, but he waited for Castle to recover, and

524
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 2: that's when when we can go back. So Weny credit

525
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 2: with the block. Hell no, he's just there. He's just there.

526
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 2: Now they're gonna have to do that totally different going forward.

527
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 2: They're gonna have to rely on their three point shot

528
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,879
Speaker 2: a lot more because that's how they're gonna score against

529
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 2: Victor Webbin Yama. They started six of twenty two from

530
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 2: three in the first half, and so that'll be different.

531
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 2: You're right in That was a great feel. These guys

532
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 2: were going for it and that was a quick change,

533
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 2: literally two minutes and forty six seconds. What was also

534
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,119
Speaker 2: a good change. I thought Jillen Williams didn't score his

535
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 2: first run in this game. They said come to the bench.

536
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 2: As soon as Victor Romanyama went to the bench, he

537
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 2: got backed in there and he scored a lot. He

538
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:41,160
Speaker 2: scored three straight buckets to get him going, to get

539
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,439
Speaker 2: him feeling important, and that really really helped out. He

540
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,240
Speaker 2: scored ten points in that first quarter after going when

541
00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,160
Speaker 2: when we went to the bench, he scored six points

542
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,879
Speaker 2: in that first minute back and seven baskets in the

543
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:54,880
Speaker 2: paint for him, that's where he's gonna make his money.

544
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,160
Speaker 2: So the slashing was good for him, so he's he's

545
00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,800
Speaker 2: gonna be feeling good. I wonder how that goes forward

546
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 2: into you know, Wemby being around in general. But they're

547
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 2: gonna have to rely on three point shots. That's just

548
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 2: how you're gonna beat Victor Webinyela. And they recovered in

549
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:12,919
Speaker 2: the second half in overtime, and they'll be better to

550
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:18,159
Speaker 2: start because I don't think Hertenstein plays against anybody unless

551
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 2: it's Luke Cornett or Kelly Olinik is getting minutes, or

552
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,359
Speaker 2: Bismack Biamo comes out, or Mason Plumley, but he ain't

553
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 2: playing against Victor Webanyama. So they're gonna have to rely

554
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 2: on their three point shots, and that's a little different.

555
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 2: I mean, they have been good shooting the three throughout

556
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 2: the playoffs, they have been through the first two rounds,

557
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 2: but that's not really their m O either way. I

558
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 2: think Shay, like you said, to get the feel right,

559
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 2: I think will be better to start. I'm not concerned

560
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 2: about him.

561
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: I'm concerned about some of the other guys, mainly Chet Holmgren,

562
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,120
Speaker 1: who was two for seven, eight points and just continued

563
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,680
Speaker 1: his season long struggle against Wemby and San Antonio, where

564
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,160
Speaker 1: in the regular season he average basically ten points a game,

565
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 1: so he was right on par here. Usage rate just

566
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 1: sort of Plumbing's. He needs to be more involved. It

567
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: feels like TK at least more forceful, a little bit

568
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,119
Speaker 1: more Forci. There were shots even in these extra periods

569
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 1: where it got kicked to him. The guy's seven to one.

570
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 1: It wasn't Wemby closing out on him and he pumped,

571
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,160
Speaker 1: faked and relocated didn't seem to want to like let

572
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: it rip. I think, like you're saying, these are going

573
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 1: to be some of the shots that might have to

574
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: take in the rhythm. But what do you think of

575
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: Chet moving forward?

576
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 3: Is he was hesitant? For sure. I don't have a

577
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 3: lot of confidence in Chet putting the ball on the

578
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 3: floor and trying to score on guards, which is a

579
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,160
Speaker 3: problem because he's going to be matched up on guards

580
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 3: and wings a lot in this series. He's also not

581
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:36,680
Speaker 3: going to get as many putbacks as he got in

582
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 3: the Lakers series when it was like DeAndre Ayton was

583
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 3: literally getting pulled because they were giving up so many

584
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 3: offensive rebounds. Those aren't fair with Wemby controlling the glass.

585
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 3: So he's just gonna have to be ready to shoot

586
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 3: it when he catches these wide open looks. A lot

587
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 3: of times he's catching and getting into a pump fake

588
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,400
Speaker 3: and wanting to shoot off of a relocation. Just that's

589
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 3: how he usually plays. But he's going to have to

590
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 3: shoot it right away. I think he'll be better, but

591
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 3: this is on all three at the Thunder's biggest scorers

592
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 3: like Sga Chat and AJ Mitchell let him in scoring

593
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 3: through the first two rounds. Of the playoffs. They were

594
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 3: all bad last night. They'll all be better. I have

595
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 3: to imagine in game two.

596
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,440
Speaker 1: But there is Wemby Roman back there.

597
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 3: For sure.

598
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're just.

599
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 1: Like they can play so point of attack, aggressive defense

600
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 1: because yeah, you've got the ultimate insurance behind you. This

601
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 1: is like and they're going to continue to keep Wemby

602
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 1: I assume on you know, Caruso, I say on them,

603
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 1: but he's not on them. That's why Caruso's wide open.

604
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: He hit like six threes when Wemby, let's say, was

605
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,640
Speaker 1: matched on him. But Wemby's not even close to him.

606
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 1: It was like the Christmas Day game where that game

607
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 1: he went two for twelve from deep. We talked about it, like, oh,

608
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: that's something to watch moving forward. They did it again.

609
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: He hit a million threes. Like carus is not going

610
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: to hit eight threes again. I don't think, though maybe

611
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 1: he could because these are like basically shooting practice threes

612
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 1: for him, a lot of them. But they'll live with that,

613
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 1: I think when they because they can double up and

614
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 1: load up on SGA and.

615
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, and SJA got real real smart at as soon

616
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 2: as Wemby was there, they went to the corner and

617
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 2: hit Caruso for those threes, and hopefully they're just making

618
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 2: threes and ready to rip them because, as I said,

619
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,159
Speaker 2: six of twenty two in the first half after that,

620
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 2: eleven of twenty three, so very very good from half

621
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 2: till the end of this game. So they got way

622
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 2: better at it knowing that that's how we're going to play,

623
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 2: that's how we're going to score against this guy, and

624
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 2: so the other guys have to come on along for

625
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 2: the ride. Trey mentioned a couple guys, but Jaylen Williams

626
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 2: does feel good, was awesome in this game along with Caruso.

627
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 2: Shay just has to be better, man. I mean, it's

628
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 2: as simple as that. Really, that's a big, big part

629
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 2: of it. He just wasn't wasn't in the flow at all.

630
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 2: Of course, the half doubles that were coming to throw

631
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 2: them off the way, different defenses of his own trade mentioned,

632
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 2: there's lots of dudes ready to come at him, and

633
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 2: so he was just out of flow, completely out of flow.

634
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 2: We'll see how that changes in game two when they

635
00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 2: have a different starting line. My wrong saying they come

636
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 2: out with Caruso to start. I mean, I guess that's

637
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 2: the guy over Hartenstein. Hernstein's gonna play minutes, so Cruso

638
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 2: can go to the bench. But again, it's just gonna

639
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 2: be matched up against Cornette. I don't think there's another

640
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 2: another route that they go.

641
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 3: He never started last year, and they were in similar

642
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 3: situations where they needed him as a defender against.

643
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 2: Napouly Yochi just started the second half, So that.

644
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 3: Could happen because you're still gonna have to play Hartenstein minutes. Yeah, sure,

645
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 3: but this dude, he's in the Robert Rory Hall of Fame,

646
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 3: like he's one of the greatest role players in the

647
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 3: history of basketball. Hit like check him in and he

648
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 3: instantly flipped the game. I mean he was hitting batting

649
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 3: practice threes. Yeah, these are wide open, but he was

650
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 3: still making I'm so look at the thunder ended up

651
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 3: shooting seventeen for forty five from three. That's good. That's

652
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 3: really good, thirty eight percent. I think that's reasonable going forward.

653
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 3: It probably just won't be eight threes for Caruso. Maybe

654
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 3: he hits two and we'd distribute three of those to

655
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 3: aj Mitchell, two of them to Dort, another one to

656
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 3: Shay right, like they can get to that number again.

657
00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 3: But uh, there were looks.

658
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 1: In these extra pers okayse hits one of these threes

659
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: that they generated a good look from, then of course

660
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 1: they maybe win this game. They're gonna have to, Like

661
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: it's gonna be if this, if this series as close

662
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 1: as we think it is, it's gonna come down to

663
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: these couple of minutes and big shots. You know, the

664
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 1: first hit them generally Wemby and Harper and the other

665
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: the other guys didn't.

666
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it doesn't necessarily even have to be those

667
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 2: support three three shooting type of players, like I mentioned

668
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 2: Aaron Wigan's missing that time. It could just be Shay,

669
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 2: you have more shots. It's as simple as that, and

670
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 2: we'll see what kind of flow he gets into, because

671
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 2: that's got to be a high priority.

672
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: I literally have no doubt Shay is going to have

673
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: a bounce back Monster game two, zero doubt. And and

674
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: I'm not taking anything away from these awesome Spurs defenders

675
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: and what Wemby means and all the looks they're going

676
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 1: to give them. Some of these shots he's getting, he'll hit,

677
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: and he hits tough shots.

678
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 3: That's his thing.

679
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: And a lot of them were rattling in and out,

680
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: and then of course, then it starts to get in

681
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 1: your head and then the pressure builds. But he's going

682
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 1: to be fine. It's some of these other guys I'm

683
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 1: concerned about in this series whether they're going to come

684
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: along for the ride, but maybe him leading it and

685
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: they'll get there. What a start, What an unbelievable game.

