WEBVTT - Special NBA Playoffs Preview & Play-In Recap 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.520 On this episode of this league, the playoffs are here, 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:07.080 and we have a special Saturday playoff episode to get 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:11.880 you ready. In this episode, we recap my terrible predictions 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.000 for the playoffs play in tournament. I mean, his who 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.360 are just awful. I put a max bet on the Pacers. 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:19.639 They got blown out. I mean it was just so bad. 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.360 So we discuss what actually happened to create such a disaster, 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:26.320 and then we also preview the first round of the playoffs. 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:29.360 The regular season is over, baby, it is playoff time. 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:32.880 It is here. Intensity is here. My intensity is up. 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:34.800 Is your fucking intensity up party? 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:36.920 Oh yeah? Oh yeah, oh yeah, I can't wait. 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:47.479 Intensity is up. So let's drop the motherfucking beat end 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:49.880 of a play and I go. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:55.680 Let me go too. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.400 Oh man, let's start off with the recap of that 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:06.760 eight seed playing game. I mean, what are we gonna say? 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:11.039 It was bad? My predictions were bad. They were so bad. 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.280 I think I'm one in three in the last four. 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:20.560 So that's a twenty five percent accuracy level winning probability 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.560 right now for me. Not good, Marty, not the best. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.360 Not yeah. Yeah, we could aim for better, we could 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:25.880 aim for better. 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:30.760 Let's just talk about last Night's game first, because I 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:34.640 think that's the more interesting one to talk about. The 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:39.600 Grizzlies game was a fucking nightmare. I think it was 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:44.400 just so bad, so sloppy. What did you think? 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:45.720 I mean? 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.960 I could not believe that the Warriors out turnover to 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.280 themselves from the Lakers game. They had twenty one in 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.200 this game, and yeah, it was just more of the same, 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:58.040 Like they were in there, they should have won, and 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.360 they just didn't allow themselves to be in the position 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:06.400 to win the game. It was like they purposely, not purposely, 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.200 but they literally took it from themselves. 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:12.120 Yes, though it did feel something purposeful, It felt like 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:16.680 a team that had been deflated right, Like had mustered 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:18.959 up all the energy for the first half of the 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.760 Laker game, and then as soon as they lost that one, 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.320 they really came out sloppy and slow against the Grizzlies. 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.799 They got punched in the mouth so early, and then 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.280 it was only felt like Steph and Draymond were the 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:34.480 ones that wanted to win. Like we saw Andrew Wiggins 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:38.280 return to the Andrew Wiggins that we know him to be. 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:40.560 Yeah, no, and he played pretty good against the Lakers. 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.360 If he had if he had shot at all against 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.400 the Lakers. They win the game easy, but uh, I 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.560 mean shot his threes at all. But yeah, no, he 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.040 was not really very noticeable last night. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:51.800 They I mean he was very noticeable to me in 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:55.560 the worst possible way. Yes, that one against the backboard, 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.960 didn't even touch the rim. That three pointer in overtime 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.120 where it was like Tillman made his three and then 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:06.160 Andrew Wiggins just it was all like what and that, 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:10.360 like he missed so many layups, turnaround jumpers. He's like 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.080 doing turnaround fadeaways, and I'm like, Andrew Wiggins, You're not 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:17.919 that guy, Like you're not Kevin Durant. It was so gross. 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:22.440 Steph Curry and listen, like he had thirty nine points, 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:24.919 so there's no slouch on Steph Cree. Steph Curry is 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.200 a very fucking the pit player. I love him like 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.360 he was he was getting triple teamed at times and 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.760 still got his so offensively from a shooting perspective, he 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.520 did everything that he needed to do, but like you 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.680 just can't. He turned the ball over seven times. 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.680 Yeah, I mean, we're seeing what happens when Steph Curry 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.880 doesn't have help in the backcourt. It becomes really hard 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.280 for him to be able to do anything in crunch 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.800 time minutes when they just you know, deny him the 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:54.480 ball and then he has to kick it out to 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:58.160 Jan Tuscano Anderson or Jordan Poole, who Jordan Poole actually 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:00.440 hit some big shots, but like you just. 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.720 Also turned it all over a couple of times in 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.680 crucial moments as well. Welcome Steph cray Welcome to Damian 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:10.640 Lillard Land. Welcome to what life is like for Damian 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:15.280 Lillard at all times. So he they missed Clay so much. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:19.160 Oh yeah, they just missed him so much. And when 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.360 Clay comes back, this team is going to be very different. 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.159 But you can tell that the Warriors now know like, oh, 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.479 this is the Wiggins, this is the Wiggins. We know 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:31.919 we can't build around Wiggins. 