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NBA Playoff Shockers · North Florida Sports Network Podcast

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: the north florida sports network.
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back.
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: It's the nfsn north florida sports network.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: We're talking sports.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk some basketball.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: It's because I got my basketball guy for miami contributor dude, I like, I like your opening line.
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: You're like well, we're talking.
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, sports, what the hell?
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: Why not?
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: yeah, there's a lot of things that you could talk about.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: We're gonna keep it short and sweet.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about we're gonna talk about some hoops, maybe some baseball if we have time.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: But what about that?
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: Uh, choke job by the champs dude, that's an all-time choke job.
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: dude, that is John Starks going 0 for 13.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: Ooh, in game seven, I mean dude.
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: You were up 25 points midway through the third in a game, seven at home, with a three-time MVP, and you're the reigning champ.
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, champ, yeah I was shocked, dude, and it wasn't Anthony Edwards dropping 50.
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: That's what's shocking.
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: That's what's shocking, dude, is that the whole team made that comeback.
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: It wasn't just Ant going nuts.
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: It started on the defensive end.
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I kept flipping back and forth because it was such a blowout and I was like just checking in every so often, like every time I checked back in they were like, oh, another steal, oh, another steal.
• 1:52
  Speaker 2: Like oh, I gotta watch this crap.
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: And yeah, man, I mean defense, who the fuck it?
• 1:59
  Speaker 2: Defense when getting here to the conference finals in the NBA.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're going against the Mavericks, who you predicted would get here.
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: Hey, my Mavs pick is shaping up nicely.
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's the entertaining series of the two.
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, oh.
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: I think that one, the East starts tonight, that's the Celtics, and the Pacers made it, and you know the Celtics are going to be without Porzingis for game one.
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: They've already decided that.
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: I heard possibly game two.
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: I think what they'd like to have is not play Porzingis until the finals, right?
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, because he's fragile and I mean you bring him out and, like we've talked about this whole season, the Celtics are a different team with Porzingis and they shouldn't need Porzingis to beat Halliburton Siakam and the Pacers, halliburton Siakam and the Pacers they really should.
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: They should be able to pretty easily get to the NBA Finals with this one.
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: I mean it should be Celtics in five.
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you get Indiana winning the game.
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: I'll give them the gentlemen's sweep.
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: They've lost both game twos so far.
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I'll give them the gentlemen's sweep, man, you don't make it to.
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: They've lost both game twos so far.
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah I mean, I'll give them a gentleman's sweet man.
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: You don't make it to the conference finals, you know, just by chance.
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, the Pacers are a nice little team, I think they'll get one.
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: The Celtics are definitely bound to choke at least one game away.
• 3:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're the Celtics, come on.
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that's nobody's given Indiana a chance.
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: If they were to get one, it might be tonight.
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: What else is there to say on that series?
• 3:59
  Speaker 2: I mean really not much, man.
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: I mean it really should be pretty easy for Boston.
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean like and Dayton doesn't play a good defense, so Boston should be able to do what they want, and yeah, I mean it should be.
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: I mean like, I guess like the exciting part will be that they'll I mean like betting over unders, you know.
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: I mean the over under is going to be like 240 like every freaking game, you're going to just need to hit threes like an all-time pay at the heat did in that one game that's what I was going to say.
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: It have to be the heat game too, where they shoot 50 from three right and, and 50 not being like four of 8 but being like 14 of 28, and that's what you got to do.
• 4:44
  Speaker 2: Tatum will always get small he always does but I can't see the Pacers shooting 50% from 3 for an entire 7 game series you got to move.
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: 5.
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: Everyone's looking forward to the west.
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: At least I am and oh, the west is gonna be so much fun I'm.
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: I think I'm kind of rooting for the t wolves, um, but we'll see.
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: I mean dallas, you can't.
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: I mean home or away there.
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: Who knows what you're gonna get you know I don't think that really matters To that team.
• 5:20
  Speaker 2: No, it doesn't seem to, at the very least.
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: Um, and I guess one thing you could say that the uh.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: Minnesota won 3 of 4 on the road.
• 5:30
  Speaker 2: So Including a game 7 on the road man.
• 5:33
  Speaker 2: That's hard to do.
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: But the game 7 will be at home For Minnesota.
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: They have the.
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: I guess they'll have the home court.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: It'll start in minnesota tomorrow.
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: But so you think luca and kairi get it, keep it going against the t-wolves.
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm like you, I want, I kind of want the t-wolves.
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: I mean I'm like you, I kind of want the T-wolves, but I'm sticking to my guns, I'm going to stick with.
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: I think Luka's the best player in the series and in the NBA man, I mean, if you bet with the best player nine times out of ten, you're going to be all right.
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: And I mean I could just see Luka having and maybe say like three 30-point triple doubles in this series.
• 6:18
  Speaker 2: Luca having and maybe say like three 30 point triple doubles in this series.
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like we haven't seen luca go off yet, well, he did last game.
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: I mean it was oh yeah, it was fun.
