WEBVTT - Opening Round Injuries and Upsets 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:19.919 Come home. On this episode of the Heat Check, it's 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:23.920 time to talk more about the playoffs. We're gonna get 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:26.920 into everything that's happening right now in the first round, 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:29.920 and let me say, folks, it's like a hospital wing 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:32.760 out there. Star players going down left and right for 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:37.640 weeks now at a time. Chaos is in swing. Four 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:41.240 game sweeps looking like six or seven games series now 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:45.400 maybe an upset. Oh boy, let's break this all down. 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.840 So do me a favorite bra and drop that motherfucker 0:00:48.880 --> 0:01:05.280 beat perfect good right, last name with this. I didn't 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:07.920 see a lot of this coming, not gonna lie. I 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.480 didn't see certain games, certain series even happening in the 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.319 first place. Definitely didn't see the Pelicans, like I said 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:19.840 before playing the Suns, they steal one in Phoenix, Man, 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:24.120 I didn't see Toronto and the Sixers looking like this. 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:26.399 I always go one city name and then a team name. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:28.120 I don't even know why I do that. I just 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.160 do it. I can't even stop doing it. But the 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.560 first round of the playoffs is here, and as no 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:38.120 one anticipated, we have just obscene levels of chaos on 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:43.440 our hands, just only the Miami Heat Atlanta series is 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.880 actually playing out pretty much exactly like everyone thought it would. 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:50.200 And if Clint Capella was there, maybe not, maybe not. 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.360 And yet we still haven't seen him go back to 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:56.760 Atlanta yet. So there's time. There's time for more chaos. 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.360 So let's look at all of the series so much 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.440 as Poppin'. Let's start with Boston and the Nets. Probably 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.120 we'll call it the Heavyweight Fight. Let's go Heavyweight fight first, 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:11.280 just an instant classic series. The way that Kevin Durant 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.919 is being guarded is unlike maybe he's ever been guarded 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:21.520 in his life. The physicality is absurd, the way that 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.840 they're playing them. It just you Eme Udoka, who actually 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.360 coached for the Nets last year, he was on the bench, 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:29.720 which he has a little inside baseball going on, which 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.600 he knows what the number of the coverage names are, 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:33.680 you know, what kind of sets they want to run, 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.760 and of course he knows that Steve Nash doesn't actually 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:41.160 know how to fucking coach anyway. They don't respect the Nets. 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.400 That's how you know. And you know how we should 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.920 have known that the Celtics don't respect the Nets is 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.520 they could a duct them and they said fuck that, 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.560 they could have played Toronto. Who is looking every bit 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.840 as vulnerable against the Sixers. They could have had Toronto, 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.040 but they said no, No, give us the third, the 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.000 team with the third best odds to win it all. 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.919 Just let them, let us make them work for it. 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:11.760 Fuck them. Every time Nash looks for a hole at 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.320 any point, they're knocking them around. They're bringing multiple bodies 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.800 his way. He can't get one on one. They're blocking him. 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:23.440 It's Jalen Brown and Tatum. They're strapping him, suffocating him. 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:27.880 His shot selection has been atrocious. He can't score. The 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:34.560 greatest scorer on the planet can't fucking score. It's unreal. 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.800 Even he's admitting to it, like, yeah, they're just guarding me. 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:42.200 Really well, it's my job to fix it. I don't 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.920 know if he's gonna be able to fix it. And 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:50.640 they look like an army out there. They look like 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:55.560 a platoon where everyone is in lockstep with their roles. 0:03:56.240 --> 0:04:00.920 Holes are getting filled immediately defensively when their roads. It's 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:07.600 just the disparity in coaching is egregious. Two of the 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:11.520 best twenty players, two of the best twelve players on 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.320 the planet fifteen. I don't know where Kyrie is. I 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.120 don't think he's top ten but he's somewhere in there 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:20.240 depending on the night. He's not even eating food, Like 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.000 he's not eating food or water until sundown, which is 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.080 at seven point thirty, so he's got to go into 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.400 the game and he's not eating it all day. And 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:31.599 this team, this Celtics team, which all last year looked 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:35.400 like a mess, the roster looked like they needed to 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:40.919 be split up, and they are just dominating seventeen points 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.359 up the nets were and did not matter that came 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:48.440 back and just won. They are showing why they could 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.360 come out of the East and make some noise, especially 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:56.120 given the fact we now have an issue with Chris Middleton. 