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Speaker 1: Welcome in What Driving Nick Wright Episode four sixty. This

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Speaker 1: episode of What Driving theck Right is presented to you

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Speaker 1: because over the last few weeks we've had a bit

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Speaker 1: of an intermittent schedule, one time due to me being

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Speaker 1: a little onder the weather, one time due to a

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Speaker 1: So today's show obviously, and then also we will have

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Speaker 1: or on Spotify. Tomorrow morning we'll have the mail bag episode.

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Speaker 1: So that means we have a ton to do right now.

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Speaker 1: We have a lot to get to. There is a

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Speaker 1: elimination game in the conference finals to address. There is

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Speaker 1: the absolute juggernaut Nicks to address. There is the fact

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Speaker 1: that I believe Adam Silver is fighting the wrong war.

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Speaker 1: And I also think that so many of the NBA's

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Speaker 1: key issues right now come down to whether or not

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Speaker 1: people want to compete, whether or not you want to

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Speaker 1: simply compete, or whether or not you want to optimize

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Speaker 1: your result as well as possible, uh, given you know

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Speaker 1: what the incentives are and what's allowed and what's not.

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Speaker 1: And I made this point on the TV show yesterday,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't get into it in full. And demon's

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Speaker 1: have you seen the clip of the guy. I don't

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Speaker 1: know who he is. I'm not in the Manisphere pod areas,

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Speaker 1: but some guy who was like I had a couple

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Speaker 1: of glasses of wine and it ruined me for three days.

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Speaker 1: So the producers probably know who I'm talking about. I

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Speaker 1: don't know who he is, but he was. He's one

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Speaker 1: of these health optimism optimization guys. Oh okay, and he

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Speaker 1: he explained how He's like, yeah, you know, I had

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Speaker 1: two glasses of wine, and then the next morning I

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Speaker 1: my uh the my sleep that night. My whoop score

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Speaker 1: you know, threw me off for three days. And I've

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Speaker 1: never felt like a grumpier older man. Then I'm like

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Speaker 1: these losers, these these these kids that are like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I have a sleep score and I make sure and

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Speaker 1: stays low and I'm doing this and I'm just you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm maxing this all of that, and I'm like, you.

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Speaker 2: Know what you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: You know, back in back in my day, you know

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Speaker 1: what we did. You know what you did. If you

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Speaker 1: didn't need a perfect nine hour whoop score. And again

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Speaker 1: I now sound like an old man yelling at the cloud.

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Speaker 1: I get that, but in a weird way. For some reason,

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Speaker 1: I feel like flopping is in that same exact boat,

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Speaker 1: because it does in my in my in my brain,

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Speaker 1: it's like, well, you know what, you know what you're

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Speaker 1: supposed to do, play through contact and see if you

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Speaker 1: why would you do that. You've played through contact and

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Speaker 1: it's worth you know, er point nine points per possession.

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Speaker 1: But if you just fall down like he got shot

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Speaker 1: And it's just that's the better way to do it.

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Speaker 1: So we'll get to that later in the show. Again,

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Speaker 1: I don't know why the healthcare maxing optimization guys make

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Speaker 1: show in a moment Demons with what I'm gonna call

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Speaker 1: an anti sports media beef. I've done a few too

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Speaker 1: Missoula Win's coach of the Year. He didn't want it,

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Speaker 1: that's not what happened. I do Orlovsky meet and Laura

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Speaker 1: We'll see if we ever get nominated again. The whole

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Speaker 1: and what at this point is crazy. Scott has been

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Speaker 1: that is a category that only a handful of people

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Speaker 1: Bob Costas, my pal my, you know, my mentor when

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 2: What do you expect that?

