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Speaker 5: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 5: As I said to you Offer four, We'll be checking
Speaker 5: in with you guys through out the playoffs, giving you
Speaker 5: my opinion on some of these games, some stuff to
Speaker 5: look for, different matchups that could be exciting, the games
Speaker 5: within the game, So.
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Speaker 5: You can get my thoughts, my natural thoughts on the game,
Speaker 5: whatever that is. So just make sure that y'all locked
Speaker 5: in tap into that week one of the playoffs. I
Speaker 5: thought it was very interesting and boring that no series started.
Speaker 5: What do I mean by no series started. As you know,
Speaker 5: there's an old cliche a series doesn't start until someone
Speaker 5: goes and win on the road. In all eight home
Speaker 5: games the home team won would suck. Now, ironically, a
Speaker 5: couple of those home teams were my favorites. That is
Speaker 5: the Los Angeles Clippers, who were without Kawhi Leonard and
Speaker 5: still beat the Dallas Mavericks pretty good. And then also
Speaker 5: you had the Milwaukee Bucks who beat the Pacers without
Speaker 5: Jannis onto the compo, and that one I think is
Speaker 5: very interesting.
Speaker 2: So we will get into that a bit.
Speaker 5: But as I said, no series has really started because
Speaker 5: no home teams won. So we had Anthony Edwards over
Speaker 5: the Phoenix Sons, and well Anthony Edwards in the Minnesota
Speaker 5: Timberwell was over the Phoenix Sons. And I said something
Speaker 5: to you all about that series last week that I
Speaker 5: think will need to happen. And when I walked away
Speaker 5: from that game today, what I said to you all
Speaker 5: is going to need to happen more.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna get a little further into that.
Speaker 5: Everyone is talking about the moment where Edwards had with Kdi.
Speaker 5: He had him on the left wing, sized him up,
Speaker 5: hit the Tracy in his face off the dribble, which
Speaker 5: gave him a sizeable lead. I think it put them
Speaker 5: up eighteen at that point, fifteen or eight team at
Speaker 5: that point, and was talking and had everything to say
Speaker 5: that he'd been having to say. And that was a moment.
Speaker 5: That was a very interesting moment because as I told
Speaker 5: you all, I think Anthony Edwards is poised to be
Speaker 5: that next guy.
Speaker 2: He wanted to be that next guy.
Speaker 5: He's telling you he that next guy, and he going
Speaker 5: to play like he that next guy. And I think
Speaker 5: it's something special to say when you are as good
Speaker 5: or when you are good enough to say I'm better
Speaker 5: than you and y'all old and all of the things
Speaker 5: that Anthony Edwards says, and then he goes out and
Speaker 5: prove him. Now, I saw something the other day that
Speaker 5: that made me like I kind of really been all
Speaker 5: in on Anthony Edwards since since day one.
Speaker 2: Thought he was a special talent. Since day one.
Speaker 5: When I say day one, I'm going back post or
Speaker 5: you know, pre drive, I thought he was special. Going
Speaker 5: to Clutch Pro Day, I remember that first year Clutch
Speaker 5: ever did their on their pro day on TV Anthony
Speaker 5: Edwards and so I personally been high on Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 5: But Anthony Edwards did something yesterday or two days ago
Speaker 5: and it had absolutely nothing to do with the game.
Speaker 5: A little bit to do with the game, But I
Speaker 5: always liked to watch the game within the game, and
Speaker 5: that is what's going on around the series. What are
Speaker 5: guys saying in their in their press conferences, you know
Speaker 5: what are guys posting? What's the game around the game?
Speaker 5: In the game around the game. The other day for
Speaker 5: me that Anthony Edwards did that, you just don't see
Speaker 5: young guys do that. Ain't ready for to take that
Speaker 5: next step? Man? Anthony Edwards posted on his Instagram story
Speaker 5: fifteen more. That was the caption, fifteen more. Why is
Speaker 5: that interesting? Because half of y'all favorite players that's young,
Speaker 5: and y'all think ready to take that next step? Don't
Speaker 5: even realize that you need sixteen wins for a championship.
