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Speaker 4: Seventy six Ers versus the Knicks one twelve one oh
Speaker 4: six in overtime. And and I actually rewatched this game
Speaker 4: last night and I was, you know, my wife had
Speaker 4: asked me. She was like, who won this game? And
Speaker 4: at that time, it was ninety seven to ninety two,
Speaker 4: with maybe like a minute and some change left for her,
Speaker 4: and she was like, let me guess, let me guess.
Speaker 4: And she went through it and she's like, did Philly win?
Speaker 4: And I'm like, yeah, they actually did. And so we're
Speaker 4: watching it and when you see some of those shots
Speaker 4: down the stretch that the Knicks hit, you're like, oh,
Speaker 4: it's over right there, right like, and so you know,
Speaker 4: we're watching it and she's like, well, I'm just trying
Speaker 4: to see where the game changed, like like how did
Speaker 4: they win. Like all of a sudden, Og goes to
Speaker 4: the free throw line. He misses one free throw down
Speaker 4: the stretch. She missed the first one, and she's like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is where it changes. He makes the second one right,
Speaker 4: and so they go up six points. Where it really
Speaker 4: took a turn to this tyres Maxie's four points and
Speaker 4: play Maxi got to four point play he got Mitchell
Speaker 4: Robinson to leave his feet. Very very very smart play
Speaker 4: by Tyrese Maxi because in that situation, like in most situations,
Speaker 4: you know Mitchell Robinson is going to leave his feet.
Speaker 1: He's a shot blocker.
Speaker 4: Most shot blockers with the makeup of Mitchell Robinson, they
Speaker 4: are jumping like it's no if has or buzz about it.
Speaker 1: They've been taught their whole life.
Speaker 4: When somebody shoot the ball, you try to block it,
Speaker 4: and they jump for everything, and so usually to you know,
Speaker 4: instead of benefit. However, when you get out on the perimeter,
Speaker 4: it gets a little bit dicey because if you leave
Speaker 4: your feet a little bit on the perimeter, the offensive
Speaker 4: player is getting the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 1: I never understand why it's so much.
Speaker 4: Different when you leave your feet on the perimeter as
Speaker 4: opposed when you leave your feet in the paint, it's
Speaker 4: still shooting the basketball. One person's jumping and shooting the ball,
Speaker 4: and yet it's always a fit. She had a totally
Speaker 4: different so and getting Mitch Robinson out to the three
Speaker 4: point line. Tyrese Maxi very has he played shot facts him?
Speaker 4: What does Mitchell Robinson do? He starts to jump and
Speaker 4: move forward, well, instant kicking. Ah, I can't jump right there,
Speaker 4: but it's a little too late. Tyrese Maxi gets to
Speaker 4: four point play. All of a sudden, they're not no
Speaker 4: longer down six, two possession game, and those two possessions
Speaker 4: needing two threes. They are now coming back down. They
Speaker 4: only need a two if they can get a stop.
Speaker 1: Well, Maxi down. The stress is huge.
Speaker 4: Knicks come down, miss another free throw and they go
Speaker 4: up three and Maxi comes down.
Speaker 1: Mix one, make one.
Speaker 4: Maxi comes down and logo them boys pulls up from
Speaker 4: the logo and quite frankly, it was no surprise to
Speaker 4: me that Maxi had the game, that he had forty
Speaker 4: six points, nine assists, seventeen for thirty from the field,
Speaker 4: seventeen for.
Speaker 1: Twelve from the three.
Speaker 4: And the reason it was no surprise to me because
Speaker 4: if you actually go back to my Twitter, I tweeted,
Speaker 4: and I said, half of the Philly players are like
Speaker 4: competing and trying to win, and half of them quit.
Speaker 4: And if you watch, like it was very evident of
Speaker 4: who were the players that quit and who were the
Speaker 4: guys that was going for who are the players that believe?
Speaker 1: And Maxi was right at the front.
Speaker 4: Leading the charge of the players that was going for
Speaker 4: and he was dialed in on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 4: He was one hundred miles prior to the entire game
Speaker 4: getting pressure on the rim shot the three very well,
Speaker 4: like he played well, and you saw some guys following,
Speaker 4: but you saw the body language on some of their
Speaker 4: guys and something like it just wasn't there. So even
Speaker 4: to start the game, like you could tell the nerves
Speaker 4: were there to start the game some of the shots
Speaker 4: Philly took and the knicks, but some of the shots
Speaker 4: that Philly were taking in those first seven to ten possessions,
Speaker 4: just watching it like what.
Speaker 1: Like like why?
Speaker 4: And like I said, when you get into it in
Speaker 4: a close out game, the nerves are high for both teams.
Speaker 4: One team our season could be over and you're nervous
Speaker 4: about that, but yet you do get some guys going
Speaker 4: out like we got nothing to lose, this is it,
Speaker 4: And that's the that's the demeanor that Tyrese Maxi had
Speaker 4: going into I mean, and to start the game yesterday,
Speaker 4: and so I'm watching it, I'm like, all right, Maxie
Speaker 4: feel like he got none to lose, Like he playing free,
Speaker 4: like and quite frankly, he carried Joel yesterday. Obviously Joel
Speaker 4: draws a lot of attention. He ended up with a
Speaker 4: triple double, although had nine turnovers. You know, Maxie was
Speaker 4: the guy. Kelly Ubre played some big minutes also that finished.
Speaker 4: Kelly Ubre had under the rim where Joel kind of
Speaker 4: lobbed it up and Kelly got caught under the rim
Speaker 4: and was still able to finish.
