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You know, he lost to a 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.280 team that wasn't unbeatable, wasn't a juggernaut. These kids in 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:30.319 Boston beatle Welcome in What's Right with Nick Right the 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:34.120 podcast and YouTube show. As we sit here the day 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.920 after the NBA champion has been crowned, and I don't 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.000 want to act like it's a sad day, because it's 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.960 a very exciting day. It's an exciting day for the NBA, 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.520 it's an exciting day for NBA history. It however, is 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:50.000 a bit of a sad day for me financially. It 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:54.200 is a very sad day for my dear son, whose 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:59.560 beloved Boston Celtics, who seem he has ridden throughout these playoffs. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.520 It looked so good just a week ago, and then 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.320 a team that had not lost back to back games 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.440 except for once in the last five months, and the 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.079 one time they lost back to back they were rested 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:18.640 four starters finished their season losing three consecutive games. So 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.880 here's what I would like to do today. Because today 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.519 is a shorter show than usual, We're just going to 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.560 talk NBA Finals, just going to talk about Game six 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.320 and then we'll be back on our regular schedule. This 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.720 weekend we have our continue the countdown of the fifty 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.000 Guarders players last fifty years. Players twelve through ten come 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.920 out this weekend, and then next Tuesday we'll have a 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.440 regular episode. Here's how I would like to format today's show, DEMONSA. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.840 I want to talk Warriors. Then I want to talk Celtics. 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.280 Then I want to talk a little bit about the 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:52.880 tangential other NBA stories that are affected by the Warriors 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.680 winning the title. Then I want to talk about you, 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.640 but not the way you expect. So those are the 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.160 four things we must do today. How are we gonna 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:02.919 lead off? Well, let me lead off with this. First 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:04.720 of all, are you doing okay? 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:05.440 I'm good. 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:10.600 Are you sure? Yeah? Are you more wounded by your 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.880 team's loss or by your financial loss? 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.040 Yeah, I'm more affected by the money. 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.280 Buy the money? Okay. That will be discussed at the 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:23.040 end of the show. However, we must start with the Warriors. 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.360 I assume we're starting with Steph, but I'm not sure 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:26.440 you lead us there. 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.000 Yeah, Boston kind of started off hot, and then you know, 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:31.359 the Warriors took over. 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.800 Yeah, fourteen to two, and then that was basically the 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:35.480 end of their good offense for the day. 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:36.920 Exactly unfortunate. 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.720 But Steph wins his fourth title, and along with that, 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:42.480 he goes thirty four and seven and seven in the 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.840 closeout game and finally wins finals MVP. 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:49.000 Yep. Is this Curry's greatest achievement in his career. 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.040 No question about it. Okay, there is no doubt about 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:56.200 This is Steph Curry's crowning achievement. And it's not just 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:00.480 because it was his best finals. It was without at though. 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:04.240 It's not just because it was his first finals MVP. 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:06.960 And by the way, here's the thing. I know a 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.160 lot of people like to say, well, he should have 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.960 had one before. I don't believe that. I believe in 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:17.240 twenty fifteen he was more deserving the Niguadala. But in 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:21.120 twenty fifteen, the man who deserved finals MVP was Lebron. 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.120 This was, without a doubt, the first he's played in 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.960 six finals. This was his first finals where no one 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:31.279 would argue someone on his team or the other team 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.120 was better than him. This was the first finals where 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.960 it was clear and obvious he was the biggest problem 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.560 for the opposition on the court, and they had no 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.719 answer for him. He had a bad Game five, But 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.120 I don't really even think that's because Boston guarded him 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.159 that well. I think it's because he miss shots. A 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.000 lot of that over nine from three, A lot of 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.400 those were open threes. And for Steph Curry to be 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:59.200 the architect of the best dynasty since Michael and Scotti's Bulls, 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:03.760 it is is an unimpeachable basketball resume he now has. 