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Speaker 2: Timber will snatch home court the very first game of
Speaker 2: this series, one O four to one O two. They
Speaker 2: got a welcome surprise. Ant Man played. He came off
Speaker 2: the bench, but he played twenty five He played twenty
Speaker 2: five minutes, eighteen big points two or three from the
Speaker 2: three point line, played from minis in that fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: He was sensational, Joe, We're gonna kick it off with you,
Speaker 2: and then we go to U twin and then, oh Joe,
Speaker 2: you take it and then I'll come home with it.
Speaker 2: How was Minnesota able to go in there? And San
Speaker 2: Antonio was playing some very good ball? They closed out
Speaker 2: Portland won what two straight games? Three straight games and
Speaker 2: closed that series out. How was Minnesota able to go
Speaker 2: in there? Because I don't think anybody had Minnesota to
Speaker 2: win this game. I don't think no one thought this
Speaker 2: was gonna be a sweep. But I don't think many
Speaker 2: people had minnesot to go in and win the first game.
Speaker 1: How were they able to do it? Joe resilient.
Speaker 4: I told you, and I told you, and Ocho I said, man, listen, uh,
Speaker 4: these Templewolves ain't gonna be no pushover. Man, it ain't
Speaker 4: gonna be as easy as everybody think. They got some
Speaker 4: dogs too. They got some guys who can compete, some
Speaker 4: guys who can move them puppies, you know, play some defense.
Speaker 4: And then what you want to do with wimbycho twe
Speaker 4: you want to be physical with him?
Speaker 1: Bro?
Speaker 4: You want to be Philly. Yup, he had a triple
Speaker 4: double wood blocks. So what you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: I think as the game kind of continued to go on,
Speaker 4: he was, you know, kind of starting to wear down
Speaker 4: a little bit. But they both teams was exhausted, Bro,
Speaker 4: Timberwolves was exhausted.
Speaker 1: At the end. But they did what they wanted to
Speaker 1: do to one.
Speaker 4: You know this, man, when you go into a playoff series, bro,
Speaker 4: your your your first mindset is okay, we got two
Speaker 4: games on the on they on their home turf, We
Speaker 4: at least want to get one.
Speaker 1: I got you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: I think you got to give Minnesota the credit the
Speaker 5: coaching staff. That was smart. I love the way they
Speaker 5: did it with Anthony Edwards bringing them off the bench
Speaker 5: so he could you now to play him only twenty
Speaker 5: five thirty minutes you knew he couldn't play a full game.
Speaker 5: I think that was that was the check mark number
Speaker 5: one thing right there, bringing them off the bench and
Speaker 5: playing them in spurts and allowed the other guys to
Speaker 5: get into the floor of the game where they not
Speaker 5: depended on end And I think that and I think
Speaker 5: that's what really started at But you gotta give Minnesota credit, man.
Speaker 5: They was able to play a small lot. They ain't
Speaker 5: able to play a small lineup. I think people don't
Speaker 5: realize if you when you look at this game again,
Speaker 5: they played small in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: They didn't have to. They didn't have to play Rudy.
Speaker 5: So as great as one he was defensively, he's gonna
Speaker 5: have to figure it out offensively because you can't allow
Speaker 5: them to play small because the venice goes to Minnesota
Speaker 5: if they able to keep nives red at the five.
Speaker 5: Because now that down the mismatches started to happen on
Speaker 5: the offensive end for Minnesota. So kudos to Minnesota, big
Speaker 5: win to go in there and get that. But Ethniel
Speaker 5: was I thought was great. I thought he didn't force it.
Speaker 5: He played within the system. He allowed he allowed the
Speaker 5: other guys to help him out, and that's why they
Speaker 5: got to win tonight. The series has switched. This This
Speaker 5: is gonna be a great series.
Speaker 2: I believe if it's gonna it might this series might
Speaker 2: end up going the distance.
Speaker 1: The second half.
Speaker 2: This is what Chris Finch dead to winby held him
Speaker 2: to five points, two of eight field goals, zero for
Speaker 2: three from the three point line, one or two from
Speaker 2: the free throw line.
Speaker 1: He was zero for eight from the three point line.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're watching this game, And like I said, I
Speaker 2: didn't think this was gonna be a four to Oh.
Speaker 1: I thought it would be.
Speaker 2: I thought it would be an extended series because I
Speaker 2: didn't anticipate in wmby play excuse me not women ad
Speaker 2: Man to play until they got back home.
Speaker 1: Guys, that's what I thought Man would come in.
Speaker 2: But he's progressed so far, so fast that they say,
Speaker 2: you know what, he's able to give us something. And
Speaker 2: whatever he's able to give us is more than what
Speaker 2: we would have been able to get if he was
Speaker 2: not on the court. On eighteen points that he gave
Speaker 2: you and great efficiency eight of thirteen, two or three
Speaker 2: from the three. Now, he wasn't attacking like he normally
Speaker 2: was because but you know a that Nie still probably
Speaker 2: lit little sore let But just say, you know what,
Speaker 2: I still can get my shot out here and foul.
Speaker 1: But I thought, I thought Chris Finch and.
Speaker 2: The game plan that he had was unbelievable, especially in
Speaker 2: the second half.
Speaker 6: Yeah, hey, listen, the god damn Wolves were Resilian.
Speaker 7: Huh. There was a regilion.
Speaker 6: They gave Wimby Hell okay, defensively, he had a shipload
Speaker 6: of goddamn blocks and stayed on changes back what they
Speaker 6: was able to do. They kept the game close. Listen,
Speaker 6: the game was back and forth. It could have went really,
Speaker 6: it could have went really idiot either way. If you
Speaker 6: watch the entire game, they was they was. They were
Speaker 6: scoring back to back to back to back to back.
Speaker 6: The game was close the entire time, and Ant coming
Speaker 6: off the bench being able to do what he did,
Speaker 6: even though he wasn't effective as he normally is, coming
Speaker 6: off the bench, giving them boys, you know, some minutes,
Speaker 6: not only minute, but some some effective points as well.
Speaker 6: That god damn mcdams, that mcdams and god damn Julius random,
Speaker 6: but the boys had.
Speaker 2: You know what I was surprised by, guys, is that
Speaker 2: when you really look at it, and you you look
Speaker 2: at these two teams, they really don't have an answer
Speaker 2: for Jude Randall. They had Stefan Castle trying to guard
Speaker 2: you Ramble in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Can't do it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I take my hat off to it, because
Speaker 2: he stepped up to the challenge. He ended up filing out.
Speaker 2: But that's a lower you see. You see lest eight
Speaker 2: six nine, two forty two fifty. Can't deal with him
Speaker 2: down there in the blox and you got your starting
Speaker 2: point guard trying to deal with their power forward because
Speaker 2: you don't really Yeah, because they like to play more.
Speaker 2: They like to play wimby and basically threes and twos
Speaker 2: and ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cause they don't have a four.
Speaker 5: And let me let me add this, guys, you gotta
Speaker 5: think about this. The Minnesota team has been together for
Speaker 5: some years now, They've been in the Wars. This this
Speaker 5: is the first trip for San Antonio. You gotta think
Speaker 5: Minnesota's not gonna get rid of that. They cores seven.
Speaker 5: Eight guys besides Terren Shennon have been in these wars
Speaker 5: and been and played these tough games.
Speaker 3: So they got an advantage that way. Nobody's talking about that.
Speaker 5: Everybody's thinking, because the Spurs had a great season that
Speaker 5: this is gonna be an easy series. Nah, Minnesota feel
Speaker 5: confident this group has been together. Don't look at the seeds,
Speaker 5: don't look at being because they just sixth seed and
Speaker 5: all that. No, this group, that Minnesota guy has been
Speaker 5: together for this probably third or fourth year with this crew. Yeah,
Speaker 5: when you think about it, so that they really kind
Speaker 5: of got that advantage. When you think about it, they're
Speaker 5: not scared to go on the road. They everybody knows
Speaker 5: their role, and you saw that tonight. If ethne Everts
Speaker 5: can give them that no consistently, I don't know how
Speaker 5: hurt he is. You know, it's hard for us to tell.
Speaker 5: But if he gets anywhere to twenty twenty five a night,
Speaker 5: they got a chance to get this thing over at
Speaker 5: five man, I like Minnesota.
Speaker 4: Hey, hey, hey, the piggyback with hold on piggyback with
Speaker 4: toyn say. I agree with Toying wholeheartedly, especially early when
Speaker 4: he said when Minnesota goes small, San Antonio got a problem.
