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Speaker 3: the Lakers beat the Wizards one t LA approved forty
Speaker 3: four and thirty three, finished the six game road trip
Speaker 3: five and one. The game really shouldn't have been this closed,
Speaker 3: but ended up having to put the starters back here
Speaker 3: with about thirty five seconds to go because of what
Speaker 3: a twelve or thirteen point league got cut down the five.
Speaker 2: So they're six and five to one on the road trip.
Speaker 3: They're currently tied with Sacramento and Phoenix in the lost column,
Speaker 3: but two games back no no time in the win column.
Speaker 2: With the two games back in the lost column.
Speaker 3: Lebron James another magnificent night twenty five seventy nine. Anthony
Speaker 3: Davis was dominant thirty five points on ten of seventeen,
Speaker 3: shooting fifteen to fifteen from the free throw line, eighteen rebounds,
Speaker 3: two steals, three blocks, and they hold on to beat
Speaker 3: the Wizards one twenty five to one twenty. As you
Speaker 3: watch the game, not just just let's go all the
Speaker 3: way back and if you can remember the games that
Speaker 3: they played and they played really well on this road trip, Gil,
Speaker 3: what have you liked most about what you've seen from
Speaker 3: the Lakers.
Speaker 2: That they've.
Speaker 1: They've beat the teams that they were supposed to beat.
Speaker 1: They they they did what they were supposed to do. Yes,
Speaker 1: on James has stepped up, Ad has played well. And
Speaker 1: the role players that we were having troubles with, let's
Speaker 1: say around the end of December January, those guys are
Speaker 1: playing more consistent now, right, Yes, you're talking about getting
Speaker 1: to the playoff. It seems like everybody is ramping up
Speaker 1: for the playoff and it's on the same mission here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like what I saw.
Speaker 3: Lebron has been really, really good, and as he mentioned,
Speaker 3: he says, look, guys, the last year I had to
Speaker 3: deal with the foot, so basically I was just playing
Speaker 3: the games. I wasn't able to get any on court activity.
Speaker 3: I couldn't do, you know, practice, I couldn't do shooting
Speaker 3: rounds or anything of that nature.
Speaker 2: Now I come out here before the game.
Speaker 3: I'm able to get my shots up before the game,
Speaker 3: I'm able to get on the court with the guys
Speaker 3: for shoot around. I'm able to, you know, work on
Speaker 3: my shot and you can tell nine to ten the
Speaker 3: other day, what forty points on seventeen shots comes back?
Speaker 2: Last night?
Speaker 3: What was he eight or ten, ten or twelve? Very
Speaker 3: few shots? Again, very very efficient last night against Toronto.
Speaker 3: Another fishing night, another fifty percent shooting night tonight. But
Speaker 3: as you said, Gil, we knew this was on the horizon.
Speaker 3: Horizon they knew. We knew they were gonna play a
Speaker 3: lot of sub five hundred teams. And if you're trying
Speaker 3: to get to where you ultimately need to be, these
Speaker 3: are the teams that you need to be. These are
Speaker 3: the teams that early in the year that was sub
Speaker 3: five hundred, when they were the November in December, that
Speaker 3: was beating the Lakers, and you're like, what the hell?
Speaker 3: And it's still it's still troubling to me. With Anthony
Speaker 3: Davis playing as well as he is, and he's played
Speaker 3: seventy two games, Lebron is being Lebron, and here we
Speaker 3: are forty four and thirty three and we're in the
Speaker 3: night we're in a nice spot.
Speaker 1: Gil, I still can't understand that for the life of you.
Speaker 1: You know what, I want to give Prince his credit.
Speaker 1: Right at the beginning of the season, right, my my
Speaker 1: complaint with him and Van Do was, you guys are
Speaker 1: sitting in the corner being atmosphere, right, And as of late,
Speaker 1: Prince has been diving a lot more, getting into those
Speaker 1: open spaces.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the creases. Yeah, he's been.
Speaker 1: He's been slashing, diving because the defense didn't expect that.
Speaker 1: So he's getting a lot of easy points and keeping
Speaker 1: the defense honest by moving. Just little things like that
Speaker 1: is what makes those guys important. If you're sitting in
Speaker 1: a corner, just be an atmosphere, it's harder for ad
Speaker 1: and Lebron. So the fact that yes, he has played
Speaker 1: this well, Lebron has played this well, and we are struggling.
Speaker 1: I will take that to see how we're playing now.
Speaker 2: Right. And Plus the thing is d Lo.
Speaker 3: D Lo has vastly improved from the end of January,
Speaker 3: it's the beginning of February until now.
Speaker 2: Dlo has been sensational.
Speaker 3: Had he been playing like that all along, the trade
Speaker 3: talks would have never come up.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, You're right, it wouldn't have. It wouldn't have.
Speaker 1: And I think because of the trade talks and put
Speaker 1: some urgency into his game, right, And when you when
Speaker 1: you start off a season, you don't want to be traded, right, Well,
Speaker 1: we can count the millions, you can count all the
Speaker 1: money in my pocket, But leaving the city that I
Speaker 1: call home to go somewhere else to learn that city,
Speaker 1: to learn that players, to learn the routes, the roots.
Speaker 2: Money has no impact on that. You know. If I
Speaker 2: know you from your job, no matter how.
Speaker 1: Much you're making, and take it to a whole nother city,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a tough time struggling, especially men death, right.
Speaker 3: I think, And I think I don't know if he
Speaker 3: has a wife or significant other. I know he has
Speaker 3: a small child that I see him with from time
Speaker 3: to time after the game. Now you got because it's
Speaker 3: just not you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to think of other people.
Speaker 3: You have to think of your wife or your significant other,
Speaker 3: the kids. And I think he really wanted to be
Speaker 3: back in LA because I'm not so sure he really
Speaker 3: wanted to leave LA in the first place. So he
Speaker 3: looks at it as a second chance. I got a
Speaker 3: second opportunity to come back and fulfill or correct the
Speaker 3: wrong that happened before. And so I don't think he
Speaker 3: really wanted to leave LA the first time, and I
Speaker 3: know for certain he doesn't want to leave now because
Speaker 3: he said, I want to be a Laker next year,
Speaker 3: and he's playing like he wants to be a Laker
Speaker 3: next Year's shooting the ball extremely well, doing a great
Speaker 3: job of running the offense when he's asked to do so.
Speaker 3: But I love the way he's fled Lebron is Lebron
Speaker 3: is Lebron. I mean, it goes without saying, we don't
Speaker 3: the guy shooting fifty four percent from the floor, Anthony
Speaker 3: Davids is giving you twenty five and basically thirteen on
Speaker 3: a nightly basis. Rui has been sensational also, I mean
Speaker 3: he's shooting the ball at a high level. Austin Reeves
Speaker 3: and Michigan sister, you know what you're gonna get. But
Speaker 3: I do think Gil, we're gonna probably need a little
Speaker 3: bit more for our bench. Denwick's gonna have to give
Speaker 3: us a little more. Prince is gonna have to give.
Speaker 2: Us a little more.
Speaker 3: We know what to expect from Jackson Hayes he's an
Speaker 3: evert guy. He's gonna challenge shots at the rim. He's
Speaker 3: gonna run, get you some footbacks, get you some love dunks.
Speaker 3: So I don't know, really, I'm not expecting him to
Speaker 3: give us twelve. If he can give us six and eight,
Speaker 3: a couple of blocks some time, you know, some solid defense, Okay,
Speaker 3: we can live with that. But I think den with it.
Speaker 3: I think Tory and Prince, those are our two main
Speaker 3: bench guys. Those guys gonna probably need to be being
Speaker 3: the double figures in order for the Lakers, because you
Speaker 3: can't ask your starters to go out there and score
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty points every day an night.
Speaker 2: No, no, you're gonna need.