686
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 1: It's one of those ones where you're watching and you're

687
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: like it's over and you're like, you're just buzzing. He's like,

688
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 1: you don't you know it's getting sort of late by

689
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 1: that point for us you're on the East coast, but

690
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: you're just like, as you just like took an espresso,

691
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: I'm like just wired after it. It's like you got

692
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: an Ultra pouch in your lip.

693
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 3: You know, you're fired up.

694
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: Let's get to some random notes from game one of

695
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: the Western.

696
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 2: Even more than one ultra pouch and you're resa flows.

697
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: Put a whole canister in. All right, I'll start here

698
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: with a bunch of random notes. First, one great Wemby

699
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 1: pose after a big play in the extra period, went

700
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 1: back to his bench and he just double te potted

701
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: it up in front of his guys and they are

702
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 1: you're the man, You're him you're not real. It's just

703
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: this is if they go on to win this thing

704
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: and win the title. Obviously, I think that deep three

705
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: be in any sort of highlight package, and probably this

706
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: moment because this is a pretty cool shot.

707
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 2: That is very cool. Kelly all in it, he saw

708
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 2: he makes it happen, man, at that point.

709
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 3: It's great.

710
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: It makes it more artistic for sure.

711
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 2: Against the blue shirts in the background. It's it's good stuff.

712
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: It's good stuff. Maybe not as great the OKC fan

713
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: blocking our shot probably eight nine times throughout this game.

714
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: My favorite moment is when he was calling for the

715
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: jump ball. We've seen this a lot. I feeling, okay, see,

716
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the cam wrangles a little

717
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: lower than nor I don't know what it is.

718
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 2: But it's just the location of the camera.

719
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: We get this guy a lot with his silhouetted arms,

720
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: and yeah, he wanted to jump all there, but you know,

721
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not knocking him, man, this guy's out

722
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: of his seat.

723
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 3: Just how it.

724
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 2: Yeah.

725
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 3: I think it was maybe the first possession because thunder

726
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 3: fans stand until their team scores. I think they shot

727
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 3: a three, so you know, did the three point attempt

728
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 3: didn't go in, but once you see it on the

729
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 3: first player, like, well, that guy's not moving the whole

730
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 3: rest of the game, so get used to some arms.

731
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: A couple of clips here we had Stephan Castle crashing

732
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: into the fans sitting courtside. Great hustle play, but make

733
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: note of the guy holding onto his corona. This guy

734
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: just like clause his beer here, He's like, he's basically

735
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: going to crush it a little bit. I thought, excellent

736
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: job to keep it upright, to reduce the spillage as

737
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: Tarika extra cause I was just impressed. That's that's how

738
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: you hold onto a beer there in the front row.

739
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then eventually you could tell that the producers

740
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 3: are like, by the way, Mike Terriico, that's Nikkeil Alexander

741
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 3: Walker sitting there. Feel free to mention it, because he didn't.

742
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, careful a lot of camera time, Yeah,

743
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 3: he take it a lot. He got a lot of

744
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 3: camera time.

745
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think he was dancing to the refs,

746
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 2: you suck, res you suck. He was literally dancing to refs,

747
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,080
Speaker 2: you suck. Well done. Did you see.

748
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: The stain Nikill Alexander Walker had on his shirt?

749
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 3: I couldn't.

750
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: Oh, a huge state. But it's like one of these stains.

751
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: It's like it's a vintage looking shirt. I think it

752
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: even said Kensington Market on it.

753
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 2: I actually think he did.

754
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: Anyway, that's a place in Toronto. I used to live

755
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,399
Speaker 1: right around there. But huge stain. But I'm like, did

756
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: he buy it with the stain or did the stain

757
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: happen that night, you know, eating some chicken fingers or something.

758
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: It looked like maybe the color of a of a

759
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: dark barbecue sauce.

760
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 3: Wow, I don't know if you're wearing a vintage Canadian shirt,

761
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:34,399
Speaker 3: that better be a poutine stuff.

762
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good calling.

763
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 2: And that wasn't a Shay's brother as well. I mean

764
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 2: beside Nikile, Alexander Walker, Tomasi, gil Jose Alexander, I didn't

765
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:42,919
Speaker 2: know these.

766
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 1: He looks like him.

767
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:46,879
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it was part of the family for sure.

768
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 2: It was nic It was nice. Nice going back to

769
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 2: the beer guy, it's nice he's paying attention to the game. Absolutely,

770
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 2: it wasn't not as far.

771
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:52,879
Speaker 3: Very nice.

772
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 1: Again, he was like crushing it to hold onto it

773
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: and keep it upright, and it looked like there's a

774
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:58,840
Speaker 1: lot in it because it started filming.

775
00:34:58,840 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 2: Oh he got some more foam.

776
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, so good job. Any other random notes.

777
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a few. Stefan Castle had a dunk in.

778
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 3: This must have been in the second overtime, and Jamal

779
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 3: Crawford immediately was like he hung on the rim like

780
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 3: he's printing the Chappelle Show. He was like, Okay, relax,

781
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 3: Jamal Crawford. And then they showed it and it was identical.

782
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was so good.

783
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,720
Speaker 2: Jamal's got lines, Manah, he does. He's solid.

784
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 3: He likes culture. Another one I got. You probably wouldn't

785
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,839
Speaker 3: think it, but Carter Bryant is the NBA player whose

786
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 3: face most resembles Michael Sarah. This guy's got a baby face.

787
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 3: So he's got a man's body. But then you look

788
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 3: at his face and he looks like he's seventeen years old.

789
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: You see the photo of Wemby with his arm around

790
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: him too, I mean that looks hilarious. He looks like

791
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 1: an eight year old child with his father him to

792
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, he's awesome, a big guy, he's a

793
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 1: huge monster, but looks.

794
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 3: Like a child. And he's just the crazy baby face.

795
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 3: He's got a baby face. And speaking of faces, forget

796
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 3: the face to the league, Mike Rico shouted out Reese

797
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 3: the best score bug operator in the Yeah, yeah, I

798
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 3: love it, not even close.

799
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,439
Speaker 2: I loved it so good.

800
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 3: Good job Reese.

801
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:16,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, good job. Speaking of that, I love the score bug.

802
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 2: That turns into the stats the NBC. They tell the

803
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,720
Speaker 2: story they want to tell because Victor Webmanyama stat line

804
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 2: below him after the game forty one points, fourteen of

805
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:31,280
Speaker 2: twenty five field goals, twenty four rebounds, nine offensive rebounds,

806
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,280
Speaker 2: three blocks, forty eight minutes and forty two seconds played.

807
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 2: They just got a great statue. I start there, What

808
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 2: do you want to tell? The story points? It is

809
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 2: really really good. Yeah, that guy did that. That guy

810
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 2: who is that guy who doesn't play those guys who

811
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 2: don't play basketball. There's just all these comments during these

812
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 2: games because I just said, I tweeted something like basketball

813
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 2: still the greatest sport, and then what a hot take?

814
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,839
Speaker 2: Yeah I wasn't. I'm not a hot take, man, I'm

815
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 2: not a I'm going to tweet the best, simple as that.

816
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 3: Man.

817
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 2: I'm not looking to I'm not looking for controversy or contrasy. Yeah,

818
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 2: but people are saying people will reply with yeah when

819
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 2: they play well, Victor w Minama. He played a lot.

820
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 2: He played, he did play a lot. We also learned

821
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 2: how to pronounce Victory his name. As he said during

822
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 2: the intros. You know the little videos that come up

823
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 2: if you listen, he doesn't say Victor woman Yama's Victor

824
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 2: woman Yama because that's the Congolese accent. That's that's the pronunciation.

825
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 2: So it's cool. That's cool. Man, good ca. So you

826
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 2: say your name the way you want to say your name.

827
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: Speaking of names, can I get your opinion on Reggie

828
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:44,280
Speaker 1: Miller trying to push mister Chaos for Alex Caruso. Holy crap.

829
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: When Reggie like gets it in his mind he's coming

830
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: up with a new nickname for a guy. He's like,

831
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 1: we're going to town, and he said it a lot.

832
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 2: He definitely said it a lot.

833
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 1: And I've never heard him called this no, so it

834
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: don't it. But Reggie makes it sound like it's a

835
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 1: no nickname. This is my problem the way he presents it.

836
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: That's okay if you present it, but I think you

837
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: need to own it and say he makes it sound

838
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: like we've been calling Alex Crusoe mister Chaos for like

839
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:18,479
Speaker 1: eight years. We haven't I saw a funny tweet about

840
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: this horsepowder. Great twitter name. Regi Miller loves introducing a

841
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: nickname for a player that nobody has ever used before

842
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: and that nobody will ever use again. He'll say something

843
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 1: like the venomous toad grabs another board. What are you

844
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: talking about?

845
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:32,799
Speaker 2: Man?

846
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 3: It's very true, so true, but he's kind of cooking

847
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 3: with mister chaos.

848
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 2: It's not bad.

849
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: It's I'm just saying, say, you're presenting it, you're bringing it. Hey,

850
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,879
Speaker 1: my god, we got to call this mister.

851
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know. I think I'm trying some stuff

852
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 2: like Jamal Crawford. Crawford said, uh, he's on it, like

853
00:38:55,760 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 2: uh VISI line on crooked tea. Yeah, okay, it's not bad,

854
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 2: but yeah.

855
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: Then Reggie crapped all over it or because.

856
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 2: He's said, oh, have you been sitting on that one? Yeah,

857
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 2: and Reggie said, yeah he has Jamal. Okay, either way,

858
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 2: don't do that. One other random note, we know Luke

859
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 2: Cornette is the guy who loves the Eclipse defense. So

860
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,759
Speaker 2: there's a three point shot, he just jumps. Victor Wemanyama

861
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 2: did it too.

862
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 1: He did it like three or four times.

