Speaker 1: Well, well, well, we're back another week in NBA action.
Speaker 1: We've got to see the Lakers go up against the Celtics.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Cleveland continues to dominate fifteen in a row for the
Speaker 1: second time this season, which is you ask me as
Speaker 1: a sixers, that's too much winning. That's just weird, it's unfair.
Speaker 1: The injury bug continues to hit some playoff squads, but
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies appear to be poised for the final stretch.
Speaker 1: We'll discuss all of that and more with Bleacher Reports
Speaker 1: Molly Morrison on today's episode. I'm Jash O'Brien.
Speaker 2: And I'm Jorian for Miles, and.
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Speaker 2: Secure the suffolks or NBA Champions the.
Speaker 1: Team to be honest with the time. Yes, yeah, damn.
Speaker 1: The zoom just asked me if I was playing music
Speaker 1: because my voice is so malifluous or whatever that word is.
Speaker 1: Molly Morrison, how are you doing? Welcome?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 3: I am I'm doing great. Actually, I'm doing really well.
Speaker 4: How are y'all?
Speaker 1: Oh, you know, doing good. We were actually having a
Speaker 1: conversation before I was congratulate you know, well, so Jabbari
Speaker 1: was complaining about how hard it is to be a
Speaker 1: Lakers fan, and we were congratulating you on being a
Speaker 1: Grizzlies fan, Like, hey, this is fun. This is a
Speaker 1: fun time for both teams. I think heading into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of questions around, like how are they
Speaker 1: gonna do? I feel like I'm I'm genuinely excited to
Speaker 1: see how both of your teams fare in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And then I was saying, I think as a Sixers fan,
Speaker 1: I might have it worse than any other fan base,
Speaker 1: because first of all, we're miserable people, and second of all,
Speaker 1: like they can't even lose, right, Like I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna end up missing out on their pick, like giving
Speaker 1: their pick to Okay, see next year, Like they can't
Speaker 1: even Like I'm reading headlines about how the Jazz are
Speaker 1: getting fined for like holding players out, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's how you do it, Like that is how you
Speaker 1: commit to the bit I aspire, But we can't even
Speaker 1: do that, you know. So That's how I'm doing. But
Speaker 1: it is wonderful to have you here. You're one of
Speaker 1: our favorite guests on Matt Boosti's we do have to
Speaker 1: kick things off by talking about the game of the week, Molly.
Speaker 1: Each week we pick a game that we think people
Speaker 1: should check out, that we're certain will be watching. We'll
Speaker 1: cover it, and then you later on in the episode
Speaker 1: will get to choose next week's game of the week.
Speaker 1: But our game of the week this week was the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers at the Boston Celtics on ABC one
Speaker 1: eleven to one oh one. The Celtics pulled it out
Speaker 1: very competitive first half, and then Boston just went on
Speaker 1: a run in the third and ended with a twenty
Speaker 1: nine to thirteen quarter, which not great. Molly, what what
Speaker 1: did it look like to you?
Speaker 3: It was literally such good basketball, And honestly, it just
Speaker 3: had me thinking like this would be such a good
Speaker 3: playoff series, such a good finals, which is just absurd
Speaker 3: that we're having that conversation, which brings me back. I
Speaker 3: do want to ask you, how are you a sad
Speaker 3: Lakers fan? But I don't want to get too off topic,
Speaker 3: but I need to know what does that mean?
Speaker 4: Because how can you be sad?
Speaker 2: I don't understand that the fears that I had going
Speaker 2: like once the connection was made, once I saw how
Speaker 2: good it looked. I said, please, don't get hurt, Lebron, please,
Speaker 2: but the but here's the reality. When Lebron is thirty
Speaker 2: four and he has that injury, Yeah, maybe he you know,
Speaker 2: maybe I could have that same attitude totally fine as
Speaker 2: a forty plus year old man myself. I know what
Speaker 2: that feels like, and I know that he might not
Speaker 2: just be fine. So year old this is true? Are
Speaker 2: you telling me? Are you telling me that you do
Speaker 2: not believe that we are in the same condition.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on here, we were just talking about
Speaker 1: how basketball is the thing that gets the hardest the
Speaker 1: older you are, like, it's basketball and hangovers are the
Speaker 1: things that get worse with age the most. I think
Speaker 1: basketball is so hard on the body. It's incredible that
Speaker 1: he's doing what he's doing. I'm not that worried because
Speaker 1: there's also like those times throughout his career where he'll
Speaker 1: just like take a little break and then come back
Speaker 1: and he's like better than he was all season, and
Speaker 1: you're like, well, what just happens? What just happened there?
Speaker 1: And it's just that he caught up on sleep, I
Speaker 1: think is what it is.
Speaker 3: I mean, what's so stunning going back to the Celtics
Speaker 3: Slackers game. To me, just in terms of Lebron, is
Speaker 3: that you think Luca comes to the team and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: instantly he's going to.
Speaker 4: Be the best player, which is how it.
Speaker 3: Should work, but it's it's still Lebron, and I'm not
Speaker 3: saying that's going to be the case for a long time. Obviously,
Speaker 3: Luca's been a little rusty offensively, even though he's gone better.
Speaker 3: But you know, you saw them lose the other night
Speaker 3: against the Nets. With all Lebron, it's just unbelievable how
Speaker 3: much control he has over the game and just shows
Speaker 3: like all he needed was just someone by his side.
Speaker 3: And that's not to discredit a D because obviously a
Speaker 3: D we all know how unbelievable he is.
Speaker 4: But it's just so evident.
