Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Right Episode two thirty four.
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Speaker 1: the way, I was in Philly on Sunday walking from
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Speaker 1: A lot, We've got a lot of a lot to
Speaker 1: get into today. Uh so let's get to what missed
Speaker 1: the cut. Uh, this is I mean beavas and butthead
Speaker 1: go to the fall Guy premiere. That doesn't mean a
Speaker 1: lot to people. To Monday's age people, my age, Beavis
Speaker 1: and butt Head was a big part of our of
Speaker 1: age and childhood. Nearly fifty thousand hot dogs eating at
Speaker 1: Dollar Dog Night at City Field. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: and by so I didn't see this story. Uh and okay,
Speaker 1: So I saw that the Dolphins. I saw you guys say,
Speaker 1: Dolphins owner rejects a ten billion dollar offer, and I
Speaker 1: as soon as I saw that, I was like, that
Speaker 1: can't be right. The Dolphins are not worth ten billion dollars.
Speaker 1: But now I'm seeing the offer was ten billion, but
Speaker 1: it was for the Dolphins, for Formula one Miami and
Speaker 1: for the stadium, So that makes a little more sense.
Speaker 1: Formula one Miami is worth a massive amount in and
Speaker 1: of itself, and so that that does make a little
Speaker 1: more sense. But what was I about to say? I
Speaker 1: interrupted myself. Gosh darn it, hot dogs. I oh yeah,
Speaker 1: hot dogs, thank you, good job, great work. A week
Speaker 1: from tonight, I'm gonna be at s Field playing in
Speaker 1: Hank is Aria's and Jeff McNeil's charity poker event. And
Speaker 1: you know who's going to be So I'm I'm I've
Speaker 1: become pals with Hank Kazaria. Shout out to him. Great
Speaker 1: sports fan. He also is the you know, famous actor
Speaker 1: and comedian, but also probably most known to the audience
Speaker 1: as the voice of two thirds of the characters on
Speaker 1: the Simpsons. He's Mo, the Bartender, he was a Pooh.
Speaker 1: He's the voice of the basically all the Simpsons regular
Speaker 1: characters that aren't Homer, bart Marge. Hank does the voices,
Speaker 1: but he's also been in a million things. He's the
Speaker 1: guy that in Heat al Pacino is screaming she's got
Speaker 1: a great ass. He's yelling that at Hank's area. Great actor.
Speaker 1: So he and I have become buddies, and I'm at
Speaker 1: at City Field. A week from today is his charity
Speaker 1: poker event. Our buddy Chip Bully Joe Black's coming with
Speaker 1: me to play in it. But you know who's also
Speaker 1: gonna be there. I think I'm allowed to say, yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: I'm allowed to say this. It's gonna be there. Walter White,
Speaker 1: Brian Kranz. Yeah, yeah, he's playing in the poker tournament.
Speaker 1: I'm super excited. That's one of my favorite actors. Of
Speaker 1: all time, one of the most talented actors of all time.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited for all that. Okay, I thought of
Speaker 1: that because of the City Field hot dog thing, because
Speaker 1: that was at City Field. Okay, so we've got all that.
Speaker 1: Let's get to basketball. Then. I think we do have
Speaker 1: to have a conversation about the Twitter habits of Dion
Speaker 1: Sanders and his sons, because I think at this point
Speaker 1: it's a story. Uh So we'll do all that. But first,
Speaker 1: who could have seen this coming?
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Demontay, Yeah, So Dallas dismantled, the Clippers went
Speaker 2: in by thirty. After that terrible second half from the Clippers,
Speaker 2: we finally got that vintage hardened performance. I think he
Speaker 2: went February twelveth from the field. But Luga balled out
Speaker 2: on a hurt knee. Your choice, take a victory lap
Speaker 2: on a hard and trade or a hype up your
Speaker 2: one leged Slovenian son.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna do both, do a little bit of both.
Speaker 1: So listen. Luca is a legendary playoff performer. He has
Speaker 1: been every step of the way, and it is a
Speaker 1: testament to what his standards are that he was averaging
Speaker 1: thirty ten and nine up to yesterday, and people are like, man,
Speaker 1: guys having a rough series. And by the way, he
Speaker 1: was from an efficiency standpoint, he was not. You know,
Speaker 1: his shooting percentage was not great. He was thirty nine
Speaker 1: percent from the field, twenty seven percent from three. And
Speaker 1: then last night, despite going two of eight from three,
Speaker 1: he throws up a thirty five seven and ten. They
Speaker 1: take control of the series, and I believe they're gonna
Speaker 1: end up in the conference finals. With respect Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1: I do not think they're gonna be able to handle
Speaker 1: the MAVs. And then I think that, you know, Denver,
Speaker 1: Minnesota will get too later, but that's gonna be a war.
Speaker 1: That is going to be an incredibly tough series. And
Speaker 1: so Dallas right now with Luca playing like this, even
Speaker 1: though he's not one hundred percent, and you add to it, man,
Speaker 1: Kyrie is playing the best basketball of his life and
Speaker 1: you just have to give him credit. And so I
Speaker 1: was on with Cowherd last night. Let me talk a
Speaker 1: little Kyrie, then we'll do the Harden of Visceration, I suppose.
Speaker 1: So Colin was talking about how sports media is so
Speaker 1: different than any other entertainment media that how like music
Speaker 1: critics or film critics or art critics. They're not really
Speaker 1: critics these days. They're supporters that you don't really see
Speaker 1: so much these days, like oh my god, a scathing
Speaker 1: review like it is either stuff is either not written
Speaker 1: or it's supportive. This is great, this is awesome, and
Speaker 1: that's not how it always was. But that's really what
Speaker 1: that the I can't remember the last time that there
Speaker 1: was a big time movie critic that just ripped apart
Speaker 1: what was, you know, a big time movie made by stars,
Speaker 1: and that used to happen. And maybe I'm not, you know,
Speaker 1: on Pitchfork enough, but I don't think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of I think again, a lot of the critics in
Speaker 1: other entertainment fields are mostly portive. And then there are
Speaker 1: sports where if you consider what I do, what we
Speaker 1: do to be critics, we go the other way. We
Speaker 1: actually spend more time on the negative than the positive.
Speaker 1: And so Colin was talking about that and I kind
Speaker 1: of had a light bulb moment. So I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you on the spot here demand say
Speaker 1: there's no wrong answer. H Well, I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: there are wrong answers, because you're gonna have to guess
Speaker 1: what I'm thinking. But there's no reason, there's no expectation
Speaker 1: to get this right. Of all of the NBA active
Speaker 1: NBA players, name one or two that you think consider
Speaker 1: themselves artists, like I'm an artist at athletes active NBA
Speaker 1: players that the like, I don't think. Let me give
Speaker 1: you an example. I don't think Anthony Edwards has one
Speaker 1: day in his life thought I'm an artist like.
Speaker 2: Bro exactly right, exactly, go ahead. Yeah, So definitely definitely
Speaker 2: Kyrie Irving, he's got to be one of them. Yes,
Speaker 2: And then dude, you know what, probably shy Gilkers Alexander.