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Speaker 1: Listen, I think you'll probably be really good tonight. But

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Speaker 1: Oh, I think the Spurs will win tonight. I just

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Speaker 1: are kind of doing the opposite with Wimby. In the

427
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:36,199
Speaker 1: regular season. They're making things so much lighter from a

428
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: workload that now all of a sudden, when the games

429
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 1: are every other night, when they're higher intensity, and by

430
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 1: the way, you're not playing twenty nine a night, you're

431
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 1: playing thirty nine a night. He looked dog tired. He

432
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,199
Speaker 1: was the last guy up the court a bunch. He

433
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 1: wasn't as impactful defensively like all of that now, part

434
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 1: of that is learning. I'm not killing the guy at all.

435
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: That will get to the postgame thing in a minute,

436
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 1: But as far as on the court, like you're allowed

437
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: to have bad games, but it go ahead.

438
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 2: There's a little don't you see. I think he's uh

439
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 2: this whole thing with Chet. I think also might have

440
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 2: played a little bit of factor in this game, like

441
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,159
Speaker 2: him him seeing Check kind of eat. It seems like

442
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 2: it literally it physically gets.

443
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 4: To him, like the time that Chet dunked on him,

444
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 4: like he's bumping into him, like he literally doesn't want

445
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 4: to see him score. And I think on top of

446
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 4: him having a bad night and Chet having the best

447
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 4: night of the series that he's had so far, I

448
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 4: think goes hand in hand and like makes him play

449
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 4: even worse.

450
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 1: So I listen. I think there's I think there's something

451
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: to that. I think he gets very emotional about some

452
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: of this stuff. But I also think that he's worn out.

453
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: And part of that is that he did not build

454
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: up the conditioning callous in the regular season with the

455
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: crazy light workload. Twenty nine minutes a game is wild

456
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: and what we basketball has changed a lot in ten years,

457
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: twenty years, thirty years, forty years. Here has here is

458
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: what has not changed to win a championship. If you

459
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: have an MVP candidate, as you get deeper into the playoffs,

460
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: the best adjustment any coach can make is let's play

461
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: him more. That's the adjustment. The adjustment is more minutes

462
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: for our superstar. The only guy who that hasn't applied

463
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 1: to quite as much of this era. He still plays more,

464
00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: but not quite as many is Steph. Where they've always

465
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: been very cautious with Steph and where they they are

466
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 1: judicious with his minutes, with the rationale being understandably that

467
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: you know what he is. He is running around so

468
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 1: much and he's smaller, So because of that, we're not

469
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: gonna play him forty plus minutes to night if we

470
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: can avoid it. There have been still a bit, but

471
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: still his first NBA Finals for Steph forty two and

472
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: a half minutes tonight, the NBA Finals they lost to

473
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: the Rafters when they had kind of no choice because

474
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: everybody's getting hurt, forty two minutes to night. The NBA

475
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: Finals in twenty eighteen, when they swept and they did

476
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: have a choice, forty minutes to night. Even with Steph,

477
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: they up it. They don't Steph's never been like forty

478
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 1: four a night. But go look, just go look at

479
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll do it right now, real quick. Joker

480
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: on the you know, Joker on the run to the championship,

481
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: second round against Phoenix thirty nine minutes a night, Conference

482
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: Finals against the Lakers, forty to a night. NBA Finals

483
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: against Miami forty one a night. Joker. In fact, dating

484
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: back to that Conference Finals against the Lakers, Joker has

485
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: averaged forty one minutes a night. All I'm sorry, forty

486
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: plus minutes a night in every series he's played, because

487
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: that's the way the team's gonna win. Giannis en route

488
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: to his championship forty minutes a night in the second round,

489
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: forty minutes a night in the NBA Finals, the series

490
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: they lost to Mon's eight in seventy year Celtics forty

491
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: minutes a night. Lebron throughout his career, I mean Lebron's again.

492
00:31:56,160 --> 00:32:00,040
Speaker 1: Lebron's played for so long that the early in his

493
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: career the minutes per game in the playoffs are cartoonish.

494
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: But just for context, Lebron's minutes per game his first

495
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: seven playoff series demons were forty seven forty six forty six,

496
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: forty four, forty six, forty three, forty two, forty four,

497
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: forty one. He didn't have a series where he played

498
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: under forty until nine, when they swept Atlanta in Round one.

