Speaker 1: Laker fans.
Speaker 2: I've never seen a group of people feeling so confident
Speaker 2: in a loss. I've never seen it. I have never
Speaker 2: seen an entire group on Twitter say after a team
Speaker 2: at home wins that game that that team that just
Speaker 2: won the game is cooked.
Speaker 1: I've never seen that before. But that's where we're at.
Speaker 2: Nuggets are up one zero, but apparently the Lakers have
Speaker 2: figured some shit out. Apparently this like the Kobe stopper.
Speaker 2: You know, remember when Ruben Patterson was the Kobe stopper
Speaker 2: back in the day. Like, apparently the Lakers have a
Speaker 2: a Joker stopper and they just he's just been waiting
Speaker 2: in the wings, just sitting on the bench, waiting to
Speaker 2: show case his superhuman talents of stopping Yokic. Stopping not
Speaker 2: just Jokic, but the entire Denver Nuggets offense comes to
Speaker 2: a screeching halt when Rui Hachi Mura is on Jokic.
Speaker 2: Apparently that's where we're at because for the let's check
Speaker 2: the notes, it was ten trips down the floor ruey
Speaker 2: Hachi Mura pretty large, like very large sample size. According
Speaker 2: to NBA Twitter, ten trips down the floor where Rui
Speaker 2: was on Jokic and the Nuggets only scored six points.
Speaker 2: Apparently they figured something out. Now, La fans, you know
Speaker 2: how they are gold Stars participation trophies, going to the
Speaker 2: beach surfboards. That is what they're doing with their Game
Speaker 2: one loss, which is weird because Michael Malone noted in
Speaker 2: his postgame presser that Denver ended up winning the game
Speaker 2: when Jokic put up just a measily stat sheet of
Speaker 2: thirty four points, twenty one rends, and fourteen assists with
Speaker 2: two blocks. He missed five shots. They figured him out.
Speaker 2: It's over. It's over for the Denver Nuggets. At one point,
Speaker 2: the Nuggets had a twenty point lead. So, like I said,
Speaker 2: they feel that the ruiy Hachimura adjustment is what changed
Speaker 2: the dynamic of the game. The game got tight, they
Speaker 2: were free safetying Anthony Davis, not letting anybody go into
Speaker 2: the paint made it look crowded. Anthony Davis was a
Speaker 2: block monster. But let's be honest, can we just be
Speaker 2: Let's put the jokes aside for a second. Ruyachimura went
Speaker 2: away from the Washington Wizards for an indefinite period of
Speaker 2: time because he wasn't focused. There were things happening inside
Speaker 2: of him and inside of his life and inside of
Speaker 2: his brain where basketball was not front of mind.
Speaker 1: Ruyachimura is not the most.
Speaker 2: Locked in human being for a full forty eight minutes, Luryachimura,
Speaker 2: You're not gonna be able to put him on Jokich
Speaker 2: for the entire game for the next presumably four what'd
Speaker 2: you say you win four games?
Speaker 1: The next four that the Lakers win.
Speaker 2: We'll just say, I'm very optimistically you're not gonna be
Speaker 2: able to put Ruy Hachimurro on you Ogish that entire time.
Speaker 1: He will be in Trebu trabu.
Speaker 2: He put Ruy in pick and roll. See what happens
Speaker 2: right at the beginning of the game. Rui's might start tonight.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. Jamal Murray, Jokic pick and roll,
Speaker 2: barbecue chicken on a hibachi gro like, what's going to happen.
Speaker 2: Yokich will pick them apart. It's really just a matter
Speaker 2: to me of whether Denver can play defense for the
Speaker 2: full game. When they play defense, they get stops, they
Speaker 2: create turnovers, they go out into transition, they look very fast,
Speaker 2: they look very athletic. When they don't do that, they
Speaker 2: look very slow because the Lakers are defenses. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's very simple defense set very hard to score defense,
Speaker 2: not set very easy to score. I know this sounds
Speaker 2: like very simple game, but in a lot of ways
Speaker 2: it is. There's no way that the Lakers should feel
Speaker 2: that Game one was a victory at all.
Speaker 1: In fact, you.
