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Is Anthony Edwards becoming the face of the league? NBA Round 2 predictions! · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, welcome, Welcome back to another episode, episode
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number forty six of the so called sports Analyst. Josh. How you doing?
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You know, I'm doing good man. We're watching some good basketball,
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some good playoff basketball. We're in round two. So that's what we're going
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to talk about today is Round two of the NBA Playoffs. Yes sir,
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But let's go ahead and get into it, Josh. And so the second
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round has started. But before we start the second round, we're just gonna
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give you a quick update. So the Cavs they beat the Magic in seven,
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the Dallas Mavericks they did end up winning in six games, and then
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the Knicks they won in six games. But that's just a quick overview.
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We're gonna talk about our predictions for the second round. So let's go it
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and get into it. And we're gonna go ahead and start from the Western
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Conference here, Josh with I feel like this is the most fifty to fifty
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series right here. It's between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Dallas Mavericks here,
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Josh, So, what are some things that you're looking out for in
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this series and who's winning? I think for me, and the biggest thing
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is probably gonna be the interior defense of Oklahoma City Thunder. I understand check
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he had a big series in the last versus the Pelicans, but there was
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no Zion in that series. And I understand the Dallas matters for see,
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don't have a Zion, but you know who they do have. They have
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the greatest finish yer at the rim with the basketball, and that's Kyrie Irving.
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I don't know, it's just that's just a different type of guy.
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What he can do gett into the basket, and then Luca donc is doing
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his thing. That's something I'm not to monitor is because these guys can get
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to the room, they can create their own shots. They're not playing a
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Pelicans team where it's just mainly team basketball all the way around. These guys
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can play ioball and then they can move the rock around. So for me,
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being with that being said, I'm taking the MAVs and I'm taking them
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in six. I can't believe I'm going for Texas team two series in a
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row. That scurs, but that's what I'm gonna go with. I'm gonna
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go to the Maps in six. I just think that the experience of Kyrie
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Irving and had the way he's been balling, especially closing out games, and
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Luka Doncics being Luka Doncis, that's gonna be enough for me for the for
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the Map to win six. Yeah, it definitely is a tough series.
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I feel like this is fifty to fifty. Like you said, the interior
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defense. But the biggest thing for me is a physicality because the only reason
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why the Pelicans there were I know they got blown out the first or the
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last three games, but the first game it was due to the physicality.
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Maybe you could say, oh, well it's the first game for the Thunder
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they were they weren't ready or just a new environment. But the Dallas Mavericks,
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they're a season playoff team. They're ready to win now. And you
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have physical players Luka Doncic very physical. You already mentioned Kyrie Irvy, Pga
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Washington very physical defender, Derek Jones Junior, Daniel Gaffer, Derek Lively.
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So if the Thunder can match the physicality of the Dallas Mavericks, then maybe
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maybe they have a shot. I think the biggest thing to look for here,
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Josh, at least for me, So Shay and Luca. I don't
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care if you say Luca is better. I'm gonna just call it a wash
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if that's fine, because they're both in the top five level, maybe top
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three, and both MVP candidates. But Kyrie Irving is definitely better than Jalen
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Williams. But if Jalen Williams he could play up to the status or to
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the level of Kyrie Irving what he's been doing, then you have a shot.
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Because I like the Thunder depth more than Dallas Mavericks step and even going
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to coaching Mark Dagnall, he's a young coach, first time in the playoffs,
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compared to Jason Kidd, He's been there plenty of times even as a
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player. So I think this is going to seven no matter what it and
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I want to pick the Thunder. I'm not gonna lie, Josh, but
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I think the MAVs are gonna win because they just have too much experience.
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Oh yeah, I don't know if you saw, but the Thunder they're not
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selling any tickets to Mavericks fans pretty much like any any fan in Texas.
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They're restricting it. I don't know if you saw that. So they could
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have home court advantage. They could just use the Oklahoma VbN to buy it.
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Yeah, I know, I know, but but yeah it said I
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forgot who posted it. It's kind of way down your ticket sales right there,
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huh. But now the Thunder fans will fill it out. They're one
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of the best fan bases in the NBA, for sure. They're one of
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the loudest ones. Especially going back to the k D and Russell Western days.
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That was always a big team for their advantages was how loud the stadium
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could get. Oh yeah, So all right, Josh, who's your X
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factor in this? Wait? What I want to say? I can see
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how I'm not counting the Thunder out completely. If they win this series,
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I'm not gonna be surprised at all. Yeah they do. They have SGA,
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they have the Jalen J. Dubb Chet's been playing great, Mark Gna
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been the coach of the year. So like, if they win, I'm
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not gonna be like, oh, I wasn't expected number one seed for a
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reason, so you know, if they do win. But I just think
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that Luca and Kyrie are going to be too much, and my X factor,
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honestly is gonna be Kyrie Irving. Kyrie Irving. He I understand some
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of the games in the last series versus the Clippers, like in the first
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half he was kind of non existent, but when the second half came around,
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second half, Kyrie Irving was different. And then Kyrie Irving and close
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out games. He just doesn't lose. He doesn't lose, can close out
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games. So I don't know. I think he has to be the X
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factor. Luca's gonna do his thing like he does every single night. Kyrie
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Irving's done in his career every single night, but he's the X factor.
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But he has a big series. I think the Mavericks are going to be
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too much. Yeah, no question. And okay, say if you had
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to give them for the thunder, who's the X factor for the thunder?
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Here ch is gonna have to be the X factor and that's coming with interior
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defense. I get Daniel Gafford isn't a great scorer, but he also is
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a great He's a great rebounder though, and Chet's gonna have to match that
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energy. And then plus guard Luca who likes to draw fouls, and Kyrie
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Irving who likes to get to the rim, He's gonna have to He's gonna
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have to be big when it comes up in certain situations like that. And
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then even PJ. Washington is the physical he likes to get to the rack.
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And a couple other guys, Derek Jones Junior is literally on this team.
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He's a high flyer. So you know you're gonna have to protect protect
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that rim, and that's what I'm expecting to check Holmgren. Yeah, So
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before I get into my X factor for the Mavericks hit here, I'm gonna
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say the thunder I think it's gonna have to be JD Jalen Williams. Like
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I said, he's gonna have to match the production for or of what Kyrie
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Irving does because Sga and Luca they're gonna pretty much wash each other the entire
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series, other than maybe a bad game or so, but other than that,
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they're gonna be there. But yeah, can Jalen Williams you right?
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There score for score or point for point with Kyrie Irving, because that's what
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he's gonna need to be in order for them to win the series. Well,
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my X factor here for the Mavericks is the two big men Derek Lively
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and Daniel Gafford, because what's the Thunder's biggest problem as far as rebounding and
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the interior like you mentioned, So if those two guys can do what they've
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been doing throughout the back half of the season and against the Clippers, then
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they should win this series pretty easy. But anything else you want to say
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before we move into this next one, now, let's keep Let's keep it
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moving to the next one, all right. So we're gonna go over here
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to the Eastern Conference, now to the one seed over here, the Boston
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Celtics versus the Cleveland Cavaliers. So I have the same question for you,
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who's winning? How many games? X factors? Who do you got?
