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The 2025 Playoffs Are Set, And I'm Excited... · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: It came down to the last day when we officially
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  Speaker 1: know the seedings of every single team for the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: And what I want to do today is give my
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  Speaker 1: first initial reaction to some of these matchups. We got
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  Speaker 1: until April nineteenth to each series officially began, so I
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  Speaker 1: got some time to watch some film that these scens
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  Speaker 1: playing against each other. But I just want to give
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  Speaker 1: my first initial reactions to pretty much every single series
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  Speaker 1: this year was an absolute blast, but nothing beats playoff basketball, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: So here we are after the Clippers beat the Golden
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  Speaker 1: Say Warriors a few hours ago. They are here at
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  Speaker 1: the five seed and they bumped the Warriors all the
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  Speaker 1: way down to nine. I do want to say this
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  Speaker 1: is the second year in a row somebody on the
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  Speaker 1: Spurs ruined a season. You remember when Devonte Graham hit
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  Speaker 1: his shot to prevent the different Nuggets from winning the
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  Speaker 1: one seed last year. And I truly do believe, specifically
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  Speaker 1: in the Western Conference, it's so much match up base.
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  Speaker 1: It's so much of who you are and who you're
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  Speaker 1: going against a post to the Eastern Conference, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the cases it will be like the Cavs
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  Speaker 1: are going to win their first round series spoiler alert.
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  Speaker 1: The Celtics are going to win their first round series.
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  Speaker 1: Spoiler alert. It's not really match up base for those teams.
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  Speaker 1: But I truly do believe in the West is so mad.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, Devontae Graham hitting that shot for the
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  Speaker 1: Nuggets could have been one of the reasons why they
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  Speaker 1: didn't go on as deep of a run as they
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  Speaker 1: really anticipated. And then we had Harrison Barnes getting in
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  Speaker 1: his revenge ten years later against the Golden State Warriors.
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  Speaker 1: And then since they won that game, the Spurs won
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  Speaker 1: that game, and then the Warriors lost to the Clippers.
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  Speaker 1: Today they fall into the play cool, but I think
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  Speaker 1: the other game that really has stakes was the Nuggets
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  Speaker 1: versus Rockets, and the Nuggets secure business to secure their
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  Speaker 1: four seed, And just like that, we got the whole bracket.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna jump around quite a bit trying to
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  Speaker 1: get my init reactions. I'm gonna start off with the
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  Speaker 1: series that I think is gonna be the most interesting
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  Speaker 1: of them all, Lakers versus Timberwolves. This one is about
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  Speaker 1: to be amazing, and if it does live up to
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  Speaker 1: the hype, I'm gonna be so very disappointed.
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  Speaker 2: I made this tweet.
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  Speaker 1: But the first part of Rudy Gobert's career, he ran
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  Speaker 1: against James Harden in the playoffs like every single year,
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  Speaker 1: and we talked about prime James Harden when nobody can
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  Speaker 1: really stay in front of him, and it made Rudy
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  Speaker 1: Gobert look real bad. And the second part of his career,
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  Speaker 1: now he can't get away from Luka Doncic. How does
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  Speaker 1: the first part of his career he go against the
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  Speaker 1: best iceo player of all time every single year, and
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  Speaker 1: now he's going.
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  Speaker 2: To against Luca Averags a year. He can't catch a brick.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this Lakers team is obviously a lot different than
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  Speaker 1: last year Dallas Mavericks team. The way they're orchestrated. I
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  Speaker 1: think that obviously, when you talk about the Lakers versus
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  Speaker 1: that Dallas Mavericks team, the top ing talent between Bron
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  Speaker 1: and Lebron, Lebron and Luka Doncis is superior, But when
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  Speaker 1: you think about the pieces fitting around them, it might
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  Speaker 1: just be somewhat of a different story. When you think
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  Speaker 1: about the way Luka Doncis kind of picked the part
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  Speaker 1: the Minnesota timbolves. That doesn't make me think that I'm
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  Speaker 1: taking the Wolves in this series, but they had so
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  Speaker 1: many dynamic rollers on the team, like we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: Derek Lively, we're talking about Daniel Gafford, and shout out
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  Speaker 1: to Jackson Hayes because he's been holding it down as
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  Speaker 1: their role with the Lucadocis it's just not the same.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that they have been getting progressively better
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  Speaker 1: in their what thirty games they've played together so far
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  Speaker 1: the season where you saw earlier in their connection, Luka
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  Speaker 1: Doncis was definitely telling him like, bro, we need you
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  Speaker 1: to hit on the body on this screen a little
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  Speaker 1: bit harder because we're not getting the switch that you
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  Speaker 1: want or they're not really looking at you as a
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  Speaker 1: reliable roleman. And if you look at it now, eighty
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  Speaker 1: two games in the thirty two thirty games together, they're
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  Speaker 1: definitely more of a threat. But he just felt like,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what, when Luca was on the court last
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  Speaker 1: year in the Temples versus Mavericks series, he always had
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  Speaker 1: somebody as a roller and this is not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the case. It's really just Jackson Hayes, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: a real live threat and jack and Hayes, though he
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  Speaker 1: has been getting better at this tough out his career.