Speaker 3: That with the addition of Luca, you just feel Lebron's
Speaker 3: excitement and it's like, okay, like we actually can do this.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It was amazing to watch, you know, two forty year
Speaker 3: old legends, almost forty Al Horford, I.
Speaker 1: Know how Horford was bawling. It was crazy. Yeah, Luca
Speaker 1: and Lebron on the same team feels like you have
Speaker 1: two queens in chess like, it's just like you. They
Speaker 1: just cover so much ground offensively. The angles on the
Speaker 1: court are just like so open in every possible direction,
Speaker 1: and they are, you know, chess like in their ability
Speaker 1: to just like pick apart a defense. It really is
Speaker 1: pretty cool. I just think Luca needs to start trying
Speaker 1: to make more shots, Like, has anybody do we think
Speaker 1: JJ is going to talk to him about this because
Speaker 1: his shot making, his shot making seem used to be
Speaker 1: a strength and now has not been. And we do
Speaker 1: have to ask because the Nico decision still lingers in
Speaker 1: my head as the most inexplicable decision that I've seen
Speaker 1: in person or public, like just that I have seen,
Speaker 1: I think in my adult life. And so I'm like,
Speaker 1: does he know we've seen the number one pick in
Speaker 1: the past decade forget how to shoot because of maybe
Speaker 1: some sort of curse? Did Luca forget how to shoot?
Speaker 1: And uh, We've got Markel Foltz's situation headed our way.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying like this is these are the only
Speaker 1: things that make sense of the trade to me.
Speaker 3: Oh, I think people really undermine how important the mental
Speaker 3: aspect of sports are. Like with Luca I truly feel
Speaker 3: like this dude has just gone through an extremely traumatic situation,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, he saw his life going
Speaker 3: one way, just the Nazi or ego that that must
Speaker 3: be in the betrayal, he was stabbed in the back.
Speaker 3: I feel like he hasn't mentally fully gone back to himself.
Speaker 3: And I think you're being sarcastic with your with your curse,
Speaker 3: but seriously, I'm not about him at all.
Speaker 4: He'll be fun.
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes, yeah, sometimes I'll allow people to tell
Speaker 1: me it's psychology over which's curses, But you know, I
Speaker 1: think they're both worth examining.
Speaker 4: You're a psychologists in the room.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I actually think like with a lot of
Speaker 3: Jaws shooting struggles he's had, I've felt like, you know,
Speaker 3: a lot of that was psychological and still be so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh for sure, Yeah, I think that's definitely the case.
Speaker 1: Is it is it does have to feel good whenevery
Speaker 1: when you get traded and everybody is like, what, No,
Speaker 1: that can't be true, that has to be that's impossible.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I do get where you're coming from that, Like,
Speaker 1: it's also just you know, a very disruptive.
Speaker 3: And then the other side of that Coin. Poor Anthony
Speaker 3: Davis is like, oh my god, am I the worst player?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: We all don't see how in CINDI I Am, which
Speaker 3: obviously everyone knows was a testament to Luca and the
Speaker 3: shock of that rather than a knock on AD. But
Speaker 3: of course and also the irony as we saw in
Speaker 3: its first game of the issue being Luca's health when
Speaker 3: Ad is not exactly the picture of health himself, right,
Speaker 3: But yeah, I just cannot. I think Luca looks more normal,
Speaker 3: But I truly think it's going to take like a
Speaker 3: full off season to process what's going on with him
Speaker 3: real quick.
Speaker 2: Just kind of touching on Boston. It's one thing for
Speaker 2: Jason Tatum to give you, you know, forty twelve and eight.
Speaker 2: It's another you know, like, of course that at this
Speaker 2: point that's expected, he's that he's that level player. It's
Speaker 2: another thing for Jalen Brown to give you thirty plus
Speaker 2: and you know, do all the different things he does.
Speaker 2: But to the point that one if you guys made earlier,
Speaker 2: when you're getting the type of defense and the type
Speaker 2: of effort from a forty year old Al Horford, that's
Speaker 2: just what makes them so frustrating. Like that game was
Speaker 2: fun until it wasn't right, And that's kind of how
Speaker 2: it goes against Boston.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I feel like they have a lot
Speaker 3: more weaknesses than a team like a Cleveland or Ooh.
Speaker 1: This is what I love to hear. Feed me, feed
Speaker 1: me with this.
Speaker 3: I also think that they're one of the top they're
Speaker 3: top three obviously.
Speaker 4: Team in the league.
Speaker 3: It's not like weaknesses is compared to the near perfection
Speaker 3: people thought they were starting the season or last season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, like you said.
Speaker 3: You have Jason and Jalen, you do have guys on
Speaker 3: the bench who can step. I mean they've freaking Peyton Pritchard.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, like these not on the bench, but
Speaker 3: these people that just can make.
Speaker 4: All of these threes.
Speaker 3: But when your offense is so reliant on the three,
Speaker 3: you know, if the shots aren't falling. Like Drew Holliday,
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on with him, but he's
Speaker 3: felt off.
Speaker 1: I think he might be aging like a normal human
Speaker 1: being instead of like Lebron James.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be.
Speaker 3: I feel like we've seen them like to me, Lebron
Speaker 3: getting hurt, it was less of like, oh, the Celtics
Speaker 3: are unstoppable. And more of a you know, the Lakers
Speaker 3: sort of fell apart. But again I'm comparing the Celtics
Speaker 3: to the Celtics themselves and not slandering them. But I
Speaker 3: do feel like there are some weaknesses that could get exploited.
