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Speaker 1: to zero deficit that would have been a death sentence
Speaker 1: for them and a convincing win. And then the Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Nets that we're up five late on Philly and Tyrese
Speaker 1: Maxey stole the game away from them, So we're gonna
Speaker 1: get into that a little bit of the ejection related
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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some basketball. So you know, I
Speaker 1: talked about this a little bit after Game two, but
Speaker 1: I said, you know, sometimes it's less about schematics. It's
Speaker 1: fun to sit here and be like, oh, what if
Speaker 1: we do this or make this magical adjustment, it'll just
Speaker 1: completely change this entire series. And don't get me along wrong.
Speaker 1: There are adjustments that take place in series, and some
Speaker 1: of them can be monumentally important, you know. For instance,
Speaker 1: like the Warriors consistently slotting Andrea Gudala into the starting
Speaker 1: lineup in the middle of a series against Lebron James
Speaker 1: because Lebron was having so much success against Harrison Barnes.
Speaker 1: He was building his rhythm early in games and killing
Speaker 1: them throughout. But by starting on Dre Goudalad just made
Speaker 1: Lebron work harder earlier in the games and had an
Speaker 1: impact on his efficiency. There are adjustments that will swing series.
Speaker 1: A specific pick and roll coverage, a specific defensive matchup
Speaker 1: where one individual defenders giving guy giving a guy problems
Speaker 1: that the other defenders on the team haven't done. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, Davion Mitchell and the job that he's done
Speaker 1: on Steph Curry in this series. Thought it was super
Speaker 1: interesting that Mike Brown didn't play him a ton tonight,
Speaker 1: But more often than not, it's less about schematics and
Speaker 1: more about just doing better. Steve Kerr in his interview
Speaker 1: after the third quarter, he basically said, look like we
Speaker 1: knew we just had to take better care of the
Speaker 1: basketball and rebound better on both ends of the floor,
Speaker 1: and that's what we did. Like, there's no magic cure
Speaker 1: other than just do your job better. And I've talked
Speaker 1: a lot about this, particularly in this series, as the
Speaker 1: dynamic of perimeter defense. You it's not so much about
Speaker 1: you know, finding the right guy here or there, but
Speaker 1: everybody as a team has to do a better job. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ideally you have Gary Payton on one of Deer and
Speaker 1: Fox from Malik Monk and you have Harrison Barnes on
Speaker 1: the other and you have Draymond Green on the back line.
Speaker 1: Ideally that's what you'd have. You'd be able to contain
Speaker 1: those guys better, right, But today it was no Gary Payton,
Speaker 1: no Draymond Green, and they had their best defensive game
Speaker 1: of the series as a team, just swarming all over
Speaker 1: the floor, helping each other, making extra efforts, going out
Speaker 1: of their area to try to make plays. All around
Speaker 1: as a team, they just did better. And sometimes it's
Speaker 1: more about that than it is about any sort of
Speaker 1: schematic thing about rebounding and taking care of the basketball
Speaker 1: was the story of the game. Just like Steve Kerr
Speaker 1: talked about, Kevon Looney led the way six offensive rebounds
Speaker 1: in the first half of a must win playoff game
Speaker 1: when you are the only real center who's available on
Speaker 1: the roster. That is unbelievable. Clutch performance from Kevon Looney.
Speaker 1: Dante DiVincenzo was amazing off the bench. Every starter had
Speaker 1: at least five rebounds, you know. And then Steph Curry.
Speaker 1: It's so easy to be like, oh Steph Curry, great game,
Speaker 1: thirty six points. I thought he was so laser focused
Speaker 1: and locked in every single possession of this game. I
Speaker 1: was texting with some of our production staff during the
Speaker 1: third quarter about how so I love the way that
Speaker 1: different types are different, Like I love the way that
Speaker 1: the different ways that savage competitors manifest themselves in personality types.