Speaker 4: They gotta figure it out because it takes Windby away
Speaker 4: from the basket. When you got nas reed at the five,
Speaker 4: you feel so if he ain't gonna guard nads reading,
Speaker 4: he gonna play health defense. Now, it's gotta hit him
Speaker 4: upside his head. Every time you feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So I like the t Wolves. I don't know if
Speaker 4: they can win this series, but damn day off to
Speaker 4: a damn good start, and I got faith in the bro.
Speaker 4: I got faith in them. Hey listen, y'all see them
Speaker 4: boys out there competing at.
Speaker 1: The highest level.
Speaker 4: They were he outside of win I think Rudy Gobert
Speaker 4: played some solid defense, gave him some great effective minutes
Speaker 4: by outside of Winby Bro when he go out the game, man,
Speaker 4: they get what they.
Speaker 2: Want, Yes, they got no because they don't fear, at
Speaker 2: least think about it. He had twelve blocks, but he
Speaker 2: had about another five or six alterations where you like,
Speaker 2: I ain't I know what's problem up in there, but
Speaker 2: you know who I think. And look, ju Ramdall played unbelievable.
Speaker 2: If he was five offensive rebounds, he had double digit.
Speaker 2: He had a double double. But I think what goes
Speaker 2: unnotices Mike Conley because every time they needed a shot
Speaker 2: to quell the run down, Mike Conley hit the three,
Speaker 2: and remember Winby blocked the shot and the Blues ball
Speaker 2: was all over the floor. They kicking to Mike Conley
Speaker 2: in the corner and he knocks down a three.
Speaker 1: Blackout.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I'm saying, because now the crowds
Speaker 2: in the friends look when Winby blocks the shot, it's
Speaker 2: almost like step shooting a three. That's the equivalent of
Speaker 2: the crowd erupts. Yeah yeah, so now the crowd is
Speaker 2: going crazy. We just shut him down. We go, Hey,
Speaker 2: somehow Minnesota comes up with the ball. They kick the
Speaker 2: call in the corner in the left handed up side
Speaker 2: the head and and you know, hey, you we've all
Speaker 2: been there, Joe dwy you know you scrammed it and
Speaker 2: all a sudden.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but you got a message. But like Collie
Speaker 5: plays so good to know you really don't have to
Speaker 5: rush Allo back. You can kind of it now, you know.
Speaker 5: I all get to get now two games to come back.
Speaker 5: You don't have to rush him back. You get about it.
Speaker 5: He didn't play at night, and he's playing really good
Speaker 5: right now.
Speaker 1: Hey, I agree with that.
Speaker 4: I think when you think about it, do you do
Speaker 4: you play a man in game two though? Or do
Speaker 4: you let him continue? Do you let him get a
Speaker 4: little rent? I would play him. I think I just
Speaker 4: think you have to watch his minutes again.
Speaker 5: I think you put him on a minuteccount because if
Speaker 5: you get a chance to steal game two. Now, it's
Speaker 5: a really really big different series now going back home,
Speaker 5: so you still want to take a shot at it.
Speaker 5: But I wouldn't play him extended minutes. You got you,
Speaker 5: you stole you one. Now you can be a little cautious.
Speaker 5: Gotta see how we gotta see how you feel like Joe,
Speaker 5: you know how the thing is, they got to see
Speaker 5: how I feel tonight.
Speaker 3: See how you feel in the morning.
Speaker 5: If he walking around limping a lot and can't putting
Speaker 5: no pressure on that leg, then maybe you may think
Speaker 5: about it.
Speaker 3: But right now I'm going for the kill. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go two.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I think the thing is Joe also is that you
Speaker 2: really he hadn't did any running, so his cardio, he
Speaker 2: really ain't in the shape that he really needs to
Speaker 2: to be able to play those extending minute So I'll
Speaker 2: watch out for that. But I'm gonna be surprised if
Speaker 2: game three or four he's not in the starting lineup.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be shocked if they continue to break. Now,
Speaker 2: I think one more game, I think the game, but
Speaker 2: that that'll be Wednesday. I think he comes off the
Speaker 2: bench again. I think when they go home, I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna be surprised if he comes. If he's in the
Speaker 2: starting lineup.
Speaker 4: Probably so hey, but listen, I like how a man
Speaker 4: pours confidence into his teammates.
Speaker 1: Bro, Yes, you know you.
Speaker 4: See it, especially the young guy Tan Shannon. Obviously always
Speaker 4: you random McDaniels, but the Tan Shannon kid.
Speaker 1: I like his aggressiveness. Fellas. I don't know about y'all.
Speaker 4: I know the first two his first two positions were
Speaker 4: blocked by womban. The second one was a damn goldten
Speaker 4: and they miss it. But I like the aggressiveness that
Speaker 4: he plays with. I like the confidence that they pulled
Speaker 4: with him down the stretch, meaning handling the rock, making decisions. Bro,
Speaker 4: they got a nice squad, man, they got they built
Speaker 4: for this, They built for the San Antonio team.
Speaker 3: Built for this run. Man.
Speaker 5: I'm telling you this is team has been together three
Speaker 5: four years. Man, I'm saying they built for this. They
Speaker 5: not scared of no situation. I think all the wars
Speaker 5: with the Denver Nuggets has made them ready for this
Speaker 5: type of moment. You know, Santoio are not gonna beat
Speaker 5: them with trying to get shoot shooting threes, and one
Speaker 5: is gonna have to mix it up a little bit.
Speaker 5: He's gonna have to post up a little bit. I
Speaker 5: know that's not his game. I know he's more of
Speaker 5: a perimeter type guy. But he's gonna have to mix
Speaker 5: it up. He's not gonna better who is in because
Speaker 5: you're you're allowed. You allowed him not to play Rudy.
Speaker 5: If he's gonna stay at the three point line, you
Speaker 5: don't have to play Rudy as much. Now you play
Speaker 5: into Minnesota's hands with Nasrie, who can shoot the three
Speaker 5: and make Clais off the driven.
Speaker 3: So they're gonna have to make a decision.
Speaker 5: Man, it was not a forced winby post up a
Speaker 5: lot more than he's been doing.
Speaker 2: He's gonna have to because you can't women, You can't
Speaker 2: play forty minutes and only attempt two free throw. Ain't
Speaker 2: no way, ain't no way that can happen. Because now
Speaker 2: you played right into the hands. Like you said, we're
Speaker 2: gonna stay small because the advantages that you have is
Speaker 2: that when Rudy's on the court, because Wendy can pull
Speaker 2: Windy can pull him away from the basket. Well, if hey, now,
Speaker 2: if women's gonna stay out there and let him shoot threes,
Speaker 2: he was oh for eight tonight.
Speaker 1: Wow, I think that's an anomaly.
Speaker 2: I don't think he'll go over again from the three
Speaker 2: point line, but he's gonna have to be somewhere around.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying he needs to be around.
Speaker 2: Twelve fourteen attempts, but he's got to be eight nine
Speaker 2: ten attempts a night in order for him to have
Speaker 2: his impact offensively, because I don't think he can just
Speaker 2: hover around like you said, And there are a couple
Speaker 2: of times I don't know what he's trying to do, Bruh,
Speaker 2: Just grab the rebound. He was trying to grab the
Speaker 2: rebound and all in one motion shoot it, which was unnecessary.
Speaker 3: Just stay first, rodeo too.
Speaker 5: We gotta realize too, we gotta just stay first rodeo
Speaker 5: just the first time in this group where the hot
Speaker 5: seed everything is. Everybody expects them to win so that
Speaker 5: they know some nerves tonight, and they got to be
Speaker 5: by a veteran team who've been there before.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hey, you gotta give we gotta give Minnesota a
Speaker 4: lot of credit though defensively, bro I'm talking they locking down, man.
Speaker 4: He we got to show them some love on that end,
Speaker 4: and I'm sure coming.
Speaker 1: Into this series.
Speaker 4: That was an emphasis, you know, not giving up too
Speaker 4: many easy buckets. I know late at the end they
Speaker 4: were dead tired and they gave up some offense and rebounds.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, man, they battling naked nick
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 7: That was a good game.
Speaker 1: Give J. J.
Speaker 2: McDaniel's credit. He's doing an unbelievable job on dr and Fire.
