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Speaker 2: later on throughout the week. So, as I said in
Speaker 2: the Sunday show, I was expecting more or less today's
Speaker 2: game to be ugly. This is it's really hard to
Speaker 2: beat a good team twice in a row, especially after
Speaker 2: you humiliate them. For the losing team, their pride is
Speaker 2: on the line. For the winning team, there's a natural
Speaker 2: sense of relaxation that comes in. And honestly, it was
Speaker 2: ugly for different reasons than I was expecting. I expected
Speaker 2: the Pelicans to kind of keep this game close throughout.
Speaker 2: The way it looked there in that first quarter was
Speaker 2: more or less kind of what I was expecting the
Speaker 2: game to look like. Pelicans get an early lead, Lakers
Speaker 2: kind of linger around and out execute them late. To
Speaker 2: be honest, I was generally impressed by the Lakers in
Speaker 2: this game in the way that they kind of controlled
Speaker 2: and dominated things throughout, and really they it was more
Speaker 2: or less just like what happened in the Sunday game.
Speaker 2: They went up big and then they relaxed, and the
Speaker 2: Pelicans brought a bunch of ball pressure and speed onto
Speaker 2: the table and were able to kind of make things
Speaker 2: a little more competitive. Just in this particular game, the
Speaker 2: Pelicans made it super competitive and actually tied the game
Speaker 2: I think at one or two points. So it was ugly,
Speaker 2: but in a different way than I was expecting. The
Speaker 2: early success for New Orleans. Couple specific things. Bringing the force.
Speaker 2: That's the big pendulum that swings an NBA Playoffs series
Speaker 2: is force. Usually the team that wins game one, you
Speaker 2: go into game two, you can expect the team that
Speaker 2: lost game one to bring more force, and typically the
Speaker 2: team that one game wont to bring less force.
Speaker 1: What is force?
Speaker 2: It's just doing everything harder, cutting, harder, screening, harder running
Speaker 2: and transition both ways, harder, driving, harder every element of
Speaker 2: the game. Usually the that's playing with more force is
Speaker 2: bringing that effort in intensity to a higher level. That's
Speaker 2: that pendulum that swings, and that pendulum swung a big
Speaker 2: way in the Pelicans direction. Well, a couple of schematic things.
Speaker 2: They were using screens on Zion more often so a
Speaker 2: lot of what Zion does offensively is they just set
Speaker 2: them up in that slot there on the right wing,
Speaker 2: and they space the floor and he'll just go straight Iso.
Speaker 2: That didn't work against Lebron because Lebron has Zion's number
Speaker 2: in a lot of ways, and I thought Lebron did
Speaker 2: a really good job on Zion again in this game,
Speaker 2: but they use screens to get Zion onto other players,
Speaker 2: whether it was Ruey or Anthony Davis. He was going
Speaker 2: through Anthony Davis like he was tissue paper. And then
Speaker 2: also in the stretches where Lebron was off the floor,
Speaker 2: so like late first quarter, late third quarter, Zion was
Speaker 2: super aggressive to try to take advantage of those particular stretches,
Speaker 2: which was a big part of how the Pelicans dominated
Speaker 2: those stretches of the game. Also in that fourth quarter run,
Speaker 2: another big part of what helped the Pelicans kind of
Speaker 2: get back into it is the Lakers were chasing Jose
Speaker 2: Alvarado over the top of ball screens, which they probably
Speaker 2: shouldn't have been doing. Jose Alvarado shot thirty three percent
Speaker 2: on pull up jump shots this year, and he wasn't
Speaker 2: shooting particularly well in this game. I would have ducked
Speaker 2: underneath picks that would have shut that action off. Instead,
Speaker 2: D'Angelo Russell was chasing Jose Alvarado over the top. Jose
Speaker 2: Alvarado was getting into the lane, engaging Anthony Davis and
Speaker 2: dropping the ball off for Larry Nance, who was getting
Speaker 2: dunks and layups right at the rim. So that was
Speaker 2: kind of a schematic mistake from Darvin Ham that I
Speaker 2: thought kind of led to a big part of New
Speaker 2: Orleans late success. But again late in the game, and
Speaker 2: obviously Zion getting injured played a certain factor here, but
Speaker 2: they did get a couple of buckets after that. But
Speaker 2: the Lakers just kind of settled down offensively, got a
Speaker 2: few great looks. One of the consistent problems for the
Speaker 2: Pelicans in this matchup is they can't play Yonas Valenciunas.
Speaker 2: So when Yonas Valentunas comes out, Anthony Davis just has
Speaker 2: a huge size advantage underneath the basket. I think he
Speaker 2: had six or seven offensive rebounds in this game, and
Speaker 2: on the one of the key possessions late, Anthony Davis
Speaker 2: got an offensive rebound and got to the foul line
Speaker 2: and knocked down a couple of big free throws. But
Speaker 2: bottom line, late in the game, it's Lebron James against
Speaker 2: Herb Jones.
Speaker 1: He gets a bucket.
Speaker 2: It's the I don't remember exactly what the action was
Speaker 2: but the Lakers drew a double team, worked it around.
Speaker 2: I think it was a Lebron drew a double team.
Speaker 2: Lakers worked it around, and it ended up with a
Speaker 2: wide open catch and shoot three for D'Angelo Russell. Like
Speaker 2: the Lakers were just gonna get better shots down the stretch.
Speaker 2: That was more or less what I expected from the
Speaker 2: ugliness of the game, is it would be ugly, then
Speaker 2: the Lakers would get better shots down the stretch and win.
Speaker 2: People don't realize this, but the Lakers were the best
Speaker 2: clutch team in basketball this year. They went twenty four
Speaker 2: to nine in games that were within five minutes in
Speaker 2: and within five points late in the game, and so
Speaker 2: they've been pretty consistently great at doing that, just getting
Speaker 2: a couple of key stops and getting a couple of
Speaker 2: key buckets and getting out there, getting out of there
Speaker 2: with the win. So the Lakers get it done again.
Speaker 2: It was ugly, but like you know, a couple of
Speaker 2: big swing factors there. I thought Anthony Davis had one
Speaker 2: of those games where he just kind of doesn't have it.
Speaker 2: I don't know whether it was the backspasms or if
Speaker 2: it's just one of those things that ad can do sometimes,
Speaker 2: but he just was generally kind of floating through the
Speaker 2: game on both ends of the floor for three quarters.
