WEBVTT - Batmen and Robin 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.080 On today's episode of This League, we talk about the 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:06.479 difference between being a batman and a Robin in the NBA, 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:10.559 why the East seems to be so suddenly stacked, and 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:14.280 we break down why Yannis is the next James Harden? 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:19.079 What is it about the league that makes NBA players 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:26.280 subtweet like their love spurned teenagers. They're like using philosophical quotes, 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:30.880 They're like putting music into their story that flows into 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:35.120 what their grievances are. Sometimes they just come out and 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:38.479 actually say it. They just shots fired, and then the 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:42.479 world is looking around, like what just happened? That? That 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:44.400 was this weekend with James Harden? 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:44.920 Folks? 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.839 That was what I saw on my story when I 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:50.199 looked into what was happening? 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:51.239 Did you see it? 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:51.720 Yeah? 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:52.320 On his story? 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:52.640 Yeah? 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:54.360 Yeah, no, I actually did you want me to read it? 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:54.640 Yeah? 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:56.880 Okay, he goes. We do all this. 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:00.440 Talking about uplifting the next African American male afthat, and 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:03.440 some of these ex NBA players use National TV or 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:04.520 their own social. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.640 Media to do the opposite. I see it. I just 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.640 stay to myself. The real never lose. My favorite part. 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.440 The Real never lose my favorite One of my favorite 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:17.320 part is that if you were looking closely, he incorrectly 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:21.480 spelled there. I'm not a grammatical nazi about things. 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:22.560 But that was funny to me. 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:29.319 A lot of polarization between some athletes about this Instagram story, 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:33.200 Some very much agree, some very much disagree. But I 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.600 wondered to myself who he might be talking about a 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:41.120 few people, I think because there were very spicy takes 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.080 when Harden left Houston, takes that I wouldn't say were 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:49.280 inaccurate necessarily, but they were not nice. They were not friendly. 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:55.279 Let's start with the TNT boys. Charles Barkley hit the tape, Ernie, 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:56.160 you got. 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.600 The only one of those three guys who has proven 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.320 to me he's not selfish and not a mean guy. 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:07.000 It's it's KD. KD went to Golden State and he sacrificed. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.959 James Hard and Kyrier ever have never shown me like, no, 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:11.960 I just want to win. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:16.079 It's aggressive, that's the most important thing. Wow. 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.080 Okay, so let's move on earlier, Shack, I mean, that 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:25.519 was a lot that wasn't necessarily untrue, but listen, James 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:27.760 Harden's had to be the man for a long time now. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.760 Shack pointed out that Hard and claimed that he did 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.200 everything in his power to win in Houston, but he 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:34.840 really did. 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.040 Not have to say some things. And keep in mind 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.000 on have G fourteen classifications. 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:39.840 I don't know what that is. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.120 You asked for d white House, We gave him to you. 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:44.440 Facts didn't work out. 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.880 You asked for Chris Paul, We gave him to you. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.799 We asked for you asked for some shooters, We gave 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.720 it to you. We asked for Westbrook, your homeboy from 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.880 Little League. We gave him to you. It didn't work out. 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.920 And when you say I gave you everything, I say, no, 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.120 you didn't, because the last five games, when it comes 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:07.440 to elimination, you're won and four bring from three uh 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:12.040 thirty two assists, thirty two assists and twenty seven turnovers. 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:13.720 I used to be like James. 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:19.519 That's I mean, Shack's out here spitting stats and facts, 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:24.440 saying what we all kind of know, which is in 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.840 crunch time. James Harden was not the guy saying what. 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:33.959 Even Kendrick hot bad take Perkins seems to also have 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.200 the presence of mind to know, which to me is 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.360 very stunning. If Kendrick Perkins gets the take right, it's 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:40.640 the take. 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:44.040 Durant is going to be the batman. James Harden is 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:48.680 going to be the riveman. Can Kyrie Irvin handle Ben Afford? 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.640 And I don't know that? So this is an insurance plant. 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:56.960 These clips seem like news to you, Marty. You seem stunned. 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:01.200 I had not seen the Shack one. That was pretty funny. 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:05.480 This is actually my exact opinion too. I think Harden 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.040 also knows truthfully, deep down in his heart. If you 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:15.280 investigate and look between the lines, like inspector Gadget. 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:18.640 You'll see he knows. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.000 He said it in his presser, the last presser when 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.920 he was leaving Houston, and he also said more that 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.400 gave me the same impression when he got to Brooklyn. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.440 He said in Houston, we are just not good enough. 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:36.279 I have done all I can. This situation is unfixable. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.600 I can't do this alone. Basically, you can see that 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.440 because he asked to be traded the teams that were 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.760 not about to be contenders if he got there, but 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:49.920 already projected to be contenders. 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:50.520 Folks. 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.760 He's like, I'm not trying to be the missing piece. 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.680 I want a piece that I want to be a 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.280 piece on a team that's already ready to win a chip. 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:04.640 He also said in that next presser, my goal was 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:08.760 securing my family's future. Now my entire focus is winning 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:14.159 a ring. Basically, all of that to say, I am 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:18.400 not Batman. I can't be the only one to do 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:22.840 this alone, to try to win a championship. I wanted 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.839 to be the man, because why the man gets paid. 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:28.440 I secured the bag. 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.960 I made a shitload of money in Houston, and now 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.000 it is time to move on to new goals. To 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:38.840 win a chip. I'm gonna be a willing passer. I'm 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.080 gonna be Robin. I will defer, I will play make. 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.560 That's what he said in his presser. All things that 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.480 athletes say when they get to a new team. They 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.920 are the most compliant that we've ever seen them. When 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.120 they get to their introductory presser. They're nice to media. 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:59.920 It's all like hearts and roses. But you know what, 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:02.520 and I'm a skeptical fan. 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:03.320 I am right. 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.000 I don't believe most athletes when they say things to 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:11.080 the media. I look at their actions, and oh boy, Marty, 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:16.119 did you see James Harden's actions against the Magic I did? 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.839 He played pretty incredible. He almost threw up a quadruple 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:21.760 doubles sort of. I mean he got to the line 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:26.080 like fifteen times, twelve boards, fourteen assists, four steals. 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:27.960 I mean, what a game, what a debut. 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.360 Seemed like he was kind of ready to sacrifice a 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:31.760 little bit. 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:33.840 Wonder if Charles Barkley. 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:37.320 Saw that game, what he thought about that game? Harden 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.120 heard them and said, oh you don't you think I'm 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:47.120 a me guy? Let me show you. Challenge accepted, my lord. 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:54.400 Twelve rebounds, yeah, four steals, four steals. Let's not act 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.599 folks like James Harden can't play some defense. 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.200 No, he totally can. That rumor has been put to 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:00.520 bed for a little while. Now. 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:01.200 Is he elite? 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:01.479 No? 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.160 But I mean he was great against Okay, seeing the 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:05.839 bubble that series that was really heated. 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.920 He when he wants can lock some fools down. He 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.320 is a big body. He can move his feet. His 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.880 footwork is unquestionable. It is hard, though, to be a 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:20.320 lockdown defender when you are the focal point on offense 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:25.000 every single possession. You need to average fifty in order 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.200 for this team to be able to compete and go 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.760 all the way, to be the one every night getting 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:34.960 hit your body in the lane, beats bruises and then 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:36.440 also be a lockdown defender. 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:39.880 Are you talking yourself into being a hardened fan by 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:40.360 any chance? 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.760 All time pivot, last show, last show, I'm. 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.200 Banging on him two shows ago, banging on him, and 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:50.160 I think I'm team Harden. The haters, the haters can 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:55.920 say that Hardened self destructed, but me a team Hardened. 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.440 Person, I would like to say he's self reflected. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.520 Critics would say that he's a fat man with a 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:08.360 strip club fetish. But first of all, let let's not 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:13.360 go against anyone's hobbies. We're not hobby judging here. Second, 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:15.640 I would say that Harden is really a man who 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.680 understands the purpose of work life balance, letting off some 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.360 steam when it comes to working in a very stressful 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:27.200 work environment. And for folks who say he's fat, you 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:28.960 know that Harden is going to play himself in the 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:33.280 game shape. He's already down like fifteen pounds in like 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.360 three days. Did you see him in that nets warm 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.760 up compared to those baby blue warm ups? He looks 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.080 slim like Overnight. Couldn't figure out what had happened. He's 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:47.440 on that kyrie cucumber juice. How did he get to 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.160 this point? I don't know how did he get to 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:56.040 this revelation. I just know he's there. Sometimes sometimes it 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.600 takes banging your head into a wall over and over 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:02.160 and over and over again to realize, maybe I need 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:06.240 to make some changes. Maybe things I loved aren't important 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:06.960 to me anymore. 