Latest / Kenny For Real / The Warriors Beat The Rockets In Game 7…
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Today, we had a Game seven into Game one, the
- 0:03Speaker 1: start to a series, into a series, you're gonna talk
- 0:05Speaker 1: about both starting off with the Golden State Warriors beating
- 0:07Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets in seven. I know Rockets fans are pissed,
- 0:11Speaker 1: not just because they lost the series. I mean you
- 0:13Speaker 1: were the underdog, even though you had the higher seed
- 0:15Speaker 1: at one point, you down three one, you forced the
- 0:17Speaker 1: game seven. A lot of people didn't look at you
- 0:19Speaker 1: as a real contender to win this series at all.
- 0:21Speaker 1: You're not mad about losing the series, I want to guess.
- 0:24Speaker 1: I want to guess you're mad because you lost to
- 0:26Speaker 1: Steph Curry again again. I'm not trying to rub it in.
- 0:29Speaker 1: I'm not trying to rub it in, but for the
- 0:31Speaker 1: gazillion time you've lost to that guy. And you know what,
- 0:33Speaker 1: there was not really a moment in time I thought
- 0:35Speaker 1: the Rockers are gonna win this one, because even when
- 0:37Speaker 1: Steph Curry was struggling in the first half, I think
- 0:39Speaker 1: he would have to have time like three points, they
- 0:41Speaker 1: were still up by double digits, and shout out to
- 0:43Speaker 1: Buddy Hill for that. But like I was thinking to myself,
- 0:45Speaker 1: there's no way Steph Curry is going to stay this
- 0:47Speaker 1: quiet on the offensive side of the ball for an
- 0:49Speaker 1: entire game, and eventually he started to turn it up,
- 0:51Speaker 1: hit a couple of big shots down the stretch. He
- 0:53Speaker 1: had his own personal what eight oh run in the
- 0:55Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and that was really it. There's a couple
- 0:59Speaker 1: of different things. That's a as a hell out of me.
- 1:00Speaker 1: I was surprised to see Johnthan Kiminga gets some burn
- 1:02Speaker 1: early on. I know it was talked about by Steve
- 1:04Speaker 1: Kurr that he wouldn't count it out, but for him
- 1:07Speaker 1: to get some early burn, and not only just early burn,
- 1:10Speaker 1: he got burned alongside Draymond and Jimmy Butler. And that
- 1:13Speaker 1: was something that Steve Kurr went on the radio about
- 1:15Speaker 1: like two months ago, saying like, yeah, Kaminga can't play
- 1:17Speaker 1: with those two dudes, So for it to be a
- 1:19Speaker 1: go home situation, He's like, you know what, maybe he
- 1:21Speaker 1: can't play with those dudes.
- 1:22Speaker 2: The minutes were awful.
- 1:24Speaker 1: There are a lot of Warriors fans that I mentioned
- 1:26Speaker 1: when John Thankminga threw out the last week of the
- 1:28Speaker 1: season plus the end of like the post, He's like, man,
- 1:30Speaker 1: Johnathan Kmen ain't getting minutes. To Steve Kurk Buggin. The
- 1:33Speaker 1: answer is probably not. And maybe that's just because he
- 1:35Speaker 1: hasn't got a lot of burn, so he's lost his confidence,
- 1:37Speaker 1: or he's lost a lot of his or he's just
- 1:40Speaker 1: really rusty. But in the minute he has played in
- 1:42Speaker 1: the series, not good at all. I don't expect him
- 1:46Speaker 1: to play much of next series, let's just say that.
- 1:48Speaker 1: But yeah, this is a good team win for the
- 1:49Speaker 1: Golden Sabers. They had times in this game though, where
- 1:51Speaker 1: I absolutely hated the shot attempts they were getting. It
- 1:54Speaker 1: was like Draymond Green pull up jump shots and so
- 1:56Speaker 1: on and so forth. But there are a few things
- 1:58Speaker 1: that stood out in this game compared to some of
- 2:00Speaker 1: the other ones. We did get a decent amount of
- 2:02Speaker 1: the double big lineup for the Houston Rockets, and one
- 2:04Speaker 1: thing that was different. They couldn't run a lot of
- 2:06Speaker 1: zone with this double big lineup because Buddy Hill was
- 2:09Speaker 1: hitting his shot today, because Pots hit an early shot,
- 2:12Speaker 1: which was really important to kind of change the dynamic
- 2:15Speaker 1: of the way they play defense. And when you run
- 2:17Speaker 1: this double big lineup, one of the luxuries you have
- 2:19Speaker 1: is that you can't run that zone right and if
- 2:21Speaker 1: the others are hitting shots, and in this game they
- 2:23Speaker 1: shot forty two percent from three forty two percent from three.
