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NBA Playoffs Banter: Breaking Down All 4 Playoff Series! 2-2 OKC/Den! Can Boston Win 3 More Games? · The Rope A Dope Radio Podcast

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  Speaker 1: NBA basketball fans, Welcome back to the NBA Playoff Banter Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: He's Marshall, I'm Chris, and we're here to talk some hoops.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we were talking last week that you know,
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  Speaker 1: these game ones could be interesting and some of these
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  Speaker 1: road teams will probably get the dub. And sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: who would have thought all four teams on the road
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  Speaker 1: teams get the dub. I mean, that is just ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: I still can't believe it happened. And to make it
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  Speaker 1: matters even crazier, you have two teams up to zero
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  Speaker 1: with the knickt in Indiana. So we're gonna break down
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  Speaker 1: the series where they're at. We're gonna start with Boston
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  Speaker 1: and New York, who's about to tip off here any second.
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  Speaker 1: Then we're so we'll go east, then west. We've already
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  Speaker 1: done our preview and prediction we will you know, last week,
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  Speaker 1: but we will kind of just catch up on the
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  Speaker 1: series and see if in fact our predictions or thought process,
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  Speaker 1: what has changed, what has stayed the same, that type
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  Speaker 1: of thing. So, yeah, I'm really excited about this. This,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Gordon alone, this guy's hit so many big
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  Speaker 1: shots like this has been a phenomenal playoff run. Man,
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  Speaker 1: it's we're spoiled where we are just spoiled this year,
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  Speaker 1: so you gotta love it. Hopefully it keeps going. Hopefully
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  Speaker 1: we get a game seven. We know we got one
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  Speaker 1: game six. We assume that there'll probably be another Game
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  Speaker 1: six in there at least. But let's see. If this
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and bring in my co host Marshall. Marshall, Man,
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  Speaker 1: how the hell are you doing? We've had just a
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal playoff run so far. We're about give or take,
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  Speaker 1: you know, half way through the slate of these series,
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  Speaker 1: first and foremost, how you doing in second of all?
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  Speaker 1: What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think of these playoffs?
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  Speaker 2: I think that I'm doing good, and I think that
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  Speaker 2: we've been spoiled. I think that normally the NBA playoffs
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  Speaker 2: in general take a little while to heat up. But
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  Speaker 2: we've been. We've been. We had a good Round one,
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  Speaker 2: and I would say about a plus starts a Round
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  Speaker 2: two because you look at how all this is going normally,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, hey, we have like one good series in
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  Speaker 2: round two, but we have like four, Like we're four
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  Speaker 2: for four, which is pretty oft unlucky there, and there's
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  Speaker 2: no sweeps either, so like we're we're pretty spoiled.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I won't lie, Like it's been really good. We've had
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of drama in every series. Nothing's really
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  Speaker 2: gone how people have expected it to, and people are
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  Speaker 2: getting their hot takes on different teams and stuff, so
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  Speaker 2: it's good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think this has been a really really fun starts
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs, and I hope it gets better like partonies
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  Speaker 2: like dude can out of what can trump this? But hey,
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  Speaker 2: we could even be looking at some new teams in
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  Speaker 2: the in the NBA Finals this year, which would make
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  Speaker 2: it even more fun.
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  Speaker 1: Possibly, Yeah, And I think that would set I don't
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  Speaker 1: know when the how long it went, if it's this
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  Speaker 1: modern day, but if if we hit seven different champions
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  Speaker 1: in a row, that's some sort of record. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a modern day record. I'm not totally sure.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I know that you gut like Wolves had all.
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  Speaker 2: But like if we would have said when the playoffs started, hey,
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  Speaker 2: NBA Finals, Wolves Pacers sort of be like, eh, but
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  Speaker 2: realistic right now that that's so legit has a good
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  Speaker 2: chance to happen it. Who would have thought when the
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  Speaker 2: play when NBA Game one started a Round one, that
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  Speaker 2: a Wolves Pacers Finals could legit happen and that that'd
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  Speaker 2: be pretty fun. Man, Like those are two fun teams.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just you know, for a while they're being
• 4:52
  Speaker 2: a Golden State fan like I am in Lebron. It
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: was kind of like, dude, if you filled out to
• 4:56
  Speaker 2: Brackett's pretty chocky, right, Like, hey, it's gonna be Golden State,
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  Speaker 2: gotta be Lebron. One of those team's gonna be in
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  Speaker 2: the finals. Now you have a Legit could be Pacers, Wolves,
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  Speaker 2: it could be ok C Boston, it could be you know,
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  Speaker 2: Denver versus you know, Page. It's kind of fun, just
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  Speaker 2: have a variety that normally is not quite available to
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  Speaker 2: us as NBA fans in the playoff season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, usually like, all right, that conference final is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be awesome. We already know the other person that's ye
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  Speaker 1: over or the team I should say, And yeah, you're right,
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  Speaker 1: just in general, the first round, they're usually the first
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  Speaker 1: two rounds, You're right. There's usually one maybe two series
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  Speaker 1: where you're like this is great, but usually it's one
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  Speaker 1: and maybe there'll be like even a five game series
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  Speaker 1: that four out of the five are really good games,
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  Speaker 1: but there's no drama as far as extending it and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. So yeah, we have been spoiled, man,
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  Speaker 1: and let's start in the East. New York Knicks go
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  Speaker 1: up to zero on the E F and road. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just they gave up two twenty The Celtics gave
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  Speaker 1: up two twenty point leads, one of them in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. In the fourth quarter in those first two games,
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  Speaker 1: they were like you mentioned the field gold mix, well,
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  Speaker 1: nine of forty five, nine of forty five in those
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  Speaker 1: two in those two fourth quarters. Not enough passing, not
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  Speaker 1: enough ball movement. It just, uh, it's funny because you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had that horrible night shooting right to close Game five.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the Timberwolves, and then they opened.
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  Speaker 2: Up horrible right and then yeah yeah, like.
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  Speaker 1: Then then a couple of nights later, boom, someone breaks
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  Speaker 1: our record. And then Boston's like, hang on, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: break your guys this record. So it was first the
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  Speaker 1: one game, then a two game combined. So Boston's got it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll give it to him. That's no problem with me.