Speaker 2: Did make a couple of big plays in the fourth.
Speaker 2: He had a big offensive rebound put back, then he
Speaker 2: got a block on CJ. McCollum at the rim obviously
Speaker 2: drew the foul on the offensive glass late. So made
Speaker 2: some big plays, but AD was pretty disengaged. And between
Speaker 2: AD being pretty bad and Zion being pretty awesome, that
Speaker 2: was enough to give the Pelicans a chance to win,
Speaker 2: but alas it was not enough. I want to shout
Speaker 2: out Lebron James because I thought this was a classic
Speaker 2: example of dominating a game without making shots. He was
Speaker 2: six foot twenty, tricked off a bunch of layups, barely
Speaker 2: made any jump shots aside from the big one that
Speaker 2: he hit over Herb Jones late. It was a rough
Speaker 2: shot making game for him, and yet I thought he
Speaker 2: completely dominated every facet of the game. First of all,
Speaker 2: the defense on Zion. When he was on Zion, they
Speaker 2: had him under control. It was generally when he got
Speaker 2: off of Zion, whether his transition cross matches transition situation
Speaker 2: where he was helping somewhere else off the ball or
Speaker 2: when they were screening him to get Anthony Davis into
Speaker 2: the action. That Zion had some impact, but Lebron blew
Speaker 2: up a bunch of plays in the passing lanes. He
Speaker 2: was a great rebounder in this particular game, got a
Speaker 2: bunch of key, contested defensive rebounds, and then on the
Speaker 2: offensive end of the floor, generated just a ton of
Speaker 2: high quality shots and then a big one I thought
Speaker 2: was just his timely play in the key stretches of
Speaker 2: the game. The Pelicans blow it open to end the third,
Speaker 2: then Lebron comes in in the second quarter just immediately
Speaker 2: takes control of the game, gets it back to the
Speaker 2: Lakers being in front. That actually led to the Lakers
Speaker 2: kind of dominating that second quarter. Pelicans go on a
Speaker 2: big run in the third quarter. Lebron comes in the
Speaker 2: early fourth and immediately kind of helps reassert control when
Speaker 2: he gets in there. I thought he was great in
Speaker 2: the key stretches, great in the key areas of the
Speaker 2: game despite going six for twenty. So shout out to Lebron.
Speaker 1: Lakers.
Speaker 2: Nuggets again, like I said after the Sunday game, different
Speaker 2: teams this year. This time around, the Nuggets are actually
Speaker 2: a little better than they were last year, and I
Speaker 2: think the Lakers are a little better than they were
Speaker 2: last year. The Nuggets have some of that defending champion
Speaker 2: type of swagger. Peyton Watson I think has brought a
Speaker 2: real element to their bench defense. I think everybody in
Speaker 2: the starting lineup is a little better than they were
Speaker 2: last year. But on the Lakers front, Lebron, this is
Speaker 2: not Lebron with the bad foot. This is Lebron who's
Speaker 2: been playing. I tweeted this out during the game, but
Speaker 2: Lebron post All Star Break has been a top three
Speaker 2: player in the league.
Speaker 1: Literally, he's been.
Speaker 2: It's been basically Jokic, Luca and Lebron that have been
Speaker 2: the best players in the league post All Star Break,
Speaker 2: and that's like a fourth of the season. He's been
Speaker 2: the only guy in the league post All Star Break
Speaker 2: to average at least twenty seven points per game on
Speaker 2: at least fifty percent from the field and at least
Speaker 2: forty percent from three. They've been dominant when he's on
Speaker 2: the floor and terrible when he's off the floor. Lebron's
Speaker 2: been at a higher level. Anthony Davis is more or
Speaker 2: less the same player he was last year, although he's
Speaker 2: been a little better handling post up double teams. Obviously,
Speaker 2: the Lakers offense is more polished with their five out set.
Speaker 2: The Nuggets don't do as much switching as the Pelicans do,
Speaker 2: and as I did it, as I talked about in
Speaker 2: my contender's list, the Lakers can be a little susceptible
Speaker 2: to switching defenses. That was part of what made them
Speaker 2: go so stagnant. Now the Lakers are capable of beating
Speaker 2: switching with Lebron and ad in size, but specifically with
Speaker 2: the Pelicans, that was a big part of how they
Speaker 2: kind of let go of the rope. Lakers went up eighteen,
Speaker 2: then that Nance line up at center, they started switching everything.
Speaker 2: The Lakers got stagnant, they started to take some bad shots.
Speaker 2: That's how you play the Lakers into their worst tendencies.
Speaker 2: And so I actually expect the Lakers to score more
Speaker 2: effectively against the Nuggets in this series than they did
Speaker 2: last year. But all of that said, Denver is the
Speaker 2: better team. I'm going to start my prep on that
Speaker 2: series tomorrow. We'll probably have break that breakdown with some
Speaker 2: film up later in the day tomorrow. But the last
Speaker 2: thing is for the Lakers to have any chance to
Speaker 2: beat the Nuggets. They need Anthony Davis to be great.
Speaker 2: He got his ass kicked by Nikola Jokic last year
Speaker 2: pretty bad too, to the point we're in Game four.
Speaker 2: In particular, when again when their backs were against the ball,
Speaker 2: I thought Ad looked a little bit disengaged and a
Speaker 2: little bit like he let go of the rope. Like so,
Speaker 2: Jokic kicked his butt so bad that Ad kind of
Speaker 2: let go of the rope a little bit last year.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be the factor that needs to swing back
Speaker 2: the other direction. Anthony Davis. He doesn't need to outplay Jokic,
Speaker 2: but he needs to get up to that level. And
Speaker 2: then Lebron James does need to outplay Jamal Murray. That's
Speaker 2: their only chance. WAS kind of disappointed in Ad tonight
Speaker 2: for such a big game for him to be as
Speaker 2: ineffective as he was, But he can make up for
Speaker 2: it by going in there on Saturday or Sunday, whenever
Speaker 2: the game is and getting a big win in Denver.
Speaker 2: I think the Lakers need to win Game one to
Speaker 2: win that series, just to kind of maintain their confidence
Speaker 2: and belief and their ability to win. But I have
Speaker 2: big expectations for Ad in this one, He's got to
Speaker 2: show me something. It's something that I think that he
Speaker 2: I think he has an opportunity here to kind of
Speaker 2: reverse some of the narrative that surrounds him after that series,
Speaker 2: because we went away from that series like, oh, Joki
Speaker 2: is just way way, way, way way better than ad.