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.760 Maybe I'm not who I thought I was. Fuck, life 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:13.119 was pretty good. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.920 When I was playing with Kevin Durant being the sixth 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:20.960 man coming off the bench. I was beloved and Okay, see, 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:25.800 I think we should try that again. We were competing. 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:28.719 Took him eight years, folks, I don't care how long 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:32.840 it took him better late than ever. Some guys like 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.160 Charles Barkley, they don't. 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.800 Get the immutable truth. 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.600 They just never quite figured out that winning as a 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:48.760 robin is always better. All Right, there's another team that 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.960 I had some thinking this weekend, and there's another team 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:57.520 that's giving me MVP James Harden twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:02.840 Houston Rockets vibes out early in the playoffs, vibes freak 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.600 player MVP caliber. Maybe not able to do it without 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:07.400 another superstar? 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.439 Okay, are you talking about Yannis? The free comment made 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:12.439 me think you're talking about. 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.480 Yanna's see, I dropped that bread crumb for you. 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:17.199 I dropped that break, sue me. 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:23.320 Yannis and the Milwaukee Bucks are the next iteration of 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:28.680 the twenty seventeen twenty eighteen Houston Rockets MVP Conference Finals 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:34.720 at the very ceiling, best player making the max locked 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.960 up for five years. The problem is that player and 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.520 the fan base expect with all of that comes a ring. 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.319 And I promise you I would bet. People say I 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.480 would bet my life savings on something. I would bet 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:52.320 my life. I would bet the beating heart in my 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:57.080 fucking chest, my last breath. Yannis will not win a 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:02.720 ring with this franchise as currently constructed. He is going 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:08.240 to need a lot more. I will bet everything. And 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:11.640 you know what, I also bet on Giannis is going 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.560 to do the exact same thing that James Harden did. 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.400 He's gonna get life changing super Max money and get 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.920 tired of losing because he can't win the way he 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.080 wants to as a leader. 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.960 I mean, yeah, there's a whole lot there. I mean 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:32.480 I think they're bench stinks. I mean I think Milwaukee Yeah, no, 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.400 I agree completely. I don't think they're winning a title 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:34.640 at all. 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:39.080 Right now, no shot did you see Here's here's where 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.920 it all came together for me. Yeah, did you see 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.360 the Bucks play the MAVs on Friday Night? 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:46.000 I did? 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.000 Yeah, it was It was a wild game. 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:52.880 That was the most disgusting game between two potential MVPs 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.559 I think I've ever seen. You got two guys leading 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.719 the MVP race, and it was that. Don't even get 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:00.840 me started on Luca not being a bit man the 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.120 way he played against the Bulls. 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:03.520 Can't even win against the Bulls. 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.720 Yeah, I mean, if Yanna shoots fifty from the foul line, 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:08.480 they win that game. 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.040 They did win that game. They just didn't cover that game, right, 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:11.880 That's why man cover. 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:13.440 Motherfuckers can't cover. 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:16.400 I know that's not what it takes to win a ring, 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:20.000 but you dude, come on now, Yannis, we are assuming 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.079 he can be a cornerstone of a championship team. That 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.960 dude shoots one for ten from the free throw line. 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.960 That was when I knew it. That was when I 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.760 said it. I tweeted it. They're never gonna do it. 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.120 They're the Milwaukee Bucks are never gonna win a ring. 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.040 Eleven games in, we are eleven games in, and they 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:44.320 looked like molasses. You had guys legit walking around screens, 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.400 literally walk hitting. 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.319 Someone comes up sets the screen and they walk around. 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:54.760 It, just chucking up shots, checking out bricks early on 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:55.640 in the shot clock. 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.160 What it was disgusting. 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.320 If it's hard to watch now eleven games in, how 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:04.959 do you think it's gonna be forty games from now? 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:09.160 You think they're gonna be more fresh, more energized, more 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.920 pep in their fucking step. It's not like this team 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.840 got bounced. This team went to the finals. The team 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.280 got bounced early to the heat. 