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Should Nikola Jokic or Shai Gilgeous-Alexander win NBA MVP? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  But anyways, in the NB AM VP race, defending award winner
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  Shay Gilch, Chris Alexander is the runaway favorite to win the
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  award despite Nicola Yokich reaching 65.
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  Get the 65 game minimum according to bet MGMSGA is a -.
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  5000 to win the MVP, followed by Wembe at +2000 and then Yokich
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  at plus 6600. Wembe is averaging 25 points,
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  11.5 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game.
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  He's been playing sensational as we all know.
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  Isn't it 3.1 blocks per game? I think that's what he's
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  averaging, not 3.1 assists per game.
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  But I don't know. SG Agent is averaged and it has
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  been averaging 31.1 points per game, 4.3 rebounds per game, and
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  6.6 assists per game this season.
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  Yokich averaging 27.7 points per game, 12.9 rebounds per game,
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  and 10.7 assists per game. The other big controversial.
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  There's no doubt controversial in the NBA has been the 6565
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  game minimum rule, but the NBA did rule Luka Doncic and Kate
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  Cunningham eligible for the the awards despite playing 64 games.
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  I love, I'm wearing, as you can see, I'm wearing an Oklahoma
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  jersey. I love OK CI.
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  Really, I'm a Knick fan. As you can see, I'm wearing my
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  Knicks hat, wearing my nice orange hat.
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  Yeah, I have to be. I love the New York Knicks.
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  I love them, but I also love OK CI, love SGAI.
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  Think he's one of the most electrifying players right now
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  in the NBA? There's no question the guy can
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  shoot the three. He can dominate in many
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  different areas of his game. For a guy his size for for a
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  guy's significant size, he's still averaging 4.3 rebounds per
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  game and 6.6 assists per game. This guy is a dominant offensive
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  weapon. And if you think about it, this
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  is the same guy that was traded for Paul George.
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  This was the Clippers top end pick.
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  Him and Williams were the Clippers and they traded these
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  two players. Probably one of the worst trades
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  in NBA history. Me and Fish have gone back and
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  forth talking about it. Think about it, you get 2
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  dominant players for one player that can't stay healthy.
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  Go ask the 76ers what they had to deal with this year with Paul
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  George. The steroid situation, The guy
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  can't stay healthy. Came.
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  Remember, this guy was a great United States basketball player.
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  Hurt his leg in the USA game and obviously broke it.
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  And I think two different spots. Some people thought he was never
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  going to come back again. But what SGA has done has just
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  dominated the league. Canadian player, international
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  player. And when you look at the list of
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  players right now up for this award besides Kate Cunningham,
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  Wembe is from France, SGA is from Canada, Yokich is from
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  Serbia, Luka Dodgek, where's he from?
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  I don't even know where Croatia. There it is.
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  I mean, you have 4 international players.
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  Your four best players in all of the NBA are international.
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  Would this have happened in the 90s or the early 2000s?
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  No, because you had LeBron James at the top of his game, yet Kobe
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  Bryant in the days of the 90s, you had you had Tim Duncan, you
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  had Michael Jordan, you had all those players, Karl Malone,
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  Scottie Pippen. America was dominating,
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  dominating every single year, every single decade.
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  And now it's transition into an international game.
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  Dirk Nowinski was one of the first international superstars.
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  And then all these players started to come from all
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  different countries and have dominated.
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  Absolutely dominating. SGA is one of those guys that
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  you love to watch. The guy is sensational.
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  But as far as the NVPI think Jokic has been stole.
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  He he, they stole the NVP last year.
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  This is a big man that had a triple double last year, a
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  triple double. And what he's doing right now is
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  it's just absolutely amazing. 12.9 rebounds per game, which he
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  leads the league, 10 points, 10.7 assists per game.
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  This guy's been probably the leading assist guy in all of the
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  NBA practically the whole season.
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  I don't know if he's still there, but he's one of the top
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  three in the NBA and 27 points. Now, I'm not taking shots at
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  SGA, but the only thing SGA dominates in as far as what I've
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  seen is his offense ability. His offensive ability is
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  remarkable, but he's only averaging four more points than
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  Yokich is. Yokich is dominating on the
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  boards. Yokich is dominating on the
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  assists. How is SGA right now throughout
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  the league? A minus 5000 to win the MVP?
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  It doesn't make any sense. I don't care what MGM thinks,
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  Vegas thinks this guy's been sensational.
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  Is he the best player right now in the NBA?
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  Does he make his team that much better?
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  I can tell you this right now, if SGA was hurt, this team is
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  still a top three team in the in the Western Conference.
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  Still still, you look at Webby Yama and see what he's done.
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  He's been sensational, but even without Webby, there's still a
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  playoff team. There's still a top five team in
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  the Western Conference. They're sensational.
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  They got so much talent, young talent, so much depth on that
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  roster. If you look at a guy like
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  Yokich, if Yokich is not playing, does this team, is this
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  team a playoff team? They're not.
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  Is this team an elite team? They're not.
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  Is this team competing for a top five seed?
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  They're not. Jokic makes them that much
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  better. And what do you think an MVP
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  stands for? Most Valuable Player and the
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  Most Valuable Player to their team and throughout the NBA is
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  is no other than Nicole Jokic. There's no argument to it.
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  What he does on a basketball court, we've never seen a big
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  man do. Now, is he a good defender?
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  No, he's not the best defender. Is he a decent defender?
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  He is. But what he does with the ball,
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  passing the ball, rebounding the ball, scoring the ball, how many
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  players can do what he does at his size?
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  How many players in the past can do what he does with his size?
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  Nobody. That's how talented he is.
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  That's how great he is. And again, going back to all
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  these guys, even Luka Doncic, what he's done for the Lakers,
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  we all knew how great Luka is. Luka is special.
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  He is an offensive phenom. He helped the Lakers really get
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  this team to the playoffs. Without Luka Doncic, LeBron
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  James is not the same LeBron James.
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  Reeves has been really, really good this year.
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  He's going to get a big contract.
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  But without Luka Doncic, this team is not even a playoff
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  contending team. When I look at the two best
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  players, the two MV PS to their teams, it's Luka Doncic and
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  Nicola Yokich. They make their teams that much
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  better. Now.
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  I'm not taking shots at Webenyama.
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  Webenyama is turning into a superstar.
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  I was one that didn't like Webenyama.
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  I didn't think he was going to stay healthy.
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  But his heart and his soul and how hard he plays.
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  You'll love the way he is energetic and he goes out there
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  and plays hard every single game.
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  Look what he did in the All Star game.
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  He's the only one that played hard in the All Star Game.
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  All these guys are well deserving players.
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  Kate Cunningham has been unbelievable.
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  You can argue he is the he was the best point guard in the
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  NBANBA before he went down. He was better than SGA all
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  around. What he's done for Detroit, what
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  he's done for that organization, what he's done for the Eastern
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  Conference, Detroit. I remember when they were world
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  power, they had the 2 Wallaces, they had Billups, they had
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  Hamilton, they had Prince. Dominant force.