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I have the Celtics in five for this series. I'm I'm not gonna I'm
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gonna give them the gentlemen sweep, not the complete sweep. I think the
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I think the cast maybe escape with one game that he did, so I
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expect the Cats could probably do. They're they're in more better strength and suited
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than the Heat where I feel like compete with the with the Boston Celtics,
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it's just the Boston Stellers are gonna be too much. If the Cleveland Cavaliers
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had to go to seven with the Lando Magic, They're not gonna be able
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to compete with the Boston Celtics, especially the way that the role players are
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playing for Boston, like Derek White Junior Derek White, I don't know where
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this came from. Derek White's one of my least favorite players they ever played
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for this first for my own reasons that he sold a lot of games for
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us. But he's a different guy in Boston. He's he's turned into a
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star. I'm not gonna yeah, he needed to share that head a long
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time ago. I'm glad he finally did it. But yeah, for him,
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I think he's turned into a star in Boston. I'm not gonna stay
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superstar because that's that's hell for his different type of players. But he's a
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star. He let that whole Boston Celtics and Heat series. I think in
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points, I think he has more points in the playoffs and SGA like some
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big names. He has some more points in them so far in the playoffs,
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and he's he's been balling. I think people like that on that team,
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especially with the shooters that they have around him coming off for that second
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unit. It's a big thing for the Boston Selics. That's why they're probably
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the best team in basketball is because they have depth. And I do think
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that's gonna continue in this series and then the Cleveland Cavaliers side Darius, there's
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gonna have to be more people than Donovan Mitchell store in the basketball. Yeah,
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can't be a Donovan Mitchell sold the whole entire time, because he even
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scored fifty in a game they lost when they should have really closed it out
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against Orlando Magic in Orlando. So there's gonna have to be someone else stepping
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up there, whether it's Evan Mobley or Darius Garland. I'm not gonna say
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Garland didn't have a bad didn't have a he played great. Like it's just
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when Donovan Mitchell is going crazy, you had to defer to a player.
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But there has to be a unit. There just can't be one guy going
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crazy against the Boston Celtics because it's just not gonna work against the team like
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the Celtics, who are complete all the way around, and well, I
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don't know, and then there's a lot to talk about in this series.
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I feel like one more thing is that where Cleveland probably might have the advantage
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in the interior because they do have Evan Mobley and Jared Allen, and then
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Porzingis is out, Yeah, Porsingas will be out in this series, So
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I think that's where something where they could try finding advantage and picking apart the
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Boston Celtics. But Al Horford still there and he shows up in the playoffs,
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so it's I think it's a Celtics series to lose honestly in five.
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Yeah, I feel like this is gonna be the entire topic throughout the whole
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Eastern Conference. The Celtics should win. It just depends on their play,
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not the other teams play. If they play up to the standard that they
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should be, then they should just dog walk the entire Eastern Conference. They
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should And like you mentioned, the biggest thing is can somebody else score outside
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of Donovan Mitchell because you're gonna have Drew Holliday, Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown,
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Derek White. That's already four perimetered perimeter defenders that you could throw at
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Donovan Mitchell. So yeah, the biggest thing is just Evan Mobley and Jared
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Allen. How big are they going to be in this playoffs? But I
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think I think I'm I'm questioning the same thing. I'm thinking Celtics in five
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or six. I'm I'm gonna say six. I feel like I feel like
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maybe a game a Game five and a Game three. I feel like the
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Calves could win and then the Celtics they closed out in six. That's what
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I think. And as far as for the X factors for the Calves here,
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it's gonna have to be Darius Scarland. For me, Darius Scarland,
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he's I know, he's not that much of a score first point guard,
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but he's gonna have to score some buckets in this series in order for them
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to keep up with the Celtics, because they could. They could shoot the
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damn ball, and they could they could throw you out of the gym or
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shoot you out of the gym. And as far as for X factors for
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the Celtics here, I feel like this is a pretty easy answer. But
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Jason Tatum, I feel like there's nothing to gain in this series, but
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there's everything to lose in this series, if that makes sense. I feel
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like I feel like this should be not necessarily a warm up. It shouldn't
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be a warm up. It's the second round of the playoffs, but you're
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most likely going to win, and I want to see those playoff progressions.
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With Jason Tatum, that's been the biggest thing. Can you not go for
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the jump shot? Can you go to the rat consistently time and time again?
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And this is a good interior defense, so you're gonna be challenged.
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So yeah, Jason Tatum's my X factor for the Celtics. Darius Garland for
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the Cavs. What about you, Josh, I'm gonna stay with the same
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and energy. For the Cleveman Cavaliers, Darius Garland's the second best player on
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that team, arguably with Evin Mogley. He's gonna have to be step up.
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Honestly, know what, I'm not gonna say the X factor is Darius
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girlingd The X factor is the rest of the team outside of Donovan Mitchell.
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That's a good answer. That's the X factor. The rest of the team
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outside of Donovan Mitchell is gonna have to step up, whether it's Max Strews,
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Kris LeVert, Darius Garland, Alan Evan Mobley, Isaiah Mobley, like
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someone's gonna have to step up and step up big. It's gonna have to
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be a team effort to meet the Boston Celtics, not just one guy on
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a mission. So for that, I'm calling out the whole Cleveland Cavaliers squad.
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Proved me wrong that y'all maybe escape with more than just five games or
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even just win the series. So that's the X factor, the whole Cleveland
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Cavaliers Dann roster outside of Donovan Mitchell. And then for the Boston Celtics side
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X factor, I'll go to Derek White. Derek White again has an if
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he has another big series. I'm not expecting thirty eight a night, thirty
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five a night, come out expecting seventy five percent shooting a night. But
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I am expecting maybe twenty points off the bench. And if he can do
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that, I don't think the I don't think the Cleveland Cavaliers stand a chance.
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Yeah, so I'm looking at it right now. So the first game,
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it's tomorrow, and the Celtics they are minus eleven and a half so
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they're expecting this to be a blowout pretty much here. But all right,
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let's go ahead and get into this next series right here. It's the Pacers
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in the New York Knicks, in which they had their first game today,
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and we'll kind of talk about it a little bit in What's the Knicks?
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They won one twenty one to one seventeen. So what did you what did
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you take away from this game? And did you take anything away that you
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think somebody's gonna win the series after this one. I think the New York
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Knicks are gonna win the series as a whole. But it's gonna be a
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dogfight. It's gonna be a seven game series. It's gonna be old classic
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Indiana Pacers versus New York basketball rivalry. And I'm here for it because I
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think every player showed up in this game for both teams. I think maybe
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Tyreese could have been a little bit more consistent throughout the entire game instead of
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leaving it in some of the role players hands. I think he needs to
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be someone that takes over when when they when he needs to take over.
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I think sometimes he settles for a lot of threes, But if he can
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play a little bit better. I think the Pacers have a better shot,
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and they they they would have a better shot when their best player starts playing
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like like, starts attacking the rim and starts doing more things touring wise.
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And then Miles Turner, I think he played good in this game. I
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think he controlled the paint quite well. It's just hard on the other side
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when you're playing Jalen Brunton, who is it's just a dog like. He's
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just a different type of different type of player that you run into, and
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he gets it when he needs to get He hit two big threes, I
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believe, with like a minute thirty left, minute forty five left. That
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kind of like kept them in the game. And then they're just able for
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Divin Chinzo to step up, Josh Hart, other guys to step up,
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and he's making he makes that team go around. It's gonna be a close
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series. Games are gonna be close. I think every game is gonna be
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close with these two teams. It's gonna be a seven game series. I
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think the New York Knicks two come out on top. And I don't know
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I'm excited for It's just it looked like good basketball today. The Nick's got
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a lot of foul calls. I do think they did in their favor.
