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Speaker 4: The Spurs Molly Watt Minnesota timber Woods by the score of.
Speaker 2: One thirty nine to one nine.
Speaker 1: The Wolves traded more picks for Rudy Gobert than he
Speaker 1: had total points in Game five. Champagny those guys that
Speaker 1: had six guys in double figures. Sham Penny was five
Speaker 1: or ten, four to nine from the three he had
Speaker 1: eighteen victor Woman Yama quiet Night by his standard, he
Speaker 1: was nineteen points but only shot the ball eleven times.
Speaker 1: Darren Fox had twenty one. He was eight of ten.
Speaker 1: Devin Vasell he was four ten. He had eleven points.
Speaker 1: The knight belongs to Stephen Castle. Stephan, excuse me, Stephen Castle.
Speaker 1: He had thirty two points on eleven of sixteen. He
Speaker 1: came out scorching hard from the three point line and
Speaker 1: it didn't let up all night. So we had thirty
Speaker 1: two points on eleven and sixteen shooting five or seven
Speaker 1: from the three. Dylan Harper came up the bench. He
Speaker 1: was fifteen points on six of a shooting. But Minnesota
Speaker 1: it was just not enough. You could see early on
Speaker 1: in this game. I thought it was about to get
Speaker 1: out of hand early. Give Minnesota credit, they made a
Speaker 1: great push right before the half. But then the Spurs
Speaker 1: came out of this third quarter and really put the
Speaker 1: game away. Jayde McDaniels had thirteen, Desmo had ten, and
Speaker 1: Man had twenty four. Nos Reed was scorching hot in
Speaker 1: the second quarter. He and Terrence Shannon tried to keep
Speaker 1: him in it as best they could, but it wasn't enough.
Speaker 1: Nos Reed had eighteen points and Shannon had twenty one points,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't enough. The Spurs just had too much
Speaker 1: depth out rebounded them. Plus twenty no plus thirty one.
Speaker 1: The Spurs had sixty rebounds. The Timberwolves had twenty nine rebounds.
Speaker 1: That is crazy plus US thirty one on the glass.
Speaker 1: And that's why you have a lotside the game like
Speaker 1: what you had one thirty nine to one on nine?
Speaker 2: Yoe?
Speaker 1: What did you what you saw? You saw the Spurs
Speaker 1: and we we I'm not surprised. I don't know if
Speaker 1: anybody should be surprised because we didn't think it would
Speaker 1: have got this far. They didn't throw victor women y'all
Speaker 1: out of the game. What was that Game three or
Speaker 1: Game four? But it happened, and yeah, it is what
Speaker 1: it is. But now we know the Spurs and the
Speaker 1: timber and the Spurs and the Thunder and the Western
Speaker 1: Conference finals. Uh one nine t Wolf. What did you
Speaker 1: like about the Spurs and how they approached this game tonight?
Speaker 2: Joe? Uh tonight, Uncle Ocho.
Speaker 4: I thought the Spurs finally put together a collective team
Speaker 4: effort as far as winning. Yes, Castle went out for
Speaker 4: thirty two and eleven eleven rebounds, but for the most part,
Speaker 4: the whole entire squad played great. Bro I think if
Speaker 4: you Minnesota, you started the game with with ruty garden Castle.
Speaker 2: I didn't know what the hell that was about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, you give him, you give you give
Speaker 4: a guy like that theair shots because the ain't like
Speaker 4: he a non shooter.
Speaker 2: He could shoot.
Speaker 4: You give him their shots and he make a couple
Speaker 4: you in trouble. And that's what happened to night. Castle
Speaker 4: got off to a great start in that first quarter,
Speaker 4: and you could tell when he hit about twelve to
Speaker 4: thirteen points. I said, Oh, it's gonna be a big
Speaker 4: knight for him. You know, once you get it, Once
Speaker 4: you let a guy get rolling this league, bro, it's
Speaker 4: hard to turn him off. And then those other guys
Speaker 4: just I mean they shot fifty five percent from the field.
Speaker 4: What they shot forty seven from the shot like six from.
Speaker 1: The floor, forty seven from three and uh uh at
Speaker 1: eighty five there was twenty three of twenty seven from
Speaker 1: the free throw line. Eighty five percent. Can't start, aa,
Speaker 1: you can't you you can't win no games like that, bro.
Speaker 1: I know women y'am only had three blocks. But like
Speaker 1: we continue to say, like we continue to.
Speaker 4: Say, all all playoffs, bro, he afters so many shots.
Speaker 4: And then when you look at Minnesota, how the here
Speaker 4: you gonna win with random giving you.
Speaker 1: Three point Randal Random. Let's be real, Joe. Rudy Random
Speaker 1: was a Trocia Sauce series. He was broad had a
Speaker 1: solid game. I think the game that they won in
Speaker 1: San Antonio was a game one. I think he may
Speaker 1: I think he may have been solid that game, but
Speaker 1: for the most parts bad.
Speaker 2: They pretty much kept it making bay and you look.
Speaker 1: At and see this is see this is the problem
Speaker 1: is that you have is that you got a guy
Speaker 1: like Rudy Gobert making fifty million and he becomes unplayable.
Speaker 1: If I got a receiver of Ojo no matter, and
Speaker 1: I'm paying him, let's just say for the saga bar,
Speaker 1: I'm paying him twenty five million dollars, but on third
Speaker 1: down I bring him out the game. What value is that?
Speaker 1: That's the money down.
Speaker 4: I can't play Rudy up. For the most part, they
Speaker 4: couldn't play him. He had zero points. The man hold
Speaker 4: on your starting center. He was zero points with three rebounds.
Speaker 4: Look at how many guys holder. Harrison Barnes played seven minutes,
Speaker 4: he had four rebounds. Kelly o Lenneck he played eight minutes,
Speaker 4: he had four rebounds. Carter Bryant played thirteen minutes. He
Speaker 4: had six rebounds. Luke Cortnett played fourteen minutes. He had
Speaker 4: six rebounds. Dylan Harper had five rebounds. Every player on
Speaker 4: the starting ross starting for the Spurs had more rebounds
Speaker 4: than Rudy. Rudy is seven plus foot tall. That's unacceptable.
Speaker 1: That's you know what if he's blocking shots, if he's
Speaker 1: doing something. But it's just hard when your guy is that,
Speaker 1: your starting center, and I gotta take him out of
Speaker 1: the game because now if he can't guard Winby, who
Speaker 1: can Julius rydal is giving up such a high disparity.
Speaker 4: Who who are gonna put a free? Nis can't play him.
Speaker 4: So now now you get try to go bulling. You
Speaker 4: try to double him and the guys. You you've already
Speaker 4: let guys get comfortable shooting. Damn shoot around threeze yep, yep.
Speaker 1: Now they finna split your head to the white meat
Speaker 1: because every time this shot go up.
Speaker 2: What they try to do Joe Ojo look at the
Speaker 2: bench like, hey, hey, Chris Findler, don't look at me.
Speaker 2: I ain't got that.
Speaker 4: But and when you when you think about it, Rudy
Speaker 4: can't guard. He can't guard women. Yama and Randall and
Speaker 4: nas reed.
Speaker 2: They have the.
Speaker 4: Foot speed to keep up with him, but hell, when
Speaker 4: he go up to shoot, they smart. Ain't nothing they
Speaker 4: can do. Fellas, it's nothing they can do. They could
Speaker 4: be as physical as they want. He didn't kind of
Speaker 4: adjusted to that, and I think the Spurs grew throughout
Speaker 4: this series.
Speaker 2: And hell, women, Yama just a cheat hole. Bro.
Speaker 4: He just a huge He just too much of a
Speaker 4: difference maker. I mean, you look at how you pass
Speaker 4: the ball. You know, how he gets the other guys involved.
Speaker 4: He's not a regular obviously, we know he's not a
Speaker 4: regular seven to five guy. Like he is a real
Speaker 4: He is a real center with guard skills, and that
Speaker 4: makes them super, super tough to be. Bro, this is
Speaker 4: gonna be a great series in the next round. But Minnesota, Man,
Speaker 4: I thought they had a chance to put you to
Speaker 4: a game seven, but they get off to such slow starts, man,
Speaker 4: you know, to where to where the Spurs defense is
Speaker 4: so effective in their first cup in the first quarter
Speaker 4: or two that it kind of throws them off rhythm.
Speaker 4: And then man Hans the start forcing things, you know,
Speaker 4: just to kind of get going.
Speaker 1: And they just too good, Bro, They too good. They
Speaker 1: got too many weapons Jews gave me, gave me three points,
Speaker 1: you know what.
Speaker 3: Obviously going to this game, he.
Speaker 2: Gave me three points tonight.
Speaker 3: Huh, Yeah, that's it. Hell. Not only that, I was
Speaker 3: hoping Rudy. I was hoping Rudy could have one of
Speaker 3: those games where he surprises you and does something offensively
Speaker 3: that he doesn't do often. But I was hoping that
Speaker 3: a game like tonight where he understands the importance of
Speaker 3: having some type of production offensively so you're not a liability.
Speaker 3: He didn't show up obviously having no rebounds and then
Speaker 3: having thirty one more rebounds. Then they God damn Wolves
Speaker 3: that you didn't have a chance. At no point, Joe,
Speaker 3: did they even have a chance to actually win this game.