Speaker 5: We used to always talk about when building these championship roster,
Speaker 5: you need a mix of eighty two game players and
Speaker 5: sixteen game players. Eighty two game players, you got a
Speaker 5: regular season, eighty two games is super long.
Speaker 2: A lot of nights that guys are just.
Speaker 5: When you're playing for a championship year in and year out,
Speaker 5: a lot of Knights that guys are just tired, don't
Speaker 5: have it because it's the same thing over and over again.
Speaker 5: You need some eighty two night guys that's gonna step
Speaker 5: up for you on those nights, that can give it
Speaker 5: to you those nights. But those eighty two night guys,
Speaker 5: when they're specifically an eighty two night guy, they don't
Speaker 5: play in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: They can't play in the playoffs, ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 5: And it's a lot of guys out there, some of you,
Speaker 5: some of your favorite teams, that's eighty two night guys,
Speaker 5: and now they're in the sixteen sixteen game time in
Speaker 5: the sixteen and they don't know what to do. Some
Speaker 5: of your favorite players, some of the star players on
Speaker 5: this team are eighty two night guys, not necessarily sixteen.
Speaker 2: And so Anthony Evers said fifteen more.
Speaker 5: I said, oh, he differed because he been in Minnesota
Speaker 5: rotten right, Like Minnesota has not had a good go
Speaker 5: at it for years and they've turned that around. But
Speaker 5: for him to already be thinking like, oh, fifteen more man,
Speaker 5: I mean, these boys been talking about winning the championship
Speaker 5: and he's standing on that fifteen more after Game one,
Speaker 5: he been paying attention. I mean he been watching year
Speaker 5: after year guys compete for championship, saying, I want to
Speaker 5: do that some of your favorite players, These younger that
Speaker 5: y'all like, don't even watch basketball. That mean he been
Speaker 5: watching the game within the game. Jimmy Butler posts fifteen more.
Speaker 5: You got guys post that like that that have been
Speaker 5: competing for championships. He been watching the game within the game. So, man,
Speaker 5: the stock is high on a man right now, and
Speaker 5: you should be buying. You should be buying stocking and man,
Speaker 5: because it is. Sometimes there's a nod saying you buy
Speaker 5: low and sell high. Sometimes you miss the boating and
Speaker 5: you have to buy high. It ain't as high as
Speaker 5: it's gonna get on a man right now, but it
Speaker 5: should be high. Still get in now because it is
Speaker 5: still and man, it's different. And he carrying them boys now.
Speaker 5: I saw something in that series that I think is interesting.
Speaker 5: As I told you all, Kevin Durant is going to
Speaker 5: have to guard Anthony Edwards, not Carl THWMS. Anthony Edwards
Speaker 5: is also remember I talked about the game within the
Speaker 5: game that Anthony Evers is playing. I saw in you
Speaker 5: where Anthony Evers said, Kyl Anthony Towns is the most
Speaker 5: important player in the series. Kyle Anthony Towns is gonna
Speaker 5: make sure we win. I'm here to tell y'all, Kyle
Speaker 5: Anthony Towns is not the most important player in the series.
Speaker 5: Kyle Anthony Towns is an important player, but Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 2: Is the most important player in the series.
Speaker 5: For the Timberwolves, Kyl Anthony Towns could have still been out.
Speaker 5: Anthony Edwards still was gonna be doing this. Make it
Speaker 5: a lot harder for them to be the Phoenix Suns
Speaker 5: with Kyl Anthony Towns out.
Speaker 2: But Anthony Edwards is the man.
Speaker 5: However, Anthony Ever's telling y'all in the media, Yo, the media, Yo.
Speaker 2: He the guy go over there and focus on him.
Speaker 2: So what does the Phoenix Suns do.
Speaker 5: They come out the gate with Kevin Durant on Kyl
Speaker 5: Anthony Towns. As I told y'all before, Brad Bill is
Speaker 5: a good defender. Brad Bill sitting down, check, he guard,
Speaker 5: he compete like.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 5: And this will go for some other guys that we're
Speaker 5: gonna talk about in this second. But it's a reason
Speaker 5: God start putting long wings on these guards. The shot
Speaker 5: making ability is too crazy. This ain't two thousand, This
Speaker 5: Saint nineteen eighty four. This Saint the eighties and nineties
Speaker 5: where guys were great. Don't get me wrong, but the
Speaker 5: shot making ability today it's way more complex than it
Speaker 5: used to be. And that's why God started putting it.
