Speaker 1: No, no, come on, come on, Brock of the Boston
Speaker 1: Celtics gonna win and hold them.
Speaker 2: I'm a Celtics hater. I've been accused of it, but
Speaker 2: damn do they look good. But emy Udoka looks like
Speaker 2: he should have won Coach of the Year. Guys who
Speaker 2: were just useless are incredibly useful now, like Grant Williams
Speaker 2: al Horford coming out of the grave showing up scoring thirty.
Speaker 2: Grant Williams hit three seven threes in Game seven against
Speaker 2: the defending champs. I'm not sure he had seven threes
Speaker 2: all year. Last year, a Key was basically a random
Speaker 2: role player with Aaron Nesmith. Him and Aaron Nesmith were
Speaker 2: on the same level. And yes, I know the Bucks
Speaker 2: were missing Chris Middleton, but I don't even know if
Speaker 2: it would have mattered that much. The Celtics were missing
Speaker 2: time Lord most of the time. They missed Marcus Smart
Speaker 2: For a game that they won, the Celtics just went
Speaker 2: out there and out schemed Bud. Bud is trash, isn'ty.
Speaker 2: He is a trash trash, trash trash coach, and because
Speaker 2: he won it all, he gets to stick around. We're
Speaker 2: talking spaceball again, folks, lots of length. Grant Williams, who
Speaker 2: can shoot the three, he can space the floor, he
Speaker 2: can defend. He's got a booty, he's got quads, he's
Speaker 2: got hammies, and he can defend Yiannis al Horford doing
Speaker 2: the same damn thing. You can't move me off my spot,
Speaker 2: y Honest, I can bam on you too. He can
Speaker 2: shoot threes as well. Like I said, he had thirty
Speaker 2: points on the road in Game four. He may just
Speaker 2: coaching his ass off. The teams that win without good coaching.
Speaker 2: Looking at you books, there's teams like them, and then
Speaker 2: there's teams that had elite roster that nobody could figure
Speaker 2: out how to use, like the Celtics. Brad Stevens very
Speaker 2: clearly didn't know what he was doing, because this is
Speaker 2: a team that now feels like it's gonna win at all,
Speaker 2: and the roster's largely the same from last year. Celtics
Speaker 2: were twenty twenty, twenty five and twenty five this year.
Speaker 2: This year twenty five and twenty five, five hundred squabbling
Speaker 2: people calling each other out in public, emy Udoka saying
Speaker 2: they're soft, saying they don't pass the ball, saying they're whack,
Speaker 2: just literally been like, Holy he is ripping them up,
Speaker 2: Marcus Smart saying Jalen Brown doesn't pass anybody the ball.
Speaker 2: They're losing big leads after big leads. Last year, I
Speaker 2: think they gave up like seventeen fourth quarter leads that
Speaker 2: were over ten points. Now they're the most dangerous team
Speaker 2: in basketball that you feel like even if they're down ten,
Speaker 2: they can win games. And the funny thing about the
Speaker 2: Game seven is that e May and Jason Kidd both
Speaker 2: ran circles around Monty Williams and Mike Budenholzer and who
Speaker 2: both were in the finals last year. Really quickly about Bud,
Speaker 2: what were you doing putting Grayson Allen and George Hill
Speaker 2: out there? Like everyone on Twitter, this is like so
Speaker 2: many dumb people on Twitter, but everyone agrees that that
Speaker 2: had no It was indefensible. Like you need to be
Speaker 2: you need to be circy in Game of Thrones, like
Speaker 2: where we cut all your hair off and we make
Speaker 2: you walk naked through the street, where we say shame, shame,
Speaker 2: Like that's what Bud did. Like that's what you need
Speaker 2: to do. We need to get you down to the
Speaker 2: Deer Park and we need to like treat you like
Speaker 2: a Handmaid, you know what I mean. And for MANI,
Speaker 2: you can't follow behind by thirty without making radical changes.
Speaker 2: You just like I don't even know the coaching. The
Speaker 2: people tell me the coaching doesn't matter in the NBA,
Speaker 2: like where are you now? Where are you now? Coaching
Speaker 2: is important and the Celtics are now dangerous because they've
Speaker 2: got a good coach. Quick little preview before we go
Speaker 2: of the two conference final series. Let's go to the
Speaker 2: East first, Boston versus Miami. This is why I think
Speaker 2: Boston can win it all. Just a battle of very
Speaker 2: very good defenses. Really really gonna be a tough matchup
Speaker 2: on bam Adebayo. You see what they did to Robin Williams.