Speaker 3: At one point they were down thirty points.
Speaker 1: I think they closed it down, maybe losing by thirty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was bad. The game of basketball is all
Speaker 3: about matchups, all about matchup, and I think most of
Speaker 3: the people when it came to this series, because you
Speaker 3: had at Man, you thought, you thought at Man and
Speaker 3: and some of the collective some of the collective cast
Speaker 3: that he did have along with Julius Randall, would find
Speaker 3: ways to get things done. The game where Winby went out.
Speaker 3: That was one of the games where they took advantage
Speaker 3: and came through to win that game. I think game
Speaker 3: one they were able to win because they were so
Speaker 3: aggressive and played Wimby so well and Womby were missing
Speaker 3: so many shots Joe, you know, business shots, so he
Speaker 3: wasn't a fishing from the field. And then the game tonight, hell,
Speaker 3: they had them. They had the bulls young the goddamn start.
Speaker 1: This game was supposed to be able to have. Uh
Speaker 1: the Spurs turned the ball over fifteen times. Minnesota only
Speaker 1: had five and they lost by thirty. Imagine if that flips,
Speaker 1: like if you flipped that around, It's crazy how bad
Speaker 1: they get beat. That's now you're looking at a knitch
Speaker 1: of sixers or Knicks Atlanta score.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because yeah, they were up what twenty nine?
Speaker 1: They were up twenty nine in this second and then
Speaker 1: the next day, you know, uh, Minnesota cut it all
Speaker 1: the way down to twelve. I'm like, oh my good.
Speaker 1: Turn over and turnover and turnovers and turnovers. And when
Speaker 1: the one thing they can't do moving forward is that
Speaker 1: you can't turn the ball over against that team that
Speaker 1: you're gonna play next.
Speaker 4: They're gonna man and and oh, Jo to kind of
Speaker 4: piggyback what you're saying about.
Speaker 2: Go bear.
Speaker 4: Yes, I think Minnesota gotta really take a hard look
Speaker 4: at this, fellas, because I mean, San Antonio is gonna
Speaker 4: be good for at least the next decade if we
Speaker 4: just keep it in one hundred. And with Rudy, you
Speaker 4: can't even run a pick and roll to even try
Speaker 4: to get him alive, not against Winby.
Speaker 2: Hell, he gonna he gonna, he gonna get that, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So he's non effective offensively and defensively, Hell, he can't.
Speaker 4: I mean what he gonna do. He can't guard nobody defensively.
Speaker 3: And hold on, Joe, just just to say so, put
Speaker 3: your GM cap on right now, right, put your put
Speaker 3: your head coaching cap on right now. You say, the
Speaker 3: Wolves have to think about what to do what to
Speaker 3: do with goddamn Rudy, him being a liability hell offensively
Speaker 3: and defensively when it comes to playing someone like Wemby.
Speaker 3: But hell, who's out there that can play Winby, especially
Speaker 3: with as good as he is, as tall as he is,
Speaker 3: as efficient as he is, and he's not selfish. Hell,
Speaker 3: he's a three level score. He can do everything. You
Speaker 3: can shoot from the three, he can shoot, you know,
Speaker 3: for the MIDI and he get he could take you
Speaker 3: off the goddamn dribbling drive. So there's really no answer
Speaker 3: for him in general. So I mean questioning how Rudy
Speaker 3: looked against him. Hell, anybody.
Speaker 2: To make it work?
Speaker 1: Do you got to put be able to score on him?
Speaker 2: You see?
Speaker 1: The thing is you let basically he relaxed and he's
Speaker 1: using all of his energy on our offense because he
Speaker 1: already Rudy ain't gonna give you nothing.
Speaker 2: So Rudy, Rudy, Rudy is the least of my concern.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, what time it is in
Speaker 1: France right now, my mom and dad watching this game. Damn,
Speaker 1: I wanted to have a tea and crumpet this time.
Speaker 1: I ain't thinking about him.
Speaker 2: He does.
Speaker 1: In a situation like this, you're supposed to be under
Speaker 1: the rest because you need to be worried about what
Speaker 1: the guy I'm going against, what he's capable of doing.
Speaker 2: Don't nobody worry about that?
Speaker 1: And we've seen this far too many times that Rudy
Speaker 1: Gobert becomes unplayable. You cannot have a guy making forty
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars. I don't care the position that becomes unplayable.
Speaker 1: How is my point guard? If I got a point
Speaker 1: guard Joe and I'm paying him thirty forty million dollars,
Speaker 1: but I can't have him on the court in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter because he can't shoot. I can't have Rudy
Speaker 1: on the court because not only is he a liability defensively,
Speaker 1: he's more he's a he's a more of a liability offensively.
Speaker 4: He gives me nothing, hey, and you got a point.
Speaker 4: And when you think about it, the job that Rudy
Speaker 4: done against Jokish was amazing. Yes, but these are these
Speaker 4: are two totally different bigs. You know, Wimby is a
Speaker 4: for ness big. You know, he he go off the bound,
Speaker 4: shoot the three. You know, he's very elusive, the way
Speaker 4: he dribbles the ball getting back all he needs a
Speaker 4: step on your here he dunking the ball, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean?
Speaker 2: The thing for Rudy ojo uh. You know when he's.
Speaker 4: Out there on the perimeter doing dribble handoffs, women just
Speaker 4: kind of sitting back.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 4: He like, Okay, y'all do what y'all gonna do. I know,
Speaker 4: Rudy ain't shooting nothing out here, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So he just kind of sitting back in the paint,
Speaker 4: and it may look like he far away from you,
Speaker 4: but hell, once he extend, he gonna go get that,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. So you gotta have somebody
Speaker 4: who's a threat. So that's why nas re plays so much.
Speaker 4: And you gotta play guys like Nasri who can shoot,
Speaker 4: because you gotta make Wimby respect the guy who he's guarding.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you gotta gotta get him out there paint, Bro,
Speaker 4: so you can get some driving lanes because if when
Speaker 4: you're playing Rudy and he just sitting back, it's hard
Speaker 4: for man to get in the teeth of the defense.
Speaker 2: A yo, any of those guys.
Speaker 4: So yeah, Shannon, I think I think they have to
Speaker 4: really take a look at, you know, how they can
Speaker 4: improve from a big man standpoint, going farther. I mean
Speaker 4: because San Antonio and Okay, see Bro, they here for
Speaker 4: the long haul.
Speaker 3: Yes, Hey, but I got a question though, Uncle Joe,
Speaker 3: think about this right what you're saying, what would Rudy
Speaker 3: being a liability obviously when playing the Spurs, but think
Speaker 3: about the Wolves and all the other I mean think
Speaker 3: about the Wolves and all the other teams that they played. No,
Speaker 3: he doesn't have this issue all the time.
Speaker 2: Let's give him back.
Speaker 1: Jokics. The three ball wasn't wasn't falling. And see Yokic
Speaker 1: is not a fleet of foot Yolkic is not as
Speaker 1: quick off the dribble as Wimby. See Wimby can get
Speaker 1: by you, Yokics couldn't get by you.
Speaker 2: And because Rudy could bother him with.
Speaker 1: His win, he can't bother First of all, he's guarding
Speaker 1: the guy that's taller than you. There are not very
Speaker 1: many guys that Rudy's gonna guard. Just gonna be taller
Speaker 1: than Rudy. So now I've got a guy that's four
Speaker 1: inches taller than me and can jump, So I can't
Speaker 1: bother him.
Speaker 4: I can't putting it. He do this, He do this
Speaker 4: to Yoke and y'all can't see he do that. May
Speaker 4: catch hit him a damn mile, So he sees all
Speaker 4: of that.
Speaker 1: We saw this in Utah, Joe, You remember in Utah
Speaker 1: they had the same issue. They couldn't play him against
Speaker 1: the Clippers, laying the ball game because he was a liability.
Speaker 4: We saw this a lot of times. In Minnesota. He
Speaker 4: was a liability.
Speaker 2: You can't. It's just hard when you're best.
Speaker 1: One of your best players who you play a premium
Speaker 1: salary to becomes unplayable and I gotta take him out
Speaker 1: of the game. It's unfathomable to me that my best pitcher,
Speaker 1: my best closer. Just think Marianna Rivera the best closer.
Speaker 1: But I can't bring him out the ninth, my best hitter.
Speaker 1: I'm a pitch hit for him because I don't trust him.
Speaker 1: I don't trust him in the bottom of the ten,
Speaker 1: throw the eleventh in.
Speaker 2: He that's crazy. That's what Rudy is.
Speaker 4: He's one of their best players, and I gotta take
Speaker 4: him off the court. He gave me more than three
Speaker 4: rebounds at seven plus feet tall.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 4: And you put him on a guy who you thought
Speaker 4: was a non shooter, because I ain't no way, why
Speaker 4: would you put Rudy on Castle. I'm thinking at the
Speaker 4: start the game, I'm like, why the hell what they
Speaker 4: do there? And he just he got it going bro
Speaker 4: that first quarter and then it just unraveled for him.