Speaker 5: The shot the shot creating ability, I should say, it's
Speaker 5: way more complex than the shot making ability. It's top tier,
Speaker 5: and that's why God started putting long wings with length
Speaker 5: on these these guards. And that is why you meeed
Speaker 5: Kevin Durant. Now, however, KDE is in year seventeen eighteen
Speaker 5: something like that, and so what happens is you still
Speaker 5: see like KDE Brown, these guys, Steff Steph different.
Speaker 2: Steph is small, not carrying as much weight, Limbs is different.
Speaker 5: You see these guys still playing at an insane level,
Speaker 5: which they are. But once you get to that age,
Speaker 5: you can only do it in spurts. Al La Damian
Speaker 5: Lillard last night. Great First Half can give you that
Speaker 5: in Spurts, which we'll talk about that as well, But
Speaker 5: so with KD can't give you that forty eight minutes
Speaker 5: straight every night, although it helps their in the playoffs.
Speaker 5: That you get those days in between. It's impossible both
Speaker 5: ends of the floor. KD the best defender on that
Speaker 5: team and the best offensive player, one of the best
Speaker 5: offensive players we've ever seen. Yes, Devin Booker's a great
Speaker 5: offensive player like top tier bride Bill, great scorers whole career.
Speaker 5: But KD is just different. KD is seven feet We've
Speaker 5: seen this movie before. What the Phoenix Suns are going
Speaker 5: to have to do is they're going to have to
Speaker 5: play KD on Anthony Edwards the entire series.
Speaker 2: That has to be his matchup.
Speaker 5: And what Phoenix has to do is they have to
Speaker 5: rely on Devin Booker, Bradley Beal, Grayson Allen. You're gonna
Speaker 5: have to hear some shots and they're gonna have to
Speaker 5: rely on those guys to carry the load offensively. Because
Speaker 5: to ask Kevin to go try to lock up Anthony
Speaker 5: Edwards and then go carry the load on the offensive end.
Speaker 2: He in year eighteen and they happening every night.
Speaker 5: He may give you that one night, two nights of
Speaker 5: a series, but he can't give you that every night
Speaker 5: because the years are getting up there.
Speaker 2: Man, the legs is different.
Speaker 5: And what you need Kevin Duran for us to say, Kay,
Speaker 5: we need you to go stop him. We need you
Speaker 5: to go stop him. Don't worry about the offensive end.
Speaker 5: If you get some stuff in the flow of the
Speaker 5: offensive end, great. I know this is like, oh, man,
Speaker 5: that's Kevin Durant. You should never tell me. But k
Speaker 5: capable of doing that defensively, and Devin Booker capable of
Speaker 5: carrying the Lord offensively. So is Bradley Bill. Grayson Allen
Speaker 5: just got that extension. He got to make these shots
Speaker 5: in the playoffs. Now. Can't just be an eighty two
Speaker 5: game player. Gotta be sixteen. Gotta be sixteen. If I'm
Speaker 5: not mistaken, Grayson Allen won a championship before. I'm not
Speaker 5: certain on that. I thought he won with Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker 5: I could be wrong. However, the Kids A Winner went
Speaker 5: to Duke played in Milwaukee for years, meaningful years.
Speaker 2: Kids A Winner.
Speaker 5: You gotta play these sixteen You gotta hit shots, especially
Speaker 5: this series. Kay, if you get stuff in the flow, cool,
Speaker 5: But we're not about to depend on Kevin Durant on
Speaker 5: the offensive.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: We need him to lock down defensively tonight. That's the
Speaker 5: role we need in this series. So when I said
Speaker 5: that at the beginning of the series. I still think
Speaker 5: that's true. And you know what, it ain't called Anthony Towns.
Speaker 5: That's winning you this series as Anthony Edwards and you
Speaker 5: need to go put Kevin Durant there. So that's Minnesota.
