Speaker 1: Welcome. In What's Drive with Nick Wright Episode three to twenty,
Speaker 1: as the NBA Playoffs are almost finally upon us, have
Speaker 1: the first realization, or the first conversation with the wife
Speaker 1: where she had the realization when she asked me, She's like, so,
Speaker 1: what are your plans Saturday? I'm like, oh boy, she
Speaker 1: hasn't really clocked where we're out on the calendar yet.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, my plans this Saturday and this Sunday
Speaker 1: and the following Saturday and the following Sunday and really
Speaker 1: the next ten Saturdays and Sundays are actually pretty simple
Speaker 1: to figure out. I'll be sitting on this fancy new
Speaker 1: couch you just bought watching playoff basketball for about twelve
Speaker 1: straight hours both days, and so sadly, I guess that
Speaker 1: means I won't be going to the Kendrick Lamar concerts
Speaker 1: Saturday night in New York. You know who might be going? Demonse,
Speaker 1: Welcome in, Demanse, You're gonna love this?
Speaker 2: What'd you say, Diora?
Speaker 1: No, Deora is in Santa Cruz this.
Speaker 2: Week, but you're of the ones in the kitchen concert.
Speaker 1: I think so, I think with your mom. I think
Speaker 1: your mom and your eleven year old sister are going
Speaker 1: to the Kendrick Lamar concert. I'll be watching Lakers Timberwolves.
Speaker 1: So yeah, as much as I like Kendrick, I like
Speaker 1: my side of that equation. Here's what missed the cut
Speaker 1: for today's show. Jalen Hurts named one of Time Magazine's
Speaker 1: one hundred Most Influential People. A handful of other sports
Speaker 1: people made it, and I'm not gonna do too much
Speaker 1: on this, but I did find it because so I
Speaker 1: checked last year's list as well. Mahomes made it last year,
Speaker 1: Hurts made it this year. So maybe it's just Super
Speaker 1: Bowl champion quarterback tends to make it. But now, in
Speaker 1: the last two years of Time Magazine's one hundred Most
Speaker 1: Influential People list, three women's basketball players have made it.
Speaker 1: None of them are named Caitlin Clark. That seems like
Speaker 1: a maybe a bit of a miss for influential people.
Speaker 1: It's not like the one hundred best athletes. Asia Wilson
Speaker 1: made it two years ago. Nafisa Collier and Brianna Stewart
Speaker 1: made it this year. That was because of their partnership
Speaker 1: with unrivaled I don't know, man, I'm no expert on influence.
Speaker 1: I think Caitlin Clark at some point the last couple
Speaker 1: of years been pretty influential. Well, I'm not gonna freak
Speaker 1: out about it. Travis Hunter says, if you're not gonna
Speaker 1: let me play both ways, I'll never play football again.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's serious. Why not playing football again?
Speaker 1: I do think he's serious about Hey, Cleveland Browns, if
Speaker 1: you're going to draft me, I want to play on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. And the Yankee sweep the Royals,
Speaker 1: that was a bummer, really not how I wanted to
Speaker 1: spend my nights at Yankee Stadium watching the Royals get swept.
Speaker 1: But such as life also double missed the cut listen.
Speaker 1: Evidently one hundred and twenty four light years away or
Speaker 1: something crazy. There's probably life on another planet. Matt Ford,
Speaker 1: fearless leader of this show, is super into this topic.
Speaker 1: I might be super into this topic in July or August,
Speaker 1: but today Scouts on or and I'm not a scout.
Speaker 1: We are getting to the NFC over unders. We've bumped
Speaker 1: them on four straight shows. So I don't have time
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Speaker 3: Yes, so playoff. Jimmy has arrived or play in Jimmy,
Speaker 3: whatever you want to call it. He cooked him and
Speaker 3: Steph combined for seventy five points in that game the
Speaker 3: other day, and he seems pretty confident in their ability
Speaker 3: to push to the playoffs and possibly make it to
Speaker 3: the finals. But saying, I think any team has a
Speaker 3: chance to win when I'm on the team, But I
Speaker 3: know any team that has Steph on the team has
Speaker 3: a chance to win. And Golden State is minus two
Speaker 3: hundred against the Rockets in this series. Do you think
Speaker 3: that they've deserved to be favored there?
Speaker 1: Certainly not big favorites. And listen, I'll just lead with
Speaker 1: the lead. I think the Rockets are gonna win. I
Speaker 1: I do not know how anyone could have watched Warriors
Speaker 1: Grizzlies and come away more confident in the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 1: He can be more confident in playoff Jimmy and playoff
Speaker 1: Jimmy's ability to generate fouls and get to the free
Speaker 1: throw line, and that is even more valuable Jimmy's ail
Speaker 1: ability that a decade plus into his career, no one
Speaker 1: has figured out, guys, he's gonna pump fake guys, He's
Speaker 1: not actually gonna go up on the first attempt. He
Speaker 1: just wants to get you in the air and then
Speaker 1: he just wants to jump directly into your chest and
Speaker 1: get to the free throw line. That is doubly valuable
Speaker 1: on the Warriors Demons because he gets the Warriors in
Speaker 1: the bonus, and by getting them in the bonus, then
Speaker 1: if you clutch or grab Steph off the ball, it's
Speaker 1: a free two points. When you have the greatest free
Speaker 1: throw shooter NBA history on your team, if your team
Speaker 1: gets in the bonus, that is super valuable. He was
Speaker 1: great Steph. It's so interesting with Steph because I talked
Speaker 1: about this on the TV show. I maybe mentioned it here.
Speaker 1: A couple things on Steph, and then we'll get to
Speaker 1: why I'm not as confident in the Warriors. People were
Speaker 1: mad that Buddy Healed got the potential game tying shot
Speaker 1: against the Clippers and not Steph. And Steph's career he's
Speaker 1: not been good at you know, final seconds to tire
Speaker 1: when the game shots. He's like twenty two percent on
Speaker 1: threes in his career playoffs in regular season in that spot.
Speaker 1: He is, however, the best ever by a mile at
Speaker 1: dagger threes at up one late up to late and
Speaker 1: hit the three that just absolutely lights the arena on
Speaker 1: fire and rips the opponent's heard out. And he had
Speaker 1: a couple of those in this game. Also. I did
Speaker 1: find it interesting and credit to him. On Tuesday show,
Speaker 1: I talked about how he gets subbed out offense defense
Speaker 1: late in games, and with fifty seven seconds left in
Speaker 1: that game, they did sub him out for defense. I mean,
Speaker 1: in a part really a part of a Reggie Miller
Speaker 1: master class of broadcasting. They said Steph is resting. He
Speaker 1: was not resting. He was taken out for defensive purposes,
Speaker 1: but then with five seconds left in a defensive possession,
Speaker 1: they put him back in. He guarded the inbounder and
Speaker 1: generated a five second call.
Speaker 3: Wait, God, did you want Reggie Miller to be like, yes,
Speaker 3: Stephen Curry's not great at defense, he's liability, so he's
Speaker 3: sitting down right now.
Speaker 1: No, no, he doesn't have to add his opinion. But
Speaker 1: they could have just said, what the actual facts It
Speaker 1: was not that he was resting, it was offense defense substitutions.
Speaker 1: I would have yes, I would have expected the the
Speaker 1: an accurate portrayal, however, like we got. I mean, that
Speaker 1: was a that was a Reggie Tour to force on
Speaker 1: that call, joh turns his ankle. He's like, did he
Speaker 1: actually step on someone's foot? No way to tell, rub
Speaker 1: some dirt on it? Is he taken advil? What's going
Speaker 1: It's just a I mean, it was so bad that
Speaker 1: Kevin Wilds, who is the nicest person in the world
Speaker 1: and never says anything bad about anyone, sent out the
Speaker 1: following tweet the suggestions I'm hearing for healing, healing jaw's ankle,
Speaker 1: go to his happy place, take an advilla and hop
Speaker 1: on the bike. Walk it off. Tie his sneakers very tight.