Speaker 1: About I'll say, in the playoffs, depending on who we
Speaker 1: matchup matchup against, twenty twenty twenty five thirty points from
Speaker 1: our bench. And yeah, ninety percent of that is coming
Speaker 1: from Princes friends and did with it and didn't with it, right,
Speaker 1: And that's just the way it is. And you know,
Speaker 1: just like Miami, you know, Jimmy Butler played very well
Speaker 1: first two rounds and then I think it was Caleb
Speaker 1: Martin right that that almost won the MVP of won
Speaker 1: one of those games and they was chanting his name.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, those what we need.
Speaker 1: We need different players stepping up at the right time
Speaker 1: because it's not expected in the playoffs, and the playoffs
Speaker 1: is GrITT and grind. Right, we're we're we're dial then
Speaker 1: we know the playbook, we know your first option, we
Speaker 1: know your second option. So to really be to really
Speaker 1: be like dominating in the playoffs, you're playing in your
Speaker 1: third option mode for the first time for the first part.
Speaker 1: So when guys step out of their body, right, Austin
Speaker 1: Reeves goes for a thirty dlog goals for thirty.
Speaker 2: Right, Ruby goes for there.
Speaker 1: Those are the games that we need in those in
Speaker 1: those times.
Speaker 2: If you look at last.
Speaker 3: Year against the Grizzlies, remember that road game, Ruy goes crazy.
Speaker 3: They're like, we go, let you shoot the three. Ruis said, okay,
Speaker 3: thank you. And the next thing. The next thing, you know,
Speaker 3: you go back and you get your split and so
Speaker 3: now and then the next and then you come home.
Speaker 3: Ostar Reeves takes over a game, so they're gonna be game.
Speaker 3: Look your start you need a D and Lebron to
Speaker 3: be a D N a D. But you also need
Speaker 3: a third guy. Yep, at different points of a game.
Speaker 3: It was ruly one game, it was hot and more
Speaker 3: it was oster Reeves another game. And that's what you
Speaker 3: need the because a D and Lebron is gonna be
Speaker 3: a D and Lebron. Can we get another game from
Speaker 3: a Roy where he gives us twenty to twenty five?
Speaker 3: Can we get a game like that from ouster Reefs
Speaker 3: where he gives us twenty to twenty five? Because I'm
Speaker 3: counting on Lebron them to give me somewhere between fifty
Speaker 3: and sixty on a nightly basis. Yep, him and a
Speaker 3: D to give us somewhere between fifty and sixty on
Speaker 3: a nightly basis. Now we get Rouy a game, we
Speaker 3: get Auster Reeve gives us a game to go along
Speaker 3: with those guys.
Speaker 2: We get d Loo to give us a game.
Speaker 3: We get our bench to give us twenty between those
Speaker 3: three guys, but the main contributed will be then Witty
Speaker 3: will be Tory and Prince Jackson Hayes, but the main
Speaker 3: corporates would be those two guys didn't win in Prince
Speaker 3: I liked, I like the Lakers chances, but they're gonna
Speaker 3: have it, and like they have a big lead and
Speaker 3: then they give it away. They run back out to
Speaker 3: another big lead seventeen eighteen points, and they let the
Speaker 3: Wizard to get it all the way back down to two.
Speaker 1: Because I don't when Lebron, when Lebron is not taking
Speaker 1: over the game, those guys don't know how to finish
Speaker 1: players off.
Speaker 2: They don't know how to finish you right.
Speaker 1: And I know this is a different league where threes
Speaker 1: really help you get.
Speaker 2: Back into games.
Speaker 1: Oh, for a twenty point a twenty point a twenty
Speaker 1: point lead can be cut five four shots, right, you know,
Speaker 1: you get you know, three, three threes and one and right,
Speaker 1: you're right back in the game. And that's what the
Speaker 1: Golden State style was. So you know, sometimes when you
Speaker 1: have your foot on their throat, you just got to
Speaker 1: crush it. Yeah, gotta do it.
Speaker 3: I think the thing is also, Gail, is that a
Speaker 3: lot of times when you get up and if you
Speaker 3: get up a certain way, you keep playing that way,
Speaker 3: but you keep taking bad shots and when they go in,
Speaker 3: you're like, yeah, everybody high five and everybody like key keying.
Speaker 3: But all of a sudden, you take a couple of
Speaker 3: those bad shots and they race back to the other end.
Speaker 3: Get some easy buckets and the next thing, you know,
Speaker 3: to hit a couple of threes and all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: like you said, your twenty point lead is not down
Speaker 3: to and.
Speaker 2: Maybe even nine.
Speaker 3: Now you're like, oh damn, what happened because we just
Speaker 3: watched the Wizards go on a fifteen oh run. So
Speaker 3: if the Wizards can go on a fifteen oh run,
Speaker 3: you know Sacramento can do that. You know Phoenix can
Speaker 3: do that. You know the Nuggets can do that. But
Speaker 3: this is old.
Speaker 1: But right now, this is this is bad team's best
Speaker 1: time to play basketball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh this is old.
Speaker 1: This is it right now, coach, you can't sub me
Speaker 1: right it is what it is.
Speaker 2: Season about to be over.
Speaker 1: You're about to be fired, I'm about to be traded
Speaker 1: free agency.
Speaker 2: So right now is the best time for bad teams.
Speaker 1: Because you get no responsibility whatsoever.
Speaker 2: And it's basically it's basically summer league basketball for these guys.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna have a lot of teams playing a
Speaker 1: spoiler alert.
Speaker 3: You know what, Gil, you knew. I knew one thing.
Speaker 3: Kyle Cool ain't played of the week, but I know
Speaker 3: he's gonna play against the Lakers. You know what I'm
Speaker 3: saying because he wants to show y'all should have never
Speaker 3: got rid of me and I love the ways playing,
Speaker 3: but he wasn't gonna be able to do that with
Speaker 3: a D and Lebron. And that's what he doesn't understand.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I mean, look at Bradley Beal. Bradley
Speaker 3: Beal average thirty, Bradley bial is a twenty average thirty one.
Speaker 2: Year at the high twenties. But he's not gonna get
Speaker 2: the shots.
Speaker 3: It's hard for a third option to be what he
Speaker 3: was when he was the first option, especially when the
Speaker 3: first two options is Anthony Davidson Lebron.
Speaker 2: The first two options are.
Speaker 3: Booked and KD, KD and book So it's hard for
Speaker 3: Bill to get those You understand that James Worthy, Jay,
Speaker 3: it's a Hall of Famer, but you know it was
Speaker 3: going to Koreem magic, Okay, everybody else feeling you.
Speaker 1: Know, with Bill, and you know I watched him a lot.
Speaker 1: They overpassed. Sometimes there's times where that guy has that
Speaker 1: shot and he'll swing swing right. You know, those guys
Speaker 1: are okay, playing unselfish sometimes to the point where your
Speaker 1: shot is better than that that that open corner shot
Speaker 1: from that guy, And I think Bill does that a
Speaker 1: lot where he has the shot and he makes the
Speaker 1: extra pass, and there's gonna be times where he could
Speaker 1: average twenty. The shots are there, the ball movement is there.
Speaker 1: But I think because they trust each other so much
Speaker 1: that they're willing like he'll he'll pass up a shot
Speaker 1: to pass it to Grayson, Allen or Gordon where.
Speaker 2: That's sometimes in a situation.
Speaker 3: Gil, You're absolutely right, And I noticed that also a
Speaker 3: lot of times when teams have big threes or teams
Speaker 3: just come together. I'm gonna show you that I'm so
Speaker 3: inch selfish. Yeah, I'm gonna fast up this shot right here.
Speaker 2: I see you right.
Speaker 3: It seems like when I did it, I gave up
Speaker 3: this good shot to get a great shot. Bro go ahead,
Speaker 3: take that.
Speaker 2: Take that.
Speaker 1: Already already touched. The main two guys hands boom bot,
Speaker 1: it came to you. This is when you get to work.