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Yeah, definitely, honestly, well honestly, they they when they capitalize on
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the free throws, They capitalize on the free throws. We saw the Lakers.
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Who did we saw so we saw someone lose a basketball. Think we
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saw the Knicks miss nine free throws and lose a game. No, it
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was the Lakers. Yeah, it was the Lakers because he did the live
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reaction. Yeah, yea, yeah, yeah, miss nine free throws and
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lose. So they're capitalizing on what they're giving. It's just a matter if
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the other team can step up also and even keep up with keep up with
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the pace, and I do think the Pacers will, but this Knicks will
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come out in seven. Yeah. So one thing is like, like we've
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mentioned the entire time, and you mentioned it before the postseason started, can
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Jalen Brunson do this by himself? And so far he yes, he's he's
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been scoring a lot, but his his teammates have been showing up, and
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more specifically Josh Hart and Dante Devincenzo. So Josh throughout this entire game,
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one hundred and twenty one points, right, m. Devincenzo, Josh Hart,
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and Jalen Brunson were responsible for ninety two of those points. Twenty nine
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came from everybody else, So that that's gonna be the biggest thing. Can
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they step up time in and time again, because the Pacers they're gonna score
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points. They had the best offense in the entire league for a reason,
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and they did miss a lot of threes. I know, thirty eight percent
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it tech technically is good, but they usually shoot in the high forties here.
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So and as far as with the calls, I kind of disagree here.
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I feel like even in the Sixers series, there were some calls that
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were kind of bs and it kind of seemed a little bit fishy. But
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again, it's New York, it's a big market. Kind of understand where
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you're coming from. But yeah, this this thing is definitely going seven.
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I say, Nicks, they're winning this in seven. And I think,
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Josh, I think this is the kind of series where every team's gonna win
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at home just due to the role players playing much better. And Tyre's Halliburton,
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he's not gonna have six points again. But he wasn't aggressive at all,
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like you said, he let the role players do what they had to
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do. And one thing I will say is that the Pacers they have a
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better bench and that's what's going to keep them in this series and in this
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game. That's gonna be the biggest thing. So yeah, I do think
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if one player was in this series for I guess we can say it for
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the Knicks also, but it been in Dick Matherin, We're kind of probably.
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Yeah, for the passers Pacers, I think that could be a big
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score because he can score at certain points. He's not very consistent, but
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when he has big games, he has big games, and it would turn
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this playoffs quite a round. I think for the any end of Pacers.
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We can say the same thing with the Knicks having Julius randall Mete, but
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it's just it does nitpicking. Terry's Halliburn has to be better. He just
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has to be better. He's the star of this team. He's the all
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star. He's he's the name. He has to step up and keep and
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keep paced with Jaylen brunts and if not, it's just not gonna happen.
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For the Pacers. Yeah, yeah, no question. But one thing that
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I didn't notice till I think they mentioned it on the on tn T is
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that they're the second youngest team in the playoffs behind the Thunder, so so
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they they have no experience at all outside of Pascal Siakam and then obviously they're
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coach Rick Carlisle, but everybody else no experience first time in the playoffs.
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So I think that's exactly what we saw today because they had a nine point
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lead, I believe it was ninety four to eighty five in the fourth quarter,
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and they just a couple points in the game by like nine or eight.
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Yeah, and it's just an experience, but I think they can capitalize
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from it. But yeah, as far as X factors, I'm not gonna
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give an X factor in particular here for both teams. I'm gonna say guard
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play Tyrese Haliburton versus Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart versus Andrew nimhard TJ McConnell,
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Dante DiVincenzo. It's gonna depend on the guard play here. That's who it
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is. Whoever has a better night, they're gonna end up winning the series
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here. And I don't know if you're gonna I kind of say the same
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thing here along the same lines. I think on the Knicks is the understudies.
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Of course, you know Jalen Brunson is the main guys. The rest.
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It's like the Cleveland Cavaliers. For me, what can the other guys
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do outside of Jayalen Brunson. We know Jayleen Brunson is gonna do. He's
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gonna get his thirty to forty a night in the playoffs when he needs it.
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But everyone else needs to step up. We've seen Josh Hart rebound and
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score seventeen points, have twelve rebounds and seventeen points at one point in this
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series. I think we've seen Dante Jibbontinjo hit some big time shots late in
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the fourth quarters to steal some games. He saw Josh Hart do the same
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thing too. We're gonna have to see those guys step up and that's Those
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are the X factors for me. As far as any of the pacers,
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I don't know. Tyrio Taliburn's gonna have to be the X factor. He
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had a he had, He didn't play too great in this last game.
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He needs to step up. He needs to hit his thories, he needs
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to attack the rim, create all that. He's gonna have to be the
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X factor if he has another game like this, this game is gonna be
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a lot done faster than seven. This series is gonna be a lot done
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faster than seven. Yeah, no question. But all right, let's go
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in and get into this last playoff matchup here. And I know the game
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it is going on right now, but I think this one might be said
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in stone. But before we get into this one, let's talk about game
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one, in which we're talking about the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Denver Nuggets,
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and they played on Saturday, I believe, and the Timberwolves they won one
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oh six to ninety nine. So I know, I know we gave our
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predictions early for this, after the Lakers, after the Lakers and Nuggets,
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But how are you feeling about it now? Are you still feeling the same
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way you think Nuggets are gonna win? Or or how are you feeling?
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No? Not at all, not after seeing how this game is going right
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now and how the first game win. The Timberwolves are winning this game in
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five or six? Don't I don't think it's seven. I don't. I
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don't think the Nuggets can win two in a row. I don't think they
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can do it. Wow, Timberwols. I don't think so. The way
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that these games are going, am I am I selling any lies? Am
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I am I seeing something that someone else is? You're counting right, they're
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defending champs that right now, the Timberwolves are up by twenty twenty three or
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twenty eight or something right now. So, and this is without Rudy Gobert.
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First, those of y'all listening aren't watching the game and listening to us.
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This is without Rudy Gobert, the second best defensive player in the entire
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NBA. Yeah, he's not. Who's gonna get a free be Defensive Player
22:22
of the Year. So this is without him. And then it's just they're
22:29
still attacking. They're throwing bodies at Nicolae okicch something that the Lakers really couldn't
22:33
do outside of Anthony Davis. They have a nas read, they have kar
22:36
Anthony Towns, and Rudy Gobert comes back, he's gonna be on him.
22:38
Also, then on the other side, Jamal Murray throwing to kill Walker,
22:41
Alexander Jaden McDaniels and Anthony Edwards. They're just stopping the shooter. There's players
22:47
and everyone else is having to step up, and that's the thing. The
22:48
other guys just aren't stepping up. Michael Porter Junior is too inconsistent. He
22:52
has deferred to being one of the best scores we've seen in college in high
22:56
school. He's deferred himself to just a spot up shooter in the NBA,
22:57
which makes no sense. The bag bro use it. And Aaron Gordon's great
23:03
on the fast break, he's great on picking pop, He's a but this
23:07
this playoffs, he just hasn't really been there. He hasn't really stepped up
23:10
in a big way, I think, in my opinion, to where he
23:11
should be, and it's just not working for the Nuggets. The Timberwolves have
23:15
too good of a defense for these guys. I don't know. It's just
23:18
they're just too good of a defense. That's really the thing. And a
23:21
lot of the things that me and you were saying and even others were saying
23:22
that Timberwolves score enough to win, and so far, he scored more than
23:29
way more than enough to the last to win, the to sweep in the
23:33
last series, and then against the Suns, and then in this series they
23:36
had freaking sixty one in the first half in this game that we're watching right
23:40
now. So they're doing everything they can. And then Anthony Edwards scoring forty
23:44
eight in the first game. I don't know, dude, it's just it's
23:48
just different. I think the timber Wolves are are have has some some of
23:52
that secret sauce right now and they're just rolling. I'll say this, this
23:56
is gonna sound crazy saying, but if Anthony Edwards, I know, game
24:02
two, what's not set in stone, so we can't say whatever, But
24:06
it looks like the Minnesota Timberwolves are going to go up too. Oh.