Speaker 1: That's as close to cutting commentary about another broadcaster as
Speaker 1: you'll ever get from old kW on t But that's
Speaker 1: neither here nor there. Warriors got the win, but that
Speaker 1: was ugly. Man. You're up twenty against a Grizzlies team
Speaker 1: that has beaten in the last two and a half
Speaker 1: months to Monsey, the Grizzlies have beaten one above five
Speaker 1: hundred team, the Detroit Pistons, and and John gets hurt
Speaker 1: and has to miss time and it's still your trailing
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. And there were a lot to
Speaker 1: me of just really flashing red lights about the Warriors,
Speaker 1: and about being concerned about the Warriors in this matchup
Speaker 1: against Houston. Here's the first one. They didn't play Edie
Speaker 1: off the court, which means Houston's gonna be able to
Speaker 1: play Steven Adams if you can't, Zach Edy. Listen, Edie
Speaker 1: had some really good moments and some really bad moments.
Speaker 1: He's got to and I don't want to sound like
Speaker 1: your seventh grade junior high gym teacher, but keep the
Speaker 1: ball above your head, kid, get the rebound, keep it up,
Speaker 1: don't bring it down. Your seventy four of the Warriors
Speaker 1: aren't playing anybody over six'. Eight keep the ball up
Speaker 1: and then you're not gonna get stripped and getting those.
Speaker 1: Problems but he was a, force obviously on the glass
Speaker 1: and again demons against The, rockets who are the best
Speaker 1: offensive rebounding team in the. League that now showed, me,
Speaker 1: oh if they want to Play shoon And Steven adams
Speaker 1: at the same, time they're gonna be able to get
Speaker 1: away with. It, yeah and just Crush Golden state on the.
Speaker 1: Glass now you might, say how are those guys gonna
Speaker 1: defend in? Space here's the other sneaky thing about The
Speaker 1: warriors with these. Lineups they're now rolling out. There they
Speaker 1: have a lot of guys that you do not have
Speaker 1: to guard at the three point. Line draymond's been hitting.
Speaker 1: Threes they will Let draymond. Shoot Jimmy butler will make
Speaker 1: one clutch three a, game and other than that just
Speaker 1: turn them. Down Gary payton is not trying to shoot.
Speaker 1: Threes there's a lot of guys in pods will, shoot
Speaker 1: and so it's weird to say about A warriors team
Speaker 1: that is the greatest shooter of all, time but they're
Speaker 1: not an unbelievable shooting team because of the people they
Speaker 1: have out. There that's why they're playing the kid that
Speaker 1: was drafted three picks ahead A, Brownie Quinton post the
Speaker 1: seven footer to go shoot. Threes and SO i JUST
Speaker 1: i think if you're this is HOW i would handicap the.
Speaker 1: Series as far as WHO i think, is The warriors
Speaker 1: obviously have the best. Player they have the best player
Speaker 1: by a considerable. Margin So steph's the best, Player shingoon's
Speaker 1: the second best, Player Jimmy butler's the third best, player
Speaker 1: and Then Jalen, Green Amon, thompson Then Draymond, green and
Speaker 1: then five. Rockets fred Van vliet even THOUGH, i you,
Speaker 1: know not a huge fan of. His, Uh Dylan, brooks
Speaker 1: the Entire Rocket. Spence you'd take all those guys Over
Speaker 1: moody Or Gary payton Or looney or, Whomever quenton Post,
Speaker 1: Gee santos. Guys The warriors are, Playing kaminga's now just
Speaker 1: done out of the rotation.
Speaker 3: Entirely AND i was gonna, say if The warriors see
Speaker 3: themselves go, down, like do you think there's a Chance
Speaker 3: kminga like pops out in this?
Speaker 2: Series he gets a Little.
Speaker 1: OKAY i think that. They So i'm gonna read you
Speaker 1: a quote THAT i read in an article last.
Speaker 2: Night he don't want to pass the ball To steph
Speaker 2: as much as they want him.
Speaker 1: To. OH i left out on A healed by the,
Speaker 1: way WHEN i was talking. Shooters, Obviously heal's a great,
Speaker 1: shooter But healed was. Not healed was considered unplayable by
Speaker 1: The sixers in their playoff lineups last, year and The
Speaker 1: kaminga thing's. Weird so from The San Jose Mercury news,
Speaker 1: Yesterday kaminga skipped pregame introductions and arrived late to the
Speaker 1: bench before Both sunday And TUESDAY'S dmp coach decision. Games
Speaker 1: After sunday's, game he took to the court and put
Speaker 1: up shots instead of using one of The warriors mani practice,
Speaker 1: courts which are mostly hidden from cameras and. Reporters did
Speaker 1: he fulfill his role as modest as it might have,
Speaker 1: been or did he try to do his own? Thing
Speaker 1: was the question that they ended the article. On and
Speaker 1: SO i say all that to say, THIS i like
Speaker 1: The rockets in this, series AND i certainly think The
Speaker 1: warriors being bigger favorites against The rockets than The lakers
Speaker 1: are against The timberwolves is crazy to. Me LIKE i
Speaker 1: DON'T i don't look at this as a. Series i'd
Speaker 1: be shocked if The warriors, won, obviously BUT i do
Speaker 1: think this is going to be a hard fought seven
Speaker 1: games and the game sevens In, Houston and what an
Speaker 1: amazing moment for The rockets fans when every year standing
Speaker 1: between them and a finals, appearance when they had a
Speaker 1: real champ and chip caliber. Team were These Golden State
Speaker 1: Warriors and now you, have in my, opinion the better,
Speaker 1: team certainly the more rested, team maybe the healthier. Team
Speaker 1: steph's playing amazing despite the fact that he has a
Speaker 1: soft cast on his shooting. Hand it's, remarkable but that concerns.
Speaker 1: Me you have multiple guys that are excited to mix
Speaker 1: it up With jimmy And steph And Dylan brooks And Amen,
Speaker 1: thompson and you can potentially knock them out of the.
Speaker 1: Playoffs and either, way whoever wins this series is going
Speaker 1: to be beat to hell getting Into round two with
Speaker 1: The lakers waiting for. Him and so that, yes obviously
Speaker 1: for The, lakers they would have rather The grizzlies won
Speaker 1: The Warriors grizzlies, game and then there's their rope route
Speaker 1: to the conference. Finals road to The conference finals means
Speaker 1: round two you're either playing a super Young rockets team
Speaker 1: or this incredibly Foolish grizzly. Team BUT i just don't
Speaker 1: look at The warriors as the juggernaut that they appeared
Speaker 1: to be two weeks. Ago since then The rockets shut him.
Speaker 1: Down they blew a game to The, spurs they lost
Speaker 1: to The clippers in a game they treated like A game,
Speaker 1: seven and they damn near blew a game to A
Speaker 1: grizzly team that hasn't beaten a good team in two.
Speaker 2: And a half.
Speaker 1: Months and SO i NOW i will say, this and
Speaker 1: this is a concern if we expect these games to
Speaker 1: be close To, monse who do you trust on the
Speaker 1: rockets to go get a bucket late THAT i guess
Speaker 1: the answer Is Jalen.
Speaker 2: Green, Oh.
Speaker 3: Joyce, well Obviously santguon's not taking the ball, up But
Speaker 3: i'd say gets Sant guone the ball on the. PAINT i,
Speaker 3: mean if you need a, three then one Hundred Jalen.
Speaker 3: Green it's a championship. Experience whos?
Speaker 1: Championship oh Van Vleet that is. True, no, no, No Van vliet.
Speaker 3: Does he's had big shots and in some big spots,
Speaker 3: Too SO i, mean.
Speaker 1: Oh, Yeah Van vliet had some huge shots in THE
Speaker 1: Nba finals Against. Steph that's the other, Thing, like you
Speaker 1: just have a lot of guys with a lot of
Speaker 1: belief that they can at least hamper or Annoy. Steph
Speaker 1: steph's gonna be. Great and here's the other thing About.
