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Speaker 2: a good weekend. Lee, You're still in New York riding
Speaker 2: subways and looking at lego and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: The boys really combined risky business with movie Big at
Speaker 3: Fao Schwartz on Saturday afternoon as well. Interesting that was
Speaker 3: sliding up and down in their socks on the piano
Speaker 3: like Tom Cruise and then doing the you know that
Speaker 3: little piano tune on from Big there.
Speaker 4: So that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: And then uh, and then I took in took in
Speaker 3: the baseball yesterday Yankees Mets Big Subway Series rivals there
Speaker 3: out at Yankee Stadium, standing room only, the only way
Speaker 3: to watch. There was three things that were chanted yesterday.
Speaker 3: One was few Mets, one was a few Yankees, and
Speaker 3: the other one.
Speaker 4: Was us us None. I was like, can we mix
Speaker 4: it up a little bit up here?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 4: Come on?
Speaker 2: Did did judge Sucker Dinger for you?
Speaker 3: No? Unfortunately, judge.
Speaker 4: He couldn't stuck a dinger.
Speaker 3: I think he judge all rise, yeah, I think I
Speaker 3: think he got on base.
Speaker 4: I think that was all he got.
Speaker 3: He sort of sort of just lobbed one into sort
Speaker 3: of empty empty field there, whatever you call that, and
Speaker 3: got onto first.
Speaker 4: But down.
Speaker 3: I was, I was, I had the camera ready. I
Speaker 3: was a man of judge. He socks a dinger. This
Speaker 3: is going to be great because the other thing is
Speaker 3: I'd love to do I've probably been fifty baseball games,
Speaker 3: and I've probably more never caught a foul ball, never
Speaker 3: caught a ball in the outfield. Love to have caught one,
Speaker 3: you know, deep in the bleachers at Yankee Stadium. That
Speaker 3: would have been fantastic. But dassy, I was thinking of
Speaker 3: it yesterday. Man, this game was going okay, it was
Speaker 3: moving along, okay. Fourth inning, Oh my god, moved the
Speaker 3: ball along please the Yankees Garrett Garrett call I think
Speaker 3: his name is the pitcher, gave up three runs, right,
Speaker 3: three runs in the inning. Well just to know, so
Speaker 3: so what happened was what happened was, you know, the
Speaker 3: coach comes out and the sort of the infield players
Speaker 3: come around me.
Speaker 4: Exactly.
Speaker 3: You know, usually the manager puts his hand out and
Speaker 3: he has to put the ball in and he's off.
Speaker 4: But he didn't do that.
Speaker 3: He must have sort of said, all right, just you know,
Speaker 3: keep can't compose yourself.
Speaker 4: So he goes back to the mound.
Speaker 3: You know, everyone goes back to their positions at the
Speaker 3: reft or the umpire does that little like, come on, guys,
Speaker 3: break it up. So he goes back to the mound, right,
Speaker 3: and the innings has already been going for like half
Speaker 3: an hour at this point, and where I was standing,
Speaker 3: I could sort of there was a TV screen as well,
Speaker 3: so I could see everything. So then the catcher looks
Speaker 3: at the manager and he comes back and he does
Speaker 3: the little, you know, little finger thing like this, and
Speaker 3: Garret Car's like, he does it again.
Speaker 4: Throw the fucking ball, man, We've been here for like
Speaker 4: forty five minutes.
Speaker 2: Just throw it.
Speaker 4: You're going to get pulled off here anyway.
Speaker 2: What are you doing? Like a standing formally tickets to
Speaker 2: a big smart game hits a little differently. Maybe then.
Speaker 3: It's not bad though, because if you if you want
Speaker 3: to be behind the mount or behind the plate there,
Speaker 3: you can do that. Or if you want to be
Speaker 3: out in the cheap seats. It's it's also great, So
Speaker 3: it's good. It's I think it's a great way to.
Speaker 2: Watch a game.
Speaker 5: So how long this game go? You think, oh, it's
Speaker 5: not the fastest of the four major sports.
Speaker 4: I think, oh my god.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 4: So the game started at two o'clock.
Speaker 3: It was a double headed yesterday because it got rained
Speaker 3: out on Friday, So it start at two o'clock. I
Speaker 3: had like a party to get to in Brooklyn at
Speaker 3: like five thirty or six o'clock. I'm like, two o'clock.
Speaker 3: I should be done by four, four thirty. Maybe I
Speaker 3: slip out after the eighth of it. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 3: fourth fifth and I'm like, guys, come on, move it along.
Speaker 3: We've got another game to play here today. So anyway,
Speaker 3: the Yankees blew the save. The guy I can't remember
Speaker 3: his name, fans don't like him. He blew the save.
Speaker 3: They lose that, but then they won the second one
Speaker 3: last night. I will say impressive stadium. Yankee Stadium a
Speaker 3: little difficult to get any vegetarian options, I'll say that much.
Speaker 3: There's not a lot for the.
Speaker 4: There's not a lot of vegetarian it.
Speaker 1: Was.
Speaker 3: It was, Oh, I should have taken I can't believe
Speaker 3: in take a photot the popcorn. You should see the
Speaker 3: bucket of popscorn and they give out there. It's just gigantic.
Speaker 3: So I ended up having to eat French fries there
Speaker 3: because that was the only thing.
Speaker 2: Crazy.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: Oh man, I'm just like, it's wings, it's burgers, it's dogs,
Speaker 3: you know, And I'm just like the fourth of July.
Speaker 1: You got a baseball game on the fourth of July.
Speaker 1: A man's got it down.
Speaker 2: It was a real you know what.
Speaker 3: I will say though, I think baseball brings fans together
Speaker 3: because even though there was channing, there was no fighting
Speaker 3: in the crowd.
Speaker 4: Everyone was having a great time.
Speaker 3: I was talking to people, I was asking people to
Speaker 3: take photos for us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got it, man.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. It's supposed to be an NBA finals
Speaker 2: a production podcast. But let's do another twenty only in
Speaker 2: New York.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, let's have one more question. You said that
Speaker 5: baseball brings people together. You wanted popcorn, but it's too big.
Speaker 5: Do you ever think about being in that lineup and
Speaker 5: saying to somebody, hey, you want to split that bucket
Speaker 5: and you don't need that much popcorn?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean I was talking to this couple actually,
Speaker 3: and I thought maybe this is the angle here because
Speaker 3: there's three of us, and I said, maybe we can
Speaker 3: split this because they were talking about buying a T shirt.
Speaker 3: And this guy was like, do you think my wave
Speaker 3: would think it looks Do you think my wife would
Speaker 3: think I look dinner in this?
Speaker 4: We're having a great old time. Oh man, it was
Speaker 4: so did you go solo?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I just went solo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because standing room tickets were forty bucks. The
Speaker 3: cheapest seat four hundred and forty dollars, so I wanted
Speaker 3: standing room anyway. I was prepared to pay for a seat,
Speaker 3: but I was like four hundred and forty.
Speaker 5: So who took that stage photo of you?
Speaker 3: I'm saying, that's my man, that's my that's my friend.
Speaker 4: Aye, buddy, he said when he left.
Speaker 2: Have you heard one single? I'm walking here yet?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Good fun, good fun. At the ball game July the fourth,
Speaker 3: Yankees Mets. You know, tick that one off the bucket
Speaker 3: list for sure. Just I know they've made some improvements
Speaker 3: in the game spaded in the last few years. I
Speaker 3: think there's a few mold I could work on.
Speaker 2: But you know, all right, well, let's start moving along
Speaker 2: this podcast too. It's like ten minutes ino, we haven't
Speaker 2: even started talking about the NBA Finals because we got
Speaker 2: our matchup. So let's break it down, let's make our predictions,
Speaker 2: all that good stuff. Let's see her from the stream
Speaker 2: team too. You know, who do you like? Bucks or Suns?
Speaker 2: How many games? But this finals matchup, I mean it's
Speaker 2: We've got two of the longest suffering franchises in the
Speaker 2: league when it comes to titles. At least Sons have
Speaker 2: never won one. They've been around a long time and
Speaker 2: the Bucks only championship back in nineteen seventy one, so
Speaker 2: real long time ago. But keys to the series tasks,
Speaker 2: let's jump right into it. What do you got your
Speaker 2: eye on or what's the big storyline for this NBA
Speaker 2: Finals matchup that tips on Tuesday night? They moved it
Speaker 2: up a little shocking. I was very happy to see
Speaker 2: that was going to be originally scheduled for Thursday, but
Speaker 2: it's up to Tuesday now. But what do you watch it?
Speaker 5: Well, it starts with Yanni Stetakoopo from the Bucks side.
Speaker 5: You know, we can get into all the keys, but
Speaker 5: if the Bucks don't have Yanisten, they're not winning their
Speaker 5: first title in forty years. I think that is clear.