Speaker 5: The New York Knicks take the Philadelphia seventy six ers
Speaker 5: in a game where Joel and Bid in thirty seven
Speaker 5: minutes was plus fourteen. In the eleven minutes he was
Speaker 5: not on the floor. They lost by twenty one minus
Speaker 5: twenty one. Not gonna work. My serious prediction at the
Speaker 5: beginning of that series was I think Philly, who's gonna
Speaker 5: stop Joel?
Speaker 2: I'm feeling right about that. Who's gonna stop Joel?
Speaker 5: But to me, eleven minutes that Joel was out, how
Speaker 5: many minutes you're gonna play him. He's still coming off
Speaker 5: that knee injury. What Philly's gonna need is they're gonna
Speaker 5: need a better MAXI for forty eight minutes. Because that
Speaker 5: team that I was talking to you all about that
Speaker 5: didn't have Joel anymore a couple months back, like all
Speaker 5: they might be cashing it in when they kept Gotrier
Speaker 5: Patrick Beverley, Nick Batuoam had a game in that playing
Speaker 5: game he gave him more than he was supposed to,
Speaker 5: more than he have been and they wanted. You gotta
Speaker 5: do that for seven games. Now you need some other
Speaker 5: guys to step up. Minus twenty one eleven minutes. That's
Speaker 5: gonna kill you every time in the playoffs. So they're
Speaker 5: gonna have to figure that out. Jalen Brunson did not
Speaker 5: have a good game and the Knicks still won. However,
Speaker 5: I think Philly gonna keep having Nick Batoomahan and Jaylen Brunson.
Speaker 5: They're gonna put Kelly u Brader to hand them with Lane.
Speaker 5: They gonna throw guys at Jaylen Brunston with Lane. This
Speaker 5: ain't gonna be the only game that Jaylen Brunson struggles
Speaker 5: in this series. However, for the Knicks to go up
Speaker 5: one oh with Jaylen Brunson struggling like that says a
Speaker 5: lot about their team. However, I'm still rolling with the
Speaker 5: best player. I don't believe in that Philly team at all.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's a very good team, as I've
Speaker 5: told you all before, but I think I'm still rolling
Speaker 5: with that prediction. The Lakers versus the Nuggets, the Nuggets
Speaker 5: Lakers may be in some trouble because bron had a
Speaker 5: great game, ad had a great game, and they never
Speaker 5: stood a chance at winning the game after the first half.
Speaker 5: And so that's trouble for the Lakers. They're gonna need
Speaker 5: a better Danngel Russell. You can't just say, oh, man,
Speaker 5: shots ain't go in when that's starting to be a
Speaker 5: trend in these sixteen games.
Speaker 1: I can't just.
Speaker 5: Say that got shots gotta go in and D'Angelo Russell scored.
Speaker 5: They need a better Austin Reeves, you're on the Skotting
Speaker 5: Report now getting your bag now, gotta play better. But
Speaker 5: Danzel Russell make shots, Lakers win games. Danel Russell don't
Speaker 5: make shots, Lakers don't win games. That's the reason the
Speaker 5: Lakers was in the position that they was in talking
Speaker 5: about Danzel Russell on a trading block because they needed
Speaker 5: better Danchel Russell. Danseelo Russell on trading block showed up
Speaker 5: rest of the season. Guess what, it's no longer eighty two,
Speaker 5: it's sixteen. Now got to show up. So the Angela
Speaker 5: Russell played better, Lakers have a chance. The Angela Russell
Speaker 5: don't play better, Lakers don't stand a chance. That's just
Speaker 5: what it is. And by the way. Remember the guys
Speaker 5: getting up there in years, bron is one of them.
Speaker 5: Are you going to ask him to have a game
Speaker 5: like he had in Game one?
Speaker 2: Every night?
Speaker 5: We know he's capable, but can you expect that? Can
Speaker 5: you rely on that night in and night out when
Speaker 5: guys are getting to the the number of years that
Speaker 5: they get into a d showed up, So it's on
Speaker 5: D low.
Speaker 6: What did you What did you make of Darvin Ham's
Speaker 6: quote after the game he said he still has a
Speaker 6: he had a few adjustments on your on your kids
Speaker 6: that he's he's saving you. You've you've talked a lot
Speaker 6: about Game one being a feel out game of a series. Sometimes,
Speaker 6: what do you make of a coach saying I have
Speaker 6: some adjustments that I could have used in this game
Speaker 6: that we had a chance in, but I'm gonna save
Speaker 6: him for later in the series. I thought it was
Speaker 6: an interesting thing to say.
