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Speaker 3: All right, welcome in another special episode of What's Right
Speaker 3: with the podcast and YouTube show. We are releasing this
Speaker 3: on Monday. We are recording this on Monday, a bit
Speaker 3: of a recap of Game four of the NBA Finals,
Speaker 3: and we will do a preview of Game five of
Speaker 3: the NBA Finals. Demons is here alongside me. This is
Speaker 3: a stripped down, shorter show. You will get the full
Speaker 3: thirty five to forty minute show tomorrow that you usually get.
Speaker 3: Actually you usually get those on Tuesdays. I don't even
Speaker 3: know when you're gonna get that one, but we're gonna
Speaker 3: record it tomorrow. Here's what I do know. We're doing
Speaker 3: this right now in real time. You've had a couple
Speaker 3: days to process a crushing Celtics defeat. But I know
Speaker 3: you're still confident. I assume we're starting with Steph Curry.
Speaker 3: But you let me know where we're going.
Speaker 4: Yes, Steph Curry played what you would call his best
Speaker 4: game ever in Game four. Yep, they're going going back
Speaker 4: home for Game five. Yes, it's time for you to
Speaker 4: now jump ship. I know, I mean, I know where
Speaker 4: I'm staying.
Speaker 3: Okay, No, you're staying with the Celtics. I am also
Speaker 3: staying with the Celtics. So this is what I want
Speaker 3: to do today. I want to over these next twelve
Speaker 3: to fifteen minutes because you sound a little down. Energy's
Speaker 3: a little low, and I know it's not because you're tired.
Speaker 3: You woke up on time today. Everything's all good, you
Speaker 3: got a good good night's rest. But you're a little
Speaker 3: you're not quite as confident as you once were. I
Speaker 3: heard you mention that tonight's Game five is a must win.
Speaker 5: It's huge, it's huge.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's necessarily a must win for you guys,
Speaker 3: because I do think you could win Game seven in
Speaker 3: San Francisco if you need it to. I think you'll
Speaker 3: win tonight, and we'll discuss why in a moment. But
Speaker 3: the fourth things I want to talk about today, and
Speaker 3: I want to do it in this order. I want
Speaker 3: to start with Steph. Then I want to talk about
Speaker 3: the end of the game, which I think whenever a
Speaker 3: game happens on a Friday, there's not usually a lot
Speaker 3: of analysis on the Monday shows about the actual game.
Speaker 3: It's more look ahead stuff. Then we'll talk Draymond, and
Speaker 3: then we'll talk Tatum in game five. Okay, sounds good
Speaker 3: on Steph. I called it the best game of his life.
Speaker 3: I do believe it was the best game of his life.
Speaker 3: There was no other offense coming from any other source
Speaker 3: on the Warriors. Everyone on Boston knew you had to
Speaker 3: stop Steph Curry, and they could not do it through
Speaker 3: three quarters. They couldn't do it at all. Now, there
Speaker 3: was a moment in the fourth quarter. Yeah, when with
Speaker 3: four minutes left he saw and scored in the fourth
Speaker 3: quarter where I was like, oh, my god, because he
Speaker 3: had only scored six fourth quarter points in the series
Speaker 3: leading into Game four, was Oh, he's gonna have another
Speaker 3: rough fourth quarter. But then the floodgates opened. He hit
Speaker 3: the huge three, he hit a floater, he had a
Speaker 3: bunch of free throws down the stretch. He ends up
Speaker 3: scoring forty three points. So it is the best game
Speaker 3: of Steph's career. It also, as is often the case
Speaker 3: with Steph, slightly overstated by the my media cups. And
Speaker 3: here's what I mean. Steph had a forty point double double.
Speaker 3: Yeah in the finals. That is exceptional. It is not
Speaker 3: exceptionally rare. So would you believe that a forty point
Speaker 3: double double. Jannis did it three times last year? Three times.
Speaker 3: The year before that, Jimmy Butler did it once, Lebron
Speaker 3: did it once in the finals against the Warriors. Just
Speaker 3: the Finals against the Warriors, Lebron has done it five times,
Speaker 3: so both of these things can be true. It was
Speaker 3: the single best game of Steph Curry's career. It was
Speaker 3: the best finals game he's ever played, better than the
Speaker 3: forty seven and a loss to Toronto and better than
Speaker 3: the thirty seven in Game five and twenty fifteen against
Speaker 3: the Cavs, and when it was two to two, it
Speaker 3: was the best game of Steph's career. And it also
Speaker 3: was maybe the if the best Finals game of the
Speaker 3: last five years. Both of those things can be true,
Speaker 3: right because Giannis is fifty point masterpiece obviously trumps it.
