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Is Jayson Tatum now the best player in the world? Plus analysis on prospects in the NBA Draft! · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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  Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, welcome, Welcome back to another episode, episode
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  number fifty two of the so called Sports Analysts. Josh, how you doing.
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  I'm doing pretty good man? You know, actually I'm not doing good.
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  Sad to say our Queen Cameron Brink to her Aco. We've just got
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  to give our condolences to that. I don't know if Fonso was doing great.
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  He has a stalker. Now. So we're here, you know,
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  like we're about it. We're about to We're about to do this podcast talk
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  about how the how the finals ended, you know, and see what the
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  predictions are for free agency in the draft. Yeah. I don't know how
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  to respond to that, so yeah, no, just shout out to Cavira
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  Brik hopefully she recovers soon. For if she recovers soon. But before we
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  it to anybody who likes sports. But let's get into it. So,
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  like like we've been starting off with lately, we're gonna just start off with
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  the NBA news and it's gonna go into what we're gonna talk about a little
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  bit later. But the Hawks, they intend to keep their number one overall
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  draft pick. How do you feel about that right there? Do you feel
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  smart? I feel like for them it would be smart to secure Zach right
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  I feel right now is going to be zachar Iris. I can't ever say
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  his last name, Zacharyed. We're just gonna say Zach, Zach attack,
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  you know, for good old Zach attack the Frenchman. I think it'll be
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  good for them to secure one of them, because right now, I don't
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  know. I think it's looking here more Alexandra Star. I think it's looking
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  like they're having a hard time finding suitors for Dejonte or Trey Young, only
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  because part of the asking price is probably a little too steep for most teams,
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  especially with players who both kind of have a little bit of a liability
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  with like either defense or I don't know, Dejonte maybe would like shooting or
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  something. Yeah, so it's kind of hard for them to, I think,
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  move around without having someone to fill in that void, and I think
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  that's what they're gonna do. I think they might keep this pick. It's
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  also a little too much. I don't know how much the Spurs are actually
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  because right now the Spurs were usually the favorites to get that number one pick
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  from them, and I don't know how much the Spurs are actually willing to
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  give up with their future to bring in a player who people consider this draft
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  not being too great and so investing a lot into this draft, and when
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  there's supposed to be a lot of talent in next year's draft. So I
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  just think it's probably the move that they should make and just keep that number
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  one pick. Yeah, I agree with you here. I just feel like
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  there's there's no point because you're not gonna get what you want to give back
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  usually what you do with the first first overall pick. So you're just better
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  off taking your chances on Alexanders sar Zach. That's all I'm gonna say.
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  Maybe Donovan Klingen, but who knows. We're gonna talk about that more.
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  In a second. But this next thing is Monti Williams. He's fired from
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  the Pistons after one season and he's still old, five years, sixty five
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  million dollars. So after one season. I know you said last week he's
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  pretty much done, But I didn't think you were a woes or shams in
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  this situation where you're calling stuff ahead of time. But what can I say?
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  I can see the future, you know. I think I just don't
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  think he ever wanted to be there and the Pistons, I don't know.
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  It just wasn't a good situation. I think for him. I think they
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  just kept throwing money at him, and he was like, I'm gonna sign
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  this. I'm just gonna go close there, and then he realized this is
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  a complete shit show. He just like forced his way out after one year.
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  Yeah, no, he he did. I feel like, if you're
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  gonna take on that job, you should be given more opportunities. It shouldn't
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  be oh, you had one bad year, Get him the hell out of
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  here. How is there going to be any culture anything that's built up for
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  it. That's that's why the Pistons are the Pistons. But next thing is
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  Darvin Ham he joined the Bucks assistant staff, but it's been planned already or
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  been reported that he plans to become the head coach after Doc Rivers retires,
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  whether that's next year or the year afterwards. So I know Janni's had a
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  big thing to do with this, But do you feel more confident with Darvin
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  Ham getting his second or second job opportunity in Milwaukee? I don't know he
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  had. He had Lebron James on the other team, So let's hope that,
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  Yeah, this team, he has Jiannis and he and he when he
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  does become the the he takes over the role of being the head coach in
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  Milwaukee. Let's just hope he kind of lives up to what that team could
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  possibly do. But who knows, Maybe Milwaukee just looks diff when he gets
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  there, because I don't know, it's just the way the NBA is going.
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  If you're not winning now, it's kind of hard for teams to keep
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  core pieces together. Yeah, so we'll just wait and see how that situation
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  looks when he actually comes up to his role. Yeah, we'll definitely see.
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  I just from what we've seen from Darvinham, it hasn't been the best.
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  So I'm not gonna expect anything different because, like you said, you
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  had I wouldn't say prime Lebron and prime A D. But they're just maybe
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  a tier below. So you're not gonna get much better with Giannis and Dame
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  who's kind of getting out of his prime. But speaking of the Lakers,
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  after all the reports, after all the off and on down Hurley, JJ
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  Reddick, James Borego, it's been expected now almost official. JJ Reddick is
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  going to get the LA job. And all I'm just saying is Sham's one.
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  All I'm saying, you picked team would Sham's one in this situation,
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  so that that's all I must say. Well, I don't even well,
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  now Monnie Williams is free, so that could add another person into the mix
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  of being the next Lakers head coach. So we'll see. We'll just have
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  to wait and see. I don't know. I feel like I wonder if
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  JJ Reddick being friends with Lebron has a lot to do with him getting a
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  lot of it Jji, JJ Weddick, JJ Reddick, J. J Weddick
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  like he knows a lot about basketball, he's played among in many different systems,
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  who's been a part of winning teams, not championship teams, but winning
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  teams. So he's been around greatness and basketball. He played for Duke,
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  But I don't know if it should be his first job as head coach,
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  and even coaching in general is being the Lakers head coach. I think maybe
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  a job like Detroit may be good for him if he's so, he could
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  build his young career with a younger team or just hop on a good team.
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  I don't know, it's just it's I just think Money Williams maybe kind
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  of. I think eventually he'll probably move into the front runner. If JJ
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  Reddick's not signed with in the next week or so, Yeah, I would
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  really like that move as far as Monni Williams because he wasn't really given a
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  shot in Detroit, And yeah, JJ Reddick, there's gonna be a bunch
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  of pressure in it. If he's not winning multiple playoffs series, people,
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  they are going to be calling for his head. And even at that Darvin
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  Ham, they were calling for his head even when he made the conference finals
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  his first year coaching, So what makes you think they're not going to do
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  the same. But a couple free agency news right here is Pascal Siakam.
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  He reached a deal with the Pacers four year, one hundred and eighty nine
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  million a max contract for him and Klay Thompson. He wants a three year
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  deal penning free agency, and he's ready to test the waters. So how
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  do you feel about those? Obviously, Pacers keep Pascal and Klay Thompson potentially
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  going somewhere else. How do you feel about that? I think you almost
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  had to keep Pascal Siakam because the way he was playing when Tyreech wasn't on
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  the court, he kept them in the games against the Boston Sells. The
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  Boston Celtics squeaked by in those games. They didn't win those games out right,
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  and Pascal Siakam had a lot to do with that, giving them a
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  lot of trouble. So I think bringing back that guy who can kind of
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  take over games, not on night and night out basis, but when you
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  need him to, he can put up his own I think that's a good
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  move for the Indiana Patris to secure that guy and maybe go get another start
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  because I think they I think they do have a lot of cap room left
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  still, so yeah, there's not much of a loss for them when it
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  comes to financially But as far as Klay Thompson, who wants Klay Thompson for
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  three years right now? I don't know a team that would want him to
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  commit to him. At this point in his career. He's not the same
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  defensive player he once was, and that was one kind of his bread and
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  butter, just being the best three and D, one of the best three
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  and D players in the entire NBA. Because his offensive game is kind of
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  limited. He can do. He can get to the he used to be
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  able to get to the rim, he used to kind of be able to
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  shoot, get his own shot in the MIDI but now he's just a picking
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  pop three point shooter now a little bit of defense. So it's just I
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  don't know who wants to commit to him for three years. I can see
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  him signing maybe a one or two year deal with the contender and hopefully to
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  secure another ring, but at this point in his career, I don't know.
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  Three years just seems kind of a lot for a player that you don't
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  know if it's going to stay healthy. Yeah, exactly, there's there's a
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  high risk high reward there. And not to mention how he went out over
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  ten in a well it's not elimination, but pretty much is against the Kings
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  elimination game. So that's not the right way. The only thing that's positive
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  about you is you're shooting, and it seemed like the shooting that regressed a
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  little bit. I think, Josh culd oh, no, he's back.
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  Okay, he's back. Yeah. No, I just think that Klay Thompson.
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  I think he'll be able to get the three year deal from potential,
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  from potentially somebody like Orlando or somebody like that. But I just don't think
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  anywhere else he'll be able to really get that unless he goes for a cheap,
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  cheap contract, maybe thirty million total for three years. I know that's
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  a lot of money, but basketball terms, that's not really that much.
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  But you can hear me, right, Josh, you are good, right,
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  Yeah, I can hear you. Okay, Okay. So next news
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  right here is Donovan Mitchell. As far as him being traded now it seems
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  more unlikely now. It's looking like he's gonna sign the max contract with the
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  Cavaliers and end up returning. And I know you mentioned the same thing with
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  Darius Garland. It's looking like they're trying to keep that together. So do
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  you think that's a smart move right there? I know that they had their
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  first playoff series win against Orlando and then against Boston they looked out matched,
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  But how do you feel about that? I kind of feel like you got
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  to bring back both of those guys. I think with Darius Garland being the
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  pastor that he is, he can facilitate to a lot of them, to
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  Jared Allen and Evan Mobley, but those both those guys were banged up,
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  so it was kind of it's kind of hard to kind of gauge there the
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  performance in the playoffs against Boston only because it's it's just there were in full
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  health. I understand Boston did beat them decisively, but as far as Donovan
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  Mitchell, you have to resign. You have to try keeping that guy as
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  as much as you can because the way he was playing in the playoffs,
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  it was only him. He was scoring what was it, I forgot which
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  exact game, but I believe in the fourth quarter he scored maybe all twenty
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  two points that oh yeah, scored in that game, and then other games
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  other than that he was scoring, putting up forty points, forty five points.
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  He can get to the he can score with anyone in the entire NBA.
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  It's just they just do need another star to take some pressure off any
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  another guy who can get his own shot. Not I'm not saying, like
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  a super great scorer, but a good scorer that they could kind of rely
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  on when the going gets tough sometimes. Yeah, that's that's expecially shown it.
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  I just don't know how well this's gonna work because this is already a
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  small backcourt and they're not known for their defense. So you can have teams
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  that are gonna get better. In the East, you obviously have Tyree Smaxy,
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  Jalen Brunts, and Damian Lillard, and you have the Boston Celtics,
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  who are just clearly the more superior team. So, like you said,
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  you need that third score. Potentially Paul George. I know Paul George.
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  His name has been thrown around to every single team who's looking like they're on
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  the brink. But he's just a good fit anywhere in Cleveland. That would
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  be a perfect fit. But another thing, as far as draft related news
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  is the Grizzlies they're trying to trade up or they're eyeing Donovan Klingen, the
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  center from Yukon, so how do you feel about that? I know they
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  have Jaron Jackson junior. Obviously, John Moran's gonna come back, So do
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  you think that's smart to trade up in this draft class where I think we
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  both perceive it and I think it's consensus that this is a weaker draft class.
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  I don't know how to how I would feel because they have Jaron Jackson
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  juniority, are they gonna pay him alongside of him? I think that would
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  be a good move. It's just where is this gonna leave Steven Adams at
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  for when he does come back from injury. Is he gonna come get a
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  roll off of the bench, Is he gonna be the person in the trade
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  negotiation is or are they just gonna cut ties with him. That's just that's
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  something to be monitored right there, because I feel like if you have too
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  many big men that can't shoot on one team, it's gonna be tough for
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  this team to kind of push the ball forward, especially spread out the offense.
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  Because if we're really looking at their team as a whole, John Moran
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  when he does come back, isn't a shooter. He's not a shooter.
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  I don't know if he no, he is a shooter. Oh yeah,
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  in a different in a different in a different way. But but he's not
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  he's not a three point shooter. He's gonna spread. He's not gonna spread
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  that this ball. There's not gonna be a lot of spacing on this team.