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:33.560 No, I agree completely. 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:39.520 Thirteen turnovers between Draymond and Steph thirteen. The NBA average 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.400 for an entire team is thirteen point eight. So I mean, 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.600 it was very bad. It was very bad. We'll talk 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.719 about Memphis later. Josh showed up in huge moments. 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:49.360 John was awesome. Yeah, I have a lot to say 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:53.200 about jos that dude. Yeah, I think I think he's arrived. 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:57.880 He is. This is Jaw's moment, Like when he flexed 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.920 and it was like, you know, you're like, okay, Jaw 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:01.279 is here. 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.760 I mean that little floater where he's like leaning left 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:06.919 and puts it up with his right hand. When he 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.680 gets the space to shoot that, it's like a ninety 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:14.520 percent shot. And he's in year two, like he's The 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:18.200 potential for Jaw is pretty unlid. I've always thought he 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.680 had All Star potential. I think he definitely has all potential. 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:23.800 He's got all NBA potential. Yeah, first team. 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:27.800 Yeah. The thing that I think that Jaw is getting 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.440 very good at is kind of what Devin Booker does 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.440 very well and what Chris Paul does very well is 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.360 for how small that they are, they can get space 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.840 using their body and then they back up and then 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.520 all of a sudden there's three feet of space and 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:47.040 then that floaters ninety percent. Speaking of floaters, Steph Curry 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.600 should not shoot them for a while. So we'll just 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.800 just that was bad. It's been bad for two games. Yeah. 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.760 Also, also Draymond's floater to tie the game. Can we 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.040 talk about that for just two seconds? 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.360 Can we talk about how you got nine point eight 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:03.560 seconds left, They're on their heels. Draymond, there is no 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.240 one to pass to. You are not a playmaker in 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.719 this moment. It is time for you to fucking go 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:12.839 and try to yam that not not. It was like 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.640 a lob floater. It was like maybe someone's coming up 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.440 to dunk. No, there's no one. No one's coming up 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:19.000 to dunk this. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:20.320 Yeah. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.880 I didn't hate the decision to shoot a floater. It's 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.400 just how how do you miss rim in that situation? 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.280 That was I didn't like that. 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.040 I did hate the decision for the floater because what 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.760 you have is the ability. Now you've got people on 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.320 their heels. It was what Jaron Jackson on his heels. 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:42.040 You draw contact when you are down, when you it's 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.640 entire game, worst case, you go to overtime, draw fucking contact. 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:48.880 Basically, I just I don't think it was a bad shot. 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.279 But if you if you missed that bad then it 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:52.280 clearly was bad shot. 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:53.600 I guess, oh, so good. 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.320 So I mean, before we move. 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:56.719 On, before we move on from the game, I just 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:01.040 want to talk about how them the Grizzly's actually winning 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.960 saved them from making one of the worst coaching decisions 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:08.000 ever by not challenging that call when Pool stuck his 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.120 leg out, I don't I still don't get that to 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.320 this day. If they had lost, that's all we'd be 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.640 talking about everything that would be. 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:19.320 I don't know that, Like it wasn't a natural kickout. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:23.120 I don't think it really felt aggressive, But I do 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:27.760 think you did need to challenge it, just because like 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:28.720 you never used. 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.480 Your challenge the minute and a half left, Yeah, what 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.360 are you waiting for? That? That's literally why you have 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:33.560 the rule. 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.800 Yeah, I mean the whole thing, The whole thing was wild. 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.200 I do love this Memphis team because there are a 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.080 bunch of guys who have been underdogs their whole life, 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.080 like Xavier Tillman hitting that big three. Like I fucking 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.440 hate Grayson Allen, but he even is somewhat likable on 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:53.760 this Grizzlies team because back to back huge threes and 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:57.840 overtime huge, like that decision by Taylor Jenkins to put 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.960 him in instead of whoever else would have been there. 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.440 Because there's a bunch of others and like they're all 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.880 like Desmond Bane, like they're all pretty good, but like 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.920 that decision in overtime was really huge, and uh, when 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:15.640 you paradoxic. Paradoxically, compare that to the terrible decision not 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.400 to call the challenge. You know, just that was a 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.760 good coaching call compared to that terrible coaching fall. Run 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:26.600 okayld on out East. I predicted a blowout, did I did? 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.720 I not predicted a blowout? 