Speaker 1: On this episode of this League, the homiet was pressed
Speaker 1: press pass. That is, yes, you're right, your girl got
Speaker 1: a press credential for the Warriors Lakers game. So we
Speaker 1: are going to be breaking that down. We also go
Speaker 1: over the number eight playing games. We also go over
Speaker 1: some potential Cavaliers drama involving Chubb Boy Colin Sexton, and
Speaker 1: we also have a very very important public service message
Speaker 1: about Kwame Brown. All right, Marty, let's drop the beat.
Speaker 2: And you'll be waiting.
Speaker 3: Plan of the play.
Speaker 2: I go, let me go the game.
Speaker 1: And we got to talk about this Warriors Lakers game. First.
Speaker 1: The main thing that I thought that was interesting is
Speaker 1: the refs. The refs fucked the Warriors in this game.
Speaker 1: Let's just be very clear. I I have a list
Speaker 1: of things. I have a list of things. Let's just
Speaker 1: start off here. Golden State was coming into the game yesterday,
Speaker 1: one in fourteen in their last fifteen games officiated by
Speaker 1: John Goebel or Trey Maddox, including four playoff losses with Goebel.
Speaker 1: They were both reffing that game last night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I saw that for sure.
Speaker 4: I mean, with my vested interest, I was definitely aware
Speaker 4: of how they do that. I think I said something
Speaker 4: in one of the other pods. I said, they're going
Speaker 4: to bring Dick Bavett out of retirement to ref that game,
Speaker 4: and they kind of it.
Speaker 1: That is exactly what happened. So first up, there was
Speaker 1: a blocking foul on Lebron James that was initially called
Speaker 1: the charge, right, and that the challenge that they challenged
Speaker 1: and lost their challenge because they had to use it
Speaker 1: on that that was overturned, but the challenge was gone.
Speaker 1: Then there was a blocking foul very quickly later on
Speaker 1: Wesley Matthews that was actually called the charge on Andrew Wiggins.
Speaker 1: Now that would have been overturned in my opinion if
Speaker 1: they had that challenge to use, which they did not.
Speaker 1: A few minutes later, Jordan Poole nearly threw down what
Speaker 1: would have been one of the most delicious dunks, but no,
Speaker 1: he wasn't able to finish it because Lebron James just
Speaker 1: fucking hammered him and there was just no call whatsoever
Speaker 1: at all, just like no whistle, no nothing. I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe it. I was in the arena, could not believe it.
Speaker 1: Multiple illegal screens called against Draymond Green, that tech against
Speaker 1: Draymond Green didn't make no goddamn sense yet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't understand what was going on there at all.
Speaker 4: He seemed to not really be a part of what
Speaker 4: was going on.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 1: The tech on Jordan Poole didn't make any sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was one on Cavan Looney that was an illegal screen.
Speaker 1: These were clearly like flops. The Laker flop was in
Speaker 1: full effect last night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of fact, we won't.
Speaker 1: We will get to the flop, James. We will get
Speaker 1: to that. We will get to.
Speaker 3: That good good ad was holding.
Speaker 1: And yes, the the poke in the eye by Draymond
Speaker 1: Green could have been called a flagrant. It could have
Speaker 1: been called a bunch of different things. So were there
Speaker 1: bad calls against the Lakers that should have gone their way?
Speaker 1: There were a couple, but like they were sort of
Speaker 1: more questionable in my opinion than the others.
Speaker 3: No, Uh, yeah, I would say, I would say, so.
Speaker 4: I was really surprised that they didn't give a flagrant, Yeah,
Speaker 4: because it's yeah, it just seems like that's what they
Speaker 4: do these days. And I had already accepted it. I
Speaker 4: was like, that's the point where I had given up
Speaker 4: that the Lakers weren't that the Warriors weren't going to
Speaker 4: win the game, but then they came back.
Speaker 3: Uh, I don't know. Yeah, no, it was a weird.
Speaker 4: That whole thing was weird, and I guess that kind
Speaker 4: of kept me from like tweeting about the refs or
Speaker 4: really thinking like, oh, the ref stole it, because they
Speaker 4: like really could have stolen it there but chose not to.
Speaker 3: So it is kind of weird.