Speaker 1: JIMMY i, Mean jimmy scored thirty eight and was. Brilliant
Speaker 1: jimmy was brilliant against The. Clippers and it maybe seems
Speaker 1: LIKE i was a little too pessimistic about Playoff jimmy
Speaker 1: existing this.
Speaker 2: Year but.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be putting up these thirty plus point
Speaker 1: games with, regularity even prime. Playoff jimmy was not doing.
Speaker 1: That he would pop off for these big games and
Speaker 1: then he would have somewhat more quiet. Games and SO
Speaker 1: i did not think it was a positive that they
Speaker 1: needed thirty eight from, him thirty seven From steph and
Speaker 1: that they still it still came down to the final.
Speaker 3: Moments, yes, okay, bye AND i still AND i think
Speaker 3: there was a lot of times in that game where
Speaker 3: they Took curry like completely out of it and Like
Speaker 3: scotti pipmant that Was Scotty pipman. Junr and you have
Speaker 3: The Houston, rockets who are a better defensive team all,
Speaker 3: around SO i think they'll.
Speaker 2: Be able to mitigate. That.
Speaker 1: Really, well, yep you can go ahead with your follow
Speaker 1: up questions for we move.
Speaker 3: On oh, gosh the things just extra don't mean yeah.
Speaker 3: Soon draymond And, Steven oh my, gosh this is so.
Speaker 3: Bad draymond And Steven adams have a history of a
Speaker 3: couple of growing shots and body. Slams set a fake
Speaker 3: line On draymond incidents this.
Speaker 1: Series, well, LISTEN i think that is a real. STORYLINE
Speaker 1: i think that's a real. Storyline Is Draymond Dylan brooks
Speaker 1: both trying to bait the other? Guy here is WHAT
Speaker 1: i would say is the. Difference draymond is so much
Speaker 1: more important to The warriors Than Dylan brooks is to The.
Speaker 1: Rockets so there will be a bunch of you, know double,
Speaker 1: technicals stare. Downs AND I i am historically not at
Speaker 1: all a fan Of Dylan. Brooks and one of the
Speaker 1: Reasons i'm not a fan Of Dylan brooks IS i
Speaker 1: think he's a, dirty dangerous. Player but that's also a
Speaker 1: huge bummer for The warriors Because Dylan brooks will like
Speaker 1: try to undercut. Somebody Dylan brooks will do things that
Speaker 1: put other guys in, jeopardy And draymond is just going
Speaker 1: to play incredibly physical and tough and might occasionally like, now,
Speaker 1: WELL i guess you, Know draymond does have a soft
Speaker 1: spot for Hitting european. Centers this is kind of his favorite,
Speaker 1: thing or you know WHAT i, mean whether It's Steven,
Speaker 1: adams he's Not European Rudy, Gobert Demontes. Sabonis so Maybe
Speaker 1: shingoon needs to keep his head on a. Swivel but,
Speaker 1: YEAH i, mean this is gonna be a real fight
Speaker 1: and Ima udoka is going to encourage the. Fight, yeah
Speaker 1: that's the other piece of. It AND i, thought before
Speaker 1: we move on To Lakers, WOLVES i thought the officiating
Speaker 1: In Warriors grizzlies was an utter. Abomination AND i thought
Speaker 1: it was an abomination in the worst, way which is
Speaker 1: the refs seem to be almost intentionally controlling the flow
Speaker 1: of the. Game and by THAT i mean, This the
Speaker 1: first forty five minutes of that game were so unfairly
Speaker 1: officiated in the warriors. Favor it Was jimmy had eighteen free,
Speaker 1: throws it was every single close call went The warrior's,
Speaker 1: way and then and, then despite, that The grizzlies were in,
Speaker 1: it and then it felt like the refs were, like,
Speaker 1: okay time to switch. Sides and then there were three
Speaker 1: just phantom awful calls against The warriors that made it to, Where,
Speaker 1: okay this game's gonna come down to the final, minute final,
Speaker 1: seconds and then there and then it felt to me
Speaker 1: like the refs, like, okay let's get even. Again five
Speaker 1: seconds on The grizzlies game. Over and SO i thought
Speaker 1: it was one of the most poorly officiated games of the.
Speaker 1: Year AND i just hope that the refs do a
Speaker 1: better job when the actual playoffs, begin because what you
Speaker 1: see too often is one team gets a hugely beneficial
Speaker 1: whistle the. Refs then it feels like catch a glimpse
Speaker 1: of the scoreboard and see the free throw differential and they're, like,
Speaker 1: okay time to get it about even don't want anyone
Speaker 1: to say, that you, know we were being unfair, here
Speaker 1: and SO i absolutely hate that AND i hope in
Speaker 1: the postseason the refs are. Better all, Right let's get
Speaker 1: To Lakers.
Speaker 3: Timberwolves lakers have the second best odds of The west
Speaker 3: to win the title right now at minus one ninety.
Speaker 3: Five Anthony edwards says he loves the position that the.
Speaker 1: Real quick hold on, there the second mess odds to
Speaker 1: win in The west to win the title minus.
Speaker 2: Won ninety five in round.
Speaker 1: One i'm, sorry you're, fine go, ahead and uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah So Anthony edwards says he loves where.
Speaker 3: The timberwolves are at right now and, SAYING i love
Speaker 3: the fact that everybody wants The lakers to. Win that's
Speaker 3: how it's supposed to. Be they don't want the Tim
Speaker 3: wolves to, win AND i get. That what is the
Speaker 3: key to this?
Speaker 2: Series, well.
Speaker 1: The only chance The timberwolves have is If Julius, randall
Speaker 1: for the first time in his career plays well in the,
Speaker 1: playoffs and we've never seen that. Happen So i'm Gonna
Speaker 1: i'm gonna pull it. Up i'm looking down if you're
Speaker 1: watching on, YouTube Because i'm pulling up on my. Phone
Speaker 1: Julius randall's playoff career is truly. Disastrous and it's not.
Speaker 1: Overstated it's not being. Unfair it is what it. Is it.
Speaker 1: Is in twenty twenty, one in the first round against The,
Speaker 1: hawks that's the Famous Trey young. Series you, See, oh
Speaker 1: he was eighteen eleven and. Four that that's actually good
Speaker 1: on twenty nine percent from the. Field so his first
Speaker 1: playoff series, ever he was twenty nine percent from the.
Speaker 1: Field then two years later Against cleveland In round, one
Speaker 1: he was fourteen and six a game that was after
Speaker 1: an ALL nba season on thirty three percent from the.
Speaker 1: Field and then and they won that. Series and then
Speaker 1: the next round Against miami he was eighteen and, ten
Speaker 1: which is much better on forty one percent from the,
Speaker 1: field which is. Okay in his playoff career is twenty
Speaker 1: eight percent from three and then last year obviously he
Speaker 1: was hurt for the, playoffs and it didn't really seem
Speaker 1: Like knicks fans were all that bummed about. It and
Speaker 1: so he is yet to have a single great playoff,
Speaker 1: season and even if you go to individual playoff, games
Speaker 1: you are hard pressed to find more than one good
Speaker 1: one game one last or two years ago Against, miami
Speaker 1: he was really.
Speaker 2: Good he was.
Speaker 1: Twenty, five twelve and eight on forty four percent from the,
Speaker 1: field which is about as good as you can hope
Speaker 1: for from. Him but in his playoff, career and he
Speaker 1: has one other game Against miami where he was twenty
Speaker 1: and nine on sixty one. Percent but what's that joke
Speaker 1: everybody likes to. Make he is, Shooting he's shooting tour
Speaker 1: dates or. Whatever, yeah that. Thing. Yeah so in his,
Speaker 1: career in ascending, order he is in the playoffs from
Speaker 1: the field two for, fifteen three for, fifteen three for,
Speaker 1: fourteen six for twenty, three four for, fifteen three for,
Speaker 1: ten five for, sixteen seven for twenty seven for, nineteen
Speaker 1: eight for twenty, one and then five games forty percent
Speaker 1: from the field are better eight for twenty eight for,
Speaker 1: eighteen four for, nine and then the two good games
Speaker 1: seven for thirteen and eight for. Thirteen that's a fifteen
Speaker 1: game playoff sample. Size he's been good in two of,
Speaker 1: them so he's got to Be what are you laughing about,
Speaker 1: That i'm being no.