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:28.560 You did? 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:29.760 You got that part of it right. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.800 An over twenty point? Whoa? I did? I just got 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:37.400 the wrong team. I just thought that the Wizards were 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.240 way too injured. I don't know if they like shot 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.120 Russell Westbrook up with something. People are very mad at 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.840 me saying that Russell Westbrook is injured? He is he 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.280 there is something wrong? 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:53.440 Certainly, certainly no, I mean there definitely wasn't. It showed 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.120 a lot in that Celtics game. But I guess he's 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.800 just still got that in him where we got to 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.679 win this game or we're done, Like that's not happening. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:06.240 Yeah. So the Pacers turned back into a pumpkin. They've 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:07.600 been up and down and up and down and up 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.000 and down all year. I texted the GM of the 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.160 Pacers when they blew the fuck out of the Hornets, 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:13.880 and I was like, Yo, you guys look like one 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.440 of the best passing teams in the NBA, you guys 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:21.240 look phenomenal, and he goes right now, he said, right now, 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:26.000 like he knew that this team was inconsistent, and they 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.760 are very inconsistent. And I think that that. I mean, 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.920 you don't have three out of your five starters, three 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.160 of them are gone, the other two injured and playing 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.640 Broggen and Jamon some bonus both playing and very hobbled. 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.200 So the problem to me was, like, Okay, what happens 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.720 when all the other guys that should be shooters, like 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:48.760 TJ and Justin Holliday and Dougie Buckets, Like when they 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.080 start going cold, Like you don't have Karris Lavert to 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.040 go and get you a bucket, right, you don't have 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.400 Iso Lavert and all you have is Brogden and some 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.360 bonus who were sort of hobbled. And then you know 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.400 it's night night sleep mask in BC, like. 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.000 Night night mm hmm, tough, tough. 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.720 I do think that the future is so bright for them, 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:09.600 so bright. 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:10.880 Yeah, there's to get TJ. 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.680 Warren back and Miles Turner's back, turn back at Kris 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:15.559 Lavert back, like that is a squad. 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:17.960 Yeah, there's no reason to be down on them, uh, 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:20.520 moving forward, I know not at all. 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.000 I agree that's for the Wizards, you know, I don't know. 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.240 I don't know. I don't know what to make of them. 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.400 I don't know what they're going to be. I don't 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.400 know what I don't feel like I know anyone is 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:29.840 going to be. 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.280 It's like a rented team at this point. 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:35.320 You know, it's like this, this version, I guess is 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.240 sort of cool. There's some cool things that come out 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:38.599 of it, but like, these guys aren't going to be 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:39.480 teammates very long. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.400 Like so what you don't think that. 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.160 Russell Westbrook is going to stay stay around? 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:46.360 I mean he could. 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.160 I'm not going to act like I'm making any like 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.840 serious projections here, but it doesn't it done to me. 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.199 I just I can't see Russell Westbrook and Bradley Beal 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.640 being teammates for the foreseeable future. 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.959 I guess, I said, another couple of years. Maybe think 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.320 another couple of years. Bradley Beal said this, Russell Westbrook 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:06.560 has shown me what it means to show up night 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.600 after night after night after night. And that is a 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.480 that is a tool, that is a skill that only 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.160 a few players in the league have, which is like 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.520 that you bring it no matter what like that, no 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:22.800 matter what intensity, and that trickles down to the role 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.720 players like ruy Hachi Mura, Like you can't teach dog, 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.280 but if you could, Russell Westbrook would be the fucking 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:29.120 mister Miagi. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.200 Yeah, I mean his imprint is all over that team. 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:37.240 Yeah. Absolutely. Okay, let's head out East and preview these 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:42.520 playoff series. If the Sixers don't go to the Eastern 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:50.400 Conference Finals, this will be an all time franchise disaster, right, yeah, 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.120 I mean I fully expect them to get there, but 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:59.120 if they don't, that would be yeah, yeah, the easiest 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.559 path to the Extern Conference Finals I have ever seen. 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:06.520 You've got the Wizards, which you just called a rented team, 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.800 which could be their toughest matchup, right, it could be 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:14.480 their most interesting matchup compared to the Hawks and the Knicks. 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:15.240 You think so? 