Speaker 1: And then eight seconds left after the la dagger as
Speaker 1: we're calling it, the one second left on the clock,
Speaker 1: la dagger deep thirty foot three. Just apparently he was
Speaker 1: seeing that was right after the ipoke. He was seeing
Speaker 1: three rims. Yeah, and he chose the middle one. Okay,
Speaker 1: so just stop it. But the dagger with one second left,
Speaker 1: and there's eight eight seconds and change left when they
Speaker 1: called their time out. When they tried to call their
Speaker 1: time out, the Warriors couldn't get the time out called
Speaker 1: until there was only two seconds left. Then Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: is grabbing Steph Curry, grabbing his arm. No call, which
Speaker 1: would have been two shots and the.
Speaker 3: Ball, Yeah go loose ball, Yeah, yep.
Speaker 1: Loose ball. You're grabbing him. He can't get in two
Speaker 1: shots and the ball. They lose by three.
Speaker 4: Now, yeah I did. I'll tell you the truth. I
Speaker 4: didn't go back and rewatch the last play. I got
Speaker 4: to go back and see that it did seem very close.
Speaker 1: Though it did seem very close. Okay. Now, outside of
Speaker 1: the reps, a couple of things. One, I was at
Speaker 1: the arena. The energy for the first half was very weird.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about like, you know, you're somewhere you're really
Speaker 1: not supposed to be, you know, like we're in a pandemic,
Speaker 1: and then there's sports going on. So it's my first
Speaker 1: time back into an arena since before the pandemic began,
Speaker 1: and the protocols are through the roof, like, yeah, you're
Speaker 1: showing your vaccination card or your PCR two negative PCR tests.
Speaker 1: You're going through the protocol, et cetera, et cetera. Everybody's
Speaker 1: you know, socially distanced or whatever. But so you're in
Speaker 1: the arena and you realize like this is sort of
Speaker 1: a special place to be. You know, you're one of
Speaker 1: six thousand people that are there when it would have
Speaker 1: been rock and at like twenty two, twenty thousand in
Speaker 1: Staples plus media whatever that would be plus staff.
Speaker 4: Did the playoff intensity kind of negate, the fact that
Speaker 4: there were a lot of empty seats, like in terms
Speaker 4: of atmosphere.
Speaker 1: No, the atmosphere was so bad for like the first half.
Speaker 1: I mean like you could hear a pin drop ooh,
Speaker 1: you could hear it was so quiet. It was eerily quiet.
Speaker 1: It was not intense, and it was like everybody was
Speaker 1: kind of stunned. The Laker delusion was through the roof,
Speaker 1: like everyone just expected the Lakers to come out and
Speaker 1: destroy the Warriors, and when the Warriors punched first, everyone
Speaker 1: just looked shook. They even Staples even put a section
Speaker 1: together on the far end on like on one side
Speaker 1: where it was vaccinated, only to try to keep all
Speaker 1: of those fans condensed so that the sound sounded more
Speaker 1: I guess boisterous and like at first that didn't even work,
Speaker 1: like it was quiet quiet, like it was weird energy,
Speaker 1: like eerie, spooky ghost energy. And then when the Warriors
Speaker 1: started giving up the ball, which you know, Steph Curry's
Speaker 1: very loosey goosey with the rock. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: in a second, Okay, but the energy gets brought up
Speaker 1: a couple of notches from Braun and Ad they hit
Speaker 1: some crucial shots and then all of a sudden that
Speaker 1: wakes the crowd up, which then wakes Braun and Ad
Speaker 1: up more, and then it has almost like this momentum effect.
Speaker 1: Huh So, if the fans would have started and continued
Speaker 1: their intensity, which LA fans are trash, they are. LA
Speaker 1: fans are some of the worst fans in sports. They
Speaker 1: will not cheer for you when you're not performing well.
Speaker 1: Like Boston Red Sox fans, if they're not playing well,
Speaker 1: they're still up on their feet. They're like trying to
Speaker 1: create energy for the players. Lakers fans they're not doing that.
Speaker 1: They're not doing that in the best of circumstances, so
Speaker 1: they're certainly not doing that in a pandemic. Sure, so,
Speaker 1: once Braun and Ady got going, that then motivated fans,
Speaker 1: which then motivated the players. You can really how important
Speaker 1: fan like good fans are. So that was really interesting.
Speaker 1: They had all of the cool media brands in like
Speaker 1: the worst possible spot. It was like the Slam magazine,
Speaker 1: the Like Nice Kicks, the Undefeated, the barstools like we
Speaker 1: were in the nose bleats of the of the arena. Sure,
Speaker 1: and then like the Washington Posts and the Athletics and
Speaker 1: the USA to days, they're like on one hundred level,
Speaker 1: like basically court side. So I used to be in
Speaker 1: the court side area, like that's where my media seat
Speaker 1: used to be, and I realized, like, they don't give
Speaker 1: a fuck about you, they care about your outlet. So
Speaker 1: that was very interesting. I actually thought there was a
Speaker 1: possibility I wouldn't even get credentialed at all because I
Speaker 1: was barstool. I was just waiting, waiting for the last
Speaker 1: minute of to get denied. Lots of people think I'm
Speaker 1: a Curry fan. I am a Curry fan. I'm not
Speaker 1: a stand I don't like I'm not a Curry apologist.
