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Speaker 1: The Nuggets just completed the sweep versus the Los Angeles Lakers.
Speaker 1: On the Lakers floor headed to the NBA Finals for
Speaker 1: the first time in NBA history, and on the other side,
Speaker 1: we gotta sweep. Happening. What's going on? And it's happening
Speaker 1: to Miami Heat are up three to zero on the
Speaker 1: Boston Celtics. Now something that I found very, very very interesting.
Speaker 1: It's like, I think this is the third time in
Speaker 1: four years the Miami Heat and the Celtics are playing
Speaker 1: against each other, and that's really been back and forth.
Speaker 1: So there's something to think about with that series. But
Speaker 1: we'll get back to that. If you had either one
Speaker 1: of these teams winning the series, which some people definitely
Speaker 1: had Denver winning this series, I don't think anyone had
Speaker 1: Miami winning the series and saying that if you did,
Speaker 1: there's no way you had it this way, Like even
Speaker 1: the smartest of the smartest didn't have it this way.
Speaker 1: Like there's just no way you had it this way.
Speaker 1: The Lakers getting swept in Miami, sweeping Boston, like you
Speaker 1: just didn't. It didn't follow the script. How great have
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Speaker 1: We're talking scripts. That definitely wasn't the script. So for
Speaker 1: all the script lovers out there, burn the script has
Speaker 1: been burned, like it definitely didn't follow the script. No,
Speaker 1: but seriously, I mean, I'm shocked, like I didn't. I
Speaker 1: definitely thought that there was a chance that the Nuggets
Speaker 1: could win the series, Like they're the number one, number
Speaker 1: one see all year, so you thought there was a chance.
Speaker 1: But I didn't think that they would sweep the Lakers.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, though, I knew, I mean obviously
Speaker 1: down three oh, but even before three oh two oh,
Speaker 1: I knew it was some trouble brewing. When I start
Speaker 1: seeing tweets like Mobamba will be back, like Mobama will
Speaker 1: be clear soon, like what like Listen, Mobama is a
Speaker 1: good basketball player, take nothing away from Obamba, but Mobamba
Speaker 1: has missed like the last four or five weeks at least,
Speaker 1: and Mobamba has never played in the playoff game. Unless
Speaker 1: I'm just crazy, I don't think Mobima has come near
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and so like to think that Mobama was
Speaker 1: going to come back and be the savor. When I
Speaker 1: saw people's tweeting like Mobama expected that Mobama going to
Speaker 1: be available, I'm sitting there looking like no way this result,
Speaker 1: Like this is what this has come down to? Mobamba
Speaker 1: coming back. I had zero playoff experience. He's about to
Speaker 1: come back in the NBA Conference Finals and have an impact.
Speaker 1: Come on now. Who did have an impact was Trisian Thompson.
Speaker 1: Trician Thompson came in. He gave complete energy. When I
Speaker 1: saw the Trician Thompson iceo with a minute of forty
Speaker 1: seconds to go in the third quarter, it was like WHOA.
Speaker 1: I got a lot of love for double T. Draymond
Speaker 1: Green Shaw alumnus NBA champion, works his ass off. Always
Speaker 1: have got nothing but love and respect for double T.
Speaker 1: But when I saw the ice saw but a minute
Speaker 1: forty to go, and I'm like, yo, come on, like now.
Speaker 1: From there, Double T went on to do what he does.
Speaker 1: You know, he rebounded, He made energy plays and once
Speaker 1: off drop off defended uh. The one possession really stuck
Speaker 1: out to me where he stopped it and then got
Speaker 1: back and forced the He forced the air bar from Joker.
Speaker 1: He had another play where Bron ended up getting a
Speaker 1: foul on Jeff Green on the offense, Jeff Green was
Speaker 1: office and rebounding where he played great defense, like he
Speaker 1: brought great energy to the floor, and Tristan Thompson is
Speaker 1: like like there's like he's a part of the much
Speaker 1: bigger problem in the NBA, which is like you just
Speaker 1: watched Triston Thompson for all the five six minutes maybe
Speaker 1: eight to nine minutes in this game, and like, you
Speaker 1: can't tell me that guy is not a serviceable NBA
Speaker 1: player on twenty other team teams in the NBA, And yeah,
Speaker 1: he spent the entire year not on a team when
Speaker 1: you got teams struggling with leadership, struggling with veteran presence,
Speaker 1: struggling with people with winners' mentalities, and like you had
Speaker 1: that guy sitting in the entire year. That is actually
Speaker 1: a huge problem in the NBA. That's why we see
Speaker 1: a lot of the things we see as far as
Speaker 1: like off court issues because there's no veterans. There's no
Speaker 1: veterans showing these dudes how to move, showing them the way.
