Speaker 1: Come home. On this episode of the Heat Check, it's
Speaker 1: time to talk more about the playoffs. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: into everything that's happening right now in the first round,
Speaker 1: and let me say, folks, it's like a hospital wing
Speaker 1: out there. Star players going down left and right for
Speaker 1: weeks now at a time. Chaos is in swing. Four
Speaker 1: game sweeps looking like six or seven games series now
Speaker 1: maybe an upset. Oh boy, let's break this all down.
Speaker 1: So do me a favorite bra and drop that motherfucker
Speaker 1: beat perfect good right, last name with this. I didn't
Speaker 1: see a lot of this coming, not gonna lie. I
Speaker 1: didn't see certain games, certain series even happening in the
Speaker 1: first place. Definitely didn't see the Pelicans, like I said
Speaker 1: before playing the Suns, they steal one in Phoenix, Man,
Speaker 1: I didn't see Toronto and the Sixers looking like this.
Speaker 1: I always go one city name and then a team name.
Speaker 1: I don't even know why I do that. I just
Speaker 1: do it. I can't even stop doing it. But the
Speaker 1: first round of the playoffs is here, and as no
Speaker 1: one anticipated, we have just obscene levels of chaos on
Speaker 1: our hands, just only the Miami Heat Atlanta series is
Speaker 1: actually playing out pretty much exactly like everyone thought it would.
Speaker 1: And if Clint Capella was there, maybe not, maybe not.
Speaker 1: And yet we still haven't seen him go back to
Speaker 1: Atlanta yet. So there's time. There's time for more chaos.
Speaker 1: So let's look at all of the series so much
Speaker 1: as Poppin'. Let's start with Boston and the Nets. Probably
Speaker 1: we'll call it the Heavyweight Fight. Let's go Heavyweight fight first,
Speaker 1: just an instant classic series. The way that Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: is being guarded is unlike maybe he's ever been guarded
Speaker 1: in his life. The physicality is absurd, the way that
Speaker 1: they're playing them. It just you Eme Udoka, who actually
Speaker 1: coached for the Nets last year, he was on the bench,
Speaker 1: which he has a little inside baseball going on, which
Speaker 1: he knows what the number of the coverage names are,
Speaker 1: you know, what kind of sets they want to run,
Speaker 1: and of course he knows that Steve Nash doesn't actually
Speaker 1: know how to fucking coach anyway. They don't respect the Nets.
Speaker 1: That's how you know. And you know how we should
Speaker 1: have known that the Celtics don't respect the Nets is
Speaker 1: they could a duct them and they said fuck that,
Speaker 1: they could have played Toronto. Who is looking every bit
Speaker 1: as vulnerable against the Sixers. They could have had Toronto,
Speaker 1: but they said no, No, give us the third, the
Speaker 1: team with the third best odds to win it all.
Speaker 1: Just let them, let us make them work for it.
Speaker 1: Fuck them. Every time Nash looks for a hole at
Speaker 1: any point, they're knocking them around. They're bringing multiple bodies
Speaker 1: his way. He can't get one on one. They're blocking him.
Speaker 1: It's Jalen Brown and Tatum. They're strapping him, suffocating him.
Speaker 1: His shot selection has been atrocious. He can't score. The
Speaker 1: greatest scorer on the planet can't fucking score. It's unreal.
Speaker 1: Even he's admitting to it, like, yeah, they're just guarding me.
Speaker 1: Really well, it's my job to fix it. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's gonna be able to fix it. And
Speaker 1: they look like an army out there. They look like
Speaker 1: a platoon where everyone is in lockstep with their roles.
Speaker 1: Holes are getting filled immediately defensively when their roads. It's
Speaker 1: just the disparity in coaching is egregious. Two of the
Speaker 1: best twenty players, two of the best twelve players on
Speaker 1: the planet fifteen. I don't know where Kyrie is. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's top ten but he's somewhere in there
Speaker 1: depending on the night. He's not even eating food, Like
Speaker 1: he's not eating food or water until sundown, which is
Speaker 1: at seven point thirty, so he's got to go into
Speaker 1: the game and he's not eating it all day. And
Speaker 1: this team, this Celtics team, which all last year looked
Speaker 1: like a mess, the roster looked like they needed to
Speaker 1: be split up, and they are just dominating seventeen points
Speaker 1: up the nets were and did not matter that came
Speaker 1: back and just won. They are showing why they could
Speaker 1: come out of the East and make some noise, especially
Speaker 1: given the fact we now have an issue with Chris Middleton.
