Speaker 1: Wolves at Denver gross worst game of the weekend by far.
Speaker 1: That's why it was on Sunday night. For East Coast fans,
Speaker 1: you're probably in bed.
Speaker 2: It's one am. It's one am on the East Coast,
Speaker 2: no fucking shot.
Speaker 1: Everyone knew that it was gonna be bad because the
Speaker 1: game went off at ten thirty West Coast time, ten
Speaker 1: thirty East Coast time. Excuse me, half the country was
Speaker 1: sound asleep by halftime. You're not gonna see King's Warriors
Speaker 1: in that death slot. You're not gonna see Clippers Sons
Speaker 1: in the death slot. You give it to Denver. Here
Speaker 1: are my takeaways. Playoff Yokicic is here and he's really good.
Speaker 1: Playoff Yokic is different than anybody else. Playoff Yokic is
Speaker 1: very different than himself. In the regular season, he had
Speaker 1: thirteen four and six and twenty eight minutes and he
Speaker 1: fouled out with the Nuggets up twenty.
Speaker 2: But in the first quarter of first half, they just went.
Speaker 1: To him time and time and time and time again,
Speaker 1: facilitating perfectly sweeping the boards, going up against multiple seven footers,
Speaker 1: and just being the MVP that everybody knows he has
Speaker 1: been so second. Another point is the Nuggets are just
Speaker 1: really really good. The Nuggets are really efficient. They have
Speaker 1: multiple guys they can get you fifteen points. Aaron Gordon
Speaker 1: had thirteen, Porter had eighteen, Jokic thirteen, Jamal Murray twenty four.
Speaker 2: He was kind of the leading scorer.
Speaker 1: On that team, and ksep with fifteen, Bruce Brown off
Speaker 1: the bench fourteen. So it was probably the most balanced
Speaker 1: scoring effort of any team in the playoffs this year.
Speaker 1: And you don't need a guy like NICOLEA. Jokicic to
Speaker 1: go off for forty, you don't. You have guys along
Speaker 1: the way they can help you with thirteen, twelve, fifteen,
Speaker 1: seventeen along the way. Really hard to beat a team
Speaker 1: like that. If you have to defend every single player
Speaker 1: and there is no weakness and they can all shoot
Speaker 1: and score, that's tough. That's a really tough team to beat.
Speaker 1: And then you know, the thing somebody mentioned to me
Speaker 1: was like, wow, a Michael Porter Junior is a de wildcard,
Speaker 1: And I said, well, I think this is a team
Speaker 1: full of wildcards. You never know what you're gonna get
Speaker 1: from MPJ, but you also don't know what you're gonna
Speaker 1: get from KCP. KCP could give you five for six
Speaker 1: from three, and he could also go zero for nine
Speaker 1: from three day to day. The Nuggets are like night
Speaker 1: and day. Thirdly, man the Wolves, the Wolves are They're
Speaker 1: just not themselves. They've played two playoff games already. They
Speaker 1: might have been gassed coming to Mile High in Denver,
Speaker 1: but I don't really care. This is a team with
Speaker 1: Rudy and Kat on the floor that does not make
Speaker 1: an ounce of sense. And we know that Rudy got
Speaker 1: ran off the floor again. He was in negative twenty
Speaker 1: eight and twenty seven minutes because the Nuggets exposed him.
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns was better, but listen, this roster is
Speaker 1: getting exposed. They miss Jaden McDaniels, they miss nas Reed,
Speaker 1: and I'm not really sure that they can keep up
Speaker 1: with his Denver team without that defense.
Speaker 2: The series is gonna be over fast.
Speaker 1: Game three is the key Nuggets can win against the
Speaker 1: Wolves on the road.
Speaker 2: It's probably night Night sleep mask.
Speaker 1: So Celtics Hawks another one that's gonna be over fast?
Speaker 1: Is this series over before it started? Celtics blew the
Speaker 1: doors off the Hawks in Game one. They built the
Speaker 1: lead of like twenty fast and in the process served
Speaker 1: everybody in the NBA. The Boston Celtics are back right
Speaker 1: that they actually are, especially with Giannis going down, Maybe
Speaker 1: the team to be in the East. Three takeaways. Trey
Speaker 1: Young sucks. He's terrible in playoffs. He just really is.