- 2:26Speaker 1: If the others are hitting shots, you can't really run
- 2:28Speaker 1: the zone. And the Warriors didn't run their own zone.
- 2:30Speaker 1: Were gonna talk about that in a second, But with
- 2:32Speaker 1: them not being able to run the zone, that means
- 2:33Speaker 1: they had to go to man and man coverage. And
- 2:34Speaker 1: we didn't get to see in the first six game
- 2:36Speaker 1: of the series when we did have the double big
- 2:37Speaker 1: lineup a lot of minutes where one of the big
- 2:40Speaker 1: Shitgowner or Steven Adams reguarding Dramont Green. It's just too dangerous.
- 2:44Speaker 1: It's too dangerous because Draymond Green is an amazing short roller.
- 2:47Speaker 1: He can finish at the rim. Of course he can
- 2:48Speaker 1: make that extra pass. And the few times they did
- 2:51Speaker 1: end up playing that man the man coverage with the
- 2:53Speaker 1: double big lineup, Draymond.
- 2:54Speaker 2: Green is picking it apart.
- 2:56Speaker 1: One of the times he got to the basket, and
- 2:58Speaker 1: I actually don't remember if he finished the lay. Yeah
- 3:00Speaker 1: it's Draymond Green, so I'm gonna assume he did it.
- 3:03Speaker 1: But I know two of the times it ended up
- 3:04Speaker 1: finding Buddy Healed on open three. It's like, oh yeah,
- 3:06Speaker 1: we can't really do that too much. So now the
- 3:08Speaker 1: one advantage that we had as a team, which is
- 3:10Speaker 1: killing the offensive glass, runing the zubblebeing lined up and
- 3:12Speaker 1: mucket things up defensively didn't really work out of this game,
- 3:15Speaker 1: which is unfortunate for him for them that it happened
- 3:17Speaker 1: in the game seven. Right, they ended up really throwing
- 3:21Speaker 1: them out of there, and you know, the Rockets offense
- 3:24Speaker 1: was really predicated on them being able to get those
- 3:27Speaker 1: second chance opportunities, and unfortunately for the Rockets, we didn't
- 3:30Speaker 1: get an amazing frev VLeague game who had kept them
- 3:33Speaker 1: afloat throughout the last couple Let's quickly talk about the
- 3:36Speaker 1: Houston Rockets at hole because I think one of the
- 3:38Speaker 1: things that was very apparent throughout this entire series is
- 3:40Speaker 1: how much their need of a goal to score down stretch.
- 3:43Speaker 1: You don't change anything about the season, right, this is
- 3:45Speaker 1: one of those teams that you want to see of
- 3:48Speaker 1: your young players, who do you think can hold they're
- 3:50Speaker 1: on in the playoff series, and we got some ideas.
- 3:52Speaker 1: This is not a good alprin Shan gun game. All
- 3:54Speaker 1: things considered. His touch was really off. He had a
- 3:56Speaker 1: lot of bunnies that just miss you can credit that
- 3:58Speaker 1: to Draymond who's been holding them to like thirty six
- 4:00Speaker 1: percent from the field when he's been guarded by him,
- 4:01Speaker 1: or he's just credited to him just losing his touch
- 4:03Speaker 1: in his last couple last game. But as a whole,
- 4:06Speaker 1: you feel good about al Brishon Goon as a player
- 4:08Speaker 1: for the next year's playoff run. You feel amazing about
- 4:11Speaker 1: Aman Thompson, who was phenomenal in this game. Ended up
- 4:13Speaker 1: pulling his hamstringer whatever, but he was amazing, especially in
- 4:16Speaker 1: that first half. We talked about Steph Curry having three
- 4:19Speaker 1: points on one of six from shooting from three in
- 4:21Speaker 1: that first half. A lot of that is Aman Thompson
- 4:23Speaker 1: playing some amazing defense. You feel good about some guys
- 4:25Speaker 1: like Jabarsmith Junr who didn't have a great game today,
- 4:28Speaker 1: but he had a couple of great games throughout the series.