Speaker 2: This isn't even much of a matchup. Adi's got to
Speaker 2: make that a conversation for the Lakers to have a
Speaker 2: chance to win this series. And then, lastly before we
Speaker 2: get out of here, the Pelicans. I again, I know
Speaker 2: it's disappointing to lose two straight games like this to
Speaker 2: end the season, but I think that this actually is
Speaker 2: shaping up pretty nicely for them. They match up extremely
Speaker 2: well with Sacramento. They're five to zero this year. They
Speaker 2: match up extremely well with Golden State, they're two to
Speaker 2: one against them this year, and they've won two straight
Speaker 2: somewhat convincingly. You're gonna have that game at home, beat
Speaker 2: those teams whoever comes out of that right. The Oklahoma
Speaker 2: City Thunder are a team that initiated offense with a
Speaker 2: couple of guys that are six six or shorter from
Speaker 2: the perimeter that plays directly into the Pelicans' strength of
Speaker 2: their roster, which is perimeter defenders, and the Pelicans do
Speaker 2: not have the interior size or excuse me, the Thunder
Speaker 2: do not have the interior size to punish the weak
Speaker 2: Pelicans frontline defensively. I will pick Oklahoma City to win
Speaker 2: that series, but the Pelicans have a much better chance
Speaker 2: of beating the Thunder than they do to beat the Nuggets.
Speaker 2: So as disappointing as this is, as long as Zion
Speaker 2: can get back onto the floor in time, I actually
Speaker 2: think the Pelicans are kind of slotting into a pathway
Speaker 2: here that makes more sense for them. All right, guys,
Speaker 2: that is all I have for this particular video. Again,
Speaker 2: I will be back live on YouTube after the final
Speaker 2: buzzer of Kings Warriors.
Speaker 1: I will see you guys then. All right, welcome to hoops.
Speaker 2: Tonight here at the volume. Happy Tuesday, everybody. Hope all
Speaker 2: of you guys are having a great week so far.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be breaking down the Warriors dynasty potentially ending
Speaker 2: at the hands of the Sacramento Kings in the play
Speaker 2: in game, the nine to ten playing game. For those
Speaker 2: of you guys looking for a breakdown of Lakers Pelicans,
Speaker 2: we actually already recorded that and it's already uploaded, so
Speaker 2: you can find that a little bit further back in
Speaker 2: the feed. Just gonna talk a little bit of Kings
Speaker 2: off the top. I don't really view them as a
Speaker 2: threat after this point. They're zero to five versus the
Speaker 2: Pelicans this year. Obviously Zion being out potentially the hamstring
Speaker 2: is going to be somewhat of an issue, but it's
Speaker 2: more of the Pelicans' perimeter players that give them a bother.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk a little bit about the Warriors, some
Speaker 2: of the things that stood out from this season and
Speaker 2: part of the reason why I was never really optimistic
Speaker 2: about them making a run to begin with, where the
Speaker 2: Warriors should go from here, and then at the end,
Speaker 2: I personally just want to pay a little bit of
Speaker 2: a homage to the Warriors just for what it was
Speaker 2: like rooting obviously as someone who's a fan of Lebron
Speaker 2: James and had to root against them a lot over
Speaker 2: the years, just how incredible that dynasty was, how you know,
Speaker 2: relentless they were in their pursuit of winning, and how
Speaker 2: inevitable they felt at times. And so I put down
Speaker 2: four of my favorite moments after the after KD left
Speaker 2: and just kind of like my it just kind of
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Speaker 2: So this was just a complete and total beat down
Speaker 2: at the hands of the Sacramento Kings. They outshot the
Speaker 2: Warriors from the field, They outshot the Warriors from three,
Speaker 2: They shot better from the foul line. They doubled them
Speaker 2: up on the offensive glass. They had more assists with
Speaker 2: fewer turnovers. They had twice as many steals, twice as
Speaker 2: many fast break points, and committed fewer fouls. It was
Speaker 2: just a complete and total outclassing. Honestly, I was a
Speaker 2: little disappointed just with how the Warriors held up physically,
Speaker 2: because for all of the weaknesses that the Warriors have,
Speaker 2: things like interior size, things like shot creation, one of
Speaker 2: their strengths is they're actually a really athletic team, especially
Speaker 2: on the wing. They've got a lot of youthful exuberance
Speaker 2: at some key positions and a lot of length and athleticism,
Speaker 2: especially on the perimeter that should in theory allow them
Speaker 2: to match up pretty well with Sacramento, but they they
Speaker 2: just didn't hold up tonight for whatever reason. Obviously, the
Speaker 2: veterans in particular struggled in this game, but some of
Speaker 2: the young guys too, even though their effort shined through.
Speaker 2: Some of their execution stuff that you expect from young
Speaker 2: players to struggle with that kind of shined through to
Speaker 2: the surface as well. It was just a complete and
Speaker 2: total dominating performance from the Sacramento Kings. I want to
Speaker 2: shout out two specific guys Versus Keith and Murray. He
Speaker 2: literally looked like the old Klay Thompson out there. He
Speaker 2: was defending a quick guard extremely well. Right, We've seen
Speaker 2: Clay do that to a bunch of quick guards over
Speaker 2: the year, namely Kyrie Irving over the course of their
Speaker 2: matchups in the playoffs over the years, and hid in
Speaker 2: threes not just in volume, not in different spots on
Speaker 2: the floor, but also just flying off a screens kind
Speaker 2: of like we're accustomed to seeing from Klay Thompson. Honestly,
Speaker 2: Keegan hit eight threes in this game. Honestly, like I
Speaker 2: have to kind of eat a little bit of crow
Speaker 2: here in the sense that, like when Keigan Murray got
Speaker 2: drafted and after watching him play in the NBA last year,
Speaker 2: was you know, appreciative of him as a good role
Speaker 2: player in this league. But I didn't really think he
Speaker 2: had this kind of upside as a perimeter defender. I
Speaker 2: didn't think he had this kind of upside as a
Speaker 2: movement shooter. I have to kind of reevaluate my personal
Speaker 2: kind of like view of Keegan Murray ceiling with some
Speaker 2: of the stuff that he's shown this season. And this
Speaker 2: was just a big time performance from him in a
Speaker 2: super super important game. Honestly, Like for all the criticism
Speaker 2: of the playing tournament that we've seen over the years,
Speaker 2: that was an intense game. You had two really good
Speaker 2: teams playing in a single elimination game. You just don't
Speaker 2: get that in the NBA very often. Typically, the nine
Speaker 2: to ten game, even in the Western Conference over the years,
Speaker 2: has been the lesser of the teams that we've seen.