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.480 I do, because I think that Russell Westbrook n Embiid 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:23.360 are very like emotional creatures. They're gonna go at each other, right, 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:25.480 Like Russell, I don't know if you remember it, I 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.400 was gonna put the saw in, but I'll just say 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.840 what he said where it was like Embiid hit Russell 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.960 Westbrook very hard, and the it went viral and then 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.320 the media member was like, hey, like what happened with you? 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.160 And MB like he hits you and he's like, yeah, 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:42.960 he was trying to hurt me. It's all good, like 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.720 kind of he kind of like played it off. And 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.120 then they go, so are you guys cool and he 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:51.280 looks at it he goes, fuck, no, we're not cool. 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.240 So I think that's going to be a thing. I 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.920 think that the Wizards team, this Wizard's team is the 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.080 only one out of those three with multiple big men 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:06.040 that can get into foul trouble, right, Like you've got Gafford, Rolo, 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:13.640 Hachi Mura, Alex Linn all can can share Guardigan Beide 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.560 and you don't worry about like one of them fouling out, 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.200 Like they're all not like great, but like you're just 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:20.160 talking about bodies. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.559 Yeah, I think we have opposing opinions on this. I 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.400 think I think em Beid's looking at who's gonna have 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.839 to guard him and he's just like licking his lips 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.559 with that. I expect him Bide to average like thirty 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.200 four points in this series and a suite. 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.600 Yeah, I mean he should average more, though he should 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:41.520 average more because you're talking about I think he had 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.800 thirty five in the first matchup. They only played early 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:45.680 in the season, and they only won by like five 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.719 or six both times, so I think it's gonna be 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.120 much And that was before them getting Daniel Gafford. And 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.200 I know you're probably not super high on Daniel Gafford 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.760 because he's like a nobody right now, but I think 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.520 he he is a body that wasn't there in that 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.480 game and body sure. 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:05.040 I just and I'm not saying I have anything like 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:07.280 crazy to say about it. 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.600 I just think MB is just gonna cook this series 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:10.040 so hard. 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:11.840 You know who I think is going to cook. I 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:13.680 think Bradley Beal is going to cook. He put up 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:19.080 sixty against them, sixty, so I think it's gonna be fun. 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.520 I think the matchups to me that are the most 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:29.240 intriguing is really Bradley Beal versus Matist Saible and Ben Simmons. Like, yeah, 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.840 Bradley bil has one leg, but like, I think he's 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:36.240 got an additional like gear for this matchup he's at 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.200 He averaged forty five points against the Sixers this. 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.640 Year, so yeah, no, I am. I am excited to 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:41.400 see what beial does. 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.760 Yeah, it's gonna be a shootout. It's gonna be very fun. Yeah, 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:48.160 Berton's also as an X factor. He averaged seventeen points 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:52.200 in those two games. Simmons averaged sixteen and a half 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.880 in those two games, but he also had almost four turnovers. 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.680 So I think Simmons will average like ten in these games. 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:02.360 I don't think average. Yeah, I think he's gonna average 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:04.720 ten in these games. I don't think he's gonna do shit. 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.520 I think he's gonna be not doing shit. That is 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:11.080 my prediction. Embiid in those two games average thirty three 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.160 and a half points. I think he's got to average forty. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.360 So he's going to turn them all over minimum forty times. 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.560 Who I said he's gonna average ten points per game. 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:26.720 Oh my bad, bad, bad hugovers per game. So the 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:28.720 things to watch for me is that, like, can you 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.920 take embiid out? I think the book on MBT is this, 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:38.520 can you make him emotionally frustrated early? That's the only 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:42.760 way it becomes a series, an interesting series kind of 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.640 almost like how you have to play a d right now, 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:47.560 which is like get him out of his rhythm being 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.320 irritant because that's the only that's literally the only flaw 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.440 that Joel Embiid has is his mind. The only thing. 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:59.120 Yeah, yeah, I just you don't agree, you don't agree. 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:00.640 I do a little bit. 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.120 I just when it comes to this series, I just 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.360 I guess we have just different ideas of this series. 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:09.280 I don't expect this to be much of anything in 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.760 terms of competition. I think if beal, yeah, it can 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:16.840 be just extreme awesome beal. Like they maybe get two, 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:18.680 but I don't know. I think if they get one, 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:19.560 that's an accomplishment. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.640 Honestly, Yeah, I think. 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:25.040 The Sixers win in five or six, but I wouldn't 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.040 I wouldn't be surprised if it went longer. So, but 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.520 the Sixers should make they should make easy work out 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.000 of the Wizards. But hey, I've been super cold, so 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.760 who knows. Yeah, next up is two seven Nets versus Celtics. 