Speaker 1: Even Kyrie said that there's been an impact. Emy Yudoka
Speaker 1: knows this really well. Coached our staff last year. He's
Speaker 1: had some keys to the treasure trust that he's telling
Speaker 1: those guys true. Al Horford was discarded, he was hated
Speaker 1: in Philly, and he has been a tremendous leader to
Speaker 1: a roster that needed somebody to galvanize the troops. And
Speaker 1: now they are galvanized. Series that we thought would be gimmes,
Speaker 1: not gimmes at all. Right, You've got the Sons and
Speaker 1: the Pelicans and the Devin Booker injury now changes everything.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. Here's the thing about an injury
Speaker 1: to somebody like Devin Booker. It doesn't affect really the
Speaker 1: Pelican series. They should win the seven games regardless. What
Speaker 1: it does is extend this series and put pressure and
Speaker 1: mileage on guys who, let's be honest, don't need to
Speaker 1: be having any more mileage on them, aka Chris Paul.
Speaker 1: Chris Paul needs to be a like a two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven Camry that your grandma's been driving since two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven and it has eight hundred miles on
Speaker 1: it because all she does is go to Sprouts and back.
Speaker 1: Sprout's West Coast reference, that's my grandma's grocery store. But
Speaker 1: like all they do is go a mile and a
Speaker 1: half round trip to the grocery store once every ten
Speaker 1: days for a few bananas and like pudding. That's what
Speaker 1: we need the kind of mileage that needs to be
Speaker 1: going on Chris Paul in the middle of the playoffs. No, no,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be getting like thirty five to forty minutes
Speaker 1: now because Devin Booker is not there. You need him
Speaker 1: to lead the troops. You need him to increase his
Speaker 1: scoring and playmaking. And then what happens now in the
Speaker 1: second round, is Devin Booker back, we don't know, hamstring
Speaker 1: injury going up to try to block Jackson hay shot
Speaker 1: now has ripple effects. Folks on the Suns. So now
Speaker 1: in the second round, when they play the winner of
Speaker 1: what the they would play the Mavericks winner, wouldn't they? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so say they play the Mavericks and Luca comes back
Speaker 1: and he's fully healthy. Now Devin Booker's not back yet.
Speaker 1: They're saying it's a Grade one hamstring strain. He'll be
Speaker 1: back in at the very minimum two to three weeks.
Speaker 1: So now Chris Paul's still playing those minutes. So then
Speaker 1: you go to the Western Conference finals. He's finally back.
Speaker 1: He's got a ramp up. Chris Paul starts to sputter.
Speaker 1: Maybe the injury start to take in, maybe the fatigue
Speaker 1: starts to take in him shouldering the burden. I tell
Speaker 1: you what, this is where Monny Williams is gonna have
Speaker 1: to earn his pay because you need to get huge
Speaker 1: performances now out of Cam Johnson. You're gonna need huge
Speaker 1: performances out of Landry Chemet. And when I say his
Speaker 1: name like that, That's how you know he's not a
Speaker 1: real contributor. Landry Chammet needs to step up. Campaign needs
Speaker 1: to step step up. We're gonna need to have huge
Speaker 1: games from Da DeAndre aight, and is gonna have to
Speaker 1: be his usage rate is gonna guy sky high, and
Speaker 1: that means JaVale McGee's gonna have to take some of
Speaker 1: the burden off. It just changes. And this is why
Speaker 1: the depth of any team matters in the playoffs. Not
Speaker 1: that you're gonna play them if an ideal situation continues,
Speaker 1: but if things go wrong like this, you've got backup plans, folks,
Speaker 1: and the backup plans need to be you need to
Speaker 1: go and break the glass, eh, trying to break the
Speaker 1: glass and get JaVale McGee out of the fucking box, folks. Seriously,
Speaker 1: I tell you what. Also, Sons lost that Pelicans game.