499
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: So but again he is when they won the championship

500
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: in Cleveland in those finals, forty two minutes a night,

501
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: when they won the championship in the Bubble in the finals,

502
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: forty minutes a night. Shit his last five playoff series

503
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: with the Lakers as a thirty eight to forty two

504
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 1: year old Lebron forty three, forty one, forty one, thirty

505
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: nine to thirty eight minutes per night. That's what all

506
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: of the best guys have to do. It's the biggest

507
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: playoff adjustment coaches can make, is our best player is

508
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: gonna be on the court more, and they're not allowing.

509
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: Wimby is not getting conditioned for that. So that's one

510
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: of the reasons demonse that I think the Thunder gonna

511
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: win Game seven. I just think Wimby. I think Wimby's

512
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 1: gonna have to empty the chamber tonight and then Game

513
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: seven he I don't know what he'll have left.

514
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 2: How many minutes do you think they'll put him out

515
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 2: there for tonight.

516
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: I mean, he the answer should be forty two, and

517
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: in reality, the answer should be forty four. But I

518
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: don't think they'll do that, and I don't think they

519
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: can do that.

520
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 2: Still got games, but.

521
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 1: The right and so this postseason, you know, he came

522
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 1: into this postseason only having played forty plus minutes in

523
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 1: one regular season game in his entire career, and in

524
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 1: this postseason he's still the only game he has not

525
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: played forty minutes in a regulation game.

526
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 2: Yet.

527
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: He played forty nine in the double overtime game, which

528
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: means at the end of regulation he had played thirty nine.

529
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 1: In the game one loss to the Timberwolves, he played

530
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 1: thirty nine and change. In the loss one of the

531
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,240
Speaker 1: losses to Oklahoma City, he played thirty nine and change.

532
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: In this last lost to Oklahoma City, he played thirty

533
00:34:52,719 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: seven and change. But he's just they haven't built this

534
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: up for him yet, and so that's just an adjustment

535
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: they have to make. Yes, he's got to be better

536
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: on offense, but he's so good on defense that just

537
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,919
Speaker 1: having him on the court gives you a huge edge.

538
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: And he you know that this is the trickiest part

539
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: Demon's of any of the long term wimby goat potential stuff.

540
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 1: How because of his size and his unique injury risk

541
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: and how cautious they have to be with him smartly,

542
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: how much will that impact his ability to get consistently

543
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: to the level that the all time legendary great guys

544
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: got to. And the guy and again I'm not just

545
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: trying to read off box score stuff, and we'll move on.

546
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: But the guy that I always say he is first

547
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: chasing greatest defensive player in fifty years, greatest international player

548
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:27,280
Speaker 1: is a team and it just it it Warren's mentioning

549
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: that a team in the midst of his prime had

550
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:39,320
Speaker 1: a stretch. In fact, you know what forget is prime.

551
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 1: I'll just go for a team's entire career. In Houston,

552
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: demanse one hundred and forty playoff games. He averaged averaged

553
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: over his whole career forty minutes per game, because that's

554
00:36:56,120 --> 00:37:00,359
Speaker 1: simply what That's the way teams win. And in his

555
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: prime he averaged forty three minutes per game. So why,

556
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: you know, why, how could the Rockets do it? Well?

557
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: They had to deal with basically two and a half

558
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: minutes to half of not having a team on the court.

559
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:23,280
Speaker 1: It's way easier to piece that together than eight minutes

560
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 1: a half. And I think that's it. I just don't

561
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 1: think you can flip that switch on the fly. All right,

562
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: the should we talk some Wimby discipline here?

563
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, so after Game five, Wimby skipped media availability, THENBA

564
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 4: gave him a warning. We also know that the league

565
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 4: never suspended him for the nasrit elbow. They just got

566
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 4: him out for the rest of.