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:19.800 I don't care. 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.720 Everybody's gonna say, oh, Trista, they almost went to the 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:23.600 finals two years ago. 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:24.679 What are you saying? 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:26.719 They were up three to one on the on the 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:30.560 Toronto Raptors who won it all. Bitch, I don't care 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.360 about the past. That was before the East was stacked, 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:37.880 wasn't it now? If if some nuts were candies and nuts, 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.200 it would be Christmas morning every day. They are not 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.400 going back to the finals. That was the shot that 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.160 they had, and it is now over. That window to 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.920 me is now over. The East now is a death march. 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:53.040 You've got Miami, You've got Brooklyn, you've got the seventy 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.320 six ers, you've got the Celtics. Goddamn, which one of 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.359 those teams can Milwaukee beat? 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:01.200 I don't know if it's any of those. 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:04.880 Let's run it back in six months, see who see 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:08.839 how we're feeling. And like I've said before, nothing gives 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.800 me more pleasure than being right. When everyone tells me 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.400 I'm wrong and it coming to fruition and I see it, 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.120 I go, look, I told you, I told you. Dancing 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:21.240 on their grave insufferable. I am so annoying as a winner. 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:26.000 I'm gonna be screaming from the rooftops. And in four years, 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:30.080 oh baby, oh baby, when Yannis forces himself out of Milwaukee, 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:31.720 I promise you. 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.280 You're gonna hear it from me. And do you know why? 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:35.200 This is how I know. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:35.960 It's true. 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:38.760 Because Giannis is no batman. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:43.280 He's a fucking amazing robin, maybe the number one Robin 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:46.720 you could ever ask for. You put Yannis with Lebron, 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.840 you put Jannis with KD, You put Yannis with Kawhi. 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:54.200 Oh man, they're a buzzsaw. But does he make those 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:59.400 around him better? Like Lebron or KD consistently does Marty no? 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:00.760 No seeing the playoffs? 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:00.920 Now? 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.640 Can he put a franchise on his shoulder and drag 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:09.200 them to greatness. No, can he unquestionably be the man 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:13.280 in a Game seven hitting the final shot when everyone 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.480 knows he's about to hit the final shot and actually 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:21.280 make it. No, and that's fine with me, but I 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.200 promise it's not fine with Giannis, and it's not fine 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:27.120 with ownership that just paid him an ungodly amount of 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.400 money to win a ring for this little town. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:34.360 The world believes he's a batman. He believes he's Batman. 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:36.760 That's delusions of grandeur, folks. 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:42.640 And in fact, it is clear, abundantly clear, that there's 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:47.840 only three batman in the entire NBA bron kd Kawhi, 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:52.720 every other superstar that exists, Robin at fucking best who. 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:55.000 That's quite a statement. 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.600 I have to say, aren't you a pretty big Blazers fan? 0:15:58.600 --> 0:15:59.840 You're gonna leave Dame out there? 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.120 It pains me, It pains me, it does. I love 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.680 Damian Lillard. I love the Portland Trailblazers. There's the whole 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.320 reason that I got in the basketball to begin with. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:14.800 Clyde to Glide. He is gonna be the best Blazer 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:16.960 in history. 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.920 Yeah, he's a superstar. For sure. Can he win a 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:20.680 series for us? 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:21.040 Hell? 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:24.800 Yeah, he can do it multiple times. I have fantasies 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:26.480 of Dame being a Batman. I do. 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:31.480 I think about it late at night. He's not a 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.520 two way player, Marty. He hits those series winners, but 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:38.000 he can't carry this team to win a chip. 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.040 And that's the difference. That's the fact, man. 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:42.520 I mean, how can you say that? 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.440 How gonna say what? There's three Batman's facts. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.560 You just look at these facts, cold hard, immutable facts. 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:50.840 Here they are. 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:57.080 Now, take a little pencil out. 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.040 This thing on all right, here we go. 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.240 In the last ten years in the end finals, every 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.800 single finals has had at least one team with either Bron, 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:09.560 Kadi or Kawhi playing on it. In six of those years, 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.959 both of those teams had one of those three players 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:16.840 on it. Sixteen out of the twenty teams that have 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:20.800 played in the last ten NBA finals have had one 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.800 of those players on it, either Kdie, Kawhi or Broun. 