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Speaker 1: get straight into it. The Lakers smack the Warriors night
Speaker 1: by thirty one, seven and ninety seven. You know, like
Speaker 1: I said, as a thing of late, of course I
Speaker 1: was in foul trouble, very interesting thing. But nonetheless I
Speaker 1: have to flight play without filling uh and stay on
Speaker 1: the floor. So that's what I am going to attempt
Speaker 1: to do. That's what I have been attempting to do.
Speaker 1: Uh didn't quite go my way last night, and in
Speaker 1: turn it hurt us A. D had a big game
Speaker 1: with twenty five and thirteen, a few steals, few blocks,
Speaker 1: four blocks, and a large part of that is again
Speaker 1: I think, you know, me being in foul trouble. You
Speaker 1: don't have to be on the floor to defend. I
Speaker 1: gotta be better there. I think he did a really
Speaker 1: good job defensively. He's got his got a lot of deflections,
Speaker 1: which which changes things. You know, it messes up the
Speaker 1: rhythm of your offense. It, you know, messes up the
Speaker 1: flow of y'all offense when when you're when you have
Speaker 1: a lot of deflection. So got to give him a
Speaker 1: lot of credit there. Dlo was really good. He got
Speaker 1: out to a very fast start, had twenty one points
Speaker 1: five to eight from three. Got to do a better
Speaker 1: job of containing d Lo. I think, you know, when
Speaker 1: in this series when we contained him, we've been pretty good.
Speaker 1: Obviously three games in there up to the one, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of games pretty much most of
Speaker 1: the games he's gotten off to a fast start, but
Speaker 1: we've been able to slow it down. Last night, we
Speaker 1: didn't do a good job of slowing it down. Bron
Speaker 1: after not taking any shot, Steph said to me, like, yo,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure bron out, like what what like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. After not taking a shot through most
Speaker 1: of the first half, h he ended up getting it
Speaker 1: gone with twenty one, eight and eight, and you know
Speaker 1: it was big, really big, his big shots and timely shots.
Speaker 1: One of the threes he hit on wing in the
Speaker 1: first half was a very timely bucket, and you know
Speaker 1: it slowed our run down. You know, it was in
Speaker 1: the midst of their run, and we didn't quite do enough,
Speaker 1: good enough job. I thought we got off to a
Speaker 1: really good start and you know, finished the quarter up seven.
Speaker 1: I think at one point we went up forty one
Speaker 1: to thirty, and everything seemed to be rolling our way.
Speaker 1: And then they went to the free throw line every player,
Speaker 1: and that stops us from flowing. You know, that stops
Speaker 1: to flow at the game. So I got to do
Speaker 1: a better job defending without filing. Uh you know, as
Speaker 1: we know what that does are not only our defense,
Speaker 1: but what it does our offense as well. Nineteen turnovers
Speaker 1: and I know at one point we had twelve twelve turnovers.
Speaker 1: They had like seventeen points off of something. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what the final numbers were, but it's how to
Speaker 1: stop that team in transition. If you're turning the ball
Speaker 1: over and not making them play against our set defense,
Speaker 1: that's the you know other side when you're talking set defense.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about free throws with them and their
Speaker 1: defense getting set us turning the ball over, and I
Speaker 1: think they had twenty seven points off throws turnovers. Us
Speaker 1: turning the ball over doesn't allow our defense to get set.
Speaker 1: So if you're allowing them to set every play, you're
Speaker 1: not getting set every play, They're going to have an advantage.
Speaker 1: And as you can see, uh they won that pretty handily.
Speaker 1: Made some adjustments. They put Jared Vanderbilt on me, put
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves on stuff to try to slow the pick
Speaker 1: and roll down. You know, get them some credit. They
Speaker 1: did a good job. You know, it's on us how
Speaker 1: we respond. I know that we will respond, We always
Speaker 1: do respond, but we just have to do a better job.
Speaker 1: Like coach Kurse said, we lost our poison a little
Speaker 1: bit there. Well, I can take that on the chain.
Speaker 1: Very frustrating game, but like I said, you have to
Speaker 1: figure it out, and you know, there's a way to
Speaker 1: win in a way to lose. I don't think we
Speaker 1: did a good job of that, So we'll be better
Speaker 1: there our mindset moving forward. I think the adjustment the
Speaker 1: number one adjustment that is always made in an NBA game,
Speaker 1: and you can see that in their game is playing
Speaker 1: with force. They played with more force last night then
Speaker 1: they played within game two, you know, And that's always
Speaker 1: the number one adjustment outside of any X and O,
Speaker 1: outside of switching Jered Vanderbilt and Austin Reeves or eighty
Speaker 1: moving up on a pick and roll, the number one
Speaker 1: adjustment any team will always make is the amount of
Speaker 1: force that they play with. And you know they did that.
