Speaker 1: The Unball All Rookie Team, which you know Bill Simmons
Speaker 1: has been thinking about for the last three weeks since
Speaker 1: he said all those shady things about Jalen Green.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The Rookie team was released. Not a ton of surprises,
Speaker 1: but here they are first team Scottie Barnes, Caid Cunningham,
Speaker 1: Jalen Green, Yes, Sir Jalen Green made the.
Speaker 2: Team, Evan Mobley, and Franz Wagner.
Speaker 1: Of interest to me is the fact that the top
Speaker 1: four picks from the twenty twenty one draft all made
Speaker 1: the All Rookie Team, which it means that this draft
Speaker 1: was good. It's a good draft, one hundred percent top heavy,
Speaker 1: giving great value, even kind of like below three. The
Speaker 1: lowest drafted player on the team is actually Franz Wagner,
Speaker 1: who was taken eighth by Orlando.
Speaker 2: So you're getting you're getting.
Speaker 1: Scottie Barnes, Kid Cunningham, Jalen Green, Evan Mobley, and Franz Wagner.
Speaker 2: Fun stuff.
Speaker 1: Obviously, you know Jalen Suggs didn't make the team. Scottie
Speaker 1: Barnes did. He was taken at five, So that's interesting stuff. Actually, no,
Speaker 1: it's one, two, three, five and eight, not four, and
Speaker 1: then NBA All Rookie Second Team Io dis soon move.
Speaker 1: I think we all kind of figured out it would
Speaker 1: go there. Chris Duarte for the Pacers, Josh Giddy from
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, Bones Highland from Denver, number twenty six, Herb
Speaker 1: Jones taken at thirty five.
Speaker 2: Second Team is fascinating to me.
Speaker 1: It includes three players who were drafted at the end
Speaker 1: of the first round or well into the second round. Giddy,
Speaker 1: of course, was drafted six overall. You could probably make
Speaker 1: the case of that Okayse wasn't tanking, and Giddy played
Speaker 1: a full season and it wasn't out for some random
Speaker 1: injury that wasn't real. He could have made All Rookie
Speaker 1: first Team, like he could have probably taken over Jalen Green,
Speaker 1: especially since Jalen Green a lot of his strengths happened
Speaker 1: at the end the tail end of the season. Top
Speaker 1: draft picks who did not make the All Rookie Team.
Speaker 1: The player probably who has the biggest gripe about not
Speaker 1: making the NBA All Rookie Team is Chris Dwarte.
Speaker 2: He had thirteen four and two.
Speaker 1: Really good early, not so good late, but again really
Speaker 1: hard to showcase yourself when your team is basically shutting
Speaker 1: you down on purpose because they want to get the
Speaker 1: ping pong balls again.
Speaker 2: Indy knew very quickly. Even though Indiana.
Speaker 1: Has been known of beach just basically succumbing to being mediocre,
Speaker 1: they're okay with that. They've never liked being in the
Speaker 1: lottery for some reason. They're not all about the rebuild.
Speaker 1: The owner has said that on multiple occasions. But they
Speaker 1: realized this train ain't stopping, so we might as well
Speaker 1: just lean into it, or we're getting smushed. So that's
Speaker 1: what they had. Also, I think another gripe is probably
Speaker 1: Trey Mann.
Speaker 2: He had a great year.
Speaker 1: He finished tenth in rookie scoring. He had a very
Speaker 1: positive he had a positive win share on a really
Speaker 1: bad OKC team. And then Alpera and Shangoon really solid
Speaker 1: year as well, ten five and three. We can go
Speaker 1: through some of the other ones. Jalen Suggs did okay
Speaker 1: twelve eight and six. The eight's pretty impressive. Jonathan Kaminga
Speaker 1: once he finally got on the court, nine three and one.
Speaker 2: He's playing in the playoffs right now.
Speaker 1: Ish Davion Mitchell twelve two and four off the bench.
Speaker 1: Zire Williams was really good. He had some flashes in
Speaker 1: the playoffs eight two and one. James book Knight got
Speaker 1: off well. He barely even sniffed the floor he was taking.