24:10
So far, Anthony Edwards has matched Nikola Jokic as far as being the best
24:15
player on the court, and we have not seen that happen in about two
24:18
years. We haven't. And that's the reason. I know. Defense,
24:22
that's a that's the main thing, of course, but the Minnesota Timberwolves have
24:26
had the best defense in the league the entire year. But Anthony Edwards he's
24:32
able to match as far as best player for best player. He's doing that.
24:37
That's what it is. So and one thing I would like to say,
24:41
I know it may be early, but from what's been going on so
24:45
far, Josh, we owe, we owe an apology to Rudy Gobert plenty
24:52
of times on the Jazz we thought, oh, he's this overrated defensive player.
24:57
But what really happened is you have Joe Ingles and Donovan Mitchell as your
25:03
perimeter defenders. Now you have real ones and Anthony Edwards, Nikkela Alexander Walker
25:08
and Jada McDaniels. Now you could actually be the rim protector, the best,
25:15
one of the best defensive players in the league. So Michael Porter just
25:18
get ripped. Well, yeah, I like that can't happen. Yeah reaction,
25:26
Another hype reaction, guys, another live reaction. Well, won't won't
25:30
get spoiled this time? Hint hit, I think all my dad is gonna
25:37
get that guy to shoot. No, but yeah, apologies, I guess
25:47
Rudy Gobert, you're still media. You're still not as good as Wimby.
25:49
You know that defense, so you're still are overrated, but you know you
25:55
are. You are proving some people wrong. This team can win defensively and
25:59
you are a big piece of that. But just looks like right now,
26:03
Wimby should be Defensive Player of the Year because this team is leading the defending
26:07
chance by twenty four without you, and that's because of their defense. So
26:11
in reality, you're just what's the word I'm looking for. He's not a
26:17
necessity to the team. He's a what's the word like, he's a want
26:22
like, he's like, he's just like an extra, an extra toy.
26:26
He's just a he's an extra toy that they can throw in there. And
26:30
he's not in need. He's not in need, you know. So that's
26:33
what I'm saying. This first need Wimby. The Timberwolves don't need Gobert.
26:37
Just saying I'm just saying, just saying, all right, well I got
26:41
my rant. Now that I got a runt out the way. Now the
26:45
RAN's out the way, you know, just saying, when Wimby's When Wimby's
26:49
off the court, we dropped twenty eight best defense in the entire NBA.
26:52
When he's on the court, where the fourth best defense in the NBA.
26:55
I don't know how much If that's not Defensive Player of the Year, I
26:57
don't know. He's not winning DPOY. He's not saying I'm not I'm not
27:04
trying to push an agenda here. I'm just it sounds like you are.
27:11
You may not be, but it sounds a lot like you. Let's get
27:12
back to the series. Get back to the series. Yeah, yeah,
27:15
yeah, But like you're mentioning, they're swarming defensively. So already in the
27:21
end of the third quarter, ten stills, twelve blocks, and fifteen turnovers
27:26
or the Nuggets have fifteen turnovers, So they're just swarming defensively. And the
27:30
biggest thing points in the paint. Already forty four points in the paint right
27:34
now, So that should just show. And I think the biggest thing for
27:40
the Nuggets getting back in this series it is not offensively Nakola Jokics, Jamal
27:45
Murray. They're gonna eventually get theirs, but can you bring the physicality defensively
27:49
because they're making the Timberlves look like they have one of the best offenses in
27:55
the league. They don't. If anything, they had a mediocre offense.
28:02
But also to be fair, we didn't see Anthony Edwards playing at this level.
28:07
I think that's the biggest thing. Anthony Edwards was not playing at this
28:10
level before. The Cat's also having a good game today, Like he's having
28:12
a great game today, Like he's being consistent, he's attacking with he's attacking
28:17
Nikola. Sorry, I just talked about Wimby and minding it. He's attacking
28:21
Nikola has never been a great interior defender, and he's taking advantage of that.
28:25
En Plus, he's he's hitting his caught up shots. He's a big
28:29
factor to them offensively. He's their second best offensive player and he's stepping up
28:33
in a big way. That's the difference. And no one, no one
28:36
is stepping up for the for the Denver Nuggets train. Yeah, yeah,
28:40
that's true. But I'm still gonna say this. I'm gonna say Minnesota and
28:45
six. I feel like you can't count out the defending champs. I feel
28:51
it's gonna be something like unless nothing crazy happens. The Temberwolves are up eighty
28:55
two sixty end of the third, so they go up to oh. I
28:59
think Denver wins Game three, Minnesota wins Game four, Denver wins Game five,
29:06
and then and then game six Timberolves they close it out. Then X
29:11
factor here, it's I think it's just the trio of the big Man Karl,
29:15
Anthony Towns, nas Reed and Rudy Gobert. That's what it is.
29:19
So you so you think four or five games here? I thought I said
29:26
five or six? Oh five or six Oh, okay, I heard four
29:30
or five. They're not sweeping. I just don't think that the Nuggets can
29:36
win too in a row. That's what I'm saying, Like, I don't
29:37
think they'll win two games in a row. Okay, man, I don't
29:41
know. It's hard to count out the defending Chaps right now, but I'm
29:45
counting them out. Yeah, you sure are. But I've already I've already
29:51
had like the pain the three count, and I'm seeing it as i'm calling
29:56
it right now, watching them call back in this game, and I just
29:59
like, yeah, no, if if that happens like Game two against the
30:03
Lakers, nine, this would be crazy. But all right, before we
30:08
move on to our next topic here, I know we didn't talk about it
30:11
before. It was somewhat in the this was more related to the first round.
30:17
But I just want to talk about two teams here that got eliminated here,
30:19
Josh, the Clippers and the Sixers. Where they're going They're going?
30:26
Yeah, where are they going? Who do you think has the brighter future?
30:29
Because these aren't really bright futures here. They're going to the ship ter
30:32
that's where they're going. They're gonna go get some picks. No, I
30:36
don't know what picks the brighter future. Yeah, exactly, they're gonna go
30:38
get some. I didn't say they have them. They're gonna go get some.
30:41
Okay, No, they won't be a contracts. Who has the brighter
30:45
future. Well, the team that doesn't have freaking thirty five year olds running
30:49
around on their team. I feel like that team probably has the better future.
30:52
But they also have a guy with terrible knees, so I don't know,
30:56
like the other team has a guy with like well, both teams have
30:57
guys with terrible knees because one guy cries about it every year, and the
31:00
other guy's and and the other guy he just seven foot tall, and I
31:07
don't know, he just can't stay healthy. He's came in with injury in
31:11
his career, can't stay I'm talking about Joel Embiid. The other guy whines
31:14
and I don't like. I don't like that guy, you know. So
31:18
yeah, but I don't know. I guess you could say that the Sixers
31:23
Tyrese MAXI if they if they want to deal away at Joel Embiid or something.
