Latest / Kenny For Real / The Spurs Force A Game 7!

Transcript

The Spurs Force A Game 7! · Kenny For Real

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Just like that, Ladies and gentlemen, we got ourselves Game
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: seven Zaza Petulia way Yet no better two words in
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: this sport than Game seven. Now, yes, we've got a
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: few blowouts to get here, but nonetheless I'm happy that
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: we are at this point in this series. I mentioned
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: before that this was my most anticipated series, maybe of
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: my entire life. A lot of different factors. Two of
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: the best players in the world and Winby and Shay,
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: two of the youngest great corps in basketball, not two
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: of the the two youngest great corps in basketball. These
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: teams won sixty They're great, coach, and in my mind,
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: this is the first matchup of hopefully ten over the
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: next decade. They kept seeing each other and, like I mentioned,
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: a couple of blowouts to get there. But it don't matter.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: We got ourselves in Game seven, and the Game seven's
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: are electric. The winner of Saturday's game is going to
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. Let that sink in. Come on, man,
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: this has been great. The Spurs, though, tonight, live like
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: a wilde machine. One thing I admire about the series, again,
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: even given the some of the blowouts, is that every
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: time it feels like a team had figured the other
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: team out. They didn't. You know, you go on these podcasts,
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: you try to make these episodes about, oh, what did
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: they do differently to win? Ooh, can't do this again?
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: And the answers. It never works the second day around,
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: it never does. Bobody seems doing an amazing job of
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: counterpunching the original punch right Game five. I didn't chance
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: to do a video for y'all, but let's quickly talk
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: about Game five. It did feel like, okay, see just
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: snatched all of the heart out of that Spurs team
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: when Miniama Schus were four or fifteen from the field,
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: and I think that by the time we got to
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, he looked absolutely gassed. They said the
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: amount of shots he contested was dramatically lower than any
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: time in any series that he's played so far, so
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: he looked gass. Obviously he didn't do the media, but
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: again I never closed the door on that. But in
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: the mind, when you're watching that performance, you're like, hmm,
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: did they just puss their ticket? And the answer comes
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: back and say, no. Remember remember that one game where
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: the Spurs is such an amazing job on Shade. It's like, oh,
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: this is over. I mean Shae has not been great
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: this series, but it wasn't over because I think the
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: very next game Shane had his best game of the
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: entire series. So you never really know, and it's really
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: going to boil down to one more game, forty eight
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: minutes of hopefully, hopefully crat hoops. Cannot wait for it.
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: Game six was definitely different. They made a very good
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: big point on the broadcast about women Yama getting a haircut.
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't, I don't know. I mean the
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: man got cut up, I know, But I love the
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: fact that he was really aggressive early up top. One
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: than the things I mentioned a lot after Game number
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: five was how since okay Se has switched bigs onto
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: women Yama, he has unusual struggle, but it'd been more difficult,
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: right and then they's been more difficult because they're playing
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: they're straight straight up, playing them straight up, and they're
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: pushing them away from the basket. His shot desks continued
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: to get higher and higher and higher as we continued
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: to go through the series. I thought that him opening
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: this game up, and I think he had like with
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: three threes in the first half, through threes in the
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: first quarter. Whatever may been opened up the game so
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: much more. And I want to tell you, I always
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: tell you my favorite performances from a star player is
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: when the back is against the wall, we lose this
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: game and season is over. I'm not gonna let us lose.
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: And that was the type of performance that we just
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: got from Victor and Biamo on the offensive side of
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: the ball. It was great. It does help when other
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: people come along for the ride, right, It does help
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: when Devasel hits four threes. It does help when Chimpinnee
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: can hit a couple, and so on. And we always
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: talk about the three point battle being one of the
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: big factors into Night's game. And I can't filter our
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: garbage time because it was a lot of garbage sim
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: in this one, ten twenty five percent from the OKC
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: Thunder and fifteen to forty one percent from the Spurs,
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: but that number was higher before garbage time. So they
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: did an amazing job knock it down the necessary shots.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: And we always talk about if you if you lose
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: the turnover battle to ok see, you have one foot
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: in the grave. And this game is pretty even. And
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: again I think garbage time played a part because kaale
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: O Lenne got won, so in reality, the Spurs won
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: the turnover battle, won the three point battle, and their
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: star player was better than the other star player. Sometimes
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: it can be so simple. I did an appearance earlier today.