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  So we'll just have to I don't know if I like that move too
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  much for them, So we'll just have to wait and see. Yeah,
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  no, we'll have to wait and see. But as far as another thing,
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  as far as with the draft, last thing before we get into oh
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  no, a couple more things before we get into finals. Top, So,
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  the Rockets are considering trading the number three overall pick for a win now
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  player, So I guess they're thinking of the opposite of the Grizzlies. Maybe
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  there could be a potential trade in move right there. So it seems like
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  from where what reports are saying, the Rockets they feel comfortable with their team
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  and trying to win now win multiple playoffs series. So my question more to
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  you is do you think the Rockets are ready to make that run there?
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  I know they had that late stretch barely missed the playoffs, but do you
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  think they're ready? Sadly, I think they are ready. I think they
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  to make a run. It's gonna hurt to admit, but I do think
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  they have the young pieces and the way they did close up the season was
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  great. I'm just happy that they came up short. That's just me.
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  I'm the lead, but they I think one major move has set them over
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  the top. I think we saw Jalen Green really step up offensively, especially
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  when alfriend Sanguine got hurt. He he stepped up big time, and this
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  team went on a run. And especially getting Alfred Seguin back next season healthy
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  and then plus just having the veteran pieces that they have around him. I'm
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  sure there's gonna be free agent options that want to join this team. I
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  do think moving up to the top three, securing another player that can maybe
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  solidify a position of need or just boost their chances would go a long way
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  for the Houston Rockets to make it a push. Okay, I was saying
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  championship, but like a play in spot. Yeah, they could for sure
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  get that, you know, Yeah, yeah, that makes sense, that
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  makes sense. All right. A couple more things here we have. Kings
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  are interested in trading Kevin Hurder, Harrison Barnes and they're gonna be on the
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  trade block, and then Nets have no interest in trading mckel Bridges here,
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  So I know, the Nets they haven't been the best team. It seems
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  like they had a good start then ended up kind of falling this year.
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  And then the Kings they're trying to as far as retold potentially for another deeper
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  playoff run or get further because I know they haven't made it past the first
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  round in a while. So how do how do you feel about that?
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  There? Josh, I'm sorry, repeat your question. Yeah, I know,
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  I see all these bot these bots comments. We really haven't gotten them,
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  but now they're getting crazy. No, but as far as yeah mckel
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  Bridges, the Nets have no interest in trading him, and then the Kings
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  are interested in trading Kevin Heurder and Harrison Barnes. Kevin Harrison. I'm sorry,
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  I'm like I was fixing all this dud. Repeat one more time.
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  Yeah, no, you're good. So, yeah, as far as the
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  Kings are interested in trading Kevin Herder and Harrison Barnes, they're gonna they're gonna
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  be on the trade block, potentially retooling them. Then the Nets there they
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  have no interest in trading mckel Bridges even after a bad season. No,
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  I think I think with mckel bridges, you have to kind of give it
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  another another chance because he's a good player. I believe in mckl bridges.
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  I think he showed a lot of promise when he when he left Phoenix and
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  became the number one guy kind of in Brooklyn. He was he had that
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  big stretch where he was averaging I believe, like around twenty eight points per
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  game for them, and I just think they need to build off of that.
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  I think maybe last year was a little bit down here. Even I
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  think both me and you had some high hopes for Brooklyn last year, but
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  yeah, they just kind of failed to reach those and I think you kind
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  of got to give it one more shot. I do think a lot of
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  those players are super young. It was a lot of their first times being
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  having prominent roles on teams, so I think that caught up with them not
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  knowing the situations when it came down to end of the games or even just
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  controlling the lead. But as far as the Kevin Hooter and Harrison bar situation
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  in Sacramento, I do think maybe they have them on trade to bring in
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  another piece, one more extra piece, maybe add a draft picks along with
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  them, to bring in a player that can help them contain and win now,
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  because Kevin Houter is kind of kind of limited. He's more of just
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  a pick and pop shooter. He can't really create his own shot consistently.
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  And as far as Harrison Brown Barnes, he's getting up there in age man.
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  At one point he probably would have been a great player to have alongside
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  these guys, but right now he's just not the same guy. Yeah,
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  yeah, I agree with you. It's smart that what the Kings are trying
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  to do. They're trying to maximize Daron Fox and Demonta Sabonis. Even though
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  it's not the best tandem, it's still a good tanem And maybe you could
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  get lucky enough and squeak out of the West because the West it is such
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  a dogfight, so you just have to keep trying to retool and get better.
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  But yeah, I don't know. Personally me, I don't understand Michel
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  Bridge is not being traded because you have no draft picks at all. The
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  Rockets they have the draft picks, the seventy six ers, they have some
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  draft picks from you. Or you got a little bit back, but it's
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  not much. So I think, if anything, they should trade mckel Bridges
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  get some draft picks. Maybe you could get three to four draft picks back,
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  and it could help with your retoling process because you have no first round
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  picks. Mckel Bridges. He's a good player, but he's not somebody who's
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  going to be franchise altering. He's not going to be what you had,
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  which was Kevin Durant in that trade package. But I feel like Cleveland should
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  target a player or Indiana, even New York should target a player like mkel
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  Bridges. Yeah, yeah, that that would be a good move right there.
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  I like that one. I think, ooh, which would it make
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  the biggest impact on. I wouldn't say it would be New York. I
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  feel like more more Cleveland in my opinion. Yeah, I think Cleveland would
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  I would. I would say it's between Cleveland and New York because I do
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  think New York was struggling with another ball handler on the court to create his
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  own shot. I get Jontey Devincinjo was kind of stepping a little bit,
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  but having that consistent scour with mclebridge would help a lot. But I do
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  think just having to rely on de defending Donovan Mitchell and then Darius Garland being
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  the facilitator, it would create a lot of opportunity for mckil bridges to get
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  his own in that offense, and I think that would kind of separate down
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  from him being on the New York Knicks. Yeah, okay, yeah,
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  So let's go ahead and move on to the NBA Finals here, in which
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  we haven't talked about in a little bit. So obviously, the Boston Celtics,
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  they won the NBA Finals four to one. They only lost three games
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  the entire postseason. That's the second best record of all time in the postseason,
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  only behind the twenty seventeen Golden State Warriors, who only lost once.
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  So first question to you here, Josh, was this an all time postseason
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  run? Here? I know it's controversial, but is the all time postseason
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  run? Statistically? It is? But how do you feel about it?
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  I'm not gonna be caught in this trap. I'll give credit where credit is
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  due. They won the championship. But to say it's an all time postseason
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  run, no Jimmy, no Tires, no Evan Mobley, wait, no,
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  no Tis. Yeah, I know Evan Mobley, No. Jared Allen,
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  uh, Darius Garland. I don't know where he went. I don't
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  know where he went. So to say all time, no, but it
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  did beat a good team in the championship. I will give them that,
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  A fully healthy Dallas Mavericks team. I'll give them that. That was a
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  great series for them. But let's say all time great playoff run. No,
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  the teams just weren't there. The team, the team at full hells
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  were not there. I cannot put it all time. Maybe in hindsight and
• 21:52
  ten years from now, yeah, people will look back and say maybe,
• 21:55
  but we're we're living in today's age. We know who they played and they
• 21:57
  didn't play. Yeah, you know so, especially especially they played the top
• 22:03
  teams in the East. But the teams weren't healthy, they didn't have some
• 22:06
  of their best players. So, and especially in the Indiana Pacers, does
• 22:08
  that series look a little different with Tyre's Taliburn being there down the stretch controlling
• 22:12
  the ball instead of someone else committing turnovers and having to rely on an Aaron
• 22:15
  need Smith to make play to facilitate the basketball. So that's a big that's
• 22:19
  a big change from Tyrese to Aaron Easeman, and those were games where Indiana
• 22:22
  was up by five points going and within two minutes left in the game.
• 22:26
  That controls the outcome, you know, But I will give credit for crudits
• 22:30
  to Celtics did defeat the Dallas Mavericks, who I thought were gonna win decisively,
• 22:33
  and it just was the other way. It was slipped on my words.
• 22:36
  And the Boston Celtics did secure a crazy dub against Dallas Mavericks in this
• 22:41
  series. Yeah, yeah, they definitely did. And that's a good point
• 22:45
  that you brought up. Maybe years later when people they're not looking at the
• 22:48
  full context, they're going to say, oh, sixty four and eighteen only
• 22:52
  lost three games the entire postseason. This is as dominant as a twenty seventeen,
• 22:57
  two thousand and one Lakers a Warriors run here. But in reality,
• 23:02
  it's just not not All championships are created equally, and this one it isn't.
• 23:07
  It's not equal because even at that I feel like they didn't even play
• 23:14
  the best teams. I feel like the Knicks would have given them a better
• 23:15
  test. As far as in the East, the Bucks could have given them
• 23:18
  a better test. The Sixers could have given them a better test the Mavericks.
• 23:22
  Obviously they beat them. That's credit where credit is due. I just
• 23:26
  feel like there was just a matchup difference where the Celtics they could just not
• 23:30
  be stopped compared to the Mavericks where they can be held in check. So
• 23:37
  another thing right here, Jalen Brown. He won finals MVP over Jason Tatum.
• 23:44
  And it was a little bit controversial because some people were saying Jason Tatum
• 23:48
  the last three games turned it up. Jalen Brown he didn't fall off,
• 23:52
  but it was more a flat line. So Jalen Brown twenty point eight points
• 23:56
  a game or twenty point eight points a game, five and a half rebounds,
• 24:00
  five assists, one and a half stills, almost a block compared to
• 24:04
  Jason Tatum twenty two points, almost eight rebounds, seven assists, one block
• 24:10
  and half a block. So did Jalen Brown deserve this finals MVP here over
• 24:15
  Jason Tatum? Yes he did. I think he was the best player for
• 24:18
  I get it rolling on base off this series. But he was the best
• 24:22
  player for the Boston the entire playoffs. And we're being completely honest. He
• 24:26
  did go in the conference finals, Yeah he did, and he's winning finals
• 24:30
  MVP. He guarded Luca. He called out Luca, and there's Mike up,
• 24:33
  where's that I want to guard Luca? He guarded Luca. And I
• 24:37
  understand Lucas still scores. Luca's gonna score no matter what he's Luca donches.
• 24:41
  But yeah, forcing Luca to turn over the ball as much as he did
• 24:45
  goes a long way in this series because when you force turnovers, especially a
• 24:49
  team that's probably not as good in transition, that's not as nowhere near as
• 24:52
  good as a transition offense as Boston Celtics is, that goes a long way
• 24:57
  for your team. And Jalen Brown causing those Smiths hats from Luca, I
• 25:00
  think is the reason why he secured the MVP. Plus, also, he
• 25:03
  played great offensively. He had in Game three thirty points, eight rebounds,
• 25:07
  eight assists. I'll go along with one block. That's a good series.
• 25:11
  That's a good game to how to put your team forward. Especially the whole
• 25:14
  series he averaged twenty twenty one points, five point four rebounds, five assists.
• 25:18
  That's not gonna blok in one point six steals. But that was on
• 25:19
  forty four percent shooting, and that's not gonna that's not gonna scream big numbers,
• 25:23
  but when your team is as stacking all around as the Boston Telicas are,
• 25:27
  that's good numbers because not every player is going to score like thirty a
• 25:32
  night. When these other players are stepping up, such as a jew Holiday,
• 25:34
  who could have probably had a case for Finals MVP of yeah, he
• 25:37
  could have had. So he had fourty averaged fourteen, fifteen points, eight
• 25:41
  rebounds, three point in assists, point six stals in, point six blocks.
• 25:45
  He was just good night in and night out, and especially in the
• 25:48
  first two games, he was considered the favorite tow win Finals MVP. So
• 25:51
  it was just the consistency of Jalen Brown every single game that won him this
• 25:53
  MVP. Yeah, I could agree with you there, but I am going
• 25:59
  to make the k for Jason Tatum because towards the first three games, I
• 26:03
  was like, Okay, Jaylen Brown, he has this thing locked up.