Speaker 1: That's like burying the lead Sun's lost. Sons lost in
Speaker 1: Phoenix to the New Orleans Pelicans that started out three
Speaker 1: and sixteen. This is a team with sixty plus wins
Speaker 1: losing at home to the Pelicans. You can chalk that
Speaker 1: up to just being shell shocked because of the Devin
Speaker 1: Booker injury or or you can chalk that up to
Speaker 1: Scott Foster a piece of shit Chris Paul oh in fourteen.
Speaker 1: Now I believe in playoff games as Scott Foster referees. Wow,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. I don't know why
Speaker 1: I should have bet on the Pelicans knowing that Scott
Speaker 1: Foster and Chris Paul were in a collision course yet again,
Speaker 1: and that's one of those games too, like someone's gonna
Speaker 1: get injured. He doesn't call a goddamn foul ever. Ever,
Speaker 1: Another little key piece of this series that I want
Speaker 1: to highlight is I have been I must admit pulled
Speaker 1: back confession time. I How do I put this nicely?
Speaker 1: I don't like brandon Ingram. I've said mean things time
Speaker 1: and time and time and time again about brandon Ingram,
Speaker 1: mostly because he was mean to me in an interview
Speaker 1: when he was when he was shooting a knee brace
Speaker 1: commercial and I wanted one on one and the knee brace
Speaker 1: commercial granted me an interview that I don't think brandon
Speaker 1: Ingram particularly knew about. So he was mean to me.
Speaker 1: My feelings were hurt. I got sad. I always hit
Speaker 1: it off with athletes, and he was not having any
Speaker 1: of my bullshit. I asked him, could you go and
Speaker 1: dunk for me? So he takes some video for the
Speaker 1: for the shoe, puts some bl b roll over it,
Speaker 1: and he was like, nah, I'm a gunna. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: fuck you, then fuck you from now on. Then thirty
Speaker 1: you know who said fuck you. Brandon Ingram thirty seven
Speaker 1: points on the best defense one of the best defensive
Speaker 1: teams in the league. Michel Bridges had no chance to
Speaker 1: stop him. On another world Larry Nance Junior, who was
Speaker 1: a former Blazer center backup center for the Pelicans, said, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm a good player. I am a really really good player.
Speaker 1: Brandon Ingram. Anytime he steps on the court, I think
Speaker 1: he's the best player on any court he steps on.
Speaker 1: That's saying a lot. But we gotta give our props
Speaker 1: to Brendan Ingram. And if you said, Trista, if you
Speaker 1: could have Brendan Ingram on your team this version, how
Speaker 1: much would you want him? I would put my feelings aside,
Speaker 1: like the generous soul I am, and I'd say I
Speaker 1: think we'd take them. He's a gunna. He's a gunna. Nah,
Speaker 1: I'm a gunner, but anyway, CJ and him together just
Speaker 1: a tremendous team. And that shows you that you can
Speaker 1: build a roster with an undersized guard that can't play defense,
Speaker 1: and if you put him around Herb Jones and guys
Speaker 1: like Jonis Valentunis who I didn't know, play defense, and
Speaker 1: you can create the right type of weird roster. It
Speaker 1: can work. It can work. Moving forward to the next
Speaker 1: part of the series, next series in the playoffs, Bucks
Speaker 1: Bulls man first and foremost, let's get to the news
Speaker 1: part portion. Chris Middleton mcl strain. Yeah, that's probably one
Speaker 1: of the biggest injuries. The East is pretty loaded. They're
Speaker 1: gonna see some opponents that they're gonna need him for
Speaker 1: and he's now out. I don't even know how long.
Speaker 1: They're saying, possibly four weeks. So yeah, he hurt his
Speaker 1: knee in the fourth quarter, which they ended up losing
Speaker 1: to the Bulls. Two injuries, two upsets games that two
Speaker 1: injuries that happened at the latter part of the game
Speaker 1: as well, and the team had no ability to adjust. Now,
Speaker 1: Bulls were dominating this game, as were the Pelicans in
Speaker 1: their series with the Suns. So the injury. You can't
Speaker 1: attribute it to it all, but you would imagine that
Speaker 1: two gritty teams that were just both in the finals
Speaker 1: would have been able in crunch time to get the win.
