WEBVTT - What's Wright - Best Of - Tatum & Boston’s collapse, James Harden all-time choker, will Warriors survive without Steph? 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.520 Welcome to the Best of the Week for What's Right 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:05.240 with Nick Right the best takes and moments from this 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:07.040 week on the show. Enjoy. 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:10.560 So, yeah, you went. 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:13.160 Off on your on your show yesterday, you called James 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.639 Harden the biggest choker in modern sports history? 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:19.479 Was that what you called him? Yeah? Yeah, do you 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:21.119 think that's you think that's fair? 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.599 Who else is in the argument? Just tell someone. I 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.520 just need someone to tell me who the other contenders are. 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:34.920 And here's the deal. I'm going to pull up these 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:41.200 I'm going to pull up these numbers real quick. So Harden, Lebron, 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:47.280 Steph Durant, those are the four guys of the era. 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:58.120 And as far as just having uh okay, sure, yeah, 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.160 maybe I should have included Chris, but I didn't. But 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:04.880 that's and that that's a fair one. But I just 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:09.440 want to give you these numbers. Career playoff games Demons 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:18.720 less than four made baskets. Durant has two, Steph has three, 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:26.600 Lebron has five. Give me a guess for Harden, Just 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:27.840 give a number Harden. 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.480 All right, So you said those guys numbers, I'll go 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:36.840 nine thirty five. Yeah, and those guys have obviously played 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:39.319 a lot more than well. 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.480 I don't Harden's played a bunch. I don't Lebron's played 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.959 a lot more. But yeah, but you know Harden was Okay, 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:50.120 hold on, that was so again? Thirty five career playoff 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.760 games with less than four making How many of those? 0:01:55.600 --> 0:02:01.080 Uh A hand? A decent amount? But again he the 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.680 only one you can really throw out is the like 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.680 his for you want to throw out you know, ten 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:11.360 of those games because it was young, young James Harden, 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.160 but he was you know, sixth Man of the year 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.679 and going two for ten in the finals. All right, 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.360 hold on, I got a couple more for you. Career 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:27.919 playoff games with with under five made baskets. Again, I'll 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:33.520 give you the numbers for everyone else. KD four, Steph eight, 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:40.399 Lebron nine, James Harden fifty five. Okay, yeah? And then 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:46.160 last one career playoff games where you have at least 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:52.040 as many turnovers or more turnovers than made shots Durant seven, 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:58.560 Steph thirteen, Lebron's seventeen James Harden. 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:03.720 More turnovers than made shot Yes, all right, yeah seven 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:11.280 Steph thirteen, Lebron seventeen, James Harden forty two. 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:17.440 Forty two more turnovers than made shots. 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:18.840 It's the biggest, right there. 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.920 Or as many turnovers as made shots, as many or more. 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.880 Uh So, here's the thing. So even if you want 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.800 to be like, well, those first two stats were about 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.120 you know, he wasn't playing as many minutes he's off 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:38.000 the bench. That clears that up. And it's just demons. 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.960 I used to be the biggest hardened defender. He had 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:45.560 such a horrific Game six against San Antonio in twenty 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:51.520 seventeen when Kawhi and Tony Parker were out and the 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.800 Rockets lost by thirty nine points that I said, I 0:03:54.880 --> 0:04:01.360 thought he had an undiagnosed concussion. It's just and so 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:06.120 there is there is no comp for it. And so 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.520 if people want to, we don't have to. It's just 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.200 at this point who he is, the moment gets too big. 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:14.720 It was turning around there for a second. 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:19.160 He always has these moments. And then it's the game 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.920 six or a game seven, and he takes seven shots, 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.360 he takes eight shots. He has he has I think 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:29.240 six playoff games where he was two for ten, two 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.560 for eleven or two for twelve from the field. Ask 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.400 this follow up about Russ and then we'll get to 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:37.080 the Warriors. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:38.880 So who do you think will end up having a 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.839 better legacy when it's all said and done between Russ 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:42.520 and Harden. 