567
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 1: The him or yeah, suspended or find him either.

568
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 2: Do you think that Wimby's getting special treatment from the league.

569
00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: It's really really weird that he was not find for

570
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:06,760
Speaker 1: either of those things. And I can't figure out why

571
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: they wouldn't find I understand he is typically great with

572
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: the media. This is the conference finals. And here is

573
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: my criticism. Some guys hate talking to the media right

574
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 1: under all circumstances. They hate it, and so they really

575
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: hate it when they've played poorly or their team is

576
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: lost in a weird way. And Amansea, you can tell

577
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 1: me if you think you know I'm being unfair here.

578
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: I have a little more respect for somebody who's just

579
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 1: like I hate the media. I don't want to answer

580
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: your questions. I don't enjoy this. If that person skips

581
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: out after a loss, then someone who appears to love

582
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: the media, Wimby holds court. Wimby talks about ethical basketball

583
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: and playing the game the right way, and why he's

584
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: the MVP, and the goals he's trying to reach, and

585
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: you know when when he is being feted by the media,

586
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 1: He's got plenty of time. But have been two games, No,

587
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 1: there have been three games this postseason that he hasn't talked.

588
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 1: After one he got knocked unconscious on the floor. He's

589
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:51,720
Speaker 1: not supposed to talk after. This makes total sense. There's

590
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: no complaints or criticism there that one. So that I'm

591
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 1: just I don't want to be inaccurate in saying how

592
00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,839
Speaker 1: many games he hasn't talked. I don't even think you're

593
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 1: a allowed to talk to the media in that moment.

594
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 1: But that was right. So, but that's that's one game.

595
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: The other two times he did not speak to the

596
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: media were the two worst moments I would argue of

597
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: his career, but in fact, maybe the only two embarrassing

598
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: moments of his career. He skipped out on the media

599
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: after he got thrown out of the game. Now nobody

600
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 1: really cared because he got ejected, but you're allowed to

601
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: talk to the media after ejections. I can't tell you

602
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 1: how many times I've seen Draymond Green get ejected and

603
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 1: then hold court in the locker room. You like, for real,

604
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not killing Draymond, but I just I

605
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: vividly remember. I think it was. I think he was ejected.

606
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:49,760
Speaker 1: But the this year when he did the press conference

607
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 1: of he's like, you're not gonna make me look like

608
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: an angry black man. I'm not an angry That was.

609
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: I think that was after an ejection. But so he

610
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: didn't Wimby didn't talk post ejection. The next day when

611
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,399
Speaker 1: he was asked about it on the court, he said

612
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 1: he didn't hear the question and then answered a different one.

613
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: And then after that next game when he played great

614
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: and was asked about it, he was like, we're moving on.

615
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: So he's never answered for that. He's never answered for that,

616
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: And now this game where he bumps chet early, he

617
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:31,879
Speaker 1: gets out played convincingly by chet Ann Hartenstein. He may

618
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 1: or may not have ordered a code red to bambo

619
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 1: and plumbly to go take somebody out, and then he

620
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 1: doesn't talk that I understand it. Ain't no fun when

621
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: the Rabbits got the gun. But you the part of

622
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,720
Speaker 1: being face of the league, best player in the league

623
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: is you got to take your medicine and listen. There

624
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: were times young lebrons skipped out on the media. There

625
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: were times like I am that none of these are

626
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: cardinal sins, but it is. There's just and again I'm

627
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 1: I always do the what if it were Luca thing.

628
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: There are now two moments this postseason that he has

629
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 1: gotten a pass in my opinion, from the league and

630
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: from not all, but a lot of the media on

631
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: if Luca had done either, he would be eviscerated. If

632
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 1: in a critical Game five Luca was a total no show,

633
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: got torched on both ends of the court, and then

634
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: skipped out on the media, people be killing him. Luca's

635
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 1: six time first team All NBA and been to a

636
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:53,720
Speaker 1: finals and so listen. I'm excited to see Wimby tonight.