Speaker 2: It's usually the seven eight game where we'll see the
Speaker 2: good teams. And some of this is just the realities
Speaker 2: of the Western Conference. There are ten good teams in
Speaker 2: the West right Like I'll give you as an example,
Speaker 2: I think the Lakers and Clippers are both clearly top
Speaker 2: six teams in the NBA. I had the Lakers at
Speaker 2: six in my contender and I had the Clippers at
Speaker 2: four if I remember correctly. So like Lakers and Clippers
Speaker 2: for me, both top six championship contenders. I'm going to
Speaker 2: be picking them both to lose in the first round
Speaker 2: of the playoffs. Why because they're playing teams two teams
Speaker 2: that are in the top three of my championship contenders.
Speaker 2: The Western Conference is just completely stacked, and so unfortunately,
Speaker 2: as a product of that, the Warriors and Kings fall
Speaker 2: down into the nine to ten game. They have to
Speaker 2: play single elimination game. Somebody's got to go home and
Speaker 2: ends up being the Golden State Warriors, but shout out
Speaker 2: to Keegan Murray because in such a big game, for
Speaker 2: him to show up the way he did, that tells
Speaker 2: you a lot about the type of potential that he
Speaker 2: has in the big picture. Keon Ellis is the second
Speaker 2: guy you guys who remember last year in the postseason
Speaker 2: I talked a lot about how Dearon Fox and Leak
Speaker 2: Monk to a certain extent, but Deern Fox mainly demonstrated
Speaker 2: that like he could really defend the guard position.
Speaker 1: He's capable of it.
Speaker 2: It's just a lot to ask for your primary shock
Speaker 2: creating star to defend the other team's best guard, right,
Speaker 2: And so you'd see a lot of like Davion Mitchell
Speaker 2: that davey On Mitchell had some offensive limitations and they
Speaker 2: just didn't have an option that they could go to
Speaker 2: that they could consistently get high quality perimeter defense while
Speaker 2: also getting the ability to consistently knock down an open
Speaker 2: shot while also not having to ask Dearon Fox to
Speaker 2: do it, because if you have to ask Dearon Fox
Speaker 2: to do it, you're paying the price. On the other
Speaker 2: end of the floor, Keon Ellis has been that for
Speaker 2: the Kings this year. He can really really defend the
Speaker 2: best guards in the league while also being a knockdown
Speaker 2: shooter and also take that off of Dearon Fox's workload.
Speaker 2: And I thought, you know, Mike Brown actually talked about
Speaker 2: it after the third quarter in his interview, basically just
Speaker 2: talking about, like, hey, like being able to switch things
Speaker 2: up on Steph and go from length and size to
Speaker 2: kind of like speed in quickness. With Keon Ellis, it
Speaker 2: was a way that they could kind of keep Steph
Speaker 2: off balance. And I thought he did a really nice job.
Speaker 2: And as I've talked about all season long with the Warriors,
Speaker 2: if you can do a good job on Steph, you're
Speaker 2: probably gonna win because there's nobody else on that team
Speaker 2: that can consistently generate high quality shots. They held step
Speaker 2: to twenty two points, they forced them into six turnovers,
Speaker 2: then they dominated every other facet of the game and
Speaker 2: got the win. Here's the problem, though, Sacramento is a
Speaker 2: team that just brings perimeter defender.
Speaker 1: After perimater defender after perimater defender after perimeter defender.
Speaker 2: Darren Fox is going to be seeing Herb Jones, He's
Speaker 2: gonna be seeing Dyson Daniels, He's going to be seeing
Speaker 2: length and athleticism on him for the entire game, and
Speaker 2: they just have a plethora of that type of talent
Speaker 2: on the floor, and they get they pressed the they
Speaker 2: press the ball handlers, they play passing lanes, they force turnovers,
Speaker 2: they get out in transition. They're five and zero against
Speaker 2: the Sacramento Kings this year, and again, Zion Williamson pulled
Speaker 2: his hamstring at the end of the Lakers game tonight,
Speaker 2: so maybe that'll give them a little bit of a
Speaker 2: semblance of a route that they can go. But the Pelicans,
Speaker 2: you know, when they take Zion out, they play a
Speaker 2: little bit more drive and kick, but they can still
Speaker 2: be actually better defensively than they are with Zion on
Speaker 2: the floor. Obviously, they're just gonna kind of default more
Speaker 2: to running things through Brandon Ingram and CJ McCollum. But
Speaker 2: I still think the Pelicans are going to get that
Speaker 2: win on Friday, just on the strength of their perimeter defense.
Speaker 2: Either way, though, I don't think either of those teams
Speaker 2: have much of a chance against Oklahoma City, even if
Speaker 2: they're better matchups than some of the other teams in
Speaker 2: the West that they can face. So really impressive win
Speaker 2: for the Kings but without Malik Monk, even if they
Speaker 2: do survive the Pelicans game, I don't think they have
Speaker 2: the horses to make any sort of substantial playoff run.
Speaker 2: So moving on to the Warriors, there's gonna be a
Speaker 2: lot of talk about Draymond Green and the way his
Speaker 2: suspension kind of put them in this predicament. I think
Speaker 2: they were thirty three and twenty two this year when
Speaker 2: Draymond actually played, which is pretty solid, right, And I
Speaker 2: want to be clear there's truth to that, Like Draymond
Speaker 2: Green did put his team in a predicament where they
Speaker 2: dropped a bunch of games, and maybe, just maybe they're
Speaker 2: not in the nine to ten game if Draymond plays
Speaker 2: the entire season. However, I never really saw the Warriors
Speaker 2: as a team that was capable of winning multiple playoff rounds. Maybe,
Speaker 2: just maybe, if they got like the Thunder in the
Speaker 2: first round, a really young team, or maybe like the
Speaker 2: Minnesota Timberwolves who can struggle to execute in a half
Speaker 2: court like, maybe the Warriors could get a playoff round
Speaker 2: underneath their belt. But I didn't view them as a
Speaker 2: substantial threat in the West this year, and the main
Speaker 2: reason why was they weren't very good against the good
Speaker 2: teams in the league, like this season, they were twenty
Speaker 2: three and four against teams in the bottom ten in
Speaker 2: point differential, which was the seventh best mark in the league.
