Speaker 1: I want to talk about something more broad than the
Speaker 1: individual games themselves. After watching the first round of the
Speaker 1: NBA playoffs, something has become very evident, very obvious. Playoff
Speaker 1: seeding doesn't matter anymore at all. There was a time
Speaker 1: where teams would scratch and they would claw to try
Speaker 1: to get home court advantage in the playoffs. I mean,
Speaker 1: after all, we've been told for decades that having home
Speaker 1: court is a difference between life and death, between cant
Speaker 1: coon and a deep run in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: That's just not true anymore.
Speaker 1: That's not the Miami Heat. We're a playing team, not
Speaker 1: just a playing team. They lost their first game in
Speaker 1: the play in tournament. They were down by double digits
Speaker 1: of the Chicago Bulls. Scratched in clawed just to get
Speaker 1: the eight seed. And you know what they did. They
Speaker 1: just beat a team that won two years ago the
Speaker 1: NBA title. Yes, there was no Joannis for two games,
Speaker 1: but it didn't matter.
Speaker 2: They didn't have Tyler Hero.
Speaker 1: Either, one of their best shooters. They made quick work
Speaker 1: of them in five. Everybody thought that the Heat were
Speaker 1: gonna get bounced in four.
Speaker 2: Nope.
Speaker 1: Duncan Robinson has emerged from the crypt. He had fourteen
Speaker 1: threes in four games after the Tyler hero injury fourteen.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry his performance, Jimmy Butler's performance was pretty good too,
Speaker 1: fifty six points. The Bucks are done. Bud might get fired,
Speaker 1: He might have dismantled the Milwaukee Bucks. Jimmy Butler an
Speaker 1: eight seed.
Speaker 2: The Warriors.
Speaker 1: The fact that they were a six seed joke Jokeville
Speaker 1: made no sense. They were always We said this all year.
Speaker 1: The Warriors are a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Speaker 2: Do not sleep.
Speaker 1: The only thing that the Warriors are pretending is that
Speaker 1: they're not contending.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: There was all this talk, Oh, Warriors are old. Oh
Speaker 1: they're done, they're road records trash. Are they gonna win
Speaker 1: in the playoffs that they can't win on the road?
Speaker 2: That was some bullshit. Did you see what they just said?
Speaker 1: They got two wins against the Sacramento Kings, one of
Speaker 1: the toughest places to play.
Speaker 2: In the NBA.
Speaker 1: Oh, they don't have youth on their side. But the
Speaker 1: truth is what we now know. This is a fact.
Speaker 1: Fact nobody's talking about. The Warriors don't have a tank
Speaker 1: for the regular season anymore.
Speaker 2: They are old.
Speaker 1: Their tank is twenty eight games, the amount of games
Speaker 1: that the playoffs are.
Speaker 2: That's their tank. We'll give you some good games in January.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll see.
Speaker 1: You a couple of good games in February. We'll get
Speaker 1: up for our home crowd. But where we go on
Speaker 1: the road, you're not getting our a squad, you're not
Speaker 1: getting our a effort. And if we lose to Detroit
Speaker 1: Pistons at Little Caesars Arena, be thankful that we didn't
Speaker 1: give you our full force, because when we have it,
Speaker 1: there's no one on the planet who can beat us.
Speaker 1: And that's what Draymond said, I can barely get out
Speaker 1: of bed in February. Jesus Christ, did you see the
Speaker 1: performances that he had in the playoffs? He had twenty
Speaker 1: something points, one of the most efficient performances in saying defense, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did stop someone in the chest.
Speaker 2: Turns out that was pretty effective for them too.
Speaker 1: When he got suspended, unlocked the things that they needed
Speaker 1: to know in order to have better spacing.
Speaker 2: That's the kind that's the kind of bad luck that the.
Speaker 1: Warriors have, bad luck that ultimately turns into good luck.