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.640 So I think this is really it depends on what 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:51.440 your value. So Harden's a better all time player, and 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:58.359 like he has, he's gonna have better numbers on better teams, 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.520 more of a part of winning. They both won one MVP. 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:08.200 But Russ is going to be an icon and Harden 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:18.479 is going to be a placeholder for choking like to 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:25.560 like in the future. And so the answer is Russ. 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.719 Like the answer is definitely Russ. 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.880 Blending Vice's signature dynamic storytelling with the high octane world 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.360 of sports, Vice Sports brings an exciting and diverse range 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.120 of programming that goes beyond the game. 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Yesterday, Mikhale Bridges is terrible for the 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:48.960 first three quarters before being awesome. Jalen Brunson is six 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.040 of nineteen in the game. With a few minutes left 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:56.920 in the game, he had made four shots and it's 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:58.839 not like he was getting He had made four shots 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.839 and gotten to the free throw line once. And they 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.400 found a way to win, and they deserve credit for that. 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:10.400 But the story, and we will, I promise we'll spend 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:12.280 a lot of time on the Knicks, but the story 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:17.000 is Boston. The next story is about what I said 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:23.800 on Tuesday, planning for this moment for more than a year, 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:31.080 and there being a lot of similarities to what how 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.560 Minnesota was able to beat Denver to what we are 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:39.360 seeing with the Knicks and the Celtics. Let's table those 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:46.480 and we will get to those shortly, because the story 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:52.640 really is the defending champs falling apart in real time 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:57.720 physically and mentally. And now let me make this clear, 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:03.120 I don't think it's over. I don't think like, oh, 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:08.920 no chance the Celtics come back. The Celtics are talented 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.560 enough and good enough obviously to win four out of 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.080 five against New York. In fact, most people thought they 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.720 were going to win four out of five against New York. 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:20.840 They just thought it was gonna be the first five games. 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:27.080 This is gonna be a nice, friendly, gentleman suite. But 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:32.360 we are now here. Everyone's gonna focus on the three 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:37.040 point variants, and I get it, twenty five of one 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:41.560 hundred from three fifteen of sixty in Game one, the 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:46.440 exact same percentage in Game two, except they were ten 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:53.240 of forty. I actually don't think that is that might 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:57.960 be the biggest reason they're down. I don't think that 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:02.040 is the biggest story surround them being down. The biggest 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:10.240 story surrounding them being down is Jason Tatum. And we 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:15.679 gave him all his flowers and all the credit for 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.800 what was, without a doubt, at least to my eye, 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:24.080 the best regular season of his career. I understand he 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.600 didn't even have. It wasn't the best numbers. He's averaged 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.680 almost exactly this many points. He's averaged twenty six point 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.600 eight or twenty six point nine points three of the 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:36.560 last four years his you know his numbers in the 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.040 one year he did and he averaged thirty. His numbers 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.440 have been consistent, his field goal percentage has been consistent. 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.080 And it wasn't that he played more games. It was 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:50.200 just this felt like the best Tatum year because you 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.320 didn't get a great year from Jalen Brown by his standards, 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:58.240 Horford's a year or older. You saw some real deterioration 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:02.120 from Drew Holliday over the course of the year. And 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:06.520 yet Tatum answered the bell on both ends of the 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:10.720 court every night. And and this is the key piece, 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.280 not vkey, but one of the key pieces of it. 