WEBVTT - Mavs Dominate, Knicks @ Sixers Preview & Time Traveler 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:16.239 Welcome in What's Right with Nick Right Episode two thirty four. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.880 We've hit one hundred and fifty thousand subscribers. That's exciting. 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:28.440 Appreciate you guys. Subscribe rate review audio digital YouTube podcast. 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:30.360 However you want to do it. I have keys in 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.760 my back pocket. They're stabbing me. Sorry about that. Uh 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.080 so do all that if you can one hundred and 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:38.640 fifty thousands, nice. We'd love to be at two hundred 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:42.920 thousand by football season. That is a lofty goal, probably 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:47.000 not a realistic goal. Maybe two hundred thousand by the 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.440 end of football season. But one hundred fifty thousands a 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.560 nice number, doesn't get demands a new plaque. In fact, 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:54.200 I don't think you get another. 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.800 Plaque another million, right, it's until. 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.440 Million, so that plaque might just be all you know, 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:04.280 million's gonna be tough. I'm not gonna lie to you, 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:10.680 but one, yeah, I mean yeah. See. Here's the thing. 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:12.480 I don't even know if we're on a ten year pace, 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.840 because I don't I think that the fact that we've 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:20.360 got one hundred and fifty thousand people that like this 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.800 show enough that they subscribe to it. I think everyone 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.080 who likes this show enough to subscribe to it for 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.319 the most part, has found it. Like I feel like, 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.000 I feel like I don't think there's eight hundred and 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:37.120 fifty thousand folks that are undisdiscovered. Oh to you. By 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:42.520 the way, I was in Philly on Sunday walking from 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:47.520 the casino to the Sixers game Sunday morning. Because the 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.960 way it's set up, it's really cool. You got to 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.440 come with me sometime when you're out here. They have 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:58.920 this giant complex where they have the football stadium, the 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:04.760 baseball stadium, the basketball slash hockey stadium, a big beer garden, 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:05.520 and a. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.760 Major All of their. 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:14.560 Teams play in this same you know, concrete park essentially, 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.919 and they're all within walking distance and there's a big 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.600 casino right there. So Sunday morning, your mom and I 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.959 played a little blackjack and then walked over to the game. 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:29.320 As we're walking over to the game, someone leaving the 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:33.239 casino drives by, rows their window down and goes, yo, 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:40.360 where's demonse. It was great, Yeah. 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.799 It was really cool. Appreciate all Right, we've got. 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:44.920 A lot, We've got a lot of a lot to 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:48.160 get into today. Uh so let's get to what missed 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.679 the cut. Uh, this is I mean beavas and butthead 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.200 go to the fall Guy premiere. That doesn't mean a 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.640 lot to people. To Monday's age people, my age, Beavis 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.440 and butt Head was a big part of our of 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:04.880 age and childhood. Nearly fifty thousand hot dogs eating at 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.200 Dollar Dog Night at City Field. Oh, by the way, 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:15.399 and by so I didn't see this story. Uh and okay, 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.440 So I saw that the Dolphins. I saw you guys say, 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:22.720 Dolphins owner rejects a ten billion dollar offer, and I 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:24.640 as soon as I saw that, I was like, that 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:28.200 can't be right. The Dolphins are not worth ten billion dollars. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:32.360 But now I'm seeing the offer was ten billion, but 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:36.800 it was for the Dolphins, for Formula one Miami and 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.680 for the stadium, So that makes a little more sense. 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:43.760 Formula one Miami is worth a massive amount in and 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.400 of itself, and so that that does make a little 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.480 more sense. But what was I about to say? I 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:52.760 interrupted myself. Gosh darn it, hot dogs. I oh yeah, 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:56.800 hot dogs, thank you, good job, great work. A week 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:02.000 from tonight, I'm gonna be at s Field playing in 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:09.800 Hank is Aria's and Jeff McNeil's charity poker event. And 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.560 you know who's going to be So I'm I'm I've 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.480 become pals with Hank Kazaria. Shout out to him. Great 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:19.080 sports fan. He also is the you know, famous actor 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.000 and comedian, but also probably most known to the audience 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.960 as the voice of two thirds of the characters on 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:30.160 the Simpsons. He's Mo, the Bartender, he was a Pooh. 