- 4:30Speaker 1: And then you feel bad about others. You know what
- 4:32Speaker 1: I'm talking about, And I just don't know what the
- 4:35Speaker 1: remedy for that is. I don't know if that means
- 4:37Speaker 1: that you're gonna win. You're like, hey, man, who want
- 4:39Speaker 1: Jalen Green? We need to go to score Kevin Uran,
- 4:41Speaker 1: Devin Booker or who else is available, Kevin Duran, Devin Booker,
- 4:45Speaker 1: Zion No. I just don't know who's available. But like,
- 4:49Speaker 1: Jalen Green's stat lines were just pretty nasty. Seven points,
- 4:52Speaker 1: thirty eight points. Who looks amazing there? Nine points, eight points,
- 4:56Speaker 1: eleven points, twelve points and then eight points. It's just
- 4:59Speaker 1: all around, just was a really bad series. And it
- 5:02Speaker 1: got to the point late in this game where the
- 5:04Speaker 1: Rockets are trying to trying to get back into it, right,
- 5:07Speaker 1: it's like a nine to eight point game, and Jalen
- 5:09Speaker 1: Green is on the court and I'm you know, I'm
- 5:11Speaker 1: just refreshing Twitter, trying to be interactive with the people,
- 5:13Speaker 1: and people were asking like why is Jalen Green even
- 5:15Speaker 1: on the court, and if you're em Udoka in this game,
- 5:17Speaker 1: Jabardsmith Junior didn't play very well.
- 5:20Speaker 2: I thought Tarry Easton looked kind of scared in the moment.
- 5:22Speaker 1: A couple different times he had nasty turnovers and he
- 5:24Speaker 1: got credited for two, but it was one that he
- 5:26Speaker 1: almost turned it over. But luckily Fred Vanvlee was there
- 5:28Speaker 1: to stay at us to keep it stea steady and
- 5:31Speaker 1: like again, though he had a terrible series, in the
- 5:35Speaker 1: back of your mind, you think to yourself, will we're
- 5:37Speaker 1: down by eight, we need some creation because in this series,
- 5:40Speaker 1: when that we have not scored a lot, this is.
- 5:42Speaker 2: Gonna sound stupid because obviously this is the case.
- 5:43Speaker 1: When we have now scored a lot, we have instead
- 5:45Speaker 1: a chance. But Jalen green man, he had two shots
- 5:48Speaker 1: that he could be on the burner, and just like that,
- 5:50Speaker 1: it's an eight point game. And that was a two
- 5:51Speaker 1: point game because Jalen green had two threes. Just the
- 5:54Speaker 1: idea of what he could blow out to be was
- 5:56Speaker 1: just enough to keep him on the floor, especially if
- 5:58Speaker 1: there was nobody on the bench that was playing above him.
- 6:01Speaker 2: Right.
- 6:02Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, I'm curious see what this offseason
- 6:04Speaker 1: looks like from the team. This is a hell of
- 6:06Speaker 1: successful season I think going into it, and when you
- 6:08Speaker 1: look back on my video, I thought that they were
- 6:09Speaker 1: going to be like.
- 6:10Speaker 2: The eleven seed this season, they were the two. Right.
- 6:13Speaker 1: So again, you don't love the fact that you're a
- 6:15Speaker 1: first round exit, but if you look at it from
- 6:17Speaker 1: a bird's eye view, you're thinking about the future of
- 6:19Speaker 1: this team. There's nothing but bright things going forward, right, Okay,
- 6:21Speaker 1: So shout out to the Houston Rockets for even making
- 6:23Speaker 1: it interesting. Because I want to remind you, this Golden
- 6:25Speaker 1: State Warriors team was twenty three and seven with Jimmy Butler.
