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Speaker 1: All right, instant reaction, The Dynasty is officially over in
Speaker 1: lands with a thud as the Warriors get smoked. I
Speaker 1: thought they'd play a really competitive game. You know, they
Speaker 1: rested a lot of their key players for this game
Speaker 1: against Sacramento. But Sacramento last year, a lot of people
Speaker 1: thought they would beat the Warriors. The Warriors had you know,
Speaker 1: seven games one last hurrah. But you saw Wiggins tonight.
Speaker 1: It's just not the same player. Clay as I'm talking
Speaker 1: right now, zero for ten. He had a very good April.
Speaker 1: He was a big part of why the Warriors had
Speaker 1: a very good April and made a mad dash a
Speaker 1: lot of road wins to get back into this thing.
Speaker 1: Draymond and Clay were both excellent, But I think it's
Speaker 1: this is the way dynasties need to end. I mean,
Speaker 1: I can remember vividly it's Brady's gonna stay in New England?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna leave? And his last season there, they
Speaker 1: took a shot during a loss and he's on the
Speaker 1: bench and he's screaming years of frustration after losing. Randy
Speaker 1: moss Edelman and Gronk are aging they just can't draft
Speaker 1: and develop the next receiver. And he's screaming on the bench,
Speaker 1: which would any of you guys just get open? Could
Speaker 1: somebody just get open? Well, of course they couldn't, and
Speaker 1: that Patriots still don't have a wide receiver they can
Speaker 1: get open, you know. So it's possession receivers, it's limited players,
Speaker 1: and that's the way it ends. And then Brady knows, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go and get Mike Evans and Chris Godwin,
Speaker 1: bring Gronk down, get ab, bring in Leonard Fernet. You know,
Speaker 1: I got an offensive coach, Bruce Arians and life's just easier.
Speaker 1: And if you look at the Dubs right now, last
Speaker 1: year they had that one series against Sacramento, you feel
Speaker 1: good about it? What could have been? We got banged up.
Speaker 1: But you know, Wiggins has not been the same player
Speaker 1: since the championship year over Boston. He hasn't been the
Speaker 1: same player. Some personal stuff. I've read multiple things. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. I don't care. He's not
Speaker 1: the same player. Clay had a very very good late
Speaker 1: March in April for the Warriors. He's not the same player, so,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I think you just have to
Speaker 1: disconnect from what was a great ten twelve year run.
Speaker 1: It's over, and so I think you keep Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: you keep Draymond Green, you keep Pods, and if you
Speaker 1: have to move a lot of your length, I don't care.
Speaker 1: If it's kaminga Looney Davis to get a legitimate big,
Speaker 1: you do what you gotta do. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns is the right guy. I think Minnesota
Speaker 1: is going to struggle in there series against Phoenix. They
Speaker 1: move off Karl Anthony Towns, potentially they won't move off Cobert,
Speaker 1: and maybe that's the guy. Maybe in two years it's Giannis,
Speaker 1: but I think it's over. You know, tonight was just
Speaker 1: Sacramento getting really good looks. I mean, they were hitting
Speaker 1: their free throws hitting their threes. They were getting really
Speaker 1: really good looks, and you know, I think for the
Speaker 1: last two years we sort of felt like step has
Speaker 1: to carry the team. And he is still a brilliant
Speaker 1: basketball player. But when players get into their mid thirties
Speaker 1: and up, I mean, even Lebron now is remarkable in
Speaker 1: big games. But you're not going to get seventy two
Speaker 1: games from these guys and back to back games of greatness.
Speaker 1: So it ends the way you'd think it ends, with
Speaker 1: kind of an ugly loss and the Warriors looking a
Speaker 1: little small, a little old, and a little out of
Speaker 1: their element. You know, I've always thought Sacramento is a
Speaker 1: poor man's boss. Then if you took the Celtics and
Speaker 1: every player was just not quite as good, but you
Speaker 1: had four good players, that would be the Kings. You know,
Speaker 1: instead of Tatum and Brown and Porzingish and Drew Holliday,
Speaker 1: you've got Harrison Barnes and Dearon Fox and Simonas and
Speaker 1: Keegan Murray, and they're good players. Fox is really good.
Speaker 1: But I just feel like, you know, Boston hasn't won
Speaker 1: a title yet, and I think they have four better starters.
Speaker 1: Sacramento is a good team, and a tougher conference, but
Speaker 1: I don't see them. I haven't ever seen them as
Speaker 1: a team that's going to win multiple series. I think
Speaker 1: Denver's better, Phoenix is more talented. I think Dallas is
Speaker 1: absolutely on fire. I think the Lakers would beat them
Speaker 1: up physically, and so I wish Light the Beam the
Speaker 1: very best. But this tonight was about Klay Thompson's final game.