Speaker 2: Might feel that it was a demoralizing loss because you
Speaker 2: could have stole one, you had the opportunity, you were
Speaker 2: down three in the fourth quarter. But don't take my
Speaker 2: word for it. Take it from coach Malone. See what
Speaker 2: he had to say.
Speaker 3: Is this kind of discussion being based at Like even
Speaker 3: though the Lakers lost, you know, they're walking out of
Speaker 3: here last night like they think they've got something. I'll
Speaker 3: bet you every red penny I have that Darvin ham
Speaker 3: would rather be up one zero than down one zero.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, what does that even mean? Like what
Speaker 2: are we even talking about? Michael Malone is having none
Speaker 2: of this. You guys figured some things out. You guys
Speaker 2: have won something like we'll see how the Lakers are
Speaker 2: spawning tonight.
Speaker 1: Who knows.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe the Lakers are one game two.
Speaker 2: Maybe Rui is the Yoki stopper two time MVP getting
Speaker 2: stopped by our man Rui Hachimurro.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move forward. It was fun while it lasted.
Speaker 2: The hope, the dreams, the imagination, all the like the
Speaker 2: season tickets I was gonna buy. Uh, I was moving.
Speaker 2: I was gonna move to Portland. Cover wemb Yama full time.
Speaker 1: What is it? Ten ten eighty the fan, it's an
Speaker 1: Odyssey station. They'd have me.
Speaker 2: I'm sure cook maybe get transferred cover wemby'all. I was
Speaker 2: ready to party like it was two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1: All over again.
Speaker 2: Brandon Roy was the good luck mascot the last time
Speaker 2: he was the good luck mascot.
Speaker 1: We got the number one overall pick.
Speaker 2: When I think we had like a four percent chance
Speaker 2: of getting it, we had a ten and a half
Speaker 2: percent chance. As Blazers and things look good. We rolled
Speaker 2: into the top four.
Speaker 1: My heart was fluttering.
Speaker 2: Houston got the number four spot, and I said, this
Speaker 2: is fucking it. Yes, Detroit five, Houston four. We've moved
Speaker 2: up at least two spots, why not one? Why not
Speaker 2: move up another one? Why not move up? And then
Speaker 2: we got the.
Speaker 1: Three spot and I knew it was over.
Speaker 2: My soul immediately left my body and looked at me
Speaker 2: from above, and I realized Portland's trading this pick.
Speaker 1: That's what's happening.
Speaker 2: This pick is not even any Don't even look at Athletic,
Speaker 2: don't look at scouting reports of any of these young kids.
Speaker 2: They do not concern you. You are married to Damian Lillard,
Speaker 2: and what Damian Lillard wants is outside of Victor Wambama.
Speaker 2: You do not get any more young kids. They do
Speaker 2: not exist in your mind. In fact, start looking at
Speaker 2: your own roster. Say what kids can go? There's more
Speaker 2: kids on the current roster, they can go. I thought
Speaker 2: it was funny though, when Victor wamba Yama saw first
Speaker 2: and foremost, he saw Houston get the four spot, and
Speaker 2: they cut to him immediately. Apparently Victor Wambyama also did
Speaker 2: not want to go to Houston. Shocking, shocking. I know
Speaker 2: that he would not want to go to a team
Speaker 2: with a bunch of chuckers on it, a bunch of
Speaker 2: lottery picks, and when they won like what twenty two
Speaker 2: games or whatever it was, and a new head coach
Speaker 2: that's got all kinds of misconduct allegations in a city
Speaker 2: full of temptations, and he's by the way French.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was a great fit.
Speaker 2: So Jabari Smith quote tweeted it and with the little
Speaker 2: emoji of taking notes. Okay, Jabari, you go ahead take
Speaker 2: those notes, baby boy. What you need to do is type,
Speaker 2: take notes and give them to your teammates so they
Speaker 2: can get you the fucking ball when you're open underneath
Speaker 2: the rim.
Speaker 1: So poor Charlotte.
Speaker 2: They end up with the second overall pick, and now
Speaker 2: they've got to worry about what they're gonna do, because
Speaker 2: are they gonna take Scoot Henderson, who would probably not
Speaker 2: pair great with their other point guard of the future,
Speaker 2: LaMelo Ball. Are they going to take Brandon Miller, who,
Speaker 2: by the way, Brandon Miller, according to Zakalo today looks horrible.