Speaker 1: So you think you're just gonna go young, and you
Speaker 1: think that's just gonna work. Like that shit don't work,
Speaker 1: and so Trician is a part of a much larger
Speaker 1: issue in the NBA. Like we're like, come on and
Speaker 1: like let's after this season. Freehill starts July first. No
Speaker 1: one will be calling Trician Thompson's phone, but you will
Speaker 1: be employing these bombs. It goes back to the conversation
Speaker 1: that Tomorrow PG was having on pg's podcast maybe this
Speaker 1: week or last week, when they were discussing bronze tweet,
Speaker 1: and I agree, like there's so many dudes in the
Speaker 1: NBA that don't know how to hoop, that suck, that
Speaker 1: don't love the game of basketball, all of that, and
Speaker 1: like then you got like Attrician Thompson who's serviceable. You
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna get, Gonna rebound on both ends,
Speaker 1: gonna defend on the screen, gonna die, That's what you
Speaker 1: get it. There's teams that can use that, and then
Speaker 1: also you tackle on the veteran presence that teams that
Speaker 1: need that. So that was my thoughts on that. Something
Speaker 1: that happened when when Triscian got the n one, like
Speaker 1: no one Triscian was hyped, like nobody else on the
Speaker 1: Lakers was hyped, and like that's not some issue where
Speaker 1: it's like, yo, they don't bang with Trician, like let's
Speaker 1: not be messy. That was more of like they didn't
Speaker 1: believe anymore, Like you could see they didn't. They didn't believe,
Speaker 1: Like the spirit wasn't there. Uh, Bron came out man
Speaker 1: forty I think eleven or ten boards non assists and
Speaker 1: thirty one in the first half, and he was gassed.
Speaker 1: He left it all out there in the first half,
Speaker 1: had nothing in the third quarter, and in turn that
Speaker 1: was his point, Like they were fifteen. Right, Remember we
Speaker 1: discussed they need a heavy dose of Bron pick and roll,
Speaker 1: Lebron on the ball of Bron making everything happen. But
Speaker 1: let's face it, the reality is this guy's thirty eight
Speaker 1: years old in his twentieth NBA season. How much of
Speaker 1: that can he really give you? So then you need
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis to take the game over, right, Like that's
Speaker 1: like because Bron can only give you so much of
Speaker 1: that at thirty eight and like ad didn't ad to me,
Speaker 1: look gas, Bron looked gassed. That team has been on
Speaker 1: a playoff run for three months since the trade deadline.
Speaker 1: They've been on a playoff run like chasing the playoffs,
Speaker 1: trying to get there, climbing up hill. It was very
Speaker 1: similar to us, like I think back to like January
Speaker 1: where we're like, yo, we can really make a push
Speaker 1: for the playoffs right now, and like every the whole
Speaker 1: way from then, it's like playoffs like a let down
Speaker 1: this game because we could have put ourselves in this position,
Speaker 1: let down that game, and like so that team looked gasted,
Speaker 1: they looked exhausted, They looked like they didn't believe anymore.
Speaker 1: But they looked absolutely exhausted. Bron like I said, had
Speaker 1: the incredible first half and it was just nothing else there.
Speaker 1: I thought Shrewd did a great job in the second
Speaker 1: quarter of once he picked up that file of continuing
Speaker 1: to defend and not picking up another file. That was
Speaker 1: a huge reason why they had the fifteen point lead.
Speaker 1: Shrewder was doing a really good job defensively. And no,
Speaker 1: he wasn't going to lock your maum Murray down, like
Speaker 1: you're not locking guys down, by the way, for all
Speaker 1: of y'all out there, that was like, oh man, the
Speaker 1: Lakers lost and Draymond won't to do a podcast like
Speaker 1: I play for the Golden State Warriors. Some of you
Speaker 1: people are so pathetic and like the beliefs you allow
Speaker 1: yourself to believe. And I can absolutely understand while life
Speaker 1: don't be so great because the beliefs that you allow,
Speaker 1: like to enter your mind about someone else really is
Speaker 1: a reflection of what you believe and think of yourself
Speaker 1: and like how you operate and things. So I thought
Speaker 1: that was a very interesting thing that people were like,
Speaker 1: oh man, they lost and like Draymond don't want to talk.