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  Speaker 1: It's just crazy to see how this played out, and
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  Speaker 1: nobody we're going to talk about where we think the
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  Speaker 1: you know what's gonna happen, because I have heard plenty
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  Speaker 1: of people that were calling for a sweep for Boston
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  Speaker 1: already talking about another sweep because this is basically if
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  Speaker 1: they win the next three, they would sweep them and
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  Speaker 1: you know, win four two. But what are your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: just in the nixt you know, playing like shit for
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  Speaker 1: about three quarters one of the games. They did close
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  Speaker 1: the third quarter well to make it reachable, but giving
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  Speaker 1: up two twenty point leads and then just you know,
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  Speaker 1: giving it up just completely, you know, bald movement, no,
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  Speaker 1: just just just falling apart, man, just falling apart down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch and those Game one in game two.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's two different angles. The first one is
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  Speaker 2: just the live and die by threes have always been
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  Speaker 2: a thing. But I mean, I really think Boston's stinging
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  Speaker 2: it to a new level, like, hey, let's just jack
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  Speaker 2: up threes like fing crazy. It's what happens. Like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that's necessarily smart, Like, oh, analytically, you know,
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  Speaker 2: but like dude, y'all are twenty five for one hundred,
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  Speaker 2: Like analytically that that's not good results, right, So I
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  Speaker 2: do think sometimes to get a little get little gung
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  Speaker 2: hole three point happy and then they lose a game.
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  Speaker 2: And the other part, which I've kind of heard from
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  Speaker 2: like some ESPN people and podcasts, is the fact that
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  Speaker 2: is Missoula a good coach? And I'm this is like
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  Speaker 2: a retweet, but I've heard, you know, some people say
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  Speaker 2: it sounds a little logical, like last year they kind
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  Speaker 2: of had an easier pat to the finals because the
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  Speaker 2: Pacers were beating up. The Caps are beat up and
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  Speaker 2: you know, and and they to give Missoula credit. I
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  Speaker 2: believe he out coached in the finals and they outplayed Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: But I heard a lot of people saying, do we
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  Speaker 2: trust him to run this team? And you I mean,
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  Speaker 2: obviously you can blame Tatum and Brown and the run
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  Speaker 2: in threes, but I think it's a fair question of
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  Speaker 2: how good of a coach is Missoula, Like maybe he
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  Speaker 2: is a medium tier coach so far, because well, the
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  Speaker 2: players are some blame. I think you gotta look at
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  Speaker 2: the coach too, because the coach did give two toy
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  Speaker 2: point games up and you could say Thibodeau's maybe got
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  Speaker 2: him beat in that department. So the combination of the
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  Speaker 2: jackup three is like crazy, And what do we truly
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  Speaker 2: know about the head coaches? I think fair criticisms and
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  Speaker 2: I guess I just tend to agree now again, obviously
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  Speaker 2: the dude's got a ring out of his finger. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm maybe looking forward to, like what adjustments will make.
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  Speaker 2: Will they blow this again, or maybe Missoula has time
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  Speaker 2: to prove himself, and he also needs a much younger
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  Speaker 2: coach compared to a guy like who I've followed for
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  Speaker 2: a long time in Kerr, you know, and obviously he's
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  Speaker 2: not a vet yet. But I just think that's a
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  Speaker 2: fair criticism because that just kind of is a combination.
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  Speaker 2: Chris of Boston clearly is the better skilled team, but
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  Speaker 2: when you shoot me and you jacked up poorly time
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  Speaker 2: shots on the shot clock, which they did in Game one,
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  Speaker 2: they were forcing shots up too early instead of maybe
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  Speaker 2: milking a little bit more. And then your coach is
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: maybe under hot water a little bit because you're offensively
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  Speaker 2: or Cats run on the fourth quarter. I think those
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  Speaker 2: combinations are just kind of made it interesting. But if
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  Speaker 2: the Celtics win tonight, do you feel nervous as the
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  Speaker 2: Celtics fan at that point going back home? Probably not.
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  Speaker 2: So It's kind of like that, hey, Knick's got up
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  Speaker 2: two zero, awesome, we could see an upset, But if
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: it goes back two to two, now I feel that
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: that title wave is shifted back to the crash against
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks pool and away from the Celtics pool.
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  Speaker 1: So right, and there in game two there was a
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  Speaker 1: seventeen to two run by the next and they had
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  Speaker 1: missed ten The Boston had missed ten straight field goals
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  Speaker 1: and over a six twenty nine or almost seven minutes,
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  Speaker 1: zero field goals with two to eleven lap. There was
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  Speaker 1: eighty six, eighty five and over all twenty one to
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  Speaker 1: two run in the in the last seven thirty two
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  Speaker 1: clock when they finally took their first lead with fifty
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  Speaker 1: five seconds left. I mean, yeah, that's a good point
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  Speaker 1: about the coach because you bring up Steve Kerr and
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: it's it's kind of a similar scenario how Kerr took over.
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  Speaker 1: You know, It's like, yeah, they were showing promise with
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  Speaker 1: Mark Jack. Yeah, different different exit obviously why they got
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: you know, uh, the exit thing. But I would definitely say,
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: you know, the coach who's at Houston now is a
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  Speaker 1: better coach than him. Yeah, you know, I think that's
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  Speaker 1: fair to say. And you know he was their coach
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  Speaker 1: until something got messed up he made Yeah, yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: didn't They didn't like some of you know what he did,
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: and that's fair, like everyone has whatever. And nowadays stories
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: become bigger, so social media because and it becomes like
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: a storm to where you just got to do something
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: about it. And you know, back in the day, it
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: barely would have been a story, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: And it may not even hit really, but that's that's
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  Speaker 1: what it is. So I think that's fair. And you know,
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: you're talking as a fan of Golden State, who you know,
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: talk about Live and Die by the three They shot a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of free right them.
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  Speaker 1: Houston and some other team were like the teams that
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: were way advanced in that scenario before people started not
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: necessarily catching up but using that formula. And the one
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  Speaker 1: thing it is, though, there's a lot of wide open,
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  Speaker 1: fucking shots though, you know what I mean. So it's
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: it's a weird, strange thing where like I hear you, however,
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  Speaker 1: I think overall, as long as you're penetrating dishing, it's
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  Speaker 1: a good shot. You keep taking them to an extent though,
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  Speaker 1: and at some point, you know, like when they did
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  Speaker 1: that play when it was like they called the time
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  Speaker 1: out and Tatum got the ball, boom, he went right
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  Speaker 1: to the racket dunked it. It was like, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 1: well shit, you know, maybe they're gonna win, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in your head a little bit, but I just think, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: going to the rack more and just taking a mid
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  Speaker 1: range whatever get fouled, just to rely on that so much.