Speaker 1: So good, So skip skipping down just to the NBA
Speaker 1: playoff odds. I'm just curious to hear if you think
Speaker 1: this is off. So right now, the Celtics are plus
Speaker 1: one eighty, OKC is plus two hundred, and then Cleveland
Speaker 1: is plus five twenty five, so they're way back from Boston.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you would move them up a little
Speaker 1: bit closer to the OKAC in Boston.
Speaker 3: So you might as well be speaking a completely different language.
Speaker 3: I am slightly proud to say at this point in
Speaker 3: my life, I do not know anything about gambling odds.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like they have half as good. People think
Speaker 1: they have half the chance. It would be like Boston
Speaker 1: has a twenty percent chance in Cleveland has a ten
Speaker 1: percent chance of winning the title. Would be But I
Speaker 1: think what we're about it's fair.
Speaker 3: Still, I think that's fair. I mean with Cleveland, they
Speaker 3: need to prove themselves in the playoffs, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't. I see it more as like a I
Speaker 3: think Boston is indestructible and unbeatable, but I don't. I
Speaker 3: do think the team that's been to the finals the
Speaker 3: year before and has not had any crazy changes to
Speaker 3: their roster. By the way, porzingis is an underrated thing.
Speaker 3: Like what's going on with him is freaky. I hope,
Speaker 3: hope all is well with him, But yeah, I feel
Speaker 3: like with Cleveland with okay, see, it's kind of a
Speaker 3: thing where we just need to see it. We can't
Speaker 3: fully know until we see them go deep in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I think that's right. I do think
Speaker 1: Mozolla is both like he's a strength and like his
Speaker 1: single mindedness of focus. Like there was that quote where
Speaker 1: somebody was like, is it are you excited that your
Speaker 1: brother is Like I forget who he's coaching for. Is
Speaker 1: it Detroit? Like he Mozilla's brother is like getting involved
Speaker 1: with another franchise, And they're like, is that like exciting
Speaker 1: for you? Are you happy to see that? And he
Speaker 1: was like he plays for the other team or like
Speaker 1: he works for the other Like he just like can't
Speaker 1: acknowledge anything that isn't the Boston Celtics succeeding in the
Speaker 1: movie The Town? Like those are the two things that
Speaker 1: he's capable of. Andi is marrying Joseph, obviously, but I
Speaker 1: also feel like there I could see some like doing
Speaker 1: something smart against them and like out coaching him a
Speaker 1: in a seven game series. So that that's one of
Speaker 1: the other things that gives me a little bit of hope.
Speaker 1: But we'll see.
Speaker 4: Because they're hopeless.
Speaker 3: So now all of my hope needs to go into
Speaker 3: you can stop the Celtics.
Speaker 1: That's right. Let's take a quick break and when we
Speaker 1: come back, we'll talk Grizzlies and take a look around
Speaker 1: the league. We'll be right back and we're back. And
Speaker 1: Molly Morrison, did you grow up in Memphis?
Speaker 4: I did you think I showed because of job?
Speaker 3: People actually are Grizzlies fans that were not born in Memphis.
Speaker 4: But that's new.
Speaker 3: That's the phenomenon I'm still getting used to because before
Speaker 3: that was not the case.
Speaker 1: And are you like one of those types of fans
Speaker 1: who's like, get out of here unless you were lifelong
Speaker 1: or you welcome the jaw lovers?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I welcome the jaw lovers totally. I think gets
Speaker 3: exciting to grow a fan base. And what I say
Speaker 3: when I said, do you think I chose I mean
Speaker 3: more so I would choose it in every lifetime of course.
Speaker 1: Naturally, of course, let's recount to your good fortune here.
Speaker 1: Currently the four seed, it is tight in there. Though
Speaker 1: we got from the second to the sixth. There are
Speaker 1: a total of five games separating the two and the
Speaker 1: sixth seed. In the lost column, the Grizzes are sixth
Speaker 1: in offensive efficiency, tenth and defensive efficiency. Finally, like things
Speaker 1: are starting to come together. It feels like three wins
Speaker 1: in a row, Jaw is looking like jo again, and
Speaker 1: then Triple j is out for the last four games
Speaker 1: with an ankle sprain. That that's the one thing with
Speaker 1: them that I feel like, what feels like dueling injuries
Speaker 1: where they're just like never quite on at the same time,
Speaker 1: which must be frustrating as a But but I don't
Speaker 1: want to start you down that path. Let's just talk.
Speaker 1: Are you excited? How are you feeling headed towards the
Speaker 1: playof us?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 4: I would not say I'm excited.
Speaker 3: I feel like Grizzlies fans are the only people that
Speaker 3: kind of don't feel like we're contenders.
Speaker 4: Honestly at this point, really well, and we could be.
Speaker 3: It's like I saw something that said the Grizzlies could
Speaker 3: be first run exits. They could also be in the finals.
Speaker 3: I think the finals is a bit of a stretch,
Speaker 3: but truly, that's the way it feels this season. It's
Speaker 3: been so up and down. And I wouldn't even point
Speaker 3: it at health because I don't think that's a fair
Speaker 3: reflection of this season, although that's of course always a factor.
Speaker 4: But it's confusing.
Speaker 3: It's been a really confusing season because when you look
Speaker 3: at the standings right as you know, an observer of
Speaker 3: when the Grizzlies around national TV, you'd be like, oh nice,
Speaker 3: they're they're killing it. But when you watch every game,
Speaker 3: it's it's a confusing picture. So yeah, I would love
Speaker 3: to unpack this. This is honestly like a bit of
Speaker 3: a therapy.
