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- 0:00Speaker 1: The first round in the playoffs has been all of that, y'all.
- 0:03Speaker 1: It's been a ten out of ten. And I'll be
- 0:05Speaker 1: honest with you, I'll would be the first one to
- 0:07Speaker 1: tell you the last month and a half two months
- 0:09Speaker 1: of the regular season was a drag.
- 0:11Speaker 2: I hated it.
- 0:12Speaker 1: You know, the job is to watch basketball and there
- 0:14Speaker 1: is nine games on the day and it feels like
- 0:16Speaker 1: only one or two of them games end up being
- 0:18Speaker 1: good because half the league was pretty much tanking and
- 0:20Speaker 1: try to get aj De montt We'll find out about
- 0:22Speaker 1: eight days that a j De Monts is going to
- 0:23Speaker 1: the Bulls, by the way. So like, yeah, the last
- 0:26Speaker 1: month or so was a drag and we made all
- 0:28Speaker 1: of that up. But just the first round of this playoffs,
- 0:30Speaker 1: y'all recognize how drunk things are right now?
- 0:33Speaker 2: The Eastern Conference.
- 0:34Speaker 1: Uh we two and a half weeks into the playoffs
- 0:36Speaker 1: and only one team has advanced. We have three game
- 0:39Speaker 1: sevens this weekend for the Eastern Conference? Is that not nutsy, y'all?
- 0:43Speaker 2: The Knicks is just.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Senter the crib trying to figure out if they go
- 0:45Speaker 1: to host game one of their next series or they
- 0:47Speaker 1: gonna be on the road.
- 0:48Speaker 2: They don't even know they're Orlando Magic. I'm sorry.
- 0:50Speaker 1: The Detroit Pistons are the one seed, a sixty win
- 0:53Speaker 1: team down three to one to Orlando Magic team that
- 0:56Speaker 1: was the eight seed. We came upto this channel, we said, man,
- 0:58Speaker 1: the Detroit Pistons are going outside.
- 1:00Speaker 2: They're about to make history as one of the few
- 1:02Speaker 2: teams to do this.
- 1:03Speaker 3: The Letto Magic in game six are up by twenty
- 1:06Speaker 3: is points, twenty something points.
- 1:08Speaker 4: And then proceed to miss twenty three straight shots. Do
- 1:14Speaker 4: y'all recognize how difficult it is to do that? Not
- 1:18Speaker 4: even in me?
- 1:19Speaker 3: If I go to the YMCA, just me and my gods,
- 1:21Speaker 3: there's not a chance we missed twenty three straight shots.
- 1:27Speaker 3: They did that in an NBA game, y'all. An NBA game, Yes,
- 1:31Speaker 3: they just did that. And you can't help but to wonder,
- 1:34Speaker 3: because we're going back to Detroit four Game seven, did
- 1:36Speaker 3: there Orlando Magic just waste their chance to make history
- 1:41Speaker 3: because they couldn't make a shot.
- 1:43Speaker 2: Sadano has it right here.
- 1:44Speaker 1: The aletto Magic went forty five minutes of real time
- 1:48Speaker 1: between made baskets, from eight forty six Eastern time to
- 1:52Speaker 1: nine thirty one Eastern time.
- 1:55Speaker 4: Forty five real minutes.
- 2:01Speaker 3: What if they have sixty points a half, it ended
- 2:03Speaker 3: up with seventy nine total points.
- 2:07Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I don't know.
- 2:09Speaker 1: And it's not even just like the Detroit piss of course,
- 2:11Speaker 1: played great defense, So Starr Thompson shout out to him.
- 2:13Speaker 1: He deserved to be third DPO wide because that's what
- 2:14Speaker 1: he's gonna d up being. The Detroit Pistons did play
- 2:17Speaker 1: great defense, don't get me wrong, but but great defense
- 2:20Speaker 1: ain't gonna calls you to miss twenty three straight because
- 2:22Speaker 1: if that was the case, the Detroit Pistons tam would
- 2:24Speaker 1: have been unk with the series already. If the defense
- 2:25Speaker 1: is that damn great twenty three straight shots? You know
- 2:28Speaker 1: why I knew it was really really bad.
- 2:30Speaker 2: I mean maybe I was like to the party, but by.