Speaker 1: You know, you have guys that are like like Lebron James,
Speaker 1: that are very boisterous and love the attention and kind
Speaker 1: of come off as as you know Prima Donna likes
Speaker 1: sometimes and a lot of times people target that as
Speaker 1: a negative with him, when like, the persona is the persona,
Speaker 1: but that dude is a savage competitor. He works harder
Speaker 1: than most players in the league, and he does the
Speaker 1: little things to win basketball games better than most players
Speaker 1: in the league. Like, it doesn't matter if if you're
Speaker 1: the Kobe Bryant like jerk asshole mentality, or if you're
Speaker 1: the Michael Jordan jerk asshole mentality, or if you're the
Speaker 1: super nice guy and Steph Curry, or if you're the
Speaker 1: super kind of like you know, a performative type of
Speaker 1: guy like Lebron is is underneath it all, if you
Speaker 1: have that unbelievable competitive instinct, that's what drives these guys.
Speaker 1: It's I always talk about it as like a hatred
Speaker 1: of losing more than a love of basketball. A love
Speaker 1: of basketball is a is a monumentally important part of
Speaker 1: being a great basketball player. But you also have to
Speaker 1: hate losing because the actual things that go into winning
Speaker 1: games are not necessarily fun. The way that offensive skill set,
Speaker 1: just polishing your offensive skill set and working on your game,
Speaker 1: that that is fun. It's fun polishing those things. What's
Speaker 1: not fun is cracking down on the defensive rebounds when
Speaker 1: one of your teammates is boxing out. What's not fun
Speaker 1: is sprinting back in transition and putting your body on
Speaker 1: the line when someone's barreling at you at full speed.
Speaker 1: That what's not Like Like Steph Curry, Like that's your
Speaker 1: leader of your team, an undersized guy who doesn't have
Speaker 1: the best physical tools in the world, and he's coming
Speaker 1: down on drivers from behind and snatching the ball from
Speaker 1: behind them and scream into the crowd like he was
Speaker 1: a warrior ready for this game, and his impact on
Speaker 1: winning went well beyond the thirty six points that he
Speaker 1: had in this game. Now, one of the stories that
Speaker 1: you're gonna see and a lot of people were talking
Speaker 1: about it on Twitter. I noticed, but there's gonna be
Speaker 1: conversations about are the Warriors better without Draymond? And we
Speaker 1: do this all the time for whatever reason, and every
Speaker 1: time I get annoyed by how silly it is. The
Speaker 1: Warriors were fourteen points better per one Hunter possessions with
Speaker 1: Draymond Green on the floor this season versus off the floor.
Speaker 1: They were eleven points better per one Hunter possessions last
Speaker 1: year in the postseason when Draymond was on the floor
Speaker 1: versus off the floor. You're not going into Sacramento and
Speaker 1: beating the Kings without Draymond Green. You need Draymond Green.
Speaker 1: That said, the Warriors are capable of winning without him,
Speaker 1: especially at home. And ironically, this game didn't really go
Speaker 1: the way I expected. I expected the Warriors to win
Speaker 1: Game three and Game four. I was still confident that
Speaker 1: they would win Game three after the Draymond Green suspension.
Speaker 1: I was still confident they would win Game three after
Speaker 1: Gary Payton news, which was bizarre today that he missed
Speaker 1: the game with an illness, which is super unfortunate under
Speaker 1: the circumstances. I just here's the thing. As bad as
Speaker 1: the Warriors have been on the road this year, they've
Speaker 1: been just as good at home. They've looked like the
Speaker 1: championship winning Warriors at home. And you know, this is
Speaker 1: a consistent theme in the NBA, especially in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: but role players in particular generally tend to perform better
Speaker 1: at home than they do on the road. Dante DiVincenzo
Speaker 1: wasn't super impactful down in Sacramento. He had a monster
Speaker 1: night tonight, particularly as an athlete, just making plays all
Speaker 1: over the floor. Kevon Looney winning battles here in Golden
Speaker 1: State that he was competing in in Sacramento, but not
Speaker 1: winning to the same extent. Like guys just played better
Speaker 1: at home. And this Warriors team in particular has always
Speaker 1: fed off of their crowd and managed to pull games out,
Speaker 1: especially against good teams. This year at home when they've
Speaker 1: needed it, they got to win without Draymond. But guess
Speaker 1: what you need Draymond. And you know, one of the
Speaker 1: most encouraging things for the Warriors in the series, and
Speaker 1: one of the biggest reasons why I have not picked
Speaker 1: Sacramento to win at any point, even when they were
Speaker 1: up too oh, even when the suspension came down. The
Speaker 1: reason why I stuck with the Warriors is my pick,
Speaker 1: and again, the series is not over. I could still
Speaker 1: very well be wrong when it's all said and done.
