Speaker 1: Welcome in, What Drive with Think Right? Episode three point eighteen.
Speaker 1: What a sports week man, What a night last night?
Speaker 1: You know it's a big game with real emotions attached
Speaker 1: when if you're watching the game, you didn't find out
Speaker 1: until after the game was over with the postgame hugs. Wait.
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes was courtside the entire time, and they didn't
Speaker 1: show him once because they had to show the crowd,
Speaker 1: and they had to show Luca, and they had to
Speaker 1: show the Lakers and they celebrating Luca. They had to
Speaker 1: show Nico Harrison with his Mama mentality, hiding in the tunnel,
Speaker 1: surrounded by security in his own home stadium. They had
Speaker 1: to show Mark Cuban. What a night? And then it
Speaker 1: got even crazier after that. Oh my Warriors lose to
Speaker 1: Devin Castle, Draymond's defensive Player of the Year. Push takes
Speaker 1: a big hit if people are watching play in picture,
Speaker 1: messed up play off picture, weird. All that plus our
Speaker 1: NFC over unders plus in what missed the cut? Demons,
Speaker 1: Welcome in. And I don't know if you are even
Speaker 1: that aware. Do you know I'm aware what starts today?
Speaker 2: I'm aware?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what starts today? My friend It's the Master's awful,
Speaker 1: glorious sports on the pine straw and the patrons and
Speaker 1: the dollar fifty egg salad sandwiches. I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 1: You know, every once in a while, the sports gods
Speaker 1: frown upon me because and I have to keep my
Speaker 1: voice down on this because your mom, I think, is
Speaker 1: twenty feet that way. But I'm in a bit of
Speaker 1: a pickle, my friend. Here's the deal. Sunday, final day
Speaker 1: of the NBA season, Clippers Warriors likely decides who the
Speaker 1: Lakers Round one matchup is going to be. Who's in
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Speaker 1: one of my favorite sports days of the year. It
Speaker 1: is also my anniversary.
Speaker 3: Yeah I was, Yeah, I was just the boy. Oh
Speaker 3: boy you are.
Speaker 1: We have found ourselves boxed in a bit, however that
Speaker 1: we will deal with that when we get to that.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, I'll tell you right now the best
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Speaker 3: Yeah, very emotional game last night. It was Luca's first
Speaker 3: time returning to Dallas since being traded. Originally, the fans
Speaker 3: would super hyped to see him. Really, it seems like
Speaker 3: a lot of fans are wearing the thank you for
Speaker 3: everything in Slovenian shirts.
Speaker 2: They're cheering for him.
Speaker 3: I basically after every bucket, you know, they still got
Speaker 3: the love for Luca. And then he torched them score
Speaker 3: forty five points. What did you think of this whole game,
Speaker 3: this whole situation.
Speaker 1: Right, I was amazed by what Luca did. And one
Speaker 1: of my go to beliefs in sports is a very
Speaker 1: simple phrase, but it explains a lot, and that is
Speaker 1: legendary players do legendary things. And Luca watching what I
Speaker 1: thought was almost a too well produced pregame video, I
Speaker 1: thought that was almost too well done because it really
Speaker 1: hit home, if it hadn't already, how outrageous the trade was,
Speaker 1: and how blind sighted Luca was by it, and how
Speaker 1: great he was. I was wondering how they would approach it,
Speaker 1: how they would approach this video. Would they include the
Speaker 1: step back three over Rudy Gobert in the conference finals
Speaker 1: to give them a a stranglehold on making their first
Speaker 1: NBA finals since Dirk was there, since their championship in
Speaker 1: eleven And the answer was, yeah, we're gonna do a
Speaker 1: real tribute to Luca. As if this franchise didn't spend
Speaker 1: the last six weeks calling him and out of shape
Speaker 1: alcoholic that we couldn't trust with three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: million dollars. They did, and it really affected Luca. He's crying.
Speaker 1: He so again. Up for those of us, I know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's some people listening or watching that cry
Speaker 1: all the time, and there's some people listening or watching
Speaker 1: who never cry. I think most of us are probably in,
Speaker 1: you know, the middle part of that bell curve where
Speaker 1: we're not never ever criers, but we are incredibly rare criers.
Speaker 1: Think back to the last time something affected you so
Speaker 1: much that you were brought to tears in public, and
Speaker 1: then think would you have been at your best professionally
Speaker 1: ninety seconds later? I wouldn't have been.
Speaker 3: He was.
Speaker 1: He lit them on on fire from start to finish,
Speaker 1: while dealing with the unbelievable and indescribable emotion that honestly,
Speaker 1: almost no athlete in modern sports history has had to
Speaker 1: deal with quite that. A guy that good, that young
Speaker 1: in that sport, who didn't want to be traded, who
Speaker 1: thought I'm going to be here forever, who gets the
Speaker 1: rug pulled out from under him in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night, and then has to deal with learning secondhand that, Oh,
Speaker 1: evidently a lot of these people that I worked for
Speaker 1: didn't believe in me, didn't like me, didn't trust me,
Speaker 1: are totally fine with trashing me a nightonymously or on
Speaker 1: the record, dealing with all of that. And then he
Speaker 1: scores forty five, is the best player on the court,
Speaker 1: thirty one in the first half, channels it all into
Speaker 1: his individual greatness. That is as legendary as it as
Speaker 1: you will ever see. And I saw the stat and
Speaker 1: it's a great one that Luca becomes the first player
Speaker 1: you'll like this demonse, the first player in more than
Speaker 1: fifty years to score forty five plus points for a
Speaker 1: team and then forty five plus points against that team
Speaker 1: in the same season. And I'll tell you who the
Speaker 1: guy was who did it before. But think about what
Speaker 1: the needle you have to thread for that to happen.
Speaker 1: You have to be good enough to where you have
Speaker 1: multiple forty five point games. You also have to be
Speaker 1: traded during the year. The last guy that did that,
Speaker 1: the only guy to do that was Wilt. But Wilt
Speaker 1: was a bit of a no mad's too strong, but
Speaker 1: he moved around. He also was similarly to Luca, I
Speaker 1: think unfairly maligned or not fully appreciated for how great
Speaker 1: he truly was. But Wilt didn't get traded against his will.
Speaker 1: Wilt didn't get blindsided by it. And for Luca to
Speaker 1: be able to do that, and for the Lakers to
Speaker 1: embrace him the way they have Lebron is you know,
Speaker 1: cheering on the crowd when they're chanting Luca. Luca the
Speaker 1: embrace with his teammates right after the introductions, everybody kind
Speaker 1: of taking a step back and saying, this is Luca's moment.
