Speaker 1: No, come on, come on, come on.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check, it finally happened, folks.
Speaker 2: All the things that I predicted, step one of the
Speaker 2: domino has come true. Someone has to pay for the
Speaker 2: sins of those LA Lakers woes. Turns out the first
Speaker 2: head rogue, Frank Vocal. We get into that as well.
Speaker 2: We had to get into that. I didn't want to.
Speaker 2: We had to get into that, and we also break
Speaker 2: down the playoff seedings and the playing games. The first
Speaker 2: two we'll do the rest on Wednesday. Playoffs are here, Brock,
Speaker 2: so drop that motherfucker beach Sunday bag.
Speaker 1: I'm perfect, by god right, my goo.
Speaker 2: Shockingly, a move that nobody could have ever seen coming
Speaker 2: is that Frank Vogel, an NBA champion, the head coach,
Speaker 2: I mean, the whipping post off the LA Lakers has
Speaker 2: been quote unquote relieved. This entire thing has been a mess,
Speaker 2: a just a goddamn mess. I keep trying to run
Speaker 2: away from this and not talk about it, but the
Speaker 2: news keeps coming out like a like water out of
Speaker 2: a fire hose as fast, and it's furious to try
Speaker 2: to help a burning building, and there is no burning
Speaker 2: building in gulfed in flames more than the purple and
Speaker 2: gold LA Lakers, and so an ocean of water needs
Speaker 2: to put out that fire, and so more new is
Speaker 2: just gonna keep flooding out of that hose. Right at
Speaker 2: the buzzer, folks, literally and right when you as you
Speaker 2: hear the buzzer of the LA Lakers beating the Nuggets,
Speaker 2: who were, for all intents and purposes, we're trying to
Speaker 2: lose that game so that they could duck out of
Speaker 2: playing the Dallas Mavericks. I mean literally a eighty second game.
Speaker 2: Austin Reeves moment, just exciting stuff for him, you know,
Speaker 2: Frank Vogel finally gets a win, like literally right then,
Speaker 2: boo sh this is the bomb. This is the sound
Speaker 2: of the woch bomb. Here it is, folks. Quote, Frank
Speaker 2: Vogel has coached his final game for the Lakers, a
Speaker 2: decision that's expected to be shared with him as soon
Speaker 2: as Monday. Sources down ESPN Lakers search expected to be
Speaker 2: lengthy and expansive, with no clear initial front runner, A
Speaker 2: decision expected to be shared with him as as soon
Speaker 2: as Monday. How about as soon as right fucking now,
Speaker 2: excuse me, you just shared that decision with him before
Speaker 2: his players have even wiped the sweat off of their bodies,
Speaker 2: before they could even turn the showers on. Also, then,
Speaker 2: because of said tweet, Frank then has to answer questions
Speaker 2: about his inevitable firing about said wojbam and his response was,
Speaker 2: I haven't been told shit. Let's go to it. Let's
Speaker 2: find it.
Speaker 3: Frank credit. At the end of the game, Adrian Wilsnarowski
Speaker 3: tweeted that the Lakers are going to be firing you
Speaker 3: a decision. They'll let you know tomorrow. Have you communicated
Speaker 3: with the front office at all about your future? And
Speaker 3: I guess what's your reaction to hearing that?
Speaker 4: And I'm gonna enjoy tonight's game, celebrate what these young
Speaker 4: guys did in terms of scratching, scratching claw and again
Speaker 4: back in this game again a w and uh, you
Speaker 4: know we'll deal with tomorrow tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Did that get back to you before you walked in
Speaker 5: this room?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: Did that affect I'm gonna enjoy tonight's game and what
Speaker 4: our guys did tonight and the way we finished out
Speaker 4: this season. I'm proud of our guys tonight.
Speaker 5: Any more questions for coach.
