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Speaker 1: funny I as I'm prepping for these shows, I especially
Speaker 1: for instant reaction shows, I try to have kind of
Speaker 1: like bullet points that I go for when I work
Speaker 1: the next day. It's usually a little bit more detailed
Speaker 1: with the notes, But every time you're there's a really
Speaker 1: close game, it's always complicated, right, because everything can get
Speaker 1: completely flipped over when a team steals it, right, like
Speaker 1: what almost happened tonight and then Boston ended up stealing
Speaker 1: it back. But I thought, I want to focus. I
Speaker 1: want to focus on the end of that game before
Speaker 1: we get to the to some of the other things
Speaker 1: that I noticed throughout, because there were some very specific
Speaker 1: reasons why Boston has taking control of this series again,
Speaker 1: and I do want to dive into those things. But
Speaker 1: at the core of these two teams, they have an identity,
Speaker 1: and one of Boston's identities is they struggle with late
Speaker 1: game execution and just execution in general against you know,
Speaker 1: schematic challenges, and one of Miami's an important part of
Speaker 1: Miami's identities. They are always the team that's looking to
Speaker 1: make schematic adjustments and they seem to have an edge
Speaker 1: in that side of the game. And then they have
Speaker 1: a superstar who's always supremely confident in late game situations,
Speaker 1: which gives them an advantage. And so Boston's up nine,
Speaker 1: I think with like two and a half minutes left
Speaker 1: or something like that, and Eric Spolser made two adjustments
Speaker 1: in the way that he was attacking on both ends
Speaker 1: of the floor that turned things around rather quickly. And
Speaker 1: the first was he went zone. And again, the genius
Speaker 1: thing about zone and the way that Spolster uses it
Speaker 1: is he never uses it enough to truly give it
Speaker 1: an opponent an opportunity to solve it. There was a
Speaker 1: game earlier in this series where he didn't use it
Speaker 1: at all in the first quarter, and then he used
Speaker 1: it a ton in the second quarter, and then he
Speaker 1: didn't use it at all in the third quarter, and
Speaker 1: then he used it a ton in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: That's something that he tends to do as more of
Speaker 1: a rhythm disruptor rather than as like an actual defensive
Speaker 1: base scheme, right, And so he goes to zone at
Speaker 1: the end of the game, and Boston just has no
Speaker 1: idea what to do with it. And they were already
Speaker 1: a little discombobulated. Over the course of the second half.
Speaker 1: Most of their success was coming on the defensive end
Speaker 1: of the floor and just finding little bits of offense
Speaker 1: here and there. But that got them a bunch of
Speaker 1: stops in the in a row down the stretch on
Speaker 1: the other end of the floor. There's this weird thing
Speaker 1: that was happening over the course of the game. Will
Speaker 1: dive a little bit deeper into it later, but Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler was not confident with the basketball in his hands
Speaker 1: at all, and so they were running a ton of
Speaker 1: stuff for Duncan Robinson. He was basically the focal point
Speaker 1: of the offense through the middle portion of the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter and well really for most of the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: And what was interesting about that is down the stretch
Speaker 1: of the game after, you know, after Sposhal went zone
Speaker 1: and they started making their comeback, Jimmy Butler took back
Speaker 1: control of the offense. But they started doing so with
Speaker 1: ghost screens with Duncan Robinson. And what's interesting about that
Speaker 1: is they established the fear of Duncan throughout the quarter
Speaker 1: with his shot making. I think he made a couple
Speaker 1: of threes and he just you know, just in general,
Speaker 1: was the guy they were running everything through. But as
Speaker 1: a result, Boston was overreacting to those ghost screens. So
Speaker 1: remember what a ghost screen is is when they have
Speaker 1: a guard to guard action. In this case, Duncan Robinson
Speaker 1: on Jimmy Butler, but instead of actually setting a screen,
Speaker 1: he's just running by or just doing a dribble handoff
Speaker 1: something that's going to try to trick Boston into thinking
Speaker 1: they either need to switch or to help. And in
Speaker 1: those situations it opened up opportunities for Jimmy Butler to
Speaker 1: get downhill. And again, a dribble handoff and a ghost
Speaker 1: screen kind of have similar functionality in that specific instance.