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:35.640 He's the voice of the basically all the Simpsons regular 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:40.880 characters that aren't Homer, bart Marge. Hank does the voices, 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:46.640 but he's also been in a million things. He's the 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.760 guy that in Heat al Pacino is screaming she's got 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:54.760 a great ass. He's yelling that at Hank's area. Great actor. 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.920 So he and I have become buddies, and I'm at 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:04.560 at City Field. A week from today is his charity 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:09.920 poker event. Our buddy Chip Bully Joe Black's coming with 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.119 me to play in it. But you know who's also 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.159 gonna be there. I think I'm allowed to say, yeah, sure, 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.520 I'm allowed to say this. It's gonna be there. Walter White, 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:25.839 Brian Kranz. Yeah, yeah, he's playing in the poker tournament. 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.920 I'm super excited. That's one of my favorite actors. Of 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:33.560 all time, one of the most talented actors of all time. 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.159 So I'm excited for all that. Okay, I thought of 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.240 that because of the City Field hot dog thing, because 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.960 that was at City Field. Okay, so we've got all that. 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.359 Let's get to basketball. Then. I think we do have 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:45.920 to have a conversation about the Twitter habits of Dion 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.080 Sanders and his sons, because I think at this point 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.359 it's a story. Uh So we'll do all that. But first, 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:54.279 who could have seen this coming? 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:58.800 Go ahead, Demontay, Yeah, So Dallas dismantled, the Clippers went 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.560 in by thirty. After that terrible second half from the Clippers, 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.760 we finally got that vintage hardened performance. I think he 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:08.000 went February twelveth from the field. But Luga balled out 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.279 on a hurt knee. Your choice, take a victory lap 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.200 on a hard and trade or a hype up your 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:14.479 one leged Slovenian son. 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.440 Well, I'm gonna do both, do a little bit of both. 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:23.320 So listen. Luca is a legendary playoff performer. He has 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:27.080 been every step of the way, and it is a 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:34.320 testament to what his standards are that he was averaging 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:41.480 thirty ten and nine up to yesterday, and people are like, man, 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.400 guys having a rough series. And by the way, he 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.760 was from an efficiency standpoint, he was not. You know, 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.360 his shooting percentage was not great. He was thirty nine 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.320 percent from the field, twenty seven percent from three. And 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.919 then last night, despite going two of eight from three, 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:00.560 he throws up a thirty five seven and ten. They 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.800 take control of the series, and I believe they're gonna 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:07.640 end up in the conference finals. With respect Oklahoma City. 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:09.960 I do not think they're gonna be able to handle 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:16.840 the MAVs. And then I think that, you know, Denver, 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:20.239 Minnesota will get too later, but that's gonna be a war. 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:24.040 That is going to be an incredibly tough series. And 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:29.000 so Dallas right now with Luca playing like this, even 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:33.480 though he's not one hundred percent, and you add to it, man, 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.480 Kyrie is playing the best basketball of his life and 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.360 you just have to give him credit. And so I 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.000 was on with Cowherd last night. Let me talk a 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:47.720 little Kyrie, then we'll do the Harden of Visceration, I suppose. 