637
00:42:54,760 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: I think he'll be excellent. But big moment. It's a

638
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 1: big moment. Uh, do you have a follow up you

639
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: want to do here or do you want to move on?

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Speaker 4: No, I do want Winby to turn it around. I

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Speaker 2: But that's my favorite player.

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Speaker 1: I really, he's your favorite player. Now, I didn't know that.

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Speaker 1: But listen, I think they're gonna get I think they'll

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Speaker 2: Ok, it didn't Harden, Yeah no, you could tell he

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Speaker 1: let's talk about Oklahoma City and the refs.

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Speaker 4: So on the TV show yesterday you discussed how Adam

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Speaker 4: Silver is fighting the wrong war between flopping and tanking.

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Speaker 4: It's never been more obvious as it's been as Okay

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Speaker 4: with Okay seeing these playoffs.

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Speaker 2: We don't normally talk refs, but you have the four.

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Speaker 1: Well, listen, I don't blame games on officials. I don't

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Speaker 1: think I've ever done it, and I've kind of thought

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Speaker 1: I was like, what would what scenario would have to

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Speaker 1: come to pass for me? To be like that team

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Speaker 1: lost because of that bad call. I think it would

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Speaker 1: have to be something along the lines of team A

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Speaker 1: is winning the game, Team B puts up a last

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Speaker 1: second shot after the buzzer makes it and it's counted

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Speaker 1: like and then it really is. If they make the

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Speaker 1: right call, the game is over and a different team one.

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Speaker 1: If that were to happen, maybe I'd be like, the

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Speaker 1: refs cost the team the game. Otherwise, my general feeling

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Speaker 1: is be better and the calls even out and all

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Speaker 1: of that so, and this does not I didn't conflict

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Speaker 1: with that because my issue is not so much with

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Speaker 1: the refs. My issue is with the league, and my

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Speaker 1: issue is with sports leagues across the spectrum. But we're

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Speaker 1: talking about the NBA here not being proactive enough to

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Speaker 1: recognize that teams and therefore players are going to look

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Speaker 1: for every and any edge imaginable and if you don't

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Speaker 1: nip in the bud, what is bad for your product?

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Speaker 1: It will only snowball. And what I said on TV

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Speaker 1: yesterday was Adam Silver's fighting the wrong war. We have

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Speaker 1: two major epidemics in the NBA going on simultaneously, and

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Speaker 1: they both have to deal with a lack of competitiveness,

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, not wanting to hard nose compete and

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Speaker 1: instead being like, you know what, why work harder, work smarter.

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Speaker 1: You know, the quicker path to build. There's one way

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Speaker 1: to build a champ beaship contender. The quicker path, though,

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Speaker 1: is luck into the number one pick. So why don't

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Speaker 1: we raise our chance of that luck by tanking? And

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Speaker 1: Adam Silver sick of the tanking, revamping the entire lottery

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Speaker 1: and also reportedly giving himself massive sweeping powers to strip

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Speaker 1: a team of draft picks to find a team millions

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Speaker 1: of dollars if you're tanking, because it's bad for the

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Speaker 1: competitive integrity of the game. But here's the reason that

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Speaker 1: I believe that is not as big of a problem

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Speaker 1: as the flopping because for a lot of people, ninety

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Speaker 1: percent of what they care about in the NBA occurs

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Speaker 1: once the playoffs start, and you know when tanking fixes

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Speaker 1: itself wants the playoffs start. No tanking in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: All this attention is there, but for the most important

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Speaker 1: part of the season, it doesn't exist. There's no incentive

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Speaker 1: for it. It doesn't matter. Flopping, on the other hand,

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Speaker 1: only gets worse because the stakes are higher because it's

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Speaker 1: just win in advance, who gives a shit about style points,

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Speaker 1: find a way. And then you add the perfect storm

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Speaker 1: of copycat league teams trying to find a way to

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Speaker 1: overcome the Thunder and the Thunder's best player and two

