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Hey, if they're too two with 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.400 the Miami Heat, maybe they're not that much better than Miami. 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:43.480 That's also a fair point. I don't disagree with those details, 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:47.880 but in a vacuum strictly looking at talent, Boston is 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:52.200 significantly more talented then Miami both ends of the floor. 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.640 To give you an idea, coming into tonight, Boston was 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:03.040 twelve points better then Miami in half court settings per 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.600 one possessions. Miami was giving you about ninety points per 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.760 every one half court possessions was actually pretty good, about 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.040 eight points better than Milwaukee faired against this Boston defense. 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.920 But Boston, for all their limitations, against a very good 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.200 Miami defense, they were averaging about a hundred and two 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.960 points per half court possession. But that static half court 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:27.560 environment is just one part of the game of basketball. Now, 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:31.160 that's where your overall talent will be most on display, 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.480 because when teams are squared up and there's no advantage 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.880 either way, that's where talent has to take over. You'll 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:42.240 see freakishly athletic teams succeed in transition. You'll see really 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:46.680 skilled players like Lucas thrive in slow pace environments. You'll 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:50.200 see really big teams thrive in offensive rebounding and depending 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.640 defending the paint and things like that. But those are 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:56.160 all ancillary factors. Those are all, like I said, swing 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.360 factors that occur outside of that static half court environment, 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.360 and the story of this entire playoff run for Boston 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:07.440 has been losing games outside of the static half court environment. 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:11.160 They were a much better half court offensive team than 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:15.720 both of Milwaukee and Miami, and for all the limitations 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.719 that Brooklyn had, and they were a very good offensive team. 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.359 That was where Boston had to win in some of 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.960 the swing factors of the game. But as you saw 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:29.520 again in the first half tonight, Miami goes into the halftime, 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:33.480 I believe they were up by four. I can't remember exactly, 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.359 but that a little bit of a lead, and it 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:39.520 was textbook. They were getting destroyed on the offensive glass. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.840 I believe Miami had a twelve to two second chance 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:47.760 points advantage in the first half. Boston only had ten 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:52.760 at ten to seven turnover disadvantage, but Miami was running 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.480 out and getting layups on every single one of them. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.280 Boston's transition defense has been awful in this entire playoff run. 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.320 They're giving up a hundred and forty points per one 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.839 hundred transition opportunities, which is last among all four teams 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.600 in the in the conference finals. So Miami knows because 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:12.320 They're well coached, and they're great in those details, and 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.160 they're great in those swing factors. If they try to 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.560 avoid the half court environment at all costs, they can 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.080 win games, and they did. I told you guys coming 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.200 into this series that I thought Boston was good enough 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.200 to sweep Miami, but that I expected Miami to push 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.640 it to six because I figured they'd take a couple 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.880 of games off of Boston because of all of that 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:34.640 sloppiness that I talked about, and you've seen that resoundingly 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.200 displayed in that series. I've been wrong about a lot 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.120 of things in this playoff run, just like everybody is predicting. 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.200 Predicting sports is a huge pain in the ass. But 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.840 this particular Boston team I've had a really good feel for. 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:52.640 For the most part, Miami's offense is not bad. I had. 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:57.400 I was pessimistic about them compared to some of the contenders. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.920 Like when people would ask me, is my Miami a contender, 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.800 I'd routinely say no, because I didn't think they had 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.960 the top end offensive talent to be able to hang 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.279 with some of the best teams in the league. But overall, 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.800 they're a good offensive team. They were twelve in offense 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.800 this season, which is not bad. That's above average, right. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.599 They have two All Stars on the team, all Star 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.679 caliber players in the form of bamb At a Bio 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:23.120 and Jimmy Butler. Tyler Harrow obviously he missed part of 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:26.359 this series with injury, but even when he was on 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:30.400 the floor, Miami struggled to score. Overall, this is a 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:35.239 decent Miami offense, and Boston has utterly and completely shut 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.200 them down over the course of this series. I thought 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.720 early on they struggle with some coverage stuff. I thought 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.640 they were dropping way too much. They still dropped way 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.839 more than I thought they would in this series, but 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.720 early on Miami made them pay for that. But over 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.960 the course of the last twelve quarters, so three games, 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:57.520 twelve quarters, Boston has held Miami to twenty five points 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:02.120 or less in ten of the twelve quarters. The two 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.359 outliers were that first quarter in Game three when Boston 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.400 mailed it in and it cost him the game and 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.320 the series be over by now if it wasn't for that, 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.840 And then the fourth quarter of Game four when Boston 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:15.520 was up by a million points and all the bench 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.280 players were in the game. So basically, at any point 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:22.400 in time where Boston was engaged defensively, Miami could not 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:27.200 score the basketball. Jimmy Butler was a complete ship show 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.240 again tonight after being a ship show in the last game. 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.160 And I understand so many people are gonna be like, 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.280 he's hurt, and I get that, and I'm I'm not 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:38.000 undercutting the injuries to Jimmy Butler, Tyler Harrow, and Kyle Lowry. 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.520 They are real. They are a thing that was absolutely 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.800 had a factor in this series. It's very possible that 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.200 some of these games are closer if those guys are healthy. 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.400 But also, the better you are, the more Boston respects 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.280 you as an opponent, and they don't do what they 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.600 did in Game three. Everything is depending on each other 0:07:55.640 --> 0:08:02.640 in that regard. But Janis and kd their efficiency tanked 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:07.040 against this Boston defense. Both of them utterly fell apart 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:09.200 in terms of their ability to put the ball in 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:13.720 the basket efficiently compared to their regular season performance against 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.360 this Boston defense. So, guess what did you think Jimmy 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.240 Butler was above that? Did you think Jimmy Butler was 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:25.480 gonna succeed where Kadie and Janice failed? It wasn't gonna happen. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.240 And so yeah, did. I thought the drop coverage early 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.079 in the series, Jimmy was able to get downhill way 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.880 too easily, way too often, and he got a bunch 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:36.839 of easy shots. And then in Game two was all 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.200 transition stuff. I mean it was like pick six, pick six, 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:44.040 pick six, right, But overall I expected Jimmy Butler to 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.880 have a nightmare series against Boston's defense, and he has, 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.640 And even if his knee was perfectly healthy, I still 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:53.320 believe to some extent he would have had that type 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:57.600 of nightmare series. Baman a bio same thing. Like, again, 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:00.160 this is an all star level talent, and he's a 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.760 whole bunch of issues with aggression that need to be 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.439 addressed by this Miami team in the off season. Like 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.840 if Miami loses the series, which I expect him to. 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:15.040 I understand the culture. I understand the power of that culture. 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.680 I understand the power of coaching. I think Erik Spoelstra 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.680 might be the best coach in all of basketball, and 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:26.000 his performance in this series was excellent, capitalizing on those 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:31.360 swing factors versus Boston. But there's a limitation to that. 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:36.199 There's a ceiling, and the ceiling is lower than what 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:40.160 talent can bring because this is a Boston team that's 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.959 not sharp in all of those areas I thought he made. 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.720 Judoka got soundly out coached in this series. I thoroughly 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:52.440 disagreed with his defensive strategy, and it's still worked because 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.960 of the overall talent gap and just how ridiculously talented 0:09:56.040 --> 0:10:00.360 this Boston defense is. But this is if you're Miami 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:03.320 at a certain point, as as powerful as your culture is, 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.280 you have to identify somebody out there that you can 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.040 bring into this system that can be a supreme offensive 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:14.680 engine for you, because I think as a as Jimmy 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:17.640 Butler can lead you to the two near the mountaintop 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.880 in down years like the bubble guys, like what happened 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:26.360 that year. If you guys remember Kde was out, Kyrie 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.160 was out, Steph Curry was out. There were a lot 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:33.000 of swing factors that allowed a weaker Miami team to 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.599 rise to the top of that pile. And at a 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:39.000 certain point Miami is gonna have to confront that. I 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.240 wanted to talk a little bit about the third quarter 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:45.040 run from Boston because I thought it was inevitable and 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.880 they outscored Miami thirty two to sixteen in that In 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.360 that quarter, and that was where they cleaned up those details. 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.760 When you have that big of an advantage in the 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.560 half court, all you have to do is clean up 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.600 those details, and you're just about guaranteed to go on 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.040 the run. You Know what's funny is Tatum had a 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.600 pretty bad game in terms of his ability to make shots. 