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  Speaker 1: And then of course they went out and hit twenty
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  Speaker 1: of forty in Game three, right, So yeah, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: I guess on average it'd be ten less because like
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  Speaker 1: you said, it was twenty five of twenty of one hundred, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: something like that. So yeah, I don't know. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'll say this, I think that usually defense goes up.
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: Everything kind of goes up. That way, you start to
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: get to know each other in the playoff. But the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks in Denver, if you look at you know, the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks actually were like thirteenth something like that, whereas Denver
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  Speaker 1: was like twentieth. But both those teams have actually up
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  Speaker 1: a lot of their defense in these playoffs in general.
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  Speaker 1: So I've kind of been impressed with that to an extent.
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  Speaker 1: As this series goes on, obviously, depth starts to play
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  Speaker 1: a part. Porzingis has this weird illness that he had
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  Speaker 1: to leave the court for and all that they've been
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  Speaker 1: a little banged up. They're relatively healthy though, so there's
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  Speaker 1: really no excuse there. So going back to that first
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  Speaker 1: statement about hearing people that predicted a sweep now are
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: calling for another sweep. Do you think this thing is
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  Speaker 1: over in sixth or do you think this thing is
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  Speaker 1: going to go seven?
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  Speaker 2: You got you know, I think it goes seven, just
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: because again unless Les Celtics have officially turned the switch
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: on now, like you dude, you were lucky to lose
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: two to Orlando and you lost the first two here, Like,
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  Speaker 2: who's for me to say that they went for row.
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  Speaker 2: I do think that the better coach Neeks went out,
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: and well I do think Boston's better team. If it's
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: a close game, I trust brunts over any guy in Boston.
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  Speaker 2: So I think I haven't.
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  Speaker 1: Had a close game throughout. We talked about this before
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: we hit record. There hasn't been a competitive game the
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: whole time, Like the whole game. You know, maybe the
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: biggest lead is twelve or eight, but it didn't last long,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of you know, ties and lead changes,
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  Speaker 1: and like you said, if they get down to the
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: nitty gritty, I don't see how they don't and niny
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  Speaker 1: of that. But the Knicks don't win the game, or
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: at least one of them and nine of that. But
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: they're due for a freaking crazy offensive effort too. I mean,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: couldn't they put up twenty something one night? I think
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: they could. So I'm not gonna say I be completely
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: shocked because that two oh thing obviously kind of shook them.
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  Speaker 1: But then again, you know last year and this year
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  Speaker 1: they have dropped random games or not played as good.
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  Speaker 1: Well not necessarily this year, but well yeah, the first two,
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  Speaker 1: but like they kind of do this. They kind of
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: do this. So I think it'll go game seven.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Do you still think Boston's gonna win though? Because we
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: both predicted, are you now? I gotta admit I'm a
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: little bit more in between now because if they go ahead,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: and if the Knicks win tonight, you know, then I
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: think it's up in the air.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: I do think that. As much as I do not
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: want them to win the series, I do think they do,
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  Speaker 2: but uh, I do think it does go seven. I
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: will take Celtics and seven, but if the Knicks win
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: the series, I'll be very happy man. Next week, So
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: my fandom says, you're on the ount like Boston. But
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: if I had have thrown one hundred dollars down, I
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: would still break the Celtics to win the series. But
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: it's not definitely the cakewalk people expected it to be.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Right now, you don't like Boston, you don't like Tatum,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: who's a duke player.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: I don't like the Celtics.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, I just double check checking there. So even if
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: a North let's say, in ten years they draft a
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: North Carolina guy and he's the lead of the franchise,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: you're gonna still not like Boston at that.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: That put me at Yeah, I'll jump across that bridge, right,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: I need to.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: All right, speaking of jumping across the bridge, I don't
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: really know how that that. I'm just gonna say that,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: but that doesn't make any sense. Indiana right like and
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: really I meant like jump ship. You know, we have
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: been high on Indiana in general. They did improve defensively,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: they brought pretty much the whole team back. They're fun
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: to watch. Halli Burton once in a while needs like
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: a kick in the ass to just be like, hey, dude,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: take over the game. But other than that, like they're
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: fun to watch. They play hard. You can't count them out,
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  Speaker 1: but they got up to zero. And I get it,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: like in game three they had a bunch of people out.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I mean game one, two game Mitchell went out kind
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: of in and out and out, and now he went
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: back out again in this last game. It's weird because
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: they're game three. They got everybody back, and then they
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: look damn good, and then the next game they look
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: like shit. And then Mitchell got hurt in that game.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: And sure those guys aren't probably one healthy. They probably
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: would have waited a couple more games during the regular season,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: but you do have a variety of guys that are playing,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: and you've had such a great, you know, regular season,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: and from time to time we have seen, you know,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: these regular season teams that just look phenomenal and they
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: just get shut out or whatever. But that shot that
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Halibert hit when he you know, when he pulled out,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: no time out, nothing, just hit the shot, like and
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: he did the Sam Cassel big Balls dance on the
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: way back. That was ridiculous. Which just these end of
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: game moments obviously Denver's provided multiple times, but they've been
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: just phenomenal. Man. But I thought, all right, let's see
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: game four now Calves got all their guys back, they
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: look really good, and then they just smashed them, dude,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I mean eighty to thirty nine, dude, like, and then
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Mitchell leaves the damn game and he gets hurt of
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: get like, I just because we were high on Indiana
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean we saw that happen that It just like
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I said, there are some injuries in there, sure, but
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: that was about as Porsche showing when you need to
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: tie this thing back up to not even be in
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the game after a handful of minutes.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: It's just ridiculous. Yeah, and I I mean that that's
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: one pick me definitely got right with the Pacers. And
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: you could say injuries sucks, but yeah, that's that's sounds.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: That's part of the NBA Playoffs though, Like if if
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Cleveland was fully healthy, they could be winning the series.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: But also if Klay Thompson does harrisay a c I
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: knows every podcast, we probably would have the ring like
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Stephen Curry out is a huge advantage for you Wolves
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: in the series, which we'll get to a little bit here.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: You know, so injuries happen, man, Sometimes it's survival of
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: the fittest, and and that can really dictate how the
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: games play out. So for the situation, just like Indiana
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: last year had some decent luck to have injuries benefit them,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: and they've done it again. But TB has credit. We
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: don't talk about their guys getting hurt, so obviously they're
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: lucky a little bit made that they for whatever reason,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: maybe it's their rotation or players or but they've been
