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Anybody want to take a guess, 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:19.840 you can guess the over under courtesy of DraftKings Fritzie, 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.240 I'll start with you over under. Steph Curry just had 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.520 that monster game on Friday Night twenty six and a half, 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.959 twenty six and a half. Seat In O'Connor twenty nine, 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.800 twenty nine, Marvin thirty two and a half, think Paulie 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.320 thirty one and a half, thirty and a half Steph 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:42.119 Curry tonight, Marv, that'd make you the winner, said thirty 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.039 two and a half, thirty two and a half. You're 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.000 a loser. It's Steph Curry at thirty and a half. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:51.880 Klay Thompson is just under twenty points, Jason Tatum twenty 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:56.520 six and a half. How about Draymond Green over under points? 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:00.480 Tonight got benched briefly. A lot of people get credit 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:04.440 to Steve Kerr, Hey, you save Golden State season by 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:09.480 benching Draymond Green. Todd over under points Draymond Green tonight 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:13.040 seven and a half? Alrighty Seaton O'Connor four and a half, 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:16.120 all right, Marv eight and a half, all right, Paulie 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.600 six and a half, seven and a half. Todd's the 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:26.280 big winner. Congratulations, congratulations. All Right. Saturday, the live tournament 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.320 officially wrapped up. First event, case you didn't follow it 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:34.120 all the way through. Charles Schwarzel, former Master's champ, took 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.040 home four million dollars. The tournament had its up and 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:41.080 ups and downs there, but they kicked out a reporter, 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.799 Alan Schipnuk, he wrote the book on Phil Nicholson. Probably 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:49.560 a questionable decision considering the trustworthiness of the new league, 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.320 especially with the Saudia's history with journalists. But you know, 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.720 the audience was there a little bit. I think there 0:02:55.760 --> 0:03:00.320 was some curiosity there, but you know, this is almost 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.320 week to week see what golfers decide that they're going 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:05.960 to defect. But these golfers are still going to be 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.600 able to play in the US Open. Those who qualify 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:12.120 will play in the US Open. I'm curious how the 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.240 galleries will respond to these players who left the PGA Tour. 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.239 Rory McElroy. I don't think anybody had a better week 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.520 than Rory McElroy because he came out and said, no, 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:25.680 I'm going to stay on the PGA Tour. I don't 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.520 believe in this live tournament. It doesn't grow the game 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:35.040 and Greg Norman called Rory brainwashed, and Rory responded after 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.840 winning the tournament by this little dig his twenty first 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:43.960 PGA Tour victory, which is one more than Greg Norman. Yeah, 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:45.960 this is the day I'll remember for a long long time, 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.920 twenty first PGA Tour win, one more than someone else. 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.240 That gave me a little bit of extra incentive today 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.120 And how can I get a thumb? All right? So 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.160 I took a little shot there, but I think Rory 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:02.400 winning US Open coming up and felt like the gallery 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.920 really appreciated Rory playing in this event. Here's the PGA 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:10.240 Tour commissioner Jay Monaghan on these players who have defected 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:14.960 for the money. Well, I talked to players, I've talked 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.159 at a player meeting, and I've and I've talked to 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:21.960 a number of players individually for a long period of time, 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:24.960 and I think you'd have to be living under a 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:29.799 rock to not know that there are significant implications. And 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.520 as it relates to the families of nine to eleven, 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:35.440 I have two families that are close to me that 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.640 lost loved ones and so my heart goes out to 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.680 them and I would ask, you know, any player that 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.640 has left or any player that would ever consider leaving. 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.680 Have you ever had to apologize for being a member 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:57.320 of the PGA Tour? Alrighty, shots fired, shots fired. This 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.960 program brought to you by the great folks that discovered 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.320 or if you're a valued customer, you deserve a simple 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.080 gesture of appreciation from your credit card company. That's why 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.760 Discover matches all the cash bank you've earned at the 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.400 end of your first year automatically exceptionally common sense. Learn 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:15.440 more at discover dot com. Slash match limitations do apply. 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:19.400 So you have game five, pivotal, Game five coming up tonight. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.919 I thought Game four was pivotal because if Golden State 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:26.279 loses that game, I don't think they're coming back. Now 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.960 tied two games apiece, heading back home, and it was 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.240 weird not having a game on Sunday because Sunday would 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.880 have been an eight o'clock start East Coast time, you'd 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:38.720 be able to watch the entire game. But they're having 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.679 it tonight. Not sure what the logic is. It always 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:45.200 feels like and covering the NBA Finals traveling from city 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.800 to city. When I was working at ESPN, it'd be 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:56.400 like game two days off, game three days off, game look. 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.520 I know they have people who look at the Windows 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.320 TV windows competition you're up against. But I thought Sunday, 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.400 based off what happened Friday, that would have been great 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.640 momentum going into that. But Game five coming up tonight 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.080 in San Francisco, the Warriors are favored by three and 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.400 a half. Yes, Todd, weren't. The Tony Awards are just 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:21.080 destroyed Game five of the NBA Finals. I say sarcastical 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.400 thank you. To make sure you go to the website 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.479 Great Father's Day Gifts. There Pennies Bang Biscuits on sale. 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.800 We have two different sizes Pennies Bang Biscuits. 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Nobody misses the cut. 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.960 And what you love is the meritocracy with golf, like 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.120 you earn it every single day and you're earning your 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.920 paycheck Justin Thomas and Rory McElroy and Tony Fenell. It 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.080 was fun golf to watch, but there was something attached 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.200 to it. Like if if let's say the Live Tour 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.480 was on regular TV and I didn't have to look 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.800 for it on YouTube, I would do a drive by. 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.960 But the RBC was great, great atmosphere, great fans, and Rory. 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.480 You know, there's still star power there. If this tournament's 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.440 going to succeed, you're gonna have to swoop in and start, 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.080 you know, cherry picking some of these college players. You 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.760 got to get them early, but it's going to take 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.360 a while. But if you're going to guarantee five million 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.880 dollars to a college graduate, you don't have to go 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:57.800 on tour, don't have to go to tour school, you 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.800 don't have to play on the corn ferry. Come on over, 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.400 here's a check. But at some point they're gonna have 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.240 too many golfers on the Live Tour because if you 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:10.840 play fifty four holes, shotguns start and then you're gonna 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.040 have forty eight golfers, then you're gonna be getting rid 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:17.400 of some golfers. Is there gonna be relegation and on 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.680 the live Tour? There that might be interesting, But you know, 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:27.480 I was curious about it. Seemed a little amateurish, the 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:31.680 TV part of it. But they're just starting. Yeah, let's 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.280 see what happens in a year from now. But you're 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.719 you're getting a couple of big names. You got Dshambo, 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.320 Patrick Read, you know, you start to accumulate some of 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.160 these players and then all of a sudden, all right, 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:46.320 now I'm a little more curious. But there is nothing 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.920 attached to it. And that's what you love. You want 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.720 when you we tune into sports. What's on the line? 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.600 You tune into this. Nothing's on the line except for 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:00.320 the line. The bottom line is money. That's it. Got 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.800 money and that's it, all right? What other poll questions 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:08.720 do we have seton? Who has the most important performance tonight? 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:12.920 Steph Curry, Clay Thompson, Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown, throwing Draymond Green, 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:18.840 if you want other neither neither. Well, if the Celtics 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.199 are gonna win, Jason Tatum has to have a Steph 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.360 Curry like night. It feels like, but you can't have 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.280 an off night. I mean, you got to put up 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:31.199 something that is going to make a difference here. If 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:35.520 he gets twenty seven, Jaylen Brown gets twenty four, Marcus 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:41.600 Smart gets twenty three, Okay, but you know, Golden State 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:45.200 has had it feels like somebody steps up or they've 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.800 been stepping up. And Draymond Green played better in this game, 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:53.120 but you know why he played basketball. He wasn't auditioning 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.280 for a you know, a movie role. Like he went 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.960 out there and played. That's all I want. Okay, scores 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:01.920 two points, but if you give me nine rebounds and 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:05.000 eight assists and throwing a couple of steals, I'm fine 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.480 with that. Play