WEBVTT - What the hell just happened to the Nuggets? 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:14.800 On this episode of the Check one Round two series 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:15.640 is over. 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:18.320 One second Round series is around, and why said it 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:18.720 like that? 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:21.759 One is definitely going to a Game seven and the 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:24.160 other two we have absolutely no idea about. 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:26.079 So let's break them all down for you. 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:30.880 Give some thoughts about those series, as well as not one, 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:35.720 but two interviews with local experts Denver Zach Bye, who 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:40.199 is covering the Nuggets Timberwolve series, and Eric Chiafalo what 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:44.600 a name from Dallas covering the mazrath Is Thunder series. 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.879 Man, I love this time, yere Anthony, I know that 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:48.559 you're listening. 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.080 Are they about to hire JJ Reddick in La, because, 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:54.880 oh my god, that's gonna be content for days. Let's 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.400 drop right into it, drop that motherfucking beat that should 0:00:58.400 --> 0:00:58.680 be reON. 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.600 We're almost the summer. I don't want it to end. 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:22.560 The Second Round series or almost over a lot of surprises, 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.640 though pretty exciting, what was not a shock was the 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:30.840 Boston made lightish work of the Cleveland Cavaliers. For one, 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:33.280 we knew that they were gonna lose one game they 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:37.240 always do, especially Game two went about as much as 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:41.040 you would expect, especially true because the Cavs went without 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.679 Donovan Mitchell for two games, which you knew that was 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:46.120 gonna be a big problem. And if now, if you 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.080 listen to the chatter out there, it's like not really 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:50.720 good on the streets for Donnovan Mitchell. People are already saying, oh, 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.640 Donovan Mitchell thinks the rest of the Cavaliers are immature. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.200 And then donnad Mitchell's gonna come out on Twitter and say, hey, 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.240 they cappen. And then Donovan Mitchell in that last game 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:05.320 in Boston was wearing a brand new Cleveland Cavalier's hat 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.760 on that looked like somebody from the PR staff said hey, 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:08.680 you need to put this on. 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.080 In terms of showing solidarity Donovan. 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:13.480 Some people are saying that he played his last game 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.000 as a Cavalier because he's probably not going to extend. 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.320 Then the other people come out and say donovand Mitchell 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.960 actually loves it in Cleveland, which said no one ever, 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.880 regardless the heater circling, the Lakers are circling, the Brooklyn 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:31.680 Nets are circling, Cleveland is getting circled. 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:32.440 Like a vulture in the desert. 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.639 Darius Garland, his camp has come out and said, yeah, 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.680 we're not really fucking with playing with Donovan Mitchell, our 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.120 roles have been diminished, and it's kind of like Donovan 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:47.360 Mitchell or US then it's like, okay, Cia Dia. Ever 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:52.239 since Darius Garland hurt his what is orbital boom face? 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:54.000 He got surgery. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.280 Ever since his face got fucked up, he has not 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:59.200 been the same. And when you go three for seventeen 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.359 from the field and the close out game without your 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.120 star player, it's on you, baby boy. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.080 You do not look good. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.840 Darius Garland is said to be unhappy with his role 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.240 in Cleveland, and we'll ask out if Donovan does stay. 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:13.720 Okay, bye bye by. 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.960 The way, like rumor mill, can we just let the 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.640 body go cold a little bit before all these post mortems. No, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.880 they've got these things ready to hit publish before the 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:24.800 games and the series are even over. 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:26.959 It's fucked up. I kind of love it though. 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:31.560 As for the Celtics, they look dominant. No team in 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.920 modern memory can win in five games multiple times and 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.560 yet still have a fan base that does not believe 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.000 in them and questions whether the team can win it 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:44.880 all myriad of issues, Tatum's lack of takeover the game, 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:50.400 Gene Drew Holliday disappears for games at a time. Christas 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:54.840 Porzingis is injury history pops up while simultaneously he is 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.400 injured and is not playing in playoff games. We have 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:01.640 strange coaching decisions, but Boston just keeps winning, so we 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.920 don't really know what they are until they face a 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.800 true competitor. Sure, they haven't played anyone yet, but guess what. 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:08.360 They can only play the teams that are in front 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.040 of them, and they will get either an Indiana Pacers 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:15.160 team that cannot play any defense, or they will get 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.279 a very banged up next team. This could be one 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.760 of the least impressive runs to the finals we've seen 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.680 in a long time, probably since the Milwaukee Milwaukee Bucks 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.599 in twenty twenty one. 