WEBVTT - What's Wright - Lakers-Mavericks Reaction: Luka Doncic DOMINANT return, LeBron & LA nearing 3 seed 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:04.120 Welcome in, What Drive with Think Right? Episode three point eighteen. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:10.280 What a sports week man, What a night last night? 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:17.720 You know it's a big game with real emotions attached 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:22.000 when if you're watching the game, you didn't find out 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:26.079 until after the game was over with the postgame hugs. Wait. 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:31.040 Patrick Mahomes was courtside the entire time, and they didn't 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.760 show him once because they had to show the crowd, 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:35.839 and they had to show Luca, and they had to 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.320 show the Lakers and they celebrating Luca. They had to 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:43.600 show Nico Harrison with his Mama mentality, hiding in the tunnel, 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.440 surrounded by security in his own home stadium. They had 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.320 to show Mark Cuban. What a night? And then it 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:55.440 got even crazier after that. Oh my Warriors lose to 0:00:55.520 --> 0:01:00.600 Devin Castle, Draymond's defensive Player of the Year. Push takes 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:05.680 a big hit if people are watching play in picture, 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:11.080 messed up play off picture, weird. All that plus our 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:15.720 NFC over unders plus in what missed the cut? Demons, 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:20.319 Welcome in. And I don't know if you are even 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:25.400 that aware. Do you know I'm aware what starts today? 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:26.279 I'm aware? 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:31.520 Yeah, what starts today? 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That's a different network, that's a different company. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.160 But it's so great to have Zach low back for 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:54.040 the playoff push. And while you're doing that, go ahead 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.920 and subscribe to this show even if you watch it 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.920 on YouTube now demand's let's get to last night. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.200 Yeah, very emotional game last night. It was Luca's first 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:08.560 time returning to Dallas since being traded. Originally, the fans 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:10.520 would super hyped to see him. Really, it seems like 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.680 a lot of fans are wearing the thank you for 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.440 everything in Slovenian shirts. 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:16.200 They're cheering for him. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.280 I basically after every bucket, you know, they still got 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.960 the love for Luca. And then he torched them score 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.599 forty five points. What did you think of this whole game, 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:25.159 this whole situation. 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:34.279 Right, I was amazed by what Luca did. And one 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:41.120 of my go to beliefs in sports is a very 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:46.720 simple phrase, but it explains a lot, and that is 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:59.000 legendary players do legendary things. And Luca watching what I 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:06.200 thought was almost a too well produced pregame video, I 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:14.200 thought that was almost too well done because it really 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:20.760 hit home, if it hadn't already, how outrageous the trade was, 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:26.320 and how blind sighted Luca was by it, and how 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:32.240 great he was. I was wondering how they would approach it, 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:36.960 how they would approach this video. Would they include the 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.760 step back three over Rudy Gobert in the conference finals 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.800 to give them a a stranglehold on making their first 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:48.520 NBA finals since Dirk was there, since their championship in 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.200 eleven And the answer was, yeah, we're gonna do a 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:56.559 real tribute to Luca. As if this franchise didn't spend 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.039 the last six weeks calling him and out of shape 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.039 alcoholic that we couldn't trust with three hundred and fifty 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:09.400 million dollars. They did, and it really affected Luca. He's crying. 