Speaker 5: So when is he coming back? And when should he
Speaker 5: come back? Because yeah who? Sports Chris Haynes reported on
Speaker 5: Friday that there was a belief Air Quotes belief Yannis
Speaker 5: would have cleared to play in Game seven had the
Speaker 5: Hawks won Game six. So now they get extra day's rest,
Speaker 5: and there's some people out there thinking, you know, they
Speaker 5: did move the finals up. Maybe you save him for
Speaker 5: games three and four at home where you're more likely
Speaker 5: to win, give him some extra rest that he was expecting.
Speaker 5: But I think that's a little bokers. I think you
Speaker 5: get him back as soon as possible. And game seven
Speaker 5: would have been the day we're recording here today, a
Speaker 5: day before the finals. So I think you get him
Speaker 5: in in game one, get him comfy, because it takes
Speaker 5: a game or two to get the guys comfy again
Speaker 5: with Yanies. I know that he's their centerpiece, but just
Speaker 5: look what happened with Trey Young there in game six.
Speaker 5: It takes a little bit and so play around him.
Speaker 5: I think that that period where you're getting a little
Speaker 5: bit more acclimated again, back to Gannis being your centerpieces,
Speaker 5: it's more important to do that in games one, in
Speaker 5: Games two, and then be good for games three, in
Speaker 5: games four. I don't think you wait, just get him back.
Speaker 5: And the fact is we saw what the Bucks did
Speaker 5: there in games five in game six without him. The
Speaker 5: injury has brought those dudes together. They absolutely stepped up.
Speaker 5: It's it's a little bit of you know, a Cinderellas story.
Speaker 5: It's a good story. Those guys stepped up, mainly Drew Holiday,
Speaker 5: but also Brook Lopez and Bobby Porters. So if you
Speaker 5: bring him back now when he's not one hundred percent,
Speaker 5: maybe Drew Holiday still feels that flow, he still feels
Speaker 5: that same way where Yannis isn't sucking up all the
Speaker 5: possessions if he isn't one hundred percent, and so maybe
Speaker 5: Holiday can learn to step up be that aggressive dude
Speaker 5: that we saw in game five and game six. Cuz
Speaker 5: if Holiday, Brook and Bobby I'll play that way, you know,
Speaker 5: along with Chris Middleton, with Yannis in the lineup, then
Speaker 5: the title is absolutely theirs. So we can we can
Speaker 5: get it. Let's let's get into the actual, you know,
Speaker 5: break it down matchups type thing, but it starts with Janison.
Speaker 5: I think get him in there, get him in there
Speaker 5: to marrow game one. I think you've got to if
Speaker 5: he's somewhat healthy, don't just wait, make sure he is
Speaker 5: extremely healthy. I think that would be a mistake because
Speaker 5: then you know you can give up those games in
Speaker 5: the middle of the series.
Speaker 2: Well, let's get into a particular matchup, Lee, what do
Speaker 2: you got your eye on?
Speaker 3: Well, I think the Milwaukee Bucks have to win the
Speaker 3: big man matchup between Brook low Pez and DeAndre Ayton.
Speaker 3: I think you've got sort of young legs in DeAndre
Speaker 3: eighton versus the older, bigger, stronger Brook low Pez. And look,
Speaker 3: Brook Lopez has been very good at times throughout these
Speaker 3: playoffs for Milwaukee's been a good player for most of
Speaker 3: the time he's been there. He has the ability to
Speaker 3: spread the floor. We know he can shoot that three pointer,
Speaker 3: and he can also go inside and kind of be
Speaker 3: a bit of a bully there. So this is going
Speaker 3: to be a bit of an old fashioned sort of
Speaker 3: matchup too, big legit centers out there playing against each other.
Speaker 3: But DeAndre Ayton has been so good for the Phoenix
Speaker 3: Suns these entire playoffs, so Brook's going to have his
Speaker 3: hands full at the other end.
Speaker 4: But I just.
Speaker 3: Wonder if Budenholz had just tries to maybe get DeAndre
Speaker 3: Ayton into five our trouble at some point, get him
Speaker 3: off the floor if he can, because the backup centers
Speaker 3: for Phoenix are so much less intimidating in Dario Sharich
Speaker 3: and potentially Frank Kaminski and I just think that what
Speaker 3: you don't.
Speaker 1: Think that push that Frank Komenski give to Patrick Bli
Speaker 1: and Timody Shehulder.
Speaker 3: Run, I just feel that, you know, again without Yannis
Speaker 3: for you know, how however long he's out, the Bucks
Speaker 3: don't have many advantages, but this is one that's potentially
Speaker 3: in their favor, just because you know, when brook Lopez
Speaker 3: makes his presence felt he can be a very effective player.
Speaker 3: So he's got to he's got to stop Deondrea. I
Speaker 3: think if DeAndre e gets into that pick and roll game,
Speaker 3: that's bad for the Milwaukee Bucks. I think if your
Speaker 3: low Pez, you can sort of hang back a little
Speaker 3: bit and maybe give up at least that mid range
Speaker 3: load a game.
Speaker 2: You'd be giving up a whole sun jumpers from Kroh
Speaker 2: and Devin Booker and pick and know.
Speaker 3: But I mean, I mean in terms of eight and
Speaker 3: I'm saying, like, if you you don't want to get
Speaker 3: eight and sort of roll into the rim too much,
Speaker 3: you have to give up one of those things. I mean,
Speaker 3: if you're going to give up anything to him. Now,
Speaker 3: obviously in a in Paul and Booker, yes, you need
Speaker 3: to go up there and contest, But if that leaves
Speaker 3: eight and alone at the rim, then that's also bad
Speaker 3: for Milwaukee. So they don't have a lot of advantages.
Speaker 3: But I just sort of think that Brook, as we
Speaker 3: saw at times against the Hawks, you know, he's a
Speaker 3: handful down lock and Cappella and Gallinari and John Collins
Speaker 3: struggled to really sort of contain him. So I think
Speaker 3: that's where Milwaukee has potentially a chance to win that matchup.
Speaker 3: But if Ayton destroys Brook Lopez in this series, then
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be it's going to be
Speaker 3: over very quickly for Milwaukee because I think they've got
Speaker 3: so many other options. But I think that that's where
Speaker 3: Lopez has to really stand tall and be great so
Speaker 3: he can be and again, if he's spreading the floor,
Speaker 3: if he's hitting those threes, pulling eight and away from
Speaker 3: the basket, that is good for Milwaukee.
Speaker 4: For the Bucks. So that's what he needs to do.
Speaker 4: He needs to be on his game from the start.
Speaker 2: Got all of the bigs there, Lee's got his eye
Speaker 2: on it. That's usually Trey Kirby's lane, but Lee's locked
Speaker 2: in on it. But what do you got, Trey? What
Speaker 2: are you watching?
Speaker 1: Well? I hope you got your tickets for the Chris Middleton.
Speaker 1: Ferris will because if the Bucks are going to win
Speaker 1: the title, I think he's got to be their best player.
Speaker 1: Like Tessa saying, with Giannis, that is really the question here.
Speaker 1: If he plays, if he's one hundred percent, which seems
Speaker 1: unlikely to me, I mean that changes everything because there's
Speaker 1: no matchup for Giannis on the Suns. Like Jay Crowder
Speaker 1: did a pretty solid job last year with the Heat,
Speaker 1: but he's still four inches shorter or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: So that's a big question. But assuming Giannis isn't going
Speaker 1: to be Yiannis the way he has been, Middleton needs
Speaker 1: to be awesome. Chris Middleton. He needs to be top
Speaker 1: of the Ferires wheel. Middleton. We saw it a couple
Speaker 1: of times versus the Hawks. He had twenty points in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of Game three, had sixteen in a row,
Speaker 1: finished scoring twenty three in the third quarter of Game
Speaker 1: six really ended the game, ended the series right there.
Speaker 1: But Chris Middleton also had the loading face six of
Speaker 1: twenty three in Game one, six of seventeen in Game three.
Speaker 1: Ferris wheels are only fun when you got the good view,
Speaker 1: and looking at these matchups, the Bucks have to get
Speaker 1: the best from Middleton because Drew Holliday is going to
Speaker 1: have his hands full. I think he's either going to
Speaker 1: be tasked with slowing down Chris Paul little bit or
Speaker 1: if it's Devin Booker who's on fire, Drew Holliday's probably
Speaker 1: garden Devin Booker there. So you need Middleton to be
Speaker 1: aggressively looking to get buckets and basically matching what Booker
Speaker 1: is going to be given the Suns because they just
Speaker 1: with Dante DiVincenzo, feels like Booker should run wild a
Speaker 1: little bit in this series, so you need Middleton to
Speaker 1: cancel him out. I think he's going to be matched
Speaker 1: up most likely with Michale Bridges, maybe Jake Crowder and
Speaker 1: Middleton can win both of those matchups. I would think
Speaker 1: the other question is going to be who guards Devin Booker,
Speaker 1: because if you're asking Middleton to be the number one
Speaker 1: guy on offense and then go out there and slow
Speaker 1: down Devin Booker. That's a huge ask. But there's a
Speaker 1: reason Chris Middleton is sometimes an All star, right skeets.