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:28.200 Anyway. 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.760 Critics, of course will point out that Miami without Jimmy 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.640 and Cleveland without Donovan are very different teams. But like 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.920 I said, they await either Indy or New York. Let's 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.600 talk about that series though. The Knicks, as you know, 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.479 beat the shit out of India in Game five in 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:44.000 the Garden. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.320 But did you know what. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.800 Got them to play loose? Got them to play competitively 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:51.239 and difficultly hardly? 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:51.960 I don't know how to. 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.240 Say that got them to play hard every single possession. 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:56.760 Apparently it was a long. 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:02.640 Drawn out fart, a fart in the locker room pregame. 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:07.800 Fred Katz was there. He chronicled it on Dan Patrick 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.680 No Dan Lebattart one of the dance and you know 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:15.120 it was Josh Hart probably so much Mike and Ikes 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.480 that caused all kinds of gastric distress. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.200 The fart apparently was like a ten second long fart. 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:22.080 Almost looked like a. 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:27.560 Whoopee cushion, sounded like Wookie pushion had gone off. Thank God, 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.320 because the Knicks keep winning, and it's crazy. It's crazy 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.000 because they're so banged up that you feel like it 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.159 has to come down and the guillotine has to hit 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.880 him in the neck at some point. But Tibbs just 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.560 keeps coaching his ass off. They keep getting something out 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.159 of another player that you don't expect. All Tibbs does 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.719 is find a way to put poor little Andrew nemhard 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.200 back on to Brunson, and Brunson just puts up buckets 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:54.040 on him. It's like, oh, you know what, we're gonna 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.320 have Deuce McBride start games now, and then we're gonna 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.880 have guard to guard pick and roll you think you 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:07.000 can put in Andrew Nemart on Deuce McBride. Oh no, no, baby, 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.400 because Aaron Nesmith is getting switched up on and now 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.120 it's buckets for days. We almost had a fifty bucket 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.080 again for Jalen Brunson and he doesn't even have any 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:20.440 left on the shots. The other two series are very, 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:24.200 very exciting, but ogn and Obi is still out indefinitely. 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.000 So all I want is a Game seven at the 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:30.840 Garden on a Monday fingers crossed. But if you're a 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.279 Knicks fan, you say, no, no, I do not want that. 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.200 Let's close this baby out. Let's talk about Okce, though, 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.279 where the MAVs now are up three two. 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:39.240 Very surprising. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:39.480 Shit. 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.680 I thought the MAVs team would be an early exit 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:44.400 at best. 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:45.479 The PJ. 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:49.120 Washington trade excellent, the Daniel Gafford trade excellent. 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:51.480 They need to close this thing. 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.120 Out in Dallas because if they go back to Oka, see, 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.880 it's going to be rocking in there. But the issue 0:06:55.920 --> 0:07:00.800 for the Thunder are many Nobody other than Shake can 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.880 get a bucket consistently. And everybody said this team was 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:06.719 too young, but it doesn't even look like that's the case. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.040 It looks like they're just not tall enough. They play 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:13.520 plenty mature, but they don't play big. They lack height, 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:14.720 they lack strength. 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:16.360 We talked about it all year long. 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:18.880 They need a backup big. They need a backup big. 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.160 They need to backup. They wouldn't do it. A lot 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:22.920 of people think Donovan Klingon could be the answer. A 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.600 lot of people think it's Zach Edie. But six' Nine 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:29.320 Jalen williams ja y L I N i think That's 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.280 jay Will he's the second tallest guy on the roster 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:33.560 Besides Chet. 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.520 Holmgren Once poku got shipped. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.480 Out the team has an average height of sixty. 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:38.920 Six then you look At. 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.120 Dallas they have nine players that are six seven or 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:45.559 taller and four over six.' ten so they are getting, 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.320 out muscled they are getting, out rebounded and they are 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:49.400 getting straight fucking. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.280 Bullied, tough okay so he could still win. 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:56.000 The series but does it even, matter really You, play 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.840 minnesota You, play denver you're getting fucked up in the 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.720 game because they're even Big, than dallas and they're even 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:09.560 more Skilled. Than dallas they're even more Athletic. Than dallas speaking, Of, Which, minnesota. 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.560 Okay okay minnesota we. 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:15.520 See, You okay denver gets their ass handed. 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.680 To them again on. 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:24.280 The road jamal couldn't get, it going, Mpj awful jokic looking. 