Speaker 1: He's hurt, Like what, But actually I'm on vacation and
Speaker 1: having a margarita, So cheers to all of you. Margarita
Speaker 1: made with Lobo Tequila. Absolutely incredible. But like I said, anyway,
Speaker 1: toast to all of you that that was your whatever. However,
Speaker 1: a lot of people better be lucky. I took the
Speaker 1: weekend off. It was actually my first weekend to have
Speaker 1: an off, like first weekend having like completely off since September,
Speaker 1: like no work, like I know you all know, like
Speaker 1: I do like a basketball like that's my day job,
Speaker 1: but like podcasting, this is a job too, and so
Speaker 1: like I have not had a weekend off since September.
Speaker 1: So we took this weekend off and Jackson kind of
Speaker 1: forced me to take the weekend off, which I was
Speaker 1: kind of pissed off about, but I let it ride,
Speaker 1: So y'all can blame this on Jackson, who probably didn't
Speaker 1: want me talking because he knew I had some things
Speaker 1: to say about them Boston Celtics, and boy, we're still
Speaker 1: gonna get to that. But anyway, back to the Laker game.
Speaker 1: Down the stretch, I was shocked that the Denver Nuggets
Speaker 1: didn't go back to that Jamal Murray Joker pick and
Speaker 1: roll that they diced the Lakers up with and at
Speaker 1: the end of Game three, Uh, they didn't really go
Speaker 1: to that. They went to more of a set where
Speaker 1: uh Murray was popping up top off. He was setting
Speaker 1: like a a U c l A screen for those
Speaker 1: of you who don't know. U c l A was
Speaker 1: famous for setting the screen up the lane like, so
Speaker 1: the guy goes up the lane line, he sets a
Speaker 1: backscreen for the guy to come off on the lane line.
Speaker 1: And so they were setting that and Joker was going
Speaker 1: to the post. Jeff Green was on the wing and
Speaker 1: or Aaron Gordon was on the wing and uh Jamal
Speaker 1: was popping up top and that's the play they went
Speaker 1: to down the stretch that caused all kind of trouble
Speaker 1: for the Lakers, and when the Lakers needed most a stop,
Speaker 1: a D had a very tough time with Joker this
Speaker 1: entire series, and when they needed to stop the most
Speaker 1: he had ad iceholder. He score, but he had a very, very,
Speaker 1: very tough time with Joker this series. And I spoke
Speaker 1: about that at the big get into this series, just
Speaker 1: talking about how moving Ad away from the rim Joker
Speaker 1: would be able to cause a D some issues, and
Speaker 1: when he did, he definitely cost eighty some issues. I
Speaker 1: thought Ad came alive later in the games, a couple
Speaker 1: of big blocks, a couple of big office rebounds, drop
Speaker 1: off shots, floaters, dunks, getting to the free throw line.
Speaker 1: I thought he really gave a push, a great push
Speaker 1: there towards the end, but a little too late, because
Speaker 1: if he had that same force as Bron was rolling,
Speaker 1: they could have really extended that lead. They were up
Speaker 1: at fifteen a halftime, got outscored by twenty one points
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, and a bulk of that was
Speaker 1: just Bron off the ball and watching everybody else work,
Speaker 1: because again, to do that for forty eight minutes, it's
Speaker 1: hard for someone of average agent NBA is definitely hard
Speaker 1: for someone at thirty eight and so at the time
Speaker 1: they needed that the most. When the game started getting away,
Speaker 1: they just there was nowhere to pull from.
Speaker 2: So when something like that happens, obviously they need run
Speaker 2: on the floor, but they but Bron would have been
Speaker 2: better off getting like a minute rest here, two minutes
Speaker 2: rest there. What's the calculus as a coach and you're
Speaker 2: obviously not a coach, but what do you if you're
Speaker 2: going into this game thinking about can you get Braun
Speaker 2: some rest here and there? Like is he is he
Speaker 2: that much more effective with the rest? Is it worth
Speaker 2: it to get in the rest? Or is it worth
Speaker 2: it to be primed to be a little bit more tired,
Speaker 2: but at least on the floor doing his sort of
Speaker 2: micro managing of the game.
Speaker 1: So so what so what you end up going up
Speaker 1: against is like you also have players who are competitive
Speaker 1: as shit and like Bron may be telling you I'm
Speaker 1: not coming out of the game, and what you're gonna do?