Speaker 2: So many questions for coach is coming, and then of
Speaker 2: course the exit meetings that were scheduled for today. Frank
Speaker 2: Vogel mysteriously was left off that list. Huh huh. Very interesting,
Speaker 2: very very interesting, even though Rob Polinka later on today
Speaker 2: said that they hadn't made the decision to fire Frank
Speaker 2: until just today. So the fact that he was off
Speaker 2: the the exit interview list, that WOES decided to put
Speaker 2: out this bomb, all of that is erroneous. This is
Speaker 2: just a decision we made right now. Charles Barkley, one
Speaker 2: of the men the miss the legends of the Game,
Speaker 2: had this to say about said Wojban. Let's get to it.
Speaker 7: Well, Frank Vogels is getting screwed. You sure is he's
Speaker 7: getting because whoever put these old ass geezers together, they
Speaker 7: deserve the line's share. They they've scaped goat at Frank obviously.
Speaker 2: And that he's talking about Rob Plinker. Charles Berkley doesn't
Speaker 2: know who Rob Plink is. That's okay, but that's him.
Speaker 7: You've scapegoat at Frank obviously and Russ all year. But
Speaker 7: this team, I told you from day one, I said,
Speaker 7: the only chance this team got a chance to be
Speaker 7: in competitive is Anthony Davis, and clearly he's not doing
Speaker 7: what he's supposed to do. But to blame Frank and
Speaker 7: Russ for putting this old ass team together, I mean,
Speaker 7: I told you ain't enough icy Hot, being gay, Azorbine Junior,
Speaker 7: w D.
Speaker 2: Fordy.
Speaker 7: My grandmother used to put W. D. Foid to her
Speaker 7: knees and ankles to loosen them up. They should try
Speaker 7: that for the old ass Geezers.
Speaker 5: Only team in the league with an average age over thirty.
Speaker 7: Hey, and they not over third. They're not thirty one either.
Speaker 7: The thirty six thirty seven, seven over thirty, way over.
Speaker 2: That average age over thirty. Of course GM Rob Polinkavin
Speaker 2: had to speak up about these things today. We all
Speaker 2: wanted to know what he had to say about, I
Speaker 2: don't know, leaking information about firing his head coach, humiliating
Speaker 2: him as the buzzer goes off on Game eighty two,
Speaker 2: revealing plans he has no need to reveal at this
Speaker 2: point in time. I don't know, even though he's had
Speaker 2: Frank Frank's head inside the whole of the guillotine pretty
Speaker 2: much from Game one through eighty two. This is what
Speaker 2: he had to say. Let's get to it.
Speaker 5: Today's not going to be a day of like finger
Speaker 5: pointing or unwinding all the specific reasons. We just felt organizationally,
Speaker 5: at the highest level, it was time for a new voice,
Speaker 5: and those decisions are made at the very.
Speaker 2: Cause why not today is the best day for that.
Speaker 2: I'd like to know who I should blame for this cacophony.
Speaker 5: At the highest level, it was time for a new voice,
Speaker 5: and those decisions are made at the very top level
Speaker 5: in a collaborative way by our basketball operations department and
Speaker 5: ultimately with Jeanie and Tim and the leaders of our organization.
Speaker 5: We just felt like it was time for a new voice.
Speaker 5: And that's not to say anything against the incredible accomplishments
Speaker 5: that Frank Bogels had. He was a great coach here
Speaker 5: and he's going to go on to be a great
Speaker 5: coach somewhere else. We just felt like it was time
Speaker 5: for an and that's why we made the decision today
Speaker 5: that we did.
Speaker 2: Anybody else feel like they just need a shower? After
Speaker 2: listening to that, he also went on to say, quote,
Speaker 2: I have tremendous respect for Frank. You've leaked out multiple
Speaker 2: times that you've wanted to fire him all season that man,
Speaker 2: you have tremendous respect for you have a funny fucking
Speaker 2: way of showing it. He also said this quote about
Speaker 2: the WOJ bomb. Of course, we don't respond to unsourced
Speaker 2: media reports, and in terms of the timing of our decision,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep that internal quote. Hold on, pause, pause, pause.