Speaker 1: He was taken at eleventh. Probably the biggest bust of
Speaker 1: the draft was James Booknight at eleven. He fell like
Speaker 1: a rock, and he probably should have fell even further.
Speaker 1: I don't even think James Boknight.
Speaker 2: Should have been a first round pick, honestly gross.
Speaker 1: Josh Primo another bust, very very much of a reach
Speaker 1: from San Antonio.
Speaker 2: He put up six two and two.
Speaker 1: Chris Dwarte, like I said, he had thirteen four and two,
Speaker 1: Moses Moody at fourteen, Corey Kispert at fifteen. So those
Speaker 1: are some other notables that weren't on any team. But
Speaker 1: the interesting thing to me was how deep this draft was.
Speaker 1: Twenty five players average six points or more per game,
Speaker 1: Eleven had ten or more points per game. The only
Speaker 1: non European drafter, the only non European player drafted in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one who didn't get minutes on his team
Speaker 1: was this kid, Jason Preston out of Ohio, drafted by Orlando.
Speaker 1: Of course, some random spot and then he ends up
Speaker 1: getting traded to the Clippers, and then he suffers a
Speaker 1: season ending injury, and we we'll never hear of him again.
Speaker 1: We'll never hear this guy's name until, like after me
Speaker 1: saying it now, you'll never hear of it again. So,
Speaker 1: with the twenty twenty two draft rapidly coming up, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be spending a ton of time breaking down these prospects,
Speaker 1: what teams actually need versus what they say they want,
Speaker 1: right cause that's all about like, oh, are we going
Speaker 1: to take the best available? Are you gonna take for fit?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna take for upside? Are you going to
Speaker 1: try to limit risk? All that stuff is something that
Speaker 1: is there gonna be character concerns because you know that's
Speaker 1: gonna come out some random Twitter from like two thousand
Speaker 1: and how old are these kids, so like twenty ten, twelve, whatever.
Speaker 1: It is, like, I just want to make sure they're
Speaker 1: not toddlers. When I'm talking about the Twitter dates, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like two thousand and seventeen.
Speaker 2: But it is great looking back and seeing what a crazy.
Speaker 1: Good draft twenty twenty one was given that I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people in advance thought it would be
Speaker 1: somewhat weak.
Speaker 2: Hopefully twenty twenty two is better than we think as well.
Speaker 2: Can't find out until the kids get off.
Speaker 1: The Miami is the one we denied, the one we
Speaker 1: pushed off to the side, the one that we decided
Speaker 1: wasn't capable of winning for a variety of different reasons,
Speaker 1: despite the fact that that two years ago they were
Speaker 1: in the finals, and they have Jimmy Butler, and they
Speaker 1: play really good defense, and they're one of the best
Speaker 1: coach teams in the NBA, and also, by the way
Speaker 1: slight caveat, they were the number one team in the East.
Speaker 1: So like Miami, for some reason, everybody's just like, I
Speaker 1: don't see it.
Speaker 2: I don't see it. Maybe a little time off helped.
Speaker 1: Not sure. I think it's a very very interesting series
Speaker 1: here right these The Heat heard the haters loud and
Speaker 1: clear and put a straight beat down on the Boston
Speaker 1: Celtics in a way that shocked probably even the worst
Speaker 1: Miami critic. They made Boston look as bad as they've
Speaker 1: looked since they were twenty five and twenty five at times. Boston,
Speaker 1: of course, got out to an early lead, but once
Speaker 1: halftime came, boy, whoa it was what bad trick time.
Speaker 1: Even without Horford and Smart, Boston had an eight point
Speaker 1: lead going into halftime, and I was like, they must
Speaker 1: be feeling themselves. They must be still riding that adrenaline
Speaker 1: from Game seven with the box, like something's going on.
Speaker 2: Maybe they'll just like be Miami up, maybe Miamilla. It
Speaker 2: wasn't good.
Speaker 1: But what they forgot Boston was that Miami doesn't have
Speaker 1: Botenholezer coaching this team. Like, halftime adjustments are coming, sir,
Speaker 1: they are coming. Eric Spolstra is in charge, and he's
Speaker 1: done this a long time. He's been to the finals
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 2: Five times. I think he did three with Braun.