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: Sometimes here, here's a peek behind the curtain. Sometimes when
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: you see somebody have a guest on their podcast beforehand
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: their senior runner show boom. Here the questions here are
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: the topics were gonna talk about. I don't really care
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: what happens. I think I'm pretty good on my feet
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: until today, untill today, because they asked me a very
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: interesting question that I wish. I wish that I had
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: time to prep for. The question was have, off the
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: top of mind, Kenny, can you think of a guy
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: of Shase caliber? So we're talking about when the best
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: players in the world, MVP, MVP candidate YadA, YadA, YadA,
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: going into the series and struggling this band we're talking
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: about from the field, and I couldn't give them an
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: answer off the top. I think the immediate thing you
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: think about is like twenty eleven Bron, But I think
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: that's so different. Not saying that I'm excusing Bron for
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: twenty eleven, but the play styles are different. The way
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: the team is matching up against what bron was doing
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: is different. And then since I just been thinking about
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: it all day in the back of my mind, what
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: is another star player that had a series like Shay
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: is currently having. And while this is not apples to apples,
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: is not a one to one comparison. I think I
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: failed on the answer of the two thousand and four
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: NBA Finals with Kobe Bryant. Kobe start the Detroit Pistons,
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: which had Tayshaun Prince, rip Hamilt and on the back
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: end you have been Wallace whoever seen wise he had
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: nothing but big guards, big wings, and everything that Kobe
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: did in that series was tough as hell. Every shot
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: he attempted, to every pass he tried, they just made
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: it a living hell for Kobe. And again, it's not
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: a one to one comparison, but that is what comes
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: to mind when I watched this Shay game. Game six
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: was maybe his worst game of the entirety of the series.
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: And that's said because he's had a few offensive stinkers.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: The one times that he wasn't able to shoot well
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: from the field, he's able to get to the foul
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: line and in other times because they a lot early
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: in the series, was sent it too at the ball,
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: he was able to make the pass. This will make
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: the pass. They go thirteen to six. So on. They've
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: been playing them straight up for the last couple of
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: games and there has not been easy shot attempts open
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: for shame and if they're not biting on his original drive,
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: because hell, he's even struggling to get past the first
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: defender right now. There is no opening up for j
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: Will to hit five threes or Caruso to give you
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: twenty two again like he did in Gain up a five.
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: This game is a struggle and I put it on
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: the same level because Kobe at that time he hadn't
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: won an MVP and I think in two thousand and
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: four finals, he was like twenty five twenty okay, so
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: around says twenty five twenty six years old. He was
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: not an MVP, but I think he made All NBA
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: First Team that year, So like one of the best
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: five players in the world or one of the two
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: best guards in the world went into that series and
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: maybe Kobe's worst individual series of his career other than
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: like the first couple when he was nineteen years old.
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: That's it, don't count but like of Kobe being an
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: All Star, I guess he was an All Star in
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: nineteen too. Kobe's kind of crazy, but like, you know
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say, that's what it feels like
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: in this one. And I think the Spurs have done
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: such an amazing job of staying to their principles and
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: a few times they do get undisciplined because Miss Johnson,
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: that's talked about the times they have been in dicipline.
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: There's a game, a possession earlier in this game where
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: Ricky Dillon Harper's on week side corner and for whatever reason,
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: he didn't rotate up to the wing and the thunder
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: got a bucket out of it, and one of the
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: other guards, I don't know if it was Cast or
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: Fox on the court with him at that time. They
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: looked at him and did one of these right, and
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: Miss Johns immediately called time out. Book or think about
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: a couple games ago when Miss Johnson chewed out the
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: Ricky Carter Brian after missing the rotation. They recognize that,
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: hey man, this is win or go home. We have
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: to play discipline, we have to stick to our principles,
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: and they made it really damn hard for Shade eight
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: of eighteen from the field, zero for five from three
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: and I think most of those shots again just heavily
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: contested shots. You know, there was a statistic I saw
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: earlier today that talked about Shay's percentages as the series
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: win as not this series, but like the postseason has
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: gone on and it has been more of a struggle,
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: more of a struggle, more of a struggle, and this
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: has been the toughest series of his IVP caliber life. Right,
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, games Haven determines
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: all and we would turn it all perception, where like,
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: if he has a great game and they win, you
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: don't care about the previous six where he struggled, Right,
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: It may do something in your conversation about who's the
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: best in the world or where to so and so Rake,
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: But in the grand scheme of things, if he has
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: a good game seven and they win, then you don't
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: really give a damn about the previous six. You more
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: have to think about, like, oh, snap, next year we
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: get to the playoffs, are they just gonna do the
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: same thing, right, Because this is a team in the
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: Spurs that you will have to go through multiple times.
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: If you want to win more championships. Right, So, very
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: very very great game plan from the San Antonio Spurs,
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: and this one really impressed with all of the things
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: when it comes to them. I was really happy to
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: see that Jay Dubb was available today and then he
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: just he didn't look like he should have been available.