Speaker 1: He looks amazing sometimes, and he can do it on
Speaker 1: both ends. When he's playing his absolute best. He was
Speaker 1: nails in games four, five, and six, really, I thought
Speaker 1: for the Bucks in that Hawks series. So if he's
Speaker 1: able to ride that momentum into the finals, that's big
Speaker 1: time for Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta say I was looking. I got one
Speaker 2: of those emails right on some weird an email thread here.
Speaker 2: I always get these NBA Finals odds and ends and
Speaker 2: stuff like that, and they got the finals MVP odds
Speaker 2: Chris Paul the odds on favorite for finals MVP. Of
Speaker 2: course you would have the Sons probably winning in that scenario,
Speaker 2: Booker second, then Yannis and then Middleton. You know, like
Speaker 2: decent odds because I think you're right. Guys like or
Speaker 2: Trey like, if the Bucks win this and honest isn't
Speaker 2: one hundred percent who knows if he even plays like
Speaker 2: first off, I mean, Chris Middleton for them to win
Speaker 2: has to be thirty points per game Chris Middleton, I think.
Speaker 2: So it's like, wouldn't be that far fetched to see
Speaker 2: him like win rightfully a finals MVP. So those odds
Speaker 2: seem like a little like juicy, a little interesting. Not
Speaker 2: that I'm betting on Chris Middleton, because that's one issue,
Speaker 2: like the pharrispel does go down eventually, but he was
Speaker 2: awesome one of the last little stretch, and so was
Speaker 2: Drew Holiday in game six. I was down at the
Speaker 2: Fortress on Saturday night against the Hawks. There were like
Speaker 2: three or four plays where we were all looking at
Speaker 2: each other like what the hell did Drew Holiday just
Speaker 2: do there? Like spinning on guys and up and unders,
Speaker 2: and like he was amazing, I thought.
Speaker 1: In game six, so he calls the door when he
Speaker 1: hit that lefty in the lane, like the Hawks were
Speaker 1: coming back, the Fortress was rocking, and Drew Holliday just
Speaker 1: went through five guys and finished at the rim with
Speaker 1: a lefty and it was like, okay, Bucks win, Bucks win.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he suddenly turned into Kyrie for a couple positions,
Speaker 2: like what the hell's going on here? But that's to me,
Speaker 2: like you said it, you guys have like sort of
Speaker 2: touched on it. Already, like, can Holiday, Like, can he
Speaker 2: slow down Chris Paul, who we know has been amazing
Speaker 2: when he's played, He like really turns the ball over
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty two assists, only twenty two turnovers
Speaker 2: here in the playoffs for Chris Paul, So can Holiday
Speaker 2: make him uncomfortable? And then also bring it on the
Speaker 2: other end, And again, that might be Holiday on Chris,
Speaker 2: it might be him on Booker if he's got it
Speaker 2: going because Middleton cancel him down or whatever. That matchup
Speaker 2: is so holy crap. Drew Holiday has to be special.
Speaker 2: I think if there's no honest or depleted honest for
Speaker 2: them to pull this off. But he's like when those
Speaker 2: two guys, Middleton and Drew play well on the same night.
Speaker 2: The Bucks are a tough out task and a lot
Speaker 2: of the times it's only one or the other. But
Speaker 2: we saw in that last series or a couple nights there,
Speaker 2: especially when Honest went down, where both those guys were amazing.
Speaker 2: They looked like you know, all star all NBA guys
Speaker 2: in Drew and Chris.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Chris Middleton won two games for the Milwaukee Bucks
Speaker 5: last series. Trey brought up those those two quarters where
Speaker 5: he scored twenty plus. He won Game three, and he
Speaker 5: won Game six. He really did. And yeah, Drew Holliday
Speaker 5: jumped on his back and was the third best star
Speaker 5: or the third story that the Bucks have always wanted.
Speaker 5: They just had to, you know, without Yiannis in the lineup,
Speaker 5: that's how they were going to win.
Speaker 4: And yeah, they stepped up.
Speaker 5: I mean, it just feels like the clubhouse, the locker
Speaker 5: room is feeling good. But Middleton didn't really have a
Speaker 5: great defensive matchup for him on the Atlanta Hawks. You know,
Speaker 5: they had Kevin Herder on him, and then Cam Reddish
Speaker 5: came off the bench and was really solid. Nate McMillan
Speaker 5: calling Cam Reddish a guy with Paul George potential. It's
Speaker 5: hard to argue that. But that was the spare minutes there,
Speaker 5: and you know, Cam Reddish just coming back from injury.
Speaker 5: I think he would have been the best matchup for
Speaker 5: Chris Milton. But Chris Middleton was licking his chops against
Speaker 5: the Atlanta Hawk, So this is going to be different.
Speaker 5: Going to gets up Michel Bridges. Bridges is huge and
Speaker 5: a lot longer than anybody that the Hawks really had
Speaker 5: on him for good stretches, So what is Chris Middleton
Speaker 5: going to be able to do against this team?
Speaker 1: That's the thing.
Speaker 5: I mean, you see the matchups really change in this one.
Speaker 5: We saw Chris Paul score forty plus in that last game.
Speaker 5: If Drew Holiday is sticking him this is it's not
Speaker 5: going to be an easy series for Chris Paul and
Speaker 5: same goes for Chris Middleton on the other side. And
Speaker 5: then I thought Devin Booker would just feel so good
Speaker 5: to be free of the shackles of Patrick Beverly going
Speaker 5: into the finals here. But I think it's going to
Speaker 5: be annoying as well going into this series. I know
Speaker 5: you guys talk about pac conton Dante DiVincenzo being out,
Speaker 5: but I think they try and stick the slower PJ.
Speaker 5: Tucker on him as much as possible, try and try
Speaker 5: and just get under his skin like Patrick Beverly did,
Speaker 5: because he started off the series well in the Western
Speaker 5: Conference finals and then you know, he got his shots up,
Speaker 5: he got his numbers up, but he didn't shoot a
Speaker 5: good percentage. He wasn't his his self and I think
Speaker 5: he's gonna feel good going into Game one. I think
Speaker 5: the Bucks would be smart to try and piss him
Speaker 5: off like they did with Patrick Beverly, Like the Clippers
Speaker 5: did with Patrick Beverly. Excuse me in in the Western
Speaker 5: Conference finals, just anger him, get Tucker on him. That's
Speaker 5: his job. I think. I think Tucker doesn't have a
Speaker 5: good a good matchup otherwise he's out there for defense.
Speaker 5: You throw him on Jake Crowder and Michel Bridges is
Speaker 5: kind of a waste. You know, books should be a
Speaker 5: lot faster than PJ. Tucker, of course, but I think
Speaker 5: that's that's you gotta get dirty. I think that's that's
Speaker 5: that's that's that's the really interesting thing here, Paul versus Holiday, Yeah,
Speaker 5: Tucker versus Booker, Middleton versus Bridges. I mean, it's just.
Speaker 2: Are you excited for these finals? Because obviously you're seeing
Speaker 2: even some people in the stream team like saying like
Speaker 2: they're shitting on these finals, like they're like, who cares
Speaker 2: Bucks versus Sons? You sound hyped? Tasks? And do you think?
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't care really ultimately about ratings, but
Speaker 2: it'll be I'm fascinated to see how many people tune
Speaker 2: into this because these are not you know, huge big
Speaker 2: market cities here, NBA teams. What do you think I
Speaker 2: like basketball.
Speaker 5: I'm tuning in.
Speaker 2: I think I hear you.
Speaker 5: I hear you. There's there's gonna be people who are
Speaker 5: turned off, no doubt, no doubt. Yeah, it's not it
Speaker 5: may not be juicy enough. Yanis would definitely help out.
Speaker 5: He's got to come back. But yeah, I get it.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's Milwaukee Phoenix, two two franchises that
Speaker 5: haven't won historically. The Superstar storylines are sort of shared
Speaker 5: with Den Booker and Chris Paul and Phoenix and then
Speaker 5: you know without Yanni's Yeah, it's it's not it's not
Speaker 5: great in terms of the big market attraction. But man,
Speaker 5: they've been playing so so well. So yeah, I've I've again,
Speaker 5: there hasn't been a crap ton of blowouts in these playoffs.
Speaker 5: It's been really, really entertaining to watch two teams staying
Speaker 5: close to each other. And I expect this to happen,
Speaker 5: you know, for the next couple of weeks here for sure.
Speaker 2: Wild stat from the Sporting News Jordan Greer. I saw
Speaker 2: Bobby Portis and Jake Prowder have each scored eleven points
Speaker 2: or more in seven playoff games this year each right,
Speaker 2: and when they do, the combined record for their teams
Speaker 2: is thirteen and one. Basically, just like if those guys
Speaker 2: contribute eleven or more points here in the playoffs, they
Speaker 2: generally win. There was one game that they didn't. I
Speaker 2: think Port has had eleven in a loss to the Hawks. There,
Speaker 2: but those guys, I mean there are X factors, No doubtly.
Speaker 2: Is there anyone else that you would include in the mix?
Speaker 2: Are we going to see, like, you know, can Campaign
Speaker 2: change a quarter again or a game? Or someone on
Speaker 2: the Bucks?