Speaker 1: I love Steph Curry. We've talked about him a million times,
Speaker 1: but one of the biggest knocks I've always had about
Speaker 1: him is that he, for some reason doesn't understand the
Speaker 1: moment that he's in, Like he's so good, he's such
Speaker 1: a great shooter in my opinion, that he just thinks
Speaker 1: he can and no obstacle is insurmountable. So he just
Speaker 1: like plays like it's like Game fifteen, It's like January fifteenth.
Speaker 1: According to Steph Curry, with the Rock, he was like
Speaker 1: Draymond Green. Is he walked across. He does this shuffle
Speaker 1: too when he's running. He's just like no urgency.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know what you're talking about for sure. Yeah. No,
Speaker 3: he does not alter his game one bit depending on
Speaker 3: the situation.
Speaker 4: That is funny. It is bizarre. Uh, that's like never
Speaker 4: talked about ever. Yeah, but he doesn't.
Speaker 1: It's like there is no time where it's like I
Speaker 1: need to play Chris, I need to play with poise
Speaker 1: and precision. Steph Curry precision, that's not a thing. It's
Speaker 1: Steph Curry chaos all fucking time. Those five turnovers that
Speaker 1: lost them the game too, Like if he doesn't turn
Speaker 1: the ball over, if he doesn't dribble the ball against
Speaker 1: his fucking shoe when Alex Crusoe the MVP of the game,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, the MVP, the goat of the game.
Speaker 1: He had some crucial play in that game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, he got to the basket easy too, Yeah.
Speaker 1: And hit a couple of very timely threes. Was locking
Speaker 1: Steph dout caused Steph to turn over the ball there, Like,
Speaker 1: you're not dribbling against fucking Kentavious Calwell, Pope, Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: Like this is the janitor, this is what the janitor does,
Speaker 1: and Steph Curry was just like, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, while we're on the subject of Steph
Speaker 4: Curry turnovers, I mean that's why they lost the game.
Speaker 4: We can point it at a bunch of things. Wait,
Speaker 4: if you turn the ball over twenty times and the
Speaker 4: other team has Lebron James, it's not going to end well.
Speaker 4: And like the fact that honestly they did turn the
Speaker 4: ball over twenty times. Uh, and we're still like, right
Speaker 4: there is kind of I don't know, telling a little damning.
Speaker 1: It's damning, everyone says. I'm like looking into my comments,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my dms and people are like, but Trista,
Speaker 1: the Lakers are healthy. Now you say they're overrated. By
Speaker 1: the way, that video got like five hundred thousand views.
Speaker 1: People just furious at me calling the Lakers and the
Speaker 1: Jazz overrated. Okay, they're like, no, the Lakers are fully healthy.
Speaker 1: Now Ad is back and Braun is back. Let me
Speaker 1: just acquaint you with the facts. Just because you're playing
Speaker 1: in a basketball game does not mean that you're healthy.
Speaker 1: You are playing through pain. The definition of health is
Speaker 1: not having pain when you do all of your activities.
Speaker 1: As normal, jumping, running, cutting, planting, exploding. It's very cool.
Speaker 1: The Lakers, Braun and ad are not healthy.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well, I mean, I mean you definitely saw it.
Speaker 4: In the first half. They were not clicking even a
Speaker 4: little bit.
Speaker 1: It was like, we're just trying to stay in it
Speaker 1: so that we can play through enormous pain for the
Speaker 1: last like ten minutes of the game. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, And there were lineups when the Warriors like went
Speaker 4: small where I was thinking like, Okay, this should be
Speaker 4: a real problem for them. I'm talking first half, This
Speaker 4: should be a real problem for them. Lebron should be
Speaker 4: able to go in and cook, and he just wasn't.
Speaker 4: He looked slow, He.
Speaker 1: Just looked tentative. There were times where he drove the ball,
Speaker 1: he drove into the lane, had the ability to draw
Speaker 1: contact and go up and he kicked out instead. That
Speaker 1: happened ten times. I remember, like eight to ten times.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is going on, Anthony Davis is giving
Speaker 1: up three looks, three point three looks, just giving it
Speaker 1: this casey p when he can be shooting open for three.