- 6:28Speaker 1: You took them to seven. That's like, that is a
- 6:30Speaker 1: real accomplishment. I'm not here for like moral victories, I get.
- 6:34Speaker 1: I mean maybe I am, I kindam. Yeah, I'm here
- 6:37Speaker 1: from morel victories. That's a more victory for you. And
- 6:39Speaker 1: now we got to start thinking about the Golden State
- 6:40Speaker 1: Warriors being matched up against the Minnesota Timbles, and I
- 6:42Speaker 1: promise you this. I mean, I don't know how I
- 6:44Speaker 1: feel about the series other than say that I feel
- 6:46Speaker 1: pretty good about the Minnesota Tembules winning some of those
- 6:49Speaker 1: stretches that we saw in this series. Or the Warriors
- 6:51Speaker 1: went four to five minutes multiple times a game without scoring,
- 6:55Speaker 1: That's just not gonna be.
- 6:57Speaker 2: Something that you can do often.
- 6:58Speaker 1: You're gonna be able to get get away with it
- 7:00Speaker 1: a few different times in the playoff series, but you're
- 7:02Speaker 1: not getting able to do that often against the Minnesota Timboleves,
- 7:05Speaker 1: who are just better on the offensive side of the floor.
- 7:07Speaker 1: They have a guy at Anthony Edwards who we just
- 7:09Speaker 1: saw in the last series could pick some things apart.
- 7:11Speaker 1: Now the Warriors are obviously a better defense than what
- 7:15Speaker 1: the Lakers just showed us. But they're also a small
- 7:17Speaker 1: team and we just saw ready to go Bear Gobzilla
- 7:19Speaker 1: give them twenty six and twenty four. Julius ran to
- 7:22Speaker 1: use his size, had a great series, So this should
- 7:24Speaker 1: be a dogfight for sure. I'm leaning towards Timble Wolves,
- 7:26Speaker 1: but I guess I'll talk about that in the future.
- 7:28Speaker 1: Is there anything else in my notes about this game?
- 7:34Speaker 2: Oh? Oh, Warriors through Arizona.
- 7:36Speaker 1: I said I was gonna get into that the Warriors
- 7:38Speaker 1: getting into their ozone was actually pretty dope because it
- 7:40Speaker 1: forced it forced a lot of the Rockets to take
- 7:43Speaker 1: long shots. And because they were taking long shots, like
- 7:46Speaker 1: this is the bad thing about his zone. It's a
- 7:48Speaker 1: tough to rebound in the zone. That was something you
- 7:50Speaker 1: get taught as a very young kid. You gotta get
- 7:52Speaker 1: a body on people because you're not necessarily guarding somebody
- 7:54Speaker 1: one on one, right, So it's tough to get rebounds.
- 7:57Speaker 1: But because you were forcing the Houston Rockets to take
- 7:59Speaker 1: long shots, you didn't have to worry about that. Because
- 8:00Speaker 1: long shots his long missus and a few different times
- 8:02Speaker 1: ended up being a breakaway from Jimmy Butler or pods
- 8:04Speaker 1: in and something like that. So I ended up working
- 8:06Speaker 1: out pretty well. I thought Steve kirkyan coach, took a game,
- 8:08Speaker 1: even if I don't agree with Jonathan Kaminga going out
- 8:11Speaker 1: there and planting some some early minutes. It just felt
- 8:14Speaker 1: like he had Buddy Healed game in the back of
- 8:17Speaker 1: his pocket. Buddy Heal nine of eleven for three and
- 8:20Speaker 1: some of them, I mean one of them ones is
- 8:21Speaker 1: what right before half court at the end of a quarter,
- 8:24Speaker 1: Like some of these shots were ridiculous, and some of
- 8:26Speaker 1: them they just completely forgot Buddy hild on the floor right.