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  When you look at this team, the only player, the only superstar
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  besides Duran's a good play, but besides Kate Cunningham.
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  Could you name their top five players on their roster?
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  You probably couldn't if you don't watch Detroit basketball.
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  That's how good Kate Cunningham has been this year.
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  There's no arguments to him. I can't argue who he is as a
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  player. But what I can argue right now
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  is how the hell does Bet MGM have SGA as a -5000?
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  It doesn't make any sense. Nicola Yokich is the third guy
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  on this list. A + 6600.
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  How many big men? How many big men could you
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  remember have a triple double back-to-back years?
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  Now? I remember Harden, I remember
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  Westbrook, all both those guys, when they had a triple double,
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  they were automatically MVPS, automatically MVPS.
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  Bull hogs or not, they're automatic MVPS.
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  How does Nicole Yokich do it year in and year out and get
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  better, better? If you look at his numbers,
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  they're absolutely better than he was last year.
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  How does this guy not the leading vote getter for the MVP?
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  It doesn't make any sense, Speedy.
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  It makes no sense. You you mentioned those other
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  two cases too, Westbrook and Harden.
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  They were not as efficient as what we've seen Nicola Yokich do
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  in every triple double season that he's had.
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  I didn't think Harden should have won it that year Even so,
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  because he was very inefficient. I think he was a 43% shooter
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  that year. I thought Anthony Davis deserved
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  it on a lot lesser team. That's when New Orleans first
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  broke out and then Anthony Davis got traded the next year and
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  then LeBron was in the as we said many times, like LeBron
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  could win the MVP in a lot of different years.
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  And now Yokich is getting that same kind of treatment because
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  of Joelle and beads cry baby antics and that tight race last
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  year with Yokich at SGA. But I agree with you.
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  There's no justifying that that this guy's averaging a triple
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  double on a Nuggets team. We'll get into them.
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  But when we preview the playoffs, that is 2020, first in
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  total defense this year. Now, yeah, his defense hasn't
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  been great. I think it's his worst defensive
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  year, I believe, since his rookie year.
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  So yeah, maybe that's going to factor into it.
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  But at the same time. That's going to factor in a.
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  Triple I I wouldn't do it, but I'm just saying there they'll
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  probably there's certain voters that say, oh, his his defensive
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  efficiency is down. So they're going to hold that
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  against him compared to Wemby, who's going to be a finalist for
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  defensive player of the year could win it.
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  Now this is the other thing that's interesting is the
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  minutes versus the games played, because Wemby actually played
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  less minutes than everyone else on this list.
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  Now, they were going to nitpick on Luka, Doncic, and Kate for
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  missing the 64, missing the 65 game mark, but Wemby actually
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  played less minutes than both of them Even so.
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  So I'm glad the NBA did that and realized that MB should not be
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  on the list if if Kate and Luca aren't because obviously Kate
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  had collapsed along. That's not a basketball injury.
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  And Luca Dantic, like you said, is powering through a Lakers
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  team that has had injuries galore all year.
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  So the fact that they did that is a good move.
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  And but I agree with you, I still think Yokich has elevated
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  that team when all the trades that were made a new coach this
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  year. In your view right now, when you
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  look at this list, who is the number one player to win MVP?
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  Yokich it's. It's not even an argument.
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  SGA, SGA. Let's hear it.
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  Let's hear your take about SGA. So SEA got OKC to the number one
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  seed right in the 1st 21 games huh?
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  Did. He.
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  Yeah, for sure, But he also runs the system, but he's also lead
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  in that team, averaging 30 points.
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  He's also didn't pay for the 1st 21st game, 1st 21 games.
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  He never played in the fourth quarter.
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  So still averaging 30 without playing in the fourth quarter.
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  I would think that would be an impressive, right?
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  That would be impressive, right? Total points, yes, but it's per
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  game. So you're hold on one second.
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  So you're saying in the 1st 20 games he didn't play in a fourth
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  quarter. So it's telling you that they're
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  that much better than everybody. Else that's not that's what,
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  that's what I'm telling you. They're beating people like they
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  suppose. They're that much better than
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  everybody else. Okay, why?
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  Who's leading the pack? The team, there's a whole team.
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  It's not just. Him SEA is leading the pack, yes
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  or no? Yeah, but it's really.
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  Is he leading the team in rebounds?
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  Is he leading the team in assist?
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  Is he leading the team in blocks?
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  Yes or no? No, okay.
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  I rest my case. So that what is that what case?
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  I rest my case because right now when you look at Jokic, he leads
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  the team in points, rebounds, assist.
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  He is that that important of a player.
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  He's the Most Valuable Player to his team.
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  His. Franchise or in 3rd correct?
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  Yeah, the team stinks. It would be a playing team if he
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  wasn't. There, the team stinks.
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  They do. They stink.
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  Third in the Western Conference. Would you say the Western
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  Conference is suffer? Yes, harder.
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  Yes, absolutely harder. Absolutely harder.
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  OK. So they in the third, they in
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  3rd place, OK, But they was battling in the in the middle of
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  the season, they were battling anywhere between 5:00 to 7:00,
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  correct? Go ahead.
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  I'm waiting for your point here. I'm.
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  Waiting for the point. What?
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  What's the? What you mean you wait for?
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  The I'm waiting for the point because I gave you my point.
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  If he's not playing in the fourth quarter for the 1st 20
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  games, it means his team is that much better than everybody else.
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  You could win without him. But you're taking away the 30
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  points that he's he's already getting and he's taking away.
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  So if you don't get those 30 points, they're not blowing
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  people out if you look at all these.
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  If you look at all these players that are fighting for that MVP,
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  the Most Valuable Player webin Yama is more valuable to his
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  team than SGA is. And so yes, he is Luka Doncic.
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  Luka Doncic is more Luka Doncic is more important to his team
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  than SGA is, because if these players were not on their teams,
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  they're not in the playoffs. They're just not.
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  LeBron and AR or their final? Seeds, they're like 8 or they're
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  like 8 or 7 seeds. Yeah, Nuggets and Lakers are
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  definitely playing teams. If those two guys aren't healthy
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  all year, if. Luca don't play and it's just
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  LeBron and Arkansas. You're telling me that they
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  can't get past the play in? No, no, no, that's insane.
• 20:37
  The. Spurs, I think, could.
• 20:38
  I don't leave the other two teams, that's the same.
• 20:40
  Who? I mean, Luca gets 30, but he
• 20:43
  traded basket. So I mean, I don't understand
• 20:45
  like that logic in regards to like is he gets to 30, but he's
• 20:49
  also giving up 353540 points. So what's the what's the logic
• 20:54
  behind saying that he is that impactful on the office?
• 20:58
  It's entertaining but impactful wise.
• 21:00
  In the game wise, it's not really moving the needle like
• 21:03
  that because you're trading so many baskets on the other side
• 21:06
  of the court. How about this?