Speaker 3: I think Lebron's Lebron had won in the in the
Speaker 3: against the Heat or against the Lakers, sorry against the Heat,
Speaker 3: and then Jimmy Butler had won against the Lakers. I
Speaker 3: don't think Kawhi had any And then I think Durant.
Speaker 3: The Durant finals games are tough because it didn't feel
Speaker 3: like they were ever in jeopardy. But Durant, particularly in
Speaker 3: twenty seventeen, had some monster games. So that's not throwing shade.
Speaker 3: That's being honest.
Speaker 5: Every exacting like it's so rare. Well, oh my god, Well.
Speaker 3: It was a great game, and watching it in real time,
Speaker 3: it was a great game, and Steph had to be
Speaker 3: great for their season's over, and he answered the call.
Speaker 3: It does not make it one of the greatest games
Speaker 3: we've ever seen. Eighteen guys have had forty point double
Speaker 3: doubles in the NBA Finals, and I just mentioned three
Speaker 3: times in a six game series just a year ago.
Speaker 3: So that's what's true about Steph for the game. Well,
Speaker 3: it's also true about Steph for the game as I
Speaker 3: talked about last week. This was on the TV show,
Speaker 3: now on the podcast, but the little preemptive maybe I
Speaker 3: did talk about the podcast, Oh Steph's hurt? Ye, steps
Speaker 3: Did Steph look hurt to you?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: Of course no, because you know how we knew he
Speaker 3: wasn't hurt because he didn't come out of the game
Speaker 3: when he suffered the injury, and he didn't have an
Speaker 3: MRI the next day. What should concern the Warriors four
Speaker 3: Game five is and I think this is your take.
Speaker 3: I heard you say to somebody on the street. Demonse
Speaker 3: now gets to ask sports questions on the street when
Speaker 3: we're walking together. True, and Demonse fired back at a
Speaker 3: guy who was picking the Warriors. Yeah, and what did
Speaker 3: you tell him? Why did you say you didn't think
Speaker 3: they were gonna win two more games?
Speaker 4: Because Curry's got to score forty points above the win Yes,
Speaker 4: I mean like and he's I mean he might have
Speaker 4: another one in him, But.
Speaker 3: Can't he have two more? Or can he have one more?
Speaker 3: Can Clay explode for a big game? That will be
Speaker 3: the big question? Mark? Okay, now about the actual end
Speaker 3: of the game, because I said this to you while
Speaker 3: we were watching, and then I didn't really hear anybody
Speaker 3: talking about it over the weekend. It wasn't really brought
Speaker 3: up much on my TV show this morning. I don't
Speaker 3: know if the other show's.
Speaker 5: Talking about it.
Speaker 3: Clay Thompson hit a three to give the Warriors the
Speaker 3: lead in the fourth quarter, ninety five ninety four, with
Speaker 3: about four and a half minutes left. Your Boston Celtics
Speaker 3: did not take another two point shot the rest of
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I kept trying to win it on one possession.
Speaker 3: They got totally tilted by losing the lead. And I'll
Speaker 3: tell you because I pulled it up today to mention
Speaker 3: on the TV show. Here was the possessions. Klay Thompson
Speaker 3: hits a three to go up ninety five ninety four
Speaker 3: to four and a half left. The next Celtic possessions
Speaker 3: are the following. Jalen Brown missed three, Jason Tatum missed three,
Speaker 3: Marcus Smart missed three, Marcus Smart miss three, Al Horford
Speaker 3: missed three. Al Horford then May to three to cut
Speaker 3: it from one oh three uh, one hundred and ninety
Speaker 3: four to one hundred and ninety seven UH. Then a
Speaker 3: turnover by Jalen Brown, then a Derek White miss three.
Speaker 3: Game over. You guys didn't take a two point shot
Speaker 3: in the final four and a half minutes in a game.
Speaker 3: It's not like you were down twelve. You ended up
Speaker 3: being down a lot at the end, but you stopped
Speaker 3: running your offense YEP. And that to me was you
Speaker 3: guys getting tight at the end. And this was when
Speaker 3: I picked the Warriors before the series. My concern was
Speaker 3: exactly that the close games at the end, are you
Speaker 3: guys gonna get tight the way you did in Game
Speaker 3: seven against Miami. Now, what you have going for you
Speaker 3: is the Boston Celtics have last seven game eight games
Speaker 3: in these playoffs. They are seven to zero following.