Speaker 2: He's doing an unbelieved because the thing that look, he's
Speaker 2: so he's so long is that because most of the
Speaker 2: time you're dealing with a guy that's short. But hey,
Speaker 2: even if he beat him on the initial move, hey,
Speaker 2: he can get a poke here a pope, they're a
Speaker 2: slide and he's right back where he needs to be.
Speaker 2: I thought he did a fabulous job on de Fox tonight.
Speaker 2: Everybody struggled. Now, I'm not so sure that they're gonna
Speaker 2: shoot this pathetic again from the floor, but I do
Speaker 2: one thing that we do know, Minnesota will lock in.
Speaker 2: We've seen them lock in against the Nuggets, oh several occasions,
Speaker 2: so we know.
Speaker 1: The one thing that Chris Finch.
Speaker 2: Is gonna hang his hat on, is gonna have his
Speaker 2: hat on the defensive end because they say, look, guys,
Speaker 2: we can't just let these guys just like it's a freeway,
Speaker 2: get up and down. We got to put hey, we
Speaker 2: got to put stop cones in their way. We gotta
Speaker 2: make him slow down. We got to make them stop
Speaker 2: on occasion. But in all cases, we've got to be physical.
Speaker 1: With the big.
Speaker 2: If we're physical with him, that is not what he likes.
Speaker 2: He wants to he wants to play in space. He
Speaker 2: wants to be able to run a roll. Put a
Speaker 2: body on you. If you see a the shot goes up,
Speaker 2: find his bony hass and put body on me.
Speaker 1: Look and how many times? How many times?
Speaker 4: How many times did he hit the floor tonight fellas Hey,
Speaker 4: oh you know, and he hit the flo number of times?
Speaker 4: And hey, look, I enjoy watching it because Minnesota understands
Speaker 4: that you gotta keep a body on him.
Speaker 1: Bro, you gotta keep it.
Speaker 4: You can't let him roam freely, you know, ugg his
Speaker 4: ass on offense when they coming through, when he coming
Speaker 4: through the lane. Yeah, you have to be alt your
Speaker 4: aggressive with him, and I think that'll slow him down.
Speaker 5: And listen, and you gotta think about Rudy. Rudy, he
Speaker 5: had the joker first round. Now you're getting win but
Speaker 5: you gotta think you got just got some credit. He
Speaker 5: gotta go against these guerrillas to are probably the best
Speaker 5: big man in the game. And Rudy, I mean, Rudy's
Speaker 5: taking the challenge. We got to give Rudy some credit.
Speaker 5: I don't want to just credit him. But if Rudy's
Speaker 5: able to give you fifteen twenty minutes or solid minutes
Speaker 5: and not hurt you, and then they can go to
Speaker 5: their small ball San Antonio in trouble.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, So would you think? What'd you thinking? O Joe?
Speaker 1: What are you like?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 1: What do you think? What's the counter?
Speaker 2: What do the Spurs need to do to counter what
Speaker 2: Minnesota did tonight in order to tie this series up?
Speaker 2: And they're gonna need to go home and get one
Speaker 2: from them? So how do they tie this series up?
Speaker 2: On Wednesday?
Speaker 7: Man, listen and shit it?
Speaker 3: Fox?
Speaker 6: Fox got to come, come to come to the party,
Speaker 6: Wimby regards of how much they pessy you, regardless of
Speaker 6: how aggressive they all defensively, you have to make your
Speaker 6: your presence felt offensively.
Speaker 7: You got to do what you've done all season long.
Speaker 7: They got to have an answer.
Speaker 6: They got to have a counter for the great defense
Speaker 6: that the god damn Ward's played.
Speaker 7: That's that's the only thing I can think about.
Speaker 6: Castle, you can't get and goddamn foul troubles so goddamn
Speaker 6: early And it's great, greater as you hey, listen, I understand,
Speaker 6: but as great as a year. Defensively and offensively, he
Speaker 6: can give you. He can get on both ends of
Speaker 6: the court. He can give you something. But you can't
Speaker 6: be a liability too. You can't be a liability. At
Speaker 6: some point, you got to pull the rings back and
Speaker 6: play and play good sound basketball, not just out there
Speaker 6: being aggressive, running all over the place with your head cut.
Speaker 4: Hey, but y'all know this how san Antonio has played
Speaker 4: all season by commits.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, Castle and Fox and Wimby.
Speaker 4: They may explode and have one of those games where
Speaker 4: they need thirty thirty five points, but for the most part,
Speaker 4: I mean, look, they got six players in double figures tonight.
Speaker 4: You know, I didn't think that they played bad. I
Speaker 4: just thought that both teams are great defensively. This is
Speaker 4: a good backyard old school game, nineties game, you know,
Speaker 4: to where we locked down defensively. We ain't gonna make
Speaker 4: many mistakes and you're gonna have to beat us making
Speaker 4: tough shots. This is gonna be a nice series. And
Speaker 4: you think about Minnesota. They on the road and they
Speaker 4: only turned the ball over nine times. JU had five
Speaker 4: of those. So that's the key. That's a recipe for
Speaker 4: winning games is taking care of the basketball. Win you're
Speaker 4: on the road, you understand you're in the hostile environment.
Speaker 4: You know this a team of young athletic guys that
Speaker 4: want to get out.
Speaker 2: What's the quickest way. What's the best way to keep
Speaker 2: them from getting out? Not turn the ball over? Make
Speaker 2: them take the ball out the net right right right, And.
Speaker 4: Then you gotta think Minnesota's did what they They did
Speaker 4: what they wanted to They wanted to get one.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure they wanted to come there and get one.
Speaker 3: They got that one.
Speaker 5: Like you said, now I got to think about for
Speaker 5: the sit down and how you feel. I mean, do
Speaker 5: we need to do we need to push this? Can
Speaker 5: you get you two extra day's rest, maybe not play
Speaker 5: you Game two and just get that rest for geting
Speaker 5: ready for Game three. Those are some of the questions
Speaker 5: Minnesota needs to think about. I would think strongly about that,
Speaker 5: because a healthy Anthony I was I don't think San
Speaker 5: Antonia can win this series anyway. So you got to
Speaker 5: figure out if how how that feels, If that feels good, damn.
Speaker 5: I mean you could play him in short spurts, but
Speaker 5: if not set him out, you got your one game,
Speaker 5: you win that stole, and now you got a chance
Speaker 5: to get him some rest and get an extra couple
Speaker 5: of days.
Speaker 3: That'll be huge for them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because if you don't play it, if you don't play,
Speaker 2: if you don't play him on Wednesday, they don't play
Speaker 2: a game until Friday. So now you give him Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Speaker 2: and so you So basically that's almost like four days
Speaker 2: off because he doesn't play until Friday night.
Speaker 1: I don't think and you got to be I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think he can get one hundred percent those
Speaker 4: fellas like he You gotta understand him. Him dribbling, Yeah,
Speaker 4: he had some moves the way he could get by
Speaker 4: a little bit, but for the most part, he didn't
Speaker 4: look great. I'm talking about exploding by his man. I
Speaker 4: understand the injury that he's dealing with, and just by
Speaker 4: him being out there, it is a blessing for for
Speaker 4: for the Wolves. I enjoyed washing them play because he
Speaker 4: didn't force nothing, even down the stretch. Bro, he let
Speaker 4: the mother dudes bring the ball, and I'm gonna be
Speaker 4: the biggest decoy out here they think, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean. He went to the corner every time and
Speaker 4: he just cheered those guys on. I think, if you're Minnesota,
Speaker 4: you want to be greedy at this point to him,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, And you want to try
Speaker 4: And yeah, I know, j.
Speaker 6: You gotta be careful a torn and most time when
Speaker 6: you got players like him that want to play that
Speaker 6: come back too soon from injury, they really know they
Speaker 6: shouldn't be playing.
Speaker 7: It should take a litle bit more time.
Speaker 6: I think the goddamn Wolves have enough, especially offensively, especially
Speaker 6: with the way they play defense, and man can take
Speaker 6: a game off certain players, and you know what, certain
Speaker 6: players you gotta know.
Speaker 3: About.
Speaker 5: Jason Tatum is just in the back of my head,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. That's that's what I'm just
Speaker 5: thinking about, Jason Tatum in the back of my head.
Speaker 5: You don't want to you don't want to get deep
Speaker 5: in this series, and ethnic awards ain't healthy, don't get better,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: That's all I'm thinking about.