Speaker 1: You're gonna sit them? Like that could create some like
Speaker 1: bumping of heads and if Lebron James Sam's standing in
Speaker 1: the game, like you gotta leave him in the game.
Speaker 1: Now personally, a couple of minutes of rest may help,
Speaker 1: but it can go all the way wrong as well.
Speaker 1: And once you see a star go going wrong, you
Speaker 1: can't then say once they on the run, well, actually
Speaker 1: we're going to take Brian out now because he looks
Speaker 1: like he needs a little rest. But they're starting to
Speaker 1: run now. The only chance we have to stop that
Speaker 1: run is Bron eventually taking the game back over. And
Speaker 1: like I said, there was just nothing there to draw from.
Speaker 1: I think another issue that they had is Aaron Gordon
Speaker 1: was active as hell, so whereas Bron was sometimes Aaron Gordon, Garden,
Speaker 1: Joker Garden, Michael Porter Junior at times, Garden, Jamaal Murray
Speaker 1: at times. Aaron Gordon had a huge game after having
Speaker 1: some terrible games this series, A very tough game, a
Speaker 1: few terrible, a few tough games for him. The biggest game,
Speaker 1: he stepped up, like the close out game, that's the
Speaker 1: hardest game to win, and he stepped up. He hit
Speaker 1: three threes where they're playing off of them, total disrespect,
Speaker 1: and he knocked three of them down down the stretch.
Speaker 1: He puts so much pressure on their defense with his
Speaker 1: dives to the rim. Because you had to have ad
Speaker 1: and bron in the action with Jamal and Joker, and
Speaker 1: then on the backside you got Schroeder, you got Reeves.
Speaker 1: I think you had Rui at one point, but my
Speaker 1: point is you didn't have your size on the backside.
Speaker 1: So then on the backside, Aaron Gordon's dive in to
Speaker 1: the paint and he's ended up. Like one time he
Speaker 1: started diving to the paint, shrewder kind of came off
Speaker 1: his body because he knew he was dead, so he
Speaker 1: was anticipating the switch. But it's one thing if that's
Speaker 1: Brian or a d he's switching with his Austin Reeves.
Speaker 1: So Austin Reeves switching there against Aaron Gordon, he's dead,
Speaker 1: and so that really hurt them, and his pressure on
Speaker 1: the rim put a lot of pressure on their defense
Speaker 1: because there are two guys that can detect the round
Speaker 1: were in the action, so there's no backside help and
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon took total advantage of that. I had a
Speaker 1: very big game and those guys were able to put
Speaker 1: the Lakers away. When I do these, I have this
Speaker 1: rundown for all of you who's checking this amb out,
Speaker 1: And Jackson sometimes has these questions on here and one
Speaker 1: of the questions that Jackson has on here is what
Speaker 1: do the Lakers do now? It's interesting because you have
Speaker 1: Ruie's a free agent. You got Austin Reeves is a
Speaker 1: free agent. I know for Sureta and Austin Reeves is restricted.
Speaker 1: I Thinkrui may be restricted to both restricted. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure he is as well. And so you got that,
Speaker 1: you got Dlo who's a free agent. Obviously short is
Speaker 1: a free agent because he didn't he was signed a
Speaker 1: one year deal. And as I said some episodes ago,
Speaker 1: maybe during at the end of our series, like Dennis
Speaker 1: Schroeder going to deserve to get some money, and it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see, like if people would just follow
Speaker 1: that narrative of when he didn't take the contract with it,
Speaker 1: because once you end up on a minimum, it's hard
Speaker 1: to get off, like in this league, it's hard to
Speaker 1: get off a minimum once you're on that. And the
Speaker 1: reality is he outplayed it severely, like dramatically outplayed it,
Speaker 1: but it's hard to get off. So another team just like,
Speaker 1: oh we can, we can wait around and probably get
Speaker 1: him on a minimum, and you're waiting on one team
Speaker 1: to jump. Quite frankly, I think he's very good for
Speaker 1: the Lakers, and Darvin Ham really really really trusts him,
Speaker 1: really trust him, and so, as you can see by
Speaker 1: the start tonight, so they got some decisions to make.
Speaker 1: Where do they go from here? I think they're definitely
Speaker 1: being bringing Ruie back unless he gets some crazy off
Speaker 1: sheet that makes it tough to match. I think they'll
Speaker 1: bring Austin Reeves back, but I think they'll want to
Speaker 1: low ball Austin Reeves. And I think if he gets
Speaker 1: a crazy offer sheet, like can you then bring him back?