Speaker 5: The league exactly, they exactly.
Speaker 3: It's mid January, Demons. They have lost one time following
Speaker 3: a loss. They've lost back to back games once and
Speaker 3: that one loss four starters didn't play. So they're essentially
Speaker 3: undefeated following a loss over the last four plus months.
Speaker 3: So that to me is one of the reasons you
Speaker 3: guys should have confidence. Plus, you guys have been better
Speaker 3: on the road than at home these playoffs. You're five
Speaker 3: hundred in unfortunately, I guess, and so I don't think
Speaker 3: you go into San Francisco thinking you can't win. So
Speaker 3: all those things bode well for Game five. None of that, though,
Speaker 3: will matter if Tatum doesn't play better. We will get
Speaker 3: to Tatum in a moment, and I want your thoughts
Speaker 3: on what you're seeing with him. But first we have
Speaker 3: talked about Draymungry. So Draymond's own mother started tweeting about it.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine if my mom had Twitter?
Speaker 5: I think she might have Twitter, but.
Speaker 3: Doesn't tweet and doesn't have a following, And can you
Speaker 3: imagine if I was really struggling on the show and
Speaker 3: my mom tweeted like, never seen him be this bad? Now,
Speaker 3: you know what? Hold up, I'm asking if you can
Speaker 3: imagine if my mom had Twitter. Your mom does have
Speaker 3: Twitter and does have a following, and I actually think
Speaker 3: it's on the board that she could send a tweet
Speaker 3: similar to Draymond's mom.
Speaker 5: I could see a slight, a slight little grill from mom.
Speaker 5: Oh slight, yeah something.
Speaker 3: I think she could roast you bad. I think if
Speaker 3: she saw the Dinosaurs take from last week.
Speaker 4: Which is why I actually went out of my way
Speaker 4: to bring it up to her, because I just wanted
Speaker 4: to probe and see if you know you went and
Speaker 4: told her, because you know you went.
Speaker 5: I think you dropped her off at the shop that
Speaker 5: day or whatever. Yeah. Yeah, she she was very sad
Speaker 5: about it.
Speaker 3: She was sad about the Dinosaurs takes.
Speaker 5: As soon as I brought it up, she was like,
Speaker 5: oh no.
Speaker 4: I was like, man, but you know, just I know this,
Speaker 4: this is about the Celtics and no.
Speaker 3: Go ahead listen quick. If people didn't see the most
Speaker 3: recent podcast before this one, Demanse has a red hot
Speaker 3: take on dinosaurs, So go ahead if people listen to
Speaker 3: it or watch it there, But.
Speaker 5: Go ahead if you saw that episode.
Speaker 4: I just want to let you know that if you
Speaker 4: were to come out to me in the street any
Speaker 4: day before then and ask me if I thought dinosaurs existed,
Speaker 4: there's no chance that I was going to be like, no,
Speaker 4: no way, dinosaurs. I think that was like a spur
Speaker 4: of the moment type thing. This is not me trying
Speaker 4: to clear my name.
Speaker 3: This no, I like cleaning it up.
Speaker 5: It is you're trying.
Speaker 3: I knew it when it happened in real time. I
Speaker 3: was like, and I'm not there's gonna sound self congratulatory.
Speaker 3: I don't mean it too, but listen, we can all.
Speaker 3: I think it's important for people to be humble on
Speaker 3: things that are actually humble about, but also be honest
Speaker 3: about things they know they're great at.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: I know, one of my biggest skills in the world
Speaker 3: is like on the fly argument making about things I'd
Speaker 3: never discussed. You've sat next to me now for like
Speaker 3: four months doing this and watched me do it, and
Speaker 3: I think underest to mate it the difficulty of I'm
Speaker 3: going to present an argument that I've never fully thought
Speaker 3: out in my brain and make it sound compelling, and
Speaker 3: you ended up you were like Riley coyote runs off
Speaker 3: the cliff and then finally looks down as like, oh
Speaker 3: there's no ground, and you plummet. Like I was watching
Speaker 3: it happen in real time. I was watching your eyes.