Speaker 1: Oh, maybe I didn't even think about him. I thought
Speaker 1: Kyrie and Katie that Katie's out here, like you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, like, hey, I am I'm out here, surgical, Yes,
Speaker 1: I am out here. And Kyrie certainly like I. And
Speaker 1: what I said to Colin was and that quintuple clutch
Speaker 1: layup from Game four over three people that was his masterpiece,
Speaker 1: Like I have been practicing for twenty five years in
Speaker 1: order to be able to do this thing that I
Speaker 1: truly believe I might be the only human being who's
Speaker 1: ever walked the earth who could do it like I
Speaker 1: think that's in play. I think Kyrie Irving is the
Speaker 1: only person who's ever lived that could have pulled off
Speaker 1: that exact move, and it's because he's been working on it.
Speaker 1: So what I stumbled upon talking with Colin is I
Speaker 1: think that's why Kyrie and Katie hate how sports media works,
Speaker 1: because they're like, we're artists, man, appreciate it, look at
Speaker 1: what we're doing out here, look at this thing, and like,
Speaker 1: why don't you appreciate my art? And instead you're like,
Speaker 1: you know, why don't you win more? Why didn't you
Speaker 1: do this? And I just I think it is a
Speaker 1: Colin and I didn't even mean to talk about this,
Speaker 1: but once he said the thing about how music and
Speaker 1: cinematic media works versus sports media, because Kyrie and Katie
Speaker 1: certainly are the two players most critical of sports media,
Speaker 1: of how they are discussed and the context of it,
Speaker 1: and I just again, I'm going right, it's about like,
Speaker 1: look at what I have practiced and perfected and appreciated,
Speaker 1: and don't do a who was better Picasso or or Monet,
Speaker 1: just be like they're both amazing. And so I just
Speaker 1: find I find it really And when I say I
Speaker 1: find it interesting, it's my own idea, I guess. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of weird to be like, I find my
Speaker 1: own idea interesting, But I think I'm right, and it
Speaker 1: kind of just gave me a different window into how
Speaker 1: I look at those guys. With all that said, Kyrie's
Speaker 1: been brilliant, been absolutely brilliant, and is locked in from
Speaker 1: a leadership and defense standpoint in a way that I
Speaker 1: can't remember ever him ever being. So that makes the
Speaker 1: MAVs super dangerous, super dangerous.
Speaker 2: So do you think they're the best offensive duo in basketball?
Speaker 1: Well, Joker and probably have to hold that crown right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Joker and Murray have to hold
Speaker 1: that crown, but I think Luke and Kyrie can have
Speaker 1: a strong argument for it. And I will say I
Speaker 1: think Joker and Murray hold it for consistency. I think apex,
Speaker 1: Luke and Kyrie of an argument. If you're getting an
Speaker 1: A plus Kyrie and an A plus US Luca game,
Speaker 1: that is gonna be a pretty unstoppable offensive due But
Speaker 1: if you're getting a plus Joker in A plus Murray, yeah,
Speaker 1: Jok Murray and so I just I do think it's
Speaker 1: less like I don't know, I was gonna say less
Speaker 1: likely for both of them to be a plus at
Speaker 1: the same time. But I don't know. They they they're
Speaker 1: they're on the list. But now it's time talking about
Speaker 1: James Harden exactly. So I put out some stats yesterday
Speaker 1: that immediately got misaggregated and misquoted these basketball like guys,
Speaker 1: I don't even care if you steal my exact screen
Speaker 1: shot and don't give me credit for it, but don't
Speaker 1: steal my exact screenshot, not give me credit for it,
Speaker 1: and then misquote what the stat is on the screenshot,
Speaker 1: like it's just the these the the the anonymous Twitter
Speaker 1: accounts that it's just spreading missing information, just the worst.
Speaker 1: They're so bad that when I saw an anonymous Twitter
Speaker 1: account with a screenshot of a Darvin Ham quote where
Speaker 1: he was like, what do you expect me to do
Speaker 1: when one of your starters is showing the bed for
Speaker 1: ten games? I was like, oh, well, that's obviously a
Speaker 1: fake quote. And it took me old twenty four hours
Speaker 1: to find out he actually said that that was a
Speaker 1: real quote to a reporter after the season. You did
Speaker 1: you thought it was fake?
Speaker 2: I thought it was fake.
Speaker 1: I was like, Ah, these idiots, I was like, this
Speaker 1: is not a real quote. There's no chance. Darvinham said
Speaker 1: on the record, what do you want me to do
Speaker 1: when one of my starters is showing the bed for
Speaker 1: ten games? I was like, these dumb fake news people, But.
Speaker 2: It's a real quote.
Speaker 1: It's a real quote. Okay, back to the hard and stuff.
Speaker 1: So last night, Harden was two for twelve from the field.
Speaker 1: That is now his tenth ten career playoff game where
Speaker 1: he has taken at least ten shots and made two
Speaker 1: or fewer. Okay, that breaks a tie with the late
Speaker 1: great Clifford Robinson for most all time. After that is
Speaker 1: Jamal Crawford with eight and Jay Crowder with eight. So
Speaker 1: what do Cliff, Jamal and Jay all have in common?
Speaker 1: They were never your number one option. They were always
Speaker 1: guys who that could happen to him like hey gotta
Speaker 1: you know, gotta stay ready and to get hot, you
Speaker 1: gotta stay hot or I don't even know what the
Speaker 1: saying is, but you gotta keep shooting. Harden like the
Speaker 1: the if you go down that list, other than Bob Coozy,
Speaker 1: there's no number one options with more than four of
Speaker 1: these types of games. And Bob Cosey was playing at
Speaker 1: a time right when thirty five percent from the field
Speaker 1: was fine. So okay, what about playoff games with at
Speaker 1: least ten field goal attempts and three or fewer makes.
Speaker 1: Harden now is tied with Cliff Robinson for first with
Speaker 1: seventeen of these games. Seventeen. Now, you might see Jason
Speaker 1: Kidden be like, oh, kids an all timer, and he is.
Speaker 1: But kid also early in his career could not shoot
Speaker 1: and was controlling the game from the floor and was
Speaker 1: an excellent playoff performer. Harden's postseason resume, it's like clockwork, man,
Speaker 1: He's just gonna have one of these games in the
Speaker 1: worst spot imaginable, and it is. It is not surprising,
Speaker 1: it is not deniable, and it is not defensible. Okay,
Speaker 1: so there are I'm trying James Harden now in his
Speaker 1: playoff career. You know what, We're just gonna go through
Speaker 1: it real quick. This is what a podcast is for.
Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna go year by year and show
Speaker 1: you the and I'll be fair. I'll include the key
Speaker 1: games when he was excellent. But and I won't even
Speaker 1: use against him anything that happened in Okay, see, because
Speaker 1: he was young and he didn't have the same role. Now,
Speaker 1: was he objectively awful in those in those finals? Yes,
Speaker 1: James Harden in those finals, the final three games two
Speaker 1: for ten, two for ten, five for eleven in a
Speaker 1: lopsided loss. But let's just get to Houston, and what
Speaker 1: you're going to see is a wild trend. Okay, first
Speaker 1: postseason in Houston, he's objectively bad the opening three playoff
Speaker 1: games to fall down three to zero, and then bounces
Speaker 1: back a bit in Game five after being four for
Speaker 1: twelve in a deciding Game four. In Game five when
Speaker 1: the series is decided and the pressure is off, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's keep going. Then next year, this is the Dame
Speaker 1: Lillard Series twenty fourteen, where Dame hits the buzzer beating
Speaker 1: three to walk off down three to one in a
Speaker 1: potentially deciding game. James Harden goes five for fifteen from
Speaker 1: the field, but they win. Now, the next game in
Speaker 1: game six, he was pretty good. He's nine for sixteen
Speaker 1: from the field, got to the freezer line dozen times.