Speaker 1: I would imagine as a Golden State Warrior. I think
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr would love to have him around. I think
Speaker 1: they ran it felt like they ran half their offense
Speaker 1: through him in April to get him as many looks
Speaker 1: as they could. But whoever the Warriors get, they got
Speaker 1: to get somebody that's on Steph's timeline. Kamingo is about
Speaker 1: two years away from that. Davis maybe three years away,
Speaker 1: but they've got to get somebody that's on Steph's timeline.
Speaker 1: I think they go move a lot of their length,
Speaker 1: get a legitimate, big time star. Maybe a third team
Speaker 1: gets involved, but that's where we stand in terms of
Speaker 1: the Lakers. So the Lakers, as we said, I thought
Speaker 1: they'd win by about six seven points. They match up
Speaker 1: really good with the Pelicans. Now they had a horrific
Speaker 1: moment in the third. They didn't start very well. They
Speaker 1: had a great second quarter. We're doing well, then in
Speaker 1: the third and the fourth kind of fell apart, unraveled.
Speaker 1: But I think my takeaway on this is is this
Speaker 1: is where, this is where Lebron is like no other
Speaker 1: player ever. From my friend Nick Wright, Lebron James has
Speaker 1: won nine straight do or die games, either a playing
Speaker 1: game or a game seven if you count the d
Speaker 1: season tournament, it's like he's won twelve straight or thirteen straight.
Speaker 1: I said very early in the season because of the
Speaker 1: Lakers eight and their primary playmakers, Lebron, who's very old,
Speaker 1: that if it was the NCAA tournament, I think the
Speaker 1: Lakers we get to the championship game and then lose
Speaker 1: to Denver or a Boston, but in a one game setting.
Speaker 1: This is why the NBA seven game first round series
Speaker 1: is ridiculous. It punishes aging legends, which are always the
Speaker 1: ratings drivers for the NBA. I mean, the reason Caitlin Clark,
Speaker 1: one of the reasons she got numbers. This was a rematch.
Speaker 1: She went into the tournament. We knew the story. They
Speaker 1: lost last year. Here they come back. They face South Carolina.
Speaker 1: You mean ninety percent of Hollywood money is remax, right,
Speaker 1: So it's these aging stars, these steps and these Lebron's
Speaker 1: Kevin Durantz. They drive the ratings in the NBA. So
Speaker 1: why punish them with seven game first round series with
Speaker 1: no urgency? So the Lakers in the in season tournament
Speaker 1: won in their playing games with Lebron. They're three to
Speaker 1: nine playing games with Lebron, and they've won again nine
Speaker 1: straight do or die games with Lebron. And the Lakers
Speaker 1: did what they do. They got to the free throw
Speaker 1: line a lot, and they hit their free throws. By
Speaker 1: the way Sacramento hit their free throws. Lakers hit their
Speaker 1: free throws. And you're watching in these games, these playoff games.
Speaker 1: Is the n NBA pretty clearly tweaked. And I don't
Speaker 1: mind him doing this at all. During the regular season,
Speaker 1: the NBA said, hey, let's let him play. Let's speed
Speaker 1: the pace of playoff, fewer whistles. That is a huge
Speaker 1: benefit to veteran teams. That does not benefit OKC, that
Speaker 1: will not benefit young teams. That will benefit the older teams.
Speaker 1: Miami in the East will probably benefit from that. Boston's
Speaker 1: been around, will benefit the Lakers will benefit Okac won't.
Speaker 1: So I thought the Lakers they're a very good matchup
Speaker 1: with the Pelicans. I thought Zion Williamson played the best
Speaker 1: game I've ever seen him play as a pro in
Speaker 1: a big game. This is a big game. He had
Speaker 1: forty points, just walked off the floor injury. I guess frustrated. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I have no idea what happened. But we've been waiting
Speaker 1: for Zion between the weight issues and the injuries, and
Speaker 1: that was the book on him when he came into
Speaker 1: the NBA. He had so much torque. He had wait issues.
Speaker 1: New Orleans not a great city if you got weight issues.
Speaker 1: It's a late night city with amazing food, and so
Speaker 1: he struggled with that. But todight it's a great example
Speaker 1: of what Zion can do. He's a weight mismatch and
Speaker 1: a power mismatch oftentimes. And if you you know, if
Speaker 1: he gets a mismatch, you blow a defensive assignment. He
Speaker 1: gets on a smaller guy, or he's coming downhill dribbling
Speaker 1: into the lane, it's over. Lebron Is six eight and
Speaker 1: a half six ' nine two fifty five took a
Speaker 1: charge from Zion and crumpled like a deck chair. Lebron
Speaker 1: just crashed into the floor. It's like Adrian Peterson running
Speaker 1: over a small corner in his prime. And so I
Speaker 1: thought Zion was fantastic. He was aggressive. He's never been
Speaker 1: a great outside shooter, but he didn't have to be.