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:18.840 Responded from what was a really weird few months for 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:25.200 him where he finally wins a championship, but he's not 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:30.160 the Conference finals MVP. He's not the Finals MVP. He 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:34.240 actually plays some of his worst basketball of the season 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:40.040 last year in the biggest games, most notably those two 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.920 series the Conference finals in NBA Finals. Still, it's not 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.320 like he was bad, but he just dropped a level 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:52.360 that then was compounded by the fact that Steve Kerr, 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:59.640 who obviously is despite what lunatic Warrior fans would try 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:03.400 to tell you. Steve Kerr, who obviously is one of 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:07.720 the best and smartest basketball minds we have. Steve Kerr 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:12.800 saw Jason Tatum in the Olympics and said, can't use you. Sorry, 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.319 would love to, but actually you're not one of our 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:21.400 eight best. And he responded to all of that with 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:27.200 a year where he had an argument he was the 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:31.679 third best player in the league and where there was 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:36.040 no argument whatsoever, he was one of the four best 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:43.080 players in the league. And for that to then and 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:47.080 then let me add another piece to it. After a 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:51.280 kind of rocky game one of the playoffs, but who cared? 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:57.080 They won? It was easy where he got hurt. He 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:03.760 then came back after missing a game, averaging thirty six, 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:10.080 eleven and six the rest of the series. It's like, 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:16.240 holy shit, Jason. This extra level that Bill Simmons has 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:21.319 been swearing on his children exists for years. For Jason Tatum, 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:27.199 we're seeing it. And then in back to back games, 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:33.240 he is twelve of forty two from the field. He 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:37.840 is five of twenty from three. He is a total 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:43.760 and complete non factor in the fourth quarter of these games. 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.559 The only play he made last night was when the 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.520 Knicks screwed up a switch and he got a wide 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:59.560 open dunk. And now, listen, I'll just tell you what 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.440 I say to Kevin Wilds when I face timed him yesterday. 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.600 And I know this is going to sound unfair, but 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:12.400 it's just how I feel, and it's not prisoner of 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:19.000 the moment, because I have felt this way about Tatum forever. 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:23.680 He's an excellent player. But what I said to Wilds 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:25.480 is I don't care if the Celtics win the next 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.000 three championships, He's never gonna be the best player in 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:31.400 the league. That guy is not the best player in 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:38.080 the league. And I don't even think the reason I 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.560 said that to Wilds is because he keeps trying to 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:45.320 force the conversation of Jason Tatum's going to force us 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:51.240 into some really tricky conversations. What do we do with 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.760 the twenty seven year old with two rings and four 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.680 first Team All nbas and all of this, What does 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:04.200 that mean for where he is historically? And my answer 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:08.439 to that is Tatum is an excellent player. He is 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:14.000 not yet in the We need to evaluate his historical 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.960 greatness level, and I don't know that he is going 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:23.640 to be in that conversation. There is and I can't 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.560 put my finger on it, but there's something that's just 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:27.080 not there. 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.640 Yes, and it gets a little tight in big spots, 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.560 is what it seems like to me. 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:39.440 Watching the game. It feels to me like if his 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:44.560 three isn't falling, it knocks him off the rest of 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:51.160 his game. And what is And here is the Celtics piece. 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.400 And I just did Levotard Show and this is the 0:14:54.400 --> 0:15:02.119 point I was trying to make. The Celtics bum three 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:07.760 strategy over the long haul, obviously is just a smart 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:14.960 mathematical strategy. As sample sizes get smaller, you put yourself 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:21.840 more at you know, the mercy of the variants. It's 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.560 you know, the team that really originated this strategy was 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:31.160 Darryl Moury's Rockets. But here's why. For Darryl Moury's Rockets, 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:40.200 it made total sense. The team they were trying to beat, 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:48.400 the KD Staph Warriors, was flatly better than them, so 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:53.040 they needed to shake up the snow globe and add 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:59.040 some damn variants. Because if we just go go to 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:04.000 the middle of the rain and trade jabs, we got 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:09.359 no shot. So instead we're gonna throw some wild Haymakers 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:15.280 and risk getting knocked out because that's our chance. This 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:20.760 strategy for the Celtics maybe wouldn't make sense if this 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:25.920 were the NBA Finals against Oklahoma City and they feel 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:31.160 like they're better than us. All year long, they've been better, 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:36.080 they have the better resume. They they're best players, better 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:40.720 than our best player. They're better than us, So let's 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:46.840 add some uncertainty to it. Up twenty points in the 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:50.560 second half against the New York Knicks. The last thing 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:59.280 you want is to add uncertainty. It's it's an insane 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:06.320 It's not an insane way to play. It's insane. Demon's 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:12.480 not to adjust, Yeah, and not to have It's a team, 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:18.359 it's a football team that their identity is chucking it 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:25.360 deep and up ten in the fourth quarter. They refuse 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:30.040 to run the ball that and here's the other piece 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:30.400 of it. 