Speaker 1: You got to get them some credit. They played with
Speaker 1: a lot more force than us, I'll say, probably from
Speaker 1: midway through the second quarter on from that. You know,
Speaker 1: at that point we had the game totally under our
Speaker 1: control and then it flipped. So you know, I think
Speaker 1: for us, we got to do a better job of
Speaker 1: we see a run, making sure we get a shot
Speaker 1: that we want. I don't think we did a good
Speaker 1: job of that, and you know, when you don't, sometimes
Speaker 1: it get out of hand the guy out of hand
Speaker 1: for us. So we'll be better, and you know, in turn,
Speaker 1: we'll look to even this series up to two heading
Speaker 1: back home. The goal is always to come win one. Obviously,
Speaker 1: when it come down here and win two, that's not
Speaker 1: possible now. So you come get one, try to take
Speaker 1: our home court advantage back and head back home and
Speaker 1: look to take game five and starting with game four tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So looking forward to that, looking forward to getting back
Speaker 1: out there, hopefully not in foul trouble and just do
Speaker 1: what I gotta do to help my team win, and
Speaker 1: not trusting that elsewhere. The New York Knicks loss to
Speaker 1: the Miami slipping to a two to one deficit for
Speaker 1: the Knicks. Jimmy Butler was back, as I thought, you
Speaker 1: get those extra couple of days of rest and come
Speaker 1: back home. And I'll tell you what, man, the media
Speaker 1: has really been pushing. I've seen this Alonzo more than
Speaker 1: Larry Johnson fight a million times in the last five days.
Speaker 1: And they're really pushing this thing, and like wanted to
Speaker 1: be a fight so bad, and like the little scuffle
Speaker 1: happens and like, oh there it is again. It's so funny,
Speaker 1: like let it go, let ground my mind and Zoe
Speaker 1: enjoyed the game in peace. They don't want to be
Speaker 1: shown fighting every single game now, But seriously, Jimmy Butler
Speaker 1: came back twenty eight points. I didn't particularly have a
Speaker 1: great shooting night for Jimmy and yet still got it done.
Speaker 1: Max Shrew's got it done. I thought one interesting thing
Speaker 1: was Gabe Vincent really struggling and he's been playing really
Speaker 1: well and with his struggle. Kyle Lowry coming off the
Speaker 1: has been really good and he was good last game.
Speaker 1: But Gabe Vincent has been really playing well, and with
Speaker 1: his struggle, they still won by twenty points. Julius Randall
Speaker 1: struggled quite a bit, and I think that's because the
Speaker 1: style of play that Julius Randall plays like that is
Speaker 1: Miami Heat style of play. Like they're muddying it up.
Speaker 1: They're physical, and so they're going to match Julius Randall's physicality.
Speaker 1: And if you're just playing in the crowd, it gets tough,
Speaker 1: you know, because one thing about the Miami Heat defense
Speaker 1: is there will not be gaps. That has been established
Speaker 1: from pat Riley Eric Sposter on down their defense. There
Speaker 1: will not be any gaps. They're going to try to
Speaker 1: keep the ball in front of them and make you
Speaker 1: playing a crowded and they've done a good job with
Speaker 1: Julius Randall. Obviously, he's missed a significant part of the
Speaker 1: last four or five weeks, so trying to get your
Speaker 1: rhythm against that defense, that's tough, and he's had quite
Speaker 1: a bit of struggle. We'll see how you bounce back
Speaker 1: in Game four, but I expect more of the same.
Speaker 1: And not that Julius Randa isn't capable, but Miami is
Speaker 1: going to make him play in the crowd and make
Speaker 1: someone else beat them, and that's just who they are.
Speaker 1: So not that Julius can't get it going. Julius is
Speaker 1: always capable of getting going, but I just don't see
Speaker 1: how that's going to happen against this Miami defense. I
Speaker 1: think Tibbs is going to have to do a great
Speaker 1: job of moving him around into spots. And you know,
Speaker 1: TIBs is defensive specialists, like one of the goats when
Speaker 1: you're talking about especially coming defense, not known for offensive adjustments.
Speaker 1: Not saying that he's not capable, just not what he's
Speaker 1: known for. And he's going to have to move Julius
Speaker 1: around in different spots to get him going, because catching
Speaker 1: at the top of the key against that defense or
Speaker 1: at the free throw line, they're just going to in
Speaker 1: the floor and make you take tough shots. So I
Speaker 1: will see how that goes. The Celtics came out and
Speaker 1: punished sixers at home. Uh, played a lot in transition,
Speaker 1: played a lot in space. Al Horford is shooting the
Speaker 1: lights out the ball. Jason Tatum hits some big shots
Speaker 1: down the stretch, some nice shots, I would say. Uh,
Speaker 1: they and James Harden struggled again, and they're they're really
Speaker 1: trying to make Joel guard in space. They're getting him
Speaker 1: in switches on Jason, They're getting him in switches on
Speaker 1: uh Jalen. And what they're doing is they're removing the
Speaker 1: rim presence from Joel and bed making him guard in space.
Speaker 1: And then they're just attacking. And uh, they did a
Speaker 1: good job. Also expected that response from the Celtics. They
Speaker 1: you know, they've they've show to be one of those
Speaker 1: teams that will come out and lay an egg. But
Speaker 1: when they lay that egg, boy, they come back firing,
Speaker 1: and sure enough they did. Now they'll look to take
Speaker 1: both on the road and go up three to one.