- 2:33Speaker 1: The time they had missed their twenty straight shot Jamal Mosey,
- 2:37Speaker 1: they called another timeout.
- 2:38Speaker 2: Right, you know what happens in the timeout?
- 2:40Speaker 1: I think it was Jeremy Lenna just said last week,
- 2:42Speaker 1: he's got the first person to say this, but it's
- 2:44Speaker 1: on top of mine. He said, you could tell a
- 2:45Speaker 1: good coach based on the atos the after timeout plays.
- 2:48Speaker 2: Right.
- 2:48Speaker 1: He talked about Nick Nurse specifically, in the first couple
- 2:51Speaker 1: of games and their series versus Detroit Pistons. That team,
- 2:55Speaker 1: the seventy six ers, had been scoring so and so
- 2:58Speaker 1: points per possession after eight because they drew up great,
- 3:01Speaker 1: great things and Paul George got some easy shots, or
- 3:03Speaker 1: Tyres Maxie.
- 3:04Speaker 2: Got down here with VJ. Scomb took advantage of him.
- 3:06Speaker 2: So the atos are really important, right.
- 3:07Speaker 1: That's why when the other team is about the grow momentum,
- 3:09Speaker 1: you see your favorite coaches do like this, we gotta
- 3:11Speaker 1: draw something easy up, and more times than not, the
- 3:13Speaker 1: easy thing that they draw up at least results in
- 3:16Speaker 1: a good shot, even the shot.
- 3:17Speaker 2: Don't go in.
- 3:18Speaker 1: This is what happened in this possession because I'm really
- 3:20Speaker 1: excited to see what the hell Jabal Mosey picks up,
- 3:22Speaker 1: because as y'all know, I've been very critical of him
- 3:25Speaker 1: my all season long because his offense is less than ideal,
- 3:29Speaker 1: not the most creative offense. Actually, I would say it's
- 3:31Speaker 1: probably at the bottom when it comes to creativity in
- 3:33Speaker 1: the NBA.
- 3:35Speaker 2: Out of a timeout, there's a.
- 3:37Speaker 1: Stagger screen for Jalen Sucks, and Jalen Sucks took a
- 3:42Speaker 1: thirty foot to three pointer that he airballed after a
- 3:45Speaker 1: time out sixteen seconds.
- 3:48Speaker 2: Left on the shot clock. That is what we says experience.
- 3:53Speaker 1: In this game, only two teams missed twenty plus shots,
- 3:57Speaker 1: and you're talking about the playoffs here. The two thousand
- 4:00Speaker 1: y one Kings missed twenty two straight shots on May second.
- 4:03Speaker 2: This is of course Sadano again.
- 4:04Speaker 1: And in twenty twenty one, the Utah Jazz missed twenty
- 4:07Speaker 1: straight shots on June six. This is courtesy of ESPA
- 4:10Speaker 1: and research. By the way, I just could not believe
- 4:13Speaker 1: my eyes because it felt like all game longer to
- 4:16Speaker 1: that point, the Detroit Pistons was dead in the water
- 4:18Speaker 1: and we was about to load up to k to
- 4:20Speaker 1: rebuild the Pistons. I was about to go get them,
- 4:22Speaker 1: like I don't know, I mean, trying to get them
- 4:24Speaker 1: down of a Mitchell because the Casts are also losing
- 4:27Speaker 1: a game, you know what I mean. So yeah, the
- 4:30Speaker 1: Pistons have another chance to close things out, which is
- 4:33Speaker 1: nuts to me because just a couple of days ago
- 4:35Speaker 1: we were talking about it being the end of the world.
- 4:37Speaker 1: Now it still don't make me feel great about their
- 4:41Speaker 1: overall upside if they do win Game seven. But regardless,
- 4:44Speaker 1: they get to see a game seven. In that fourth quarter,
- 4:47Speaker 1: k cunning him nineteen points. Again, the guy is just like,
- 4:52Speaker 1: if it ain't gonna be him, it ain't no chance.
- 4:54Speaker 1: So the fact that this man is able to do
- 4:56Speaker 1: this after you know, the last game we had forty
- 4:58Speaker 1: five points and and that win. For him to have
- 5:01Speaker 1: nineteen in the fourth quarter alone, five or eight from
- 5:04Speaker 1: the field, I'm seeing nine free throws eight of eight
- 5:06Speaker 1: made just a great, great, great.