Speaker 2: You are the source. You are the source. You've been
Speaker 2: on Wog's podcast four times this year. We know, Rob,
Speaker 2: it was you. We know it was you. I personally
Speaker 2: know for a fact it was you. He also then
Speaker 2: goes on to say he is the one responsible for
Speaker 2: building the Lakers roster, so if it doesn't go well,
Speaker 2: we can blame him. Pause, we should blame you. Now,
Speaker 2: Then the roster decisions ultimately rest on my shoulders, says
Speaker 2: he will take ultimate accountability for how the roster is both,
Speaker 2: so that means you are the one that should be fired.
Speaker 2: Then that means that you are the original sin of
Speaker 2: this whole thing. Anthony Irwin from Screen and Roll, a
Speaker 2: Lakers beat podcast network blog Something says this this was
Speaker 2: the least cool slash calm slash collective Rob has looked
Speaker 2: in his position his entire time. Also, he's positioned himself
Speaker 2: as the person to hold accountable if things don't go
Speaker 2: well from now on. Congratulations, Rob Polinka, you are the
Speaker 2: meat shield now, brother snake snake, I can't fucking stand him.
Speaker 2: If for those who don't remember, this all kind of
Speaker 2: goes back my hatred and also confusion because he was
Speaker 2: with Kobe a long time, and I'm like, how did
Speaker 2: Kobe stand being around this motherfucking guy. He didn't need him,
Speaker 2: He's Kobe Bryant. What does he need to snake around
Speaker 2: him for? Anyway? Magic Johnson the Magic Remember, Magic was
Speaker 2: in charge pretty much de facto in charge while Rob
Speaker 2: had the title. Rob was waiting in the ways for
Speaker 2: Magic to step aside. They were basically the dual headed
Speaker 2: like people in charge. So Magic steps down. Nobody knows why.
Speaker 2: Steven A asks him why if you don't remember this interview,
Speaker 2: let me refresh your memory. Let's let's just get to that,
Speaker 2: because it's you're wondering why this narrative continues to persist
Speaker 2: about him being a snake at.
Speaker 6: Start For me to take the job as well, she said,
Speaker 6: you have the power to make the decisions. So I said, okay,
Speaker 6: let's go do it. She said, I'm gonna put you
Speaker 6: with Rob Polinka because I didn't know Rob, so she
Speaker 6: put us both together. First year in it was tremendous.
Speaker 6: I wanted the strategies to be, let's get up under
Speaker 6: the salary cap, because we were way over the salary cap.
Speaker 6: And I said, let's trade some people, get some draft picks.
Speaker 7: So on and on.
Speaker 6: D'Angelo, you know, great guard, but had a problem when
Speaker 6: Shaggy p and the whole nick the whole thing went down,
Speaker 6: so I knew I had to get him out. We
Speaker 6: made some moves. That draft pick turned into Kyle Kusma,
Speaker 6: so we felt good about making that deal. Drafted Linzo
Speaker 6: ball number two. I know you're still against it, but yes,
Speaker 6: we can debate that because I think he's outstanding all
Speaker 6: around point guard. Then Josh Hart, so things got going
Speaker 6: in the right direction. And then I start hearing, you know, Magic,
Speaker 6: you're not working hard enough. Magic's not in the office.
Speaker 6: So people around the Laker office was telling me Rob
Speaker 6: was saying things, and Rob Polenka, Rob Polinka, and I
Speaker 6: didn't like those things being said behind my back, that
Speaker 6: I wasn't in the office enough, and so on and on.
Speaker 6: So I started getting calls from my friends outside of
Speaker 6: basketball saying those things now were said to them outside
Speaker 6: of basketball now, not just in the Laker office anymore.
Speaker 6: Now it's in the media and so on. These are
Speaker 6: people you trust exactly, and people got to remember something.
Speaker 6: Being in this business for over forty years, I got allies,
Speaker 6: I got friends everywhere, right and so, and then I
Speaker 6: had to monitor the brothers because Joey and Jesse wanted
Speaker 6: more involvement, wanted more power, the Bus brother the Bus brothers,
Speaker 6: and so I said, I didn't mind doing that because
Speaker 6: they're good guys. But also I sat them down and said, hey, listen,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna really help you guys mature and get better.