Speaker 1: So making that picture pass sometimes kind of takes away
Speaker 1: from what you do. But they will be dangerous in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, So this is gonna be a bropin on.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The Celtics beat the Thunder at the Garden won thirty
Speaker 3: five to one hundred for the first time in fourteen years,
Speaker 3: they've clinched the NBA's best record and the home court
Speaker 3: throughout the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 2: For as long as they play, they will have home court.
Speaker 3: The current record is sixty to sixteen and they have
Speaker 3: six games remaining. Christoph Prazingas led the way with twenty
Speaker 3: seven points, twelve rebounds, fours sists, five blocks, JT. Jason
Speaker 3: Tatum twenty four points, seven rebounds, three assists, JB. Jaylen
Speaker 3: Brown twenty three points, seven rebounds, four sis, two blocks.
Speaker 3: Al Horford had sixteen points, four rebounds, he was plus
Speaker 3: thirty two Holiday twelve points, seven rebounds, four since Satan
Speaker 3: Pritchet eleven points, four rebounds, eight assists, two still and
Speaker 3: Howser even Chimp then with ten points.
Speaker 2: Very ballast. But what did you expect that.
Speaker 3: I don't think they had shake Gilgess and I didn't
Speaker 3: see Trett Honker unless he played early in the game.
Speaker 3: I tuned into that game a little late because I
Speaker 3: didn't really expect them to do much because Shay has
Speaker 3: been in and out of the lineup with that quad injury.
Speaker 2: But the Celtics are a.
Speaker 3: Very balanced team and you're gonna have to play extremely
Speaker 3: well to beat them. Now, the their their achilles heels
Speaker 3: or the the bugaboo is to get him in the
Speaker 3: fourth quarter, to make him execute, because they hit a
Speaker 3: lot of tough, a lot of tough. Those shots gilt
Speaker 3: that go in early in the ball game, and those
Speaker 3: tough that J T bet between between his legs and
Speaker 3: side step three, JB THO D threes that go in early.
Speaker 2: And the fourth quarter, they're still taking those shots.
Speaker 3: They're not going in and they're allowing teams to creep
Speaker 3: back into the ball game and nipplement.
Speaker 2: To d Yeah. You know.
Speaker 1: Uh, the their their struggles is that they consistently rely
Speaker 1: on jump shots.
Speaker 2: Yes, right, when you have two guys that are all
Speaker 2: of six A six nine, six ' ten that are athletic.
Speaker 1: Yes, you guys are the athletic players in your position
Speaker 1: where no one's stopping you from getting to the rim.
Speaker 1: You're stopping yourself by relying settling for jumpers, right. You know,
Speaker 1: if I'm a defender, if Tatum goes for thirty forty
Speaker 1: on jump.
Speaker 2: Shots, so be it. Right, so be it. But I'd
Speaker 2: rather him.
Speaker 1: I'd rather that than him putting me in the basket,
Speaker 1: putting the team in foul trouble, putting me in foul trouble.
Speaker 1: Right now, I got to ask for helps and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Right, that's where they need to switch their
Speaker 1: game in the playoffs, where they have to come out
Speaker 1: and consciously think, get to the basket, get to the basket,
Speaker 1: and get to the basket, because the playoffs is strategy, right.
Speaker 1: I need to show you something in the first three
Speaker 1: quarters and give you what I really want to do
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. If I really want to shoot
Speaker 1: jumpers in the fourth, first three quarters, I need to.
Speaker 2: Be driving, so you're on your heels so I can.
Speaker 1: But if you side stepped me the whole first three quarters,
Speaker 1: I know what you want to do in the fourth.
Speaker 1: So now basketball becomes stale to you because for the
Speaker 1: most part, you're gonna go pick and roll, go by yourself.
Speaker 1: The other two guys are gonna be sitting in the cutter.
Speaker 1: In the cut you guys don't know how to play
Speaker 1: without the ball. That's one problem they have too, that
Speaker 1: when one has the ball, the other one doesn't know
Speaker 1: how to play basketball.
Speaker 2: He goes in the corner and stands, he sits.
Speaker 1: He might as well just sit on the bench at
Speaker 1: that got damn point he can sit on the fish
Speaker 1: clapping hands and stuff because he don't move right. It's
Speaker 1: not like he's keeping the defense, honest, he's not. You
Speaker 1: know Gordon or back when Lebron and d Wade was playing,
Speaker 1: when one driving the other one's driving to that dump
Speaker 1: off in the dump. If they play that way, trust
Speaker 1: me in the what they're gonna run through teams right, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be very interesting to see because we
Speaker 1: keep saying this is their year. Jay Jason Tatum has
Speaker 1: gotten better and better year. Jaylen Brown has turning to
Speaker 1: more than an athlete now. He's he can shoot the ball,
Speaker 1: he can drive the ball. There's no excuse that have
Speaker 1: for Zingers, who's a mismatch because he can drive, he
Speaker 1: can pull you big out and then when you switch,
Speaker 1: they go pick and roll with him team, or they
Speaker 1: go pick and roll with him and jb Or or
Speaker 1: Darrick White. He's gonna get a smaller guy on him
Speaker 1: and he's gonna shoot right over the top of him.
Speaker 2: Or he's gonna put him in the basket.
Speaker 3: So really, as far as the complete team, they are
Speaker 3: the most complete team in the NBA because when you
Speaker 3: look at him, they can shoot the three, and they
Speaker 3: have guys that can if they want to do. Jak
Speaker 3: can post up, he can get you. He can he
Speaker 3: can drive. Hey, he can shoot the mid range. You
Speaker 3: can put the ball on the floor.
Speaker 2: He can get to the rim. We know Jake.
Speaker 3: We've seen JB put guys in the rim, so we
Speaker 3: know he can. His jump shot is not as consistent
Speaker 3: as a JT's.
Speaker 2: We know what Prezingers is. He can shoot the three.
Speaker 3: He wants to shoot that more so to get his side,
Speaker 3: but it's okay. Al Horford is solid. You're gonna get
Speaker 3: your rebounds. You'll hit the open three, he'll crash the glass.
Speaker 3: They have a very consistent team, and when you look
Speaker 3: at the guys that they have, Holiday is gonna take
Speaker 3: a couple of threes. But he's mainly your perimeter defender.
Speaker 3: That's his job. Who's the best player, who's your best
Speaker 3: perimeter to play on the post the team. So even
Speaker 3: if you have to give up some of his points
Speaker 3: to have him help neutralize some of the other guys,
Speaker 3: you can see that because you should be able to
Speaker 3: get enough points from JB.
Speaker 2: JT.
Speaker 3: Presingas Derrick White that even if he doesn't give you
Speaker 3: his normal twelve fourteen points and he's holding the other
Speaker 3: team's perimeter to player to under his average.
Speaker 2: You could live with that. Yeah, you know what I like.
Speaker 2: You know what I really like about the team. It's
Speaker 2: like they're so versatile.
Speaker 1: Right when they're small, all they're big, right, they're still big.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: They haven't put this, They only put this line up
Speaker 1: in a few times.
Speaker 2: When they did, they dominated.
Speaker 1: When you have someone like Jason Terry, I mean Jason
Speaker 1: Tatum at the point, right, Jaden Brown at the shooting guard.
Speaker 2: You can put uh.
Speaker 1: Sam at the three, you can put Al Horford at
Speaker 1: the four, and you can put Porzingis at the five
Speaker 1: and be a very.
Speaker 2: Big, mobile team.
Speaker 1: Which when Jason Terry and when I mean Jason Tatum
Speaker 1: goes to the point, who guards him, right, it forces
Speaker 1: you to switch your whole lineup. And no one has
Speaker 1: a lineup that versatile, right, So they they can really
Speaker 1: do something if they're playing against Denver, they make it
Speaker 1: against Denver, I'm gonna use that lineup at the end
Speaker 1: of the game, where now Murray has to guard Jason Tatum. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he he's not equipped to do that if he's posting
Speaker 1: no playing from the minus no and the plus.