Speaker 1: Let's let's talk about let's let it out. This is
Speaker 1: a safe place, and this is actually a safe place.
Speaker 1: I'mlike when yeah, yeah, no one will hear this. What
Speaker 1: has been confusing. It's just like their quality of play
Speaker 1: is all over the place.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, I take it back what I said about
Speaker 3: help because help is the number one factor. Right. This
Speaker 3: has been a team that has not been consistently on
Speaker 3: the floor together for the last several years, and this
Speaker 3: season though, it kept being like for literally years, Oh
Speaker 3: just wait, just wait till jajj Aaron and Daz are
Speaker 3: all together, right, and then jaw, Jaron and Dees are together,
Speaker 3: And what you see is not that great. And that's
Speaker 3: not because the three of them are not incredible players.
Speaker 3: That's because our offense is a bit disjointed and confusing,
Speaker 3: and this new system we've implemented.
Speaker 4: Is still being it's still in the works.
Speaker 3: It feels like I don't think we quite have an
Speaker 3: identity and offensive identity. And now, like you said, with
Speaker 3: Jaron out, I almost feel like, of course, assuming that
Speaker 3: he's all right and he'll be back, it's weirdly been
Speaker 3: this lessing.
Speaker 4: In disguise for job because he's been able.
Speaker 3: To find his identity again in the offense, it felt
Speaker 3: like it's been thrown to the side. And I do think,
Speaker 3: going back to the mental aspect, I do think that
Speaker 3: was affecting him. Uh, he was struggling a lot offensively
Speaker 3: because I feel like he was just in this new offense,
Speaker 3: which I should explain, is like, so the five out
Speaker 3: is what the Grizzlies have implemented, Right, It's the offense
Speaker 3: that focuses, you know, more on the moving and the
Speaker 3: in the three point shooting, which obviously you see a
Speaker 3: team like the Celtics do. But when Ja Morant is
Speaker 3: your best player, that doesn't really work for him. He's
Speaker 3: not He's not a guy who thrives.
Speaker 1: Right, it's Steph Curry out there around.
Speaker 3: Yeah, another weakness we can we can get into, of course,
Speaker 3: But so it's been sort of confusing because it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: that offense is great, and it unlocks a lot of
Speaker 3: bench players.
Speaker 4: We have death I.
Speaker 3: Would say quantity and not necessarily known.
Speaker 4: Quality because these are guys that we.
Speaker 3: Haven't seen perform in the playoffs, and I think that's
Speaker 3: a question mark. But we know that those three guys Jaw,
Speaker 3: Jaron and does are incredible. But the question is how
Speaker 3: do you get them all? How do you optimize their abilities?
Speaker 3: And it felt like the offense that we were we
Speaker 3: I'm not on the team.
Speaker 1: Were we allow we allow we show. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: a WEE friendly show.
Speaker 2: I am a laker, to be clear, Yeah, exactly, Okay, good.
Speaker 4: I feel I feel safe here.
Speaker 3: The Grizzlies were not allowing Jaw to be Jaw, and
Speaker 3: of course something people were very excited about, which was
Speaker 3: the pick and rolls with Edie that was not really
Speaker 3: part of the offense. And finally we're seeing them start
Speaker 3: to combine that in, which is what we wanted.
Speaker 4: Put Jaron's out, So now it's like.
Speaker 3: Okay, we don't know what it's gonna look like with
Speaker 3: the offense tweaked slightly so that it's not just this
Speaker 3: five out thing plus Jaron back. So it's like, this
Speaker 3: is a weird time in the season to still be
Speaker 3: experimenting because it's so close to the playoffs. And that's
Speaker 3: why I don't think grizly Stans quite know what to expect.
Speaker 3: It's like no one's worried about the three of them.
Speaker 3: They're incredible. I mean, Jaron Jackson Junior. The leap he's
Speaker 3: taken this year is which is crazy because he was
Speaker 3: so unbelievable before. He can't be stopped, like literally, he
Speaker 3: can't be stopped. So yeah, I feel like there's a
Speaker 3: lot of question marks, but I'm we're in a great place.
Speaker 4: Like I'm spoiled to be saying this.
Speaker 3: I'm happy with the team, but I feel like all
Speaker 3: of this, to say it sort of seems like coaching
Speaker 3: is probably a slight question mark because you've got the.
Speaker 1: Cause you're still figuring things out. Yeah yeah, so wow,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that Jaw's a twenty one points a game,
Speaker 1: like he's been up around thirty in the past. I
Speaker 1: feel like, hasn't he like average high twenties.
Speaker 4: When he's playmaking, you know, when he's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I will Yeah. The thing that when when
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about, Okay, this is why Memphis is
Speaker 1: exciting to me, It's still those moments we've seen when
Speaker 1: Joe's able to take a game over and get buckets
Speaker 1: unlike anybody else. So like that's that still feels pretty
Speaker 1: undeniable and pretty hard to mess up. Like is just
Speaker 1: like when you need a bucket, which comes up so
Speaker 1: frequently in the playoffs, Like he's still able to do
Speaker 1: that and we've seen it this year. But yeah, it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting, and I mean I need to watch more
Speaker 1: Jared Jackson Junior. But I've heard from people who are
Speaker 1: paying attention that he's just like taken a huge leap.
Speaker 1: So I feel like those ingredients, like the playoffs is
Speaker 1: kind of a bad ingredients a lot of the time.