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:28.640 Mortal again minnesota has, calmly back and everything seems like it. 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:32.400 Was before the, crazy, thing though Was the denver looked 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.360 like they're about to fuck. Them up they went up nine, 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.360 to two then there was like an eleven zero run 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.480 which turned into a twenty nine to, four run and 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.680 then all of, a sudden it's night night sleep. Mask 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:46.920 one fifteen seventy was the. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:47.600 Final, score? 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:52.880 Outrageous outrageous how do? You lose how do you lose 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:54.079 by forty five when they're the? 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.160 Defending champs could you have a? Little honor what a? 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:01.319 Weird series what a? Weird series six. 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.760 Games split evenly three to three and only one good game, 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:08.600 in There number. Game one the other five. Were blowouts 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:10.560 no idea what to Think about? GAME seven a lot 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:11.959 of People like denver why? 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:13.560 Wouldn't you but who the? 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.280 Fuck knows we will preview the conference Finals, on monday, 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.800 of course but For now i'm hoping for three. Game sevens, 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.360 all right it is time to welcome our, First Guest, 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.400 zach bye Of the Drive on denver's one oh four POINT, 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.199 Three fm zach broke. 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:28.840 Down the Nuggets versus. 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.920 Wolve series he was joined by my other, Co Host 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.079 ryan Horbought And, nick cashew which airs on my other 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:38.080 SHOW at mgm tonight on the radio most, major markets 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.520 as well as live on video on twitch. AND YouTube 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.240 i don't know if you, knew that but you should 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.200 check it. Out live it's. Pretty fun zach is one 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.199 of my. Favorite guests he is. So passionate he did 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.719 it with cell. Phone too his hand was rattling all over, 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:49.920 the place the screen. 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.079 Was shaking he was. So excited check. It out let's get. 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:53.600 Into It. 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.920 Zach bye is the host Of the drive one four 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.120 to three the Fan. In denver he jumps on. With, 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.240 us so is what is just kind of the mood 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.439 right now for you and i'd say people in general? 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.680 Right now does it feel Like the nuggets have gone Back, 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.640 to hey this Is the nuggets team we remember or 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.560 heading into? This game Is it minnesota and what they 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.120 did the first couple of games is still kind of 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:17.880 in the back of your mind a. 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:19.480 Little, bit, well guys thanks for having me. 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.360 Back on it feels Like what minnesota did in games 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.719 One in game two was like a. Year ago, this 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:29.520 series it like self, contained series deserves like its. Own 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:34.439 documentary from the Way that game two, went down it was. 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.760 The fourth largest loss FOR. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:40.880 An nba champion on their, home floor followed by the 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:44.720 second largest playoff win in the history of. The Franchise 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.800 rudy gobert missed a game because he had. A Baby 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:51.680 tim Connolly missed game five with. An Achilles jamal murray 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.560 didn't get suspended for throwing a heat pack and a 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:58.760 towel onto. The floor like it's been an absolute. Journey 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.960 Here but i'll tell, YOU this I Think nuggets nation, 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.880 in general and you can include me, in this have 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.880 returned to the supreme confidence that we had before the, 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.920 series started based on the championship Equity that denver built 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.600 up a year ago going sixteen and four on their 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.040 way to. A Title and i'll, tell, you guys, You 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:22.880 know minnesota, is fantastic, all right. THEY are i believe 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.600 this team is going to win a championship at some 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.400 Point In anthony edwards are, run here but they're just 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.480 a little bit ahead. Of Schedule, and Jokic who i've 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.880 been referring this season to as a basketball version of, 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:41.400 artificial intelligence because he downloads whatever you throw at him 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.240 and spits out the equation to. Solve it now ais 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.880 a little, bit new so it might Have taken jokic 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:49.880 a game or two to figure. It out but by 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:54.079 game three you could see he has Solved, the Timberwolves 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.600 And michael malone deserves a ton. Of credit they have 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:01.280 made incredible ADJUSTMENTS that i won't. Ida here i'm sure 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.280 you guys have seen them with your, own eyes but 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.480 From having Jokic And aaron gordon bring the ball up 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.480 the floor instead Of Having jamal, murray hounded to doing 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.360 inverted screens. 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:12.760 To get jokic's. 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:16.560 Post looks we just started seeing that They're Throwing aaron 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:20.680 gordon in early actions To Get rudy gobert moving in 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.199 early in possessions as opposed to just roaming around by. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.400 The RIM so i think from coaching And, From jokics 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.840 denver has Figured The minnesota. Timberwolves out they're just a 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.439 little bit early to the biggest party on, the PLANET 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:35.319 and i Love the nuggets to finish. 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.199 This, series yeah it does look like that two to 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.239 o lead was just an eternity. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:41.400 To go everybody was freaking. 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.240 Out myself I've been i've been like supremely confident In 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.160 the nuggets pretty much all. 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.480 Season LONG and i thought, to. 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:53.080 Myself if if they, tell us, you know if, this 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:58.280 Team If michael Malone And calvin moved tell us that 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.600 the role players are, good Enough that i'm gonna. Believe 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.000 him and then then what we saw in the first two, Games, 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.120 was oh maybe they Are Missing bruce brown. A lot 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.679 maybe they Are Missing uncle jeff. A lot how are 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:13.199 they using their role players Now the nuggets in different 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.559 ways that is allowing this team to be able to 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:16.000 be a lot. 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.800 More balanced it's a great, A, question trista because coming into, 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:23.440 THE series i thought that one of the bigger Advantages 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.360 that minnesota has was. 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.520 Their bench they had the sixth man of, the year 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:28.000 but it's not. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.520 JUST him, i Mean It's kyle anderson coming off the 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.360 bench and a couple others that have been. Really impactful 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.560 and the ANALOGY that i tried to make before the 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.480 series is That the nuggets bench is more of a 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:42.400 shield just don't get killed in The non, jokics minutes 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.280 And the timberwolves bench was more of, a sword a 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.839 sword that can actually gas, you Well the nuggets bench 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.240 is now holding the shield and. The sword and We've 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:56.120 Seen christian brown multiple times in this series get to. 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.560 Double figures that's who he was last year during the 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:03.000 post where IN The nba finals he's scored fifteen points 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.920 as a rookie Most And sam cassel For the rockets 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:06.520 in the early to. 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:08.600 Mid nineties he's returned. 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.600 To that form after a bit of a regression type 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.440 of Year For christian brown in his. Second year but 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.800 it's also two other guys that have made a huge 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:20.720 impact in a. Reserve role And It's, reggie jackson thirty 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.680 three year old veteran coming off a, you know a 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.320 two for two game. From three and it's also a 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.880 guy that never gets talked about on any of the, 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:35.120 talk shows but it's it's Longtime Veteran justin holliday has 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.440 made ten threes in. This, series guys this is a 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.960 guy that did not play during the. REGULAR season i 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.840 just want to. Reemface it he didn't Play. For Denver 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:47.480 But michael malone in big moments trust, veteran players and 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.440 you're seeing a Guy Like peyton watson not checking into 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.320 games and the trust is more built over the last 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:57.040 ten Years With, justin holliday and that Decision For michael 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.360 malone to adjust within this series and start playing a 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.440 guy who had barely played during the regular season is 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.440 a massive feather in the Cap Of michael malone. 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.000 As, WELL zak i gotta, ask you how do you 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:07.920 Feel About Michael. 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:08.120 Porter? 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.560 Junior tonight his points prop is thirteen and. A half 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:12.640 he only had six on two to ten shooting the 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.080 other night, before that, four points not a whole lot 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.120 of volume low two. Of four you think this could 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:18.240 maybe be a game where he gets. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.600 SOME looks i actually think it. COULD be, i like 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:20.960 where your. 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.320 Head's, at obviously, YOU know i don't believe in using 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.840 the word lock by, any means but. He's due, AND 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:30.080 also i Don't think minnesota's approach is going to be 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:34.880 to Single Cover nikola. Jokicic anymore after he literally in that, 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:39.960 game five he put away his scalpel and brought out 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.840 his axe and said this is going to, get ugly 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.760 and he absolutely murdered the defensive player of the year 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.640 and wore. His, skin okay they can't have that. Approach 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.680 again they cannot have that, approach again, All Right so 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.440 i'm saying that to say as it Relates To Michael. 0:15:56.480 --> 0:16:01.120 PORTER jr i could see the Most aggressive doulve Going 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.840 toward jogics tonight and he always makes the right to 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.680 sist and that supercomputer brain, of HIS and i think 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:11.480 a beneficiary of that two passes away could be Like 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.280 A Michael porter junior wide. 