Speaker 4: It just seemed like Minnesota, it's so hard for them
Speaker 4: to come by buckets. Un Ojo, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: And for San Antono, it was like, hell, they score
Speaker 4: a wheel, Bro, just from ball movement alone, just move
Speaker 4: that ball hopping and everybody getting a great shot, you know, yeah,
Speaker 4: if it break down.
Speaker 2: Castle and Fox, Fox, who I love.
Speaker 4: I thought he played a huge part of tonight and
Speaker 4: them getting the win because both of those guys are
Speaker 4: great and pick and Roller great off the dribble there,
Speaker 4: great facilitating, and they got an in between games that
Speaker 4: a lot of guys don't got. Yeah, they can shoot
Speaker 4: the three, but once they get inside that three point line,
Speaker 4: even if they don't get all the way to the rim,
Speaker 4: they got the floaters, the little middies, the little touch shots.
Speaker 4: They just got too much in their game. And Minnesota
Speaker 4: just couldn't. They couldn't hang with them, Bro.
Speaker 3: And the funny thing about it, to the night of
Speaker 3: all games, you know, maybe you have women efficient, maybe
Speaker 3: maybe Castle maybe for sale, but but Joe and Uncle
Speaker 3: everybody was goddamn officials to night. Everybody, goddamn Fox had
Speaker 3: had twenty one points.
Speaker 1: Cut your zoom off, the cut back on you're so last,
Speaker 1: like a four second delay. Yeah, so cut it off
Speaker 1: and cut and come back in all that damn smoky
Speaker 1: head over there. That's that's the look. You can't fault
Speaker 1: his effort because he be trying. I'll never say Rudy
Speaker 1: wasn't trying because he doesn't. He but he's limited on
Speaker 1: what he can do. Joe he yeah, And I'm like
Speaker 1: I said, I think everybody you know, you remember that
Speaker 1: Joe who you went on here with us, But he
Speaker 1: had that one game where he had twenty seven points
Speaker 1: and twenty rebounds against the Lakers, and everybody says, see,
Speaker 1: I told you, look, that's an anomaly. He was never
Speaker 1: gonna have a I'll show you back.
Speaker 2: Can you hear you?
Speaker 3: Is it is it time?
Speaker 2: And good? Hold on? Dum dum, dum dumb? Is it better?
Speaker 2: It's better? They said, Man, you was talking you still
Speaker 2: doing the intro.
Speaker 4: Real, Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, finish your thought. But
Speaker 4: you was talking about how how efficient uh the Spurs world.
Speaker 4: When you look at Champagne, it was Fimenter and winn
Speaker 4: be able six eleven, go ahead.
Speaker 3: No, I was saying as a Fox, I mean, if
Speaker 3: there was a game where where everybody needs to be
Speaker 3: a fishing to close out this got it was a
Speaker 3: night I was saying, Fox had twenty one points. I
Speaker 3: think it was eight for ten, even three for three
Speaker 3: from three and hell with everyone else playing well and
Speaker 3: women didn't even have a crazy night to night.
Speaker 2: Joe, he didn't have to.
Speaker 3: Collectively, everybody plays so goddamn well, the goddamn Wolves didn't
Speaker 3: even have a chance.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, when you think about it, he didn't
Speaker 4: have to be heroic tonight when you got championning with
Speaker 4: eighteen five to ten from the field. Hey, look, I
Speaker 4: love Harper coming off the bench. He don't play like
Speaker 4: no rookie than me, fellas. He plays like a guy
Speaker 4: who's been in his lead three, four or five years.
Speaker 4: He understands the moment. He's one of those guys who
Speaker 4: great and poised and patience and precious situations. You know,
Speaker 4: they trust him with the rock As a rookie, bro,
Speaker 4: you don't really see ya, man, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: And he's had big moments, you know, not just in
Speaker 4: this series, but throughout this whole, this whole playoffs. So
Speaker 4: I enjoyed watching him play as well. I just think collectively,
Speaker 4: san Antonio has the team.
Speaker 2: To compete with OKC.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about from top to bottom name and from
Speaker 4: the guard's standpoint all the way to the Bigs boys
Speaker 4: gonna be a it's gonna be some fireworks in his next.
Speaker 1: Because both teams have about four or five guys that
Speaker 1: can defend at elite level on the perimeter. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: is what separates. Okay, see, that is what separates because
Speaker 1: of a sale Champagny. You look at Castle, you look
Speaker 1: at those guys. They can defend. The Kelvin Johnson is
Speaker 1: He's not the best defender, but he a tried defender.
Speaker 2: And that's all. Sometimes that's what all I need.
Speaker 1: I just need some other teams that's not in the
Speaker 1: playoffs they got swept. I need those guys to be
Speaker 1: tried defenders because they just they give up to it.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, O Joe, what you want now?
Speaker 3: I'm glad you just said this right. We talk about
Speaker 3: how well okay see defends. We talk about the depth
Speaker 3: that the bench has, and we talk about the depth
Speaker 3: that the god damn that the Spurs have. But the
Speaker 3: one difference maker is they still have Winby yes now,
Speaker 3: as as well as well as the goddamn done that
Speaker 3: can defend. Who's gonna be the answer to be able
Speaker 3: to stop Wimby? What's gonna be the difference.
Speaker 1: Now they try to throw, they're gonna lose Chat and
Speaker 1: they're gonna switch it up to Hartenstein because they got
Speaker 1: to seven footers, six eleven, seven foot They got guys
Speaker 1: they can throw at them. That a lot, that's a
Speaker 1: lot more athletic. And plus Check can shoot the three.
Speaker 1: Check can bring him out the deep.
Speaker 3: Waters and get him in get him in space.
Speaker 1: What do you call him? He ain't worried about that.
Speaker 1: Not the same thing with hard and Style. He's not
Speaker 1: worried about Hartenstein. He's worked. Hardenstein is a lot Look
Speaker 1: is a lot quicker. And so he was sitting picky roll.
Speaker 1: He can dive to the basket. They do a great job,
Speaker 1: put him in the pick. They throw him the ball
Speaker 1: and then here come Check from the dunker spot and boom.
Speaker 3: Hey, But then the thund they're gonna have the same issue.
Speaker 3: Shade loving to get to the Mendi ship, Shade loving
Speaker 3: to come out the dribble and drive to the basket. Hell,
Speaker 3: Winby's still gonna do what he's done to everybody else,
Speaker 3: and Alter and goddamn shots.
Speaker 4: Well, hey, hey, hold on now, capsulating Shaye and many
Speaker 4: range assassin. You know, I agree with you UNC. They
Speaker 4: both got they both got guys who can defend. But
Speaker 4: they also both teams got guys who are great going
Speaker 4: off the dribble, great creating space, great scoring the basketball,
Speaker 4: great penetrating, getting into the teeth of defense and making plays.
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be a pretty even game.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: I know the Spury is gonna come in with a
Speaker 4: lot of confidence because they beat them four times. They
Speaker 4: won four to one throughout the season, so they gonna
Speaker 4: come They're gonna come in with a lot of confidence.
Speaker 4: And considering the fact that Okay, C is not gonna
Speaker 4: have the other J.
Speaker 1: He said he's healthy. He's healthy.
Speaker 2: Mmmm, it's gonna be interesting. It's gonna be very interesting
Speaker 2: to see what they do cause you don Mitchell, A J.
Speaker 1: Mitchell has played so well, like uh, maybe you know,
Speaker 1: take a game, but you take another game. But to
Speaker 1: make we're gonna make sure you fully healthy.
Speaker 4: I think I think they're gonna continue. I think they're
Speaker 4: gonna bring a J. Mitchell off the bench and he's
Speaker 4: still gonna be he's still gonna continue to get money.
Speaker 4: I think that's gonna be the difference maker in this series.
Speaker 4: Meaning Okay, see and san Antonio is it's gonna be
Speaker 4: the bench plus, it's gonna be the bench pleasure.
Speaker 1: The question is, and I had I think I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna probably start Lou dort On on Fox. But
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to man, Fox is so quick. Man,
Speaker 1: that joke that herky jerky, that's.
Speaker 4: Now you think they gonna I think you think they're
Speaker 4: gonna start put on him? They can put him on cancel,
Speaker 4: So who goes? So I want to know who you're
Speaker 4: gonna put. You're gonna put Shay on Fox? Yeah, and
Speaker 4: he gonna go right around Fox. Man.
Speaker 2: Hey you Joe, you Joe. That joke was so quick.
Speaker 2: But I watched that joke.
Speaker 4: No no, no, no, no, he can't quick. Hey, he
Speaker 4: gonna they I think they gonna give each other problem.
Speaker 4: I think Shade being a little bigger, you know.
Speaker 1: Hes gonna be on, gonna be on shape him or
Speaker 1: I think him would sell.
Speaker 2: Probably Champigny.
Speaker 1: I think those guys, those that that triplets, those that
Speaker 1: trio is gonna take you gonna rotate and try to
Speaker 1: show because all of.
Speaker 2: Them are different.
Speaker 1: But Castle ist uber uber physical, he's quick, and you
Speaker 1: saw tonight Fox was giving ja Jade McDaniel's all.
Speaker 2: He can handle everything that he wanted. He nice, bro,
Speaker 2: he nice.