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: healthy and half the time it just is the tesla
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: being able to survive and they've been doing it. But
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: with that being said, aside from the injury talk, the
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Pacers who played some good f and basketball. Yeah, dude,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: they they love to run. Anyone can shoot threes. Miles Turner.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: I just love watching that dude play. He's a big
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: than to shoot threes like Halliburton. You know, probably was
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: pretty pissed off we got that little slap on the
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: face of being the most so great guy in the league.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: I mean that was like a pull from people who
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: wouldn't even put their name into it. You know, maybe
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: it was a couple of like bleep, you kind of
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: shots that the dude. But fine, well, you.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Never can trust the players anyway, because there's aye the biasness.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Well yes, but dude, you know, yeah, he has all
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: sorts of biasness, But honest, right now, if you're looking
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: at every team left him that like Jokic has had
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: some offse SGA has not been elite, like Tatum's had
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: some cult like hell.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Bert uh ants to until the second half. An's been
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: struggling there for for most of the series.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: So you could argue that right now, Halliburton's maybe been
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: the best player in the playoffs this year overall so
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: far or it. I don't think you laughed out lapped
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: out the laughed out of the conversation for suggesting that.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: So I they're they're fun to watch. They always run.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: The one thing I've heard kind of consistently said and
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: seeing on the games is the fact that, dude, you
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: kind of have to be in really good shape to
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: play the Pacers because they do play in a quicker
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: temple than most teams. Like when you watch like the
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Wolves and Warriors game, it is like kind of half
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: or run your offense. And even in Jokic versus Okay, see,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of just hey, we're just gonna hey,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: let's let's half four games Pacers, Like, dude, we're.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Gonna intend to be in the playoff general.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Pacer, Like, dude, we're gonna run your ass off
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: the gym and we're cool with that. So that does
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: make a different side of you as you've you've as
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: been a boxing guy. You know, different fighters have different styles.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Now many teams really play the way the Pacers do
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: and after the temple and have all the guys gonna
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: shoot the ball that will effectively. And the thing I
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: like about them to wrap up in the Pacers why
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: they're up in the series. And I've just always found
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: them to be unselfish. Like there's so many times in
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: basketball where you feel like the certain player, it's it's
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: his ball, he's gonna take the shot, Like Haliburton is there, guy,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: but you would never tell me that. Like watching them
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: play that, Like Halbert, it's just like his ball, no
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: one else, Like I think he's their leader. But now
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: like it, dude, I need to see the ball and
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: no one else gets it. Like they always they seem
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: to share the ball. Well it all sounds kind of silly,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: but their offense is just always so fluid. I think
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: it's because they're not it's not an individual, it's just
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: a well organized team.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is deep and get a shout up pretty quick,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: or at least get down there to where it's hard
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: to set up on defense a lot of the times,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: and at least, you know, really set up and uh yeah,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I mean they got shooters all over the court and
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: they're just yeah, they're fun, dude, and they can drive
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: and it just yeah, they're really good. I mean, do
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: you see it. I mean, I don't know what's up
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: with Mitchell. I'm not sure he was you know, he
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: didn't come out. You only played twenty minutes, twenty something
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: minute I think it was twenty twenty one or something
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: like that. And then you know, will they even bring
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: them back? I mean, he probably will because it's an ankle,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: but you can feel okay, But do you see the
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: thing about going okay, let's say it gets a six,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah it's six, but then you're in Indiana, dude, like,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: good fucking luck. So either way five or six, this
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: thing's done. I mean, that's i'd assume.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: I do think that there is still that angle, like
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: that cold bloodedness, because I really I really thought in
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: round one they were gonna come out hot and destroy
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: the Bucks. I know they won that game. When they
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: were closed the game. But the Bucks were up like
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: twenty one to three in the first quarter of that
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: closed out game in Indiana did win.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: And then the one we were on live recording.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: No, I was a practice. Uh it would have been okay.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I remember you we were talking about the end of
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the game scenario and you're like, hey, this just messed up.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: This person messed up. Maybe that was a different game.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, no, no it was. But I remember
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: when that game started. I bet the Pacers first half
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: because I was like, all the Plucks were oh. Because
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: I went.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Back and watched the end of that that ship was nuts. Dude.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't believe how.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: That two different times they had it and they gave
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: it up.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So for the start, I bet the Pacers
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: first half of first quarter. I bet first quarter and
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: they were down like eighteen to three, and I was like, like,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I thought, they're gonna kill him. And then they in
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: the Pacers game three, you know, like they they came
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: out a little sluggish. So I obviously teams have part too.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: You know, the Pacers be up too. Oh you expect
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: the cast to fight back, and the Cavs were healthy,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: but so I don't think it if they have that
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: complete kill DNA. But I really do think, especially if
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Mitchell's banged up like it's the like I told you,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: I think Cavaliers are making tea times like you know,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: a had good run, had good year, injuries hitting, she's
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: the wrong time and after eighty to thirty other performance. Yeah,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I just I think Pacers. I think Pacers went in five,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: but I don't see it going if they If the
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Cavaliers somehow tie one together, they're not gonna go back
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: to Indiana because that places to be a madhouse. So
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I'll say Pacers in five or six. If it went seven,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I'd be floored.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, because that third when they got all
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: their players back in the third game, it looked pretty
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: damn good. It's like, callis, yeah, they're spposed to fucking
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: series now, you know.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: But then, like I said, they started with their players
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: in the game. That's what I do. Right that first
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: quarter they had their starter right, and they got their
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: ass whop dude, and that yeah, I mean in Indiana,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: the home of basketball that they're I mean, good luck,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: That's all I'm gonna say. Good luck. And by the way,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I do have Boston win that series in seven too,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I don't think I actually okay, okay, so yeah, so
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I think Indiana will do it. I wouldn't be shocked
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: if they did the next round, especially if Mitchell doesn't play. Yes,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: But but overall, it ain't going past six, and you know,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: we'll see how that other one goes. You know, because Boston,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: New York, big markets, they've spread it out, you know,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: so we talked about this before. If Golden State and
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Minnesota we're going to go game seven, it would be