Speaker 3: When you play that lineup, they can switch everything. They
Speaker 3: can switch. They can switch. Yeah, very few teams they're like, oh,
Speaker 3: we want to switch, but you're really not equipped to switch.
Speaker 3: You just switching because it sounds good and it makes
Speaker 3: you seem like you're athletic and you're versatile when you're
Speaker 3: really not.
Speaker 2: But they can't.
Speaker 3: They can literally switch because JT at six nine sixteen,
Speaker 3: JB is probably six seven six eight.
Speaker 2: Holiday is a big is a big two guards.
Speaker 1: Now even Holiday, you got you got Sam at the three,
Speaker 1: who's six seven six eight.
Speaker 2: Okay with Sam? Yeah, Then you got Horford.
Speaker 3: You got Horford who sixteen, and you got Prizingers who's
Speaker 3: seven foot Oh he's seven three, my man.
Speaker 1: Oh you rim protection. And then when your kitch, when
Speaker 1: you switch on your kitch. He's not going against the
Speaker 1: Sam Vincent like he was against Miami. He's not going
Speaker 1: to a cow Liarry right when that switch happens, He's
Speaker 1: going against Tatum brought home that that has.
Speaker 2: Had on him. With Porzingis sitting in the back protecting
Speaker 2: the rim.
Speaker 3: So Celtics sixteen sixteen, with six games remaining, clinch home
Speaker 3: court throughout the entirety of the playoffs. So as long
Speaker 3: as they're in the playoffs, they will have home court.
Speaker 3: Now it's time for our next segment, and it's called
Speaker 3: a news cap. ESPN Tim McMahon reported that one NBA
Speaker 3: executive believed that Jokic winning his third MVP in four
Speaker 3: years is not going to age well.
Speaker 2: I had somebody from another.
Speaker 3: Team, who's who will, saying you can't in a historical context,
Speaker 3: you cannot give this guy three MVPs in four seasons. Basically,
Speaker 3: his take was like, that's going to age well. But
Speaker 3: Yok's been dominant. Yale twenty six and a half points,
Speaker 3: twelve point three rebounds, nine as sists, one steal, one
Speaker 3: point three steals in seventy three games.
Speaker 2: He's shooting six fifty.
Speaker 3: Eight percent from the floor, thirty four percent from d
Speaker 3: If he brings home is thirty MVP.
Speaker 2: He brings home is thirty MVP.
Speaker 3: Just because you guys fed it up and wouldn't give
Speaker 3: it to guys that Jordan probably should have seven to eight,
Speaker 3: Lebron should probably have six or seven.
Speaker 2: Other guys not. Ain't they fault?
Speaker 3: But here's the problem that you had give until nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty one players voted for the MVP.
Speaker 2: Letg just sing it for second people at home.
Speaker 3: One year, Will Chamberlain averaged forty four points in twenty
Speaker 3: seven rebounds, and he finished eighth in the MVP voting.
Speaker 3: I want you to hear me again. He averaged forty
Speaker 3: four and twenty seven. He finished eighth in the MVP voting.
Speaker 2: Hear that he averaged fifty to twenty five.
Speaker 3: He did not win the MVP. So you have players
Speaker 3: like if I don't like you, I ain't voting for you.
Speaker 3: So you see what happened prior to the eighties, players
Speaker 3: voted for the MVP.
Speaker 2: So now you go. Now you got the writers and
Speaker 2: so maybe Will should have the man had he had five.
Speaker 3: Hundred What have I think he had five hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty one consecutive double double. We're applauding some bonus for
Speaker 3: having fifty four. The man went down there five fifty years,
Speaker 3: it had double double. He never finished the season with
Speaker 3: less than eighteen rebounds in a season. He averaged twenty
Speaker 3: three rebounds for a season for a career, So he
Speaker 3: probably should have more, and then you wouldn't be upset
Speaker 3: that Yokich has the potential to win three and four
Speaker 3: years if you had, if they had done it right,
Speaker 3: so you wouldn't be mad because Jordan would have seven.
Speaker 3: And you said, well, damn he get three.
Speaker 2: He only two behind Jordan and he's twenty eight. That
Speaker 2: means he's only one behind Lebron. He's only twenty eight.
Speaker 1: He's only this and he got That's not his fault.
Speaker 1: That's not his fault that y'all missed it up. I
Speaker 1: got to use your language, that nineteen sixty four languages
Speaker 1: those morefo jih turkis.
Speaker 2: Like, you're right, they they screwed.
Speaker 1: It up on it and you can't rewind it back,
Speaker 1: like I know, send both.
Speaker 2: Sides one side.
Speaker 1: The fact that they're having a discussion that they can't
Speaker 1: give it to him, that is disturbing, which means, yes,
Speaker 1: you've been doing this the whole time. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: You've been penalizing people the whole time. To pech who
Speaker 1: historically and what right? Who have you been protecting and
Speaker 1: what have you been protecting? Because you've been doing it.
Speaker 1: We know Jordan should have seven, so who he should
Speaker 1: have three in a row? Were you protecting birds three
Speaker 1: in a row by not giving to Michael Jordan right, ron.
Speaker 2: One should have had some. Shaquiel should have had some. Yes,
Speaker 2: Kobe only has one. Now.
Speaker 1: Now I do understand when they say this about Jokic.
Speaker 1: Jokic is probably, statistically when it comes to overall game,
Speaker 1: the worst MVP winner. He's the worst MVP winner in
Speaker 1: the last forty years. Why you say that when you're
Speaker 1: talking about MVP the guys outside of first and second place,
Speaker 1: their teams was first and second place.
Speaker 2: The people who won the MVP, the teams was first
Speaker 2: and second.
Speaker 1: When Jordan won it, his team record they were seventh
Speaker 1: in the NBA.
Speaker 2: That year.
Speaker 1: He had a thirty five six five three steals, All Star, MVP,
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year, scoring titles, steels leader. That
Speaker 1: was the MVP historic year. Makes sense, right, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: When Westbrook won it, his team had the tenth best
Speaker 1: record triple double right first time Oscar Robinson. He want
Speaker 1: something amazing. His team was tenth, but he was he
Speaker 1: did something that wasn't done since Oscar Robinson. When Jokics
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, Yokish team was fifth. He have
Speaker 1: his twenty six, eight and ten. What was the historic
Speaker 1: part of that? There was no historian. Oh, the big
Speaker 1: man almost had a triple double. Let's give it to him.
Speaker 1: That's what the narrative was. A big man almost, not did,
Speaker 1: almost won the triple double, and they gave it to him.
Speaker 2: When his team record was like that, his.
Speaker 1: Second MVP, his team was tied in tenth place, tenth
Speaker 1: best record of the NBA twenty seven, eight and thirteen.
Speaker 1: What was historic about it? The two people before him
Speaker 1: had amazing, an amazing season. When you're talking about historic
Speaker 1: magic team's first place, second place, first place, Jordan's seventh, second,
Speaker 1: one and one, Bird one and one and one. His
Speaker 1: team was first place every time he won it. Lebron first, first, fourth, first,
Speaker 1: Yokish fifth and ten. That is but you they did that, Yes,
Speaker 1: they did that. Ain't his fall. He didn't know, he
Speaker 1: didn't vote for himself.
Speaker 2: You did it. So either you're gonna meet correct it
Speaker 2: or keep sucking it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yogi's probably said, don't correct it on my watch,
Speaker 1: because don't pick by season.
Speaker 2: Don't pick by season to use white out to make
Speaker 2: a correction. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So look, his first two ones, he probably shouldn't have
Speaker 1: had those if you go by history last year, that
Speaker 1: should have been his shouldn't have been in beads.
Speaker 2: Jason Tatum team has been one.
Speaker 1: He's been the best player, he's average thirty, he's had
Speaker 1: the number with the rest of history.
Speaker 2: That was his MVP.
Speaker 1: Now yokis just sitting in first with great SATs, right,
Speaker 1: and you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Now you're sitting there like, well shit.
Speaker 1: It I mean, you know, we don't cheat it for
Speaker 1: him the last.
