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Our Predictions for the NBA Play-In Tournament! · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome back to another episode, episode number
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  Speaker 1: one oh three of the so called sports tannelists. Josh,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing doing good?
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  Speaker 2: Just go off work, you know, just thought we'd get
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  Speaker 2: this playing episode right before it starts tomorrow. Some interesting
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  Speaker 2: games we got going on, a lot of teams that
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  Speaker 2: have played each other throughout the season, played each other well.
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  Speaker 3: Just ready to break them down real quick.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hm yes, sir, yes, sir, of course. But before
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  Speaker 1: this to anybody that likes sports. But once again, like
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  Speaker 1: Josh was saying, this is gonna be a quicker episode
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  Speaker 1: because we're just going over the plans. We don't know
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  Speaker 1: nothing as far as the playoffs, what's in stakes. So
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna start with this first game, and this team
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  Speaker 1: they're in a win or go home situation, winning meaning
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  Speaker 1: getting the playoffs, go home meaning a potential go home
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  Speaker 1: in this playoff situation. So Grizzlies versus Warriors right here,
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  Speaker 1: this is the first game tomorrow, and the Warriors are
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  Speaker 1: favored by seven and a half here, So what are
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  Speaker 1: you looking at for this matchup?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the Warriors, they're favorite by This is the most
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  Speaker 2: points that any team is favored in the play in
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  Speaker 2: right now, So they're heavily the favorites heading into this game.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's rightfully sold, right rightfully so because
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  Speaker 2: if we look at Jimmy Butler, he is going to
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  Speaker 2: play in this game after taking a knee to the
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  Speaker 2: knee against the Clippers and that in the last stint
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  Speaker 2: to qualify for the playoffs like automatically. And then I
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  Speaker 2: think what's going to hurt the Grizzy is missing Jayleen Wells.
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  Speaker 2: I think Jaylen Wells's injury is going to come back
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  Speaker 2: and hurt them just a little bit. The thing is
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  Speaker 2: the Grizzlies, they are they are at bottom sixteen when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to allowing points, around one hundred and sixteen
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  Speaker 2: points per game. And then as far as the the
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  Speaker 2: the Warriors, they're actually they're actually right around that area
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  Speaker 2: around one hundred and thirteen points per game. So they're
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  Speaker 2: they're they're pretty close to what they need to do
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  Speaker 2: to kind of get over the Grizzlies, and they've done
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  Speaker 2: it so far this year. I think they've won three
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  Speaker 2: of the three of the four games that they played
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  Speaker 2: against the Grizzlies this year, So they really have their
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  Speaker 2: number heading into this one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I'm leaning towards the Warriors right here. But
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  Speaker 1: what I'm gonna say is this is this is pretty
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  Speaker 1: much a playoff game right here, and I just think
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  Speaker 1: that what can somebody do as far as what can
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  Speaker 1: attack their matchups the best and the Warriors, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like they could exploit the Grizzlies matchups more than the
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  Speaker 1: Grizzlies can exploit the Warriors. Even though Jimmy Butler he
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  Speaker 1: is a little banged up. You still have Steph Curry
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  Speaker 1: Easley the best player on the court right here. But
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  Speaker 1: I think that the Grizzlies they still have a fighting
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  Speaker 1: chance because John Moran has been playing better as of
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  Speaker 1: ye as of late with this new head coach and
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  Speaker 1: this pick and roll system that he's in now, a new,
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  Speaker 1: newer offense, even though he's been used to it. But
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  Speaker 1: I just think that I just think that I still
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  Speaker 1: have to go with the Warriors here, and I'll say this, Josh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I don't know if you'd agree.
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  Speaker 1: I say it's going to be close to first three quarters.
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  Speaker 1: Then in that fourth quarter, that's when I see the
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  Speaker 1: Warriors winning by like ten to fifteen comfortably. But I
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  Speaker 1: see this being a good game to the very last spot,
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  Speaker 1: or unless you think this is a just front running.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think it's going to be pretty close
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  Speaker 2: around to the fourth quarter. We saw Stephen Curry kind
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  Speaker 2: of struggle versus the Clippers early on within the first
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  Speaker 2: three quarters, but when that fourth quarter came around, he
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  Speaker 2: really exploded and kind of let them let that let
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  Speaker 2: the charge into overtime. Even though the Clippers did successfully
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  Speaker 2: complete the comeback. But in the last game that they
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  Speaker 2: played against each other, Stephan Curry dropped fifty two points.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just kind of I mean, he struggled with
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  Speaker 2: the games before that, he didn't have two greative showings
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  Speaker 2: thirteen points and two points, but they still end up
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  Speaker 2: winning two of those games, and then this last one
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  Speaker 2: they had he had fifty two, so they But the
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  Speaker 2: thing is people will probably look at the Grillies and
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  Speaker 2: think they they have the size advantage and they definitely
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  Speaker 2: do you know, South Damba Edie Jaron Jackson junior. But
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  Speaker 2: the Warriors average more rebounds per game than they do,
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  Speaker 2: so I think even in that aspect, the Warriors have
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  Speaker 2: their number. I think the grizzy is gonna come down
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  Speaker 2: to if John Moran could kind of play good.
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  Speaker 3: Good basketball.