Speaker 2: But they were just nine and twenty one versus teams
Speaker 2: that are in the top ten in point differential this year.
Speaker 2: That's twentieth in the NBA. They consistently when they ran
Speaker 2: up against the real teams at the top of the league,
Speaker 2: they just didn't have the shot creation and that was
Speaker 2: really it, and some of it it kind of comes
Speaker 2: down to two things. First of all, the team's fatal flaw.
Speaker 2: They didn't have another guy on the roster who could
Speaker 2: consistently generate high quality offense like Kaminga had a hot stretch.
Speaker 2: You know, you get a hot stretch at Andrew Wiggins
Speaker 2: at some point, you get a hot stretch out of
Speaker 2: Klay Thompson at some point. But in any one game sample,
Speaker 2: when you were going in as a Warriors fan or
Speaker 2: going in as someone who watches the Warriors a lot,
Speaker 2: you were sitting there thinking like, is Clay going to
Speaker 2: play well tonight? Maybe is Andrew Wiggins gonna play well tonight?
Speaker 2: Maybe is Jonathan Camiingia gonna play well tonight. Maybe there
Speaker 2: wasn't a legit guy next to Steph that you could
Speaker 2: depend on to consistently generate high quality offense. Basically everybody
Speaker 2: in the Western Conference has that. Sacramento, before the Malik
Speaker 2: Monk injury, you knew you had that with Malik Monk. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Lebron James, it's kind of by committee, by committee with
Speaker 2: Ad Austin Reeves and D'Angelo Russell, right, Obviously, the New
Speaker 2: Orleans Pelicans, it's Brandon ingram Zion Williamson, and it's CJ McCollum. Right,
Speaker 2: you go to the Suns, it's Katie Bradley, Beal, Devin Booker.
Speaker 2: To go to the Clippers, it's James Harden, it's Kevin
Speaker 2: or it's a Kawhi Leonard, it's Paul George, it's Luka Doncic,
Speaker 2: and it's Kyrie, it's Jamal Murray and it's Nikola Jokic.
Speaker 2: The Warriors, really, aside from the injury to Malik Monk,
Speaker 2: they were the only team in the Western Conference that
Speaker 2: did not have a legitimate threat that could consistently generate
Speaker 2: quality shots beyond Steph Curry and then to.
Speaker 1: Make make matters worse.
Speaker 2: Steph just hasn't been the same player over the course
Speaker 2: of the last third of the season, and this kind
Speaker 2: of really colors things when we start to talk about
Speaker 2: where the Warriors should go from here. Steph's twenty five
Speaker 2: games to end the season, twenty two point eight points
Speaker 2: per game, four point five rebounds per game, five point
Speaker 2: five assists per game, forty one point nine percent from
Speaker 2: the field, thirty seven point five percent from three. That's
Speaker 2: Steph's last twenty five games of the season. And then
Speaker 2: you saw him tonight really struggling to break free from
Speaker 2: Keegan and Murray and to break free from keon Ellis.
Speaker 2: A lot of sloppy turnovers, a lot of like just
Speaker 2: struggling to kind of get to his spots right, and
Speaker 2: so there's a bunch of factors there. My guess he's
Speaker 2: probably a little banged up. Wouldn't be surprised if in
Speaker 2: the next couple of days we hear some sort of
Speaker 2: report of an injury that Steph Curry's been dealing with, because, like,
Speaker 2: even in decline, and we're going to talk about that,
Speaker 2: even in decline, shouldn't happen this dramatically, this quickly, right, Two, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Steph getting a little older small guard, there's gonna be
Speaker 2: some decline there. You're starting to see that. And then three,
Speaker 2: when you don't have legitimate, reliable shot creation off of
Speaker 2: your star, it allows teams to throw the kitchen sink
Speaker 2: at Steph Curry. By the way, this is a big
Speaker 2: part of why I'm not as high on the New
Speaker 2: York Knicks as everyone else love the New York Knicks
Speaker 2: in the long run, but without Julius Randall, they do
Speaker 2: not have a legitimate secondary shot creator next to Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 2: As a result, they're seven and seventeen this year against
Speaker 2: teams that are in the top ten in point differential.
Speaker 2: I do not think they're going to be able to
Speaker 2: beat the teams with the high firepower for the exact
Speaker 2: same reason, for the exact same reason. When you have
Speaker 2: one guy, you can throw the kitchen sink at it,
Speaker 2: and chances are you'll figure out a way to rotate
Speaker 2: on the back end to kind of contain some of
Speaker 2: those more limited offensive players, and so like that's just
Speaker 2: that's that's really where things fell.
Speaker 1: Apart for the Warriors this year.
Speaker 2: Honestly, Like you know, and I talked about this during
Speaker 2: Jonathan Kaminga's rise. We had that stretch there, like Jonathan
Speaker 2: Kaminga had never had two consecutive twenty point games in
Speaker 2: his career, and then he rips off eight of them
Speaker 2: in a row, right, and you're like, holy shit, this
Speaker 2: guy might be a future star. By the way, I
Speaker 2: still kind of feel like he's going to be. I
Speaker 2: don't think he's on the trajectory with like Anthony Edwards
Speaker 2: and like the super superstars that we have that are
Speaker 2: the young players in the league, but like, I think
Speaker 2: he could be kind of in that Jalen Brown level
Speaker 2: guy that's in the fifteen to twentieth best player in
Speaker 2: the league, who's like a legit twenty five point per
Speaker 2: gay game, guy who can really defend. I think that's
Speaker 2: in Kminga's potential, right, And so he flashed all that
Speaker 2: to potential, and then all of a sudden, training guys,
Speaker 2: trading guys was just out of the window, right, like
Speaker 2: going into that stretch, or like trade Kaminga, trade some
Speaker 2: draft picks. Maybe you go after a Pascal Siaka, maybe
Speaker 2: you go after Nogan and no. And then as Kaminga
Speaker 2: started to play better, right, as og and Andobi and
Speaker 2: Pascal siakam were off us, were the trade talks were
Speaker 2: heating up, they go off. Kaminga playing well kind of
Speaker 2: removes him from that equation. All of a sudden, they're
Speaker 2: out of the siakam Oganobe the sweepstakes. Now, all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, you're kind of trapped with this particular group, right,
Speaker 2: And I talked consistently during that time. You Warriors fans
Speaker 2: that followed the show, you'll remember this. I said consistently
Speaker 2: during that time, like this is great for the future,
Speaker 2: but do not count on these young guys to be
Speaker 2: reliable shot creators when you get to big time playoff games.