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:38.840 You've got Jason Tatum. He's six eight, he's an amazing shape. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:44.560 He can get to the hoop, and it is. 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:53.200 It is stubbornness that at this point might cost him 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:59.359 their title defense to lose both and it's the first 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:03.800 twenty point lead. I said it tuesday. The Knicks made 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.400 that a game faster than any team. I can remember, 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:10.840 it was twenty points, Boston up by twenty with five 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.040 and a half left in the third, and it was 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:16.359 a six point game with a minute left in the third. 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.760 So the Knicks just in the span of ten possessions 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:28.080 made it a game again. Yesterday was different in that, Yes, 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:32.439 it was twenty and then the Knicks chipped away, but 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:34.479 it was go ahead. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.440 We were holding it like we stayed out in front, 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:39.679 in front for a minute, and we just kept shooting 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:41.720 the three, and they just kept chipping it away. 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:52.440 It was fourteen with seven minutes left. And so I 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.760 if you look at the Celtics fourth quarter shot chart, 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:59.119 they did, you know, they didn't just shoot threes. It 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.520 wasn't the third order in Game three. But there were 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:09.080 just these moments. Most notably was the one Wild's took 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:15.320 the picture of but it is it's a jarring image 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:22.159 where it is eighty six seventy seven. Is that I 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:25.480 want to make sure I have it. I think it's yeah, 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:28.840 or the let me try to pull out I should 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:35.280 just pull up Wild's tweet because it is it's a 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:40.320 wild decision by it's eighty six seventy nine. Pardon me, 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:46.919 and I don't know why this isn't showing me that, 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:51.600 but regardless, don't worry about it. Oh here's why, because 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:53.440 it wasn't. I was like, I thought it was eighty 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:57.200 six because the score. Remember, and here's a sneaky important 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.320 part of the game that will be forgotten the history. 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:04.280 The Knicks got an extra point during a time out 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:07.760 because they had called a Jalen Brunson three a two 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.879 and then they fixed it. Oh on, Mikale Bridges, pardon me, 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:17.920 And so the score the scoreboard says eighty six seventy nine, 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:23.960 but it was actually eighty six eighty and Derek White 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:30.520 misses a three. McHale Bridges then goes down misses a three, 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:35.800 and Josh Hart tries to save it and starts the 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.240 fast break, and all of a sudden and we can 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:45.680 put the image up. Jason Tatum finds himself in this position. 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:53.359 I don't think demons I like it. I well, I 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:57.800 don't think I like shooting that three if I'm the 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:03.400 team trailing by seton seven, Like I, I don't think 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:04.520 it's the smarter move. 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.920 You got a dunk right there, it's not recovering. 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:13.920 He's probably gonna try to get recovering. And by the way, 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:19.560 it's and here's the other thing. If Jalen Brunson is upright, 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:25.359 you might have a dunk there. Oh yeah, you're seven 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:29.200 inches taller than him. Horford's there. You have a full 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:34.600 head of steam. That is an impossible decision. Now you 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:36.919 can be like, listen, what does Jason Tatum shoot on 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:41.359 corner threes? Blah blah blah. Again, you're ups You're actually 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:45.920 up six, but you think you're up seven. It's bananas. 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:50.880 And the very next possession, we don't have a picture 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:55.239 of it, but Jalen Brown has an alley to the 0:21:55.280 --> 0:22:01.040 basket and he takes a pull up three. And so 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:02.480 it's just. 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:07.720 It is the Knicks just finally want it more, is 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:08.480 what it seems like. 