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  Speaker 1: He's not the short, short, short rod passer that Derek
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  Speaker 1: Lively was last year that opened up corner three point
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  Speaker 1: opportunities left and right. So I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people are just looking at the face value of Luca
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  Speaker 1: versus Rudy, and Rudy's gonna be tortured and he might
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  Speaker 1: still be torching. Don't get wrong to talk about God
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  Speaker 1: damn look at optics. But I think that because of
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  Speaker 1: the pieces are different between these two teams, it might
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  Speaker 1: just work in the wolves favor just a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more than last year, where it just felt like the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks dominated them.
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  Speaker 2: So they got Bron and then they then they got Luca.
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  Speaker 1: They got Bron and they got Luca, and recently they've
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  Speaker 1: been generating shots that are similar to that last year
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks team. It's just as a matter of if
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  Speaker 1: you are Chris Finch, do you trust it as much
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  Speaker 1: as you trust you know, the Dallas Mavericks last year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Luca Dantas is one of the greatest of
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  Speaker 1: all time and generating these corner looks, and when he
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  Speaker 1: first got to the Lakers, they weren't really doing that.
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  Speaker 2: And that was really intriguing to me.
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  Speaker 1: They were doing a lot more structured offense, and it
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  Speaker 1: seems like as of recently, destructured offense has died down
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  Speaker 1: a little bit and just letting them boys play because
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  Speaker 1: they have two super computers on the team, like Luca
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  Speaker 1: Danta's Lebron James, and letting the boys play can result
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of wins.
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  Speaker 2: But recently they've been generating a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Of corner three pointers, and it's like, do we trust Ruie,
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  Speaker 1: do we trust Doe?
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  Speaker 2: Do we trust this guy? That guy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very curious to see what type of role Jared
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  Speaker 1: Vanderbilt can play in this series, because he's one of
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  Speaker 1: the few guys on this Laker roster that I trust
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  Speaker 1: guarding so many different positions. But the problem on the
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  Speaker 1: other side of that is that finding his exact role
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  Speaker 1: on the Lakers offensively has been a struggle, specifically when
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  Speaker 1: he's playing with certain combinations of players. So I'm curious
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  Speaker 1: to see how much burn he gets and how impactful
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  Speaker 1: he can be in this series. On the opposite side
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  Speaker 1: of things, I don't know if this is just of
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  Speaker 1: March thing or whatever. Rudy Gobert has been better offensively,
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  Speaker 1: which is saying something. Y'all know he's got some of
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  Speaker 1: the worst hands in all the basketball, but he just
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  Speaker 1: had his career night against the Berkoler Knights. But just
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  Speaker 1: in general, it seems like his teammates are trusted him
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  Speaker 1: more at the ball. He's killing the glass like he
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  Speaker 1: was in his prime and stuff. And I think about
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers lack of size outside of Jackson Hayes, and
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  Speaker 1: I wonder how much that will prevent them from being
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  Speaker 1: as successful as they want to be. Right, if you
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  Speaker 1: are going to go against if you are this Lakers team,
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  Speaker 1: you think about the opponents that you could have matched
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  Speaker 1: up against. This is one of the teams that their
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  Speaker 1: lack of size may not matter that much because again
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about Rudy Gobert instead of talking about Zubats
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  Speaker 1: or talking about NICOLEA.
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  Speaker 2: Jochis. You know what I'm saying. But I just I
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  Speaker 2: wonder we'll just the pure.
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  Speaker 1: Size of Rudy offensively be overpowering for a team like that.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen in both ways, right, We've seen it when
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  Speaker 1: they played against and we talked about years ago at
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  Speaker 1: this point when Rudy Gobert is with the Jazz and
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  Speaker 1: he played with the Clippers, and the Clippers went that
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  Speaker 1: small ball lineup and he couldn't make them pay. He's
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  Speaker 1: been guarded by Terrence Mann and they couldn't even give
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  Speaker 1: him the ball, or they didn't want to to give
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  Speaker 1: him the I do believe he's better offensively now than
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  Speaker 1: he was then, but I don't want to act like
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  Speaker 1: he's one of the goats offensively at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: So that should be interesting as well. The Julius Randal
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  Speaker 1: postseason thing, it's a lot of conversations over on Twitter. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you could look at the stats you could have seen
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  Speaker 1: in this previous series. He has not been a good
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  Speaker 1: postseason player. I do believe he's fit himself into his
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  Speaker 1: role with the ten Wolves a lot better as of recently.