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  Speaker 2: Well, obviously he's gonna have to play play up to
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  Speaker 2: Stephen Curry's level and if the defense can really be
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  Speaker 2: on their p's and q's. But what it's looked like
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  Speaker 2: so far with the Warriors so to end the season,
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  Speaker 2: since they got Jimmy Butler, there hasn't been a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: Teams that have been able to stop them from doing that.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what I think, just what we
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  Speaker 1: saw from the Clippers, I think we saw a playoff
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler. That was that whole thing. As far as
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  Speaker 1: can Jimmy Butler kick it up a notch again, We've
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  Speaker 1: always had these questions and he always does it every
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  Speaker 1: single time. I don't remember his exact stats. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was thirty points and almost ten assists and two
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  Speaker 1: or three still, so he could easily kick it up
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  Speaker 1: a notch. But all I'm saying is that if John
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  Speaker 1: Morant hits threes, especially in a one game situation in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, if a team just hits threes that night,
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  Speaker 1: then you're screwed. There's nothing that can happened. But even so,
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  Speaker 1: I have the Warriors advancing, or we both do, and
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  Speaker 1: Grizzes they face the winner of the nine inten c
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  Speaker 1: which we're gonna get into in a second. But let's
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  Speaker 1: go to this other seven eight matchup right here in
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  Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference. So the Atlanta Hawks versus the Orlando
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  Speaker 1: Magic right here. Magic our favorite by five and a
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  Speaker 1: half in this one, who do you have winning?
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  Speaker 3: And this one?
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  Speaker 2: I was leaning towards the Hawks for the most part,
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  Speaker 2: I think at the beginning of when I was kind
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  Speaker 2: of looking over it. But as I did deeper research
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  Speaker 2: into both the teams, I think I'm gonna lean towards
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  Speaker 2: the Magic actually to win this, to win this series.
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  Speaker 2: Caulop Bonchero in their actual three games that he played
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  Speaker 2: against the Atlanta Hawks, he he averaged a total of
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  Speaker 2: thirty three points per game, in almost nine rebounds and
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  Speaker 2: four cist per game, So he's had their number anytime
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  Speaker 2: he matches up against against the Aleena Hawks, and that's
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  Speaker 2: even with Diyson Daniels, just him being a bigger body.
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  Speaker 3: And then I just think.
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  Speaker 2: The uh they split the series so far too and
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  Speaker 2: two this season. But I think always, I know it's
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  Speaker 2: sometimes people look at the situation better offense beats better defense,
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  Speaker 2: and the Magic have one of the worst offenses in
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  Speaker 2: the entire NBA. They only average one hundred and the
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  Speaker 2: average the least amount of points per game at.
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  Speaker 3: One hundred and No, no, they they're they're one of
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  Speaker 3: the worst teams. They don't.
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  Speaker 2: They actually allow the least amount of points per game
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  Speaker 2: at one hundred and five points per game, but they
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  Speaker 2: also only score one hundred and five points per game.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's one of those some people may
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  Speaker 2: look at it. But as of late, the Magic are
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  Speaker 2: seven to three and so they have a lot more
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  Speaker 2: momentum heading into this one than the Hawks do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they definitely have a lot more momentum. But I
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  Speaker 1: guess I'm gonna go with the upset here. I'm picking
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  Speaker 1: that amunt of Hawks, and the main reason for that,
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  Speaker 1: I just think that in these type of situations of
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  Speaker 1: playing games, it just all depends on your star player
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  Speaker 1: who has more star power and who could go crazier
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  Speaker 1: even if you have a lesser team. I would say
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  Speaker 1: the Magic have the better team, but I think Hawks
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  Speaker 1: have the better player as of right now. I think
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  Speaker 1: Paulo could eventually get there, but I just think that
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  Speaker 1: Trey Trey Young, well, they've been in it all four
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  Speaker 1: years of playing well other than the bubble year, they've
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  Speaker 1: been in it all four years the playing tournament, so
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  Speaker 1: they're definitely used to this environment and they always get
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  Speaker 1: the seven, if not the eight seed, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: think nothing's changing here. I think they're gonna win this
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  Speaker 1: very comfortably. And I just think that, like you're saying,
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  Speaker 1: the offense for the Magic, even though they have been
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  Speaker 1: good as of late, it becomes too Polo dependent. KCP
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been the best this year, Franz hasn't found his step,
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  Speaker 1: his step after that injury, what was it, December, December,
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  Speaker 1: January's ever. Yeah, So that's just my concern. For sure,
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  Speaker 1: Polo can go crazy in this game. But I just
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  Speaker 1: think that's how I broke it down, who's more likely
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  Speaker 1: to go crazy, Trey Young or Polo? And I thought
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  Speaker 1: Trey Young because he's used to these environments, so Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's why I'm going with the Hawks here.
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  Speaker 2: See, that's why I was leading to orders at first,
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  Speaker 2: was looking at the who who who's more likely to
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  Speaker 2: take over? And I had the same thoughts in Trey Young.
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  Speaker 2: But looking at it, I understand the Hawks are top
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  Speaker 2: five in scoring. They score the ball, and that's due
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  Speaker 2: to Trey Young. Really, Trey Young being able to distribute
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  Speaker 2: and get guys open, everyone moving around, kind of freelancing.
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  Speaker 2: We saw Zachary Rishache only have thirty eight points on
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  Speaker 2: like three dribbles the other night, so he really doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have to do much a lot of setting up opportunities
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  Speaker 2: for each other. But when it come to their defense,
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  Speaker 2: I understand the Magic don't have a strong offense, but
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  Speaker 2: they got almost one hundred and twenty points per game.
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  Speaker 2: That that is insane by the Atlanta Hawks. And I
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  Speaker 2: know they have probably arguably the best perimeter defender in
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  Speaker 2: the entire NBA, but that's not enough when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to I think hard fought basketball, and especially in a
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  Speaker 2: playoff situation. The Magic they're not all there. They're not
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  Speaker 2: lacking experience when it comes to play in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: They had their first little bit last year, so I
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  Speaker 2: think I'm leaning towards the Magic once I go deeper
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  Speaker 2: into this game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well I could definitely see that right there. But
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  Speaker 1: all right, let's go and get into these nine to
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  Speaker 1: ten matchups right here, and first we're gonna start with
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  Speaker 1: this team right here, very very nervous, been in this
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  Speaker 1: situation three out of the five years they've been into
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  Speaker 1: play in the Chicago Bulls versus the Miami Heat, Bulls
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  Speaker 1: are favored by one and a half. This is the
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  Speaker 1: closest spread of all four games right here. So who
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  Speaker 1: are you taking in this one? See? I was.