Speaker 1: You've got Steph thirty five, Clay thirty three, Draymond thirty three,
Speaker 1: they're not mustering up the energy to play defense against
Speaker 1: the Detroit Pistons, Are.
Speaker 2: You kidding me?
Speaker 1: No, So the next time the Warriors are in February
Speaker 1: and they're like a borderline fringe playing team, just remember
Speaker 1: they're still a title team.
Speaker 2: They are never dead until one of them leaves, one
Speaker 2: of those core three leave. Maybe that's this offseason. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: And I have Kevon Looney, who I think maybe the
Speaker 1: best center we've ever seen, the best rebounding small center.
Speaker 2: He had more what was that tweet?
Speaker 1: I saw this? Kevon Looney has had as many twenty
Speaker 1: plus rebound games in the first round of this playoffs.
Speaker 1: Then David Robinson, Hakeem elijahu On, Karl Malone to Kembe Mutumbo,
Speaker 1: and Bill Walton had in their entire playoff careers just
Speaker 1: shy of one hundred and twenty eight, which is Bill
Speaker 1: Russell for most all time.
Speaker 2: That's that's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: There were people who said it, not me, said Sabonis
Speaker 1: would eat Kavonloney for lunch. No, Sir, Sabonis got eaten
Speaker 1: for lunch from kavan So yeah, it doesn't really matter
Speaker 1: to Golden State. They just wanted to avoid the playing tournament,
Speaker 1: which honestly, even if they made it.
Speaker 2: To the play in tournament, they probably would have stilled.
Speaker 1: They probably would have played the Nuggets and beat the
Speaker 1: Nuggets in six. This is the potency. It is a
Speaker 1: team that is built for the playoffs. Do you want
Speaker 1: to play the Warriors? Ever, the answer is no. The
Speaker 1: answer along your path. That's why I didn't want the
Speaker 1: Kings to play the Warriors in the first round, because
Speaker 1: they are at the end of the day, inevitable. This
Speaker 1: is the trend though, of the future for me. I
Speaker 1: think you're seeing this with Lebron. Lebron just takes full
Speaker 1: plays off in the middle of the game to conserve
Speaker 1: his energy for winning time, because.
Speaker 2: That's the only we are not allowed. We're not gonna go,
Speaker 2: go go. They're not robots.
Speaker 1: Their tank isn't just completely unlimited where they can be
Speaker 1: their game seven fourth quarter winning time south in the
Speaker 1: middle of a random Tuesday game against some bottom feeder team.
Speaker 2: Absolutely fucking not.
Speaker 1: Remember when Lebron James broke the scoring record and they
Speaker 1: lost to OKC and we thought that that was meaningful
Speaker 1: in any way.
Speaker 2: It was not.
Speaker 1: This was a team given up for dead at the
Speaker 1: trade deadline below five hundred, Lebron James injured, Anthony Davis injured.
Speaker 1: In other words, they were cooked. Rob Polinka pulled something
Speaker 1: out of his hat. I don't know who he has
Speaker 1: pictures on where he was able to make those trades,
Speaker 1: but retooled the roster, reinvigorated the team, and now that
Speaker 1: they now they are scary. I think this is the
Speaker 1: trend of the future. It is now called the conservation
Speaker 1: of star power. All of this means the regular season is.
Speaker 2: Just not very meaningful anymore. Doesn't mean it's not fun.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean teams can't build on regular season success.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that we should just cancel it all together.
Speaker 1: It means that guys like Lebron and Steph and Draymond
Speaker 1: cannot be judged by their individual performances or team performances
Speaker 1: until playoff time.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: Because if you can go off for fifty in a
Speaker 1: Game seven after being embarrassed and straight up flattened in
Speaker 1: Game six on the road.
Speaker 2: Who gives a fuck what you do in February? Who cares?
Speaker 1: That's gonna mean skipping Tuesdays against Utah and not really
Speaker 1: trying that.
Speaker 2: Hard till April. That's it, that's that's that's the takeaway.
Speaker 1: M