Speaker 3: And as soon as as soon as you said the
Speaker 3: line of velociraptor wouldn't mess with me, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: he's out of here, he's run, he's run out of things,
Speaker 3: and now it's just like, I'll fight it. I don't
Speaker 3: care if they live, if they're real or not. I
Speaker 3: will fight one of those sons of bitches. I was like, listen,
Speaker 3: you live and you'll learn. Okay, Now back to Draymond Green.
Speaker 3: My biggest concern for your Celtics, who are now kind
Speaker 3: of my adopted Celtics, just because I bet on it,
Speaker 3: is that Kerr bench is green more and again. I
Speaker 3: think that is the single best adjustment Steve Kirr can
Speaker 3: make is putting Draymond Green on the bench. And you
Speaker 3: made a really good point right after the game, which
Speaker 3: is the Warriors winning saved Dramond ever from blowing up,
Speaker 3: because if they had lost that game in the fourth
Speaker 3: quarter with Draymond getting benched, he said all the right
Speaker 3: things after the game, and I give him credit for it,
Speaker 3: but I do not know if he would have had
Speaker 3: the discipline to do that if they had lost that game.
Speaker 3: And so I just think the Warriors are in such
Speaker 3: bad shape with him on the court.
Speaker 4: I kind of I agree and disagree with the whole
Speaker 4: benching Draymond thing. I like that lineup that they put
Speaker 4: out in the start of the game of Game four.
Speaker 5: Was that Game four.
Speaker 3: With Draymond out there with Otto pa.
Speaker 4: Yes, well, yeah, I guess that means that Draymond isn't
Speaker 4: being benched now that I think about it.
Speaker 3: No, but they did that to Here's the thing, that
Speaker 3: their best lineup would be Otto Porter in the starting lineup,
Speaker 3: but instead of being he was in place of Kevon Loon,
Speaker 3: putting him in place of Drake. That's what would worry
Speaker 3: to me if if I were you, That's what would
Speaker 3: worry me is if you put the best lineup they
Speaker 3: could yeah, is Steph Clay Wiggins and then Biggs that
Speaker 3: can do something in Porter and Looney and if you
Speaker 3: want to go small, subbout one of Porter or Looney
Speaker 3: for either Gary Payton for defense or Jordan Poole for offense.
Speaker 3: By the way, I've never been more right about something pool.
Speaker 4: I never fails to just fry Jordan Poole every chance
Speaker 4: he gets.
Speaker 3: And and it's, by the way, another little easter egg
Speaker 3: from our an episode last week was I said that
Speaker 3: Jordan Poole reminds me of the year that watching Demond's
Speaker 3: play basketball was the most frustrating. So now whenever I
Speaker 3: talk bad about Jordan Poole when we're watching, I can
Speaker 3: see this looking like, yeah, it's exactly right. It's like
Speaker 3: I'm quietly disrespecting you from the past. It's like a
Speaker 3: retroactive insult.
Speaker 4: And then it's like he has no hope in him.
Speaker 4: He's like he sucks, He's never gonna be good guy.
Speaker 4: It's never been more right about him.
Speaker 5: It's just like geez, right. So I say I remind
Speaker 5: you of me. It's right.
Speaker 3: I understand why it bothers you. Okay, So Draymond, the
Speaker 3: best adjustment of the worries can make his benching him.
Speaker 3: I don't think they're I mean, he's still playing thirty
Speaker 3: five minutes a game. They benched him for like four minutes.
Speaker 3: I don't think they're gonna full on bench him. But
Speaker 3: it will be interesting if they lose tonight and he's
Speaker 3: awful again, what will they do with their season on
Speaker 3: the line? That is to me an interesting question. And
Speaker 3: now we get finally to tonight and to Jason Tate.
Speaker 3: So I do not think Tatum has been bad. Tatum
Speaker 3: is twenty two, seven and eight right, he is shooting
Speaker 3: almost fifty percent from three. He has been bad in one,
Speaker 3: well two specific areas. Too many live ball turnovers that
Speaker 3: are just like indefensible turnovers, just bat jumping to figure
Speaker 3: out the past.
Speaker 5: That.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he has I think it's fourteen turnovers in
Speaker 3: four games, So that's three and a half a game.
Speaker 3: That's not great, but it's not devastating.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, yeah, six and four what right?
Speaker 3: What is devastating is this. He has taken fifty one
Speaker 3: to two point shots. He has made fourteen of them.
Speaker 3: That's less than twenty eight percent.
Speaker 5: And a few of them, man, are just gimme layups
Speaker 5: like I don't.