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Speaker 1: time league MVP fairly being the poster child of just

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Speaker 1: falling on the ground. Not only it's one thing to

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Speaker 1: exaggerate contact, it's another thing to invent contact to act

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Speaker 1: and the league pretending as if this isn't something that

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Speaker 1: turns off fans, while also not recognizing that the more

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Speaker 1: success OKAC has, the more incumbent it is going to

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Speaker 1: be on other teams in the league. Can't beat them,

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Speaker 1: join them, all right, guys, we gotta learn how to

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Speaker 1: get these same calls too. We gotta learn how to

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Speaker 1: sell this contact, exaggerate this contact or when need be,

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Speaker 1: create this contact out, or create the impression of the contact.

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Speaker 1: And Jalen Brown had it right. Jalen Brown said, drawing

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Speaker 1: fouls is a skill. Seeing a guy's out of position,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna value that's a skill. It can be annoying,

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Speaker 1: but that's a skill that is very different than outright flopping.

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Speaker 1: And so what I said on TV, yes, or and

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Speaker 1: I'll say here again, Adam Silver needs to recognize this

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Speaker 1: is a slippery slope that can turn into a credibility

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Speaker 1: crisis like this and unlike tanking, which there are every fix,

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Speaker 1: there then is a unintended consequence. Well, if you do that,

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Speaker 1: then this you could fix flopping in an offseason by

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Speaker 1: having draconian harsh penalties similar to what they when it

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Speaker 1: got way out of hand in soccer. It's like, you

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Speaker 1: know what the harshest penalty you can really get that?

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Speaker 1: You can technically get a red card in soccer, but

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Speaker 1: really the harshest penalty you're gonna get as a yellow card,

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Speaker 1: and two yellow cards get you thrown out of the

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Speaker 1: game and you have to miss the next game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: yellow card accumulation over a certain amount of games, you

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Speaker 1: have to miss the next game, even if you get

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Speaker 1: them in separate games. You can get a yellow card

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Speaker 1: for flopping in soccer, for taking a dive. So if

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Speaker 1: you're did you know that demons?

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Speaker 4: Just you not saw the amount the terrible flopping that

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Speaker 4: I see in soccer. I didn't even know that was

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Speaker 4: a thing because they're really badly.

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Speaker 1: They do it all the time and very often the

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00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:30,479
Speaker 1: ref ignores it and just says get up. But if

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Speaker 1: you if you have a scoring opportunity, if you're in

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Speaker 1: the box and you take a dive to try to

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Speaker 1: generate a penalty kick and the referee decides that was

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Speaker 1: a total fantasy, that was a dive, shows you a

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Speaker 1: yellow card?

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Speaker 2: Ye screw on the other team?

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00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:51,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, well right, attempting to manipulate the officials. And so

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Speaker 1: if Adams and Adam Silver yesterday was on McAfee and

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00:53:56,160 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 1: basically said, this is, you know, an overblown problem. I disagree,

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Speaker 1: I think the fans disagree. But it's so easy to fix.

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Speaker 1: If a player is determined to have not exaggerated contact

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Speaker 1: but flopped, it's an offensive foul. It even could be

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Speaker 1: its own category of foul. Like we have technical fouls,

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Speaker 1: we have flagrant fouls. You can add flopping foul and

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00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 1: two of those get you kicked out. Two in a

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Speaker 1: game you're kicked out. And just like there is over

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Speaker 1: the course of a season where if you get sixteen

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Speaker 1: technicals you're suspended. If you get I think seven flagrant

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Speaker 1: foul points, you're suspended. If you get x amount. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what the number is. Flopping penalties you're suspended.

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Speaker 1: They did these mealy mouthed flopping fines that they issued

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00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:05,959
Speaker 1: zero of all year, zero flopping finds league wide all year.