Speaker 2: Robin Williams, Robin Thick, Nope, not Robin Thick, Nope, not
Speaker 2: even Robin brook Lopez. PJ. Tucker's gonna have to play
Speaker 2: small ball. He's gonna have to play the five, he's
Speaker 2: gonna have to shoot threes, He's gonna have to defend everyone.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler obviously is a good defender, but they have
Speaker 2: nobody down on the stretch who can get you an
Speaker 2: ISO basketball. Whereas the Boston Celtics feel like They've got
Speaker 2: a few. They've got Tatum, They've got Brown, they even
Speaker 2: had Marcus Martin a little bit. Who's doing it too.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a very difficult series for
Speaker 2: the Heat. I mean, the Celtics found a way to
Speaker 2: neutralize and shut down Kyrie and kd to the most
Speaker 2: prolific scorers of all time. Then they didn't shut him down,
Speaker 2: but they found a way to significantly limit Jannis in
Speaker 2: many games, not every game, but many games. I think
Speaker 2: he had three games under thirty. And Miami is nowhere
Speaker 2: even close offensively to those two teams. Like, who is
Speaker 2: the best scorer on the Miami Heat? Is it Tyler Hero?
Speaker 2: Is it Jimmy Butler? That goes not even the same
Speaker 2: planet as Joannis Akadi and Kyrie, not even the same stratosphere.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be trouble, trouble, trouble. Kyle Lowry's nowhere to
Speaker 2: be found. Tyler Hero's been up and down, Duncan Robinson's
Speaker 2: on a milk cart and can't play defense. Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 2: yeah he could, he had two forty point games, but like,
Speaker 2: we know what it's like when you just defend him
Speaker 2: like crazy. We know what he's like in the fourth.
Speaker 2: I promise you, folks, prediction time, Jimmy Butler is gonna
Speaker 2: have some late game situations where he's gonna have the ball,
Speaker 2: and I tell you it's not gonna go in. The
Speaker 2: ball is not going in. The Heat are gonna also
Speaker 2: make it tough on the Boston Celtics with their defense.
Speaker 2: But I tell you what, these guys are sharing the
Speaker 2: ball really well. Like Jason Tatum might be unguardable right now,
Speaker 2: six ten, six eleven. Just I don't think he hit
Speaker 2: the rim in the last two games of that series.
Speaker 2: It was just just all net things. You see him,
Speaker 2: He's shooting from thirty and you're like, yep, that's it,
Speaker 2: that's going in. He's just shooting over everyone. He's doing
Speaker 2: what Kevin Durant does. No one can stop him. And
Speaker 2: I like Boston's chances with Tatum and Brown and Smarts
Speaker 2: and Horford and Grant Williams over the Heat's options in
Speaker 2: Tyler Hero and Jimmy Butler and Gabe Vincent. I think
Speaker 2: Boston and six it might not even go that far. Honestly,
Speaker 2: it might not even get to six out West. Let's
Speaker 2: go out West. This one's fun. This one's super fun.
Speaker 2: Maz facing the Warriors. Normally you see a Game seven
Speaker 2: that leaves the winning teams just completely gassed for Game one. No, sir, no, sir.
Speaker 2: H Luca didn't even play in the third and fourth
Speaker 2: quarter of that last game seven. Mas basically had an
Speaker 2: off day. They were done. That was like a scrimmage,
Speaker 2: that was a walkthrough Game seven. The game was so
Speaker 2: out of reach. They were up I didn't even say this.
Speaker 2: They were up forty five points at one point. They
Speaker 2: were up almost almost a fifty piece on the a
Speaker 2: team that just went to the finals. Everything that the
Speaker 2: MAVs did to Utah and Phoenix is something I think
Speaker 2: they're gonna try to do again against Golden State. I
Speaker 2: think it's gonna be a war of small ball. I
Speaker 2: think it's gonna be Luca bullying people. I don't know
Speaker 2: who's guarding Luca. That's gonna be fascinating. Who will it be?
Speaker 2: Is that Clay? Is it gonna be Draymond? How? What
Speaker 2: are they gonna do try to do to Luca? We
Speaker 2: heard also J Kidd is now challenging Luca to be
Speaker 2: not a defensive liability, to try to be as close
Speaker 2: to Lebron James as a player as he can. That
Speaker 2: is terrifying. Luca can score in ways that Steph can't,
Speaker 2: which we'll talk about in a different episode, because I've
Speaker 2: got so much to say about the point guard position
Speaker 2: it's not even funny. But I don't have time for
Speaker 2: this right now. Luca probably has a better outside shot
Speaker 2: than almost anyone but Steph right now, definitely a better
Speaker 2: outside shot than Chris Paul, better outside shot than Jaw
Speaker 2: Like John Morant doesn't have the type of outside shot
Speaker 2: that Luca does. The perimeter offense of the Maps is
Speaker 2: much better in the half court than the memphisis. This
Speaker 2: is a team Memphis was a team that they probably
Speaker 2: should have put the bed put Golden State to bed
Speaker 2: in five. So there's a lot of people saying Golden
Speaker 2: State's gonna have it easy. There's not gonna be easy, folks.