Speaker 1: But one of the big reasons why I stuck with
Speaker 1: my pick with the Warriors is the specific dynamic that
Speaker 1: was killing the Warriors in Sacramento. Struggling in transition that
Speaker 1: can be cleaned up, struggling on the glass that can
Speaker 1: be cleaned up. The dribble penetration from Deer and Fox
Speaker 1: and from a leak Monk was the biggest problem. But
Speaker 1: they had kind of figured it out in Game two
Speaker 1: and they were starting to have some success, and I
Speaker 1: actually believe they would have won Game two had Draymond
Speaker 1: not been suspended. They were gonna go back or ejected,
Speaker 1: I should say, they were gonna go back to this
Speaker 1: core lineup, the one that I expect them to go
Speaker 1: down with when the Chips are down. Should Game three
Speaker 1: be close, should or Game or be close, excuse me,
Speaker 1: in game five when they're in Sacramento, I expect them
Speaker 1: to go down with this lineup. But Steph Curry with
Speaker 1: Klay Thompson, with Andrew Wiggins and Gary Payton, and with
Speaker 1: Draymond at the five. That is the lineup that I
Speaker 1: expect them to go down with in Sacramento. That way,
Speaker 1: they can match up straight across with Gary Payton and
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins on Malik Monk and Darren Fox. That lineup
Speaker 1: in Sacramento on the road, despite losing both games, was
Speaker 1: a plus five net rating in just under forty possessions
Speaker 1: against small sample size, but that's typical after just two games.
Speaker 1: But that grouping has been winning their minutes kind of
Speaker 1: convincingly in Sacramento, and that's what I expect them to
Speaker 1: go down with again. With playoff series, it's less about
Speaker 1: like how you're winning and whether or not you can
Speaker 1: continue to win that battle of tugger war over the
Speaker 1: course of the series. The Kings are gonna win games
Speaker 1: a certain way. The Warriors are gonna win games a
Speaker 1: certain way. You've seen that in that series. How do
Speaker 1: the Warriors win in Sacramento. They need to take the
Speaker 1: specific thing that Sacramento does so well, just dribble penetration
Speaker 1: from their guards, and they need to rain that in.
Speaker 1: They have the pieces to do so. On the other
Speaker 1: side of things, for Sacramento, they do not have the
Speaker 1: pieces to handle. Steph Curry, there is no version of
Speaker 1: this story where they control Steph Curry, they have not
Speaker 1: been able to handle him in any of the three
Speaker 1: games of this series, whereas the Warriors have demonstrated some
Speaker 1: stretches where they've been able to lock down defensively and
Speaker 1: get a lot of stops. So honestly, I felt like
Speaker 1: if Sacramento wanted to win this series, this was the
Speaker 1: game they had to win. And they did it, and
Speaker 1: it went different than I expected. Like I said, and
Speaker 1: I bet it'd be all offense. I thought Steph Clay
Speaker 1: and Jordan Poole would like combine for like eighty points.
Speaker 1: Clay and Jordan Poole kind of struggled in this game.
Speaker 1: I mean, Clay made some shots at the end, but
Speaker 1: for the most part, Jordan Poole and Clay Thompson did
Speaker 1: not play well. They won this game on the defensive
Speaker 1: end of the floor and on the glass. They only
Speaker 1: shot forty percent from the field in this convincing win
Speaker 1: at home. They just barely played well enough on off
Speaker 1: but in a crazy high pace game they managed to
Speaker 1: get enough stops. I think this series is going back
Speaker 1: to Sacramento tied it too, and I think Game five
Speaker 1: will be one of the most important games of the
Speaker 1: series I disagreed with I talked about this earlier, but
Speaker 1: I disagreed with Mike Brown going away from Davion Mitchell.