Speaker 1: What they lose, and then you're going to see it
Speaker 1: really get going twenty fifteen, down three to two, getting
Speaker 1: blown out by the Clippers in Round two, gets benched
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter because he is five of twenty
Speaker 1: from the field. They win despite that. The very next round,
Speaker 1: down two to Golden State after two heartbreaking losses, where
Speaker 1: he's good in those heartbreaking losses. Twenty fifteen, coming home
Speaker 1: for Game three, three of sixteen from the field, down
Speaker 1: oh three, series over game by the way. Then in
Speaker 1: game Game four, no pressure, no expectations, down three to zero,
Speaker 1: has one of the best playoff games of his life,
Speaker 1: dropping forty five. Now Game five, two of eleven, go
Speaker 1: home for this season. Next year against Golden State, Round one,
Speaker 1: opens the series with back to back seven of nineteen's
Speaker 1: down two to one in game four to basically stay alive,
Speaker 1: throws up a four for fifteen. The next year is
Speaker 1: playing the Spurs, down three to two, Kawhi Leonard is
Speaker 1: out for the game. You're at home, Kawhi is not
Speaker 1: playing because he's hurt. It's twenty seventeen. You are a
Speaker 1: big favorite in this game. He goes two for eleven
Speaker 1: and they lose by forty points. The next year, I
Speaker 1: mean this all happened, bro, I mean it's really really rough.
Speaker 1: The next year, two to two against Golden State, the
Speaker 1: best Rockets team ever sixty five wins. You're the league
Speaker 1: MVP two to two against Golden State, you're five of
Speaker 1: twenty one. You win despite that because Chris Paul was
Speaker 1: so great. Now you're up three to two. This, by
Speaker 1: the way, this James Harden performance cost Lebron James a championship,
Speaker 1: and I'll never forgive him for it, because if he
Speaker 1: could have just beaten the Warriors, that twenty eighteen Caps
Speaker 1: team that's stunk, but Lebron was apex. Lebron would have
Speaker 1: rolled over Houston. But set that aside. Up three to two,
Speaker 1: now Chris Paul's out, you go ten of twenty four.
Speaker 1: You then go twelve of twenty nine in a home
Speaker 1: game seven. Both games you have fifteen point leads. In
Speaker 1: that game seven, you're two of thirteen from three. The
Speaker 1: next year, Demonse, you are playing Golden State. Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: goes out, it's the series' is two games a piece,
Speaker 1: and you lose games five and six. He actually played
Speaker 1: decent in those games, to his credit. The next year,
Speaker 1: you're in the bubble. You're playing an OKC team that
Speaker 1: no one thought was gonna be any good. That people
Speaker 1: when they traded Chris Paul there, they were like oh,
Speaker 1: should he ask for a buyout? They're not even trying.
Speaker 1: It goes to a Game seven in the bubble. In
Speaker 1: that Game seven, you're four for fifteen. You win anyway.
Speaker 1: The next year, I'm sorry. The next round you're down
Speaker 1: to one to the Lakers in the bubble, the swing
Speaker 1: game of the series. Is it gonna be a series
Speaker 1: or not? Two for eleven? These two for elevens are
Speaker 1: just impossible how often they've happened. Now you're a Brooklyn
Speaker 1: net you come back from an ankle injury. Now, maybe
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have come back. I would argue you definitely
Speaker 1: shouldn't have come back because in your first game back
Speaker 1: you were one for ten in a two two two series,
Speaker 1: and then in Game seven you were five for seventeen
Speaker 1: in an overtime loss. Like the next year, you're in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: you are actually finally, wait was it this year? He
Speaker 1: had a big no? In Philadelphia? You're two to two
Speaker 1: with Miami. You go five of thirteen in Game six
Speaker 1: and then four of nine in Game seven. Then next
Speaker 1: year you're still in Philadelphia. You have two of your
Speaker 1: best playoff games ever in this series against Boston forty
Speaker 1: five in a Game one forty two in a game four,
Speaker 1: and then what do you do the rest of the series?
Speaker 1: Four for eight, then four for sixteen, and then in
Speaker 1: a game seven loss three four eleven. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I haven't even mentioned the turnovers when he has let
Speaker 1: me go ahead and check real quick. In his playoff
Speaker 1: career he has one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: eight games with eight or eight or more turnovers and
Speaker 1: five games with nine plus. And then this year in
Speaker 1: the key game of the series, you go.
Speaker 2: To for twelve, you score from all that, what tell
Speaker 2: me you got James Harden on your team? You're making
Speaker 2: the playoffs? Well, no, that is bention when you get there.
Speaker 2: But you'll get there.
Speaker 1: That No, that listen, that part is one hundred percent true.
Speaker 1: You are making the playoffs, and it is and that
Speaker 1: is what is so baffling about it. So and that
Speaker 1: is the part that is so hard to wrap your
Speaker 1: mind around, other than the moment is just too much
Speaker 1: for him. When I say James Harden's regular season resume
Speaker 1: is that of an all time legend, I'm not exact aggerating.
Speaker 1: Six times he has been first team All NBA. Okay
Speaker 1: six times four context for that, who's the best guard
Speaker 1: of his era demonse, it's pretty odd. Yeah, Curry has
Speaker 1: been First Team All NBA four times. James Harden has
Speaker 1: been First Team All NBA six times. The in James
Speaker 1: Harden has won the league MVP once, has come in
Speaker 1: second three times, and has six top five MVP finishes.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry has four top five MVP finishes. Like when
Speaker 1: I say his he has won, Harden has averaged thirty
Speaker 1: five points a game in a season, He's won an
Speaker 1: assist title. His regular He's in resume is unimpeachable, top
Speaker 1: twenty all time, and every single year in their biggest
Speaker 1: playoff game, he falls apart like clockwork. And it's just
Speaker 1: who he is. And it's also why when the Clippers
Speaker 1: traded for James Harden espn BPI or their analytics department
Speaker 1: or whatever made them the favorites, the sizable favorites to
Speaker 1: win the championship. Vegas has had loved him all year long,
Speaker 1: and everyone just keeps pretending like you couldn't like I
Speaker 1: saw and listen this, I'm not taking a shot here, uh,
Speaker 1: because I actually like this guy a lot. I actually
Speaker 1: got a chance to chat with this guy on the
Speaker 1: phone last week for a few minutes is super nice
Speaker 1: guy Kendrick Perkins. But Kendrick had a tweet last night that,
Speaker 1: uh that said, Paul George and Harden are the most
Speaker 1: unpredictable players in the league, and I just responded, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I would argue Harden is one of the absolute most
Speaker 1: predictable players in the league. Like anyone that is surprised
Speaker 1: by what we saw last night, like where have you
Speaker 1: been the last decade? And now folks that are longtime
Speaker 1: viewers or listeners of mine might say, Nick, when first
Speaker 1: things first had just started, weren't you one of Harden's
Speaker 1: biggest defenders. And the answer to that is yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: Because I thought my argument for James was pretty simple.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to hold the OKC time against him.