Speaker 3: What do you say, Cam Campaign? Cam Johnson as well,
Speaker 3: he's been good for the Suns. But yeah, yeah, Cam
Speaker 3: Cam and Chris Chris, that's too well, Actually Cam Cam
Speaker 3: run the same team Chrim Stuart, well, you know he's
Speaker 3: interested in you know when you were asking tests, I mean,
Speaker 3: you've got the number two Phoenix Suns versus the number
Speaker 3: three Milwaukee Bucks. So it's not as though either of
Speaker 3: these teams weren't legit contenders when the playoffs started here.
Speaker 3: I mean the Milwaukee Bucks, could you know, they were
Speaker 3: probably the favorite. Maybe Brooklyn I spose coming into the season.
Speaker 3: Now obviously Yannis is not there, but they were embarrassed.
Speaker 3: Remember after Game two against the Brooklyn Nets. So They've
Speaker 3: had to overcome some adversity to get to where they
Speaker 3: are now. They've deserved to be in the finals.
Speaker 4: They had to.
Speaker 3: You know, they were trailing against the Nets, they were
Speaker 3: trailing against the Hawks, they lose Yannis and they still
Speaker 3: fight through a win. So for me, I don't care
Speaker 3: at all that it's not you know, Nets and Lakers,
Speaker 3: as we possibly thought before the playoff started. I think
Speaker 3: both of these teams are deserving. The Phoenix Suns themselves,
Speaker 3: I mean, they were down to one against the Lakers.
Speaker 3: I think I called a douchey on deck in that series,
Speaker 3: and they fought back and overcame the Lakers. I mean
Speaker 3: it turned out. I mean, I think before the playoffs
Speaker 3: it was like, oh, this is a terrible matchup for
Speaker 3: the Suns. They're going to get smoked by the Lakers.
Speaker 3: And they didn't. They won that series. You know, they
Speaker 3: had to overcome the Denver Nuggets. Of course they were
Speaker 3: missing some players there, but they still had to beat them.
Speaker 3: For a team that, outside of Chris Paul and J
Speaker 3: Crowd is not experienced, they've earned their spot in the finals.
Speaker 3: So I'm as excited as I would be for any
Speaker 3: other playoff series any other finals, because I'm not that
Speaker 3: one who's like, we've got to have.
Speaker 4: A big market, big player.
Speaker 3: This is going to be incredible to see Chris Paul
Speaker 3: finally into the finals on that side, And of course
Speaker 3: for the Bucks and coach Budenholzer. I mean, he was
Speaker 3: gone if they didn't really make it this far, Budenholzer,
Speaker 3: and instead he's shown some resilience and some fight and
Speaker 3: gotten his team here. So could I think he's gone
Speaker 3: by the way, would he could?
Speaker 2: Is he? Yeah? No, I think.
Speaker 4: He's safe now.
Speaker 3: I think he's safe now because let's say, let's say
Speaker 3: they get swept. Let's say worst case scenario for the Bucks.
Speaker 3: The built in excuse already is there that Yannis is
Speaker 3: potentially going to miss at least a couple of games here.
Speaker 3: But even still, I think Budenholzer has done enough to
Speaker 3: show that he was able to get his team back
Speaker 3: from from where they were after Game two against Brooklyn.
Speaker 3: I think that was like and they nearly lost that game.
Speaker 3: Remember Game three, that was that eighty six eighty three game.
Speaker 3: I think it was there where the Nets led with
Speaker 3: a minute to go on that Kevin Durant three. So
Speaker 3: Budenholzer has doesn't read Twitter. There's no doubt about it,
Speaker 3: because if he did, he would have just walked away.
Speaker 3: But they are both very deserving finalists. And people can
Speaker 3: point at injuries, and yes, they've both had to face
Speaker 3: teams with other injuries have had their own, but that
Speaker 3: doesn't mean anything to me. It's like, you still have
Speaker 3: to win the games, and that's what they've done. So
Speaker 3: I'm as excited as as as I've ever been for
Speaker 3: fun as I think it's gonna be great.
Speaker 2: It's good to hear that. Lee. We'll be talking about
Speaker 2: the games every day here on this show. You're excited.
Speaker 1: Here's a quick X factor for you. Are the Bucks
Speaker 1: ever gonna make three pointers in the playoffs? I feel
Speaker 1: like we've been talking about every round there's a twenty
Speaker 1: three point game coming. They're shooting thirty one percent for
Speaker 1: three so far in this playoffs. They're shooting open shots.
Speaker 1: They got a lot of open shots against the Hawks
Speaker 1: that were brickfests. But this is a team that shot
Speaker 1: nearly thirty nine percent from three during the regular season
Speaker 1: and that's why you see those stats where if Bobby
Speaker 1: Portis scores eleven points, the Bucks are looking nice, probably
Speaker 1: because he made some threes. That's a huge place where
Speaker 1: he can have an impact on the game. So that's
Speaker 1: still an X factor in me. At some point we're
Speaker 1: gonna see a good shooting game from the Milwaukee Bucks
Speaker 1: and they're gonna need it playing without Yiannis.
Speaker 3: If that's the case, well, Britain Forbes, i mean, remember
Speaker 3: it was that.
Speaker 1: It's like ninety years ago. It's like most of them
Speaker 1: threes this postseason.
Speaker 3: Didn't He hit like five in about you know, a
Speaker 3: four minute period against But he actually is probably an
Speaker 3: X factor then in this series. I mean, maybe he's
Speaker 3: the sort of guy who does get hot for a
Speaker 3: quarter or two to give the book the Bucks a
Speaker 3: little bit of a push there because they are certainly
Speaker 3: going to have extra shots and and Budenholzer has certainly
Speaker 3: tightened that rotation. He doesn't go too deep and if
Speaker 3: guys like Brent Forbes aren't producing, they get the hook
Speaker 3: pretty quickly, so there will be an opportunity and Budenholzer
Speaker 3: needs someone like him to step up.
Speaker 4: But he's got to produce as soon as.
Speaker 3: He gets out there because he takes some wild shots, but.
Speaker 4: He can get hot.
Speaker 3: He's showed us he can get hot. That's it's more
Speaker 3: an anomaly than the than the regular right now, but
Speaker 3: that that could happen in the finals soon.
Speaker 2: He's not out there for defense, that's for day. I'm
Speaker 2: sure you could exploit him on that hand. But you know,
Speaker 2: if he's hitting a couple of threes, you're going to
Speaker 2: live with that. I'm sure he'll see some minutes on
Speaker 2: campaign and stuff like that. Tasses any other X factor
Speaker 2: as you're watching for in this series. Who's going to
Speaker 2: have the better home crowd? Both solid, but who's you
Speaker 2: know we're gonna hear so if you have to plays, man,
Speaker 2: I can't wait to hear the free throw count out
Speaker 2: again or up. I guess I should say.
Speaker 5: As far as I'm concerned, it's the Milwaukee Bucks with
Speaker 5: the home crown advantage. You're gonna see a lot of
Speaker 5: Hall Cogan shirt tears. I can't advise it enough. If
Speaker 5: you can watch the NBA Game Time app or through
Speaker 5: the NBA League Pass up, you can see during the
Speaker 5: commercials these Bucks fans, they chug beers, they bring they
Speaker 5: bring signs. I mean, it's it's hard to turn away.
Speaker 5: It's hard to go go to the fridge. And go
Speaker 5: have a pee break because I want to see the large,
Speaker 5: large people tear their their shirts. And I'm saying large
Speaker 5: people because every time it's somebody huge that knows that.
Speaker 5: So you know, I always look for is it a
Speaker 5: pre tear or is it just a freshy, because you know,
Speaker 5: sometimes there's a good acting. Even in the Milwaukee crowd,
Speaker 5: they're like, ah, this isn't happening, but it's a pre
Speaker 5: tear and in there it's rapid.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's a good time.
Speaker 2: You're telling me this is happening regularly for the it's
Speaker 2: a thing.
Speaker 5: It's a it's a thing in Milwaukee. It's winning helps.
Speaker 5: So if they're getting popped, then no, I would still
Speaker 5: think it happens. Let's get this rally rip to get
Speaker 5: our team going. Yeah, it's happening.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Ziggy's a big Bucks fan. He says that a guy
Speaker 1: ripped like eight shirts in one game. So maybe it's
Speaker 1: like every single uh, every single commercial break, go to
Speaker 1: this guy chug a beer, tear off his shirt. Is
Speaker 1: that an advantage for the Bucks? Maybe? So only time
Speaker 1: will tell.
Speaker 2: I think the Sun's crowd is actually better than the
Speaker 2: Milwaukee Bucks crowd too. I think They've been incredible in
Speaker 2: the postseason.
Speaker 1: It's the outside. It's the outside from Milwaukee that they
Speaker 1: have the advantage. Unfortunately, Deer District, the Deer District is bumping,
Speaker 1: but you're right inside. They're just tearing their shirts off meanwhile,
Speaker 1: and they're all just screaming their heads off.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be fun to watch. Yeah. Again, I am
Speaker 2: so excited that the NBA decided to move this thing
Speaker 2: up till Tuesday. I have a smart decision here now. Now,
Speaker 2: maybe Bucks fans are like, what come on, we could
Speaker 2: have used those days to get you on has rested up.