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:16.159 He so again. Up for those of us, I know, 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.039 I'm sure there's some people listening or watching that cry 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.760 all the time, and there's some people listening or watching 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:27.000 who never cry. I think most of us are probably in, 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.880 you know, the middle part of that bell curve where 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:36.040 we're not never ever criers, but we are incredibly rare criers. 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.440 Think back to the last time something affected you so 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:46.039 much that you were brought to tears in public, and 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:51.520 then think would you have been at your best professionally 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.760 ninety seconds later? I wouldn't have been. 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:56.520 He was. 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:02.760 He lit them on on fire from start to finish, 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:10.200 while dealing with the unbelievable and indescribable emotion that honestly, 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:16.320 almost no athlete in modern sports history has had to 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:21.960 deal with quite that. A guy that good, that young 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:29.120 in that sport, who didn't want to be traded, who 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:34.640 thought I'm going to be here forever, who gets the 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.840 rug pulled out from under him in the middle of 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:45.360 the night, and then has to deal with learning secondhand that, Oh, 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.280 evidently a lot of these people that I worked for 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:54.960 didn't believe in me, didn't like me, didn't trust me, 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:01.440 are totally fine with trashing me a nightonymously or on 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:08.360 the record, dealing with all of that. And then he 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.960 scores forty five, is the best player on the court, 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:17.280 thirty one in the first half, channels it all into 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:25.400 his individual greatness. That is as legendary as it as 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.680 you will ever see. And I saw the stat and 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.880 it's a great one that Luca becomes the first player 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:40.760 you'll like this demonse, the first player in more than 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:46.840 fifty years to score forty five plus points for a 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:52.079 team and then forty five plus points against that team 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:56.160 in the same season. And I'll tell you who the 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.120 guy was who did it before. But think about what 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.560 the needle you have to thread for that to happen. 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:04.559 You have to be good enough to where you have 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.360 multiple forty five point games. You also have to be 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:15.600 traded during the year. The last guy that did that, 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:21.199 the only guy to do that was Wilt. But Wilt 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:25.640 was a bit of a no mad's too strong, but 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:31.640 he moved around. He also was similarly to Luca, I 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:40.680 think unfairly maligned or not fully appreciated for how great 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:47.440 he truly was. But Wilt didn't get traded against his will. 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:56.320 Wilt didn't get blindsided by it. And for Luca to 0:09:56.480 --> 0:10:05.600 be able to do that, and for the Lakers to 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:11.200 embrace him the way they have Lebron is you know, 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.720 cheering on the crowd when they're chanting Luca. Luca the 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:20.560 embrace with his teammates right after the introductions, everybody kind 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:25.280 of taking a step back and saying, this is Luca's moment. 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:31.800 If you're a vibes reader, the Lakers vibes are absolutely 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:38.480 off the charts right now. And you now can tick 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:44.840 tick tick your way through the Western Conference potential playoff teams, 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:50.160 and you are going to find that nobody has an 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:59.600 answer to this question, what defense can deal with that, dude? 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:04.400 And the answer is none of them. The Thunder with 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:14.400 their ten awesome wing defenders, Nope. The MAVs with all 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:21.920 of their sinners healthy in that size, Nope, Nobody when 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:31.040 he is dialed. The only player in the league who 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:37.479 has a similar offensive impact is Nikali Jokic, and Jokich's 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:42.480 second best player is dealing with a hamstring, and we 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.679 don't know if he's gonna come back, And Luca's second 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:52.040 best player is Lebron freaking James, And so I said 0:11:52.080 --> 0:12:01.319 it last night, I will say it again. The Celtics 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:06.000 can beat the Lakers. I don't know that they will. 