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  Speaker 2: I was also looking at the points per game and
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  Speaker 2: both allowed. I mean, as of the Bulls have one
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  Speaker 2: of the better offenses in the entire NBA. They're averaging
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  Speaker 2: around one hundred and seventeen points per game. And I
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  Speaker 2: think the problem is the Heat may have a top
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  Speaker 2: ten but they're allowing one hundred and ten points per game.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the way that the Bulls have played
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  Speaker 2: the Heat this year, they have kind of dominated this
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  Speaker 2: dominated the matchup. They they've lost, They've beaten the Heat
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  Speaker 2: all three times that they played this year. There was
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  Speaker 2: no there was really no fight on the other side.
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  Speaker 2: And as of late, and even with Tyler Harrold dropping
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  Speaker 2: thirty three I want to around five days ago, they
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  Speaker 2: still ended up losing that game. So there's gonna have
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  Speaker 2: There has to be a lot to be generated for
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  Speaker 2: the heat. I think to win this basketball game, I
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  Speaker 2: just don't see that happening. I think the Bulls have
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  Speaker 2: too much firepower when it comes to the offensive side
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  Speaker 2: of the basketball. The defense is pretty terrible, but I
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  Speaker 2: mean especially when it comes to the interior. But on
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  Speaker 2: those when it comes to the offense, Josh Getty, Kobe White,
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  Speaker 2: amasis even Nikola Vushevitch when it comes to offense, those
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  Speaker 2: guys know how to get the job done.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, well, I think we already know who I'm
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  Speaker 1: going with right here. You see all of blue stuff
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  Speaker 1: in the background. You see the Bulls hat. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: with the Chicago Bulls here, And I just think, I
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  Speaker 1: know Josh Getty has been the main catalyst. Well Josh
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  Speaker 1: Getty and Kobe White, they've been the main catalyst. But
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  Speaker 1: I think this game it's really going to depend on
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  Speaker 1: the shooting of Midus Buzzellis and Nikola Vucevich right here,
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  Speaker 1: because Eric Spolsuer, He's one of the best coaches in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, So he's gonna find a way to get
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  Speaker 1: the ball out of their hands. And if these guys
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  Speaker 1: can knock down those threes and keep them honest, then
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  Speaker 1: that's when Kobe White, That's when Josh Gig that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: they're really gonna start getting into their rhythm. And I
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  Speaker 1: agree with you. I think the Bulls defense it's definitely
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  Speaker 1: not the best, but as far as since the All
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  Speaker 1: Star break, it just gets timely stopped. We're not We're
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  Speaker 1: not good by no means, but it's just the timely
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  Speaker 1: stops we get them. And I just think that Tyler Herro, yes,
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  Speaker 1: he was an All Star Bam, He's definitely All Star caliber.
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  Speaker 1: But I just think that the Bulls they have two
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  Speaker 1: All Star calibers right now and are playing better at
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  Speaker 1: the moment. So that's why I'm going with the Bulls
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  Speaker 1: in this one too, by a landslide too. It don't
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  Speaker 1: matter heat feet, Hashid the beat.
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  Speaker 3: Bulls one bus and one.
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  Speaker 1: Mavericks versus Keys. Right here, this is in Sacramento. Sacramento
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  Speaker 1: was favored by four and a half. Here, who are
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  Speaker 1: you taking?
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Sacravino in this one, I know,
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  Speaker 2: so the matchup, when you're looking at the matchup so
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  Speaker 2: far this year, I don't think you can gauge it
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  Speaker 2: fairly for the Mavericks. The Mavericks in their first matchup,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't have Luca. Luca was injured during that time,
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  Speaker 2: and in his last matchup that they played where the
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  Speaker 2: Mavericks lost, they pretty badly. They didn't have Anthony Davis,
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  Speaker 2: so they've never been at full strength when playing the Kings.
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  Speaker 2: But the thing is, I think both of these teams
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  Speaker 2: aren't very great at one specific thing. They just played
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  Speaker 2: complete ball. But when I look at the depth of
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  Speaker 2: the Sacramento Kings, that's where I highly I highly put
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  Speaker 2: my put my thoughts in my pick towards. I just
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  Speaker 2: think having the guys that they do have and the
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  Speaker 2: zach Lavine de Mardiros and Jonas Valanco, just Keegan Murray,
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  Speaker 2: Devontas Sabonis, they have the people and the place is there.
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  Speaker 2: I think to kind of get into that next that
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  Speaker 2: next round of the play in.
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  Speaker 3: I just think for the.
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  Speaker 2: Mavericks, if they had Pyrie Irving, this would be a
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  Speaker 2: totally different story. I would definitely lean towards the Mavericks side.
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  Speaker 2: I just think this is gonna happen what they did
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  Speaker 2: to Anthony Davis the other night. They're gonna have to
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  Speaker 2: throw They're gonna throw a lot of bodies at him.