Speaker 2: The big thing I think that Golden State has going
Speaker 2: for them is not only do they have championship pedigree
Speaker 2: and experience, they've been there before. They've got three guys
Speaker 2: that are very very connected in Clay Draymond and Steph.
Speaker 2: They also have another score in Jordan Poole and also
Speaker 2: by the way. We need to just quickly discuss it,
Speaker 2: because I didn't. Andrew Wiggins played the best basketball of
Speaker 2: his life. I've never seen like playoff. Wiggins is the
Speaker 2: stuff of legends. It's just bricks on bricks on bricks
Speaker 2: on bricks, and he hit every clutch shot in Game
Speaker 2: six against the Grizzlies. I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 2: Rip to the Grizzlies. Such a fun team. Gonna be
Speaker 2: a game of streaks, Gonna be a game of runs.
Speaker 2: Both teams play elite defense, probably to be a game
Speaker 2: of unders, truthfully, but also they could score so fast,
Speaker 2: so I don't even know if you touch it. My prediction, Oh,
Speaker 2: because I have to do it. I have to do it.
Speaker 2: Mad's and seven. Oh my god. Let's see some real
Speaker 2: quick questions before we get up out of here, real quick,
Speaker 2: all right. Question one, I haven't seen these questions at all,
Speaker 2: so I'm answering off the cuff first time. Tias Jones
Speaker 2: says he thinks he's a starter in the NBA. Can
Speaker 2: you build a winning team around Tias Jones. Tias Jones
Speaker 2: says he's six feet but he's probably five to eleven, Like,
Speaker 2: let's be honest. So Tias Jones says he wants to
Speaker 2: be a starter, which means he's probably gone from Memphis
Speaker 2: because Jaws the starter. Right. He averaged nine too and
Speaker 2: four in about twenty minutes per game we gave him
Speaker 2: all throughout this season. He's got the best assisted turnover
Speaker 2: ratio in the NBA, best protector of the ball in
Speaker 2: the league, which means a ton. In the playoffs, Uh,
Speaker 2: when Jah went out, he averaged sixteen six and seven
Speaker 2: in thirty four minutes and averaged just one turnover per
Speaker 2: game in that time. Pretty insane considering how good Golden
Speaker 2: State's defense is. So yeah, I think he's a starter.
Speaker 2: Can you build a championship roster around a guy like that?
Speaker 2: You're gonna need a lot of good wings. You're gonna
Speaker 2: need in this new quote unquote space ball evolution that
Speaker 2: we're getting, You're gonna need guys who can shoot threes,
Speaker 2: who can defend, who are six to seven. You need
Speaker 2: a six' five shooting. Guard you need a six seven to,
Speaker 2: Three you need a six, eight six nine, Four and
Speaker 2: he needed a six ten six eleven to five and
Speaker 2: probably a seven footer just to kind of space things.
Speaker 2: Out that's does he go to The. Knicks what do
Speaker 2: they need to? Do they've Got Mitchell robinson out. There
Speaker 2: my guess is. No BUT i really Like Tias. JONES
Speaker 2: i don't even know what to make of this new
Speaker 2: these new styles of THE nba that's evolving throughout like
Speaker 2: minute to. Minute this is this is what we call
Speaker 2: a developing. Situation so my first gut instinct is. Noe looking,
Speaker 2: back who was the worst free agent signing of the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. Season, man there's been. SOME i mean
Speaker 2: the best one that comes to mind is Probably fourgnier four,
Speaker 2: yea four, years seventy eight million dollars. GOOD i, Mean
Speaker 2: boston just dodge, stuff. Bullet didn't they have to give
Speaker 2: a lot away For evan two like they got a tpe.
Speaker 2: Exception but LIKE i think they gave up multiple picks
Speaker 2: For Evan. Fournier let me see real, quick BECAUSE i,
Speaker 2: said this is. Cold this is me? Cold yeah, Too
Speaker 2: celtic Send knicks two draft picks In Evan fournier sign
Speaker 2: in trade yash, yuck. Yucky so that's. Bad The knicks,
Speaker 2: knew they knew when they Chose Evan fournier Over Reggie.