Speaker 1: If you don't bring those guys back, how much cast
Speaker 1: space does it open for you? And does it allow
Speaker 1: you to go out and get someone ie Kyrie irvinsitting
Speaker 1: on the sidelines again, can you get Kyrie? If so,
Speaker 1: at what number, at what amount of years? Because those
Speaker 1: are some of the issues that Kyrie's going to be
Speaker 1: up against. As we all know, Kyrie is super Max player.
Speaker 1: Kyrie's incredible. But you know, the things have been to things,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure people will answer those questions, ask those
Speaker 1: questions when deciding on a deal. So it'll be interesting
Speaker 1: to see what they do. I think I know they'd
Speaker 1: love to have both of those guys back. But then
Speaker 1: if it's out the cost of like oh we can
Speaker 1: get Kyrie Irving and not then you got to fill
Speaker 1: out the ross are still you still got Vendo coming
Speaker 1: back obviously a D and Brown. So we'll see. It's
Speaker 1: interesting for them as it is interesting for a lot
Speaker 1: of teams. Uh, it's gonna be a very I think
Speaker 1: every time we say we're going to see a summer
Speaker 1: of a bunch of movement in the NBA, like no
Speaker 1: one moves. But I think this is gonna be like
Speaker 1: a crazy active summer. Like it's just so many decisions
Speaker 1: to be made, and with these like salary cap spikes
Speaker 1: coming up and like you know, new TV deals and
Speaker 1: super max is being reached, I can see a lot
Speaker 1: of movement this summer. I would not be shocked. I
Speaker 1: would be shocked if it's not a lot of movement,
Speaker 1: But like I said, it always happens that way anyway.
Speaker 2: I think it's more exciting with the movement for the
Speaker 2: for the summer because there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 2: movement and it's gonna be a lot of the big
Speaker 2: teams worst decisions to make. Lakers have a lot of
Speaker 2: decisions to make, Celtics seem like now they have some
Speaker 2: decisions to make. Two of those four teams are in
Speaker 2: the conference finals. It's not just like, oh, who are
Speaker 2: the big free that's going to sign to you on
Speaker 2: these medium tier teams. Not to cast any dispersions, but
Speaker 2: it's like the big players in the NBA had huge decisions.
Speaker 1: To make, well for sure, and then you got teams
Speaker 1: like a Dallas that have like superstar talent on their
Speaker 1: team that maybe weren't as good of a team or whatnot,
Speaker 1: but I got superstar talent and always feel like you're
Speaker 1: one right piece away when you got superstars. And so
Speaker 1: there's a lot of decisions to be made and I
Speaker 1: think because of that there will be a lot of
Speaker 1: movement and it'll get interesting. We'll see what happens. But anyway,
Speaker 1: that is it for the Lakers on their season. And yeah,
Speaker 1: man Denver punished them. Boys, God get your brooms out.
Speaker 1: That's a wrap on that one. Now let's get into
Speaker 1: this heat Celtics thing, because as you all know, I'm
Speaker 1: always watching the game within the game, Like the game
Speaker 1: is cool, like and it's fun and it is what
Speaker 1: it is, But the game within the game, like that's
Speaker 1: the fun part. And there has been some games within
Speaker 1: the game. In this Boston Miami Series number one, Grant Williams,
Speaker 1: Grant Williams started talking crazy to Jimmy Butler. Grant Williams
Speaker 1: didn't got destroyed by Jimmy Butler, not only in game
Speaker 1: two where he starts talking crazy, but then Jimmy Butler
Speaker 1: is at you every time you end up on him,
Speaker 1: and it's not ending well for Grant. And you know,
Speaker 1: you know when you know it's not going well for something.
