WEBVTT - Cavaliers Sweep the Miami Heat 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:04.520 This crowd rises to speaking what Carl slammed it out 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:10.320 car left wing, free ball, perfect pop, then he left 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:14.040 lock the shot at the rim, pow with the left hand. 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:14.680 And of foul. 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:17.680 Welcome to Chase Doown Podcast, part of the Caves media family. 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:19.880 I'm your host Justin Rohan. The Chase Doown is presented 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.639 by Fubo, the official streaming partner of the Calves. Watch 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:25.119 over three hundred and fifty channels of live sports and TV, 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:28.200 including fan Duel Sports Network without cable. There's no cost 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.120 and no commitment. Try for free at footballtv dot Com 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:35.760 Slash Calves. The Cleveland Cavaliers have completed the most dominant 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:40.200 light lopsided series in NBA history, beating the Miami Heat 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:43.080 by a combined one hundred and twenty two points through 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:47.239 four games. My prediction was correct. The Calves wanted to 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.680 come out and make a statement. They did it, and 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.519 they swept the Miami Heat. Joining me today is my 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:54.920 co host, Carter Rodriguez. Carter, how you doing, buddy? 0:00:55.440 --> 0:01:01.120 Oh, it's a cavalis It was like a forty eight 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:05.280 minute cavalanche. These boys went up sixty in Game four 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:11.360 on the road. I mean, what an unbelievable stretch of 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:17.479 games in Miami. A dominance, I'm not sure. I mean, 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.679 we've literally, I guess never seen you know, with them 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:25.280 setting the record for the most dominant sweep in the 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.120 history of the sport. And it just kind of goes 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:33.480 to show you how ready this team was to answer 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.840 questions to knock down the dominoes put in front of them. 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.600 No one's gonna mistake this Heat team for a juggernaut. 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:43.319 But like, this was the ninth best defense in the NBA, 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.320 and I believe they were seventh best after the All 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:51.880 Star break, and I mean hot knife feugh butter one 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.960 hundred and thirty, one hundred and thirty seven offensive rating 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.680 for the series, like. 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:02.240 Come on, which is an NBA record for best offensive 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:03.120 rating in a series. 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:03.600 Right when. 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:05.760 One of the things that we asked coming into the 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.080 series that we wanted to learn is can the Cavs 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:11.480 offense finally translate to the postseason? Can they have you know, 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.960 a strong offensive series. I believe you wanted to see 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:16.440 one eighteen, am I correct? 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:20.240 Yeah, I was hoping. I was like, I'll settle for 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:23.560 one sixteen. You know know what you did, Carter? 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:28.200 You sold them a little short, you sold short the hardest, working, 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:34.720 best condition, most professional, unselfish, toughest, meanest, nastiest team in 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:35.440 the playoffs? 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.600 How dare you do that? It couldn't possibly be me. 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.839 You must be thinking to someone else justin I want 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:45.919 to open by asking you this because we were going 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:50.960 into our serious preview and I asked you if anything 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:56.040 in the first round could change your opinion about this team, 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.560 like not like out of Series two series, because I 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.800 think both of us felt like they could win the 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:07.320 title coming into that series. But I kind of asked, like, 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.480 can they do anything to kind of make you feel 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:16.919 differently about them after that that ridiculousness. 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.240 Do you remember what my answer was at the time. 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:21.480 I don't remind me. 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:25.520 My answer was, no, they can't do anything to change 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.680 what my opinion is, my level of confidence going moving forward, 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.160 because I was going to give them the benefit of 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.720 the doubt, right, Like I said, going into this series, 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.520 my brain says five because Miami always finds a way 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.360 to get a game in a series. But my heart 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.280 is telling me four because what we've seen this season 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.080 from the Cleveland Cavaliers is when they have something to 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.120 play for, when they have an edge to them, they 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.960 go out and accomplish it, whether it is the historic 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.680 regular season they had, whether it was getting three of 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.360 them to the All Star Game, that seemed to be, 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.640 you know, a real thing that they wanted to accomplish. 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.560 Evan Mobley winning Defensive Player of the Year, donnod Mitchell 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.640 is going to be All NBA. I think Evan's definitely 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:10.400 going to make All NBA as well. These guys, when 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.320 they have a chip on their shoulder, we've seen another 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.200 gear from them. And I think after the All Star break, 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.560 with the one seed already locked up with a brutal 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.839 travel schedule, we just didn't see the same kind of 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.000 focus calves and I really felt with a week off 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.680 with something to prove, with guys like Darius Garland saying, hey, 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.039 we know what the perception is, we know what we 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:33.960 have to do to change it. We want to go 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.240 out and change it, I just felt like they were 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.159 going to, you know, come out and make a statement. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.760 And you look at this series. Man Game one, twenty 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.840 one point, League Game two, nineteen point, League Game three, 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.760 forty point, League Game four, sixty point lead. We said 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.400 after Game two that that was probably Miami's best shot. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.640 We felt that the shot making from Miami was unsustainable. 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.000 They were not getting good looks. I think coming off 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.359 to elimination games that they won, they were playing with 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:06.200 a lot of confidence. Their best was not enough, and 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.479 I think after they had that, starting Game three, the 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.640 Cavs came out without Donovan Mitchell and had an eighteen 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.400 oh run to basically, you know, start to put that 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.880 game away and put it out of reach where once 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.880 again they were going to need to attempt another large comeback. 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.320 You know, I don't want to say it about professionals, 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.200 but it really it felt like, you know, their confidence 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.520 kind of fell apart at that point, and you know, 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.640 it just felt like they were out of the series, 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.840 like they did not believe that they could compete. And 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.120 once you reach that point where you no longer believe 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.800 that you can actually contend and compete within a series, 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.040 you're going to let go of the rope and things 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:45.680 are going to unravel fast. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.680 Yeah. And I don't think it's always about effort. It's 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.640 about like how hard your brain is working to solve 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.960 the problem. You know. I just think, like to your point, 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:58.120 Miami kind of very quickly came to the same conclusion 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.880 that much of the viewing public game two, which is 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:07.880 that we can't solve this problem. We don't have the juice, 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.000 we don't have the ball handlers, we don't have the shooting, 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:16.599 we don't have the physicality, you know, and like, you know, 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.920 a couple of those things are such Miami heat staples that, yeah, 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:27.680 it's jarring like but like I do think as bad 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.960 as the Heat were in these last two games, like 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.240 you have to give the credit to the Cavs for 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:34.799 taking it the way. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:39.479 They did, I've never seen a Spo team give up. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.120 And it really felt that way. And Spo had this 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.080 comment after Game three, and no, I've never heard him 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.600 sound as dejected. He said, clearly a very disappointing day. Look, 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:50.920 our guys really want this. It probably looks like our 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.440 guys don't. But I know what our last six weeks 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.320 have been and like to fight and scratch and claw 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.520 to get this. We laid an egg today. Big part 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.000 of it was Cleveland became an avalanche going in the 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.800 other direction. Sometimes when you care, there's a level of 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.640 discouragement that fed into that avalanche. That's what we all 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:10.000 feel the spirited about. I think that's I don't want 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.760 to laugh at that man like, that's that's vulnerable, that's real. 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.160 And I think one of the things we've seen in 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.440 these playoffs is a bit of a shift in the NBA, 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:23.040 where in the past, I think teams when we saw 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.480 the best player in a series, we almost always gave 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.080 that team an edge. I think from just the way 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:33.360 rosters were constructed, that player always would come out on top, 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.760 or very frequently would come out on top. And now 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.160 with modern team building, with the level of talent that 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:43.360 is around the league, that isn't the differentiating factor anymore. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.800 Man Like Giannis is out there having a phenomenal series 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.160 against Indiana and he's fighting like to the death to 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.400 get a game off these guys Lebron and Luca, you know, 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:58.000 a perfect example of top end tallent not necessarily being enough. 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.960 And then you come to this Miami heats where the 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.920 Cows not only have the top end talent, we have 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:08.320 the five through eight, you know, five through ten level 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:12.640 of talent to just relentlessly come after you minute after minute. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.920 After the starters got pulled in the third quarter, Miami 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.480 kept their starters out there. A lot of key players 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:24.280 were still playing. Our bench extended that lead. It's incredibly impressive. 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.280 Yeah, it's you know, I've been saying it for a 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.600 couple of years, kind of starting to see the narrative 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:36.760 kind of kind of flip nationally in analyzing the league. 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.360 You know, I forget who wrote the article that you know, 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:43.520 is this a week link league now? Where you're just 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:49.440 as good as your worst piece that you play, and 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:56.280 you're looking up and down the playoffs. You're seeing Lakers 0:08:56.360 --> 0:09:00.600 not make a sub yesterday in the second half literally 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:04.920 played the same five guys twenty four straight minutes. You're 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:10.520 watching the Knicks get five bench points against Detroit, even 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:14.240 in a game they won. You know, it just feels 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:20.320 so precarious for those teams in a way that it 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.800 doesn't for the Cavs. Yeah. And that's not to say 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:28.240 the Cabs bench won't struggle at different points over the playoffs, Like. 