Speaker 6: And so I took that role as well, because they
Speaker 6: felt they should have been, you know, in powerful positions,
Speaker 6: whether that's the general manager or the president, right. And
Speaker 6: so then when those things start happening too much, stephen A,
Speaker 6: the straw that broke the camel's back was I wanted
Speaker 6: to fire Luke Balton, and we had max three meetings.
Speaker 6: I showed her the things he did well and the
Speaker 6: things he didn't do well, and I said, listen, we
Speaker 6: got to get a better coach. I like him. He's great.
Speaker 6: Former laker, the whole thing. So the first day, well,
Speaker 6: let's think about second day. Okay, you can fire him.
Speaker 6: Then the next day, no, we should try to work
Speaker 6: it out. So when we went back and forth like that,
Speaker 6: and then she bought Tim Harrison to the meeting. You
Speaker 6: know some of the guys and Tim, you know, wanted me.
Speaker 6: He wanted to keep him because he was friends with
Speaker 6: Luke's a great guy, great guy. And so when I
Speaker 6: looked up and said, wait a minute, I only really
Speaker 6: answer to Genie Buss. Now, I got Tim involved, and
Speaker 6: I said it's time for me to go. I got
Speaker 6: things happening that was being said behind my back. I
Speaker 6: don't have the power that I thought I had to
Speaker 6: make the decisions. And I told them when it's not
Speaker 6: fun for me, when I think that I don't have
Speaker 6: the decision making power that I no.
Speaker 2: Just Rob just the only Rob is the only snake.
Speaker 2: Good job, snake. It was twenty nineteen. We might have
Speaker 2: forgotten this. But then you continue, what do they do?
Speaker 2: What do snakes do? They continue to slither in the
Speaker 2: grass behind the scenes and then snipe with their venomous,
Speaker 2: fucking fangs, and then all of a sudden you're poisoned
Speaker 2: and dead off to the side, dead body warm. That's
Speaker 2: where Frank Vogel is right now, while Rob Polinka is
Speaker 2: still wriggling around in the tall grass, pretending to be
Speaker 2: innocent amongst all of the fucking drama. I cannot wait
Speaker 2: until they fire his ass. I cannot wait for more
Speaker 2: dysfunctional reporting to come out, because you know it will.
Speaker 2: I mean, by the way, there's another side story. I
Speaker 2: don't even need to mention it because it's so ridiculous
Speaker 2: and not relevant to this story, which is like Lakers
Speaker 2: in the middle of the season. We're texting on the
Speaker 2: bench in the middle of games in their uniforms. Let
Speaker 2: me just back it up, just set the stage. Imagine
Speaker 2: Lakers in their uniforms during the game, sweats still on
Speaker 2: their face, waiting to be subbed back in. Are just texting,
Speaker 2: just fucking on TikTok and Instagram. What delicious Wednesday? Because
Speaker 2: we're not gonna get into all this now because we
Speaker 2: have playoffs and everything too, but we will. There's now
Speaker 2: new surface reports about who is going to take the
Speaker 2: Lakers job or who's in the running. One is Doc Rivers,
Speaker 2: two is Nick Nurse, Three is Quinn Snyder. We will
Speaker 2: break all of that down Wednesday, because this is just
Speaker 2: Frank's body is still warm. He literally the reports of
Speaker 2: who would take his job before he was actually told
Speaker 2: he was fired. Just fucking disgusting things that you cannot
Speaker 2: you cannot relish because you just hate to see them.
Speaker 2: You just hate from the hood. So these dreams not
Speaker 2: far well from the dope voices the rock side when
Speaker 2: they can't cause without seeing cause, I guess they want
Speaker 2: to all be boss. I know it. And I heard
Speaker 2: them saying nothing, Kanye, I do, I really do. I
Speaker 2: missed the graduations, Kanye, I do. A regular season has ended.