• 26:07
  But Jason Tatum again, he he had just a little bit more rebounds,
• 26:11
  assists, not even necessarily steals or blocks that went to Jalen Brown. But
• 26:17
  as far as I know, I know, I even hate this argument myself,
• 26:21
  but the overall impact he had and there were double team in Jason Tatum
• 26:25
  every single time he had the ball, and and that shows a lot of
• 26:30
  dividends who's really the best player. But I will agree with you as far
• 26:33
  as Jalen Brown, he played the best in this series. But Jason Tatum,
• 26:37
  he definitely had a case. If I had to say, we're really
• 26:42
  going to look back, andre Iguodala won the MVP when it probably should have
• 26:45
  been Katie or Steph, you know. So it's kind of it's just well,
• 26:49
  okay. Another thing that I want to talk about is as far as
• 26:53
  okay, I'm not trying to get into Kawhi won, so it just a
• 26:57
  little a little nuanced a little bit. But as far as all time great
• 27:03
  status, that does kind of matter. Look what it did to Steph Curry
• 27:07
  for a while. Yeah, yeah, No, I wouldn't say Jason Tatum
• 27:12
  he's he's an all time great. Yet he's he's ascending to the level of
• 27:18
  being a top fifty player all time. Does that make sense. He's going
• 27:22
  to get the stats, he's going to get the All NBAS, he's gonna
• 27:25
  get the All Star appearances, and now he has a checkion. He barely
• 27:27
  got one this year. He barely got one this year, But okay,
• 27:34
  what he's in his eighth year. I don't know how many All NBA teams
• 27:38
  he has. I know he has a couple. This was his first first
• 27:41
  team All NBA. But he has that, the All Star appearances, and
• 27:47
  now a championship. That could if he stays at the same level, Even
• 27:51
  if he doesn't win a championship, you could finish with maybe eight to ten
• 27:56
  All NBAS ten twelve All Star Games, whatever, maybe some maybe accolades down
• 28:03
  the war or down the road. So yeah, potentially, But like Al
• 28:07
  was saying, I hate that people they just see the wins and losses in
• 28:14
  this category, because even though Luca had a bad, bad, quote unquote
• 28:18
  bad series here, I still feel like he was other than Game five,
• 28:25
  he was the best player on the court the entire time. I just feel
• 28:30
  that wholeheartedly. And I just think people they're gonna say, I know,
• 28:34
  people they've been ripping him in the media as far as, oh, lucas
• 28:37
  not even an All Star player, Luca, he flops too much, Luca's
• 28:41
  not a winning player. They're gonna say that after he made the finals run.
• 28:45
  So I just think that's just too harsh criticism and it makes no sense
• 28:52
  to me because they wouldn't have gotten here without Luka Doncic. So I don't
• 28:56
  know how you feel about that Iris's career. Real quick, We're okay,
• 29:00
  let's talking about Alten Iverson's career real quick. I'm okay. But let's just
• 29:03
  do the comparison. You know, I'm taking Luke over Ai, and Ai
• 29:07
  didn't do shit after he made it first championship, So I guarantee you Lucas
• 29:11
  gonna do a lot more. So just saying mm hmm, yeah, oh
• 29:15
  yeah, that that's a great point right there. I have the same consistency
• 29:19
  when it comes to arguments, you know, like if you're going to praise
• 29:22
  one player in the past for winning an MVP or playing like an MVP then
• 29:26
  getting destroyed in the championship, do the same for Luca. Yeah, exactly.
• 29:32
  And even at that, if you want to look at stats, because
• 29:34
  I know everybody looked at Jason Tatum stats as far as him having a better
• 29:38
  series, you can't tell me twenty nine points eight rebounds, five and a
• 29:44
  half assists, two and a half blocks, forty seven percent from the field
• 29:48
  is not better stats than twenty two points, seven rebounds, seven assists and
• 29:52
  a stale the best player on the court every single game except for Game five.
• 29:57
  It wasn't even close. Yeah, yeah, no question. Yeah,
• 30:02
  I agree with you. But as far as Kyrie Irving, on the other
• 30:04
  hand, I know there was a bunch of praise as far as going him
• 30:11
  going into the NBA Finals, But twenty points a game, forty percent from
• 30:17
  the field, that that's not gonna cut it. That's not gonna cut it
• 30:21
  for Kyrie Irving and what he needed to do in order for them to win
• 30:23
  the series. But I'm gonna take it even further here, Josh. So
• 30:29
  the last fifteen games versus the Boston Celtics, what Kyrie Irving has done?
• 30:33
  So I gave. I gave his stats in the postseason. Then in the
• 30:38
  twenty twenty four regular season, twenty one points a game, forty percent from
• 30:44
  the field, twenty eight percent shooting. Year before twenty points a game,
• 30:48
  thirty nine percent from the field. Then the prior two years, nineteen points
• 30:53
  a game, forty percent from the field. He averages twenty six to twenty
• 30:57
  seven points a game. There's a big drop off when he faces the Boston
• 31:02
  Celtics. I don't know what it is. But he's owed fifteen against him
• 31:07
  the last fifteen times he's played in Boston at least, and they only won
• 31:11
  one game where everything was just clicking right for him, Game four. So
• 31:17
  I don't know if this changes your opinion about Kyrie Irving. I still think
• 31:21
  that they could run it back. But what do you think needs to be
• 31:25
  added to the Mavericks here or do you think Kyrie Irving potentially needs to go
• 31:27
  somewhere else. I want to talk about one more thing before we get into
• 31:32
  kind of that like MAVs future, what they're gonna do. Yeah, yeah,
• 31:34
  I got your all right, Yeah, but we gotta talk about Brad
• 31:37
  Stevens. That's really in VP. Brad Stevens is the really MVP, because
• 31:42
  if we're gonna talk about building a team, he brought him key pieces.
• 31:47
  He brought in shooting, defense, He even brought in veterans for leadership.
• 31:51
  He brought it more depth. He Drew Holiday, Al Horford, Derek Wright
• 31:55
  and Christaps presingis we're all Brad Stevens moves and yeah and oh my bad bad,
• 32:00
  You're right. Don't forget bald King, don't forget Drew Holliday replaced Marcus
• 32:07
  Smart it brought in better a better offensive game. It brought in smarter offense
• 32:14
  and and a willing passer. Marcus Smart was not a passer. Marcus Smarts.
• 32:17
  Yeah, when he's on the court, the offense, the offensive game
• 32:21
  goes out the window. He's jacking up shots. But he I'm not gonna
• 32:24
  say I say they're on the same level of defensive player. I'm gonna say
• 32:28
  I think Drew Holiday and Marcus Smart are on the same level of defensive player.
• 32:31
  So I do think bringing in a player that helps your offense slow a
• 32:35
  little bit better is a big move with Drew Holliday, especially him come and
• 32:37
  being a former champion. And then yeah, the Christophs persingis move throughout the
• 32:44
  majority of the season was smart for this team to lead them towards over sixty
• 32:46
  wins. I get he missed most of the playoffs, but if Christophs wasn't
• 32:50
  there in Game one and the first quarter having that big burst that he did,
• 32:53
  I don't think the bust of Celtics really win that game, because I
• 32:57
  do think because the rest of the game it was seventy to sixteen nine,
• 33:00
  it was a close, super close game. That first quarters separated them quite
• 33:04
  a bit, and if it wasn't for Christops, I don't think it would
• 33:06
  have happened. And then if we're gonna talk about he chose coach Misula to
• 33:10
  take over as his team's head coach when he Doka did his little thang and
• 33:14
  thang in the back, you know what I'm saying. So, so you
• 33:20
  know coach Misoula and sticking it out with him, because I think a lot
• 33:23
  of teams now they kind of if the if the interim coach don't get the
• 33:28
  job done, then he kind of gets like brushed off to the side and
• 33:30
  they bring him someone else. But even last year when they lost to Miami
• 33:34
  Heat in the conference finals, they stuck it out with him and it paid
• 33:38
  off because he's turned out to be a great defensive head coach, just a
• 33:42
  great head coach, and you know, he can do it all and I
• 33:44
  think he's considered one of the best in the league. And I think coach
• 33:46
  was sticking out with Coach Misula by Brad Stevens choice is part of the reason
• 33:52
  why they won this championship. Yeah, of course that's a great point to
• 33:54
  bring up. As far as Brad Stevens and what he was able he was
• 33:59
  able to do. Some people they're just better as general managers. And even
• 34:02
  at that, you got it. Yeah, he wasn't a bad head coach,
• 34:07
  but he's just an even better general manager. And even at that,
• 34:10
  he helped develop Jason Tatum Jaylen Brown, those two main guys right there who
• 34:16
  ended up leading them to the championship. So, and as far as one
• 34:22
  more thing with the Celtics, do you think I know there's been six different
• 34:27
  champion champions the last six years, do you think that they have a chance
• 34:34
  to repeat here? Hell? No? That clip yeap. No. In
• 34:43
  the NBA is way too way too I don't explain it, just it changes
• 34:49
  so much. Man, we had to wait till the offseason comes around and
• 34:52
  see which star player wants to leave and go to another team. I don't
• 34:54
  know. San Antonio is on the come up, baby, So women's about
• 34:57
  to control that whole stuff, whole thing, the whole thing and thang when
• 35:00
  it's about to have it. But no, I think maybe they they're they're
• 35:02
  the team to come out the East next year. For sure. I think
• 35:05
  I'm gonna pick them right now. As of right now, I think they'll
• 35:08
  be the team of the what the East. I don't think it's particularly close
• 35:12
  right now until someone makes a pretty big move that kind of sways my opinion.
• 35:16
  But as far as the Western Conference, the Western Conference is an interchangeable
• 35:20
  beast, and I just think once a team kind of gets going, maybe
• 35:22
  the Nuggets at another person, that could be scary. And so we'll just
• 35:27
  we'll just wait and see on that. I'm not gonna say they're winning clearly
• 35:30
  next year. All I'm gonna say is, Chicago Bulls, we're on the
• 35:34
  come. I'm just kidding. I can't even I can't even fit us that
• 35:36
  sentence there. I can't. We have Wimby Nah nah, I can't.
• 35:42
  He's getting swoller. You know. You see that, You see the arms,
• 35:45
  You know what I'm saying. He had to put on at least twenty
• 35:46
  pounds of muscle. It easily, easily. But I'm telling you with him
• 35:51
  working it was with Jamal Crawford, right, he was working with Jamal Crawford.
• 35:54
  I'm telling he's gonna be taking hesy pull up threes. I'm I'm gonna
• 35:59
  hate it. I'm gonna hate it because you can't stop that. That's a
• 36:01
  two K build. Get on, let's not get on the goat rant.
• 36:06
  Let's not get on the goat rant right now. You stop to the MAVs
• 36:08
  future. Let's go back to the right now. Yeah, no, let's
• 36:12
  let's go back to the MAVs future. So as far as Kyrie I,
• 36:16
  it wasn't that good, uh, PJ. Washington, Daniel Gafford who they
• 36:22
  acquired in mid season. Obviously they're gonna get another year back. You have
• 36:28
  Derek Lively, Josh Green, Jaden Hardy, some young pieces right there.
• 36:32
  What really needs to be added to this Mavericks team in order for them to
• 36:37
  be back here in the finals. Well, to be honest, they don't
• 36:40
  have much cap space right now. I think they're gonna have to make some
• 36:45
  trades, maybe because all their rotation players that play in the Finals are on
• 36:49
  contract next year except for Derek Jones Junior. Derek jon Jr. Is the
• 36:52
  only one that's not on contract. So they have a lot of the key
• 36:55
  pieces coming back. I just think maybe another summer summer of geling together.
• 37:01
  But I do think it's gonna come down to a lot of Luka donchets Man.
• 37:05
  I do think Luca's gonna have to improve as a defender and he's gonna
• 37:07
  have to get into some better shape because I do think these injuries rack up
• 37:10
  when the seasons get later, because he has a lot of weight on him.