Speaker 1: Like that's the difference between a good team and a
Speaker 1: great team, is being able to get those those victories
Speaker 1: when you know it's close games mild mcl spring. They
Speaker 1: say two to four weeks. Good news, he'll probably be
Speaker 1: back the back half of the second round. Bad news.
Speaker 1: This again, like the Suns, another long series potentially should
Speaker 1: have been a sweep. Now we're talking six probably they're
Speaker 1: now they got one in Milwaukee, just like the Pels
Speaker 1: got one in Phoenix. Now they go back to their
Speaker 1: home court with a little fucking swagger. We're gonna see
Speaker 1: and the star players that you've been relying on are
Speaker 1: gonna be ghost face Killa. So I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Oh so really quick, Alex Caruso, This motherfucker
Speaker 1: undrafted and just a demon. Who would have thought Gianni's Antetokumpo,
Speaker 1: who's probably I would say, the most unguardable human being
Speaker 1: on the planet. That let me just go ahead and
Speaker 1: look him up. Alex Caruso height six' four six,' four,
Speaker 1: you know two hundred and something pounds going Up, against
Speaker 1: jannis who's a legit, seven footer he's what six eleven
Speaker 1: two fifty and We Got alex Caruso on yannis in.
Speaker 1: The block May forced jannis. Offensive foul giannis, looked like what,
Speaker 1: that's not that's not how. That's it he did the
Speaker 1: thing where he puts the arms Out, like lebron like
Speaker 1: he's grasping. For something. Help, me No alex crusoe. Has
Speaker 1: straps this is THE reason I Said alex crusoe was
Speaker 1: one of the best free agent signings all. Off season
Speaker 1: another reason That the lakers are. Fucking idiots so put
Speaker 1: some respect on the Goat UNDRAFTED texas A and m
Speaker 1: guard who Looks like janitor strapping the most unguardable human
Speaker 1: being on. The planet not on, the perimeter which makes
Speaker 1: more sense in. The post. SO insane i love that
Speaker 1: gonna be a very. Interesting series let's talk about THE
Speaker 1: series i thought would go one way and it's. Going
Speaker 1: Another uh toronto now down zero three To the philadelphia seventy.
Speaker 1: SIX ers i think that the. Reason why again another
Speaker 1: Key Injury scottie Barnes in game One ankle sprain says
Speaker 1: he's gonna be Back for. Game Four Then Gary trent
Speaker 1: JUNIOR non covid. Related illness last night when They played,
Speaker 1: Game Three nick nurse Said That Gary trent junior couldn't.
Speaker 1: Even breathe. That's bad that's. Really bad it's not being
Speaker 1: able to breathe a key piece, of living let alone
Speaker 1: like operating at an elite level. In, basketball well the
Speaker 1: SERIES that I thought toronto could be favored and now
Speaker 1: could be closed out in four or. Five games barnes
Speaker 1: says he's, coming BACK like, I SAID but i don't
Speaker 1: even know at this point how much that. Changes things
Speaker 1: they gave up, A lead toronto had. That game We
Speaker 1: had drake with The corn rows just, talking about, you
Speaker 1: know talking shit back and Forth, to embiid and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it has to go to ot
Speaker 1: and now you get point what like literally almost no
Speaker 1: seconds left on the. Shot, clock embiid. Turnaround three this
Speaker 1: man Is Seven joel embiid is seven, feet tall, spin
Speaker 1: around fade away from, the corner three side step wet
Speaker 1: to basically seal game three. And overtime, Also Quickly doc rivers,
Speaker 1: is terrible, like terrible like part of me thinks That
Speaker 1: The jay wright retirement is, just, saying, hey, hey hey
Speaker 1: he's open if you don't get your. Shit together we
Speaker 1: got someone not saying he even wants to coach IN,
Speaker 1: the nba but we're saying we. Got options you KNOW what,
Speaker 1: i mean. AWFUL stuff i just don't really Know how
Speaker 1: toronto's can can pull. This off but if anybody can,
Speaker 1: DO it I Think nick nurse can just. Tough stuff
Speaker 1: they really should Have won game three and things would
Speaker 1: have been a much. Better, series fourthly Let's Not Golden.