Speaker 2: Couple of years, so we gotta give it to this year.
Speaker 1: So when you look at the history of this game, right,
Speaker 1: what how yokish one is MVP has never been It's
Speaker 1: like we're we're dumbing down. We're dumbing down the game
Speaker 1: for a narrative, if you want year roles to look
Speaker 1: like they're playing well, fin just let him play well.
Speaker 1: When when when when Giannis was winning, Yannis was winning.
Speaker 1: He was dominating every thing his team was won. He
Speaker 1: dominated from the beginning given the season to the end
Speaker 1: of the season.
Speaker 2: Both years he won.
Speaker 1: You don't you don't you don't need that. He capped
Speaker 1: greatness the handicapped Greatness.
Speaker 3: Karee probably should have won it every year in the seventies.
Speaker 2: It's just because you go people don't realize how good.
Speaker 3: Kareem was because he was mercurial. He didn't do a
Speaker 3: whole lot of talking to the media. Kind of surly.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: I think it hurt him a lot. His behavior do
Speaker 3: when he played hurt him and after because that's why
Speaker 3: he didn't get a coaching job. But you go back
Speaker 3: and look at Kareema stats in the seventies when he's
Speaker 3: with Milwaukee, but when he's when he's averaging thirty five,
Speaker 3: he's averaged thirty five and fifteen to thirty three and
Speaker 3: sixty with three blocks and all that, you're like, old
Speaker 3: on who won it? I think Moses Malone was the
Speaker 3: last one to win the MVP with a losing record.
Speaker 3: I think in the late seventies people don't realize Moses
Speaker 3: Malone got three MVP's mostes.
Speaker 1: I got Moses here. I mean in the eighties his
Speaker 1: team was first and second. They had this first second
Speaker 1: best record. This must be because he wanted.
Speaker 3: He wanted his only year in U in Philly, the
Speaker 3: year they won the championship in eighty three. You look
Speaker 3: at his numbers, he should have won it and his
Speaker 3: team was first. His team was first, two in eighty
Speaker 3: three seven what do you want? He wanted he might
Speaker 3: have won it in eighty one eighty three and his
Speaker 3: team was.
Speaker 1: Second, and eighty two and his team was first, had
Speaker 1: the first best record in what did you did?
Speaker 2: He win into seventy eight with seventy seventy sis and
Speaker 2: I ain't even go down to the seventies. That was
Speaker 2: when the last look right.
Speaker 3: But but but it's like when you when you looking
Speaker 3: at it, it's like when you look back in history
Speaker 3: and say, all right, he has the fifth best record
Speaker 3: average twin like if you take.
Speaker 2: Them, it's the it's the assist.
Speaker 1: That we want to glorify. That kind of puts his
Speaker 1: sat in another category. But it's it's not to the
Speaker 1: point where he did what Westbrook did. Oh he averaged,
Speaker 1: we used oh a big that can pass the ball.
Speaker 1: That's not how you do that's you can't do that.
Speaker 1: And the fact that you did it for that now
Speaker 1: his team is in first, it's.
Speaker 2: Like, well, you you, you gotta give it to it.
Speaker 1: You got to give it to him now, like it's
Speaker 1: it's him where you give Jason Tatum the the the
Speaker 1: MVP deserves.
Speaker 3: I don't think I don't think Jason jam are gonna
Speaker 3: finish top three. I think the top three would be
Speaker 3: Yo Kic. I think it's gonna be Luca, Shay, Gilgis,
Speaker 3: It's gonna be one of those, and then Gianni Jannis
Speaker 3: is gonna probably be just somehow. Now that's gonna be.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be all the NBA team, Yo Kic, Johannis,
Speaker 3: j T. Shaye, and Luca. That's gonna be your that's
Speaker 3: gonna be your all the NBA team, your first team.
Speaker 3: But even I don't think even with Luca, it's.
Speaker 2: Not a real triple double.
Speaker 1: We already seen it before, like when James Harden had
Speaker 1: his in twenty eighteen, his team was first.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Right, It's like that's why I said, like, what is
Speaker 1: the criteria? Because you're giving mixed signals. No one like Jason,
Speaker 1: I mean, Jayson Tatum's over there.
Speaker 2: Like what am I need to dude?
Speaker 1: My team's in first every year, We've dominated every year.
Speaker 1: I'm the best player and I'm playing very well.
Speaker 2: How am I not an MVP?
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, Tatums teamas first. He averaged twenty
Speaker 1: seven eight and four and win against twenty seven, eight
Speaker 1: and thirteen.
Speaker 3: But its team was ten, Like, how do you justify
Speaker 3: it that? That's what I'm saying, Like, you know, they
Speaker 3: need to sit.
Speaker 1: Back and see how they're just how are you justifying
Speaker 1: when you've never done this before?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Well, it's all it's hard to correct a wrong when
Speaker 3: the wrong he's already been committed.
Speaker 2: Yep. So now.
Speaker 3: So the guys like, hold on, wait a minute, So
Speaker 3: you're talking about historical purposes, because prior to Bird winning
Speaker 3: three in a row, I don't think I think the
Speaker 3: person that won three in a row was whether it
Speaker 3: Will or Rustle think it might have been Will that
Speaker 3: be Will won might have been Will run three because
Speaker 3: if you go back and look at that season, if
Speaker 3: you look at the season, I think Russell won it
Speaker 3: that year. I think he averaged like fifteen points and
Speaker 3: twenty three rebounds. Will was fifty twenty five. El Jem
Speaker 3: Baylor was like thirty thirty eight nineteen, Walt Bellamy was
Speaker 3: like thirty six and seventeen.
Speaker 2: Jerry West was.
Speaker 3: Like thirty six and five, Bob Pettit was thirty five
Speaker 3: with like mean that would statistically say they said that
Speaker 3: was the greatest NBA season ever. And if you go
Speaker 3: back fans, you get an opportunity to go back and
Speaker 3: look at the numbers in that season, and I think
Speaker 3: you'll see what I'm what they're talking about.
Speaker 2: But really, if you really thought about it, if you
Speaker 2: look at.
Speaker 3: It, Will should have brother, Like I understand that his
Speaker 3: team and you're like, well, Russell dominated, but you look
Speaker 3: at Will's numbers.
Speaker 2: They're like crazy, like how But that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You got guys who didn't win, who wasn't there, and
Speaker 1: they had crazy numbers.
Speaker 2: And what is crazy about twenty six?
Speaker 1: Like when Kobe now, as a Laker fan and a
Speaker 1: Kobe fan, it is upsetting now when Kobe had that
Speaker 1: historic year individually behind MJ. Right, yeah, that thirty five
Speaker 1: it was two thousand, two thousand and five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was two thousand and five in the six
Speaker 2: because that was the year he Aver.
Speaker 1: He had eighty one, He had those that fifty, had
Speaker 1: like three straight games of fifty. So yeah, his team
Speaker 1: had the tenth best record, just like Jokic and I
Speaker 1: don't even know if Kobe finished second.
Speaker 3: Right, they were you know, back then, the voters were
Speaker 3: still out on Kobe because what transpired was probably still fresh.
Speaker 1: That what the what the hell does that do with
Speaker 1: the game itself?
Speaker 2: You but you But I'm just telling you how base.
Speaker 1: I know you know what that listen AI taken over everything? Yeah,
Speaker 1: kicking writers out kick some of these writers out report
Speaker 1: and see who.
Speaker 2: It votes for. I used to vote.
Speaker 3: I used to be a voter for the All Pro Team, MVP,
Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year, Defensive Player, to your things of
Speaker 3: that nature. And I watched all the games. I watched
Speaker 3: the players. I'm not just your name. Your name, don't
Speaker 3: do it for me. And just because you got a
Speaker 3: big name and you don't win the three All Pro
Speaker 3: teams back to back.
Speaker 2: No, I'm watching your play and it's going.
Speaker 3: To determine whether I believe your your Defensive Player of
Speaker 3: the Year or your op Y or your your MVP.