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.279 He now has a finals where he was brilliant start 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:10.119 to finish. He has the crowning achievement of the game 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:13.720 four of those finals down to one, a forty three 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.919 point masterpiece, a great closeout game. He fought his ass 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.080 off on defense. The Warriors won this series because of 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.160 their defense, and he would listen, he's obviously not a 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:28.560 great defender. But you weren't watching the twenty fifteen to 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.120 twenty sixteen finals as closely as I was. You watch 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.560 twenty sixteen with me in my apartment in La it 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:38.960 was on Father's Day twenty sixteen. But those finals, the 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:42.440 plan was attack Steph Curry. Attack step Curry, put him 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.560 in picking rolls. He has made himself into an adequate 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.800 enough defender where now you no longer can do that. 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.159 You can try to and you can try to wear 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.640 him out, but he is not a turnstile. And also 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:59.839 he is sut to be the guy for this run 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:04.479 to help keep the team. I think the Warriors management 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.360 deserves credit. The ownership for spending all that money. Their 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.760 luxury tax bill is off the charts. The management deserves 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:16.240 credit for not pivoting some They semi pivoted by not 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:21.799 trading away or by keeping the draft picks and going 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.080 with these young guys Kaminga and Moody who did nothing 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.160 in the finals. They wanted to have a plan long term, 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:30.719 but they continued to spend to invest in veterans, bring 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:35.479 back Iguadala, to not flip Andrew Wiggins, all these things 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:39.039 that cost them enormous amounts of money because they had 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:44.640 faith that with Steph Curry their viable championship contenders. Despite 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.880 two years ago having one of the worst records in 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:50.839 basketball when Steph was hurt and last year missing the 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.920 playoffs when Steph was healthy. This is, without a doubt, 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:58.840 the finest achievement of his career, and it does put 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:03.480 him into a different stratosphere that next stratosphere. I think 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.200 the question everyone's asking this morning is what stratosphere is that? 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:06.800 Right? 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.600 I mean, so he's got four titles, two MVPs and 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.840 one finals MVP and he's one of five guys to 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:13.360 ever do that. 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.920 Yep. So where would you put him now on your 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:16.920 top fifty list? 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.520 Okay, so I'm not going to spoil the top fifty 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.440 list entirely. What I am going to tell you is this, 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.720 the top fifty list is just the last fifty years. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.040 But what everyone else is doing today is is he 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.360 one of the ten greatest players ever? 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:34.200 Right? 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:37.640 The problem with a ten person list is we have 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:41.480 talked about many times, is there are only room for 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:45.480 ten people on it. And in my opinion, there are 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:51.640 a few guys who it is inarguable, right, so lebron 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:55.200 Kareem and Michael it is inarguable that Steph is not 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:59.120 there yet. I believe it is inarguable he is not 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.280 there with Wilton Russell. So now we're at five. I 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.000 do not think he is yet to Magic, certainly not 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:10.200 to Magic or Bird. One could say Bird's a little argule. 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.880 I don't think he has yet surpassed Duncan or Kobe. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.400 And then you also still have Shaq in a team 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.320 that's eleven people. So is he and my all time 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.840 top ten? He is not? Is he banging on the door? 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:28.040 He is? Do I think? And nobody's having this discussion today. 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:32.920 But when it's all said and done, if we're trying 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.400 to take someone from the top ten, if you don't 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.520 order it, you just have ten guys and you're trying 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.720 to replace one of them with Steph. The guy whose 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:47.080 resume stephs is going to I believe match up quite 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.280 favorably too, because they're gonna have the same blemishes, which 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:55.160 is missed the playoffs during their prime, won some of 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.160 his titles with a guy who might be the best 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:00.719 player in the league, had some really rough final moments, 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.959 but went to a bunch of finals, won a bunch 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:08.880 of rings. That guy is Kobe Bryant, and nobody's kicking 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.840 Kobe out for Steph right now, but Kobe's that listen. 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.360 Steph has two titles with Durant, well, Kobe has three 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.800 with Shak says Kobe won. Kobe didn't win finals MVP 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.080 that year. Step didn't win finals MVP that year. Steph 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.520 missed the playoffs two straight years. Kobe the first three 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.120 year Shack was gone, missed the playoffs once and two 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:32.480 straight first round exits. Kobe then had the renaissance with pal. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:37.199 Kobe also was bad in the four finals, was mediocre 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.640 in the two thousand finals. Like these are real things. 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:45.120 And so I do think that we've got to acknowledge 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.760 that if you're if you want to have the Steph 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.559 belongs in the top ten discussion, it's going to get 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:54.080 quite uncomfortable on the people you might have to push out. 