Speaker 1: And if everybody's just like aligned and pulling together, which
Speaker 1: it sounds like might be the problem, things could could
Speaker 1: be interesting.
Speaker 2: I wondered, even with the team uncertainty, And to be
Speaker 2: honest with you, we all have our own uncertainties about
Speaker 2: the team because we're watching the NY like how they were.
Speaker 1: Watching that season random no uncertainty.
Speaker 2: It is it weird that I feel like, outside of Oka, see,
Speaker 2: the West is wide open this year, or I would
Speaker 2: not be shocked kind of like.
Speaker 3: I agree, Yeah, I agree, and I and I also
Speaker 3: love that you said outside Okay see because I can
Speaker 3: confidently say this, I can't say anything confidently about the
Speaker 3: Grizzlies in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: We cannot be the thunder if healthy in a seven
Speaker 3: game series.
Speaker 4: We can't. Like I'm it hurts, it feels, it feels.
Speaker 3: Wrong, but we can't. It's not that wouldn't happen. So
Speaker 3: our best bet is someone else knocking them. Oh good thing, Nico,
Speaker 3: you know, disassemble the one.
Speaker 4: Team that.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I mean we got and maybe indirectly assembled
Speaker 1: one that could possibly beat Okay, see, and then might
Speaker 1: not match up all that.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, you guess we can't do it.
Speaker 1: Who have the Grizzlies or who do you feel like
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies matchup well against in the West. We got Rockets, Dubs, Lakers, Wolves, Nuggets.
Speaker 3: I would say, well, it's a great question. And another
Speaker 3: reason Grizzlies fans can be a pessimistic is because they
Speaker 3: have really struggled against Good Western Conference teams. That's been
Speaker 3: a big weakness. I would say the teams you name,
Speaker 3: absolutely the Minnesota Timberwolves. Give me them over those teams
Speaker 3: any day.
Speaker 4: And in the West is a bloodbath.
Speaker 3: You know. I'm not like, oh, be a walk in
Speaker 3: the park, But I do think just matchup wise us
Speaker 3: next to them. I mean, we beat them a few
Speaker 3: seasons ago, and you know now they don't have cat.
Speaker 4: I still feel like, like.
Speaker 3: You mentioned about Jaw having that ability to take over
Speaker 3: at the end of a game that really can separate
Speaker 3: a superstars a lot of the time, even when he's
Speaker 3: not he can literally go one for twelve from the
Speaker 3: field and then in the last three minutes he can
Speaker 3: take that game and and with confidence win it.
Speaker 4: I don't think Aunt has reached that level quite.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't feel like he is a supermar We all.
Speaker 4: Know it, but he hasn't. He's not.
Speaker 3: He's not going to do that. And I feel like
Speaker 3: with Edie someone I don't know if I've mentioned yet,
Speaker 3: you have to think about that as well, you know, teams,
Speaker 3: maybe he could, he could be playing with and with Gobert.
Speaker 4: I feel like that's that works.
Speaker 1: So yeah, are you happy with Edie? Are you happy
Speaker 1: with the draft pick?
Speaker 4: I am happy with di Actually.
Speaker 2: She'd be even happier if they did more two men
Speaker 2: with him.
Speaker 4: Right right, Yes, Yeah, I'm excited about Edie.
Speaker 3: I feel like any negative marks I would have to
Speaker 3: say about him, which I don't have a lot, would
Speaker 3: just be him being a rookie and things that he'll learn.
Speaker 3: I'm excited for his off season. I feel like people
Speaker 3: were very disrespectful about him, like pre draft, just about
Speaker 3: how unplayable he'd be an I don't. I don't think
Speaker 3: that's true. So yeah, I'm big Eatie believer. It worries
Speaker 3: me a little if he's going to be playable in
Speaker 3: certain series this year, in the playoffs, but I think
Speaker 3: that's normally the rookie cuinner so.
Speaker 1: Great weapon to bring in, change of pace, change of size, exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take another look around the league. At
Speaker 1: the Dubs, Jamie Butler just put up a fifteen, ten
Speaker 1: and ten triple double, which was the first triple double
Speaker 1: of the season for the Warriors, which is I guess
Speaker 1: that's not shocking. But Steph is now within just two
Speaker 1: more made threes to become the first NBA player with
Speaker 1: four thousand and three pointers in his career. This and
Speaker 1: like Lebron hitting what did Lebron just hit like fifty thousand?
Speaker 1: I don't know. These milestones are less impactful to me
Speaker 1: than like, I know, no, you're catch going thirty twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: I guess I will say I thought this trade was
Speaker 1: gonna work out, like I think the reason that this
Speaker 1: trade didn't seem like a bigger deal was just because
Speaker 1: it was a couple of days after the Luca trade
Speaker 1: and everyone was like, yeah, well it's not Luca, So
Speaker 1: I don't know what everybody's getting so excited about. They're
Speaker 1: twelve and two since this trade, which is good, I think,
Speaker 1: pretty good, pretty good, and peaking as people are kind
Speaker 1: of starting to focus on the playoff and Jimmy Butler
Speaker 1: does tend to lock in in the playoffs if healthy,
Speaker 1: So that's I don't know. Yes, the West is a bloodbath. Also,
Speaker 1: it just feels like we're headed to the end of
Speaker 1: the Wild Bunch or like some you know movie where
Speaker 1: it's just like, Ooh, this is gonna be good. This
Speaker 1: is going to be ugly and good and like a
Speaker 1: lot of people are gonna be unhappy with the results,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna learn a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't see them making a deep run.