Speaker 1: After the game, Grant started talking about man, my mom
Speaker 1: and my dad. He taught me to do this and
Speaker 1: and I can't go back home with my mom and
Speaker 1: I'm like my man started talking about the Morrows and
Speaker 1: values that he grew up on. Like, bro, you just
Speaker 1: got dropped off by Jimmy Butler, like we didn't question
Speaker 1: how you was raised, my dog. And when I saw that,
Speaker 1: I said, WHOA, this man is talking about what his
Speaker 1: parents taught him like that that like wow, And I
Speaker 1: respected the way he stood up right like they were
Speaker 1: losing the league. Energy was gone, like he hit the
Speaker 1: tray and started talking crazy. As much as we all
Speaker 1: want to blame grand Williams, that ain't Grant Williams fault
Speaker 1: like Grant Williams supposed to do that, like your dog's
Speaker 1: gotta come, like, hey, feed off that, let's go. So
Speaker 1: as much as we want to blame grand Williams, like yeah, bro,
Speaker 1: you're an NBA player, like you was game and you
Speaker 1: be talking big shit Grant, so like when you do that, yeah,
Speaker 1: you do gotta stand on that. And of course you're
Speaker 1: gonna hear it like ain't no passes. But but you
Speaker 1: didn't need JT and jbter like come on now, like
Speaker 1: turn it into gear and cover your man. And when
Speaker 1: I saw JB after the game, they asked, say, be
Speaker 1: about Grant and poking the bear or whatnot? And he said,
Speaker 1: next question to me, I'm like, oh they done? Then
Speaker 1: I think it would be a thirty point blowout in
Speaker 1: game three. No, of course not like but I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: they done, he said, next question, they done? Like even
Speaker 1: if and like again, Grant Williams his own man. You
Speaker 1: gotta stand on your own two feet. But in JB situation,
Speaker 1: even if, like you still ride with your man, be like, hey,
Speaker 1: you start talking Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy played well like it
Speaker 1: is what it is. We gotta we gotta do what
Speaker 1: we gotta do to win. You can't next question at
Speaker 1: JB because that was the mentality that their team took
Speaker 1: on in game three, like next question, next game, next play,
Speaker 1: this is it, Like that's a mentality, and so you
Speaker 1: can't necessarily do that. And again not that it's JB
Speaker 1: thought that Grants are getting dropped off. Grant, that's on you.
Speaker 1: You you gotta cover for yourself. You start talking, but
Speaker 1: you could tell that there was more there once that happened,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure Miami he saw that, and it looked
Speaker 1: like they feasted on it. Duncan Robinson made every play
Speaker 1: for like a four minute stretch. Assist drive, kick out, assists,
Speaker 1: dry live to bam, Tracy lay up, another lay up.
Speaker 1: He made every play for like a three four minute stretch.
Speaker 1: And it's going to get interesting because you know, people
Speaker 1: was talking about Duncan Robinson contracting, like people watching this
Speaker 1: series like they're gonna move on Duncan Robinson, Like Duncan
Speaker 1: Robinson just created value for himself again, So kudos to
Speaker 1: Duncan Robinson man standing in the fight and playing a
Speaker 1: great game with twenty two points. Gay vincent I played
Speaker 1: against gay Vincent is playing like the gay Vincent that
Speaker 1: played against us at Team USA when he was playing
Speaker 1: with Nigeria and they beat us in the exhibition game
Speaker 1: and they act like they want to go medal. Mike
Speaker 1: Brown was coaching them, and we were all out of shape,
Speaker 1: trying to get in shape. We had like two days
Speaker 1: of practicing. Then we scrimmage against them. Anyway, them boys
Speaker 1: was balling for Team Nigeria and they beat us and
Speaker 1: gave Vincent the way gay Vincent was playing in Team Nigeria.
Speaker 1: That's how gay Vincent is playing for the Miami Heat,
Speaker 1: and he is playing well, creating a bunch of value
Speaker 1: for himself. I am sick of the uh the undrafted players, like,
Speaker 1: stop disrespecting them dudes. Man. They tie their shoes up
Speaker 1: like everybody else. They get paid to play this game
Speaker 1: like everyone else, whether you was drafted one or sixty
Speaker 1: or undrafted. Once you get between the lines, what are
Speaker 1: you doing between these lines? And we've seen number one
Speaker 1: picks be bus, We've seen number two picks be bus,
Speaker 1: We've seen number thirty picks be bus. So right, stop
Speaker 1: with the whole undrafted thing. Man. I'm sure those guys
Speaker 1: get tired of here now because I get tired of hearing. Like,
Speaker 1: all right, they were undrafted, like great, I understand, like
Speaker 1: it's probably like the underdog story, right, like I get it,
Speaker 1: but like they were the A seed and they almost
Speaker 1: lost both playing games. That is enough underdog story in itself.
Speaker 1: They getting it out the mud and you gotta get them.