Speaker 3: It's so that's the thing I think people, is the
Speaker 3: moment too big for him kind.
Speaker 4: Of some but it seems like he has spurts where
Speaker 4: it doesn't seem like it's I think I don't.
Speaker 5: Think he's scared of the moment.
Speaker 4: I think sometimes he's got a little bit too much anxiety.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what I mean. I don't think he's scared either,
Speaker 3: But he's twenty four years old. He's on the precipice
Speaker 3: of a championship. He's never been here before, and he's
Speaker 3: a little unsure of himself, and he knows what's on
Speaker 3: the other side of this. If they win the title.
Speaker 3: You're talking. I wouldn't consider him face of the league,
Speaker 3: but some people would say it. Guys under twenty five
Speaker 3: won a title for historic franchise, First Team All NBA like,
Speaker 3: he has all that waiting for him, and he's playing
Speaker 3: with the weight of that on him. So I say,
Speaker 3: let's say this. I don't think you can win Game
Speaker 3: five in San Francisco without him having a big game.
Speaker 3: I don't think he has to do what Steph didn't
Speaker 3: score forty, but I think he has to score more
Speaker 3: than twenty five, and for the first time all series.
Speaker 3: He has to be efficient. And the other thing he
Speaker 3: needs to remember is you're the best player on that team.
Speaker 3: You're a star in this league. Now you'll get calls.
Speaker 3: He seems a little bit he's like shying away from
Speaker 3: contact at times, you will get the calls on some
Speaker 3: of these layups if you initiate the contact. So I
Speaker 3: like your guys' chances tonight. I think Draymond is likely
Speaker 3: going to be bad for a fifth consecutive game. Tatum
Speaker 3: will bounce back, and either way go ahead.
Speaker 5: Is Tatum still in Club Superstar?
Speaker 3: It sounds like, oh no, I'm glad you asked that,
Speaker 3: and then we'll and then we'll rap because we went
Speaker 3: longer than we're supposed to for this quick, little short episode.
Speaker 3: They asked me on the TV show today as well.
Speaker 3: You I hate when people do this, and this used
Speaker 3: to happen to Lebron the you carry a team further
Speaker 3: than it otherwise could go in the playoffs and then
Speaker 3: you have a tough final round of the playoffs. This
Speaker 3: only happened Lebron very early in his career because he
Speaker 3: was bad in his first two finals. People are like, oh,
Speaker 3: got a question where he's at when you never would
Speaker 3: have questioned it if you would have just lost earlier.
Speaker 3: So in Club Superstar, I have the list right here,
Speaker 3: embid Jah, Giannis, Lebron, Durant, Dame Kawhi, Jokic and CP
Speaker 3: three that is what is that nine? That is nine
Speaker 3: of the twelve guys in Club Superstar. Those guys didn't
Speaker 3: even make the conference finals this year. So you're not
Speaker 3: going to kick a guy out who made the NBA finals.
Speaker 3: But so Luca didn't make the finals, you're gonna throw
Speaker 3: him out. So all that's left is Stephen Tatum. Well,
Speaker 3: Tatum's played bad in the finals, he's out. So now
Speaker 3: Steph's in the club by himself. But Steph missed the
Speaker 3: playoffs the previous two years. Now Club SuperStar's empty. No,
Speaker 3: so you don't. You're when you are the guy who
Speaker 3: was the biggest reason the team made the finals that year,
Speaker 3: can't be used against you. And so just like as
Speaker 3: bad as Draymond's been, if he was the defensive player
Speaker 3: of the Year this year and was you know, a
Speaker 3: decent offensive player, if he had been outstanding all year
Speaker 3: and it was having a bad finals, we'd still criticize him.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't crush him, right. Draymond, though, has been mediocre
Speaker 3: the last four months and has been downright awful this postseason.
Speaker 3: At this point, and here's the thing. For Draymond, ten
Speaker 3: points would feel like an explosion. Yeah, if he has
Speaker 3: ten points, eight rebounds, four assists. People will come on
Speaker 3: tomorrow and be like Draymond broke out, Dramon played a
Speaker 3: great game. Clay is the guy I would worry about
Speaker 3: for you guys tonight, play at home in that building
Speaker 3: is the one that would concern me. But I think
Speaker 3: the Celtics win. I think it's three to two and
Speaker 3: we will talk about it no matter who wins tomorrow
Speaker 3: on a full episode of What's Right with Nick Right.
Speaker 5: See you as soon