863
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 2: I thought somebody should have said on the broadcast, like

864
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 2: maybe on his planet they can't see the sun and

865
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 2: that's cool. You know that's an eclipse or something like.

866
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 2: He did it a couple of times.

867
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: I thought where he was jumping now, not as pronounced

868
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: as Cornett's, like the double hand up when he's like

869
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: twenty feet away, but definitely doing a lot of jumping.

870
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: I saw Wemby when he was lay on a shot.

871
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 2: And it's kind of cool when Wemby does it. It's

872
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 2: not a cool move.

873
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: That's cool because you're like, oh, he might block this.

874
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 1: He's eighty feet away, but he might block this. Speaking

875
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: of Cornet, now, this is a very random note, but

876
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 1: it made me laugh. Cornette and Isaiah Hartenstein at the

877
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: free throw line. Hertenstein, I think, had just checked in.

878
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 1: They're lined up there beside each other and someone is

879
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: saying something obviously back at the half court mark, and

880
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,919
Speaker 1: watch how many times they're just gonna keep turning back

881
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 1: over back. They reminded me of meer cats. Sure that

882
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: I thought of. I thought there were two giant meer

883
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:29,320
Speaker 1: cats doing that. Said it was random, and it was random?

884
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 1: What else do I have here? Sharing is caring? Would

885
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: definitely go on the Reggi Miller Bingo card, which I

886
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 1: think we should create. I mean, anything you can do

887
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 1: I can do better would be on the Reggi Miller

888
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 1: Bingo card. Probably did you see that? And then he

889
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 1: usually repeats it in some fashion. I would think we'd

890
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: have that on. Are there any other reggiisms I'm I'm missing.

891
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 3: I mean, nickname that nobody uses would be a bigger one.

892
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 3: I mean I kind of think free space should be

893
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:01,240
Speaker 3: anything you can do I can do better, that's a

894
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 3: love it.

895
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 2: Uh.

896
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: We did have some brutal audio issues I did. I

897
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: think you guys did to It feels like everybody did

898
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: with them.

899
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:10,439
Speaker 2: We'll see there.

900
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: I mean it got bad. It was like static and

901
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: beeping and I had to go mute mode a little bit.

902
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 3: I took advice from the stream team. I was like,

903
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 3: I guess I just got to restart my stream. I

904
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 3: don't think that fixed it. I don't think I think

905
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 3: they just fixed it on their own. But yeah, it

906
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:25,240
Speaker 3: was robots.

907
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 1: It lasted for a little while. It was like a minute.

908
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 2: Plus NBA dot com solves all problems. Did not come

909
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 2: through in that part of your podcast, Oh, totally fine.

910
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 2: In house Serena League pass premium not a problem in

911
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 2: the world. I heard. I heard an invocation before the

912
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 2: before the game. I saw quite a halftime performance.

913
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:47,359
Speaker 3: Who was it?

914
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 2: Somebody? I wasn't watching that? Quite a performance. I'm just

915
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 2: it's just I'm just, I'm just doing things in triplets. No,

916
00:41:55,560 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 2: I forget his name, I will say, I.

917
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 3: Will say, sir, what are you gonna do it?

918
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: I'm go do some stuff.

919
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw you get the arena feed the in

920
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 2: areneum music and okay, see sometimes I praise it. They

921
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,879
Speaker 2: do the David Ghetta titanium going into the fourth quarter

922
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 2: of what it's some real generic stuff, the premium generic stuff.

923
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 2: It's not it's not ideal either way. They're working on it.

924
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 2: I think it'll be better next year.

925
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: Maybe before we take a break here, I do want

926
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: to ask you, do you think that was the highest

927
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:42,760
Speaker 1: level of basketball we've seen since Warriors Cats in the finals.

928
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:44,839
Speaker 1: A lot of people are going back to Some are

929
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: even saying, no heat spurs. You gotta go back to

930
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: agree with that disagree. Are we living too much of

931
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:55,320
Speaker 1: the moment recency bias? Because I will say Pacers Thunder

932
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: last year was freaking awesome. Iconic games like Games one

933
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:01,959
Speaker 1: was a Game four was awesome when they came back

934
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,879
Speaker 1: the Thunder did so, I don't know, those were pretty good.

935
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 1: That was pretty good basketball. I remember being played.

936
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Thunder Nuggets was awesome. Steph Curry in

937
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 3: Game four the twenty two two twenty twenty two Finals

938
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,320
Speaker 3: was awesome. There's been a lot of really great players,

939
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 3: but that was special to watch.

940
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't I wouldn't include Spurs heat because that

941
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 2: was one sided. That was Spurs incredible basketball, but it

942
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:27,879
Speaker 2: was a five game series. You know, this one's gonna

943
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 2: feel lot twenty thirteen.

944
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 3: It was pretty sick.

945
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty thirteen, Yeah for sure. Yeah, I was thinking

946
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 2: of twenty fourteen.

947
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 1: I think the reason people are going overboard and rightfully

948
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 1: so with this what we saw last night is like

949
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: this idea of these are a lot of young guys. Yeah,

950
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 1: outside of mister Chaos, we got a lot of young guys.

951
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,280
Speaker 1: And you go and you look at the current makeups

952
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,720
Speaker 1: of these teams and you're like, we could be getting

953
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: this for a while. Here, we hope we get this

954
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: for a while. Which is how young? I mean, Yeah,

955
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: the Spurs are young, the Thunder are not old by

956
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 1: any means here with their guys.

957
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was thinking that was the previous youngest starting

958
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 3: lineup in a conference finals. Was it the Thunder last year?

959
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't think of thunder in twenty

960
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 3: twenty twelve.

961
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 2: No, it was literally the Blazers in like the seventies. No, yeah, cool, Yeah,

962
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 2: that's where it came from. That because yeah, what yeah

963
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 2: the thunder last year. You're saying thunder last year?

964
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 3: I mean very well.

965
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, there there was a Hartenstein. You know, he's not

966
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:25,800
Speaker 2: the youngest of young's I don't know sure, but it

967
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 2: was an old older It bumps it up.

968
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: It only takes one guy to really jacket I guess.

969
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 2: Yeah.

970
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 1: I did have one more note, just to give Tarico

971
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: a little more love or the broadcast a little more love.

972
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: The game starts, okay, see is struggling. Hartenstein's out there.

973
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:42,240
Speaker 1: They could score, and you're like, oh, yeah, everybody's still standing,

974
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: And I wrote in my notes, you know, try and

975
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: find out what's the longest the OKAC crowd has ever

976
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 1: had to stand for until they actually scored and they

977
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:53,919
Speaker 1: could sit down. But then, like I wrote it down,

978
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:55,919
Speaker 1: like thirty seconds later, I don't know if it's Reese.

979
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if somebody else in the truck. They

980
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: were telling Tarico the answer, and they did set by

981
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 1: all accounts of the record last night at least this

982
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: season is from what I could tell of the longest

983
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 1: they had to stand, it was like three minutes.

984
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 2: Basically bucket.

985
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:11,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. That was good stuff by them.

986
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,839
Speaker 1: I was literally like, yeah, that's that's gonna be tough

987
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 1: to figure out. You know, we have to do some

988
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,240
Speaker 1: work on that. They just told us right away. Good stuff.

989
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:21,240
Speaker 1: Anything else? Guys on game.

990
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 3: One, do you think that they should make Nikayle Alexander

991
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 3: Walker wear the thundershirt because if you don't wear a thundershirt,

992
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 3: they put you on the jumbo tron. Put on the shirt, dude,

993
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 3: sit in court side.

994
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:35,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, I guess there's like a pass for your family.

995
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: His wife wasn't wearing it, at least when he went over.

996
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 1: He gave her a kiss before the game, after the

997
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 1: MVP trophy. Yeah, the bro because the wife.

998
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,800
Speaker 3: The beer holding guy. Yea Corona man.

999
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:48,439
Speaker 1: That's true.

1000
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 2: Those all Chase friends. I didn't I didn't know the

1001
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 2: beer man.

1002
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:54,280
Speaker 3: I don't know who any of those guys are outside

1003
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 3: of Nikayle Alexander Walker, but none of them were wearing

1004
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 3: shirts and they were all together.

1005
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, one was Tamassi killed, just Alexander name.

1006
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: All right, that's a that's a good fifty minutes there

1007
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:07,440
Speaker 1: on Game one of the Western Conference Finals. We'll take

1008
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: a quick break and then we'll talk the Pelicans hiring

1009
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:13,719
Speaker 1: Mosley and oh yeah, good luck. Following up that, we

1010
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:15,879
Speaker 1: got Calves next to talk about.

1011
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:18,959
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1013
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Speaker 2: because I saw the over under for Game one two

1014
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 2: seventeen point five, around a one hundred and nine for

1015
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 2: each team. Feels like an over for me. Yeah, like

1016
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 2: a lock it in over now. Maybe being a little

1017
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 2: biased with the Knicks playing so well, you.

1018
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 3: Want to get the button and lock it in. Yeah,

1019
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:39,399
Speaker 3: I think it's over here.

1020
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 2: I don't know if it still works. Yeah, probably, You

1021
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 2: just need to unscrew it and refresh it. Just turn

1022
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 2: it around once and you'll get a lock it in over.

1023
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 2: Nick's too good. Calves also in a flow, but I

1024
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 2: don't know, I could be wrong. That's why waiting over.

1025
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but and I also bet that that's what

1026
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 2: everyone is saying to each other in today's fandual Happy Hour.

1027
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 2: They're saying it to each other. It's got to be

1028
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Speaker 2: an overrighte Barry, that's right, Rudy, I saw Cornelius just

1029
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:11,720
Speaker 2: bet that. Yeah. I just came up with those names

1030
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 2: and they're talking to each other.