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.880 Even Kyrie said that there's been an impact. Emy Yudoka 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.719 knows this really well. Coached our staff last year. He's 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.640 had some keys to the treasure trust that he's telling 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:09.120 those guys true. Al Horford was discarded, he was hated 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.680 in Philly, and he has been a tremendous leader to 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:16.680 a roster that needed somebody to galvanize the troops. And 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:21.880 now they are galvanized. Series that we thought would be gimmes, 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.240 not gimmes at all. Right, You've got the Sons and 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:30.120 the Pelicans and the Devin Booker injury now changes everything. 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.200 And here's the thing. Here's the thing about an injury 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:38.120 to somebody like Devin Booker. It doesn't affect really the 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:42.360 Pelican series. They should win the seven games regardless. What 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:46.720 it does is extend this series and put pressure and 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.440 mileage on guys who, let's be honest, don't need to 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.880 be having any more mileage on them, aka Chris Paul. 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:59.400 Chris Paul needs to be a like a two thousand 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:03.920 and seven Camry that your grandma's been driving since two 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.719 thousand and seven and it has eight hundred miles on 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.839 it because all she does is go to Sprouts and back. 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.400 Sprout's West Coast reference, that's my grandma's grocery store. But 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:16.480 like all they do is go a mile and a 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:20.880 half round trip to the grocery store once every ten 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:24.880 days for a few bananas and like pudding. That's what 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:26.680 we need the kind of mileage that needs to be 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.480 going on Chris Paul in the middle of the playoffs. No, no, 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:31.520 he's gonna be getting like thirty five to forty minutes 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.040 now because Devin Booker is not there. You need him 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.440 to lead the troops. You need him to increase his 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.599 scoring and playmaking. And then what happens now in the 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:44.280 second round, is Devin Booker back, we don't know, hamstring 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.760 injury going up to try to block Jackson hay shot 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.760 now has ripple effects. Folks on the Suns. So now 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.680 in the second round, when they play the winner of 0:06:53.880 --> 0:07:01.520 what the they would play the Mavericks winner, wouldn't they? Yeah, 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.920 so say they play the Mavericks and Luca comes back 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:09.240 and he's fully healthy. Now Devin Booker's not back yet. 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.120 They're saying it's a Grade one hamstring strain. He'll be 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.880 back in at the very minimum two to three weeks. 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.640 So now Chris Paul's still playing those minutes. So then 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.080 you go to the Western Conference finals. He's finally back. 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:25.840 He's got a ramp up. Chris Paul starts to sputter. 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.600 Maybe the injury start to take in, maybe the fatigue 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.480 starts to take in him shouldering the burden. I tell 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:34.280 you what, this is where Monny Williams is gonna have 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.240 to earn his pay because you need to get huge 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.440 performances now out of Cam Johnson. You're gonna need huge 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:45.320 performances out of Landry Chemet. And when I say his 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.080 name like that, That's how you know he's not a 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:53.320 real contributor. Landry Chammet needs to step up. Campaign needs 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:55.760 to step step up. We're gonna need to have huge 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.120 games from Da DeAndre aight, and is gonna have to 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:02.240 be his usage rate is gonna guy sky high, and 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.920 that means JaVale McGee's gonna have to take some of 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:08.160 the burden off. It just changes. And this is why 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:11.240 the depth of any team matters in the playoffs. Not 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.880 that you're gonna play them if an ideal situation continues, 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:19.840 but if things go wrong like this, you've got backup plans, folks, 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.720 and the backup plans need to be you need to 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:27.040 go and break the glass, eh, trying to break the 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:31.880 glass and get JaVale McGee out of the fucking box, folks. Seriously, 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:37.960 I tell you what. Also, Sons lost that Pelicans game. 