Speaker 1: That was a huge play.
Speaker 4: But anyway, Tyrese Maxie and then also there were some
Speaker 4: possessions and I don't know if it was just cross matches.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it was intentional they were trying
Speaker 4: to throw different looks at Jalen Brunson. But there was
Speaker 4: some possessions where Maxie was guarding Brunson and like taking
Speaker 4: on that challenge, and I thought that was very interesting.
Speaker 1: So it was great to see.
Speaker 4: MAXI had a game that he had in the garden
Speaker 4: on that stage in the game where yeah, Joel finished
Speaker 4: with nineteen sixteen ten assists, but it wasn't a Joel
Speaker 4: type game. I think if you asked me, he struggled well,
Speaker 4: and where it's unfortunate when if you're Mitchell Robinson, where
Speaker 4: you get the file to kind of turn the game
Speaker 4: towards the end. Mitchell Robinson was a large reason why
Speaker 4: they were in the position that they were in because
Speaker 4: he played really well against Joel yesterday and you know,
Speaker 4: he had some good defensive plays, caught some good libs out,
Speaker 4: having that Riom threat on that live threat that the
Speaker 4: rim is always important enough to spoke to you all
Speaker 4: about that it does for the space, and so I
Speaker 4: thought Mitchell Robinson played a really good game. Like I said,
Speaker 4: it's unfortunate that he had that play down the stretch
Speaker 4: on the defensive end, but he played a really good game.
Speaker 1: And so Max, he did a lot of the carrying
Speaker 1: last night.
Speaker 4: So and going into game six, you expect to see
Speaker 4: a very very very intentional aggressive Joe L ANDB. One
Speaker 4: of the things that I noticed in the game the
Speaker 4: other day was all of a sudden, Joel was no
Speaker 4: longer in that drop at the realm when Jaylen Brunson
Speaker 4: was coming off picking rolls, and no, he was not
Speaker 4: at the level and kind of almost in the blitz
Speaker 4: every play because it's a reason he played a drop
Speaker 4: like as hard as hell for a seven three hundred
Speaker 4: pounder to get up to the level of screen blitz
Speaker 4: the screen, he has to get back in their rebounds,
Speaker 4: so you're sprinting back every play like that's a tall task. However,
Speaker 4: they have to do that. You can't just let Jalen
Speaker 4: Brunson get downhill and get to his spot. It's not
Speaker 4: going to it's not going to work. And so I
Speaker 4: thought that was very interesting or not very interesting. I
Speaker 4: think it's what needs needed to be done. But I
Speaker 4: noticed that right away that Joel had moved up to
Speaker 4: the level of that screen. And initially Jaylen Brunston got
Speaker 4: off to a bad start. Now he ended up finishing
Speaker 4: the game from the second quarter on really strong.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, he may not have scored.
Speaker 4: In the first quarter, and if he did, he had
Speaker 4: two points, four points something like that. It wasn't a
Speaker 4: very impactful first quarter for him. But that second quarter
Speaker 4: he got it going and he rode the rest of
Speaker 4: the game. You all knew my back and forth that
Speaker 4: you all know my back and forth that I went
Speaker 4: through the other day about Jaylen Brunton on.
Speaker 1: Kind of all of these things.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to put together, and so we will get
Speaker 4: back into that a little bit. Number One, I love
Speaker 4: Jaylen Brunston as a player. He is a guy who
Speaker 4: you know when you see him having the success that
Speaker 4: he's having, it's not a surprise to me that he's
Speaker 4: having success. And the reason it's not a surprise to
Speaker 4: me because if you watch Jalen Brunston at any point
Speaker 4: in his life pre NBA, he always had success. All
Speaker 4: American won two national championships in college.
Speaker 1: That's never really spoke about.
Speaker 4: But to win two national championships in college is incredible
Speaker 4: and nearly impossible. That's why only maybe seven or eight
Speaker 4: teams has done that. They didn't go back to back,
Speaker 4: but they had a year in between. But to win
Speaker 4: two is crazy. So he's always been a winner. To
Speaker 4: say that anyone thought he'd have the level of success
Speaker 4: that he had, I think most people would be lying
Speaker 4: now when I look at that, though, I am a
Speaker 4: little tilted on that because I am kind of a
Speaker 4: microcosm of the same exact thing, which is a guy
Speaker 4: who had success a lot of access in college. I
Speaker 4: didn't have the opportunity to win a national championship, let
Speaker 4: alone too like Jyleen Brunson. But you know, to see
Speaker 4: a guy dominate in college like that and then just
Speaker 4: be like, oh, it's the NBA, now get him out
Speaker 4: of here, like he's not a first round pick, blah blah. Again,
Speaker 4: that's my story. So I got nothing but love for
Speaker 4: Jaylen Brunson. But like I said, and going into it
Speaker 4: and knowing what it takes to get to the mountaintop,
Speaker 4: that's where my questions have been. And so you look
Speaker 4: at this game, Jayleen Brunson fifteen for thirty two from
Speaker 4: the field four three eleven from three, only six assists
Speaker 4: as opposed to the ten or eleven assists he had
Speaker 4: in game four. And you know what I've spoke about
Speaker 4: is I don't love the ball dominant Jayleen Brunson. And
Speaker 4: the reason I don't love that is a I think
Speaker 4: it's too easy to guard. Not that Jalen Brunston is
Speaker 4: easy to guard, but just every time down the court,
Speaker 4: like you know, our defense need to load up, or
Speaker 4: if you decide and we're just letting him come downhill
Speaker 4: with two guys guard and we're keeping everybody else home
Speaker 4: to keep the other guys out of it, to keep
Speaker 4: the other guys limited in what they're bringing to the game.