Speaker 1: So Off Tatum, for instance, is chasing Duncan Robinson and
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to leave him because Duncans made a
Speaker 1: couple threes and Jimmy's being guarded by Derek White, and
Speaker 1: Derek White as Duncan's running by, gives up a little
Speaker 1: bit of an angle for Jimmy to drive, and Tatum's
Speaker 1: not there to help because he's chasing Duncan. That right
Speaker 1: handed driving lane is open, and Jimmy started to get
Speaker 1: downhill and he started to get to the foul line
Speaker 1: right and that was how quickly things turned around. Boston
Speaker 1: just couldn't score against Miami's zone. Other than that pull
Speaker 1: up three that Jimmy made to kind of start the run,
Speaker 1: everything was downhill right on that right side of the rim,
Speaker 1: and he started to just, I don't know, dig deep
Speaker 1: through sheer force of will and start to get more
Speaker 1: of that lift that he needed to finish around the
Speaker 1: rim and to draw fouls. And then on that final possession,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the heck Al Horford was thinking,
Speaker 1: but he was just way too physical with Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 1: As he was driving, it looked like he wanted to
Speaker 1: take a three. I think Jimmy understood the reality of
Speaker 1: a game seven in Boston and how difficult that was
Speaker 1: going to be to win, and it looked like he
Speaker 1: was going for the kill and Horford got him. But
Speaker 1: then on the other end of the floor, what's so
Speaker 1: funny is I just broke down for you guys, schematically
Speaker 1: through the zone and through the dho ghost screen stuff
Speaker 1: with Jimmy and Duncan. How Miami like smartly worked it
Speaker 1: her way back into the game right, capitalizing on their
Speaker 1: Basketball IQ advantage. On the other end of the floor, Boston,
Speaker 1: Marcus Smart, there's three seconds left. There's three seconds left,
Speaker 1: and you're down one point, and he takes an impossible
Speaker 1: fade away three over his right shoulder on that left wing,
Speaker 1: an incredibly difficult shot. But if you guys go back
Speaker 1: and you watch the replay, Max Struce is guarding Derek
Speaker 1: White on the inbounds and he's completely ignoring him and
Speaker 1: playing out towards almost almost close to the top of
Speaker 1: the key to dissuade those guys running off of screens.
Speaker 1: And so when that pass was made, Struce did not
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to recover back to Derek White in time.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's kind of a no no in
Speaker 1: general to ignore the inbounds passer in a situation like that,
Speaker 1: not just for the offensive rebound that ended up taking place,
Speaker 1: but all it takes is a quick passback. So say
Speaker 1: Marcus Smart catches that instead of shooting it, Derek White
Speaker 1: just steps and bounds it onto that left wing, he
Speaker 1: could get a touch pass back for a wide open three.
Speaker 1: So that's why most coaches don't ignore the inbounds passer
Speaker 1: in a situation like that. But again, I'm never going
Speaker 1: to second guest Spolster's decision making. He's a basketball genius
Speaker 1: and the best coach in the league in my opinion.
Speaker 1: But as a byproduct of that decision, there is no
Speaker 1: body on Derek White, and so he just gave that
Speaker 1: an extra effort, that championship effort to sprint in there
Speaker 1: and just barely get that thing off with one tenth
Speaker 1: of a second left to steal that game and send
Speaker 1: it to Game seven. So a wildly entertaining game with
Speaker 1: a wild comeback and then stolen right back at the
Speaker 1: buzzer by the Boston Celtics. I don't know. I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear you guys in the YouTube comments if any
Speaker 1: of you guys have a take on a game that
Speaker 1: was a crazier finish than that one. We've all seen
Speaker 1: crazy comebacks, We've all seen crazy game winners. I've never
Speaker 1: seen that crazy of a game of a comeback feeding
Speaker 1: right into that crazy of a game winner for the
Speaker 1: other team. To save a team from elimination. Just just
Speaker 1: truly unbelievable stuff. So let's kind of dive into some
Speaker 1: of the dynamics of the series that have swung in
Speaker 1: Boston's favor. So, in my opinion, this series swung back
Speaker 1: in Boston's favor based on two matchups that they were
Speaker 1: losing kind of in a dramatic sense through the first
Speaker 1: three games. Now, to be clear, I think Boston is
Speaker 1: the more talented team. So it's funny as I look back,
Speaker 1: just as a basketball fan at this particular Celtics team,
Speaker 1: I don't they have a lot of unlikable qualities as
Speaker 1: a team. You know, their chemistry is a little funky.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they don't play you know, sometimes they play the
Speaker 1: good team basketball, but other times they get away from that.