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.080 But this is the advantage of the way Boston's offense 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:14.280 is put together because if you look at if you 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:19.160 look at Boston's offensive construct, it's a driving kick offense, right, 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.720 and it's you've got Jason Tatum, who's this supremely talented 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.880 offensive wing. You've got Jalen Brown who's this supremely talented 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:30.520 offensive wing. You've got Marcus Smart who's a great driving 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.880 kick guard. You've got Derek White who is every bit 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.480 is capable of being that type of dribble drive guard 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.640 that Marcus Smart is. You've got Al Horford and Great 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.600 Williams are a great spot up players. You've got Peyton 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.520 Pritchard bringing scoring punch off the bench. When you've got 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:51.400 that type of talent depth on offense, it's kind of 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:53.120 like a it's kind of like a game of whack 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:57.680 a mole, and like, okay, congrats. You've got Marcus Smarten 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.320 to have Jayson Tatum to have a rough night. But 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.960 tonight Jalen Brown had it going and Derek White got 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:06.120 it going, and that was enough to carry you offensively. 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.600 You could go into Game six and Derek White could 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:11.400 have a rough night and Jalen Brown could have a 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.320 rough night, But chances are Tatum will play a lot better, 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.120 and chances are Marcus Smart will play a lot better. 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.360 You might have a crazy four or five three night 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:24.840 from Peyton Pritchard. Right when you have this type of 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:30.120 depth of offensive talent, just by virtue of odds, there's 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.680 a good chance for a couple of those guys to 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:37.160 get hot. I remember I was talking with Colin Coward 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:41.640 on Sunday about how to compete with luck, because to 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.240 win in the NBA playoffs, you need luck. You need 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.680 some things to go your way, whether that's injury luck 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:52.600 or whether that's shooting luck, guys getting hot. But I 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:56.160 said to Colin, the way you combat that is by 0:12:56.200 --> 0:13:00.200 getting multiple cracks at the table. The more opportunity ease 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:04.320 you have. If I told you you've got seven polls 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.640 at the slot machine or the roulette table instead of 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.960 two chances are you're gonna win three or four of them, right, 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.200 And that's kind of the way I look at it. 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:15.720 And when you've got six guys that are capable of 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:19.000 going for twenty plus points, chances are two or three 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:20.800 of them are gonna get hot on any given night. 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:26.440 And that's the advantage of Boston's overall offensive depth and 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.920 the way that that can carry them for stretches in 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:33.120 the NBA playoffs. Let's look forward for Boston here, and 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.840 to be clear, it's not over. This is a team 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:42.240 that is routinely every single opportunity they've had to close 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.559 a deal to take a lead in a series, they 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:52.000 have shown their ugly side the basically Game five of 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:56.040 this series in Game seven of last series against Milwaukee 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.200 are the only two times I can think of in 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:03.040 his last two Hounds where Boston put multiple good performances together. 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:08.160 They fell down one out of Milwaukee with a sloppy effort, 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.959 and then they kicked their ass in Game two. Then 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:13.959 they came out in Game three and they were sloppy 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.000 again and dug themselves in a big hole. Then they 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.880 came out in Game four and smacked them again. Then 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.240 they came out in Game five on their home floor 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.560 and laid an egg. Then they went on the road 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:30.560 in game six, they controlled them again, and then they 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.560 come back in game seven, and finally they have a 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.040 second good performance in a row, and it's enough to 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.040 win the series. You look at this series, my They 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.080 come out and play really well in the first half 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:41.960 and take the lead, and then they get smacked in 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:43.800 the second half and a third quarter run where they 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:48.000 look unrecognizable. Then they go in game two on the 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:52.520 road and beat the ship out of them, and then 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.880 go home in game three and lay the mother of 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.680 all eggs at home in front of your own crowd, 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.240 before you blow them out again in game four, and 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.760 then finally tonight they put a second good performance together. 