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:29.440 That's how you know, folks, how who Batman is. There's 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:35.480 plenty of other superstar teams, only three Batman Bron. Nine 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:39.400 out of the last ten finals, the super Batman unbelievable 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:43.840 on three teams one time, two different times, one team 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:48.520 two different times, Cavs twice, Katie two different times, two 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:52.280 different teams, Kawhi two different teams. I don't care if 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.200 Kde and Kawhi went onto these quote unquote stack rosters. 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.720 Houston had stack roster. Boston Celtics had a stack roster. 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:02.760 The last time that Boston Celtics were in the finals, 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.320 it was twenty ten and they didn't even win. So yeah, 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:12.199 point stands all of that to say all of that 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:16.440 for this point, do you still think Giannis is Batman, 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.680 Nate Dogg? Nobody comes closer than close original They never 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:25.200 will be. Let's talk a little more about Lebron James, 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.639 something that nobody is talking about. 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.600 Yeah, I mean it seems like yesterday people were joking 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:33.680 about him having to come out of a weak East. 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:35.400 I mean, that was always the thing about him, And 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:37.560 do you think people will say that about him coming 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:38.320 out of the West now? 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:40.360 I mean, of course it's Lebron James. 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:44.199 Are you kidding me that people are actually saying with 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:47.159 a straight face that there is an asterisk next to 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:51.399 his championship coming out of the bubble? And that's true, 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.240 there is an asterisk. It was one of the most physically, 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:59.520 mentally emotionally taxing championships that you can say is in 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:03.560 history other than the World War Two. And this season, 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:05.800 of course, is gonna be worse because you have an 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:11.000 entire season in a pandemic. But haters are gonna say 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:15.639 that Lebron James's every single ring is photoshopped. But what 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:17.800 is not being talked about is the fact that Lebron 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.399 James decided, you know what, I'm gonna go West in 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.080 the middle of a Golden State dynasty. How about that 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:27.200 for a week he didn't know that KD was gonna leave, 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.040 He didn't know that Clay was gonna get injured. 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:36.600 Houston was still stacked at that point. The West was stacked. 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:43.399 And now, somehow, mysteriously, somehow, people will say that the 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:47.280 East is stacked. The East is fucking stacked. You've got 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:49.040 the Celtics, you got the Heat, you got the Sixers, 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.360 you got the Nets, you got the Bucks. Five out 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:57.520 of the top seven teams probably in the East superstars 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:01.679 since Lebron went West, superstars have either signed big deals, 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:05.879 got traded left and free agency, and most of those 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:10.760 either stayed East or went east. Kawhi Leonard was gonna 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:15.000 stay in Toronto if he couldn't get Paul George. Why 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:18.320 do you think that is? Why do you think all 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:20.760 of these players went east? 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:23.080 All of them whin He's I mean, I could go 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:25.560 through and probably come up with reasons for all of them. 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:29.320 But the trend does definitely speak for itself. 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:34.280 I mean, come on, Mark, mass exit is East mass 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:35.439 exod is the facts of this. 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:35.879 Guys. 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:38.440 Don't want to play Lebron James in the playoffs until 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:40.560 it's the finals. 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.480 That is, That's the facts. 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:45.600 It is a lot easier inside of your heart of 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:48.040 hearts to get to the finals and play a thirty 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:49.720 six year old, beaten. 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.120 Down, mangled Lebron James after. 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:55.400 He went through the gauntlet. Gotta play the Clippers, get 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:59.320 through them. Who knows, maybe you'll roll an ankle or something. 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:06.119 Maybe we'll get lucky, tired, vulnerable. And the East is 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:09.120 stacked filled with fucking badgers. I'd like to call them, 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:12.320 but I would rather face a badger in a box 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:16.840 than a fucking black bear. You might get fucked up 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:20.520 by a badger, but you will not die. You have 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:24.800 a chance to live. Nobody dies from a badger. No one, 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:29.720 it won't be pretty. You will look like I mean, 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:33.160 it'll be bad. But a bear, you go one round 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:36.560 against the bear. It's a body bag. Done, done, can 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:39.639 coon on three? Get your golf clubs ready, you are out? 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:45.040 Remember Lebronto, that was how it goes. So I'll take 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:46.960 my chances. If I'm a player, I'll take my chances 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:50.280 out east. And it's a bizarre to me, like first 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:54.320 take SVP, all these little pundits. Nobody wants to talk 0:21:54.359 --> 0:21:59.480 about the mass exodus running from the grind, switching teams, 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:03.920 avoiding the king, creating. 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:06.440