Speaker 1: They can be arrogant and go extended stretches without playing hard,
Speaker 1: which is a you know, objectively unlikable quality. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things there that make them not necessarily
Speaker 1: my favorite basketball team that I've ever covered. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, like the talent is undeniable, they are.
Speaker 1: They are the most talented roster in the NBA in
Speaker 1: my opinion, certainly a hell of a lot more talented
Speaker 1: than this Miami Heat team, and there's a that's the
Speaker 1: main reason why they've ripped off three wins in a
Speaker 1: row and why they have a very good chance to
Speaker 1: be the first team to come back from three to
Speaker 1: zero in NBA history, Ryan, if you don't mind doing
Speaker 1: me a favor, can you pull the line for Game seven.
Speaker 1: I'd love to see that. I bet you it's like
Speaker 1: eight points. But yeah, there's no doubt that the talent
Speaker 1: is the main driving factor. But as we look at
Speaker 1: how Miami went up three to zero and how Boston
Speaker 1: regained control, I look at two matchups. First of all,
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum has flipped the dynamic of the Jimmy Butler
Speaker 1: matchup and has started to dominate him in a way
Speaker 1: that he did not in the early part of the series.
Speaker 1: I had said on several occasions that I thought Jimmy
Speaker 1: was a better player. Tatum has been the better player
Speaker 1: over the course of the last three games. And then
Speaker 1: Baman a baio. If you guys remember in game two,
Speaker 1: there's a Gabe Vincent three I think on the right wing,
Speaker 1: and on the play he gets the offensive rebound because
Speaker 1: Al Horford just puts a lame box out on him.
Speaker 1: He just kind of reaches over the top kicks it
Speaker 1: back out. Jimmy Butler ends up working back down to
Speaker 1: the post and misses another jumper, and bam Adebayo just
Speaker 1: throws him off like like he's Aaron Donald or something
Speaker 1: and gets the rebound and dunks at home with two hands.
Speaker 1: That battle is completely flipped. Over the course of the
Speaker 1: tail end of this series, Al Horford is starting to
Speaker 1: win those box out confrontations. He's starting to bother him
Speaker 1: at the rim and force misses. He had a gigantic
Speaker 1: block in the second half, just high pointing Bahim Adepaio
Speaker 1: at the summit and sending him back. He has flipped
Speaker 1: the dynamic of that matchup, and so Miami's two best
Speaker 1: players suddenly turned into their two most inconsistent players down
Speaker 1: the stretch of the series, and instead it's been guys
Speaker 1: like Caleb Martin and Duncan Robinson and Gabe Vincent that
Speaker 1: have had to step up for Miami to keep them competitive.
Speaker 1: Those two things switching have been would have turned this
Speaker 1: series around early on. Butler out playing Jason Tatum, bam
Speaker 1: torching Al Horford. Jaylen Brown's really struggled throughout the entire
Speaker 1: series for the most part. That was a big part
Speaker 1: of them. Playing down to their competition to that extent
Speaker 1: was a big part of Miami's early lead. With Jason Tatum,
Speaker 1: there's been a market a change in the way that
Speaker 1: he's attacked. So through the first sixteen games of this
Speaker 1: playoff run, Jayson Tatum had made just eleven mid range
Speaker 1: jump shots, which comes out to just under seven tenths
Speaker 1: of a make per game. He's made eight in the
Speaker 1: last three games of this series, so averaging almost three
Speaker 1: makes per game. Since then, a lot of the similar
Speaker 1: stuff that we talked about in earlier videos that are
Speaker 1: starting to clear the side more. He's starting to work
Speaker 1: with with his back to the basket more and go
Speaker 1: to shots that he can make it a higher clip
Speaker 1: than the pull up threes that Miami's sitting on and
Speaker 1: pressuring and the struggles that he can have to sometimes
Speaker 1: finish in traffic around the rim. Right, And you know
Speaker 1: I tweeted this earlier, but there are three reasons why
Speaker 1: I think shot variety is so important in the NBA.