Speaker 2: I get that it'd be a little, uh, a little
Speaker 2: tough to swallow that, but I mean for the average
Speaker 2: or the casual fan, like you want to like you
Speaker 2: want to like sort of roll with the momentum too. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And if we're saying, like some people are saying, oh Bucks,
Speaker 2: Sun's like, well, the last thing you want to do
Speaker 2: is like wait a whole week and have like nothing
Speaker 2: sort of happening. So I'm excited at this tips Tomorrow night. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it was Warrior's calves, like maybe the last time.
Speaker 3: I think it was like a ten day wait because
Speaker 3: the Warriors swept and the Calves won in five and
Speaker 3: they just couldn't move it up, and it was like, man,
Speaker 3: this is this is a disaster because you do you
Speaker 3: just want to keep the games playing while people are
Speaker 3: still following the NBA.
Speaker 5: But good, those are our best shows though, those are
Speaker 5: our best shows. We had ten days off. What were
Speaker 5: we doing?
Speaker 4: Playoff awards?
Speaker 2: Yeah, had to get creative. I'm sure we did a
Speaker 2: pick and payoff in there somewhere. Anything there's chew up
Speaker 2: some time. But yeah, that's too that's too long. Like
Speaker 2: we thought we were like, oh, what are we going
Speaker 2: to do this whole week here? But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: We're right into it. So let's start making predictions on
Speaker 2: this again. Stream team. You guys are doing it a
Speaker 2: little bit earlier. Drop him again if you want task
Speaker 2: to go first? Who you taking? I know, I know
Speaker 2: the honest part is a huge question mark, But what's
Speaker 2: your gut say?
Speaker 5: This may be a little bit of a recentcy biased
Speaker 5: pick the fact that we saw the Milwaukee Bucks most
Speaker 5: recently the Suns with their time off, but watching Middleton,
Speaker 5: Drew and Brooke play at this level is is a
Speaker 5: huge factor in my brain right now, I think all
Speaker 5: those group of guys, even though the Suns kicked ass
Speaker 5: through their first three rounds, I feel like, you know,
Speaker 5: if the Bucks can continue to play at somewhat of
Speaker 5: that close level with Yanni's in there, I think he
Speaker 5: goes in Game one, even if he is a bit
Speaker 5: of a decoy out there. I'm rolling with this Bucks
Speaker 5: team to be able to continue on throughout these first
Speaker 5: few games this I think this is the best team
Speaker 5: that the Suns will have faced in the postseason. I
Speaker 5: know that it goes without saying, but you know a
Speaker 5: lot of people you know thought that, you know, the
Speaker 5: West Conference team would be good enough to smash an
Speaker 5: Eastern Conference team. I think the Sun the Bucks are
Speaker 5: playing their best ball, and that's really important to me.
Speaker 5: And and I love the fact that we're seeing, yeah, again,
Speaker 5: a couple of the non number one seeds, the non
Speaker 5: big stories, big market teams here in the finals. And
Speaker 5: hopefully this is just a snowball effect the next few years.
Speaker 5: Maybe we give a crap. You know, the casual fan
Speaker 5: cares more about the teams that don't have La or
Speaker 5: New York in front of their names. So I'm rolling
Speaker 5: with it. Man. I think they got the matchups, and
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, these these all stars playing at this
Speaker 5: all star level. I don't know, I'm buying it. I
Speaker 5: think this helps the Bucks having this shorter break as well.
Speaker 5: They're the fact that they can go into this series. Yeah,
Speaker 5: rolling from Saturday night, it's only a couple of days off.
Speaker 5: I think that helps them. So I think they get
Speaker 5: off to a good start in this series. So you're
Speaker 5: saying Bucks in Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. I'm
Speaker 5: going Bucks and six. Give it to me, Brandon Jennings.
Speaker 1: There we go, there we go.
Speaker 2: And so who do you taking finals? MVP is in
Speaker 2: there too, Well, I mean you're either going, well, I
Speaker 2: guess you got three options, probably with the Bucks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh go Chris.
Speaker 5: I guess I think Chris Middleton, uh is the guy
Speaker 5: who's going to score the most. But you know that's
Speaker 5: kind of dumb too. I'll change that later on in
Speaker 5: the series. That's fine. You know, it's hard to pick
Speaker 5: Yanni's right now. But I think Yiannis comes back, and
Speaker 5: even though he's not going to be one hundred percent,
Speaker 5: I think watching him through games five and six on
Speaker 5: the bench, the limp was lessened. The limp was less
Speaker 5: pronounced through game five and game six. You got to
Speaker 5: watch this game time this NBA app feed. Man, they've
Speaker 5: got a camera on Yannis's knee. No, I'm kidding, they don't.
Speaker 1: But well, if it wins the fan though, I think
Speaker 1: you can get one on the whole game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. Maybe they split it. Maybe we
Speaker 5: get one of those or he can't do.
Speaker 1: That, right, Maybe you can think he can vot.
Speaker 5: Even though they have an odd number of voters. You
Speaker 5: can just have one go to Drew Holliday and the
Speaker 5: other guy.
Speaker 2: I guess right, you could, so that all right, So
Speaker 2: buds and six is what we're really going at there, though, Trey,
Speaker 2: go to you next? Who got winning the NBA Finals?
Speaker 2: How many games?
Speaker 1: I'm catching major Dirknavitsky vibes from this Suns team and
Speaker 1: Chris Paul And then I saw today on the Athletic
Speaker 1: that the twenty eleven MAVs odds of winning the title
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the playoffs was eighteen to one,
Speaker 1: the exact same as the Phoenix Suns at the beginning
Speaker 1: of this wow NBA playoffs. So I'm gonna go Suns
Speaker 1: in six here. I'm a little more nervous about Giannis's
Speaker 1: injury than tass Is. I just think looking back at
Speaker 1: James Harden coming back in his first game, he didn't
Speaker 1: do much. Trey Young didn't do much in his first
Speaker 1: game back. And even if it's only one game for
Speaker 1: Jannis and then he improves for their from there, that's
Speaker 1: one out of seven NBA Finals games already in the toities.
Speaker 1: So I'm going Suns in six. I'm expecting it to
Speaker 1: be pretty tight. I think both games these teams played
Speaker 1: during the regular season, even though the personnel wasn't exactly
Speaker 1: the same, I think the Suns won both of those
Speaker 1: by one game. Both of these teams played good defense.
Speaker 1: Both of these teams have good guards that should be
Speaker 1: able to match up with each other.
Speaker 2: Should be tight.
Speaker 1: Gimme Sons and sex Lee, where are you going?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think the Sons have home court advantage, they
Speaker 3: have rest advantage, they have health advantage. All those things,
Speaker 3: to me really tilt this heavily towards the Phoenix, Suns
Speaker 3: and Yarnis. You know, Trey mentions are Tree Young and
Speaker 3: James Harden coming back, but also you go back two
Speaker 3: years Kevin Durant when he came back for the Golden
Speaker 3: State Warriors, and he clearly wasn't ready and obviously did
Speaker 3: much more significant damage to his achilles ten and he
Speaker 3: blew it out there. And that's my concern with Yannis
Speaker 3: is like I certainly wouldn't bring him back unless he
Speaker 3: was one hundred percent healthy, because the risk that he
Speaker 3: does something even more serious, I think is so significant.
Speaker 3: So I think in that sense, you know, the Bucks
Speaker 3: understand that even if they lose the first two games
Speaker 3: that are in Phoenix, it's not great, of course, but
Speaker 3: that's sort of also not a complete catastrophe. If Yannis
Speaker 3: can come back for game three and he's completely healthy,
Speaker 3: then maybe they've still got time to turn the series around.
Speaker 3: So I just think, but Phoenix have got you know,
Speaker 3: they've been playing so well, they're confident, they're well coached,
Speaker 3: they're so deep, they've got everything in their favor. I really,
Speaker 3: I mean analytically I'm saying Sons in five, but really
Speaker 3: I'm going Sons in six because you just don't know
Speaker 3: what could happen. As well with the Bucks, they've they've
Speaker 3: they've overcome some adversity themselves, and if Yannis was to
Speaker 3: come back and really be fantastic in games three and four.
