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- 0:00Speaker 1: Let's talk about Western Conference Finals, Game one one, fourteen
- 0:04Speaker 1: eighty eight is the final score. Ok see in the
- 0:06Speaker 1: second half, absolute masterclass, just on both sides of the ball,
- 0:11Speaker 1: mostly defensively, but you know that defense is really like that,
- 0:13Speaker 1: but mostly defensively. We got a lot to get to today,
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- 0:57Speaker 1: six teams hitting me up saying when we go get
- 0:58Speaker 1: a Celtics one, when we get a Rockets one, and
- 1:02Speaker 1: maybe I don't know, I can't tell you, I don't know,
- 1:03Speaker 1: I don't know, but we got these four. All right,
- 1:05Speaker 1: Let's talk about this basketball because in the first half
- 1:07Speaker 1: Julius Random was.
- 1:08Speaker 2: Playing with so much grint and so much joy.
- 1:12Speaker 1: He was one of my biggest X factors going into
- 1:13Speaker 1: the series because that level of physicality they can bring
- 1:16Speaker 1: on a night to night basis could be pretty detrimental
- 1:18Speaker 1: to the OKAC Thunder in my personal opinion, And in
- 1:21Speaker 1: his first half it wasn't really about his own physicality.
- 1:23Speaker 2: I felt like for every bad play he had, when.
- 1:25Speaker 1: It ended up being a few, because you know he
- 1:27Speaker 1: always leave his feet to throw pass, he backed it
- 1:29Speaker 1: up with the very next possession of two possion in
- 1:31Speaker 1: the road doing something amazing. He hit the one like
- 1:33Speaker 1: twenty nine thirty foot three pointer and they show him
- 1:36Speaker 1: he's just grinted ear to ear and I'm thinking to myself, man,
- 1:39Speaker 1: this is insane version of Julius Randall because just a
- 1:42Speaker 1: year ago, two years ago, he hit a shot in
- 1:44Speaker 1: his whole arena and the fans are going crazy. He
- 1:46Speaker 1: said he wasn't rocket with the fans. He wasn't playing
- 1:50Speaker 1: with that joy. Eventually they shut the foscet off throw
- 1:52Speaker 1: in the second half, he wasn't very effective, but in
- 1:54Speaker 1: the first half he's been able to do this the
- 1:56Speaker 1: entire postseason run so far.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Just keep the team afloat.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Anthony Everds hasn't had great first half so far, but
- 2:02Speaker 1: I remembering that game they closed out versus the Warriors,
- 2:04Speaker 1: Julius rand who had like nineteen points in the first half,
- 2:07Speaker 1: and then Anthony vers turned up in a third and
- 2:08Speaker 1: then the series was over. So he's been done a
- 2:11Speaker 1: good job of just laying the foundation. Hey, we're okay,
- 2:13Speaker 1: everything is cool. We're gonna let man take over in
- 2:16Speaker 1: that second half. Unfortunately for him and unfortunately for the Wolves,
- 2:20Speaker 1: that take over never came.
- 2:21Speaker 2: For Anthony Edwards.
- 2:22Speaker 1: They really made him think today, which I thought was
- 2:24Speaker 1: the biggest thing okay se can do. And I don't
- 2:26Speaker 1: think he did a bad job, Don't get me wrong.