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  Speaker 1: He had one of his most efficient, what thirty point games,
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  Speaker 1: not too long ago. It's a tough player for me
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  Speaker 1: to trust just based on track record. So we gotta
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  Speaker 1: wait and see, and I won't be giving official predictions now.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 1: I want to go back through some tapes because I
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  Speaker 1: just looked at their schedule. These two teams haven't played
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  Speaker 1: against each other since January or I'm sorry, early February, and.
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  Speaker 2: Luca was on the team there, but it was no
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  Speaker 2: route to Gobert.
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  Speaker 1: It was no Julius Randal for the Wolves, so there's
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  Speaker 1: not a big All these teams recently played East other
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  Speaker 1: let's look at this film type of thing. We kind
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  Speaker 1: of just got to look at their tennessees across and
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  Speaker 1: it's the first playoff series for jj Ride. We're about
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  Speaker 1: to see what type of preparing he is and what
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  Speaker 1: type of adjustments he can make from a day to
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  Speaker 1: day gaining game basis. This is undoubtedly my favorite potential serial,
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  Speaker 1: no potential series. My favorite definite series of the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: is moving up to the four or five match up
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  Speaker 1: Nuggets versus Clippers is also gonna be a banger.
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  Speaker 2: Ah man, this is gonna be really really good.
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  Speaker 1: The Clippers made everybody me include it look really really
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  Speaker 1: bad this season and I've tipped my cap to them
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  Speaker 1: because they've been incredible. Zoobots took a huge jump where
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  Speaker 1: he may make an All NBA appearance. James Harden may
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  Speaker 1: make it. One of those dudes probably is gonna make
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  Speaker 1: All NBA. I think they probably go Harden. Harden also
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  Speaker 1: got the All Star Ninde and then he just closed
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  Speaker 1: out the game what thirty something points when they needed
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  Speaker 1: him to step up the most. So he probably gonna
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  Speaker 1: make the All NBA team. But everybody in the team
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  Speaker 1: has been playing so well in this game tonight. I
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  Speaker 1: think they said it on the broadcast that because James
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  Speaker 1: Harden was playing so well, you kind of forget that
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  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard was right there on the court as well.
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  Speaker 2: Right, it's just like another option offensively.
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  Speaker 1: They even working like a whale oil machine on the
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  Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. And I mentioned this on
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  Speaker 1: the podcast a couple of weeks ago, a couple of
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  Speaker 1: months ago, that them defensively is one of the scariest teams.
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  Speaker 2: In all of basketball. Right.
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  Speaker 1: They have so many just large wings that you can
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  Speaker 1: throw at guys. And they're not going against a team
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  Speaker 1: with a ton of perimeterive creation. Right, We're going against
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  Speaker 1: Jamal Murray as a perimeterive creator. It's not like they're
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  Speaker 1: going against like the Lakers with Lebron or a Luca
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  Speaker 1: and Austin Reeves on and so forth. So they have
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  Speaker 1: like guys like Kawhi Leonard, Ben Simmons, Deriton Junior, Chris Dunn.
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  Speaker 2: Even like James Harden.
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  Speaker 1: Is a average the plus defendittive given night, like he
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  Speaker 1: has some of the greatest hands of a guy that's
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  Speaker 1: not considered the defender. So they just have so many big,
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  Speaker 1: big bodies, And not to mention again, Zubos versus Yoki
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  Speaker 1: should be a battle of chess.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even I don't even know what to call it.
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  Speaker 1: So this is obviously going to be a great series
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  Speaker 1: as well, at least on paper. The Nuggets also have
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  Speaker 1: the thing of going into a series for the first
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  Speaker 1: time coach who's only coached three games as an NBA
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  Speaker 1: head coach, so we wonder how much that's gonna play
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  Speaker 1: a factor. Right in that first game as a coach,
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  Speaker 1: he kind of set Russell Westbroth quite a bit, so
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  Speaker 1: Pickt can get some burn.
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  Speaker 2: Picket hit a bunch of shots.