Speaker 3: You're right here, so listen, so listen, Joe and the
Speaker 3: out of the fourth time they played during the regular season,
Speaker 3: the Spurs won what there was four and.
Speaker 2: One against the Spurs one for okay see.
Speaker 3: Now that's that's now. That's regular season basketball. Now come
Speaker 3: and play off basketball. Now, who y'all got in the
Speaker 3: series based on it? You know, it's all about matchups.
Speaker 3: It's all about matchups.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: The one common denominator that separates both of these teams
Speaker 3: is god damn winby.
Speaker 4: I know, man, uh okay, okay see, got home court advantage.
Speaker 4: I'm going okay see, I picked them to win it.
Speaker 4: I think I think san Antonio is there obviously, you
Speaker 4: know they they looking to win now. You know, even
Speaker 4: though they're a young team, they got what it takes. Obviously,
Speaker 4: they showed me a lot throughout this postseason. But hell,
Speaker 4: okay see and showed me just as much.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: You know the fact that they're still hungry coming out
Speaker 4: for title that ain't er in this postseason. I'm sure
Speaker 4: they want to continue that. It's gonna be hard for
Speaker 4: San Antonio to going, okay, see and get a game, fellas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just and uncle, what you got, un.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you, if you The thing I can
Speaker 1: see is that I still think san Antonio might be
Speaker 1: a year away. The turnovers. You cannot turn the ball
Speaker 1: over against the Thunder. They punish you, They make you
Speaker 1: pay a premium. You pay double for turnovers in the postseason.
Speaker 1: And I just think the thing is is that Check
Speaker 1: and Hartenstein. I can see Check averaging somewhere between eighteen
Speaker 1: and twenty two, which they did not get from Rudy Hartenstein.
Speaker 1: You know Hartenstein, he gonna give you efficient. He ain't
Speaker 1: gonna he ain't gonna miss more than two shots because
Speaker 1: everything is gonna be a.
Speaker 4: Bob or or or or a floater from about five
Speaker 4: as his ass gonna have a double figure rebound. Yes, yes,
Speaker 4: he gonna. He's a hustle He's a hustle guy who
Speaker 4: gets a lot of his points off of hustling. Hustling,
Speaker 4: you know, put backs, things that give you extra create
Speaker 4: second chance points.
Speaker 1: Because when when we going to challenge it, if so,
Speaker 1: guess what? Yeah, so when when we goes to challenge
Speaker 1: something that said, okay, whoever Winby's guarding when he goes
Speaker 1: to challenge take your ass to.
Speaker 4: The rem absolutely, absolutely, absolutely right.
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 1: I mean, you make me pick if I had to
Speaker 1: pick some money, if I had to put some money down,
Speaker 1: that meant something to it. The hell if I'm putting
Speaker 1: money down, there's my money, so it means a lot
Speaker 1: to me. I would take the Thunder. I think I
Speaker 1: think I can see the Thunder in seven. I can
Speaker 1: see it being the Home and Home series. Joe, I
Speaker 1: really could.
Speaker 2: I know Ocho or Rebel he gonna go san Antonio
Speaker 2: already know.
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, listen, I like, I like, I like
Speaker 3: the Thunder. Obviously, what they've been able to do even
Speaker 3: when she was when she was injured, I mean, the
Speaker 3: they them young bulls, kept the kept the ship afloat.
Speaker 3: But that god damn Winn be so special. He is
Speaker 3: so special. I think he's going to be the common
Speaker 3: denominator being. I don't think Chef will be able to
Speaker 3: do anything with him, even though shed is seven feet tall.
Speaker 3: Wint be so dominant regards of who you put out
Speaker 3: there on them. I'm just giving the edge to the
Speaker 3: Spurs slightly.
Speaker 2: Okay, Joe, I'm just looking at these numbers.
Speaker 1: My start, my starting four and five gave me three
Speaker 1: points and ten if and rebounds.
Speaker 4: At home, at home, the close out game, closing, Yeah,
Speaker 4: everything I do them. Batting down, the hatchet, I do them.
Speaker 4: Boarded up the house. I'm hunkering down.
Speaker 2: I ain't leave it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you know I did when the storm is
Speaker 1: coming and say you need to leave, I'm batan.
Speaker 2: I ain't going no damn where. Yeah. Hey, you know
Speaker 2: what I think. I think Minnesota.
Speaker 4: I think coming in the next year, they probably gonna
Speaker 4: find a way to kind of give nas Reed a
Speaker 4: starting job.
Speaker 2: O Joe.
Speaker 4: I just think he plays well, you know. Uh, And
Speaker 4: and I think he I think he played well against
Speaker 4: wenby obviously being able to stretch the floor, and he
Speaker 4: ain't really looked like he was nervous to sced of
Speaker 4: the moment tonight, you know what I mean, he just
Speaker 4: came out and who Well, you're gonna have to You're
Speaker 4: gonna have to change your roster up a little bit.
Speaker 4: You might have to make a couple of trades, you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. But why if if.
Speaker 2: You know, we still got to give up the pigs
Speaker 2: that we gave for Wimby. I mean for Rudy. We
Speaker 2: gave up five first round as Joe.
Speaker 4: You don't think nobody won't Rudy.
Speaker 2: Look at fat ever game. Don't even want Rudy back.
Speaker 4: You remember Rudy within fat aver, Rudy kemps a bull
Speaker 4: job going fat a game.
Speaker 2: Don't even want Ruby Rudy back. Just a bad man.
Speaker 1: It is, it is any and that's the problem that
Speaker 1: he has. Any matchup that has it big, that's athletic,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a problem for him. Yeah, they can
Speaker 1: space the floor and shoot. See what you call He
Speaker 1: would have a problem with em Be because Embid is
Speaker 1: so physical and b He's gonna put that big body
Speaker 1: on him. That's not what Joki is. Jokic is a
Speaker 1: finess player. Rudy is long enough to bother him, especially
Speaker 1: especially if he can't get him in fiul trouble early
Speaker 1: and he can't knock down threes to pull him away
Speaker 1: from the basket. Because you see, even when Rudy wasn't
Speaker 1: blocking the shot, he was making him shoot it short
Speaker 1: because he was working. He's with so much arc on
Speaker 1: it that the ball was coming up short. But at
Speaker 1: some point in time, Joe you gotta make a look.
Speaker 2: I'm looking.
Speaker 1: I'm like, hold on, Randal, gave me three Randal random
Speaker 1: been coming up real small, big moments, Joe h He's
Speaker 1: becoming up real small, I know, and they need you
Speaker 1: got a Minnesota y'all thought this was gonna be a
Speaker 1: better answer than Cat. That's the problem that you're running
Speaker 1: into and they seeing what can doing over there? Cat
Speaker 1: that had two postseason trip with doubles. I'm gonna keep
Speaker 1: my mind. Your da ain't got none of my day,
Speaker 1: none of my business.
Speaker 2: Brought it up.
Speaker 4: Hey, hey, hey what Minnesota was hamper with injuries, So
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give him a little pass in this series, uh,
Speaker 4: I thought, And man kind of got.
Speaker 2: A little better, you know, the series went along.
Speaker 4: He didn't play great to night, but hell I thought
Speaker 4: at least at least his intensity was there, understanding the moment.
Speaker 4: You know, he was aggressive, he was trying to get
Speaker 4: to the cup. But San Antonio too much, Bro, They
Speaker 4: coming at you with too many waves, too many guys
Speaker 4: who can really shoot the basketball, feeling at a high level,
Speaker 4: and once they bust that thing open, it's hard. It
Speaker 4: was hard for Minnesota to keep coming back and being
Speaker 4: at home. I think I think that's the most impressive
Speaker 4: thing about San Antonio bro the way they played on
Speaker 4: the old the way they came in and closed that
Speaker 4: thing out.
Speaker 3: You know, one of the most important things too, is
Speaker 3: having that advantage, being able to play at home, helping
Speaker 3: allow your crowd to get into it, to make things
Speaker 3: easy for you offensively and defensively. The Spurs didn't allow
Speaker 3: the crowd to get into it at all. They didn't
Speaker 3: at no damn point. They really made it a home
Speaker 3: game even though they were playing away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you think about this trade, Joe, they'll tell
Speaker 1: you what trade doesn't make sense to me Because you
Speaker 1: got a guy in ad Man that wants to attack.
Speaker 1: He can shoot, you can get to the mid he
Speaker 1: gotta hear a three level score. But Julius Randall juwish
Speaker 1: Randall's not a better three point shot. Better a three
Speaker 1: point guy. Cat can pull your big cool pull now.
Speaker 2: See cat can pull win and be away from the basket. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, if you take Rudy out, you bring cadd in
Speaker 1: and cats in. Now, Rudy's got to go out there
Speaker 1: because Cat can knock the three down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, worry about Yeah, he'll turn his back on Rudy,
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 4: I did throw line Rudy at the three point line.
Speaker 2: He ain't worried about that damn shot. And he knows.
Speaker 1: How many times you see Rudy dive to the basket
Speaker 1: and dunk. Rudy gonna get put back dunk. He'll get
Speaker 1: a lob dunk. But I'm not throwing with them hands.
Speaker 1: It's tall, he awkward, so he ain't. I ain't worried
Speaker 1: about it bending down and getting the ball.