Speaker 1: He was the sixth man, was young, and in Houston.
Speaker 1: His big sin was you can't beat the Warriors. But
Speaker 1: nobody could beat the Warriors. So I thought that I
Speaker 1: was like, we don't have enough evidence to say that
Speaker 1: this guy is anything other than a great regular season
Speaker 1: player who he doesn't get better in the playoffs. But
Speaker 1: you're running up against a juggernaut. But now we have
Speaker 1: six playoff runs of evidence, Like that's one of my
Speaker 1: more frustrating things when people are like, oh, what changed,
Speaker 1: I'm like, they're still playing the games. It's one of
Speaker 1: my all time the there's a tweet and I don't
Speaker 1: delete tweets, but there's a tweet from me from twenty
Speaker 1: eleven where I do an all time NBA Top ten
Speaker 1: and Lebron's not in it, and people send it to
Speaker 1: me all the time. They're like, oh, so this guy,
Speaker 1: you used to not have him in the top ten,
Speaker 1: but now he's the goat. I'm like, well, four championships
Speaker 1: and nine trips to the finals can change the math
Speaker 1: on some of how you rank players, and so like,
Speaker 1: I mean, like, what are you fools? So yeah, I did.
Speaker 1: I once upon a time thought Harden's got had some
Speaker 1: bad luck in the postseason. You run into the Warriors,
Speaker 1: you're running to Lebron's heat with the thunder. But now,
Speaker 1: I mean the the jury is not out on this anymore. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, let's move on.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Celtics completed the gentleman suite, took care of
Speaker 2: business there to scare before a second. But it seems
Speaker 2: like they might be without porzingis around two for part
Speaker 2: of it, or maybe the full series because he's got
Speaker 2: a cap straight. Now, we obviously know that injuries have
Speaker 2: been an often problem with Pazingis in the past. What
Speaker 2: do you think the Celtics is the ceiling without Porzingis.
Speaker 1: Oh, if they can't win the title without you can.
Speaker 2: Get past round though, they're tooled to beat the Pacers
Speaker 2: without Porsinis, Well.
Speaker 1: No, they wouldn't be playing the Pacers. They'd be playing
Speaker 1: either the Magic or the Calves. Oh yeah, and so listen, Yeah,
Speaker 1: shout out to the regular season. Shout out to the
Speaker 1: Celtics for caring about it. Go get the one seed
Speaker 1: and now you get to rest Magic Orlando, Magic Orlando.
Speaker 1: The Magic Calves is gonna go seven. Those teams are
Speaker 1: gonna beat the hell out of each other and you
Speaker 1: don't have to rush Chris STAPs back. You absolutely can
Speaker 1: beat You will win next round to that. So I
Speaker 1: wouldn't play him in round two. Like if I'm wrong
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden the series is two to
Speaker 1: two or something, then maybe.
Speaker 2: But playing for the first game for the first two
Speaker 2: and then maybe if you go down. But I don't
Speaker 2: see it.
Speaker 1: Exactly right, but I don't think that's gonna happen. And
Speaker 1: by the way, we haven't talked about that series at all,
Speaker 1: but hell of a play by Evan Mobley the block.
Speaker 1: Now this is I do have to say something about
Speaker 1: this because nobody understands just common sense. So the Cleveland Cavalier,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the Orlando Magic were down two in the
Speaker 1: waning seconds of that game. Do people not realize how
Speaker 1: unless you have a wide open, uncontested dunk, shooting a
Speaker 1: three is always the option. Like, just do the math
Speaker 1: on this, guys. What what percent probability do you need
Speaker 1: to have of making the two pointer to then have
Speaker 1: going to overtime as your reward be a better way
Speaker 1: to win than shooting a three? Honestly? Like what you
Speaker 1: follow what I'm saying here. These teams that are down
Speaker 1: two in the final moments and take a tough two,
Speaker 1: it's bananas. Like what is let's just say, Calves Magic
Speaker 1: is a coin flip in overtime a true fifty to fifty.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was, but say it was. Then
Speaker 1: unless your two point attempt is going to be an
Speaker 1: eighty percent likelihood, like you're taking an eighty percent chance
Speaker 1: in order to get a fifty percent chance, which means
Speaker 1: your your chance of winning there would be forty percent. Okay,
Speaker 1: what is your likelihood of making a three? Right, that's
Speaker 1: the math on it. You hit a three, you win.
Speaker 1: So even if it's the worst shooter you have on
Speaker 1: the court, say he shoots thirty percent from three, that
Speaker 1: is still better than a tough two where that you
Speaker 1: have a fifty percent chance of making, just to get
Speaker 1: the opportunity to have a fifty chance of winning. So no,
Speaker 1: I didn't like Franz Wagner going up against Evan Mobley,
Speaker 1: who's drafted purely for his defense. Just like if all
Speaker 1: of a sudden Franz Wagner makes this unbelievable play, congrats,
Speaker 1: Now you got to go beat them for five minutes.
Speaker 1: Let Paolo try to take the Tyrese Maxi shot. That's
Speaker 1: a better opportunity, that's a better op It's just insane
Speaker 1: of these teams that go for two. Now, if you
Speaker 1: are way better than your opponent, maybe you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll take overtime. But that's not the case there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the Celtics will be fine. Now I will
Speaker 1: to go ahead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if they do, when they win, they get
Speaker 2: past them. If they end up having to play the Pacers.
Speaker 2: How do you think they match up against them?
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. I think all four teams on
Speaker 1: the other side of the bracket are still ALON because
Speaker 1: it's Nick Sixers, which we'll get to. The winner of
Speaker 1: that plays Pacers, Bucks and the whole NBA should be
Speaker 1: furious with Indiana furious. I'm not saying the Bucks are
Speaker 1: a great team. What I am saying is they have
Speaker 1: a high ceiling. Any team that employs Giannis and Dame
Speaker 1: theoretically has a high ceiling in theory. And you could
Speaker 1: have ended their season in the game Yiannis and Dame
Speaker 1: didn't play and you mailed it in Indiana. That's pathetic.
Speaker 1: Indiana's game two days ago was embarrassing. You can end
Speaker 1: the Bucks season without their two best plays. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine how? And I'm not going to compare the Bucks
Speaker 1: to the Chiefs, So let me find a better example.
Speaker 1: If if in the first round of the NFL playoffs,
Speaker 1: a team was playing the Ravens and Lamar and Rokwan
Speaker 1: Smith were out for the game but expected back the
Speaker 1: following week, do you know how angry everyone else in
Speaker 1: the postseason would be if you give that team if
Speaker 1: you didn't beat them, can you. They'd be like, you've
Speaker 1: gotta be kidding me, Like, and so now listen, maybe
Speaker 1: Dame and Yannis don't play tonight. It seems like the
Speaker 1: the let me check the point spread, it seems like
Speaker 1: Vegas doesn't think they're playing because the Pacers are eight
Speaker 1: and a half point favorites. So now maybe they'll get
Speaker 1: another chance at it. But that was a horrific loss.