1031
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 3: Is at the halftime show?

1032
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 2: They didn't give him a mic? You think Christian Scooby

1033
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 2: is gonna come back soonish?

1034
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 3: We didn't bring it up.

1035
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: Christian had a fall.

1036
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 2: That's why I brought it up.

1037
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's okay.

1038
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:31,879
Speaker 2: I thank you. So we got to check in with them.

1039
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 2: I think you can check out the information on the

1040
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 2: fan duel app. Is Christian okay? Well yeah, yeah, yeah.

1041
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:39,840
Speaker 2: They do everything on the fan duel app. Check in

1042
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:43,320
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1046
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Speaker 1: All right, if you're just joining us and I got

1047
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:00,840
Speaker 1: some numbers here today because people are pumped about that

1048
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: game last night. We do this every day. Hit the

1049
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 1: like buttons, subscribe podcast listeners, We love you two five

1050
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: star ratings and reviews, comment away on Spotify as well.

1051
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on game one There of the West before

1052
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 1: we get to the East. The Pelicans have hired former

1053
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 1: ex Magic Coke coach Jamal Moseley as their new guy.

1054
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:20,280
Speaker 1: Moseley heads to Nolins after spending the past five seasons

1055
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:24,760
Speaker 1: with Orlando, which fired him this month after a seven

1056
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: game first round lost to Detroit. So Moseley's teams qualified

1057
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: for the NBA Playoffs in each of the past three seasons.

1058
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 1: They won the Southeast Division twice, but they were eliminated

1059
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 1: in the first round each time. Your thoughts on the

1060
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 1: Pelicans hiring Jamal Mosley here.

1061
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 3: I had a hard time coming up with thoughts because

1062
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 3: I'm like, Jamal Mosley, what do we really know about you?

1063
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 3: You turned around the Magic like It's easy to forget

1064
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 3: now because they definitely plateaued, hit a ceiling, and a

1065
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 3: lot of the problems seem to be the problems that

1066
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 3: persisted for the last three seasons. They just couldn't score,

1067
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:00,080
Speaker 3: but they turned into a great defensive team. Had a

1068
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 3: bunch of young guys when he started there, was like

1069
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 3: just post Boots trade, didn't even have ban Carro. Yet

1070
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:09,800
Speaker 3: ban Caro gets there. He builds a great defensive team,

1071
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 3: playing to the personnel's strengths. They become a playoff team

1072
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 3: in the Eastern Conference, and they never reached the heights

1073
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 3: that people were anticipating for the Magic, which is why

1074
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 3: he's now the Pelicans coach. But I think he's a

1075
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 3: fine hire, just not somebody that I'm like super excited

1076
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 3: about if I'm a Pelicans fan.

1077
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 2: This is more of a roster problem than a coaching problem.

1078
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 2: It sounds nice Jamal Moley's gonna turn your team around,

1079
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:35,799
Speaker 2: but that was a super young team. He is really

1080
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 2: good at developing players, he's really good at connecting with players.

1081
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 2: But we're talking about a team. It's got some oldies.

1082
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 2: Zion Williamson going into his eighth year in the NBA,

1083
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:47,799
Speaker 2: de Jon teymar Are going in to his tenth year

1084
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 2: in the NBA, Jordan Poole going to his eighth year

1085
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 2: in the NBA. These aren't young players.

1086
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:55,799
Speaker 1: They do two rooks though. In Fears and.

1087
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 2: Queen, hears and Queen and Queen and Zion Willimson specifically

1088
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:04,000
Speaker 2: as your bigs along with Fears. How does that defense sound?

1089
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 2: Doesn't sound all that great to me. That's a Jamal

1090
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 2: Moseley definitely characteristic. He is able to tap into guys

1091
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 2: to defend really hard. But there's more roster problems rebounding,

1092
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 2: defending the rim, shooting. I mean, so, yeah, that sounds

1093
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 2: great and maybe he can be a borderline playing type

1094
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:32,319
Speaker 2: of team soon. But at the same time, this team

1095
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 2: has been around so long with these main parts, I

1096
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 2: think there's just too many needs. I just wouldn't bank

1097
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 2: on Queen and Zion as your bigs to say, all right,

1098
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:45,720
Speaker 2: turn this baby around defensively. They don't have a stretch

1099
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 2: five to help out Zion Williamson because Queen doesn't have

1100
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 2: the shooting. Guys like Murray Fears, herb Jones Pool not

1101
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 2: consistent shooters. So I think there's just too many problems there.

1102
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 2: As I said, rebounding, defensive, uh rim defense, that's I mean,

1103
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:05,279
Speaker 2: he's a communicator, sure.

1104
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I loved him back in the day of mostly higher.

1105
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 1: Here fits what Dumars wants generally. I think in a

1106
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:16,840
Speaker 1: head coach it's like defense, tenacity, this sort of culture

1107
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 1: I'm with you on. Obviously, the roster makeup. But he

1108
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: has had success developing at least young talent and obviously

1109
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,359
Speaker 1: creating a good defense, which they were. I mean they

1110
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 1: were a really really good defensive team in Orlando the Pelicans.

1111
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 2: The Pelicans weren't bad either in twenty three and twenty four.

1112
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 2: They're sixth and seventh. They're pretty good a couple of

1113
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 2: years ago. I just don't think this is going to

1114
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 2: be a new team all of a sudden with that,

1115
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:41,879
Speaker 2: with the same core A bought in Desion last year.

1116
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:43,839
Speaker 1: But the guy signed a five year deal here, I mean,

1117
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:46,399
Speaker 1: this is this is I think they're going to give

1118
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: him at least a couple years and probably change the roster.

1119
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 2: Oh they have to do that, right, I think that's

1120
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:53,320
Speaker 2: the important part. Who's shooting on that team, who's defending

1121
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 2: the room on that team? No, there's no answers for us.

1122
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 1: They get a real center, Yeah, not cutting it there

1123
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: as your starting center.

1124
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 2: I agree with you. It was a good Rooki year

1125
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 2: for you, all right, So.

1126
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 1: I guess if you were throwing a thumbs up her

1127
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: thumbs down on that one sounds like okay.

1128
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 3: Sideways thumb to me, But also like they weren't going

1129
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 3: to hire a young coach, right, Like, the Balls are

1130
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 3: another team that has an opening and they will go

1131
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 3: for a young guy because they're in a rebuild. The

1132
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 3: Pelicans don't think they're in a rebuild. They want to

1133
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 3: be better, so they're going for a name guy. And

1134
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 3: if you're talking about name guys, it's like Tibbs is

1135
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:34,239
Speaker 3: another option. He's much older than Jamal Moseley is and

1136
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:38,319
Speaker 3: brings similar strengths and weaknesses, focusing on the defensive end,

1137
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 3: question marks on the offensive end. I don't even know

1138
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 3: who else would you would say is out there? Billy Donovan,

1139
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 3: I guess, but who knows? What's what's the point there?

1140
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:48,839
Speaker 3: I don't know if that would be a location for him.

1141
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 3: So given the choice that they made, I think they

1142
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:53,399
Speaker 3: did fine.

1143
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:55,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's absolutely not a bad coach, not a bad

1144
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 2: coach at all. Connectivity and culture is going to do

1145
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 2: all that. But they're just kind of out of the

1146
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:06,239
Speaker 2: order of operations here. I mean, this is doesn't make

1147
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 2: sense to me. You got to fix the roster, and

1148
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 2: that's gotta happen where Mosley's there or whoever's there for

1149
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:14,800
Speaker 2: Mosley just to be able to turn this thing around

1150
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:18,439
Speaker 2: that's been there for several years, it's gonna be tough

1151
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 2: this year, you're telling me, Nah, yeah, yeah, Finally, I'm

1152
00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 2: not gonna buy into Zion talk.

1153
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 1: No, no, what about when we see a great body

1154
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,400
Speaker 1: photo in the summer and he's gonna say something and

1155
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 1: you're gonna dissect it, and you're gonna be like.

1156
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:31,840
Speaker 3: I believe it.

1157
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:35,800
Speaker 2: I'm back, baby, I'm not no up for anybody else.

1158
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:38,960
Speaker 2: Should They should because it'll be fun to dissect the

1159
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,360
Speaker 2: person who's dissecting Zion Williamson because it ain't right. He

1160
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:46,359
Speaker 2: got me last year in the preseason interviews. That's when

1161
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 2: he got me. It wasn't anything to do with looking

1162
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 2: at his bod, but he sold me on his bod,

1163
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 2: saying that he learned how to manage his bod in

1164
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 2: the middle of the season last year, the middle of

1165
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 2: the regular season, not in the off season. He sold me.

1166
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 2: But I understand what Joe Dumars is doing here. Get

1167
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:07,720
Speaker 2: a guy who's going to tell you to play harder. Essentially, frankly,

1168
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:09,800
Speaker 2: that's what it is. It's not about the offensive and

1169
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:12,360
Speaker 2: but they're they're lacking. They are there.

1170
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 1: I mean what Willy Green was the head coach to

1171
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:18,680
Speaker 1: start this season. Not yeah, and then Can Barrego took over.

1172
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: There's talk of that he might get the full time gig,

1173
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 1: but he's not. There's a bunch of other names. The

1174
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:26,880
Speaker 1: most exciting name was Rondo head coach. Rondo is in

1175
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: the running.

1176
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 3: Former Pelicans, like, I can't wait for.

1177
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 2: That to happen. Yeah, exactly, And the Pelicans fans are saying, well,

1178
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 2: this is Willie Green two point zero because he was

1179
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 2: able to make them a good defensive team again, sixth

1180
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 2: in rating, seventh in rating in the twenty three season

1181
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:43,399
Speaker 2: and the twenty four season. The last two years they've

1182
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 2: fallen off, so they could and that's what they're hoping for.