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  Speaker 2: But honestly, Anthony Davis could go crazy and the game
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  Speaker 2: could totally go a whole different way. But right now,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a lot to ask of them. It's
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  Speaker 2: kind of like the Nicola Jokic situation, just at a
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  Speaker 2: lesser degree. And I think I'm gonna go with the
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  Speaker 2: Sacramento Kings in this one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going with a Sacramento Kings here. And for
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  Speaker 1: every other reason that you said, I just think that
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, if he was fully healthy, if this was
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  Speaker 1: him without an injury, then I'd say, for sure, I
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  Speaker 1: could for sure see Anthony Davis having this top five
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  Speaker 1: level game, showing why he's one of the best players
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA. But as of right now, as of
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  Speaker 1: late March and April, Zach Lavine and DeMar Derozen they've
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  Speaker 1: been scrolling most points as a duo by far, and
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  Speaker 1: they were the only reasons why they kept the game
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  Speaker 1: closed versus the Nuggets, versus these other teams that they
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  Speaker 1: played these past few weeks, so right now they're just
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  Speaker 1: on a heater, and I just think that I just
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  Speaker 1: think that Sacramento they could be very scary for the
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  Speaker 1: loser of the seven and eight seed because at any
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  Speaker 1: given moment, those guys could drop thirty apiece and ruin
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  Speaker 1: your chances in the plane. So yeah, I'm taking the
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  Speaker 1: Kings here in a one game situation here, So all right,
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  Speaker 1: this is where we do a little bit of predicting here.
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  Speaker 1: Who we think is gonna lose, who we think is
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  Speaker 1: gonna who we think is gonna win. So I think consensuously,
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  Speaker 1: we have the Warriors. We have the Warriors going to
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  Speaker 1: the seventh seed, the Grizzlies being yeah, going to the
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  Speaker 1: last playing versus the Sacramento Kings. So Kings versus versus Grizzlies.
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  Speaker 1: Who would you take in that one?
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  Speaker 3: The Kings versus the Grizzlies. I I know it's tough,
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  Speaker 3: This is pretty hard.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say, this is one of the harder
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  Speaker 2: matchups that I think we kind of are gonna look
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  Speaker 2: at it and be like, I don't really know who
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  Speaker 2: to pick.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna lean towards in this one. M hm.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's gonna kind of be crazy to say I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna lean towards the Memphis Grizzlies in this one. I
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  Speaker 2: think the Memphis Grizzlies, they do have the higher powered
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  Speaker 2: offense as a whole. I know how you're saying that
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  Speaker 2: combines that living into Marduro's and have done a lot
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  Speaker 2: of work over the last month or so. But when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to the consistency of the offense, the Grizzlies
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  Speaker 2: are one of the top teams.
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  Speaker 3: But the thing is, even when I'm thinking.
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  Speaker 2: About this right now, the loss of Jaylen Wells is
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  Speaker 2: really hard when it comes to the perimeter defense. Yeah, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this is a tough one. Like so with the Grizzlies,
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: you get high powered offense, good defense, and then with
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: the Kings you get pretty bad defense but really good offense.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: So I think I'm gonna stick with the Memphis Grizzlies
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: on this one. I know that the I think it's
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: going to be a nail bider type of game. I
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: think it's gonna come down really close to the end.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: But I just think the amount of people that maybe
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: the Grizzlies have and the way the offense plays, I
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: think they're averaging almost around one hundred and nineteen points
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: per game or something like that as of late so ever,
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: since they had the Taylor Jenkins firing. So I think
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: the Grizzy is right now. They're they're doing a lot
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: more work than the Kings.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: For me, yeah, no, even though the Grizzlies they probably
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: won't look good against the Warriors on Tuesday, I still
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: think that they beat the Kings as well. I think
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: let me try to say his name right, Tomas is
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: so low. I think that's how you say his name right.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: The new head coach for the Grizzlies. He like you're saying,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: he has this offense playing well. And I would take
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: John Moran over a Zach Lavine and a DeMar DeRozan
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: and and Jaron Jackson to Jaron Jackson. He's he's been
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: able to be a more reliable offensive guy. I just
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: think that they don't have the firepower to match the Warriors,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: but they definitely have the firepower to match with the Kings.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: That's how I break it down right there. But all right,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: this one, I know we're a little bit of we're
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: a little bit conflicted right here as far as with
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: the Magic or the Hawks, versus the Chicago Bulls.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: So so okay either way, I'm going Bulls.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, fair enough. Why do you think the
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Bulls would win that matchup?
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: I just think offense.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: I think I think when it comes at having big
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: games from the from their top from their top players.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Don't much charger. Is it even charged my laptop?
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Your laptop is gonna end up dying?
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Bro, my first my headphones, my microphone breaks, and then
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: now my lad a podcast. No, but the I'm milliing
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: towards the Bulls. I understand the magic, all the reasons
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: I gave for top defense, but offense, the offense is
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: the problem. They already made it past one top offense
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: for me, and that's the Atlanta Hawks. They were not
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: going to make it past too. I don't think that's
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: that's how it's gonna work. I think they can get
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: one game out and against the team that they dominated
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: for most of the season versus the Atlanta Hawks, or
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: that they that they splay games at the Atlanta Hawks.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: But ron Chero played very well against against the Hawks
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: and those games, but when you want, when you expect
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: that two games in a row from the from the
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Chicago Bulls. Where you think you can win another game
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: relying solely on defense without a lot of scoring, I
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: just don't think that's gonna work two games a row,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: especially against a high power three point shooting team like
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: the Chicago Bulls, because when the Bulls are shooting three
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: very well.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: We saw it very close personally, we saw very close.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: It's really it's really hard to beat them, and they
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: have all the guys there to kind of make make
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: make that job happen with especially with Kobe White especially.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Mantis has came on pretty well towards the end of
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: the season. We like we said, Josh Getty has been
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: balling as of late, ever since he came back from injury.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: So they really they're really rolling right now.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: And I think the Bulls are gonna are going to
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: end up beating the Orlando Magic for me and that
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: in that next play in a turn playing game to
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: get into the playoffs.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, okay, so you gave the reason why the
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Bulls would beat the Magic. I'm gonna give the reason
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: why the Bulls they would beat the Hawks here. I
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: just think that even though Trey Young, he would be
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the best player in that in that environment right there,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: I think offense versus offense. I think offense versus offense
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: right there, I would for sure take the Bulls and
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: like you're saying, as far as three point shooting, as
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: far as scoring, and they've the Bulls have had a
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: tougher schedule than the Hawks as of late, since late February,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: since March April, so they've been playing the top tier teams.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: They've been playing the Thunders, they've been playing the Lakers,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: they've been playing those level of teams, the Cavaliers. So
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: and they're still putting up points. So I think that
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: against the Hawks, they could put up they could put
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: up one thirty, they could put up one forty something
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: like that, if if that offense is rolling right here.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: So all right, that's all of the playing right there.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: So I just want to ask you this really really quick,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: what's gonna be the most exciting matchup? Not giving away
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: predictions or anything. Not giving away predictions or anything. We're
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: gonna talk about that whenever we do that episode, but
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: just seeing all the playoff matchups, what's the most exciting
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: playoff matchup for you?