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Speaker 1: And it's these not even half measures, quarter measures that

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Speaker 1: don't work. Because here's what I know, demanse. If it

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Speaker 1: was a true official stat and you could look to it,

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Speaker 1: just like technicals are flagrants. Hey, who leads the league

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Speaker 1: and flops? Guys would cut that shit out because they're

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Speaker 1: prideful and it's embarrassing, and it would would go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Just on the shad. He doesn't even.

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Speaker 4: It's not even embarrassing for it's not embarrassing for him

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Speaker 4: right now, and like he's like so aware that, like

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00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:48,360
Speaker 4: everybody's aware of it, and like when he's questioned about it,

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Speaker 4: he's like, it doesn't get to me.

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Speaker 2: Like I'm not like.

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Speaker 4: Trying to come at the guy's character or anything, but like, dude,

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Speaker 4: you're you know what you like, you know what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: The league's allowing it to He's not.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing, right, But I think that's just I

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Speaker 1: think that's because they're winning. I think it changes if

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Speaker 1: they don't win, and I think they're less They become

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Speaker 1: less likely to win if there's penalties for it. That's

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Speaker 1: first of all. Second of all, you can't convince me

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Speaker 1: this isn't coached like OKAC is the number like smart

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Speaker 1: front office optimize everything. To get back to what we

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Speaker 1: were talking about the beginning, it is assuredly coached that, hey,

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Speaker 1: we've crunched the numbers. And when you take a tightly

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Speaker 1: contested jump shot and you don't foul or you don't fall,

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Speaker 1: you get a foul call eight percent of the time,

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Speaker 1: and that's skyrockets to thirty percent of the time when

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Speaker 1: you do fall, so fall and you can just fix

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Speaker 1: it by making that a penalty. And people can say, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: then that's a judgment call. All this shit's a judgment call.

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Speaker 1: Every almost everything about officiating is a judgment call. And

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Speaker 1: I am I do not think Shae's the only one,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think the Thunder the only team. Jalen

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Speaker 1: Brunson certainly has some flopping to him, there's no doubt

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Speaker 1: about it, but they are without Shay and the Thunder

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Speaker 1: are the most egregious. They just are where it's not

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Speaker 1: mass psychosis that people are thinking this and it's not.

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Speaker 1: And I also reject what I've heard people be like, ah,

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Speaker 1: people ares mad because they're winning. That a lot of

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Speaker 1: teams win. Man that that Jokiic's nuggets didn't get banged

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Speaker 1: with this, Giannis's bucks didn't get all those floppers, the

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Speaker 1: Steph Kde Warriors people. People might find different things to

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Speaker 1: complain about if you win enough. But the flopping isn't.

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Speaker 1: It's not like everybody that wins. But they're like, ah,

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Speaker 1: they're tricking the refs. That's not what it is. And

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Speaker 1: I I just think that.

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Speaker 4: At go ahead, how do you think they'd be discussed

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Speaker 4: if that was never a thing, if they never started flopping.

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Speaker 2: And they have just been doing all this winning.

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Speaker 1: Oh I think that. Yeah, I think they would probably

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Speaker 1: be looked at kind of like the Duncan Parker Jerobili Spurs.

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Speaker 1: Not a lot of diehard fans outside of their fan base,

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Speaker 1: but massive respect for what they built, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. I just don't I don't think they would

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Speaker 1: be a polarizing team in either direction. I don't think

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Speaker 1: they'd be wildly popular or reviled. But just be like, man,

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Speaker 1: look at them and look at how efficient they are,

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Speaker 1: and look at all I just I don't know why

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Speaker 1: Adam Silver doesn't take this more seriously. I really don't,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know why they wouldn't force their rules

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Speaker 1: and I think it's an easily solvable problem, which is

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Speaker 1: what makes this so frustrating. All right, let's get to

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Speaker 1: let's discuss the Knicks and Jalen Brunson.

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Speaker 4: So the Knicks have dominated through these playoff series. It

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Speaker 4: has not always been sunshine for them, though you got

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Speaker 4: cat Hart and Bridges have been bounced around the league,

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Speaker 4: and Jalen Brunson has kind of slapped everybody upside that

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Speaker 4: with his talent. Yeah, but now they put it all together.