- 5:09Speaker 2: Overall performance from them.
- 5:10Speaker 1: And again it's not all about momentum, but godly to
- 5:14Speaker 1: piss us out a ton of momentsal going home and
- 5:16Speaker 1: I'm expecting that arena to be rocking. Let me see
- 5:20Speaker 1: if I have any more notes about this game before
- 5:22Speaker 1: you move on to the next one. You can really tell. Yeah,
- 5:26Speaker 1: so my notes is basically about Franz Vagner. I'll be
- 5:28Speaker 1: in there mostly on the defensive side. I think the
- 5:30Speaker 1: offense in the series has not been amazing for Franz Wagner,
- 5:32Speaker 1: but the defense.
- 5:33Speaker 2: Has been like one of the best in the postseason.
- 5:36Speaker 1: And I don't think it's coincidence that the last two
- 5:38Speaker 1: games that Kay Cunningham has played, he's looked like the
- 5:40Speaker 1: superstar that we know he is because he doesn't have
- 5:43Speaker 1: the assignment on the other side of Franz.
- 5:45Speaker 2: Vagner guarding him. So gregre game.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Javon Carter got burned in the first quarter, and I'm like,
- 5:49Speaker 1: oh my goodness, another Bulls legend about to come in
- 5:52Speaker 1: and play in the postseason.
- 5:53Speaker 2: He had a shot and then he got benched. I
- 5:54Speaker 2: don't know the hell that was about. Jaylen Suggs.
- 5:57Speaker 1: I think he was one of thirteen in the game
- 5:59Speaker 1: two days ago and now he was one and ten
- 6:01Speaker 1: in this one with five turnovers.
- 6:03Speaker 2: Yikes. And I already talked about the shot after they
- 6:05Speaker 2: had missed.
- 6:06Speaker 1: Their twenty seven twenty three missfield goals in a row
- 6:10Speaker 1: man hmm.
- 6:12Speaker 2: Anyway, oh in the.
- 6:13Speaker 1: Crowd, man, I ain't ain't heard a crowd go from
- 6:18Speaker 1: we here we did it to Oh my goodness. Season
- 6:21Speaker 1: is over that fast. And it happened very very fast.
- 6:25Speaker 1: So next one.
- 6:26Speaker 3: The Toronto Raptors, hey, they forest game said, this series
- 6:30Speaker 3: has been home team, home team, home team, home new
- 6:32Speaker 3: note vibes.
- 6:33Speaker 1: But all it takes is one Toronto. All it takes
- 6:36Speaker 1: is one game. On Game seven, on matter who got
- 6:38Speaker 1: home quarter of bats, go out there and get it done.
- 6:40Speaker 1: This entire game it felt like Raptors, Raptors, Raptors. And
- 6:42Speaker 1: then the fourth quarter, Donal Minchell finally woke up. This
- 6:45Speaker 1: has been after Game two for Donovan Mitchell. It just
- 6:48Speaker 1: has not been the Donovan Mitchell that they needed or
- 6:50Speaker 1: they needed in the series. Again, in the fourth quarter,
- 6:53Speaker 1: he was great. He put his his backpack on, got
- 6:55Speaker 1: them back into this game. Evan Mogley was great, put
- 6:57Speaker 1: his backpack home, got them back into the game. But
- 6:59Speaker 1: looking at the totality of these last couple of games,
- 7:01Speaker 1: I have not been impressed with Donald Minchew. I have
- 7:03Speaker 1: not been impressed with James Harden. Evan Mobley came out
- 7:06Speaker 1: to play. Actually I'm surprised Jared Allen got to thirty
- 7:08Speaker 1: three minutes. He damned it was concussed at the end
- 7:10Speaker 1: of that first quarter or that first play. And the
- 7:12Speaker 1: only thing I think that saved him was the big
- 7:14Speaker 1: ass fro when he hit his head. It just bounced
- 7:16Speaker 1: back up like it was a pillow. The Cavs have
- 7:19Speaker 1: their comeback, and you always could tell something about a
- 7:23Speaker 1: team about how they fight back after a big comeback,
- 7:26Speaker 1: and the Toronto Raptors did a pretty good good job.