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:58.840 And so I don't think he's top ten all time yet. However, 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:03.400 it would foolish to say he can't get there because 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:08.240 he if he wins another ring, it has to matter. 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:13.760 Going into this season, I had him behind Durant, Moses 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:20.160 and Doctor J. He passed Durant. I don't want to 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.199 spoil too much of Sunday, but you know what, I 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.680 I'll go ahead and spoil some of it. He passed Moses, 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.800 and he and Doctor J. If he was neck and 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:34.160 neck with Doctor J going into the finals, then doesn't 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.839 he almost by definition, have to pass Doctor J by 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:42.559 virtue of winning the finals? Probably now is that enough 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:44.360 for me to put him a head of Shack or 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:48.280 a cheme much less Bird or Kobe or duncan not yet. 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.440 But he's got time left. And there's one other thing 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.040 I want to say about the Warriors before we get 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:58.560 to your Celtics, which is there is massive credit that 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:03.320 Klay Thompson gets for fighting through the hell of the 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:07.920 previous two years. And even though Draymond used his podcast 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.280 to roast me today by name saying I know nothing 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:14.400 about basketball, that's fine Draymond to take his victory lap. 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.600 I'm gonna use mine to give him some credit. He 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:23.440 was miserable, miserable the first three games of this series, 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:30.120 truly awful in games one and three. He had a 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:35.240 moment in Game four of goodness after being benched and 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:39.720 after his mom called him out. Game five, he was fine, 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.640 but going into Game six, Draymond was having a horrific 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:49.240 NBA Finals by eye test, stat opinion of his own mother. 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.800 And then last night in Game six, he was outstanding. 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:59.920 He was a force on defense, he kept his cool. Yeah, though, 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.440 those Draymond backpack threes when he makes them, they're so 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:08.920 heartbreaking for the opposition, and that is what a champion does. 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.959 Game seven of the twenty sixteen Finals, when Steph had 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.400 what he called the worst game of his career. Draymond 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.920 had arguably the best game of his YEP, I think 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.320 he had thirty two fifteen and nine. I'd have to look. 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.160 In fact, I will look it up to be sure. 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.119 It was a game seven of the Finals, and Draymond 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:30.520 showed up and showed the hell out twenty sixteen Finals 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:34.520 Game seven, he had thirty two, fifteen and nine. Gosh, 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.600 I'm good at that stuff, just remembering. I hadn't even 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.440 looked at it, but I knew. I knew he was 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.960 just shy of the triple double. And so Draymond, listen. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:47.439 This goes on the resid on on the resume for 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:52.760 Draymond in a finals where going into game six he 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:58.040 was averaging fewer the same number of points five thousand, 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:03.319 five points per game, rebound, seven rebounds, five assists on 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:08.040 twenty eight percent shooting zero percent from three is what 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:11.760 he was averaging going into game set. And in game 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.920 six he hit half his shots. He hit two threes, 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:21.720 He had twelve points, twelve rebounds, eight assists, only one foul, 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.440 and played a hell of a defensive game. Draymond gets credit. 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.240 You listen, when you win, you get credit. When you 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.640 play well in the win, you get credit, so he 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:32.920 gets credit. Now, are you ready yet to talk about 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:33.760 your Celtics? 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:35.880 Yeah? 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.360 Do you do? Forget what the forget what the script says. 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.800 Let's just you and me talk. What's your opinion of 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.359 what happened to the Celtics the final three games. 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.320 I don't want to say that they were scared. I 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:50.520 don't think that they were scared. 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.600 I think that there were times where they just played 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:58.120 like they it's like high school basketball. Like coming into 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.599 Game six, I thought that the mistake they made in 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.880 the last couple of games, and very easy mistakes to 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:04.960 fix it was like, you know, the one thing that 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.319 you can't do. It's it's I feel like, easy stuff 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.320 to capitalize on, which is free throws and turnovers. And 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.400 they just went out there and did the same thing again. 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:17.120 Throw because they weren't getting to the free throw line 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:17.920 the way they needed to. 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.120 Exactly, and like obviously Marcus Smart didn't show up, And 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.040 a big thing for the Celtics in this postseason run, 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.000 I feel like was the role players, and the role 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.040 players were basically absent. 