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  Speaker 1: But since then Pickett was like, oh, first something tonight,
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  Speaker 1: so he may not play his much as some people
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  Speaker 1: up top may want to see a play.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of different storylines with the Nuggets, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: with them firing and Calvin Booth and Mike Malone, but
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers coaching staff and the talent that's on the
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  Speaker 1: rosters many they're really like a dark horse, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that with them winning today and of course securing
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  Speaker 1: their five spot, they ended up on the side of
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  Speaker 1: the bracket that they probably feel.
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  Speaker 2: The most comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: I've talked to people in the league, and I fact,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say what I'm gonna say.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to. I don't want to.
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  Speaker 1: They ended up on the side of the bracket where
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  Speaker 1: they probably feel the most comfortable. You think about what
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  Speaker 1: the Nuggets have been this season, and obviously the Nuggets
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  Speaker 1: gonna have the best player on the court every single minute,
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  Speaker 1: right so as log as Nikola Yoakis is playing, they
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  Speaker 1: have a chance and not just win this series, but
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  Speaker 1: win almost every series. But you feel as though you
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  Speaker 1: take care of this and then you go against the
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  Speaker 1: potential young OKC thunder. They probably feel really comfortable with
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  Speaker 1: being on this side of the bracket, whether they're right
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  Speaker 1: or wrong, you know, So this is gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: great series. On the other side of things, going to
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  Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference, a three six matchup Nick versus Pistons.
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  Speaker 1: You got the bad boy Pistons versus the Knicks. Who's
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  Speaker 1: just got Jaylen Brunton back, so we'll see. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he hasn't looked super amazing since coming back from his injury.
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  Speaker 1: But he has been has been a playoff riser as
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  Speaker 1: a star player over the last couple of seasons, so
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  Speaker 1: I trust that he'll be fine. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things to really think about in this one because Kay
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  Speaker 1: Cunningham going against the Knicks. I thin he's avaging like thirty
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  Speaker 1: five points per game. He has been extremely efficient, He's
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  Speaker 1: said in his three point shot, he's getting to the basket.
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  Speaker 1: He's pretty much scoring on all three levels in those
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  Speaker 1: regular season matchups. Again, I want to go back and
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  Speaker 1: watch the film because I don't remember off the top
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  Speaker 1: of my mind what scheme defensively they did in the
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  Speaker 1: pick and roll versus him. And now we're really about
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  Speaker 1: to see with this Pistons team, right, it's been one
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  Speaker 1: of the most fun teams of basketball, one of the
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  Speaker 1: most amazing stories.
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  Speaker 2: But this postseason, this is a little bit different.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm coach Tom Thibodeau, I am throwing the kitchen
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  Speaker 1: seek at Kay cunning him and saying, hey, somebody else
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  Speaker 1: has to beat us. And if Malik Beas he hits
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  Speaker 1: eight threes and he's dancing, he can have it. If
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  Speaker 1: so and so is doing anybody but cade It's like
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  Speaker 1: my mindset going into the series. If I'm the New
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  Speaker 1: York Knicks, if that means heavy ice, if that means blitzing,
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  Speaker 1: if that means just trying to pick him up as
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  Speaker 1: early as possible to cause the ball a lot of sens.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know what the scheme should be, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to think to myself, anybody Beka Cunningham.
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  Speaker 1: The Pistons do have a level of a roster that
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  Speaker 1: like anybody, but Kay Cunningham doesn't necessarily mean that, oh
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, anybody belu good.
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  Speaker 2: That means it's Kyrie Irving. Right.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have like that secondary star, but they have
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  Speaker 1: been so good at doing it by committing. The one
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  Speaker 1: thing about the Pistons that scares me is that they
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  Speaker 1: just haven't like they as any young team usually is.
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  Speaker 1: They just struggle against good to really good teams, and the.
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  Speaker 2: Nicks kind of fitting that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even gona fIF thy one games, But they
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  Speaker 1: also don't beat nobody really good.
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  Speaker 2: But so it's it's one of those. One of it
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: Like a war of attrition, I think, because I think
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  Speaker 1: that these two teams are gonna hit each other left
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  Speaker 1: or right. I'm excited to see what type of impact
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  Speaker 1: Karthing Towns is gonna have in this series, so it
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  Speaker 1: should be a fun one. Like I truly do believe
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  Speaker 1: that every single one of these matchups is must CTV.
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  Speaker 1: I do think that Knicks versus Pistons mmmm, because you
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  Speaker 1: know you always think about that first, that first round
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  Speaker 1: matchup that ends up on NBA TV. I would say
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  Speaker 1: Knicks versus Pistons might be that, but it's the goddamn Nicks,
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  Speaker 1: the one of the biggest markets in basketball. So maybe
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  Speaker 1: it is Bucks versus Pacers because we don't know what's
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  Speaker 1: going on with Damian Lillard and that's.