Speaker 4: Whatever that game plan is. Ultimately, you know, it's on
Speaker 4: the coach should decide what they think is is going
Speaker 4: to beat them, what they think gives them the best
Speaker 4: chance to win.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily love the ball dominant Jalen Brunston.
Speaker 4: I just don't think you can win at the level
Speaker 4: that they want to win at doing that. I just
Speaker 4: think they need to move the ball around. They need
Speaker 4: to get more guys involved. You know, when they were
Speaker 4: winning and like dominating. When they are winning and dominating,
Speaker 4: I should say Dante defenn Ccenzow is playing great. Dante
Speaker 4: Devincenzow's rolling. I've had the opportunity to play with Dante
Speaker 4: last year here with the Warriors, and Dante is very
Speaker 4: much so a rhythm and confidence guy. You get Dante
Speaker 4: confidence going, you give him confidence, you allow him to
Speaker 4: get a rhythm. He's going to play hard defensively, He's
Speaker 4: going to cut, shoots the ball really well, good slasher
Speaker 4: to the rim.
Speaker 1: He rolls.
Speaker 4: When you don't necessarily give Dante confidence, it's a little
Speaker 4: more of a struggle when you don't show him that belief.
Speaker 1: I would necessarily say, give him confidence. He's a confident guy.
Speaker 4: But when you don't necessarily show him that belief, he
Speaker 4: struggles a little bit more.
Speaker 1: And he had nine points yesterday.
Speaker 4: If you look at their season over the last two months,
Speaker 4: he's pretty much been averaging twenty and so when I
Speaker 4: look at that, to me, and yes, he finished three
Speaker 4: for ten, one for seven from three. Quite frankly, those
Speaker 4: shots are a lot different when they're just coming in
Speaker 4: the flow, you know, when they're just coming in the rhythm,
Speaker 4: I suppose like, ah, I catch it, like oh now
Speaker 4: it's time for me to like, oh now shoot it,
Speaker 4: And you're not in that rhythm. And like I said,
Speaker 4: Dante is very much so a rhythm guy, you know.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 4: I think Jalen has to get everybody else involved going
Speaker 4: on the road. Yes, it's going to take a heroic
Speaker 4: performance from Jalen to close out.
Speaker 1: This series at Philly.
Speaker 4: But like I told y'all last episode, Philly does have
Speaker 4: the best player on the floor in Joe el Ebid,
Speaker 4: not necessarily playing the best, but at any given moment
Speaker 4: he is the best for sure, and so as I
Speaker 4: said before, that always gives you an opportunity to come back.
Speaker 1: Obviously down three to one.
Speaker 4: Now, it's interesting what happened in these series when the
Speaker 4: team go up, when a team has the league, can
Speaker 4: possibly close out and then don't because every game you
Speaker 4: go further into that series, the pressure flips.
Speaker 1: And so for a New York Knick team that don't
Speaker 1: have a ton of playoff experience.
Speaker 4: Og is a champion, but very young in his career
Speaker 4: winning a championship. Josh hart not a ton of playoff experience,
Speaker 4: not a whole bunch of playoff experience. Hartenstein not a
Speaker 4: bunch of playoff experience at all. Jaylen Bruston has got
Speaker 4: some playoff experience, although not a ton as the guy
Speaker 4: that he is now. And then Dante has some playoff
Speaker 4: experience with the Bucks, but it's kind of a little
Speaker 4: banged up during a couple of their runs, and so
Speaker 4: not a ton of playoff experience. Mitchell Robinson not much,
Speaker 4: and Miles McBride not much. So the pressure flips Now,
Speaker 4: with those guys not having a ton of experience, sometimes
Speaker 4: you go into it like they're oblivious to the moment.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's this group.
Speaker 4: I think this group has enough experience to not be
Speaker 4: oblivious to the moment. And sometimes being oblivious to the
Speaker 4: moment actually helps you because it's almost like irrational confidence,
Speaker 4: Like you're so oblivious to the moment you don't even
Speaker 4: realize like the stakes, you don't even realize the pressure
Speaker 4: that should be on you. But because you're not processing
Speaker 4: the moment, you're not even feeling that pressure. I don't
Speaker 4: think that's this next team, because they do have enough
Speaker 4: experience to know that, hey man, we don't want to
Speaker 4: go seven, right, So this series is now going six
Speaker 4: and it's headed back to Philly, And I must say
Speaker 4: that's a danger zone for the Knicks.
Speaker 1: That is a complete danger zone.
Speaker 4: Because you're gonna be expected to go lose on the road,
Speaker 4: like that's just what it is, and you should go
Speaker 4: lose on the road when another opposing team has one
Speaker 4: All Star and also the MVP of the end NBA,
Speaker 4: you should go lose.
Speaker 1: So Philly, you're supposed to win this game.
Speaker 4: However, Philly's going in like, hey man, we faced elimination,
Speaker 4: we're down three to one.
Speaker 1: We just free swings, free swings.
Speaker 4: And that same timid Philly of some of the guys
Speaker 4: that I think you saw last.
Speaker 1: Night won't be there in game six, Game six.
Speaker 4: They gonna come out with they chest poked out, feel
Speaker 4: good about themselves, like yo, we gonna win this game.
