WEBVTT - Lakers-Warriors Recap & Remaining Play-In Preview 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:04.400 On this episode of this League, the homiet was pressed 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:08.280 press pass. That is, yes, you're right, your girl got 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.440 a press credential for the Warriors Lakers game. So we 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:12.640 are going to be breaking that down. We also go 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.880 over the number eight playing games. We also go over 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:20.599 some potential Cavaliers drama involving Chubb Boy Colin Sexton, and 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.599 we also have a very very important public service message 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:37.680 about Kwame Brown. All right, Marty, let's drop the beat. 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:33.360 And you'll be waiting. 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:36.960 Plan of the play. 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:40.720 I go, let me go the game. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:49.320 And we got to talk about this Warriors Lakers game. First. 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:53.000 The main thing that I thought that was interesting is 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:56.800 the refs. The refs fucked the Warriors in this game. 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:01.200 Let's just be very clear. I I have a list 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.520 of things. I have a list of things. Let's just 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:09.960 start off here. Golden State was coming into the game yesterday, 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:14.520 one in fourteen in their last fifteen games officiated by 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:19.880 John Goebel or Trey Maddox, including four playoff losses with Goebel. 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:23.720 They were both reffing that game last night. 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:25.559 Yeah, no, I saw that for sure. 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:27.720 I mean, with my vested interest, I was definitely aware 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.919 of how they do that. I think I said something 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:32.399 in one of the other pods. I said, they're going 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.640 to bring Dick Bavett out of retirement to ref that game, 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.240 and they kind of it. 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:41.080 That is exactly what happened. So first up, there was 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:46.920 a blocking foul on Lebron James that was initially called 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:51.680 the charge, right, and that the challenge that they challenged 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:53.920 and lost their challenge because they had to use it 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:58.559 on that that was overturned, but the challenge was gone. 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:03.320 Then there was a blocking foul very quickly later on 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:08.000 Wesley Matthews that was actually called the charge on Andrew Wiggins. 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.680 Now that would have been overturned in my opinion if 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.560 they had that challenge to use, which they did not. 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.960 A few minutes later, Jordan Poole nearly threw down what 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.519 would have been one of the most delicious dunks, but no, 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.800 he wasn't able to finish it because Lebron James just 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.959 fucking hammered him and there was just no call whatsoever 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.840 at all, just like no whistle, no nothing. I couldn't 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.600 believe it. I was in the arena, could not believe it. 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:41.400 Multiple illegal screens called against Draymond Green, that tech against 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.280 Draymond Green didn't make no goddamn sense yet. 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.720 Yeah, I didn't understand what was going on there at all. 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.359 He seemed to not really be a part of what 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:49.840 was going on. 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:50.160 Really. 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:56.000 The tech on Jordan Poole didn't make any sense. Yeah, 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.560 there was one on Cavan Looney that was an illegal screen. 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.360 These were clearly like flops. The Laker flop was in 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:03.680 full effect last night. 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.240 Yeah, of fact, we won't. 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.519 We will get to the flop, James. We will get 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.720 to that. We will get to. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.920 That good good ad was holding. 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.359 And yes, the the poke in the eye by Draymond 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.400 Green could have been called a flagrant. It could have 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.799 been called a bunch of different things. So were there 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.799 bad calls against the Lakers that should have gone their way? 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.560 There were a couple, but like they were sort of 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.399 more questionable in my opinion than the others. 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:38.720 No, Uh, yeah, I would say, I would say, so. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:44.360 I was really surprised that they didn't give a flagrant, Yeah, 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:48.000 because it's yeah, it just seems like that's what they 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.240 do these days. And I had already accepted it. I 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.120 was like, that's the point where I had given up 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.880 that the Lakers weren't that the Warriors weren't going to 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:56.200 win the game, but then they came back. 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.360 Uh, I don't know. Yeah, no, it was a weird. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.080 That whole thing was weird, and I guess that kind 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.320 of kept me from like tweeting about the refs or 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.800 really thinking like, oh, the ref stole it, because they 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.640 like really could have stolen it there but chose not to. 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:12.680 So it is kind of weird. 