some defense, I'm fine with that, and 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.640 I want to see him hustle, that's all. But you know, 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.199 I don't know if I can get that. Does he 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:18.760 buy back into that Draymond character tonight because they're at home. Yeah, 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.160 he feels like Jason Tatum needs a signature moment or 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.560 a signature game. He needs like a big performance to 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:29.160 sort of well, we're waiting for that. I think he's 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.040 a year away. There's certain players that you go, boy, 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.520 they're a superstar, but there's only a couple of players 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.920 who are more than just a superstar. And Jason Tatum 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.400 is a really talented player. But I think we want 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.679 to have a coronation too soon for him. He just 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.000 turned twenty four. I want to be fair to him 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.640 at this age. You know, Steph Curry gave you something 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:53.040 that you know, we haven't seen that before. I mean, 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:57.520 you want to talk about shots that were contested. That's 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:01.280 one of the greatest shooting performances I've ever seen. And 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.959 you can stand at the three point line and still 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.000 not make as many shots as he did with people 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:12.840 on him. I just thought it was remarkable. Also, Marcus 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:16.040 Smarts Defensive Player of the Year. Right, he's a guard, Right, 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:22.640 Why any guarding Steph Curry? It feels like he's been 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.760 guarding Klay Thompson, who You don't need your best defensive 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:29.200 player to guard Klay Thompson. Yeah, pulling without knowing the 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:30.960 excess is always It feels like the Celtics are just 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.040 running people at him constantly. Where the one guy has 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.280 him and the other guy gets picked. But sometimes Steph 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.880 ends up with Robert Williams on him with his wonky 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.520 knee and he's like, oh, fantastic, and it's it's like 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:46.600 a team waves of people. Well you also have it's 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.960 like Jason Tatum, they want to get a switch where 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.200 he's guarded by Steph Curry. That's what the NBA is now. 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.480 It's pick and roll. Let me get a mismatch here, 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.520 and then am I going to take a jumper or 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.800 I'm gonna beat you to the hoop? You know, Jason 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.400 Tatum's got to make two point shots because his percentage 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:08.200 has been really poor. The Celtics still take some wild threes, 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:12.679 they turn the ball over, and if Golden State wins tonight, 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.680 then all of a sudden, you're going to see some 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.559 real pressure on Jason Tatum. This is where you make 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.040 a reputation for yourself. And then you had people who 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.920 had the audacity to question if Steph Curry is one 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.520 of the great players of all time and he's got 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:31.600 to win a finals MVP. I don't know who's watching 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:36.120 or if you've been watching, Steph Curry is one of 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.839 the all time greats. Oh, you know Kevin. He needed 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.560 Kevin Durant. He didn't have Kevin Durant the first year, 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.880 and he didn't have Kevin Durant this year. So it 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:52.320 just I'm surprised. He'd lost Clay Thompson for over nine 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.960 hundred days and he got him back. And this isn't 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:59.959 you know, Clay of old Clay. Maybe better next year. 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:04.080 James Wiseman, their top draft pick, hasn't played. I mean, 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:08.280 what Steph did on Friday Night in Boston is one 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:12.160 of the finest performances the Boston Garden has ever seen. 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:17.760 Because you know what's coming. Katie won the MVP in 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:21.960 the finals twice. He had Steph Curry and Clay Thompson. 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:26.920 A healthy Clay Thompson. Steph doesn't have that. Jordan Poole, 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:34.959 Okay Wiggins, Okay, nice players. Clay Thompson not anywhere near 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.040 what he used to be, but maybe he never will. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.920 Everybody in the building knew Steph was going to shoot, 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.800 and these were all big threes. These were threes that 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:49.000 they had to have. There was a moment when Jalen 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:53.640 Brown takes a wild three, Steph comes back down hits 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:57.360 a three, and that was the Paul game, and you 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.520 could tell even the announcers were saying, oh, you can't 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:04.120 do that, but Steph made them pay with hands in 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:09.320 his face. Remarkable. Had that been a Game seven, a 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:13.000 clinching game, we would put it up there with you know, 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:17.240 some of the greatest performances in NBA Finals history. Now 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.240 he's got to close this out. You got people saying 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:24.840 he's the MVP now, and maybe he is now. They 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:28.080 gave it to Jerry back, you know, in the late 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:32.640 sixties against the Celtics. But I don't know if Steph 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.960 is the MVP if they lose. I have a hard 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.360 time doing that. I remember Chuck Howley of the Cowboys 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.040 in a game they lost to the Colts in the 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:46.840 Super Bowl. He got MVP. Jim O'Brien kicks the field 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:48.920 goal and they win, what sixteen to thirteen or something. 