Speaker 4: We taking it back for Game seven at the garden
Speaker 4: right in Like game seven's a game sevens are matching.
Speaker 4: Game seven is at the guard and I can only
Speaker 4: imagine the feeling that that gives. And so the pressure
Speaker 4: in game six is all and I mean all on
Speaker 4: the New York Knicks. And sometimes guys don't deal with
Speaker 4: that pressure well. And so I think, you know, the
Speaker 4: Knicks has to deal with that. But like I said before,
Speaker 4: I think Philly's gonna win this series. I think they
Speaker 4: should take it. I think they can take it. And
Speaker 4: we'll see u if. Because here's the thing, if I'm
Speaker 4: the New York Knicks, gotta be a little careful of
Speaker 4: like we gotta go in here and win this game,
Speaker 4: like this is a must win, because if you don't
Speaker 4: go win a must win, although you do got one
Speaker 4: more game.
Speaker 1: If you really made this a must win mentally.
Speaker 4: Coming out of that and you lost is gonna be
Speaker 4: tough to bounce back for Game seven for the Knicks.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 4: If I'm Time Tiboteau, if I'm Jalen Bronson, the leader
Speaker 4: of that team, I'm pushing it as close to the
Speaker 4: line of yo, we gotta go win this game, like
Speaker 4: we need to close this series out without quite stepping
Speaker 4: over of like.
Speaker 1: This is like we gotta win this game.
Speaker 4: Like I'm not quite stepping over there, but I'm pushing
Speaker 4: it to as close to that line as I can
Speaker 4: because you understand that Game seven is.
Speaker 1: A coin flip.
Speaker 4: Always it's a coin flip, and they just don't know
Speaker 4: Philly can come out of hit twenty three threes all
Speaker 4: of a sudden you lose because they shot the lights out,
Speaker 4: Like you just don't know what's going to happen in
Speaker 4: the game seven, And so as fun as they are,
Speaker 4: you don't want to get there. You just don't want
Speaker 4: to get there. And especially in a situation where he
Speaker 4: were up three to one, you don't want.
Speaker 1: To get there because it just don't always go your way.
Speaker 4: I've seen it been a part of it on both
Speaker 4: sides of Game seven, it don't always go your way,
Speaker 4: and so Philly needs to win this game tomorrow. I
Speaker 4: think that's going to be a little less Jaylen brust
Speaker 4: and ball dominance, although he needs to be great, he
Speaker 4: gonna have to find that.
Speaker 1: Balance and also with Philly.
Speaker 4: Another interesting thing that they did before I move on
Speaker 4: from this is watch out.
Speaker 1: For that zone that they ran.
Speaker 4: They almost ran like a matchup zone, dropping Joel all
Speaker 4: the way into the back so to a to give
Speaker 4: him a break so he didn't have to be at
Speaker 4: the level on all of those screens. And I thought
Speaker 4: that matchup zone gave Philly problems. If I am Nick Nurse,
Speaker 4: I'm expecting that Timms is going to over like overly
Speaker 4: prepare for that zone, not so much for their half
Speaker 4: court defense. They're going to overly prepare for that zone
Speaker 4: to beat that zone, and I don't run as much
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 1: If I'm Nick Nurse, go to.
Speaker 4: It a couple of times if it's working, cool, but
Speaker 4: you go to it first couple of times, and they
Speaker 4: dice it up because they're so prepared for it, like
Speaker 4: you nix it because you know they're overly prepared for that,
Speaker 4: and they may not be as prepared for your half
Speaker 4: court man defense, and so be fun to watch the
Speaker 4: coaches play this game. As you get deeper into this series,
Speaker 4: the chess match really begins and you got adjustments being made.
Speaker 4: So I think that's an adjustment that New York has
Speaker 4: to make. They gotta be ready for that zone. Philly
Speaker 4: was playing, keeping Joel in the back of the defense,
Speaker 4: letting all the guards and Wint handle the pick and rolls.
Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty successful.
Speaker 4: Haven't seen any numbers from at the end of but
Speaker 4: from the neked eye, it looked pretty pretty successful. So
Speaker 4: we'll see what happens with that. But that is something
Speaker 4: to watch for in that series. And by the way,
Speaker 4: I got Philly in Game six, so that's that moving forward.
Speaker 4: Cavaliers take a three to two league with.
Speaker 1: The magic the home game had.
Speaker 4: The home team has won each game in this series
Speaker 4: and I don't see that changing in game six.
Speaker 1: The Calves did take last night without Jared Allen.
Speaker 4: Not sure what you know if he's out you know,
Speaker 4: the next couple, next game or two, or what his
Speaker 4: situation is, but they did take last night after him
Speaker 4: and quite without him, and quite frankly this series, I
Speaker 4: got to cast win this series. I think it does
Speaker 4: go seven. As I said before, seven is always a
Speaker 4: coin flip. I got to cast win the series. I
Speaker 4: really don't see either one of these teams going on
Speaker 4: to winning the game. I think the home team win
Speaker 4: these games. CAF take Game seven and that is going
Speaker 4: to be kind of the rap for that series. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I think both neither one of them are going on
Speaker 4: the road to win. Orlando had a great opportunity last night.
Speaker 4: They let it get away. Gotta win the ones when
Speaker 4: you had those opportunities in the playoffs, young playoff team,
Speaker 4: although they played that well and g Harris, Gary Harris
Speaker 4: didn't shoot the ball well has zero points.
Speaker 1: G's not gonna shoot like that again.