Speaker 1: If you're a vibes reader, the Lakers vibes are absolutely
Speaker 1: off the charts right now. And you now can tick
Speaker 1: tick tick your way through the Western Conference potential playoff teams,
Speaker 1: and you are going to find that nobody has an
Speaker 1: answer to this question, what defense can deal with that, dude?
Speaker 1: And the answer is none of them. The Thunder with
Speaker 1: their ten awesome wing defenders, Nope. The MAVs with all
Speaker 1: of their sinners healthy in that size, Nope, Nobody when
Speaker 1: he is dialed. The only player in the league who
Speaker 1: has a similar offensive impact is Nikali Jokic, and Jokich's
Speaker 1: second best player is dealing with a hamstring, and we
Speaker 1: don't know if he's gonna come back, And Luca's second
Speaker 1: best player is Lebron freaking James, And so I said
Speaker 1: it last night, I will say it again. The Celtics
Speaker 1: can beat the Lakers. I don't know that they will.
Speaker 1: They can. I don't think anyone else can beat this
Speaker 1: team as presently constituted four times in seven games, because
Speaker 1: Luca going forty five, eight and six is not like,
Speaker 1: oh man, when's he gonna do that again? Probably three
Speaker 1: or four times in the playoffs. He already. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna risk messing up the internet here and I apologize,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna look this up on the fly because
Speaker 1: this is one of my favorite stats, which is Luca,
Speaker 1: who's again has not played seven full seasons fine players.
Speaker 1: I have to find the fine totals from all games,
Speaker 1: most games of combined seasons. There it is career four
Speaker 1: thirty point playoff games NBA history, and the top of
Speaker 1: the list is what you would expect. But what's going
Speaker 1: to shock you is where Luca already is on it.
Speaker 1: So top of the list, Jordan, Lebron, Jerry West, those
Speaker 1: are the only people with even twenty of them. Okay,
Speaker 1: next highest is Elgind Baylor, and Kevin Durant with fourteen,
Speaker 1: So again, fourteen is fourth most in NBA history. Wilt
Speaker 1: had thirteen, Kobe had thirteen, Shack had twelve. Kareem, who
Speaker 1: played for twenty plus years and was the all timing scorer,
Speaker 1: had nine. Luca's got eight. Luca has more career forty
Speaker 1: point playoff games already than he is, the same number
Speaker 1: as Steph. He has more than Dirk, he has more
Speaker 1: than Bird, he has more than Berkley. He is more
Speaker 1: than Kawhi, he is more than Joker, he has more
Speaker 1: than Magic. He The only players in league history with
Speaker 1: more than him are Kareem, Iverson, Harden, dream Shaq, Kobe,
Speaker 1: Will Durant, Elgin, West Bron, Jordan. That's it. So Luca
Speaker 1: dropping forty on your head like he did last night,
Speaker 1: That's gonna happen a few times in the playoffs Lebron
Speaker 1: thanks to Luca being there, being able to do exactly
Speaker 1: what he did last night, which is I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: at about half speed for three quarters and then I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be the best player on the damn planet in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter on both ends of the court. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be available to the Laker And what's going to
Speaker 1: determine do the Lakers look like the best team in
Speaker 1: the league or do they look like a team that
Speaker 1: is slightly vulnerable. Is going to be do Dorian Finney, Smith,
Speaker 1: Gabe Vincent Ruy, Hatchamora hit the wide open, spoon fed
Speaker 1: threes that Luca is going to deliver to them, because
Speaker 1: that's what they're going to live on. So the Lakers
Speaker 1: are the most dangerous team in the NBA because of
Speaker 1: that guy. And I think Demands might think I'm overstating
Speaker 1: this a bit, and so I'm I'm I'm open to
Speaker 1: the discussion on it before we get to the Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis side of it, But go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think the Celtics are the most
Speaker 3: dangerous team in the league, and then the Lakers fall
Speaker 3: like shortly after that. I mean, we just obviously have
Speaker 3: the death and we definitely have the defenders.
Speaker 2: Said deal with Luka Doncic.
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously you're not gonna hold Luca at twenty fifteen,
Speaker 3: fifteen whatever.
Speaker 2: But you know, so here is the.
Speaker 1: Thing about that. So this, listen, the Celtics are unbelievable, unbelievable,
Speaker 1: and the argument is a pretty clean one, which is
Speaker 1: the Celtics played Luca in the finals last year and
Speaker 1: they won. My counterpoint to that would be a relatively
Speaker 1: simple one. Luca in those finals was twenty nine nine
Speaker 1: and six, despite in those finals not being able to
Speaker 1: hit threes twenty four percent from three after forty three
Speaker 1: percent the previous line the round. The number that to
Speaker 1: me is the most noteworthy on that Lucas stat line
Speaker 1: is not the twenty nine points, but it's the only
Speaker 1: five and a half assists a game, and that was
Speaker 1: a symptom of not shooters. Well he had the shooters,
Speaker 1: they just didn't hit shots. And so what happened in
Speaker 1: those finals is Kyrie eight of twenty nine from three. PJ.
Speaker 1: Washington six of twenty two from three. Derek Jones Junior
Speaker 1: is again you can't really rely on him big time
Speaker 1: for threes three of twelve from three. The team as
Speaker 1: a whole thirty one percent from three. So I don't
Speaker 1: know that we saw the Celtics cut Luca's water off.
Speaker 1: What they did was and with their great defenders, make
Speaker 1: the role player really struggle. But Kyrie in those finals
Speaker 1: was nineteen three and five, and as I mentioned, twenty
Speaker 1: seven percent from three. Lebron ain't doing that if you
Speaker 1: guys match up and so again, I am not acting
Speaker 1: like the Lakers deserve to be some big favorite. I
Speaker 1: am not acting like the Celtics are not a deserving champion.
Speaker 1: What I am saying is Luca gave you a little
Speaker 1: glimpse last night of what playoff Luca looks like. And that,
Speaker 1: alongside what appears to be for one of the only
Speaker 1: times in his Lakers tenure, fingers crossed, two games left
Speaker 1: a Lebron James that is going to be rested and
Speaker 1: healthy going into the playoffs. Look Out, Now, Lebron was
Speaker 1: healthy going into the twenty twenty playoffs they won the title.
Speaker 1: Lebron was healthy going into the twenty three playoffs they
Speaker 1: made it the conference finals.
Speaker 3: All right, we're saying he's healthy. Now, we'll hear nothing
Speaker 3: about a groin later. You know things, well.
Speaker 1: I mean if he again, if he right, No, he
Speaker 1: is healthy now. Now, guys can get hurtous, obviously, but
Speaker 1: I'm but no, you're right that if he doesn't suffer
Speaker 1: an injury and then you know what I mean, plays poorly,
Speaker 1: you can't put it on injury. But that's The thing
Speaker 1: is this, It simply doesn't happen. So like we have
Speaker 1: twenty years of evidence that healthy Lebron doesn't play poorly
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. All right, let's go to the other
Speaker 1: side of this game.