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.160 They go, hey, and the MVP is Chuck Howley. It's 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.640 like he plays for the Cowboys. They lost. I remember 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.920 asking my dad, I said, wait, how can they do that? 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.960 He goes, I guess, yeah, doesn't that seem like someth 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.400 thing that will never ever happen again, Like it probably 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:04.800 happened at Chuck Holley. They gave the award like behind 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.200 the laundry beIN in the back of the building. It 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.520 wasn't the big presentation. Can imagine, you know, like name 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.640 the player. You know it gets Jayalen Ramsey, the rams Lows. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.400 But you're the MVP. Here's your truck and he's up 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.760 there like, oh man, we just lost. Yeah, we'll take 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.960 a break. We'll settle on a poll question. Reggie Miller 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:21.760 will join us. 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Paully did some research. 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:34.200 It was twenty fifteen when the NBA changed the schedule 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:38.680 because I thought it was Sunday Tuesday, Thursday Sunday, correct, 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.040 But they changed it in twenty fifteen to give a 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:46.600 few more days in between games. Yeah, twenty fifteen sixteen schedule. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:48.960 They did it during the regular season two to try 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.000 to get rid of back to back games, and they 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.600 did in the postseason makes the NBA Finals over the 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.600 course of sixteen days. I have a question off this, right, 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.480 do you think the NBA, in if they had a 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:04.000 do over, would not acquiesce to player demands with fewer 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:05.639 back to back games during the regular season and then 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.600 changing the NBA Finals Because every time the players wanted 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.480 something like this, they acqui asked, especially early Commissioner Silver, 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.720 and now look where they are with load management and 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.040 players playing and wanting shorter seasons, fewer games. It seems 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:20.360 like if they would have gone back and said, look, 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.840 we are people in the eighties, did this in nineties disits, 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.560 Why can't with all this you know, technology and ability 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:28.280 to have to take care of ourselves, why we have 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.240 to have fewer back to backs. It seems like a 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:35.920 bast slippery slope. Yeah, but I think now they're talking 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:39.920 about do you shorten the season? I don't think get 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.159 matters with the NBA finals. You know, if I'm a 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.760 player and I'm liking I'm not going to the finals, 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.480 I don't care if you give more separation between these games. 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.720 I don't know why they did that, because it takes 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.040 away it would have been great to be talking about 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.600 a game that was played last night. It just felt 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:01.320 like that was an opportunity lost here. Yeah. See, is 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.719 it almost like you'd rather binge watch the finals than 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.240 wait week for a week in a new episode? Yeah? 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:10.400 Probably so. I think we're in binge watching mode where 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.400 you're like, wait a minute, they're not playing again. Wait, 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.120 how many days do you need off? And I understand 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:18.240 the travel, but you know you have private planes now, 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.320 I mean jets. They traveled in the eighties and the 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:25.480 nineties and they were traveling commercial, yes to. And I 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:27.920 would think both teams, the teams that won would want 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.200 the momentum and let's get going as soon as possible 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:31.800 and go with the momentum we just won. And the 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:33.719 team that lost can't wait to get out there and 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.719 rectify the situation and get a W back. As far 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.840 as sitting another day, yeah, I get it. I mean 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.520 players want to play. Certainly in the NBA Finals, I 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.800 would think you want rest, but it feels like there's 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.760 enough time that you're not going back to back games. 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:53.280 Clay Thompson three years ago today blew out his knee. 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:58.199 Then he had the Achilles injury, and you're watching him. 