Speaker 1: State denver this shit. Bothers Me golden state, is now
Speaker 1: all of a sudden The crown prince Of. The west
Speaker 1: you've got Now The devin, booker injury and, a're, like oh,
Speaker 1: oh Well The golden state only needs now To, beat
Speaker 1: memphis which is gonna be. A task first, and foremost
Speaker 1: let's not Act like denver's a. Good team they don't.
Speaker 1: Have anyone When the Sun swept denver, last year the world,
Speaker 1: was like that. Means nothing they don't have the guy
Speaker 1: that went nuclear in. The bubble he doesn't HAVE an acl,
Speaker 1: right now he's, not playing and that guy is. Still
Speaker 1: gone and the other guy who was playing. Last Year
Speaker 1: Michael porter junior has no spine, right now so he's not.
Speaker 1: Playing basketball so it's a less qualified team to even
Speaker 1: measure yourself again than it was, last year which was
Speaker 1: the team that was getting shade When the suns easily
Speaker 1: beat them in? Round two are we serious? RIGHT now
Speaker 1: I hate i Hate this and people, are, Like, oh
Speaker 1: trista you Just Hate, golden state so you're just not
Speaker 1: even wanting to give them. Any credit you've never wanted
Speaker 1: to give them. Any credit and, IT'S like I Like,
Speaker 1: jordan poole, fine player, fine player nice little Hybrid between Clay.
Speaker 1: And steph he has a full bag. Of tricks but,
Speaker 1: the boy, the man when he's not in the, starting lineup. It's.
Speaker 1: Tough mentally things degrade for him, very quickly to the
Speaker 1: Point Where steph curry needs to volunteer to come off
Speaker 1: the bench in order for him and his confidence to
Speaker 1: remain high so that his play can. Remain high, it's
Speaker 1: Like So scottie pippen type stuff, right now you KNOW what?
Speaker 1: I mean and he's like in the fourth year of.
Speaker 1: His career it's Not Like. Scottie Pippen, Scottie pippen so
Speaker 1: Let's Not Crown. Golden state at, THIS point i need
Speaker 1: to see them play a. REAL competitor i need to
Speaker 1: see Them play memphis in order for me to believe
Speaker 1: if you Can. Beat, memphis, Fine fine i'll sit Here
Speaker 1: and i'll show you my Belly and i'll, say hey,
Speaker 1: not physically but like you Know what. I'm, saying anyway we're.
Speaker 1: Off topic so all that to say it's gonna be an.
Speaker 1: Easy series this is not even something we really should be,
Speaker 1: talking about except for the Fact That draymond green is.
Speaker 1: That Guy draymond green should. Have won if he could have,
Speaker 1: been healthy he would have been the runaway Favorite For
Speaker 1: defensive player Of the year because you're talking about a
Speaker 1: guy frustrating a seven FOOTER. THE mvp i will be
Speaker 1: a two time back TO back mvp and he can't
Speaker 1: even get his, shot Off And draymond green Six' eight mouse,
Speaker 1: In the house Mouse in the, house, is, like, nope
Speaker 1: nope nope you are going to. Be absolutely neutralized so
Speaker 1: that'll be a four to. Z oh sweep, don't even worry.