- 2:28Speaker 1: I thought Anthony Verwards when they did run him in
- 2:30Speaker 1: the pick a row. He generated open looks. I thought
- 2:32Speaker 1: he generated a decent amount of open looks. The unfortunate part,
- 2:35Speaker 1: and some of those open looks are the exact ones
- 2:36Speaker 1: okay see wants to give up, and some of those
- 2:38Speaker 1: open looks ended up ending in nothing. One of the
- 2:41Speaker 1: most interesting things about this is, you know, I was
- 2:43Speaker 1: really hell been thinking about the size of the Minnesota
- 2:46Speaker 1: tim Wolves. I thought about when they played against the Lakers,
- 2:49Speaker 1: and one of the biggest advantages they had in the
- 2:51Speaker 1: Lakers series was how big they were and how much
- 2:53Speaker 1: they killed the offensive class And can they do that
- 2:55Speaker 1: against OKC, who tends to either run one singular big
- 2:59Speaker 1: or an occasional just won no bigs at all. Ways,
- 3:01Speaker 1: they did a lots of day and that size was
- 3:03Speaker 1: not felt at all today. Rudy Gobert is basically unplayable, right,
- 3:07Speaker 1: bad hands, stone hands, and they disrespected that man so
- 3:10Speaker 1: much that they said, hey, you know, we don't even.
- 3:13Speaker 2: Want to go to our third big.
- 3:15Speaker 1: We don't want to bring in Jay will who did
- 3:16Speaker 1: a pretty damn good job guarding Nicole Jokis in his
- 3:20Speaker 1: spot minutes last series. We're gonna bring Camridge Williams do
- 3:24Speaker 1: something Rudy, make us, make us regret going small.
- 3:27Speaker 2: Against you, and they were able to do that.
- 3:29Speaker 1: Whatsoever they played, I think they played right into the
- 3:32Speaker 1: thunders hands in this game. And Minnesota lost game of
- 3:34Speaker 1: won last Aeries. So this series is far from over
- 3:36Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to go to the drawing board
- 3:38Speaker 1: and try to figure out exactly what the hell they
- 3:39Speaker 1: want to do next. But the OKC thunder Red is
- 3:41Speaker 1: one lineup. Then I'm like, oh no, they really just
- 3:44Speaker 1: playing in y'all face. It was Caruso casein Shay Dub
- 3:48Speaker 1: and Dor We're gonna run four guards and one four
- 3:51Speaker 1: man I mean one three man really in JDub because
- 3:53Speaker 1: j Doub is like six' five if we're being. Honest
- 3:55Speaker 1: they ran that small last, lineup and they ended up
- 3:58Speaker 1: they outscored their post minutes three minute strikes by like five.
- 4:01Speaker 2: Points it wasn't that, crazy but it was.
- 4:02Speaker 1: Crazy at the same, time they didn't respect the other
- 4:05Speaker 1: team's size Because minnesota didn't give an opportunity to benefit off.
- 4:09Speaker 1: That because we Know Ride gobert is not gonna do.
- 4:11Speaker 1: THIS i, mean his twenty twenty game against The lakers
- 4:14Speaker 1: is absolutely. Nuts he probably not doing. That, again maybe he,
- 4:16Speaker 1: does but the one place he could become effective there
- 4:20Speaker 1: Or julius wrend Or nasrita's the offensive, glass and they
- 4:23Speaker 1: didn't get to that class At they ended up with
- 4:27Speaker 1: twelve offensive. Boards BUT i promise you didn't feel like
- 4:29Speaker 1: that at. All and if you think about how small
- 4:31Speaker 1: THE Okc thunder went in a lot of this, game
- 4:33Speaker 1: that twelve could have been.
- 4:36Speaker 2: Twenty, RIGHT a lot a lot.
- 4:39Speaker 1: Of that was just felt like they were playing mental
- 4:41Speaker 1: games night and night.
- 4:43Speaker 2: OUT i thought that they settled a lot in this.
- 4:46Speaker 1: Game and it's easy for me to say that today, because,
- 4:49Speaker 1: well THE Okc, thunder that's what their defense. Does when
- 4:51Speaker 1: we talk about them being a legendary, defense people are
- 4:53Speaker 1: just pulling numbers out their.
- 4:54Speaker 2: Ass this is what this team. Does and we talk.