- 7:28Speaker 2: Is we got some really huge.
- 7:29Speaker 1: Blocks down to stretch from Scottie Barnes CMB had one
- 7:32Speaker 1: right at the rim. I think it was James Harden
- 7:34Speaker 1: on the right side block, so that happened, and then
- 7:37Speaker 1: we get to ot in ot I found I could
- 7:43Speaker 1: be mistaken here, but I'm this feels very deja vowish.
- 7:48Speaker 1: There was a I don't know, I'm not no, I'm
- 7:51Speaker 1: not tripping here. You got the a second valilation call
- 7:55Speaker 1: in game four a game five, right, that was when
- 7:57Speaker 1: Kenny Acton had at least one time out, but instead
- 8:00Speaker 1: of using it, he let the guys start to the
- 8:02Speaker 1: drip up the court. You know, Jamal Shaid jumps the
- 8:03Speaker 1: pass boom A second valilation That is not the reason
- 8:06Speaker 1: you lose, but a huge momentum swing, and it allowed
- 8:08Speaker 1: the Toronto Raps on the other end to get an
- 8:10Speaker 1: extra basket.
- 8:10Speaker 2: And just like that, the game is over.
- 8:12Speaker 1: And this one is Shrewder bringing the Balti the court,
- 8:14Speaker 1: getting hounded, absolute hounded by the Toronto Raptors, and he
- 8:18Speaker 1: is so afraid, and Kenny Akinson is so afraid to
- 8:20Speaker 1: use one of his I think at two timeouses the
- 8:22Speaker 1: spot that he throws about Evan Mobley.
- 8:25Speaker 3: And it slips out of his hands and in boom bom, boom.
- 8:27Speaker 3: It's the game is up for graps. One point game.
- 8:31Speaker 3: We turned the ball over.
- 8:32Speaker 1: We got to get a stop and RJ Bear pulls
- 8:35Speaker 1: off the Kawhi Leonard or pulls off the Halliburton from
- 8:38Speaker 1: the Knick series just last season, where it hits the
- 8:40Speaker 1: back of the rim and it goes all the way
- 8:42Speaker 1: up and straight through and they cut to you know,
- 8:46Speaker 1: all the fans outside of Toronto. You know that it
- 8:48Speaker 1: felt I don't know how many people out there, thousands
- 8:50Speaker 1: of fans and they going crazy.
- 8:51Speaker 2: It's like, oh my goodness, no way. RJ.
- 8:54Speaker 1: Barrett has been half court wise, super super important in
- 8:59Speaker 1: this series. In this FoST game interview, he talked about
- 9:01Speaker 1: how he lives and dies by the shot and whether
- 9:03Speaker 1: it went in or didn't. He knew that it was
- 9:05Speaker 1: a good shot, FA and I love that type of confidence.
- 9:07Speaker 2: And you love what he's been able to do. You
- 9:09Speaker 2: love what Jakobe Walter is.
- 9:10Speaker 1: The two games they won in Toronto before he had
- 9:13Speaker 1: zero and zero, but the last two games twenty four
- 9:15Speaker 1: and twenty, Yeah, twenty four and twenty he had four
- 9:18Speaker 1: thres in this one CMB continues to just be a
- 9:22Speaker 1: revelation on both sides of the floor, get into a
- 9:24Speaker 1: spot and getting the little shot put up there and
- 9:27Speaker 1: playing great defense.
- 9:28Speaker 2: And let me not forget about miss the Scottie b.
- 9:33Speaker 1: He was already bordered in all NBA. I wouldn't be
- 9:37Speaker 1: surprised he actually made it. He was one of those
- 9:39Speaker 1: guys in conversations. I think he may have got kicked
- 9:40Speaker 1: out by a lot of people once once we found
- 9:42Speaker 1: out that Kay Cunningham and Luca Nanachas were eligibly regardless,
- 9:47Speaker 1: this guy stockers at an all time, A lot of
- 9:49Speaker 1: us knew that Scotty Bares was good. I think if
- 9:52Speaker 1: you remember I did a live stream maybe you don't
- 9:55Speaker 1: remember because not it was maybe like six hundred hundred
- 9:57Speaker 1: people in them, and we were talking about Scotty Barnes
- 10:00Speaker 1: for this season.