Speaker 2: And that's what this was. This was a big time
Speaker 2: playoff game. And Kamina makes some plays tonight, play really hard.
Speaker 2: I thought he had a good stretch there in the
Speaker 2: first half, but like he wasn't. Was he consistently generating
Speaker 2: quality shots in this game.
Speaker 1: No, because he's young.
Speaker 2: He's too young for that type of game, and he's
Speaker 2: not polished enough with his handle and to get to
Speaker 2: his spots and to read the floor to do that.
Speaker 2: Will he in five years probably? I think that's on
Speaker 2: the table, not just on the table. It's probably likely
Speaker 2: for Jonathan kaminga in a five year timeline. But the
Speaker 2: minute you decided we're not going all in, we're sticking
Speaker 2: with these guys, you capped off this team and the
Speaker 2: championship ceiling was out the window. I mean, I threw
Speaker 2: them tenth tied with the heat in my contender rankings
Speaker 2: just as a like basically a sign of respect towards
Speaker 2: Steph Curry and Jimmy Butler. But you know, the Warriors
Speaker 2: just don't have the firepower. They don't have the firepower
Speaker 2: to hang in these types of games, Unlike they could
Speaker 2: have beat the Kings tonight. I'm not trying to act
Speaker 2: like they can't beat the Kings. Of course they could
Speaker 2: beat the Kings tonight. They needed to hold up better physically,
Speaker 2: They needed more out of Clay, and they needed Steph
Speaker 2: to play like a superstar. Instead, they didn't hold up physically.
Speaker 2: Clay gave you nothing, and Steph played like he's been
Speaker 2: playing for the last third of the season, and as
Speaker 2: a result, they got basically dog walked tonight, right, And
Speaker 2: so like that that's kind of the reality of the
Speaker 2: predicament that they're in. And so you know, you could
Speaker 2: where do we go from here? You could make an
Speaker 2: all in trade, right, Like you could try to go
Speaker 2: after a star, maybe a Paul George, maybe a brandon
Speaker 2: Ingram At the Pelicans decide to kind of change their
Speaker 2: build this summer. You can go in that sort of direction,
Speaker 2: but you have to take a look at your situation here,
Speaker 2: Like Steph slash twenty five games, how much of that
Speaker 2: is declined versus not playing alongside a star. You take
Speaker 2: a gamble, you go after a star. Let's say you
Speaker 2: get Paul George, but you have to give up kaminga,
Speaker 2: you have to give up draft compensation. Let's say Steph
Speaker 2: just isn't a the top ten player next year. If
Speaker 2: that happens, then all of a sudden, now you don't
Speaker 2: have the draft assets and the young talent to kind
Speaker 2: of slide into the next phase of your future. You
Speaker 2: just have an old Stephan, an old Paul George. Right,
Speaker 2: And so that's where it gets tricky. Like I almost
Speaker 2: feel like if you were going to do that, you
Speaker 2: needed to do it last year. You needed to do
Speaker 2: it the year after they won the title. That was
Speaker 2: the year where it made sense Steph was still playing
Speaker 2: at that level. A lot of those guys, the young
Speaker 2: guys were mostly just kind of, you know, just prospects
Speaker 2: at that point. They didn't have that sort of long
Speaker 2: term potential that or at least we hadn't seen it
Speaker 2: really manifest for Jonathan Minga yet that was where it
Speaker 2: made sense to do it. Now it doesn't really make
Speaker 2: a lot of sense. And like, who were the guys
Speaker 2: that kind of came in and brought the energy tonight
Speaker 2: when the Warriors came out flat. It was Moses Moody,
Speaker 2: it was Brandon Pitzemski, it was Jonathan Kaminga, right, And
Speaker 2: it's because they have the athletic tools to kind of
Speaker 2: hang in those sorts of settings, right, So, like I think, honestly,
Speaker 2: like if I was running the Warriors at this point,
Speaker 2: I would just kind of read the writing on the wall, Like,
Speaker 2: if you can work out some sort of team friendly
Speaker 2: deal for Clay and he wants to stay because he
Speaker 2: likes his living situation and he likes this team, you
Speaker 2: work it out. But if he gets offered a chunk
Speaker 2: of money and he wants to go, you let him go.
Speaker 2: You know, you see, if you can make some moves
Speaker 2: on the margin of margins.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you.
Speaker 2: Can use a draft pick and maybe one of the
Speaker 2: younger players, or or maybe using Chris Paul's salary to
Speaker 2: try to bring in some sort of of peace, to
Speaker 2: kind of bring in some firepower. But I don't think
Speaker 2: you mortgage the future anymore for this group. I think
Speaker 2: what you do is you bring obviously Stephan Draymond back,
Speaker 2: You bring a legitimate center in so that you can
Speaker 2: play a center next to Draymond to give yourself a
Speaker 2: better chance of holding up in terms of size, and
Speaker 2: then you lean into the youth.
Speaker 1: Next year.
Speaker 2: I think you probably start, you know, either Moses Moody
Speaker 2: and Jonathan Kaminga or Andrew Wiggins and Jonathan Kaminga. You
Speaker 2: lean heavily into Jonathan Kaminga as a shot creator and
Speaker 2: try to get him to build that out, and you
Speaker 2: don't worry as much about where you're at in the standings.
Speaker 2: You just work on development and work towards the future.
Speaker 2: But like again, like I think the reality is that
Speaker 2: the championship ceiling is gone with this group. The championship
Speaker 2: ceiling with this group was Steph is a top five player.
Speaker 2: You make a trade to bring in a legitimate secondary star.
Speaker 1: They never did that.
Speaker 2: Now Steph has declined, Now the young guy are coming up,
Speaker 2: that's the direction you have to look to go from here.
Speaker 2: And and I guess, honestly, it's going to be about
Speaker 2: whether or not Steph is willing to kind of.
Speaker 1: Be a part of a soft rebuild like that.