Speaker 2: Joe, Joe, I ain't worry.
Speaker 1: He's gonna kick it with him size twenty kick that
Speaker 1: thing there in the front rope pop.
Speaker 2: So I'm not worried about that.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to because O Joe, you said, uh
Speaker 1: has all he has to deal with is Wimby.
Speaker 2: The problem is is that OKAYC and the Spurs.
Speaker 1: For the next three to five years, they're gonna runs
Speaker 1: unless something unforeseen happen.
Speaker 4: So easy, he's having his way with Yo Kitchen some
Speaker 4: of these other bigs. He's still gotta go through them. Yeah,
Speaker 4: even if you're going through purgatory in order to get
Speaker 4: to the championship, you gotta go through hell with your
Speaker 4: san Antonio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, see MM hm.
Speaker 3: And this is this is the bad thing though, uh
Speaker 3: because if you if you get rid of Rudy, who's
Speaker 3: the answer. There's still no answer that you can go
Speaker 3: and get that can make a difference against Wenby or
Speaker 3: the goddamn thunder.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I think the thing is is that I gotta get productive.
Speaker 1: I gotta get points from somewhere. I got nothing from
Speaker 1: I got nothing from I got nothing from Ji Randall,
Speaker 1: and I got nothing from Rudy. So that puts so
Speaker 1: much pressure on and that he feels and had twenty
Speaker 1: four points, but it took him twenty six shots. I'll
Speaker 1: give him that all day long.
Speaker 3: And think about this. If you do get a big
Speaker 3: right Uncle Joe, would you get a big that's all?
Speaker 3: You know? Our office is big. That can get you points. Hell,
Speaker 3: that could.
Speaker 2: Shoot it traded trading for you.
Speaker 3: But then you know, you know what the problem gonna be.
Speaker 3: He gonna be a liability. You're not gonna get it.
Speaker 4: Okay, what what what a thing that I'm thinking if
Speaker 4: if I can keep Winn being honest, you know, versus
Speaker 4: him not even paying attention to Rooty right damn. I
Speaker 4: I mean I think that's a pretty good job. Meaning
Speaker 4: if I can have a threat out there that he
Speaker 4: has the guard Oh Joe, yes, instead of just stinting
Speaker 4: kind of just sitting close to the paint and now
Speaker 4: guarding this man who at the three man, you you
Speaker 4: you have a better chance versus going in there challenging
Speaker 4: him every time.
Speaker 2: Bro, Like it's just he just too much. It's too much, man.
Speaker 4: So I'm sure Minnesota will get to the drawing board
Speaker 4: this summer. They're gonna have to come up with something.
Speaker 4: I know they got some some some mean contracts over there,
Speaker 4: but boy, they got to figure it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the world of the last five postseasons, lost in
Speaker 1: the first round, lost in the first round, lost in
Speaker 1: the conference finals, lost in the conference final, lost in
Speaker 1: the second round. And I think that I think the
Speaker 1: thing is is that with Wimby, you can't out skill it.
Speaker 1: You gotta get somebody that's physical, that's that's willing to
Speaker 1: bang with him because his skill level is I mean,
Speaker 1: the first of all, there are a whole lot of fives.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you say, if you look at Hartenstein,
Speaker 1: you look at uh, you want to say cancer five,
Speaker 1: They're not a whole lot of them that has a
Speaker 1: skill like women that can be able to score. The
Speaker 1: only big the only five that really can score is
Speaker 1: Embiid and Yokic. Yeah, those are the really ones.
Speaker 2: One.
Speaker 3: That's why that they That's why I said there is
Speaker 3: no answer. So in the West, Winby's gonna continue to
Speaker 3: dominate because there's really nobody you can go and get
Speaker 3: that can match him offensively.
Speaker 1: We know that, but we got to get some scoring.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. That's the thing. Oh Joe, he only
Speaker 1: gave us nineteen, but his counterpart gave us nothing.
Speaker 4: So he beat us nineteen nothing. What if he gave
Speaker 4: us nine? Get off to a great start. You didn't
Speaker 4: do any better? He gave us three. Remember the last game?
Speaker 4: Remember the last game? How many points did did you
Speaker 4: have the last game? He didn't have that many last game. Hey,
Speaker 4: And when you think about it, Wimby just got too
Speaker 4: many pretty good damn players next to him, meaning guys
Speaker 4: who really know and understand. Okay, boom, we gonna feed
Speaker 4: big Fellow. We're gonna play through big Fellow. But boy,
Speaker 4: when they come out of it, I'm getting to it.
Speaker 4: You know, they got guys who really understand their role
Speaker 4: in Fox, Castle, Ver Sale.
Speaker 2: Harper.
Speaker 4: They championing like I'm talking about guys who played key like. Look,
Speaker 4: they'll have games to where some of these guys won't
Speaker 4: be as productive offensively, but then they'll have games like
Speaker 4: tonight to where collectively as a team, everybody them be
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. It ain't really he had
Speaker 4: cancel was you know, he was terrific tonight, but everybody
Speaker 4: was super solid around the board. And I just think
Speaker 4: it's hard to beat a team bro who has guys
Speaker 4: like this. And the only team I can think who
Speaker 4: is like this is OKC. But Joe, think about this.
Speaker 1: You know the last game, last game Game five, Guess
Speaker 1: how many points Rudy had four? So in two games
Speaker 1: he's averaging two points a game. Game five, Jude Randall
Speaker 1: has seventeen, So in two games he's averaging ten points
Speaker 1: a game.
Speaker 2: How many points did he take? You?
Speaker 1: Because it took him like fourteen shots to get those
Speaker 1: seventeen points. If I'm not mistaken, I think he was
Speaker 1: five or fourteen from the floor six to seventeen. My bad,
Speaker 1: I was off a couple O four from three?
Speaker 2: What was he to? Night?
Speaker 1: From three? O two one of eight from the floor
Speaker 1: two from three? And see and man's like hell I
Speaker 1: can get funky like that. Yeah, if I know my guys,
Speaker 1: I can count on. Oh, Rudy, if Rudy could give
Speaker 1: me a consistent Joe, if he can give me a
Speaker 1: consistent ten to twelve.
Speaker 4: He ain't gonna be do that on. That's asking a lot.
Speaker 4: That's asking a lot.
Speaker 3: That's not that's not what he is, Joe. That's what
Speaker 3: y'all told me when I said, maybe he can have
Speaker 3: one of those, one of those games.
Speaker 4: But Rudy, you love it that when Rudy was giving
Speaker 4: it to the Lakers, Rudy had a twenty twenty game.
Speaker 2: I said, you have never another one of those in
Speaker 2: his life.
Speaker 3: You was right, he's a defensive player. How many times
Speaker 3: he won that defensive ward on four times?
Speaker 4: Well, look, the Lakers couldn't match up with him. He
Speaker 4: was just shooting them big. The Lakers ain't had no
Speaker 4: answer for him, you know, and Rudy trying to guard
Speaker 4: the man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This this is different, bro,
Speaker 4: This this one the Spurs are a little different. I'm
Speaker 4: a well, look, y'all better get your popcorn ready.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a great series. And have they decided
Speaker 1: when it starts Monday, Tuesday, trying to see the Western
Speaker 1: Conference Final start starts Monday. What is it on NBC?
Speaker 4: Okay, NBC, all right, okay, we got a game seven,
Speaker 4: We got a game seven.
Speaker 2: Kate cut out.
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, they were supposed to close that that thing out.
Speaker 2: The Pistols won one, fifteen to ninety four.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Jalen Durry had his best game seven to ten from
Speaker 1: the floor levels.
Speaker 2: He had fifteen points, eleven rebound.
Speaker 1: Kate had twenty one points eight as sis a sure Thompson, bro,
Speaker 1: just get in the gym and just try to make shots.
Speaker 1: That's all you got to do. That's all you gotta do.
Speaker 1: I thought Danny's Jenkins played his best game fifteen points,
Speaker 1: big threes.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Duncan Robinson came up the bench four to seven from
Speaker 1: the three. Paul reed again in I think Paul Reid
Speaker 1: and Karsler. Burt played well too. In the minutes that
Speaker 1: he played, he did, he did. Sasser, Yes came, I'm
Speaker 1: getting at it like say give me the ball. Hell no,
Speaker 1: I ain't give you nothing.
Speaker 2: Hey. He tough though, he tough.
Speaker 4: He won them Houston projects, bro, he could play like
Speaker 4: you hey, you could tell you know, he wasn't afraid
Speaker 4: of the moment. He was going at this. Man, he
Speaker 4: scored it. There was nine crucial points. Okay, Joe that
Speaker 4: he scored. Hey, I'm like you, Hey, Paul Reed got
Speaker 4: to play a lot more. Hell, he's had more. He
Speaker 4: had more points than he did, man, and he'd be
Speaker 4: getting at it.
Speaker 1: And one, I was like, damn at the ball just
Speaker 1: sitting up on the back on the back of the that.
Speaker 1: I was like that thing drop did there?
Speaker 2: Real? Like? Hey?
Speaker 1: And one the twenty one point retired sixty six year
Speaker 1: old NBA playoff record for the largest game six to
Speaker 1: win by a team trailing three to two in the series.