Speaker 5: Like you gotta you got a little you got a
Speaker 5: free period right now this game too, whether you whether
Speaker 5: you decide not to play them.
Speaker 1: Or you can play him.
Speaker 3: I'm with you, Joe.
Speaker 5: I do want to get greedy, but it's almost like, man,
Speaker 5: we got the one. Now we get a chance to
Speaker 5: get him three four days rest. We may have to
Speaker 5: play game two without him, right.
Speaker 2: But I think the thing is the problem that JT
Speaker 2: ran into is that he having to play a little
Speaker 2: extended minutes late.
Speaker 1: Because you remember those.
Speaker 2: Games when Philly stole game took game of what they
Speaker 2: took game six and then all of a sudden now
Speaker 2: and JT had to play those minutes what they take?
Speaker 1: What they what?
Speaker 2: It was three to one, so they end up winning
Speaker 2: the last three they went five, six, et seven?
Speaker 7: Right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So now you got to think about it,
Speaker 2: JT playing forty minutes, he playing forty minutes. You're hoping that,
Speaker 2: you know what, we get him up out we getting
Speaker 2: them up out of here. JT gonna get him off
Speaker 2: the long risk. Yeah, well he didn't get that long
Speaker 2: rest and you playing, you playing those minutes, and then
Speaker 2: it was right, it was a right Achilles, And I
Speaker 2: think it what was his left thank his left k
Speaker 2: need and started back.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, not that it's not about him, but
Speaker 5: we all thought. I told you this a long time ago.
Speaker 5: I thought you should have sat the whole season out.
Speaker 5: I mean, he played great coming back, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 5: but I was I was afraid that he wasn't gonna
Speaker 5: be one hundred percent anyway. So I just think with
Speaker 5: and you're thinking about advancing, you know you can win
Speaker 5: this series. I just think you gotta play with caution.
Speaker 5: You gotta you got, you got your one game. Hey,
Speaker 5: take these four days off, let's get healthy, be ready
Speaker 5: for Game three. But like Joe said, they might want
Speaker 5: to get greedy.
Speaker 1: They might do. I wonder, I wonder what's the extent
Speaker 1: of uh a yo uh uh.
Speaker 4: They were saying game They were saying game two or three.
Speaker 4: Io will be back. Yeah, man, they could have used him.
Speaker 4: But hey, listen, they got like I've been saying, bro,
Speaker 4: they gotta play the guys who they can throw at
Speaker 4: you and who can have big games. You know, I
Speaker 4: look forward to Minnesota being greedy. Maybe mcdame's play a
Speaker 4: little better. Obviously he played a good game night, But
Speaker 4: I'm talking about as far as scoring wise, if and
Speaker 4: man sit out, you're gonna need him Miranda to step up,
Speaker 4: and one of them gonna have to, you know, play
Speaker 4: a little bove they head a little bit.
Speaker 2: Well, we know Jewish is more than cable of doing that.
Speaker 2: The thing is that he's got a mismatch unless Womby
Speaker 2: is on it. But he gonna bang women. The problem
Speaker 2: is is that even if he dislodged women, women just
Speaker 2: standing there because he had some opportunity tonight, get that
Speaker 2: ship out of here.
Speaker 4: Why was he Why was he trying to shoot the layers?
Speaker 4: You know he got to kick man, you get that
Speaker 4: offense rebound.
Speaker 2: Get if women standing right there, Man wasn't even jumping
Speaker 2: that man with that thicking his hand down.
Speaker 1: Bro he right, he right there at the realm.
Speaker 2: But the thing is is that Randall is the mismatch
Speaker 2: because they don't have anybody. They tried Kell, they tried
Speaker 2: Keldon Johnson, they tried Castle, they tried to say.
Speaker 1: They don't have anybody that can bang with him.
Speaker 2: So he's on the court and you're talking outkay, you
Speaker 2: got him and he got nas reed.
Speaker 1: Nads's gonna be out there by the three.
Speaker 2: So now winby Winby got to play if he got
Speaker 2: to stay out there, Yes, Sir, as much as he
Speaker 2: wanted to play halfway between, he can't because nos Reed
Speaker 2: is a great catching shoot we guy, So he can't.
Speaker 1: Rudy. He wrote a he's like, I can't.
Speaker 2: Beat because they're telling us, say, look, if he leaves Rudy,
Speaker 2: you come and you file him. Let's put his ass
Speaker 2: on the free throw line. We're not gonna give him
Speaker 2: any dunks. If he may get points, he's gonna get
Speaker 2: them at the free throw line.
Speaker 4: Hey, listen, I agree with you on that, And I
Speaker 4: do think when Rudy in the game, it makes the
Speaker 4: game easier for Winby because you're right, he don't have
Speaker 4: to go out there and guard Rudy way out there.
Speaker 4: He can just kind of sit back. Yeah, he played
Speaker 4: that free safety. He played that free safety spy to
Speaker 4: where he can help off in it because he ain't.
Speaker 1: He know, Rudy ain't shooting, no damn jump shot.
Speaker 3: Joe, you walked quarter. They didn't play Rudy much that
Speaker 3: fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know. I'm just saying.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying throughout the game when when he did play,
Speaker 4: I just seen Winby kind of sit back like a
Speaker 4: free safety playing health defense, getting all these damn blocks.
Speaker 1: But you're right, and that for a quarter when you
Speaker 1: go in nis reed and you go small.
Speaker 4: When we got to pick a side, Hell, he gonna
Speaker 4: have to guard or he gonna have to help, whichever one.
Speaker 1: You know, we gotta make him pay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you got guys and and and and and
Speaker 2: read is more than cable of knocking down those shots.
Speaker 1: So you got the arner. He was two or three.
Speaker 2: He was five or nine from the from the field,
Speaker 2: he was two or three from the three. He had
Speaker 2: nine rebounds. They had two guys with ten rebounds, another
Speaker 2: guy with nine.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: I just think, look, I.
Speaker 2: Don't want to you know, it's easy to overreact, and
Speaker 2: I don't want and I don't want.
Speaker 1: To do that. I don't want to do that.
Speaker 2: Just yet, I think I think we I think we're
Speaker 2: all in agreeance.
Speaker 1: We should give Minnesota their due.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: This was probably the easiest game because, as you guys said,
Speaker 2: this is a young team.
Speaker 1: They haven't been this far before.
Speaker 2: They don't understand as you Yeah, they did a tremendous
Speaker 2: job on Portland, but as you go rounds, it ratchets
Speaker 2: up and teams that have been there. You look at
Speaker 2: the Lakers, they've been to Rue has been in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: Austin Reves has been in the playoffs. Lebron has been
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. Those guys, so you saw the difference,
Speaker 2: and you see where this comes in. J Rendal McDaniel's
Speaker 2: go bear Connolly nas reed. They've been there, they've done that.
Speaker 2: They understand and some type look and they just want
Speaker 2: to get out and run.
Speaker 1: But it's okay, it's okay, you know what.
Speaker 2: Say you know what, guys, Let's slow this thing down,
Speaker 2: Let's get a good yob. It just seems like these
Speaker 2: young teams they want to play in the playoffs like
Speaker 2: they played on this running gun, and I don't.
Speaker 5: Really know if you can do that now they can't.
Speaker 5: And Minnesota's not old. I mean, these are guys there
Speaker 5: in the prime. They're young, but they're not playing against
Speaker 5: an old team. This is a team that's got besides
Speaker 5: Mike Conley. I mean, they got guys that can run too,
Speaker 5: so they can play just as fast as they want to.
Speaker 5: But tonight you saw the Lake possessions. Who's gonna be
Speaker 5: that guy? The one thing I couldn't really figure out
Speaker 5: who would be that guy late san Antonio goes to
Speaker 5: in a one to two possession game. It was kind
Speaker 5: of it was raggedy down at the end. They really
Speaker 5: didn't get no good shot off.
Speaker 2: It looked like if I had to get if I
Speaker 2: had this Surmonds, they're gonna put the ball.
Speaker 1: See they want to put the ball in fox hand.
Speaker 2: If you saw he got ultra aggressive late in the
Speaker 2: ball game, but he's being defended by McDaniels, which ain't
Speaker 2: no slous. It's like, yeah, we want to go to
Speaker 2: our best receiver, but he got past her tand on it,
Speaker 2: so okay, now we gotta go and what you call him,
Speaker 2: pers Castle had filed out, so now we okaysell. You see,
Speaker 2: Vasell did his thing. Champignee got a couple offensive rebounds.