- 4:56Speaker 1: About a game of a seven versus the Different, nuggets
- 4:59Speaker 1: howridiculous it. Was AND i mentioned how that could have
- 5:02Speaker 1: been a turning point for them to be able to
- 5:03Speaker 1: just go on and. Running we're talking about game one of
- 5:05Speaker 1: A West conference, final and think it. Happen that's kind
- 5:07Speaker 1: of HOW i. Feel they shot fifty threes before the
- 5:10Speaker 1: starters got, pulled And i'm speculating right, here Where Anthony
- 5:13Speaker 1: ver was walking off the court for the final. Time
- 5:14Speaker 1: he looked up at the jumbo tron and he, said.
- 5:16Speaker 1: Damn AND i wonder if that damn was to the
- 5:19Speaker 1: fact that.
- 5:19Speaker 3: This team shot fifty threes today it only hit fifteen of.
- 5:22Speaker 2: Them it's.
- 5:24Speaker 1: Nuts AND i, think you, know if you look at
- 5:28Speaker 1: last series and when we talk about BEATING, okac because
- 5:31Speaker 1: that's what you have to, do you have to you
- 5:32Speaker 1: have to BEAT. Okac it is rare that they're going
- 5:34Speaker 1: to beat. THEMSELVES i got a few of these in today's.
- 5:37Speaker 1: Video the only time IS i gain number one, right
- 5:40Speaker 1: game number, One chad, missus the free, throws the bad time,
- 5:42Speaker 1: out the bad foul up, three, whatever. Whatever but for
- 5:45Speaker 1: the most, part in order to beat The, thunder you
- 5:47Speaker 1: have to you have to take advantage of certain. Things
- 5:50Speaker 1: AND i thought that early in this game they came
- 5:52Speaker 1: mentally Again i'm Just i'm speculating right. Here, mentally they
- 5:55Speaker 1: were prepared to not get an adequate. Whistle so because of,
- 5:58Speaker 1: that they settled a ton and we stop Seeing julius
- 6:01Speaker 1: randw get post, touches we stop Seeing Anthony evers try
- 6:04Speaker 1: to get, downhill and they settled THE okac thund are
- 6:08Speaker 1: gonna be. Aggressive you need to make THE Okac thunder
- 6:11Speaker 1: foul the hell out of. You think about the games
- 6:14Speaker 1: that theyver won last.
- 6:14Speaker 4: Series those were the games when they got to the
- 6:17Speaker 4: line thirty something times because they weren't, Able they weren't
- 6:21Speaker 4: ready to just settle just because they didn't get a
- 6:24Speaker 4: good whistle to start the first six minutes of the.
- 6:26Speaker 2: Game, yeah we're, bigger we're.
- 6:28Speaker 1: Stronger if we want to get downhill and force you
- 6:32Speaker 1: to foul.
- 6:33Speaker 2: Us guess What caruso is going to. File he gon
- 6:37Speaker 2: foul a hundred.
- 6:38Speaker 1: Times he might get off for five of, them but
- 6:40Speaker 1: you have to put him in position to foul a
- 6:41Speaker 1: hundred times so you can get that. Five AND i
- 6:43Speaker 1: thought that The Minnesota timbles to do, That and that
- 6:45Speaker 1: was one of the things that that Coach finch when
- 6:48Speaker 1: they miped them, up was talking, about we have to.
- 6:50Speaker 2: Continue we have to continue to be.
- 6:53Speaker 1: Aggressive it's so easy said than, done but that's one
- 6:56Speaker 1: place where they can really hang their. Hat we Saw
- 6:59Speaker 1: Anthony area's able to flip that switch in That lakers
- 7:01Speaker 1: series where he had the game and we shot like
- 7:03Speaker 1: was it twenty one free? Throws we saw him get
- 7:06Speaker 1: to the, basket AND i mean it's gonna be tough
- 7:09Speaker 1: on your, body for. Sure you side that With Donovan
- 7:10Speaker 1: mitchell in the. Postseason but at the end of the,
- 7:13Speaker 1: day you getting dubbing foul, trouble you Getting caruso on foul,
- 7:16Speaker 1: trouble you getting hard or chat or somebody in foul
- 7:20Speaker 1: trouble is ultimately just gonna beneficial to. You AND i
- 7:22Speaker 1: felt like they didn't do that at all, Today And
- 7:25Speaker 1: i'm sure that's gonna be close high on that priority.