• 37:14
  I do think if he loses a little bit, if he loses I'm
• 37:16
  not saying he is Zion level, you know, but it's or but it's
• 37:22
  where it's kind of a detriment to the team a little bit because you're while
• 37:24
  you're you're you're what's the word I'm looking for, I don't know, but
• 37:30
  you're you're laboring in the in the championship when you should be at full strength
• 37:35
  trying to get this thing done. And I think that kind of kind of
• 37:37
  hurts him a little bit because he looks a little gassed sometimes. So I
• 37:39
  think that's gonna come fall on those shoulders of Luca Daunchis. I do think
• 37:43
  they have one They have one more season left with Kyrie and Luka Datchets together,
• 37:46
  and I do think they should probably go all in next year because I
• 37:50
  don't know how patient Luca is gonna be if they just can't continue to get
• 37:52
  it done. I feel like this gives them some buy or a breathing room
• 38:00
  after the last two years, after they made the Western Conference finals and missed
• 38:04
  the playoffs. It shows that they're actively trying to make different or get different
• 38:09
  pieces so they can make a championship run. So I feel like it gives
• 38:14
  you a two year window where Luca, it's like, all right, maybe
• 38:16
  if we don't make the finals again for these next two years, Okay,
• 38:21
  we'll give you some breathing room. Because you try to get Kyrie, you
• 38:22
  try to get PJ. Washington, Daniel Gafford. So I don't think Derek
• 38:28
  Jones junior, he's coming back. He's about to get a nice contract for
• 38:30
  himself, which he rightfully deserves after a good postseason run and formal bull shout
• 38:36
  out to him. But yeah, I agree with you. It's gonna be
• 38:39
  Kyrie, Irving, Luka, Doncic and the biggest thing they could find a
• 38:45
  reliable third and fourth tour. They do probably need to find someone else that
• 38:49
  could kind of create their own shot. Appreciate with Washington he can get to
• 38:52
  the rack a little bit, but consistently. No, they need someone that
• 38:57
  like who's offensive. I think they have great defense. Maybe get a peer
• 39:00
  offensive player just so they can take pressure off because when it becomes a lot
• 39:04
  of Iso possessions or a lot of ball and Luca and Carrie's hands, it
• 39:08
  kind of steals the offense out a little bit. Yeah, yeah, it's
• 39:12
  a bunch of tough buckets against the Celtics. The tell of the two different
• 39:16
  or the big two differences was a Celtics they were getting the easy shots and
• 39:21
  the Mavericks they're making the difficult shots. And after a while you're not gonna
• 39:25
  make those difficult shots. Maybe half of them are gonna go win. Then
• 39:29
  it's gonna drop about forty thirty. Then it's gonna get worse and worse and
• 39:31
  worse as the series goes on, because the physicality from the Boston Celtics.
• 39:37
  So I do agree with you. A third score right here would be great,
• 39:42
  And I think the MAVs are gonna be fine. I don't think.
• 39:45
  I think second round potentially, just from how how heavy this Western Conferences or
• 39:52
  how stacked it is, second round exit somewhere around there. Potentially even further,
• 39:57
  that's their floor, just because Luca doncic he is entering this prime,
• 40:00
  Kyrie's he's maybe two three years from exiting his prime. So and another thing
• 40:07
  is that Derek Lively especially towards the end of the series, it looked like
• 40:09
  he started to become a three point shooter or started to stretch the floor.
• 40:15
  And he's already a great interior offensive presence and defensively, so he's only going
• 40:22
  to get better. Maybe Jaden Hardy he improves, Josh Green, he's going
• 40:25
  to improve. So I think it's just around the edges. I think a
• 40:30
  third score that would just be icing on the cake there. Then you really
• 40:34
  have an opportunity for them. But I don't know, or actually, let's
• 40:39
  go ahead and do our our grades as far as for the finals, the
• 40:45
  starters, or just the key pieces here. So we'll start with we'll just
• 40:49
  start with the Mavericks here. So Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving, what are
• 40:55
  your greades for them? This is all subjective, but what are your great
• 40:59
  for them? I gave Luka Doncicz a beat. I get because some of
• 41:05
  people would be mainly based off his offense. His offense was consistent. He's
• 41:08
  gonna get his every single night, but just sometimes it just looked like he
• 41:15
  was he was just walking slow out there. You know. On defense,
• 41:19
  he wasn't guarding particularly the whole time. There were some possessions where he would
• 41:22
  he would lock in and guard up like later towards games. But I need
• 41:27
  an entirety of the game basketball. You're you're. He's a bigger body that
• 41:30
  you could put in front of someone that's trying to move. And I think
• 41:34
  if he uses his size a little bit better, this series looks a little
• 41:37
  bit, looks a little bit different. So I'm gonna give it to be
• 41:39
  for his performance. As far as Kyrie Irving, I'm gonna have to give
• 41:42
  it a C C plus or or be minus. I only I probably I'm
• 41:45
  gonna stick with the sea, with the sea, Let's give him a sea.
• 41:49
  I just do think the inconsistency throughout the entire playoffs really of him waiting
• 41:54
  to start scoring and taking over games just hurt this team to ya, especially
• 42:00
  in the game where Luca fouled out. Yeah, Mats are still in that
• 42:05
  game, and you think, most of the time you have a Kyrie Irving,
• 42:07
  you can you can win this game no matter what. Yeah, he
• 42:10
  just didn't show up when when Luca filed out, he had the ball,
• 42:15
  he had one, I believe, one great layup when he got racked by
• 42:17
  outside of that, and he didn't do anything. And I just think him
• 42:21
  having to step up consistently more throughout the entirety of the game instead of showing
• 42:24
  up in the second half hurt this team quite a bit. So I'm gonna
• 42:28
  give him a seat. So I'm gonna give Luca. It's gonna kind of
• 42:32
  be on the same premise as you. I'm gonna give him a beat plus
• 42:36
  here, and I'm not gonna be as hard as defensively because he's never been
• 42:39
  this great defender. It's not a kid, but at least put your body
• 42:43
  in front of yeah, man, yeah, no question. And I'll say
• 42:46
  in Game four and in Game five before it got out of hand, he
• 42:51
  was definitely putting, putting the effort in and he was aggressive offensively, no
• 42:57
  doubt, and he had some turnovers. But I feel like these would be
• 43:01
  blowouts if it wasn't for Luka Doncic carrying the load offensively, So it wouldn't
• 43:07
  have even been There wouldn't have been two to three competitive games in this series.
• 43:13
  But as far as Kyrie irving, as far as what he did in
• 43:16
  the Western Conference finals and compared to what he did in the finals, it's
• 43:22
  a C minus. It's a C minus kind of going to a D.
• 43:25
  And I'm a Kyrie Irving fan here, but I just expected more from Kyrie
• 43:31
  Irving and he should be able to get his own shot whenever he wants his
• 43:36
  shot, and that just wasn't able to happen this series. He was just
• 43:42
  being clamped up. And it may be something against the Boston Celtics where just
• 43:45
  matchup wise, they know how to defend him. But at the end of
• 43:50
  the day, you're Kyrie Irving, you should be making your own buckets,
• 43:52
  your own shots. And defensively, he's not the best defensively, even though
• 43:57
  he puts an effort, you're just too small of a go. But as
• 44:00
  far as for the role players here, PJ. Washington, Daniel Gafford,
• 44:06
  Derek Jones Junior. What are your grades for them? H Derek Off.
• 44:15
  For Derek Jones Jr. I'll give him. I'll give him an A an
• 44:21
  A minus. Let's give Derek Jones Junior A minus. I do think he
• 44:22
  stepped up great defensively in certain moments he kinda he kind of need he got
• 44:28
  some buckets when needed, when Kyrie and Luca kind of weren't on the court,
• 44:32
  or when they just couldn't couldn't get into a rhythm. He would force
• 44:36
  his way into the paint and kind of draw a foul and get a bucket.
• 44:37
  I do think he played his role very Yeah. I do think sometimes
• 44:42
  that he could knock down a couple of threes that would help this team out
• 44:44
  quite a bit, because he did miss a couple of big moments. But
• 44:46
  I'll give him an a minus for what he's asked to do. As far
• 44:50
  as let's say, you said Derek, Daniel Gafford and Derek Lively or did
• 44:53
  you say PJ. Washington? Okay, yeah, I said PJ two,
• 44:57
  But we could do that in a second. Yeah, you're good, Okay.
• 45:00
  As far as Derek Lively, I don't know. I just think I
• 45:02
  just expected a little bit more from Derek Lively. He got into quite a
• 45:06
  bit of foul trouble in the first couple of games, and then he just
• 45:10
  his offensively. He was kind of shut and the rebound the boards were I
• 45:14
  thought would be controlled by Dallas and it just wasn't happened from Derek Lively or
• 45:17
  Daniel Gafford. And that was part of the reason why I thought they would
• 45:21
  win this series, because how consistent they were defensively and on the boards and
• 45:24
  rebounds. So I think I'm gonna get them both as a tandem, maybe
• 45:28
  a seed mm hmm. Okay, And that so one of the same things
• 45:31
  for Derek Lively goes for Daniel Gafford. Mm hmm. Yeah. I agree
• 45:36
  with you here. And I think as far as with the Big Man,
• 45:38
  I think I'm a I'm gonna be a little bit more critical here because this
• 45:43
  has been their entire offense in the postseason. As far as the lop threat
• 45:46
  and as far as controlling the glass, I'm gonna say f and especially with
• 45:51
  Christops being out from from Game three in Game four, if you win those
• 45:57
  two games right there, and you control the boards and you have an entiaror
• 46:00
  your presence, then this is a totally different series. Maybe the series is
• 46:04
  still going on right now, but I just think that they could have definitely
• 46:09
  played a better series, and they played. This was their worst series out
• 46:14
  of all four of the series that they played. And as far as Dereck
• 46:17
  Jones Junior, I'm gonna I'm gonna say a B plus B plus a minus
• 46:23
  right here because he played his role, he guarded most of the time.
• 46:28
  Jaylen Brown or Jason Tatum, so he had that number one defender role him
• 46:31
  more PJ. Washington here, and I know he was battling some injuries.
• 46:37
  He had some ankle issues, but he still stepped up sometimes he made some
• 46:40
  timely buckets. But once again, I feel like, or you know what,
• 46:45
  I'm gonna say B minus for Derek Jones Junior because he did miss a
• 46:49
  lot of open threes here. Yeah, and it could have definitely changed his
• 46:52
  game around. Yeah. So as far as with this last these last two
• 46:58
  right here that we're going to get into is PJ. Washington and Josh Green.
• 47:02
  As far as the grades you have for them, I'll give Josh Green
• 47:07
  possibly like an A because he was the only player I feel like hitting anything
• 47:12
  in this last game, and he didn't take that much shots. It was
• 47:14
  just showing that he was trying. He was He's not a bigger player.
• 47:19
  He has his role. He knows he's a three point shooter for this team.
• 47:22
  He can maybe get to the rims sometimes, and he's like a defender.
• 47:25
  I do think for his role that he played in some of these games,
• 47:29
  being probably one of the more consistent players, I'll give him an A.
• 47:32
  As far as PJ. Washington, I do think he missed. There
• 47:36
  was a lot of There was a lot of games where we watched where you
• 47:38
  could make the extra pass. He don't have to force your way to the
• 47:42
  rim. And especially his consistency that he had a couple series ago just wasn't
• 47:46
  existing here. His offensive game kind of disappeared. And I do think having
• 47:51
  that another person who can score, PJ. Washington was that for most of
• 47:55
  the playoffs. That wasn't that wasn't there in the finals, And I do
• 47:59
  think because of that he gets a DP. I don't. I don't think
• 48:01
  he played his role the way he should have been, playing like he was
• 48:05
  earlier in the playoffs. Yeah, as far as with Josh Green, I'm
• 48:09
  agree with you on the grade. I'm not gonna get much into him because
• 48:12
  you broke it down, but fifty five percent from three on somebody who's not
• 48:16
  known to be a three point shooter, that is very impressive right there,
• 48:21
  what you were able to do. And in the game five, he was
• 48:25
  the only one outside of Luca who was actually an offensive threat here. But
• 48:30
  as far as PJ. Washington, yeah, I'm gonna give I gave Kyrie
• 48:35
  Irving a C minus I'm gonna give him a C minus as well. Just
• 48:38
  plenty of open threes that you missed twenty seven percent from three when you were
• 48:43
  usually shooting around thirty eight thirty nine percent from three. That's just not gonna
• 48:46
  cut it there. And whenever you did guard Jason Tatum or Jaylen Brown,
• 48:52
  it was dog food. It was. It was fairly easy for the most
• 48:54
  part, compared to Derek Jones Junior, where he held up on his part
• 48:59
  for the most in it seemed like they were attacking Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving
• 49:02
  and PGA Washington right after that. So he definitely could have played a better
• 49:07
  series. And once again, this was the worst playoff series he had compared
• 49:12
  to all the all the other four. Well, let's get into the Celtics
• 49:15
  here. So the big two right here, Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown.
• 49:22
  What are your grades for these two players. I'm going to give Jason Tatum
• 49:28
  a beat. I'm gonna say it would be only because the offensive struggles played
• 49:30
  him throughout the entire season and it kind of was a little bit prominent in
• 49:35
  the beginning of this series. He did step it up in the final two
• 49:37
  games, especially in this last one. But he still went one for seven
• 49:38
  from three. I do think of him being the focal point and doing leading
• 49:45
  the team in point three bounds and assists helps him out. So I'm give
• 49:49
  them, I'm go give him a B plus. I'll upgrade it to a
• 49:51
  B plus. I just I just do think that I expect a little bit
• 49:53
  more consistency from him on a game basis. But as far as Jalen Brown
• 49:59
  and A plus, Jalen Brown shooting over forty percent from the field, taking
• 50:02
  as many such as he does, and then also being the primary defender on
• 50:07
  Luca dncis, there's not a bigger test ask for out of a player,
• 50:09
  and I do think that's why he gets a Naples for me. So yeah,
• 50:14
  I'm I'm gonna say an A as well for Jalen Brown. And with
• 50:17
  all the stuff that you mentioned mentioned there, he had the number one defensive
• 50:21
  assignment and for the first three games he was the number one offensive offensive threat.