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:14.680 Opening corners he's. 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:18.200 ABSOLUTELY due i could see him score between seventeen and twenty. 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:23.960 Points tonight has anybody's reputation spiked and then like very 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:28.480 quickly dropped as much as the defensive Prowess Of Rudy 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:32.640 Gobert because game one and earlier on in the Series, 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.120 against phoenix we, were like, oh man this Is The 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.000 rudy gobert on the perimeter that we love. TO see 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.960 i Swear after, GAME five i think everybody's now just 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:42.520 Out On. 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.120 Rudy gobert it was like, you said wore. 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:46.960 His skin that's what made me think, of, It Like 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.200 rudy gobert might be his reputation might just. 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:53.120 Be COOKED and i understand why you're, saying it and, 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.000 it's FAIR but i will, say this that's what it 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.680 looks like when you're playing one of the ten greatest 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.240 PLAYERS in. Nba history mac dab in the middle of. Their, 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.520 PRIME like i don't think It's A rudy. GOBERT issue 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.960 i think he's deserving of The defensive player Of. The year, 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.280 but like, no matter like what defensive player in the 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:13.200 front court could you Single up jokis? 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.439 With now like he just he. 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.520 Murders people AND so i think it more has to 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:22.800 Do with jokics Because Traditionally go bear does about as 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:27.119 good of a job as you Can, against jokics especially in. 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:31.080 Single coverage so it's, just guys we, are WATCHING like 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:33.600 i want to put this on your radar now we. 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.120 Are watching this is not a guy who's just top 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.399 five in all time. Triple doubles this is not a 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.919 guy who's just won A, third mvp ninth PLAYER in 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.679 nba history to. Do it if they do over the 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.120 next MONTH what i think they're, gonna do and that's 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.800 win back to, Back championships jokics will be THE. Finals 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.440 mvp you know how many PLAYERS in nba history have 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:59.120 three regular season MVPs and two. Finals, MVPs ready here's. 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.399 The list in, my opinion it's the greatest basketball players 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.040 who have, ever played and you could put them in 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:06.600 any order that, You Want Kareem, Abdul Jabbar, Michael, Jordan, 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:11.080 Lebron James, Magic Johnson. Larry bird that's. The list you 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.840 will need a six finger here in about. A month 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:15.640 if things go down THE way i think it's gonna, 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.639 go down he will have a top ten argument. Without 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:24.080 question and THAT'S what i think that murder scene in 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.080 game five. Was about it Was about jokic and Not. 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:28.760 Necessarily gobert it's just. 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:30.840 So descriptive THAT'S what i love. ABOUT it, i mean 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.919 you're totally right Talking to Zach BY vet. Mgm tonight 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.520 we know How Important nakola jokic obviously is To, the 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.679 nuggets but we also have seen How Important jamal murray 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.960 is to their success. As well are we feeling better 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:46.800 about his health a? LITTLE bit i understand, the numbers 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.040 listening to sixteen points last game seven or fourteen shooting 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:51.760 and least shooting fifty percent from, The, FIELD like, i 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:53.360 mean is it kind of at the? Point now are 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:55.560 he's starting to at least get closer to the guy 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:56.480 that we expect to see? 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:57.800 Out? THERE yeah i. 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:01.159 Think physically, you know we haven't even really talked too 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:03.800 much about him physically in the last day or two because. 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:04.159 Of what we Saw in. 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.679 Game three, you Know after game two they had that 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.000 long layoff where they played On a monday and didn't 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:13.200 play Again. Till friday that was Huge For jamal murray 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.359 and he's got his bounce back and he had his 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.479 best game of the Series in game three And in, 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:21.240 game five and the stats that you, just quoted we 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:25.520 saw a plus elite level Defense From anthony Edwards On. 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:29.040 Jamal murray he poured all of his energy to try 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:32.359 to Slow down jamal and, guess what. It worked the 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:36.840 problem is the problem is Is that anthony did ant 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:40.760 man did not have enough in the tank offensively after 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:44.320 giving that all world. Performance defensively that's, why it's in my, 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:47.720 humble opinion we need to slow down a little bit 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:49.479 With The Kobe Bryant michael. 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.120 Jordan comparisons he may. 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:56.320 Get, there gay but What made Michael and kobe special 0:19:56.400 --> 0:20:00.840 Specifically is michael Was Winning defensive Players the year in 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:04.040 the same year he was winning the. Scoring Title, kobe 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:08.280