• 21:07
  That's what I'm saying. How about this?
• 21:09
  Why the NBA wants SGA to win every single year is because
• 21:13
  he's a Good Samaritan. He doesn't complain to the
• 21:16
  referees. No, this is this is the truth.
• 21:18
  He doesn't complain. Webbing, Yamas always out there
• 21:20
  speaking to the media and throwing the NBA under the bus
• 21:22
  with the All Star game. Luka Dajik how many times does
• 21:25
  he fight on the court? He sticks up for his players.
• 21:27
  You see that all the time. Kate Cunningham He's been back
• 21:31
  and forth arguing with referees. He's coming from that dirty,
• 21:34
  dirty Detroit and everybody doesn't like him because he's
• 21:37
  playing for Detroit. Luka Dajik, how many times does
• 21:40
  he bitch and moan to the referees?
• 21:42
  He's one of the leading guys in the NBA that does so.
• 21:45
  The only guy you look at as SGA who doesn't get in trouble
• 21:48
  doesn't really say. Any other referees though really
• 21:50
  speak to the referee when they get filed and they don't call?
• 21:53
  Really. Is that why the same free is
• 21:55
  that? Like everybody else.
• 21:57
  Is that why we still complain? Is that why when he goes to
• 21:59
  Madison Square Garden, they're calling fouls on the Knicks more
• 22:03
  than they're calling fouls on him?
• 22:05
  Is that why? Because it usually goes to the
• 22:07
  whole. Team fouls oh stop it.
• 22:10
  Throwing fouls on the talent it's.
• 22:11
  A talent, right? It's James Harden.
• 22:13
  It's James Harden. It's a four good job with the
• 22:18
  big basket Let. Me do the stinky leg.
• 22:21
  Let me do the stinky leg. Give me a break, how are you
• 22:28
  arguing this? He flops and he gets to the
• 22:30
  line. How are you arguing this?
• 22:32
  There's no argument to this. SGA is not the MVP.
• 22:35
  He's leading, He's number one, he's leading in the league, he's
• 22:39
  number one in the Western Conference.
• 22:41
  He's no one. In the division, he's.
• 22:42
  He's leading the points. He's he's never, he hasn't been
• 22:45
  dethroned from winning the championship last year.
• 22:48
  He had one of the hardest schedules of the year.
• 22:51
  So what are we talking? About why not?
• 22:54
  You might. Go on the point record not SGA
• 22:57
  Dodgers averaged 33 1/2 because they just allowed him to get but
• 23:00
  then they just today, as we said in the beginning in the read
• 23:03
  right, they're bringing him back to those end of season year
• 23:05
  awards. So now that's just good.
• 23:06
  Doncic gets the the point title he's going to probably, and this
• 23:10
  lets the first team NBA guys because that stuff's in people's
• 23:12
  contracts if you don't make. Those NBA he's shooting way
• 23:15
  more. He's shooting way more than.
• 23:17
  SGA too. I'm going to take your side, Q
• 23:19
  and I, I, I look, I love Jokic. I probably would still go with
• 23:23
  Jokic, but here's the argument. I haven't given you this
• 23:26
  argument for SGA yet. Here's the advanced stats.
• 23:30
  Oh God, here it is again. I know, look.
• 23:32
  It's true. No, it's it's not true.
• 23:35
  Why? Because he's telling me, taking
• 23:36
  your side, I'm going to get he's only feeling bad for you.
• 23:39
  He's only feeling bad. No, he's not.
• 23:40
  I'm not. Advanced.
• 23:42
  No he's not. I'll give because advanced stats
• 23:45
  don't sell me anything. True.
• 23:46
  Shooting percentage speedy what is true Shooting percentage tell
• 23:49
  us. So true, true shooting
• 23:51
  percentage is the it's the multiplication of like most twos
• 23:55
  and most threes percentage combined and SGAI believe was I
• 23:59
  think 58 on the year. Actually that's not true.
• 24:03
  He set the all time record I'm messing with.
• 24:05
  The fact, I think I messed up with the fact, but if you're
• 24:07
  right. Here's here's what he did.
• 24:09
  That's, that's why people are going to give him this award at
• 24:11
  -5000 because I couldn't understand it either.
• 24:14
  He said he broke Michael Jordan, Michael Jordans.
• 24:18
  Record. For highest field goal
• 24:21
  percentage for a guard who averaged over 30 points a game.
• 24:25
  Games different, games different.
• 24:28
  Games different. Games different.
• 24:31
  This is like a two point thing though.
• 24:33
  This is about like combining the two pointers games.
• 24:35
  Different. But that's putting him in
• 24:37
  Michael Jordan territory, no? You cannot put him in the same.
• 24:41
  I'm not done. I got a second.
• 24:43
  I got a second. Spin it out because I want.
• 24:45
  I have a lot to say about. His true shooting percentage of
• 24:48
  67.5. Steph Curry's record in
• 24:53
  20/15/2016 of 60. 6.9. Are you done?
• 24:58
  Are you done? 90s and Curry votes, are you
• 25:01
  done? In shooting, he's not with.
• 25:03
  First team defense. OK, now I'm going to, I'm going
• 25:08
  to argue that Luka Doncic right now is in the top five in
• 25:11
  offense in the league. Luka Doncic is in the top 3IN
• 25:15
  rebounds and assists. And Luka Doncic is a big man.
• 25:19
  That's what he is. He runs the offense, runs
• 25:22
  through the big OK, doesn't run. SGA is the point guard, it's
• 25:26
  supposed to run. The offense is supposed to run
• 25:28
  through him. And right now, when you look at
• 25:30
  his roster, his roster has more depth in all of the Western
• 25:34
  Conference than any team. When you if you look at what SGA
• 25:38
  has done, I don't care what he's doing.
• 25:39
  Breaking Michael Jordan's statistic records or whatever.
• 25:42
  And Michael Jordan played in the 90s is a different game.
• 25:46
  It was a different game. Defense was different.
• 25:48
  If if SGA played in the game when Michael Jordan played, he
• 25:52
  wouldn't be able to get off the shots that he gets off.
• 25:54
  He's open 90% of the time. So do you sit here?
• 25:57
  Yeah, he is. Do you watch?
• 26:00
  Do you watch him? I watch him there.
• 26:02
  Is it would be way more athletic than what they seen in the
• 26:04
  there. Is no way in hell by looking at
• 26:08
  this stats you can argue right now that he is better than what
• 26:12
  Jokic has done he. Will be going up against
• 26:14
  Michael. Jordan, if it was so so you're
• 26:16
  telling me why James Harden and Russell Westbrook, who won, who
• 26:19
  won the MVP triple double and and by the way, there were other
• 26:22
  players that had better numbers than them, way better numbers
• 26:25
  than them that year, way better numbers.
• 26:27
  They're they won the MVP because they were triple double S And by
• 26:31
  the way, they play the point guard position.