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.360 I think this is a fucking sweek, Like this's night night. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.360 There's no scenario I see the Celtics doing anything. I 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.400 don't care if Jason Tatum's score seventy, Like, don't. 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.040 Care, Like I think he's gonna have to. 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:54.840 Yeah, you have to score seventy because like it's hardened 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:56.640 it to. I mean, it's Harden's ran, It's Kyrie, like, 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:57.760 don't eat score thirty. 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.240 They're gonna get so many easy baskets. It's it's just 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.880 it's it's insane. I would the overs in this game 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.359 is gonna the totals in these games are gonna be 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:05.760 very hot. 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:07.240 I would think, what do you think it's gonna be 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:08.480 like two forty nine and a half? 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:10.560 Probably not that much, but. 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.760 It's a minute's high. Like this Celtics team can't I 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.800 expect like two forty two because it's like playoff at 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:23.800 but like the Celtics can't can't defend. No, there's the 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.800 worst defensive teams in the league. Yeah, and they are 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:31.080 decimated like Marcus Smart guards whoever, and then like everybody 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.679 else goes off. So I think if you're if you're 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.360 Steve Nash, you're like, you're just hoping that we can 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.720 we can literally crush them so easily. We can just 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:42.159 rest the stars in the second half. Like that's my 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:46.520 mindset as Steve Nash. Steve put their foot on, put 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:48.920 your foot on their throat. So I think it's I 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:55.080 think it's broomtime. Broom time three three, six Series most intriguing. 0:17:55.720 --> 0:18:00.600 Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I would say this series go seven. 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.720 If the Heat do what the Heat should do, they 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.040 should go seven. This is very exciting, like there's a 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.960 lot of wrinkles and matchup things to watch. I think 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:14.840 Drew Holiday is my most intriguing player to see what 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:18.000 he does, Like, I think he's gotta be on Jimmy 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:19.720 Butler pretty much like five flavor right. 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.440 Yeah, yeah, and he makes such a difference. 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:26.520 Like I was thinking about it after recorded uh whatever 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:28.440 episode it was where we were talking about Spolstra and 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.600 what they could do. Uh, I was thinking about betting 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:35.000 on them maybe, but and then I just started thinking 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.800 more about it. Drew Holliday over Eric Bledsoe's such a 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:42.119 big difference. It's such a big difference. And like just 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:45.800 them having home court. I think I think the Bucks 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:47.320 get it. I think the Bucks get it in six. 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.520 It's gonna be so excited. I'm very interested to watch 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:56.000 Bam versus Jianness. I think that will be very intense basketball, 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:59.440 like those two guys are very intense. Tyler Hero I 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:02.040 think is a bit question mark, like which Tyler Hero 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.399 is actually going to show up? Are we going to 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:08.000 see the Tyler hero In the bubble last season or 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:11.159 are we going to see Tyler hero In this regular season? 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:15.200 Because those are one guy is like you keep them forever, 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:17.800 and another guy you shop on the trade block right now, 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:23.879 right like so Goran Dragicic and Duncan Robinson and Kendrick Nunn. 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.160 When they're all crisp, they all can shoot from everywhere. 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:31.199 So this Miami Heat team either scores ninety or they 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:33.439 score one twenty and it's just like, I don't know, 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:37.520 I just don't know what's going to happen. So I 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:41.639 think that the main issue is like whether Budenholzer can 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:46.560 keep up with Eric Spolstra's you know, mind games and 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.000 chess smatch and all the weird things he's going to 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.440 try to put because you know, Spoe has been thinking 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:57.600 about Drew Bledsoe, I mean Drew Drew Holliday or Drew Holliday. 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:00.800 I was thinking about Drew. I was thinking about Drew 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:02.960 Holiday and Eric Bledsoe combined. 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:06.120 You remember a few years ago there a few years 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:07.840 ago in the playoffs and they were playing the Celtics 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:11.639 and Terry Rozier called him Drew Blodsoe. Oh yeah, I 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.359 think it came a big thing did Drew Bledsoe showed 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:15.520 up to the game in Boston. 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:19.920 Well, you know what was funny to me was something 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.880 that Steve Curse said right before the Laker game, and 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.399 he was like, you know, adjustments in the playoffs really 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.000 start at game three. He was like, you really won't 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:32.199 see anything after one or two, Like it's really like 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:36.120 the second or third game after that where real coaching 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.679 adjustments start to take shape, which I didn't actually know, Like, 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.840 I wasn't aware of that philosophy at all. I thought like, 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:45.480