Speaker 1: Whatever his point number is when you're betting him, just
Speaker 1: take the under every single time. Is the fun levels
Speaker 1: are at an all time low for portray According to
Speaker 1: Dan Greenberg, how bad is it Trey Young versus the
Speaker 1: Celtics guards well versus Derek White. He had thirty one
Speaker 1: possessions six points and went two for s verse Marcus Smart,
Speaker 1: reigning Defensive Player of the Year sixteen possessions five points,
Speaker 1: two for six shooting, verse. Malcolm Brogden two possessions, zero points,
Speaker 1: zero for one shooting. There is nobody that he can
Speaker 1: score on. Derek White's probably a shoe in for all
Speaker 1: defensive NBA team. Brogden has a defensive rating of one
Speaker 1: to twelve point six this year, which is about the
Speaker 1: same as Derek Whites. I have no idea how Trey
Speaker 1: Young is going to be able to get loose. Second,
Speaker 1: the Celtics are going to dominate and manage to dominate
Speaker 1: the Hawks, despite the fact that Robert Williams was a
Speaker 1: non factor. He was legit the only player on the
Speaker 1: roster wide a negative plus minus minus seven, and this
Speaker 1: was despite going six for six from the field. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's the same player, and I do not
Speaker 1: think it matters against a team like the Hawks. And
Speaker 1: Boston doesn't need him to beat Atlanta. They're one hundred
Speaker 1: percent going to need him to beat the Sixers. But
Speaker 1: old boy, listen, the Hawks feel they're.
Speaker 2: In trouble if Trey continues.
Speaker 1: Thirdly, his run of mediocre play in Atlanta, does this
Speaker 1: mean he's getting traded? I don't mean to be woo
Speaker 1: Janowski right now and like move forward too far. But
Speaker 1: Quinn Snyder is a good coach and he was brought
Speaker 1: on to suss out whether Trey Young is the future
Speaker 1: point guard for this team. And they do feel like
Speaker 1: they have some major issues to contend with because they've
Speaker 1: got Dejonte Andre. If Quinn Snyder wants to build this
Speaker 1: team to be beating the rest of these Eastern Conference
Speaker 1: teams like the Celtics and like the Sixers, and I
Speaker 1: just showed you all of his stats that were booboo,
Speaker 1: what is he gonna do? This series could be over
Speaker 1: and four and Trey Young could be moved to some
Speaker 1: random team in the offseason. Knicks versus Cavs. What a
Speaker 1: fascinating matchup this is. I think everybody expected it to
Speaker 1: go seven, and I think it still will. Nick stole
Speaker 1: home court right out from under Cleveland with performances from
Speaker 1: their star, a buddy game from Julius Randall, but also
Speaker 1: Josh Hart.
Speaker 2: Josh Hart is so good on this team.
Speaker 1: That first round pick that they had to give up
Speaker 1: to get him is worth every single penny. First off,
Speaker 1: the takeaways that it is just that Jalen Brunson and
Speaker 1: Josh Hard like peas and carrots. Heart was eight for
Speaker 1: eleven for seventeen, Brunson went off for twenty seven. That's
Speaker 1: forty four for two guys in the backcourt that went
Speaker 1: to school together at Villanova. When you can get that,
Speaker 1: it's really hard to beat somebody. When Hart is coming
Speaker 1: off the bench and giving you fifteen plus. Jalen Brunston
Speaker 1: had the ball on his hands for the final minute
Speaker 1: and there was some timely offensive rebounding that went into
Speaker 1: the books for a Nicks win. But listen, you also
Speaker 1: had a timely bucket from Josh Hart. They're not the
Speaker 1: most talented team, but boy did they find a way
Speaker 1: to scheme to make Darius Garland uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: They just bodied him.