Speaker 1: You know. I think when you get to the playoffs
Speaker 1: three ball, it can be valuable. I mean, the Warriors
Speaker 1: didn't hit theirs tonight, the Kings did. I think it
Speaker 1: can be valuable. But I think you get into situational
Speaker 1: basketball and you got to lean into your straints. And
Speaker 1: I think Anthony Davis is going to take most of
Speaker 1: his sh shots and make most of them within eight
Speaker 1: feet of the basket. I'm okay with that. And Zion
Speaker 1: Williamson is going to bang around on the inside, not
Speaker 1: shoot much from the outside, and create you know, physical mismatches.
Speaker 1: I thought he was fantastic. That's as good as I've
Speaker 1: seen him play in a big game, and he hasn't
Speaker 1: been in a lot of big games. But the Lakers
Speaker 1: are a better team they have. They have gotten big
Speaker 1: leads every time they've played the Pelicans this year. This
Speaker 1: one they held on for dear life. D'Angelo Russell played
Speaker 1: well and we've talked about that. Since the benching. He's
Speaker 1: been a good basketball player. Sometimes he almost You know,
Speaker 1: when I watched the Lakers tonight, there was a I
Speaker 1: forget what quarter was, second or third they pulled I
Speaker 1: think it was right before half they pulled Lebron out,
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh my god, what's happening, Darvin? Get
Speaker 1: him back in there. But how much can you play Lebron?
Speaker 1: So he is so far and away their best playmaker.
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves attempts it, but he's just got the same athlete.
Speaker 1: But you know, you kind of cross your fingers if
Speaker 1: you're the Lakers. They get real sloppy. They unrevel very
Speaker 1: quickly sometimes when Lebron takes his brief respite, and they
Speaker 1: certainly did tonight. He came back in, couldn't stop the
Speaker 1: bleeding of the moment, but they hold on and win.
Speaker 1: So the Lakers. I think the Lakers match up pretty
Speaker 1: well with the Nuggets in terms of size. The difference
Speaker 1: is the fourth best player on any given night for
Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets is Michael Porter, who is a high
Speaker 1: school prodigy who can absolutely knock down twenty eight points
Speaker 1: on any given night. Now he has championship experience, and
Speaker 1: I think that's a real thing. I think once you
Speaker 1: win the championship. Every time I watched Denver in a
Speaker 1: big TV game and it was close, they just found
Speaker 1: ways to win. And I saw about a week ago
Speaker 1: they played the t Wolves close game, just found a
Speaker 1: way to win. So it's that confidence of a championship team.
Speaker 1: I think they have the best starting five along with
Speaker 1: Boston in the NBA. And there are players on the
Speaker 1: Lakers that can disappear at times. I think Ruey's talented,
Speaker 1: he can disappear. Anthony Davis can be hot and cold
Speaker 1: offensively Lebron depending on if his three point shot is effective.
Speaker 1: D Lo as a playoff performer has been at times
Speaker 1: awful last year, at times semi effective. I kind of
Speaker 1: know what I'm getting with Denver with the Lakers. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of finger crossing with DeAngelo Russell and Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: Two out of three playoff games will give you a
Speaker 1: really nice offensive effort. But he can manage at times too.
Speaker 1: So I just I don't see the Lakers beating Denver
Speaker 1: four times. I think they'll beat him in a game,
Speaker 1: maybe they beat him twice. They can physically match up.
Speaker 1: But you know, Jokich does not have a lot of
Speaker 1: off nights and Jamal Murray doesn't have a lot of
Speaker 1: off nights, and Gordon brings that defense virtually every game.
Speaker 1: Michael Porter can be a bit hot and cold, but
Speaker 1: you know, Denver's a champion for a reason. And my
Speaker 1: guess is they'll probably beat the Lakers in five, perhaps six,
Speaker 1: but you'll feel late in these games, that's where you'll
Speaker 1: see the difference where Yokich is younger than the on
Speaker 1: and Jamal Murray offensively is more consistent than Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: and ad gives Jokic about as much trouble as you
Speaker 1: can possibly give him, and he still gets thirty points.
Speaker 1: So I just feel the consistency the championship experience. Denver
Speaker 1: is going to be an even tougher out this year,
Speaker 1: and I imagine they extinguish the Lakers in about five
Speaker 1: or six. The games will be close. The Lakers do
Speaker 1: match up with them once again. With Lebron win a
Speaker 1: playing game, the Warrior season is over, and it's again
Speaker 1: I think it's over that it should be over. No debate,
Speaker 1: make some moves, move off. Wiggins probably plays last kick
Speaker 1: it's okay. All good things coming on end, trees don't
Speaker 1: grow to the sky. It's fine. We're all going to
Speaker 1: be okay, even in the Bay Area.
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