• 26:33
  This is a big man, a big 5 doing what he is doing right now.
• 26:40
  It's insane what he is doing. And you, you, you argue.
• 26:43
  I don't care what these these stupid statistics will try to
• 26:46
  drive what Michael Jordan did and what all these guys that
• 26:49
  that doesn't mean anything because to me, no, it's not
• 26:52
  because the game is different. My argue.
• 26:55
  No, I don't care what these advanced statistics mean.
• 26:58
  Nothing because they weren't here in the NBA, because they
• 27:01
  weren't here in the 90s, They weren't here in the 80s, and
• 27:04
  they bring these advanced statistics just like they do at
• 27:06
  baseball and they ruin the game of baseball.
• 27:08
  I'm sorry. It ruins the game of baseball
• 27:11
  because now everybody thinks, now everybody thinks that this
• 27:14
  guy's better than Babe Ruth. Oh, Otani's got on this and he's
• 27:17
  done that. He's better than Babe Ruth.
• 27:19
  He's not better than Babe Ruth. He's not a better pitcher than
• 27:22
  Babe Ruth. He's not a better power hitter
• 27:23
  than Babe Ruth. The game was different.
• 27:25
  The ball parks were bigger. They weren't juiced up balls.
• 27:28
  So you sit here and you're going to tell me all this garbage.
• 27:31
  When you're looking at advanced statistics, these advanced
• 27:34
  statistics mean nothing because they brought into the league to
• 27:38
  try to transition what the league is and what it
• 27:40
  transitioned to from then to now, It's garbage.
• 27:43
  And I'm not going to argue that when when you bring up advanced
• 27:46
  statistics, what I can argue is when you look at talent,
• 27:50
  full-fledged talent, what this guy has done in the last two
• 27:54
  years, this guy was the MVP of the league.
• 27:56
  There's no arguments to it. And anybody that argues this
• 27:59
  doesn't know basketball. They don't.
• 28:02
  And that doesn't take away from SGA what he's done.
• 28:06
  Such a different player though and I said more.
• 28:09
  Talented than NGA. I'm sorry, I think.
• 28:11
  Is Joker more talented? Than NGA Jokic, yes.
• 28:15
  Yes, yes. Oh my God, yes.
• 28:16
  Jokic is a better player and more talented than SGA.
• 28:20
  No question. No question I.
• 28:22
  Don't agree with you Arable. And I just wanted to throw this
• 28:26
  out there before because, look, obviously both incredible
• 28:29
  players, incredible seasons, right?
• 28:31
  In different ways, in very different ways.
• 28:34
  I don't think you can blame SGA for being on the best team.
• 28:37
  They always used to give the best guy on the best team with
• 28:40
  the best record the award. The team that was put together
• 28:43
  through, by the way, put together through the.
• 28:46
  Draft. Yeah.
• 28:46
  The process was trusted. The process was trusted over
• 28:49
  there, yeah. Penalizing for that, though.
• 28:50
  But I think I remember the beginning of the season when
• 28:53
  they had everybody healthy in Denver and they blitzed
• 28:55
  everyone, including the Thunder, and then they lost Aaron Gordon
• 29:00
  and Jokic kept them afloat and still got them the three seed.
• 29:03
  Now that Gordon is back for the last month plus they've been
• 29:06
  playing. They've got into the point in
• 29:07
  the last couple weeks. They beat, you know, they beat
• 29:11
  the I think, I don't think it won't be played, but they beat
• 29:13
  the Spurs at the end. He Jokic is on a mission and
• 29:16
  he's got the most healthy help he's had since they won four
• 29:20
  years ago. I would very and look, if he
• 29:23
  gets third, he gets third in this.
• 29:26
  He's going to go on quite a revenge tour in this playoffs,
• 29:29
  bro. Yeah, I I doubt it.
• 29:30
  He probably won't get past the first round, definitely won't
• 29:32
  get past the second. Well, we'll, well, you know,
• 29:35
  it's interesting you bring that up because we could get into
• 29:38
  that. Let's go right now.
• 29:40
  Yeah, let's get into it. The NBA playoff preview with the
• 29:42
  Eastern Conference. The number six seed.
• 29:45
  The Hawks will face off against the number 3 New York Knicks.
• 29:48
  The Hawks are 28 and 15 since the trade with Trey Young, while
• 29:54
  the Knicks won 53 games in Mike Brown's first year as head
• 29:58
  coach, breaking Pat Riley's record.
• 30:00
  The number five seed, the Raptors will face off against
• 30:04
  the Cavaliers. The number four seed, the
• 30:06
  Raptors have the 9th best defense in the NBA while the
• 30:09
  Cavaliers are #4 On offense, The number seven seed Sixers will
• 30:15
  face off against the Celtics. The number two seed, The 76ers
• 30:19
  are the number six overall rebounding team in the NBA, but
• 30:23
  will be without Joel Embiid against the Celtics, the team
• 30:27
  that is number one in total defenses, a defense.
• 30:31
  The number one seed, the Pistons, will face off against
• 30:34
  the winner of the Hornets in the Magic play in game tomorrow.
• 30:37
  The Pistons finished 60 and 22 and was the number one seed in
• 30:41
  the Eastern Conference since November 7th in the Western
• 30:45
  Conference. The number 5 seed, the Rockets
• 30:47
  will face off the number against the number four seed Lakers.
• 30:51
  The Lakers say that both Austin Reeves and Lukatachek are still
• 30:55
  out indefinitely against the Rockets team with with everybody
• 31:01
  healthy As for now the number six seed.
• 31:05
  The Timberwolves will face off against the number three seed,
• 31:08
  the Nuggets, a rematch from the from two years ago when
• 31:11
  Minnesota won in seven games. The Timberwolves are the second
• 31:16
  worst free throw shooting team in the NBA against a Nuggets
• 31:20
  defense that is 21st in the NBA. The number seven seed the the
• 31:26
  the Trail Blazers will take on the number two seed, the Spurs.
• 31:31
  Dylan Harper has a thumb injury and could miss the first two
• 31:35
  games of the series, while Wemby will be good to go after
• 31:39
  avoiding a major rib injury he suffered April 7th versus the
• 31:44
  76ers. The number one seed the Thunder
• 31:48
  will face off against the winner of the Warriors and sons play in
• 31:52
  game tomorrow. The Thunder are the only team in
• 31:54
  the NBA this season with a top five offense and defense as far
• 32:00
  as points per game. Let's get into the New York
• 32:04
  Knicks because it's cues. Atlanta Hawks.
• 32:10
  We're sitting there against the Atlanta Hawks.
• 32:14
  Here's the thing. The Atlanta Hawks are a good
• 32:16
  young team. They are they're they're,
• 32:19
  they're fun to watch. They're they're impressive.
• 32:22
  Everything about Atlanta tells me that they're dangerous,
• 32:25
  everything. And when you go back and forth
• 32:28
  and you look at the Hawks and their talent, you can look at
• 32:32
  obviously their number one guy and, and, and everybody knows
• 32:36
  who their number one guy. We talk about it all the time,
• 32:38
  their roster and, and what they stand for.