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.320 And then eight seconds left after the la dagger as 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.200 we're calling it, the one second left on the clock, 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:23.400 la dagger deep thirty foot three. Just apparently he was 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.920 seeing that was right after the ipoke. He was seeing 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.200 three rims. Yeah, and he chose the middle one. Okay, 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:33.680 so just stop it. But the dagger with one second left, 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.920 and there's eight eight seconds and change left when they 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.320 called their time out. When they tried to call their 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.760 time out, the Warriors couldn't get the time out called 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.880 until there was only two seconds left. Then Anthony Davis 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:49.200 is grabbing Steph Curry, grabbing his arm. No call, which 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.040 would have been two shots and the. 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.200 Ball, Yeah go loose ball, Yeah, yep. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.640 Loose ball. You're grabbing him. He can't get in two 0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:00.240 shots and the ball. They lose by three. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.040 Now, yeah I did. I'll tell you the truth. I 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:04.960 didn't go back and rewatch the last play. I got 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.679 to go back and see that it did seem very close. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:12.960 Though it did seem very close. Okay. Now, outside of 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.760 the reps, a couple of things. One, I was at 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:21.800 the arena. The energy for the first half was very weird. 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:25.600 I'm talking about like, you know, you're somewhere you're really 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.040 not supposed to be, you know, like we're in a pandemic, 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.880 and then there's sports going on. So it's my first 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:34.320 time back into an arena since before the pandemic began, 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:39.320 and the protocols are through the roof, like, yeah, you're 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:45.040 showing your vaccination card or your PCR two negative PCR tests. 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.560 You're going through the protocol, et cetera, et cetera. Everybody's 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.479 you know, socially distanced or whatever. But so you're in 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.560 the arena and you realize like this is sort of 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.839 a special place to be. You know, you're one of 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.560 six thousand people that are there when it would have 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.120 been rock and at like twenty two, twenty thousand in 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.040 Staples plus media whatever that would be plus staff. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.320 Did the playoff intensity kind of negate, the fact that 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.719 there were a lot of empty seats, like in terms 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:13.119 of atmosphere. 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.760 No, the atmosphere was so bad for like the first half. 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.120 I mean like you could hear a pin drop ooh, 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.920 you could hear it was so quiet. It was eerily quiet. 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.720 It was not intense, and it was like everybody was 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.719 kind of stunned. The Laker delusion was through the roof, 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:34.240 like everyone just expected the Lakers to come out and 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:38.040 destroy the Warriors, and when the Warriors punched first, everyone 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.760 just looked shook. They even Staples even put a section 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:45.880 together on the far end on like on one side 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.480 where it was vaccinated, only to try to keep all 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.599 of those fans condensed so that the sound sounded more 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:56.360 I guess boisterous and like at first that didn't even work, 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.720 like it was quiet quiet, like it was weird energy, 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:04.240 like eerie, spooky ghost energy. And then when the Warriors 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.800 started giving up the ball, which you know, Steph Curry's 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.159 very loosey goosey with the rock. We'll talk about that 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:14.480 in a second, Okay, but the energy gets brought up 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.840 a couple of notches from Braun and Ad they hit 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:18.760 some crucial shots and then all of a sudden that 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.440 wakes the crowd up, which then wakes Braun and Ad 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.560 up more, and then it has almost like this momentum effect. 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:31.440 Huh So, if the fans would have started and continued 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:35.080 their intensity, which LA fans are trash, they are. LA 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.040 fans are some of the worst fans in sports. They 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.680 will not cheer for you when you're not performing well. 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.200 Like Boston Red Sox fans, if they're not playing well, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.360 they're still up on their feet. They're like trying to 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.560 create energy for the players. Lakers fans they're not doing that. 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.800 They're not doing that in the best of circumstances, so 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.520 they're certainly not doing that in a pandemic. Sure, so, 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:58.160 once Braun and Ady got going, that then motivated fans, 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.800 which then motivated the players. You can really how important 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.760 fan like good fans are. So that was really interesting. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.880 They had all of the cool media brands in like 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:14.160 the worst possible spot. It was like the Slam magazine, 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.960 the Like Nice Kicks, the Undefeated, the barstools like we 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:22.240 were in the nose bleats of the of the arena. Sure, 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:26.760 and then like the Washington Posts and the Athletics and 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.480 the USA to days, they're like on one hundred level, 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:34.040 like basically court side. So I used to be in 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.240 the court side area, like that's where my media seat 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.439 used to be, and I realized, like, they don't give 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.400 a fuck about you, they care about your outlet. So 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:44.559 that was very interesting. I actually thought there was a 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.960 possibility I wouldn't even get credentialed at all because I 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.880 was barstool. I was just waiting, waiting for the last 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:54.199 minute of to get denied. Lots of people think I'm 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.120 a Curry fan. I am a Curry fan. I'm not 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.360 a stand I don't like I'm not a Curry apologist. 