Speaker 3: No after you said, THAT i JUST i, whispered go
Speaker 3: ahead and swing that, rock big.
Speaker 2: Dog oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah so for real, Though so that is he's gotta
Speaker 1: be good for them to have a. Chance and by the,
Speaker 1: way gonna be tough because he's gonna be Gar on
Speaker 1: the other, end he's gonna be Guar Lebron james a.
Speaker 1: Lot so he is the absolute key now other than,
Speaker 1: HIM i am really interested in how much Can Austin,
Speaker 1: reeves how much energy Can Austin reeves Make Anthony edwards
Speaker 1: expend on the defensive, end BECAUSE i know there have
Speaker 1: been some thoughts That ant is going to try to
Speaker 1: Guard lebron Or. Luca that's a terrible. Idea ant's a
Speaker 1: very good, defender but he is simply too small for
Speaker 1: either one of those. Guys jaden McDaniels will spend a
Speaker 1: lot of time On lebron And. Luca Julius randall will
Speaker 1: spend some time On lebron And. Luca nazrid might Try
Speaker 1: dante's not going to be able to do. It but point,
Speaker 1: Is Anthony edwards is going to end up matched up
Speaker 1: On Austin reeves a fair. Amount, NOW i don't think
Speaker 1: The lakers have anybody who can slow Down Anthony. Edwards,
Speaker 1: now oddly they did well against him in the regular,
Speaker 1: season BUT i would just go ahead and pencil, in,
Speaker 1: Uh Anthony edwards for thirty, again he's gonna average thirty
Speaker 1: in this, series just so be. It Can austin make
Speaker 1: him have to defend enough and run around enough that
Speaker 1: he is a little tired on the offensive end at
Speaker 1: the end of these, games because you do remember, THAT i,
Speaker 1: LISTEN i get. It you had to Trade Luka doncic
Speaker 1: because he's an out of shape. ALCOHOLIC i Understand, nico
Speaker 1: but it Was Anthony, edwards who might as well be
Speaker 1: chiseled out of, granite who said he was exhausted in
Speaker 1: the conference finals last, year Not. Luca and so now
Speaker 1: it's a lot of time, off and it's round, one
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of days between the. Games but
Speaker 1: how much energy can you Make aunt expend on the defensive?
Speaker 1: End and then the only other, reel the only way
Speaker 1: for in my, opinion for The timbrels to have a
Speaker 1: real chance is If luca's three is not, Falling because
Speaker 1: If luca's three is, falling then what you are going
Speaker 1: to see Is lebron really picking and choosing his spots
Speaker 1: in the first three quarters of these games and then
Speaker 1: taking over in the, fourth something he has not had
Speaker 1: the luxury of doing much at all in his whole,
Speaker 1: career but certainly in His lakers. Career but you saw
Speaker 1: it in That Lakers MAVs game Where, lebron you, know
Speaker 1: hand off the joystick for the first three, quarters then
Speaker 1: best player on the court in the fourth. Quarter you've
Speaker 1: seen it a few times this, year and So Julius
Speaker 1: randall's gotta be good for them to have a. Chance
Speaker 1: Nas reed's gonna be super. Important AND i haven't even
Speaker 1: Mentioned Rudy gobert because here's the. THING i Think rudy's
Speaker 1: in a really rough spot. Here it's not just That
Speaker 1: luca has tortured him on multiple. Continents it's not just
Speaker 1: That luca hit the biggest shot of his career over,
Speaker 1: him but it's also that The lakers want to play.
Speaker 1: Small his offensive limitations will allow them to play small
Speaker 1: because they're not going to be able to just you,
Speaker 1: know dump the ball down to go bear and be, like,
Speaker 1: hey you Have Dorian finney's Or Rudy hachimura on you
Speaker 1: give us that sweet baby hook you've. Got that's not
Speaker 1: gonna be a. Thing and, defensively we have seen if
Speaker 1: you play five out It rudy really really. Struggles and
Speaker 1: SO i would guess That ant is awesome and it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter all that much in this. Series AND i
Speaker 1: said it to you guys On. Tuesday i'll say it.
Speaker 1: Again The lakers minus a game and a half at
Speaker 1: plus one point, TWENTY i think is probably my favorite
Speaker 1: bet of this round of the. Playoffs all, right what
Speaker 1: else you have on this?
Speaker 2: Series?
Speaker 3: Uh do you think this could be the start of
Speaker 3: A Luca ant? Rivalry So.
Speaker 1: I'd love, That AND i do think that they have
Speaker 1: personalities that would mesh for a. RIVALRY i do think
Speaker 1: that both of these, teams you, know they shouldn't meet
Speaker 1: in the playoffs consistently moving. FORWARD i don't look At
Speaker 1: aunt yet as the caliber of player Of, luca AND
Speaker 1: i don't think that there is much of an.
Speaker 2: Argument what demase you don't see them as the same
Speaker 2: caliber of. PLAYER i get Like lucas like.
Speaker 1: Slight, YEAH i look at lucas a GUY i expect
Speaker 1: to win multiple. MVPs that's That's there's only two other
Speaker 1: guys in the league in that, caliber and they both
Speaker 1: already have. Multiple as far as prime, GUYS i, mean you,
Speaker 1: know In giannis And, jokic AND i look At aunt
Speaker 1: as a guy who might win, one you know WHAT i.
Speaker 1: Mean so LIKE, i if you set luca career MVP's
Speaker 1: number one and a, HALF i would immediately say. Over
Speaker 1: and if you Set ant's number of career MVPs at a,
Speaker 1: HALF i would, SAY i, need, LIKE i gotta really
Speaker 1: think about this so that you know that's the AND
Speaker 1: i think IT'S i think it's an almost impossibility That
Speaker 1: luca never wins a LEAGUE, mvp AND i think it's
Speaker 1: a coin flip Of ant. Does so, again it were
Speaker 1: in the margins, here but, YEAH i do look like
Speaker 1: AND i think a good evidence of that is if
Speaker 1: The lakers had Traded Anthony, Edwards Max christi and a
Speaker 1: first round. Pick i'm, sorry if The lakers had Traded Anthony,
Speaker 1: Davis Max christi and a first round pick For Anthony,
Speaker 1: edwards we would in two months later still be, like
Speaker 1: that's the dumbest Shit i've ever seen in my. Life
Speaker 1: is it because they want to move the? Team like? We,
Speaker 1: uh you would have, legitimately you, know debates on each
Speaker 1: side like, okay who got? Better like does it make?
Speaker 1: It AND i understand for the way The timberwolves are,
Speaker 1: constructed it wouldn't even make. Sense but, yeah that's HOW i,
Speaker 1: so AND I i really, like BUT i think he
Speaker 1: needs to level up a tiny.
Speaker 2: Bit.
Speaker 1: Now he's not as old As, luca you know WHAT i.
Speaker 1: Mean he hasn't been in the league quite as. Long and,
Speaker 1: so uh there is that go?
Speaker 2: Ahead do you? Well were you done with the with
Speaker 2: the first follow?
Speaker 3: UP i, WAS i was gonna ask if you SEE
Speaker 3: Jj reddick's stock rising or how much you see it
Speaker 3: rising this?
Speaker 1: Offseason, well it depends on the playoff. RUN i, mean
Speaker 1: if they get bounced in round, one it won't people
Speaker 1: Like Darvin ham made the conference finals his first. Year
Speaker 1: BUT I i think it's our pretty obvious THAT Jj
Speaker 1: reddick has done an excellent job his first year as
Speaker 1: A lakers head. Coach now we'll see how he handles the.