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:12.000 They can. I don't think anyone else can beat this 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:17.840 team as presently constituted four times in seven games, because 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:24.120 Luca going forty five, eight and six is not like, 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.240 oh man, when's he gonna do that again? Probably three 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:32.559 or four times in the playoffs. He already. And I'm 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:36.000 gonna risk messing up the internet here and I apologize, 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:37.920 but I'm gonna look this up on the fly because 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:42.360 this is one of my favorite stats, which is Luca, 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:52.120 who's again has not played seven full seasons fine players. 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.280 I have to find the fine totals from all games, 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:59.960 most games of combined seasons. There it is career four 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:06.280 thirty point playoff games NBA history, and the top of 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:10.040 the list is what you would expect. But what's going 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:14.400 to shock you is where Luca already is on it. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:22.040 So top of the list, Jordan, Lebron, Jerry West, those 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.840 are the only people with even twenty of them. Okay, 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:30.439 next highest is Elgind Baylor, and Kevin Durant with fourteen, 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:36.680 So again, fourteen is fourth most in NBA history. Wilt 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:41.920 had thirteen, Kobe had thirteen, Shack had twelve. Kareem, who 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:45.520 played for twenty plus years and was the all timing scorer, 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:54.000 had nine. Luca's got eight. Luca has more career forty 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:59.160 point playoff games already than he is, the same number 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.080 as Steph. He has more than Dirk, he has more 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:05.120 than Bird, he has more than Berkley. He is more 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.360 than Kawhi, he is more than Joker, he has more 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:12.800 than Magic. He The only players in league history with 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:19.640 more than him are Kareem, Iverson, Harden, dream Shaq, Kobe, 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:26.840 Will Durant, Elgin, West Bron, Jordan. That's it. So Luca 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.360 dropping forty on your head like he did last night, 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.760 That's gonna happen a few times in the playoffs Lebron 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:39.760 thanks to Luca being there, being able to do exactly 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:44.880 what he did last night, which is I'm gonna go 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:49.960 at about half speed for three quarters and then I'm 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.160 gonna be the best player on the damn planet in 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:58.360 the fourth quarter on both ends of the court. That's 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:03.040 gonna be available to the Laker And what's going to 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:07.840 determine do the Lakers look like the best team in 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.560 the league or do they look like a team that 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:19.400 is slightly vulnerable. Is going to be do Dorian Finney, Smith, 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:29.440 Gabe Vincent Ruy, Hatchamora hit the wide open, spoon fed 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:33.800 threes that Luca is going to deliver to them, because 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:38.320 that's what they're going to live on. So the Lakers 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:43.440 are the most dangerous team in the NBA because of 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:50.120 that guy. And I think Demands might think I'm overstating 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:54.160 this a bit, and so I'm I'm I'm open to 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.760 the discussion on it before we get to the Anthony 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.680 Davis side of it, But go ahead. 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:01.240 Yeah, I mean, I think the Celtics are the most 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.000 dangerous team in the league, and then the Lakers fall 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.360 like shortly after that. I mean, we just obviously have 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.440 the death and we definitely have the defenders. 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:10.960 Said deal with Luka Doncic. 