Speaker 1: The Saint Louis Hawks later became the Atlanta Hawks, beat
Speaker 1: the Minneapolis Lakers, who later became the Los Angeles Lakers,
Speaker 1: by the score of one seventeen to ninety six in
Speaker 1: the nineteen sixty West Division Finals. This was Joe and
Speaker 1: I don't look congratulations Detroit, But Joe.
Speaker 4: Cad has got to cut down on these turnovers. Joe,
Speaker 4: they killing him, Bro, They gotta cut down. They turned
Speaker 4: the ball over entire This game should have been over.
Speaker 4: They should have never been able to get back in
Speaker 4: this game. Yeah, they pulled away in the second half,
Speaker 4: But this game could have been over the first I mean, Joe,
Speaker 4: they turned them all in like four kin seconded possessions,
Speaker 4: and I told Thompson, don't throw no more lobs.
Speaker 1: Bounce pass man, don't you throw. Don't you throw another lob?
Speaker 3: And Uncle Joe was Thompson. He found out, But I'm
Speaker 3: glad they were already in control of the game. He
Speaker 3: has to pick and choose when to be aggressive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got.
Speaker 3: You got to pick and choose when to be aggressive
Speaker 3: because some of those files. You know, it was unnecessary.
Speaker 3: You didn't have to do, Joe, go undercut the guy, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you got.
Speaker 2: You gotta make go ahead on Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just I'm gonna say. You just gotta gotta make
Speaker 3: better decisions show if anything, keep your feet moving, just
Speaker 3: put your body in position. You got to reach you,
Speaker 3: you got to put your hand in there, and certain
Speaker 3: stuff you just don't have to do. You're giving away
Speaker 3: ticket ticket tack files for no reason, and you're gonna
Speaker 3: hurt your team. You're gonna hurt your team, especially an
Speaker 3: important game, especially in Game seven. You can't file out.
Speaker 2: I agree, I agree, O Joe.
Speaker 4: I think Thompson was great outside of just a little
Speaker 4: small minute things, Bro, some things he got to learn
Speaker 4: and understand. And obviously this experience that he's going through
Speaker 4: is gonna help teach him, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Hopefully he'll be better in Game seven. But man, I
Speaker 4: don't know what Cleveland had going on.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 4: That's why I told y'all after after Cleveland won that
Speaker 4: game in Detroit the other night, I said, Man, I
Speaker 4: wouldn't be surprised if Detroit win the next two. They
Speaker 4: they they've been trying. Look, they got tried and tested
Speaker 4: in the last series, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 4: it's like it's like they don't play, It's like they
Speaker 4: don't panic. I think Kate is always under control. Like
Speaker 4: saying he got to cut down on a turnovers hell
Speaker 4: forty two minutes, I think he be doll dead tired everything.
Speaker 2: He really stealed them.
Speaker 4: Some minutes because they had to lead, and they came
Speaker 4: with Sasser, and they came, they came early with some guys,
Speaker 4: and I was like, you know what, good job, bit,
Speaker 4: good job giving him some by some time because you
Speaker 4: know there's a great chance you're probably gonna have to
Speaker 4: run him being tire second half, So just the case.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let him dock somebody, let him store build that
Speaker 1: battery up. So you go, ay, so cause you don't
Speaker 1: want to run on fumes.
Speaker 2: But I'm like, come on, cay Roy.
Speaker 4: But but James Harden now due to him and them
Speaker 4: damn turnovers, James had eight to night.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but it has set.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But the thing, Donovan, I was hoping Donovan Mitchell had
Speaker 3: a game like you had last game.
Speaker 1: That was two games ago where he had Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The problem is if James Harden, if James Harven is
Speaker 1: getting on up there five to sixth, they're not winning
Speaker 1: because they created them the possessions because a lot of
Speaker 1: times his turnovers leading the runouts. If you throw the ball,
Speaker 1: if you just turned the ball over, Joe, and they
Speaker 1: got to take it out of bounds, you get an
Speaker 1: opportunity to say it. But if you turn it over
Speaker 1: and lead the runner, I can't set my defense. That's
Speaker 1: what and that's what you and that's that's what we
Speaker 1: said football. Let's not turn it over. Let's let them
Speaker 1: have to go against our defense. Don't have our offensive
Speaker 1: live and wide receivers trying to make a tackle. That
Speaker 1: is what they do.
Speaker 2: And and look at it.
Speaker 4: You know, Detroit was looking at the film, like, listen,
Speaker 4: that damn shrew's he can't go six eight from the three.
Speaker 4: He can't get twenty points. Cut his We cut his
Speaker 4: wald off. We got a great chance to win this game. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and you gotta cut them other guys off, man, you can.
Speaker 4: You're gonna make a hell on Donovan and James Harden,
Speaker 4: Jared Allen and Mobley. Yeah, you know they gonna be
Speaker 4: so so. But outside of them four guys, you can't
Speaker 4: have nobody go off of seventeen twenty five points. You know,
Speaker 4: if you Detroit and look look at the score, man,
Speaker 4: Cleveland only had ninety four points.
Speaker 2: Fellas.
Speaker 4: This is how Detroit has won all of these games.
Speaker 4: This is why Detroit was number one in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 4: It's because of the defense. It wasn't because okay boom, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I know during average twenty and ten during the regular season.
Speaker 4: But for the most part, bro, we locked down. We
Speaker 4: played great team defense, we played great individual defense, and
Speaker 4: we stingy.
Speaker 2: You gotta be stingy, bro.
Speaker 4: I thought they were very stingy to night defensively, which
Speaker 4: obviously helped them win this game.
Speaker 3: And you know, Duran heard you U good, but he
Speaker 3: had during heard Joe during hurding that you.
Speaker 1: Look better wheeling than dealing. He put the ball. Yeah, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: he had Joey. We talked about that. I said, Joe,
Speaker 1: how high is it that when the ball you winning,
Speaker 1: you up by fifteen twenty points? Some Joe that don't
Speaker 1: even know the gain't got no business shooting no three? Man,
Speaker 1: that Joe was shot a three. No, that might have
Speaker 1: been Paul Reid that shot that three. Paul Reed shot
Speaker 1: that three?
Speaker 2: What shot was that? Swift?
Speaker 1: But I thought, I thought Durwan put the ball on
Speaker 1: the floor and finished with his lefl A couple of times.
Speaker 1: He did with his white a couple of times. I
Speaker 1: thought he was aggressive tonight. I didn't think he's second
Speaker 1: against himself, and he did an unbelievable job.
Speaker 2: I thought.
Speaker 1: The guys that came in off the bench, you look
Speaker 1: at that bitch player. Duckie Robinson twenty minutes, fourteen points
Speaker 1: on four seven shooting, Paul Reid seventeen points and seven
Speaker 1: of nine shooting. You got LeVert had eight, you got
Speaker 1: Sasso had nine. Well, when you're getting thirty one forty
Speaker 1: forty eight points from.
Speaker 4: Your bitch, and they got sixty, they got sixteen, they
Speaker 4: got seventeen nineteen. I was scored at forty seven seventeen. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and you look at Duram. You look at during Jalen Duram.
Speaker 4: We always talk about his energy and effort. Bro, that's
Speaker 4: got to always be a constant. You can you can
Speaker 4: bring that every game. Look, he had four offensive rebounds,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, That's all we ask Bro. Listen,
Speaker 4: even if you have single digit points, you should always
Speaker 4: have double digit reguns.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I think, I think all the time.
Speaker 4: But I think I think the Pistons really found something
Speaker 4: this series OJO with Paul Reid and that man coming in,
Speaker 4: he playing with high energy, effort, blocking shots, rebound of it.
Speaker 4: I'm making threes. I'm like, all right now. You know,
Speaker 4: I don't know if he continued this throughout the rest
Speaker 4: of the postseason, but damn he looked at me game
Speaker 4: of that.
Speaker 1: And then we'll worry about We'll worry about the finals.
Speaker 1: We're worried about the Eastern Conference finals. Joe, Old Tuesday,
Speaker 1: worry about that Old Tuesday or Wednesday. But right down,
Speaker 1: can you get the effort that you've given us the
Speaker 1: last four to five games don't change the thing. Paul Reed,
Speaker 1: give us that's got plenty, that's plenty good enough.
Speaker 2: But I love the fact. I love that that JB
Speaker 2: is going.
Speaker 1: To Karris Lebert because there were times Karris Lebert was
Speaker 1: kind of just getting mop up duty. He's going to
Speaker 1: him a lot earlier. Now now maybe now that has
Speaker 1: something to do with with Thompson getting in foul trouble.
Speaker 2: Also, Yeah, yeah, I think this.
Speaker 1: Was Jenkins looked really good because Joe we talked about
Speaker 1: him when k was out, how aggressive he was and
Speaker 1: how he like he dropped thirty on the Lakers and
Speaker 1: ended up and and and got him a victory.
Speaker 2: I was like, Okay, the kid can play. Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: getting back in that. Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: I like how they respond when their backs are against
Speaker 4: the wall, Fellas.
Speaker 2: That shows you.
Speaker 4: A lot about a team, and the Pistons have done
Speaker 4: that this whole postseason. You know, they've had different guys
Speaker 4: step up, be consistent. I mean, man, this is how
Speaker 4: they win defensively, locking down, getting stops, getting turnovers, creating
Speaker 4: points off those turnovers. I mean they were great tonight. Bro.