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.920 That is routine evidence that tells us we should not 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:12.080 trust these guys, which again, regardless of what happens in 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.120 this series. And my guess is they're gonna be able 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.760 to close out Miami in game six because Miami is 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.720 not as good as Milwaukee was. And I don't think 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:22.480 they said, I simply don't think they have the talent 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.720 to get this job done. Even that horrific performance from 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.960 Boston in Game three, they still were a couple of 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.400 shots away from stealing that game. I think Miami's gonna 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.000 close it out and get or Boston's gonna close it 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.680 out in game six. So looking forward, I think Golden 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:45.240 State's gonna close out Dallas. This inconsistent effort, this inconsistent 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:49.240 attention to detail that might get you beat against Golden State. 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:52.920 Like we talked about earlier, Boston's given up a hundred 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:57.080 and forty points per hundred possessions in transition, which is 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.600 last among the four teams in the conference finals. That's 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:04.120 a swing factor. Boston is giving up more offensive rebounds 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.680 than Miami and Golden State. They're turning the ball over 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.280 more than Dallas in Miami. That's Golden State's one weakness. 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.320 They are weak in the details compared to the competition 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:20.600 that's remaining in this field, Golden State is going. I'm 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.520 super interested to see this matchup because Golden State only 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.040 managed about a hundred eight points per one hundred possessions 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.560 against Memphis, and I couldn't figure out how to filter 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.880 that for John moranch just because of some limitations of 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:36.160 the the uh second spectrum stats on NBA dot Com. 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.600 I'd love to see it specifically without John morand because 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.520 I bet you it's significantly lower because Golden State lit 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.920 the Grizzlies on fire when John Randt was on the floor, 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.880 but they didn't score efficiently against Memphis relative to the 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.120 other two teams. So I'm super curious to see what 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.320 this matchup looks like. I'm gonna dive way further into 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.640 it in the film once we get out of these series. 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.080 And again, you're gonna want to follow me on Twitter 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.920 at Underscore Jason and lt to see that breakdown when 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:06.280 the time comes. But against Golden State, you're gonna be 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.479 put in some predicaments that Miami didn't put you in. 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.560 If you bring a weak defensive effort at any stretch 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.199 during Golden State, you're gonna get beat. Dallas is a 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.320 good defensive team, and they gave up what sixty eight 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:17.800 points in the second half of that game through a 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.800 Game two that they blew. When a Golden State is 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.000 gonna space you out and put you in real five 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:26.480 out predicaments, there's gonna be some predicaments that Boston is 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.359 gonna put them in, right, I mean, like they might 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.000 have to play Kevon Looney the whole series just to 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.400 match up physically with the Al Horford Robert Williams front court. 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.440 So there's gonna be predicaments going both ways. And again, 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.040 I don't want to dive too much further into the 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.480 details because I'd rather do a whole video about this 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.360 once we get out of these series. But all I'm 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:50.399 saying is these series are defined and decided by the 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:54.800 tiniest of margins, and you can't afford to be sloppy. 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:56.920 And if you are, this Golden State team is gonna 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:00.439 beat you. And as of right now, even though I 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:05.240 think Boston is just a hair better overall in talent, 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.560 I think Golden States a better offensive team, but I 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:11.760 think Boston is a significantly better defensive team. And so 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:16.600 from that standpoint, you know, I'm Boston has the tools 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.399 to get the job done in the next round. But 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.400 this is a Golden State team that's been there before. 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.800 We talked a lot about scar tissue in the last show, 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.240 and I had Boston fans in my mentions and in 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:28.840 commons saying things like, oh, we've been in the conference 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:30.840 finals all these times. These guys have been there, they've 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.920 lost they have scar tissue. Two. No, they don't. If 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:37.080 they did, you'd see it on the floor, you'd see 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.440 it in their effort, you'd see it in the attention 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:43.320 to detail, and it's not there. So maybe they do 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:47.159 have scar tissue, but it's not enough. I know for 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.480 a fact that Golden State is gonna come out tomorrow 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:53.840 with an incredible effort to try to close that series. 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:57.280 Can Dallas still win? Yeah, they're really good and they're 0:18:57.280 --> 0:18:59.560 con persistently generating quality three. So if they go in 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.360 there and they you really well, Dallas might still upset them. 