Speaker 1: I think he was on the staff four with Braun
Speaker 1: and then the last one, and then was he on
Speaker 1: staff with the Dwayne Wade series. He might have been
Speaker 1: a video assistant there. Five at least we know.
Speaker 2: Five at least.
Speaker 1: So how good was his halftime adjustment? Really really, really good?
Speaker 1: The Celtics got just destroyed from the opening possession of
Speaker 1: the second half. They got outscored twenty to two out
Speaker 1: of the blocks thirty nine to fourteen in the third quarter.
Speaker 1: Boston did not score their first basket until four point
Speaker 1: fifty three left over seven minutes without one single bucket.
Speaker 2: And you know who was important.
Speaker 1: P J Tucker even off like his bum ankle, which
Speaker 1: he's I think he twisted.
Speaker 2: In the first half.
Speaker 1: PJ Tucker shut Tatum and Brown down, and I tell
Speaker 1: you what. As Tatum's primary defender, PJ Tucker held Tatum
Speaker 1: zero for three shooting and basically put him in jail
Speaker 1: the entire second half. And that was after coming back
Speaker 1: from what I said, nasty ankle injury. Jimmy Butler was
Speaker 1: also really, really good, like to the point where I
Speaker 1: can't doubt he's just maybe he just sucks in the
Speaker 1: regular season and maybe that's just it. Maybe he's just
Speaker 1: really good in the playoffs and that's it. He's just
Speaker 1: he's hitting shot after shot. I've called him Jimminy Bricketts
Speaker 1: like in the Times. He was bad last year though
Speaker 1: against Milwaukee, he was awful. It was really bad, very inconsistent.
Speaker 1: He was hitting brick after brick. Anyway, I gotta give
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler his flowers. I can't slander him last year.
Speaker 1: Right now, he's really good, He's excellent. He has said
Speaker 1: everybody was sleeping on me. Yes we were, And now
Speaker 1: we are not. Jimmy Butler's point prop tonight is for
Speaker 1: Game two, twenty six and a half points.
Speaker 2: I think he'll hit that.
Speaker 1: I'm worried, of course, you think about the regression to
Speaker 1: the mean, But he's balling right now.
Speaker 2: He's balling right now. Game two gonna be tough tonight.
Speaker 2: No Derick White, no.
Speaker 1: Horford, Marcus Smart's probably gonna play, but he's limping on
Speaker 1: a fractured foot.
Speaker 2: I mean, this Boston team is a hospital wing.
Speaker 1: Horford has COVID, and now Derek White just had a baby.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to Derek White. Cannot wait to see how Boston
Speaker 1: adjusts or tries to adjust to replicate the first half
Speaker 1: of Game one.
Speaker 2: Throughout the second half.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Dallas Golden State first and foremost, probably
Speaker 1: one of the better coaching efforts that we've seen from
Speaker 1: Steve Kurr in years.
Speaker 2: In a crucial moment.
Speaker 1: Probably you know, sit back, refresh yourself, watch the games
Speaker 1: on TV, see if anything sticks out. He had COVID
Speaker 1: for like four straight games or something. He's bothering his wife,
Speaker 1: making her forcing her watch TV with him watching games.
Speaker 1: She said she'll never do that again. I bet he's awful.
Speaker 1: I bet he says so much stuff that she doesn't
Speaker 1: understand what catch the pin.
Speaker 2: Down, catch them get him on the backside.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's literally like drawing things up for her. She said,
Speaker 1: I do not care. I'm I'm doing wordle right now,
Speaker 1: Like I'm just sitting here like it's fine.
Speaker 2: Let me just tell you about how it was supposed
Speaker 2: to go. She's like, I don't care anyway. So that
Speaker 2: time off might have refreshed him, because.
Speaker 1: He did some amazing things defensively on Luca that people
Speaker 1: really were wondering how he would neutralize him, And maybe
Speaker 1: he won't moving forward, maybe Luca will have a coming
Speaker 1: out party at some point. But that unique challenge he
Speaker 1: took on and had, like I mean a thick, Bible
Speaker 1: sized book full of defensive sets that he threw out
Speaker 1: on the table for Game one.