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.280 I love Steph Curry. We've talked about him a million times, 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.720 but one of the biggest knocks I've always had about 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:10.120 him is that he, for some reason doesn't understand the 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:14.040 moment that he's in, Like he's so good, he's such 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.320 a great shooter in my opinion, that he just thinks 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:21.480 he can and no obstacle is insurmountable. So he just 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:26.079 like plays like it's like Game fifteen, It's like January fifteenth. 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.360 According to Steph Curry, with the Rock, he was like 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.439 Draymond Green. Is he walked across. He does this shuffle 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.800 too when he's running. He's just like no urgency. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:38.800 Yeah, I know what you're talking about for sure. Yeah. No, 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.600 he does not alter his game one bit depending on 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:42.120 the situation. 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.280 That is funny. It is bizarre. Uh, that's like never 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.480 talked about ever. Yeah, but he doesn't. 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.960 It's like there is no time where it's like I 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:54.760 need to play Chris, I need to play with poise 0:09:55.600 --> 0:10:00.360 and precision. Steph Curry precision, that's not a thing. It's 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:05.040 Steph Curry chaos all fucking time. Those five turnovers that 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.199 lost them the game too, Like if he doesn't turn 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.360 the ball over, if he doesn't dribble the ball against 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:15.200 his fucking shoe when Alex Crusoe the MVP of the game, 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:20.000 in my opinion, the MVP, the goat of the game. 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.760 He had some crucial play in that game. 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:28.400 Yeah, No, he got to the basket easy too, Yeah. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.680 And hit a couple of very timely threes. Was locking 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:35.079 Steph dout caused Steph to turn over the ball there, Like, 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:39.320 you're not dribbling against fucking Kentavious Calwell, Pope, Steph Curry, 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.600 Like this is the janitor, this is what the janitor does, 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:46.360 and Steph Curry was just like, you know what I mean. 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.839 Yeah, I mean, while we're on the subject of Steph 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.520 Curry turnovers, I mean that's why they lost the game. 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:55.360 We can point it at a bunch of things. Wait, 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.480 if you turn the ball over twenty times and the 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.920 other team has Lebron James, it's not going to end well. 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:02.960 And like the fact that honestly they did turn the 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:06.480 ball over twenty times. Uh, and we're still like, right 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.800 there is kind of I don't know, telling a little damning. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:16.360 It's damning, everyone says. I'm like looking into my comments, 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.920 I'm looking at my dms and people are like, but Trista, 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:23.319 the Lakers are healthy. Now you say they're overrated. By 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.000 the way, that video got like five hundred thousand views. 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.199 People just furious at me calling the Lakers and the 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:35.560 Jazz overrated. Okay, they're like, no, the Lakers are fully healthy. 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:37.680 Now Ad is back and Braun is back. Let me 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.240 just acquaint you with the facts. Just because you're playing 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.960 in a basketball game does not mean that you're healthy. 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:49.400 You are playing through pain. The definition of health is 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.800 not having pain when you do all of your activities. 0:11:53.679 --> 0:12:00.000 As normal, jumping, running, cutting, planting, exploding. It's very cool. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.400 The Lakers, Braun and ad are not healthy. 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.000 Oh yeah, well, I mean, I mean you definitely saw it. 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.120 In the first half. They were not clicking even a 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:08.520 little bit. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.880 It was like, we're just trying to stay in it 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.760 so that we can play through enormous pain for the 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:18.960 last like ten minutes of the game. Yeah. 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.120 Well, And there were lineups when the Warriors like went 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.320 small where I was thinking like, Okay, this should be 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.720 a real problem for them. I'm talking first half, This 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.599 should be a real problem for them. Lebron should be 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.040 able to go in and cook, and he just wasn't. 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.120 He looked slow, He. 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:36.240 Just looked tentative. There were times where he drove the ball, 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:40.000 he drove into the lane, had the ability to draw 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:44.680 contact and go up and he kicked out instead. That 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.640 happened ten times. I remember, like eight to ten times. 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.320 I'm like, what is going on, Anthony Davis is giving 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:56.040 up three looks, three point three looks, just giving it 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:59.160 this casey p when he can be shooting open for three. 