Speaker 2: For a moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw on the other side of it Anthony
Speaker 3: Davis was playing his ex team as well. That doesn't
Speaker 3: really seem to be making noise.
Speaker 1: Well, so here's why I think, because it wasn't in
Speaker 1: LA I think because nobody felt like I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody felt like the Lakers betrayed Ad because it's just
Speaker 1: a trade you have to make. I also think this
Speaker 1: last night was a great example of why AD is
Speaker 1: such a frustrating great player. And last night was also
Speaker 1: a good example of the gap between all time great
Speaker 1: and legend because Anthony Davis in that game, with the
Speaker 1: Lakers not having a real sinner and him fully healthy,
Speaker 1: you would have liked to see him be like, listen,
Speaker 1: one way or another, I'm getting my thirty or at
Speaker 1: least twenty five and putting my imprint on the game. Instead. Listen,
Speaker 1: he was good defensively, and he had thirteen points. And
Speaker 1: it's why AD is again as great as he is
Speaker 1: a frustrating guy at times because he doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: always have that extra gear that you would want and
Speaker 1: the right He is not a guy that you can
Speaker 1: just say, oh, the moment calls for it. Therefore, he's
Speaker 1: going to be brilliant, at least on the offensive end. Now. Defensively,
Speaker 1: everybody still brings up the Lakers free throw edge over
Speaker 1: the last few years and all of these things. That's
Speaker 1: an Anthony Davis stat not because he's drawing so many fouls,
Speaker 1: but because he is and has been, and it's criminal.
Speaker 1: This guy's gonna go his whole career without winning a
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year. But he has been the
Speaker 1: best rim protector in the league for a half decade
Speaker 1: plus now, and he can protect the rim without fouling,
Speaker 1: which is what led to those free throw discrepancies. And
Speaker 1: he was able to do a lot of that last night.
Speaker 1: But thirteen points in that moment is just a bummer,
Speaker 1: all right, But one other thing, Let's do one other
Speaker 1: thing on Luca.
Speaker 3: Luca's ejection on Tuesday. What are your what are your thoughts?
Speaker 3: How do you feel about that?
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on it?
Speaker 3: My thoughts on it are I do think that I
Speaker 3: watched the show a little bit yesterday and something resonated
Speaker 3: with me. I do think that Luka Doncic is he
Speaker 3: needs to be available throughout games, and I think that
Speaker 3: he should stop taking himself out with with the whole
Speaker 3: winding and complaining about the call. I am not on
Speaker 3: the ref side in that instant in that instance, but
Speaker 3: I would like to see Luca stop yelling at the
Speaker 3: refs and just get back on defense.
Speaker 2: Occasionally it's like, come.
Speaker 1: On, man, Okay, that's a fair critique. It's also never
Speaker 1: gonna happen, and so it's just like it's just he
Speaker 1: has to play aggrieved. It also was such an outrageous
Speaker 1: ejection and so easily fixable when you realized what had
Speaker 1: happened that I Bruin Wilde's got mad at me, but
Speaker 1: I said that I don't think that jt Or, the
Speaker 1: ref who did it, should be refing playoff games if
Speaker 1: that's the type of ref he is. I then read
Speaker 1: this morning, jt Or, in his thirteen year career, has
Speaker 1: refed a grand total of one playoff game. So it
Speaker 1: looks like the league maybe already recognized that. But he
Speaker 1: made it was let's say it again.
Speaker 2: He made it personal, and he made it personal.
Speaker 1: From the very beginning. When you tell Jared vander both
Speaker 1: texts he gave Luca were totally unreasonable. One Luca's running
Speaker 1: up court arguing not on his behalf, but on Vanderbilt's
Speaker 1: behalf because Vanderbilt got hit in the face. He's not
Speaker 1: in the ref's face, he's fifteen feet from him. Gives
Speaker 1: him a tech, then tells Vanderbilt, I'll talk to anyone
Speaker 1: but Luca. And the next one. Here's why I found
Speaker 1: it so outrageous. It was not a reasonable misunderstanding because
Speaker 1: Luca didn't get there was There was no potential foul
Speaker 1: on the play. It's Luca had made the shot, Luke,
Speaker 1: So the context of it is really important. Luca had
Speaker 1: just come in from off the bench, so it's not
Speaker 1: like he and the ref had been going back and forth,
Speaker 1: you know, over the last few minutes. He had just
Speaker 1: come back in the game. There was no contact whatsoever
Speaker 1: on the shot. So it wasn't one of those I
Speaker 1: made the shot, but I should have gotten an and
Speaker 1: one bleep you for not giving it to me, which
Speaker 1: you do see all the time.
Speaker 3: Or maybe it was like few I hit the shot
Speaker 3: like that's what the ref perceived it as, like he's
Speaker 3: talking he's talking trash after he hits the shot, like
Speaker 3: fu ref.
Speaker 1: Basically, yeah, you better be damn certain who he's talking
Speaker 1: to and what he's saying. If it's the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: of a huge game and a guy already has one
Speaker 1: technical and part of being in a fit in very
Speaker 1: very kind of simple terms mixed metaphors a bit being
Speaker 1: in a fit kind of like being a cop. We
Speaker 1: give you a ton of power and we trust that
Speaker 1: even if you have pulled me over a dozen times
Speaker 1: before and each time I've said f you hate you,
Speaker 1: bleep you, that when you walk to my car on
Speaker 1: the thirteenth time, you are going to act with the
Speaker 1: professionalism and demeanor of someone who's first meeting me. And
Speaker 1: you might be like, that's unreasonable. That's the job. That
Speaker 1: is the job. And you, when you have a disproportionate
Speaker 1: power over another person, because you are the enforcer of
Speaker 1: the rules, you have an obligation to leave your baggage
Speaker 1: court side, and not everybody can do it. And so
Speaker 1: if you were going.
Speaker 3: To go ahead, like how after Draymond gets a technical
Speaker 3: and at how much leeway.
Speaker 2: He gets the opposite.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like it takes a lot for him to get
Speaker 3: that second technical and it was like a.
Speaker 1: No, and so it was. But whatever, I mean, the
Speaker 1: Lakers got the worst case scenario would have been. And
Speaker 1: I actually think for the Thunder, here's the part of
Speaker 1: that ejection that sucks for the Thunder. The Thunder don't
Speaker 1: feel great about that win. Now the the the and
Speaker 1: the Thunder could have won that game. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think they were going to because you were
Speaker 1: just about to get rested Luca down the stretch. But maybe.