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:58.440 So Colin was talking about how sports media is so 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:06.920 different than any other entertainment media that how like music 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:11.840 critics or film critics or art critics. They're not really 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:17.160 critics these days. They're supporters that you don't really see 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:21.600 so much these days, like oh my god, a scathing 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.800 review like it is either stuff is either not written 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:30.080 or it's supportive. This is great, this is awesome, and 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.240 that's not how it always was. But that's really what 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.959 that the I can't remember the last time that there 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:42.400 was a big time movie critic that just ripped apart 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:46.520 what was, you know, a big time movie made by stars, 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.640 and that used to happen. And maybe I'm not, you know, 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.920 on Pitchfork enough, but I don't think there's a lot 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:57.080 of I think again, a lot of the critics in 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:02.240 other entertainment fields are mostly portive. And then there are 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.720 sports where if you consider what I do, what we 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.680 do to be critics, we go the other way. We 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.040 actually spend more time on the negative than the positive. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.560 And so Colin was talking about that and I kind 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:21.480 of had a light bulb moment. So I'm gonna get 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.280 I'm gonna put you on the spot here demand say 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.040 there's no wrong answer. H Well, I mean, I guess 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.439 there are wrong answers, because you're gonna have to guess 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.679 what I'm thinking. But there's no reason, there's no expectation 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:37.680 to get this right. Of all of the NBA active 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:45.439 NBA players, name one or two that you think consider 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:54.200 themselves artists, like I'm an artist at athletes active NBA 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:58.199 players that the like, I don't think. Let me give 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.960 you an example. I don't think Anthony Edwards has one 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.480 day in his life thought I'm an artist like. 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:11.240 Bro exactly right, exactly, go ahead. Yeah, So definitely definitely 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.280 Kyrie Irving, he's got to be one of them. Yes, 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:20.000 And then dude, you know what, probably shy Gilkers Alexander. 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:25.400 Oh, maybe I didn't even think about him. I thought 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:31.040 Kyrie and Katie that Katie's out here, like you know 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:36.480 what I mean, like, hey, I am I'm out here, surgical, Yes, 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:42.200 I am out here. And Kyrie certainly like I. And 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:48.360 what I said to Colin was and that quintuple clutch 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:55.280 layup from Game four over three people that was his masterpiece, 0:10:55.840 --> 0:11:02.120 Like I have been practicing for twenty five years in 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.120 order to be able to do this thing that I 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:10.400 truly believe I might be the only human being who's 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.640 ever walked the earth who could do it like I 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.960 think that's in play. I think Kyrie Irving is the 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:20.120 only person who's ever lived that could have pulled off 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:24.520 that exact move, and it's because he's been working on it. 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.640 So what I stumbled upon talking with Colin is I 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:33.360 think that's why Kyrie and Katie hate how sports media works, 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:39.480 because they're like, we're artists, man, appreciate it, look at 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:44.440 what we're doing out here, look at this thing, and like, 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:48.760 why don't you appreciate my art? And instead you're like, 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.160 you know, why don't you win more? Why didn't you 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:54.560 do this? And I just I think it is a 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.680 Colin and I didn't even mean to talk about this, 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:02.280 but once he said the thing about how music and 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:07.280 cinematic media works versus sports media, because Kyrie and Katie 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:14.320 certainly are the two players most critical of sports media, 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.880 of how they are discussed and the context of it, 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:22.720 and I just again, I'm going right, it's about like, 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:28.080 look at what I have practiced and perfected and appreciated, 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:37.000 and don't do a who was better Picasso or or Monet, 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.600 just be like they're both amazing. And so I just 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.680 find I find it really And when I say I 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.320 find it interesting, it's my own idea, I guess. So 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:48.520 that's kind of weird to be like, I find my 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:53.040 own idea interesting, But I think I'm right, and it 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.240 kind of just gave me a different window into how 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:59.720 I look at those guys. With all that said, Kyrie's 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:04.840 been brilliant, been absolutely brilliant, and is locked in from 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:10.480 a leadership and defense standpoint in a way that I 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.920 can't remember ever him ever being. So that makes the 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.760 MAVs super dangerous, super dangerous. 