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.520 But there's no concern from anybody watching that game whether 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:08.639 or not Golden State's gonna come out focused. I have 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:12.160 no idea whether or not Boston's gonna come out focused. 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:14.880 In fact, I haven't looked at it yet, but there 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:17.600 might be an interesting little first quarter spread bet for 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:21.359 Miami and that in that game six, because it's a 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:23.199 coin flip whether or not they're gonna come out and 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:26.159 care enough to do the job. And that's a huge 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:30.440 monumental difference between this Boston team and this Golden State team, 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:34.159 and it's why I pick Golden State as of right now. Alright, 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:36.600 we're gonna switch gears here a little bit. We're gonna 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:44.840 talk some Lakers. Okay, So, like I said earlier, I 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:46.920 covered the Lakers over the course the last two years. 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:50.560 That's uh, was the original inception of this show, although 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.239 things have been shifted, and um, it's a team that 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.000 you know, again, I'm not a Laker fan. This is 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.840 something I have to encounter with Laker fans all the time. 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:00.600 I'm not a Laker fan. I just covered them over 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:02.920 the course of the last two years. That said, that 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:05.600 team in particular, I fell in love with that team. 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:07.520 I fell in love with their approach. I thought they 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:09.600 were one of the toughest teams that I can remember watching. 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.399 They very rarely lost multiple games in a row. They 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:15.160 were incredible with their focus and their commitment to the details. 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:19.800 And that's what's so interesting about the decline, you know. 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:22.119 I I We're gonna talk about the coaching search here 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:24.400 in a second, but like, it's pretty bizarre to see 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:26.119 Lebron and a d the same two guys that were 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:28.040 so bought into Frank Vogel and what he did in 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:31.720 that season, come out flat and just simply not caring. 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.680 And it's just part of that downfall. And ironically, the Lakers, 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:39.520 as much as I fell in love with them as 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:43.120 a basketball team in twenty I despise them now they 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:48.880 offend me as a basketball fan watching their approach day 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:51.320 to day from the front office down, the way the 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:55.240 owner behaves, the way the general manager behaves, the stubbornness 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.840 of Frank Vogel all season, the commitment from the players. 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:04.800 It was awful. It was offensive to watch, and it 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:06.360 was kind of a pain that I had to cover 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:09.159 them the way that I did. But that's such as 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:11.760 life covering the NBA, and things can change quickly. But 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:13.399 I wanted to take some time tonight to talk a 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:16.359 little bit about the Russell Westbrook trade rumors that have 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:18.920 been flying around, my thoughts on the head coaching search, 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:21.880 and then just overall what I think needs to happen 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:25.399 this offseason for the Lakers to recover. So with this 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:28.160 rush trade, and you're seeing a lot of intel coming 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:30.159 out from a bunch of different sources about whether or 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:33.160 not they're going to trade Russell Westbrook. And there's two 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:37.040 specific rumors that are that are kind of leading this charge. 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:43.120 The first is the Lakers brass is asking coaches when 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:46.680 they're interviewing them, what would you do with Russell Westbrook. 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:50.280 We've seen that report, right, and then I even saw 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.400 one today that Terry Stotts is particularly excited about all 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.280 the things that he could do with Russ, which don't 0:21:56.280 --> 0:21:59.520 even get me started on that. The second thing is 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:03.240 there's extensive reporting that says that the Lakers feel like 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:06.560 they can't attach a first round pick to Russ, which 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:10.000 is stupid on like seven different levels. First of all, 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:15.520 that's just pride talking. Okay, you're concerned, you're concerned about 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:18.920 the optics of attaching a first round pick to get 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:22.320 rid of Russ. Are you aware that you're a dumpster fire? 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:25.639 Are you aware that everyone in the league already thinks 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:28.800 you're the most poorly run franchise in the league. Are 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:32.520 you aware that most coaches wouldn't even consider the idea 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:34.440 of going to you like we heard about with Quinn 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:37.600 Snyder because of your micro management and your lack of 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:42.200 organization in general unprofessionalism. You're already a dumpster fire. Your 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:47.760 reputation is already in the trash. So you expecting to 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:50.320 to heal that or repair that to some extent because 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:52.560 you managed to flip Russ without a first round pick. 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:57.840 That's ridiculous. And then, secondly, the only thing that should 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:00.520 factor into whether or not you a hatch a first 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:04.800