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: Straight up, he just didn't look like he should have
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: been available. He got to the foul line once missed
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: one of the free throws, and then the one shot
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: he took was like a rush contested three pointer and
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: that was it in ten minutes. He just didn't move
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: the way you wanted him to. And that his has
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: been a thing for the series. Right, No Aj Mitchell
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: for a big part of it, and again no Dub. Again,
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: I was just so so damn excited. Also on that
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: appearance that I did earlier today, I got asked like,
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: do you see like a master class game for Shaye underway,
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: like for the rest of the series, whether it be
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: Game six and Game seven, And I said, and I
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: don't think that has much to do with Shade more
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: than it has to do with the Spurs. Where whether
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: like I think that we talked about this a little
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: bit with Chet Holmgren. There's some matchups where if it's
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: gonna take a long time to figure out, and if
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: Game six was a struggle. I'm not saying that he's
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: gonna shoot six at eighteen for field, but they were asking, like,
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: is he gonna go out there and drop forty? I
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: would be highly surprised if Shaye draft forty. And if
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: he did, God damn Evipe. You know what I'm saying.
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, he literally got it, like evyp that's how
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: good this defense is on him, the coverage that he's
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: seeing where all of his twenty eight minutes and seventeen
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: seconds in tonight's game he was getting hounded. I think
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: Stefan Castle truly has taken the mark as the best
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: shade defender in all of basketball right now. Like I
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: don't even know if it's like who's a close second,
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It really is Stefan Castle. And when
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: Steph Castle is not in foul trouble, it's a dangerous
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: game for the opposing team. That was the one thing
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: in hand you had on Steph gonna end with five
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: files them, it might even be six, But tonight was
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: not one of the Knights. You can obviously see he's
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: not playing at one hundred percent. Obviously. Dearrion Fox's whole
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: career until recently, I guess was about his speed. His
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: last name Fox was was a blessing from God, because
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: that dude really is that fast. Right, Remember all the
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: times the Sacramento where he got the board and he
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: was blurring through through the fast breaking finishing four point
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: three seconds. We ain't seen one of those one of
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: those in this series since he came back. But he
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: is adding value because remember stuff Focasto at eleven turnovers,
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: he had nine turnovers assist then is he had like
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: one turnover one of turnover one turnover. There's one thing
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: about the steadiness of Dearon Fox that is maybe going
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: underappreciated because the brother shot one of nine. It's not
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: good to shoot one of nine ever, but but I
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: think you could still shoot one to nine and still
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: be a positively impactful player. And I think that's what
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: happened today. Dylan Harper looked good too. Right. There's a
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: big conversation about the injuries in the series. No agent mentioned.
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: Jadu first came back in quite some time. Derrick Fox
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: again obviously dealing with something and then Dylan Harper as
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: well were since he had dealt with that injury. I
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: remember what it was, squad or something, I remember what
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: it was. He hadn't looked good since he left that
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: one game. But tonight was that night again where you
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: watch you say, oh yeah, that go that future superstar
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: pop up. So I don't know if he just found
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: his groove tonight or he is truly filling one hundred percent.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: But it was a great, great performance from him, and
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: they're gonna need all of that in game seven. I
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: don't know what to expect, what to predict. Damn it.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: I got a flight twenty four hours after Game seven
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: to go to whatever series wins this game. So I'm
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: this is the first time I'm kind of like blindly flying,
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: if that makes sense. Like every time I've had a trip,
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: work trip, or anything else, you have a month before here.
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: Sometimes let's say a week before here and be like, oh,
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: I'm going to Las Vegas next week. I'm going to
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: La next week. I got two plane tickets booked, one
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: of Oka See and one of San Antonio. I have
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: no idea where I'm going, and that's kind of that's
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: kind of interesting to me, which hotel. Am I gonna
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: be in? Which arena am I going to? Cause I'm
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: going to game one. So I'm really excited about that.
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: But I don't People keep asking me, Kenny, why don't
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: you do like a at the end of a recap,
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: do a preview for the next game. But because his
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: game has been punched for punch, changed for change, there's
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: nothing I can say or predict for game seven. I
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: can say, ooh, I think Shaye's gonna have a better
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: game than last, but I couldn't give you no concrete
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: And here's why I think. So, it's just like vibes,
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: Shay should be better next next game, but he might
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: not because that's how good the Spurs have been, and
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: that's how difficult it is for him right now. The
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: crowd in San Antonio has been great, the crowd in
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: OKC has been great. So regardless of his Game seven,
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: I am really really excited