Speaker 5: I think that's an interesting quote because the reality is
Speaker 5: you can't throw the kitchen sink at game one. You
Speaker 5: can't throw all your adjustments at game one thinking that's
Speaker 5: what's going to get you to win throughout seven game series.
Speaker 5: Now we'll get into this Milwaukee and Pacers game because
Speaker 5: I think they threw one of their adjustments too soon
Speaker 5: in a game that they had other no chance at
Speaker 5: winning because they were down thirty points at halftime, and
Speaker 5: they threw the one of their adjustments to kind of
Speaker 5: make the game respectable. But you showed your adjustment for
Speaker 5: game two, and so I do agree with Darvin that
Speaker 5: you don't want to show everything in game one. However,
Speaker 5: I think they probably needed to throw a little more
Speaker 5: because that Game one was a game one that they.
Speaker 2: Could have won.
Speaker 5: That changes the series, especially, and that changes their confidence
Speaker 5: being that they've lost nine straight to the Nuggets, including
Speaker 5: four of those nine or last five of those nine
Speaker 5: being in the playoffs, changes the psyche. You go and
Speaker 5: get game one, and now your psyche is still man,
Speaker 5: we can't get over a hump, so be that you
Speaker 5: could win, I thought you needed to throw one of
Speaker 5: those adjustment, But I thought one of their biggest I mean,
Speaker 5: what's your adjustment now, Like your adjustment could be throwing
Speaker 5: a d on Joker and not having a d on
Speaker 5: Aaron Gordon, But like, I think your biggest adjustment was
Speaker 5: actually the opposite way, right, Like you start a d
Speaker 5: on Joker and then go to a d on on
Speaker 5: Aaron Gordon to let him plug and like see how
Speaker 5: they deal with that.
Speaker 2: But to switch it the other way, like.
Speaker 5: That's kind of throwing everything because where you go after
Speaker 5: that if Ad don't get it done, And so I
Speaker 5: think that's uh, I you.
Speaker 2: Know, you don't throw everything in game one.
Speaker 5: But that was a very winnable Game one for them
Speaker 5: in that first half and even in the third quarter,
Speaker 5: and they couldn't quite pull it off. It's gonna make
Speaker 5: it a lot tougher to get game two. A lot
Speaker 5: of these games you see been a blowout. Uh, these
Speaker 5: coaches in these blowouts are having a heart attack to
Speaker 5: winning teams. And these are these the winning coaches of
Speaker 5: these teams. Because when you blow somebody on in game one,
Speaker 5: that team that you blew out come back pissed off
Speaker 5: in game two, and you naturally go relax in game
Speaker 5: two thinking you've done something. And so I respect it.
Speaker 5: You know, got to have the adjustments. But I thought
Speaker 5: one of the biggest adjustments they could make would be
Speaker 5: plugging off Aaron Gordon with AD, and they did that
Speaker 5: and it didn't work.
Speaker 1: Ultimately, so we shall see Patress Bucks.
Speaker 5: Patiss talked a lot after going four and five and
Speaker 5: zero in the regular season, including in season tournament. And
Speaker 5: the reality is Dame has something to say saying, you're
Speaker 5: having your moment, be humbled when you have in that moment.
Speaker 5: It was like like a gandhipot or some shit. It
Speaker 5: was very interesting when Dame said that, come full circle.
Speaker 5: Dan't go for thirty five in the first half.
Speaker 1: Don't score in the second half, didn't really.