Speaker 2: Blocked that was a BAD i mean pretty. Fast he
Speaker 2: was a huge. Disappointment he doesn't play any. Defense he's so.
Speaker 2: Streaky the only time he's elite is in the in
Speaker 2: The olympics In, france not even In like it's Like
Speaker 2: Rudy gobert and. Him come, On Kemba walker really bad,
Speaker 2: too two years eighteen, million that was. DESTINED i mean
Speaker 2: Both nick. Signings tibbs never wanted. Him he's not. Healthy
Speaker 2: he just doesn't play. Defense he's a negative a million
Speaker 2: when he's on the. Court, GOD i Love kempba, too
Speaker 2: and it's LIKE i Love, kempa but he's a. Shell
Speaker 2: that was. Bad Taylor Horton tucker pretty bad. Too three
Speaker 2: years thirty. Million, oh he could Had Kyle, lowry, which
Speaker 2: by the, way probably not good now in, HINDSIGHT i
Speaker 2: don't even. Know. Man they turned Down Kenrick williams And Mike.
Speaker 2: MUSKALA i mean Just Ugh Duncan robinson five years ninety,
Speaker 2: million no playing? Time now five years ninety? Million COULD
Speaker 2: i get some of? That LIKE i want to be
Speaker 2: able to get paid ninety million to do, Nothing like
Speaker 2: you just go to, practice LIKE i would do. PREP
Speaker 2: i would create research documents for the, league like do
Speaker 2: stuff you, know, like, Hey Tyler, hero this is your,
Speaker 2: Assignment like there's some film for, You, like let me
Speaker 2: put play in the like. TEAM i would Do scout
Speaker 2: team for ninety, million hands down the worst money spent
Speaker 2: in the off. Season Jesus. Christ Zach collins three, years
Speaker 2: twenty two and a half. MILLION i could have told
Speaker 2: The spurs that wasn't gonna, work but Any blazer fan
Speaker 2: knew that wasn't gonna. Work this guy is. Nobody, god
Speaker 2: The spurs are having a, bad bad couple of. Years Josh,
Speaker 2: Primo what a scrub at? Twelve that's just a ricochet.
Speaker 2: Shot has nothing to do with the free agent. Signings moving,
Speaker 2: on next, contract next. Question Marcus smart recently said we
Speaker 2: go AS i. Go are you? Serious this is a real.
Speaker 2: Quote i'm the heart and soul of the. Team my
Speaker 2: teammates tell me that all the. TIME i try to
Speaker 2: be that for. Them the ENERGY i bring is. CONTAGIOUS
Speaker 2: i try to bring that every. Game are you Ready
Speaker 2: trista to admit you're wrong About Marcus? Smart? Wow Uh,
Speaker 2: GOD i just don't want. TO i really don't want. To,
Speaker 2: YES i GUESS i. AM i GUESS i am THE
Speaker 2: i didn't know That The Green lantern was the review
Speaker 2: in In. Boston BUT i think that's a sick nickname
Speaker 2: For Marcus. Smart NOW i think we need to call
Speaker 2: him The Green lantern the super. Villain wasn't The Green
Speaker 2: lantern a? Villain good? Guy good? Guy he's a super.
Speaker 2: Superhero he played what what his? Name he was IN dc,
Speaker 2: Right Ryan reynolds played. HIM i Think Marcus smart would
Speaker 2: with his green, hair would be a tremendous green. Lantern
Speaker 2: like what a name for someone who's the heart and
Speaker 2: the SOUL i light up this. Place So i'm deflecting
Speaker 2: the answer IS i? GUESS i. GUESS i hate. It
Speaker 2: this is one of those times where it just feel
Speaker 2: like the take went so. Wrong he's a chucker, though,
Speaker 2: though isn't he like and a? Flopper but it's. True
Speaker 2: the team feeds off of, him and they are about
Speaker 2: to win a championship With Marcus smart as our point
Speaker 2: guard and he's not even like a true point. Guard
Speaker 2: so good for. Him, yes, TikTok Yes, TWITTER i was.
Speaker 2: WRONG i was wrong About Marcus, smart AND i won't
Speaker 2: ever say it. Again so this is the last time
Speaker 2: That i'm going to bring this. Up you, guys don't
Speaker 2: get in my mentions. Again all, right that's all the
Speaker 2: time that we have for this heat check. Whatever so
Speaker 2: that's all the. Time we'll be back. Whenever that question.
Speaker 2: Sucked that was a terrible. Question whoever wrote, THAT i
Speaker 2: don't even know where you found that. Quote seems like
Speaker 2: fake news to. Me, anyway we'll be back Probably wednesday Or.
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