Speaker 1: And but I think that if the Pacers do win
Speaker 1: that round, then the winner of Nick Sixers is going
Speaker 1: to be playing the Celtics in the conference finals. Nick
Speaker 1: Sixers winner is gonna beat the Pacers. That's what I think.
Speaker 1: All right, go ahead?
Speaker 2: Uh yeah. So Game six of the Game six of
Speaker 2: Nick six Ers is back in Philly tonight. This series
Speaker 2: has had a cup crazy finishes. But after the after
Speaker 2: the crushing loss, do you think the Knicks will be
Speaker 2: able to take back the momentum and be able to
Speaker 2: be Philly.
Speaker 1: Oh. I don't think they're going to like be emotionally
Speaker 1: unable to win. But I do think Philly wins tonight.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's because of like the tritus of
Speaker 1: Game five. I just think and I'm still thinking about
Speaker 1: going to that game.
Speaker 2: I have to leave.
Speaker 1: Well it's tonight, but it's not an the tips not
Speaker 1: till nine. So I could leave the show, pick you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, pick up your sister, do whatever
Speaker 1: I need to do. And still I could leave for
Speaker 1: Philliate could leave for the game at seven and get
Speaker 1: there in time. But the problem is then the next
Speaker 1: morning I gotta get back and all that, and I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know. Also, I was thinking about bringing
Speaker 1: your baby sister, and I don't know if that's gonna
Speaker 1: that's a hostile environment, man.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And so I'm still considering going because it's been so
Speaker 1: much fun. If I don't go, then I should go
Speaker 1: to Game seven in the garden, assuming that exists. But
Speaker 1: my god, man, those those tickets are so expensive and
Speaker 1: your mom is so funny. Man, I gotta tell you
Speaker 1: guys this real quick. Then we'll talk Nick sixers. Your
Speaker 1: mom a god lover this. She is so supportive of me,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate it. She's really convinced. You know how
Speaker 1: the Knicks have like celebrity row. She was like, they
Speaker 1: would give you tickets for that. You just need to
Speaker 1: ask them. I'm like they would not give me tickets
Speaker 1: for that. It's like it's John Stewart and Chris Rock
Speaker 1: and Ben Stiller. They're not giving She was like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe the row right behind them. She's like, yes, they would.
Speaker 2: Nick.
Speaker 1: She was like, you need you need a PR person.
Speaker 1: You just need to have someone called. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't have a PR person and I'm not calling.
Speaker 1: She was like, all called for. I'm like, no, babe.
Speaker 1: What they're going to say is who and then let
Speaker 1: me connect you with someone. And that person they are
Speaker 1: gonna connect you with is gonna then ask for a
Speaker 1: credit card number. They are not giving me free tickets there.
Speaker 1: It's just not happening. She's convinced we could be going
Speaker 1: to these Nick games for free, based off the juice
Speaker 1: of me being me, which I really appreciate her believing,
Speaker 1: but it's just not true.
Speaker 2: Well like, hey, you're a lot closer now than you
Speaker 2: would have than you were five years ago.
Speaker 1: Well I appreciate that that's true.
Speaker 2: And I.
Speaker 1: Do think that if we if somehow I was everything
Speaker 1: about our life was the exact same. But we were
Speaker 1: based in Oklahoma City. I do think I could get
Speaker 1: free great seats. I do think when They're like the
Speaker 1: who are the local celebrities there? I do msg it's
Speaker 1: the Mecca. They're not giving me tickets. I think the
Speaker 1: Sixers win tonight. I think Joel is a good game.
Speaker 1: The Sixers in a rough spot, man, because they are
Speaker 1: really struggling when Joel's off the court. But he's not
Speaker 1: in peak shape because of the uh Max's slack. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he's not in peak shape because when he was
Speaker 1: hurt out with the knee that you know, you can't
Speaker 1: do all the cardio stuff that you need to do.
Speaker 1: So he's kind of working himself back into shape. MAXI
Speaker 1: was unbelievable, though, man, I mean, I feel like that's
Speaker 1: a little old news now because we talked about a
Speaker 1: lot yesterday. That was an all time, all time from him.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the last one.
Speaker 2: Kickoff round two. The Nuggets survived a close gentlemen sweep
Speaker 2: with the Lakers, obviously, But with that said, are you
Speaker 2: gonna double down on fading the Nuggets Wolves here? I
Speaker 2: don't know that I have made my decision on Series.
Speaker 1: I. I I will admit I'm getting a little tired
Speaker 1: of picking against Denver. Now. People say I picked against
Speaker 1: them every Round last year. That's not true. I picked
Speaker 1: them to beat Phoenix. Brew has run from this entirely.
Speaker 1: Brew picked Phoenix to win that series for the record America.
Speaker 1: But I did pick the Lakers to beat them in
Speaker 1: the Conference finals, and then I just got drunk on
Speaker 1: Heat culture and I was still mad about the Lakers
Speaker 1: getting swept, I think, and I had the Heat beating them,
Speaker 1: and then obviously I had the Lakers beating them there
Speaker 1: in a row.
Speaker 2: Honestly, don't remember you're doing that, but that's insane.
Speaker 1: What picking the Heat to win, picking the Heat to
Speaker 1: beat the Jimmy Butler was we were putting Jimmy Butler
Speaker 1: in the hall, bro Jimmy, Yeah, Jimmy Butler was on
Speaker 1: a heater. And then if you remember, they stole Game
Speaker 1: two and stole home court. I listen, I would love
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards to have his moment. And the Timberwolves played
Speaker 1: them tough last year.
Speaker 2: They play them close in the season during the regular season. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they beat him, they beat him.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have Karl Anthony Towns guarding Jokic, which sounds ridiculous,
Speaker 1: but it's so Ruey Ruey, Rudy, Rudy can roam and
Speaker 1: Rudy can then come over and help. And that's gonna listen,
Speaker 1: they have a big long, number one defense in basketball.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, If there is any team in the NBA
Speaker 2: that could deal with Jokic, it's gotta be the Timberwolves.
Speaker 2: With that those I mean, it's.
Speaker 1: What they were, whether they knew it or not, they
Speaker 1: were built for it, and they they're the number one
Speaker 1: defensive basketball a year long. I'm gonna make my pick
Speaker 1: tomorrow on TV. I I I'm not. I'm not there
Speaker 1: yet on it too. And no, it's not that, it's
Speaker 1: that I just don't know. I don't what is the
Speaker 1: Let me check what the series odds are. I mean,
Speaker 1: Vegas has it minus two five to plus one sixty five,
Speaker 1: So Vegas thinks it's like a sixty to forty series,
Speaker 1: so you know what I mean, relatively close. What do
Speaker 1: you oh, they're not gonna have the Pacers. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: the Celtics odds listed yet, but hold on, let me
Speaker 1: see what the The Celtics right now to win the
Speaker 1: East are minus two minus five, yeah, minus two thirty
Speaker 1: to win the East and based basically even money to
Speaker 1: win the whole thing. That's unbelievable. All right, take quick break,
Speaker 1: come back, What's Right? All right, welcome back in What's
Speaker 1: Right with Nick? Right? Episode so two thirty four, demand
Speaker 1: before we get to a new game we're playing called
Speaker 1: Time Traveler, let's talk a little Dion Sanders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so coach Prime is in the headlines again. He's
Speaker 2: recommending a lot of his players enter the transfer portal.