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.040 It might be different guys that we rely on, right, Yeah. 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:38.240 But like the holistic reliance and the difference between these 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.920 top heavy teams and the teams you can play nine 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.120 or ten guys and feel really good about that, it 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.240 does feel like it matters. You know, Minnesota has a 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.079 bunch of dudes they really really trust, and it doesn't 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:55.440 have to be ten. But like it's like having a 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:59.640 really strong upper middle class of your roster where it's 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.800 not just guys who can survive out there for four 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.120 minutes where you're just kind of crossing your fingers, but 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.440 guys who, when they're on, can really help. I mean, 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:10.360 this is I've said it before, but this is where 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.520 I was so wrong about Boston last year was I 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.360 thought they had six good players and you know, eight 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.120 or nine guys that they really couldn't count on. It 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.840 turned out Sam Houser hits in a major way, Prichard 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.880 hits in a major way, Cornett hits in a major way, 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.559 and all of a sudden, they're, you know, not only 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.800 as they're starting five unbelievable, they're an eight or nine 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.120 deep team with guys that can kill you. And like, 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:40.199 I don't know, you look at that Indiana Milwaukee series 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.640 and like his proofs in the pudding in terms of 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.839 who you can rely on to consistently carry you through 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.600 a series, I feel like the teams with depth are 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:51.720 the ones that are really showing out in this playoffs. 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.280 Here is the best way that I can summarize that depth. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.559 There are two teams that have a double digit net 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:02.040 rating in the playoffs Cavs and the Thunder. The Thunders 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.200 was nineteen for their series win against the Grizzlies. Not 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:09.720 a single Cleveland Cavalier had a net rating below twelve 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:14.120 when they were on court, so dominant every single guy 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.760 up and down the rotation. But it gets more wild 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.400 than that. The Cav's net rating with Donovan off the 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:23.120 floor was thirty points better. They're net rating with Darius 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.920 off the court was thirty one points better. Their net 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.720 rating with Evan off the court was thirty eight points better. 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.400 So keep that in mind. Those guys, like you know, 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:35.000 sometimes you see negative on off splits. Every single one 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.120 of these guys had an on court net rating of 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.680 over twelve. That means you are smoking them when you 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:44.000 are out there on the court. The Cavs three best players, 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.600 they managed to dominate this series when they were not 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.520 in the game. That is something, man like. That is something, 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.280 And it's not like they didn't do their part. Darius Garland, 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.920 I'll play Tyler hero in his minutes, Evan Mobley, I'll 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:00.640 play bam Adebayo. Donovan Mitchell one cold shooting game, but 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.640 you saw him close out Game two. He was phenomenal 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.400 in this series. I thought he played with a lot 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.640 of composure. He said after the game, you know, he 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.520 doesn't worry about rest versus rust kind of thing, because 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.880 he feels great. He said, it's the best he's felt 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.000 in the playoffs, and he will take all the rest 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.520 he can get. This Cavs team earned the rest that 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.840 they got, but what we have seen throughout the season 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:27.840 is they have put themselves in a position to capitalize 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:32.280 on this rest because throughout eighty two games they knew 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.880 they could trust guys five through ten on this roster 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:37.800 and even if he need be, Hey, we can throw 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.000 in a Jalen Tyson, we don't care Craig Porter Junior 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.040 can play. We know that these guys can give us 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.160 good minutes. We can play these guys at Madison Square 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.840 Garden in a game where where Donovan Mitchell is out 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.520 and go out and win. There is just such a 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.600 high level of trust and confidence, and I think that 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.680 translates to how they play, how connected they play on 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:57.560 both ends of the court. 