31:27
I think honestly, both teams kind of have to sit back and look
31:33
at their teams they're gonna have to. I get, what's the owner's name
31:37
for the Clippers freaking Oh, Steve Bomber. Yeah, Steve Bomber. I
31:40
was gonna say Steve Bomb. So Steve Bomber, he just he wants to
31:45
have this team. He wants to have stars when they move into their new
31:47
stadium, when they they're in the rebranding with the jerseys and the logos and
31:51
everything, and they want to have their stars to be able to sell.
31:53
But the thing is, what's more important selling tickets or winning games? You
31:57
know, at some point you're gonna have to look at your team. You
32:00
have four Hall of Famers on your team, and you still can't win.
32:02
You have a Kawhi Leonard of Paul George or Russell Westbrook and James Harden and
32:06
you still can't win. You constantly are in the playoffs, you constantly have
32:08
good teams. Something has to change. Their way of winning just doesn't work
32:13
anymore. It's like, yeah, if we know as all the teams that
32:15
are good have built to the draft and signed one or two good free agents,
32:19
And that's just the truth. Every team left in the playoffs, there's
32:22
one or two good free agents and built in the draft. Thunder built in
32:25
the draft, Nuggets built in the draft, Boston Celtics majority, yeah,
32:30
Timberruls built in the draft outside of Rudy Gobert. One big signings. Yeah
32:34
so yeah, MAVs built in the draft. Kyrie Irving one big trade,
32:37
you know, Daniel Gafford one big trade. Those aren't stars, so you
32:39
know everyone else is there. You know, it's just not the way it
32:44
winning. You can't put together superstars and expect them to win anymore. We
32:45
saw the Suns try that. They got swept. You know, it just
32:49
hasn't worked. Like we look at the history of winning basketball teams. Outside
32:52
maybe the Miami Heat, every team was built. Every team was built in
32:57
the draft, and the Boston Celtics, every team was built. It just
33:00
doesn't work that way. You have to build a camarderie. You have to
33:01
build chemistry, and they have to look at themselves and say, we have
33:05
all these old guys. Just try to get him away. Their contracts are
33:07
terrible, so it's gonna be hard. You're gonna to settle for second rounders.
33:09
You're gonna have to settle for some terrible draft picks. But to get
33:13
stuff off your books and you can rebuild your team. You're gonna have to
33:15
settle for it. You're just gonna have to do Every team has to go
33:16
through. It's just your time. I think the Clippers have to accept it.
33:20
So for that yeah, and it's probably yeah, go ahead. Yeah
33:23
no, And it sucks because they just resigned Kawie four your deal and that's
33:29
James Harden. They traded they traded everything away for James Harden. He's gonna
33:34
be a free agent. Russell Westbrook's gonna be a free agent. Paul George
33:37
is gonna be a free agent. So what the hell can you do?
33:40
And you can't Kawhi Leonard when he plays, he's one of the best players
33:45
in the league. But Josh, I'm not gonna lie to you after this
33:49
year, you have to consider health. Is he even a top fifteen player?
33:53
He's because that level. Yeah, exactly, That's what I'm saying.
34:00
And then Paul George and James Harden, they're not reliable number twos and number
34:04
threes. And Russell Westbrook the series, trust me, Russell Westbrook tackled Reggie
34:08
Jackson. Russell Wesbrook. He's I saw that. Russell Westbrook, he's one
34:14
of my favorite players. But right there. But outside of Game one,
34:20
this dude was atrocious. He averaged like five points. Five points throughout the
34:24
entire series, was like shooting twenty percent from three to thirty percent from the
34:29
field. He was almost unplayable when your star player was hurt. So Clippers,
34:36
obviously they have no draft picks sixers. I think this is easy.
34:40
Like you said, Sixers have the better, better future because they have that
34:45
extra cap space from trading away James Harden. So as far as Jordan Beid
34:51
ahead, oh my b we're gonna say the Clippers too. If your hope
34:53
is Terrence Man turned into something, that's the problem. It's a problem.
34:59
I get Terrence fans a good role player in the NBA, but to expect
35:01
him to become a star or a superstar he's is just insane. You had
35:06
sg it, you had these guys, You have certain players, You had
35:09
certain players on your team, but you wanted to win now when you could
35:13
have built up players for later. See. I don't want to turn it
35:15
back to football. I don't want to turn it back to football because football
35:17
and basketball are not the same. But the Chiefs have one, two,
35:22
they have three solid foundational pieces Chris Jones, Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes.
35:25
Everyone else around them is young because they have the youngest defense in the entire
35:30
NFL. They built through the draft. They have the offensive line, everything
35:35
else was built through the draft. No one's on the big contract besides three
35:37
people. That's what the that's what teams have to do to win the Spurs
35:40
for the longest time. Three foundational pieces. Everyone else cheap and built around
35:45
them. It's just it's just how championship teams work. That's how they do
35:49
it. And the Clippers they try every year to load up and load up
35:52
and load up, and we see this with a lot of teams and it
35:54
just doesn't work. It doesn't work like that. Yeah, I agree with
35:59
you one hundred percent here and yeah again Sixers, maybe they have a better
36:05
shot. But again, Joel Embiid, he's that spot on Kawhi, Leonard
36:08
Dwell Embiid, they're turning into the exact same players. Obviously, Kawhi he's
36:14
more proven. He has three championships. But but wait three, No,
36:19
he has two. He has two championships. Kawhi has actually got it done.
36:24
But Joel Embiid, I believe he's up to that same stature. And
36:29
we still have the same question with Joel Embiid that we had when he became
36:32
a star. Can he be healthy for a playoff run? Can he be
36:37
healthy? And the question so far it's been known Tyree Smacksy. Yes,
36:40
he is nice, but he's at best a number two. We'll get into
36:45
whole face of the league in a second. Yeah, we're gonna get into
36:50
that in a second. But yeah, maybe because I know, Kelly Ubray,
36:55
some of the guys that you got from the James Harden trade, I
36:59
know they're I know they're gonna be free agents, Kelly uber that some of
37:07
those guys. So you have a max spot, Maybe you bring in a
37:09
Paul George. This would make sense for the Clip or not the Clippers of
37:14
Sixers. Yeah, because Paul George he would be a number two or number
37:19
three at best, or even when Joel Embiid is hurt, he's potentially still
37:22
a number two. So do you think Joel bead is tradable? Is he
37:29
tradable? Because I think Giannis and Joel Embiid are kind of on though tradable.
37:35
I say Jannis he's more proven. Yannis, he's man, that's tough,
37:43
Jannis. He's more proven, He's won a championship, he has three
37:46
MVPs. Yeah, so if he moves, it wouldn't be a big deal.
37:50
I mean I think it would be a big deal. Yeah, I
37:52
get what you mean. Like, but like he's already one, He's already
37:55
established himself, right, Joel embiid. I just feel like, if you
38:00
want to sacrifice to make your team better, he's gonna he could be the
38:02
sacrifice. You know, you trust the process. For almost ten eleven years
38:06
already nothing has happened, you know. Realistically, where can you go?