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:15.440 Well, they just wanted certainly more comfortable demands. If it's 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:20.919 close late, yeah, that is undeniable. And the fact that 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:28.560 the Knicks have now won five road playoff games and 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:32.200 they have won them. They have played five road playoff games, 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:37.960 they are five and zero, and they have won those 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:47.159 five games by a combined This is really unbelievable, situants. 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:51.240 They have won those five games by combined ten points 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:57.160 ten one in overtime. They won Game three against Detroit 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:03.480 by two, Game four against Detroit by one, Game six 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:08.399 against Detroit by three, Game one against Boston by three, 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:14.240 and in overtime in Game two against Boston by one. 0:23:15.000 --> 0:23:30.879 It is uh. It is a remarkable turn of events. 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:37.199 The NBA eighty two game grind is done. Now the 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:40.199 real fun can begin. The playoffs are here. Time for 0:23:40.240 --> 0:23:42.959 all the high stakes drama, clutch moments, and jaw dropping 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:45.520 plays can't wait. 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Go on 0:25:40.400 --> 0:25:41.560 to Warriors Sea Wolves. 0:25:41.800 --> 0:25:44.560 Warriors won game one on the roll without Steph think 0:25:44.600 --> 0:25:47.280 he went out like eight minutes left in the second quarter. 0:25:47.359 --> 0:25:49.600 They still pulled that off. I think he suffered a 0:25:49.600 --> 0:25:52.080 hamstring strain. It's gonna be out at least a week. 0:25:52.480 --> 0:25:55.359 Do you give the Doves any chance to win without Steph? 0:25:55.600 --> 0:25:59.880 No? And I thought that was a great win by 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:06.040 and I thought Steve Kerr was brilliant and playing thirteen 0:26:06.080 --> 0:26:10.360 guys adjusting on the fly, and Buddy healed. Like these 0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:14.760 last two games with Buddy Heeld, it reminds you of 0:26:14.840 --> 0:26:18.440 how great the Warriors were when they had prime Klay Thompson. 0:26:18.640 --> 0:26:20.960 Because the last two games Buddy held has been prime 0:26:21.040 --> 0:26:24.600 Klay Thompson. It's been really it's just impressive. 0:26:24.880 --> 0:26:28.560 You give them no chance to win this series? If 0:26:28.600 --> 0:26:32.119 Steph is out? Call it? I mean, this is seven 0:26:32.160 --> 0:26:33.880 more days? Is the series over by then? 0:26:34.200 --> 0:26:34.480 No? 0:26:34.600 --> 0:26:37.000 They the Warriors could lose like one game. 0:26:37.480 --> 0:26:42.320 The earliest he could be back, realistically is game six 0:26:42.880 --> 0:26:48.159 because they play tonight Saturday, so that's game Uh so 0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:50.200 let me do it like this. They already played game one. 0:26:50.640 --> 0:26:55.240 Tonight is Game two, Saturday is Game three, Monday is 0:26:55.320 --> 0:27:00.920 Game four, Wednesday is game five. Then they don't play 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:06.600 Did I do that wrong. They play Thursday, Sat. Yeah, 0:27:06.600 --> 0:27:12.119 I did do that. No, Thursday, Saturday, Monday, Wednesday, and 0:27:12.160 --> 0:27:15.680 then the next game is Sunday. I think the. 0:27:16.160 --> 0:27:18.040 If the Knicks can go out there and do that 0:27:18.080 --> 0:27:20.280 to the Celtics and win the second game, I think 0:27:20.320 --> 0:27:24.600 the Warriors can go back and beat them without Steph Curry. 0:27:24.680 --> 0:27:28.560 But it's just I just don't listen. I I don't. 0:27:28.600 --> 0:27:35.000 I think Jimmy's been good but not unbelievable by keep hitting. Yes, 0:27:35.720 --> 0:27:38.280 I don't. I think Buddy healed is you know, going 0:27:38.320 --> 0:27:44.320 to regress more to the mean there? And uh, I 0:27:44.359 --> 0:27:50.920 also think and this was, do you guys remember when 0:27:51.560 --> 0:27:56.719 the Lakers went down three to one to Minnesota and 0:27:56.760 --> 0:27:59.240 I came on here and said, I don't think necessarily 0:27:59.359 --> 0:28:03.840 the series is over. It obviously was, but the Lakers' 0:28:04.000 --> 0:28:08.960 title hopes are done. And the reason I said was 0:28:09.040 --> 0:28:11.360 because now the only way to get out of Round 0:28:11.480 --> 0:28:15.800 one is they have to play every other day, win 0:28:15.880 --> 0:28:18.840 a Game seven, and then start a series where they're 0:28:18.840 --> 0:28:21.880 playing every other day for the entirety of it, basically, 0:28:22.880 --> 0:28:27.480 and there are too old and too thin of a 0:28:27.600 --> 0:28:32.600 team in order for that to be an effective path. Essentially, 0:28:34.560 --> 0:28:40.200 that is now where the Warriors are, and you saw 0:28:40.240 --> 0:28:44.120 it immediately. Bite Steph, a player who has never had 0:28:44.120 --> 0:28:48.280 a hamstring injury in his life, ended up having to 0:28:48.320 --> 0:28:53.840 play every other day against that Rockets defense running around 0:28:53.920 --> 0:28:57.560 like that. Windy said that since they've started tracking, this 0:28:57.720 --> 0:29:02.400 game seven against Houston was the most like mileage Steph 0:29:02.520 --> 0:29:05.560 has run on the court in a game in his career, 0:29:06.760 --> 0:29:09.600 and a quarter and a half into the next game 0:29:09.640 --> 0:29:13.760 he suffers his first ever hamstring injury. Like that, every 0:29:13.880 --> 0:29:18.640 game matters, and the Warriors kind of punted game five 0:29:19.240 --> 0:29:23.040 against Houston and then let go of the rope in 0:29:23.080 --> 0:29:25.080 the fourth quarter of Game six, and all of a 0:29:25.120 --> 0:29:27.959 sudden they find themselves in a Game seven. And then 0:29:28.000 --> 0:29:30.560 all of a sudden, you find yourself two days later 0:29:30.640 --> 0:29:33.360 playing in a Game one, and even though you win it, 0:29:36.440 --> 0:29:39.560 that's the ultimate when the battle lose the war. And 0:29:39.640 --> 0:29:42.880 so no, I listen. I think the Timberwolves. We were 0:29:42.880 --> 0:29:47.240 talking about three point regression with the Celtics. Timberwolves are 0:29:47.280 --> 0:29:51.120 now like twelve of seventy over their last two games 0:29:51.200 --> 0:29:57.760 or something insane. And so I don't I think that 0:29:59.320 --> 0:30:06.920 when we get it to Game five, it's gonna be 0:30:07.120 --> 0:30:09.160 three to one. I think we're gonna be I think 0:30:09.160 --> 0:30:11.320 the Minnesota's gonna win. The next three is the short 0:30:11.400 --> 0:30:14.840 version of it, and I think it's gonna be three 0:30:14.840 --> 0:30:18.120 to one going back to Minnesota. And here's the other piece. 0:30:19.360 --> 0:30:24.360 They ruled Steph out a week immediately, so game six 0:30:24.480 --> 0:30:28.840