Speaker 1: He played like I think, I want to say, like
Speaker 1: seventeen minutes in this game. Obviously, he can't stop Steph,
Speaker 1: but he can make Steph work hard, and I think
Speaker 1: one of the best pathways to victory in this series
Speaker 1: for Sacramento is to try to fatigue Steph, particularly with
Speaker 1: a lot of ball pressure from Davion Mitchell, to make
Speaker 1: him work hard. You saw, particularly in Game two, the
Speaker 1: game they played Davion the most minutes, you saw Steph
Speaker 1: start to leave some jumper short at the end of
Speaker 1: the game, despite getting some pretty good looks. I think
Speaker 1: that's a big kind of adjustment that I'd expect Sacramento
Speaker 1: to make. I think that he I think that Mike
Speaker 1: Brown sensed that the game was getting off the rails
Speaker 1: a little bit, and it almost seemed like he stuck
Speaker 1: with Keegan Murray and Kevin Hrder because those guys haven't
Speaker 1: shot well and he knew the game was a loss,
Speaker 1: and I think he left him out just try to
Speaker 1: kind of try to get their rhythm in time for
Speaker 1: Game four. But I don't think it's gonna matter. I
Speaker 1: think both Gary Payton and Draymond are coming back in
Speaker 1: Game four. I think the Warriors are gonna come out
Speaker 1: and put together another impressive double digit win, and I
Speaker 1: think we'll head into Game five from there. All right.
Speaker 1: Moving on to Clipper Son. So when we started the show,
Speaker 1: they were up thirteen in the fourth quarter, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure they ended up closing the deal. From there. Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook and Norman Palill put up a valiant fight, but
Speaker 1: they just couldn't bother KD enough without Kawhi out there,
Speaker 1: and then Devin Booker just lit them on fire in
Speaker 1: this particular game. I wanted to talk about the Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard injury for a second because I find this to
Speaker 1: be kind of bizarre. I'll be really curious to see
Speaker 1: in the postgame quotes from guys like TYLERU and Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook whether or not this was something that they were
Speaker 1: made aware of in the time leading up to the games.
Speaker 1: Kawhi has had a tendency to just kind of surprise
Speaker 1: people with his injury status, which has been the strange.
Speaker 1: You know, you know where we go from here with Kawhi.
Speaker 1: You could not possibly have approached this season with more
Speaker 1: caution as it pertains to wear and tear. And I
Speaker 1: get that from a certain perspective. I've I've and I've
Speaker 1: said this for years, but I kind of disagree with
Speaker 1: that strategy. I'm a big believer in conditioning your body.
Speaker 1: Get your body used to taking on heavy mileage. That
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you drive it into the ground. I don't
Speaker 1: even think it's necessarily out out of line to say, hey,
Speaker 1: like sit out back to backs like that to me
Speaker 1: makes some sense, especially for guys like Kawhi that have
Speaker 1: had injury history. But I do believe that when you
Speaker 1: do play, when you are healthy, you should play, and
Speaker 1: you should play significant minutes. Why because this is a
Speaker 1: two month grind where you're playing basically every other night,
Speaker 1: and if you want to win the trophy, you gotta
Speaker 1: win sixteen playoff games and you're probably gonna lose another
Speaker 1: eight or nine. More So, like, this is a hefty
Speaker 1: chunk of basketball where you to play thirty eight to
Speaker 1: forty minutes a night of really high effort and intensity
Speaker 1: two way basketball. You have to condition yourself for that.
Speaker 1: But regardless of what it was, this strategy didn't work
Speaker 1: this strategy of resting him all season long, he broke
Speaker 1: down in two games to playoff basketball. And again when
Speaker 1: I say, I don't know where this where it goes
Speaker 1: from here? I genuinely don't like. How do how do
Speaker 1: you change your approach from here? Like? Are you gonna
Speaker 1: go super cautious again next year under the same circumstances
Speaker 1: down two to one in a series? Is he's gonna like?
Speaker 1: Does Kawi seem like the kind of guy who's gonna
Speaker 1: push to come back in Game four to attempt to
Speaker 1: rest control of this series that you know, honestly, even
Speaker 1: if Kawhi outplays KD may not be enough to win,
Speaker 1: and to do it on a bum leg and potentially
Speaker 1: do further damage. Let's say you win this series, is
Speaker 1: your knee ready for a second round series against you know,
Speaker 1: battling with Aaron Gordon, a bunch of games against the Nuggets?