Speaker 4: Look you going to a host environment like this with
Speaker 4: two bona fide scores and hard and and and Mitchell,
Speaker 4: who's been playing decent, and man, you just kind of
Speaker 4: cut they water off if you just want to keep
Speaker 4: it one hundred, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: But quorter.
Speaker 1: For Cleveland the wind, Joe correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: One of these guys gotta go off.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you gotta have forty or fifty, but
Speaker 1: like James Harden had that thirty, and he was sensational
Speaker 1: down the.
Speaker 2: Stretch, Big three, big three, flow free throws.
Speaker 1: Donovan gets thirty nine in the second half after only
Speaker 1: having four. Then you get Max Screws comes in up
Speaker 1: the bench and makes eight six shots at all them threes.
Speaker 1: You get remember Meryl had ten points, he had like
Speaker 1: three three. Yeah, and then Wade.
Speaker 4: Boy, d Wade brother. You gotta get rid of that.
Speaker 4: Ain't no way. You have people, you have people thinking,
Speaker 4: and you're talking about d Wade.
Speaker 2: Your name is.
Speaker 4: Dean Wade Wade, Yeah.
Speaker 3: He hey, uncle Joe, as as greatest, as greatest, the
Speaker 3: goddamn Pistons are. Defensively, the pressure is on James Harden
Speaker 3: and Donovan Mitchell. You know the issues and the problem
Speaker 3: that they've always had in the playoffs as one of
Speaker 3: the conversations that I always had when it comes to them,
Speaker 3: I think they have to do something they've never done before.
Speaker 3: They got to dig down, Joe. They got to do
Speaker 3: whatever they need to do. And Uncle, you said just
Speaker 3: one of the two have to have a big game.
Speaker 3: I think both of them, both of them got to
Speaker 3: be aggressive. You know, Mogue mobilely gonna give you fifteen eighteen.
Speaker 3: You don't know what you're gonna get from Wade. You know,
Speaker 3: Allen is up and down. Goddamn James, Harden and goddamn
Speaker 3: domind Mitchell got to come out there and they got
Speaker 3: to give you thirty goddamn thirty a peak, it's his game.
Speaker 3: Seven is doing die You're going home.
Speaker 2: I don't see that happening.
Speaker 3: Bro Joe, A Joe. They got to be aggressive. They
Speaker 3: got to be aggressive. You got to you if you
Speaker 3: got to make it two on five, goddamn it, let
Speaker 3: it be two on five.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the turnovers.
Speaker 3: Oo hey, man, James just had a good game. We
Speaker 3: only had three turnovers in this night. He had god
Speaker 3: damn eight.
Speaker 2: What what is his mo is his m O three turnovers?
Speaker 2: Or is mo O five or more turnovers, five of them.
Speaker 1: And as long as Thompson can stay on the court,
Speaker 1: because you gotta realize one of those guys having to
Speaker 1: deal with Thompson, the other guys having to deal with
Speaker 1: Cade cunning Um, and neither one of those guys or
Speaker 1: slouches on the defensive being no sun. So that's why
Speaker 1: you see James hard. James didn't take that many shots.
Speaker 1: He got to the free throw live ten times. But
Speaker 1: look at Donovan six or twenty he dealing with Cade. Yeah,
Speaker 1: big boy about it? K six seven, joke six, yeah,
Speaker 1: Donovan six to two. He's physical, He's more physical than Donovan.
Speaker 1: He can slide and he can beat Donovan to the
Speaker 1: Oh no, don't go to head.
Speaker 2: You thought you was going down right here, right here?
Speaker 2: Oh don't dog? Yeah, A and Lavern come in and
Speaker 2: he ges.
Speaker 4: Yes. Yes, when I say defeing, sometimes it may not
Speaker 4: be the greatest on ball defense, but it's just the
Speaker 4: consistent pursuit of the basketball, just trying to weigh you down.
Speaker 4: O yo, you know what I mean, Like booms trying
Speaker 4: just trying to stay in front of you, fighting over
Speaker 4: them pigs, making it hard for you, making it tough
Speaker 4: every time. We ain't giving you no death shots, We
Speaker 4: ain't giving you no easy buckets. Everything you gonna get, Bro,
Speaker 4: you're gonna earn these tonight. And that's what Detroit doing, Bro.
Speaker 4: They making Donovan and James earn every bucket that they get.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: And if they don't have a guy all this bench,
Speaker 4: or or or Mobley or Allen who can go off
Speaker 4: and get you twenty and fifteen, twenty five and seventeen,
Speaker 4: they not gonna win this game. Bro, them two dudes
Speaker 4: gonna help. They need somebody to come along and help
Speaker 4: them win a game. Those two alone ain't gonna beat Detroit.
Speaker 4: Look at Cleveland fifteen as sis.
Speaker 1: So you know I mean I got I got your
Speaker 1: two guys that you count on playing hero ball.
Speaker 2: I'm good with that. I keep you, I'll keep you
Speaker 2: under twenty five assists. I'll keep you. Oh, I'm good.
Speaker 2: Go you go ahead, shot it. Absolutely no.
Speaker 1: The one thing I can't you is for you to
Speaker 1: get those numbers. And then James, what did James hard
Speaker 1: have Joe O Joe thirty points eleven assists?
Speaker 3: No, I can't have that.
Speaker 1: No, you got three and eleven, so I know at
Speaker 1: least three or four of those gonna come on. Those assists,
Speaker 1: gonna come on. Three point shots. Now, I done, gave
Speaker 1: you nine to twelve. Nah, hell nah, keep on playing, y'all. Hey,
Speaker 1: long as they play one on one if we don't
Speaker 1: let them get other guys involved.
Speaker 2: See, the thing is about Detroit.
Speaker 1: They got guy that could defend without you having to
Speaker 1: compromise the defense. Ain't nobody coming yeah me, hey, get
Speaker 1: it done.
Speaker 2: Look he about he be doing it. He be doing it.
Speaker 2: Detroit don't have to put two on the ball.
Speaker 4: They don't really have to trap the make and roll
Speaker 4: because they got They got bigs who can kind of
Speaker 4: move their feet, and Paul Reid and During and Tobias hairs.
Speaker 2: So listen.
Speaker 4: With that being said, it takes away all your options.
Speaker 4: If you James and Donovan running pick and roll, because
Speaker 4: now you really came past to the big you really
Speaker 4: kind of gotta go into your bag, you know, and
Speaker 4: I know both of them, both of their bags are
Speaker 4: pretty deep.
Speaker 2: But if I wear you.
Speaker 4: Down, Ojo, and then we get in the second half
Speaker 4: of the game and you ain't really got the juice
Speaker 4: like you had maybe in the first quarter, we're gonna
Speaker 4: win that.
Speaker 2: We're gonna win that battle, bro, We're gonna win that battle.
Speaker 4: Every time Detroit has shown improving, I'm telling y'all, man,
Speaker 4: before even before the game started, I wasn't nervous for Detroit,
Speaker 4: and I just felt like, yeah, I just felt like
Speaker 4: they have what it takes. They have what it takes
Speaker 4: to win the next two games. Obviously, winning in Cleveland
Speaker 4: was great, went on the road shows a lot, but
Speaker 4: going home, I don't see them squandling the way. I
Speaker 4: know they've had some mishaps, you know, especially in game five,
Speaker 4: but I think understanding what they've been through in the
Speaker 4: last series and now having another Game seven on their
Speaker 4: home court, this is why you get home court advantaged.
Speaker 2: Fel Yeah, I think the thing is a big thing
Speaker 2: for Detroit.
Speaker 1: Also, they had to have bitch points because the last
Speaker 1: couple of games Tobias hadn't been Because you gotta realize, Joe, the.
Speaker 2: Previous like seven to eight games, I think they showed
Speaker 2: the sat of.
Speaker 1: The screen he was averaging twenty two and a half
Speaker 1: was a game he gave us six to night. Now
Speaker 1: he was in five trouble dealing with because I felt
Speaker 1: that Evan Mobley had a decided advantage. He just wasn't used. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you see the night Joe, he used it. He
Speaker 1: posted him up to get Hey, you got him in,
Speaker 1: fired Trump and he had to come out of the
Speaker 1: ball game and guys Paul Reed came in played well.
Speaker 1: But I think to be able to face the floor
Speaker 1: with Duncan Robinson, yeah, because Cave's gonna break whoever got
Speaker 1: it gonna break him down. You got to come and
Speaker 1: he kicked and Duncan Robinson don't get he don't need much.
Speaker 1: He just he don't need.
Speaker 2: A super threat. He's a threat out there. Man.
Speaker 4: You gotta respect him, bro. And I think when you
Speaker 4: if you cave and you got guys out there on
Speaker 4: the floor with you, that gotta be respected. It keeps
Speaker 4: the floor so open so where you can operate. Get
Speaker 4: to your minty, get to the basket, shoot your floaters,
Speaker 4: and hell, he shoot the three just as well as
Speaker 4: he do any of that. Yes, I just think, I think,
Speaker 4: I think this is uh definitely obviously it's one game now,
Speaker 4: but I'm in favor of Detroit. I had picked him
Speaker 4: to win this series. So the fact that they did
Speaker 4: the unthinkable, and that was going into Cleveland, because we
Speaker 4: are pretty much thought Damn Cleveland.