Speaker 3: And so I took it serious. And that stuff off
Speaker 3: the field they got No. I'm voting for a football player.
Speaker 3: What he did on the field, what he did off
Speaker 3: the field, Hey, that ain't got nothing to do it
Speaker 3: is clearly it didn't stop.
Speaker 2: It from doing being great on the field.
Speaker 3: So that's that's how I voted, and I voted for
Speaker 3: a decade. I picked every MVP care I picked every
Speaker 3: Defensive Player of the Year basically correctly. I missed one
Speaker 3: defensive Rookie of the Year. I ain't gonna tell you
Speaker 3: who it was, but I missed that. But that was
Speaker 3: the only one I missed. But I get it, Gil,
Speaker 3: And I'm just saying, and you and you know how
Speaker 3: you know they're human and they they factor things and
Speaker 3: things that happen off the field, although they shouldn't. They
Speaker 3: sometimes they let personal feelings or bias creep into the subconscious,
Speaker 3: maybe not even the subconscious. Like I ain't vote for
Speaker 3: him because I think he's this or I think he's that,
Speaker 3: and it happens.
Speaker 1: And I definitely believe that's what happened to Kobe. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that that happens to a lot of people. And that's
Speaker 1: the problem. Like when you're when you when you're looking,
Speaker 1: it's like you have to play the game within the game.
Speaker 2: But you shouldn't have to. I shouldn't.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have to kiss up to you for you
Speaker 1: to vote correctly.
Speaker 2: Right now, that is not part of the game that
Speaker 2: we try. We're not training.
Speaker 1: Every single day to kiss ass. So this guy who
Speaker 1: see me once twice a year votes for me correctly.
Speaker 2: He don't put no bias in it, right, I think
Speaker 2: you know, like something like that.
Speaker 1: It needs to be AI generated and then let the
Speaker 1: commissioner whoever go from there. That because if you let
Speaker 1: the commissioner and his staff vote, that is great because
Speaker 1: they have no input in the day to day relationship
Speaker 1: with a player. There's no bias against someone like Trey Young.
Speaker 2: Trey Young only way he wins an MVP.
Speaker 1: He a his thirty five tennisist, his team forty one.
Speaker 1: He smiled, He took the referees out to dinner. He
Speaker 1: doesn't rescue some puppies, right, he doesn't like he has
Speaker 1: to do every the Man of the Year ward.
Speaker 3: Trey Young can't even make the All Star All Star
Speaker 3: Game averaging twenty seventy ten, so he damn ain't win
Speaker 3: no MVP less averaging forty and fifteen.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just keeping stacked with y'all, man. I mean,
Speaker 2: the best.
Speaker 3: The last two years, even twenty five, twenty seventy ten,
Speaker 3: and he can't even sniff the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: There's like just certain stats that it's it's it's it's weirded, like.
Speaker 2: Like I have.
Speaker 1: I have winby as a defensive player, of the Year right,
Speaker 1: he hands down, he should get right right, And someone said, well,
Speaker 1: his team ain't winning, so he is. That don't stop
Speaker 1: the stills leader from winning this award. That don't stop
Speaker 1: the assist leader from winning his award. That don't stop
Speaker 1: the block leader, the scoring leader, order rebounding. It don't
Speaker 1: stop those categories to winning their award. Exactly, Sir, and
Speaker 1: lea the best defensive player when he's on the court.
Speaker 1: This is what he does, his metrics. This if it
Speaker 1: doesn't relate the wins, it's not his fault.
Speaker 2: But plus he can't guard everybody.
Speaker 1: Plus minus says he is the best defensive player in
Speaker 1: the NB.
Speaker 2: Nothing to do with.
Speaker 3: This record, Yeah yeah, and he's he's been phenomenal. I
Speaker 3: you know, I hope it hadn't happened. I mean, we've
Speaker 3: only had one m v P. Uh that was a
Speaker 3: rookie that was West some so on. So I think
Speaker 3: that was sixty nine. Uh, it doesn't happen often in baseball.
Speaker 3: I think it's happened. I wouldn't look at a show
Speaker 3: head of a rookie because he played professional. I think
Speaker 3: Fred Linn the Angels won Rookie of the Year and MVP.
Speaker 3: Maybe Eachi Road did too, but I know I think
Speaker 3: fred Linn of an Angel each Ye Road might have
Speaker 3: won it when he beat Jason Giambi in two thousand
Speaker 3: and one. Maybe each Ye Road did. I'm not sure,
Speaker 3: but I think Fred Linn is the only guy can
Speaker 3: think of. Now what Gretzky seeing hockey. Gretzky won the
Speaker 3: MVP nine straight time.
Speaker 2: And they looks but they did it right, that is right?
Speaker 1: Like when we when I'm looking at back, when I'm
Speaker 1: looking at whereas that when Michael Jordan was them eighties
Speaker 1: and you're sitting there like, all right, okay, carmelone, Okay,
Speaker 1: your team was second. That means Michael jordan team was first.
Speaker 1: How did you win that one?
Speaker 3: David Robinson, Well, first of all, David should have won
Speaker 3: over a keem that year because King made him pay
Speaker 3: for it too when they got the playoffs in ninety four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he should not have won it that year.
Speaker 1: But it's just when you look through history, it's like
Speaker 1: history is being jaded by personal agendas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, that's our soul box for that topic. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the NBA In Season Tournament is suddenly looming large over
Speaker 3: one of the closest playoff racing years, Every seed except
Speaker 3: the number one seed in the Eastern Conference is up
Speaker 3: for grabs. Seeds two through five in the East are
Speaker 3: separated by two and a half games. Seeds six through
Speaker 3: eight in the East are separated by only two and
Speaker 3: a half games. Seeds one through one through three in
Speaker 3: the West are separated by one game. Seed four through
Speaker 3: six in the West are separated by two and a
Speaker 3: half games. Seed seven through nine in the West are
Speaker 3: separated by one game.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Uh, the NBA could not have asked for anything better
Speaker 3: than what they're getting right now, because with the exception
Speaker 3: of the the Boston Celtics, you can't rest. Nobody rest.
Speaker 3: If you want to, you'll go from second to fifth. Rest,
Speaker 3: if you want to, you go from uh.
Speaker 2: In four or five.
Speaker 3: I think you hear me, We got you hear me, Gil, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you frozen a little.
Speaker 2: Better, I said.
Speaker 3: The NBA couldn't ask for anything better because, with the
Speaker 3: exception of the Boston Celtics, nobody can rest.
Speaker 2: Because if you rest somebody, you might be a two seed.
Speaker 3: Today, and and and and and two three days you'll
Speaker 3: be a five seed. And if you're a four to
Speaker 3: five seed, you find yourself in the play in tournament.
Speaker 3: So the NBA is actually winning because the standing says
Speaker 3: everybody's gonna have a virtual end.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, this is this is this is great, especially
Speaker 1: with all the talk around no defense.
Speaker 2: This is this is bad right coming at the All
Speaker 2: Star break. It's all made up.
Speaker 1: Right now you have some of the greatest games that's
Speaker 1: about that happened the last We've never went into the
Speaker 1: last two weeks on our seats because now.
Speaker 2: Teams can't rest.
Speaker 1: Teams got to win right now, It's about positioning also
Speaker 1: trying to get the right favorable matchup in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So this is really a very important time for a
Speaker 1: lot of teams, right for a lot of teams. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, even with like the Lakers themselves, the Lakers
Speaker 1: or Phoenix, everybody is shoot for that six.
Speaker 2: Matchup so they can play against OKC. Right.
Speaker 1: You didn't want the seven matchup because didn't present it right,
Speaker 1: it goes to first place.
Speaker 2: You don't want the eighth seed. Right. So there's a
Speaker 2: lot of things.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be happening, and I don't think we're gonna
Speaker 1: really get a real defined schedule until that last game
Speaker 1: of the season.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 3: I agree because right now the Lakers, the Lakers and Lakers,
Speaker 3: Sacramento and Phoenix all have forty four wins. The Lakers
Speaker 3: have two more losses there forty four and thirty three,
Speaker 3: and Sacramento and Phoenix so forty four and thirty one.