Speaker 1: I don't this is I Look, I know there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of people that are gonna go at
Speaker 1: Kawhi during this stretch. I want to be clear. I
Speaker 1: don't think Kauai is too good at basketball to not
Speaker 1: love basketball. He just it's impossible to be as skilled
Speaker 1: as he is and to work as ard as he
Speaker 1: has worked on his skill set, if you don't love
Speaker 1: the game. So I know he loves the game, and
Speaker 1: I know he wants to play, but for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: he just has been super super cautious, and even that
Speaker 1: hasn't worked. So I'll be I don't know, like like
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to even imagine what next season will
Speaker 1: look like for Kawhi under these circumstances, and right now,
Speaker 1: I'd be surprised if he came back to play at
Speaker 1: all in this postseason, And who knows, maybe he comes
Speaker 1: back in game four and everything's fine. But I just
Speaker 1: don't understand why he wouldn't have played tonight under those circumstances,
Speaker 1: especially in a one to one series super bizarre. I
Speaker 1: was so impressed by him in this playoff series too,
Speaker 1: So it's just a bummer that I don't like this Kawhi.
Speaker 1: This was a series I had marked as a sweep
Speaker 1: obviously super wrong, and this was a series that I
Speaker 1: thought would be relatively boring. This has been one of
Speaker 1: my favorite series to watch, especially those first two games,
Speaker 1: this battle between Devin Booker and Russ and Kawhi and
Speaker 1: KD has been super entertaining, and it feels like we're
Speaker 1: getting robbed of that and that bumms me out. Moving
Speaker 1: on to Sixers Nets really quick, Tyres Masey flat out
Speaker 1: stole this game. The Nets were up five with I
Speaker 1: think just under two minutes left, and they run like
Speaker 1: a double pick and roll action and they duck under
Speaker 1: the pick or run into the pick. Tyres gets a
Speaker 1: good look, sticks a three, brings it back to two.
Speaker 1: They go down to the other end. They're swinging the
Speaker 1: ball around the perimeter and Tyre's Maxy just rips the
Speaker 1: ball away from Royce O'Neil, races all the way down
Speaker 1: to the other end and lays it in. We're tied.
Speaker 1: They go down, they get a stop and Tyres Maxy
Speaker 1: just walks down and takes that hard pound dreable between
Speaker 1: your legs, which is like my favorite step back three move.
Speaker 1: That particular move that threw the legs hard to the
Speaker 1: right is a really good move to sell a drive
Speaker 1: because it's one of the best ways to protect the
Speaker 1: basketball when you're driving to the right is to stick
Speaker 1: your leg out and dribble between your legs and it
Speaker 1: gets you nice and low to beat a guy in
Speaker 1: that leverage battle as you're trying to go to the right,
Speaker 1: so a lot of defenders are going to take a
Speaker 1: backward step on that hard pound dribble between the legs,
Speaker 1: and it's a really natural step back. With a good bass,
Speaker 1: You're not having to cover a ton of ground, got
Speaker 1: plenty of separation, rose up, stuck the jump shot, and
Speaker 1: then Joel Embiid with the clutch block at the end
Speaker 1: and the Sixers go up three to zero. I finally
Speaker 1: appear to have picked a sweep. Right. We'll see they
Speaker 1: got to close out game four, but I expect them
Speaker 1: to a couple of specific things that I want to
Speaker 1: complain about here, the officiating thing. And you say what
Speaker 1: you want about officiating and decision making, there's one thing
Speaker 1: that is, no matter what the case, is unacceptable, and
Speaker 1: that's inconsistency. If you're going to eject Draymond Green from
Speaker 1: a game because he kicks another player, and then literally
Speaker 1: two nights later, you're going to not eject a similar
Speaker 1: like a star player when he also kicks another player
Speaker 1: when in both cases they were provoked, and I would
Speaker 1: argue Sabonus provoked Draymond Moore, he grabbed his ankle. Nick
Speaker 1: Clason just kind of stepped over Joel Embiid. Now, it's
Speaker 1: an aggressive taunting type of play, and I would have
Speaker 1: not ejected either of them for the record, but that
Speaker 1: inconsistency is the problem. Yeah, the suspension, it has been
Speaker 1: made clear by the league, had more to do with
Speaker 1: Draymond's historyonics after the play, and Colin laid that out
Speaker 1: for me last night, and I actually agree with him. Now,
Speaker 1: that makes sense to me. I've bummed as a basketball
Speaker 1: fan that he wasn't able to play tonight, but it
Speaker 1: made sense to me. But the ejection itself, there's no
Speaker 1: consistency there, and that's the problem. And then later in
Speaker 1: the game, a playoff game, in the fourth quarter of
Speaker 1: a game the Nets can win, Nick Claxton dunks on
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid and taunts him a little bit and gets ejected,
Speaker 1: mind you, on a second technical, and again like it's
Speaker 1: so easy to be like, hey, Nick Claxton, you should
Speaker 1: have known better. You already had a technical. Not a
Speaker 1: smart move. I get that, But stop interfering in basketball games,
Speaker 1: unless as an official, unless you have a really damn
Speaker 1: good reason too. You are not the star of the show.