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: next Tuesday, the game seven, Well, that Game seven all
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: by itself right then Monday, that Monday, So next Monday,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: that would be Game seven in that series. Boston, New
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: York oh oh yeah, oh yeah yeah, because they spread
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: it out to get the most eyeballs on it. So
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: that could really really help Indy in general, especially if
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: they close it out in five. But yeah, it's uh,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: you know, no matter how you get back to two
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: conference finals, it just it bodes well for the future.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, if you asked a regular join BA
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: fan out of the past ten years, who's had the
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: best franchise success Between the Clippers, Sixers, and Pacers, most
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: regular NBA guys are gonna say, well, I would Pacers
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: probably be the bottom third. But like of those three teams,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: who gets all the hype, Like, dude, I don't even
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: think it. Like the way the teams are trending. If
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: you had to, if you had to put stock in
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: a team, I would, I would put Stock in the
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Pacers probably touched the Sixers and the Clippers, even though
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: from a media standpoint and from an elite payer standpoint,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: how much you pay your guys, that's not supposed to
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: be the answer. So, like you said, they're doing something right.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the Clippers only made one conference final. Yeah,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: so if they get two, they already double them up.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: So and then we don't want to go back in
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Clippers history either when it comes to conference finals, because
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: it becomes a lot more like the tim Wolves background Denver. Okay,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: see now, the first game, Jokis just went ape shit.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I mean this, dude, it was a ridiculous game. He
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: had forty two points, twenty two rebounds. They really they
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: closed really strong in the second half, and I have
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: noticed even with that, they still got twenty two out
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: of Gordon, They still got twenty one out of Murray
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: they still got Westbrook had eighteen off the bench, you
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, So that he is getting even
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: in we're gonna talk about some of these games he struggled.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: They have been getting still a variety of people stepping up,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: especially Gordon, and then you know, so you're like, okay,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: well that's huge they you know, round or game one
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: in a series. Dude, that's that's much needed if you're
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: gonna win the series, especially to the one seed and
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: all that, and the way Oklahoma City came in. We know,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: you know, point differentials off the chart. We know they
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: played defense like a mother effort. But we did talk
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: about Okay, we know Sga, we know him. Now can
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the other folks continue to help him out? I just
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: got done talking about some other guys that have stepped
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: up for Denver along with the MVP candidate. I suppose
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: this year because they haven't announced it yet. But now, okay,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: see the problem was last year he didn't. You know,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: you have to have a variety of people to win
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: all these games, you know, to get to go far,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: and that wasn't the case. And we're we're starting to
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: get you know, it's starting to look that way a
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: little bit. One of the Williams went like six or twenty.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Chet had one good game, the rest not so much.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: And they're putting dude, they're putting like small dudes on Chet,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Like you gotta take advantage of that, you know it
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: just like when they put a small guy on Rudy.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think they never put Murray on Rudy,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: but like they got to take advantage of that. But
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: so it's one zip, right, the thunder come back and
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: just destroy it one o six and I'm like, all right,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: they got their groove back. You know, they really kicked
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: their ass one hundred and forty nine points. And then
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: the Nuggets and Gordon and every you know, I mean
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: ot win like and they had a chang. I think
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: they were up by like what three or four pretty
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: deep in that overtime. They just they couldn't do it,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: couldn't finish it off, and Denver just ran them off
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the court after. I mean, shit, you're looking it's a
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: nine point game in overtime. That tells you they dominated
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: the damn overtime once again. Though you look at home
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Grid he got eighteen, he did get eighteen points, but
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: it took him nineteen to get there. He was one
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: of six from three Williams bounced back. That was one
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: of SGA's worst game at the playoffs, I'd have to say.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: And they didn't get a whole lot off their bench,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: whereas Gordon twenty three, Porter twenty one, Jokic twenty, Murray
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: twenty seven, Westbrook not so much off the bench at
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: all in that game. I mean, he had eight points,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: but not really. But you know, Denver's defense, we talked
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: about how it has improved in the playoffs. He's getting
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: We know, Jokic's like, hey man, he's gonna do his thing.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: We need you know, he needs help. You could make
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: an argument in this last game that both of them
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: had a chance to win this last game. Obviously Okac
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: you know, ended up winning ninety two to eighty seven.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: But here we are two to two and they're keeping
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: they're doing a great job on Jokic be on the
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: first game obviously, like really great job, and they're keeping
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: out of the post as much. But even when he
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: is hitting those mid rangers, you know in the the
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Wolves keep them out of the post to an extent,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: and then he always hits those rainbow threes. Anyway, and
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: he shot like forty percent or something, some kind of
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: crazy percentage this year from three, so they're doing a
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: great job on them. But these last three games, man
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Jokic hasn't really looked himself looked, you know, And I
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: don't think it'll continue. I think he'll I think he'll
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: get it together, but these last three games hasn't been
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: right for him. But he's said other people step up,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: so here we are too too.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: So this one really has me kind of lost brother,
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: because I really don't think that Jokic just played that
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: well and that Shay Gilders has been up to his
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: highest level either. Get these games were close, but it's
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: it's kind of like maybe we're having to see a
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: little more. And obviously these guys are gonna be the
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: MVP one or the other, right, but neither having like
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: dominant series. But the fact that overall, the fact this
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: is two to two and Jokic has really only had
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: one Jokic s game is kind of crazy to me,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Like I know that one game and like I think
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: last you know, his last game he had like twenty
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: two points and thirteen boards, but if you look at
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: how much he shot, it's.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, he's seven to twenty two.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was all of ten on threes, which
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: is like, oh, it makes you ten threes.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: It's weird for him him, you know, unless he's going off.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And when I watched in game three, like he
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: had lots like sloppy passes and turnovers, which surely doesn't
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: do so either. Two things like maybe you know and
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: I know that hockey's different because they know they never
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: wanted to sclose injuries because people poke on you and
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: they f you up if you know their injury. Maybe
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Jokic has hurt a little bit, kind of like Hockbayer
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: just doesn't want to say it, or he's just a
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: little fatigued and tired. But besides that, I think we
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: have held him to such a high standard now they're like, dude,
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: if he ain't tired or hurt, like something's wrong with that?