- 7:27Speaker 2: List guess.
- 7:28Speaker 1: What Chris finch also, said this is a team that's
- 7:31Speaker 1: gonna struggle in a half. Court today wasn't necessarily the
- 7:34Speaker 1: day for. That but you can't turn the ball.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Over you.
- 7:38Speaker 1: Can't they had seventeen of them. Today this team wants
- 7:41Speaker 1: you to turn the ball over so they could turn
- 7:43Speaker 1: it into easy. Points, now after there are seventeen, turnovers
- 7:45Speaker 1: it only turns to twelve fast break. Points BUT i
- 7:47Speaker 1: guess that's couldn't. Be it could be worse with seventeen.
- 7:51Speaker 1: Turnovers but on the flip side of, that y'all din't
- 7:54Speaker 1: generate a single fast break, point not. One see people
- 7:58Speaker 1: on the point to SOME x tier your factors with
- 8:00Speaker 1: some of these. Games but sometimes it really is in the.
- 8:03Speaker 1: Numbers sometimes it really is in the. Game there's no
- 8:07Speaker 1: reason in my mind a team should ever end the
- 8:09Speaker 1: game with zero fast break. Points happened Today they had
- 8:14Speaker 1: twenty points in the.
- 8:15Speaker 2: Paint.
- 8:16Speaker 1: Unacceptable, see these are the things that if you look
- 8:19Speaker 1: at game of one, like, okay it's just game of,
- 8:21Speaker 1: one we can. Fit we could easily fix that because
- 8:23Speaker 1: we've been able to do it the last two.
- 8:24Speaker 2: Series.
- 8:26Speaker 1: Okay, see his defense was ridiculous in the fourth quarter
- 8:29Speaker 1: Of Chet. Hoomer in the first six minute stretch Of
- 8:30Speaker 1: Chet holmers's maybe the best stretched Chetom run has had
- 8:33Speaker 1: in this postseason so.
- 8:34Speaker 2: Far blocks and, blocks dunks and. Lobs he was absolutely.
- 8:38Speaker 1: Everywhere AND i think That game one is always trying
- 8:42Speaker 1: to figure out who can play and who Can in
- 8:44Speaker 1: the last, Series Isaiah joe could not. Play they put
- 8:48Speaker 1: him on the court for. Shooting he shot oh for.
- 8:50Speaker 1: Four he shot a shot so damn bad THAT I
- 8:52Speaker 1: i s ubbed to. HIM i ain't got no responsibility.
- 8:55Speaker 2: To be able to do.
- 8:56Speaker 4: That.
- 8:57Speaker 2: Today hit some, shots play some good.
- 8:59Speaker 1: Defense guess, WHAT i bet we'll see some Mari Isaa
- 9:01Speaker 1: joe throughout this, series, right and that's kind of what this.
- 9:04Speaker 1: Is Cambridge williams was. Great Kenny hassel hit some two big.
- 9:07Speaker 1: THREES i bet we'll see more of him in the.
- 9:09Speaker 2: Series.
- 9:09Speaker 1: Right and on the flip side of the things you
- 9:11Speaker 1: think About, minnesota my, guy my, guy my, Guy Rigo
- 9:18Speaker 1: beer is. Awful the only thing that we saw him
- 9:21Speaker 1: be able to do is to deter shame maybe, once
- 9:24Speaker 1: maybe twice in the first half from the.
- 9:25Speaker 2: Rim it's kind of.
- 9:27Speaker 1: It AND i keep looking back at being Like dante
- 9:30Speaker 1: Divin chanzo shooting like twenty eight to thirty percent from
- 9:33Speaker 1: three in his postseason.
- 9:34Speaker 2: Run that's gonna have.