• 32:41
  Jaylen Johnson is one of the best players, one of the best
• 32:44
  young players in the NBA. If he has a good game, it's
• 32:48
  going to be hard for the Knicks to keep up with the pace of this
• 32:52
  young Atlanta Hawks team. But the Knicks have the 1
• 32:55
  weapon. The Hawks don't.
• 32:57
  They have a Jaylen Bronson, and Jaylen Bronson is one of those
• 33:01
  guys that when his team goes down and his team needs those
• 33:04
  extra points, he's the one that's going to go out there and
• 33:07
  get them. And if Karl Anthony Towns, if he
• 33:11
  wakes up and he bees, he becomes that number 2.
• 33:14
  Because if the Knicks have Karl Anthony Towns playing as a #2
• 33:17
  giving you about 22 and 10, the Knicks are going to win their
• 33:20
  series in five. I don't think it goes past five
• 33:24
  and that that doesn't take away what Atlanta has done.
• 33:27
  I think Atlanta is one year away from being an elite team in the
• 33:30
  NBAI think they need one or maybe two more pieces.
• 33:33
  They're going to have a high top ten pick this year.
• 33:36
  So I expect Atlanta to get themselves a very good young
• 33:40
  player on this roster to play with Jaylen Johnson.
• 33:43
  But the Knicks have a lot of weapons and what they did
• 33:48
  against Detroit in the first round last year is they use
• 33:50
  those weapons. There were other guys that
• 33:52
  didn't give them enough, but McBride last year gave them a
• 33:56
  lot. They gave him.
• 33:56
  He gave them like 8 or 9 points off the bench.
• 33:59
  If you're getting that with all the different weapons they have.
• 34:02
  OG and Anobi, one of the best defensive players in the league,
• 34:05
  he's going to be up for defensive Player of the year.
• 34:07
  He's not going to win. Webiyama is going to win, but OG
• 34:09
  has been one of the best perimeter defenders in the NBAI
• 34:15
  think that when you look at this roster and you look at the
• 34:18
  talent, they're much better than the Atlanta Hawks.
• 34:20
  Now, if they go and they play Atlanta and they let Atlanta
• 34:23
  believe that they could beat them and Atlanta gets that first
• 34:26
  win and they're up 1 and nothing, the Knicks are in
• 34:28
  trouble because first of all, you have Mike Brown.
• 34:32
  He's a new coach with the New York Knicks.
• 34:34
  He's been there before. He's coached Sacramento, he's
• 34:36
  coached other teams, he's coached the Cavaliers to the
• 34:38
  Finals. We all know what he's done.
• 34:40
  He's won. He's won.
• 34:42
  Assistant coach, I don't know if you want assistant coach of the
• 34:45
  year, but he won a couple of championships with the Golden
• 34:47
  State Warriors and Greg Popovich.
• 34:49
  So the guy knows how to win. There's no question that he
• 34:51
  does. But as a coach, he's never won.
• 34:54
  So the pressure's on him. I don't care if he'd beat Pat
• 34:57
  Riley's record these secondary players.
• 35:02
  And you know what I'm talking about, sweetie.
• 35:04
  Who do you think I'm talking about?
• 35:06
  The guy that the Knicks traded for six first round draft picks.
• 35:09
  Mikhail Bridges. Mikhail Bridges.
• 35:12
  This man needs to show up in this series.
• 35:14
  He cannot show up in one series for three games and then
• 35:18
  disappear. He needs to play hard every
• 35:21
  single game. He is a world renowned defensive
• 35:25
  player there. There's no doubt when he plays
• 35:27
  at a high level, Mikhail Bridges is one of the top 12, top 13
• 35:30
  defenders at his position. You can argue in the league, but
• 35:35
  the problem with Mikhail Bridges is he disappears offensively and
• 35:38
  defensively in games. They need that.
• 35:42
  They need an offensive momentum in this game in in this series
• 35:46
  against an Atlanta Helix team has nothing to lose.
• 35:49
  They have nothing to lose, guys. They they are to them, they
• 35:53
  believe they're going to beat the Knicks.
• 35:55
  They believe they're going to beat the Knicks in four games.
• 35:57
  Why? Because there's nothing for them
• 35:59
  to really worry about. They're going to go out there,
• 36:01
  they're going to play hard and they're going to play at a high
• 36:03
  level. The Knicks are going to have to
• 36:05
  be able to compete with that high level, that high paced
• 36:08
  game. They're young, they're
• 36:09
  energetic. Look what they did.
• 36:11
  They traded with Golden State, they brought Kaminga there.
• 36:13
  It's a different team. This is a team that believes in
• 36:16
  each other. And when you believe they're
• 36:18
  just as dangerous as the New York Knicks when it comes to
• 36:20
  full talent, there is nobody in the Eastern Conference.
• 36:24
  Yes, I said it. Nobody.
• 36:26
  When this team plays at full strength and at a high level,
• 36:29
  there's nobody in the Eastern Conference better than the
• 36:31
  Knicks. Nobody.
• 36:32
  Yeah. This is interesting because the
• 36:34
  Hawks, the way their depth is structured this year since Trey
• 36:37
  Young or since Trey Young was traded, you look at you said
• 36:40
  they bring coming, he plays refreshed after a whole the
• 36:42
  whole Golden State debacle over there.
• 36:44
  You look at somebody like Jaylen Johnson emerging as a starting
• 36:46
  to kill Alexander Walker, a guy who was a journeyman with the
• 36:49
  Pelicans and a couple other teams, that is founding his
• 36:51
  groove nicely. But what's interesting is they
• 36:53
  have a lot of different double digit scores off the bench, 8
• 36:56
  different guys, which is the same identity you saw the Pacers
• 36:59
  have last year, which the Knicks had trouble with that faster
• 37:02
  pace. Now it's different coaching
• 37:03
  staff. Obviously Mike Brown.
• 37:04
  I think it's done a better job with the transition defense
• 37:06
  element than Tom Thibodeau did. That was I think the biggest
• 37:08
  thing because Tom Thibodeau was trying to play the physical half
• 37:10
  court defense a lot of the time and faster teams like the Pacers
• 37:14
  caught them in transition. The Knicks obviously the bench
• 37:16
  def like you said is going to be the other big factor too.
• 37:18
  McHale Bridges cannot disappear as much as he has offensively in
• 37:21
  the second-half of the season. Josh Hart, same kind of thing.
• 37:23
  And you wonder what these reports about him playing the
• 37:26
  center the and getting Cat more in the offense that we talked
• 37:29
  about last. Week, you're going to need Jose
• 37:30
  Alvarado defensively to off the bench.