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Like what it? I believe it was the first time
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: since twenty eighteen that he shot like under forty percent
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: three games in a row. It's like some mind bless
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: have like, dude, you are so good that for you
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: to have like three offense in a row, that shit's
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: not happened since before COVID.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: So yeah, as.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: For speaking for the long Jevy the series, man, I
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: really any weight lost.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Ever since he lost that weight he's been he's raised
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: his game like crazy.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I really do think the fact that it's two
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: to two and he's not had his Elite series yet
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: is good for Denver. But again, I got a factor in. Again,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: if Boss win say it's going back home, that whole
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: court still does matter, right and obviously the the okay,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: he hasn't I I was gonna tell you I met
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: the Textee. But my buddy, so, my good family friend
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: that always takes me on our March Madness trips they
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: got from Oklahoma. He actually invited me up to game two,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: so I was actually at the Okay, okay, see game
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: two series of the of the series. Okay, great environment,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: nice fans, no drama. The other thing was that we
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: left in the fourth quarter like two minutes in the
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: game because like dude, they were up forty five. Yeah. Yeah,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: so it showed you that on a given night when
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: they Yeah, I actually had some of the most points
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: ever scored in the first half in the NBA playoff games,
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: so I got to win his history. But that really
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: was Chris that was one game shot out because all
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: the other three games have not been like that, like
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: they've been competitive, you know. Yeah, yeah, so in around
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: about way, I'm right, not quite sure think about this,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Like the fact that we're two to two and the
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Okach hasn't been at his best yet just makes some
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: shame my head of you, like how good is okay? See?
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Like why is this not three to one? If you
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Okich has been his best out, so then it makes
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: you wonder, is okay see like we typed by last show,
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: are they still a little bit too young and young
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: in a way that besides like Shay Gil just like
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: who else that team is old? You know, like that
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: was one thing my friend who took me with He's like, dude,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: I love the fact that they're a young team. They
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: seem to have fun. There's a team camaraderie that okay
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: see yeah the new two.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Dudes, that's the only guys that are old.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: So you know, I just man, I think we're in
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: for some some more close games. I do think that
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Okay see wins in seven, but I I do think
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: that maybe we have to, Like, yes, the record was amazing,
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: the right their season. But even though they obviously have
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: the better coaching situation for this game, like Deadver has
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: been there a lot and know, yeah, the jokis Ray
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon Core maybe is not as stat wise sexy
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: and beautiful.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: As like you there before you throw porter or okay,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: yeah Gordon over porter and a heartbeat.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Well I did say I just I met say Gordon
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: my bad. So but they've they've been through it, so yeah,
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: it I think it does. I think that's what surprised
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: people because if you watch game two, you're like, oh, dude,
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: these are two different hemispheres, but not like you know,
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: so I'm with I think it goes seven. But I
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: just think that okay, se has maybe been not as
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: explosive as people thought.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so Game two, this is Yokic six sixteen seventeen points.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Game three eight of twenty five. Yeah that's yeah, twenty
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: points and then he got twenty seven. But like you said,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: seven to twenty two, missed a bunch of a bunch
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: of threes. And also like like in that game, I
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: think he was eleven or fourteen or ten of thirteen
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: from the line, so he's he's getting the line right. Yeah,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: but when it counts. Even in the last series when
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: it counts, he's actually missed these free throws late, which
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: he never did. He actually would usually miss him earlier
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: in the game, but then when it came to, you know,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: clutch time, he would always always hit him. He's so
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: in through these last three games, he's shooting thirty third
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: percent from the field, eighteen percent from three. He has
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: more turnovers per game than assist. That tells you something
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: on average, So that's pretty crazy. I did not see
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: that coming in. I do think it goes seven, but
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: it shows you. Like now, when you look at sta
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: efficiency hasn't necessarily been there in every game, but he
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: is still putting up numbers. Both of them are lower
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: than their their point total by a decent amount, So
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: both of them haven't been It's funny we got the
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: two you know MVPs, and neither of them necessarily played
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: at that level. Yeah, he's trying to be like, hey, dude,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: I played good in the playoffs. Can I get a
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: m VP? I know I'm out, but can I get that?
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: But the point is it does go back to who
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: are the consistent, you know, guys that are gonna be
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: with them? And so far that he hasn't had that.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: And you look, you flip it. Murray's been playing good.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Gordon's been playing off his mind. Like every game they'll
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: get eighteen out from Westbrook out of nowhere, Like every
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: game they have more contributors and that's why they're there.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: And I just don't see Yoka having you know, two
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: out of the three next games are gonna be like
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: they've been. I don't see that. I would say maybe
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: one more and we got a credit. Okay, See they're
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: a great defensive team. They have to the post and
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, in that tall ass Williams, he's doing
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: a good job. People are you know, they're doing a
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: good job. We can't just say, oh, Yoki just struggle
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: and that's it, or we can't just say he's heard
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: or whatever, because honestly, it have to be a pretty
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: major injury because he's not built on speed or cuts
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: or you know what I mean. He's built on putting
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: you on a hip and freaking dribbling you down, and
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: you know, and bullying you really and and the thing
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: about him is when you do keep him out of
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: the post man, because like I said, the timbrels usually
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: has been the best against them, and you'll still have
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: a couple of games where he just lights us up.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: But he usually will hit those damn threes and you're
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: just like, God, damn it, dude, you did everything you could.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Then he hits his rainbow three and it just pisses
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: you off off, you know. So yeah, I I'm stuck
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: on this one. I'm not ready to give up on
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: the Nuggets just yet. I know okay See does have
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: a crazy home court, You're right, but going to Denver,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: you know the altitude that does play into it too.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: No matter what. As a Timbrolds fan, I wanted to