- 10:00Speaker 2: By the way, we were talking about Scotty Barnes, and
- 10:02Speaker 2: we were talking with me and the chat like what
- 10:03Speaker 2: do y'all think his ceiling is?
- 10:04Speaker 1: And I remember vividly saying like a lot of people like, yeah,
- 10:07Speaker 1: that guy could be a superstar in this league. And
- 10:09Speaker 1: I was like, I can see it, but I don't
- 10:11Speaker 1: know how likely it is right, I think that the
- 10:13Speaker 1: ceiling for that is possible. I don't know if I
- 10:16Speaker 1: would put money on the table to say that this
- 10:17Speaker 1: guy will beat.
- 10:20Speaker 2: The playoffs tell you so much about a player, and.
- 10:24Speaker 1: For the what sixth time, fifth time in this series,
- 10:28Speaker 1: he was the best player on the floor, like twenty
- 10:31Speaker 1: five fourteen assists, seven, three blocks, three stills, legitimately all
- 10:34Speaker 1: over the place. Defensively, I've talked about a nauseum over
- 10:37Speaker 1: the last sup of games they've been winning, about the
- 10:39Speaker 1: defensive schemes that Darko Yakovich has been throwing out there,
- 10:42Speaker 1: with having Scotty guard one of the ball handlers, that
- 10:44Speaker 1: denying them the ball, letting them play four and four
- 10:46Speaker 1: or sending somebody asto late doubles.
- 10:48Speaker 2: So now they're playing four and three.
- 10:49Speaker 1: But the three that we have on our defense we
- 10:50Speaker 1: feel good about versus their foreign offense. We already talked
- 10:53Speaker 1: about this, but Scotti b just straight up the one
- 10:57Speaker 1: two of the blocks. It just felt super powered, Like
- 11:01Speaker 1: when you have the home crowd going after defensive possession.
- 11:04Speaker 1: I could just imagine how much of a battery that
- 11:07Speaker 1: puts in the back of all of your other guys.
- 11:09Speaker 1: And I don't remind you there is no menu quickly
- 11:11Speaker 1: in this series, and there has been no brandon Ingram,
- 11:13Speaker 1: even though they probably is a good thing based on
- 11:15Speaker 1: the way he was playing. This has been so good,
- 11:18Speaker 1: Like this was a team I've said, I don't know
- 11:19Speaker 1: if I said it here on the pod. The one
- 11:21Speaker 1: seed out East, the Detroit Pistons, the two seeded Boston Celtics,
- 11:26Speaker 1: the three seeded New York Knicks, and the four seed
- 11:28Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers. Those four teams came into this post he
- 11:31Speaker 1: and saying, Hey, I believe that we can win a championship,
- 11:34Speaker 1: right Everybody else maybe didn't have the same expectation. If
- 11:38Speaker 1: the Toronto Raptors were to lose this Game seven, they
- 11:40Speaker 1: won't be like, oh, this is a disappointed season. No
- 11:42Speaker 1: matter what happens in Game seven. They'd be like, this
- 11:44Speaker 1: was an amazing season for us. But the fact that
- 11:47Speaker 1: they are going Game seven, one of the four teams
- 11:49Speaker 1: that told themselves to believe that they were going to
- 11:51Speaker 1: be a contender, let you know that Toronto Rapts are
- 11:53Speaker 1: either in a great spot or that one team that
- 11:55Speaker 1: thought they were gonna be a contender is in a
- 11:57Speaker 1: fucking awful spot. And I think it might be a
- 11:59Speaker 1: little bit of both, y'all. I think it might be
- 12:00Speaker 1: a little bit of both. I was a guy that
- 12:02Speaker 1: was pretty hesitant about this team. This postseason originally eventually
- 12:05Speaker 1: came around, but even during the regular season when they
- 12:08Speaker 1: spent months at a time where they're five, He's a team,
- 12:11Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, good ball club, but how do
- 12:13Speaker 1: you hit the next level? This looks like a team
- 12:16Speaker 1: that will be a playoff team for the forcillber future.
- 12:17Speaker 1: But that cannot just be the ceiling that you're thinking about.
- 12:20Speaker 1: And I think a lot of that is still true.