Speaker 4: So but you still need other guys getting off and you,
Speaker 4: you know, you gotta go in facing the elimination. Now, first
Speaker 4: time this team is faced elimination. I haven't seen these
Speaker 4: it's their first experience. So how do these guys show
Speaker 4: up at home?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Do they show up firing like we got none to lose?
Speaker 4: Do they show up at home a little tight? That's
Speaker 4: always possible as well. But I got the Magic taking
Speaker 4: Game six and then Calves taking Game seven.
Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 4: But the question, the biggest question is how do these
Speaker 4: two teams fare versus the Boston Celtics If Porzingis isn't back,
Speaker 4: and quite frankly, both of these teams are losing. If
Speaker 4: Porzingis is back, it's not back, or is back, it
Speaker 4: don't matter.
Speaker 1: Boston mopping both of these teams. That's just my opinion.
Speaker 4: I don't think either one of these teams have a
Speaker 4: big that makes the Porzingis lost huge. Where it does,
Speaker 4: where it can affect if you're playing against the Magic
Speaker 4: is how much Fron and Paulo gets downhill all of
Speaker 4: a sudden you don't have Porzingis as a room protector,
Speaker 4: and they're getting downhill more.
Speaker 1: However, Boston has a great deal of length.
Speaker 4: They also have a great perimeter, and so it'll be
Speaker 4: a little tougher to get downhill.
Speaker 1: But I also don't think the Magic are moving forward.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think this Boston team is winning this
Speaker 4: next round pretty easily without Porzingis. I don't think it's
Speaker 4: a rush for Porzingis to have to get back for
Speaker 4: this next series. Do all that you can and get
Speaker 4: yourself ready for the Conference finals because be more needed then,
Speaker 4: although I think the real test is, regardless of either
Speaker 4: one of these series, they have left in the Eastern Conference,
Speaker 4: get ready for the finals, KP.
Speaker 1: That's the most important thing.
Speaker 4: Probably, Yeah, you need some games under his belt and
Speaker 4: all of that, But Boston getting through the East no problem,
Speaker 4: So get ready for the finals. That can also change
Speaker 4: if in the conference finals Philly does win and get
Speaker 4: to the conference finals, and now you got Joel. But
Speaker 4: quite frankly, I don't think Porzingis can guard Joel anyway. Yes,
Speaker 4: it does help to get throw another body out there,
Speaker 4: but who Joel gonna have to face most and see
Speaker 4: if he can get byas al Horfer Al Horford has
Speaker 4: given Joel all problems. So when you look at it,
Speaker 4: and you do like an addition by subtraction KP. Being
Speaker 4: out in the conference finals, if they were to face
Speaker 4: Philly could actually help them, like you play more out
Speaker 4: and our guards Joel very well. Wish for thinking. I'm
Speaker 4: getting way ahead of myself. Don't even know if any
Speaker 4: of those series will take place. The moral of the
Speaker 4: story is, whoever win this Cleveland series between Cleveland and
Speaker 4: the Magic don't stand a chance versus Boston we're moving
Speaker 4: on to the other two teams in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 4: Patrick Beverley went back to Chicago, Marshall on y'all got
Speaker 4: it going and really affected the game and turned the
Speaker 4: game to where Milwaukee was then able to take off. Obviously,
Speaker 4: Bobby Porter's got off twenty nine. Obviously, Chris Middleton got
Speaker 4: off with twenty nine. Bobby Porters being a reed from
Speaker 4: game four. As you can see by the results of
Speaker 4: game five. What's huge for the Bucks because Bobby Porters
Speaker 4: is someone that when they have guys out or even
Speaker 4: when their guys are playing, what he brings for that
Speaker 4: team from an energy standpoint, what he brings from a
Speaker 4: scoring standpoint is really something that they don't have from
Speaker 4: anyone else. And so Bobby Porters is huge. Was disappointed
Speaker 4: that Bobby Porter's got kicked out for the little scuffle
Speaker 4: that he did, but nobody was kicked out of those
Speaker 4: games yesterday.
Speaker 1: The consistency I just don't understand. Now.
Speaker 4: I did agree that guys shouldn't have gotten thrown out,
Speaker 4: because if you don't have to throw somebody out of
Speaker 4: the playoff game, you don't like we want these games
Speaker 4: to beat the decided based up on the players on
Speaker 4: the court, not the referee calling something to throwing somebody
Speaker 4: out of game. So a little disappointed that Bobby got
Speaker 4: thrown out the game. But you look at the stuff
Speaker 4: that was going on yesterday in these games, and nobody's
Speaker 4: thrown out one technical. Mitchell Robinson threw Kelly down, actually
Speaker 4: almost jacked up Joel's leg. He was disclose from landing
Speaker 4: on Joel's leg and taking it in this way. And
Speaker 4: then all of a sudden, right, so Mitchell Robinson throw
Speaker 4: Kelly bro He lands on joel ankle, hit the knee
Speaker 4: or something, and Joel's hurt. Then all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: Mitchell Robinson gets thrown out of the game because Joel
Speaker 4: didn't get hurt at all. Mitchell Robinson actually didn't even
Speaker 4: get a technical foul. I don't think and I just
Speaker 4: don't understand it, Like what was the consistency?
Speaker 1: So if he got.
Speaker 4: Hurt, then it's something. I don't get that, Like, either
Speaker 4: it's something or it isn't. You can't judge these things
Speaker 4: by the results of the player and be like, oh man,
Speaker 4: that guy got hurt, Like we gotta do something.