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:03.160 It's also just such a testament to the front office 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:08.319 that you know, I still think is you know, one 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.560 of the occupational hazards of Kenny getting all this love 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.679 is that I feel like the front office isn't maybe 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:18.760 getting as many flowers as they deserve this season because 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:26.960 three years ago they traded for Donovan and the consensus 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:31.120 agreement is that was their all in move, no more 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:38.920 chips to cash, and and we kind of figured that, 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:43.160 you know, just logically, that this was a team that 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.319 was going to have to be really really really good 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:50.040 at the top four. And if those four guys were 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.880 great and meshed well together, they would be great. If 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.440 those guys weren't great, they it was going to be 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:02.800 uphill sludding, you know. And the fact that they've just like, 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:08.160 not only are they great and great together and able 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:12.560 to kind of raise, you know, raise the ceiling of 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:16.160 the team, it also just hasn't mattered if they have 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:20.560 been good, Like, like, they have so much depth, so 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:25.400 much insulation. You know, you trade two bench players and 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:29.280 Keris and Niang and a couple swaps of swaps, and 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.920 go get DeAndre Hunter, who was phenomenal in games three 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.440 and four. You pick up Ty Jerome off the scrap heap, 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.480 he loses an entire season, comes in third and six 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.720 Manut of the Year voting. You you've Dean Wade an 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:48.720 undrafted free agent, you know, just so Sam merrill A, 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.400 you know, a twenty six, twenty seven year old guy 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.080 you signed to your G League team, and then he 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:59.040 earned his way to the main roster like every even 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.480 Isaac o Kora, who was you know, the most traditional 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.360 path in you know, being a high pedigree pick, like 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.480 the roster is just padded out with every possible way 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:13.800 to add talent, you know, max in free agency. They 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:17.560 have such phenomenal depth, and all of it was earned 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.880 and and really worked for by this front office. And 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.840 they just deserve so much credit for that. Yeah, they 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:25.240 really do. 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:25.600 You know. 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:30.800 Even hey, Ricky Rubio, you know, unfortunately gets hurt. Were 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:33.000 what we believe in this team. We're going to flip 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.160 him with a first round pick to get Kris Lavert right, 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:37.680 and Carris gave them a lot of really good minutes. 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.920 You sign him to an extension. But then, hey, you know, 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.160 we we invested in Tidrome. This is someone that we've 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.000 wanted to bring into the locker room for a very 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.920 long time. It has been a perfect fit, and that 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.120 has afforded us the flexibility to go out and flip 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.200 you know, Karris Lavert and George Niang who was having 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:56.880 a great season for DeAndre Hunter right, developing Jeddi Osmond 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.840 and Lamar Stevens, both of them playing real minutes on 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:03.720 a fifty win team, which I think people forget and 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.320 using that as you know, sign and trade bait to 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.920 get Maxters right, Like, I think it goes beyond just 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:12.160 who they brought in, but the little kind of you know, 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.920 turning a paper clip into a house through you know, 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.400 seven thousand trades that Kobe Altman had to do to 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.800 really build a deep roster that can have sustained success 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.320 after really emptying the cupboard to give an honest effort 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.880 with Lebron James right and trying to contend as much 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.840 as possible in that four your windows. So I think 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.120 they deserve a ton of credit. I think we have 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.880 seen this team, whether the storm be in a position 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:44.480 where they could rest guys, and obviously that seems to 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:46.600 be the case with Darius Garland will knock on wood 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.840 and hope that it isn't something that lingers into the 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:52.520 Indiana series. But they've really really put themselves in a 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.560 great position and to be in a spot where you know, 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.800 you lose Darius, who's averaging twenty four points per game 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:04.000 in this series. I'm terrific two way basketball, and oh 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.040 now we can just kind of cycle in DeAndre Hunter, 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.440 who is a twenty point per game scorer in Atlanta. 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:14.520 He's gonna, you know, play alongside Ty Jerome, Evan Mobley, 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.639 Jared Allen, Donod Mitchell. We still have, you know, so 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:22.639 much top end scoring talent that unbelievable. I can't believe 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:24.919 we are in this good of a position because I 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.720 we always talk about the compromises you have to make 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.240 in roster building and team building. The Calves are in 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.880 a hell of a position and all of these guys 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.240 are at least locked up for the short term here. 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:43.880 Yeah, they are so so good again, I said after 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.000 Game three, now that the sweep is complete, I mean, 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.080 you know, and one thing I kind of chickened out 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.520 at the beginning of the SPoD because I kind of asked, you, 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:55.920 you know, could anything the way they play change the 0:17:55.960 --> 0:18:00.439 way you feel about them? Yeah? I mean I feel different. 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.280 I do feel different. I feel stronger about this team. 