• 50:28
  Here, Jason Tatum, I'm gonna say a B. I'm gonna say
• 50:32
  a B minus here because yes, he had the he had the rebounds,
• 50:37
  assists, But as far as just your overall shooting ten for thirty eight from
• 50:42
  three overall shooting thirty eight percent from the field. That that's just not gonna
• 50:46
  cut it. That's just not going to cut it. You were just you're
• 50:51
  on a stack team. And yes you still won the series, but you
• 50:53
  definitely could have played better here. But as far as with these next three
• 51:00
  right here, Drew Holliday, Derek White and Chris stops porzingis what are your
• 51:06
  greades for these three players right here? Drew Holliday, I give him an
• 51:09
  A an A because he did his role perfectly. He played great defense.
• 51:14
  He he actually got his own in the paint. This is why Derek Clively
• 51:17
  and Daniel Gafford are just completely low for me, because he was kind of
• 51:21
  getting taken it to them also, you know. Yeah. And then as
• 51:23
  far as defensively, he steps up when he needs to. He was guarding
• 51:27
  Kyrie, he was guarding Luca, but they needed this switch sometimes and he
• 51:30
  stepped up in a big way. And he's no slouch down low, which
• 51:34
  is pretty surprising when players are trying to back him up, they just couldn't
• 51:37
  because he's so smart defensively. And I do think I give Drew Holliday and
• 51:40
  A because his performance all around was just significant in this series. And if
• 51:45
  we're you said Christops now Horford Christopson, Christopson, Derek White, Yeah,
• 51:51
  oh, Christops. And Derek White. As much as I hate to say,
• 51:53
  I give Derek White and A. I give Derek White an A.
• 51:58
  He yep, whatever, uh He's He's a great defender, Derek White.
• 52:02
  He does the dirty work. He's a hustle player. He also is good.
• 52:07
  He gets he gets his own offensively when it whether getting to the rack
• 52:10
  and drawing fouls or even or even just playing even knocking down a big three
• 52:16
  when they need it. He just plays the dirty. He does the dirty
• 52:20
  work for this team. The all he does, he does the do it
• 52:22
  all role for this team, and I do think he played that role very
• 52:24
  good in the series. So I'll give him an A. As far as
• 52:28
  Christolph perzingis, I do think him being injured those couple of games kind of
• 52:30
  hurts him a little bit. But in the games he did play, the
• 52:32
  impact that he did make was significant. For that, I'm gonna give him
• 52:36
  a B plus, especially in that first game and the big in the big
• 52:40
  in the big start he had in that game in the first quarter for Pels,
• 52:44
  the team in that one and the next game after that having some major
• 52:46
  blocks controlling the interior of the defense. I do think that says a lot
• 52:51
  for him. And even in this game, just being kind of not doing
• 52:53
  great offensively, he only went one for I believe one for four or two
• 52:58
  for four and so, but he played a limited role. They didn't expect
• 53:01
  too much from them. But I do think just bringing in that energy,
• 53:05
  bringing that energy off the bench at the team, at the crowd got pumped
• 53:07
  when he came out. So I do think I'll give him a B plus
• 53:10
  for his series as a whole. So with these three players right here,
• 53:15
  I feel like this is what the big difference was, is that the Celtics
• 53:20
  role players outplayed the Mavericks. So I'm gonna say a plus plus plus plus
• 53:23
  plus for these three players right here. Because Drew Holliday, Derek White,
• 53:29
  those guys, whenever they went up against Luka Doncic or Kyrie Irving, both
• 53:34
  of those guys usually had the Kyrie Irving assignment and they did their job perfectly.
• 53:38
  We talked about it with the MAVs side already, how Kyrie Irving he
• 53:42
  had or he got shut down. So they played there as perfectly. As
• 53:45
  far as when the timely rebounds from Drew Holliday, those offense rebounds, those
• 53:51
  second chance points are Derek White, just those timely threes where it seemed like
• 53:55
  the Mavericks were getting back into the game, there would be timely threes or
• 54:00
  timely buckets that they would get. So that's just a plus right there.
• 54:04
  And Chris stops like like you said, he outplayed by himself, Derek Lively
• 54:10
  and Daniel Gafford in which that was the biggest strength for the Mavericks even even
• 54:15
  though he wasn't healthy for the most part, he outplayed him. So as
• 54:22
  far as these next two plin or three, Sam Hauser, Al Horford and
• 54:29
  then the special teams player first NBA Special Teams player, Peyton Pritchard, how
• 54:32
  do you grade these guys. I'll give Sam Hauser an A. He's hit
• 54:37
  big threes when they had. He even had a little floater game happening within
• 54:40
  this series. I'm not saying he played great offensively, they kind of targeted
• 54:43
  him a lot when he was I mean on defense, they kind of targeted
• 54:45
  him a lot. But offense, he played his real great. He was
• 54:47
  knocking down threes when needed, he was kind of a smart piece off the
• 54:51
  bench for this team. So I give him an A for what he did
• 54:53
  in this series, and we're gonna go pitching Prichard. He didn't. He
• 54:57
  only played. He only played one minute in that final game in Game five,
• 55:02
  but it was the biggest one minute of the entire game because he hit
• 55:06
  that half court three and everyone went crazy. So I'll give him an I'll
• 55:09
  give him an A plus, especially in a couple other In a couple of
• 55:13
  other games he was He played a lot more and he had a bigger role.
• 55:15
  He hit some threes, controlled the offense. They were just defensive liabilities
• 55:19
  when they are on the court, but offensively they play their roles. So
• 55:22
  I'll give him an a plus just for the half court boser beater alone.
• 55:24
  And then yeah too, he had a couple. He had two. Yeah,
• 55:30
  one game two, it was Game two, and then Game five.
• 55:32
  Okay, I don't remember the game two one, to be honest, as
• 55:37
  he said Al Horford also, I do think Al Horford at his age like
• 55:43
  him doing what he was able to do. I think it's it's harder these
• 55:46
  role players or somethings played their roles. It's hard to give them outside of
• 55:50
  an a any of these guys, I think al Morford controlled the boards when
• 55:53
  needed. He hit some big threes. He even did a little dancy dance
• 55:58
  on Daniel Gafford and Derek Lively a couple of times to get to the rim.
• 56:00
  So he played, he plays great in this series. You're not going
• 56:04
  to get the same Al Horford you'll get five years ago, thre even six
• 56:07
  years ago. But the Al Horford they got now playing his role in a
• 56:09
  plus. Yeah, Sam Hauser and al Horford what they were meant to do
• 56:15
  with stretch the floor and forty eight percent from three from Sam Hauser and forty
• 56:20
  seven percent from al Horford. Again, I know we keep repeating this that
• 56:24
  the Celtics role players did their job, but you can't harp on this enough.
• 56:29
  This was the biggest difference in the series. And why I called Peyton
• 56:32
  Prichard a special teams player is because in the NFL Okay Special Teams it's like,
• 56:38
  okay, usually nothing happens, but if you get a big fumble,
• 56:43
  you get a big touchdown, it changes the momentum completely. And I feel
• 56:47
  like Peyton Prichard in those two buzzer beaters, were those games were in the
• 56:53
  balance of being out of hand or going in the Mavericks favor Peyton Prichard.
• 56:58
  He delivered in both of them. I know it's luck. I know it's
• 57:01
  just luck, but there's still game changing. But we talked about the finals
• 57:08
  here. I feel like we pretty much covered everything. But the last question
• 57:13
  I have for you is who's going to be in the finals next year?
• 57:16
  Josh, if you had to give an early prediction, the San Antonio Spurs,
• 57:25
  Chicago Bulls. Ye, Chicago, I agree with your championship series.
• 57:30
  No, okay. If I have to be lying to myself, I would
• 57:35
  pick the man Boston Celtics out of the East right now, Okay, bro,
• 57:44
  I have no idea. It's a dog. Yeah, it's a dog.
• 57:46
  No idea. Let's just to be determined right there. If I had
• 57:51
  to pick one, maybe how this goes, Okay, give two teams.
• 57:54
  Give two teams, Denver Nuggets, okay, or or the Minnesota Timberwolves.
• 58:07
  Okay, Okay, so my I have the Timberwolves, but I'm gonna say
• 58:12
  the Oklahoma City Thunder. I'm gonna say that's the other team right there.
• 58:15
  I don't know why they said my mind, but I don't chet Holmer and
• 58:17
  is not gonna get one. It's still with Denver Nuggets or or the Timberwolves
• 58:23
  for me. All right then from the East, Oh, I feel like
• 58:30
  Celtics. That's just the easy that's just the easy answer right there, I'm
• 58:36
  gonna I'm gonna say them Milaukee Bucks. I feel like they're gonna have a
• 58:45
  bounce back season. I'm gonna say them Waukee Bucks. I can see that
• 58:47
  happening. But all right, now, let's go ahead and get onto.
• 58:52
  We talked to NBA Finals, we talked to NBA News, But the NBA
• 58:57
  Draft is coming up. It is next Wednesday, so less than a week
• 59:00
  away, and ESPN they give out their mock draft. We're going to just
• 59:06
  go a little bit into detail as far as just some of these prospects here.
• 59:09
  But like we mentioned Atlanta Hawks, they're planning on keeping the first overall
• 59:14
  pick and they're projected to get Zachariah Rashire. I think I said his name,
• 59:19
  right, I think I did. But also another report that I just
• 59:22
  saw is that Alexander sar and that Atlanta Hawks, even though there's mutual interests,
• 59:29
  they have not had a private workout at all. Whether that's been some
• 59:34
  issues. As far as I know, France are still in the playoffs right
• 59:37
  now, or they're still yeah, they're still in their season right now,
• 59:39
  so maybe there's issues right there. But yeah, zacharyer Rashire, he's expected
• 59:44
  to be the first overall pick. How do you feel about that one?
• 59:46
  Right there? I just did think the Zach attack is making his way up
• 59:53
  draft board. He made his way up draft boards really quick for a long
• 59:55
  time as Alexandristar kind of being consistent number one, and then now just switch
• 1:00:01
  dramatically to Zach to Zach Rye. So I do think it's it's it's gonna
• 1:00:08
  work out. We kind of talk about him a little bit last year.
• 1:00:09
  He has a lot of Michael Porter in his offense with a little more passing
• 1:00:13
  and better defense. And that's a good player. That's a damn good player
• 1:00:15
  if he can if he can live up to that, up to that ceiling,
• 1:00:19
  because that's probably an All star if you we're really talking about it,
• 1:00:22
  game in and game A, game in and game out. Probably not immediately,
• 1:00:24
  but once his game develops into the NBA, he'll be a problem,
• 1:00:28
  I think. So I do think that's the correct move for the Atlanta Hawks.
• 1:00:30
  It's just how is he gonna fit into this offense? I have no
• 1:00:32
  idea with a loop with already Trey Young and Dejontay being there. Who knows
• 1:00:37
  where they're gonna end up at right now, But as of right now,
• 1:00:40
  I just don't see how that kind of jails together. Yeah, exactly if
• 1:00:45
  he could, if he could learn to develop the jump shot, the three
• 1:00:47
  point shot, then there's definitely gonna be a bunch of mismatches even if you
• 1:00:53
  keep the same team ass constructed and he's he's about six nine, six ten,
• 1:00:59
  so defensively he's gonna be there. Obviously he could put on more size,
• 1:01:04
  but if he's able to develop a handle where he could actually be able
• 1:01:09
  to facilitate and hold onto the ball himself, this is gonna be scary.
• 1:01:15
  This is gonna be really damn scary for what he could potentially be. But
• 1:01:21
  as far as between Alexander Sar and zacharyer Rishire, personally me I would take
• 1:01:28
  Alexander Sar here. I just feel like he has the higher floor because even
• 1:01:35
  if he doesn't develop offensively, defensively he's gonna be there. He's seven foot
• 1:01:38
  and his interior presence, it's already there. So who would you take out
• 1:01:44
  of those two players? If I'm the Atlanta Hawks, I'm taking Alexandri Sar.