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Let me take a second look real quick at the
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: NBA standings. Who I think as of right now, the
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: one that's the ones that are already set me.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: The ones that are already said.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: So there's Slippers, Lakers.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's interesting.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I think the Rockets and the Clippers are gonna be
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: a very fun a very fun playoff, a very fun
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: playoff series that I think a lot of people are
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: gonna enjoy. I think you're gonna see a lot of
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: good off I think. Okay, so looking at the Rockets,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: the Rockets match up well with a lot of teams.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: I just think the thing that that kind of hurts
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: them is scoring sometimes. But they're a very great transition team.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: They have a lot of the power forward defenders like
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Tari san Jabari Smith, Alfred Senguns pretty good defensively, and
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Thoms can guard anyone. But when also comes to the Clippers,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: you got James Harden, you got Rockets.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure. Well, then for me it would be
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: the it would probably be.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: The Oh well, the Nuggets were Pippers.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: The Clippers are gonna destroy the Nuggets. I read that
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: so wrong. I read that stuff.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Clippers like what I say, Yeah, I think the Clippers
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: are winning, Clippers winning five Clippers winning five, Clippers winning
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: five versus the Nuggets. Well, let's break that down. Since
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I just said that, let's just break it down real quick.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Beat the Nuggets. Okay, So if it is Zubah, he's
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: gonna probably make the second team All NBA Defense.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: It's your great defender this year.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I know you can't stop Nikola Jokic, that's not gonna happen,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: but you can contain.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: You can slow them down just a little bit.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: And I think having that big body on big body,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: that's gonna be a great matchup. And I think bar
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: for bar, player for player. When if you take the
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Clippers versus the Nuggets, Kawhi Leonard and James Harden, that's
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: the answers right there. I don't think that's gonna I
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: just think Jamal Murray has been dealing with too much injury,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: especially missing this last game of the season.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Who knows, maybe they might be resting, maybe they might not.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know where he's truly at health wise, But
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: right now, you get a healthy Kawhi Leonard who looked
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: and James Harden, who both went over thirty five points
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: in this last game versus the Warriors to make it
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: into the playoffs, and they've been one of the most
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: hot teams. I think they're nine and they've won nine
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: in a row, nine games in a row, while the
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Nuggets have been struggling quite a bit, and it's gonna
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: take a lot for Nikola Jokic to even get the
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Nuggets over the hump in this series. I mean, we
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: saw them losing overtime, him dropping sixty one, ten and
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: ten to the Minnesota Timberwolves. And I think the Clippers
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: are a better basketball team than the Minnesota Timberwolves as
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: a whole right now. Also, so I just think it's
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: gonna be hard for them to beat this Clippers team,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: especially with the healthy Kawhi Leonard right now.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: So I haven't made like any official predictions. I'm still
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: breaking down everything, but I may lean towards the Clippers,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: but I'm just saying just looking at it on the
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: surface level, I know Kawhi Leonard is playing like Kawhi
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Leonard right now, James Harden, he's doing that. But if anything,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I know I'm the last person that has to tell
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: you this. You put him as your end ballot here,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Nicola Jokic, and you know he could do anything on
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the court. He could do anything on the court.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: But I get that, but I look at defensively stand twise,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: and like as a pure roster, you look at what
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: the Clippers can throw at you.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Bro. They also have Ben Simmons waiting on the bench.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I know that's not like a crazy name, but when
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: it comes to defensively, they're not bodies that they can throw.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: They even have Chris Dunne who can guard who was
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: guarding Steph the whole entire name.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: It wasn't even Kawhi.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Leonard until the end of the game when they put
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: him on him. Chris dunn was guarding Stephen Curry, so
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: he's there. Probably he's probably gonna draw the matchup versus
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Jamal Murray and eliminate that. Then you put Kawhi Leonard
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: on a body on Michael Porter Junior and or Aaron Gordon.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: The matchup I think just fits the Clippers entirely too well,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: especially coming off the bench with bog Don Bogdana, but
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: you can kind of leave that second grip along with
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Cam Christy. I just think that the Clippers just have
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: a deeper roster, especially with Norman Powell also an option
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: on the same pinch and then due they just got
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Nicholas BATOUM like, I just I don't know.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: I think there's too many there's too many options for
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Clippers that are healthy at the right time.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: That especially defensively, the Nuggets have nobody. That's just that's just,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: that's just.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, once they got rid of there Christian Braun,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: is he gonna stop James Harden, No, I don't. Is
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Jamal Murray gonna stop James Harden No, I don't think so.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Michael Porter Junior is not a great defender, and Aaron
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Gordon for sure isn't stopping cole Is Leonard. So it's
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: just gonna be it's gonna be a tough matchup after
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: a tough matchup. And that's why I think the Clippers
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: are gonna deal with the Nuggets quite easily, and we
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: may see some something's happening in the off season shake
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: up for the Denver Nuggets.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, okay, man.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: I've been studying the playoffs. I've been studying the playoffs.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Bro No, like every other one, I have a good feel.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: But the Nuggets and Clippers, that's the only one where
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I'm like I'm I'm so conflicted. I'm so conflicted right now.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: But I like that I said before. It's like, don't spoilers.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: You said, no, I'm dropping this right now.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: You could have what Mikolajoki said in an interview.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: In his interview, his last thing he said, he said,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: he said a beast. He said, a beast is most
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: is dangerous when it's the most vulnerable. Also, I don't
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: know what he's also coming up with either, but it's
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: gonna take a lot because he's had so many big
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: games this year that they still lost, you know, So
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: it's just it's just.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I also, he's finally back to the fold, but I
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: get that.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: But the matchup is the you can't discount Jamal Murray playoffs.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: You can't do that.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: That's one of the best playoffs another level, yeah, and
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: a whole other level in the playoffs. But you're also
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: facing a two time champion on the other side. So
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like, it's not it's not like there's
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: no experience. It is James Harden one of the I mean,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: I think James Harden wants wants to get something rocketing,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: and like we were saying, yesterday, after we thought about
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: our awards in the last episode, I was thinking, dang,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: James Harden, He's had a really good season. Bro, he
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: should be all NBA, that's all.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I was like, Yeah, he should be on the third
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: NBA team. But okay, now this is gonna be the
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: opposite side of the spectrum here. We said the most
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: exciting series. So you said Nuggets Clippers, right, I don't.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Think that's the most exciting. But I went on that
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: and caame mo rant.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: So I think that's not the most exciting because it's
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: gonna be a five game, five games, sweet five game,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: a gentleman sweep for the Denver Nuggets in this one.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So which one was the most exciting then?