Speaker 1: They were just like let him shoot, let him shoot,
Speaker 1: and he wouldn't shoot. It was bad. I knew the
Speaker 1: things were bad for ad because I watched him warm
Speaker 1: up and everything was off right by like some of
Speaker 1: them went in because they just hit the right side
Speaker 1: of the you know what I mean, They just go
Speaker 1: into the right side of the hoop, but everything in
Speaker 1: the corner was hitting off the right side of the rim. Like,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a tough night for Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: and give it to the Warriors. I would say that
Speaker 1: their game plan for him was was to perfection, take
Speaker 1: take a d out of the game, get him out
Speaker 1: of the rhythm, and make all the others, as they
Speaker 1: call it, make all the others do everything else.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it ended up playing Drummond off the floor too,
Speaker 4: just because they kept getting switches onto staff and like
Speaker 4: they just couldn't do it, which makes me feel a
Speaker 4: little better.
Speaker 3: That's one of the.
Speaker 4: Things that makes me feel positive about the Sons having
Speaker 4: to play the Lakers now is that I think we
Speaker 4: can play those bigs off the floor for patches.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that's an interesting question, is that if
Speaker 1: eighty plays the five, which I think he's gonna play
Speaker 1: a lot of five in this series two, he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to He's gonna have to otherwise, Devin and CP
Speaker 1: three and mchal Bridges are gonna cook, just like the
Speaker 1: Warriors cooked. I think this this game actually was a
Speaker 1: perfect blueprint for you as to how to beat them.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, No, I saw a lot of things that
Speaker 3: I liked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so did I.
Speaker 3: So let's just talk.
Speaker 4: About I was still hoping with every inch of myself
Speaker 4: to not have to play them, but I, of course,
Speaker 4: being the crazy optimistic fan, I've already convinced myself we're
Speaker 4: gonna win.
Speaker 1: So and also, I would say if you're gonna play
Speaker 1: the Lakers, because you're gonna have to probably play them
Speaker 1: unless someone else bounces them, You're gonna have to play
Speaker 1: them at some point. And I'd say right now is
Speaker 1: the best time to play them, because because Lebron will
Speaker 1: be healthy in two to three weeks and then it's
Speaker 1: then it's night night. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I definitely come around to that.
Speaker 1: Uh, let's talk about the ipop for a second, just
Speaker 1: circling back. Is there anyone who puts extras on shit
Speaker 1: more than Lebron?
Speaker 4: No, It's honestly insane, And we talked about it. There
Speaker 4: was a social clip too about their rocky complex. There's
Speaker 4: always just got there's gotta be a little extra adversity
Speaker 4: like sprinkled on it. Like no, like you hit a
Speaker 4: thirty four foot shot to clinch the playoffs, Like that's
Speaker 4: that's a big enough moment, you know, Like you didn't
Speaker 4: need a sprinkle.
Speaker 1: You'll also need to say you couldn't see why did
Speaker 1: you also say I was basically blind when I hit that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's such bullshit, like like you were doing that,
Speaker 4: you wouldn't got, you wouldn't got the like eye drops
Speaker 4: and all that.
Speaker 3: You were doing that to sell the fouls of FLAKR.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, And I think the thing that's interesting to
Speaker 1: me is like Lebron obviously through all of his pressers,
Speaker 1: understands the idea of the narrative around the greatest of
Speaker 1: all time and how much narratives like shape things, and
Speaker 1: so he throughout time and the history of his career
Speaker 1: just keep sprinkling how much he's had to deal with,
Speaker 1: Like he might say he had coronavirus like two months
Speaker 1: from now, Like I was also playing through coronavirus, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like I know I was vaccinated,
Speaker 1: but I also played through coronavirus and liked, did Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan have to play through coronavirus, like it's always gonna
Speaker 1: be that, which I think is hilarious.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that is the funny thing.
Speaker 4: So say they come in, they beat Phoenix, they beat Denver, Portland,
Speaker 4: whoever that is, then they beat Clippers Utah whoever that is,
Speaker 4: and then they go and beat Brooklyn Like that would
Speaker 4: be one of the I mean, it probably wouldn't top
Speaker 4: twenty sixteen, but that would be his second biggest accomplishment
Speaker 4: by a wide margin. And he would still Yeah, I
Speaker 4: could easily see him saying like, oh yeah, and like
Speaker 4: my ankle by the way, like I was on like
Speaker 4: forty percent. After that, he would still have to he
Speaker 4: would still have to come up with a reason why
Speaker 4: it was more impressive totally.