- 9:35Speaker 1: To, flip, Right he's too good of a shooter for
- 9:37Speaker 1: him to go this entire run on you shooting thirty.
- 9:39Speaker 2: Percent it ain't for the lack of. Try.
- 9:41Speaker 1: Damnit he took twelve threes. Today he took twelve of
- 9:43Speaker 1: them days he was letting him, fly could hit. Him NaN's,
- 9:46Speaker 1: reed let's go his first point to the fourth. Quarter
- 9:48Speaker 1: so there are like some silver lining things if you
- 9:51Speaker 1: are The Minnesota, timbwolves but you don't really have a
- 9:54Speaker 1: ton of time with This thunders. Team in my, OPINION
- 9:57Speaker 1: i don't think you DO i kind of got away
- 10:02Speaker 1: from exit because everybody's having the same. Conversation it's not
- 10:06Speaker 1: necessarily about the. Basketball it's about the whistles and. All
- 10:11Speaker 1: and here here's my personal take on. It and this
- 10:13Speaker 1: will maybe be the last TIME i talk about. This
- 10:20Speaker 1: somebody said to me On, twitter this isn't. Basketball shout
- 10:23Speaker 1: out To. Dwayne i'll give your shout, Out, dwayne this isn't.
- 10:25Speaker 1: Basketball fourteen free throws From shay is. INSANE i respond
- 10:29Speaker 1: to that, SAID i wholeheartedly. Disagree and this is where
- 10:32Speaker 1: my head is. At this is where my head is. At,
- 10:34Speaker 1: shaye by all the statistics and the eye, tests is
- 10:37Speaker 1: the number one driver in THE.
- 10:39Speaker 2: Nba she see.
- 10:40Speaker 1: Its look at the, numbers loo at the, frequency look
- 10:42Speaker 1: at the finish at fifty eight percent when he's, driving
- 10:44Speaker 1: he's doing. IT i forget the amount of times per.
- 10:46Speaker 1: Game it's it's head and shoulders or whatever above. EVERYBODY
- 10:50Speaker 1: i believe that in eighty five, Percent i'm making up this,
- 10:53Speaker 1: number But i'm just on eighty five to ninety percent
- 10:56Speaker 1: of his drives that a whistle does get, called he's
- 10:58Speaker 1: actually getting. Fouled but then we also got that fifteen
- 11:01Speaker 1: to ten percent where he's not getting, fouled and he's
- 11:03Speaker 1: getting the call because he's even, embellishing he's playing for the,
- 11:07Speaker 1: call or he's just.
- 11:08Speaker 2: A super starr against that.
- 11:09Speaker 1: Whistle so, personally it's not a problem to me if
- 11:13Speaker 1: eighty five percent of the time he's driving to the,
- 11:16Speaker 1: basket he's actually getting the. Foul some of the fouls
- 11:20Speaker 1: That jada mcdavie's heading that second half legitimately were stupid.
- 11:23Speaker 1: Fouls the one that he fouled out. On you have five,
- 11:26Speaker 1: fouls you know who you're. Guarding why is your hand
- 11:29Speaker 1: grabbing his shooting hand on a? Drive they showed the
- 11:35Speaker 1: first angle And i'm, Like, oh that's a bit tiki,
- 11:37Speaker 1: tack ain't. It then they showed the up top. Angle
- 11:39Speaker 1: he grabbed the whole. Arm, yes that's a.
- 11:41Speaker 2: Foul Does Shayan? Bellis? Yes?
- 11:45Speaker 1: Yes but for me, Personally i'm talking about me as
- 11:48Speaker 1: a ball. Watcher it has never got to the point
- 11:51Speaker 1: where it has prevented me from liking the game of.