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.560 That's like burying the lead Sun's lost. Sons lost in 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:45.319 Phoenix to the New Orleans Pelicans that started out three 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.120 and sixteen. This is a team with sixty plus wins 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.840 losing at home to the Pelicans. You can chalk that 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.120 up to just being shell shocked because of the Devin 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.720 Booker injury or or you can chalk that up to 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:04.600 Scott Foster a piece of shit Chris Paul oh in fourteen. 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:11.600 Now I believe in playoff games as Scott Foster referees. Wow, 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.160 I don't know what it is. I don't know why 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.800 I should have bet on the Pelicans knowing that Scott 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.679 Foster and Chris Paul were in a collision course yet again, 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.800 and that's one of those games too, like someone's gonna 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.440 get injured. He doesn't call a goddamn foul ever. Ever, 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.560 Another little key piece of this series that I want 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:35.960 to highlight is I have been I must admit pulled 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:41.800 back confession time. I How do I put this nicely? 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:46.640 I don't like brandon Ingram. I've said mean things time 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.679 and time and time and time again about brandon Ingram, 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.120 mostly because he was mean to me in an interview 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:58.640 when he was when he was shooting a knee brace 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.480 commercial and I wanted one on one and the knee brace 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.120 commercial granted me an interview that I don't think brandon 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:08.800 Ingram particularly knew about. So he was mean to me. 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:14.080 My feelings were hurt. I got sad. I always hit 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.839 it off with athletes, and he was not having any 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.040 of my bullshit. I asked him, could you go and 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.040 dunk for me? So he takes some video for the 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.120 for the shoe, puts some bl b roll over it, 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.640 and he was like, nah, I'm a gunna. I'm like, oh, 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.920 fuck you, then fuck you from now on. Then thirty 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.000 you know who said fuck you. Brandon Ingram thirty seven 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.520 points on the best defense one of the best defensive 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.520 teams in the league. Michel Bridges had no chance to 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:48.280 stop him. On another world Larry Nance Junior, who was 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:52.320 a former Blazer center backup center for the Pelicans, said, listen, 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.960 I'm a good player. I am a really really good player. 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.240 Brandon Ingram. Anytime he steps on the court, I think 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.200 he's the best player on any court he steps on. 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.680 That's saying a lot. But we gotta give our props 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.080 to Brendan Ingram. And if you said, Trista, if you 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.760 could have Brendan Ingram on your team this version, how 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:17.680 much would you want him? I would put my feelings aside, 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.360 like the generous soul I am, and I'd say I 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:26.400 think we'd take them. He's a gunna. He's a gunna. Nah, 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:32.280 I'm a gunner, but anyway, CJ and him together just 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.520 a tremendous team. And that shows you that you can 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:40.199 build a roster with an undersized guard that can't play defense, 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.720 and if you put him around Herb Jones and guys 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:48.720 like Jonis Valentunis who I didn't know, play defense, and 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.120 you can create the right type of weird roster. It 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.880 can work. It can work. Moving forward to the next 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:59.160 part of the series, next series in the playoffs, Bucks 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:04.920 Bulls man first and foremost, let's get to the news 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:11.080 part portion. Chris Middleton mcl strain. Yeah, that's probably one 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:14.600 of the biggest injuries. The East is pretty loaded. They're 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.520 gonna see some opponents that they're gonna need him for 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.880 and he's now out. I don't even know how long. 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:28.559 They're saying, possibly four weeks. So yeah, he hurt his 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.679 knee in the fourth quarter, which they ended up losing 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:36.560 to the Bulls. Two injuries, two upsets games that two 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:38.640 injuries that happened at the latter part of the game 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.480 as well, and the team had no ability to adjust. Now, 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.600 Bulls were dominating this game, as were the Pelicans in 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:46.959 their series with the Suns. So the injury. You can't 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.200 attribute it to it all, but you would imagine that 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.679 two gritty teams that were just both in the finals 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.200 would have been able in crunch time to get the win. 