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.080 They were just like let him shoot, let him shoot, 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:06.440 and he wouldn't shoot. It was bad. I knew the 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.960 things were bad for ad because I watched him warm 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:13.800 up and everything was off right by like some of 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.920 them went in because they just hit the right side 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:16.960 of the you know what I mean, They just go 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:20.080 into the right side of the hoop, but everything in 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.679 the corner was hitting off the right side of the rim. Like, 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:24.720 this is gonna be a tough night for Anthony Davis 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:26.400 and give it to the Warriors. I would say that 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:31.000 their game plan for him was was to perfection, take 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.280 take a d out of the game, get him out 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.480 of the rhythm, and make all the others, as they 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.560 call it, make all the others do everything else. 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.719 Yeah, it ended up playing Drummond off the floor too, 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.600 just because they kept getting switches onto staff and like 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:48.080 they just couldn't do it, which makes me feel a 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:48.680 little better. 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:49.400 That's one of the. 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.160 Things that makes me feel positive about the Sons having 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.000 to play the Lakers now is that I think we 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.560 can play those bigs off the floor for patches. 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.920 Yeah. I think that's an interesting question, is that if 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.280 eighty plays the five, which I think he's gonna play 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.480 a lot of five in this series two, he's gonna 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:09.439 have to He's gonna have to otherwise, Devin and CP 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.480 three and mchal Bridges are gonna cook, just like the 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.640 Warriors cooked. I think this this game actually was a 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.560 perfect blueprint for you as to how to beat them. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.120 Yeah. Yeah, No, I saw a lot of things that 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:22.120 I liked. 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:23.760 Yeah, so did I. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:25.560 So let's just talk. 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.800 About I was still hoping with every inch of myself 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.080 to not have to play them, but I, of course, 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.880 being the crazy optimistic fan, I've already convinced myself we're 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:33.280 gonna win. 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.080 So and also, I would say if you're gonna play 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.640 the Lakers, because you're gonna have to probably play them 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.880 unless someone else bounces them, You're gonna have to play 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.000 them at some point. And I'd say right now is 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:49.520 the best time to play them, because because Lebron will 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.000 be healthy in two to three weeks and then it's 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:53.400 then it's night night. Yeah. 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:54.560 I definitely come around to that. 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.160 Uh, let's talk about the ipop for a second, just 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:03.080 circling back. Is there anyone who puts extras on shit 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:03.960 more than Lebron? 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:08.640 No, It's honestly insane, And we talked about it. There 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.920 was a social clip too about their rocky complex. There's 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.800 always just got there's gotta be a little extra adversity 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.000 like sprinkled on it. Like no, like you hit a 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:20.640 thirty four foot shot to clinch the playoffs, Like that's 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.600 that's a big enough moment, you know, Like you didn't 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:24.240 need a sprinkle. 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.800 You'll also need to say you couldn't see why did 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.640 you also say I was basically blind when I hit that? 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:33.760 Yeah, And it's such bullshit, like like you were doing that, 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.960 you wouldn't got, you wouldn't got the like eye drops 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:36.400 and all that. 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.400 You were doing that to sell the fouls of FLAKR. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.680 Absolutely absolutely, And I think the thing that's interesting to 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:48.840 me is like Lebron obviously through all of his pressers, 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:53.200 understands the idea of the narrative around the greatest of 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:56.960 all time and how much narratives like shape things, and 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.880 so he throughout time and the history of his career 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.080 just keep sprinkling how much he's had to deal with, 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:08.320 Like he might say he had coronavirus like two months 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.120 from now, Like I was also playing through coronavirus, you 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.240 know what I mean? Like I know I was vaccinated, 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.640 but I also played through coronavirus and liked, did Michael 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.640 Jordan have to play through coronavirus, like it's always gonna 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.560 be that, which I think is hilarious. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:24.000 Yeah, no, that is the funny thing. 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:29.440 So say they come in, they beat Phoenix, they beat Denver, Portland, 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.960 whoever that is, then they beat Clippers Utah whoever that is, 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.160 and then they go and beat Brooklyn Like that would 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.600 be one of the I mean, it probably wouldn't top 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.680 twenty sixteen, but that would be his second biggest accomplishment 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.760 by a wide margin. And he would still Yeah, I 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.560 could easily see him saying like, oh yeah, and like 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.280 my ankle by the way, like I was on like 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.360 forty percent. After that, he would still have to he 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:51.840 would still have to come up with a reason why 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.080 it was more impressive totally. 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:57.440 Because constantly always going up against Jordan, which I think 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:01.360 is tremendous. It's just trendous. That shot was one of 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:02.360 the biggest shots of his life. 