Speaker 1: PLAYOFFS i know there's some in some circles there is
Speaker 1: a belief that The lakers have been kind of using
Speaker 1: a playoff style defense in the regular season and to
Speaker 1: deal with their lack of, size and that that might
Speaker 1: have been a mistake BY jj because now they're not
Speaker 1: going to have an extra gear and more people have
Speaker 1: seen it so they can prepare for. It i'm less
Speaker 1: concerned with that than. Others but, YEAH i think JJ's
Speaker 1: done an excellent. JOB i think that there was a
Speaker 1: legitimate argument to include him On coach of The year
Speaker 1: ballots this. Year and so credit TO, jj who people
Speaker 1: KNOW i historically not the biggest fan of as far
Speaker 1: as a media, presence but he did a really good.
Speaker 1: Job all, right let's go to the play in and, stuff.
Speaker 3: And so The MAVs in the. Heat they live to
Speaker 3: find another. Day they face The grizzlies and The hawks.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow The magic also already, advanced and they faced My
Speaker 3: celtics in round. One do you think The celtics have
Speaker 3: anything to worry about?
Speaker 2: There absolutely?
Speaker 1: Not all, right, yeah and, listen The magic are a
Speaker 1: very good defensive. Team they cannot score and now The
Speaker 1: magic are the best team in the league at denying three.
Speaker 1: Pointers and The celtics live at the. Three BUT i
Speaker 1: this is HOW i feel about Your celtics this. Round
Speaker 1: THEN i have a question for. You if this series
Speaker 1: goes six, games it is a failure By. Boston, yeah
Speaker 1: Like i'm sweeping teams is, Hard so, like If orlando gets,
Speaker 1: one so be. It but if you guys are playing
Speaker 1: a game six against The, magic THEN i would start
Speaker 1: to be, like, oh maybe the championship hangover is, Real
Speaker 1: like there's no reason whatsoever to put yourself in a
Speaker 1: position against This magic team where this thing is not
Speaker 1: over in four or. Five AND i, NOW i Know
Speaker 1: jalen's been saying all the right, things and the team
Speaker 1: saying all the right. Things would you be against The
Speaker 1: Boston celtics, Saying, jalen take two full. Weeks, man we don't.
Speaker 2: Need you this.
Speaker 1: Round we're gonna let you rest and get as healthy
Speaker 1: as that, knee as healthy as possible for A round
Speaker 1: two battle against likely The.
Speaker 2: KNICKS i, mean we could probably wrest somebody in round
Speaker 2: two if we wanted. To but, Yeah i'm perfectly fine with.
Speaker 1: THAT i don't think you could rest people against The.
Speaker 1: KNICKS i think The knicks are fully. Healthy you'll need
Speaker 1: your full. Compliment BUT i mean certainly not rest your
Speaker 1: second best.
Speaker 2: Player that was maybe Not Jalen, brown but you can raise, somebody.
Speaker 1: And SO i don't think they. Will but, that to
Speaker 1: me is the most interesting part Of celtics magic is
Speaker 1: not who's going to. Win the most interesting part Of
Speaker 1: celtics magic is how Does Jalen Brown's brown's knee? Look
Speaker 1: and the most interesting part Of Thunder grizzlies Or Thunder
Speaker 1: MAVs is honestly should be. Nothing The MAVs will not
Speaker 1: be able to score with The thunder and The grizzlies
Speaker 1: will not be able to defend The. THUNDER i would
Speaker 1: BE i would be shocked if either one of those goes.
Speaker 1: Six AND i do not care who The cavs Playing round.
Speaker 1: One i'm telling you right now like they're either playing
Speaker 1: The hawks or The, heat and they will crush either
Speaker 1: one of them all right before you get to playoff?
Speaker 1: Predictions one more follow?
Speaker 2: Up uh? Yeah do you think that it? Is?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah is it more likely that tomorrow will be the
Speaker 3: last time that we See trey In atlanta Or John Memphis.
Speaker 1: Tray In? Atlanta but here is WHAT i find. Interesting
Speaker 1: we have and just odd, coincidence but they all play
Speaker 1: the same. Position they were all taken within four years
Speaker 1: of each other in the. Draft they were all top five,
Speaker 1: Picks this triumvirate of Silly southeastern point Guards John, Memphis
Speaker 1: LaMelo And charlotte And trey In. Atlanta And trey's been
Speaker 1: in the league the longest. Year seven For.
Speaker 3: Trey what you, SAID i was about to, Say, tray
Speaker 3: not as much as the other, guys BUT i, said you,
Speaker 3: here you're going.
Speaker 1: THERE i, MEAN i don't. Know trey was playing keep
Speaker 1: away from a ref in a playoff. GAME i know
Speaker 1: that was. Crazy he was, like honest to, God cray
Speaker 1: did to the ref What demonse used to do To
Speaker 1: diora after his. GAMES i never seeing like, it like
Speaker 1: oh you want The, nope it's. Mine like it's really
Speaker 1: just a remarkable thing that he. Did and SO I
Speaker 1: i think that a three, way three team trade Of
Speaker 1: john To charlotte just get him in a more peaceful,
Speaker 1: city less to, do you, know The john To, charlotte
Speaker 1: him And Brandon. Miller that's. Interesting LaMelo To atlanta because
Speaker 1: that's an unserious. Franchise, Anyway lamello would love it there
Speaker 1: and might as, well you know WHAT i, mean give
Speaker 1: him some highlights and trey To, memphis where they have
Speaker 1: theoretically a good enough defensive personnel they can cover for
Speaker 1: some of his offensive. Woes he can play true point.
Speaker 1: GUARD i think that's. Interesting it obviously wouldn't, happen BUT
Speaker 1: i think all three of those, guys for their careers
Speaker 1: could use a change of, scenery and you could kind
Speaker 1: of sell the fans on all three of those trades.
Speaker 3: Potentially, yeah did you feel a little LIKE i felt
Speaker 3: a little.
Speaker 2: BIT i don't want to SAY i felt. BAD i
Speaker 2: did feel. BAD i felt a little bad For John
Speaker 2: rant watching The Golden state.
Speaker 3: Game he seemed like a shell of, Himself, like take
Speaker 3: the celebrations away from.
Speaker 2: Him hits a, three he goes back all. Solemn it's
Speaker 2: just like it's funny seeing.
Speaker 1: That, Yeah, god, Yeah god. Forbid just just be serious
Speaker 1: on the basketball court for a minute in the biggest
Speaker 1: game of the. SEASON i, mean, listen this poor guy
Speaker 1: who wasn't able to pantomime. Explosions you KNOW.
Speaker 2: I.
Speaker 1: DIDN'T i just. LISTEN i want the best For. JAH
Speaker 1: i like, HIM i like his, DAD i love the
Speaker 1: city Of, memphis AND i understand people are probably mad
Speaker 1: at me Because i've been one of the biggest public
Speaker 1: scolds the last few weeks towards. Him but it's just
Speaker 1: at some point you got to grow. Up all, right
Speaker 1: let's quick hit or do these other playoff, series but go.
Speaker 3: Ahead so the only series That vegas really has close
Speaker 3: Is denver and The, clippers which is basically a coin
Speaker 3: toss or a pick on whatever you i'll want to call.
Speaker 2: It what do you make of these series and how
Speaker 2: they're being?
Speaker 1: Priced all, Right so Then knicks or minus four hundred
Speaker 1: Against Detroit detroit's plus three. TEN i think that's too
Speaker 1: high of a. PRICE i do expect this series to
Speaker 1: go six. GAMES i And i'm really excited to Watch
Speaker 1: Caid cunningham in the playoffs like. That my biggest thing
Speaker 1: is Watch Kaid cunningham in the playoffs and watch The
Speaker 1: knicks in the. Playoffs this you, know fully Healthy knicks,
Speaker 1: team see how they. Look BUT i would be very
Speaker 1: surprised If detroit. WON i just think plus three tens
Speaker 1: too big of a. Price Pacers, Bucks The pacers are
Speaker 1: clearly the better. TEAM i honestly think they're the better coach.