Speaker 1: Because constantly always going up against Jordan, which I think
Speaker 1: is tremendous. It's just trendous. That shot was one of
Speaker 1: the biggest shots of his life.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, it's one of those uh somewhere, that
Speaker 4: one that he hit against Orlando and n O nine
Speaker 4: like that long three. So yeah, yeah, it's up, it's
Speaker 4: up there, and that's gonna be on his all time
Speaker 4: highlight reel, no doubt.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, this is already I said it already, no matter Winterday.
Speaker 1: All right, let's uh, let's talk about the final play
Speaker 1: in games. Thursday night, the Pacers play the Wizards.
Speaker 3: I'm excited.
Speaker 1: So Pacers blew out Hornets as I suspected. Wizards lost
Speaker 1: to the Celtics, which I did not suspect. I also
Speaker 1: did not suspect Russell Westbrook would be heavily injured in
Speaker 1: that game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was that definitely threw a wrench in that plan.
Speaker 4: I was on the Wizards and the Hornets, so I.
Speaker 3: Had a bet.
Speaker 4: I had a bad I had a bad Tuesday.
Speaker 1: You're gonna need to take that PACER's money line. It's
Speaker 1: a plus one forty five right now Pacers, and they're
Speaker 1: they're counting that the Wizards will win by I think
Speaker 1: the line is three and a half right now, Marty,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to tell you right now, don't bet
Speaker 1: on the Wizards. They're not healthy. I don't care that
Speaker 1: it's in DC. The Pacers are, like I told you,
Speaker 1: I think two episodes ago, the Pacers might be one
Speaker 1: of the best, if not the best, passing team in
Speaker 1: the NBA right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's weird that LeVert being out actually makes
Speaker 4: them a little bit better. And that because LeVert, I
Speaker 4: don't want to call him a ball stopper per se,
Speaker 4: He just he takes over and tries to do to
Speaker 4: a lot of stuff himself, whereas no one else on
Speaker 4: the Pacers really does that. So the ball just moved
Speaker 4: a lot better against Charlotte. And I mean they made
Speaker 4: a shit ton of threes, especially McDermott. But yeah, no,
Speaker 4: I thought Lavert being out actually improved their flow a
Speaker 4: little bit.
Speaker 1: Everyone can score. They've got a ten to twelve man
Speaker 1: rotation and they're not even fully healthy. TJ. Warren and
Speaker 1: Miles Turner aren't even playing. And this team looks nasty
Speaker 1: right now. If they can do what they did against
Speaker 1: the Hornets and what they've done actually the last like
Speaker 1: four or five games, where they've been very gritty, gone
Speaker 1: through adversity, like shoot the ball very well, move without
Speaker 1: the ball very well, past the guys who aren't even
Speaker 1: there yet in the lane, I think that they could
Speaker 1: make things really fun, make things very interesting. I mean,
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum went off for fifty against the Wizards, which
Speaker 1: that's tough. Look, that's tough to beat. I think Bill said,
Speaker 1: I am going to be as good as I'm going
Speaker 1: to get. He is not healthy going into this mismatchup
Speaker 1: tonight against the Pacers. He said, call me one leg
Speaker 1: bandit if you want. For me, it's just going out
Speaker 1: and showing my team that I'm here with them. I'm
Speaker 1: going to be trying to be as impactful as I can. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I've had four compression sleeves on at a time. It's
Speaker 1: just a matter of doing well. That's a lot of
Speaker 1: compression sleeves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's too many compressions sleaves.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's kind of like guys who say
Speaker 1: they use multiple condoms or I'm like, I think this
Speaker 1: is less effective. I think this is actually less effective
Speaker 1: than he wanted to be. And then for Russell Westbrook,
Speaker 1: he says that this is just Nixon bruises for him.
Speaker 1: I think he's really hurt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he looked.
Speaker 4: He looked impacted for sure, and they were making him
Speaker 4: work on defense too a lot.
Speaker 3: He looked exhausted.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, I uh, he did seem like he did
Speaker 1: seem like he was out of it, completely completely out of.
Speaker 3: It, and he couldn't shoot at all.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that the Pacers are going to
Speaker 1: blow the Wizards out. I just don't see it being close.
Speaker 1: I think it's they barely beat the Hornets. The Wizards
Speaker 1: barely beat the Hornets in the final game of the season,
Speaker 1: and the Pacers ran them out of the fucking gym.