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:59.200 Like that's the difference between a good team and a 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:03.800 great team, is being able to get those those victories 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:08.720 when you know it's close games mild mcl spring. They 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.840 say two to four weeks. Good news, he'll probably be 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.160 back the back half of the second round. Bad news. 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:21.360 This again, like the Suns, another long series potentially should 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:25.360 have been a sweep. Now we're talking six probably they're 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.720 now they got one in Milwaukee, just like the Pels 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.280 got one in Phoenix. Now they go back to their 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.920 home court with a little fucking swagger. We're gonna see 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.600 and the star players that you've been relying on are 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:40.240 gonna be ghost face Killa. So I don't know, I 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:47.040 don't know. Oh so really quick, Alex Caruso, This motherfucker 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:54.800 undrafted and just a demon. Who would have thought Gianni's Antetokumpo, 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:59.040 who's probably I would say, the most unguardable human being 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.120 on the planet. That let me just go ahead and 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:10.319 look him up. Alex Caruso height six' four six,' four, 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:15.720 you know two hundred and something pounds going Up, against 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:22.920 jannis who's a legit, seven footer he's what six eleven 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:28.920 two fifty and We Got alex Caruso on yannis in. 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:35.520 The block May forced jannis. Offensive foul giannis, looked like what, 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.200 that's not that's not how. That's it he did the 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.480 thing where he puts the arms Out, like lebron like 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:47.760 he's grasping. For something. Help, me No alex crusoe. Has 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.680 straps this is THE reason I Said alex crusoe was 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:54.400 one of the best free agent signings all. Off season 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.600 another reason That the lakers are. Fucking idiots so put 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:01.000 some respect on the Goat UNDRAFTED texas A and m 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:07.480 guard who Looks like janitor strapping the most unguardable human 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.960 being on. The planet not on, the perimeter which makes 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:15.520 more sense in. The post. SO insane i love that 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.560 gonna be a very. Interesting series let's talk about THE 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.480 series i thought would go one way and it's. Going 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:26.760 Another uh toronto now down zero three To the philadelphia seventy. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.560 SIX ers i think that the. Reason why again another 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:34.800 Key Injury scottie Barnes in game One ankle sprain says 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:38.720 he's gonna be Back for. Game Four Then Gary trent 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.920 JUNIOR non covid. Related illness last night when They played, 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:46.160 Game Three nick nurse Said That Gary trent junior couldn't. 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:52.640 Even breathe. That's bad that's. Really bad it's not being 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.160 able to breathe a key piece, of living let alone 0:15:55.200 --> 0:16:00.200 like operating at an elite level. In, basketball well the 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.000 SERIES that I thought toronto could be favored and now 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.640 could be closed out in four or. Five games barnes 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:07.480 says he's, coming BACK like, I SAID but i don't 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.160 even know at this point how much that. Changes things 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:14.120 they gave up, A lead toronto had. That game We 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.960 had drake with The corn rows just, talking about, you 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:22.400 know talking shit back and Forth, to embiid and then 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.200 all of a sudden it has to go to ot 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:29.200 and now you get point what like literally almost no 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:34.680 seconds left on the. Shot, clock embiid. Turnaround three this 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:40.680 man Is Seven joel embiid is seven, feet tall, spin 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:47.280 around fade away from, the corner three side step wet 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:53.200 to basically seal game three. And overtime, Also Quickly doc rivers, 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.720 is terrible, like terrible like part of me thinks That 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:00.960 The jay wright retirement is, just, saying, hey, hey hey 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.480 he's open if you don't get your. Shit together we 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.720 got someone not saying he even wants to coach IN, 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.280 the nba but we're saying we. Got options you KNOW what, 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:17.840 i mean. AWFUL stuff i just don't really Know how 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:21.160 toronto's can can pull. This off but if anybody can, 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.320 DO it I Think nick nurse can just. Tough stuff 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.200 they really should Have won game three and things would 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.840 have been a much. Better, series fourthly Let's Not Golden. 