Speaker 3: If it was that late, then they can still turn
Speaker 3: things around. But I'm ultimately going Sons in six because
Speaker 3: I hope it goes at least six games. I hope
Speaker 3: we have, you know, a fun, close series, and I'm
Speaker 3: just going to take the low hangar for Chris. Paul
Speaker 3: will be the finals MVP if the Suns win, whether
Speaker 3: that's in five, six or seven games, I think it's
Speaker 3: going to be his trophy. So I think the Suns win,
Speaker 3: but I don't think they you know, I think it's
Speaker 3: still going to be a close series. But I just
Speaker 3: think all those advantages I listed earlier just help Phoenix
Speaker 3: more and give them a enough of you know, enough
Speaker 3: of a bonus if you like to beat the box here.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Sons in seven. I think a part
Speaker 2: of that is me definitely praying this goes seven as well.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a tight series. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go Devin Booker for Finals MVP. You guys said it.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be unleashed here in this series. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be a lot different than that Clipper series. And we
Speaker 2: know he's a bucket, so it's tough to imagine the
Speaker 2: Sun's winning. I will say, like you said, Lee and
Speaker 2: Chris Paul not getting it, just from a narrative standpoint,
Speaker 2: like even if he averages I don't know, like fifteen
Speaker 2: to ten, I feel like there's still be like a
Speaker 2: lot of support for finals MVP for him, so almost
Speaker 2: like almost like a legacy play and a weird little thing.
Speaker 2: But if Booker goes nuts and does what I think
Speaker 2: some people are expecting Chris Middleton to do, there's gonna
Speaker 2: be some thirty point Booker games. I'm getting out here
Speaker 2: in these finals, So I'll go Booker. I'll go with
Speaker 2: my guy, and I got the Suns winning in seven.
Speaker 2: But I think this is gonna be super close. I
Speaker 2: think Giannis plays tomorrow night. I do. I'm with you
Speaker 2: Tasks watching him there in the arena with my own eyes, like, okay,
Speaker 2: he's He's like like, I don't think he's gonna be
Speaker 2: a hundred percent, but still be honest, at eighty percent
Speaker 2: is better than eighty nine percent rest of the league.
Speaker 2: So he's still going to deliver, I assume when he's
Speaker 2: out there. So I'll go Sons and seven. It's pretty split.
Speaker 2: I'll say in the stream team a lot of people
Speaker 2: picking Bucks and six, a lot of people saying sons
Speaker 2: and five and six and stuff like that, so it
Speaker 2: should be very very close. Anything you guys want to.
Speaker 1: Add, get your visits in on the No Dunks YouTube page.
Speaker 1: We got to pull up right now. Leading forty eight
Speaker 1: percent of fans have said Sons will win this in
Speaker 1: six or seven, fifteen percent Sons in four or five,
Speaker 1: thirty two Bucks in six or seven, and four percent
Speaker 1: only think it's gonna be Bucks in four or five,
Speaker 1: which I think is a smart a smart bat there.
Speaker 2: Who's ah, who's the first guy to uh, you know,
Speaker 2: get a tech or a flagrantile so like to to
Speaker 2: go overboard to snap a little bit well crowder crowder crowd,
Speaker 2: crowd of PJ.
Speaker 4: Tucker are going to get a double.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, okay, that's a good that's.
Speaker 3: A couple of bull dogs going out of there. You
Speaker 3: know that, I respect each other's game. There'll be a
Speaker 3: good bat slap butt slap afterwards, but they'll they'll a
Speaker 3: little like get into it with eachada.
Speaker 2: Did you say bat slap?
Speaker 4: I think I did.
Speaker 3: I did all that. I'm just thinking they're gonna wrestle
Speaker 3: over a loose bowl. Yeah, it's gonna be one of
Speaker 3: those situations where they foughting. Ever like that, the rest
Speaker 3: come in double day's and then like you say, yeah.
Speaker 2: Man, respectah, let me slip your ass all right, Okay,
Speaker 2: let's do for all of you again with your finals predictions.
Speaker 2: Who you got winning finals, MVP? How many games and
Speaker 2: all that stuff, and uh yeah, who gets their butt
Speaker 2: slapped first? Make sure you let us know that in
Speaker 2: the comments below this video as well. Okay, we got
Speaker 2: little is this news? But we gotta take a quick
Speaker 2: break here from a sponsor back with no Dunk's time
Speaker 2: for little is this news? Yeah, just a couple of
Speaker 2: headlines here for the boys, and everybody in the stream
Speaker 2: team debate whether or not their news were the first one.
Speaker 2: NBC Sports Kings lack seventy six ers reported desired Ben
Speaker 2: Simmons trade assets tasks Simmons trade rumor is this news?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: I got excited when I first read about this or
Speaker 5: I first saw the headline, I should say, because I
Speaker 5: named Buddy Heels, a guy who just needs a new venue,
Speaker 5: a new place to play, a new change of scenery
Speaker 5: this offseason. I want him to go somewhere, so I thought, oh,
Speaker 5: he could be part of this package that goes to Philadelphia.
Speaker 5: Then getting into the article written by James Ham, It's
Speaker 5: totally true. There's just not enough coming back to the
Speaker 5: Philadelphia seventy six ers. Buddy Hill is really great, would
Speaker 5: you know theoretically pair really well with Joel Embiid shooting
Speaker 5: over ten threes a game. He's in his prime.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of like, you know, a Seth.
Speaker 5: Curry replacement without the ball handling at Ben Simmons.
Speaker 4: That's a problem.
Speaker 5: And then you get Marvin Bagley, I guess would be
Speaker 5: the second part of this trade. It works in the
Speaker 5: trade machine Healed and Badley for Ben Simmons. But Bagley,
Speaker 5: even if he's in that twenty eighteen draft class and
Speaker 5: you have high hopes for him, just like you know
Speaker 5: the guys around him and eight and Luca and Trey,
Speaker 5: you know, performing well this postseason, he just eats at
Speaker 5: Joel Embiid's space. What happened with Al Horford. We just
Speaker 5: saw what happened with Ben Simmons. You don't want him
Speaker 5: running around the same area as Joel Embiid. He's just
Speaker 5: not He's not you know, that that level of player
Speaker 5: where you know he can adapt at this point of
Speaker 5: his career. So I agree they don't have enough. I
Speaker 5: think Buddy Heel should move on. But when you look
Speaker 5: up and down that roster, who else can you pay?
Speaker 5: You pair Harrison Barnes with with somebody? I mean, it's
Speaker 5: just it's not enough to get Ben Simmons off that team.
Speaker 5: You you'd be better off keeping. You'd be better off
Speaker 5: keeping him if you're the Sixers and the Kings are
Speaker 5: not trading Darren Fox, They're not trading Tyrese Haliburton. Other
Speaker 5: than that, not enough for Ben Simmons. Imo, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 1: The problem with that. The two players that the Sixers
Speaker 1: would really want would fit really next to Nice, next
Speaker 1: to Joel Embiid or the two players that the Kings
Speaker 1: no chance would be trading, which is uh, kind of
Speaker 1: what it feels like the Sixers are going to run
Speaker 1: into a little bit here because there's also in this
Speaker 1: piece a report that the Sixers turned down to deal
Speaker 1: for Malcolm Brogden and a first round pick from the Pacers,
Speaker 1: And to me, that's kind of exactly what the Sixers
Speaker 1: would need, Like Brogden would be an excellent fit next
Speaker 1: to Embiid. I think he would bring the defense. He
Speaker 1: can play without the ball, he can handle and pick
Speaker 1: and roll. But Malcolm Brogden and a first round pick
Speaker 1: for a guy who was a number one draft pick,
Speaker 1: an All NBA defensive player, first team the last two seasons,
Speaker 1: and a third team All NBA guard in Ben Simmons,
Speaker 1: that's not enough. So it feels like Ben Simmons has
Speaker 1: played his last game as a Sixer, But I don't know.
Speaker 1: They might run him back out there, try and rehabilitate
Speaker 1: that trade value a little bit next season, just because
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons like he's awesome in the regular season. He's
Speaker 1: still a really good player. It's just everybody it's impossible
Speaker 1: to ignore his flaws when they come up in the postseason,
Speaker 1: not the best time to be trying to trade him.
Speaker 3: I think teams are trying to low ball the Sixes
Speaker 3: a little bit and just see just seeing how frustrated
Speaker 3: and annoyed they were with his playoff performance. And yeah,
Speaker 3: because I think Brogden is not a bad fit there,
Speaker 3: but surely Simmons is worth more than that. And whatever
Speaker 3: that thirteenth pick is. And if you are the Sacramento Kings.
Speaker 3: Obviously they're not going to do Fox and Tyres Halliburton.
Speaker 3: But if you're the Sixers, do you tried and maybe
Speaker 3: throw one of those guys in and say we'll take
Speaker 3: Buddy Healed and maybe Tyres. That's interesting, that's interesting because
Speaker 3: I think no, yeah, but I think if the Kings
Speaker 3: are seriously like this and you're getting Ben Simmons all defense,
Speaker 3: you know, he's another ball handler there, I just wonder
Speaker 3: if there's something there. But I also wonder if the
Speaker 3: Sixers are like just sort of making these offers out
Speaker 3: there to say, like, guys, you know you can't low ball.
Speaker 3: It's okay, We're expecting much more in return if you
Speaker 3: want to trade for Ben Simmons. So these are the
Speaker 3: ones we're just dismissing right now. But there's certainly a
Speaker 3: lot of interest from teams. But yeah, I think I
Speaker 3: think teams are just sort of seeing the Sixers and
Speaker 3: just like I think Ben Simmons can be had for
Speaker 3: a little bit cheaper than perhaps, you know, during the
Speaker 3: regular season if he's been playing well.