Speaker 1: Okay, this guy didn't get hurt. It's fine.
Speaker 4: Like that's not that's and nowhere in the rule book
Speaker 4: does it say that's how these things should be officiated.
Speaker 4: You gotta pick a side, like we're doing this, we're
Speaker 4: doing that, Like it can't be all right this time?
Speaker 1: Is this this time?
Speaker 4: And it changes based on the personalities and the games, like,
Speaker 4: it can't be that it's either one way or it's
Speaker 4: the other.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 4: I think we need to see some consistency on that front.
Speaker 4: Either you're kicking guys out or you're not. Quite Frankly,
Speaker 4: I sit on the side if you shouldn't be kicking
Speaker 4: guys out. But it can't be one day Bobby port
Speaker 4: is getting a little brush up and he's out, and
Speaker 4: then nobody else the next day nothing happened.
Speaker 1: So we'll love to see some consistency there.
Speaker 4: But and speaking of this game going back six or
Speaker 4: the series going to six and going back to Indiana,
Speaker 4: if there's no Dame, I don't think there's a chance
Speaker 4: we see Giannis.
Speaker 1: This series is over in six.
Speaker 4: I don't think Milwaukee can do what they did at
Speaker 4: home with neither one of those two.
Speaker 1: Guys and go on the road and win like they
Speaker 1: did in Game six.
Speaker 4: And so if no Dame if no Jannis, I got
Speaker 4: this series ending. I think they played tomorrow and I
Speaker 4: got the series ending lastly, before we take a couple
Speaker 4: of questions and get out of here. Obviously, the Lakers
Speaker 4: were eliminated by the Denver Nuggets on Monday. Was fun
Speaker 4: to watch Jamal Murray in that series, despite a bumb calf,
Speaker 4: despite all the things that will go up against, despite
Speaker 4: pretty much losing the entire series. And when I say
Speaker 4: losing the entire series, I mean if you look at
Speaker 4: the margin or the amount of time that the Lakers
Speaker 4: led in the series, this series very much so could
Speaker 4: have been flipped for the one.
Speaker 1: For the Lakers.
Speaker 4: However, Jamal Murray's is a large reason why that's not
Speaker 4: the case. There was so much coming out of the Lakers.
Speaker 4: Well before we talk about them, let's talk about the Nuggets.
Speaker 4: The Nuggets took the series, but I think they're in trouble.
Speaker 4: And the reason I think they're in trouble, and I
Speaker 4: said this before, I just don't think their bench is
Speaker 4: good enough. And we saw that again the other night,
Speaker 4: like they're just not getting enough from their bench. And
Speaker 4: as you move forward, I think the difference in this
Speaker 4: Minnesota Denver series could be the bench. You got nas
Speaker 4: Reed coming off the bench, can play. He was man
Speaker 4: as Kyle Anderson coming off Monte Morris, who's a great
Speaker 4: backup point guard that they're not really using much but
Speaker 4: can use Nikil Alexander Walker, who's been playing great basketball.
Speaker 4: Like I just think the depth of the Timberwolves is
Speaker 4: going to give Denver problems. And yes, the matchup between
Speaker 4: Joe and Rudy Gobert trying to guard him as huge,
Speaker 4: But I've always told you, guys, you win championship six
Speaker 4: through ten, not one through five. And the Denver Nuggets
Speaker 4: one through five is as strong, if not stronger, than
Speaker 4: any other one through five in the league. But they're
Speaker 4: six through ten is as weak as any team left
Speaker 4: in the playoffs, and I just don't know if they're
Speaker 4: going to be able to overcome that, especially against these
Speaker 4: Minnesota Timberwolves, who just had an incredible showing, and I
Speaker 4: think they're poised to try to make a deeper run
Speaker 4: and they're feeling that and they want that, So that'll
Speaker 4: be an interesting series. Personally, I got the Timberwolves winning
Speaker 4: that series, I think, but we'll get into that later
Speaker 4: in the week.
Speaker 1: My predictions.
Speaker 4: I need to analyze a little bit more and like
Speaker 4: actually sit down and do the matchups, so what I
Speaker 4: think will be and look at all these things. But
Speaker 4: quite frankly, just off the top of the dome, I
Speaker 4: think Minnesota shoot win that series. Interesting stuff coming out
Speaker 4: of the Lakers organization. Obviously Bron set to possibly opt
Speaker 4: out of his contract and become a free agent for
Speaker 4: the first time since twenty eighteen. I think that is
Speaker 4: a very interesting thing because what that means is, if
Speaker 4: you know anything about cap is Lebron could opt out
Speaker 4: of that deal be a free agent. They could sign
Speaker 4: somebody with cap space and then sign Lebron back using
Speaker 4: bird rights, which means they could possibly add a third
Speaker 4: star or a couple really good players at fifteen million
Speaker 4: dollars a year or so.
Speaker 1: And better their team.
Speaker 4: They could also decide that they're not spending that money
Speaker 4: and going into the tax with all these tax penalties.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be interesting to see.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of that will be depending on
Speaker 4: what Lebron decides. We obviously see the reports of the
Speaker 4: Lakers may draft Bron. I think that would be amazing,
Speaker 4: by the way, absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: But that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 4: I think the Lakers they really got to decide what
Speaker 4: it is that they want to do, though, Like, are
Speaker 4: you comfortable going into next season with pretty much the
Speaker 4: same supporting cast that you have and Lebron and a D?
Speaker 4: Are you comfortable going in that way? If Lebron decides
Speaker 4: to leave, what do you do?