Speaker 5: Need to score in the second half. But boy again
Speaker 5: we go back to these wings being on these guards
Speaker 5: them andrew them hardy compete. I've talked to about him
Speaker 5: on the pop before. Don't have enough size to game
Speaker 5: get guard Damian Lillard. I'm sorry, uh they Dame. Dame
Speaker 5: took his foot off the gas pedal in the in
Speaker 5: the first and second half, wasn't aggressive, wasn't trying to
Speaker 5: bring the ball up because he didn't feel like he
Speaker 5: needed to. I'm here to tell Dame Patrick Beverley running
Speaker 5: the point when the game starts in game two, you
Speaker 5: better be back on Dame time because Patrick Beverley running
Speaker 5: the point, they't gonna get it done in game two
Speaker 5: like he did in the second half. Y'all were just
Speaker 5: kind of stand and float but they're gonna need that
Speaker 5: same day. One interesting thing about Damon in Game one
Speaker 5: is that's the Damian lillar we've seen in Portland, and
Speaker 5: you put Dame on this team. This team right now
Speaker 5: with Aliannis is still the best team Dame has ever
Speaker 5: been on in his career. So Dame can go out
Speaker 5: and do that again. Are you gonna ask Dame to
Speaker 5: do that? I'm Dame in the same year as me.
Speaker 5: To give it to you for forty eight minutes is
Speaker 5: a little tough time like, and so.
Speaker 1: However, Dame is capable of that. Again.
Speaker 5: We've seen Dame do that over and over again. And
Speaker 5: this is the best team even without Jannis. This is
Speaker 5: the best team that Dame has had. So Dame can
Speaker 5: go win you this series. Dame has actually played his
Speaker 5: best basketball all year when Jannis wasn't on the floor.
Speaker 5: So if I'm the Pacers, I'm a little word because
Speaker 5: I know what Dame's capable of. And yeah, it's only
Speaker 5: one oher and you're on the road, so you gotta
Speaker 5: go win one road game.
Speaker 1: I get that, But I'm telling you Dame can do
Speaker 1: that again.
Speaker 5: They're gonna have to put one of their wings with
Speaker 5: Lane on Dame andrewnimhard don't have enough lane. Dame is
Speaker 5: from the era where they started putting the guard the
Speaker 5: wings on the point guards.
Speaker 1: So I know they did it years ago and all
Speaker 1: of that. But like.
Speaker 5: I told y'all, I remembered CP coming to our best saying, dang,
Speaker 5: y'all putting six seven guys on me now like when
Speaker 5: Clay switched. I remember that, So I'm just take Dang
Speaker 5: from that era. So yeah, I like andrewering them.
Speaker 1: Harden.
Speaker 5: You may be, you know, having him guard Dane to
Speaker 5: take some legs away, uh, you know, and do all
Speaker 5: of that. He's picking up full court, but it can't
Speaker 5: be forty eight minutes and just Dame seeing him don't
Speaker 5: have enough length to buy the Dame shot.
Speaker 6: The Pacers To go back to what you were saying
Speaker 6: before about sixteen game versus eighty two game. I don't
Speaker 6: want to have too big of an overreaction after just
Speaker 6: one game with the playoffs, obviously, but do the Pacers
Speaker 6: sort of feel like an eighty two game team compared
Speaker 6: to a sixteen game team. But the way that their
Speaker 6: offense is so built on speed and it doesn't feel
Speaker 6: like a playoff. I thought they don't have a lot
Speaker 6: of defense. They as a team, it feels like an
Speaker 6: eighty two game team.
Speaker 1: ANYM might wrong there, one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: They don't defend. Uh they haven't defended anybody all year.
Speaker 5: They had a one uh something I'm mistaken, a one
Speaker 5: forty to forty game this year in regulation. Took you
Speaker 5: one hundred and forty two points to win in regulation
Speaker 5: by two is absolutely insane. They haven't guarded all year yet.
Speaker 5: Their offense has been so high power. And I like
Speaker 5: some of those young guys that got on that team,
Speaker 5: but as I said to start this series, you got
Speaker 5: to defend when it comes to playoffs time.
Speaker 1: You can't just run in transition.
Speaker 5: You're gonna have to execute in the half court because
Speaker 5: the other team is going to not just turn.
Speaker 1: The ball over. This is the playoffs. They're not going
Speaker 1: to take a bunch of bad shots create shot turnovers.
Speaker 5: So you're gonna have to execute in the half court
Speaker 5: and you're gonna have to defend in the half court either.
Speaker 5: You know, Yes, their offense was high power. Yes it
Speaker 5: was off the Sharts, Raytons, you know the numbers, but
Speaker 5: a lot of that was because they were just out
Speaker 5: running teams you got to execute.