Speaker 1: But now the Thunder, like, man, they beat us in
Speaker 1: our building. Bad. We then emptied the clip on him
Speaker 1: in the first half. They clawed back, they're up one
Speaker 1: and then Luca gets thrown out like so it was
Speaker 1: just bad all around. All right, Let's go to the
Speaker 1: rest of the Western Gonbertz playoffs.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so next time we have our next episode,
Speaker 3: the regular season will be wrapped up and the top
Speaker 3: seeds all the way down to the plane will be decided.
Speaker 3: The funny little wrinkle is the Warriors just blew that
Speaker 3: game to the Spurs last night. So are we potentially
Speaker 3: looking at Lakers in Golden State playing in the first round.
Speaker 1: So I know this. The standings make it seem like
Speaker 1: that because of last night is less likely. In reality,
Speaker 1: because of last night, it's more likely. I'll explain that
Speaker 1: in a moment, But first, let me talk about that
Speaker 1: Warriors game. That's a terrible loss, and it had a
Speaker 1: lot of the a lot of the warning signs of
Speaker 1: bad Warriors losses from the past, most notably horrific turnovers
Speaker 1: down the stretch. So if you weren't watching that game,
Speaker 1: I want to just give you the play by pardon me,
Speaker 1: the play by play of the last few minutes because
Speaker 1: the war Let me actually back up a little bit more.
Speaker 1: The Warriors were up big, up double digits early. The
Speaker 1: Spurs then have a monster second quarter to take a
Speaker 1: lead going into halftime, but that doesn't matter because the
Speaker 1: Warriors beat the Spurs in the third quarter thirty seven
Speaker 1: to twenty one, and they go into the final period
Speaker 1: up a dozen. So it's a game you've got to have.
Speaker 1: You're up a dozen on a Spurs team that you
Speaker 1: know does not necessarily want to win, and despite that,
Speaker 1: they find themselves in a dog fight tie game after
Speaker 1: a castle three with five minutes remaining. And then this
Speaker 1: is where you get to, in my opinion, the concern
Speaker 1: points for the Warriors. Okay, so I'm pulling up the
Speaker 1: play by play here. Once we get to all right,
Speaker 1: two and a half minutes left, Spurs turn the ball over.
Speaker 1: Warriors up one, Draymond Green bad pass turnover. They then
Speaker 1: exchange buckets. Minute left Draymond Green, bad pass turnover, thirty
Speaker 1: seconds left Steph Curry bad pass turnover. Sandwiched in the
Speaker 1: middle of that, after a really good Draymond Green defensive
Speaker 1: play and transition, Keldon Johnson goes right at Draymond, gets
Speaker 1: a layup. Keldon Johnson then goes right at Draymond and
Speaker 1: gets another layup for a guy who's doing a full
Speaker 1: blown media blitz about how he's defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: That was a rough sequence, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they're down two, and then the Spurs screw up. The
Speaker 1: Spurs are up too with five seconds left, and Harrison
Speaker 1: Barnes panics and basically hugs Draymond. They've gotten the ball
Speaker 1: out of Steph's hands. He fouls Draymond as if he
Speaker 1: thought they had a foul to give. They didn't. You're
Speaker 1: up to five seconds off, Draymond has the ball, you
Speaker 1: foul him. He makes both. Credit Den for that. I
Speaker 1: thought he was gonna miss one. He makes both, and
Speaker 1: now you're staring at overtime. And then Harrison Barnes, former
Speaker 1: Warrior champion, bangs home the three, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the Warriors now and now we can show the Western
Speaker 1: Conference standings. Here's where we're at. The Lakers are forty
Speaker 1: nine and thirty one with games against Houston and Portland remaining.
Speaker 1: Win one and they lock in the three seed. So
Speaker 1: the Lakers are going to be the three seed. Maybe
Speaker 1: they beat Houston. If they don't beat Houston, they will
Speaker 1: beat Portland in game eighty two that Portland doesn't want,
Speaker 1: so they're locked. We now have very tricky setups. Denver
Speaker 1: and the Clippers both forty eight and thirty two. Memphis
Speaker 1: has three games left their forty seven and thirty two,
Speaker 1: the Warriors forty seven and thirty three, and Minnesota forty
Speaker 1: six and thirty three. So here's what the nut nut
Speaker 1: of this really is. On the Warriors side of things,
Speaker 1: Let's assume they're beating Portland. That gets them to forty
Speaker 1: eight wins. If they beat the Clippers, I would then
Speaker 1: expect the Warriors to end up the sixth seed and
Speaker 1: playing the Lakers in Round one. The schedules for the
Speaker 1: following teams are for the teams are as follows. Denver
Speaker 1: has Memphis and then Houston. The Clippers have Sacramento and
Speaker 1: then the Warriors. Memphis has Minnesota, then Denver, then Dallas,
Speaker 1: Golden State, Portland and the Clippers and Minnesota at Memphis
Speaker 1: and then Brooklyn in Utah. So Minnesota right now is
Speaker 1: the eight, but they have two auto wins to end
Speaker 1: the year. So if Minnesota wins tonight at Memphis, they
Speaker 1: are going to finish forty nine and thirty three. It
Speaker 1: is very, very difficult to handicap exactly what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: What you can handicap is this, Denver has one super
Speaker 1: meaningful game left against Memphis, the game at Houston. I
Speaker 1: just wonder if Houston's gonna be sitting guys. My guess
Speaker 1: is they will. The Clippers have won super meaningful game
Speaker 1: left at the Warriors memph Memphis has two super meaningful
Speaker 1: games left home for Minnesota at Denver and then obviously
Speaker 1: the game that will likely determine, not likely definitively will
Speaker 1: determine a huge amount in the Western Conference. Is Clippers
Speaker 1: Warriors game eighty two, three point thirty Sunday afternoon, probably
Speaker 1: on ABC. The loser of that game probably goes to
Speaker 1: the play in. The winner of that game is going
Speaker 1: to be either the I think well not is going
Speaker 1: to be the four to the five or the six.
Speaker 1: Here is the part that might surprise the audience. If
Speaker 1: I'm the Lakers, I would rather play right now Golden
Speaker 1: State then play the Clippers. I think that the Clippers,
Speaker 1: with Kawhi having a week off between the playoffs because
Speaker 1: of the play in and them playing so well right
Speaker 1: now and Zubots being a real force when the Lakers
Speaker 1: don't have a center, I think that is a tougher
Speaker 1: matchup than a Golden State team that reminded you last night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we can beat anybody, but we can lose to anybody
Speaker 1: in big spots, and so I it's almost impossible to
Speaker 1: handicap how it's going to fall exactly. I know that
Speaker 1: Minnesota right now is sick because Minnesota, if they didn't
Speaker 1: blow that twenty six point lead to the Bucks night
Speaker 1: before last, they're sitting there at forty seven and thirty
Speaker 1: two with games against Brooklyn and Utah remaining, and they
Speaker 1: are in great shape to get up to the four
Speaker 1: five line. I'll tell you something else. The Warriors being
Speaker 1: in the play in is devastating for them. You can
Speaker 1: be like, oh, well, you know, as long as you
Speaker 1: win your play in game, you get Houston, Houston fully rested.