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.160 I mean, obviously you're not gonna hold Luca at twenty fifteen, 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:15.160 fifteen whatever. 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.720 But you know, so here is the. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:25.240 Thing about that. So this, listen, the Celtics are unbelievable, unbelievable, 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:30.040 and the argument is a pretty clean one, which is 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:34.440 the Celtics played Luca in the finals last year and 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:41.760 they won. My counterpoint to that would be a relatively 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:48.920 simple one. Luca in those finals was twenty nine nine 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:54.040 and six, despite in those finals not being able to 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.920 hit threes twenty four percent from three after forty three 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:03.720 percent the previous line the round. The number that to 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:08.000 me is the most noteworthy on that Lucas stat line 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.480 is not the twenty nine points, but it's the only 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:17.080 five and a half assists a game, and that was 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:22.280 a symptom of not shooters. Well he had the shooters, 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.800 they just didn't hit shots. And so what happened in 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:33.040 those finals is Kyrie eight of twenty nine from three. PJ. 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:38.240 Washington six of twenty two from three. Derek Jones Junior 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:40.200 is again you can't really rely on him big time 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:43.880 for threes three of twelve from three. The team as 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:49.080 a whole thirty one percent from three. So I don't 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:53.639 know that we saw the Celtics cut Luca's water off. 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:58.840 What they did was and with their great defenders, make 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:07.440 the role player really struggle. But Kyrie in those finals 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:12.879 was nineteen three and five, and as I mentioned, twenty 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.439 seven percent from three. Lebron ain't doing that if you 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:20.040 guys match up and so again, I am not acting 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.359 like the Lakers deserve to be some big favorite. I 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:27.200 am not acting like the Celtics are not a deserving champion. 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:31.879 What I am saying is Luca gave you a little 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:37.280 glimpse last night of what playoff Luca looks like. And that, 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:44.000 alongside what appears to be for one of the only 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.520 times in his Lakers tenure, fingers crossed, two games left 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:52.920 a Lebron James that is going to be rested and 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:59.359 healthy going into the playoffs. Look Out, Now, Lebron was 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.359 healthy going into the twenty twenty playoffs they won the title. 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:05.480 Lebron was healthy going into the twenty three playoffs they 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:07.320 made it the conference finals. 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:11.040 All right, we're saying he's healthy. Now, we'll hear nothing 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.400 about a groin later. You know things, well. 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:16.199 I mean if he again, if he right, No, he 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:21.480 is healthy now. Now, guys can get hurtous, obviously, but 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.760 I'm but no, you're right that if he doesn't suffer 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.720 an injury and then you know what I mean, plays poorly, 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:31.840 you can't put it on injury. But that's The thing 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:37.080 is this, It simply doesn't happen. So like we have 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:40.280 twenty years of evidence that healthy Lebron doesn't play poorly 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:42.160 in the playoffs. All right, let's go to the other 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:43.160 side of this game. 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:43.440 For a moment. 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:45.640 Yeah, I saw on the other side of it Anthony 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:49.520 Davis was playing his ex team as well. That doesn't 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:51.800 really seem to be making noise. 