Speaker 1: Don't watch It Just bet golden state. Blindly no shot
Speaker 1: denver wins a game. EVEN at home i just. DON'T
Speaker 1: see it i don't know who's gonna be able. To
Speaker 1: take over you Got Willed to thrill Barton Fighting with
Speaker 1: DeMarcus cousins. On the Sideline You've got Monte Morris and
Speaker 1: bones highland having his Shoulder of the Burton Please. And
Speaker 1: Austin rivers austin rivers get. Out, Of here memphis minnesota
Speaker 1: the FUTURE. Future the nba all, of a Sudden we
Speaker 1: thought memphis could, be in trouble and then if they
Speaker 1: decided to put the clamps down like they knew how
Speaker 1: Switched Everything took steven adams out. Of The, mix steven
Speaker 1: adams you need to go, home. Right now sir you can't, be,
Speaker 1: In here sir you're. A Defensive Liability carl anthony towns
Speaker 1: is Eating You. Like captain, crunch just so all, that
Speaker 1: to say three minutes is how much playing time he
Speaker 1: ended Up getting, in game two twenty Five minutes. IN
Speaker 1: game one i would call. That An adjustment taylor jenkins doing.
Speaker 1: The damn, thing two coaches two bright coaches that are
Speaker 1: the future, of this league both teams showing their deep.
Speaker 1: BENCHES this series i hope. IT goes seven i want
Speaker 1: to see it get loud in. THE target center i
Speaker 1: Want To see pat beverly stand on the. Scorer's table
Speaker 1: again fun. STUFF dig in i think maybe It was
Speaker 1: the ringer did a whole Breakdown on what. Memphis did
Speaker 1: differently i'm not gonna get into it because it would take,
Speaker 1: way too long but how they Decided To defend anthony
Speaker 1: Edwards And defend anthony towns to neutralize them is. A
Speaker 1: phenomenal read so definitely. Check That, Out heaton hawks let's.
Speaker 1: Move On, There, jimmy butler oh how time can change
Speaker 1: the opinions of. Those around you remember we were just
Speaker 1: talking about him getting into fights, with his team him.
Speaker 1: Potentially being traded eric, spolsterra being like what you want
Speaker 1: me to fucking? Fight You now Eric Spolstra and Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 1: Being jimminy bricketts. We have that that was like literally.
Speaker 1: Fourteen Days ago jimmy butler forty five fucking points some
Speaker 1: from three some In the fourth jimmy in. The fourth
Speaker 1: Quarter big face. Coffee is back folks had, a slight
Speaker 1: hiatus and now how the tables, have Changed Now how
Speaker 1: eric spolster Is just SINGING jimmy And I, love eric
Speaker 1: spolstra but just the opinions we have of people just
Speaker 1: come and go. With the wins don't, They even me i'm.
Speaker 1: Not bought in i'm. GONNA stay firm i am. Not
Speaker 1: Bought in jimmy butler? Forty five points how many's Gonna have?
Speaker 1: In game three how many is gonna have when he's
Speaker 1: not Going Against? The atlanta hawks please tell me this
Speaker 1: Is Like The Golden. State Denver Series the atlanta hawks
Speaker 1: were what? A nine? Seed ten seed get the hell.
Speaker 1: OUT of here i am so so Out On the
Speaker 1: atlanta hawks being, anything right now Especially With, No Clint
Speaker 1: capella john collins with only nine. Fingers out, there i'm,
Speaker 1: good unsung hero all. The undrafted Guys You've, Got duncan
Speaker 1: Robinson You've. Got Gabe vincent And gabe defended trey in
Speaker 1: A way. In Game one in game, Two that like
Speaker 1: trey shot one for. Seven from. Three that's crazy in
Speaker 1: the games in The moments Where, Gabe guarded trey trey.
Speaker 1: Was largely irrelevant trey doesn't Even Shoot when gabe vincent.
Speaker 1: Is on, him he's like, come, over here someone someone set.
Speaker 1: ME a screen. I need it. I need, IT this
Speaker 1: guy i don't know where. He Came. From team nigeria
Speaker 1: that's the last Time We saw gay vincent ball out
Speaker 1: before this year. AND the heat. I Need it gabe
Speaker 1: vincent cuffs like. You read about the man was In
Speaker 1: Prison when gave vincent. Was. On him, Uh moving Forward.
Speaker 1: Dallas Versus utah so luca injury. Is still huge didn't,
Speaker 1: play game One didn't, play game two might be in
Speaker 1: game three left cash strains. Are no, JOKE lucas says
Speaker 1: i Don't know if i'm gonna ever be one hundred.