38:12
Uh, where he can't interfere with another star, you know, like and
38:15
like, I don't know where he he needs the ball in his hands though
38:22
the Pacers. Honestly, the Pacers wouldn't too be too bad that Joel.
38:31
Yeah, yeah, I know maybe the Knicks. Knicks, I could see
38:37
that, but it would mess up their whole chemistry. I'm not gonna lie
38:40
it would. I don't know where he could go players like that is hard
38:45
to say, Like, yeah, since he's such a star player. And
38:49
to be fair, the Sixers with the James Harden trade, they have draft
38:52
players. If we think of teams with draft If we think of teams with
38:54
draft capital, him and Wimby would not be too good together. They not
39:00
be good together. You don't think so, No, because who's stopped on
39:05
that dynamic? No one's stopping it. But who's gonna have the ball in
39:08
their hands? Like I think it's gonna be a problem Dog Dog University.
39:14
I think I just think that's a Florida State seminal. You ever show some
39:17
respect right there? Brother? Hey, I know, I know that's what
39:20
I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. I got the flag of the background.
39:23
I got you got the flag of the background. No, but I
39:27
don't know would that work. I just I think Wimby's the way Wimby plays.
39:31
He needs space and joelan Bie is gonna take up from space. Yeah,
39:36
yeah, no, for sure, Yeah, it would mess up Wimby's
39:38
growth. But let's go to move on to this next next thing right here,
39:44
Josh, So we're doing guess the player again? So do you have
39:49
your players ready or no? Let me type down. So and and we're
39:53
back. We had to edit out a little bit right here, but hey,
40:00
we gotta we gotta be honest. We got we gotta be honest here.
40:02
I always say technical difficulties, but let's just be honest with them.
40:08
But I got my two players already. Did you want to do five or
40:14
ten questions? Ten? Ten? All right? All right? Yeah,
40:25
this one's about medium difficulty. It shouldn't be too bad, all right.
40:32
And they're still active in the playoffs, right, yeah, okay, okay,
40:37
I'm just making sure we're on the same page. All right, Josh,
40:42
do you want to go first? Or do you want me to go
40:44
first? All right? East or Western Conference? Wait, that's not how
40:51
that works. It's a yes or no. Wait, it's a yes or
40:53
no. Yeah. Oh? Is he in the Eastern Conference? Yes?
41:01
I was like, I was like, wait, what is your player a
41:05
starter? No? Okay, interesting? Is this player a starter? Yes
41:17
he is? Is your player in the Eastern Conference? No, so he's
41:27
in the West? Okay, not a starter? Okay, hmm, I
41:39
think I've already narrowed it down. Is this player in the Boston Celtics series?
41:49
No? What dog is your Is your player in the running for a
41:57
six Man of the Year? Yeah, I got it. I gotta guess
42:05
this one before you guess. I'm good at this ship man this is my
42:09
theme. Man, I went two for two last last week. To god,
42:14
I gotta take a shot in the dark here, either on the Knicks
42:16
or the pacers, that's for sure. So here's the starter. Yeah.
42:22
So that narrowed down to ten people? R out there? Yeah, down
42:24
to ten people? Is it Miles Turner and correct? Damn it? All
42:31
right? Is your player nas reed? Nope, can't ask I was like
42:37
wait what. I was like, wait, wait, wait what he has
42:39
his nose? Bro? Whatever, I don't even need ten questions. Let
42:45
me guess this player. Okay, hmm, you could ask more questions.
42:57
How long it takes you? Yeah, it's Josh Hart Okay, damn that
43:01
was my second guess. Noah, No, that would have been. That
43:07
would have been a snipe right there. That would have been a snipe.
43:09
Yeah, would have been. I thought that was an educated guess right there.
43:14
I don't know. No, that was kind of kind of on the
43:16
same level. All right, second player, second player, Second player?
43:22
You want me to go first? Or no? Yeah, you can go
43:23
first. Okay, I'm gonna just write down four questions. I'm gonna just
43:28
need four anyways, whatever, bro, Okay, has your has your player
43:35
played a game yet in the playoffs or in the second round of the playoffs?
43:42
No? No, okay? Okay. So is this player in the
43:50
Western Conference? Yes he is? Okay? Is your player? Does your
44:06
player play for a team that's located in the South region of the United States?
44:12
Bro? No, No, he doesn't. Okay, okay. So
44:22
does this player play in the state of Texas? No? Okay. Is
44:30
your player on the Boston Celtics. No, okay, so he's on the
44:36
Cavs. What the what the sigma? I'm telling you, I'm good at
44:44
this man, this is my ship man. Has this player hold on?
44:51
Has this player played a game so far? Yes? Yes, okay,
44:57
so he's on the les your nuggies there. You gotta narrow down. Is
45:04
your player a starter? Yes, all right, I gotta get I think
45:12
I think I know because I picked it. No, whoa normally normally not
45:17
a starter? Fo? Okay, okay, I think I'm a snipers one.
45:30
I feel like I feel like I have to take this guess because because
45:36
I feel like you know who answer, I know the answer. So I
45:40
picked this player last week for my guess, so I'm gonna do the exact
45:44
same thing. Is your player max Strus, Nope. Fuck is this player
45:51
Christian Brawn? No, okay, okay, I got I got one.
45:59
I got one more chance here, I have one more chance here? Hmhm
46:07
is your player Darius Garland? Fuck? Bro? Fuck? Yes, six
46:16
questions? Took me six questions? Okay, keep guessing, say the most
46:22
wildest stuff. Yeah, yeah, please don't say is this player? I
46:35
thought you got it? After I said normally he doesn't start osried, Yeah,
46:44
what the fuck? So what I guess? Nazrid last one? I
46:49
was like, Fuck, I'm like, I'm like, that's who my next
46:51
player is. I don't know why I went to Christian Braun. I feel
46:52
like I don't know why you did either, because he doesn't like that would
46:58
have been like a better guess here. I'll know, man, all right,
47:07
did you want to do one more? No? Fuck that for I'm
47:14
just saying I'm four and oh I'm four. But all right, yeah,
47:17
let's go ahead and get into this next one right here. So this one
47:22
is a little bit different. So after Game five of the Sixers and Knicks,
47:30
we saw some questionable things going on yeah on ESPN, and it said
47:37
that Tyres Maxi has potential to be face of the league type of player,
47:44
and Josh was pissed. Josh he texted me, he tried, he tried
47:47
calling me. I think, yeah, no, this dude was mad.
47:52
But all right, I'm gonna let you go and get started with this,
47:55
Josh here, So go ahead, yeah, go ahead and do your r
48:00
I just think, face the league players are reserved for superstars. Tyres Maxie
48:06
is not a superstar, first of all. And then if people like Anthony
48:09
Edwards or even Jalen Brunson are barely even brought up, are barely even starting
48:15
to get brought up in face of the league, like Anthony Edwards is right
48:16
now, he's at an all time peak high of fame right now in the
48:20
NBA. If he's if he's barely making this conversation and he's the best player
48:24
on his team, which Tyres Maxi is not the best player on his basketball
48:30
team, So how therefore could he be the face of the NBA? And
48:34
I understand people are starting to start saying these type of things because Lebron's on
48:37
his way out, Kd's steps on their way out, or it's getting older.