Speaker 2: So that's the problem you're gonna have if you come
Speaker 2: down late and your best guy that could go one
Speaker 2: on one, he's being guarded by their best defender and Wmby.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, hey, maybe you can get into
Speaker 2: a two man game with Wimby and the pigg and
Speaker 2: roll with Wimby in Fox what what normally sending tone
Speaker 2: puts Winby on the elbow and they kind of isolate
Speaker 2: him and let him play. But the way Minnesota defends
Speaker 2: him that he got a guy guarding him whose feet
Speaker 2: is a little quicker than his, so he can't get
Speaker 2: no blowbys. He has to set him for them jump shots,
Speaker 2: and I think I think Minnesota does a great job
Speaker 2: in keeping guys in front and just contesting.
Speaker 4: Bro, Hey, we're gonna have to live with that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we ain't gonna block his damn shot when he go
Speaker 4: up to shoot. We're gonna have to pat him on
Speaker 4: his ass in another way if he make it though,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. But one thing we ain't
Speaker 4: gonna do is just let him get buy us and
Speaker 4: just have an old lader where he just dunking the
Speaker 4: ball left.
Speaker 5: And just to add, you're not gonna they're not gonna
Speaker 5: beat Minnesota and him going oh for eight from the three,
Speaker 5: he shoots too.
Speaker 1: Many of them, all five or seventeen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not gonna win like that.
Speaker 5: He has to either shoot less threes and focus on
Speaker 5: getting to the basket, being around the basket, or he's
Speaker 5: gonna have to make sure he goes four for eight, No,
Speaker 5: three for seven.
Speaker 3: He's gonna have to make some of them. You can't
Speaker 3: go oh for eight from the three.
Speaker 5: Because you're bailing, you're beling Minnesota out, you're giving them
Speaker 5: u He's gonna have to figure out what he want
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 2: But if you look at Minnesota, when teams have ded
Speaker 2: a number on them and they made Rudy unplayable in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, they put his ass in the pick
Speaker 2: and roll. Remember when Dallas Dallas put him in the
Speaker 2: pick and roll when he was in Utah.
Speaker 1: The Clippers, they put his ass in the pick and roll.
Speaker 2: They said, okay, you say, and now because he hey,
Speaker 2: he wants to play soft coverage. So guy's getting wide
Speaker 2: open shots. And when he come up there, he tried
Speaker 2: to he know, he tried to dance. They right five
Speaker 2: and they lay the ball up. Your real protector is
Speaker 2: out there twenty feet from the basket. So if they
Speaker 2: don't have to play Rudy in that situation, you got
Speaker 2: nas Reed and you got j Randall, who have better feet.
Speaker 2: Now they're not the real protectors that he is, but
Speaker 2: they're not gonna be a miniso. San Antonio is not
Speaker 2: gonna be getting shoot around threes like they would against
Speaker 2: Rudy because Rudy's gonna because Rudy don't want you to
Speaker 2: beat him to the basket. Oh he's gonna, but he's
Speaker 2: gonna play off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think when nas Reed is in there
Speaker 4: and and they run the pick and roll with McDaniel's
Speaker 4: guarding Fox, they switching all that fellas. They switching that
Speaker 4: McDaniel's gonna get up under. They're gonna get up under Winby,
Speaker 4: and they gonna they gonna push and shove, and they
Speaker 4: ain't gonna let him get down to their low block
Speaker 4: and get to the sweet spots.
Speaker 1: They gonna make they making them boys work. Man.
Speaker 4: This is why that man went oh for eight, It
Speaker 4: ain't you know what I mean, Like, yeah, he got
Speaker 4: a couple of nice looks, but for the most part,
Speaker 4: you know, they taking them legs.
Speaker 5: And we know we always talk about playoffs about y'all
Speaker 5: know that. And sometimes and this is not a favorable
Speaker 5: match up for San Antonio. This is probably the wrong
Speaker 5: team for them to be playing because they got size,
Speaker 5: they got a guy who can close the game out
Speaker 5: in Anthony Edwards. They got better players, so they got
Speaker 5: and they got active wings that can defend. So this
Speaker 5: ain't This probably is not the best matchup for the Spurs.
Speaker 5: This this is probably one that you know, they probably
Speaker 5: wish they could avoid it. But there's gonna be a
Speaker 5: tough series for San Antonio to get out of. I
Speaker 5: like Minnesota in this serious.
Speaker 1: I do too, man, where the earlier game wasn't much
Speaker 1: of a game.
Speaker 7: Oh oh whoh oh wasn't the game? Huh? And I
Speaker 7: saw a twek wait, Hell, I'm not go first, Let
Speaker 7: go ahead.
Speaker 2: I'm going ahead, big blow out. The seventy six was
Speaker 2: one thirty seven to ninety eight. Jalen Brunson thirty one
Speaker 2: save two. Still he was twelve of eighteen. This is
Speaker 2: his fifteen thirty five point playoff game, the most ever
Speaker 2: by a nick O. G had eighteen on seven of
Speaker 2: eight shooting. Cat had just had seventeen on seven of
Speaker 2: eleven shooting. Mckal Bridges had seventeen on seven to ten shooting.
Speaker 1: Uh. They shot the cover off the ball sixty three percent,
Speaker 1: shot fifty three of eighty four from the floor.
Speaker 2: They shot nineteen of thirty seven from the three, plus
Speaker 2: they out rebound them. So I told y'all, if you
Speaker 2: let Brunson get off to that start right there, it's
Speaker 2: over that eight.
Speaker 3: That's not.
Speaker 6: That's not what y'all said yesterday. Yesterday what we say
Speaker 6: y'all was so confident. Uncle Joe a twyn I asked him,
Speaker 6: I specifically asked him who you got in this series?
Speaker 7: Matter of fact, who you got in game one? Both
Speaker 7: of them they picked got let me finish, Joe.
Speaker 6: I said, a twin, I said, are you sure you
Speaker 6: want to do that? Because I think kat is gonna
Speaker 6: be able to not be one demented.
Speaker 7: To stay at the three. But give embiid and Drumming
Speaker 7: some work. They told me he too, like he can't
Speaker 7: do nothing and beating drumming? Boy, what did Cad give
Speaker 7: you to night? What he did to He gave you seventeen?
Speaker 6: He gave you three for five from the goddamn three
Speaker 6: where the rest of the points came from.
Speaker 5: Un listen, y'all said, just the thing, and they probably, oh,
Speaker 5: oh Joe, They probably got excited because they saw and
Speaker 5: be played great against Boston. Bosston don't have no Boston
Speaker 5: don't have no bigs. So let's start with that. The
Speaker 5: Knicks got real big big men. So now it's not
Speaker 5: just they have Jaln Brown, Garden and bid At times
Speaker 5: in that series, you you got real You got real
Speaker 5: bigs with the Knicks, so it's a different ball game.
Speaker 5: Now he can't just go in and post and dominate
Speaker 5: those guys.
Speaker 3: He needs that. He needs that jump shot working.
Speaker 5: So if he's not making this jump shot and b
Speaker 5: don't move the same, so you're not gonna do much
Speaker 5: off the dribble. He's not doing a lot of post moves.
Speaker 5: It's just a simple jump book. So they got real
Speaker 5: bigs that can guard them. So this is a different series.
Speaker 5: Were looking at that Boston series where he kind of
Speaker 5: had his way to Boston. Celtics played small, played a
Speaker 5: lot of zone. The Knicks don't got to do that.
Speaker 5: The kniss can play straight.
Speaker 1: Up to one. I understand all that. But here's my thing, Philly.
Speaker 4: Coming out of seven game series, Bro, the Knicks been
Speaker 4: resting a little bit. They got a little risk. Hold up,
Speaker 4: O jo j H me out. The Knicks got a
Speaker 4: little risk. This is just one game. The Knicks ain't
Speaker 4: shooting no damn light shut like this. No every damn game. Man, Hell, hell,
Speaker 4: they ain't shooting like this every game.
Speaker 1: Come on.
Speaker 4: They shot fifty one from the three, sixty three from
Speaker 4: the field. Come on, Bro, everybody on their team played great.
Speaker 4: Brunston had thirty five. I think Philly gonna have to
Speaker 4: sit in, y'all. Y'all seen they got. They got the
Speaker 4: Brakes beat off for me in that Boston series in
Speaker 4: a couple of games about after game one and then
Speaker 4: bounce back in one game two. It's just one game, fellas.