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: go Game seven, you know, where these motherfuckers auret as
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: much as possible. So I don't know, man, I gotta
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: admit I'm kind of stuck. Like I thought okay See
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: would do it, But now that we're here, I mean,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: I've already made my prediction obviously, so I can't. But
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: I actually think Dever is gonna win now. Actually, all right, obviously,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: you know we're not really doing predictions per se, because
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: we already did them. But in four games, and I
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: know that Jokis can play better, it doesn't bode well
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: in my opinion. All right, last, but certainly not least.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: We have a series that's kind of like mid nineties
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: ish type scores. Except for one on one game, it's
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: been a grinded out game in most of them. The
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: defense has been very impressive on both sides. I'd say,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: especially Golden State, they are messing with Ant pretty well.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: They're doing a damn good job on them. And if
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: you look at Dante and Alexander Walker, they're struggling pretty mightily.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: You know, Will the Wolves offense improve enough to get
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: over the hump? Even though the thing about them is
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: I actually think this last game, had Curry returned with that,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: we would have played better too, because we play at levels.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: It's something that we've done for this whole fucking year.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: So even when they had Curry, we came out game one,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Oh you're the favorite, Okay, cool, you know, let your
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: guard down, and next thing you know, you're down by twelve,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: It's been a little weird, you know. They they the
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: game two. They did perform much better offensively because they
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: caed Game one. They carried that game five over and
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: like I said, they had a record. They had the
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: record of miss threes in back to back games until
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: luckily Boston came by and beat our record. But I
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: appreciate that, you know, but it's like, once again, most
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: of them are wide the f open, so it's a weird.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: It's a strange thing to not take open shots. But
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: I think that losing Curry obviously hurts them in this series.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: In just in general, the only thing you could say
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: that they're still going to be good at is defense,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: and you know, with Peyton and other guys, you could
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: say maybe they're half a notch up even better on defense.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: But it ultimately, he just he just moves to the court,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: the players around so much, and you got to worry
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: about him so much that you know, it really threw
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: me off that he's never had a hamstring injury and
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: they're saying they're gonna reevaluate it on Wednesday, which tells
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: he's not playing Wednesday, and then in three days would
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: it be better. I don't know. But Game four is
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: huge in this one. Ant finally did get it going
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: in the second half. A couple of minutes in the
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: second half in the third quarter, he did get it going,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: ended up with like thirty six I think he had
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: the most out of anybody this year of twenty eight
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: in the second half this year in the playoffs. But
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: it's also okay, so what about the other you need
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: You need to not have such a weird first half either.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: But Randal, I mean his defense, in his passing, he
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: has twenty three assists in the last two games, he
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: had a triple double. It's the first triple double we've
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: had since you know who. So he's been he's been
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: playing freaking great man and he really although Ant started
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: going off, no doubt, but he set up a lot
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: of those better shooting threes. And I noticed Golden State
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: really closes out strong on so many shots. So even
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: if you call him open, it's still someone coming. They're
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: really good on defense, dude. So they got a great
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: plan that messed us up for about two and a
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: half games. But it was Randal loosening it up and
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: kicking out, dishing out, and also getting to the rock. Finally,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: but what are your thoughts on this one? Obviously without Curry,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough. But if they win game four,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: they are at home. If they win game four, who
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: the f knows what could happen? Because like I said
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: the Timbers love to play to levels.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I I don't know, man, I really do feel that. Again,
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: if we're just talking like skill set, I believe the
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: Warriors are uh definitely the lower class team obviously, Butler
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: is still a good offensive player. For sure. It's probably
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Stilvill banged up, but after that, it's had a great
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: game game he did, he did, and kaminga who's been
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: encouraged doghouse for the whole season. I know. So I
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: think he was.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: What twelve or fifteen the other game, two or eleven
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: or four? I mean he was. I'm like, someone put
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: a damn body in that bastard.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: He's probably trying to earn himself a trade ticket. I don't.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know that that's such weird relationship where they
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: have that situation. But the Wolves overall have like the
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: better the better players, right, you got and you got
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: you know, Nasri is one of the best guys off
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: the bench in the league. Obviously, Julius Randalls when played
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: out of his mind. Uh So, I do think the
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: Wolves have the better squad, but defensively, like I think
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: we kind of do forget, like how good this Golden
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: State team is because they were the best NBA defensive
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: team in the in this in the league this year
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: when Butler came over. So they're making the Wolves work
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: for it. And at times when the Wolves do struggle
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: and it's just my observation, but sometimes they don't when
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: they pass the ball. While they always the open shots,
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: sometimes when they get in their funks, it's just like
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: one or two passes and jack of three or or
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: just or a straight up three. And when you do
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: that versus good defense team, especially those streets don't drop,
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, you can give up a
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: run and Golden State team and that's was kind of
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: It's like there's just been so many different waves in
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: this series of like, hey, like Wolves offense clicking, hit
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: a couple of threes, they're up eight. All well, they
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: missed couple of quick shooters. Also Golden State answers, you know.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: So in Game three, when they got up by seven
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: early in that fourth, I was not I was like,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: here we go, We're gonna lose this fucking game. Dude.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: I really wasn't feeling confident at that time. Yeah, and
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: then there were four minutes later, like you said.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: There's a couple of like really nice just passes by
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: like uh Jada McDaniels and Randall of just like making
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: smart basketball plays. Ye choose and then if you mix
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: the occasional aunt, just go to the rack because no
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: one else can guard you. Layups those are good.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: But he cut. I think he had three or four cuts.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: It's like, hey, what do you know you can do
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: that too?