Speaker 2: They were just confused, like, Yo.
Speaker 1: You've thrown literally ten different schemes at us and it's
Speaker 1: the first quarter.
Speaker 2: What's happening here?
Speaker 1: This is the type of Elite Warriors team defensively that
Speaker 1: we saw in the first twenty games, where they were stifling,
Speaker 1: they were blitzing.
Speaker 2: Everybody's picking up on help like.
Speaker 1: Guys are tagging like everybody knows what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: They're the ones doing the confusing instead of being the
Speaker 1: ones confused. The versatility really was some of the best
Speaker 1: that I've seen in a long time. They were limiting
Speaker 1: all of the shot creation from Luca, putting him into
Speaker 1: bad spaces where he only had a limited amount of
Speaker 1: options instead of all the options that he's normally available
Speaker 1: to have. And the stat that mattered the most to
Speaker 1: me defensively was that Golden State had fifteen blocks and
Speaker 1: steals to Dallas's seven, just more defensively active offensively, Golden
Speaker 1: State basically blew Dallas' doors off, not through one guy
Speaker 1: going nuclear, but exactly what got them there the first
Speaker 1: twenty games as well, spreading the wealth out balanced. All
Speaker 1: seven Warriors who got thirteen minutes of time were more
Speaker 1: scored in double figures, none scoring more than twenty one.
Speaker 1: So for anyone who had STEP's prop at twenty six
Speaker 1: and a half, that was a loser. Game was not
Speaker 1: close after the first quarter, even though Dallas was trying
Speaker 1: to bring it back, bring it back, claw in, they.
Speaker 2: Cut it to five.
Speaker 1: Somebody said this on Twitter, which is so true. If
Speaker 1: you are down by ten to the Warriors, you're really
Speaker 1: down by twenty. If you're tied with the Warriors, you're
Speaker 1: really down ten. In order for things to be act
Speaker 1: equal truthfully, where it's like zero zero, you need to
Speaker 1: be up ten.
Speaker 2: You need to be up fifteen because the Warriors have.
Speaker 1: A way of just a flurry of shot making where
Speaker 1: you look up, you take a drink, and they're up
Speaker 1: forty like that's just them. So you need to figure
Speaker 1: out a way to get going early, or it's night
Speaker 1: night sleep mask for you. Dallas was awful, shooting the
Speaker 1: ball thirty six percent from the floor, twenty three percent
Speaker 1: from three, and Dallas had almost twice as many three
Speaker 1: point attempts as the Warriors, and they were open, they
Speaker 1: were open.
Speaker 2: It was gross.
Speaker 1: Like I saw Reggie Bulock shoot four threes in a row, open,
Speaker 1: all missus. I saw Luca shoot three threes in a row,
Speaker 1: all missus. I mean, when does that happen? When does
Speaker 1: that ever happen? Something's wrong with Luca too. You know
Speaker 1: that his shoulders banged up. He's got a rake scar
Speaker 1: across his face now, which he thinks is pretty cool.
Speaker 1: He's probably drinking right now, just getting his stretch on
Speaker 1: doing a little cold tub, but I expect Jason Kidd
Speaker 1: to come back with his own counters in game two.
Speaker 1: Super excited to see how this goes. I want to
Speaker 1: see I want to see both series go seven, truthfully,
Speaker 1: and that should be something for us to keep in mind,
Speaker 1: because if you're a Golden State Warrior fan and you
Speaker 1: think this is just how it's gonna be, I regret
Speaker 1: to inform you that Dallas has been has lost every
Speaker 1: single game one so far.
Speaker 2: This playoff series. Bye.
Speaker 1: I want to say Game one of the first round
Speaker 1: wasn't by a ton, but Game one in the Sun
Speaker 1: series was by a lot. They've lost multiple games by
Speaker 1: ten or more and they've won some games too by
Speaker 1: ten or more. So look out, Golden State, Dallas is coming.
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