Speaker 6: See I tell you what, see this, this is what
Speaker 6: I'm talking about. To see a When I was little,
Speaker 6: you know, my grandma said, hard head, make a soft ass.
Speaker 6: And despite what the despite what you say, Joe, I
Speaker 6: understand what you're saying. Obviously they come off for seven
Speaker 6: game series, but you're not finna sit me say, even
Speaker 6: if they don't shoot from the field like this, even
Speaker 6: though they don't shoot sixty three percent, this is the
Speaker 6: matchup that you know, the Knicks is probably gonna come
Speaker 6: come away with. Even in the last series. I hype
Speaker 6: and beat up. I hype him up, I talk good
Speaker 6: about him and he and he played very well based
Speaker 6: off what I said. But I knew coming into the
Speaker 6: series as great as the Sixers played, this series favors
Speaker 6: the goddamn Knicks.
Speaker 7: Again, y'all tell me.
Speaker 6: I don't know, pall, but every time I say something
Speaker 6: when it come to basketball, I'm always right.
Speaker 7: And here we go again, Joe, you make an excuse me?
Speaker 3: All right? They did.
Speaker 5: They are coming off for seven games series, so they'll
Speaker 5: make some adjustments. It'll be a better game then. But
Speaker 5: that's a bad matchup for the Sixers when you think
Speaker 5: about it. The only way the Sixers got a chance
Speaker 5: in this series. I'm gonna tell you, can Paul George
Speaker 5: turn turn it back the clock. If Paul George could
Speaker 5: turn back the clock, and then Maxie you can't wait
Speaker 5: and be gotta get it, get his stuff.
Speaker 4: How you gotta get it, Maxie? You gotta Maxie, You
Speaker 4: gotta Maxie gotta lead. You can't wait. Maxie has to
Speaker 4: go out.
Speaker 1: You gotta go.
Speaker 5: It's a reason you average thirty points a game. You
Speaker 5: can't get to the playoffs. And now you want to
Speaker 5: go through and b that's the one option, no, you
Speaker 5: the one option. You see what end? You see what
Speaker 5: Jenden Bruston did tonight. He's the one option. You don't
Speaker 5: wait on nobody. He gets going. That's what MAXI gotta do.
Speaker 2: If Maxie don't be because if you know, think about it,
Speaker 2: one you you and Joel, right, because you look at
Speaker 2: like the first a possessions they gave it.
Speaker 1: To him, beading. What you do nothing? Yeah, trying to
Speaker 1: back it. They're like, bro, come on, no, we can
Speaker 1: get to that of the later dayton time.
Speaker 2: We can always. That's one thing we know. We can
Speaker 2: always get Joel and b big ass down on the block.
Speaker 2: We can get that anytime we want it.
Speaker 7: But hold on, hold on, hold on to a twine.
Speaker 7: I'm on the ass to Night. Hold on that.
Speaker 6: They said, we ain't got to worry about big body
Speaker 6: brunting because we're gonna put Eskim on him.
Speaker 1: They tried everything tonight.
Speaker 7: Hey, you god damn right. They tried. I tried to
Speaker 7: George on it.
Speaker 1: They tried every They tried everything. Hey, God, like that
Speaker 1: get it going. You can't.
Speaker 4: Once you can't put that rookie on him. He gonna
Speaker 4: he gonna have his way with that rookie. He ain't
Speaker 4: the answer. That's definitely not that I tried. I tried
Speaker 4: to tell him. I tried to answer to Night.
Speaker 2: The problem is he quick enough, but he ain't got
Speaker 2: enough bricks in his back pocket. You see how you
Speaker 2: see how Brunson do hit it hit it with that
Speaker 2: shoulder and dislodge it and.
Speaker 1: Turned around to shoot that.
Speaker 3: I called brust.
Speaker 5: I called brusting a professional score. So you know, for
Speaker 5: his size, he's a professional score. So you trying to
Speaker 5: play a rookie on him is not gonna work. Paul
Speaker 5: George can't step up to the simon again some length,
Speaker 5: and he's obviously you know, Paul was a great defender
Speaker 5: early on in his career, so he probably could do
Speaker 5: a better job on it. But it's Paul George gonna
Speaker 5: take that commitment, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Hey, by the time, by the time Paul George got
Speaker 4: on him here, he was already over. Hey, listen, y'all
Speaker 4: know specially toying, you know when you're playing the game,
Speaker 4: because hey, listen, I doem been in games with guys
Speaker 4: called hot. Then you try to throw me on him,
Speaker 4: it's too late, Broy.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, though.
Speaker 4: It's like if that's my only problem with Philly, because
Speaker 4: it's like they force feed and bed sometimes and sometimes
Speaker 4: it's too damn much and it takes away from MAXI torn.
Speaker 4: I like when MAXI played like as I'm saying, I like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I like for you up and down, Yes, I like
Speaker 4: for him putting pressure, getting up shots, being aggressive.
Speaker 1: Hell, nine nine shots ain't enough for me.
Speaker 3: Bro. That's why I say he gotta be one agg
Speaker 3: He has to be one agg. Nick.
Speaker 5: He has to let him be one A. If you're
Speaker 5: not gonna let him be one A, they gonna get swepting.
Speaker 5: This serious serious.
Speaker 4: You have to let him be one A and B
Speaker 4: to get his whenever, whenever you can get it, you
Speaker 4: gotta let him.
Speaker 5: You gotta go behind Maxie. Man, it's a reason why
Speaker 5: he averaged thirty points this season.
Speaker 7: Yeah right, and you think about it.
Speaker 6: Show you think about some of those games with Maxie
Speaker 6: average thirty and B wasn't even playing, and B wasn't
Speaker 6: playing some of them games. Now, when Embid is in there,
Speaker 6: you gotta stand he clogging up the goddamn paint. So
Speaker 6: if Maxie gon't control and be effective and be aggressive
Speaker 6: with embading the game, they got to they got to
Speaker 6: call some type of players with embiding that goddamn sim
Speaker 6: He's at the god damn posty in a way, he.
Speaker 4: Called, hey, listen, I ain't tripping on going to mbid
Speaker 4: the first maybe even the second possession. But him and
Speaker 4: Cat got a little thing going, and won't e try to.
Speaker 4: We don't need that ship right now. We don't need
Speaker 4: that ship. We're trying to win.
Speaker 1: We don't need that.
Speaker 4: Bro, you gotta get these young dudes going. Man, you
Speaker 4: gotta get Maxi downhill. You know what I'm saying. You
Speaker 4: get him in there, pick and roll against cat let
Speaker 4: mb pop, maybe take a couple of minutes, get to
Speaker 4: maybe even get you a three, but just to bog
Speaker 4: down the first five six possessions of the game. Come on,
Speaker 4: it's gonna get us out of rhythm. And y'all know
Speaker 4: when you get out of rhythm, it's hard for for
Speaker 4: a lot of these cats to really get back in rhythm.
Speaker 1: You know. Once the game gets ugly and you.
Speaker 6: Didn't do it well, it's gonna stay ugly. Because I
Speaker 6: told you what's gonna happen either, Joe not listen. I'm
Speaker 6: gonna take over this segment because I told y'all before
Speaker 6: to see a series even started what it was gonna
Speaker 6: be like.
Speaker 7: And even if Maxie Water come.
Speaker 6: Downhill and be got them aggressive, we got cats sitting
Speaker 6: down there. Oh my god, yes, that cat he's sitting
Speaker 6: down now. He gonna swap that ship to the Hey,
Speaker 6: what was.
Speaker 1: In the first quarter? He picked up them two damn files.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: They can always He had to sit down, he had
Speaker 6: to sit down.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna talk to him.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna talk to him, say this. We need to
Speaker 6: be a little bit smart. We need to be a
Speaker 6: little bit more smarter early in the game.
Speaker 3: And I like, you know what else I like to
Speaker 3: I like it good act.
Speaker 5: The Knicks are playing small, not starting two bigs, so
Speaker 5: they saving files. So you got cats starting on them.
Speaker 5: Then you come with Mitchell Robinson, so they saving files
Speaker 5: for their big men, not playing.
Speaker 3: Those two guys together. I like the fact they're doing that.