Speaker 4: But I think the Sixer should move on anyway.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I still think he will be traded. I
Speaker 2: don't think it'll be these It's not gonna be the
Speaker 2: sacer Medo because I'm with you guys like Harrison Barnes
Speaker 2: Bagley in the number nine pick or Buddy Heel Bagley
Speaker 2: in the number nine pick, that that's the that's too low,
Speaker 2: even for Ben Simmons, whose trade value is sort of
Speaker 2: near the floor.
Speaker 1: That's a bag of beans with the bag of beans
Speaker 1: brought in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. I still think it's gonna happen with Minnesota, obviously,
Speaker 2: was saying that sort of from the jump when it
Speaker 2: came to Ben Simmons trade rooms. I think there's something
Speaker 2: there with a D'Angelo Russell and even a Beasley going
Speaker 2: to Philadelphia and probably some picks for Ben Simmons, whatever
Speaker 2: else it takes to make it happen. Be at George Hill.
Speaker 2: I love the I like the concept of Ben Simmons
Speaker 2: in Minnesota with Karl Anthony Towns too, But maybe that's
Speaker 2: still not enough. If they're not interested in brog did
Speaker 2: the Sixers? You know, are they then that interested in
Speaker 2: D'Angelo Russell? Probably not, Yeah, I think yeah, you would
Speaker 2: think so, you would think so. But again, these are
Speaker 2: all just reports and they're trying to drive up the
Speaker 2: you know, the price from these other teams, and suddenly
Speaker 2: the Blazers are like, oh, well, okay, well here's McCollum
Speaker 2: and so and so, here's whatever, so we will see,
Speaker 2: all right our next headline hurts my heart, But congratulations
Speaker 2: to these four countries NBA dot Com coming through with Slovenia, Germany,
Speaker 2: Italy and the Czech Republic securing the final four Olympic spots.
Speaker 2: And I say it hurts my heart because on Saturday,
Speaker 2: oh boy, team Canada losing to the Czech Republic, tough loss,
Speaker 2: got their asses outplayed, like got outplayed, made a crazy comeback,
Speaker 2: like an insane comeback. They're down six with like twenty
Speaker 2: seconds to go at the end of regulation, and then
Speaker 2: Andrew Wiggins just went nuts and there was crazy steel
Speaker 2: and all this. But in the end, Saturanski hitting a
Speaker 2: fading off the glass jumper over Dort of all people,
Speaker 2: one of the best defensive players probably in the game,
Speaker 2: and you got it to go, you know, a little
Speaker 2: luck involved, no doubt, but it drops. And then Trey
Speaker 2: Lyles had a chance at a baseline jumper, beautiful play
Speaker 2: call from Nick Nurse and it rims in and out
Speaker 2: and team Canada loses and Czech Republic goes on to
Speaker 2: be grease Tasks, So you know, they played their way
Speaker 2: there obviously, and surprise a lot of people. A lot
Speaker 2: of these teams. Germany is surprising a lot of people.
Speaker 2: So in the end, Luca's there, which is great, They're pumped,
Speaker 2: but these other teams were a bit of a shock
Speaker 2: to some people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and Luka Doncic got the MVP award in his
Speaker 5: tournament from r Vetas Sabonis from the original handed it
Speaker 5: out and that must have hurt his son, Demanta Sabonis,
Speaker 5: who just lost. Yeah, and I guess they had this planned.
Speaker 5: Are you just going to give it to anybody? But
Speaker 5: then after Lithuania loss, I mean, this must have this
Speaker 5: must have been really difficult for Domas to watch this happen,
Speaker 5: But it's exciting for just Yeah, we're gonna see Luca.
Speaker 5: I am still going to be watching every minute of
Speaker 5: the Olympics, even though it's lacking both Greeks and Canadians
Speaker 5: at basketball. Maybe I'll tune into Jan Shulman's call on
Speaker 5: the Canadian broadcast because I always love me some Dan
Speaker 5: Shulman dating back to the Jay's days. So yeah, that's
Speaker 5: it's it's unfortunate.
Speaker 2: It was a brutal loss.
Speaker 5: Both well both losses. I think I would rather, if
Speaker 5: I was so grease, beat Turkey on Saturday to get
Speaker 5: to the final, to get ropped by the Czech Republic. Man,
Speaker 5: they've played some good team ball. I think I would
Speaker 5: have rather just lost in the semi finals and got
Speaker 5: it over. Well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it freed up my Sunday. That was nice. I
Speaker 2: didn't have to watch Canada play because this was it
Speaker 2: was a frustrating watch. They got they got, they got
Speaker 2: out played for like, well it's a forty minute game
Speaker 2: there in the FOEBA rules, but for like a good
Speaker 2: thirty seven minutes they were outplayed and then again they
Speaker 2: rallied to get it into overtime. Trey, I want to know,
Speaker 2: did you have a good Saturday yourself, because Trey Awles
Speaker 2: misses an awesome look again at the buzzard in overtime
Speaker 2: to tie it up or send it to double overtime.
Speaker 2: It just it rimmed in and out. You know, it
Speaker 2: was a great play, like I said, and he missed it.
Speaker 2: Then Ice Tray down at the Fortress I watched in person.
Speaker 2: You know, he struggled mainly because of the injury and
Speaker 2: didn't have a great game. Six in louding to the Bucks,
Speaker 2: did you have a good Saturday at least because all
Speaker 2: these other trades I know were not. I think you
Speaker 2: were moving, So how does that go?
Speaker 1: I was moving? Luckily for us, they did finish the
Speaker 1: painting on Saturday. I had an average Saturday. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say I had a great Saturday. I was feeling sad
Speaker 1: for you, Skeets. I know how excited you were for
Speaker 1: Team Canada to maybe actually make the Olympics, with you
Speaker 1: being an adult for the first time. That would have
Speaker 1: been very cool for you. But obviously Nick Nurse just
Speaker 1: can't beat Thomas saturnski four and o this year against
Speaker 1: Nick Nurse.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you just go watch the shot, he
Speaker 2: hits two over to shot shot.
Speaker 1: That's one of the ones where you're like, playing on
Speaker 1: a Wednesday, You're like, well, at least we got another
Speaker 1: game coming up, but that's going to be the winner here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Wiggans, correct me, I can't remember.
Speaker 4: It's off a mis free throw.
Speaker 3: Well, they stole the inbounds get yeah, that's right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: they stole it. And then he fought up that one
Speaker 3: contested three knocked it in. It sort of felt maybe
Speaker 3: Wiggins is just going to become the Canadian hero. But man,
Speaker 3: that that one then for Setaranski just to get it
Speaker 3: in because the team kind of was leading in overtime too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were up be fo think they scored the
Speaker 2: first two yeah, four, five, yeah, and then didn't score
Speaker 2: the rest of the way.
Speaker 4: Out yeah man, man, and.
Speaker 2: People were upset that it wasn't going through Wiggins. Actually
Speaker 2: enough who had caught fire at the end of regulation
Speaker 2: scored once in overtime, but they were like, there was
Speaker 2: not They were not definitely like feeding him the ball
Speaker 2: and maybe should have because he was he was on
Speaker 2: and he was like just roll with your best guy
Speaker 2: in that particular game. But whatever, Again, Czech Republic outplayed him.
Speaker 2: They didn't even deserve to be in overtime for being honest.
Speaker 2: U tough, tough loss, and it sucks me for this
Speaker 2: obviously for the program. That's you know, I talked about
Speaker 2: them wanting like to get there and that does instill
Speaker 2: some confidence in the program and get some of these
Speaker 2: other guys to want to play. Maybe the future still
Speaker 2: looks bright for Team Canada, but they you know, you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray, Yad Jay Gildess, Yeah, Dylan Brooks, like they're
Speaker 2: all fairly young too. To some of these other guys
Speaker 2: that played RJ played pretty well in this little mini tournament.
Speaker 2: Wiggins actually played great, but still still they could have
Speaker 2: used like a could have used some BIG's actually trey
Speaker 2: like Ken Burch or Kelly Lennok and those were like
Speaker 2: contract reasons that they were playing.
Speaker 1: Oh anyway, so this is the most down you've been
Speaker 1: about Team Canada because to me, I mean, looking from
Speaker 1: the outside, it feels a little bit like Team USA
Speaker 1: two thousand and four, where you're like, the future looks bright.
Speaker 1: We've got a ton of talent, but they never play
Speaker 1: together and they don't seem to fit perfectly.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm down because they should have won
Speaker 2: this little mini tournament to get in. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: they should beat the Czech Republic. They should. They have
Speaker 2: eight NBA players on their roster. Yeah, they're missing some
Speaker 2: big names still, but they couldn't hit a three to
Speaker 2: save their life, and it got killed inside because they
Speaker 2: didn't have a lot of size. I forget that guy's
Speaker 2: name on the Czech Republic. He destroyed them. He's like,
Speaker 2: thirty one points this guy because he's a big dude
Speaker 2: and they wisely ran through ran their stuff through him.