Speaker 1: You don't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, In terms of you say, who would I most
Speaker 3: like the Grizzlies to play story wise, I would love
Speaker 3: and second behind Minnesota in terms of who they could beat,
Speaker 3: I would love.
Speaker 2: To play the Warriors that match up again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, finally, finally need to get that way, and man,
Speaker 3: it's I've been itching for it. It's it's a little
Speaker 3: different with no Clay and no Dylan Brooks, one of
Speaker 3: the most underrated beefs of all time.
Speaker 4: Was underrated.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I I just when I look at the West,
Speaker 3: to me, they're not a team that I'm like, Oh,
Speaker 3: I'm I'm afraid personally, but what we You can't ever
Speaker 3: count out Steph with Jimmy. I, I just like, don't
Speaker 3: I don't buy it.
Speaker 4: I don't buy that. You know it's gonna be real,
Speaker 4: but I.
Speaker 2: Was just gonna say, you're not buying it, are you.
Speaker 2: You had that look on your face like yet, no, No.
Speaker 3: But I also know that I can never count out
Speaker 3: Steph curt So.
Speaker 2: This is fair.
Speaker 1: We've made reference to it a couple of times. But
Speaker 1: Djokic went thirty twenty and twenty thirty one points twenty
Speaker 1: to assist twenty one rebounds, first time any player has
Speaker 1: ever put up a thirty twenty twenty game in the
Speaker 1: history of the league, which is so wild, and he
Speaker 1: looked pained the entire time he was doing it. He
Speaker 1: just I know people have made this point over and
Speaker 1: over again, but he really I don't know if he
Speaker 1: was like putting a little extra mustard on like every
Speaker 1: sort of like hip pointer and like you know, whenever
Speaker 1: he would like throw a sick pass, he would be
Speaker 1: like kind of just shuffling back. Really an amazing performance
Speaker 1: from him as a basketball player and also as like
Speaker 1: just the most out of shape looking basketball player in
Speaker 1: the history of the NBA. An incredible game. Did you
Speaker 1: guys watch this one.
Speaker 2: I have a quick theory. It is a totally lost reference.
Speaker 2: Molly is going to look at me like I am crazy,
Speaker 2: and Jack probably will as well.
Speaker 1: Jim Brown, Jim Brown, I know exactly what you're about.
Speaker 2: Say hey, here we are, We're But Jim Brown, notoriously,
Speaker 2: every time he would get tackled, every time he would
Speaker 2: go to the ground, he would take his time and
Speaker 2: make it look like, oh like it was so much difficult,
Speaker 2: and then line up in the huddle and run over somebody.
Speaker 2: Once again, that is what Joker does. I've watched it
Speaker 2: enough to recognize that's exactly what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Acting a great actor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I know, he definitely. It's the head flail,
Speaker 3: It's it's all of it.
Speaker 4: He just looks like he's.
Speaker 3: Just so, you know, like, am I really? Am I
Speaker 3: really doing this right now? I don't know everything. And
Speaker 3: the way he moves is it's so pastivating and hilarious
Speaker 3: and it's like so nonchalant as well.
Speaker 4: Obviously the way the way he.
Speaker 3: Does everything, you know, and it's so funny because with
Speaker 3: my job, which is doing so for Bleacher Report, it's
Speaker 3: my full time job all the time, we'll go and
Speaker 3: try to find screenshots. You know, you'll go through the
Speaker 3: highlights of like a player being hype and you just can't, ironically,
Speaker 3: which is probably a good setup for that conversation. But
Speaker 3: with Jokic and SGA, they do they are not.
Speaker 2: They don't.
Speaker 1: They don't the MVP. Yeah, so maybe this emoting thing
Speaker 1: is overrated.
Speaker 2: Energy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm like, Jokic is my favorite basketball
Speaker 3: player non Grizzly. I'm in love with the way he plays.
Speaker 3: I am in love with every post game. Like I
Speaker 3: could sit there and watch twelve minutes of Yokic postgame
Speaker 3: and and be thoroughly entertained, even though because those are
Speaker 3: the most unentertaining thing.
Speaker 4: Ever because players are like I don't.
Speaker 3: Want to be here, I'm going to answer this, and
Speaker 3: you know, the most like just media trained whatever way
Speaker 3: I can, and Yokic doing it is just so perfect
Speaker 3: because he's so annoyed, but he like actually answers the
Speaker 3: question really, you know, It's like, yeah, he actually answers
Speaker 3: it really well and thoughtfully, but it's like he's so
Speaker 3: annoyed to be answering it, you know, the way he
Speaker 3: delivers it, it's it's funny. It's like he actually does
Speaker 3: give you the.
Speaker 1: Response, but he's like the grumpy old vet that like
Speaker 1: knows knows everything. He's like been on the police force
Speaker 1: for thirty years and like is correct, but is like
Speaker 1: so annoyed that you're even asking the question. I do
Speaker 1: have big news, Molly uh for the rest of the
Speaker 1: league that Jabari said that Ki is the guy that
Speaker 1: he would actually really like to see on the Lakers
Speaker 1: at some point. So that's they need a big I
Speaker 1: guess that's big news for the league, and also big
Speaker 1: news for Jokic, you know that, Like that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: And by the way, they miles of Jabari were saying
Speaker 1: this about luca last playoff run and look at where
Speaker 1: we are now. So whatever weird which is curated.
Speaker 3: Every Jersey swap person Luca a Lakers.
Speaker 4: It pains me, honestly.