Speaker 1: I talk a lot about this, but it makes you
Speaker 1: less predictable. Right, So, like if I'm guarding you one
Speaker 1: hundred possessions, and you do fifty step back jump shots
Speaker 1: and fifty drives to the rim. Like towards the end
Speaker 1: of that set of one hundred possessions, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: a pretty good idea of how to guard you because
Speaker 1: you're just doing the same thing every time. But like,
Speaker 1: part of what makes a guy like Luka Doncicz so
Speaker 1: difficult to guard is in a hundred possessions, you know
Speaker 1: you'll you're not gonna have very many of them that
Speaker 1: look the same. He's gonna shoot from a bunch of
Speaker 1: different spots on the floor. He's gonna attack you from
Speaker 1: a bunch of different spots. Sometimes he'll face you up,
Speaker 1: sometimes he'll post you up. Sometimes they'll attack you with
Speaker 1: a live dribble Like it's from every single spot on
Speaker 1: the floor, and it adds that variety, but beyond that,
Speaker 1: it's what allows you to audible. Jason Tatum has really
Speaker 1: struggled with that pull up three point shot in this series. Right,
Speaker 1: it's not working. So what do you do when that's
Speaker 1: not working? If you keep attacking with the live dribble
Speaker 1: from thirty feet and they know that you don't trust
Speaker 1: your pull up three. That just makes you even more
Speaker 1: easy to guard. But if you can audible and say, okay,
Speaker 1: I don't have this working, let me give the ball
Speaker 1: up and let me work over to the right side
Speaker 1: of the floor. I've got a height advantage against Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 1: I work a lot on these little short, seventeen eighteen
Speaker 1: foot jump shots, on face up situations, post up turnarounds
Speaker 1: over both shoulders. I work a lot on these things.
Speaker 1: Let me just go down here. And there was that
Speaker 1: big stretch in the second quarter, that obscene run that
Speaker 1: he went on where he was just attacking Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: face him up, hard, step back, kind of like sidestep,
Speaker 1: dribble into the lane, going to his left and makes
Speaker 1: an easy little jump shot over the top. Then he
Speaker 1: very next possession just a fade away over his left shoulder. Again,
Speaker 1: they're they're closer to the rim, they're not that three
Speaker 1: point shot that he doesn't trust. It just gives him
Speaker 1: another thing to go to. And then the third thing
Speaker 1: is it allows you to cater your attack based on
Speaker 1: your matchup. I've told a story on the show before,
Speaker 1: but like, uh, when I was younger, I used to
Speaker 1: just take a ton of threes off the dribble, and
Speaker 1: so most of the guys around town that were small
Speaker 1: guys would just start ball pressureing the hell out of
Speaker 1: me because I wasn't a great ball handler back then,
Speaker 1: and if you pressed me up up off the three
Speaker 1: point line, I could really struggle. And so over the
Speaker 1: course of my late twenties, I just started adding a
Speaker 1: bunch of post up stuff because I knew if I
Speaker 1: added post up stuff, then every single time that they
Speaker 1: switched a small guard on me, I could just give
Speaker 1: the basketball up and go down to the post and
Speaker 1: ask for the bat. And then once I start killing
Speaker 1: the kid in the post, then they can put a
Speaker 1: bigger defender on me. Then I can work him back
Speaker 1: out to the perimeter and start attacking with a live dribble,
Speaker 1: where my quickness becomes an advantage when you have the
Speaker 1: when you diversify your attack, you allow yourself to be
Speaker 1: able to pick and choose your method of attack based
Speaker 1: on what the defense is allowing. Jason Tatum has always
Speaker 1: had that stuff. He's been a good post player, he's
Speaker 1: been a guy that can attack from the mid range.
Speaker 1: He abandoned it over the course of the season for
Speaker 1: whatever reason. I've shared a bunch of shot charts of
Speaker 1: where you just see a bunch of threes from the
Speaker 1: top of the key and shots in the paint. And
Speaker 1: I don't know what the I don't know if that
Speaker 1: was from somebody on the coaching staff, I don't know
Speaker 1: if that was from somebody in the front office. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that was just him himself simplifying his attack.
Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, that was the way that he
Speaker 1: went about things, and that flipping has been a big
Speaker 1: part of his improved attack over the course of the series.