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:58.119 Well, so here's why I think, because it wasn't in 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:03.439 LA I think because nobody felt like I don't think 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:08.960 anybody felt like the Lakers betrayed Ad because it's just 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:14.000 a trade you have to make. I also think this 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:22.679 last night was a great example of why AD is 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:29.359 such a frustrating great player. And last night was also 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.480 a good example of the gap between all time great 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:40.600 and legend because Anthony Davis in that game, with the 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:45.600 Lakers not having a real sinner and him fully healthy, 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.080 you would have liked to see him be like, listen, 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:55.280 one way or another, I'm getting my thirty or at 0:20:55.359 --> 0:21:03.040 least twenty five and putting my imprint on the game. Instead. Listen, 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:08.119 he was good defensively, and he had thirteen points. And 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:15.280 it's why AD is again as great as he is 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:22.000 a frustrating guy at times because he doesn't seem to 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:27.919 always have that extra gear that you would want and 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:32.720 the right He is not a guy that you can 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:39.080 just say, oh, the moment calls for it. Therefore, he's 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:42.640 going to be brilliant, at least on the offensive end. Now. Defensively, 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:48.600 everybody still brings up the Lakers free throw edge over 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:51.800 the last few years and all of these things. That's 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:56.600 an Anthony Davis stat not because he's drawing so many fouls, 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:00.560 but because he is and has been, and it's criminal. 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:04.240 This guy's gonna go his whole career without winning a 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:08.680 Defensive Player of the Year. But he has been the 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:12.720 best rim protector in the league for a half decade 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:16.160 plus now, and he can protect the rim without fouling, 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:19.760 which is what led to those free throw discrepancies. And 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:21.800 he was able to do a lot of that last night. 0:22:22.920 --> 0:22:27.800 But thirteen points in that moment is just a bummer, 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:31.240 all right, But one other thing, Let's do one other 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:32.440 thing on Luca. 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:36.760 Luca's ejection on Tuesday. What are your what are your thoughts? 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:37.639 How do you feel about that? 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:39.040 What are your thoughts on it? 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:44.199 My thoughts on it are I do think that I 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:46.680 watched the show a little bit yesterday and something resonated 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:50.399 with me. I do think that Luka Doncic is he 0:22:50.480 --> 0:22:53.240 needs to be available throughout games, and I think that 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:55.960 he should stop taking himself out with with the whole 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:58.600 winding and complaining about the call. I am not on 0:22:58.640 --> 0:23:01.520 the ref side in that instant in that instance, but 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:04.119 I would like to see Luca stop yelling at the 0:23:04.119 --> 0:23:05.840 refs and just get back on defense. 0:23:06.000 --> 0:23:08.159 Occasionally it's like, come. 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:13.160 On, man, Okay, that's a fair critique. It's also never 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:19.000 gonna happen, and so it's just like it's just he 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:29.360 has to play aggrieved. It also was such an outrageous 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:35.000 ejection and so easily fixable when you realized what had 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:41.080 happened that I Bruin Wilde's got mad at me, but 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:44.879 I said that I don't think that jt Or, the 0:23:44.920 --> 0:23:48.600 ref who did it, should be refing playoff games if 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:51.000 that's the type of ref he is. I then read 0:23:51.040 --> 0:23:54.920 this morning, jt Or, in his thirteen year career, has 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:58.439 refed a grand total of one playoff game. So it 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:03.119 looks like the league maybe already recognized that. But he 0:24:03.200 --> 0:24:05.960 made it was let's say it again. 0:24:05.760 --> 0:24:08.240 He made it personal, and he made it personal. 