1183
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 2: But yeah, I would find it hard to just say,

1184
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:53,320
Speaker 2: let's do it again, let's replicate what we did a

1185
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:54,359
Speaker 2: few years ago. It doesn't make sense.

1186
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:54,919
Speaker 3: That's in crazy.

1187
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 1: But I remember we were having debates like, oh my god,

1188
00:54:57,280 --> 00:55:01,359
Speaker 1: Pelicans have to switch up something here right offseason, right right?

1189
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:04,279
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, it's a new coach, but what does

1190
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: that mean for sticking with Zion Williamson and sticking with

1191
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:10,840
Speaker 1: Trey Murphy the third and Herb Jones and de Jontay

1192
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 1: Murray and Sidique Bay and the Rooks and like, there's

1193
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:14,399
Speaker 1: some talent on the team.

1194
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 2: I'm sure de Jontay Murray just played fourteen games last

1195
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 2: year because he came back from his achilles injury.

1196
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 3: And maybe they'll be back.

1197
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 2: Maybe they'll be you know, they'll buy in. But I

1198
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 2: don't know. The shooting ain't there. Yeah, the defense from

1199
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,839
Speaker 2: your center ain't there. You're rebounding ain't there.

1200
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 1: With the Zion, Looney was not the answer in the end.

1201
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 2: No, it didn't work. He's a team option right now.

1202
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:39,400
Speaker 2: I think for Looney they just say buy to Looney

1203
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 2: like I imagine they do. But we'll see. It's nice

1204
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 2: to be around. But they have DeAndre Jordan who's good

1205
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:48,319
Speaker 2: at pouring into guys. What award did he win again,

1206
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 2: tamon went teammate Award? He's good at that.

1207
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:56,760
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, let's talk Knicks caves here. The East

1208
00:55:56,760 --> 00:56:00,239
Speaker 1: Finals feature two franchises in the Knicks and Calves, that

1209
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:03,080
Speaker 1: were picked as preseason co favorites to win the conference.

1210
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:05,880
Speaker 1: And so now we've got stars like Brunson and Towns

1211
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 1: and Mitchell and Harden and so on to decide that title.

1212
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:12,359
Speaker 1: On the court. The Knicks have had plenty of time

1213
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:14,760
Speaker 1: to prepare here. They finished off their second round sweep

1214
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 1: eight days ago, while the Calves had to win a

1215
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:21,960
Speaker 1: Game seven on the road Sunday to advance the Classic

1216
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:27,719
Speaker 1: Rust versus Rest Paratox. So let's break it down. The

1217
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:30,360
Speaker 1: number three seeded Nicks versus the number four seeded Calves.

1218
00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:32,319
Speaker 1: What's one thing to watch? Who wants to get us

1219
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 1: started here in the East Finals.

1220
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna be watching Donovan Mitchell and if he

1221
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 2: can essentially go off against this team, he's gonna have

1222
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:46,040
Speaker 2: to score a lot because the Knicks can't score on

1223
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:48,720
Speaker 2: their end, and Donovan Mitchell is going to be happier

1224
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:52,560
Speaker 2: to see anybody but Asar Thompson guarding him because he

1225
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 2: was a problem. And the Calves finally after several games, decided, Okay,

1226
00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:00,879
Speaker 2: this is what we're gonna do. Wherever Thompson is, he's

1227
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:03,400
Speaker 2: going to be like the old Kawhi Leonard. We just

1228
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 2: have to go to the other side of the floor.

1229
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 2: And they got got it done. But at the same time,

1230
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 2: you're playing the Knicks, who can score, and so I

1231
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 2: think this is just totally different and you can't rely

1232
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 2: on Mobiley and Jared Allen to score a ton James

1233
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 2: Harden wasn't efficient in the last round, shooting like thirty

1234
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:21,960
Speaker 2: nine percent for thirty eight percent of the floor twent

1235
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:24,000
Speaker 2: nine percent from three. You're not gonna rely on Struce

1236
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 2: Meryl Shrewder. You're gonna have to have Donovan Mitchell go

1237
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 2: back to at least thirty plus points. You know the

1238
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:33,040
Speaker 2: four series he has had in the playoffs of thirty

1239
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 2: plus points. He's got to do that again. Essentially, he

1240
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:40,080
Speaker 2: had thirty four last year against the Pacers in that

1241
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 2: series they lost. They didn't want to do that because

1242
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:46,280
Speaker 2: they weren't getting a lot from Garland and friends. This time,

1243
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 2: he's gonna be doing it against Michel Bridges. He's going

1244
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 2: to try and be more efficient than he was last year.

1245
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 2: I imagine mckel Bridges starts on him. Although og Anobi

1246
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 2: should be back, he's probable, but I think I think

1247
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:59,480
Speaker 2: you start Bridges on him and see how og comes out.

1248
00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:01,080
Speaker 2: But he's got to be super efficient. He's got to

1249
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:05,200
Speaker 2: score eight ton in this series. So that's I think

1250
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 2: that's the primary goal of this team is to get

1251
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 2: Mitchell off lots of picks and stuff to get Bridges

1252
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 2: off him. But it's gonna be tough he's got to

1253
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 2: score a lot.

1254
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:16,000
Speaker 1: I think you could see Josh Hart on Mitchell, two

1255
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 1: Bridges on harden Og on Mobley, and then I would

1256
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: leave what Brunton on either Strus or Dean Wade, whoever starts,

1257
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:25,439
Speaker 1: and then Kat on Jared Allen. I think that could

1258
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 1: be there too. But yeah, it's going to be one

1259
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:30,840
Speaker 1: of the two main guys, probably in Bridges or Josh Hart.

1260
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:34,080
Speaker 1: I think hounding Donovan Mitchell, but that should be a

1261
00:58:34,120 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 1: lot easier in theory than Asar Thompson, the athletic freak

1262
00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 1: that he is sort of breathing down his neck.

1263
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe the Knicks have three guys they can throw

1264
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 3: at Mitchell that are going to have size on him,

1265
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:49,320
Speaker 3: which can give him problems. But the interesting thing about

1266
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:51,640
Speaker 3: the Calves is like it took himntil almost Game seven

1267
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 3: for them to be like Donovan Mitchell, you handle the

1268
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:56,600
Speaker 3: ball all the time. It was mostly Hardened through the

1269
00:58:56,600 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 3: first six games as their ball handler, but then Mitchell

1270
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 3: tapped in his scoring and playmaking in Game seven, and

1271
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 3: they are going to need a big series from him

1272
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 3: because I'm foreseeing a very big series from Jalen Brunson

1273
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 3: because not a great matchup defensively for the Cavs against

1274
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 3: Brunson during the regular season, Wade and Shrewder were kind

1275
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 3: of like the main guys. Obviously, Harden and Mitchell got

1276
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:18,360
Speaker 3: their turns as they're the starters there. I kind of

1277
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:21,640
Speaker 3: think Max Scruse once again will be called into action here,

1278
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 3: at least as the series goes on. Maybe they try Wade,

1279
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 3: but his lack of offense, You're gonna want to get

1280
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 3: a guy who plays both ways, but New York's offense

1281
00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:34,439
Speaker 3: is different. Now Karl Anthony Towns operates as the playmaking hub.

1282
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 3: We'll see if he's able to stay in the rhythm

1283
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:40,400
Speaker 3: he was through the six Er series through the end

1284
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:43,600
Speaker 3: of the Hawks series, but him playing so well has

1285
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 3: made things even easier for Brunson. And Brunson is just

1286
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 3: a lights out scorer, so I think he's gonna have

1287
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:52,000
Speaker 3: a really big series here, which, to your point, task

1288
00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:54,920
Speaker 3: means that Mitchell needs to basically match him. Like if

1289
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 3: Brunton's thirty a game, Mitchell absolutely needs to be and

1290
00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:00,439
Speaker 3: I see Brunson getting there far easier than does.

1291
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:03,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, they're gonna throw some guys at him, like

1292
01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:05,920
Speaker 2: at ke On Ellis will come out and try and

1293
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:09,760
Speaker 2: slow him down, but keon scoring on the other side

1294
01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 2: is a problem, but they'll throw bodies.

1295
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 1: I am excited to see Kat versus MOBILEI here and

1296
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 1: how much these two big guys who are rolling right now,

1297
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:19,560
Speaker 1: both of them are like starting to peek here at

1298
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:22,440
Speaker 1: least when it comes to their playoff basketball careers. Just

1299
01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:24,520
Speaker 1: how often they match up on each other too, because

1300
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:27,560
Speaker 1: during the regular season, Mobili does spend a lot of

1301
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 1: the time on Cat and if he's operating out there

1302
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:32,960
Speaker 1: at the perimeter or sort of up by the free

1303
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:34,960
Speaker 1: throw line a lot more sort of as this playmaking

1304
01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:38,600
Speaker 1: big that'll be fascinating. Will Mobiley stay out there on them?

1305
01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:41,480
Speaker 1: They like him as a help defender. Of course, you

1306
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:43,560
Speaker 1: know he's not wenby levels of the help defense, but

1307
01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 1: he's an awesome help defender while Og usually tracks Mobley

1308
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:50,160
Speaker 1: and like I said, Kat interior then would get the

1309
01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:53,280
Speaker 1: Jared Allen matchups. So I'm excited to watch how they

1310
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 1: go about that and how often the calves in particular,

1311
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:01,160
Speaker 1: whatever these matchups are, how much they're just trying to

1312
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:05,360
Speaker 1: draw Kat and Brunson into action too, into any sort

1313
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:07,360
Speaker 1: of pick and roll and inverted pick and rolls, because

1314
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:09,640
Speaker 1: we saw some success with Mobley and Harden at least

1315
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 1: in the last round at times. And Mobley is he's

1316
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:15,600
Speaker 1: really impressed me over his last like little stretch out

1317
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:17,400
Speaker 1: of the second half of that series against the Pistons,

1318
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:18,840
Speaker 1: he was really good.