- 8:30Speaker 1: And part of that is like we're so hell bent
- 8:32Speaker 1: on making sure Steph Curry is not getting off that
- 8:35Speaker 1: if it happens to be Buddy Healed, then so being
- 8:37Speaker 1: And it happened to but be Buddy Healed again, though,
- 8:40Speaker 1: Steph Curry and shoot the ball will into the basically
- 8:43Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. I thought he was fucking amazing defensively,
- 8:46Speaker 1: all things consider. He ain't he ain't he ain't A'man Thompson,
- 8:51Speaker 1: he ain't Tony Allen, he ain't Ron Harper or Scottie
- 8:54Speaker 1: Pippen before his size, he was not giving anything up
- 8:58Speaker 1: and This is something I've talked about a lot about
- 8:59Speaker 1: Steph Curry.
- 9:00Speaker 2: I think as a defender, he's always been underrated.
- 9:02Speaker 1: A lot of times he does end up being not
- 9:03Speaker 1: necessarily in this era, but some of his previous eras
- 9:05Speaker 1: when they were winning championships, he did end up being
- 9:07Speaker 1: the worst defensive player on the court, but that didn't
- 9:10Speaker 1: make him a bad defensive player. Being the worst defensive
- 9:12Speaker 1: player on the court on the team that was number
- 9:14Speaker 1: one and number two defense could still mean you're a
- 9:16Speaker 1: good defensive player. And I thought today, even when the
- 9:18Speaker 1: shot was a fall in, I mean he got to
- 9:20Speaker 1: the glass, he ended up he didn't draw charge, but
- 9:23Speaker 1: he he didn't draw the charge he laid away to
- 9:27Speaker 1: a mislay up because it like he was setting up
- 9:29Speaker 1: that he moved last second. So I just thought, again,
- 9:31Speaker 1: had a phenomenal game. And I love the fact that
- 9:33Speaker 1: Steve Kurr was like, man, this is game seven, Steph.
- 9:36Speaker 1: You gotta play almost every single second. And I think
- 9:38Speaker 1: he did end up basically plan every minute until the
- 9:40Speaker 1: game was out of reach and then they let the
- 9:41Speaker 1: other guys come in. So good game for the Golden
- 9:44Speaker 1: State Warriors, and they continue to see if they can
- 9:47Speaker 1: go on the ultimate run. Shout out to the Houston Rockets.
- 9:50Speaker 1: This's talk about Kas versus Patris.
- 9:51Speaker 2: Game number one.
- 9:52Speaker 1: The Pacers go in into Cleveland win one twenty one
- 9:55Speaker 1: to one twelve, a game that we found out like
- 9:58Speaker 1: maybe an hour or two before that there's guard was
- 10:00Speaker 1: not gonna be suited up. They are really optimistic though,
- 10:01Speaker 1: that he'll get ready for game number two, So that's cool.
- 10:05Speaker 1: I really want Dearsgard on the playing series because I
- 10:07Speaker 1: want this series to be really, really good, and I
- 10:08Speaker 1: think darris.
- 10:08Speaker 2: Gard obviously helps that a ton.
- 10:11Speaker 1: One of the questions I had asked the guys is like,
- 10:13Speaker 1: where do the Cavaliers start off defensively with Tyres Halliburn?
- 10:16Speaker 1: Will it be Max Shrews, so will be this? And
- 10:18Speaker 1: that ended up being Max Shrews very early on. Sometimes
- 10:20Speaker 1: ended up being Sam Merrill. They just shifted around quite
- 10:23Speaker 1: a bit. I thought that Tyr's Halliburton is an amazing
- 10:25Speaker 1: job in this game, full stop on both sides of Florida.
- 10:28Speaker 1: It was that there was a stretch with like two
- 10:29Speaker 1: and a half minutes left, Tyre's Halliburn himself got three
- 10:32Speaker 1: back to back to back defensive stops and you think
- 10:34Speaker 1: about who the Cleveland Cavaliers are, you think about what
- 10:36Speaker 1: the Cleveland Cavaliers did in last series. When you think
- 10:38Speaker 1: about them just completely picking on Tyler hero defensively, that's
- 10:41Speaker 1: who Tyre's Halliburton is gonna be on the defensive side
- 10:44Speaker 1: this series. He is the weakest link defensively on this team.
- 10:48Speaker 1: So it's like, we're gonna put you in every single action.