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:11.040 From the very beginning. When you tell Jared vander both 0:24:11.160 --> 0:24:15.879 texts he gave Luca were totally unreasonable. One Luca's running 0:24:16.000 --> 0:24:20.520 up court arguing not on his behalf, but on Vanderbilt's 0:24:20.520 --> 0:24:23.520 behalf because Vanderbilt got hit in the face. He's not 0:24:23.720 --> 0:24:27.240 in the ref's face, he's fifteen feet from him. Gives 0:24:27.280 --> 0:24:30.080 him a tech, then tells Vanderbilt, I'll talk to anyone 0:24:30.160 --> 0:24:33.560 but Luca. And the next one. Here's why I found 0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:40.200 it so outrageous. It was not a reasonable misunderstanding because 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:47.119 Luca didn't get there was There was no potential foul 0:24:47.160 --> 0:24:51.000 on the play. It's Luca had made the shot, Luke, 0:24:51.200 --> 0:24:57.200 So the context of it is really important. Luca had 0:24:57.320 --> 0:25:00.199 just come in from off the bench, so it's not 0:25:00.400 --> 0:25:03.400 like he and the ref had been going back and forth, 0:25:03.960 --> 0:25:06.199 you know, over the last few minutes. He had just 0:25:06.240 --> 0:25:11.919 come back in the game. There was no contact whatsoever 0:25:12.119 --> 0:25:15.040 on the shot. So it wasn't one of those I 0:25:15.200 --> 0:25:17.160 made the shot, but I should have gotten an and 0:25:17.320 --> 0:25:19.840 one bleep you for not giving it to me, which 0:25:19.880 --> 0:25:21.200 you do see all the time. 0:25:22.880 --> 0:25:24.880 Or maybe it was like few I hit the shot 0:25:25.280 --> 0:25:27.520 like that's what the ref perceived it as, like he's 0:25:27.520 --> 0:25:30.199 talking he's talking trash after he hits the shot, like 0:25:30.320 --> 0:25:30.879 fu ref. 0:25:30.920 --> 0:25:37.480 Basically, yeah, you better be damn certain who he's talking 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:42.200 to and what he's saying. If it's the fourth quarter 0:25:42.480 --> 0:25:45.280 of a huge game and a guy already has one 0:25:45.280 --> 0:25:52.720 technical and part of being in a fit in very 0:25:52.960 --> 0:25:59.640 very kind of simple terms mixed metaphors a bit being 0:25:59.640 --> 0:26:03.280 in a fit kind of like being a cop. We 0:26:03.440 --> 0:26:08.560 give you a ton of power and we trust that 0:26:10.080 --> 0:26:15.120 even if you have pulled me over a dozen times 0:26:15.200 --> 0:26:20.840 before and each time I've said f you hate you, 0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:28.159 bleep you, that when you walk to my car on 0:26:28.240 --> 0:26:31.800 the thirteenth time, you are going to act with the 0:26:31.840 --> 0:26:40.800 professionalism and demeanor of someone who's first meeting me. And 0:26:40.840 --> 0:26:44.760 you might be like, that's unreasonable. That's the job. That 0:26:44.960 --> 0:26:52.440 is the job. And you, when you have a disproportionate 0:26:52.600 --> 0:26:58.320 power over another person, because you are the enforcer of 0:26:58.359 --> 0:27:04.040 the rules, you have an obligation to leave your baggage 0:27:04.520 --> 0:27:09.199 court side, and not everybody can do it. And so 0:27:11.000 --> 0:27:12.000 if you were going. 0:27:11.800 --> 0:27:15.840 To go ahead, like how after Draymond gets a technical 0:27:15.880 --> 0:27:18.040 and at how much leeway. 0:27:17.680 --> 0:27:19.480 He gets the opposite. 0:27:19.880 --> 0:27:22.040 Yeah, like it takes a lot for him to get 0:27:22.040 --> 0:27:26.080 that second technical and it was like a. 0:27:25.240 --> 0:27:27.320 No, and so it was. But whatever, I mean, the 0:27:27.359 --> 0:27:30.600 Lakers got the worst case scenario would have been. And 0:27:30.720 --> 0:27:33.679 I actually think for the Thunder, here's the part of 0:27:33.720 --> 0:27:39.720 that ejection that sucks for the Thunder. The Thunder don't 0:27:39.720 --> 0:27:45.679 feel great about that win. Now the the the and 0:27:45.720 --> 0:27:47.840 the Thunder could have won that game. I don't know. 0:27:47.920 --> 0:27:51.040 I don't think they were going to because you were 0:27:51.080 --> 0:27:54.960 just about to get rested Luca down the stretch. But maybe. 0:27:55.440 --> 0:27:57.760 But now the Thunder, like, man, they beat us in 0:27:57.800 --> 0:28:01.640 our building. Bad. We then emptied the clip on him 0:28:01.640 --> 0:28:06.800 in the first half. They clawed back, they're up one 0:28:07.040 --> 0:28:09.879 and then Luca gets thrown out like so it was 0:28:09.920 --> 0:28:11.720 just bad all around. All right, Let's go to the 0:28:11.800 --> 0:28:13.439 rest of the Western Gonbertz playoffs. 0:28:13.600 --> 0:28:16.040 Oh yeah, so next time we have our next episode, 0:28:16.080 --> 0:28:19.200 the regular season will be wrapped up and the top 0:28:19.280 --> 0:28:21.480 seeds all the way down to the plane will be decided. 0:28:22.040 --> 0:28:24.600 The funny little wrinkle is the Warriors just blew that 0:28:24.640 --> 0:28:27.639 game to the Spurs last night. So are we potentially 0:28:27.680 --> 0:28:30.800 looking at Lakers in Golden State playing in the first round. 0:28:31.480 --> 0:28:36.879 So I know this. The standings make it seem like 0:28:36.920 --> 0:28:42.520 that because of last night is less likely. In reality, 0:28:42.640 --> 0:28:45.840 because of last night, it's more likely. I'll explain that 0:28:45.880 --> 0:28:48.480 in a moment, But first, let me talk about that 0:28:48.560 --> 0:28:55.680 Warriors game. That's a terrible loss, and it had a 0:28:55.840 --> 0:29:03.200 lot of the a lot of the warning signs of 0:29:03.640 --> 0:29:10.800 bad Warriors losses from the past, most notably horrific turnovers 0:29:10.840 --> 0:29:15.360 down the stretch. So if you weren't watching that game, 0:29:16.800 --> 0:29:20.040 I want to just give you the play by pardon me, 0:29:20.080 --> 0:29:23.320 the play by play of the last few minutes because 0:29:23.320 --> 0:29:26.160 the war Let me actually back up a little bit more. 0:29:26.760 --> 0:29:33.959 The Warriors were up big, up double digits early. The 0:29:34.000 --> 0:29:39.920 Spurs then have a monster second quarter to take a 0:29:40.000 --> 0:29:44.920 lead going into halftime, but that doesn't matter because the 0:29:44.960 --> 0:29:49.640 Warriors beat the Spurs in the third quarter thirty seven 0:29:49.760 --> 0:29:55.160 to twenty one, and they go into the final period 0:29:55.400 --> 0:29:58.320 up a dozen. So it's a game you've got to have. 0:29:58.800 --> 0:30:03.440 You're up a dozen on a Spurs team that you 0:30:03.480 --> 0:30:08.840 know does not necessarily want to win, and despite that, 0:30:09.600 --> 0:30:14.600 they find themselves in a dog fight tie game after 0:30:14.640 --> 0:30:20.680 a castle three with five minutes remaining. And then this 0:30:20.920 --> 0:30:26.120 is where you get to, in my opinion, the concern 0:30:26.280 --> 0:30:32.360 points for the Warriors. Okay, so I'm pulling up the 0:30:32.360 --> 0:30:35.360