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.600 Oh yeah, yeah, it's one of those uh somewhere, that 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.080 one that he hit against Orlando and n O nine 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.040 like that long three. So yeah, yeah, it's up, it's 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:13.880 up there, and that's gonna be on his all time 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:14.800 highlight reel, no doubt. 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:28.879 Absolutely, this is already I said it already, no matter Winterday. 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.200 All right, let's uh, let's talk about the final play 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:38.200 in games. Thursday night, the Pacers play the Wizards. 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:39.240 I'm excited. 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:45.720 So Pacers blew out Hornets as I suspected. Wizards lost 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.320 to the Celtics, which I did not suspect. I also 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.760 did not suspect Russell Westbrook would be heavily injured in 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:52.200 that game. 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:56.920 Yeah, that was that definitely threw a wrench in that plan. 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:58.679 I was on the Wizards and the Hornets, so I. 0:17:58.720 --> 0:17:59.160 Had a bet. 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:02.679 I had a bad I had a bad Tuesday. 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.320 You're gonna need to take that PACER's money line. It's 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:09.000 a plus one forty five right now Pacers, and they're 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:11.800 they're counting that the Wizards will win by I think 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:13.800 the line is three and a half right now, Marty, 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.680 I'm just going to tell you right now, don't bet 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.280 on the Wizards. They're not healthy. I don't care that 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.000 it's in DC. The Pacers are, like I told you, 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:25.360 I think two episodes ago, the Pacers might be one 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.520 of the best, if not the best, passing team in 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:28.400 the NBA right now. 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.440 Yeah, And it's weird that LeVert being out actually makes 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.280 them a little bit better. And that because LeVert, I 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.560 don't want to call him a ball stopper per se, 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.960 He just he takes over and tries to do to 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.760 a lot of stuff himself, whereas no one else on 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.200 the Pacers really does that. So the ball just moved 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:50.320 a lot better against Charlotte. And I mean they made 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.560 a shit ton of threes, especially McDermott. But yeah, no, 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.159 I thought Lavert being out actually improved their flow a 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:56.560 little bit. 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.720 Everyone can score. They've got a ten to twelve man 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.720 rotation and they're not even fully healthy. TJ. Warren and 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:07.120 Miles Turner aren't even playing. And this team looks nasty 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.600 right now. If they can do what they did against 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.240 the Hornets and what they've done actually the last like 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:15.640 four or five games, where they've been very gritty, gone 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.600 through adversity, like shoot the ball very well, move without 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.160 the ball very well, past the guys who aren't even 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:24.520 there yet in the lane, I think that they could 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:26.800 make things really fun, make things very interesting. I mean, 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:31.119 Jason Tatum went off for fifty against the Wizards, which 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:36.359 that's tough. Look, that's tough to beat. I think Bill said, 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:39.240 I am going to be as good as I'm going 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:43.080 to get. He is not healthy going into this mismatchup 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:45.680 tonight against the Pacers. He said, call me one leg 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.240 bandit if you want. For me, it's just going out 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:50.240 and showing my team that I'm here with them. I'm 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.280 going to be trying to be as impactful as I can. Honestly, 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:57.560 I've had four compression sleeves on at a time. It's 0:19:57.600 --> 0:19:59.119 just a matter of doing well. That's a lot of 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:00.000 compression sleeves. 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:01.880 Yeah, that's too many compressions sleaves. 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.040 I feel like that's kind of like guys who say 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:05.959 they use multiple condoms or I'm like, I think this 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:09.600 is less effective. I think this is actually less effective 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.640 than he wanted to be. And then for Russell Westbrook, 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:14.680 he says that this is just Nixon bruises for him. 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:16.080 I think he's really hurt. 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:18.879 Yeah, he looked. 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:21.639 He looked impacted for sure, and they were making him 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:23.640 work on defense too a lot. 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:24.919 He looked exhausted. 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:30.240 Wow. Yeah, I uh, he did seem like he did 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:33.359 seem like he was out of it, completely completely out of. 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:34.720 It, and he couldn't shoot at all. 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:37.800 So yeah, I think that the Pacers are going to 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:43.200 blow the Wizards out. I just don't see it being close. 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.639 I think it's they barely beat the Hornets. The Wizards 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:48.160 barely beat the Hornets in the final game of the season, 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:50.480 and the Pacers ran them out of the fucking gym. 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.080 So I think the Wizards are going to get molly 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:54.000 wopped tonight. 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:56.720 Yeah. No, I like that. I like that. I probably 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:58.920 will go place that as soon as we're done here. Yeah. 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:01.720 I placed a mats on Pacers money line. That's how 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:06.280