Speaker 2: But you see what they did. You see what Philly
Speaker 2: did that he got laid in the first quarter. They
Speaker 2: started finally they started hacking hacker Robinson and back Brown said,
Speaker 2: get your hands over here, and you put the other
Speaker 2: big he said, comes, he said, come sit your no
Speaker 2: free throws over here? Will be jud you messing up
Speaker 2: a river. Yeah, I don't know what it is. And
Speaker 2: you you know twenty I'm sure you and Joe Benny
Speaker 2: games when when somebody, when the team gets hot, nobody
Speaker 2: can miss. Oh g couldn't miss McHale, Bridges, couldn't miss Brunson,
Speaker 2: couldn't miss everybody, can't mean everybody was two for two,
Speaker 2: three for five, three for six, two for four, six
Speaker 2: of eight, seven of eight.
Speaker 3: I like with damn, Well, well.
Speaker 5: Let's remember now og is on the heater right now,
Speaker 5: playing great that first series. He's on the heater right now,
Speaker 5: he playing great ball. And now you get Michael Bridges
Speaker 5: who didn't play play well that first series. Now he
Speaker 5: started making shots. Now it gets the Knicks to come
Speaker 5: even better because remember he didn't play good at that
Speaker 5: first series.
Speaker 2: Nah. I think he might have had one game. I
Speaker 2: think about the last game where Joe he had.
Speaker 1: Like twenty four.
Speaker 2: He started saying that you know you can count on Brunson, Brunst.
Speaker 2: He gonna give you Brunst, he gonna do brunts and things.
Speaker 2: But if you let that man go twelve of eighteen,
Speaker 2: you not beating the Knicks if he if he shoot
Speaker 2: that percentage, I don't give a damn what anybody else does?
Speaker 3: You not?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not, you're not.
Speaker 4: And y'all right they still hot hell from the last
Speaker 4: damn series.
Speaker 1: Shit, I said, even a matter of fact, they just
Speaker 1: going one hundred. Listen, they still high.
Speaker 7: Bro.
Speaker 4: Look when you look man Og barely even been missing
Speaker 4: his last two games.
Speaker 1: Boy he I don't know him that.
Speaker 3: Can you believe Og playing like this on the offensive end?
Speaker 3: Hell no, I haven't never seen.
Speaker 4: Hey, listen, I'm not saying. I'm not saying he can't play,
Speaker 4: because I like his game. But the way he's shooting
Speaker 4: the ball, it's like everything he shooting, Man, that shit
Speaker 4: going in, it's swishing.
Speaker 2: He ain't hit no rim, he's swishing threes. Hey, he
Speaker 2: euro Stephan Duncans. You know, look we look at o G.
Speaker 2: They got o G before his defense to be able
Speaker 2: to deal with Tatum and Brown. Yeah, that's what they
Speaker 2: got him for. And now he giving you that. And
Speaker 2: it goes with Brunson. Look, they're gonna be off with
Speaker 2: each other now, I'm not They're not gonna shoot no.
Speaker 2: Sixty three percent. Again, I don't think Atlanta said that
Speaker 2: They're not gonna Philly said that. Philly probably said, well,
Speaker 2: they ain't gonna shoot like they did in Game six
Speaker 2: against Atlanta, and I'll be damn if they probably did
Speaker 2: one better.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be honest, man, I think Philly you know
Speaker 5: they got the blessing. And I'm not defending the Celtis.
Speaker 5: You play, you play Game seven, Jason Tatum not able
Speaker 5: to go, You able to get out? That series putos
Speaker 5: to them that was great to be able to But
Speaker 5: that's a different animal than they healthy. The Knicks got
Speaker 5: a good system. These guys been together now, three four
Speaker 5: years together. They in rhythm. Man, it just looks it
Speaker 5: looks totally different when you're watching them. If you just
Speaker 5: just the floor of the game, how the Knicks play.
Speaker 5: Bronston knows what he they know what Brunce is gonna do,
Speaker 5: can't knows what he's gonna do. And if they give
Speaker 5: mi Caall Bridges to play at the level he played tonight,
Speaker 5: it's gonna get ugly this series to be up with
Speaker 5: five man.
Speaker 7: Yeah, hey, hey, uncle Jill. Even if.
Speaker 6: The goddamn Nicks don't shoot sixty three, even if they
Speaker 6: don't have a scoring output from Brunton like they did,
Speaker 6: Brunston is always gonna get hit no matter what. But
Speaker 6: if you get og and you get Josh hart to
Speaker 6: to continue playing defense way the way he is and
Speaker 6: contributing a little bit on offense, you getting Micall Bridges
Speaker 6: to play like he played tonight. You get cart Anthony
Speaker 6: Town to show up, not staying is at that on
Speaker 6: the goddamn worried about threes but mitis and putting the
Speaker 6: ball on the floor, even playing with his back to
Speaker 6: the backs at every blue moon. Just let them know
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna be one You're not forna make me
Speaker 6: one dimensional in this goddamn series.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna do something nobody else said. I canna win.
Speaker 7: I'm telling you, hey, Joe, listen to me, Joe. I
Speaker 7: know you played the game, Joe, but you gotta.
Speaker 6: Listen to somebody who didn't play the game that can
Speaker 6: see the game different.
Speaker 4: Got I got, I'm listening, brost okay listening, Hey, listen.
Speaker 4: If I'm Philly, I'm starting Paul George out on the
Speaker 4: brunton man. Damn that I'm gonna Paul George on him
Speaker 4: to start in. You gonna use You want you some height,
Speaker 4: you want some length to bother you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm gonna put I'm gonna put edge comb
Speaker 1: on h heart.
Speaker 5: But because hertest active, he's gonna office the rebound. He
Speaker 5: gonna back door cut. So you want you want a
Speaker 5: young guy running on the floor with him. You want
Speaker 5: to young you want to young guy chase him around,
Speaker 5: keeping the body on him out.
Speaker 2: That's that's that's a good that'll be a good switch. Yeah,
Speaker 2: But let me ask you a question. When you put
Speaker 2: because you know what they're gonna do. They're gonna run.
Speaker 2: They gonna put it there. They're gonna put Paul George
Speaker 2: in the pick and they're gonna run his ass off
Speaker 2: a bunch.
Speaker 7: Of pickus know we're gonna put him in the blend up.
Speaker 1: Picks.
Speaker 2: Is Paul George is Paul at Paul George age and
Speaker 2: Paul George's body and them shoulders. You know he's had
Speaker 2: a shoulder serve on both of those shoulders. Yeah, needs
Speaker 2: they what they used to be? How long can he
Speaker 2: do it?
Speaker 1: Well? You want to you want to slow him down.
Speaker 4: I ain't saying he's gonna stop him, but to go
Speaker 4: twelve for eighteen thirty five points here, we ain't no
Speaker 4: way we're gonna win. He's shooting them type of percentage.
Speaker 4: You don't think you don't expect the game to be
Speaker 4: a blowout.
Speaker 5: Obviously tonight okay, it's a blowout, But if we get
Speaker 5: into a possession game, three, three, four possession game.
Speaker 3: I'm going with you.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna try that line. I'm gonna try that them
Speaker 5: defensive changes. I'm gonna try Paul George on them in
Speaker 5: the fourth quarter to see if he can get a
Speaker 5: stop making hard for him. So you gotta be creative
Speaker 5: with it. But you know when you get blown out.
Speaker 5: It's this film right here. I don't even know if
Speaker 5: you can watch this film.
Speaker 2: And like you and Joe say, now, if I get
Speaker 2: a one, one, two possession games, now I can give
Speaker 2: the ball to Jordan to be Now I got an
Speaker 2: advantage because I don't give it.
Speaker 1: Damn about your big They can't do that with him.
Speaker 4: Well, mb gotta be patient though, O Joe and Twine.
Speaker 4: You know he can't be He can't be out there
Speaker 4: too hyped up to where he wanted to ball every
Speaker 4: trip down the court. You know, kind of similar, kind
Speaker 4: of similar what man, how he kind of just playing
Speaker 4: his role? Like man, we ain't gotta feature you that much,
Speaker 4: but when we need you, we need you to come through.
Speaker 3: You feel me, I don't know what can then be
Speaker 3: take that type? Can you play that role?
Speaker 1: No? You gotta get no.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta you have to Yeah, you gotta do
Speaker 5: you gotta be willing to do that. I mean, that's
Speaker 5: why I give Minnesota coaches so much credit. The coaching staff.