- 10:50Speaker 1: They were doing that early on, and it was offered
- 10:51Speaker 1: not because the Cavs shot terribly from three. I think
- 10:54Speaker 1: it's their second worst shooting in the game of the
- 10:56Speaker 1: entire season, but for them to try to go at
- 10:58Speaker 1: him with two and a half minutes to go and
- 10:59Speaker 1: him to cut out there and get three stops and
- 11:01Speaker 1: then come down there and hit a dagger, like that's
- 11:02Speaker 1: my boy. I felt that, and they felt comfortable with
- 11:05Speaker 1: letting it be pick and roll switching. Tyry's like, Okay,
- 11:07Speaker 1: you're gonna switch the big fellow on me, and the
- 11:09Speaker 1: big fellow Jared Allen's really good into space, all things considered,
- 11:12Speaker 1: not go cut it today, step back three. I thought
- 11:14Speaker 1: he was amazing, and of course he's always gonna raise
- 11:17Speaker 1: the level of play on the offensive side of the
- 11:19Speaker 1: ball because he is one of the premier playmakers in basketball,
- 11:22Speaker 1: and when the ball is in his hands, the team
- 11:23Speaker 1: will not turn the ball over.
- 11:24Speaker 2: Often.
- 11:25Speaker 1: The stat gohoes they are twenty three and seven this
- 11:28Speaker 1: season when he scores over twenty. Damnit he at twenty
- 11:30Speaker 1: two today. Now, let's take a step back. Andrewnimhar phenomenal
- 11:37Speaker 1: game as well. You know he's about he's getting into
- 11:40Speaker 1: that territory. That territory you talk about playoff rises, you'd
- 11:44Speaker 1: be thinking about like yo kids, you think about Luca
- 11:46Speaker 1: again before this season, you think about some all time legends,
- 11:51Speaker 1: and then right under that, you gotta think about Andrew
- 11:53Speaker 1: Nimhar because he continues man the side step twenty eight
- 11:57Speaker 1: foot three with two seconds on the side clock would
- 12:00Speaker 1: have hurt my soul of all was Cavs fan ain't
- 12:01Speaker 1: gonna lie. He hit that shot, and he played good defense. Again,
- 12:04Speaker 1: all things considered, it's only so much you could do
- 12:05Speaker 1: against dodviment and stuff. Andrew Aaron E. Smith also really
- 12:09Speaker 1: good in this game. So they had a lot of
- 12:11Speaker 1: good things going for them. But let me take a
- 12:12Speaker 1: step back. They shot fifty three percent from three, fifty
- 12:18Speaker 1: three percent from three, and.
- 12:23Speaker 2: I'm you know, fifty three percent. That's crazy fifty three percent.
- 12:32Speaker 1: I'm just like, obviously, there's other ways to win games.
- 12:35Speaker 1: There's other ways that when they're not gonna shoo fifty
- 12:37Speaker 1: three percent four different times to win this series. There's
- 12:38Speaker 1: other ways the Pacers can beat you do not get
- 12:40Speaker 1: me wrong, but this one it felt like, what are
- 12:43Speaker 1: the means the magnet ball means, That's what it felt like.
- 12:45Speaker 2: They were not missing. On the offensive side. There was
- 12:48Speaker 2: one three that I think.
- 12:49Speaker 1: It was was it Obi Obi hit a side step
- 12:52Speaker 1: corner three and I'm like, I don't know, I don't know,
- 12:55Speaker 1: what are you supposed to do about that. On the
- 12:56Speaker 1: other side of things, I thought the Calves went on
- 12:59Speaker 1: some of their best runs are like, look best offensively
- 13:02Speaker 1: when Obi was on the court, So I wonder what
- 13:03Speaker 1: that's gonna look like if Darius Garland comes back. The
- 13:07Speaker 1: CAFs also had as many points in the paint as
- 13:10Speaker 1: a team can have in a single game.
- 13:11Speaker 2: He has seventy.
- 13:12Speaker 1: It was I made the tweet it was like, I
- 13:15Speaker 1: haven't played a ton of Marvel rivals in the last
- 13:17Speaker 1: month or so, but I.
- 13:18Speaker 2: Just be thinking about different alts and Spider Man.