Speaker 1: God's credit, man, Jimmy Butler, damn out of byu. They
Speaker 1: doing it now back to the games within the game,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler with the timeout celebration and Al Horford was hot,
Speaker 1: and I thought that was hilarious because our Horford. I'll
Speaker 1: never forget Al Horford did my flex on me when
Speaker 1: he got an an one when they came back in
Speaker 1: game one, and what did I do? I polightly gave
Speaker 1: it back in game two. But like guys don't like
Speaker 1: when you talk when you dish back what they give,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So our Horford like be
Speaker 1: sneakily talking shit and like mocking people in celebrations and
Speaker 1: Jimmy hitting with the time out joint and he was
Speaker 1: ready to fight, That's what it looked like he was
Speaker 1: ready to do. He started walking towards Jimmy. Oh, I
Speaker 1: thought that was hilarious. That was hilarious because again, you
Speaker 1: can't get mad when you dished it first in Game
Speaker 1: one prematurely and then somebody dish it back and it
Speaker 1: ain't going so well and you get mad. Can't do that.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was funny. I saw a clip
Speaker 1: today and I don't know if it was real. There's
Speaker 1: so many AI generated things today you can never be
Speaker 1: so sure. But I saw a clip where they said
Speaker 1: market They said it was Marcus Smart saying to Jimmy,
Speaker 1: stop talking. We beat y'all last year, We beat y'all
Speaker 1: last year, stop you talking the whole game or something
Speaker 1: like that. And again, I don't know if that was
Speaker 1: AI generated because I can't see Marcus smart face, Like
Speaker 1: I don't know if Marcus Smart is really saying that
Speaker 1: or not. But if it's not AI generated, like like
Speaker 1: we all talk about the past, like, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: like I'll hit somebody with afford, like Clay hits you
Speaker 1: with afford and the heartbeat, so we all gonna like
Speaker 1: talk about the past. But I don't know if you
Speaker 1: could say, man, you need to stop talking, like you
Speaker 1: almost actioned for a way out, no, Marcus, like dive
Speaker 1: in that, because that's what you're being. So it ain't
Speaker 1: gonna stop talking, though I'm gonna stop you from talking
Speaker 1: some type of way, I can't ask you to stop talking.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, man, I think these little games
Speaker 1: within the game for me have been fun to watch.
Speaker 1: And the Celtics quit last night. They definitely quit, And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be quite frank with you, I don't expect
Speaker 1: much more tomorrow, Like they just ain't got it, Like
Speaker 1: they ain't got it, like the fight is gone, and
Speaker 1: so I don't really expect much more tomorrow and like
Speaker 1: watch they'll win the game and be like we saw
Speaker 1: the said that turn. I don't expect much more tomorrow.
Speaker 1: They quit, Miami went. It took their heart. And now
Speaker 1: remember earlier in the show, I was saying, like the
Speaker 1: last three or four years or something like Miami lost
Speaker 1: to the Celtics last year, was supposed to win like
Speaker 1: seeding from a seating perspective, and they lost, and so
Speaker 1: it had me thinking more of like what are the
Speaker 1: real gaps in between teams in the league, because that's
Speaker 1: a team who Miami, if I'm not mistaken, was number
Speaker 1: one seed last year and they lost to the Boston Celtics. Jackson,
Speaker 1: what did they lose in that series?
Speaker 2: They lost in seven because Jimmy took that three, the
Speaker 2: transition three at the end.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, Jimmy missed the shot, right, Jimmy missed the shot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so like you think about that, right, Like they
Speaker 1: lost in seven, Jimmy had a three to win it,
Speaker 1: and like they right back here and they're dominating them.
Speaker 1: Like there's not a huge gap in between those two teams.
Speaker 1: It's really not.
Speaker 2: And the other time they played in the playoffs was
Speaker 2: in the bubble and that was also very very competitive
Speaker 2: until the heat sort of took o breath.
Speaker 1: Yet and Bam got that exactly. Yeah, So like there's
Speaker 1: not some huge gap in these teams. You get caught
Speaker 1: up in the regular season record, but these teams been
Speaker 1: battling on for years. There's just some huge gaps. So
Speaker 1: it made me just like take a step back and
Speaker 1: like question or like not question, but just dissect like
Speaker 1: the parody in the NBA, and the crazy thing is
Speaker 1: that the new CBA is going to be even more.