Speaker 1: I think the MVP gonna have something to say about that,
Speaker 1: but see he's got something to say as well. So
Speaker 1: I will see how that one turns out, I think
Speaker 1: some of the problems that the Celtics are causing for
Speaker 1: Philly are just like problems that Philly aren't going to
Speaker 1: be able to fix. Like you don't have Jason Tatum,
Speaker 1: you don't have Jaylen Brown. Yes, you do have Joel
Speaker 1: and be who's absolutely insane, but them a lot like Miami.
Speaker 1: They're going to make Joel play in the crowd and
Speaker 1: make someone else beat them. And the difference in between
Speaker 1: Boston and Brooklyn number one, Boston's just a much better team,
Speaker 1: but Boston length they can make Joel play in the crowd,
Speaker 1: and they have good enough defenders. Grant Williams been doing
Speaker 1: a good job on Joel and he's really just frun
Speaker 1: and trying to keep his body from Joel's. You got
Speaker 1: Robert Williams, who's Al Horford. They they switched. They're throwing
Speaker 1: different defenders, Marcus Smart has been. They're throwing different defenders
Speaker 1: in different looks at Joel, which I think is very
Speaker 1: interesting because you're not giving him a steady diet of anything.
Speaker 1: So it's like possessional possession or every ten possession. You're
Speaker 1: facing a different defender and you're just trying to figure
Speaker 1: that defender out and like Joel's he had a pretty
Speaker 1: good game. But that's difficult, and like I said, they're
Speaker 1: gonna make someone else beat them. But as opposed to Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: they are long enough and athletic enough to contest those shots.
Speaker 1: So even when you're making Joel play in the crowd,
Speaker 1: they can still get great shot contests. And so not
Speaker 1: are they They're not saying what you're seeing Brooklyn dude,
Speaker 1: which is completely swarm drowelling. Someone else is gonna have
Speaker 1: to beat us on uncontested three. They're shrinking the floor
Speaker 1: and getting a contest with their length and athleticism, and
Speaker 1: they're making it really tough. So we'll see how this
Speaker 1: one turns out. Like I said, I know Joel's aspirations
Speaker 1: of playing in a championship and conference finals and all
Speaker 1: of those things, but Boston is tough, so we'll see
Speaker 1: how it goes. The Suns went down, you know, made
Speaker 1: it two to one behind Devin Booker forty seven and nine.
Speaker 1: Katie had a great game as well. I think he
Speaker 1: finished with thirty nine. Not still not quite the shooting
Speaker 1: numbers as far as efficiency goes that we're used to
Speaker 1: see him from Kevin Durant, but D Book twenty for
Speaker 1: twenty five. D Book was absolutely incredible. Carry those guys obviously,
Speaker 1: like I said, Kay had a great game, but they're
Speaker 1: gonna need the andre Aden to play well in order
Speaker 1: to beat the Denver Nuggets. And you got to give
Speaker 1: Jack Londelle credit. He did a great job in his minutes,
Speaker 1: but can you actually beat the Denver Nuggets with Jack
Speaker 1: Londelle having to play as many minutes as he's played
Speaker 1: as he played? Got Devin Booker and you got Kevin Durant,
Speaker 1: so you're always going to have an opportunity to win.
Speaker 1: But I think that's tough. Like, you need the guy
Speaker 1: who you paid uh whatever thirty something million dollars a
Speaker 1: year to be your center. You're big, man, you need
Speaker 1: him to play well. You're playing against another great oh
Speaker 1: well a great center. You're playing against a great center.
Speaker 1: You need the guy that you trusted and believed in
Speaker 1: to be on that court. This is the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: you know, wasn't playing well. I respect MANI for being
Speaker 1: being willing to make the move. But if you're gonna
Speaker 1: win the book, not gonna go for forty seven to
Speaker 1: nine every night. And Kay now going for thirty nine
Speaker 1: every night. Now they're capable, not saying they're not capable
Speaker 1: of having big nights, but to apply that type of
Speaker 1: pressure and not get anything from DeAndre Aiden, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough to win. So Phoenix can tie this series up,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna have to come from a big night
Speaker 1: from DeAndre Aiden. After watching that film, Mike Malone is
Speaker 1: not going to allow his defense to let book go
Speaker 1: for forty seven again and Katie go for thirty nine. Now, yes,
Speaker 1: Denver does have some issues defensively at times, but I
Speaker 1: don't see that happening, and they're gonna need more from Aiden. TJ.
Speaker 1: Warren got it go on a little bit. But if
Speaker 1: you're the Denver Nuggets, you're gonna make TJ. Warren beat you.
Speaker 1: You can't allow Devin Booker and Kevin Durant to beat you.
Speaker 1: So we'll see how that goes. But two to one,
Speaker 1: like all series are right now, and like I said earlier,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to getting back out there, not being
Speaker 1: in foul trouble, being out there with my dogs and
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