Speaker 1: PERCENT this postseason i think it's that's. Tough right Now
Speaker 1: but if i'm ready and there's no risk of, AGGRAVATING
Speaker 1: the injury i will. BE out there i need, to
Speaker 1: SEE it but i don't want to see it at
Speaker 1: the Expense. OF future luca I. NEED skinny LUCA I.
Speaker 1: NEED mvp luca, i don't, Need you know luca getting
Speaker 1: flamed out in. THE second round i don't. Need that
Speaker 1: whatsoever Against What The suns No sir no sir serieson now.
Speaker 1: One To one jalen. Brunson's that guy i've been telling
Speaker 1: y'all he's like one of the only floor. Generals out
Speaker 1: there it's one of the only guys, who, can score facilitate,
Speaker 1: set the, table have poise be able to get, last
Speaker 1: second buckets footwork, and the paint getting, guys kicking out. Getting,
Speaker 1: GUYS involved god. I, LOVE basketball god. I love basketball
Speaker 1: somebody has a. VERY quick aside i just got excited
Speaker 1: THINKING ABOUT a dm i. Got last NIGHT got a.
Speaker 1: Dm last night it's, gonna sound random, but they said
Speaker 1: listening to the heat check in this league reignited my,
Speaker 1: love FOR basketball and i now WORK. For the nba that.
Speaker 1: SHIT is fire. I love basketball i hope you. Guys
Speaker 1: do too this series is gonna. Be really important it's
Speaker 1: gonna be really Important, for not dallas it's gonna be Phenomenally.
Speaker 1: Important for utah utah needs. TO win this i don't,
Speaker 1: want him to but. They need to, if they, don't
Speaker 1: This thing like i've, said, many many many many MANY
Speaker 1: times FOR, t and, t you know you, blow it up.
Speaker 1: You Start, again donovan mitchell he's got to. Go somewhere
Speaker 1: else i'm not even sure he wants to. Shoot threes
Speaker 1: anymore he needs. TO take over i, Tell you what
Speaker 1: if they can't get, this, shit together. Man we'll see
Speaker 1: luca's not gonna rush it. STEP by step i think
Speaker 1: he'll Be ready, To game. Five game six but it
Speaker 1: Seems like the mavericks with, their defensive intensity Their Identity,
Speaker 1: obviously Jalen Brunson getting, reggie Bullock Involved getting. Spencer dinwoodie
Speaker 1: involved dinwoody's gotta hit his free throws. Down the stretch
Speaker 1: but that's a. Whole Nother story dwight, Powell Being there
Speaker 1: rudy gobert showing that he's a, one dimensional defender can't defend,
Speaker 1: on the perimeter just like last Year. Against the clippers
Speaker 1: all really fascinating stuff to watch when they. Play to
Speaker 1: people so now as we pivot from this first round,
Speaker 1: of the playoffs you have to wonder to yourself whose
Speaker 1: injury is the most impactful. To their Team You've got
Speaker 1: chris Middleton, in the bucks a guy who can score,
Speaker 1: off the dribble a guy who can come around screens.
Speaker 1: And shoot threes on. The defending champs they've got a
Speaker 1: matchup With probably the Heat In The. Eastern conference finals
Speaker 1: you would imagine that that's who, they would Play Or.
Speaker 1: The boston Celtics You've got luka doncic calf strain in
Speaker 1: A very deep west having to have a nightmare matchup
Speaker 1: With A Surgeon golden, state warriors team and he's already
Speaker 1: been out for the full duration of this first and
Speaker 1: we're not sure when he's. Gonna, Be Back. Mavericks luka
Speaker 1: Doncic You've got devin booker hamstring strain three weeks Going,
Speaker 1: against the pelicans probably gonna extend the length of this
Speaker 1: series and also make things Very Difficult on chris paul
Speaker 1: because he now needs to be. The primary everything he
Speaker 1: needs to be, The primary scorer he needs to. Play
Speaker 1: more minutes that puts pressure on his body. In a,
Speaker 1: WAY we've seen i mean time, And Time again chris
Speaker 1: paul go down and the playoffs, due an injury and
Speaker 1: then his team. Have to lose that. Happened last year
Speaker 1: it almost happened to the first Round, against the Lakers
Speaker 1: If maybe anthony davis. Didn't go down and Then You've.