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.560 I feel stronger than if they had done what okay 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:12.280 see did, which was start off dominant, which, by the way, 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:14.399 the Cavs did too, but you know, start off o 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.760 mega dominant and then kind of tail off with a 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.560 couple close ones in Miami. If that's what they had done, 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:25.080 I'd be like, Okay, proud of them, but like you know, 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.320 and sweeps are hard. You don't you never, you know, 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:32.520 turn your nose up at any playoff win, But like, okay, 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.320 we'll see how the next series goes. I do feel 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:39.639 like the offense was so forceful, it was so dominant, 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:47.479 it was so frankly unbothered by anything Spolstra did. Zone 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:53.600 didn't work, down shift didn't work, switch more didn't work, 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:58.960 Trap in and blitz the ball handler didn't work. Fight 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:02.240 over and keep Davion Mitchell connected, so you couldn't get 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:07.320 advantageous switches didn't work. I don't think Miami did one 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:10.760 thing that late that worked for more than three minutes 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:14.640 at a time. In this series, not a single tactic 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:19.439 worked because of the offensive flexibility, the scheme versatility of 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:23.040 this team, the talent level of this team, the shot making, 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.640 the creativeness of their of the way that they attack 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:33.200 the passing. Just an absolute dominant offensive performance in every 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:34.119 single game. 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.360 Man, That's that's a lot of good points, and I'm 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:39.640 just so grateful that I have a tool like Zoomei 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:40.760 Companion to help keep. 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:41.040 Track of that. 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.320 Because only you can do your best work harder, Zuomei 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:46.119 Companion can help you do the rest, like automatically taking notes, 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:48.399 answering meeting questions, and helping you respond to your co 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:52.000 worker buildable no additional costs with eligible paid plans, Work 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:55.520 happy with Zuomei Companion. Carter, do you know who is 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.320 working happy tonight? Shared Allen. 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:02.239 Oh my god, six in the first half is that 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:03.439 TJ McConnell. 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:08.719 That is a Calves franchise playoff record. Six steals in 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:10.760 the first half. It's a record for a game. And 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.040 Jared did it in the first half. I thought he 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:15.800 really set the tone honestly when he got that steal 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.000 at the start of the game, when when full course 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:21.960 I did too, I was like, oh, yeah, they're focused. 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:26.159 Jared's locked in again. You know here, we're in a 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:27.280 very very good position. 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:31.560 And and conversely, the degree to which Miami was like 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:35.680 told me it was over. 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:38.840 It's one thing when you know Donovan goes coast to 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:41.399 coast for dunk, but when Jared Allen's just picking your 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.760 pocket and you know, bringing out the Statue of Liberty, which, hey, 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:46.560 it looked a lot cooler than when he tried to 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:49.680 do the Lebron dunk, So so points to him, big, 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:51.520 big shout out to him. I thought he had a 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:54.199 phenomenal series. This is two years in a row that 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:57.399 I thought he's been fantastic in the playoffs. You know, 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:01.439 people will linger on that Nix and forget this man 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:03.840 who was averaging you know, seventeen and fourteen. I believe 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:07.239 against Orlando before the broken rip. He is someone that 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:10.000 has come out and really made an impact in these 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:11.840 series and the one that we're going to need to 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:15.680 continue to rely on. I understand that Jared is more 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:20.120 than happy fighting for offensive rebounds, doing the dirty work, 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:23.720 hustle plays, getting the steals. I still think back to 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:25.840 that steal he had in Game two, which pretty much 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:28.240 sealed the game, like that was one of the biggest 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:31.800 plays of this entire series and has put them once 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:34.679 again in a position to capitalize on the rest that 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:40.000 they've afforded themselves here. So Jared, I know he's content with, 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:42.480 you know, getting the scraps and cleaning up on that, 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:45.040 but I just feel like he is such a talented finisher. 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:48.199 He is such a skilled offensive player that we're going 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:50.199 to need to continue to make sure that we are 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:53.840 keeping him involved offensively, because I think the most dynamic 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:58.000 version of this Cavs team is never relying too heavily 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:02.239 on you know, one or two players to you know, 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:05.520 do the heavy lifting here. When we have you know, three, 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:09.240 four five guys all cooking, that's when we really played 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:10.600 the best Cats basketball. 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:14.919 Jared Allen against the Miami Heat in four games, scores 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:18.520 fifty seven points, twenty one of twenty seven from the field, 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:24.160 fifteen of fifteen from the free throw line, forty one rebounds, 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:27.560 thirteen of them on the offensive end, uh so average 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:29.760 about three offensive rebounds a game a little bit more, 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:35.840 had ten steals like and was a plus seventy six. 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:38.800 I believe he led the team in plus minus. Nope, 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:45.119 I did it plus eighty eight, which is hilarious. You know, 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:49.000 just the consummate professional to your point, Like, I just 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:53.440