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.079 So do you think they're the best offensive duo in basketball? 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:34.600 Well, Joker and probably have to hold that crown right now. Yeah, 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:38.200 I mean, I think Joker and Murray have to hold 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:43.800 that crown, but I think Luke and Kyrie can have 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:47.680 a strong argument for it. And I will say I 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:54.120 think Joker and Murray hold it for consistency. I think apex, 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.719 Luke and Kyrie of an argument. If you're getting an 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.840 A plus Kyrie and an A plus US Luca game, 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:05.760 that is gonna be a pretty unstoppable offensive due But 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:10.440 if you're getting a plus Joker in A plus Murray, yeah, 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:15.720 Jok Murray and so I just I do think it's 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.720 less like I don't know, I was gonna say less 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.960 likely for both of them to be a plus at 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.040 the same time. But I don't know. They they they're 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.400 they're on the list. But now it's time talking about 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:32.840 James Harden exactly. So I put out some stats yesterday 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:40.120 that immediately got misaggregated and misquoted these basketball like guys, 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.760 I don't even care if you steal my exact screen 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.400 shot and don't give me credit for it, but don't 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.360 steal my exact screenshot, not give me credit for it, 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.040 and then misquote what the stat is on the screenshot, 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:57.880 like it's just the these the the the anonymous Twitter 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.440 accounts that it's just spreading missing information, just the worst. 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:05.720 They're so bad that when I saw an anonymous Twitter 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.480 account with a screenshot of a Darvin Ham quote where 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:10.840 he was like, what do you expect me to do 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.040 when one of your starters is showing the bed for 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.760 ten games? I was like, oh, well, that's obviously a 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.320 fake quote. And it took me old twenty four hours 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.880 to find out he actually said that that was a 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:26.840 real quote to a reporter after the season. You did 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:27.920 you thought it was fake? 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:29.160 I thought it was fake. 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.560 I was like, Ah, these idiots, I was like, this 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.760 is not a real quote. There's no chance. Darvinham said 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.440 on the record, what do you want me to do 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.800 when one of my starters is showing the bed for 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.280 ten games? I was like, these dumb fake news people, But. 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:44.160 It's a real quote. 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.720 It's a real quote. Okay, back to the hard and stuff. 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.440 So last night, Harden was two for twelve from the field. 0:15:56.160 --> 0:16:03.680 That is now his tenth ten career playoff game where 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:07.600 he has taken at least ten shots and made two 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:11.640 or fewer. Okay, that breaks a tie with the late 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:16.320 great Clifford Robinson for most all time. After that is 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:21.200 Jamal Crawford with eight and Jay Crowder with eight. So 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.160 what do Cliff, Jamal and Jay all have in common? 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:29.960 They were never your number one option. They were always 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.280 guys who that could happen to him like hey gotta 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.840 you know, gotta stay ready and to get hot, you 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:38.400 gotta stay hot or I don't even know what the 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:44.040 saying is, but you gotta keep shooting. Harden like the 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:48.840 the if you go down that list, other than Bob Coozy, 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.400 there's no number one options with more than four of 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:55.280 these types of games. And Bob Cosey was playing at 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:59.520 a time right when thirty five percent from the field 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:05.480 was fine. So okay, what about playoff games with at 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.879 least ten field goal attempts and three or fewer makes. 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:15.639 Harden now is tied with Cliff Robinson for first with 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:21.560 seventeen of these games. Seventeen. Now, you might see Jason 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:23.879 Kidden be like, oh, kids an all timer, and he is. 