Speaker 2: He's out of shape, like I thought it was, like,
Speaker 2: oh like Brandon Miller not in good shape, meaning like
Speaker 2: mentally like yeah, no shit, he's been going through a lot.
Speaker 1: No like he's physically.
Speaker 2: Not been working out, like just not in shape, been
Speaker 2: drinking sodas and eating bon Bonds and Cheetos and chilling
Speaker 2: on his couch.
Speaker 1: We'll playing call of duty.
Speaker 2: According to Zach Lowe, also, Brandon Miller not been doing
Speaker 2: great in the interview process either, which does not shock me, uh,
Speaker 2: considering all the things that have gone down recently.
Speaker 1: So that's bad.
Speaker 2: What Charlotte is going to do is a big off
Speaker 2: season story. We know Victor will be a Spur. Pop
Speaker 2: is probably gonna be continuing to coach until he gets
Speaker 2: his Joe Paterno on, like straight from the court to
Speaker 2: the grave type stuff for him. I know that's morbid,
Speaker 2: but literally like they're gonna have the drag him up
Speaker 2: out of there. And now we've got to figure out
Speaker 2: the biggest story for the next generation of the NBA.
Speaker 2: The hype is that big for Victor. We've been talking
Speaker 2: about him for it feels like two years now. His
Speaker 2: hype is so big that you have Chris Brussard saying
Speaker 2: if he's if he turns into Hakeem, he's a bust.
Speaker 2: That's where we're at. That's how big guy. That's an
Speaker 2: insane statement. Uh, Hakem fucking Elijah One, NBA Champion twice,
Speaker 2: twelve time All NBA, twelve time All Star, that guy,
Speaker 2: if he turns into that guy, he will be a bust.
Speaker 1: Get out of here.
Speaker 2: So let's just credit the Spurs for being the luckiest organization,
Speaker 2: like in the NBA, they were so lucky they would
Speaker 2: have won it, like four times.
Speaker 1: They win the lottery multiple times. Fred Katz was.
Speaker 2: In the lottery draw room and tweeted that the Spurs
Speaker 2: didn't just win the number one overall pick, their number
Speaker 2: got drawn twice more. It was written, the script had
Speaker 2: been determined. It was always the Spurs. It was never
Speaker 2: anyone else. In fact, that the Blazers somehow would have
Speaker 2: gotten quote unquote lucky. They wouldn't have gotten lucky. Victor
Speaker 2: wam Miiyama wouldn't have gotten lucky. US NBA fans wouldn't
Speaker 2: have gotten lucky because Victor Wamiyama would have been some
Speaker 2: version some combination between Sam Buie and Greg Godin, probably
Speaker 2: multiple micro fractures in his shins, probably never seen after
Speaker 2: forty three games, and Henderson would be the next Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: That would be what would happen. Of course, if Blazer's
Speaker 2: got the number one overall pick. So Spurs last time
Speaker 2: they had the number one overall pick in both years
Speaker 2: they won fifty six games the next year. That's the
Speaker 2: best record in the lottery era for a team with
Speaker 2: the number one pick. They're gonna be a lot better,
Speaker 2: probably not winning fifty six games, but man, this could
Speaker 2: not have worked out better for the NBA, for the Spurs.
Speaker 2: For yeah, I mean, like listen, San Antonio and France
Speaker 2: go together like Joe Mizzula and never calling timeouts, Like
Speaker 2: that's just it's just written. Like you got Boris diaw,
Speaker 2: you've got Tony Parker, Like the entire country of France
Speaker 2: was rooting for Victor to go to San Antonio. This
Speaker 2: is what he said, Victor, there's a special relationship between
Speaker 2: France and the Spurs because of Tony Parker and Boris
Speaker 2: dil I know half the country maybe, if not the
Speaker 2: whole country wanted the Spurs to have the number one
Speaker 2: overall pick. And before you say, well, Trista, this is
Speaker 2: a Patrick Ewing situation. Sometimes it just happens for a reason.
Speaker 2: Like I said, if it wasn't Portland, I wanted him
Speaker 2: to be in San Antonio. Another big man, transcendent big
Speaker 2: man going to the Spurs, playing underneath Pop and probably
Speaker 2: playing the most boring brand of basketball you've ever seen.