Speaker 1: Then? Do you then trade a D?
Speaker 4: Like? I think there's a lot of uncertainty coming out
Speaker 4: of that organization.
Speaker 1: What's gonna happen with Darva ham Me? Personally? I think
Speaker 1: it'll be wrong to.
Speaker 4: Fire him for multiple reasons. However, you know they'll get
Speaker 4: a lot He'll catch a lot of flak for the
Speaker 4: season that they have, but their roster didn't get better
Speaker 4: than last year and they were a playing team. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they made it to the conference finals with Lebron, James
Speaker 4: and Anthony playing the way that they were playing, but
Speaker 4: they didn't get better. They lost in the Schroeder. I
Speaker 4: don't think they replaced him. Well, Gabe Vincent didn't bring
Speaker 4: anything to the season. Obviously he was hurt, but even
Speaker 4: once he got in there, like he didn't shoot the
Speaker 4: ball well. Schroeder was huge for them and they lost
Speaker 4: him and so I don't think the roster got better,
Speaker 4: but yet you expect the better results and I just
Speaker 4: don't understand that.
Speaker 1: But everybody will blame Darviaham.
Speaker 4: Like, oh, it's his fault, and like is it really
Speaker 4: Like just because they went on a pretty decent run
Speaker 4: after they mustterd us some energy after the trade that
Speaker 4: line and got to the conference finals, got swept. Their
Speaker 4: season was their season, And yeah, you got through the
Speaker 4: trade dead line and you found some energy, but then
Speaker 4: you come back into the season with that team, and
Speaker 4: I don't think the belief was very high in the
Speaker 4: first place. Yeah, we could say the hot, but I
Speaker 4: don't think it was very high in the first place.
Speaker 4: And I don't think that team got much better. Obviously,
Speaker 4: Van Doll missing majority of the season it's a killer.
Speaker 4: Obviously gave Vincent missing majority of the season could have
Speaker 4: been a killer, although we don't really know because we've
Speaker 4: only seen him in Miami, and we've seen guys leave
Speaker 4: Miami and not be the same thing that it was
Speaker 4: in Miami, So the jury's out on that one. Nonetheless,
Speaker 4: I don't think they got much better, and so I'm
Speaker 4: not surprised by the year they had, But I am
Speaker 4: looking forward to what's to come of this summer. Some
Speaker 4: people think it's a foregone conclusion that Bron is going
Speaker 4: back to the Lakers.
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's a foregone conclusion.
Speaker 4: I think if there was something that came about that
Speaker 4: was interesting, I think he'd look at it. But ultimately
Speaker 4: I don't quite see him leaving LA. Just don't really
Speaker 4: see it, just my opinion. But we shall see what
Speaker 4: happens with that.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Hopefully they don't just fire Darvin, but as if it's
Speaker 4: his fault and no one else's fought, I think that's garbage.
Speaker 4: But that's neither here nor there, and we shall see
Speaker 4: what happens in the Lakers organization. But I definitely think
Speaker 4: some changes are coming. I don't know where those changes
Speaker 4: will be, but they're definitely coming because it's the Lakers.
Speaker 1: They want to win and that's just the standard. So
Speaker 1: we shall see.
Speaker 4: But before we get out of here, Buttassage to Jackson
Speaker 4: for a few questions.
Speaker 1: Mail back questions before we.
Speaker 5: Go from at Killer Cam, what do you think of
Speaker 5: Plo Banco in this series so far?
Speaker 4: Well, what I think of Polo Ben Carrol is exactly
Speaker 4: what I thought of Polo ban Carrol back when Polo
Speaker 4: ban Carrol was about to get drafted, which is he
Speaker 4: is one of those guys that changes an organization. If
Speaker 4: you go back to the podcast episode of when right
Speaker 4: before Polo got drafted, Paulo was the guy who I
Speaker 4: thought was the number one pick hands down. A lot
Speaker 4: of people were talking about the guys. Paulo is showing
Speaker 4: that I am one of the guys. And yes, Paulo
Speaker 4: has some things that I think he needs to get better.
Speaker 4: He needs to become more comfortable shooting the ball, and
Speaker 4: as he do that, I think his game really opens
Speaker 4: up as he becomes more comfortable with his jump shot.
Speaker 1: But Paulo is a monster what he's doing. He's leading
Speaker 1: these guys.
Speaker 4: Now, what can really set this series off of Paulo
Speaker 4: is if they go in game six and then he
Speaker 4: can take them on the road and win a Game seven.
Speaker 4: That really, in my opinion, puts Paulo in a different tier. No,
Speaker 4: not the top tier, because he's got a long ways
Speaker 4: to go to get to that, although I think he's
Speaker 4: more than capable of being in that top tier guys.
Speaker 4: But if Paulo is to go in Game six and
Speaker 4: take that team on the road and lead them to
Speaker 4: a Game seven win in Cleveland. You gotta bump his
Speaker 4: tear up and the respect has to go up. I
Speaker 4: think he's been very special in this series. But in
Speaker 4: order to be one of the guys that he wants
Speaker 4: to be that I think he's capable of being, he
Speaker 4: has to be able to go get one on the road.
Speaker 4: This his first crack at it. So it's not like, oh,
Speaker 4: Paulo is a bus and blah blah if he don't
Speaker 4: go in one on the road in this particular series,
Speaker 4: But as he moved forward in his career, that's something
Speaker 4: that he's going to have to do in order to
Speaker 4: take that next step. And I don't think it's impossible
Speaker 4: for him to do it this time, but he's playing
Speaker 4: a great.