Speaker 1: That defense is not go ahead.
Speaker 2: Demanse, young and energetic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: You lose your play in game and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you find you find yourself in a one and done.
Speaker 1: You'd win it, I would imagine, But now you're going
Speaker 1: to Oklahoma City. And this is also where I remind
Speaker 1: you the Warriors history in the play in is not great.
Speaker 1: The Warriors in twenty twenty one lost two play in
Speaker 1: games and missed the playoffs. And the Warriors last year
Speaker 1: again in things that we just memory hole, we just
Speaker 1: vacillate between the Warriors, are you know Steph is in
Speaker 1: the goat conversation and disregarding the fact that last year
Speaker 1: the Warriors in the play in lost to Sacramento. The
Speaker 1: season was just over, lost to the Kings in a
Speaker 1: one and done season over good night, good luck. So
Speaker 1: the Warriors historically have played three play in games. Lebron
Speaker 1: hit the three rim three over steph to beat him
Speaker 1: in their first. The young upstart Grizzlies back when the
Speaker 1: Grizzlies were fun beat them in the second one in
Speaker 1: Golden State to knock them out of the playoffs. And
Speaker 1: last year the Sacramento Kings beat them to knock him
Speaker 1: out of the playoffs. And so again, like since Durant left,
Speaker 1: the Warriors seasons have gone, missed the playoffs, missed the playoffs,
Speaker 1: won the damn title, lost in round two to Lebron,
Speaker 1: missed the playoffs, and now this year, if you froze
Speaker 1: the standings right now, they're in the play in again.
Speaker 1: And by the way, there is no team in the
Speaker 1: league that wishes you could freeze the standings right now,
Speaker 1: like the Lakers where they get Memphis in round one,
Speaker 1: which is the dream. Denver and the Clippers and the
Speaker 1: Thunder are all on the other side of the bracket,
Speaker 1: and the Warriors have to play play in games. That
Speaker 1: is the dream bracket. It almost It's not gonna stay
Speaker 1: like this though, because these too many of these teams
Speaker 1: play each other. But that is the standings as we
Speaker 1: sit here today. By the way, for people watching live,
Speaker 1: couple things. One is we appreciate you. Second is please like, rate, subscribe, review,
Speaker 1: do all those things. It really does help us, and it,
Speaker 1: you know, leads to us, you know, being doing more
Speaker 1: of the kind of surprise shows or instant reaction shows.
Speaker 1: They asked me yesterday, Paul texts me, He's like, hey,
Speaker 1: you want to do a snap reaction right after the
Speaker 1: game quick? And I was like, you know, I would,
Speaker 1: but tonight was a bottle of wine night while I'm
Speaker 1: watching the NBA, and I just don't. I just don't
Speaker 1: think it's a good idea. But also, people watching live,
Speaker 1: you can throw questions in the chat and we'll get
Speaker 1: to him, get to him later. So there was gosh
Speaker 1: darn it, oh there was something. Oh Edwin. Edwin in
Speaker 1: the chat says, don't sleep on playoff Jimmy. So again,
Speaker 1: this is where the producers are gonna get mad at me,
Speaker 1: because this is where I do open up a bunch
Speaker 1: of basketball reference pages and it might mess up my
Speaker 1: internet a touch. Here is my only pushback. Anybody that's
Speaker 1: watched the TV show over the last few years has
Speaker 1: known no one has prayed at the altar of playoff
Speaker 1: Jimmy more than me that I've said he's a different guy.
Speaker 1: When they made the fine against the Nuggets, I did
Speaker 1: a whole thing about how if he wins the title,
Speaker 1: his resume versus James Harden's resume is one of the
Speaker 1: more fun NBA Roars Shark tests of all time, all
Speaker 1: of it. But I do think there is reasonable reason
Speaker 1: for concern that the playoff Jimmy we are used to
Speaker 1: might not be around this year. So here's what I mean.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, Jimmy Butler was twenty one six
Speaker 1: and six in the regular season and then bumped that
Speaker 1: in the playoffs to twenty seven, seven and five. So
Speaker 1: he was a twenty two point a game guy who
Speaker 1: bumped it up to twenty seven in the playoffs. The
Speaker 1: next year, in the regular season he was twenty three
Speaker 1: a game and an All NBA second teamer, and then
Speaker 1: in the playoffs he bumped it to twenty seven a game.
Speaker 1: Here's the point I'm making. Historically, playoff Jimmy means bump
Speaker 1: my scoring average by about four points. This year, he's
Speaker 1: a seventeen point a game guy, and he's with the
Speaker 1: Warriors forty six percent from the field and twenty eight
Speaker 1: percent from three. So even if you get the playoff,
Speaker 1: Jimmy bump, he does not appear to be quite the
Speaker 1: player he was when he would What Jimmy would do
Speaker 1: is go from being a B plus guy to an
Speaker 1: A guy. What if now that means he goes from
Speaker 1: a B B B minus guy to a B plus guy.
Speaker 1: That's a concern. So that that's my only pushback on that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the other big news of
Speaker 1: the week before we do our NFL over unders for
Speaker 1: the NFC go ahead.
Speaker 3: So right after our show on Tuesday, Denver they fired
Speaker 3: their head coach, Mike or Michael Malone and Calvin Booth,
Speaker 3: which is just really weird. They're they're in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: It's a funny time. And then last night they got
Speaker 3: the win. They took care of business against the Kings,
Speaker 3: and Jokic had this to say post game. People said,
Speaker 3: we are vulnerable, but I think the Beast is always
Speaker 3: the strongest of the most dangerous when they are vulnerable.
Speaker 3: So maybe Josh Kronk woke up the beast.
Speaker 1: Josh Crony, the owner of the team.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's that's what's going on. In Denver right.
Speaker 1: Now, So listen. I I don't think it's a good
Speaker 1: sign when you fire your coach.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: It Also there's other reporting shocker that the GM and
Speaker 1: some players were frustrated that Michael Malone kept playing Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook in big spots like man in a Tough Spot.