Speaker 2: To be clear. Let me let me just say this
Speaker 2: really quickly for Lakers fans, like, like, well, I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna speak for all Lakers fans because that's a dangerous thing.
Speaker 2: But I've been a lifelong fan. I've been watching them
Speaker 2: since the showtime Lakers. Obviously I'm invested in this, but
Speaker 2: obviously I recognize it is an absolutely charmed existence, and
Speaker 2: it's absurd how often this scenario that you just laid
Speaker 2: out actually does work out in our favor. I'm not
Speaker 2: saying that we're spoiled. I'm just gonna say we're very well,
Speaker 2: very well cared for, very very well.
Speaker 1: Basketball Gods. Thank you for, you know, just putting that
Speaker 1: out there so that anymore it's okay.
Speaker 2: I don't mind.
Speaker 4: Life does not suck.
Speaker 2: No, it doesn't.
Speaker 1: A couple just in my uh in Jack's don't look
Speaker 1: now run out of the week. I just want to
Speaker 1: let everybody know that, despite the fact that they've had
Speaker 1: a year that nobody's really happy with within the organization,
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves have won five in a row, so they
Speaker 1: might be picking up a little bit of steam heading
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. The Cavs, meanwhile, have won fifteen straight
Speaker 1: second time this season. They've won fifteen in a row,
Speaker 1: making them the sixth team in NBA history with multiple
Speaker 1: fifteen game win streaks. Two of those five won a championship.
Speaker 1: Three of the five made it to the finals. The
Speaker 1: one that made it to the finals and didn't win was,
Speaker 1: of course, the ninety seven Jazz, which Michael Jordan just
Speaker 1: single handedly reached inside their chest and never made to
Speaker 1: their hearts. And then the other don't look now is
Speaker 1: just don't look now. But the seventy six ers have
Speaker 1: suddenly forgot how to lose fast enough. I mean they're
Speaker 1: two and eight over their last ten, but like they
Speaker 1: they just can't do anything right, Like I.
Speaker 2: Don't they dropped two that they shouldn't have.
Speaker 1: We need to be we need to institute a no
Speaker 1: hands rule, like you're not allowed to use your hand
Speaker 1: like we need we need the Washington generals out there.
Speaker 1: I just we need that pick. Please, please? What are
Speaker 1: you doing? Anyways, let's take one more break, and when
Speaker 1: we come back, we will have the fastest segment in
Speaker 1: sports podcast against the rapid fire round of questioning. Molly,
Speaker 1: you're in for it. We'll be right back, and we're back,
Speaker 1: and this is the wrap fire round of questioning, the
Speaker 1: fastest question answer segment of podcasts. And we're just gonna
Speaker 1: fire some questions at you. That's what it's gonna sound
Speaker 1: like as we do it. For some reason, it's gonna
Speaker 1: sound like, then you're gonna answer the questions without even
Speaker 1: really thinking about it, just fire them right back at us.
Speaker 1: We got to keep the pace up even though I'm
Speaker 1: really not good at doing that and I might just
Speaker 1: get off on a tangent here and there. You are
Speaker 1: going to have to keep us on track. Here. Are
Speaker 1: you ready, Molly?
Speaker 4: I am ready. Let's do this.
Speaker 3: Oh confidence, I'm not a good keep on track, so
Speaker 3: just just warning.
Speaker 2: Oh unacceptable?
Speaker 1: All right, Jabar, you want to go first?
Speaker 2: I don't mind.
Speaker 1: Sorry, real quick, Claw, that's where it is, okay, now,
Speaker 1: I am ready.
Speaker 2: All right, Molly, this or that you can choose between
Speaker 2: two gentlemen, and those two gentlemen are a Jaw and
Speaker 2: Ant in a fantasy dunk contest similar to the showdown
Speaker 2: that we saw in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: Gordon first, Livia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I just want to just yeah.
Speaker 1: Obviously, this has been like one of the big revelations
Speaker 1: for me this year. And I guess I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was a revelation necessarily, but the fact that
Speaker 1: like the two best dunkers in the league both hate dunking,
Speaker 1: Jaw and Ant were both like, yeah, oh it hurts.
Speaker 1: It hurts.
Speaker 3: Very interesting as someone who never has and never will dunk,
Speaker 3: Oh my.
Speaker 1: God, you haven't dunked? Oh, you simply must Molly, it's
Speaker 1: the best dunking is so fund Yes, uh yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: just it really gave me a lot of respect for
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like it must hurt, but nobody
Speaker 1: ever admitted that it hurt. So the fact that people
Speaker 1: were just like yamming on people so hard for so
Speaker 1: long without being like just just tears silently rolling down there. Anyways,
Speaker 1: all right, so it's jaw over Aunt. I feel like
Speaker 1: that would be a lot of fun. You can pick
Speaker 1: any former Grizzlies legend to make a run with this
Speaker 1: current team. Who you take and how Mark? Tony Allen Zebo.
Speaker 3: I mean it has to be Mark. I think that's peak. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean add Mark to this team. They're they're going
Speaker 3: all the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, I would have I would have confidence in
Speaker 2: y'all at that point. But yeah, I was gonna say,
Speaker 2: you picked Mark over Powell. That's interesting, Mark, I.
Speaker 1: Have more arranged though, right, how old I am?
Speaker 2: That is fair? That is fair. I remember to day
Speaker 2: Powell was traded, all right.
Speaker 4: I grew up on Mark.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 2: Right, keeping it going now, we got a bit of
Speaker 2: Grizzly Grizzly trivia for you. No, it's not a problem.