Speaker 2: You know this is your game, said you don't want
Speaker 2: to have this games? Hee?
Speaker 4: Oh man you hey, look I know they didn't want
Speaker 4: to have to go back to Detroit and try to
Speaker 4: end this thing.
Speaker 1: Hey the mold coach. Look here, go ahead and pack
Speaker 1: because we're going straight from there. We're going straight to
Speaker 1: New York. We ain't coming back.
Speaker 2: Hope, hope. Yeah. I would have put that thought.
Speaker 1: Look here, go ahead, pack heavy because hey, we're going
Speaker 1: we Hey, we ain't coming back.
Speaker 2: We ain't going to Detroit. We ain't going nowhere. We're
Speaker 2: going straight to New York.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I'm gonna let y'all sleep
Speaker 1: in tomorrow. Guess what, because we at home. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: sleep here for a couple of days. Take the take
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on.
Speaker 4: You know, if Detroit, when that New York gotta come
Speaker 4: to Detroit, see.
Speaker 2: There you go, there you go, bro, y'all sleep here. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But if Cleveland, when Cleveland gotta go to DT, ain't
Speaker 2: going nowhere, Cleveland going home?
Speaker 1: All all you got to do give it anything anything
Speaker 1: less than five turnovers.
Speaker 2: Y'all win this game going away.
Speaker 4: If I'm the Knicks, I'm at home, like hell, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's Game seven. Wear y'all ass out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I was in here, like, yes, game seven,
Speaker 1: I was hoping to give but I saw early. Man,
Speaker 1: come on this go to the second half right where
Speaker 1: they will play right.
Speaker 3: So so both of y'all got the Pistons winning the
Speaker 3: game seven?
Speaker 2: Yes, I do. Yeah, Okay, you got the Cavs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. I think Donovan mentioned James hard is gonna
Speaker 3: go crazy, do you really?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Man, listen, they tied, they tied it. That same ass
Speaker 3: them failing in the playoffs. I'm telling you they don't
Speaker 3: want to hear that no more. They fin change. They
Speaker 3: gonna listen, They're gonna change that narrative.
Speaker 4: I don't got I don't see how people get named
Speaker 4: like man ol O, thie Man, oh lie ass slick.
Speaker 2: How do you think he got the name because he
Speaker 2: lie man? What's up?
Speaker 3: What's up on?
Speaker 4: Name?
Speaker 2: Or thieve? And as Rob? Yeah, how do you think
Speaker 2: you got a name? How you think.
Speaker 1: James Harden get the name of not coming up big
Speaker 1: in the postseason when it matters the most. He has
Speaker 1: been god you talk about the guy has won what three
Speaker 1: four scoring titles of one of the highest scoring average
Speaker 1: got average thirty six and a half for a season
Speaker 1: had like thirty plus games straight where you got thirty
Speaker 1: and they're coming the postseason, man, and be like god, James,
Speaker 1: but every everybody, everybody, and people like, oh, I know
Speaker 1: it is. You understand what it is. Yes, you understand
Speaker 1: these moments and everybody, and you have to be able
Speaker 1: to rise to the occasion in these moments and more
Speaker 1: times than not as great a player. And James Hardener
Speaker 1: is great, but in these moments, more times than not,
Speaker 1: he hasn't been great. See, it doesn't do you any
Speaker 1: good when greatness is required and you can't achieve it,
Speaker 1: just like this, in Game seven's greatness is normally required.
Speaker 1: And that's how the Jordan's and the Kobe's and all
Speaker 1: these great players have made their name Game seven because
Speaker 1: I want to take off. See in the NFL, guys,
Speaker 1: you oh Joe, you we played Joe. Every playoff game
Speaker 1: is a Game seven. There is no tomorrow, there is
Speaker 1: no series. You win the first round, are you taking
Speaker 1: your ass home? You win the divisional rounds? Or you
Speaker 1: take your ass home? You win the championship? Are you
Speaker 1: going home? So there is no Okay, Hey, all they
Speaker 1: did was whole service home. Nah, hell no, if they
Speaker 1: hold serving home, you taking your ass home.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: So, if if I can't be what I've been when
Speaker 4: it's required of me, what good?
Speaker 2: What good is?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Man? Man?
Speaker 4: You done gave me one hundred and seventy five catches
Speaker 4: this year, forty two touchdowns. Now I need a third down.
Speaker 4: I can't get nothing. Yeah, I need a touchdown. I
Speaker 4: can't get nothing. You only great is that when you're required.
Speaker 2: To be great? Can you be great? On the man?
Speaker 2: And that's and And James has been.
Speaker 1: Great in the regular Cason, let's not deny that he's
Speaker 1: He's an MVP scored. You know, he's the first to
Speaker 1: have a sixty point triple double. I don't know what
Speaker 1: James was when he was in Houston. Come on now,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna do that, right, he was special. We
Speaker 1: were having conversations, Joe, who's the best careimeter to scored?
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan or James Harden. That was yeah,
Speaker 1: we was talking about that. I was like, god, dang man,
Speaker 1: and I saw MJ all the MJ career. I saw Kobe,
Speaker 1: But boy, what I'm seeing with James Harden got a
Speaker 1: mighty day.
Speaker 3: And you see, you see what we used to see
Speaker 3: the fact that we even had those conversations. I think
Speaker 3: he could he could mustle that up one time, Joe.
Speaker 3: He can change the narrative. Donovan Mitchell as well. I'm
Speaker 3: sure they hear that they always hit the noise about
Speaker 3: them coming up short in the playoffs. If there's a time,
Speaker 3: is if there's a time to be able to change
Speaker 3: that narrative that everyone talks about, all the basketball heads,
Speaker 3: all the pundits, all the analysts. It's game seven.
Speaker 2: It was today. Hell, it was today, o Joe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah, that it was.
Speaker 2: I mean on your home court.
Speaker 4: This is why we bring James hard in, you know,
Speaker 4: because at least if we could get to the Eastern
Speaker 4: Conference finals. Yes, sir, I think that may even be
Speaker 4: of success, you know what I mean to some degree,
Speaker 4: you know, But to have to fall short in the
Speaker 4: second round when you had it by the rings I'm
Speaker 4: talking about. You did everything you wanted to do. You
Speaker 4: stole home court, You got to close out Game six
Speaker 4: on your home floor. Damn, man, I don't know what
Speaker 4: else you could ask for had it all in your hands.
Speaker 4: I don't know what else you can ask for all
Speaker 4: in your hands, and it was there.
Speaker 2: It was there before.
Speaker 4: Like you know, once Detroit got into like twelve thirteen points,
Speaker 4: I'm like, shit, man, Cleveland ain't coming back from there.
Speaker 2: That was it. They ain't coming back from this. It's
Speaker 2: too tough. But when you get you, when you.
Speaker 1: Getting that kind of production off your bench, you get
Speaker 1: you get Duncan Robinson was four to seven, Paul Reid
Speaker 1: was seven or nine, Charrislvert was three or seven, but
Speaker 1: he's two or five from the three, Marcus Sasser four
Speaker 1: or five, one or two from the three. When you
Speaker 1: getting that kind of production from your bench, you getting
Speaker 1: forty plus bench points and you got it from four players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, players. Yeah. LeVert and Sassa were huge, bro.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about timely shots, great defense, and like you
Speaker 4: said earlier on Jenkins, Jenkins, he was out there like
Speaker 4: a real two guard tonight, making shots, being disruptive, playing
Speaker 4: high energy.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: They understood, bro. They hey, they didn't want their season
Speaker 4: to end. You could tell a boy how they were playing.
Speaker 4: They were the more desperate team for obvious reasons though, Yes,
Speaker 4: because Cleveland knew then we could close these boys out.
Speaker 4: But detruck was like, damn, this could be our last
Speaker 4: time playing.
Speaker 2: We gotta throw anything at them.
Speaker 4: And I just felt even though they were on the road,
Speaker 4: they were the far more desperate team tonight, Fellas and
Speaker 4: you can kind of tell I think again.
Speaker 1: Jalen Durd had fifteen points eleven rebounds, Dannis Jenkins had
Speaker 1: fifteen points, Paul Reid had seventeen points, Duncan Robinson had
Speaker 1: fourteen points, Carl Burke and Macket Sassar had eight to nine, respectively.
Speaker 1: And they go on the road force a game seven.
Speaker 1: That were the best team in the Eastern Conference all
Speaker 1: year long, and they showed their resilience one fifteen to
Speaker 1: ninety four. Now Game seven is Sunday, and I don't
Speaker 1: know the name of the building.
Speaker 2: It's probably gonna be early too. It's probably gonna be
Speaker 2: early the eight.
Speaker 3: What are they playing that Joe.
Speaker 4: Troy Detroit De Troy BA Basketball. Yeah, okay, so it's
Speaker 4: it's five o'clock our time, eight PM is eight.
Speaker 2: Eastern time, Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: James Harden pasted Steph Curry on the NBA's tenth all
Speaker 1: times Playoffs scoring list, moving into tenth place