- 13:21Speaker 1: You get a web, you get a web, you get
- 13:22Speaker 1: a paint touch, you get a pay touch, you get
- 13:24Speaker 1: a paint touch. Dnnit because everybody just get into the
- 13:26Speaker 1: basket and party. That was like foul trouble for some dudes.
- 13:29Speaker 1: But also the Pacers weren't playing great point of attack
- 13:31Speaker 1: defense and it just ended up being you know, Dono
- 13:33Speaker 1: Mitchell get it downhill or Evan Mobley had a really
- 13:36Speaker 1: good offensive game today it's kind of washed out, or
- 13:38Speaker 1: like Ti Jerome get into his float to range and
- 13:40Speaker 1: he didn't hit a ton of those today, but like
- 13:43Speaker 1: you expect him to hit more. So you know, there's
- 13:46Speaker 1: like optimism on both sides, right, Darius Garland's coming back,
- 13:49Speaker 1: and you don't expect the opposing to team to shoot
- 13:51Speaker 1: fifty three percent from three. The optimists on the Pacer side, Hey,
- 13:54Speaker 1: we went into a game one and they always said
- 13:56Speaker 1: series don't start to the home team losers.
- 13:57Speaker 2: We just took a game one.
- 13:59Speaker 1: We still do have one of the best players in
- 14:00Speaker 1: the series, and Tyrey's haliberty for continues to shoot, and well,
- 14:03Speaker 1: we just have depth. Both teams have depth. This is
- 14:06Speaker 1: gonna be a dogfight. My original thing was was Calves
- 14:09Speaker 1: I think I said Calves in five. That was before
- 14:12Speaker 1: I knew that Darris Garland was like that toe injury
- 14:15Speaker 1: was that bad? Sometimes like when you go gets an
- 14:17Speaker 1: inferior opponent, which is what the Miami he word to
- 14:19Speaker 1: the Calves, you can feel, Okay, we're just sitting the
- 14:22Speaker 1: guy here or there.
- 14:23Speaker 2: I thought that's what it was. And the same thing
- 14:24Speaker 2: with like Drew Holliday in as other series.
- 14:25Speaker 1: So I don't know exactly what to think about that.
- 14:30Speaker 1: We did have some zone get thrown out there a
- 14:32Speaker 1: little bit, which is again, every single team, every single
- 14:35Speaker 1: series has seen zoned so far as playoffs. I think
- 14:37Speaker 1: it's phenomenal that zone is being used so damn heavily.
- 14:41Speaker 1: It's so cool to see Kenny Atkinson's go the opposite
- 14:43Speaker 1: of like every single team in basketball, every feel like
- 14:46Speaker 1: every team has the one player that is strictly there
- 14:49Speaker 1: for the defensive side of the ball, one of these wings,
- 14:51Speaker 1: and like it's an elite level defensive player.
- 14:52Speaker 2: Is Chris Done, Is Derrick Jones Junior? It's I'm In Thompson.
- 14:56Speaker 1: It's like those type of dudes that just are not
- 14:58Speaker 1: a threat to shoot the ball whatsoever. Every single team
- 15:00Speaker 1: has one of those dudes, and it feels like those
- 15:02Speaker 1: teams end up starting one of those dudes, except for
- 15:05Speaker 1: the Cavs, who has a guy like that on the
- 15:06Speaker 1: bench and his name is Isaac Corrow. But instead of
- 15:09Speaker 1: starting isisger Corrow to hounds Tyre's Hallibird. They'd rather just
- 15:13Speaker 1: have all the shooting in the world, Sam Merrill, you
- 15:16Speaker 1: gotta defend tonight, brother. We know you can shoot, so
- 15:18Speaker 1: go ahead of the finio ass off too. And I
- 15:20Speaker 1: think that's always interesting to see different philosophies come out.
- 15:23Speaker 2: But that's pretty much it. I'm excited to see the
- 15:24Speaker 2: rest of the series. Hold.
- 15:26Speaker 1: I've said it once and I'll say it again because
- 15:29Speaker 1: next year the Bulls will be in the finals. The
- 15:32Speaker 1: NBA runs through the central visit Baby always has, always
- 15:34Speaker 1: will be