Speaker 2: If you don't get it, we just do it for fun. Okay,
Speaker 2: we'll bounce back and forth. All time franchise leader in
Speaker 2: games played.
Speaker 3: Oh, this is a multiple choice. All time franchise leader
Speaker 3: and games played. Is it someone that I would have watched?
Speaker 1: You got it? Wow? Seven time franchise leader in triple double?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Triple doubles?
Speaker 1: Also something you would have watched?
Speaker 4: Okay? Mark? No?
Speaker 1: Nah? I mean hell, you might still be watching o'molly?
Speaker 4: Oh is it jaw?
Speaker 2: It's jo makes sense things?
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 4: I was thinking of the formers of.
Speaker 1: The what oh of the form Yeah? I kind of
Speaker 1: It was kind of misleading because I said someone you
Speaker 1: would have seen. I mean technically that is correct, because
Speaker 1: you would have seen them, maybe as recently as yesterday.
Speaker 2: Mark with five is second all time.
Speaker 1: There you go see, Okay, you got the second place.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Keep it going. One more for you along these lines.
Speaker 2: All time franchise leader in rebounds per gamebo, he's sick.
Speaker 2: I think he's second.
Speaker 1: And it's per game Yeah, per game? Mark is now?
Speaker 4: Mark it someone I would have watched? Is it?
Speaker 2: Once again? Yes? I made I did make sure of this.
Speaker 4: Wait, what was that?
Speaker 3: Hes?
Speaker 2: Said, I made sure all of these guys are people
Speaker 2: that you would have seen.
Speaker 4: Oh is it Stephen?
Speaker 2: Not? No?
Speaker 3: What now?
Speaker 1: What is wait?
Speaker 4: Okay? All Time franchise.
Speaker 3: It's not Zebo, it's not mark Uh oh my god,
Speaker 3: I'm like what era? Was it? Like?
Speaker 2: I need initials or jv Okay?
Speaker 3: I was literally gonna say was a Jonas Jonas Valentinis.
Speaker 4: I'm hissed. I was literally about to.
Speaker 2: Say that there it is. We'll just cut out my head.
Speaker 2: Don't worry Yonas V.
Speaker 1: Yes amazing from the logo. All right, you can go
Speaker 1: back and live one year as an NBA player and
Speaker 1: experience everything they experienced in that single year. What player
Speaker 1: in year would you choose? Muggel Jordan ninety two, Muggle
Speaker 1: Jordan eighty eight, Shack two thousand, six years.
Speaker 4: That doesn't sound you choose.
Speaker 2: You got to choose.
Speaker 1: You got to choose like Luke Longley during the second three.
Speaker 2: Pet for probably was pretty dope.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not a lot of pressure.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to get creative with.
Speaker 3: Chandler Varsons twenty fourteen when he got to rob the
Speaker 3: Grizzlies and not contrivia.
Speaker 2: That is the answer that we get money in the pain.
Speaker 1: Literally, that was.
Speaker 4: Not twenty fourteen? What year was? I'm so about it years,
Speaker 4: isn't it?
Speaker 2: That's okay? What we all know what you're referencing.
Speaker 1: And finally you get to choose the game of the week.
Speaker 1: We're giving you three games to choose from. I have
Speaker 1: no way of guessing which which of these you're gonna pick? Uh, Friday,
Speaker 1: there are the Cleveland Cavaliers playing at the Memphis Grizzlies.
Speaker 1: That's on the past Saturday, we got the Knicks of
Speaker 1: the Warriors on ABC. Sunday, Thunder at Bucks on ESPNU.
Speaker 1: Who should be? Should we be watching? Uh?
Speaker 3: Honestly, none of those excite me like that much.
Speaker 1: Uh uh huh, Okay, let's not watch basketball this week, guys.
Speaker 3: I'm actually binging Severance right now.
Speaker 1: So maybe Severance the next episode. We're gonna talk about Severance.
Speaker 3: See I would say Grizzlies Calves, but without Jaron. I
Speaker 3: don't want to say Grizzlies Calves because yeah, it's not
Speaker 3: but but Grizzlies Calves.
Speaker 4: What was it? Nicks? Who are they playing?
Speaker 1: Nick at Warriors?
Speaker 3: That'll be but again no runs and injuries suck. And
Speaker 3: then Thunder.
Speaker 4: Maybe that one let's.
Speaker 1: Let's go books Thunder at Bucks on ESPN on Sunday. Folks,
Speaker 1: you heard it here. That is your homework assignment. Molly Morrison,
Speaker 1: what a pleasure having you on Miles and Jack and
Speaker 1: sometimes Jabari got Matt Boosti's where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 3: Fine me Molly Hannah m on Twitter and TikTok and
Speaker 3: Blue Sky. Yeah leave that now, and Molly Underscore Morrison
Speaker 3: on Instagram and you might Leach.
Speaker 1: Report talking about amazing. Well, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: doing it. Go Grizzlies. Uh.
Speaker 3: I feel like I need to end this on a
Speaker 3: positive Grizzlies note I wasn't positive enough.
Speaker 4: Listen.
Speaker 1: Look, they might be used to people being negative on
Speaker 1: their team on this podcast, so I think we can
Speaker 1: allow it. Yeah, go Grizzlies. Jabari, where can people find you?
Speaker 2: You can find me whooping net trick on Blue Sky
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Speaker 1: A I'm on Twitter at Jack Underscore Olbrian on Blue
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Speaker 1: That is gonna do it for us this week. Back
Speaker 1: next week with more NBA action. Have a great week, everybody,
Speaker 1: I'll watch you all next week