Speaker 1: Team both teams have championship. Coaches in Carl Island, dock
Speaker 1: BUT i Think pacers better. Coach Team jannis Since dame
Speaker 1: went out has been playing point. Center he's averaging nine
Speaker 1: assists a game and has just been. Awesome yanni's also
Speaker 1: has not won a playoff game or series in three. Years,
Speaker 1: milwaukee even though they're the, underdog they've got to. Win
Speaker 1: you can't go out in the first round three straight
Speaker 1: years During giannis's prime Of Boston. Orlando just stay, healthy.
Speaker 1: Everybody we've talked a lot About, Lakers minnesota And Golden
Speaker 1: State houston And Denver Clippers man Oh, MAN i cannot
Speaker 1: wait to watch every single game of that. Series Jamal
Speaker 1: murray back The, clippers you, know have their championships starting,
Speaker 1: five and it's been so weird to hear people that
Speaker 1: just want to vote and. Joke unbelievable and was unbelievable this.
Speaker 1: Year but people that just want THE mvp every single
Speaker 1: year no matter, what to go To Nikola. Jokic recreate
Speaker 1: This nuggets team like it's this some just shit team
Speaker 1: that has when it's the it's their championship starting. Five
Speaker 1: basically four of their five key players are. Champions like,
Speaker 1: NOW i don't love their bench at. All russ has
Speaker 1: been BAD i don't think it is h overall nearly
Speaker 1: as complete of a team As joker. Deserves but this
Speaker 1: idea that it's just this horseshit roster that had to
Speaker 1: be dragged to fifty. Wins, now if he were to
Speaker 1: make the finals with this, roster that is. Unreal but
Speaker 1: and shout out To Zach lowe for you, know making it,
Speaker 1: Clear but this idea that, oh no one On denver
Speaker 1: other Than joker would get minutes For Oklahoma. City and
Speaker 1: that's Why jokers THE mvp over. Shape there are four
Speaker 1: guys on The nuggets who would play big minutes for The,
Speaker 1: Thunder joker, Obviously Jamal, Murray Aaron, gordon And Michael Porter. Junior,
Speaker 1: now the rest of their players wouldn't crack The thunder's,
Speaker 1: rotation which is why The thunder are so deep and so.
Speaker 1: Good but let's not over state THAT i the key
Speaker 1: To Denver, clippers other than the obvious Will kawi stay,
Speaker 1: healthy is going to be do we get Playoff Jamal?
Speaker 1: Murray that's a, positive and do we get Playoff James
Speaker 1: harden that's a. Negative and, also you know what Can
Speaker 1: Chris dunn do defensively on the perimeter against The nuggets
Speaker 1: and does interim head Coach. Adamman, Uh Dave, adelman you
Speaker 1: know you're old man when you start doing the thing
Speaker 1: THAT i used to laugh at broadcasters for, doing which
Speaker 1: is they call the famous son the dad's. Name So
Speaker 1: Rick adelman was a FAMOUS nba. Coach, forever WHENEVER i
Speaker 1: See Dave, ADELMAN i think Of. Rick but take set that.
Speaker 1: Aside Will Dave adelman have the courage to uh Sit
Speaker 1: Russell westbrook in crunch? Time because that's what you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to, do and.
Speaker 2: So that Is it's, crazy, man we talked. ABOUT i
Speaker 2: just gotta sit him in crunch. Time it's not like
Speaker 2: a like at a defensive.
Speaker 3: Liability it's just if the game is close and if
Speaker 3: it's on the, WAY i can't trust.
Speaker 1: HIM i, Mean russ, GUY i. Listen fair's. FAIR i
Speaker 1: did this To Julius. RANDALL i should do it To.
Speaker 1: Russ russ playoff series the last few. YEARS i, mean
Speaker 1: it's truly. Unfathomable so last year Against, dallas nineteen minutes per,
Speaker 1: game gave you a nice robust six four and one
Speaker 1: on twenty three percent. Shooting, okay, no that's not. Fair i'm,
Speaker 1: sorry twenty three percent from. Three he was twenty six
Speaker 1: percent from the field the previous year In round, one
Speaker 1: scored a lot and HAD i think one really good.
Speaker 1: Game still forty one percent from the field the previous
Speaker 1: time he was in the playoffs when he was the
Speaker 1: best player on The wizards in that, series thirty three
Speaker 1: percent from the. Field Russell westbrook Since Kevin durant left The.
Speaker 1: Thunder so think about how long that. Is Since Kevin
Speaker 1: durant left The thunder is shooting in the postseason thirty
Speaker 1: eight percent from the, field twenty nine percent from. THREE i,
Speaker 1: mean that's a that Is Kevin durant left The thunder
Speaker 1: a year Before luca was. Drafted so, like it's a
Speaker 1: long time and so you just can't play. Him and
Speaker 1: SO i wonder If addleman will be able to do.
Speaker 1: It and by the, way maybe you, will because supposedly
Speaker 1: one of the issues For Michael malone was he wanted
Speaker 1: to keep playing it and he wanted to, play you,
Speaker 1: know in crunch time over the young, guys all, right.
Speaker 3: Did make sense as time went by and facts came, Out, see,
Speaker 3: yeah well he.
Speaker 2: Was crazy at the.
Speaker 1: Time it seems like, it and it seems like the
Speaker 1: players were fine with it all. RIGHT i promised we
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Speaker 1: in THE. Afc we went under on The patriots over
Speaker 1: on The, jets under on The, steelers a, tentative over
Speaker 1: on The, ravens over on The, jags under on The,
Speaker 1: titans over on The, chiefs and over on The. Raiders all, right,
Speaker 1: demonse you go ahead and give me each team and
Speaker 1: we'll do THE nfc as quickly as we. Can.
Speaker 3: Here go, ahead, yes. Sir so you've got The. Eagles
Speaker 3: they're over under set at eleven and a.
Speaker 1: Half so IF i had to bit make a pick,
Speaker 1: HERE i would go slight. Under but you don't have
Speaker 1: to make a pick like this is tougher. Schedule you,
Speaker 1: know did guys the uh you, know did The Super
Speaker 1: bowl relax them a? Bit but they? Did you, know
Speaker 1: they won fourteen games last. Year BUT i WOULD i
Speaker 1: would that to stay away from. Me and this next
Speaker 1: one is a more interesting.
Speaker 2: One go, ahead you got we got The. Commanders they're
Speaker 2: over unders nine and a.
Speaker 1: Half So i'm going to go under nine and a
Speaker 1: half for The commanders purely BECAUSE i think the whole
Speaker 1: world's gonna be on the. OVER i think that schedules.
Speaker 1: TOUGHER i think that you're not gonna sneak up on.
Speaker 1: ANYBODY i had the schedule in front of, Me i'm
Speaker 1: gonna pull it up. Again we talked to this actually
Speaker 1: on THE tv show. Yesterday so they don't have a
Speaker 1: single game outside of the division with a team that
Speaker 1: we that everyone expects to be. Awful so and again
Speaker 1: we're not always right about, that but they don't have
Speaker 1: any WHAT i would call layup. Games so their home
Speaker 1: schedule outside of the Division, Seattle, Chicago, denver The, raiders The.
Speaker 1: Lions that's not, brutal but no. Layups, now maybe you
Speaker 1: think The raiders are gonna be. AWFUL i Don't their
Speaker 1: road schedule no easy ones, Either, Packers, Chiefs, Chargers, Vikings, Falcons.