- 12:24Speaker 1: But the fact that you're young, the core that you.
- 12:26Speaker 2: Care about the most.
- 12:27Speaker 1: Scottie Barnes, who again is turning immersion into what might
- 12:31Speaker 1: end up being a superstar, and seeing be like when
- 12:34Speaker 1: you have those two guys that work so well in
- 12:37Speaker 1: tandem and can just be Batman and other Batman because
- 12:41Speaker 1: I don't eve want to say Batman and Robin, you know,
- 12:43Speaker 1: like that's they're both that good offensively Batman and Ah.
- 12:46Speaker 2: Come on, come on, I gotta lock yet. I'm sorry,
- 12:51Speaker 2: I ain't got it either way.
- 12:53Speaker 1: When you got it like that, it's just in my mind,
- 12:55Speaker 1: it gets kind of changes some of my personal opinions
- 12:58Speaker 1: about the future of what the Toronto Raptors can really.
- 13:00Speaker 1: Speaking on the other side, like I said, it could
- 13:01Speaker 1: be both of those things can buy. If the Cavaliers
- 13:04Speaker 1: lose in the first round, y'all, oh my goodness, we
- 13:10Speaker 1: already talking about the Detroit Pizzons and their opportunity to
- 13:11Speaker 1: lose in the first round. We are talking about some
- 13:13Speaker 1: of these other teams that the Denver Nuggets and they
- 13:14Speaker 1: lost last night. If the Cleveland Cavaliers, a team that
- 13:19Speaker 1: won sixty something last year, wasn't satisfied with their production
- 13:23Speaker 1: this year and made a big trade to acquire James Harden,
- 13:26Speaker 1: who's been more bad than good in this series. Like think,
- 13:29Speaker 1: think about who James Harden was in the regular season,
- 13:32Speaker 1: more bad than good this series. You make that trade,
- 13:34Speaker 1: you trade the twenty six year old point guard for
- 13:37Speaker 1: thirty six year old point guard. Donavan Mitchell ain't signed
- 13:40Speaker 1: his extension. There's gonna be some real repercussions for somebody.
- 13:45Speaker 1: I don't know if that's Donvald Mitchell not signing that money.
- 13:47Speaker 1: They gotta figure that out. I don't know if that's trade.
- 13:50Speaker 1: Never mobiley to try to get y'all. I don't know
- 13:51Speaker 1: what that will be, but there's there's a zero person
- 13:54Speaker 1: chance and they look at this and say, okay, we'll.
- 13:56Speaker 4: Try it again.
- 13:57Speaker 1: You're gonna lose, potentially in the first round to Raptors
- 14:00Speaker 1: team that sixty percent of NBA fans stought wouldn't even
- 14:03Speaker 1: make the playoffs before the season started, and eight of
- 14:07Speaker 1: NBA fans saw you.
- 14:08Speaker 2: Match up against them.
- 14:09Speaker 3: A setting Calves and five Calves and six you're gonna
- 14:12Speaker 3: lose to that team.
- 14:15Speaker 2: Hey boy, you better take care of business.
- 14:17Speaker 1: Didn't shooters awful, by the way, rempressure was pretty good,
- 14:21Speaker 1: but the turnover was what makes off. You can you
- 14:23Speaker 1: can turn from okay to all four in one possession.
- 14:25Speaker 1: If you ask me, it's only time in town, only
- 14:29Speaker 1: time on town.
- 14:30Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 14:30Speaker 1: It feels like and I gotta go back through these games.
- 14:32Speaker 1: It feels like a little minute since the Calves have
- 14:34Speaker 1: had an eight plus shooting game. And I don't know
- 14:36Speaker 1: if that's on the horizon or what, but okay, that's
- 14:39Speaker 1: that's whom it's talking about these games.
- 14:41Speaker 2: Let me know what you think. Shout out. RJ.
- 14:42Speaker 1: Barrett may have saved no, definitely saved the season. But
- 14:46Speaker 1: may have elongate the season more than one game. And
- 14:49Speaker 1: shout out to the Orlando Magic for looking like the
- 14:52Speaker 1: worst team of all time for an entire half, like
- 14:56Speaker 1: go backup, Actually, don't go back and revis Sai because
- 14:57Speaker 1: it's a hard watch.