Speaker 2: We finally know who's playing who, sort of, we finally
Speaker 2: know who's playing who three through six, East and West,
Speaker 2: number one in Heat and number uh and Sons. Not wait,
Speaker 2: that doesn't make sense. Number number one Heat and Sons
Speaker 2: East and West number two Celtics and Grizzlies will have
Speaker 2: to wait the results of the playing tournament. But let's
Speaker 2: get into it and then preview Tuesday's playing game. Number
Speaker 2: three Bucks versus Bulls. I mean, this could not be
Speaker 2: the better situation for the Bucks at best, gentleman sweep,
Speaker 2: just a delicious matchup the bulls have I'm gonna do
Speaker 2: this whole thing like how the Bulls can win. Don't
Speaker 2: even listen to it because it's just not even relevant
Speaker 2: to you. Honestly, if you have time, if you have
Speaker 2: like a short amount of time to listen to this pocket,
Speaker 2: just don't listen to that part. The easiest money that
Speaker 2: you can make is a sweep at plus three hundred
Speaker 2: four to oh that's a betting angle plus three hundred
Speaker 2: three to one for the Bulls to be sweeped. The
Speaker 2: Bulls have no ability to defend Giannis and if they
Speaker 2: triple teamy on it's now Brook Lopez is back and
Speaker 2: he will eat them in the post, eat him in
Speaker 2: the corner threes. It's going to be a nightmare for
Speaker 2: the bulls. Patrick Williams not good enough. And honestly, Voussovich,
Speaker 2: we already know Lusovich is going to be absolutely burnt
Speaker 2: barbecue chicken. Drew and are going to be a very
Speaker 2: fun matchup. But do not think DeRozan is going to
Speaker 2: be able to go off for forty a game against
Speaker 2: playoff Drew, Holiday, Middleton on Lavigne, Conaton on Caruso. It
Speaker 2: is going to be absolutely disgusting. I think it's going
Speaker 2: to be a blowout. The Bulls could have competed, I
Speaker 2: think against Boston without time Lord, because he's he's the
Speaker 2: real interior threat. That sort of makes things difficult for
Speaker 2: a team as bad in the paint as the Bulls are.
Speaker 2: But this is a quick death. This is literally grab
Speaker 2: you by behind you and slitch your throat like that's it.
Speaker 2: I would be surprised, very surprised if the Bulls got
Speaker 2: one game. How do the Bucks win? Just give the
Speaker 2: ball to Honest a million times. Let him go to
Speaker 2: the rim, let him go to the line. Just give
Speaker 2: it to the ball, give it every time, every single time,
Speaker 2: and then let Giannis pass out of the double or
Speaker 2: triple team. There's no answer, no answer. Here's how I
Speaker 2: think the Bulls can win. They only stand a chance
Speaker 2: if DeRozan and Levine literally become gods. They both need
Speaker 2: forty a night. Alex Cruser needs twenty a night. We
Speaker 2: need Kobe White to be on an absolute heat check
Speaker 2: off the bench. We need Patrick Williams to be like
Speaker 2: Charles Oakley. We need Vouch to be in the locker room.
Speaker 2: We need I don't know, fam, It's not gonna be easy.
Speaker 2: Let's just say it, Box and four Bucks and four
Speaker 2: And I hate to say, because you know I've been
Speaker 2: an absolute hater of the Bucks, but this is going
Speaker 2: to be light work, all right, four number four seventy
Speaker 2: six ers versus the five Raptors. Yes, Yes, thank the Lord,
Speaker 2: as Charlie Brown would say, Christ the Lord is born.
Speaker 2: This is it for me, folks, This is it my
Speaker 2: favorite matchup of the Eastern Conference first round. I love
Speaker 2: it just so much. This is a situation where we
Speaker 2: have an entire team of men that are long, like
Speaker 2: six seven, with like seven feet wing spans, where they
Speaker 2: could literally just build a crazy wall and they're just you,
Speaker 2: and then they could all slash to the rim, Pascal,
Speaker 2: Gary Trent, Scottie Barnes, all of them. And I wonder
Speaker 2: who's gonna stop them? How because the number one perimeter
Speaker 2: defender isn't vaccinated. So most of the like half of
Speaker 2: those games, three out of the seven of those games,
Speaker 2: he's not able to play. He's not able to travel
Speaker 2: with the team at all. How Like Danny Green. I've
Speaker 2: seen a lot of footage of Danny Green getting cooked
Speaker 2: by Scottie Barnes. Cork Mos. I mean, he's gonna be
Speaker 2: backpedaling and falling on his feet like he's it's bad nang,
Speaker 2: he's a bias. It's not a good matchup for the Sixers.