Speaker 2: My guess is Steph loves it in Golden State so
Speaker 2: much and that he's so integral to that franchise that
Speaker 2: he's not going anywhere. And to be honest, as much
Speaker 2: as I'd love to see Steph compete for a championship again, someday,
Speaker 2: I just can't even fathom seeing him in another jersey.
Speaker 2: And so I think more likely than not that he
Speaker 2: ends up kind of just kind of riding off into
Speaker 2: the sunset gracefully as a member of the Golden State
Speaker 2: Warriors during.
Speaker 1: A soft rebuild.
Speaker 2: But the only way a championship ceiling is coming back
Speaker 2: is if Jonathan Kaminga takes a five year leap over
Speaker 2: the summer, and I just don't really see that as
Speaker 2: a as an option. Or maybe they can, you know,
Speaker 2: nail some stuff over the course of the summer to
Speaker 2: kind of push some things up on the roster, but
Speaker 2: the reality is it's a firepower issue with this team,
Speaker 2: they just never had consistently that secondary option next to Steph.
Speaker 2: So before we get out of here tonight, I just
Speaker 2: wanted to kind of talk a little bit about the
Speaker 2: Warriors dynasty from just purely from a fan perspective. So
Speaker 2: as I've told you guys before, I am a Lebron
Speaker 2: James fan, and obviously now it's it's much more of
Speaker 2: like a grown up fan hood, right Like I'm Lebron.
Speaker 2: Fans hate me because I'm critical of him when he
Speaker 2: doesn't play well, because I do a job to cover
Speaker 2: the NBA and talk about, you know, these these basketball
Speaker 2: games and actually give x's and o's analysis. Right, So,
Speaker 2: like obviously at this phase of my courage different. But
Speaker 2: like you know, when I was during the Warriors dynasty,
Speaker 2: like I was in my mid twenties and I was,
Speaker 2: you know, like a young emotional fan who loved Lebron,
Speaker 2: loved that Cavaliers team, and I had to root against
Speaker 2: the Warriors, and man did that suck, you know, like
Speaker 2: not just not even just the KD years, because the
Speaker 2: KD years were all about you know, second and third
Speaker 2: best player in the in the world teaming up and
Speaker 2: the like the Cows just never really had a chance.
Speaker 2: But like going back to the two fifteen year, watching
Speaker 2: Steph light up Matthew Delavadova in Game five, I thought
Speaker 2: Steph got absolutely robbed of the Finals MVP that year.
Speaker 2: All you had to do is have a basic understanding
Speaker 2: of the way the game of basketball works to understand
Speaker 2: that he was the reason everything was working for the
Speaker 2: Warriors down the stretch of that series.
Speaker 1: But it is what it is.
Speaker 2: Obviously, the twenty sixteen year, it's a little bit of
Speaker 2: Steph being heard. It's a little bit of Lebron James
Speaker 2: and Kyrie Irving just meeting an insane level. But I
Speaker 2: have four moments after Katie left the Warriors, well actually
Speaker 2: one of them's without Katie, but in his last season
Speaker 2: with the Warriors, that just kind of to me encapsulated
Speaker 2: what made this Warriors dynasty so great. First was the
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen series, the series against the Toronto Rafters. So obviously,
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant goes down with the calf injury in the
Speaker 2: second round and Golden State ends up sweeping the Portland
Speaker 2: Trailblazers without Kevin Durant and come back from huge deficits
Speaker 2: in all four games, just a reminder of just how
Speaker 2: good Steph Clay and Draymond were when they were at
Speaker 2: their best. Like KD made them unbeatable, but even without
Speaker 2: KD they were still a top tier contender in the league.
Speaker 2: They just probably wouldn't have you know, they probably get
Speaker 2: one of those two instead of two of those two, right, Like,
Speaker 2: That's what I always say is like I think, if
Speaker 2: KD doesn't go to Golden State, Lebron gets one of
Speaker 2: them in twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, and Steph gets one
Speaker 2: of them in twenty seventeen twenty eighteen instead, KD went there,
Speaker 2: so they got them both, right, But like I think
Speaker 2: a lot of times we use the KD stuff to
Speaker 2: kind of underplay just how good Steph Klaan Raymond were.
Speaker 2: And like that Game five, the game was a game five, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was game five, uh, where Kawhi Leonard just went
Speaker 2: on that crazy Haymaker spree to to get I think
Speaker 2: the I think the Raptors went up by like six
Speaker 2: at that point in the game, and then Stephan Clay
Speaker 2: just stole that game with shot making, and I remember
Speaker 2: sitting there thinking, like, these dudes are just winners man,
Speaker 2: Like KD literally tore his achilles in that game. If
Speaker 2: I remember correct, I believe it was that game. Katie
Speaker 2: hurts himself. You're on the rope. Why is on a
Speaker 2: shot making spree? It all looks like it's over. You're
Speaker 2: on the road, And Stephan Clay just refused to lose,
Speaker 2: and they got it done. And even then, if I
Speaker 2: remember correctly, in game six, Steph had a little step
Speaker 2: back jump shot on the right wing that could have
Speaker 2: tied it. So like they just they just didn't go
Speaker 2: down without a fight. I thought that was a great
Speaker 2: example of the winning character of the Warriors twenty twenty
Speaker 2: one playing game. Obviously, you have no Klay Thompson in
Speaker 2: that game. If I remember correctly, I think that Andrew
Speaker 2: Wiggins was on that team. But once again, like that
Speaker 2: was the Lakers when they still had all their athleticism, right,
Speaker 2: that was when they still had Alex Cruso and they
Speaker 2: still had Contavious Carbo Pope. Like that was a very
Speaker 2: very good Lakers team, and Steph just played absurdly well
Speaker 2: and literally pushed them to the brink. And then Lebron
Speaker 2: basically hit the game winner when he got poked in
Speaker 2: the eye. But like there's a moment in that game,
Speaker 2: and you Warriors fans will probably remember this. You Lakers
Speaker 2: fans will definitely remember this, But there was a moment
Speaker 2: in that game where the Lakers went on a little
Speaker 2: run in the fourth quarter and the camera pans over
Speaker 2: to Steph on the sideline, and after the Lakers made
Speaker 2: their run, because Steph obviously sits to start the fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: you just see this this moment where Steph just kind
Speaker 2: of nods and he just goes like, all right, let's go.