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:37.200 State denver this shit. Bothers Me golden state, is now 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.640 all of a sudden The crown prince Of. The west 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.879 you've got Now The devin, booker injury and, a're, like oh, 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.240 oh Well The golden state only needs now To, beat 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.879 memphis which is gonna be. A task first, and foremost 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.600 let's not Act like denver's a. Good team they don't. 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:58.760 Have anyone When the Sun swept denver, last year the world, 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.480 was like that. Means nothing they don't have the guy 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:05.080 that went nuclear in. The bubble he doesn't HAVE an acl, 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:09.840 right now he's, not playing and that guy is. Still 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.760 gone and the other guy who was playing. Last Year 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.639 Michael porter junior has no spine, right now so he's not. 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:21.720 Playing basketball so it's a less qualified team to even 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.359 measure yourself again than it was, last year which was 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.600 the team that was getting shade When the suns easily 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:31.360 beat them in? Round two are we serious? RIGHT now 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.360 I hate i Hate this and people, are, Like, oh 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.919 trista you Just Hate, golden state so you're just not 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.240 even wanting to give them. Any credit you've never wanted 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:40.560 to give them. Any credit and, IT'S like I Like, 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:46.199 jordan poole, fine player, fine player nice little Hybrid between Clay. 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.760 And steph he has a full bag. Of tricks but, 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:54.560 the boy, the man when he's not in the, starting lineup. It's. 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:58.520 Tough mentally things degrade for him, very quickly to the 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:02.080 Point Where steph curry needs to volunteer to come off 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:04.320 the bench in order for him and his confidence to 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:07.360 remain high so that his play can. Remain high, it's 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:09.720 Like So scottie pippen type stuff, right now you KNOW what? 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.639 I mean and he's like in the fourth year of. 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:17.439 His career it's Not Like. Scottie Pippen, Scottie pippen so 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:21.480 Let's Not Crown. Golden state at, THIS point i need 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:23.919 to see them play a. REAL competitor i need to 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:27.160 see Them play memphis in order for me to believe 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:31.320 if you Can. Beat, memphis, Fine fine i'll sit Here 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:34.680 and i'll show you my Belly and i'll, say hey, 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:39.360 not physically but like you Know what. I'm, saying anyway we're. 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:43.280 Off topic so all that to say it's gonna be an. 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.639 Easy series this is not even something we really should be, 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.560 talking about except for the Fact That draymond green is. 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:51.159 That Guy draymond green should. Have won if he could have, 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.320 been healthy he would have been the runaway Favorite For 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:55.879 defensive player Of the year because you're talking about a 0:19:55.920 --> 0:20:00.359 guy frustrating a seven FOOTER. THE mvp i will be 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:02.920 a two time back TO back mvp and he can't 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:07.560 even get his, shot Off And draymond green Six' eight mouse, 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:09.920 In the house Mouse in the, house, is, like, nope 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.679 nope nope you are going to. Be absolutely neutralized so 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:15.520 that'll be a four to. Z oh sweep, don't even worry. 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.879 Don't watch It Just bet golden state. Blindly no shot 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:21.560 denver wins a game. EVEN at home i just. DON'T 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:23.439 see it i don't know who's gonna be able. To 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:26.280 take over you Got Willed to thrill Barton Fighting with 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:30.159 DeMarcus cousins. On the Sideline You've got Monte Morris and 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:33.720 bones highland having his Shoulder of the Burton Please. And 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:39.879 Austin rivers austin rivers get. Out, Of here memphis minnesota 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:45.879 the FUTURE. Future the nba all, of a Sudden we 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.080 thought memphis could, be in trouble and then if they 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:49.919 decided to put the clamps down like they knew how 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:53.520 Switched Everything took steven adams out. Of The, mix steven 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:56.439 adams you need to go, home. Right now sir you can't, be, 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:03.840 In here sir you're. A Defensive Liability carl anthony towns 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:09.159 is Eating You. Like captain, crunch just so all, that 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:12.720 to say three minutes is how much playing time he 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:15.000 ended Up getting, in game two twenty Five minutes. IN 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:18.600 game one i would call. That An adjustment taylor jenkins doing. 