Speaker 2: This might be the single worst matchup for the Sixers
Speaker 2: that they could possibly have, even even Boston with time Lord,
Speaker 2: I think is probably a better matchup because they don't
Speaker 2: have to worry about Matisse Steibel not being able to
Speaker 2: play games. This is nightmare fuel the Raptors. Let's go
Speaker 2: into it. The Raptors have the seventh best defensive rating
Speaker 2: of the season, and that was including a time where
Speaker 2: they were twentieth, so that he's they're top five in
Speaker 2: the last half of the year defensively, they're number two
Speaker 2: in the NBA and steals bad news. Raptors have the
Speaker 2: sixth best defensive efficiency on the road this year. They've
Speaker 2: played seventy two road games last year, half in Tampa Bay,
Speaker 2: so they know what's up. They're very comfortable playing in
Speaker 2: other people's stadiums. They're very comfortable being booed at home,
Speaker 2: and then a lot of games this year at home
Speaker 2: they had no fans. They are built for this. The
Speaker 2: Raptors three and one against the Sixers this year, Philly's
Speaker 2: only win was when Scottie Barnes, Fred Van Fleet, Ogi
Speaker 2: Ananobi and Precious that chew you didn't play and it
Speaker 2: was a five point game. So here's how the Raptors
Speaker 2: win this game. One number one. We've said this before.
Speaker 2: Disrupt Joe Elmbid emotionally, get in his head, make him
Speaker 2: play with his mind out of it. Make him play
Speaker 2: like like turn him into like Danny from Iron Fist,
Speaker 2: where he literally all he does is react from his emotions,
Speaker 2: right like Nick Nurse knows how to do that. You
Speaker 2: needle him, You say mean things to him. Hey, we
Speaker 2: made you cry last time. Remember that Kawhi shot. You
Speaker 2: just literally just get into his dome piece. You find
Speaker 2: out a way to make them frustrated, frustrated early, and
Speaker 2: then it'll just be a gift that keeps on given
Speaker 2: through the course of that series. Make James Harden be athletic,
Speaker 2: Make James Harden be MVP. James Harden. We'll see, we'll
Speaker 2: see if you can do it. Make Tobias Harris and
Speaker 2: Nang and Danny Green and Cork Moss all shoot threes.
Speaker 2: They're not gonna be able to do it. How who's
Speaker 2: stepping up who are you gonna get it? Twenty seven
Speaker 2: from nang on a night tonight basis, No, you are
Speaker 2: not raptors. Like I've said, bad, bad matchup. Here's how
Speaker 2: the Sixers win. You're gonna need to steal a game
Speaker 2: in Toronto somehow, and Bead's gonna need to score sixty.