48:40
Yeah, you're just getting older. So it's Sonikola Jokic, I understand
48:44
he doesn't have probably maybe the the personality be face of the league. But
48:47
if you're skipping over a two time MVP, he's still on like twenty seven,
48:51
twenty eight years old. It's just it's right, twenty eight, twenty
48:53
nine, twenty yeah, yeah, twenty eight yeah, twenty eight, twenty
48:57
eight years old, who's still in his prime. And then we still have
49:00
players like Jiannis who's still around the same age. But the thing is,
49:06
I don't even think Tyree Smacks he's even on the level of a Wimby and
49:10
and or an SGA. And then Luca is still there. He's not no
49:15
word. If anyone's gonna be face the league, it's gonna be Luca don
49:17
It's gonna be Luca Doncics right now. But eventually, I think, and
49:22
this is without bias, it's gonna be Victor win Benyama. Victor wim Benyama
49:25
is gonna be the face of the league really quickly. And the thing if
49:28
people are gonna say all he plays for the Spurs, he's too boring.
49:30
The thing is that makes them different from like a Tim Duncan or like a
49:32
David Robinson, is that Victor Win Binyama is already the most streamed player in
49:37
the entire NBA outside of Lebron James. He has some of the highest jersey
49:43
sales worldwides because he plays, he's a European player. He's like the face
49:49
of sports for Louis Vuitton, sports figure players, whatever they are. He's
49:54
He's Nike's next big signature player. It's just there's just too many things riding
50:00
on it. And if we're gonna do Anthony Edwards, who's just becoming like
50:01
a household name, like I want to put him like not saying he's jam
50:05
Morant, but he he was. He's given the same puss Ja Morant was
50:08
getting, if that makes sense, Like there's kids starting there was kids starting
50:15
to want John Moran jerseys, and do they do the things that John Morant
50:17
does, like the dances and all that stuff. Anthony Edwards is becoming that
50:21
guy. And I think that's reserve. I think the next face of the
50:24
league is only reserved for Luca Wimby and Anthony Edwards. That's just me.
50:30
I think Tyres Maxie is a great player. He's a star. He's not
50:31
a superstar. He's never gonna be the number one option on a on an
50:35
NBA championship winning team. He's never gonna be the number one option on a
50:38
playoff team, I do, I don't think so. So I just think
50:43
that those three players are the three players that are reserved for the next face
50:45
of the league, for the young guys coming through. Yeah, so that's
50:51
Tyres Maxie is just getting I get tired. I just it's just it was
50:52
just not everyone could be ground face of the league. Not every player is
50:57
gonna So that needs to stop. I feel like there's someone you every week
51:00
who's like, oh, potential face of the league. Yeah, that terms
51:04
just getting thrown around way too much. It's just it's just getting thrown around.
51:07
Yeah. No, that was a bit of an overreaction. I know
51:10
he had forty it was forty seven or forty eight that game, But yeah,
51:15
I know, for all the points you mentioned, I'm not about to
51:17
We're not about to have a ten minute Tyres Tyres Maxie rant. That was
51:22
you. You said everything to perfection here, And I think the biggest thing
51:29
is that the media wants to push an American player to become the face of
51:34
the league. And to be fair, Nikola Jokic, he's not. He's
51:38
the best player in the league, which he should be face of the face
51:42
of the league, but he doesn't want that. Jannis, he had his
51:46
chance, he had his chance to be face of the league, but again
51:50
it seems like he doesn't want that. SGA. Maybe there's a case,
51:53
but it seems like he's nonchalant. He doesn't want that. Same thing with
51:58
Luka Doncic. I think it's coming down to Anthony Edwards and Wimby. That's
52:06
what it is. But to be fair with Anthony Edwards, I think why
52:10
people that are finally starting to realize this is because he was still the number
52:15
one overall pick, but he didn't have that Lebron hype. He didn't have
52:20
that Wimby hype coming out of college. It's just he's gotten better over the
52:24
years, and now that we're seeing him in the playoffs these past two years,
52:30
it's like, holy crap, there's all these Jordan comparisons. He dropped
52:34
forty points in back to back games. He's almost on his way to another
52:37
thirty point game. I think he's like two points away right now, so
52:40
he's definitely showing up. And one more thing I want to get into because
52:45
I've seen a lot of people say Jason Tatum or Anthony Edwards. I've seen
52:52
a bunch of those comparisons right there. We talked about that last week,
52:57
we did. Yeah, you asked me who would I want to start?
53:00
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, I forgot, I
53:04
forgot we mentioned that. Okay, So yeah, like, I like,
53:06
I said, Anthony Edwards clearly, as as of right now, he looks
53:10
like the better player. I'm not gonna lie he does. I think he
53:14
is the better player. Yeah, but yeah, I think it's coming down
53:17
to Anthony Edwards and Wimby and I'm gonna have to favor ant here. I'm
53:22
not gonna lie because if Anthony Edwards, he's already in the playoffs, he's
53:28
already had those signature moments. Not saying Wimby's not gonna have those, but
53:34
but he just has the upper hand. Yeah, he just has the upper
53:37
hand. We've seen him a lot more. And let's be real, it's
53:42
probably gonna be another two to three years before we see the Spurs really start
53:46
contending. If they build a team right, the Timbolves, they built this
53:51
team right, and they're gonna be competing for these next four or five years.
53:54
So this is the peak of Anthony Edwards. He's gonna start becoming or
54:00
being an MVP talks or what. What's even scarier is he could become the
54:06
best offensive player in the league, and he could become the best defensive perimeter
54:10
defensive player in the league with what he's been doing lately. So watch what
54:15
you say before you say that, perimeter defender. You heard what I said,
54:21
perimeter. I heard it. I heard it. I thought you were
54:22
gonna slip up. I thought you're gonna slip No no, no, no,
54:24
no, no no no. Obviously that goes to n Anyways, Yeah,
54:30
what though, what the no? But I do think with Wimby,
54:35
Wimby's already so astronomically, like regarded in high standard his rookie year that wasn't
54:42
even close to or like really any rookie in the history of the NBA besides
54:46
career and yeah, are regarded like he's just so already pushed like heavily.
54:55
It's once this team gets good and once he starts winning the game, the
55:01
award that's gonna be named after him eventually, Defensive Player of the Years every
55:05
single year, and then he's gonna win m VPS. Eventually, that's no
55:08
question. Winby's gonna win MVPs. That's like, yeah, we're like,
55:13
that's health without health being involved. He's gonna win awards. He's gonna win
55:17
awards. He's gonna win every award there is to win. This is when
55:21
the success starts coming. Team wise, it's not even gonna be closed.
55:25
It's just he's fame. His fame is already too high, and when they
55:29
start winning, it's gonna be different. Yeah. And plus that's the fact
55:34
that he doesn't like making friends already in the NBA. It's just you don't
55:38
even take oppon his hands after games. It's just it's just it's gonna be
55:43
it's gonna put a lot of attention towards him. Fact well, to be
55:47
fair, both Anthony Edwards and Wimby they kind of both have the same mentality
55:51
as far as in the interviews. They're both like I want to kill some
55:54
kill some but not literally not not some drake killing Kendrick Lamar stuff it.