Speaker 1: So I think the Wizards are going to get molly
Speaker 1: wopped tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I like that. I like that. I probably
Speaker 3: will go place that as soon as we're done here. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I placed a mats on Pacers money line. That's how
Speaker 1: confident I am. That's how confident I am. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: I mean they just can't defend anyone. The Wizards can't
Speaker 1: defend anyone anymore. Like I said, Pacers have a ten
Speaker 1: man rotation, and everyone can hit threes, like everyone got
Speaker 1: Justin Holliday, who can hit nine threes in a quarter? Like,
Speaker 1: just stop it, just stop it. If the Wizards were healthy,
Speaker 1: I think it would be different. But as they say,
Speaker 1: if some butts were candies and nuts, every day would
Speaker 1: be Christmas morning, and they are it is not so.
Speaker 1: Miles Turner also said, shout out to the casuals for
Speaker 1: betting against us tonight. This time of the year is different.
Speaker 3: I love I.
Speaker 1: Love players who are like just finding ways to be
Speaker 1: more fueled by the moment, Like we create fake hate.
Speaker 1: I do that. I like go and read the comic,
Speaker 1: your casual. You don't know basketball, Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 4: I was just laughing because I was a Hornets better
Speaker 4: so that kind of felt that kind of felt personal.
Speaker 3: But I think, Okay, you didn't play in the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You weren't even around. You
Speaker 1: weren't even around. Friday night, grizz faced up against the Warriors.
Speaker 1: Let's let's preview that we're gonna also, well, I can
Speaker 1: say this in the intro if I redo the intro again,
Speaker 1: but we're coming that Saturday to preview the playoffs because
Speaker 1: there's so many things that are yet to come, so
Speaker 1: special episode. Saturday, Grizzlies played Golden State again. I think
Speaker 1: this game is going to be fucking fun. As an aside,
Speaker 1: I don't know how Laker fans actually exist right now, Like,
Speaker 1: is that fun basketball to watch?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 1: To me? That was growth?
Speaker 4: I mean, winning's fun, I guess, but yeah, it wasn't
Speaker 4: particularly any tainy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd rather have a basketball team that was fun
Speaker 1: to watch and got bounced out of the second round
Speaker 1: than NBA champions that look like that, like one hundred
Speaker 1: points in twenty twenty one. Yeah, that's a hot take.
Speaker 1: Twenty one is just gross. So I think this is
Speaker 1: going to be a much funner basketball game than Golden
Speaker 1: State Lakers was. Warriors Lakers was trash. I think Warriors
Speaker 1: Grizzlies is gonna be fucking fun. Like Steph Curry versus Jaw,
Speaker 1: like two most chaotic point cards in the league, just
Speaker 1: reckless out there.
Speaker 3: Wait, so you're you're calling last night's game boring.
Speaker 1: What I would say is the first three quarters were
Speaker 1: a slog like. The first half for sure, was like
Speaker 1: what the fuck is going on? All that? It was
Speaker 1: just yeah, like it did get intense at the end,
Speaker 1: but like, you can't tell me what you saw in
Speaker 1: that first half was any fun to watch.
Speaker 4: On the line, So I guess I'm I'm I'm biased.
Speaker 4: I guess I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Uh, Grizzlies got super lucky. The Spurs couldn't couldn't
Speaker 1: buy a basket.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yesterday, it's weird.
Speaker 4: And even when they were coming back, I kept thinking, like,
Speaker 4: how are they still in this game? And then you
Speaker 4: go and look at the box score and you still
Speaker 4: don't really understand how they get into skalate like DeRozan
Speaker 4: and Murray did nothing. I think they shot a combined
Speaker 4: like I'd be shocked if it was more than thirty three.
Speaker 1: Per seven for forty six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were bad shooting, like.
Speaker 1: And they still only beat them by four.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: They built the twenty point first half lead and then
Speaker 1: and then the Spurs doing the Spurs things just like
Speaker 1: blotted out over it, like a slow burn, doing the
Speaker 1: things that San Antonio is so known to do. I mean,
Speaker 1: gotta be a stress situation if you're a Memphis Grizzlies fan.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's very similar actually to what happened to
Speaker 1: the Warriors. You build a lead and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you look up and you're like, how the
Speaker 1: fuck are they in? It? Still just just weird, you know,
Speaker 1: just really weird. Grizzlies were sloppy once again. I think
Speaker 1: that's going to be the determination against the Warriors. The
Speaker 1: Grizzlies are just, in my opinion, too young, not experienced enough.