Speaker 2: He's gonna need to do it on his own. Tobias
Speaker 2: can't dribble the ball at all. He has to shoot
Speaker 2: every single catch and shoot shot he gets. Like, do
Speaker 2: not step in like do when you get the ball
Speaker 2: in the corner of the three point line. Do not
Speaker 2: take two dribbles and shoot a mid range that you
Speaker 2: will ultimately miss off the back of the rim, Like,
Speaker 2: do not do that. Like Danny Green is gonna need
Speaker 2: to be vintage Toronto Danny Green. Cork Moss needs to
Speaker 2: be twenty twenty cork Moss, not twenty twenty two cork Moss.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's possible. They need a backup center,
Speaker 2: and they need another three point shooter like Seth Curry
Speaker 2: and Andre Drummond. Like, honestly, I think this team is
Speaker 2: better against Toronto if they didn't trade Ben Simmons and
Speaker 2: he was still on the roster, and he still had
Speaker 2: Seth and Andre, Like, I really really do prediction for
Speaker 2: two Raptors, which would be a massive, massive upset. All right,
Speaker 2: Number three Western Conference, we go Warriors versus Nuggets. Man,
Speaker 2: this is a bad situation for the Warriors. You know,
Speaker 2: it's bad when a team tanks to play you. The
Speaker 2: Nuggets lost on purpose to the Lakers so that they
Speaker 2: could play the Warriors. They booted a game so they
Speaker 2: could play the Warriors. They are not afraid of you,
Speaker 2: they are itching to play you. These Warriors are one
Speaker 2: and three against Denver this year. Draymond did not play
Speaker 2: in any of those games. That is meaningful. But also
Speaker 2: Steph probably won't play in Game one or two in
Speaker 2: Golden State. So if you drop one or two games
Speaker 2: against Denver without Steph, which it presumably would be very
Speaker 2: difficult for them to win without Steph Curry, who is
Speaker 2: their main scorer, who is their main creator, who is
Speaker 2: their main who's the He's the hub of the wheel.
Speaker 2: So obviously it's gonna be tough even if he plays,
Speaker 2: He's gonna be coming in cold. Game three. Denver is
Speaker 2: a sleeper team. I don't know how Draymond guards Jokic.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a tough match for him. Andre Iguidala
Speaker 2: is gonna need to be vintage MVP of the Finals.
Speaker 2: I don't know how that happens. Jordan Poole is gonna
Speaker 2: need to be beginning of the season. Jordan Poole and
Speaker 2: Clay's gonna need to be Game five, Game six, Clay.
Speaker 2: All seven games, we're gonna need to see just miraculous
Speaker 2: Gary Payton to the second. We're gonna need to see
Speaker 2: him come out and ball. Regardless, this is gonna be
Speaker 2: a hell of a series. Here's the how the Warriors win,
Speaker 2: more so, stifling defense. Be who you were the first
Speaker 2: twenty games, great two man game with Steph and Dre.
Speaker 2: Whenever you get Steph back, Clay has to be himself.
Speaker 2: Everything needs to be team game. Nuggets win by copying
Speaker 2: the Memphis Grizzlies. Whenever you see Steph come back, blitz him,
Speaker 2: make him play on that ankle, that ankle, make him
Speaker 2: pass out of that blitz and force Andrew Wiggins to
Speaker 2: be playoff Andrew Wiggins, which we know who he is.
Speaker 2: It is a bad matchup seven game series. I think
Speaker 2: the Nuggets can win, but I can't really give a
Speaker 2: prediction prediction because I have no idea what's happening with
Speaker 2: Steph Mavericks versus the Jazz four versus five, Luca calf Strain,
Speaker 2: How serious is it? I don't actually know. He is
Speaker 2: a robot, so I feel like he will be back.
Speaker 2: It's a seriously different series if he's not, if he's healthy,
Speaker 2: If this is just a minor tweak, it's night Night
Speaker 2: sleep mask for the Jazz, Like this is just I
Speaker 2: say it once, I'll say it again. If I say
Speaker 2: it once, I say it a million times. The Jazz
Speaker 2: are frauds like they are. This is headed for an explosion,
Speaker 2: a tear down, and a rebirth because Donovan's gone. Donova
Speaker 2: doesn't even want to pass to Rudy Gobert ever, like
Speaker 2: Donova doesn't like it in Utah because there's too many
Speaker 2: racist white people. I mean, does it. Dwayne Wade's not
Speaker 2: gonna cover that up, like Dwayne Wade ownership and Danny
Speaker 2: Ainge isn't gonna change a damn thing. Like the fans
Speaker 2: of the fans. The city is the city. He wants
Speaker 2: to go back to New York. They are not built
Speaker 2: for a seven game series against the Mavericks. The Mavericks
Speaker 2: now have Spencer Dinwiddie and Jalen Brenson, who they already had.
Speaker 2: Both those guys are averaging like seventeen points. Luca's averaging thirty.