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: For you?
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Most exciting, most exciting.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I'll go ahead.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: I'll go ahead, and I want to say Pacers and Knicks.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's Pacers, Pacers, Bucks, Knicks.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Piss dude, Why am I?
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm reading it wrong. I'm reading it so wrong.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: The matchup three, yeah, because it hasn't been set. Yeah,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: that's why throwing me off side. So most exciting, So PA, Knicks, Pistons, Pacers, Books, Lakers, Lakers, Worlds.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Nuggets and Clickers. Well, we know what you think about
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: that one already.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: So I think maybe the Timberwolves and Lakers as the
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: ones that I.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Know that are set right now.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: If we if we go how predicted thunder, I think
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: they kind of thunder, they get laid.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Maybe the Rockets and Warriors maybe a fa.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I was looking at. Yeah, yeah, that's what I was
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: looking at.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the I think the Rockets and Warriors
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: maybe a fun matchup in the first round. We saw
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: what the Rockets were able to do to Steph kind
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: of twice this year, but this was before Jimmy Butler.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Since Jimmy Butler joined, they the Warriors are two and
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: one versus the Rockets, so it's and then in that
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: last game, An Thompson drew the matchup against Stephen Curry
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: held them to three points. But also, how often are
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: you gonna hold Steph Curry at three points? You know?
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: So I don't know.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think it's gonna be veteran versus
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: the young guys, and I think that's gonna be a
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: pretty good matchup.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that's one that I'm looking at for sure.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: And then Seng Gun doesn't match up well against Draymond Green.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Sangun can kind of play one off, can play one
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: on one with a lot of people. That's he's not
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: like a good off the pick and roll and stuff
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: like that, like where he's kind of creating opportunity off ball,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: but when he has the ball in his hand, he's
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: able to isolate. That's where he kind of draws it.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: He was given it a check the other night, like
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: a couple of nights a go, so chit. Holmgren struggled,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, and VI and Nyama as well does struggle
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: against Alfred Sengun won on one. But I think for
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: some reason, the smaller, more stout guys like the Lebron
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: James when he draws that matchup, and even a Jamon Green,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: those guys tend to get the advantage over Singun. So
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know that that matchup seems pretty pretty fun
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: for me. Yeah, no, that was if it does happen,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: it does happen.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm hoping for. I'm hoping to see
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: the Warriors and the Thunder in the very first round.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: So you want the Warriors to lose first round and
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: then when the second ones to get into.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I'd really want to see that because if you're gonna
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: knock okay, if you're gonna knock off the Thunder, it's
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: gonna be early. It's gonna be knock.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: Off the Thunder. Get the Lakers the championship.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: They still have to go through Boston. I'm not worried.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: See see, I think it's gonna be Oh, we're doing
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: too much already, Bro, we're doing too much. Like we're
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: still talking about it. Going to the next topic. Y'all
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: can wait for our playoff podcast to come out.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: We're just excited to talk about this. But all right now,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on the opposite end of the spectrum here.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Which one is gonna be the most boring series? And
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: do you expect any sweeps throughout the first round?
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Sweeps? I will wait to see when the when the
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: seven and eight come out.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, no, I was talking about like between like
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: these four matchups, So you.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: See we have right now sweeps. Do you see any sweep?
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: I see, uh, Timberwolves Lakers? Now, I think the Wolves
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: get two games on the Lakers.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: I think don't say you.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Don't say your games. Let's let's cut those out. Let's
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: it's good.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: No, I don't. I don't see any sweeps right now.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah, no, I just want to ask that.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: But yeah, no, all right, Well, let's go ahead and
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: wrap this one up because we're we're just giving away
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: our hands too much. We're gonna we're doing a full
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: playoff breakdown for each of these matchups what we expected
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: to look like. So it's definitely gonna be exciting here. So, Josh,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: do you have any last words before we wrap?
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Let's do a quick playing fantasy draft?