Speaker 2: We got ourselves a game here. And I remember watching
Speaker 2: it being like this motherfucker is gonna check back into
Speaker 2: the game and immediately reassert himself. And he checked back
Speaker 2: in the game and the Warriors immediately regained control. And
Speaker 2: like that stretch there at twenty twenty one, twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three stretch from Steph was so much fun because I
Speaker 2: actually think that was the best version of Steph. I
Speaker 2: know a lot of Steph fans disagree with me, but
Speaker 2: I just thought he was at such a level defensively.
Speaker 2: A lot of times people forget, Like around twenty sixteen,
Speaker 2: when Steph won the unanimous MVP, Steph was barbecuing traditional
Speaker 2: coverages and a lot of teams just didn't know how
Speaker 2: to handle Steph yet. As a matter of fact, the
Speaker 2: Cavs blitzing him in the in the twenty fifteen finals,
Speaker 2: that was kind of like the first team that really
Speaker 2: that really started doing that and doing it effectively like
Speaker 2: they did in that sits, although Steph ended up solving it.
Speaker 2: Like the idea of the way you guard Steph Curry
Speaker 2: didn't really come to fruition until the end of the
Speaker 2: twenty tens, and like Steph was barbecuing the best defensive
Speaker 2: coverages to deal with the player like him in that
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one twenty twenty three stretch, I just thought
Speaker 2: he was at an insanely high level. Obviously, the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two playoff run, what's crazy with that one is
Speaker 2: like Steph's a rhythm player, like like every other kind
Speaker 2: of like perimeter shooter in the league, right, And he
Speaker 2: went into that playoff run on a foot injury and
Speaker 2: came off the bench to start the Denver series and
Speaker 2: then ended up with one of the best playoff games
Speaker 2: I've ever seen from an individual player in that Game
Speaker 2: four in Boston, just kind of backpacking the Warriors on
Speaker 2: their way to the title, and like it was like
Speaker 2: it was similar to like the Denver Nuggets in the
Speaker 2: sense that like there wasn't like a bona fide superstar
Speaker 2: next to Steph, but he was getting a lot of
Speaker 2: big time contributions from big time players, right Like like
Speaker 2: obviously Klay Thompson didn't unbelievable job defensively in that series
Speaker 2: on Jaylen Brown.
Speaker 1: You got the.
Speaker 2: Jordan Poole playoff run, you get the Andrew Wiggins playoff run,
Speaker 2: Like they got some contributions. Again, no team wins a
Speaker 2: championship without help, but Steph was just unbelievable.
Speaker 1: In that playoff run.
Speaker 2: And then twenty twenty three fifty points in Game seven
Speaker 2: on the road against the Sacramento Kings. And then in
Speaker 2: that twenty twenty three second round playoff series, watching that
Speaker 2: chess match between Steve Kerr and Darvin Ham surrounding the
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis Steph Curry problem for both teams.
Speaker 1: And you know it's funny.
Speaker 2: This summer I went back and I rewatched that series,
Speaker 2: and those are you guys who actually watched the show
Speaker 2: over the summer. You probably remember me doing a show
Speaker 2: about this. But like Steph, no matter what the Lakers
Speaker 2: threw at him in that series. Steph just controlled things
Speaker 2: in ball screens. It was crazy. I can't remember the
Speaker 2: exact numbers because I pulled him over the summer, but
Speaker 2: the Lakers were throwing the kitchen sink at him, and
Speaker 2: he just continued to get and generate quality shots every
Speaker 2: single time down the floor, no.
Speaker 1: Matter what coverage they used.
Speaker 2: Really, the only the only reason the Lakers escaped that
Speaker 2: series was at the end of Game four, Lonnie Walker
Speaker 2: hit a bunch of pull up jump shots and then
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis switched onto Steph Curry, which was the ultimate
Speaker 2: kind of like final move that the Lakers had in
Speaker 2: their back pocket, and Anthony Davis got a couple of
Speaker 2: stops on an island and that was pretty much it.
Speaker 2: But like that entire series, I can just tell you
Speaker 2: as a fan, as someone was rooting against Steph and
Speaker 2: rooting for Lebron in that series, like I felt helpless,
Speaker 2: and again it just that's what I remember about the
Speaker 2: Golden State dynasty is like when they were healthy, when
Speaker 2: Steph was at his a game, when Clay and Raymond
Speaker 2: were out there, when they had a legitimate two way wing,
Speaker 2: whether it was Wiggins, whether it was Barnes, whether it
Speaker 2: was Kevin Durant, they were just inevitable. They were the
Speaker 2: best team of that particular era in my opinion. And
Speaker 2: if this ends up being it, and I still think
Speaker 2: the Warriors will be interesting over the course of the
Speaker 2: next few years, just because they've got some young talent,
Speaker 2: they got a great home crowd, and they do have
Speaker 2: Steph Curry, and I still think Steph Curry's, you know,
Speaker 2: top fifteen, top ten player in the league, right, So
Speaker 2: like there's gonna be some fun times over the next
Speaker 2: few years. But salute to those guys. It's been a
Speaker 2: hell of a run. It's been a decade of dominance.
Speaker 2: Four championships, got close in twenty nineteen and twenty sixteen
Speaker 2: as well. One of the great teams in NBA history.
Speaker 2: And it's been an honor to get to cover them
Speaker 2: and to get to watch them as a fan. And
Speaker 2: you know, that's kind of why I talk. You know
Speaker 2: how excited I am about the Nuggets. They feel to
Speaker 2: me like the next great team, the next great dynasty
Speaker 2: of this era. All Right, that's all I have for tonight.
Speaker 2: As always that sincerely appreciate you guys for supporting the show.
Speaker 2: I'll be back tomorrow morning to uh, well, tomorrow morning,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start my prep. We'll see when I actually
Speaker 2: get it uploaded, but I'm gonna start with a series
Speaker 2: preview of Lakers Nuggets, and then we'll do a series
Speaker 2: preview of the Eastern Conference seven to two matchup, probably
Speaker 2: on Thursday, and then we'll see, I'm trying to think
Speaker 2: of what we're gonna do on Friday, probably gonna have
Speaker 2: the nerd sesh guys on and then obviously on Saturday
Speaker 2: morning we'll have the one eight matchup previews and then
Speaker 2: we'll get into our playoff grind. And so we're here, man,
Speaker 2: this is it night one of the playoffs in the books.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you, guys. I will see you tomorrow. The
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