1319
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, anything else to watch, I mean, I think, I

1320
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:24,800
Speaker 3: do think the front court matchup is really big, especially

1321
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:26,600
Speaker 3: when you throw in Mitchell Robinson, who was like the

1322
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:31,160
Speaker 3: first guy that gave Jared Allen in particular problems way

1323
01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:34,520
Speaker 3: back when the Cavs Bigs were really big. I thought

1324
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:37,440
Speaker 3: in Game seven kind of both of their series, actually

1325
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:39,600
Speaker 3: both Game sevens, they brought a real toughness to the game.

1326
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:42,400
Speaker 3: They brought some fight. You're totally right, Skeets Like they've

1327
01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 3: used Evan Mobley a lot more. He's setting a lot

1328
01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:46,640
Speaker 3: more picks. They're having him bring the ball up to

1329
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 3: relieve pressure on Mitchell and on Harden. But these guys

1330
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:54,280
Speaker 3: have to rebound. Cleveland during the playoffs is fourteenth in

1331
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 3: defensive rebound percentage out of sixteen teams. New York meanwhile

1332
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 3: fourth and offensive rebounding percentage. They got three guys who

1333
01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:04,120
Speaker 3: are really tough to keep off the glass in Towns Robinson,

1334
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,280
Speaker 3: I would throw Josh Hart in there as well, especially

1335
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 3: since he probably won't be guarded very much in this series,

1336
01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:11,640
Speaker 3: and he's just so smart at if you're not putting

1337
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:14,520
Speaker 3: a guy specifically on me, I'm just going nuts on

1338
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:17,720
Speaker 3: the offensive board because there's nobody putting a body on them.

1339
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:20,600
Speaker 3: So I think New York is pretty equipped to guard

1340
01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:23,240
Speaker 3: Cleveland's back court. They got the size, the speed, and

1341
01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:25,280
Speaker 3: the know how, which means the front court for the

1342
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 3: Knicks has to come or for the Caves really has

1343
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:27,840
Speaker 3: to come through.

1344
01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 1: And that's what plagued the Calves three seasons ago when

1345
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 1: they got cooked by the Knicks and the lights were

1346
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 1: too bright. That's where it all came from. That was

1347
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 1: Robinson in Towns. I mean, they have a chance here

1348
01:02:40,120 --> 01:02:42,920
Speaker 1: to bully them on the boards again. But at times

1349
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:45,800
Speaker 1: in these previous series though obviously Alan and Mobiley have

1350
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:47,919
Speaker 1: been up up for the fight and sort of brought

1351
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:49,720
Speaker 1: it back, if not won a lot of those matchups

1352
01:02:49,720 --> 01:02:52,000
Speaker 1: at the big positions. But they're gonna have to in

1353
01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:53,800
Speaker 1: this series pull off this upset, I think because most

1354
01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:57,400
Speaker 1: people have the Knicks advancing X factors though either side

1355
01:02:57,520 --> 01:02:58,080
Speaker 1: where you want to.

1356
01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:01,360
Speaker 2: Go, well, I think Due's McBride for the New York Knicks.

1357
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:03,800
Speaker 2: I know he's coming off the bench, and you may

1358
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:07,520
Speaker 2: not think a lot about Deuce McBride, but he will

1359
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:11,640
Speaker 2: match up against the really good guards whenever he needs to,

1360
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:13,520
Speaker 2: like he did in the first round with CJ McCollum,

1361
01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:16,000
Speaker 2: with Tyre's Maxie in round number two. And the guy

1362
01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:18,520
Speaker 2: can shoot. And the Cavs are the worst three point

1363
01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:21,760
Speaker 2: defense in the playoffs among teams left. They're thirteenth of

1364
01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:25,240
Speaker 2: all sixteen playoff teams so far. And so I think

1365
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:28,560
Speaker 2: Sam sam Merril on the other side of Samuel, but

1366
01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:31,360
Speaker 2: Deuce is the guy on the Knicks. He literally can

1367
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:34,240
Speaker 2: light it up and drop twelve fifteen. I know it's

1368
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:35,480
Speaker 2: not gonna be a ton of points, but it is

1369
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:41,160
Speaker 2: important on both sides. Soucy, he can get hot.

1370
01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:42,560
Speaker 3: Wow Deuce versus Streuce.

1371
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 2: That's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1372
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:50,320
Speaker 3: From the crowd, I got Ognanobe as an X factor.

1373
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:53,240
Speaker 3: He's a tough matchup for Cleveland, especially if we're thinking

1374
01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:56,440
Speaker 3: that they're going to have to put a bigger wing

1375
01:03:56,840 --> 01:04:00,360
Speaker 3: on to Brunson, whether it be Wade or Strews. That

1376
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:03,600
Speaker 3: leaves not a lot of size left to guard. Og

1377
01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:06,080
Speaker 3: and Anobi, who was awesome when he was playing twenty

1378
01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 3: one points per game on sixty two from the field

1379
01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 3: fifty four from three. The curve ball is that he

1380
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:13,640
Speaker 3: hasn't played basketball in two weeks, so he's got a return.

1381
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:17,040
Speaker 3: Plus they've got this entire Knicks layoff where they're still

1382
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:19,600
Speaker 3: building their car, They're still trying to build their Karl

1383
01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:23,720
Speaker 3: Anthony Towns offense. So, like dude, is og Nnobi able

1384
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:27,280
Speaker 3: to fall right back into rhythm coming back after a

1385
01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:31,320
Speaker 3: couple of weeks off, Who knows, But I'm confident he's

1386
01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:33,520
Speaker 3: been so good in the playoffs. To me, he was

1387
01:04:33,560 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 3: the best player for the Knicks during their first round

1388
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:38,400
Speaker 3: series against Atlanta, and then Kat was kind of the

1389
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:42,280
Speaker 3: guy in round two. But Og, I think can really

1390
01:04:42,280 --> 01:04:43,560
Speaker 3: turn the tide for New York here.

1391
01:04:43,720 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're lucky that mckel bridges is clicking too,

1392
01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:48,919
Speaker 2: because Ogi doesn't have to be a monster if mckel

1393
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:52,040
Speaker 2: bridges continues to be what he is because of the

1394
01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:53,919
Speaker 2: trickle down effect, because of the guys you just named,

1395
01:04:53,920 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 2: because the Towns was playing really really well, because Og

1396
01:04:56,640 --> 01:04:59,400
Speaker 2: was playing really really well. Mcelbridges did not start the

1397
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:02,360
Speaker 2: playoffs well, but as soon as horrible. He was bad. Yeah,

1398
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 2: and Mike Brown sat him down. He literally had to

1399
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:08,360
Speaker 2: pull him out. But since he's averaged eighteen point eight

1400
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:12,160
Speaker 2: points on seventy five point seven percent true shooting percentage,

1401
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 2: because he's been super hot, so he could keep that rolling.

1402
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:18,880
Speaker 1: I mean, that's why I have him as my X factor.

1403
01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:20,920
Speaker 1: It's like when mkill Bridges plays well, it's like the

1404
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:24,200
Speaker 1: next seam almost unbeatable. But he was bad through the

1405
01:05:24,240 --> 01:05:26,960
Speaker 1: first five. He's been awesome since somebody told him, you

1406
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:28,480
Speaker 1: know you can go to the rim. You know you

1407
01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:30,840
Speaker 1: can do that. You are pretty athletic. Started doing that

1408
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:31,480
Speaker 1: a little bit more.

1409
01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:34,040
Speaker 2: Well. The Cat as the hub of the offense, yeah,

1410
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:34,480
Speaker 2: help that.

1411
01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:38,000
Speaker 1: Out absolutely absolutely. And just in addition, I mean already

1412
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:40,800
Speaker 1: talking about the rebounding, the Cats just have to try

1413
01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:43,120
Speaker 1: and not give up too many extra possessions to the Knicks.

1414
01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:47,280
Speaker 1: Mitchell Robinson is the best offensive rebounder left in the playoffs.

1415
01:05:47,640 --> 01:05:49,760
Speaker 1: I guess you could say Wenby was pretty awesome too,

1416
01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:54,080
Speaker 1: he is, but Mitchell Robinson's amazing, and Towns is pretty good.

1417
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:56,520
Speaker 1: Even Jordan Clarkson when he comes in there's been really

1418
01:05:56,520 --> 01:05:58,800
Speaker 1: good on the offensive. Glass more of the longer ones.

1419
01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:02,440
Speaker 1: So get a body on somebody and obviously end possessions.

1420
01:06:02,440 --> 01:06:03,720
Speaker 1: You get the stop, you got to end it. If

1421
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:06,480
Speaker 1: they're the Cavs here, not too many extra chances is

1422
01:06:06,520 --> 01:06:07,360
Speaker 1: going to be the game plan.

1423
01:06:07,560 --> 01:06:10,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, the dirty secret of podcasting, turnovers, offensive rebounding, and

1424
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 3: three point shooting. That is always the X fact, and

1425
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:16,240
Speaker 3: I think it's all three of them are going to

1426
01:06:16,240 --> 01:06:18,400
Speaker 3: play a factor in this series. So far, Cleveland opponents

1427
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:20,560
Speaker 3: are taking four more shots per game. They turn the

1428
01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:24,560
Speaker 3: ball over a ton against pressure defense. The Knicks have

1429
01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:27,240
Speaker 3: been pretty good defensively as well, and like you're saying,

1430
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:30,160
Speaker 3: they're also demons on the offensive class. So that's going

1431
01:06:30,200 --> 01:06:32,320
Speaker 3: to be a problem for Cleveland, which means what's the

1432
01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:34,720
Speaker 3: third thing? Three point shooting? You got them knock them down.