• 37:32
  You going to need him because Jaylen Johnson, he's going to be
• 37:35
  running that offense. The running the offense is going
• 37:38
  to go through him. They need a guy that's going to
• 37:39
  get under him, be a pest to him, and Jose Alvarado has been that
• 37:43
  defender. Yes, and I was going to say the
• 37:44
  the guard depth that that Atlanta has on the bench is
• 37:47
  that's why Alvarado is going to be a big X Factor too on the
• 37:49
  defensive side. On the offensive side, somebody
• 37:52
  whether it's Shannon, whether it's Clarkson, somebody has to
• 37:54
  emerge into that score off the bench to because the Hawks
• 37:57
  defenders, I think the outside of Nikhil Alexander Walker among
• 38:01
  their guards are not as good as you would expect.
• 38:04
  But again, it's a team like you said, that's playing very
• 38:05
  comfortable right now. They have a guys that have
• 38:08
  embraced their role, like you said, Kaminga or Shire, who is a
• 38:11
  first overall pick. He's downgrade to a bench role,
• 38:13
  but he's still playing in that role.
• 38:15
  The Hawks have, as you like to say, the Hawks have a system
• 38:18
  that they can trust right now. Now, again, it is very young all
• 38:21
  at once, and that's where I think they still have the edge
• 38:23
  right now. They did that with Detroit last
• 38:25
  year. If Detroit was a very young
• 38:26
  team, but the Knicks still had trouble with Detroit, they only
• 38:29
  won in six games. They had to win on a buzzer
• 38:31
  beater one of the games like that's the.
• 38:33
  Playoff speedy. Yeah, they cannot.
• 38:34
  I'm just saying the Knicks cannot take this lightly.
• 38:36
  And Mike Brown, that's the message that you're going to
• 38:38
  have if you want to be able to keep his job as a head coach, is
• 38:41
  not to do what? If the Knicks don't win this
• 38:43
  series, he's going to be fired. There's.
• 38:47
  No way. Yeah, I'm telling you.
• 38:49
  I'm telling you right now, with this roster and the way this
• 38:51
  roster is set up, there's no way.
• 38:53
  There's a lot of questions with Mike Brown throughout the
• 38:55
  season. They were having team meetings.
• 38:58
  Josh Hart came out at the tail end of the season saying that
• 39:00
  this team cannot play this way or they're not going to win,
• 39:03
  They're not going to move forward in the playoffs.
• 39:05
  When you have players coming out and saying that they never did
• 39:08
  that when Tom Thibodeau is there, they never had the
• 39:10
  authority to do that. And now all of a sudden Mike
• 39:13
  Brown is there and everybody is speaking.
• 39:15
  That's a problem. You could say whatever you want
• 39:18
  to you If this team does not go through the Hawks, and they
• 39:21
  should breeze through the Hawks because they're that much better
• 39:23
  than the Hawks. If they don't, I'm telling you
• 39:26
  right now, Mike Brown will be fired.
• 39:28
  He will be fired. I'm telling you right now, if
• 39:31
  they fire Mike Brown after losing the first round to
• 39:33
  Atlanta Hawks, the New York Knicks will not see a Eastern
• 39:37
  Conference finals or a championship run for the next
• 39:41
  decade, OK, Probably in it what I'm saying.
• 39:43
  So why? Because, all right, you're going
• 39:46
  to get rid of the coach, all right?
• 39:48
  So that's two coaches in the last two years, right, that you
• 39:50
  don't got rid of. OK?
• 39:52
  Then you're going to blow up the team because you're trying to go
• 39:54
  get Giannis, how old Giannis, who hasn't been as productive.
• 39:58
  How are you blowing Giannis? Giannis still led the league in
• 40:01
  so many statistics before he got hurt.
• 40:04
  So he was a top five MVP candidate before he got hurt
• 40:07
  this year, before he hurt his ankle or whatever his hamstring.
• 40:10
  What was it before now? Now he's.
• 40:12
  What was it? Is it killing whatever it was?
• 40:14
  We can't talk about before we got to talk about what he can
• 40:16
  do. Yeah, yeah.
• 40:18
  Is it killing? There it is.
• 40:19
  He's calf. Not going to have no identity
• 40:21
  that you don't already know now. So in regards to this matchup, I
• 40:24
  think Atlanta is just going to have to keep Jenny Brunson under
• 40:27
  30 and I think there's going to be an issue unless Cats step up
• 40:30
  and you get to and you get some role players that play their
• 40:33
  part. Josh Hart going to need to have
• 40:35
  at least one to two big games in this in this series to go.
• 40:38
  I actually got the Knicks coming out of this and six to seven,
• 40:43
  but it's going to be rough if they don't get some more
• 40:46
  production from the bench and Cat don't dominate on the
• 40:49
  inside. But like you said earlier, if
• 40:51
  you get 22 and 10, they got a good chance.
• 40:53
  But if they keep Jelly breasting under 30 and make Cat a shooter,
• 40:57
  it's going to be it's going to be tough for them to get out of.
• 40:59
  Atlanta is a sleeper team, but like you said earlier, I agree
• 41:02
  with you on this point. They are partly about a year
• 41:04
  out, but this is a scary matchup for the next.
• 41:07
  In the first round, I agree. I think Atlanta and Charlotte
• 41:10
  are two dangerous teams. I like their hungriness.
• 41:13
  I don't like what Melo Ball did the other day, but I like that
• 41:16
  hit. They're hungry and they want to
• 41:17
  go out there and prove themselves and they've got a
• 41:19
  tremendous future. I I'm not arguing with you with
• 41:22
  that, But if they're somehow Atlanta wins this game and this
• 41:25
  series, I'm telling you right now, the Knicks are going to
• 41:28
  look at this roster and they're going to say, all right, this
• 41:30
  roster doesn't work. This coach didn't work this
• 41:32
  year. Maybe we have to clean house and
• 41:35
  and that might happen because Leon Rose is on the hot seats.
• 41:39
  He's on a hot seat right now too, because he needs to win.
• 41:42
  He has gone through the first, second and now the Eastern
• 41:45
  Conference final, still hasn't gotten to the finals.
• 41:47
  This is the year they believe with no Hal Burton, Jason Tatum
• 41:51
  not on 100%. They are the best team in the
• 41:54
  Eastern Conference, the most depth.
• 41:55
  They have the most depth out of any team going into the Eastern
• 41:58
  Conference. So they should win.
• 42:01
  They should win. You think they got more depth
• 42:02
  than Boston 100%? 100% we'll get it to Boston.
• 42:06
  Based off what? What?
• 42:07
  Do you mean based off what? I'm sure Baylor.
• 42:10
  Shot, Do you really want me to go into that?
• 42:14
  I'll get it, don't worry. When they play Boston, when they
• 42:16
  play Boston in the second round, I promise you, I will get it
• 42:20
  done with your Boston Celtics. Go ahead, Fish.
• 42:23
  That I want to, but it's but that's a good point.
• 42:25
  It's a good test to have Atlanta instead of Toronto because it
• 42:28
  easily could have been Toronto in this game.