Speaker 1: Now you might say, Jason, that's eight makes, that's sixteen
Speaker 1: points in three games. How is that that big of
Speaker 1: a deal. Everything in basketball is connected. Those eight makes
Speaker 1: are what allows him to feel more confident, feel more comfortable,
Speaker 1: to gain a rhythm. He only made two mid range
Speaker 1: jump shots during that second quarter attack, but he made
Speaker 1: a bunch of other plays as a playmaker. He was
Speaker 1: feeling himself straight up, just straight up, was in a
Speaker 1: great rhythm. That's all connected. If you don't get those
Speaker 1: easy mid range shots and you're missing your pull up
Speaker 1: three from the top of the key, maybe you don't
Speaker 1: get into that rhythm. Maybe you don't feel confident and
Speaker 1: good about yourself that that's a huge deal. Like Jason
Speaker 1: Tatum has won the psychological battle with Jimmy Butler over
Speaker 1: the last three games. Think about how much that matters
Speaker 1: for the whole team. It trickles down the roster. When
Speaker 1: you're flanking a star who's playing better and is carrying
Speaker 1: himself more confidently than the star across the way, that
Speaker 1: makes you feel more confident in your ability to win.
Speaker 1: That's that big belief thing that we talked about. You
Speaker 1: have to give extra efforts to win games. You have
Speaker 1: to believe in your ability to achieve the ultimate goal.
Speaker 1: To give yourself the fight, you need to give that
Speaker 1: extra effort when you're truly exhausted. And Jason Tatum has
Speaker 1: flipped that dynamic over the course of this series. And yes,
Speaker 1: I believe something stupid like eight made mid range jump
Speaker 1: shots in a three game span can contribute in a
Speaker 1: large way to that wave of confidence. Boston's defense I
Speaker 1: thought was fantastic tonight. You know I talked about this earlier.
Speaker 1: The zone was a big part of that late run
Speaker 1: for Miami. But Miami was having a lot of success
Speaker 1: against Boston and their main demand defense in the second
Speaker 1: half as well, just being really physical digging down into
Speaker 1: driving lanes and they slowed down Jason Tatum. They got
Speaker 1: a lot of stops in that second half, but Boston
Speaker 1: kept control of the game for the most part because
Speaker 1: they were also dominating the game on the other end
Speaker 1: of the floor before that late run. And I haven't
Speaker 1: looked at the statue since then, but before that late run,
Speaker 1: Miami had twenty eight points in the paint total. Like
Speaker 1: Boston was dominating all those rim confrontations. Jimmy Butler loves
Speaker 1: to drive really hard to his left and like get
Speaker 1: a jump stop into a guy's chest and turn back
Speaker 1: over his left shoulder for a hook shot. He was
Speaker 1: not even taking that shot down the stretch of this game,
Speaker 1: at least until the final stretch when he started being
Speaker 1: aggressive to the rim. But he wouldn't even looking to
Speaker 1: shoot when he was getting downhill, in large part because
Speaker 1: he was scared, not scared, scares of the wrong word.
Speaker 1: He was worried that he wasn't gonna be able to
Speaker 1: get a decent look or that he was gonna get blocked,
Speaker 1: just because the sheer amount of rim protection that Boston
Speaker 1: was throwing at them with Al Horford to Jason Tatum,
Speaker 1: was flying around, Jaylen Brown was flying around, Robert Williams
Speaker 1: was making all sorts of plays. They got in Miami's
Speaker 1: head in the painted area to the point where they're
Speaker 1: two best athletes. Jimmy Butler and Bamannebayo were really struggling
Speaker 1: down there, and so again, Boston's offensive struggles are an
Speaker 1: important part of their identity, right, but their defensive identity
Speaker 1: can carry them through those stretches, and they did. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about Jimmy Butler for just a minute,
Speaker 1: because I did think it was interesting that they ran
Speaker 1: through Duncan Robinson as much as they did in that
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and up until that final run, he really struggled.
Speaker 1: And this is kind of becoming a little bit of
Speaker 1: a recurring theme with Jimmy Butler. And credit to Jimmy
Speaker 1: because he damn near stole that game. And that's just
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler's supreme confidence, never getting down enough on himself
Speaker 1: to allow a bad three and a half quarters to
Speaker 1: affect him down the stretch. Credit to Jimmy there, but
Speaker 1: his impactfulness has taken a nose dive over the course
Speaker 1: of the tail end of this series. And this is
Speaker 1: again a recurring theme. Last year in the Eastern Conference Final,
Speaker 1: same sort of deal, like in the middle portion of
Speaker 1: that series, not the same guy. Now he was banged up,
Speaker 1: but I think he's a little banged up in this
Speaker 1: series too, And that's part of the deal. Like as
Speaker 1: things progress, you can get these really big time Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler games and moments, but you can also get these
Speaker 1: stinkers in there too, And that's kind of part of
Speaker 1: what comes with that Jimmy Butler experience. That's what happened
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty finals. I remember like he'll game five,
Speaker 1: will go for forty and steal a game, and then
Speaker 1: in game six he's like straight up ineffective, you know.