56:00
Anyways, No, we're not getting into that, right Yeah, yeah,
56:05
sorry, I just I just had to throw out the rat be there real
56:07
quick. But they're both fearce competitors. And that's something that the public just
56:15
gravitates too. That's the same thing that they did with Jordan as far as
56:20
the killer mentality, same thing with Kobe. So they both have that advantage
56:24
there, and it's a two man race, and let Anthony Edwards win a
56:30
championship this year, then it's gonna be it's gonna be hard for Wimby to
56:35
surpass, but they'll be neck and neck. Does that make sense? Yeah,
56:40
so yeah, that that's what I think right there. I just think
56:45
it's just Esga and Luca. It's just well Sja he's finally starting to become
56:52
dominant, but it just doesn't seem like, uh, it just doesn't seem
56:57
like he's gonna be that guy. He's been pushed, but it's not that
57:00
big status. I feel like Lucas still has a chance. He just he's
57:06
has the fame like he's he's up there. I just don't think they wanted
57:09
a European player to be the face of the league. That's just the thing.
57:14
I don't know. But don't you think Luca He's been in the league,
57:16
what five six years, and ever since year two he's been averaging twenty
57:21
six twenty seven points a game. He's already had good or great playoff moments,
57:25
a deep postseason run, don't you think, Because look at Jordan early
57:32
in the eighties, before he had the deep playoff runs, he was already
57:36
the face of the league. Look at Lebron before he had that finals run,
57:39
he was already looked at as one of the faces of the league behind
57:43
Kobe. So so it's kind of tough for Luca. In my opinion,
57:49
I think I think Tom dunk get it probably the face of the league before
57:52
Kobe started winning again by himself. You don't think it was Shack. You
57:57
don't think it was Shack. Well, Shak had that period where he wasn't
58:00
winning, and Tim Duncan won three ships in that period. Were two ships
58:04
in that period, And I don't have a No. Seven. I can't.
58:08
We weren't alive. We were, to say, I was, we
58:10
were alive, we were, but like we were young, we weren't all
58:15
there. Maybe I just feel like the timeline, you know what I'm saying,
58:17
just kind of favors Tim Duncan, Well Lebron more well, to be
58:23
fair, you could still say Lebron he's been the face of the league and
58:28
he hasn't won a championship since twenty twenty twenty one, even though janis Jokie
58:35
staph that's why he's the goat the same Yeah, yeah, no question.
58:43
But anything else you want to say from this right here, No, I
58:46
think we got we got a lot off our chest. Tyres Maxi is not
58:50
the face of league. Get that ship out here that that should be the
58:53
thumb nail tires Masin is not the face of the league that like. But
59:01
but all right, before we get out of here, Josh, let's just
59:05
do two blind rankings. That's all. We're gonna do two blind rankings and
59:07
then so called MVPs. So, first one right here, Donovan Mitchell three,
59:16
three, all right, Next one right here is Danazelo Russell. I
59:21
feel a five. Yeah, Paul George, we have to put him two
59:28
or four? Two? Okay, walk with me here. We could argue
59:37
that Donovan Mitchell he's had a better postseason run then than Paul George this year.
59:45
Are we saying postseason play or like career or well, then I say
59:50
how this season has been going that that's oh, then we'll put We'll put
59:53
him at four. Then Devin Booker two, right, two, two.
1:00:01
Number one. No, you don't, Chris stop sports is number one.
1:00:07
What do you mean, bro? What do you mean the unicorn? Oh?
1:00:10
My bad, my bad, you're right, you're right, all right.
1:00:13
Last one. We gotta make this one count. Zion Williamson. We
1:00:16
always get Zion. This is three? Yeah, I do three? Okay?
1:00:27
Michel Bridges five. No disrespect to Michel, but this is a five.
1:00:32
Yeah, where's it? A four? Yeah? Put that woman beater
1:00:36
at fuck. Let's do that. No, Mchel, not not the other
1:00:40
one. Mckel, Michael's nice. Michel is a good guy. Run Ron,
1:00:49
Miguel Bridges. Michel well, I expected would have been at three or
1:00:53
four, but this season he ended up being a five. Okay. Kyle
1:01:00
Kuzma, this has for Yeah. I was like, I was like,
1:01:06
wait what, I'm like, what have you heard that I haven't heard?
1:01:10
All right, Zach Levine, this is obviously number one, right two?
1:01:16
Number one? Trey Young damn yea yeah, Trey Young, Zach Levine,
1:01:24
Zion Kuzma, Michael Bridges from the Nets, not Charlotte Networks. But yeah,
1:01:34
all right, all right, So before we get out of here,
1:01:37
like we do every single week, we have our so called MVPs. So,
1:01:42
Josh, who's your so called MVP of this week? Netflix? I
1:01:50
was gonna say, I thought you're gonna do it. Uh No, I'm
1:01:53
gonna stand on business. I'm going with Netflix for dropping the roast of Tom
1:01:58
Brady. That was hilarious, Dude. That was Yeah. That was every
1:02:01
joke that I love of any type people. Hear me. That was top
1:02:07
tier right there. Every joke in there was top tier. Let's just let's
1:02:12
just go with that, you know. Yeah, No that Netflix? Yeah
1:02:15
no, that definitely was a good one. But I'm gonna say I was
1:02:20
gonna say Anthony Edwards because how he's been baling. He had twenty seven tonight,
1:02:24
but this is more recently biased. The Temper Bowls just beat the Nuggets
1:02:29
one oh six to eighty, So I'm gonna go with Karl Anthony Towns.
1:02:31
He stepped up twenty seven points, twelve rebounds. Then he had one assayst
1:02:36
but three for five from three, ten for fifteen from the field. Dude
1:02:39
showed up with Rudy Gobert being out, and that's what they need in this
1:02:43
series. But you want to say anything else, Josh before we get out
1:02:47
of here. No, Well, I'm gonna say one thing before we get
1:03:00
out of here. Marcos Stonewall, I don't know if y'all to listen to
1:03:06
this, but y'all suck at can Jam. Y'all suck at Can Jam.
1:03:12
I don't care if you beat us twice? And basketball, yeah, and
1:03:15
basketball for sure? For sure, y'all? Yeah clean? What was what
1:03:22
was it? It was twenty one to It was like playing Larry Bird and
1:03:27
Big Baby Glenn Davis. That's what it was. Brian Scalabrini, No,
1:03:32
it Brian Scalabrini and Big Baby Glen Davis. That works. They were on
1:03:36
the same team. Yeah, that perfect. No, But all right,
1:03:39
yeah, let's go ahead and get out of Josh, let's get out of
1:03:44
here. Josh. You guys can follow us on Twitter. You guys could
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follow us on Twitter at Flying Garcia Williams crazy crazy, I'm not doing.
1:04:00
I'm not doing. It was like it was like Monagor Noble and Dwan Blair
1:04:11
Wan Blair. That was like, hold on, hold on, I'm not
1:04:17
done. I'm not done. It was like Carlos Boozer, just without just
1:04:21
Booze instead of Boozer. And then Kirk Heinrich, Hey, no, that
1:04:29
that fits perfect. I'm not gonna lie that kind of fits perfect. I'm
1:04:32
not gonna lie that good lie. I'm not gonna get into the specific David
1:04:38
West. It was like David West and I don't know, we're just making
1:04:43
compare with Yeah, Johnny Flyn, that's that's a that's a poor there.
1:04:50
It's like Charles Barkley on the on the Rockets and I don't know what white
1:04:56
guy was on that team. I don't know, I don't know. I'm
1:05:03
trying to think of the most random pool NBA player I could think of,
1:05:11
mm the most random pool interesting and Baysmore on the Golden State Warriors, Bill
1:05:24
Lambard and freaking Rick Mahorn. That's what it was like playing all right,
1:05:33
yeah no, let's yeah, let's just get out of here, judge.
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