Speaker 1: But I've seen that movie before. Because they won last night,
Speaker 1: people I think are trying to convince themselves, oh, well,
Speaker 1: maybe this was what the team needed. I don't buy
Speaker 1: that at all. I'm not saying this was a disaster.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's crazy to fire Michael Malone. What
Speaker 1: I am saying is that they have and last night,
Speaker 1: Daniel points out, is the first game since December fifth
Speaker 1: that Westbrook played fewer than twenty minutes. Got it. But
Speaker 1: what the Nuggets need, obviously is Jamal Murray to come
Speaker 1: back from his injury. But what the Nuggets also need
Speaker 1: that Jamal Murray coming back from his injury is not
Speaker 1: going to have an impact on is to have a
Speaker 1: passable defense, and they don't. So as great as Joe,
Speaker 1: I watched that game last night because I had a
Speaker 1: nice little Lakers Thunder Clippers Kings five and a half
Speaker 1: to one parlay and the Lakers won. That is all
Speaker 1: money line. The Clippers won against the Rockets backups the
Speaker 1: thunder one despite playing their own backups because the Suns
Speaker 1: have quit. And then I was like, all right, we'll
Speaker 1: see how the Nuggets react to the firing. And the
Speaker 1: Nuggets did react well to the firing, but they still
Speaker 1: just can't guard anybody, and so I don't I don't
Speaker 1: think I think they're scary because they have the best
Speaker 1: player in the world. I don't think they're dangerous when
Speaker 1: it comes to a deep playoff run. As far as Deman'
Speaker 1: say what it means for Joker, they don't have a
Speaker 1: ton of flexibility they can try to trade for Durant.
Speaker 1: I think the only way that would happen would be
Speaker 1: if Durant demanded to go there. Because they're not going
Speaker 1: to have the best package they could go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what Jamal Murray's like contract situation is. Well,
Speaker 3: shouldn't they just try and shop him get some assets
Speaker 3: for Jamal Murray if that's possible.
Speaker 1: I don't know if his I mean, the contract situation
Speaker 1: is a MAX deal that has not gone into effect yet, right,
Speaker 1: And I think that they probably feel like the Jokich
Speaker 1: Murray combo they want to keep together. It's Michael Porter
Speaker 1: Junior that they would betray him and listen, I am
Speaker 1: pretty confident that if they wanted to, they could get
Speaker 1: Paul George. But that contract seems to be underwater. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: but they just don't have a ton of flexibility. Like Daniels,
Speaker 1: a resident Nuggets fan, hates the idea of Paul George.
Speaker 1: I would call New Orleans over the summer about zion
Speaker 1: I still you're It feels to me we have these
Speaker 1: two multi time MVP, one time champion, one playoff appearance,
Speaker 1: generational international superstar, top twenty all time guys, and Giannis
Speaker 1: and Jokic and they've now both dealt with the coach firings.
Speaker 1: The Nuggets are yet to make the panic trade. But
Speaker 1: you do it because you don't want the guy to
Speaker 1: ask out, and Jokic doesn't seem like he would ask out,
Speaker 1: but it would be reasonable.
Speaker 3: Well from that, well, he said on the firing, he
Speaker 3: knew a little bit before everybody, and he told me
Speaker 3: we made a decision, so it was not a discussion.
Speaker 3: It was a decision, and they told me why, so
Speaker 3: I listened and I accepted it. So it's not like
Speaker 3: them firing Michael Malone would have determined like it didn't
Speaker 3: seem like he was tired of Michael Malone.
Speaker 1: So well, So listen, I don't I I think that
Speaker 1: Jokic probably if he desperately wanted them to keep Malone,
Speaker 1: think that kept him for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: But I don't blame Listen, he was there for ten years.
Speaker 1: If they thought the message was stale or whatever, it's fine.
Speaker 1: I have no issue with that piece of it. My
Speaker 1: point is whether or not Jokic feels like this is
Speaker 1: the best place for they're gonna give me the best
Speaker 1: chance to win a championship, and whether or not the
Speaker 1: cronkeys thriftiness in not keeping KCP costs us a chance
Speaker 1: at winning this championship. Uh yeah, I mean death asks
Speaker 1: in the chat, do you think the Nuggets fired him
Speaker 1: alone because they were worried they might go on a
Speaker 1: run which would make firing him harder. Later listen, the
Speaker 1: owners said something along the lines of, sometimes you know
Speaker 1: there's real issues and wins cover up those issues. I
Speaker 1: I think that's silly, Like, what are we saying here
Speaker 1: that the Nuggets were like worried they were gonna win
Speaker 1: the championship and therefore not be able to fire the coach.
Speaker 1: If they win the championship, you don't want to fire
Speaker 1: the coach. They're saying they were worried that they were
Speaker 1: gonna win a couple of rounds in the playoffs and
Speaker 1: then not be able to fire the coach. Sure you can't.
Speaker 1: The damn four seeding fired him three days for the
Speaker 1: play three answer for the playoffs, Like, so, I don't
Speaker 1: really buy that rationale. I do think that this is
Speaker 1: a very interesting summer for Joker, and just is what
Speaker 1: it is. It's a really interesting summer for Joker before
Speaker 1: we get to the Jos stuff, and we might we
Speaker 1: might do the NFC stuff next week. I know that
Speaker 1: we said we're gonna do it today, but we might
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Speaker 1: of might make more sense because next week during the
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Speaker 1: co slash b ball. Before we get to the listener
Speaker 1: questions demands, let's talk about this job Morant.
Speaker 3: So obviously John Morants had the problems with the gun
Speaker 3: celebrations in the league find him. I think it was
Speaker 3: like seventy five thousand or something like that. So he
Speaker 3: he debuted a new celebration and it's a it's a
Speaker 3: grenade tossed into the crowd.
Speaker 2: How do we feel about that? Do we think the
Speaker 2: league should deal with that?
Speaker 1: How do you feel about it?
Speaker 2: I hate feeling the way that I feel about it, honestly,
Speaker 2: But uh, what do you mean?
Speaker 3: I just don't I don't like being exactly Yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't like being a killer of fun and and all
Speaker 3: that stuff. But it's just job Morant specifically and his history,
Speaker 3: and it's like, uh, and like they're finding him. He's like,
Speaker 3: all right, so now I'll throw a grenade. It's like, dude,
Speaker 3: why are you being such a child.
Speaker 2: Dude. It's like, come on, dude, It's like, all right,
Speaker 2: maybe I can get away with this like.
Speaker 1: A So so we feel almost the exact same way.
Speaker 1: I think it's a sign of your own maturity that
Speaker 1: you are not playing the false equivalence game other people
Speaker 1: are doing. Hey, here's a compilation of folks doing gun celebrations.