• 42:30
  But because of how the season ended, last game of the season,
• 42:33
  they get the Hawks. I'd rather face a good team.
• 42:37
  You know, iron sharpens iron, then going to face the Celtics
• 42:40
  because you got to be ready for that.
• 42:41
  Tatums back. I don't know if Tatum, I really
• 42:44
  don't know if he's going to be able to do like A7 game series,
• 42:47
  you know what I'm saying? And he's going to play 40
• 42:49
  minutes every game. I don't know.
• 42:51
  I think I, I expect him to wear out with Bridges and OG, two
• 42:55
  guys that are probably gonna be all NBA defense this year.
• 42:57
  I think OG's first team, to be honest with you, first.
• 43:00
  Team that's not overlooked the the halts, but I don't think
• 43:03
  Tatum is definitely 80 percent, 90% back.
• 43:06
  So. But if I remember, I remember
• 43:08
  Mikhail shutting him down, you know, in the few moments when he
• 43:12
  was healthy. No, no.
• 43:13
  In game three-game three of the playoffs last year.
• 43:16
  We can't keep living off last year momentum, OK, you guys are
• 43:19
  not. No, I'm just saying that's when
• 43:20
  Tatum was healthy and we shut him down.
• 43:23
  So he's 80% what you? Got on the Celtics yet?
• 43:27
  We real championship. Hangover, OH.
• 43:29
  Please. OK, all right, fine.
• 43:32
  Maybe the Knicks do collapse. Maybe this doesn't work for
• 43:35
  them. Giannis was having the best
• 43:37
  season of his career. Just so you know. 27.6 His
• 43:41
  career average is 24.1 rebounds exactly the same assists 1/2 an
• 43:46
  assists more a game. His shooting percentage was 7%
• 43:50
  higher than his career average. He was shooting 5% better at
• 43:53
  threes. He was 33% from downtown not
• 43:56
  shooting a lot. Obviously his PER the advanced
• 43:59
  stats, it was about 6 1/2 higher than his his career average and
• 44:04
  he's won MVPS. What were they doing?
• 44:06
  What was the team doing? Well, I'm saying he got hurt and
• 44:09
  it was just half season. Before, that's right, before
• 44:10
  that, even before that. What was that it?
• 44:12
  Was thought of as like the second best MVP, all right.
• 44:14
  We got to move on. We really he was.
• 44:16
  Winning. Or was he just scoring?
• 44:18
  Are we speaking about Giannis right?
• 44:19
  Now it was in Butu. It was a Butu that Doc was
• 44:22
  teaching. That this is not in the
• 44:23
  playoffs. Why are we speaking about him,
• 44:26
  please? I don't want to talk about
• 44:28
  Giannis when the Knicks get eliminated or if they move on.
• 44:31
  If the Knicks go to the Finals and win a championship, no
• 44:33
  Giannis, because he's not going to the Knicks.
• 44:35
  They're going to keep that roster.
• 44:36
  You're probably right. Honestly, Karl Anthony Towns
• 44:40
  should have been a Hawk, and I wouldn't be surprised if the
• 44:42
  Hawks are in on Karl Anthony Towns.
• 44:44
  If the Knicks are wanting to trade Karl Anthony Towns to
• 44:47
  bring in Giannis. I'm just letting you know
• 44:49
  because they were very much in when Karl Anthony Towns became
• 44:52
  free from the Timberwolves. I just want to let you know
• 44:54
  that. But, and I think it was, I think
• 44:57
  it was more important, we talked about Yannis, the New York Knits
• 44:59
  making it to the finals, just Fr.
• 45:00
  I disagree. They're gonna make it to the
• 45:02
  finals this year. I'm.
• 45:03
  Pretty sure all right. I'm praying to you for the sake
• 45:06
  of our show, but no. All right, let's get into the
• 45:09
  Raptors and the Cavaliers. The Cavaliers right now, they
• 45:13
  got a roster. They aided James Harden at the
• 45:15
  trade deadline, adding him with a guy like Donovan Mitchell,
• 45:18
  Evan Mobley, Jared Allen. This team is staffed.
• 45:21
  This is a good team, Great defensive team, good offensive
• 45:24
  rebounding team. One of the better rebounding
• 45:26
  teams in the NBA. Very well coached.
• 45:28
  Everybody knows what I feel about Kenny Atkinson.
• 45:31
  I think this team is just one of the more Dominique Young and
• 45:35
  veteran teams put together in this tournament.
• 45:38
  They're great. They're a really good team.
• 45:40
  I don't trust James Harden. I do not trust James Harden.
• 45:44
  Now, do I think they're going to beat the Raptors?
• 45:46
  Yeah. I mean, the Raptors have a good
• 45:48
  roster. They're not a bad roster.
• 45:51
  I like what they they they have on their team X Knicks, as we
• 45:54
  all know. But they have Brandon Ingram,
• 45:56
  Scotty Barnes, who I think he's very underrated.
• 45:58
  RJ Barrett, Emmanuel Quickly, this is a good roster.
• 46:01
  This is not a bad roster, but when you when you talk about the
• 46:06
  Cavaliers, the Cavaliers played at a high level all season long.
• 46:09
  They were fighting for that third seed with the New York
• 46:11
  Knicks. At some points of the season.
• 46:13
  They were fighting for that number two seed because they
• 46:15
  were matched up with the Knicks very, very well.
• 46:18
  But James Harden to me is not a playoff player.
• 46:20
  Until he proves himself to be playoff James, he's never going
• 46:24
  to prove to me that they can take it to the next level.
• 46:27
  Now, maybe with a Donovan Mitchell and Donovan Mitchell's
• 46:30
  leadership, I think that could help a guy like James Harden.
• 46:34
  This is. But again, Kawhi Leonard was a
• 46:36
  great, you know, leader over there with the Clippers.
• 46:38
  It couldn't match up very well over there.
• 46:40
  And they also had Paul George over there.
• 46:42
  So it didn't work over there. So how is it going to work with
• 46:45
  Donovan Mitchell? I like Evan Mobley, I like Jared
• 46:48
  Allen, and I think that when James Harden was traded to this
• 46:51
  team, Jared Allen's offense got a lot better.
• 46:54
  I think he became a different player on the pick and roll with
• 46:57
  James Harden. So I want to see that in the
• 46:59
  playoffs and I want to see them play team defense, which
• 47:01
  sometimes they disappear doing in the playoffs.
• 47:04
  In the regular season, they're up and down.
• 47:06
  I like Kenny Atkinson, but this Raptor team, as much as
• 47:10
  everybody says they're going to just run all over the Raptors, I
• 47:13
  disagree. I think the Raptors are going to
• 47:15
  give him a challenge. I think they're going to fight,
• 47:16
  they're going to claw. They're not going to win, but if
• 47:19
  they can bring this this series to a six game series, that's
• 47:24
  going to tire out guys like James Harden.