- 11:53Speaker 1: Basketball some people are, saying and this is this is
- 11:57Speaker 1: my last analogy on, it AND i won't bring it
- 11:59Speaker 1: up again unless it becomes SOMETHING i think it's worth
- 12:01Speaker 1: talking about. AGAIN i Think the problem at all is
- 12:05Speaker 1: the rate of. It, Right If I'm shay in this,
- 12:10Speaker 1: situation IF i drive to the basket making up numbers
- 12:13Speaker 1: just to make it even one hundred, times and in
- 12:16Speaker 1: that one hundred, TIMES i get twenty, whistles and then
- 12:19Speaker 1: you drive to the basket twenty times and you get four.
- 12:22Speaker 2: Whistles guess. What the frequency of those whistles are exactly the.
- 12:26Speaker 3: Same but BECAUSE i do it five times more than,
- 12:29Speaker 3: you of course it looks like my whistle is. Better
- 12:32Speaker 3: i'm more aggressive than you, are, Right and WHEN i
- 12:36Speaker 3: say that these do settled and they took fifty three, pointers,
- 12:40Speaker 3: yeah they're not gonna have a great whistle when you're
- 12:43Speaker 3: shooting fifty three pointers out of.
- 12:45Speaker 2: Eighty that's my personal take on. It i'm.
- 12:48Speaker 1: Welcome i'm completely open to people disagreeing with. It at
- 12:51Speaker 1: the end of the, day we're all watching. Basketball everybody's
- 12:53Speaker 1: gonna view it, Differently So i'm not saying anybody's right or.
- 12:55Speaker 1: Wrong but from MY, Pov i'm gonna rewatch the files for.
- 12:59Speaker 2: Sure but it was only.
- 13:01Speaker 1: One it was one in the in the first half
- 13:03Speaker 1: THAT I i don't know what my book is that
- 13:05Speaker 1: it's probably. Downstairs one of the fouls That ja mcdameel's
- 13:08Speaker 1: had When shaye was on the left, elbow he did a,
- 13:12Speaker 1: spin he kicked his leg, out he hit an a
- 13:14Speaker 1: one that was one of the ones in my.
- 13:16Speaker 2: Notes i'm, like, oh that's.
- 13:17Speaker 1: Questionable and even when they showed The driffin, Replays i'm,
- 13:19Speaker 1: LIKE i just don't see a foul. There So i'm
- 13:21Speaker 1: not saying that he doesn't. Embellish i'm not saying that
- 13:23Speaker 1: he doesn't get a good. Whissue i'm not saying that
- 13:25Speaker 1: he doesn't jump into players to get the. Whistle i'm
- 13:28Speaker 1: saying it's not.
- 13:30Speaker 2: A problem to. Me where have y'all?
- 13:32Speaker 1: Been this has been the thing across basketball for a
- 13:35Speaker 1: very long, time whether it be The, hardeners whether it
- 13:38Speaker 1: be The, bees whether it be The, pauls whether it
- 13:39Speaker 1: be the The, roses whether it be The, coves hether it
- 13:41Speaker 1: be the ways we.
- 13:43Speaker 2: Could go throughout every. Generation that's just the way it.
- 13:46Speaker 1: IS i don't think THE i, think if, anything it's
- 13:50Speaker 1: the way it's officiated versus the. Player hey, Man i'm
- 13:54Speaker 1: zer of five right. Now DAMN i gotta get myself.
- 13:56Speaker 1: Going you know the best way to get yourself going
- 13:58Speaker 1: there's only two. Ways it's getting a layer up and
- 14:00Speaker 1: hitting the free throw.
- 14:00Speaker 2: Line And shae started off this game not being able
- 14:03Speaker 2: to hit a. Shot let me get toe a. Line
- 14:06Speaker 2: let me get toe. Line so that's that's my take
- 14:08Speaker 2: on it.
- 14:08Speaker 1: All and, again that might be the last TIME i
- 14:10Speaker 1: ever talked about it BECAUSE i think it eliminates the
- 14:12Speaker 1: actual basketball. Talk BECAUSE i promise, You, okay she didn't
- 14:16Speaker 1: win Because shay got to the free throw line. Tonight
- 14:19Speaker 1: that's just my. Take that's my. Take