Speaker 1: Why is it different for joh I don't know. Man,
Speaker 1: Let's pretend this happened, okay, because you know guys like
Speaker 1: doing the ice in the vein this thing, well, that
Speaker 1: is an illusion for being honest to shooting heroin.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I don't know if everybody knows that, but like you
Speaker 1: tap the vein. Okay, So let's say you have a
Speaker 1: bunch of players that do that. But then old birdman
Speaker 1: Chris Anderson. People remember him, Maybe they do, maybe they don't.
Speaker 1: He got kicked out of the league for a year
Speaker 1: because he was doing heroin. He was doing hard drugs.
Speaker 1: I think it was heroin. I don't no, he had
Speaker 1: the heroin tats. But the regardless if he you might
Speaker 1: you gave me a funny like heroin tats. The weird
Speaker 1: thing there's like.
Speaker 2: I knew Bourban was coming up as soon as this
Speaker 2: whole thing. I knew Bourban was coming out.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know you knew who he was. He
Speaker 1: was before your era.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I probably I knew he played for
Speaker 3: the Nuggets. I feel like I've seen him with the Nuggets,
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 1: As well with Lebron. But okay, regardless, So if the
Speaker 1: only guy in the league who's been suspended for hardcore
Speaker 1: drugs comes out and starts doing this celebration all the time,
Speaker 1: and the league is like a man chill. So then
Speaker 1: he comes out and does a new one where he
Speaker 1: ties off the vein and does like a fake injection.
Speaker 1: We're like, oh, what's the problem, I'm getting vaccinated? What
Speaker 1: guys like something? Not everything is the same for everyone.
Speaker 2: And you made your bed with that man.
Speaker 1: So here's so this is where So I think the
Speaker 1: reason Demons said I hate feeling the way I feel
Speaker 1: about this is because objectively, the video of Job doing
Speaker 1: this is hilarious. We can all acknowledge that Ja that
Speaker 1: the fact of the matter, that the timeline being this,
Speaker 1: Jah does the gun celebration, the league says, don't do that.
Speaker 1: He then does it three more times, so the league
Speaker 1: finds him. He then hears Gilbert Renus and say he
Speaker 1: should pretend to throw a grenade. Gilbertorenus, who by the way,
Speaker 1: once brought a gun into a locker room, got in trouble,
Speaker 1: but not huge trouble. And when he came back from
Speaker 1: his suspension in the intros, did the Yosemite sam guns
Speaker 1: in the air, and that is what got him in
Speaker 1: huge trouble. That guy says, pretend to throw a grenade
Speaker 1: and he does it. That's the timeline. But here's the
Speaker 1: more important timeline. And by the way, Birdman did test
Speaker 1: positive for drug use, but we don't know what drugs
Speaker 1: it was. I guess in my head. I just always
Speaker 1: thought it was heroin, but it could have been anything.
Speaker 1: Don't sue us, Birdman, I also love him. Uh So
Speaker 1: here's the timeline. Jahn Morant. He is the only NBA
Speaker 1: player who has gotten in trouble for showing up on
Speaker 1: Instagram live in a club with a gun. He is
Speaker 1: the only NBA player who has gotten in trouble in
Speaker 1: the NBA for showing up on a different Instagram live
Speaker 1: in a car with what appeared to be a gun.
Speaker 1: He is the only NBA player who, in the last
Speaker 1: few years has had to go to court because a
Speaker 1: high schooler who lives on his block says, we got
Speaker 1: into a fight and he came out of his house
Speaker 1: with a gun. He is the only NBA player who
Speaker 1: got into it with another team and then after the
Speaker 1: game got in a fringe car and that team says,
Speaker 1: from that car pointed at our bus was a red
Speaker 1: laser site, the likes of which are typically attached to
Speaker 1: a gun, so yes, he might be the only NBA
Speaker 1: player that Adam Silver says, let's tamp down on the
Speaker 1: munition's related celebrations, even if we all think it would
Speaker 1: be kind of hilarious in the moment. If in tonight's
Speaker 1: game against Minnesota, Jah hits a three and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden d Desmond Bane is like on a
Speaker 1: knee holding what looks to be an artillery shell and
Speaker 1: he's loading it. We all like doing this if all
Speaker 1: of a sudden he like road Runner in Coyote, dunks
Speaker 1: on somebody and then runs the other end of the
Speaker 1: court and does the old TNT cabo. Yes, I get it,
Speaker 1: but here's the other piece of it. And this is
Speaker 1: why I was again, sorry to be corny and sorry
Speaker 1: to be the old man, but proud of Demandse as
Speaker 1: a father and Demanse's jaw's ah, you're a few months
Speaker 1: older than him. Proud of your answer because everyone just
Speaker 1: knows in their gut this shit could end really badly.
Speaker 1: And it's not because we think John Morant is all
Speaker 1: of a sudden going to actually have a great aid.
Speaker 1: We don't think that, but we do know that if
Speaker 1: you are acting a.
Speaker 4: Fool, get called out for acting a fool, get consequenced
Speaker 4: for acting a fool, and then increase the acting of fullness.
Speaker 1: That very often you end up fucking up. That's what
Speaker 1: it is. And it would appear to me that job
Speaker 1: every once in a while, and anybody that used to
Speaker 1: go or you know, if you're in your too, if
Speaker 1: you still go out to clubs. And I was actually
Speaker 1: just in a club in Memphis the night after the
Speaker 1: Lakers game, so that I'm forty years old, I was
Speaker 1: the old guy in the club. What a bummer. But uh,
Speaker 1: the but think back to your heyday college days, post
Speaker 1: college twenties. You can always tell if a guy in
Speaker 1: there is acting a certain way to impress the women there,
Speaker 1: or if he is acting a certain way to impress
Speaker 1: his buddies. And those are two very different types of guys,
Speaker 1: and those are two very different risk profiles. The guy
Speaker 1: that actually wants to impress women or pick up a
Speaker 1: girl one of the safest guys to be around. It's like, na,
Speaker 1: like he's gonna, you know, he's gonna tamp down on situations.
Speaker 1: He's gonna you know, all that. He's that's why he's out.
Speaker 1: He's out there trying to meet a girl. The guy
Speaker 1: who said he went out to go pick up a girl,
Speaker 1: but is actually going out to try to be the
Speaker 1: biggest baller in the room or to try to impress
Speaker 1: his buddies. That guy you gotta be careful about, because
Speaker 1: that guy will escalate situations and that guy will the
Speaker 1: ego and the testosterone and all is dangerous. And I,
Speaker 1: by the way, for a lot of us, probably both
Speaker 1: people on this show right now, at various points, we've
Speaker 1: been both of those guys depending on like for real,
Speaker 1: like they're the I'm not trying to speak for you,
Speaker 1: but I but I mean, I think I can. At
Speaker 1: both points, we have been the man, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: have a good time. I'm trying to meet somebody. And
Speaker 1: we've been the man I'm a you know, excuse me,
Speaker 1: excuse me, excuse me, stepped on my shoe. The and
Speaker 1: so I the reason I tell that anecdote is it
Speaker 1: feels to me like Jos's doing this stuff to impress
Speaker 1: his buddies. They ain't gonna tell me what to do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show and that that is you're in the NBA.