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: I mean his okc brought it and that game six was really entertaining no, I was.
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: It was a great saturday man.
• 6:34
  Speaker 2: I watched.
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: I watched the preakness race, I watched some UFC fighting, finished the UFC fight, flipped it on to watch the end of that Mavs game.
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: Man, it was a hell of a Saturday for me well, so about Dallas?
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: what else besides Luke of those supporting cast?
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: that was a lot better oh yeah, no, what's the name they got?
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: The.
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: Oh god, I can't think of the guy's name.
• 7:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, the big guy they got that does all the lobs oh, I can't think of his name.
• 7:09
  Speaker 2: Right off the top of my head the draft pick from Dallas the.
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: Dallas draft pick from Duke.
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 7:19
  Speaker 2: And then they got my boy, derek Jones, from Miami.
• 7:21
  Speaker 2: But I mean, the Mavs, it really is At this point.
• 7:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, pj Washington's played great, but I mean at this point, dude, you've got to lean into your two guys.
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: I mean this has got to be a Kyrie and Luka series.
• 7:37
  Speaker 2: You can't count on PJ Washington and these role players to be dropping 25 a game.
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: This has got to be.
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: Both.
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: Kyrie and Luka have got to drop 30 every game.
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: And I think on the other side, minnesota, it's going to continue to be Carl Anthony Towns.
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: It's going to be the key and he came to play and that's why they won the series.
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like the X factor, so to speak, for them.
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: And when he brings it and he can play physical and then add the three, point to just pilot, you know, but he's got to bring the physicality in that presence to to the series and dominate yeah, because, if not, you can see, you can see luca just going mid-range right.
• 8:21
  Speaker 2: If, uh, if towns isn't going to be the defensive presence that they need him to be, oh, you know minnesota was able to clamp down defensively, and that's where I kind of like him.
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: But, like you said, luca, he is the best player on the court.
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: It's going to be on him.
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: He's going to have to have four performances here.
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: You know, legendary, but he's got a cast, though he's got more guys to help, and so this is gonna.
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: I think that I think that's going seven yeah, I, I gotta think it's.
• 8:57
  Speaker 2: It's going seven too, man.
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: I mean I think I think it's gonna be nobody's gonna talk about the east um, this next week, basically all eyes are gonna be on on that Western Conference Finals.
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: It's a fun matchup.
• 9:12
  Speaker 2: I mean you kind of got a changing of the guard going on.
• 9:14
  Speaker 2: I mean now Luka versus Anthony Edwards, you know, to see who goes to the finals.
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: I mean you know.
• 9:22
  Speaker 2: And then again, once you get to the finals, you're going to have either Minnesota or Luka going up against the Celtics.
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: I really can't imagine the pacers win that was like yeah, I really can't imagine.
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: That come on carlyle.
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: I can't believe that guy's still around, dude, I did not realize he was coaching until, like, maybe the first round.
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, this guy's still there.
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: Like I remember Carlisle being a good coach, like 20 years ago, like the up and coming young coach that everybody wanted was Carlisle.
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: We had to go.
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: But yeah, no, I mean one way or another you're going to see somebody getting their first ring, a young star getting their first ring this year, because I mean you're going to have Luka, you're going to have the young T-Wolves, or you'll have the Celtics finally pushing through and getting that first championship that, my God, they've been knocking at the door for what?
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: Five years.
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: It's like, if not now, when?
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: Because I mean you're the one seed like by a big shot.
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, nobody's even talking about the Eastern Conference Finals, because they expect you to win.
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that roster top to bottom, man, I mean it's just loaded.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a team.
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: If they lose the finals, it's a failure completely.
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah no, it's been championship robust for them all season.
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: Man, I mean, you can't bring in a Drew Holiday and a Christoph Porzingis on a team that's been right there and then not get over the edge and consider it a success and then not get over the edge and consider it a success.
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: Well, that would be a good matchup, him against Dallas.
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: You know, that's who you got Boston.
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: That's who Boston-Dallas was going to pick in the beginning, man I wish my Miami teams were having as much success as I'm having at picking goddamn games this season.
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: The baseball team in the fight to make the tournament is still alive.
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: Technically they won the first game of the ACC tournament.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: They have three games to go and then they can get an automatic bid and then you can pay attention to college baseball maybe.
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: You know what will happen.
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: This happens every time with the, with miami's baseball at least.
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: You know the past 20 years.
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: As soon as I start paying attention oh, we got in, we got in and we'll get bounced in the super regionals by, like arkansas or some shit.
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: I mean it every time.
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: I just I, I start watching, get excited for miami baseball.
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: They, it's the Super Regionals.
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: We never get past the Super Regionals, man, I mean, I feel like the last time we did like Joey Cora was our shortstop.
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: Wow, that held it in way back.
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll watch the conference finals, but it should be fun In the West, but in the East we'll start.
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: The East starts tonight.
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: We'll keep an eye on it.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: We'll also watch the baseball.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: We'll see where the seating is and conference tournaments, and we'll talk to you next time right here on the North Florida Sports Network.