• 1:01:47
  I just think if it's their off, their team a lot better because,
• 1:01:52
  like you said, with the with the defense that Sar already has,
• 1:01:57
  it creates mismatches already. And as far as he's a he's he's a good
• 1:02:01
  finisher already around the rim. It's just he's he's improving his facing. I
• 1:02:07
  believe he developed like a good mid range game throughout the season over there in
• 1:02:10
  Australia, he developed a good mid range game. But I do think he
• 1:02:15
  can develop into a three point shooter. And I do think the upside for
• 1:02:17
  him being how tall that he is and being just a great defender is a
• 1:02:22
  lot bigger than Zach Zacharies right now for me. So I do think as
• 1:02:28
  far as the Hawks fit, I would take him over over the Zach Attec.
• 1:02:35
  So if I had a I know we didn't talk about this but before
• 1:02:39
  the pod, but if I just had to give a comp to Alexander,
• 1:02:42
  sorry, I feel like that's only when I'm confident and giving a comp to
• 1:02:46
  I feel like it would be somewhere like Jaron Jackson Jr. Okay, yeah,
• 1:02:51
  it would be something like that where technically he's a sine upside. Yeah.
• 1:02:55
  Yeah, that's what I'm saying. As far as maybe a little bit
• 1:03:00
  better, which who knows how great that can be? Right there? I
• 1:03:02
  don't know if you potentially have a comp but that's the only one I feel
• 1:03:07
  confident in right there as far as giving a cop but the third overall pick
• 1:03:14
  or the projected third overall pick right here to the Houston Rockets, it's projected
• 1:03:17
  to be Reed Shepherd here. So how do you feel about this? Obviously
• 1:03:23
  he was at Kentucky his last game in March Madness. It didn't look so
• 1:03:28
  well, but still still looking to be a top five prospect. How are
• 1:03:31
  you feeling about him? I just think this has more to do with fit
• 1:03:36
  for the Houston Rockets. I think they do need a three point shooter to
• 1:03:38
  kind of pick and pop for them, and I do think he he does
• 1:03:43
  that. He he can grow as a playmaker, but I think his shooting
• 1:03:46
  ability is going to allow him to to fit into this Houston Rockets team a
• 1:03:52
  lot. He has a little bit of JJ Reig and and I do think
• 1:03:54
  every team needs JJ Reddick kind of a pop shooter, and I do think
• 1:03:58
  that's why he's going to right here, because he's not gonna be asked to
• 1:04:00
  be the main ball handler here. He's gonna be asked to play his role,
• 1:04:03
  and I think he think that's the move that the Rockets are making with
• 1:04:05
  this. Yeah, and him shooting fifty two percent from three is crazy for
• 1:04:13
  the entire season. And also he had two and a half stills a game,
• 1:04:16
  so that's just very big right there. I like that car right there.
• 1:04:20
  As far as the JJ Reddick personally, me, I don't understand the
• 1:04:26
  Reed Shepherd pick for the Houston Rockets because I know you have Fred van Vliet
• 1:04:29
  Jalen Green. I know he's going to be off Paul, but still he
• 1:04:32
  can he can end up having the ball and he can end up being one
• 1:04:36
  of the playmakers, maybe replaced Fred van Vliet down the road. But that's
• 1:04:42
  just me. As far as with your San Antonio Spurs here first and me,
• 1:04:46
  I like this projection right here. Stefan Castle from Yukon, so he
• 1:04:51
  was a freshman and he has definitely a lot of room to grow. But
• 1:04:55
  how do you feel about that as a Spurs fan. If he get stafun
• 1:04:58
  Castle, I'm cool. I do think Stefan Castle with him. I do
• 1:05:05
  think what brings him a lot of attention is a defense and passing ability that
• 1:05:10
  he does bring. He's a he has a great size as compared to re
• 1:05:15
  Shepherd and Rob dealing him and so like, he kind of makes himself a
• 1:05:19
  better prospect just based off potential alone, based off defensively, and I do
• 1:05:24
  think that's what they're kind of aiming for. We need a better def We
• 1:05:26
  need better on ball defense, I do we do outside of Wimby and Jeremy
• 1:05:30
  Shahan, I do think we need better on ball defense. And then with
• 1:05:35
  the passing, we need passing bad dude. We saw it last year A
• 1:05:40
  lot of the times with Wimby was just wide open in the middle and no
• 1:05:43
  one was giving him the ball just because no one has that division. We
• 1:05:45
  can't be mad at Jeremy Sohan who was playing a whole new position and Trey
• 1:05:48
  Jones when he didn't make When he did start the game got a little bit
• 1:05:51
  better, it got a lot more, a lot more. But I do
• 1:05:55
  think his potential with Trade Jones as being a scorer just isn't the same as
• 1:05:59
  maybe a Stefan Castle, who's a lot bigger as compared to a Trade Jones.
• 1:06:02
  I do think he needs to work on shooting. We need to facing
• 1:06:05
  bad Yeah, I do think that's the knock on him for me is the
• 1:06:09
  shooting ability. As far as passing a defense, I'm all for it.
• 1:06:14
  Yeah, yeah, No, I feel like personally me and Stefan Castle,
• 1:06:16
  he's one of my favorite prospects because it's easier to teach somebody how to shoot
• 1:06:23
  compared to do all the other little things which he's able to do. And
• 1:06:27
  at the end of the day, he's he's a freshman and he was able
• 1:06:30
  to lead this Yukon team to another championship. So just as far as you,
• 1:06:35
  like you mentioned defensive versatility, he's I feel like he's able to guard
• 1:06:40
  one through three and if he knocks down that jump shot, it's going to
• 1:06:45
  be very scary next to Wimby because that's exactly a bad three point shooter.
• 1:06:49
  I'm just saying, like, yeah, I want it more consistently from him.
• 1:06:53
  Oh yeah, yeah, I've I just feel like that's just his biggest
• 1:06:58
  quote unquote flaw. I don't feel like it's a flaw because it's something that
• 1:07:00
  could be learned. Like Klay Thompson, he didn't know how to shoot when
• 1:07:03
  he first got into the league. Jason Tatum wasn't as good a Lonzo ball.
• 1:07:08
  So you could find these guys and turn them into three point shooters.
• 1:07:13
  Yeah, yeah, exactly. So as far as the fifth overall projected pick
• 1:07:19
  right here for the Pistons, it's I'm gonna try to say this name right,
• 1:07:24
  I've been practicing. Mades Bozellis from the G League. Ignite who I
• 1:07:29
  said it perfect? So if anybody doesn't know who he is, he is
• 1:07:33
  a small forward, power forward. He was projected to be a top three
• 1:07:36
  pick. He had a little bit of a struggle in the G League,
• 1:07:42
  but that kind of happens. So how are you feeling about this right here?
• 1:07:46
  I do think this could probably be a still for Detroit. He had
• 1:07:48
  a lot of he was I think believes he consider maybe the number one pick
• 1:07:53
  a couple of years ago in this draft. So it's just I do think
• 1:07:57
  he has a lot of potential, a lot of upside. But the thing
• 1:07:59
  is a traite man. They get a lot of upside players, what can
• 1:08:01
  they do with the upside players, and I do think it hurt them falling
• 1:08:04
  to number five. They were supposed to protect the number one overall pick.
• 1:08:08
  He didn't. Number five pick is is tough for them. But I do
• 1:08:11
  think getting a player like Mantas, who was considered to be the number one
• 1:08:14
  overall pick he has the upside is tremendous. It's just can he jail with
• 1:08:18
  the other pieces who are there right now that are trying to figure out Also,
• 1:08:23
  Yeah, no better than presence there, So it's just no one could
• 1:08:26
  learn from. Yeah, exactly, he's almost seven seven foot tall and he's
• 1:08:32
  a perfect NBA wing. He's able, he's able to move his feet.
• 1:08:36
  He's not an uncomfortable seven footer. He's somebody who just looks completely comfortable in
• 1:08:43
  their body. And if he's able to get the playmaking down, I feel
• 1:08:47
  like he could. He could just be somebody that we haven't seen before.
• 1:08:54
  As far as he has a lot of upside, Mantes Bozellis, he he
• 1:08:59
  does. If he could become that, if he could become a playmaker,
• 1:09:03
  he's gonna be easily an All Star. He will, And I know all
• 1:09:08
  these players they're becoming seven footers now, but that doesn't mean they're not gonna
• 1:09:13
  be point guard, shooting guard, small forwards. That it's just a new
• 1:09:15
  modern age now where just everybody is just gonna be six eight, six'
• 1:09:19
  nine, gonna be point guards or could dribble like a point guard, but
• 1:09:25
  playing the four or the three. As far as a comp with him,
• 1:09:30
  I would say, best case scenario, I would say a better version of
• 1:09:34
  Andrew Wiggins. That's what I would say. So it was what Andrew Wiggins
• 1:09:41
  was supposed to become. I'm not saying no Maple Jordan. I'm not saying
• 1:09:45
  that. I'm not saying no Bapel Jordan. No, but this next one
• 1:09:51
  right here. As far as for the shot at Hornets number six, Dalton
• 1:09:58
  connect the small from Tennessee. So he was a super senior. He played
• 1:10:03
  every single year in Tennessee. Obviously he is known as one year. He's
• 1:10:08
  true, he's one of the best three point shooters in the league. But
• 1:10:15
  how you how you feeling about this one. I know some people are calling
• 1:10:17
  him the best shooter in the draft, but do you believe that to be
• 1:10:21
  true? I don't know if it's true. We'll have to see these guys
• 1:10:26
  an end game. There's a lot of players who considered the best shooters coming
• 1:10:29
  out of college and they just never panned out to be the best shooter in
• 1:10:31
  the NBA because it's just a different type of game. You're off ball movement,
• 1:10:35
  You're you're picking pop the three point ship lines a lot a little bit
• 1:10:40
  longer. So we'll just have to wait and see. But as far as
• 1:10:44
  him, that that's that's what he is. He he he's a great shooter,
• 1:10:47
  but you can also get to the rack a little bit, and he
• 1:10:49
  has a good mid range. He has a good offensive game in general.
• 1:10:53
  I don't know how he is on defense, but they're saying that he could
• 1:10:57
  fit good alongside LaMelo and Brandon Miller, so we'll have a bad table Melow
• 1:11:00
  can stay healthy. Yeah, he's getting a lot of hype right now too,
• 1:11:03
  from a lot of teams. So I do think that if he's not
• 1:11:06
  taken around here, I do think teams next up, which is going to
• 1:11:10
  be probably my team, will probably take him as soon as he falls.
• 1:11:14
  But I kind of want the guy that we're projected to get right now.
• 1:11:15
  But I don't know what I see from him entirely, But all I see
• 1:11:21
  is that he's a good offensive player. Yeah, well, that's that's all
• 1:11:25
  he is. You don't have to worry about the defense here. He's just
• 1:11:28
  somebody who could just be a microwave type type of player. So it's just
• 1:11:33
  somebody who's going to bring buckets to your team. He's an older player,
• 1:11:36
  so he's going to be able to start right away. He's been in the
• 1:11:40
  system for a while. He might not have upside as far as compared to
• 1:11:45
  these other players, but he's going to be somebody who could contribute to a
• 1:11:48
  team right away. And I feel like the Hornets that's exactly what they need.
• 1:11:51
  They don't need to develop players. They don't need to develop because they
• 1:11:57
  already have Brandon Miller and LaMelo Ball already. That's a young team. You
• 1:12:00
  need somebody who's ready to play alongside them. But as far as for this
• 1:12:04
  seventh overall the projected pick right here, I know they got DeAndre Aiden last
• 1:12:09
  year on the offseason, but Donovan Klingen, the center from Yukon, I
• 1:12:14
  know there's mixed feelings about him right here, but how do you feel about
• 1:12:17
  him going to the Trailblazers here. I don't think he'll be available for the
• 1:12:21
  Troublazers at seven. I do think some of the team's going to trade up
• 1:12:24
  and grab him, or he's gonna get drafted in the top three. I
• 1:12:27
  just I just do think he's he's he's a very reliable reboundary, great defender
• 1:12:32
  in the interior, and he can he can kind of get a little bit
• 1:12:36
  interior offense around him. It's just it's just kind of weird that I think
• 1:12:41
  he would follow the seven of Portland. That's a pretty big steep fall for
• 1:12:44
  him considering Yeah, people are considering him to go to Helena at one in
• 1:12:46
  some more yet and even going to a team trading up to the top three
• 1:12:51
  to get him. So I don't know. I don't know how he's available
• 1:12:55
  here at seven in this mock draft. But for if the Pros are able
• 1:12:58
  to get him and pair him alongside DeAndre and that's a big move for them.