1433
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:37,320
Speaker 3: New York actually gives up a lot of three point shooting.

1434
01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:40,240
Speaker 3: Teams have not knocked down their attempt I think they're

1435
01:06:40,240 --> 01:06:42,600
Speaker 3: shooting thirty two percent against the Knicks so far this year,

1436
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:44,760
Speaker 3: So you know, average is wise. You would think it

1437
01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:47,680
Speaker 3: bounces back eventually, which means Cleveland, you got a you

1438
01:06:47,840 --> 01:06:49,520
Speaker 3: just got a shoot, well, take care of the ball

1439
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:50,160
Speaker 3: and shoot well.

1440
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:55,080
Speaker 1: Who do you think's most likely to be the cav

1441
01:06:55,240 --> 01:06:57,960
Speaker 1: or the Knicks villain maybe in this series for Cleveland,

1442
01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:00,120
Speaker 1: obviously along the lines of a Reggie or a tyres All,

1443
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:00,560
Speaker 1: the Burton.

1444
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:01,480
Speaker 3: It could be a.

1445
01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:03,040
Speaker 1: Star player or it could be, you know, obviously one

1446
01:07:03,080 --> 01:07:05,560
Speaker 1: of these role players. What's your gut say if there's

1447
01:07:05,560 --> 01:07:07,680
Speaker 1: gonna be one guy on Cleveland that Knicks fans are

1448
01:07:07,680 --> 01:07:10,560
Speaker 1: just pulling their hair out because this guy's killing them.

1449
01:07:10,840 --> 01:07:12,560
Speaker 2: Maybe from three or not, who would you go with?

1450
01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:16,960
Speaker 2: You know it's the shrewdah, Yeah, you could see it.

1451
01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:21,400
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, in Madison Square Garden, he's gonna thrive. He

1452
01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:25,080
Speaker 2: does thrive in big games, you know, and he plays

1453
01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:28,200
Speaker 2: limited minutes, so that could be a spark, a spark

1454
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:32,160
Speaker 2: versus Alvarado, Oh yeah, feisty stuff.

1455
01:07:32,280 --> 01:07:34,200
Speaker 1: Streus yeah, Strus Yeah.

1456
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:36,520
Speaker 3: I mean he's a good three point shooter and he

1457
01:07:36,560 --> 01:07:38,480
Speaker 3: gets into a skirmish with somebody on the other team

1458
01:07:38,520 --> 01:07:39,360
Speaker 3: every series.

1459
01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:41,880
Speaker 1: Right, And didn't Max Struce in the other garden, the

1460
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:45,720
Speaker 1: Boston TD Garden. Wasn't he lights out a couple series

1461
01:07:46,240 --> 01:07:48,120
Speaker 1: way back in the day when he played for the Heat.

1462
01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:50,280
Speaker 2: Maybe was monstrous.

1463
01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 3: He's a Garden guy.

1464
01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:52,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm saying he's.

1465
01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:54,040
Speaker 2: A Garden guy. I could see it.

1466
01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:55,840
Speaker 1: I mean, so could Sam Marrill be one of these

1467
01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:58,160
Speaker 1: guys too, Who's, as we talked about, sort of the

1468
01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:00,000
Speaker 1: bell weather for this team. When he plays well there

1469
01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:01,840
Speaker 1: really really good. He could hit a bunch of threes.

1470
01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:05,800
Speaker 1: Knicks fans go on somebody guard him, but we'll see.

1471
01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:07,040
Speaker 2: This is a gardening show.

1472
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 1: Zach eliphan Akis, Yeah for sure.

1473
01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:10,960
Speaker 3: Did you watch it?

1474
01:08:11,080 --> 01:08:12,560
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I did too. It's fun.

1475
01:08:12,560 --> 01:08:15,280
Speaker 1: It's okay, what do you expected?

1476
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:21,160
Speaker 2: What? No? No? Was Zach though, classic Zach.

1477
01:08:21,040 --> 01:08:24,160
Speaker 1: Classic sack. There was a funny between two Fern's joke

1478
01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:25,240
Speaker 1: that he did make at one point.

1479
01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:25,759
Speaker 3: Okay.

1480
01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:29,439
Speaker 1: Predictions for Knicks Cavs try you go first.

1481
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:33,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that these two teams at their peaks.

1482
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:36,000
Speaker 3: This is a really solid series. But I think the

1483
01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:38,240
Speaker 3: Knicks have been able to reach their peak a lot

1484
01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:41,120
Speaker 3: more during this playoffs, and I think it's pretty impressive

1485
01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:43,320
Speaker 3: that we've seen them get better as the playoffs have

1486
01:08:43,360 --> 01:08:45,599
Speaker 3: gone on. I'm taking the Knicks in five.

1487
01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:49,920
Speaker 2: My prediction is that Dennis Shrewder is going to say

1488
01:08:50,400 --> 01:08:53,080
Speaker 2: too small, give you, give you a little sign for

1489
01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:58,000
Speaker 2: Deuce McBride. That's gonna happen because Duce McBride has gotten

1490
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:00,200
Speaker 2: it the most out of anybody in the playoffs before

1491
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:02,360
Speaker 2: I got it from CJ. McCollum, got it from Tyrese, Maxie,

1492
01:09:02,360 --> 01:09:04,200
Speaker 2: and Truder's going to do that. I also predict that

1493
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Speaker 2: the New York Knicks are going to win this series

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Speaker 2: in five.

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Speaker 1: Ooh, also go in five. Let me give you this

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Speaker 1: stat before I give you my prediction. Teams that needed

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Speaker 1: seven games in both the first and second rounds are

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Speaker 1: just one in four in the conference finals, according to

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Speaker 1: ESPN research. Now, the two thousand and eight Celtics they won,

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty Nuggets, the twenty sixteen Raptors, the two

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01:09:24,320 --> 01:09:26,640
Speaker 1: thousand and six Sons, in the two thousand and three Mavericks,

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01:09:27,120 --> 01:09:30,040
Speaker 1: they all lost. Those are the four losing teams that

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01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:32,719
Speaker 1: went and won in game sevens in the first two series,

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01:09:33,240 --> 01:09:35,240
Speaker 1: ultimately to fall in the conference finals. So you know,

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01:09:35,320 --> 01:09:37,000
Speaker 1: fatigue can play a part. We did talk about the

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01:09:37,080 --> 01:09:37,840
Speaker 1: Knicks have been off.

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01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:38,400
Speaker 2: Here for a while.

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01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:41,479
Speaker 1: They're more well rested. Maybe the Calves have run out

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01:09:41,520 --> 01:09:44,280
Speaker 1: of something here with this every other day schedule of

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01:09:44,320 --> 01:09:47,320
Speaker 1: the conference finals, two could be tough. All that to say,

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01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:50,519
Speaker 1: I'm going Nixon six because I do go back to

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01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:53,360
Speaker 1: when you see the Cavs play their best. This is

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01:09:53,400 --> 01:09:56,400
Speaker 1: a lot more evenly matched than maybe at first glance.

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Speaker 1: But this consistency and can they bring it from quarter

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01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:02,280
Speaker 1: to quarter half to have gain a game. I'm gonna

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01:10:02,280 --> 01:10:03,639
Speaker 1: say they're gonna be able to do it a couple times.

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01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:06,200
Speaker 1: I'm going to say there's a monster Donovan Mitchell or

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01:10:06,280 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 1: he's firing his spider webs at everybody in Madison Square Garden.

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01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:11,559
Speaker 3: That's the guy that should be could.

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Speaker 1: Be the Halliburton Reggie, the next sort of monster game

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Speaker 1: in Madison Square Garden. So I'll go Nixon six, though,

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01:10:17,160 --> 01:10:20,880
Speaker 1: because overall they're just humming and this they've unlocked something

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Speaker 1: here with Kat and Brunson gets to like like, yeah,

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01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:25,559
Speaker 1: I know the numbers say like Dean Wade plays Brunson

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01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:28,519
Speaker 1: very very well, Like Okay, yes, he's a lot of height,

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01:10:28,640 --> 01:10:30,960
Speaker 1: I get it, but Brunson always figures things out and

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01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:33,000
Speaker 1: now he doesn't have to do as much because of

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01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:36,120
Speaker 1: the way they're running this offense a little more. Oh yeah,

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01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:38,720
Speaker 1: you know, as a team, So Nixon six, you guys

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01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:40,559
Speaker 1: got Nixon five. Let's hear from everybody out there. Do

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01:10:40,600 --> 01:10:41,679
Speaker 1: we have a poll on this one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we are heavy here, eighty one percent picking the knicks.

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01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:48,920
Speaker 1: Wow, Nix is the picks.

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01:10:49,080 --> 01:10:49,800
Speaker 3: Nix is the picks.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's hear from everybody down in the

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Speaker 1: comments here on YouTube. Who you like, who you got?

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Speaker 1: Who's winning finals?

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Speaker 3: MVP?

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01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:57,639
Speaker 1: I always forget we hand out conference finals MVP?

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01:10:58,000 --> 01:10:58,439
Speaker 3: Yeah we do.

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01:10:58,600 --> 01:11:01,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't talk about it for Thunderspurs yesterday. But

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01:11:02,080 --> 01:11:04,080
Speaker 1: I guess it's either going to be Wemby or SGA.

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01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:08,400
Speaker 1: It's probably I think wa so far, I think so bye.