Speaker 5: Series from at Jamie Cu, what do you think is
Speaker 5: the most underrated factor for a deep playoff run?
Speaker 4: Jamie Cu? Is that like Colorado University? Or is that
Speaker 4: like Jamie Easy?
Speaker 5: It is Cu? Let her see you so maybe Colorado?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 4: Prime Time got everybody repping that Cu like it's Michigan
Speaker 4: State or something.
Speaker 1: Shout out to coach Prome, say that question one more time.
Speaker 5: The most underrated factor for a deep run. I tell
Speaker 5: you a second most underrated factor for a deep playoff run.
Speaker 4: Most underrated factor for a deep playoff run. I think
Speaker 4: the most underrated factor for a deep playoff run is
Speaker 4: can your coach make adjustments or not?
Speaker 1: I think that is extremely important.
Speaker 4: And then also are you capable are your players capable
Speaker 4: of handling those adjustments, because sometimes you get in these
Speaker 4: situations where coach want to make an adjustment, they're like,
Speaker 4: I don't think our guys can handle that adjustment. For instance,
Speaker 4: in the playoffs in twenty twenty two, when we start
Speaker 4: sending all the Boston guys left, it was against our
Speaker 4: defensive rules, and so Mike Brown was kind of like, ah,
Speaker 4: it's gonna break our defense down because guys aren't accustomed
Speaker 4: to sending the ball middle on the right side of floor.
Speaker 4: We're accustomed to icing it and the defense pulling over.
Speaker 4: Now we're going to be sending in the middle. Guys
Speaker 4: ain't gonna know where the help coming from. And we
Speaker 4: was just like and so a couple of us, like
Speaker 4: I started just sending Jay Lebron left like wherever he
Speaker 4: was on the floor. And after I did it, a
Speaker 4: couple of times Mike was like, you know what, We've
Speaker 4: been wanting to make this adjustment, but was afraid. Let's
Speaker 4: just try it, and we tried it in it worked,
Speaker 4: But again that was that was That was an instance
Speaker 4: of a coach being like, ah, I don't know if
Speaker 4: we could really make that adjustment, although they had the
Speaker 4: adjustment in their mind, I don't know if we could
Speaker 4: really make that because it's against our defensive rules. And
Speaker 4: then the adjustment was made and we won the series.
Speaker 4: So I think it's a combination of both of those. Yes,
Speaker 4: your players have to be capable of taking those adjustments
Speaker 4: and making those switches, but a coach has to also
Speaker 4: be able to identify his adjustment. When I watch these playoffs,
Speaker 4: most of these coaches actually can't make solid adjustment.
Speaker 1: So I think that's the most underrated thing.
Speaker 5: We want to be clear on the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: That is not a shot at Mike Brown. That is
Speaker 1: a no, not at all, Not at all.
Speaker 4: That's never a shot at Mike Brown. Shoot Mike Brown.
Speaker 4: One of the one of the ghosts to me, especially
Speaker 4: when they come to that defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: Mike Brown gets it done.
Speaker 4: So no, not a shot at Mike Brown at all,
Speaker 4: never will be.
Speaker 1: It ain't coming from here, not on this show.
Speaker 5: Last question from I hate CEP, MAVs are Clippers? Right,
Speaker 5: who wins this series?
Speaker 1: CEP MAVs are Clippers.
Speaker 5: I was a little bit of at a loss with
Speaker 5: that username as well, But MAVs are Clippers.
Speaker 1: Who you got MAVs are Clippers winning the series? I
Speaker 1: got the MAVs.
Speaker 4: I think they're going to be more consistent in their play, especially,
Speaker 4: like I said, you just.
Speaker 1: Don't know with Kawhi.
Speaker 4: I got the mass winning this series, and if I'm honest,
Speaker 4: I actually got them winning the series in six.
Speaker 1: The only person can change that out come is Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 4: That's it. No, I didn't say James Harden. No, I
Speaker 4: did not say Paul George although, and the reason I
Speaker 4: didn't say those guys is because it's on Russell Westbrook
Speaker 4: to put the battery packing those guys back and had
Speaker 4: them playing at the level that they play that in
Speaker 4: Game four in order to take that winning Dallas. And
Speaker 4: so I got Dallas winning it. But like I said, yeah,
Speaker 4: the only person can change and nobody will ever give
Speaker 4: him credit, but he gonna get credit on this show.
Speaker 4: Because he is the person that wills that team. Russell
Speaker 4: Westbrook is the only person that can change that out come.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I got Dallas and with that, that.
Speaker 4: Is a wrap from this episode of The Draymond Green
Speaker 4: Show Be back later this week to being with y'all.
Speaker 4: We shall see if my theory on Jalen Brunston being
Speaker 4: ball dominant can be go by the wayside, or if.
Speaker 1: My theory on Jaylen Brunston becomes true.
Speaker 4: However, I just want to state this, My theory on
Speaker 4: Jalen Brunston can be true and they still can win.
Speaker 1: I e.
Speaker 4: Jaylen Bruston doesn't dominate the ball as much and they win.
Speaker 4: That doesn't mean I was wrong. I'm not saying that
Speaker 4: Nixon is going to lose, although I got Philly, but
Speaker 4: I think Jaylen Bruston need to take a little step
Speaker 4: back as far as dominating the ball. But he being
Speaker 4: great and so who can complain? Another forty piece. That's
Speaker 4: a rat from this episode of The Draymond Green Show.
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