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.320 In the Warriors series. It seemed like after Game. 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:35.520 One, Yeah, exactly, Okay. So all that's true and all 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.520 that's accurate. But the name you didn't mention there that 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:39.680 we need to discuss. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:40.240 Is Jason Tae. 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:44.520 Yeah, okay, because I said, going into game six, I 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:49.080 thought Horford and Brown would have big games. Jalen Brown 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.880 had thirty four points on twenty three shots. Al Horford 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.960 had nineteen points on eight shots to go along with 0:14:56.080 --> 0:15:00.840 fourteen rebounds. Right, Staff played really well, but Clay was 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:04.200 not good. Clay was five of twenty. So if I 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.040 tell you STEP's going to be really good, but Clay's 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.920 going to be bad, Corford and Brown are going to 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:14.480 be excellent. It's in Boston. The answers were seeing we're 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:18.240 getting a game seven and they didn't get a game seven. Yes, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.520 everyone was turning the ball over. Brown turned the ball over, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.280 but Tatum turned the ball over as well. Tatum had 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.120 two points in the second half. Tatum was six of 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.320 eighteen for the game, and he had thirteen points. He 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.800 was having a rough series and he had going into 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.520 game six he hadn't been good and in Game six 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.960 he was awful. These things are true. Now what does 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:43.040 that mean for Jason Tatum moving forward? I believe it 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.760 will be a net positive for him. It's not a guarantee, though. 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:51.960 The concern if you're a Celtics fan is is this 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:53.720 going to scar Jason Tatum? 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:54.160 Right? 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:55.360 Is this going to. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:57.840 He seemed to be pretty down on himself. Correct. 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:02.080 Is this going to stunt his development? I don't think 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:06.280 it will. I think instead this will fuel Jason Tatum. 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:06.440 Right. 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:10.760 I think Jason Tatum is wildly talented, and when it's 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:15.720 going well for him, he does look like kind of 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.920 a poor man's combination of Durant and Kobe. Some of 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:24.240 you know what I mean, like Durant's smoothness and defensive versatility, 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:28.080 Kobe's impossible shot making. And when I say poor man's 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:32.000 that's only because those are two of the sixteen seventeen 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.320 greatest players ever. So you could be a poor man's 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.280 version of that and still an all time great player. 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:40.600 The problem for Tatum is when it's not going well, 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:46.400 he gets nothing easy like what the best players understand is. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.280 And the reason that the true best players in the 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:55.120 league rarely have actually bad games, They just have bad 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:58.680 games by their standards, is they find their way to 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.560 twenty four points, they will get to the free throw line. 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:06.720 Tatum was shying from contact. Tatum absolutely, and it was 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.280 very clear from Game one the moment was a little 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.919 too big for n And that's by the way, I 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.639 want to make this clear. Lebron James. I believe he's 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.720 the greatest player ever. Lebron James in his first Finals, 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.760 the moment wasn't too big for him. He just he 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:26.920 averaged almost identical to Tatum's statline, including shooting percentage. This series. Now, 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.720 Lebron was twenty two. They were playing a Spurs team 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.640 that's better than this Warriors team, but still wasn't great. 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:37.000 But Lebron in his second Finals, when he was twenty seven, 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.879 guess what, the moment was too big for him. He 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.359 got nervous, he got a little scared, and he was 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.600 eighteen points per game in that series against the MAVs. 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:53.280 This happens, so it is not career defining. The tough 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:58.480 part for Boston is this glass half full. Is everybody's back. 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.280 You have everyone under contract. It's not a situation like 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:04.560 the MAVs are in where it's like, hey, we had 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:07.000 this really good season, but Jalen Brunson might league. We 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.879 want to have to remake some things. Everyone that matters 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.919 is under contract, and everyone but Horford is young. The 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:18.160 glass half empty thing is this Joannis ain't going anywhere? 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:22.879 And after watching these full playoffs, do you believe like 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:27.119 I believe that if Chris Middleton hadn't gotten hurt, the 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:28.640 Milwaukee Bucks are champions. 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:30.960 Man, I just had this conversation with Daniel last night. 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:31.920 I'm not. I don't. 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.560 You don't, I don't what everybody always wants to talk about. Well, 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.480 such and such was hurt, this and that. All right, 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:42.520 well everybody is, everybody's getting hurt. There's gonna be people 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:46.040 that are hurt. It doesn't It's absolutely true. 