Speaker 1: Now that's a different thing, you know. And so.
Speaker 5: I do think the Pacers are an eighty two game team,
Speaker 5: not a sixteen game team. Not overreacting to one game.
Speaker 5: I told you all this before, h but they can't
Speaker 5: make many adjustments to what they do. You're a running
Speaker 5: team and you don't defend. You're not changing that in
Speaker 5: game eighty four, eighty five, whatever it is. That is
Speaker 5: who you are. And so they're gonna just have to
Speaker 5: run and try to outshot them and maybe you win
Speaker 5: a game.
Speaker 1: Or two in the series like that, but that ain't
Speaker 1: gonna get you the series. In my opinion.
Speaker 5: Obviously, the Bucks need a great Damian Lillard each night
Speaker 5: with Alianna's I think Dame's capable of giving them that
Speaker 5: four times to win four games.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, I don't.
Speaker 5: They are in eighty two games team, not a sixteen
Speaker 5: game team.
Speaker 1: In my opinion. Clippers mass series that I think is
Speaker 1: gonna be great.
Speaker 5: Kawhi Leonard does not play Game one and the Clippers
Speaker 5: blast the Mavericks.
Speaker 1: I don't look too much into that. That's how the
Speaker 1: series is gonna be.
Speaker 5: One thing for certain is I know, oh that the
Speaker 5: Clippers excuse me that the Mavericks were preparing for the
Speaker 5: Clippers with Kawhi Leonard. And when you go into a
Speaker 5: game preparing for a star, excuse me, preparing for a
Speaker 5: star and that star doesn't play, it's almost like you've
Speaker 5: prepared for a team that you're not planning against. So
Speaker 5: Dallas is now going to that game finding out the
Speaker 5: night before that Kawhi is out, and their game plan
Speaker 5: is set up for Kawhi to be out there. They
Speaker 5: get blasted. Seen that movie before plenty times, but it's
Speaker 5: in recent memory. When we played the Grizzlies the year
Speaker 5: we won championship in twenty twenty two and John didn't
Speaker 5: play and we lost by fifty, and then we won
Speaker 5: the next game and the closest series, when you're preparing
Speaker 5: for that star, you're playing against a totally different team,
Speaker 5: and I think that could have affected Dallas in my opinion.
Speaker 5: Now you got one more game on the road that
Speaker 5: no Kawhi Leonard would be there. This is your chance
Speaker 5: to ship the series. Dallas is a great home team.
Speaker 5: Role players didn't play well. PJ Way, he was guarding
Speaker 5: Paul George finished with eleven and seven. But the only
Speaker 5: two guys that really played well. Dante Exhent looked like
Speaker 5: he didn't belong out there. Maxi Kleeber looked like he
Speaker 5: didn't belong out there. Role Players don't typically play.
Speaker 1: Well in the playoffs on the road.
Speaker 5: Now you need them to be halfway decent so you
Speaker 5: can go still one in game two.
Speaker 1: Don't play better at home, don't doubt that at all.
Speaker 5: But this is your chance to go still one on
Speaker 5: the road to take home court advantage in the series
Speaker 5: that the Mavericks is favorite, they gotta go get it done.
Speaker 1: I think they gotta go get it done this game.
Speaker 5: Now, you got Kyrie Irving and Luca Dantics. You can
Speaker 5: always go win a row game even with Kawhi, But
Speaker 5: I think this is a great opportunity for them to
Speaker 5: go get it done. Russell Westbrook, still, I think is
Speaker 5: the key to that team, the energy that he brings.
Speaker 5: James Harden is capable of having a night like that.
Speaker 5: Uh you know, That's that's what you run into against
Speaker 5: these Slippers. Kawhi is out, James is capable of giving
Speaker 5: you a knight. Russ is capable of giving you a knight.
Speaker 5: And so that's what makes this Clippers seem dangerous. Paul
Speaker 5: George gotta go in there in the second half. You
Speaker 5: don't want to see that start hitting tough shots. He
Speaker 5: gonna come out firing in Game two with the way
Speaker 5: that he finished Game one. So that series, uh, that's
Speaker 5: a fun series. What adjustments can the Clippers make?