Speaker 1: Secondly, they made life so uncomfortable for Darius Garland, trapping
Speaker 1: him the entire game. They forced him into five turnovers
Speaker 1: and he had seventeen points on seven for thirteen shooting.
Speaker 2: He was just a wounded duck, Just a wounded duck.
Speaker 1: Josh Hart Emmanuel quickly and Garland didn't put up a
Speaker 1: single shot in the second half. So I think the
Speaker 1: Calves are gonna have to figure out a way to
Speaker 1: fix that. They apparently say that they're going to be
Speaker 1: more physical in game two because Darius Garland said that
Speaker 1: the refs let them play a lot.
Speaker 2: However, the refs changed game to game folks.
Speaker 1: He said, we need to hit first and see how
Speaker 1: the refs react instead of being punched in the face
Speaker 1: and just laying down.
Speaker 2: We're gonna see how that turns out.
Speaker 1: The last takeaways that Donovan Mitchell is worth every single
Speaker 1: cent he is him.
Speaker 2: He's single handedly.
Speaker 1: Brought the Calves back almost one of the game too.
Speaker 1: They didn't have any business being in the game, but
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell had thirty eight six threes, and without him,
Speaker 1: I think the Calves lose by twenty. Well, without him,
Speaker 1: the Caves aren't even there. Calves are probably just a
Speaker 1: playing team that just gets bounced. I think there's a
Speaker 1: good chances the series go seven Net Sixers. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is like the Wolves versus the Nuggets. It's a mismatch.
Speaker 1: We kind of knew it was going to be. We
Speaker 1: were hoping that there was going to be a role
Speaker 1: player like Michel Bridges who could help you compete.
Speaker 2: But when PJ. Tucker is hitting early threes, you know
Speaker 2: it's going to be a bad night.
Speaker 1: The Sixers I think they won every single quarter and
Speaker 1: they did three takeaways from the game.
Speaker 2: Joel is activated.
Speaker 1: Playoff mode is really really good. The box score doesn't
Speaker 1: look like he did anything twenty six to five and three,
Speaker 1: but he was throwing his round with reckless abandon The
Speaker 1: Nets have no answer. They have no answer for Joel
Speaker 1: embiid nck Claxton. You're too small. Joel can facilitate around you.
Speaker 1: It is hard for anyone to defend joelmb which we know.
Speaker 1: The problem though, is that he took another bad fall.
Speaker 1: Every time that happens. The entire Sixers fan base just
Speaker 1: gasps this time. This time mbat seems fine. But the
Speaker 1: Maury it's the ground boy, the more likely he's gonna
Speaker 1: get hurt.
Speaker 2: This version. Secondly, of James Harden is very dangerous.
Speaker 1: Harden at twenty three points and thirteen assists for a
Speaker 1: game high of plus twenty, he is the most impactful
Speaker 1: guy on the court. He's probably one of the best
Speaker 1: passers in the league, and after really a different renaissance
Speaker 1: of him being the best scorer in the league, his transformation,
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: Is just very impressive.
Speaker 1: As long as his hamstring, his achilles, his feet hold up,
Speaker 1: I think that this team's dangerous. And thirdly, I don't
Speaker 1: care that the nets are getting blown out. Mckail bridges
Speaker 1: is him. Mckal bridges is the man too. He had
Speaker 1: thirty like clockwork. Every single game. He's seemingly putting up thirty.
Speaker 1: How good is he? I think that there are now
Speaker 1: multiple fan bases that want to give up four or
Speaker 1: five for Seawn draft picks for McHale. He's a number
Speaker 1: one option. He's very, very, very good. He's probably close
Speaker 1: to being an All NBA player at thirty and five,
Speaker 1: playing elite defense if the Nets keep them, and they're
Speaker 1: already calling in Brooklyn Bridges, so I feel like I
Speaker 1: feel like they do want to keep them, They're going
Speaker 1: to need to add another star around them. I don't
Speaker 1: see this series going long, so I don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of things to say, but the Nets are going
Speaker 1: to need to figure out something defending the home court
Speaker 1: well against the Sixers, and they're always one injury away
Speaker 1: from disaster.