Speaker 5: They forced that, Hey, we not gonna start you. We're
Speaker 5: not gonna start you first of all. That way, we're
Speaker 5: gonna sit you six seven minutes, let these other guys
Speaker 5: get going, then we'll come in with you. So I
Speaker 5: thought that was the genius move of the night, not
Speaker 5: starting first of all. Now can you what can you
Speaker 5: do with him? B can you tell can you tell
Speaker 5: him that, hey, we're not gonna feature you. Let's get
Speaker 5: MAXI going. Just pick your spots. I don't know that
Speaker 5: because he has such a good series against the Celtics,
Speaker 5: he probably started thinking. He probably think he's back. Hey, hey,
Speaker 5: you got a point with that. But here's a thing.
Speaker 4: If if he was to accept that role, would he
Speaker 4: still be high energy, give us great effort, you know,
Speaker 4: pat guys on the back, you know, keep encouraging cast
Speaker 4: That's my thing because sometimes, bro, you know, our stars
Speaker 4: in the game, if you ask him to sacrifice a
Speaker 4: little bit, they start soaking, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean.
Speaker 4: And that's and that's what you don't want from from
Speaker 4: mb man. You want him to really stay upbeat and
Speaker 4: do whatever it takes for them to win.
Speaker 1: Hell, it may take for them for him.
Speaker 4: To get twenty rebounds and have twelve points every every game.
Speaker 4: He ain't gonna score twenty five thirty damn points. But
Speaker 4: he can be effective. He can be effective in other ways. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and he needs to be a defensive presence too. Man,
Speaker 4: you've been with Jorlan B used to go. I mean,
Speaker 4: Jordan B was a hell of a defender. He got
Speaker 4: the left he can't can't shots.
Speaker 1: Hey, the lateral movement ain't the same. It's gone. And
Speaker 1: it seemed like every every time I was like, damn,
Speaker 1: I see him limping.
Speaker 2: I like, Lord, I cut, he come up the court
Speaker 2: and he's tripped, and he ended up tripping Josh Hart.
Speaker 1: Yeah he got him. I said, Lord, I know this
Speaker 1: man his damnself.
Speaker 3: And then you know what's ca And then and Joe
Speaker 3: know this.
Speaker 5: Even though you're not practicing much in the playoffs, I mean,
Speaker 5: and be probably not even taking his sweatpants off on
Speaker 5: the off days. He probably just free throws. He ain't
Speaker 5: getting no reps in, he ain't getting no extra work in.
Speaker 5: He probably just working on his legs so he can
Speaker 5: play game the game.
Speaker 3: So you ain't. It's hard to just come out there
Speaker 3: and you ain't in no rhythm.
Speaker 7: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Because remember he just came back after the emergency antidectomy,
Speaker 1: so he was out for two weeks. He ain't doing nothing.
Speaker 4: He ain't doing not not he look not only is
Speaker 4: he not in no rhythm, but hell, he ain't in
Speaker 4: great shape neither to be to be able to get
Speaker 4: up down with these boys like that.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, So begin with huh, I
Speaker 1: said he was hert to begin with.
Speaker 2: Hell, I go two three days without lifting, but doing cardio,
Speaker 2: I gain two pounds, I know, damned five seven and
Speaker 2: I beat I beat deg White said, I beat healthy.
Speaker 2: Some days it don't get no damn cardio here. Man, Please,
Speaker 2: ain't no way his weights staring to save the mind. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: I know exactly what you mean.
Speaker 3: But they got it.
Speaker 4: They gotta get more productivity from him. I'm talking about
Speaker 4: defensively too, bro. He you know, MB can't just think
Speaker 4: by putting his stamp on the game that he's gonna
Speaker 4: score twenty five thirty. He gotta find other ways to
Speaker 4: affect the game.
Speaker 1: For sure.
Speaker 3: I mean, way Philly can win this series.
Speaker 5: Paul George has to go from seventeen eighteen to probably
Speaker 5: twenty five a night. And damn, Maxie, you gotta you got.
Speaker 5: Maxie has to be the guy gonna get you thirty.
Speaker 5: I mean, I love the fact and beat his fight
Speaker 5: throwing and playing, but those two guys gotta carry you.
Speaker 5: MAXI gotta be that guy.
Speaker 4: He gotta put that Superman cap on the have a
Speaker 4: couple a couple of nights, so you know, in the
Speaker 4: playoff series, your superstar gonna have a couple of nights. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I agree, I agree. A minus twenty eight for Maxi
Speaker 4: to night Bro, they cannot happen.
Speaker 2: Minus twenty five for Ubri, minus twenty four from B
Speaker 2: minus twenty six.
Speaker 1: Hell, as a matter of fact.
Speaker 2: When you lose by thirty nine, ain't nobody gonna have
Speaker 2: no plus, ain't nobody gonna yeah?
Speaker 6: Damn, y'all gotta start yeah, Uncle Jay, y'all gotta start listening.
Speaker 1: It's one game, oh yo, one game bro?
Speaker 6: All right, okay, okay, so when when when When the
Speaker 6: game happened Wednesday and the goddamn six lose again, what's
Speaker 6: the excuse gonna be then.
Speaker 1: Well all they did was hold serve home. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Series don't start until somebody wins on somebody else home court.
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, so y'all that's why it works.
Speaker 1: Okay, Hey, hey, Minnesota in the Spurs. Now we got
Speaker 1: a damn series.
Speaker 3: You hear me?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, okay, Minnesota and the Nuggets. What happened?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a different Minnesota team though.
Speaker 1: This just this Minnesota went to different stole one and say,
Speaker 1: oh we got something.
Speaker 5: It's different. It's a different series. Now I see act
Speaker 5: getting better and better. Are y'all coming back? It's a
Speaker 5: different Minnesota team.
Speaker 1: Hey, but I.
Speaker 2: Don't know who, but somebody better turn into doctor J.
Speaker 2: Somebody from better turn into doctor J. And the other
Speaker 2: one butter turn into AI.
Speaker 1: Because if they don't, I got, I got Philly bouncer back. Man,
Speaker 1: They ain't. They ain't gonna get. They a't gonna get.
Speaker 4: They going out like that, They ain't gonna get the
Speaker 4: dole blew off of them like this in game two, Bro,
Speaker 4: they gonna be a lot better in game two. Watch
Speaker 4: it just look. Not only does it match ups, but
Speaker 4: it's the adjustments that the coaches make. Bro, Philly gotta
Speaker 4: make a few adjustments. And I agree with you on that, Joe.
Speaker 4: I think it'll be a better game, you know, playing
Speaker 4: a seven game series. I mean, you no hangover, you know,
Speaker 4: you have the substance on your mind, you know, so
Speaker 4: now you gotta readjust yourself and and figure it out.
Speaker 5: It'll be a closer game. But I don't I don't see.
Speaker 5: I think the Knicks. I think the ne getting out
Speaker 5: this serious it may.
Speaker 7: See, That's what I'm talking about, Manet.
Speaker 3: Getting out the serious Philly Philly.
Speaker 4: I mean, we're gonna give Philly a seven game series
Speaker 4: against against the Boss and Celtiss.
Speaker 5: They had a tough go at it. You know, it
Speaker 5: took seven games, so we'll give them that. We don't
Speaker 5: give them that one game, but game two we need
Speaker 5: to see a lot of improvement.
Speaker 2: M m Yeah, Nicks better go all the way to
Speaker 2: the NBA Finals because they won't have a smooth they
Speaker 2: won't have a smooth path to what they got right.
Speaker 2: Chant Holmgren called Ruy Mora but Japanese Michael Jordan, describing
Speaker 2: his game, something about thus guy.
Speaker 1: He's a talented guy.
Speaker 2: He plays a little bit like the Japanese Jordan sometimes
Speaker 2: when you see the turnaround and stuff.
Speaker 1: And don't follow for this ship. Ruin. He trying to
Speaker 1: butter you up, trying to buy you up, trying to
Speaker 1: soften you up for the game. You better go in
Speaker 1: there and go with their neck.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, hey, I already know it's gonna be a
Speaker 2: good with I know when I see Ruin and he
Speaker 2: just turned the clippers to his own head and it's
Speaker 2: all butchers Ruin going off, y'all. Ain't no way you
Speaker 2: paying somebody good money to cut you like that. That's
Speaker 2: your job. That's a huge job right there. So when
Speaker 2: I saw that, when I saw that cut the other day, yeah, man,
Speaker 2: Ruin about to go.
Speaker 1: Smooth off for these fools.
Speaker 3: Yeah,