Speaker 2: One of his players, Xavier Smith, told the Athletic quote,
Speaker 2: I was getting mad, tears coming to my eyes. Dion
Speaker 2: never even tried to get to know me. End quote.
Speaker 2: Then his sun should do our way to in tweeting,
Speaker 2: I don't even remember him. To VH, We're gonna show
Speaker 2: a tweet for those watching on YouTube and yeah, so
Speaker 2: what do you what do you make of the situation
Speaker 2: in Boulder, everything going down there?
Speaker 1: I just think, objectively speaking, this is an awful look
Speaker 1: for Prime and his kids. And I think that Dion
Speaker 1: tweeting publicly reply to a guy. Uh So, Dion tweeted,
Speaker 1: folks don't hate you because they Folks don't hate you
Speaker 1: because they really don't know you. They admire you in
Speaker 1: a negative way. They realize they can't be you. Think
Speaker 1: like you, talk like you or walk in your shoes
Speaker 1: that bothers them. Always smile when you see them because
Speaker 1: that makes them admire you so much more in that
Speaker 1: negative way, like, oh, that's like a it's a little
Speaker 1: bumper stickery, But it's isn't it. That's decent advice, Yes,
Speaker 1: but it's fine. So somebody, somebody then replied to him,
Speaker 1: tell your son to stop acting like here's the coldest
Speaker 1: out there, and then put up a four and eight season.
Speaker 1: He quote tweets and replies, he will be a top
Speaker 1: five pick. Where's your son going? L O L l
Speaker 1: O L I got time today? Okay, so that okay,
Speaker 1: a little petty but whatever. So then this happened right
Speaker 1: so then, and I want to make sure I have
Speaker 1: this correct. So oh this somebody deleted a tweet and
Speaker 1: then Jahim Ward wrote, uh bruh, you had thirty eight
Speaker 1: yards last year. Stopped trying to downplay somebody and somebody
Speaker 1: quote tweeted him again just anonymous dude, Oh wait, no,
Speaker 1: hold on as a Colorado football fan, quote tweeted him.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's it a fan or a player. No, I
Speaker 1: think it's a fan. Quote tweeted that guy's stance and said, man,
Speaker 1: go take a seat. This kid jaheim Ward who uh
Speaker 1: was talking and Dion quote tweeted that because the guy
Speaker 1: had eight tackles and four pass deflections and wrote, law Jesus,
Speaker 1: like okay, again it feels a little like Dion Sanders.
Speaker 1: And again there's a lot about Dion. I like a lot,
Speaker 1: and I think there are He has good relationships and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff of him that's really admirable.
Speaker 1: And I think because of that, people have been afraid
Speaker 1: to say what's obvious here, which is Dion, you were
Speaker 1: born in nineteen sixty seven, Like, no.
Speaker 2: I know the age is gonna come up.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, because you're fifty six years old, Like, you
Speaker 1: can't be getting mocking kids on Twitter. Kids, you just can't.
Speaker 1: You just can't now what people would be like. Well,
Speaker 1: then his sons can. And because Shador is a kid.
Speaker 1: So Shador in response to the guy who was saying
Speaker 1: basically his heart was broken when Dion said you shouldn't
Speaker 1: be on the team. I don't even remember him. To
Speaker 1: be honest, bro had to be very mid at best.
Speaker 1: That's what Shdor wrote about a former teammate.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, what's the point of even coming out like that?
Speaker 2: Like with what the kids said, Like, it's not even
Speaker 2: like the kid said something I don't think. I don't
Speaker 2: think that was crazy. I didn't think he called for
Speaker 2: a flame in response, but a thousand correct.
Speaker 1: But then there is also this demonte Did you see
Speaker 1: the story about why Spencer Rattler fell in the draft?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: So okay, So let me so this is kind of
Speaker 1: a wild thing, but it's been reported out. So Spencer Rattler,
Speaker 1: who was one of the top picks or one of
Speaker 1: the top recruits out of high school when he was sixteen,
Speaker 1: was on a Netflix show produced by Lebron's people called
Speaker 1: QB One. I never watched the show. Okay, Evidently, sixteen
Speaker 1: year old number one high school recruit in the country,
Speaker 1: Spencer Rattler was a bit of a dick. Turns out,
Speaker 1: he bullied his backup quarterback, wasn't a great teammate, and
Speaker 1: at sixteen years old kind of acted like you would
Speaker 1: imagine a lot of sixteen years year olds who are
Speaker 1: the number one football player in the country who have
Speaker 1: a documentary crew walking around with them, might be a
Speaker 1: little full of himself. I you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Who could imagine that that was the case? Okay, so,
Speaker 1: and I even feel bad even saying that because he's sixteen.
Speaker 1: He's sixteen. But here's why I'm saying it. Ian Rapaport
Speaker 1: reported when Spencer Ratler was falling in the draft that
Speaker 1: multiple teams brought up to him the Netflix series and
Speaker 1: about how they they couldn't get it out of their
Speaker 1: head that like, a we're gonna bring in this guy
Speaker 1: to be our quarterback. Look at how he was, you know,
Speaker 1: two years post puberty. I don't get it, but that
Speaker 1: was a thing. Okay, So here's why I mentioned that, Bro,
Speaker 1: what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Should or.
Speaker 1: You don't? Think? You are not Caleb Williams where there
Speaker 1: is a level of doesn't no matter what the off
Speaker 1: field detractors are, no matter how much people want to
Speaker 1: tear down the painting of the nails or the phone
Speaker 1: case or crying or any of that, the talent and
Speaker 1: pedigree is so undeniable that you're gonna be the number
Speaker 1: one pick of the draft that ain't shoud or sanders
Speaker 1: Man now should or could be the first quarterback off
Speaker 1: the board. We also need to see how he plays
Speaker 1: next year and need to see a lot of things.
Speaker 1: And I do not think being a dick to people
Speaker 1: online is a smart play for that position in particular. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't think people would care at all if he
Speaker 1: were a defensive end or a corner I really don't.
Speaker 1: We're even a wide receiver and you're on social media
Speaker 1: being like you suck, I'm awesome, get out of here,
Speaker 1: You're not good enough. I think we'd be like, ah,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like, it's just but if Spencer Ratler's draft stock can
Speaker 1: fall around because of he was being immature when he
Speaker 1: literally was not yet mature, I don't even think it's
Speaker 1: being immature. If you're sixteen, it's just called being sixteen.
Speaker 1: You have not yet matured. I just think this is
Speaker 1: a terrible look for shure to or and I think
Speaker 1: it has real potential negative implications. I really believe that.
Speaker 1: And I'm not even saying it should or it shouldn't
Speaker 1: impact his draft stock. You can make an argument if
Speaker 1: you draft a player based on anything other than the
Speaker 1: football player they are, you're making mistake. You can make
Speaker 1: that argument. I don't know that I totally agree with that,
Speaker 1: but you could make that argument. But I just know
Speaker 1: the reality of it. I know the reality of the situation,
Speaker 1: and I think this is a wild way for a
Speaker 1: potential top ten quarterback pick to act. So I think
Speaker 1: it's a bad look for all involved personally, like a
Speaker 1: significant bad look for them all involved.