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 5: I think the clip what the Clippers excuse me, what
Speaker 5: the Mavericks can do is I think they can put
Speaker 5: Big Daniel Gafford on Terrence Man.
Speaker 1: Terrence Man is a good defender. He's houlding their guys.
Speaker 5: You play off him, plug off him, make him shoot.
Speaker 1: He ain't want to look at the rim all year.
Speaker 1: Make him shoot.
Speaker 5: They struggle with Zubaj and you put big Daniel Gafford
Speaker 5: on Terrence Man.
Speaker 1: You just stand at the rim. Brother. If Terrence Man
Speaker 1: hit ten three is great, we should have lost, but
Speaker 1: he go guard him.
Speaker 5: You gotta put somebody now on Zubach and you just
Speaker 5: front Zubaj with that guy and you play Daniel Gafford.
Speaker 5: Huh front and Zubah Zubos gave them problems. Now, Daniel
Speaker 5: Goffison rebound the position. Zubas had a lot of rebounds
Speaker 5: and Terrence You play Terrence Man off the floor. That's
Speaker 5: their defender. You play him off the floor, make things
Speaker 5: easier for Luca. He's picking them up full court every time.
Speaker 5: Now you got Paul George, Russ, those guys having to
Speaker 5: guard Luca taking the little late legs for the offensive,
Speaker 5: you know, And so.
Speaker 1: I think you can do that. I think that's adjustment.
Speaker 5: That that the Mavericks can make that may win you
Speaker 5: one of two games. I don't think that will win
Speaker 5: you the whole series because then they'll take Terrence Man
Speaker 5: out and you got to make another adjustment. But I
Speaker 5: think that's something that they can do for themselves, especially
Speaker 5: with Kawhi not in the game. It also helps you
Speaker 5: load up and be ready to double team Paul George
Speaker 5: and James Harden. Now you get James Harden off the
Speaker 5: three point line, you force into the rim because we
Speaker 5: know we got two guys built it. So could possibly
Speaker 5: play Zubach off the floor because now if you take
Speaker 5: him away offensively, if you could put I'm putting picking also,
Speaker 5: I think for me offensively, if I'm the Mavericks, I'm
Speaker 5: putting James Harden and picking rolls with Luca, and I'm
Speaker 5: putting Zubach in pick and rolls with Kyrie. Now Kyrie
Speaker 5: is more dynamic. See Luca's going to get the way
Speaker 5: you get it, get a shot, but Kyrie is more
Speaker 5: mixing Zubach, making him have to move and making him struggle,
Speaker 5: and that way you could possibly play him off the floor.
Speaker 1: And so that's just a couple of things.
Speaker 5: I see in that Clippers math series that could possibly
Speaker 5: be taking advantage.
Speaker 1: Of for the MAVs.
Speaker 5: If you Clippers, you're feeling good about game one, especially
Speaker 5: with no Kawhi, trying to buy time as much time
Speaker 5: as you can buy it better for Kawhi. So that's
Speaker 5: the Clippers and the Mavericks. Boston we don't even need
Speaker 5: to talk about that is not looking good for Boston.
Speaker 1: I mean for the Heat, they need jim bad. I
Speaker 1: don't see the Heat winning the game without Jimmie Butler.
Speaker 1: Boston is too good for them without Jimmy.
Speaker 5: So we're not gonna talk much about that, and I
Speaker 5: think that.
Speaker 1: Is a rap. So as we move forward, the home
Speaker 1: teams that I got not winning.
Speaker 5: Their next game is Clippers. I think the MAVs take
Speaker 5: Game two and get that series started. Boston will win.
Speaker 5: I think Philly goes in and get Game two, get
Speaker 5: that series started, and then I think everyone else goes
Speaker 5: up too. Oh, it's a big game for Minnesota. You
Speaker 5: do not want to go to Phoenix one one. You
Speaker 5: want to go to Phoenix two. Oh, rolling off the
Speaker 5: rolling off Game one. Gotta go get it done. Maybe
Speaker 5: get a big game from car any towns, as Anthony
Speaker 5: Ever said, but I'm still expecting to end man to
Speaker 5: carry the load.
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