Speaker 2: You're you're in the NBA.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. Guess what, man, your buddies are impressed.
Speaker 1: You pay for everything, you go everywhere you want, You
Speaker 1: have access to everything you want have access to. You
Speaker 1: have your own shoe and your own commercials, and for
Speaker 1: all intent and purposes, your own city. And so it
Speaker 1: does worry me. I'm not I'm not trying to be
Speaker 1: a scold. It does actually worry me. And so that's
Speaker 1: that's why as objectively now, speaking of celebrations that I
Speaker 1: wish had happened, I was talking with Wild about this yesterday.
Speaker 1: How great would it have been if after Luca's first
Speaker 1: three he had done like cracked a beer and then
Speaker 1: chugged it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hell, and like.
Speaker 1: After his second three, like pantomimes hitting a.
Speaker 5: Hookah, like lighting it hell, Like a whole thing where
Speaker 5: if Luca's entire celebrations were related to you guys called
Speaker 5: me a fat alcoholic and he was just throughout the
Speaker 5: night like pretending to shotgun beers, did a stand like Austin.
Speaker 1: Reeves come over, they help him do a fake keg stand.
Speaker 1: He just leans into the whole thing. Now, Luca's too
Speaker 1: mature for that, I guess, But that would have been
Speaker 1: the dream for Luca to be like you guys say
Speaker 1: I'm an alcoholic. And also the other thing that definitely
Speaker 1: should have happened is at that press conference, he should
Speaker 1: have been drinking the exact type of beer that Michael
Speaker 1: Finley took out of his hand after the conference finals
Speaker 1: last year. He he, I wish he would have leaned
Speaker 1: into that more. Now, the Gatorade ad. You saw the
Speaker 1: Gatorade ad.
Speaker 2: Gatorade ad.
Speaker 1: This is a little fifteen second Gatorade commercial. Luca is
Speaker 1: sitting there dribbling the basketball and then gets up and
Speaker 1: walks away. But the way they have positioned the Gatorade
Speaker 1: towel around his shoulders, it looks like it spells out
Speaker 1: Trader and it's wow, it's awesome. But Luca took the
Speaker 1: high road.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he Dido. He's like still really really hurt about it.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's really hurt. Did you hear him
Speaker 1: after the game when he said when he said I
Speaker 1: get to sleep in my own bed. Yeah, he's like,
Speaker 1: I can sleep in my bed, like he No, he
Speaker 1: is really hurt, and I it's why what he did
Speaker 1: last night was so impressive. All right, let's do a
Speaker 1: few listener questions.
Speaker 3: Noah asked Nick do you think that lay because we'll
Speaker 3: be better right now if Mark Williams. If the Mark
Speaker 3: Williams train I went through, I jesus good, yes.
Speaker 1: You okay, buddy, Sorry turned Demondi's mic off for a bit.
Speaker 1: These guys choking. I Mark Williams has been awesome since
Speaker 1: the trade didn't go through. Really, what that question is,
Speaker 1: do I think Mark Williams would add more value to
Speaker 1: them this season than Dalton Connect because that was the
Speaker 1: player in the trade, And the answer that's probably yes.
Speaker 1: But saving those first round picks for a bigger move
Speaker 1: might be better for them long term. But we'll see.
Speaker 1: And we'll also again, Mark Williams never played playoff basketball,
Speaker 1: neither's Dalton Connect. They're telling me there was a ton
Speaker 1: of Orlando Magic talk in the chat, so they wanted
Speaker 1: me to say something about the Magic. Great job by
Speaker 1: the Magic last night beating the backup Celtics, And I
Speaker 1: say that sincere I and in what maybe is a
Speaker 1: playoff preview, except it won't be backup Celtics. Here's what
Speaker 1: I'll tell you. The Magic offense is terrible, but the
Speaker 1: defense is just enough of a pain in the ass
Speaker 1: that if you're Boston you would prefer prefer Orlando lose
Speaker 1: their first playing game, so you get Atlanta or the
Speaker 1: Bulls or the Heat in that round one matchup?
Speaker 2: Uh what else, dude, Andrew says.
Speaker 3: Everyone says Luca needs to play mad, But do you
Speaker 3: think it's not solely anger but also other emotions he
Speaker 3: can use his fuel?
Speaker 1: Maybe? I don't know. You probably have to ask a psychologist.
Speaker 1: I ain't anger does it for him?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 1: I think he and that's why the ejection made me
Speaker 1: so mad. And this is we'll leave it on this
Speaker 1: the If you need to channel your anger and your
Speaker 1: vitriol at somebody, you you have. The safest bet in
Speaker 1: the arena is find an annoying, famous heckler and do
Speaker 1: it to him. I channeled another player. I can get
Speaker 1: in trouble. I channeled another coach. I can get in trouble.
Speaker 1: Channel it at the ref, I can get in trouble,
Speaker 1: channel it at my teammates. Those is off. The absolute
Speaker 1: not high of what you should go after is, Oh,
Speaker 1: this clown who talks about the game within the game
Speaker 1: and heckled me during the playoffs last year. He and
Speaker 1: I are going to go back and forth and he
Speaker 1: got thrown out for it all right, Eric, question for you.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: Before we go, Eric has a question for you. Eric,
Speaker 1: I want to ask it.
Speaker 2: I want to ask you.
Speaker 1: Celtics are in the finals. It's Game seven, Western Conference Finals,
Speaker 1: thunder Lakers. Who you would rather play the thunder?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's And by the way, Eric, thank
Speaker 1: you for that. I'm gonna put Wilde to that same
Speaker 1: question today on the TV show. Speaking of the TV show,
Speaker 1: I gotta go. Great job everybody. We should will have
Speaker 1: the regular schedule next week, but also we will have
Speaker 1: if the Warriors are in the play in we'll probably
Speaker 1: do a you know, reaction pot of those games. Other
Speaker 1: than that, we might do some play in reaction stuff.
Speaker 1: I've got an anniversary this weekend, We've got TV. We
Speaker 1: got a lot going on. But we will see you
Speaker 1: guys at the latest Tuesday at ten thirty am Eastern
Speaker 1: back here, if not earlier. Great job. Demand's a great job.
Speaker 1: Everyone at Blue Duck. Great job. Everyone at Volume Drafts
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys.
Speaker 2: What's right