Speaker 1: Jaw is even more reckless with the basketball than Steph
Speaker 1: Curry is, and not as good of a shooter, not
Speaker 1: as good of a player. So Valentunis is going to
Speaker 1: need to really take control and be a as Draymond
Speaker 1: gree would say, a fucking dog in order for them
Speaker 1: to have any shot. I think valentn has had.
Speaker 3: He had twenty three points, twenty three rebound Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Twenty three points, twenty three rebounds, and plus twenty six
Speaker 1: as the Spurs just had zero answer for him.
Speaker 4: He had, he had twenty twenty three three quarters. He
Speaker 4: was awesome. Like, if he can do that again, I
Speaker 4: think they have a chance. I mean, I'm not predicting that.
Speaker 4: I'm not predicting them to beat the Warriors by any stretch.
Speaker 4: But if we get that Valentnis, I think it's gonna
Speaker 4: be a close game at least.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I think that's right. I think that's right.
Speaker 1: I already talked about the Warriors. I think Warriors will
Speaker 1: win this game. I think it'll be close. I think
Speaker 1: it'll be like a five to six point game, just
Speaker 1: because I think the Grizzlies have a little bit more
Speaker 1: fire in their belly than they did in the final
Speaker 1: game of the season. But uh, let's just hope that
Speaker 1: the reps that officiated the Lakers Warriors game won't be
Speaker 1: at Chase Center, because that was that that was really bad.
Speaker 2: I'm overcoming the hospital.
Speaker 3: I'm ny impossible, said, I was being a lot to bool, But.
Speaker 2: I have become me astoppable and why would stop got
Speaker 2: a lot to do trying to tast topical. Don't call me.
Speaker 3: I ain't calling you except I'm not rocking to you.
Speaker 3: You just I don't want to watch my.
Speaker 1: Movies, I can tell you, all right, final, final thing
Speaker 1: to discuss. I know that things have been crazy lately
Speaker 1: with this Qualiti Brown stuff. All the smoke is catching
Speaker 1: lots of smoke, right, so much smoke. So I really
Speaker 1: do want to make this extremely clear. This this league
Speaker 1: is a pro Quame Brown podcast. Yes, we have nothing
Speaker 1: negative to say about Kwame Brown, who has fucking turned
Speaker 1: into Voldemort like he had he had the no shape
Speaker 1: or form. Do I want Quame Brown to create a
Speaker 1: nickname about me?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, that sounds like a nightmare. He's and
Speaker 4: be very mean and very accurate, mean and accurate.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he would say. He'd probably called
Speaker 1: me like cerebral palsy because I speak out one side
Speaker 1: of my mouth. He'd be like, oh, cerebral palsy with
Speaker 1: the brown hair or something. Like, that's so fucking crazy. So,
Speaker 1: mister Brown, Voldemort, Sir Brown, as I'd like to also
Speaker 1: call him, let's give him a knighthood. He is now
Speaker 1: taking it to the media streets, which is why I
Speaker 1: want to implant my flag into the Kuwame Brown territory.
Speaker 1: He just came after stephen A. Smith, after Gilbert Aerinas,
Speaker 1: Matt Barnes, stephen A Jackson. Now he's coming after ste
Speaker 1: A Smith, who he challenged to a fistfight in Seattle.
Speaker 1: Then he came after Charlemagne the God, and then he
Speaker 1: went after Jamel Hill. Women are not exempt from the
Speaker 1: Kwame Brown. She said. Kwame Brown got me checking the
Speaker 1: tape to make sure I am never said shit about him.
Speaker 1: If I did, I'm sorry. Please don't talk about my mama.
Speaker 1: And then she also said to Kwame Brown, I said
Speaker 1: you chose violence. I didn't say you were violent. It's
Speaker 1: an expression from Game of Thrones. Apparently he questioned her blackness.
Speaker 1: He questioned her ability to do things for the community. Basically,
Speaker 1: Kwame Brown doesn't want people to bring down the community.
Speaker 1: I get that, but like we do have to talk
Speaker 1: about sports, We're just not talking about Quame anymore. It's
Speaker 1: been twenty years. We're just not gonna do it anymore,
Speaker 1: Like he's exempt from from the whole thing.
Speaker 4: It's played out now like hard, Like it's at the point,
Speaker 4: I mean it's funny, like he was very funny on Monday,
Speaker 4: but now we're at the point where it's like, Okay,
Speaker 4: I I don't I mean, I'm not try to admit this.
Speaker 4: I'm not a Matt Barnes Stephen Jackson fan by any stretch.