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.840 But kid also early in his career could not shoot 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.159 and was controlling the game from the floor and was 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:37.960 an excellent playoff performer. Harden's postseason resume, it's like clockwork, man, 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.720 He's just gonna have one of these games in the 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:51.320 worst spot imaginable, and it is. It is not surprising, 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:59.040 it is not deniable, and it is not defensible. Okay, 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:06.040 so there are I'm trying James Harden now in his 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.680 playoff career. You know what, We're just gonna go through 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:13.040 it real quick. This is what a podcast is for. 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:18.040 And I'm just gonna go year by year and show 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:22.879 you the and I'll be fair. I'll include the key 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:27.440 games when he was excellent. But and I won't even 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:31.080 use against him anything that happened in Okay, see, because 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:34.720 he was young and he didn't have the same role. Now, 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:41.639 was he objectively awful in those in those finals? Yes, 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:46.480 James Harden in those finals, the final three games two 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:50.600 for ten, two for ten, five for eleven in a 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:55.159 lopsided loss. But let's just get to Houston, and what 0:18:55.320 --> 0:19:00.479 you're going to see is a wild trend. Okay, first 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:07.680 postseason in Houston, he's objectively bad the opening three playoff 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:13.679 games to fall down three to zero, and then bounces 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.879 back a bit in Game five after being four for 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:20.840 twelve in a deciding Game four. In Game five when 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:24.800 the series is decided and the pressure is off, Okay, 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:30.240 let's keep going. Then next year, this is the Dame 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:34.320 Lillard Series twenty fourteen, where Dame hits the buzzer beating 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:40.679 three to walk off down three to one in a 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:45.880 potentially deciding game. James Harden goes five for fifteen from 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:49.399 the field, but they win. Now, the next game in 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.680 game six, he was pretty good. He's nine for sixteen 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:53.560 from the field, got to the freezer line dozen times. 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:57.400 What they lose, and then you're going to see it 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:04.320 really get going twenty fifteen, down three to two, getting 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:09.360 blown out by the Clippers in Round two, gets benched 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:13.840 in the fourth quarter because he is five of twenty 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:19.800 from the field. They win despite that. The very next round, 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:26.200 down two to Golden State after two heartbreaking losses, where 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:31.840 he's good in those heartbreaking losses. Twenty fifteen, coming home 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:36.359 for Game three, three of sixteen from the field, down 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:40.639 oh three, series over game by the way. Then in 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:45.840 game Game four, no pressure, no expectations, down three to zero, 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:48.120 has one of the best playoff games of his life, 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:52.440 dropping forty five. Now Game five, two of eleven, go 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:58.840 home for this season. Next year against Golden State, Round one, 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:03.320 opens the series with back to back seven of nineteen's 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:08.439 down two to one in game four to basically stay alive, 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:15.960 throws up a four for fifteen. The next year is 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:21.719 playing the Spurs, down three to two, Kawhi Leonard is 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:26.639 out for the game. You're at home, Kawhi is not 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:30.840 playing because he's hurt. It's twenty seventeen. You are a 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:34.560 big favorite in this game. He goes two for eleven 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:39.919 and they lose by forty points. The next year, I 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:44.359 mean this all happened, bro, I mean it's really really rough. 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:50.840 The next year, two to two against Golden State, the 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:54.879 best Rockets team ever sixty five wins. You're the league 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:59.359 MVP two to two against Golden State, you're five of 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:04.199 twenty one. You win despite that because Chris Paul was 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:08.240 so great. Now you're up three to two. This, by 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:12.760 the way, this James Harden performance cost Lebron James a championship, 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:15.439 and I'll never forgive him for it, because if he 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:18.399 could have just beaten the Warriors, that twenty eighteen Caps 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:21.639 team that's stunk, but Lebron was apex. Lebron would have 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:26.080 rolled over Houston. But set that aside. Up three to two, 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:29.920 now Chris Paul's out, you go ten of twenty four. 