Speaker 3: They're about to go to forty five because they were
Speaker 3: blowing out Cleveland just a moment ago.
Speaker 2: But everything else is nipped up.
Speaker 3: Dallas has been on that winning streak and they've surpassed
Speaker 3: the Pelicans and they're nipping at the Clippers. The Clippers
Speaker 3: have won a couple of games, and so they've kind
Speaker 3: of solidified themselves back into that fourth spot. But I
Speaker 3: don't think I don't think Dallas fears uh of the
Speaker 3: Clippers at all. Lucas given them fits now by himself
Speaker 3: without a sidekick, and now.
Speaker 2: And you don't want to call I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: Gyrie is.
Speaker 3: Good a if he's a he's as good as super
Speaker 3: super hero, as the heels. He got all the gadgets,
Speaker 3: like a bat if a Lucas Batman. Well he gotta
Speaker 3: get he gotta he got a Kate, They got super pounds,
Speaker 3: he got a bat belt to.
Speaker 1: Like and and when you when you're talking about that
Speaker 1: fifth seed, I mean Dallas right now is smiling from
Speaker 1: ear to ear. They have the Hawk, Snacks, Warriors, Rockets, Hornets.
Speaker 2: He Pistons, Thunder. The last game.
Speaker 1: They can go, they can go six and one fist
Speaker 1: into which is gonna keep them at the four five spot.
Speaker 3: Yep, yep. I agree if believe that the Clippers have
Speaker 3: kind of solidified themselves. They had a little rough patch
Speaker 3: there where they lost like four or five games, but
Speaker 3: they are the last two, last couple of games, pulled
Speaker 3: those games out, reasserted themselves. But yet this is definitely
Speaker 3: what the This is definitely what the NBA wanted, meaningful games,
Speaker 3: no resting. I think they have to be happy with
Speaker 3: this year team guys didn't rest guys.
Speaker 2: In all you know, load management, day.
Speaker 3: Off and all that stuff. Nah, it's too important and
Speaker 3: you see that, and uh, and I'm happy. I'm happy
Speaker 3: for the NBA and what they've been able to do
Speaker 3: because it keeps the game interesting and because you gonna
Speaker 3: want somebody to break the bank open for these games
Speaker 3: and networks you don't want to hold on bro a Adam.
Speaker 2: You know we're paying you billions of billions of dollars.
Speaker 3: But the Superstars they missing ten twelve games of these
Speaker 3: national televised games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 1: These players that the West playing games is gonna be crazy,
Speaker 1: crazy because even when New Orleans sitting at six, they
Speaker 1: could end up as uh an. They can know they
Speaker 1: can end up as a knife seed because their scheduled
Speaker 1: they got four or five hard games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, well, they definitely could be in the play in.
Speaker 3: We don't know nine yen seven, eight, but they definitely
Speaker 3: could be in the play in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they can. They can be in the play in,
Speaker 2: right it.
Speaker 1: It's ideal if you can somehow get Lakers and Lakers
Speaker 1: and Phoenix in five to six and then let Dallas
Speaker 1: fight for the uh the playing game but for the
Speaker 1: most part, Golden State, Lakers, Phoenix playing game with Sacramento
Speaker 1: as it is right now, that's gonna be must watch.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, But and the pibility there's a chance that
Speaker 1: Steph or Lebron or KD don't make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
Speaker 1: There's a possibility set don't make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Yeah that I'm just saying.
Speaker 3: I mean, but like, look, in a given situation, he
Speaker 3: can get a hot give that joke. Will make fourteen threes?
Speaker 3: He ain't going on. He made for he had one
Speaker 3: of them games to get away.
Speaker 2: He made. He make fourteen threes in the game.
Speaker 3: And you never know. Clay Clay out on the summer
Speaker 3: about the Lakers. He been chilling all year. He came
Speaker 3: to a state. He came to the Crip, had seventeen
Speaker 3: in the first quarter, had twenty one and a half,
Speaker 3: and every steph shot about it.
Speaker 1: Hey, I mean even when Lebron, even when Lebron had forty,
Speaker 1: he played defense, right.
Speaker 2: Huh defense right?
Speaker 1: Who sit down? Oh yeah, we don't have to get
Speaker 1: Clay out the game. Foul foul, Sit down, sir, you're
Speaker 1: shooting out.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say I've seen it, but I seen
Speaker 1: it been for walk.
Speaker 2: I've seen I've seen the the referee.
Speaker 1: Try to extend some series out here, and the only
Speaker 1: way you do it is on the defensive end them
Speaker 1: TICKI tack files you let go call it tight boom,
Speaker 1: sit him down. We ain't got to worry about your
Speaker 1: shooting today.
Speaker 3: Lebron jokes. He'll put on his post on his IG story.
Speaker 3: Lebron said he should lay off leg day. After photo
Speaker 3: from the Rafters game, he quoted captured, maybe I should
Speaker 3: lay off leg layout one leg day, one day this week.
Speaker 3: You see as a squad.
Speaker 2: Is Lebron the most physically gifted athlete we've ever seen?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean you know, from from top to bottom.
Speaker 1: Usually a guy is not built as solid as him
Speaker 1: that height just just straight from the bottom.
Speaker 3: I mean you got you got uh you got Yannis. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you do have Giannis. But from oh, we talked. We
Speaker 3: just talked at basketball players. We just talk at basketball.
Speaker 3: We're gonna put like a bo Jackson. I mean like
Speaker 3: the football players.
Speaker 1: He's he's built like from like thirdy more more like
Speaker 1: a football player because for the most part, basketball players,
Speaker 1: because we don't lift like that.
Speaker 2: We definitely don't lift legs like that. Right now. We
Speaker 2: we did like we we we.
Speaker 1: Prison, we prison workouts, right we don't have the little
Speaker 1: arms red head. Yeah, we got the true bottom.
Speaker 3: We tworking at the bottom. Y'all do it, y'all, do it,
Speaker 3: box squads, y'all drop y'all really, y'all. They get hit
Speaker 3: the body on the legs. But he has tremendous legs separation.
Speaker 3: I mean his squads. Uh they're splitting. You look at
Speaker 3: his calves. Oh man, he you can tell he put
Speaker 3: time in on his leg And that's the foundation. One
Speaker 3: of the first things to go on to the athlete deal,
Speaker 3: you know, is his legs. You're right it and his
Speaker 3: legs go. See people, everybody thinks that, well he does this.
Speaker 3: Uh No, I don't care that.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 3: Baseball players, your legs go, you're going. Football players, your
Speaker 3: legs go, you're going. Basketball players, leg you're gone. That's
Speaker 3: your foundation. That's that's the foundation in which everything is
Speaker 3: solidified from waste up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And that's and that's the thing that NBA players we
Speaker 1: do not.
Speaker 2: Focus enough on, right.
Speaker 1: We we focused on the part of the body that
Speaker 1: you can see, right, the arms, the shoulder, the abs.
Speaker 1: Right when it comes to leg days, we run so much,
Speaker 1: we jump so much that we don't want to do
Speaker 1: legs right like. But when you think about the players
Speaker 1: that that that really was destroying the game, it was
Speaker 1: more they had football backgrounds.
Speaker 2: Mh. They had football backgrounds.
Speaker 1: They were they were legs dominant, they were very strong,
Speaker 1: you know from the leg standpoint, right, And that's just
Speaker 1: that's that's what the ones who played longevity.
Speaker 2: That's what they understand. They do a lot of leg lifting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you have to, and like you said,
Speaker 3: a lot of guys you don't want to. I mean,
Speaker 3: we have a lot of guys that would. I mean
Speaker 3: the only legs I did, especially during the season, was
Speaker 3: on my off days.