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Speaker 4: Who do you think has the most pressure to perform

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Speaker 4: in these finals?

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Speaker 1: Listen? I think Cat probably is under the most pressure

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Speaker 1: because it's been the transformation of Cat during these playoffs

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Speaker 1: and how he's played that has unlocked this special level

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Speaker 1: for the Knicks. I also want to say this on

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Speaker 1: the front end because I understand that right now on

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Speaker 1: hard Rock the Thunder and minus one twenty to win

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Speaker 1: the championship, the Knicks or plus two hundred. OKAYCS plus

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Speaker 1: six hundred. I have bet the Knicks to win the title.

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Speaker 1: I will bet them again once the matchup is I

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Speaker 1: think people are underrating the Knicks. We go into this

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Speaker 1: matchup Demons, and again, the playoffs aren't everything, but the

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Speaker 1: playoffs have not been at this point. A small sample,

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Speaker 1: who is playing better Brunson or Sga. It's bronson're SGA

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Speaker 1: shooting thirty eight in the conference finals? Okay? Who is healthier?

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Speaker 1: The Knicks or the Thunder The Knicks by a lot,

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01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:41,960
Speaker 1: Knicks by a lot. Whose second best player is playing better?

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Speaker 1: Cat or chet Cat by a mile with J Dubb

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Speaker 1: and AJ Mitchell out, I don't even know who is

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Speaker 1: Caruso the Thunder's third best player. Maybe Ognanobi is playing

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Speaker 1: out of his mind. Okay, the Knicks starting five right

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Speaker 1: now is better than Oklahoma City's just Is And I

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Speaker 1: know you're thinking the Spurs are gonna make it the Knicks.

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Speaker 1: The Knicks had real success against the Spurs in the

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Speaker 1: regular season. And if I wanted any center matchup any

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Speaker 1: center combo to matchup with Wimby, I'd want well, one

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Speaker 1: center who can draw him out to the three point

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Speaker 1: line and keep them away from the basket, a La

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Speaker 1: Cat and one center who I can put in for

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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes a game, who can neutralize him somewhat on

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Speaker 1: the glass and the rest of the time beat the

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Speaker 1: hell out of him in Mitchell Robinson. And if Wimby

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Speaker 1: gets there, he is going to be spent. Bro And

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Speaker 1: while Fox and Harper are back, they're banged up. I

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Speaker 1: just I think the Knicks are gonna win the championship. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I think that. And here's what I think demanse

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Speaker 1: will happened for you personally. If the Thunder may win

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Speaker 1: the series. I think you're gonna find yourself you'll obviously

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Speaker 1: be rooting for the Knicks because you dislike the Thunder,

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Speaker 1: Is that correct? Like, I also think you'll find yourself

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Speaker 1: really liking how they play.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, yeah, I do.

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Speaker 1: The I'm not acting like you haven't been watching them,

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Speaker 1: but I'm saying it's a different thing when like your

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Speaker 1: you haven't bet on them yet these playoffs, they're not

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Speaker 1: your team watching, yes, actively rooting for them while they're playing.

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Speaker 1: This just everybody movement, everybody eats. It's really great, And

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Speaker 1: I'm not They are two CJ. McCollum essentially buzzer beaters

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Speaker 1: away from being undefeated in these playoffs, and so I

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Speaker 1: think they're the I think it's undeniable that they're playing

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Speaker 1: the best of any team left, and it's undeniable. They're

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Speaker 1: the healthiest of any team left, and it's undeniable they're

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Speaker 1: gonna be the most well rested of any team left.

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Speaker 1: I I think the Knicks are gonna win the championship.

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Speaker 1: I really do. All Right, So here's what we're gonna do.

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Speaker 1: and whether you know what's happening in Cleveland and what

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Speaker 1: that means, just what the tea leaves I'm reading. So

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