Speaker 1: Dolphins so you add to That dak should be, healthy you,
Speaker 1: know is you would think he's gonna be. HEALTHY i
Speaker 1: think The giants are gonna be slightly. BETTER i think
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna be on The. COMMANDERS i think that you
Speaker 1: now have a little more tape On jayden and last
Speaker 1: year they were so great in the, clutch close, games
Speaker 1: all go slight. Under The cowboys are at seven and a,
Speaker 1: half that's a stay away to. Me that number is exactly.
Speaker 1: Right and now the interesting One. Demons, yeah we've we
Speaker 1: got The. Giants they're over under five and a half
Speaker 1: over under five and a half with plus money on
Speaker 1: the over plus one. FIFTEEN i like The giants. OVER
Speaker 1: i think The, giants the head coach AND gm know
Speaker 1: if we're not good this, year we're. Fired SO i
Speaker 1: expect them on draft day to be, Aggressive like you
Speaker 1: could see them potentially trading future picks to move up
Speaker 1: because they're, like, well if we're not, good those aren't
Speaker 1: gonna be our. Picks you know that's somebody else's. Problem
Speaker 1: they're gonna be able to draft ob Dul carter at number.
Speaker 1: Three they're gonna go From Tommy DeVito at quarterback And
Speaker 1: Daniel jones at. Quarterback Two Russell, wilson who will be,
Speaker 1: fine won't be? Good oh be. Fine can The giants
Speaker 1: win seven? GAMES i think they. CAN i like The giants.
Speaker 1: Over let's go to THE Nfc.
Speaker 2: North first, off we got The. Lions they're over unders
Speaker 2: ten and a.
Speaker 1: Half so this will be a tentative over for. Me
Speaker 1: for The Detroit, Lions i've battled with this one a.
Speaker 1: BIT i don't think they're going to be a fifteen
Speaker 1: win juggernaut, again but you Get Aiden hutchinson. BACK i
Speaker 1: don't love losing both coordinators And by the, way this
Speaker 1: might be a flip. FLOP i don't remember LIKE i,
Speaker 1: am you KNOW i Actually i'm rescinding WHAT i said.
Speaker 1: There this is a stay.
Speaker 2: Away, YEAH i was.
Speaker 3: Shocking go, ahead given what you said about The, commanders
Speaker 3: like more confident in them winning less than going under
Speaker 3: nine and a half than The lions takes.
Speaker 1: Why The lions? Listen The lions concern for me is
Speaker 1: the coordinator losses like that to me is you, know
Speaker 1: losing Both Aaron glennae And Ben Johnson and how much
Speaker 1: does being so close to The Super bowl the last
Speaker 1: two years hurt? Them BUT i still think they're the
Speaker 1: best team in that. Division and DO i think that
Speaker 1: that division's not gonna have any team win eleven? Games probably.
Speaker 1: Not BUT I i had said this was a tentative
Speaker 1: over WHEN i talked about it ON, TV i was
Speaker 1: squeamish about. It that's a stay away for. Me all,
Speaker 1: right let's go to the other.
Speaker 2: Ones, uh we got The. Packers they're over unders nine
Speaker 2: and a.
Speaker 1: Half that to me is the exact right. Line So
Speaker 1: i'll stay away from that one as. WELL i think The,
Speaker 1: PACKERS i, again IF i had to, PICK i would
Speaker 1: pick an under but you don't have to, pick you
Speaker 1: don't have to bet THESE i am this is a
Speaker 1: big year For Jordan. Love, yeah and where it's not
Speaker 1: that people are out On Jordan, love but not quite
Speaker 1: as in on him as they were this time last
Speaker 1: year when they were a Trendy Super bowl. PICK i
Speaker 1: also think the division's, brutal so that that number is exactly,
Speaker 1: right and you, Know i'll stay away from it next.
Speaker 3: ONE i feel LIKE i know where you're going. Here
Speaker 3: we got The bears over under eight and a.
Speaker 1: Half, yeah you do know Where i'm. GOING i am going.
Speaker 1: OVER i think a much better offensive, line a much
Speaker 1: Better Caleb, williams a much better head, coach and another
Speaker 1: opportunity to draft an impact player in the top. Ten
Speaker 1: all those, Reasons i'm not gonna Say bears to The
Speaker 1: Super bowl LIKE i did last. Year that was a,
Speaker 1: mistake BUT i think they should be in the mix
Speaker 1: for a wild card spot all. YEAR i also still
Speaker 1: crazily think that if they don't allow That Hail mary Against,
Speaker 1: washington maybe that whole season goes. Differently but it was
Speaker 1: probably good for them to clean house the way they.
Speaker 1: Did BUT i will take The bears over and now
Speaker 1: the most intriguing one in the.
Speaker 2: Division, Demonse we've got The. Vikings they're over under at
Speaker 2: eight and a half.
Speaker 1: With heavy juice on the over at minus one.
Speaker 2: Five So.
Speaker 1: I'm going to stay away from this. One the question,
Speaker 1: is really how much DO i Trust kevin. O'Connell DO
Speaker 1: i think That kevin, O'Connell with any healthy quarterback can
Speaker 1: just get you to double digit? Wins they won thirteen
Speaker 1: games With Kirk, cousins they won fourteen games With Sam.
Speaker 1: Darnold and the reason it's a stay away is for
Speaker 1: me is because they seem at least a little unsure
Speaker 1: about the health OF jj McCarthy's, knee and that concerns
Speaker 1: me by. Itself BUT i love the, INFRASTRUCTURE i really
Speaker 1: like the, roster and SO i will stay away for.
Speaker 1: NOW i somebody like whoever finishes last in that division
Speaker 1: is gonna be, Devastated like every team in that division
Speaker 1: feels like they should be a playoff. Team The vikings
Speaker 1: are projected to finish. Last they won fourteen games last,
Speaker 1: Year so my only pick in that division is The
Speaker 1: bears Over i'm gonna save us time here on THE Nfc.
Speaker 1: South my lean Is i'm staying away from this entire gross.
Speaker 1: Division The bucks numbers nine and a, half The falcons
Speaker 1: number seven and a, half The saints number six and a,
Speaker 1: half and The panthers number six and a. Half And
Speaker 1: i'm Just i'm staying away from that entire division because
Speaker 1: there are three picks in THE Nfc. WEST i, like
Speaker 1: so let's go through the.
Speaker 3: Uh, first we got The. Niners they're over under sent
Speaker 3: at ten and a, half and you're going.
Speaker 1: DOWN i like the. Under. YEAH i think that them
Speaker 1: being the favorites to win that division and having the
Speaker 1: highest win total in that division is disrespectful to The.
Speaker 1: RAMS i also think a team that Lost hafanga In
Speaker 1: greenlaw and debo and you, know was clearing out this
Speaker 1: money to Pay Brock and we don't know how Healthy
Speaker 1: christian mccafferrey's going to. Be we don't know When brandon
Speaker 1: And AUT's going to be back from HIS acl we you,
Speaker 1: know we don't know when, Finally Trent williams the age
Speaker 1: is going to show. UP i JUST i Love. SHANAHAN
Speaker 1: i think this is the least talented roster he's had
Speaker 1: in years there and we have they were a six
Speaker 1: win team last, Year SO i don't or seven win.
Speaker 1: TEAM i think six, wins, yeah six and eleven last.
Speaker 1: YEAR i don't know where the five extra wins are coming.
Speaker 1: FROM i know they, were you, know destroyed by injury last.
Speaker 1: Year they probably won't be quite as disastrous injury luck this.
Speaker 1: Year but No, debo no Green law WHO i understand
Speaker 1: they didn't Like he And hufanga missed a lot of
Speaker 1: time last year with, injury other losses on the defensive.
Speaker 1: LINE i do you like them Adding Robert, Sala but
Speaker 1: that to me is an.
Speaker 3: Under, yeah you've got The.
Speaker 2: Rams they're over under cent at nine and a, half.