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I forgot about the playing. Okay, it's eight.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: You want to go eight? Eight in a coach? No,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: I don't like, Uh, there's coaches whatever.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Don't make me pick Billy. Honestly, Josh, I completely forgot
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: about the fantasy draft. I'm not gonna lie to you.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: But I don't know if people are gonna people. I
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: wonder what they're gonna think about Nugget. But I think
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: it's consensus right now. I think I think people think
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: of the Nuggets as a as just like a I don't.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Know, I don't see a consensus. I'll tell you what
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: All I've been saying that the Nuggets are. Yeah, we'll
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: talk about it later. We'll talk about getting too much
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: into this.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we we have to remember we're live and people
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: they're probably waiting for the predictions. No, but all right, Josh,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I'll let you go first because I know the last
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: time we did a fantasy draft, I went first.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Sor right, you'll let me go first, Well, then give
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: me Stephen Curry.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I know I had to do it, though I had
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: to do it sadly. Okay, there's Grizzlies, Warriors, Hawks, Magic Bulls,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Heat Well, I have to I have to take Anthony
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Davis here.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that was that was I'm hoping you weren't
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: to gonna take who I don't know. Bro, let me
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: see heat pulls.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: If you would have got and Steph, I wouldn't have
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: done the rest of this.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: I would have been like Magic Warriors heat pulls.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: I think for me, I'm gonna lead towards Bam Mattebaio
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: for this for my next pick.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, you're putting them at your five.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, versus the matchup versus own versus a.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: D Okay, this is more chess over checkers right here.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: And I'm doing this mostly because you have number thirty
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: on your team, and I think you know who I'm
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: going with right here. Give me Dice and Daniels right
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: here on my two.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: That was my next option, bro, because whoever you got
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: from the perimeter, well then I guess let me see,
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: because that's why I wanted to go with my last pick.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: But I was like, I need someone to match up
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: versus a D that matches up well against him.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: So okay, I feel comfortable.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I feel comfortable against Steph. Now now that you feel comfortable,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: you feel comfortable, I feel give me Trey Young.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: That's why next that's my one two. So we're just
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: have guys running around just shooting up threes.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: And see, see, I was worried about that. I was
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: really worried. I was really worried about that right there.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: But I had to Daniels.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Nah, I'll have Dyson Daniels. I'll have him. I'll have
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: him on Steph. I'll have him on Steph because he's
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: he's way more explosive than Trey Young. I'll give him that.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: But all right for my next pick, for my next pick,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: right here, damn, this is tough. I think you know what,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: you know what My thing is gonna be right here.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Give me at my three, give me Poulo.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah see, I was gonna go with him next if
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: he didn't take him.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I had to take Polo at my three.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I need a score. I know a d could score,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: but I need somebody who can get a bucket.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: M hm.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: So let me see, let me think about this really quick.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: You know what, I need some defense at the four.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Give me Draymond Green.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: That's nice, that's nice. Okay, I'm gonna this sounds crazy,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: This sounds crazy right here, but I'm gonna put him
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: here at my one because he's a very good playmaker,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: and we already know what he rises to in the playoffs,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: and he he goes by two words, playoff, Jimmy. Give
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: me Jimmy Butler at my one, right here, at you're one. Yeah,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: he's gonna be my point guard. He didn't be my
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: point guard. Okay, So because we we know he could
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: he could score, or I mean, we know he could
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: bring the ball up the court. And my defenders aren't bad.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I have four good defenders, good degreat defenders.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: So then I guess, at my that's kind of getting
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: to the defense is doing doing down. I feel like
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: in this series, in these all these games.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess at my three he hasn't been the
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: same since injury.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: But give me Franz.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: I was hoping you took Franz so I could put
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: this guy at my five. I'm moving eight to my four.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Give me Triple J's at my five.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: Right, solid, solid pick, solid pick. Defense is dwindling down.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, please don't take him, Like, please don't
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: take him. I like, this is a full D defense
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I got. I got defense on defense, on defense, that's
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: my identity. I'm literally the Orlando Magic. That's what my
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: team is. Mine's a better version of the Magic.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: All right, Well then at my six, you're not gonna
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: like this, mister Kobe White.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Oh damn, Oh my gosh.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you waited too long, brother, Yeah.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: But you would have took Triple J. I knew you
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: would have took Triple J. Damn it. That means, man,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to take this guy. I'm gonna have
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: to take this guy, and I don't. I don't want
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: to take this guy right here. Well, he's a he's
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: a scorer, for sure, he's a former Chicago Bull. No,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about DeMar DeRozan. Give me Zach Lavigne here.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, No, well at my seven for defense rebounding. Give
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: me Derek Lively.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one. That's a good one.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: See.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: See, I I was looking at let's go ten, let's
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: go ten players.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: I thought, I want go a roster. Let's go full
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: roster in this.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's go.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: I kind of like where this is going.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's getting interesting now, it's getting interesting now, all right? Well,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: for sure, since Triple J he could stretch the floor,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: I need somebody else's stretch or you know what. Let
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: me just go with the high risk guy here. He's
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: definitely a point guard for sure, the one who had
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: that grenade Celly the other day. Give me miss job
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: gun Moranne.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: I forgot about Jaw for a second. I'm gonna lie
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: to you. Took him for my six. Let me see
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: crazily orange Brandon presum. I was gonna go with the sniper,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Brandon Projid. See, I'm gonna go with the real sniper.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Give me Klay Thompson.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, put in the Splash Brothers back together.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Okay, dude, I got threes for days on my team.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: We're just gonna start jacking it up when your guys
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: don't let us in the perimeter. Whatever, Keep moving on,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: keep going, keep going.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Bro. Well, you know what, since my team's all defense,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I just need guys that could get a bucket right here.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Give me mister Tyler here, all right here, first time
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: All Star right now. See. So now I'm building my
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: team because I have defense. Now I'm building myself just
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: pure scores and guys who could pass the ball here.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: So I needed to shape that out right there. I
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: know who.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Defensive well, defensively, I need a very athletic wing who
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: can kind of play amongst the one through four guard
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: very well. I'm going Matis Boozellis, Okay, matchup well against
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: anybody athletically, So he's gonna go probably draw one of
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: the harder matchups.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, who is your pick before play? Right before midus?