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.000 No, no, no, So I'm not talking about that as 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:55.480 a look back on someone accomplished next year. Correct. I'm 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:58.800 talking about if you're moving forward. I don't think I 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:02.040 think I think a ball moving forward. Looks at them 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:06.359 against Brooklyn, they say, man, kiss my ass. We swept you. 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:09.400 Even if you have been Simmons back. We know how 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:14.720 to defend you. We beat you four games to nothing. Mie, Milwaukee, 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.920 It's like, all right, we were down three to two 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.080 game six. It took the best game of Tatum's life. 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:24.080 We won the series in seven, and you didn't have 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:27.719 your second best player that's concerning. So that's where if 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.439 I'm if I'm Boston, I do think Boston will be 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.080 better than Brooklyn next year. I don't know what Philly's 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:36.520 gonna be. Miami is an older team, not a younger team. 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:40.919 Boston should be a clear cut second best team in 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:44.200 the East. But Vegas has them as the best team 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:46.320 in the East going into next year, and I don't 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.800 believe that. I think Milwaukee is the best team in basketball. 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:53.880 I think that there's I mean, I don't know if 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.080 the Bucks. The Bucks are like they average, kind of 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.480 like middle aged. They're not like super young, but they're 0:19:58.480 --> 0:19:59.160 also not old. 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.520 No exactly right, No, it's kind of perfect. Guys are 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:04.359 like in the prime of their career. 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:04.800 Right. 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:07.679 So I think between now and then, I think that 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.480 with the Celtics just going to the finals, they know 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.640 exactly what they have to work on, and I think 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:16.120 the development from now until the next time that they 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:19.080 possibly see the Bucks or whoever it may be, that 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:20.200 they will be ready for me. 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:22.720 Well, that's the hope, right, The hope is exactly that, 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:27.679 and that the Celtics are a young team that guys 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:30.879 are entering their prime. Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum are 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:35.280 entering their prime. Marcus Smart just started his prime. Time Lord. 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:38.200 The other thing for you guys is this time lord's 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:41.840 got to get healthy like time. Lord. Robert Williams, who's 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:46.160 been your guy for some time, huge factor, huge factor 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:48.320 when he was able to be out there, and he 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:50.159 was not able to be out there as often or 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:52.280 as long as you would have won it right. So, 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:56.480 and I thought Udoka, who's been excellent, made some real 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:02.280 mistakes last night as far as playing why and and 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:06.040 Pritchard early. He didn't he needed to go into last 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.680 night's game. And I understand the thought process is this, 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:14.920 we we have to win twice, so play. If playing 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.639 Brown and Tatum forty six minutes each leaves us with 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:21.560 no chance to win game seven, then what's you know, 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:24.440 what did we accomplish? I would argue that's the wrong 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:27.800 thought process. The wrong thought process is you must get 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:30.920 to game seven by any means necessary. And then who 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:32.040 the hell knows what happens? 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:32.360 Right? 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:34.800 Who knows if somebody tightens up on the other team, 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:37.360 If all of a sudden, Grant Williams has this amazing 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:40.000 shooting night like he didn't games something, it'st Milwaukee, and 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:41.960 I thought early in the game, when you guys were 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:46.320 rolling going to the bench and letting the Warriors immediately 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:49.119 take back control, that's something that listen, whodoak as a 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:53.199 rookie coach. It's something though that I believe, will you know, 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:56.600 give him sleepless nights over the summers. Now, there's two 0:21:56.640 --> 0:21:58.440 other people I want to talk about before we get 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:03.440 to you, Okay. The first one is Kevin Durant, because well, 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:04.800 no people are going. 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:06.920 To ask the question what does this mean for his legacy? 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:07.800 Yeah, of course. 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:12.480 And I think Katie might have been more pissed than 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:13.120 me last night. 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:17.679 Listen, I think Katie is not as it's weird. He 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:20.439 obviously cares what people say, but I don't think it 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:23.280 affects like it changes his own opinion of his I 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:24.960 think it's like the thing is go ahead. 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:28.040 I think that'll actually mess with him in his head. 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:30.280 Like I don't think it really matters what other people 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:32.080 are saying as far as like, cause I think that 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:35.320 he thinks that he is a major reason. I mean, 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:39.000