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: You know, it's that variety of just okay. When you
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: when the Wolves passed the ball around, their offense is great,
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: but it's one of those those one passer, no pass shots.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: It's like, you know, you gotta make you got you
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: gotta make gold Golden State defense move a little bit.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: And so I I do think you're you guys would say,
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: and I do think they win at home. I think
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: this only goes five. And I don't think they risk
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Curry coming back. You want to risk his injury, like
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: you said, maybe have this like a severe hamstring pull
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: or tear.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Something you can totally mess up your summer. You know, yes,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: Like I think they got something going. You can do
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: something in the off season. Return with a full you know,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: like with a full runway and have a pretty They
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: could be a top four seed next year. I really
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: believe that.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well the other and the other part that is
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: big for the Golden State Offs. He's just and I
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: love the guy, but dude, drama, just quit doing dumb shit.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: Like I know that he's I said in years past,
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: I defended him, but I do feel as a getting older
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: now just doesn't coun't maybe care as much. But like
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: he's done a lot of stupid fouls, Like you know,
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: he used to be able to sneaking out like dude,
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: you're you're splat arms right, hind dudes in the head,
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: hind duds in the face, kicking people like you deserve
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: your texts. If he does get suspended for a game,
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: they're fucked because in that last game, he thought out,
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: when he's off the court, he is their defensive quarterback.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: He's on the huge advantage for your wolves. When he
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: found out in Game three, there's five minutes something in
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: the game, they were down two and the Wolves ginta
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: had a little more offensive fluidity with him gone, so
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: and two.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Out of those three fauls are just silly. It was
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: just like, what are you doing, dude? You push McDaniels,
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: just let him dunk and he held Randall and he's complained.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: It's like, dude, you can see it on the tape, man,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Like I know. So yeah, as I know is if
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: Rudy would have had the game he had last game,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: it would have been the national news, you know, two
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: points four rebounds or some shit like that. But that's
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: not what defense is all about. Like you said, he's
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: the quarterback, and he still was making a difference even
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: though the stats look bad. Yeah, and they are bad.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: He had more fouls than you know. But but there's
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: times where people say something about Rudy. I'd be like,
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: all right, dude, but he's a plus twenty two and
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: look at his on off like I disagree. Now they're
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: totally different role players, but yeah, yeah, the whole I
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: will say what Green said after the game, take him
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: out of it. That is one true you got if
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: you take him out of that what he said, you
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: know about the angry black man. And yeah, even like
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: when you you know, when there's a shooter, right, it
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: happens to be white. You'll see him with this. Like
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: I just saw the other day some dude shut up
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: his family and they're showing him on a jet ski.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: You know. So Yeah, they do that. That totally applies
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: in this country. However, he has earned his you know
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: what I mean. He has earned his reputation on the court,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: both good and bad, you know what I mean. So
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: he has done that. So in many ways, what he's
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: actually saying is one hundredercent true. It just doesn't fit
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: in that part because you are the one You you
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: can only kick, push punch, you know what I mean. Dude,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: I watched the eighties nineties. I drew a whole different
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: time frame. I don't look at him as it's that
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: negative because that's just what happens. Because the thing about
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Draymond is people will talk shit until he's on your team. Yeah,
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: once he's on your team, you're like, hey, man, actually
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Draymond's pretty good. Actually, you know, all of a sudden
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: you like him, you know what I mean. So, but
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: I do think he's I think what Rudy said a
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: couple of years back. Every time Curry goes out with
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: an injury, Draymond finds a way to get suspended. He
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: don't want to be playing at that time. So I
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: am seeing a little bit of that. I'll say that,
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: but he's getting old in the tooth and his effectiveness
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: is kind of up and down. But but what are
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: your thoughts here? So you do think they'll close it
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: out even though they're underachieved. You think they're finally getting
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: that Wilson are finally going to find some sort of
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: offensive proof, right like even the score up one on
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: nine or something like that. Or is he gonna be
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: just another rough and tumble game because they've now in
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: the clutch they're four and oh they had two in
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: this one. Now they have two in this or two
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: in the prime previous one, two in this one when
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: they were twenty two and twenty six and clutch moments
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: during the season. I'll give them credit. They have flipped
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: that way they've executed in close games. I'll give him that.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: I think this one's a dogfight, but I think that
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: I think they win today. I think the Wolves running
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: out the gym in game five, so I think Wolves
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: went both But I think this one's gonna be a
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: eighty seven to ninety two kind of game that's just ugly.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: And then the Wolves come home, there's little Curry and
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: for once, the Wolves treat target fans, target center fans
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: to have blowout easy heart conditioning win.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Like Lakers Game one or something. Oh no, that was
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: that was on the road. Yeah, that was on the road. Actually,
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: so yeah, they still have yes to do it. Yeah yeah,
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: both those three and fourward, Yeah, that's right, three and
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: four at home, but they were grinded out games. So yeah,
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: we'll see. I think ultimately this does help though, moving forward,
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: if if the Terminals get by him, you know, just
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: seeing hey, dude, they shut your ship down, you know. Yeah,
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: And so I think it's a it's a good lesson
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: because they do need that just in general. But you're
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: still so five and five in five, ye, gentlemen, the
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: way I think, I think, you know, fucking Curry is
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: gonna come back game six and they'll be in a
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: game seven, and you know, I swear to God, we
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: played better. I swear to God, Marshall, if Curry was playing,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: we'd play better. Though not to say we lose. It
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: would maybe we'd be down one to two to one.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: But that's just how this individual team goes, I don't
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: you know, And Ant is kind of like that, like, oh,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: you don't got Curry, all right, cool, I'll show up.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna show up to the game and everything. I'm
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: gonna be there for two, but I don't him, you know,
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: so maybe he found something down the stretch in that
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: second half because his habit is just jacking, like I
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: gotta get I gotta get out of this slump, so
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna shoot my way out. Well, you don't want
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: to turn down shots, of course, not you know, you
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: don't want to Ben Simmons, you know, and not wanting
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: to get fouled and shit like that, but you want
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: to take the right three at the right time. And
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: that's what he did down the stretch, and a lot
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: of it was based off that passing where he was
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: just sitting there catching shoot boom. You know. Yes, So yeah,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: I think we're in agreeance there. I think I had
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: to do the nuggets just to get out of this agreeance.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: We're agreeing too much. Uh yeah, I think that about
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: wraps it up, sir.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, just for the one random fun fact today, all
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: that fun fact, but news is the fact that is
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: the Dallas Mavericks won the NBA lottery. So another Dukie
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: is gonna be playing We're in see where I live.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: In at the conspiracy start.
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: Cooper Flag is probably going to Dallas so yeah, we'll see,
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: we'll see.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: Hey, that old boy is like, Hey, I told you guys,
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: I already got the number one pick. We didn't need Luca.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: You know, I got another white boy.
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: I'll say this on Aeric Chris, I don't Cooper Flagg
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: is gonna be Luca Donches. I'll say that, I'll stick
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: to that guarantee.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: He's not gonna step in the league and do what
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: he did, you know. No.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and despite of the crap, Whoka gets that dude
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: is still top three offensive player in the world. So yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: all right. Well, hey, we've been spoiled very very much
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: with the first set of Round two games. Hopefully the
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: second half of Round two stays just as well. Boils
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: be back next week. We're out having a good night peace,