Speaker 1: So you all wanted parody. I know some of you
Speaker 1: all are going to be upset that it's a Denver
Speaker 1: Miami Heat final because all the people that you used
Speaker 1: to see in there isn't there, and the people that
Speaker 1: you may want to see ain't there. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: enjoy that final because I think it's going to be
Speaker 1: a good one. But yeah, Boston done before we get
Speaker 1: out here. Carmelo Anthony announced his retirement today, and I
Speaker 1: am number one. I want to say congratulations on the job.
Speaker 1: Well done, career, well done, incredible athlete, incredible basketball player,
Speaker 1: and even but but an even incredible more incredible man.
Speaker 1: You know what, what Mellow came into this league as
Speaker 1: Braids Baggy close, huge entourage, and what he grew into
Speaker 1: is admirable. Just the leader that he blossomed into. I
Speaker 1: respect got a lot of love for I watched Melo
Speaker 1: since I was eleven years old playing at Oak Hill
Speaker 1: and then on to Syracuse and and then on to
Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets, and I was lucky enough and blessed
Speaker 1: and honored to have an opportunity to compete with him
Speaker 1: in the Olympics and win a gold medal. Uh. One
Speaker 1: of the greatest USA basketball players ever and obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the top talents in the NBA, NBA history,
Speaker 1: one of the greatest scores in NBA history. I wanted,
Speaker 1: like I said, number one, I want to say congratulations,
Speaker 1: but number two, thank you for me having an opportunity
Speaker 1: to play with Carmelo Anthony and win a gold medal
Speaker 1: with Carmelo Anthony, who I watched growing up. Like that's
Speaker 1: a surreal moment for me, one that I never thought
Speaker 1: I experienced in a way that you embraced me. I
Speaker 1: can't thank you enough what you brought to the game special,
Speaker 1: one of the special talents that we've ever been able
Speaker 1: to witness. And job well done. I saw to add
Speaker 1: to your son or the message to your son. I
Speaker 1: won't call it the acts. That's real to Cayenne and man,
Speaker 1: that's incredible, Like that's what we do it for. Like
Speaker 1: you want to talk legacy, there's my legacy, Like that's me.
Speaker 1: That's like, that's my seed. Like, so you want to
Speaker 1: talk legacy, there's it. There it is. And I thought
Speaker 1: that was so special, man, so special. But let me
Speaker 1: tell you, because you can't say at yourself, your legacy
Speaker 1: is one of the best to ever do it. That's
Speaker 1: what the legacy is. You know, they'll try to say
Speaker 1: championship this, and as a guy who's won championships, trust me,
Speaker 1: I'm big into that. But championship ultimately don't define whether
Speaker 1: you were great or not. Carmelo Anthony was great, Carmelo Anthony, superstar,
Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony, first ballot Hall of Famer. So you won't
Speaker 1: talk about the legacy. You will say, harre's my legacy,
Speaker 1: it's my son. But I'm gonna tell you your legacy
Speaker 1: is one of the baddest dudes to ever lace them up,
Speaker 1: come through this league, put that ball in the basket
Speaker 1: like no other. One of the toughest players I ever
Speaker 1: had to guard. I'll never forget playing the New York Knicks.
Speaker 1: And David Lee was suspended a little more minutes and
Speaker 1: Carmelo got the ball on like the mid post cond
Speaker 1: of the block, like he faced up Boom, two dribbles
Speaker 1: into me. Boom Boom missed the shot. He's like, that's
Speaker 1: a fucking file to the rough rough and called the file.
Speaker 1: We got the rebound, We went down. He came back
Speaker 1: the next play, went to the same exact spot, did
Speaker 1: the same exact move. Boom Boom made sure he got
Speaker 1: the file. I'm like, man, what is this? Like, come on, man,
Speaker 1: Like this dude just did the same exact move to me,
Speaker 1: like to make sure he gets the file call. Like
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, like I follloed him a little bit,
Speaker 1: like don't trip, but he was gonna make it a
Speaker 1: point like And what I took from that is like,
Speaker 1: like I'm not just gonna miss this shot. You think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just miss that shot without getting filed like
Speaker 1: and that taught me something about confidence in the NBA,
Speaker 1: Like that moment right there, Like that was early in
Speaker 1: my career, and it taught me something about like being
Speaker 1: great and confidence and uh man, the opportunity to compete
Speaker 1: against Carmelo Anthony, Like I said to gud grew up
Speaker 1: watching honor brother. Job, well done, congratulations and the legacy
Speaker 1: is one of the greatest to ever do it. They
Speaker 1: can't take that away from it. That's a rap on
Speaker 1: this episode of The Draymond Green Show. Until next time, Peace,