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:01.000 He's not the same now. I thought the shot would 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:03.639 still be there, but the shot starts with your legs, 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:08.600 and he just doesn't have that that spring, that quick burst, 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:14.000 and he does everything you know, catch and shoot. He 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:16.320 just hasn't gotten into a rhythm. He had one good 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:19.199 game so far, but that's one of those wild cards. 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.639 If Steph goes for over twenty five in one of 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:24.560 these games. Because if I'm Boston and I'm watching and 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.240 I go, I would double team him. If you said 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.200 Jordan Pool's gonna beat me, I'll take that. Wiggins is 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:33.919 gonna beat me, I'll take that. But you run a 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:37.399 guy at him, I just double team him. I don't. 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:40.359 I want him to pass the ball. And his handle 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:43.159 is very underrated because he is creating some you know, 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:48.120 creating separation here. But those shots. Nobody makes those shots 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:51.200 but him, No one in the history of the sport. 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:55.360 Nobody makes those shots. Degree of difficulty. They should give 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.880 him four points when you have somebody who is six 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:04.400 two creating that and making those shots with a team 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:07.880 that knows exactly what's going to happen. You knew exactly 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:09.760 what was going to happen every single time you didn't 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:12.080 go where's Steph. Now he's right in front of you, 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:14.640 and he's gonna do a pick and roll. You're gonna 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:17.479 put your hand in his face. He's still gonna make it. 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:21.520 It's one of the most incredible shooting performances I've ever seen. 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:24.840 I don't know if he's got another one in him, 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:29.320 but that might be the game we look back and 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.600 that's why they won the championship because he did what 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:36.760 he did in the Boston Garden fourteen to twenty six, 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:41.040 seven threes. Everybody knows you're going to take the shot, 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:48.800 but he also I mean ten rebounds. That's a remarkable performance. Yeah. 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:51.399 More if he has one more game like this but 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:55.280 they end up losing, does that even like elevate his legacy? Like, 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:57.680 look what he did almost like Lebron in twenty fifteen. Look, 0:20:57.680 --> 0:20:59.800 he took the Celtics to seven games with you know, 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.880 a Draymond as passes pim and play with no legs. Well, 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:06.480 if you didn't give the MVP to Lebron with what 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:10.360 he did against Golden State in a losing effort, then 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:12.000 I don't know if it's fair to give it to 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:14.320 Steph Curry unless the voters go, you know, we made 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.520 a mistake. So the guy whose job was to guard Lebron, 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:25.320 James andre Igudalla, got the MVP. Lebron average close to 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:30.720 a triple double. Like really, and you know who's the 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:33.879 MVP the guy who let Lebron get a triple double, 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:36.920 because if he didn't guard him, Lebron would have gotten 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:40.920 what I just if you don't give it to Lebron back. 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:44.280 Then I have a problem giving it to Steph Curry 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:49.840 and look, I picked Golden State, but giving MVP. Let's 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:53.080 let this play out. Who knows what happens over the 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:56.320 next three games, or maybe it's only two games. But 0:21:57.200 --> 0:22:01.480 what if Jason Tatum goes for forty each night each 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:06.159 game they win? Then what? Yeah? Seton looking back, I 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:09.399 think Jason Tatum has a big game after a loss 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:11.600 if you look back at sort of his stats, I 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:13.480 don't have them in front of me, but he tends 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:17.600 to rebound pretty big after a loss. The Warriors used 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:20.080 a ten o run in the fourth quarter and ended 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:23.240 up winning by ten. They won at least one road 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:28.000 game in twenty seven consecutive playoff series. That's an NBA record. 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:30.760 The last time the Warriors didn't win at least one 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:34.960 road game was two thousand and seven Western Conference semis 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:38.800 against the Jazz. Stat of the day, stat of the day, 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:43.200 that past stat of the day? Stat of the day? 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:48.720 Here comes that? What stat of the day? What's the 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:52.040 poll question? We're going to settle on Seaton Dan. We 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:55.640 decided to go one that we haven't said on the air. 0:22:55.760 --> 0:23:00.600 Jest Oh big review, Yes, huge, reviewig real who had 0:23:00.640 --> 0:23:08.240 the better weekend? Steph Curry or Rory McElroy. I'm gonna 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:13.480 say Rory Mcilrrory. I'm gonna say Rory right now. Sixty 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:16.600 two of the audience agree with you. Yeah, I think 0:23:17.240 --> 0:23:19.720 you know. He became the face of the PGA tour. 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:22.760 He won the event, were inst of the good competition 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:24.440