Speaker 1: The players are we want to see Joel Embiid beat
Speaker 1: the Nets at full strength with Nick Claxton on the floor.
Speaker 1: We want to see the Kings beat the Warriors at
Speaker 1: full strength with Draymond Green on the floor. You're interfering
Speaker 1: with the television product. And again I get it. If
Speaker 1: it's obvious, you know, dude cold cox a dude, Yeah,
Speaker 1: eject him. James Harden got ejected in this game for
Speaker 1: an inadvertent off arm to a guy in the crotch
Speaker 1: that would like inadvertent. Like the inconsistency on this stuff.
Speaker 1: The main character syndrome from officials is driving me insane.
Speaker 1: And I've been talking about this all season. It's one
Speaker 1: of the most underdiscussed and undercovered problems with the NBA
Speaker 1: right now is the role of officials and them not
Speaker 1: understanding that their job is to facilitate good basketball games
Speaker 1: and nothing else. There's no other role they play. Help
Speaker 1: us watch the basketball players, not you the basketball players.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm off by soapbox. I'll I have one
Speaker 1: last soapbox to get on this Joel Embiid flopping thing.
Speaker 1: You know, I was really impressed with Joel Ebid in
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. That he attacked all
Speaker 1: the stars in the league. As much as I would
Speaker 1: have voted Giannis for MVP, I accept the fact that
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid is a deserving MVP winner. I've been really
Speaker 1: impressed by his skill development and everything he's doing at
Speaker 1: the foul line and the way that that's made him
Speaker 1: like borderline unguardable. I've been vouching for this Philly team
Speaker 1: season as a real championship threat. I was the guy
Speaker 1: who said that I expected James Harden to have a
Speaker 1: big bounce back year, and he's been much better than
Speaker 1: he was last year. I'm a bit I've been trying
Speaker 1: so hard to jump on this Philly bandwagon, and Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid makes himself so unlikable with this crap. There was
Speaker 1: a play where Joel Embiid, what is he like two
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy pounds on a like on a light
Speaker 1: little body check on an entry pass like splayed out
Speaker 1: on the ground and I can't remember. I think it
Speaker 1: was Royce O'Neill. It might have been Nick Clackston think
Speaker 1: it was Royce O'Neil, though bumps him and he's just
Speaker 1: looking down at him, like, dude, what are you doing man.
Speaker 1: First of all, it's embarrassing. Second of all, is dangerous.
Speaker 1: He tore up his knee, teams his teammates knee last
Speaker 1: year doing it. Third, it's objectively bad for the television product. Fourth,
Speaker 1: the officials have no idea how to handle it. More
Speaker 1: often than not, they reward him and fit That actually
Speaker 1: doesn't help him win basketball games, because if he played
Speaker 1: with physical aggression and actually held his ground, dudes would
Speaker 1: bounce off of him and he'd actually still get foul calls,
Speaker 1: if not more foul calls, and he'd be more efficient.
Speaker 1: So like, I can't get on the Joel embiid, you know,
Speaker 1: I can't get on that bandwagon until he cuts that
Speaker 1: shit out. It's like it's just it's just objectively unlikable.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow is my wife's thirtieth birthday and we're celebrating with this.
Speaker 1: Whole trip has been kind of centered around her, but
Speaker 1: we're going to celebrate Tomorrow night, So we're taking that
Speaker 1: night completely off. But I'll be covering tomorrow night's games
Speaker 1: on Saturday morning, and then we're gonna be going live
Speaker 1: on AMP on Saturday night after Lakers Grizzlies to break
Speaker 1: down all of the Saturday Slate. As always, I appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys. We've had a crazy successful week and I
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys rocking with the show and I will
Speaker 1: see you guys on Saturday morning. The volume