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: Thompson?
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Am I missing? There's Steph trey Franz, Draymond Bam, Kobe
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: play Modis? Who else?
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: Okay, Steph trey Franz, Draymond Bam, Why Derek Lively?
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: That's the one that I was missing. I was like,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I'm missing, I'm missing one from yours you know what,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: since I have two guys who are riom protectors, I
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: need another big man, somebody who could shoot the three
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: every once in a while. Give me the call of
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Vucevich right here.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: See, I don't know how this guy made it this far.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: He doesn't offer must defensively, but he's an offensive weapon.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Give me demonte Sabonis.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: See see, I was thinking Sabonis. But he couldn't shoot
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: the three. That's where that's.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: The way he can run offense.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I got guys that could run the offense
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: in Lavine, John Tyler, Jimmy Polow. I got those guys
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: who I.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Do lack defensively, I will say I do lack defensively,
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: but offensively, Yeah, we're gonna be jacking up. We're gonna
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: be playing some pretty good Yeah, some pretty good flowing basketball.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: I feel like.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, so from the magic you already took Franz Pollow,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: there's KCP, maybe Hawks, there's resaceche by Chance Warriors. Everybody's
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: gone except Pods Desmond Bane. There's Desmond Baine on the Grizzlies.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: I was thinking about him.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just another defender Mavericks. No, there's not not really,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: I know DeMar DeRozan's there no direspect to him. But
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: you know what, you know, what do it? Uh? Give
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: me Josh Giddy from my last spot. Okay, give me
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Josh Gitty.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: I was really hoping you didn't take Damar if I'm
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: being honest.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: See, I know Damar was there, but like I was, like,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: I need another guy to run my office.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: You know, I was thinking about jacking Gogo just because
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: of what he did when playing like a demon on
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: the boards, you know, for real.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Just a random march in April games, bros go crazy?
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: All right, who's your coach right here?
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: So if I get the first one to fit this
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: kind of lineup that I have, give me Steve Kerr.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: I just like, there's no better coach for this type
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: of situation, type of shooters that.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: I have, No for real, That's that's the best one
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: by far. But talk about somebody who's a defense of
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: my show and knows how to put people in position. Well,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know how Jimmy Butler and Eric Sposher is
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: gonna work together after what happened, but they're they're gonna work.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: They're gonna work their problems out in this game, right,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: here give me Eric Spostra in this one. So all right,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: gold enlist your team right here.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: So at my one, I got Stephen Curry. At my two,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: I got Trey Young, honestly. At my one, I got
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Trey Young. At my two I have Stephan Curry, and
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: my three I have Franz at my four, Draymond at
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: my five Bam. At my six, I got Kobe as
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: my sixth man, Kobe White. Then I got Derek Lively,
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Klay Thompson, Mantis, Buzzellis Deamonte, and Demontes Sabonis, with my
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: coach being Steve Kerr.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: All right, for this winning team right here. So it
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: sounds a little bit weird. But at my point guard,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: I have Playoff Jimmy. My two, I have Die and Daniels.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: My three, I got Apollo four A D. Then at
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: the center Triple J's and six I have Zach or
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: my six man, Zach Levine. Then the rest of my
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: bench John Moran, Tyler, Herro, Nicola Lussovich and Josh Getty,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: with my coach being Eric Spostra. So it's that, you
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: know what, you know, what we just created, what we
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: were just talking about, We created the Hawks versus magic matchup.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: We we we created that the vade that we didn't
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: that we didn't want to discuss the most magic magic
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: and Hawks offense versus defense. I think my team will
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: score enough points. I think it'll be if it was
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: a seven game series, i'd give you two games, I'd
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: give you.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: I think my team's the Boston Celtics and just starts
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: starts off just shooting a bunch of threes, and whoever
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: keeps up keeps up.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, who's the three point shooter? Dison, Zach Lavine, Taylor, Hero.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: Got the Celtics. That's what the Celtics do.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: They just pull up and like, all right, we're going
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: the jack up threes and if the other team can
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: catch up to us, and then that's good for them.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: But freaking Steph Trey Young and Kobe White are gonna
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: have like thirty five threes. Yeah, not even including freaking
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Klay Thompson. They're gonna have forty threes by themselves.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, France is in a bathroo point shotter either.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, make it fifty, make it fifty. Then Draymond his
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: occasional threes, and.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: Then sometimes if I if I need to just jack
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: up threes.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: I'll put in a lineup of Steph Trey, Steph Trey
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: and Clay and then just have Derek Lively and and
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: Bam just go for boards or Draymond just like see
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: you see, we can get that done.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: It'd definitely be a matchup twos versus threesum.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: Is really I mean, Anthony Davis.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: I think Anthony Davis is gonna be the hard part
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: of your team for sure, just that Bam could hold
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: hold his own and he bams a really good defender,
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: so hopefully, but I think I think my team's just
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: gonna have a lot of a lot of move Yeah,
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: a lot of movement.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: You're it just depends if your team could stop my
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: team as far as that backcourt, even you got Steph Trey,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Kobe White, Klay. Yeah. Yeah, your guards they're they're not
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: the best. I'll give you that. They're they're not the
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: best by any means. So yeah, no, no, but all right, Josh,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: any last words before we get out of here.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: No, just we got the playoff pod coming up soon,
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: and we'll see if our predictions pay out right for
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: the play in.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, yes, sir, Well we'll see about that. But
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: we're gonna be recording sometimes too, like Josh is saying
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: playoff predictions, each team we're breaking or each matchup we're
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: breaking them down. Who thinks to go into the next round?
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: And then we give away before our official championship or
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: championship matchup. That's where we're gonna give away and that
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: that one. So y'all stay tuned. But before we get
• 43:50
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• 44:10
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