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01:11:09,520 --> 01:11:13,240
Speaker 1: Little Bite of the Night sponsored by Jake Garcia, who

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01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:18,160
Speaker 1: is celebrating his son Josiah's fifteenth birthday today. Jake writes

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Speaker 1: in even though Josiah doesn't like basketball and never listens

1547
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Speaker 1: to No Dunts, hold On, hold On, he does love

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Speaker 1: No Buffs for both Survivor and Trader's coverage, and loves

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Speaker 1: the movie series Jurassic Pals and Fast Friends. He would

1550
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Speaker 1: love for you guys to do the Pirates of the

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01:11:35,520 --> 01:11:39,360
Speaker 1: Caribbean franchise next. Maybe it's in the running. We do

1552
01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:41,679
Speaker 1: need to have a meeting on what are our next

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01:11:41,680 --> 01:11:42,560
Speaker 1: movie franchises.

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Speaker 3: I'm not against it.

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01:11:43,880 --> 01:11:46,679
Speaker 1: I'm not either because I I'm maybe only seen one.

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Speaker 3: I think I've seen probably two, but probably not more

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Speaker 3: than that, and there's several at this point.

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Speaker 1: Jda, I mean, did you want to chime in here?

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Speaker 1: How do you feel about it?

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Speaker 2: I've only seen one?

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Speaker 1: Okay, this is good and I think it's stilly dumb

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01:12:00,640 --> 01:12:03,040
Speaker 1: enough for us and really flourished and breaking it and

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Speaker 1: sale on the seventh seas. Hey, yeah, Jedi, you never know.

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Speaker 1: If anyone would like to celebrate Josiah's birthday, they can

1565
01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:11,840
Speaker 1: donate to his high school marching band's trip to Hawaii.

1566
01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:16,160
Speaker 1: Trip to Hawaii, Holy Crawl. That's awesome to perform at

1567
01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:20,880
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six Pearl Harbor Memorial Day Parade commemorating

1568
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:23,439
Speaker 1: the eighty fifth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor Attack. So

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01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:26,160
Speaker 1: we will get a link in the show notes. And

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01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:29,160
Speaker 1: if you want to celebrate Josia's birthday, by all means

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Speaker 1: help out the marching band in Hawaii. Whoa Boy though,

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Speaker 1: that goes to Wemby. Whoa Alien forty one points, twenty

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01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:40,679
Speaker 1: four boards, fourteen to twenty five from the field twelve

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01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:44,000
Speaker 1: to thirteen at the line three shots that he blocked,

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01:12:44,120 --> 01:12:48,960
Speaker 1: one steal three dimes, in forty nine minutes of action.

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01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:50,800
Speaker 2: What a game?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we were saying yesterday's show, will he be able

1578
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 3: to get the forty five points rebounds and assistance to combine?

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01:12:58,439 --> 01:13:01,120
Speaker 3: And guess what? He almost got there on points alone.

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01:13:01,200 --> 01:13:03,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how did the other ones do?

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01:13:03,400 --> 01:13:07,080
Speaker 3: None of them hit? Okay, that's pretty crazy when we

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01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:07,519
Speaker 3: got there.

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01:13:08,240 --> 01:13:08,880
Speaker 2: Uh yeah.

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01:13:08,920 --> 01:13:10,960
Speaker 1: My only concern after that first game in the Western

1585
01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:14,519
Speaker 1: Conference Finals is like, well, now, what how can it

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01:13:15,040 --> 01:13:17,639
Speaker 1: how we can follow that up? Can they follow that up?

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01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:21,080
Speaker 1: Are we gonna have like some more obviously crazy endings

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01:13:21,120 --> 01:13:23,479
Speaker 1: or overtimes, I don't know, or big performances like that?

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01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:27,439
Speaker 2: Hopefully you think so? Yeah, probably those two.

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01:13:28,200 --> 01:13:30,680
Speaker 1: You're probably right, Probably right, there's gonna be like a

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01:13:30,920 --> 01:13:33,400
Speaker 1: SGA is gonna have a monster game here in this

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01:13:33,520 --> 01:13:37,000
Speaker 1: Wemby will have another one. Okay, you're right, thanks for

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01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:37,760
Speaker 1: talking to me off the linch.

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Speaker 2: It'll be good.

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01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:40,800
Speaker 1: It'll be good. But let's see what the Cavs Knicks

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Speaker 1: have in store for us tonight. It's a tough one

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01:13:44,640 --> 01:13:45,200
Speaker 1: to follow up.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, not quite as exciting. No, but

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Speaker 3: this are the two teams that everybody thought we're gonna

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Speaker 3: be the class of the Eastern Conference and they made

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Speaker 3: it there in the.

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Speaker 1: End, I mean sort of happened on the West side too.

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01:13:56,360 --> 01:13:58,439
Speaker 1: We were like, I mean, I know, maybe we the

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01:13:58,479 --> 01:14:02,639
Speaker 1: Spurs got a little all further ahead in their their

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01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:05,000
Speaker 1: progress than we anticipated. The point is they were the

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01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:06,519
Speaker 1: best two teams in the West all season and we

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01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:08,360
Speaker 1: were hoping they would see each other, and they did.

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01:14:08,479 --> 01:14:10,720
Speaker 1: These are the two matchups that they had on Christmas Day,

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01:14:10,720 --> 01:14:14,479
Speaker 1: for crying out loud, that did monster ratings. What are

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01:14:14,520 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 1: these gonna do? One on ESPN, one on the NBC.

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01:14:19,200 --> 01:14:23,360
Speaker 3: Today, we're on PN Yes, yeah we are. You know,

1612
01:14:24,160 --> 01:14:25,679
Speaker 3: big market in New York.

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01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:27,960
Speaker 1: So they're happy.

1614
01:14:28,080 --> 01:14:30,280
Speaker 3: But people, I don't think they're as fired up about

1615
01:14:30,320 --> 01:14:30,799
Speaker 3: the Cavs.

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01:14:31,320 --> 01:14:34,800
Speaker 1: No, but you're right about the market. Now come through

1617
01:14:34,840 --> 01:14:36,880
Speaker 1: with the ratings. Can't wait to see those articles on

1618
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:40,560
Speaker 1: the ratings. Oh man, it's gonna change everything. Thanks for

1619
01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:42,920
Speaker 1: joining us. Hit the like button, subscribe and we'll see

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01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:45,439
Speaker 1: you guys tomorrow to break down Game one of the

1621
01:14:45,439 --> 01:14:47,200
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference Finals. Until then, Clipper Bros.

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01:14:49,040 --> 01:14:51,040
Speaker 3: Clipper bro awesome.

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01:14:51,040 --> 01:14:55,160
Speaker 1: Wow, this is like NBC having audio issues. You want

1624
01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:57,519
Speaker 1: to try it again, Let's see what happens. I mean

1625
01:14:58,439 --> 01:14:59,599
Speaker 1: let's just see his face again.

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01:15:01,240 --> 01:15:04,479
Speaker 3: It's love you guys.

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01:15:04,640 --> 01:15:07,000
Speaker 2: Awesome, He's tired.

1628
01:15:07,080 --> 01:15:08,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm carried back.

1629
01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:12,120
Speaker 2: He's been saying that for six thousand times, and I

1630
01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:14,080
Speaker 2: guess he's done. I guess the voice is that thanks

1631
01:15:14,080 --> 01:15:16,680
Speaker 2: for joining us. And remember, it's never too late to

1632
01:15:16,840 --> 01:15:21,679
Speaker 2: discipline a sports team owner. Adam Silver, it's time. It's

1633
01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:26,000
Speaker 2: time to discipline Steve Bomber and the Clippers. I say

1634
01:15:26,040 --> 01:15:28,600
Speaker 2: it because I say it because the NBA is in

1635
01:15:28,640 --> 01:15:30,720
Speaker 2: good hands. We just saw what Victor Webbin Yama did.

1636
01:15:31,240 --> 01:15:34,599
Speaker 2: They're gonna play the Knicks in the finals. Everything is good, Adam,

1637
01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:39,880
Speaker 2: don't worry about it. Just go penalize, discipline somebody that

1638
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:41,240
Speaker 2: needs to be disciplined.

1639
01:15:41,400 --> 01:15:43,160
Speaker 1: You think it's better. You're saying to slip it.

1640
01:15:43,120 --> 01:15:46,880
Speaker 2: In now, sort of slipping it. I'm not slipping. There's

1641
01:15:46,880 --> 01:15:50,200
Speaker 2: no slippage. The point is it's been what we've been

1642
01:15:50,240 --> 01:15:53,760
Speaker 2: waiting forever. Well, yes, and yes, everybody's been waiting. The

1643
01:15:54,920 --> 01:15:59,479
Speaker 2: NBA is incredible hands. There's nothing to worry about it.

1644
01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:06,040
Speaker 2: Just do it. A rich guy can be penalized, yeah,

1645
01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:08,400
Speaker 2: they're never rich guys seem to be doing Yeah, they're

1646
01:16:08,439 --> 01:16:10,680
Speaker 2: never penalized. The NBA is going to be doing well

1647
01:16:10,760 --> 01:16:14,280
Speaker 2: for a long time. We just saw what a young

1648
01:16:14,360 --> 01:16:17,800
Speaker 2: Wemby did again. Ratings are going to be high in

1649
01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:21,759
Speaker 2: a mere couple of weeks. Wemby porche versus the Knicks,

1650
01:16:23,040 --> 01:16:25,240
Speaker 2: it's time. Wow. Disrespected to the Calves.

1651
01:16:25,600 --> 01:16:31,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's your bulletin board material. They need it exactly.

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01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:32,360
Speaker 1: Brace Theday people,