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:22.960 The damn, thing two coaches two bright coaches that are 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:26.440 the future, of this league both teams showing their deep. 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:30.320 BENCHES this series i hope. IT goes seven i want 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:32.720 to see it get loud in. THE target center i 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.800 Want To see pat beverly stand on the. Scorer's table 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:41.520 again fun. STUFF dig in i think maybe It was 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:44.680 the ringer did a whole Breakdown on what. Memphis did 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:46.840 differently i'm not gonna get into it because it would take, 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:49.760 way too long but how they Decided To defend anthony 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:54.480 Edwards And defend anthony towns to neutralize them is. A 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:58.160 phenomenal read so definitely. Check That, Out heaton hawks let's. 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:04.560 Move On, There, jimmy butler oh how time can change 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:08.119 the opinions of. Those around you remember we were just 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:11.560 talking about him getting into fights, with his team him. 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:15.960 Potentially being traded eric, spolsterra being like what you want 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:20.159 me to fucking? Fight You now Eric Spolstra and Jimmy Butler. 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:24.080 Being jimminy bricketts. We have that that was like literally. 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:30.040 Fourteen Days ago jimmy butler forty five fucking points some 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:33.560 from three some In the fourth jimmy in. The fourth 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:38.240 Quarter big face. Coffee is back folks had, a slight 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:42.440 hiatus and now how the tables, have Changed Now how 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:46.480 eric spolster Is just SINGING jimmy And I, love eric 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:52.159 spolstra but just the opinions we have of people just 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:56.320 come and go. With the wins don't, They even me i'm. 0:22:56.320 --> 0:22:59.280 Not bought in i'm. GONNA stay firm i am. Not 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:02.480 Bought in jimmy butler? Forty five points how many's Gonna have? 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:05.000 In game three how many is gonna have when he's 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:09.520 not Going Against? The atlanta hawks please tell me this 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:12.840 Is Like The Golden. State Denver Series the atlanta hawks 0:23:12.840 --> 0:23:16.760 were what? A nine? Seed ten seed get the hell. 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:20.639 OUT of here i am so so Out On the 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:24.080 atlanta hawks being, anything right now Especially With, No Clint 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:27.440 capella john collins with only nine. Fingers out, there i'm, 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:32.880 good unsung hero all. The undrafted Guys You've, Got duncan 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:39.639 Robinson You've. Got Gabe vincent And gabe defended trey in 0:23:39.680 --> 0:23:42.600 A way. In Game one in game, Two that like 0:23:42.720 --> 0:23:47.720 trey shot one for. Seven from. Three that's crazy in 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:51.840 the games in The moments Where, Gabe guarded trey trey. 0:23:52.000 --> 0:23:58.200 Was largely irrelevant trey doesn't Even Shoot when gabe vincent. 0:23:58.200 --> 0:24:01.760 Is on, him he's like, come, over here someone someone set. 0:24:01.800 --> 0:24:04.600 ME a screen. I need it. I need, IT this 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:07.000 guy i don't know where. He Came. From team nigeria 0:24:07.040 --> 0:24:09.240 that's the last Time We saw gay vincent ball out 0:24:09.240 --> 0:24:13.360 before this year. AND the heat. I Need it gabe 0:24:13.520 --> 0:24:17.239 vincent cuffs like. You read about the man was In 0:24:17.280 --> 0:24:21.240 Prison when gave vincent. Was. On him, Uh moving Forward. 0:24:21.320 --> 0:24:24.639 Dallas Versus utah so luca injury. Is still huge didn't, 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:26.800 play game One didn't, play game two might be in 0:24:26.880 --> 0:24:31.560 game three left cash strains. Are no, JOKE lucas says 0:24:31.560 --> 0:24:33.920 i Don't know if i'm gonna ever be one hundred. 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:37.120 PERCENT this postseason i think it's that's. Tough right Now 0:24:37.160 --> 0:24:40.280 but if i'm ready and there's no risk of, AGGRAVATING 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:43.399 the injury i will. BE out there i need, to 0:24:43.440 --> 0:24:45.400 SEE it but i don't want to see it at 0:24:45.400 --> 0:24:48.840 the Expense. OF future luca I. NEED skinny LUCA I. 0:24:48.840 --> 0:24:52.000 NEED mvp luca, i don't, Need you know luca getting 0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:54.000 flamed out in. THE second round i don't. Need that 0:24:54.040 --> 0:24:58.679 whatsoever Against What The suns No sir no sir serieson now. 0:24:58.800 --> 0:25:02.520 One To one jalen. Brunson's that guy i've been telling 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:05.840 y'all he's like one of the only floor. Generals out 0:25:05.880 --> 0:25:10.040 there it's one of the only guys, who, can score facilitate, 0:25:10.400 --> 0:25:13.720 set the, table have poise be able to get, last 0:25:13.760 --> 0:25:18.159 second buckets footwork, and the paint getting, guys kicking out. Getting, 0:25:18.160 --> 0:25:23.440 GUYS involved god. I, LOVE basketball god. I love basketball 0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:27.000 somebody has a. VERY quick aside i just got excited 0:25:27.080 --> 0:25:30.159 THINKING ABOUT a dm i. Got last NIGHT got a. 0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:34.240 Dm last night it's, gonna sound random, but they said 0:25:35.080 --> 0:25:39.159 listening to the heat check in this league reignited my, 0:25:39.359 --> 0:25:43.399 love FOR basketball and i now WORK. For the nba that. 0:25:43.480 --> 0:25:47.520