• 1:13:01
  Yeah, I would really like this move right here. I feel like
• 1:13:04
  he's somebody with the high floor. Worst case scenario, he'll be a good
• 1:13:10
  offensive player as far as catching lobbs, being a rebounder. He's just as
• 1:13:15
  smart. He's just a smart player, and as far as defensively too.
• 1:13:19
  But if he's able to develop offensively, he could end up being like a
• 1:13:25
  Marc Gasol type. I've seen a bunch of comps like that. I don't
• 1:13:28
  think that good, but somewhere around that area because he's just He's also somebody
• 1:13:33
  who's who's not slow on their feet, Zach Edie. But he's somebody who's
• 1:13:39
  not slow on their feet, and he could match up. I'm not saying
• 1:13:43
  he's gonna stop Nicola Jokic or any of those guys, but he'll be that's
• 1:13:46
  gonna be somebody you're you're gonna be able to throw a body at with Donovan
• 1:13:50
  Klingen. If you want to put a center who has interior presence to guard
• 1:13:56
  Nikola Jokic from this draft, this would be the main guy right here.
• 1:14:00
  But as far as the other pick for the San Antonio Spurs, they're projected
• 1:14:05
  to get another point guard. Well, I know Stef Stephan Castle, he
• 1:14:09
  could play the two guard as well. But Rob Dillingham from Kentucky right here.
• 1:14:14
  How are you feeling about this? Would you like back to back playmakers
• 1:14:17
  here in the draft or how you feeling I wouldn't be particularly mad at it
• 1:14:24
  because the situation of need for us is point guard and playmakers and passing and
• 1:14:29
  and just just spacing because Rob billing Ken knock down the three a three point
• 1:14:33
  shot kind of consistently, and he's a great offensive player when it comes to
• 1:14:38
  passing getting to the room. But the thing is that kind of sways me
• 1:14:41
  away from him is his size. He's a smaller player, and his defense
• 1:14:45
  kind of lacks lacks quite a bit, especially going to the NBA where the
• 1:14:48
  where the where the average player it's a lot taller than six to four that
• 1:14:58
  point guard. Now, it's just kind of hard for him to play defense.
• 1:15:00
  I think this is a player that a lot of teams will take a
• 1:15:01
  swing on. I would love to see a big man take it for us
• 1:15:04
  around this area due to us needing another interior presence. If if Rob if
• 1:15:11
  if what's his face, Donovan Klingen is there, I said, we better
• 1:15:15
  trade up to that. That's a lot of he's right there. But if
• 1:15:18
  give Rob Dilliam, I'm not mad at it. It's just a it's just
• 1:15:21
  a swing we might have to take. Yeah, I feel like Rob Dillingham,
• 1:15:27
  that's somebody who also has another or a lot of potential to even though
• 1:15:30
  he is on the smaller side, six one, six two. He has
• 1:15:35
  a bunch of speed and he could finish at the rim. And that's somebody
• 1:15:39
  who's in the darn Fox type of mold, somebody who could create their own
• 1:15:43
  shot and honestly like this idea right here. Obviously, Donovan Klingon he's there.
• 1:15:48
  I know you said you want another interior player. But if you're able
• 1:15:53
  to get two point guards, or if you're able to get Rob Dillingham and
• 1:15:57
  Stefan Castle nampare him next to win and be Jeremy Sohan, Keldon Johnson,
• 1:16:00
  Trey Jones, Devin Vicel, that'll be a great fit right there. I
• 1:16:04
  feel like that'll upstart with the San Antonio Spurs they're trying to do. But
• 1:16:12
  before we get into the rest of the top twelve, we're gonna kind of
• 1:16:17
  take a little bit of a break here, Okay, And we're back from
• 1:16:23
  our little break right here. We finished off with the San Antonio Spurs with
• 1:16:27
  the eighth pick getting robbed in on him. So this next one for the
• 1:16:30
  mock draft, the Memphis Grizzlies, who have the ninth pick. They're projected
• 1:16:34
  to get Cody Williams, Jalen Williams brother. How are you feeling about that
• 1:16:39
  one, josh Uh. I think this is gonna be a good move because
• 1:16:45
  for the Memphis chrizls we're talking defensively six eight seven foot one wingspan due to
• 1:16:48
  Munster bro Like he's Jalen Williams brother. Let's just let's just put it like
• 1:16:54
  that, you know, like he's he's and he plays he plays like a
• 1:17:00
  facilitating role, like a shooting guard and like a small ford And he's a
• 1:17:03
  good defensive player, and he's and he's getting a little bit better at his
• 1:17:09
  preimer to shooting. So he has a lot of potential, especially with his
• 1:17:12
  size, and I do think developing that in an NBA system will help him
• 1:17:15
  out tremendously. Yeah, and especially since he's a catch and shoot player,
• 1:17:21
  he's going to be somebody who's a great role player and the defense that's already
• 1:17:26
  there. Maybe he can end up being best case scenario with Jaden McDaniel somewhere
• 1:17:30
  along the line. I don't think he'll be as good as Jade, but
• 1:17:34
  he'll definitely be a complimentary piece. I think that's the biggest thing in this
• 1:17:39
  draft. I don't know how you're feeling about it, Josh, I think
• 1:17:43
  there's not a lot of star talent, but there's a bunch of role player
• 1:17:48
  talent in this draft. There's potential. There's potential for this draft. Yeah,
• 1:17:55
  And speaking of that, somebody with a bunch of potential. This tenth
• 1:17:58
  overall pick right here with the Utah Jazz is projected to be Nicola Topicch,
• 1:18:02
  who is somebody who was projected to be all the way potentially a top three
• 1:18:06
  pick, somebody who you wanted now follow him because of that a c L
• 1:18:11
  a c L tear or apparently, So, how are you feeling about him
• 1:18:15
  right here? I do think if you're in the Utah Jazz are able to
• 1:18:18
  draft him to steal they compare them with lowry marketing, but they'll have to
• 1:18:21
  set I think you said him out a year. I think you treat them
• 1:18:24
  like chet home Grin Joel and be Blake Girffin. I think you said about
• 1:18:28
  one year. Let him he'll let him learn the system mentally, let him
• 1:18:31
  learn what it's like to travel on the road, let him learn. Just
• 1:18:34
  give them, give them a red shirt season. He's gonna get a red
• 1:18:39
  shirt season. I do think that's the best move for him to heal up
• 1:18:43
  all the injuries that he does have, and I do think he can develop
• 1:18:45
  into a great passer in this league. I see a lot of maybe a
• 1:18:49
  Ricky Rubio with a lot more upside for him. Okay, so maybe like
• 1:18:54
  a bigger Steve Nash. Yeah, let's just say that. But I don't
• 1:18:58
  know if Steve Nash is pushing it. Yeah, well, okay, not
• 1:19:01
  as good, but not as good, but a bigger version of Steve Nash
• 1:19:05
  if that makes sense, yep. So, or maybe he could end up
• 1:19:11
  going back and maybe giving a run at it next year with Cooper flag Garland.
• 1:19:15
  Yeah, maybe a Darius Garland that that would be a good move right
• 1:19:18
  there. But that's this is somebody with a bunch of upside right here.
• 1:19:23
  And the Utah Jazz they they're desperately they desperately need talent. Bring san Antonio.
• 1:19:31
  Really, you would like the Larry Margatin fit with Wimby. Yeah,
• 1:19:35
  I think it would work out. Mm hm. I never thought about that
• 1:19:40
  one right there. But all right, eleventh overall pick belongs to the Chicago
• 1:19:45
  Bulls, and I'll let you give your feelings about it first. It has
• 1:19:48
  them projected to take Devin Carter from Providence. So how are you feeling about
• 1:19:54
  this one right here? I don't know much about about this this player in
• 1:20:00
  particular, so I don't have too much of an opinion. I just maybe
• 1:20:03
  they're looking to add another guard to pairalleng Kobe White with the potential of Zack
• 1:20:08
  Lavinia and DeMar DeRos and leaving out maybe this could create another Okay, I
• 1:20:12
  don't know how I feel about it, to be honest, Because you want
• 1:20:14
  Kobe White with the ball in his hands was tremendous this year. Do you
• 1:20:16
  want to take another player? Do you want to get another player to take
• 1:20:19
  the ball out of his hands, you know, and put him back to
• 1:20:21
  being a straight shooter. I don't think so. So I don't know how
• 1:20:25
  I feel about getting a point guard. Maybe I think looking for maybe like
• 1:20:29
  a small forward to a center type prospect for the Bulls maybe a lot better
• 1:20:32
  than adding another point guard. I don't know how you feel about it,
• 1:20:35
  So I think number one for me somebody who I hope falls is Donovan Klingen.
• 1:20:42
  But I wouldn't mind this Devin Carter pick. And as much as he's
• 1:20:46
  a point guard, I feel like he would be a two guard. So
• 1:20:50
  he's somebody who could shoot the ball, shoot the lights out of the ball.
• 1:20:54
  He's a catch and shoot player, but he's better off the ball.
• 1:20:58
  So that would definitely be good right there. And he could potentially be a
• 1:21:01
  three potentially in small ball lineups. So even though he's listed as a point
• 1:21:06
  guard because of his size, he's more of a two or three. That's
• 1:21:11
  what he really is. And that's and you can't have enough of those players
• 1:21:15
  right there. Those players are always somebody who's going to be contributing to winning,
• 1:21:19
  and that's something I want my Chicago Bulls to do badly. But all
• 1:21:25
  right, this twelfth overall pick, the last one that we're going to get
• 1:21:28
  into is the Oklahoma City Thunder. And let me see if I can say
• 1:21:31
  this name right to Jane Saloon. That's how you say the power forward from
• 1:21:35
  France. So the Thunders are projected to get him. He's real inconsistent.
• 1:21:43
  But how are you feeling about this or do you think they should go somewhere
• 1:21:45
  else? I think the Oklahoma Stague under anyone they draft, is going to
• 1:21:51
  develop into a good player and play that role pretty great. I do think
• 1:21:55
  with him. He does have He's six foot ten, he plays good defense,
• 1:22:00
  and he can he has good he can make it a lot, he
• 1:22:03
  can shoot the ball. Well, it's just there is the inconsistency. He
• 1:22:06
  has a lot of turnover problems, but that comes with being young. He's
• 1:22:10
  only eighteen years old. There's a lot to grow from, and so I
• 1:22:13
  do think this could be a still for Oklahoma City if they if they're able
• 1:22:15
  to snack him here as well, especially being a sixteen player that you can
• 1:22:17
  pair alongside of chet Holme Green and maybe control the interior or a lot better.
• 1:22:24
  Yeah, that's some It seems like that's the main thing, the thunder
• 1:22:27
  they're looking for. So this would make sense somebody who's around a six eight,
• 1:22:30
  six y ten range just to get bigger players, even if they don't
• 1:22:34
  specifically get a center here. So I would really like this pick, and
• 1:22:40
  they're really good at developing players, so it wouldn't be something where I'm concerned.
• 1:22:44
  As far as him turning into a good role player, I think he
• 1:22:46
  could be exactly that. But all right, we got done with the top
• 1:22:50
  twelve right here, I just have a quick question for you. Who do
• 1:22:56
  you think is going to be the surefire player from this draft? Right here?
• 1:23:00
  Somebody you know that's gonna end up being a good player, Jared McCain.
• 1:23:08
  And here's why. Okay, shooter, great three point shooter. He's
• 1:23:12
  already gonna have that coming into the league. I'm not saying he's gonna turn
• 1:23:15
  into this great All Star player, but we're talking about a consistent player year
• 1:23:19
  and in y're out. I think he's a surefire for me. I do
• 1:23:21
  think he plays a point guard position very well. He's a great facilitary,
• 1:23:25
  he's a great scorer. I do think he can shoot the three point shot
• 1:23:28
  very well. The thing is that's gonna bother me a little bit is his
• 1:23:30
  defense. His defense may lack a little bit just due to him being a
• 1:23:36
  smaller guard around six foot three. I mean, yeah, if we're looking
• 1:23:40
  a couple of years ago, that would have been very small, but now
• 1:23:42
  in today's NBA that's a little bit on the smaller side. But yeah,
• 1:23:45
  I do think that he has the potential to turn into a great, a
• 1:23:49
  three point facilitating player, and I do think that's why he'll I think he'll
• 1:23:53
  be a consistent player in this league. So somebody who is one of my
• 1:23:57
  favorite players, and I'm a little bit biased, here is Ron Holland.