Speaker 1: Got Scottie barnes, Scottie barnes injury. You've got him He
Speaker 1: went down Game one against, toronto ankle sprain and that
Speaker 1: Was Pretty much night Night's sleep, mask after that His Replacement,
Speaker 1: Is Kem, Burch Kem. Burr kim birch that's not a
Speaker 1: tree that. Gives you pollen that's a person that's not
Speaker 1: an that's not like a variety verietyl of. A, birch
Speaker 1: tree No That's kim kem birch with K And. H
Speaker 1: kem Birch That is Scotty barnes's replacement Rookie. Of The
Speaker 1: year scottie barnes mine my rookie. Of the year and
Speaker 1: then his replacement is a is a. Birch tree viridyl
Speaker 1: SO whose injury i think is going to, be most
Speaker 1: impactful it's. A tough one they're all very important to.
Speaker 1: Their team's success you could say It, could be Middleton
Speaker 1: but Then middleton has joannie. On his Team Middleton has
Speaker 1: drew holliday. On his Team Middleton has brook lopez, On
Speaker 1: His team bobby portis, On His team grayson allen there
Speaker 1: to shoot corner threes, who we hate. On his team
Speaker 1: so You can't say middleton Is important. As middleton is
Speaker 1: he's not a lynchpin. Of the, squad some days some games,
Speaker 1: he is disappearing, act like, uh Like? Uh who's Whodini?
Speaker 1: He's like whodini. So not him You Can, say devin
Speaker 1: booker but Then You've, Got DeAndre Ayton You've, Got cam Johnson,
Speaker 1: You've got Campaign you've, got JaVale McGee all guys that are,
Speaker 1: there for Depth And then scottie. BARNES definitely, integral i
Speaker 1: mean they're gonna lose this series, because he's gone but
Speaker 1: wouldn't they have lost the? Series? Most likely, anyway to
Speaker 1: me It's. Gotta be luca luca has to be the
Speaker 1: biggest wrinkle. For this TEAM oh and i forgot To Even.
Speaker 1: Mention robert williams his. Injury is huge don't think IT'S
Speaker 1: him because i think he'll be back in, the SECOND
Speaker 1: round and I think the celtics will make light work out,
Speaker 1: of the nets, could GO seven but i think they're
Speaker 1: young enough and deep enough that they. Can handle it,
Speaker 1: so For. Me it's luca it's a guy who Got
Speaker 1: injured in. Game eighty two it's a team That lost
Speaker 1: the jazz At home. In game one they could, have
Speaker 1: Won It and devin. Booker was unstoppable nobody. Could guard
Speaker 1: him luca is good for forty every night and ten rebounds.
Speaker 1: And twelve assists that's production that is going, to be
Speaker 1: important not Necessarily in, the JAZZ series but i don't
Speaker 1: think you can Even Compete against Golden state without luca
Speaker 1: and his, ability his size, ding up players going into
Speaker 1: the post and dominating other guards and just making life
Speaker 1: really hard and physical on the rest of. The opposing,
Speaker 1: TEAM to me i think the, number one injury as tough,
Speaker 1: as it is is Got. To be luca so he
Speaker 1: needs to come back Soon or the MAVs need to
Speaker 1: end Up beating the jazz in a dramatic fashion so
Speaker 1: that he can get healthy in, the SECOND round because
Speaker 1: i think that they could be a dark horse to
Speaker 1: Be In The western conference finals depending on or at
Speaker 1: least the Seven In the western conference semis. If he's healthy,
Speaker 1: SO without him I think the. MAVs are cooked HENCE
Speaker 1: the reason i think he's the number one most impactful injury.
Speaker 1: IN these playoffs i would love to hear. IN the
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Speaker 1: it is going to, be a. Wild WILD ride, like
Speaker 1: i said the truth is a series can turn on
Speaker 1: a dime. With an injury the playoffs right now are
Speaker 1: being turned, on THEIR heads and i promise you things
Speaker 1: are gonna get even more bumpy as. We go along
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