Speaker 2: I did, you know we had to do legs twice
Speaker 2: a week.
Speaker 3: So I went and and got my in, got my
Speaker 3: legs in on a Monday and uh probably like Thursday,
Speaker 3: but not nothing heavy. And you know I did a
Speaker 3: little leg press, leg and stitch and hamstring stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But I mean Lebron, I mean for him to be
Speaker 3: put together like he is, which you could tell he
Speaker 3: puts time in nutrition of the big part of it.
Speaker 3: It's one thing to be physically gifted. It's another thing
Speaker 3: in talent to work at it. And I think that's
Speaker 3: what that's what the greatest, that's what the greatest. Have
Speaker 3: you look at Michael Jordan, Yeah he was talented, but
Speaker 3: did anybody work harder? Look at Kobe Yeah he was talented,
Speaker 3: but did anybody work harder? Lebron? Yes, he's talented. So
Speaker 3: when you combine those, now you get the perfect storm.
Speaker 3: And I think Lebron is giving guys the blueprint. It's like, okay,
Speaker 3: you eat right, you get your rest, you work at
Speaker 3: your craft, everything else.
Speaker 2: But now these guys come in, they.
Speaker 1: Think brand brand brand brand. Winning is a brand. No,
Speaker 1: winning is a for him, winning is a brand. I
Speaker 1: wish y'all focused on my legs on even today.
Speaker 2: I got paraplegic legs. Huh right, you look at my legs.
Speaker 1: I got snow definition nowhere like not quad and muscle
Speaker 1: in sight.
Speaker 3: Ah, come get you don't do the You is your
Speaker 3: knee band and you got bone.
Speaker 1: You have bone on bone. I got bone on bowl.
Speaker 1: I can't even ben. I can't ben maleg I can't
Speaker 1: even extend it. I just, for some reason think that
Speaker 1: it's gonna work itself.
Speaker 2: Out, and it keeps getting worse.
Speaker 3: Oh you know what, But you know what gil I mean,
Speaker 3: I got prepaired hills and I still do.
Speaker 2: I do squats.
Speaker 3: I do squats, I do lunges, I do leg fress
Speaker 3: because I gotta. I gotta keep I gotta keep those
Speaker 3: auxiliary muscles. I gotta keep you know, hell flaxers. I
Speaker 3: gotta keep glue muscles. I gotta because you don't want
Speaker 3: that saggy booty, Gil, you don't.
Speaker 2: You gotta have you got you gotta have.
Speaker 3: You gotta have those glue muscles and quad muscles, the firing,
Speaker 3: because that's your fount because what he what he once
Speaker 3: those go, Gil, it's on the amount of time, man,
Speaker 3: it's only.
Speaker 2: A matter of time.
Speaker 1: A fight almost broke out in our locker room because
Speaker 1: one player sends to another player, man, you got a
Speaker 1: stripper booty right, because didn't have no one definition, because
Speaker 1: we was laughing because we all said it like ye,
Speaker 1: he gonna look horrible when he done because he had
Speaker 1: the second body. And one player just couldn't help it, like, yeah, boy,
Speaker 1: you gotta stripper booty over. We're gonna throw some ones
Speaker 1: at you. Man. He was so mad, like he was
Speaker 1: so mad at a smith because it was funny.
Speaker 2: Likedl because everybody could be like pause. He understood what
Speaker 2: we were saying.
Speaker 1: You are sloppy body, dog you yeah, heighten your body.
Speaker 2: You out here looking like a baby mama.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, you be like a garden. You belt like
Speaker 3: a garment bag. You got to garb. The garment bags
Speaker 3: ain't got no definition conformed to anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like come on, bro. But uh, but that's
Speaker 2: what you have to do. Gil. If I was, you
Speaker 2: go do box squats.
Speaker 3: If you don't have to go parallel, you don't have
Speaker 3: to go hey, I mean, can I go parallel? Absolutely?
Speaker 3: I don't go below parallel. But I do goblets squats,
Speaker 3: I do Bulgarian split squats.
Speaker 2: I can do step ups.
Speaker 3: I do leg press, I do leggas, stinch and hamstring curls.
Speaker 3: Just start that back to get those glue muscles, hamstring quads,
Speaker 3: get all that stuff fired again and see what you
Speaker 3: feel better. I got a full gym in the basement.
Speaker 3: I go there and watching next week. So that's a
Speaker 3: great that's a great slitude. If you want to sell
Speaker 3: the house comes with it. In the home jail.
Speaker 2: I get my enage this. I wake up every morning
Speaker 2: five thirty and.
Speaker 1: Go give me a coffee, right, Go give me a coffee.
Speaker 2: I put on the cream. Get him a little outfit
Speaker 2: on right, sit right on the box, turn on right now.
Speaker 2: It's Jamie Fox.
Speaker 1: I'm on season two, just started last week, just sitting
Speaker 1: there just watching.
Speaker 2: What you go down there for you by what just
Speaker 2: go ahead, work out? Give I said, I tell myself.
Speaker 1: That every day, I said every day, this is the
Speaker 1: day I'm gonna start.
Speaker 2: Right and I get down there and just want to
Speaker 2: watch TV.
Speaker 3: Man, I'm telling you feel so much I mean, if
Speaker 3: you started doing some legwork, man, you feel so much better.
Speaker 1: Gil, you would. I'm telling you because I know Gil.
Speaker 1: They had Gil.
Speaker 3: I was squatting in Lundon like a week after I
Speaker 3: had hilp my heaps from place.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Andy, now we got we got bad.
Speaker 3: We got we got bad helps, bad jeanetics running our family.
Speaker 3: So but Waller, Oh yeah, yeah, but I had to
Speaker 3: like before, Now I can't. I can't do what I
Speaker 3: used to do. Hell, I was damn there six hundred
Speaker 3: pound squad. I could there livet six hundred pounds. I
Speaker 3: can't move that kind of I wouldn't try to. Now
Speaker 3: I don't need you. I just want Hey, I just
Speaker 3: want to stay strong enough, you know, to get them
Speaker 3: up off me. So I want them up by the gill.
Speaker 3: You know that's say you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. A gat Sometimes you know, like, hey, damn,
Speaker 2: you're still pretty strong. Who you're dealing with, You're dealing
Speaker 2: with the Lizzos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nah, I mean I can't.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't lift it like ice could. No give.
Speaker 1: But every once in a while, like you know, I
Speaker 1: lift him up, put him back down. Now, I ain't
Speaker 1: no lift him up and hold you. You know you
Speaker 1: ain't fun size all right.
Speaker 2: Don't go over there trying to hold hold it up.
Speaker 1: Oh that no, no, no, I tell you just to ay.
Speaker 1: Oh you know you got all the money, you know.
Speaker 1: I lift him up, everyone set them back down. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It ain't like you don't hold them up. You don't
Speaker 2: walk around you know over here over there. You know,
Speaker 2: I ain't got that kind of back anymore. Ain't got
Speaker 2: that back no more. I was one on five, one ten.
Speaker 3: See you got them dogs. See you got them dogs,
Speaker 3: them barbies. I ain't got tired to put legs back together.
Speaker 2: They're too small, they're too small. I trying to pick
Speaker 2: you up. We both falling.
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I mean the Morrow water. If they
Speaker 1: want to feel sexty, get in like, can you pick
Speaker 1: me up?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I mean you look, everybody that had you know, you
Speaker 3: got to pick up up at least once. Now, didn't
Speaker 3: get too big. You know, Hey, you haven't just one leg,
Speaker 3: you just hold one leg up. One leg you mayby
Speaker 3: can you pick the other one up? Hell now I'm finished,
Speaker 3: sit this one down.
Speaker 2: I'm tired. And you talk about picked both Papa, Hey
Speaker 2: to get that bad like they have it in the bed?
Speaker 2: How to have your leg hang it up?
Speaker 1: Gil? And when you're in the hospital, Hey, the contraption
Speaker 1: hole in one.
Speaker 2: I got dot for you, baby, help me out.