• 1:24:00
  So he he kind of had a down year in the G League. Ignight,
• 1:24:03
  he was expected to be a top ten pick for sure. Now he
• 1:24:08
  may not even be a lottery pick. But that's this just somebody who you
• 1:24:13
  just want to talk about as far as just being a clear athlete and being
• 1:24:16
  and there's a clear difference between the two, and he could knock down threes.
• 1:24:20
  I think this is somebody who could end up being like a Tyree Smacksy
• 1:24:26
  type of Tyree I would say, like a small forward version of Tyree Smaxy,
• 1:24:30
  somebody who's like a microwave player who could get their who would get their
• 1:24:33
  shot off at any given moment. But I don't know if you want to
• 1:24:39
  talk about anything else here from the draft or you just want to go ahead
• 1:24:43
  and get into this last last topic right here. Let's get into this last
• 1:24:46
  time, Okay. So now with the NBA Finals ending for agency, it's
• 1:24:51
  now here and there's a couple of players that are available on the market right
• 1:24:58
  here. Obviously there's Paul George Pascal Siakam he got re signed. There's potentially
• 1:25:02
  Tyree s Maasey Lebron player option Ogi Anenobi. What's one player right here that
• 1:25:09
  you're really looking out for. I do think Paul George is gonna be the
• 1:25:15
  biggest move. I think he's gonna be the game changer for a lot of
• 1:25:18
  teams. I do think him being the veteran that he is, future Hall
• 1:25:23
  of Famer, I believe able to do the things offensively that he can do,
• 1:25:28
  and always being a great defender. He's thirty four years old, so
• 1:25:30
  there's not a lot of time left on his clock right now. He's he's
• 1:25:33
  he's fighting father time. So I do think he's gonna go to a contender,
• 1:25:39
  and he's gonna he's gonna booster a team to a championship level team.
• 1:25:42
  I do think, I think so. I think I'm looking at wherever Paul
• 1:25:45
  George goes. So I know there's been rumors about obviously as far as the
• 1:25:51
  Sixers being the main one. Now I know the MAVs are being brought up,
• 1:25:56
  the Knicks. What would you think would be his best fit for him
• 1:26:00
  where they could win a championship. Dang, it's tough if if I had
• 1:26:14
  to pick one, I think he fits into any system though, Yeah,
• 1:26:18
  I could see that, I could see that he definitely player either, So
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  yeah, it's kind of like he's not going to demand the ball like he
• 1:26:26
  when he gets the ball, he's going to get the ball, you know,
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  but like, yeah, now he's not coming down the court demanding it
• 1:26:31
  to be the guy bringing it up and passing and making decisions like he's played,
• 1:26:35
  He's played with bigger player, He's played with great players his entire career.
• 1:26:40
  He hasn't had a problem. Yeah, so I want to say I
• 1:26:45
  can see him going to Philadelphia honestly and him along Joel Embiid, especially when
• 1:26:48
  Joel beats balance to get injured and then puts it helping Tyrese Maxie out a
• 1:26:51
  little bit. I think Paul George would be a good move for him.
• 1:26:55
  Yeah, I would definitely like that fit. That's been the most popular fit,
• 1:26:58
  but I I think it would be the easiest one. I'm just wondering
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  if Paul George he's willing to give up less money, because I think he
• 1:27:08
  could sign it like four years, two hundred and twenty million something like that
• 1:27:12
  for yeah, for Max contract, potentially as signing trade. But I think
• 1:27:17
  I think Paul George, Yeah, he definitely is going to be the needle
• 1:27:20
  mover here and as far as we have to talk about it. As far
• 1:27:25
  as Lebron with the player option, so I feel like it's given he's gonna
• 1:27:30
  decline the player option so he could get more money. He's always done that,
• 1:27:34
  even with Cleveland, Miami and even the Lakers he did that too.
• 1:27:39
  So if he's not with the Lakers, where can you see him going?
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  And why? I have no idea. I have no idea where Lebron would
• 1:27:51
  go right now. That's a that's a franchise altering move right there, you
• 1:27:56
  know. And it's just because where Lebron goes, he's the guy. I
• 1:28:02
  think there's only a couple of teams in this league where he won't be the
• 1:28:05
  number one maybe Dallas, he won't be the number one option. I argue
• 1:28:11
  with people, I don't think he's going to us, but I don't think
• 1:28:14
  he'll be the number one option in San Antonio because it's it's Wimby's league.
• 1:28:17
  It's Wimby's I told that, like any player that goes to this spurs better
• 1:28:20
  except that they're gonna be number two. There's no one that's going to be
• 1:28:24
  number one. I could see that, Yeah, Boston, I don't know.
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  Maybe I don't see him going to Boston at all. Yeah, first
• 1:28:31
  of all, let's just get that out the way. But potentially New York,
• 1:28:36
  another big market, Denver. Yeah, but it's just weird, bro.
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  I don't know, like, I don't see I there's a possibility.
• 1:28:45
  In my mind. I think it's fifty to fifty he stays in Los Angeles
• 1:28:47
  or fifty he goes elsewhere. And I can see Miami going back to Miami,
• 1:28:53
  yeah, going back to Cleveland as an option, okay, and then
• 1:28:58
  I could see New York. Okay, Okay, those are three nice options
• 1:29:02
  right there. I think the best move for him, where I feel like
• 1:29:08
  it would work the best would definitely be which this is a dream scenario,
• 1:29:13
  which is new to Miami. I don't think he'll go back to Miami because
• 1:29:16
  there I don't think him and Eric Strolzer really get along. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:29:19
  yeah. And then pat Riley, the whole pat Riley thing. So
• 1:29:23
  I think we eliminate Miami honestly. Yeah. Okay, yeah, So New
• 1:29:27
  York, Cleveland, and then there's there's always Dallas. Dallas has always been
• 1:29:31
  rumored even before he left Cleveland. The second time that was that was a
• 1:29:36
  rumor for Dallas too, Luca and Kyrie. That just isn't that just doesn't
• 1:29:42
  feel like, yeah, no, that that doesn't that doesn't sound right right
• 1:29:45
  there. But it would definitely be a better third option than what we were
• 1:29:49
  talking about. But I feel like it would be too much. It would
• 1:29:53
  be too much. But this rumor too but Pho Phoenix has no money,
• 1:29:58
  so I don't get how that. Yeah, I know that would definitely not
• 1:30:01
  work. What maybe Bradley Bill, But the Lakers, I'm pretty sure they
• 1:30:05
  don't want the Bradley Bill contract. But I think I think, without a
• 1:30:11
  doubt, I'm pretty confident I think that Lebron he's gonna go back to the
• 1:30:14
  Lakers. He's just gonna go up for some more money. Him and Ad
• 1:30:18
  they're gonna be there and try to run it back, maybe another run.
• 1:30:23
  They still were one of the better teams in the league last year. Just
• 1:30:27
  injuries, lineups, they killed them. They killed them. But the last
• 1:30:31
  domino that we have to talk about is as far as James Harden. James
• 1:30:36
  Harden, he got traded to the Clippers and now he's a free agent.
• 1:30:43
  So where do you think he's going. Do you think he's staying back in
• 1:30:46
  the Clippers or do you think he's going somewhere else now, because even though
• 1:30:50
  he may not be a needle mover, he's definitely somebody who contribute to a
• 1:30:55
  playoff team here not him and Kyrie don't get along either. Maybe New York
• 1:31:10
  may okay, I just feel like New York's can get thrown around so many
• 1:31:14
  times this offseason. I don't see him going to a team like Indiana is
• 1:31:17
  too small of a market for him. Yeah, Orlando, No, he's
• 1:31:25
  not going too I don't know. Maybe the only one, the only one
• 1:31:31
  that I see from this older group is Paul George. Who's who's able to
• 1:31:35
  fit into any role he goes into. You know, Yeah, it's just
• 1:31:40
  hard for me to gauge where these guys are going. With James Harden and
• 1:31:43
  Lebron mm hmm. Yeah, No, that's true because they're they are very
• 1:31:46
  bald, dominant players, and they're definitely gonna have a lot of the attention,
• 1:31:50
  not necessarily be the number one option, but be seen as a number
• 1:31:55
  one option, if that makes sense. But as far as teams who need
• 1:32:03
  to improve the most in free agency or who just who are just a piece
• 1:32:06
  away, what's a couple of teams or one team you think that's just a
• 1:32:11
  piece away from making that title run for you or making that next jump for
• 1:32:15
  you. Because for example, for for me, I would definitely say the
• 1:32:21
  Oklahoma City Thunder. They're definitely definitely a piece away. Maybe they get Isaiah
• 1:32:28
  Harvenstein this offseason and that'll definitely help with their rim protection problems and be a
• 1:32:33
  rotation piece for CHET because the rebounding it was, it was definitely seen against
• 1:32:39
  some maps, So that would definitely be a piece. Maybe Indiana, Okay,
• 1:32:45
  maybe Paul George back to Indiana. Yeah, I think they could be
• 1:32:49
  a move away because I do think they played very well against the Boston Celtics,
• 1:32:54
  even without they were the number one offense in the entire NBA first of
• 1:32:58
  all. Yeah, even with out Tarre's Halliburton, they were able to put
• 1:33:01
  up their own and be within games in crunch time, and they had another
• 1:33:03
  veteran on that team. Maybe they were in the championship. Okay, I
• 1:33:08
  could see that that that'll definitely be a good move. But I think that's
• 1:33:13
  pretty much everything right there for or for this episode. So before we wrap
• 1:33:17
  it up, we always have our so called MVPs. We do it every
• 1:33:21
  single week, Josh, who's your so called MVP of the week. My
• 1:33:28
  so called m VP for me is gonna be Joe Missoula. And I'll say,
• 1:33:32
  why nothing on the court. I'm gonna make this off the court with
• 1:33:36
  what he believes in his faith, the Catholic boy doing the Rosary before and
• 1:33:41
  after games, wearing what first thing Jesus when he wore sure on the before
• 1:33:46
  the in his interview at the end, I'm gonna give him the so called
• 1:33:49
  MVP of the week. We need more of those guys. Yeah, no,
• 1:33:54
  no doubt, But I would say my so called MVP. I feel
• 1:33:59
  like there's just gonna be the easy answer here at Jaylen Brown winning finals MVP,
• 1:34:02
  having as many finals MVPs as Steph Curry. That that's all I'm gonna
• 1:34:08
  say. No shot at Steph Curry, but he definitely deserved it after getting
• 1:34:12
  that big contract last year. People giving him a bunch of slack for it,
• 1:34:15
  but he definitely did prove himself this year, even though he didn't get
• 1:34:18
  an All NBA team all that, but in the postseason, he definitely proved
• 1:34:23
  his three hundred million dollar contract worth. But any last words you gotta say
• 1:34:28
  before we get out of here, Josh. Now, let's just have a
• 1:34:30
  good week, ladies and gentlemen. I pray for Kevin Brink safe, fast,
• 1:34:38
  and speedy recovery. And then yeah, let's get get ready for some
• 1:34:43
  working about to get ready for some fantasy football, Yes, sir, get
• 1:34:46
  into that, get ready for the NFL offseason, NBA offseason. It's gonna
• 1:34:50
  be it's gonna be a weird time for us because it's a little dark period.
• 1:34:54
  But yeah, we have a lot of content coming, so be prepared,
• 1:34:58
  yes, sir, exactly. Yeah, yeah, pray for pray for
• 1:35:00
  camera bring aka my girl. Pray for hopeful, hopeful, the speed,
• 1:35:03
  speedy recovery. And also another thing is that I know people they may not
• 1:35:11
  be listened to this last part of the episode, But all I'm just saying
• 1:35:15
  is the last time we played basketball. Whenever we did, all I'm just
• 1:35:18
  saying is I at the game, win over. Josh. That's that's the
• 1:35:23
  last. That's the last thing I gotta say. Whenever we play again,
• 1:35:26
  we're probably gonna bring it up again. But yeah, we're gonna go see,
• 1:35:30
  we're gonna go and get out of here. NBA Draft, We're gonna
• 1:35:33
  talk about reactions to that next week Fantasy football talk like Josh was mentioning,
• 1:35:39
  but we're gonna go and get out of here, you guys. Y'all take
• 1:35:41
  care. We'll see you guys next week