Speaker 4: So now it's just like, Okay, you're just making me
Speaker 4: see them more often.
Speaker 3: Then I don't like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think he's gonna go on all
Speaker 1: the smoke now, which I definitely will want. And I
Speaker 1: think Kwame Brown is electric, speaking off the top of
Speaker 1: the head like he has a lot of great insults,
Speaker 1: he has a lot of fire, He has a lot
Speaker 1: of things to say, and for some reason knows everyone's business,
Speaker 1: like he knew the details of Matt Barnes's business in
Speaker 1: a way where I was like he jumped the fence
Speaker 1: to his own house. Matt Barnes jumped the fence like
Speaker 1: that's bad, Like he was he knew everything. Uh so
Speaker 1: he's gonna be in Atlanta in a month and he's
Speaker 1: finally invited on the pods. We're gonna see what happens.
Speaker 1: The off season is off to a hot start. Let's
Speaker 1: just say that I can't wait for more of this.
Speaker 1: I love talking basketball, but I also really really like this,
Speaker 1: and I think we're gonna be busier than ever in
Speaker 1: the summertime. Moving on, off season already started for the
Speaker 1: scrub teams. Uh, there are problems in Cleveland, as you
Speaker 1: might expect, and no, it does not have to do
Speaker 1: with Kevin Love if you can believe it turns out,
Speaker 1: according to Plain Dealer Cleveland Clean Plain Dealer beat writer
Speaker 1: Garry Pluto, what a name, the Cavs are strongly considering
Speaker 1: signing Jared Allen to one hundred million dollar extension. Alan
Speaker 1: you remember is why Andre Drummond had to get shipped out.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they like Jared Allen. He's thirteen ten to
Speaker 1: two is a building block for Cleveland. But the problem
Speaker 1: is you can't extend Jared Allen and also extend Colin
Speaker 1: Sexton for the money that Colin Sexton is asking for.
Speaker 1: Colin Sexton has tolled the world he wants darn Fox money.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Paul for that, Wait, so I mean Sexton, he's
Speaker 4: gonna have.
Speaker 3: They're gonna have to give him the max.
Speaker 1: I guess, uh, they are going to move him, you.
Speaker 4: Think, I don't know, it is a weird situation. I'm
Speaker 4: just thinking about it for the first time. Like, I
Speaker 4: don't necessarily think that extending Jared Allen's a bad call.
Speaker 4: I kind of liked what he was doing early on
Speaker 4: when he got there. Uh yeah, Kevin Love kind of
Speaker 4: puts him in a stranglehold, so they don't have they
Speaker 4: don't have the room to also says.
Speaker 1: That Sexton is looking for one hundred and sixty three
Speaker 1: million over five years, the same amount that Dear and
Speaker 1: Fox got, which combined with Allen's deal and Kevin Loves deal,
Speaker 1: which will be very difficult to get out of, makes
Speaker 1: it hard for the Calves to have anyone else on
Speaker 1: the roster, Like you just have a three man roster
Speaker 1: and a bunch of G League two way guys. I guess.
Speaker 1: So this GM says that the Calves are going to
Speaker 1: build around Allen, Darius Garland, and Isaacacorro, which means that
Speaker 1: Sexton's out in the dough. Gotta get out, gotta get
Speaker 1: the fuck out, and I think Darius Garland is probably
Speaker 1: better demeanor than Colin Sexton. Don't know who Colin Sexton
Speaker 1: will become. This is no Colin Sexton slander, but boy,
Speaker 1: we talk about out of control point guards. His nickname
Speaker 1: is the bull bull in China Shop. Colin Sexton definitely
Speaker 1: not a MAX player in my opinion. It is my
Speaker 1: opinion he's not a MAX player. And I think that
Speaker 1: there's a lot of teams that could use him, but
Speaker 1: not for the MAX. It's a tough tough pill to swallow,
Speaker 1: especially given that Jalen Suggs could be there. Who knows.
Speaker 1: We know how much the Cavs like signing so many
Speaker 1: people at the same position, So maybe they'll go after
Speaker 1: Jalen Suggs and they'll move Collin sex and I don't know.
Speaker 1: All I do know is that this is now. We
Speaker 1: are now more on Cleveland Cavaliers watchwork, which for some
Speaker 1: reason moves the needle from a social media perspective. So controversy,
Speaker 1: more controversy.
Speaker 3: The leftovers.
Speaker 1: I think that's right, more controversy for a team that
Speaker 1: cannot afford any more controversy. So that's all the time
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