Speaker 2: All right, Demanse, let's go go back in time before
Speaker 2: making those tweets. So we're gonna play time traveler. All right,
Speaker 2: there are Oh this is back.
Speaker 1: Hold on real quick, Tomnse have you so, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: really make the producers, particularly I would imagine, Gabe mad
Speaker 1: have you have you ever seen Back to the Future.
Speaker 2: I've not. Me neither, I have not seen Back to
Speaker 2: the Future.
Speaker 1: You have an excuse because of your age. The producers
Speaker 1: are not gonna believe that I've never seen any of
Speaker 1: the Back to the Future movies. I feel like this
Speaker 1: is such a matt Ford special Um and Gave I
Speaker 1: would imagine as well. I just haven't seen any of them,
Speaker 1: but I do. I'm aware of the iconography of it,
Speaker 1: so we'll be able to play the game. But go ahead.
Speaker 2: A ton of people throwing out their NBA future tickets
Speaker 2: right now as teams get bounced, But those Suns and
Speaker 2: Lakers to win the title tickets are not worthless. If
Speaker 2: you have a time machine, which I happen to have,
Speaker 2: all you have to do is send me back to
Speaker 2: the perfect point in time to change the course of history.
Speaker 2: To get the team back on track. I'm gonna hop
Speaker 2: in the portal and then you punch in the event
Speaker 2: or time that you want to send me back to.
Speaker 2: That's fire up the time machine. Fire enough the time machine.
Speaker 2: All right? So Lebron is the goat, but another ring
Speaker 2: or two wouldn't hurt. Let's help him out. What's our
Speaker 2: destination last summer to trade for Kyrie twenty twenty one,
Speaker 2: stopped the Rush trade twenty nineteen to stop the eighty
Speaker 2: trade because it would have happened eventually, Doc, right, when
Speaker 2: are you sending me? Where are you sending me back to?
Speaker 2: When are you?
Speaker 1: Obviously we're not obviously not stopping the Anthony Davis RD.
Speaker 1: They won the title the first year with them. Oh,
Speaker 1: Demonse's gone. Uh. The answer is they shouldn't have traded
Speaker 1: for us. And if they don't trade for us, maybe
Speaker 1: they do still end up getting Kyrie. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but the that Lakers, that is a totally underrated moment.
Speaker 1: That this Lakers team won the title in dominant fashion,
Speaker 1: had the number one seed, and then never, you know,
Speaker 1: never was challenged in the play and then the very
Speaker 1: next year was awesome. The very next year was twenty
Speaker 1: one and six, and then Lebron got hurt and when
Speaker 1: the playoffs rolled around, Anthony Davis got hurt, and so
Speaker 1: they were never whole again and at the end of
Speaker 1: the year and then they blew the whole thing up.
Speaker 1: That's the like if they had just kept going with
Speaker 1: that defensive minded team where Lebron carries the offensive load,
Speaker 1: they but then they blow it up for uss blow
Speaker 1: a season there. Last season is kind of still worn
Speaker 1: because of the rough stuff make moves at the end,
Speaker 1: they're still making up for it. So that's the move
Speaker 1: like adding Kyrie, I understand, but I think that Lakers
Speaker 1: team that won the championship should have been given an
Speaker 1: opportunity to have a second playoff run with a healthy
Speaker 1: Lebron and AD and they weren't. Just sucks go ahead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with uh. I went the Kyrie pick there,
Speaker 2: But we're getting back in the tud getting back in
Speaker 2: the portal. Okay, the Sons were once a team with
Speaker 2: a young core in a bright future and a matter
Speaker 2: of years that bright future was eclipsed by bad moves
Speaker 2: and bloated contracts. But it's not too late to fix it.
Speaker 2: Where are we going last summer to stop the Bule trade,
Speaker 2: last year to stop the KD trade? Or twenty eighteen
Speaker 2: to pick Luca over eighten?
Speaker 1: I mean well, I mean it's twenty eighteen to pick
Speaker 1: Luke over eight And I'm going to try to find
Speaker 1: this tweet, get Nick right Luca vacation. Let me see
Speaker 1: if I can find it. Uh gosh darn it. Hold on,
Speaker 1: get Nick right, Luca Draft one.
Speaker 2: Pick.
Speaker 1: Uh gosh darn it. I wish I could find it.
Speaker 1: I remember where I was. I was on vacation. Oh,
Speaker 1: here it is. This is a tweet from January twenty first,
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, demanse that I had I promised fashion Bird
Speaker 1: no tweets during vacation, but she just tweeted a picture.
Speaker 1: So I'm breaking two to say this donct should have
Speaker 1: gone number one. That was during the draft, Luca's draft
Speaker 1: where he ended up going third and then was traded
Speaker 1: to the team with the fifth pick that was not
Speaker 1: second guessing. I'm retweeting that right now. Actually remind folks,
Speaker 1: especially with Jake Laski, I love you, Nick, but you're
Speaker 1: so wrong, and then a bunch of people replying with
Speaker 1: that stupid Trump gift of him going wrong. Ryland, you
Speaker 1: know what, let's just fry these people. Six years later,
Speaker 1: Ryland's world. I agree with ninety nine point nine nine
Speaker 1: percent of your opinions, but this one, no, can't pass
Speaker 1: up on eighton Matt Straub. Yeah, total and complete bust
Speaker 1: this guy, throw it deep CG twenty one old takes
Speaker 1: exposed hotal on to it um and the this is uh,
Speaker 1: I mean this is oh And then it got retweeted
Speaker 1: a bunch three years later. I guess because then there's
Speaker 1: a lot of retweets from uh twenty twenty one. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean their whole frame. You had an opportunity to
Speaker 1: draft Luca Antrich and you didn't. You don't recover from it. Sorry,
Speaker 1: you already had Booker could add Luca. And can you
Speaker 1: imagine how much better Devin Booker's life is if Luke
Speaker 1: hadn't been tormenting him for a couple of years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you get the The answer is that's what we're doing,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 2: Next, Arthur Warriors Dynasty has come to a screeching halt
Speaker 2: the Warriors fans are willing to forgive that. We're willing
Speaker 2: to forgive you for the Wiggans take if you help
Speaker 2: after the time line out? All right, do I go
Speaker 2: to twenty twenty two? How Draymond's fist twenty twenty to
Speaker 2: draft someone other than Wiseman twenty eighteen to make sure
Speaker 2: Draymond never gets into into it with Katie. There should
Speaker 2: be a twenty twelve option on here as well, Doc, right,
Speaker 2: where are you sending me back to?
Speaker 1: What would the twenty twelve option.
Speaker 2: Have been not drafting Draymond Green?
Speaker 1: But oh well no, then they don't win those championship.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, then they don't win them. Yeah, of course,
Speaker 2: yeah they don't.