Speaker 2: I mean, you've got multiple guys at different positions who
Speaker 2: can mess you up. Dwight Powell is legit. It's just
Speaker 2: it's a gauntlet. It's not good. And on top of that,
Speaker 2: like I said, Donovan Mitchell, great player, he can disappear
Speaker 2: for stretches, go ice cold. Mike Conley never know when
Speaker 2: he's gonna even be healthy or if he's gonna be productive.
Speaker 2: Rudy Gobert great defender, but this team on the perimeter
Speaker 2: can't defend a goddamn person. So it's going to be
Speaker 2: very difficult for them to stop Reggie Book on the three. Like,
Speaker 2: They've got a bunch of guys who can knock down
Speaker 2: shots in the perimeter, and I don't know how they're
Speaker 2: gonna stop it. This is just just bad, bad matchup
Speaker 2: for the Jazz and for the MAVs. They're a dangerous team.
Speaker 2: If Luca stays healthy, I think that they could go
Speaker 2: maybe another round or two. I don't think there are five.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's hard to say. They've won seventy
Speaker 2: five percent of their games for three straight months. They
Speaker 2: play ten players a game. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 2: know how they beat Memphis, but but I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Here's how the Jazz can win, which
Speaker 2: they will not win. Luca doesn't play, Luca doesn't play,
Speaker 2: Spider goes off. That's it. Bogdanovich shoots like seven for
Speaker 2: nine from three. I don't know, don't I don't know.
Speaker 2: Mike Conley shoots ten threes. Rudy Gobert gets the ball
Speaker 2: because Donovan Mitchell's not in. I don't know. I honestly
Speaker 2: don't think it's possible. Prediction MAVs winning five playing real
Speaker 2: quick nets versus the Calves. The Calves are extremely hoppled.
Speaker 2: Evan Mobley was hurt late. Cleveland's won and four. In
Speaker 2: Mobley's absence, They're three and seven in their last ten,
Speaker 2: eight and sixteen since February twelfth. Jared Allen's hurt, Evan
Speaker 2: Mobley's hurt obviously, Rubio's out for the year, Collin Sexton's
Speaker 2: out for the year. Darius Garland has been in and
Speaker 2: out of the lineup. Kevin Love is the best thing
Speaker 2: that they have right now. Like that's just saying a lot.
Speaker 2: That is saying a lot. He's like six man of
Speaker 2: the Year. I think he had thirty five in their
Speaker 2: last game. Like it's just one of those things. Only
Speaker 2: one could wonder who this team would be if everyone
Speaker 2: was healthy. They're probably going to lose this play in
Speaker 2: game by ten in Brooklyn. Nice story. Hope they get
Speaker 2: everybody healthy back. Obviously Rubio's gone now, but my lord,
Speaker 2: this is not gonna be an easy, easy game at all.
Speaker 2: I give it to the Nets. Nets end up playing
Speaker 2: Boston and oh boy, will that be fun. Timberwolves versus
Speaker 2: the Clippers. That game is tomorrow Tuesday, Timberwolves versus Clippers.
Speaker 2: Pat Bev revenge game, except for no Pat Bev because
Speaker 2: Pat Bev was ejected and suspended for a game in
Speaker 2: a meaningless game against Chicago for doing what Pat Bev things.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. Clips are finally healthy sort of.
Speaker 2: Paul George and Norm Powell will play. All their guys
Speaker 2: who have been bench players have been playing legit starter
Speaker 2: minutes for the entire year because Paul George Kawhi and
Speaker 2: Norm Powell have been out, so that's interesting. Minnesota is
Speaker 2: more athletic, younger, deeper, but do not count LA out.
Speaker 2: In fact, I kind of give the edge to LA
Speaker 2: because of tylu In his ability to coach through adversity.
Speaker 2: Chris Finch no shade to him at all. But this
Speaker 2: is a very young team that's never been there before.
Speaker 2: Outside of D'Angelo Russell, they've never been to the playoffs.
Speaker 2: And I guess Pat Beverly, but he's not playing. Prediction
Speaker 2: Lake Clippers take the seventh seed only to get bounced
Speaker 2: from the Grizz in the first round unless Kawhi somehow
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