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  Speaker 2: Why this makes it so tough.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Giannis has been on an absolute terrorisist the Dame injury,
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  Speaker 1: where he's basically playing point Giannis.
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  Speaker 2: And I just love it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what the upside is when
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  Speaker 1: he's by himself a no co star, but damn is
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  Speaker 1: it's so fun to watch and he's been so electric.
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  Speaker 1: I made that tweet about his stats and everybody's like, man,
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  Speaker 1: we need a twenty eighteen run from him, and it
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  Speaker 1: would be it wouldn't be crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I would like it.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the thing for me. The Pacers have been
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  Speaker 1: one of the four best teams in basketball by net
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  Speaker 1: rating by records is January first. I know it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of going under the radar, right, but they have been
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  Speaker 1: so damn incredible, And you know, the last couple of
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  Speaker 1: years like, oh, this is a high powered offensive jugger naw,
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  Speaker 1: but the defensive side of the ball is just like
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  Speaker 1: one of the worst towards the bottom third of the league.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the case anymore. They got guys like them,
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  Speaker 1: hard Nie Smith, Pascal Siakam, who I hope that when
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: Pascal Siakam's career is over we remember him as like
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: what you need, I got you, but like at the
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: highest degree as an all star level player, because it's
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: just on a night to night basis, you can ask
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: Pascal to do almost anything and he'll be able to
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: put that put that jacket on and say I got you.
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: So it's a tough series to pick. I can't call
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: it just yet because Dames. We don't know about Dame.
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: I would say if Dame is not there, I'm probably
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: leaning more Pacers than Bucks. But Giannis is going to
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: be an absolute dominant beast. Let's talk about these playing
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: games out East. Neither of these games are gonna be
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: too interesting. I mean, they might have interesting games, but
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: they don't have really big storylines. Mostly because whether it
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: be the Bulls to heat the magic or the Hawks
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: that make it to the postseason, we can all agree
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: that the Calves and the Celtics are going to advance. Right,
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: you know, on the one of these seas might take
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: a game at the most maybe two, but this is
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: the Calves versus in Celtics, so they got that.
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: So it might be cool just because it's one game elimination.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, Kobe White versus Tyler Herro again, palov and Caro
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: versus Trey Young, Like, you can do some fun stuff there.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: Neither of those teams, none of those four teams gonna
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: make a run. While on the other side of the bracket,
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: you could you could convince yourself of one of these
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: four teams going to run.
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: The one that people are gonna feel the most comfortable
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: is the Warriors.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: Right, the Warriors are on potential to if they beat
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: the Grizzlies to go against the Rockets, and because the
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: Rockets are this young team with not a lot of
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: postseason experience, some of these veteran led teams probably feel
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: really good about potentially.
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: Matching up against them.
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: I even saw Warriors fans on my time, and of
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: course they would rather not been the plan, but they
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: saying it's not the worst case scenario because they don't
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: trust the Rockets and the post. He's not remade my
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Rockets video like a couple of days ago. So if
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: you want to go hear me talking about the Rockets,
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: there's that. But you could convince yourself of one of
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: these teams going to run. I personally don't trust the
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: Grizzlies as much as I did two months ago. Jah
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: has been back to be in front of the Electric,
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: but I just don't trust them as closers. So it
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: really is like the Warriors, and like, do the Grizzlies
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: beat this second team or I mean, the Grizzies could
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: win this guy. I don't want to act like the
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Raids are just as as tape, but I trust the
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Wars just a little bit more in this spot. And
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: then they get I know, the Thunder's not gonna be
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: afraid of anybody, don't get me wrong, but I'm sure
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: they probably want to see the Warriors advance in this
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: first game, and then they get the winner of Grizzlies
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: versus whatever it is, because it's just gonna be an
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: easier series. Yeah, those are my initial initial reactions to
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: every single potential thing. I do want to get into
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: the lab and watch, like Knicks versus Pisses. I gotta
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: see what that last matchup looked like. And then Clippers
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: versus Nuggets happened. It's a few days ago, didn't it you? No,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: the last time playing each other was January eighth, Know
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: what am I thinking about?
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: Huh? Either way?
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Fire Like, there are a couple of combinations that might
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: have been better, you know, better potential first round series,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: but of the ones that are absolutely set, I can't
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: call it yet.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: I can't call it yet. And that's what makes a
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: good postseason