Speaker 1: They needed him. I think Katie was gonna leave either way. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's the obvious one is just get Draymond not to
Speaker 1: punch Jordan Poole. Oh yeah, and just see how different
Speaker 1: last year is. That's what I would do. But here
Speaker 1: is the and when people say draft someone other than Wiseman, like, guys,
Speaker 1: here's I mean, here's the next ten picks after Wiseman,
Speaker 1: LaMelo is Body's broken, Patrick Williams. You don't know who
Speaker 1: he is Isaacacoro Okongwu for the Hawks. Killian Hayes, I
Speaker 1: don't even know if he's still in the league. Obi
Speaker 1: Topping a good player, but not Denny Abdia, Jalen Smith,
Speaker 1: Devin Vessel and then Halliburton. Now, but the thing is
Speaker 1: that it's not really fair to say they should have
Speaker 1: drafted Halliburton because Halliburton was not like considered a top
Speaker 1: three pick in the draft, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: that's too much. Now here's what is true. And by
Speaker 1: the way, and then Maxie also was in that draft
Speaker 1: at twenty one. But man, the Warriors ended up with
Speaker 1: the second pick of that draft. That draft demons. You
Speaker 1: know who went number one, Anthony Edwards. Dude, if they
Speaker 1: had got if they had at right after right after
Speaker 1: going to five straight finals and winning three titles, they
Speaker 1: have a down year because STEP's out all year and
Speaker 1: plays out all year. If they then got Anthony freaking Edwards,
Speaker 1: I mean, they'd have never stopped, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: like they how good would they be?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: So yeah, but the answer is the Draymond.
Speaker 2: All right, next, you predicted the Bucks are going to
Speaker 2: the finals this year, but everything fell apart, well, we
Speaker 2: can make sure your main America's most accurate sportscaster through
Speaker 2: a bit of time travel. Should I go to last
Speaker 2: summer to stop the Dame trade and keep Drew a
Speaker 2: bit earlier to stop the Griffin and Doc hires entirely
Speaker 2: by keeping Bud twenty twenty three to make DeMar today
Speaker 2: and take a day off school to help keep the
Speaker 2: heat out of the playoffs, thus preventing Giannis from ever
Speaker 2: getting ever getting hurt. Versus Miami dot right, where are
Speaker 2: you sending me back to?
Speaker 1: I'm sending you back somewhere else. Actually, I'm sending you
Speaker 1: back to Game six twenty twenty two, second round, the
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum game, when Tatum had up to that point
Speaker 1: the best game of his life to stave off elimination. Oh,
Speaker 1: of course, of Game seven against Milwaukee. In that Game seven,
Speaker 1: Grant Williams hit seven threes the Celtics couldn't miss. And
Speaker 1: here's why the Bucks were the defending champs. Giannis was
Speaker 1: playing amazing basketball and that Bucks team would have rocked
Speaker 1: the Warriors in the finals and they would have won
Speaker 1: back to back and have been a totally different story.
Speaker 1: But they lose that Game six. They lose Game seven,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And then ever since then
Speaker 1: things and then you're not making any if you've won
Speaker 1: two titles in three years, you're not making a trade
Speaker 1: like they did this summer because you lost to Miami.
Speaker 1: You're just like Yannis got hurt. So that's where I'm
Speaker 1: sending you back to. Okay, all right, I the go ahead, Demanse.
Speaker 2: No, I think we broke the timeline. Let's see if
Speaker 2: we can get it back over the break.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So those are the that was a
Speaker 1: good game, Time Traveler, take quick break, come back and
Speaker 1: answer some questions where I go to the TV show
Speaker 1: What's Right? All right, welcome back in What's Driving the
Speaker 1: Great Episode two thirty four, Demanse, Let's roll through a
Speaker 1: few of these questions before I gotta go.
Speaker 2: Producers asked, who do you have in the Kentucky Derby
Speaker 2: and what would you name your horse? Uh?
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know who I have in the
Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby. I'm not a I am a horse better. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a good photoshop. Oh, never a doubt, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I would name my horse. Never a doubt would
Speaker 1: be a great never and down the stretching comes never. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't study horse racing. I just I will that.
Speaker 2: On the horses. The people were tiny.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they have to be the jockeys.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I saw one of them doing an interview with
Speaker 2: the lady and like she put the freaking mic. It
Speaker 2: was crazy. Yeah, they to horse right, yeah, exactly, all right? Next,
Speaker 2: just Justin Justin Fields asked my returning kicks.
Speaker 1: No, he's not gonna return I saw that story. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna return kicks, all right.
Speaker 2: Next, Joey Kindra asked what would be the best duos
Speaker 2: in the NBA if you had to pair a superstar
Speaker 2: thirty three and older with a twenty with a star
Speaker 2: twenty five and younger. Big fan of the show Ghost Steelers.
Speaker 1: Thirty three and older. I mean there's a few options here.
Speaker 1: I think Steph Wimby would be pretty dynamic. I think
Speaker 1: I think Steph Wimby be pretty good. Who would I pay?
Speaker 1: I mean Lucas twenty five, But for the spirit of
Speaker 1: this question, I don't. I think they mean people younger
Speaker 1: than Luca, you know what I mean? I Luca feels
Speaker 1: like an established star. Uh Lebron and Aunt would be
Speaker 1: pretty dynamic too. I think Steph Wimby and Lebron and
Speaker 1: Aunt are my two picks for that category. Uh okay,
Speaker 1: all right, let's go to uh tied Dog Demandseai.
Speaker 2: My teenage daughter saw someone that looked like Nick. I
Speaker 2: asked what she would do? Well, what she have done
Speaker 2: if it really was Nick? She says she would have
Speaker 2: asked Nick to FaceTime Demons so she could say, Hi.
Speaker 1: Well that's that set. Listen they I really need I
Speaker 1: need more specifics than teenage and that question that's like
Speaker 1: a nineteen year old teenage daughter that that has one connotation.
Speaker 1: If this is like a junior high school teenage daughter
Speaker 1: and has a different connotation. So I don't really know
Speaker 1: exactly how to respond to that. Also, though, shout out
Speaker 1: to tie Dog for the family being viewers of the
Speaker 1: pot like that is always the It's one thing to
Speaker 1: have the TV show on, It's another thing to like
Speaker 1: have it be a A yeah exactly. I like that
Speaker 1: a lot. All right, the let's see if there's any more. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's go to Scott Murphy and then we'll roll.
Speaker 2: Scott Murphy asked the Celtics heat indifferently if Jimmy was
Speaker 2: playing and Is that an argument for the Heat to
Speaker 2: stop coasting in the regular season or eyeing the pan?
Speaker 1: Uh? I mean yeah, I mean there are certainly some
Speaker 1: arguments that this season for the Heat was a disaster.
Speaker 1: I am I'm keeping my eye on Miami.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: When it comes to Kevin Durant, I'm just gonna say that,
Speaker 1: I'm just keeping my eye on it. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of those assets they didn't trade for Damian Low.
Speaker 1: I just wonder if they're gonna call up James Jones
Speaker 1: and see if Durant wants to see it fifth times
Speaker 1: a charm as far as like really finding a home.
Speaker 1: Just something, just something to keep an eye on. All right,
Speaker 1: great job, Demand's a great show. I might be at
Speaker 1: six ers nixt tonight. I haven't determined it yet. If not,
Speaker 1: either way, I'll see you guys on TV in a
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