Speaker 2: But AnyWho, it opened up my sunday. That was nice
Speaker 2: TASKI right, if you're gonna lose losing the semis, that's
Speaker 2: the lesson learned. Okay, let's get to tweet of the night.
Speaker 5: Threed o the night.
Speaker 2: Wow, Oh, tweet of the night. That's a fun one
Speaker 2: from kofe at kofe on Twitter. This one was making
Speaker 2: the rounds, very very funny tweet. AAU basketball was wild. Man.
Speaker 2: You could beat a team by ten eat Wendy's and
Speaker 2: be matched up with future NBA superstars forty five minutes
Speaker 2: later and leave the tournament questioning if you love basketball?
Speaker 2: A great tweet. Kofe is an awesome a twitch follow
Speaker 2: by the way watch them game and stuff like that
Speaker 2: and does like some fun like trivia questions and stuff.
Speaker 2: The responsesly were hilarious, like the threat is great because
Speaker 2: people are basically just sharing their AAU basketball stories of
Speaker 2: like oh yeah this time, you know we just got
Speaker 2: hammered by this future NBA player. This one yeah at
Speaker 2: Chad bro I saw we thought we were cute until
Speaker 2: the two thousand and three Atlanta Celtics rolled up with
Speaker 2: Dwight Howard and Josh Smith. They mercy ruled us by
Speaker 2: breaking the rim clean off the backboard, right. I like
Speaker 2: this one from at at a Hoffener. My AAU team
Speaker 2: played the Southern California All Stars with Kevin Love and
Speaker 2: Brandon Jennings. Jennings drippled through the legs on seven out
Speaker 2: of the ten guys on our team, and I Love
Speaker 2: drum stepped me so hard I would flag eight feet
Speaker 2: out of bounds. Anyway, there's a million of these responses
Speaker 2: and trade did you ever like, you know, we're Canadian
Speaker 2: and Australians, we're obviously playing here in the States and
Speaker 2: basketball what any means? But did you ever anything like
Speaker 2: something similar in Illinois where you're like you ran into
Speaker 2: a juggernaut of a team or a player.
Speaker 1: Even Sean Livingston is the best guy I played against
Speaker 1: in high school. He was a freshman when we were
Speaker 1: a senior, and I mean Sean Livingston was a lottery
Speaker 1: pick by the time he was a senior in high school,
Speaker 1: and he just destroyed us. I wouldn't say he was
Speaker 1: the best athlete I ever played against, though, there was
Speaker 1: a guy from another local high school who ended up
Speaker 1: playing free safety in the NFL for ten years. His
Speaker 1: name was Sean Considine. He was incredible. I mean, he
Speaker 1: was an NFL level athlete playing against me. Boy, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: exactly right. And then the best guy in the state
Speaker 1: my senior year of high school was an incredible name
Speaker 1: Pierre Pierce. He was like, I think he averaged forty
Speaker 1: a game through the state high school tournament. He was
Speaker 1: a local guy. We ended up having to play him
Speaker 1: in a summer tournament once and he just embarrassed us.
Speaker 1: The guy was like he ended up playing at University
Speaker 1: of Iowa, I think, where he was like twenty five
Speaker 1: a game, and it was just insane. The like the
Speaker 1: nonchalantness with which he was able to destroy a bunch
Speaker 1: of farmers out here, hilarious, hilarious stuff. I ended up
Speaker 1: playing him in like another men's league, like ten years
Speaker 1: down the line. He had just come off of leading
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors summer league team and scoring for
Speaker 1: a summer. The man had like massive off court problems,
Speaker 1: like never made it to the NBA because of that,
Speaker 1: but he was a bucket every single time I happened
Speaker 1: to be in the gym with him destroying us, just destroy,
Speaker 1: I guess. And that's when you like when you see
Speaker 1: the levels of basketball out there, because Kofe's right, Like
Speaker 1: going to a day long tournament is awesome because you'll
Speaker 1: have a great game and then you'll just eat fast
Speaker 1: food for a couple hours, and then you'll go get destroyed,
Speaker 1: and then you drive home with your buddies. I'm still
Speaker 1: pissed at nisaiel Valaz for dropping my twenty dollars bill
Speaker 1: outside of the car while we're on the freeway. Come on,
Speaker 1: and twenty dollars in high school? What are you doing?
Speaker 1: I was gonna buy some chicken fingers with Ronnie Stickney
Speaker 1: at a and w root beer. But nothing. You think
Speaker 1: we're gonna turn around for twenty bucks? Come on, buddy.
Speaker 1: Fun times like you go and drive two hours to
Speaker 1: play for two hours, sit for two hours, play for
Speaker 1: another two hours, and then drive two hours by so
Speaker 1: weird fun.
Speaker 2: Time, Yeah, and then usually play a team where I'm
Speaker 2: the only what I remember, I don't remember their names,
Speaker 2: but I just remember the level, like jumped up another notch,
Speaker 2: like we're obviously in Stratford Ontario. We're playing all the
Speaker 2: other high schools. We're fine, We're decent. We go to
Speaker 2: this tournament for the weekend and you know, we hung
Speaker 2: in a couple of games. I'm not sure if we
Speaker 2: even won, but we were in them. And then yeah,
Speaker 2: we got against this juggernaut team that had two their
Speaker 2: twin brothers. It was like Brook and Robin Lopez, two
Speaker 2: giant twin brothers that were then just dunking on everyone.
Speaker 2: Like that wasn't happening in our league. You guys were
Speaker 2: not getting dunk time. Dond Is like twenty times in
Speaker 2: the game, and it's just like, what the hell is
Speaker 2: going on here? So that's why this tweet resonated with me.
Speaker 2: But anything similar there in Australia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we used to play in tournament weekend tournaments
Speaker 3: like that. Mainly I guess we did it when we
Speaker 3: were kids, but then when we were like adults, young adults,
Speaker 3: as eighteen year olds, we would also enter tournaments.
Speaker 4: And you would do is just do the same thing.
Speaker 3: Go for the weekend, have a boozy Friday and Saturday
Speaker 3: night and play like five games. And there was one
Speaker 3: time we were playing and the Melbourne Tigers who played
Speaker 3: in the NBL. That's Andrew Gazes's team. They had a
Speaker 3: team they entered, but it was like their sort of
Speaker 3: younger up and coming players who they wanted to play against,
Speaker 3: you know, men. And I remember this sixteen year old
Speaker 3: kid like the game, like was a minute in and
Speaker 3: the shot went up and I was sort of boxing
Speaker 3: out and I turned around and all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: I just felt like his legs and his feet head
Speaker 3: just this kid just dunked on me like that, and
Speaker 3: I was just like, oh my god, and we just
Speaker 3: got completely destroyed.
Speaker 4: By this team.
Speaker 3: But that same guy who dunked on me, as I
Speaker 3: was dribbling up the court at one point, he was
Speaker 3: putting pressure on me, and I bounced it under his
Speaker 3: legs and went and got it. And he was furious
Speaker 3: because I just I humiliated him, even though they were
Speaker 3: beating us by about sixty five points to that point,
Speaker 3: so I got mine little back on him. But I
Speaker 3: think as well, in that tournament that was there was
Speaker 3: the one team that was just so much better than
Speaker 3: everyone else. I think we actually played them again in
Speaker 3: the final because we beat all the other teams. But
Speaker 3: then you know, the final was like one hundred and
Speaker 3: forty six to like twenty or something like that. I mean,
Speaker 3: we just got just destroyed. So but they were always fun.
Speaker 3: The tournaments were great fun when you were kids and stuff.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think we ever won one, though
Speaker 3: I would have loved to have gotten at least just
Speaker 3: one trophy. But there's always one team better than you.
Speaker 1: It just sucked.
Speaker 2: I'll go seeking with this tweet again from Coffee, just
Speaker 2: to read the thread because or the responses there. So
Speaker 2: there's so many that just are great stories and people
Speaker 2: just dropping like again, future NBA players and like magic
Speaker 2: having to play them when you're like sixteen, seventeen, eighteen
Speaker 2: or whatever age you are. Oh my god, so so good.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll call it there. We'll be back tomorrow. Obviously,
Speaker 2: no game on tonight, That's okay. I'm sure we'll have
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Speaker 5: For joining us, and just gonna answer this question before
Speaker 5: we go from Kiki and the Stream team. Is Anthony
Speaker 5: Bettett on Team Canada?
Speaker 4: Yep?
Speaker 5: He was? He was? Yeah, no, wow, nobody including Anthony
Speaker 5: Bettt could help the team get a w though.
Speaker 3: So sad, just so sad. Look at all that talent.
Speaker 2: All right, that's all right, they're all young. You just
Speaker 2: wait until what Paris? Where are we going next? Paris four? Oh,
Speaker 2: it'll be worth it, hopefully. Embrace the vie.
Speaker 4: You could say.
Speaker 5: Every day, my dad be happy, every minute.
Speaker 2: It's been so long with your wanna.
Speaker 5: Wait, he's happened already.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be grevy