Speaker 1: And again like when people I see a lot of
Speaker 1: heat fans and people be like, oh, Jimmy Butler's every
Speaker 1: bit as good as your favorite player. He's everybody as
Speaker 1: good as Lebron or is everybod as good as as
Speaker 1: Kevin Duran or Steph Curry Oryiannis, And it's like this
Speaker 1: is the difference. The difference is is like when you
Speaker 1: get to this level, like like if Lebron James has
Speaker 1: eight points in a game, like I think Jimmy had
Speaker 1: a couple of single digit scoring games in last year's
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference Finals, everybody'd be having apoplexy about it, right,
Speaker 1: Like they're part of the Jimmy Butler experience. Is like
Speaker 1: you you're gonna get other worldly play from him three
Speaker 1: or four times in a series, but those other games
Speaker 1: can be He just looks exhausted, and I don't really
Speaker 1: have a good explanation for it. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's him getting hurt. I don't know if it's just
Speaker 1: the sh amount of energy it requires for him to
Speaker 1: be as impactful as he is in it being fatigue related.
Speaker 1: But this is you know, they've three of the last
Speaker 1: four years they've made it to the Eastern Conference Finals,
Speaker 1: and in three of the last four years he's kind
Speaker 1: of fatigued on his way to getting eliminated and had
Speaker 1: some rough games in there. It's become part of the
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler experience, which again goes to show you, like
Speaker 1: as we kind of zoom out from this, because as
Speaker 1: we look at Game seven, I like, Boston's probably going
Speaker 1: to win. They're an eight point favorite, which is what
Speaker 1: I had predicted. Obviously, Miami can win. Boston is an
Speaker 1: arrogant team. Don't be surprised if they mess around and
Speaker 1: then it's a close game late and Miami steals it
Speaker 1: certainly on the table, but I think Boston will probably win,
Speaker 1: and either even if Miami does win, I don't think
Speaker 1: they have any chance to win in the NBA Finals
Speaker 1: against Denver, and so at a certain point, as you're
Speaker 1: looking out from this, Jimmy Butler clearly is not capable
Speaker 1: of doing this all by himself. You know, bam Adebayo
Speaker 1: is a fantastic player, but he's not gonna go blow
Speaker 1: for blow with another team star for a seven game
Speaker 1: series at this stage. Right, Eric Spolstra is the best
Speaker 1: coach in the league, but he can only do so
Speaker 1: much with the amount of talent that he has on
Speaker 1: the roster. At what point does Miami put a more functional,
Speaker 1: talented roster together to give themselves a better chance to
Speaker 1: compete in these environments. Because you've got a certain point,
Speaker 1: look at how good Eric Spolstra is and how good
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler is in these late game situations, and be
Speaker 1: like man, we are one legitimate shot creator away and
Speaker 1: another forward and athletic forward away from being a team
Speaker 1: that can legitimately win the whole thing. But right now
Speaker 1: they're just like squeezing every last drop out of the sponge,
Speaker 1: and the sponge is completely dry when they get eliminated
Speaker 1: in some late round of the playoffs, and so at
Speaker 1: a certain point you need to give them a bigger sponge,
Speaker 1: so to speak. All Right, so I do expect Boston
Speaker 1: to win Game seven. This seems like anything the scare
Speaker 1: there down the stretch will inspire them to bring the
Speaker 1: requisite effort. Certainly, give Miami a chance. I would never
Speaker 1: give them less than a thirty forty percent chance to
Speaker 1: win a game like this with the amount of faith
Speaker 1: that I have in Eric Spoelstra and Jammie Butler and
Speaker 1: vam Adebayo. But I do think Boston will win, and
Speaker 1: I do think for all of this basketball fans that's
Speaker 1: better because I think Boston's gonna give Denver a much
Speaker 1: better fight in the finals should we get to that point.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, that is all we have for right now.
Speaker 1: We are taking tomorrow off. I will see you guys
Speaker 1: on Monday night for Game seven in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 1: As always, I appreciate you guys rocking with us and
Speaker 1: we'll see you. Then the volume