Speaker 1: And this to me is the clear and easy. OVER
Speaker 1: i think they're the best team in the. Division kind
Speaker 1: of a last ride With. Stafford they were able to
Speaker 1: keep their left. TACKLE i Think DeVante adams will be
Speaker 1: better Than Cooper cup for. Them they've drafted that defensive
Speaker 1: line full of young guys last. Year you expect them
Speaker 1: all to be. BETTER i wonder if they, consider you,
Speaker 1: know spending a premium draft pick on a running. Back not.
Speaker 1: Nothing It's Kieran, williams BUT i think there's a good
Speaker 1: running back. Class maybe they go tight. END i don't,
Speaker 1: know BUT i think The rams are a Legitimate Super
Speaker 1: bowl contender this. YEAR i like it so THAT i
Speaker 1: don't mind paying the juice on the over nine and
Speaker 1: a half minus one, thirty especially when you consider the
Speaker 1: fact that they they they dealt like the ramp like
Speaker 1: The niners did with brutal injuries last, year and they
Speaker 1: still were the only team to give The eagles a
Speaker 1: game in the, playoffs found their way into the, playoffs
Speaker 1: won the. Division all that all.
Speaker 2: Right next we got The. Seahawks they're over unders eight
Speaker 2: and a.
Speaker 1: Half this is the only One i'm staying away. FROM
Speaker 1: i think they got worse at, quarterback but not but
Speaker 1: and obviously they lost you, know some, receivers BUT i
Speaker 1: like their. COACH i also think the schedule's not, brutal
Speaker 1: and so that's a stay away from. Me and this
Speaker 1: was maybe the most shocking over under on the board to.
Speaker 2: Me Demontse we got The. Cardinals they're over unders set
Speaker 2: at eight and a. Half, yeah that's a steaming.
Speaker 1: UNDER i don't know why we would think The cardinals
Speaker 1: are gonna win more games than they. LOSE i don't
Speaker 1: know why anyone would Think kyler's gonna be able to
Speaker 1: be good for seventeen. GAMES i don't know what defensive
Speaker 1: personnelity they have that you love other Than Buddha baker
Speaker 1: THE i know they have some young players they've invested money.
Speaker 1: In BUT i JUST i expect The cardinals to be.
Speaker 1: BAD i would LIKE i would have guessed their preseason
Speaker 1: over under would have been six and a half like
Speaker 1: it was last. Year what did they do to? Earns
Speaker 1: they did win eight games last, year but to earn
Speaker 1: a better benefit of the, doubt. DON'T i don't get that.
Speaker 1: One so in THE, nfc we are Going giants, Over commanders,
Speaker 1: Under bears, Over niners Under rams, over And cardinals under all, right,
Speaker 1: remembered every remindered everybody like, rate, subscribe, review hit the,
Speaker 1: bell do all that. Stuff it actually really. Helps i'm gonna,
Speaker 1: check did we officially during today's show hit two hundred?
Speaker 1: Thousand i'm being told we did. Not what a failure by. Us, Jeez,
Speaker 1: LOUISE i need to be. Better bad job by. Me
Speaker 1: we got a few minutes left in today's show to hit.
Speaker 1: IT i think we're like two hundred, away but so
Speaker 1: we'll hit it at some point. Today all, Right, DeMont
Speaker 1: let's do some of these listener questions if we Could.
Speaker 3: Breeze, says do you think this is a good chance
Speaker 3: For giannis to have a twenty Eighteen lebron type?
Speaker 2: Postseason, well it would.
Speaker 1: BE i, mean that's what he would have to. DO
Speaker 1: i just don't twenty Eighteen lebron might be the single
Speaker 1: best version Of. Lebron there's an argument for, it And
Speaker 1: giannis is not quite that caliber of, player and The
Speaker 1: east is harder than it was in twenty. Eighteen so
Speaker 1: it would be a chance for, it BUT i don't
Speaker 1: think he can do.
Speaker 3: It next rule of, halves as would you do one
Speaker 3: of Those jubilee shows versus twenty sports fans Like skip?
Speaker 3: Did if, so what would you like the primise to.
Speaker 1: Be i'd never rule anything, out AND i think it
Speaker 1: might be fun to debate a bunch of. Strangers but
Speaker 1: SO i wouldn't rule it. Out so MAYBE i would
Speaker 1: do that at some. Point that could be. FUN i
Speaker 1: haven't watched The skip, thing a little bit of, it,
Speaker 1: yeah and SO i so maybe at some.
Speaker 2: Point i'm not. Sure, Next roddy Asked Nick.
Speaker 3: Nick if The lakers beat The Tea, wolves could you
Speaker 3: See minnesota go after Coach Mike.
Speaker 1: Malone, WELL i don't think they would Fire Chris. FINCH
Speaker 1: i do know obviously The, timberwolves you, know are built
Speaker 1: by the guy who built The, nuggets and you, know
Speaker 1: so they have a. Relationship BUT i don't know they'd
Speaker 1: Fired Chris. FINCH i think he's done a good. Job but,
Speaker 1: yes if they did Fire Chris, FINCH i assume that's
Speaker 1: who they would go.
Speaker 3: For Right, next quad ass And Jimmy butler wins is?
Speaker 3: It is it bad for? Basketball guys Like, Tatum, Jokic Aunt,
Speaker 3: Harden lebron and so on should just rest and relax
Speaker 3: during the regular season and then turn it.
Speaker 1: On, WELL i understand what you're saying, there BUT A
Speaker 1: jimmy's an older. Player he didn't always do, this he
Speaker 1: has the last few. Years and b it's if you're,
Speaker 1: saying if he wins the entire, THING i get what you, Mean,
Speaker 1: like if he wins the whole thing and is awesome
Speaker 1: the whole way like, that we would want. Guys it
Speaker 1: would make the regular season feel less. IMPORTANT i get,
Speaker 1: That BUT i think bad for basketball is too, strong all? Right, next,
Speaker 1: no go too hard to? Find hard to?
Speaker 3: Find as a double, Question nick to The MAVs still
Speaker 3: Retire luca's number And demond's wont are you streaming?
Speaker 1: Again, okay well you want to answer your?
Speaker 2: Question all streams?
Speaker 3: There, yeah there's some there's some new games THAT i
Speaker 3: feel might be nice to have other people watch me.
Speaker 3: Do BUT i just always started doing the streaming, thing
Speaker 3: AND i feel LIKE i get a little bit weird
Speaker 3: about Like i'm being inside of my. Apartment and, YEAH
Speaker 3: i don't, know LIKE i FEEL i feel a little
Speaker 3: strange about it ONCE i start the. Video but but,
Speaker 3: Yeah i'll definitely take a crack at it soon and
Speaker 3: you guys will be.
Speaker 1: Learned and then he has, said will The MAVs still
Speaker 1: Retire luca's? Number that's an interesting. ONE i, mean if,
Speaker 1: so it won't be for a very very long, time
Speaker 1: like it'd be after his. Career answer is probably, Not
Speaker 1: like maybe maybe you gotta see you trade a guy
Speaker 1: away and then and then retires entire.
Speaker 2: Number.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now some people think The heat should Retire jimmy's
Speaker 1: number at some, Point SO i don't, Know, like if.
Speaker 2: You're annoying on your way, Out i'm, Like i'm, SORRY.
Speaker 1: I agree with. YOU i, Agree And noel, said what
Speaker 1: about THE afc win. Totals that was Our april eighth,
Speaker 1: Episode so you can go back on the YouTube page
Speaker 1: or in a podcast feed and you'll be able to
Speaker 1: find my full thoughts on all of. Those all, right great.
Speaker 1: Job demand's a great, Job Blue Dock Volume. DraftKings everybody
Speaker 1: appreciate you. Guys enjoy the playoff basketball this week and
Speaker 1: possibility for A Sunday Morning Easter Morning, Ooh Sunday's Easter
Speaker 1: Easter sunday emergency episode potentially if the family will allow,
Speaker 1: it and if we can do it for After, Lakers
Speaker 1: timberwolves And round Or day one of THE Nba, playoffs
Speaker 1: see you guys ON tv in a few. Hours what's,
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