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:33.359 You then go twelve of twenty nine in a home 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:38.959 game seven. Both games you have fifteen point leads. In 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:43.360 that game seven, you're two of thirteen from three. The 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:51.000 next year, Demonse, you are playing Golden State. Kevin Durant 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:55.840 goes out, it's the series' is two games a piece, 0:22:56.760 --> 0:22:59.200 and you lose games five and six. He actually played 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:02.760 decent in those games, to his credit. The next year, 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:07.400 you're in the bubble. You're playing an OKC team that 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:11.119 no one thought was gonna be any good. That people 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:14.160 when they traded Chris Paul there, they were like oh, 0:23:14.200 --> 0:23:17.000 should he ask for a buyout? They're not even trying. 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:22.520 It goes to a Game seven in the bubble. In 0:23:22.600 --> 0:23:26.480 that Game seven, you're four for fifteen. You win anyway. 0:23:27.040 --> 0:23:31.680 The next year, I'm sorry. The next round you're down 0:23:31.920 --> 0:23:36.159 to one to the Lakers in the bubble, the swing 0:23:36.280 --> 0:23:38.439 game of the series. Is it gonna be a series 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:43.160 or not? Two for eleven? These two for elevens are 0:23:43.240 --> 0:23:48.679 just impossible how often they've happened. Now you're a Brooklyn 0:23:48.720 --> 0:23:53.240 net you come back from an ankle injury. Now, maybe 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:55.840 you shouldn't have come back. I would argue you definitely 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:58.320 shouldn't have come back because in your first game back 0:23:58.359 --> 0:24:01.040 you were one for ten in a two two two series, 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:05.000 and then in Game seven you were five for seventeen 0:24:05.160 --> 0:24:12.560 in an overtime loss. Like the next year, you're in Philadelphia, 0:24:13.280 --> 0:24:17.240 you are actually finally, wait was it this year? He 0:24:17.280 --> 0:24:21.280 had a big no? In Philadelphia? You're two to two 0:24:21.480 --> 0:24:26.080 with Miami. You go five of thirteen in Game six 0:24:26.680 --> 0:24:31.720 and then four of nine in Game seven. Then next 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:34.960 year you're still in Philadelphia. You have two of your 0:24:35.040 --> 0:24:39.919 best playoff games ever in this series against Boston forty 0:24:40.000 --> 0:24:42.680 five in a Game one forty two in a game four, 0:24:44.440 --> 0:24:46.720 and then what do you do the rest of the series? 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:51.080 Four for eight, then four for sixteen, and then in 0:24:51.080 --> 0:24:55.920 a game seven loss three four eleven. And by the way, 0:24:56.040 --> 0:25:00.159 I haven't even mentioned the turnovers when he has let 0:25:00.200 --> 0:25:02.520 me go ahead and check real quick. In his playoff 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:07.720 career he has one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, 0:25:08.280 --> 0:25:12.600 eight games with eight or eight or more turnovers and 0:25:12.760 --> 0:25:16.840 five games with nine plus. And then this year in 0:25:16.920 --> 0:25:19.159 the key game of the series, you go. 0:25:19.040 --> 0:25:24.000 To for twelve, you score from all that, what tell 0:25:24.040 --> 0:25:26.640 me you got James Harden on your team? You're making 0:25:26.680 --> 0:25:30.840 the playoffs? Well, no, that is bention when you get there. 0:25:30.920 --> 0:25:31.720 But you'll get there. 0:25:31.760 --> 0:25:34.800 That No, that listen, that part is one hundred percent true. 0:25:34.840 --> 0:25:37.919 You are making the playoffs, and it is and that 0:25:38.080 --> 0:25:42.320 is what is so baffling about it. So and that 0:25:42.480 --> 0:25:45.720 is the part that is so hard to wrap your 0:25:45.760 --> 0:25:50.120 mind around, other than the moment is just too much 0:25:50.200 --> 0:25:54.520 for him. When I say James Harden's regular season resume 0:25:55.440 --> 0:26:00.600 is that of an all time legend, I'm not exact aggerating. 0:26:01.720 --> 0:26:07.600 Six times he has been first team All NBA. Okay 0:26:08.000 --> 0:26:13.119 six times four context for that, who's the best guard 0:26:13.200 --> 0:26:18.680 of his era demonse, it's pretty odd. Yeah, Curry has 0:26:18.680 --> 0:26:24.000 been First Team All NBA four times. James Harden has 0:26:24.000 --> 0:26:31.560 been First Team All NBA six times. The in James 0:26:31.560 --> 0:26:36.760 Harden has won the league MVP once, has come in 0:26:36.920 --> 0:26:42.920 second three times, and has six top five MVP finishes. 0:26:43.800 --> 0:26:51.080 Steph Curry has four top five MVP finishes. Like when 0:26:51.119 --> 0:26:55.160 I say his he has won, Harden has averaged thirty 0:26:55.160 --> 0:26:57.560 five points a game in a season, He's won an 0:26:57.600 --> 0:27:04.160 assist title. His regular He's in resume is unimpeachable, top 0:27:04.200 --> 0:27:08.639 twenty all time, and every single year in their biggest 0:27:08.640 --> 0:27:16.240 playoff game, he falls apart like clockwork. And it's just 0:27:16.320 --> 0:27:22.480 who he is. And it's also why when the Clippers 0:27:22.520 --> 0:27:28.880 traded for James Harden espn BPI or their analytics department 0:27:28.960 --> 0:27:34.159 or whatever made them the favorites, the sizable favorites to 0:27:34.280 --> 0:27:39.960 win the championship. Vegas has had loved him all year long, 0:27:41.000 --> 0:27:45.920 and everyone just keeps pretending like you couldn't like I 0:27:45.960 --> 0:27:49.439 saw and listen this, I'm not taking a shot here, uh, 0:27:49.880 --> 0:27:51.960 because I actually like this guy a lot. I actually 0:27:51.960 --> 0:27:53.600 got a chance to chat with this guy on the 0:27:53.640 --> 0:27:59.200 phone last week for a few minutes is super nice 0:27:59.200 --> 0:28:04.400 guy Kendrick Perkins. But Kendrick had a tweet last night that, 0:28:04.640 --> 0:28:09.080 uh that said, Paul George and Harden are the most 0:28:09.280 --> 0:28:13.600 unpredictable players in the league, and I just responded, I'm like, 0:28:13.720 --> 0:28:16.919 I would argue Harden is one of the absolute most 0:28:16.960 --> 0:28:21.720 predictable players in the league. Like anyone that is surprised 0:28:21.720 --> 0:28:24.480 by what we saw last night, like where have you 0:28:24.560 --> 0:28:28.960 been the last decade? And now folks that are longtime 0:28:29.760 --> 0:28:35.440 viewers or listeners of mine might say, Nick, when first 0:28:35.480 --> 0:28:39.840 things first had just started, weren't you one of Harden's 0:28:39.880 --> 0:28:44.640