• 47:26
  James Harden has to prove to me that he's going to show up every
• 47:28
  single game, play with his heart because I saw it, saw him do
• 47:32
  with the Rockers, the Rockets year in and year out and he
• 47:34
  couldn't do it. He could not do it.
• 47:36
  So until he does it, I don't believe it.
• 47:39
  And I'm going to bet that the Raptors keep this series to
• 47:42
  maybe six games. Yeah, I can see that too,
• 47:44
  because you look at Toronto shooting percentages, a lot of
• 47:46
  their starting players outside of outside of Quigley, who's
• 47:49
  44.3, they all have good shooting percentages and they
• 47:52
  have a good defensive team. They've long team, they've
• 47:54
  always built their team on good defensive depth that way.
• 47:57
  And I think with Cleveland, they have a good defensive team, not
• 48:00
  as good as last year or the year before when I believe the year
• 48:02
  before they had the number one defense in the league that year.
• 48:05
  And that's going to be a big key.
• 48:06
  How much you can trust James Harden to just be a shooter, not
• 48:09
  be a guy that just hogs the ball because Donovan Mitchell's
• 48:11
  already a very high usage rate guy as it is.
• 48:13
  And they have actually good bench depth this year when it
• 48:15
  comes to scoring with DeAndre hunting.
• 48:16
  Sir Jalen Tyson's been a nice pleasant surprise for them and
• 48:20
  Kenny Atkinson is very good with those types of teams.
• 48:21
  I agree with you. I think it'll be either like
• 48:23
  Cavs at a hard fought 5 or 6 type series.
• 48:26
  I do favor them right now with the experience.
• 48:28
  So that's what I'm going to say. Cleveland should sweep down.
• 48:32
  I don't see it going no more than five.
• 48:34
  It's interesting you say you don't trust James Harden, but he
• 48:36
  was scoring like he was averaging like 28 during that
• 48:39
  Houston Rocket run that year. But I guess, yeah.
• 48:42
  How many threes did he miss in that Game 7?
• 48:44
  How many free throws did he win? That's what I'm saying.
• 48:46
  He gave you 28. That is a good amount of points.
• 48:50
  I won three for 17. Over there, listen, the
• 48:54
  percentage doesn't. Reminds me of John Starks.
• 48:57
  Remember that? So I remember that pretty well
• 48:59
  in 90. 4 But I think, I think Cleveland comes out of this
• 49:03
  easily. The Raptors don't really got
• 49:05
  much shout out to BI. He's from my hometown.
• 49:08
  But yeah, the Raptors don't really have much.
• 49:10
  I do think they'll play hard, play tough, but they just don't
• 49:12
  have a lot outside of the scoring.
• 49:16
  Scoring wise and being impactful, they don't really do
• 49:19
  well on the defensive end as well.
• 49:21
  So I would say Cleveland wins this four O 41 and this really
• 49:25
  isn't really a test of what's going to be what's going to be
• 49:28
  the difference maker is whether or not Cleveland is making
• 49:31
  shots. If they making shots, then it'll
• 49:33
  be a blowout. If they not, then the Raptors
• 49:35
  are kind of stay within reach. But I I still got Cleveland
• 49:39
  pulling this out. They got James Harden, they got
• 49:41
  Mobley, they got Jay Allen being a true pure big.
• 49:45
  You know how to do this? Pick and roll Mobley stretching
• 49:47
  the floor. I could see them beating them
• 49:50
  404. Then there's the Sixers and the
• 49:52
  Celtics, and I know where Q is going to go.
• 49:55
  The Celtics running away with this series.
• 49:58
  Not necessarily. It's not going to be as easy as
• 50:01
  he thinks it is. I Paul George is going to be
• 50:04
  playing this series. They're going to get that.
• 50:06
  Yeah, he's going to be playing this.
• 50:07
  Season you reference Paul Joyce as an impact.
• 50:09
  Player No, I didn't say his impact, but he's going to give
• 50:11
  you something. That was the first play you
• 50:13
  mentioned. Well, because he's one of those
• 50:15
  guys that are going to give you points.
• 50:17
  And then you have a guy like Tyrese Maxi who I think if he
• 50:20
  shows up and he gives you 30 points, he's going to keep this
• 50:22
  team in this series that I know everybody's going to say without
• 50:27
  Joel Embiid, this team is not going to challenge the Celtics.
• 50:30
  That Celtics problem all season long was their size.
• 50:33
  I I still think that they're going to give him the most
• 50:35
  problems out of any of the teams facing off in the first round in
• 50:38
  the Eastern Conference. And there's a lot of reasons
• 50:40
  why. And I think Tyrese Maxi has has
• 50:43
  proven to him to be a superstar in his league.
• 50:45
  I think people forget how great he is because he plays on the
• 50:47
  76ers and he's got 2 butt munches, 2 big mouths over there
• 50:52
  that don't shut up. They think they're better than
• 50:54
  they are when they're not. I'm not saying Paul George isn't
• 50:56
  a great player, he hasn't been a great player, but he's not worth
• 50:59
  SGA and Williams. I'm sorry, he's nowhere close to
• 51:02
  those kind of talent, talented young players.
• 51:04
  But again, that's the Clippers. I'm not the Clippers GM and I
• 51:07
  and I would fire the Clippers GM.
• 51:09
  The other I would, I would tell the owner to sell the team after
• 51:12
  what he did. All right, But here's the fact.
• 51:15
  The Celtics are the better team. There's no argument to that.
• 51:18
  Jaylen Brown has had a great season.
• 51:20
  Jayson Tatum is a great playoff player against some teams.
• 51:25
  So there are throughout the his career.
• 51:29
  He hasn't showed up in some games against some series.
• 51:31
  But Jason Tatum is not going to play more than 2728 minutes.
• 51:34
  He's not He's coming back from an Achilles tear.
• 51:38
  That is a unique injury for a player and he's what, 2829 years
• 51:43
  old? I'm not saying Jason Tatum is
• 51:45
  not going to be put his stamp to this this series.
• 51:48
  He's going to put his stamp. I think their coach, and I'll
• 51:51
  say this, the Celtics coach for the first time in his ton taking
• 51:55
  over this team, I would say this was his best coaching job of his
• 52:00
  career. I think it I really, I have to
• 52:03
  say it's me. Am I wrong?
• 52:04
  No, I hate them all year. For you got two seed.
• 52:06
  I thought it'd be a five seed. This was his best coaching.
• 52:10
  This was his. This was his best coaching year.
• 52:13
  I I've never been too fond of coaching and and you like
• 52:17
  putting your hands up. I don't.
• 52:18
  Know what I would actually I want?
• 52:19
  I want to interrupt just one quick second.
• 52:20
  What are you? Are you admitting that coaching
• 52:23
  matters now? No, I didn't say that.
• 52:26
  I. Didn't say that.
• 52:27
  He just did a great job. I didn't say that.
• 52:32
  I didn't say that the regular season means nothing.
• 52:36
  It's all about the playoffs. I've been saying this over and
• 52:39
  over and over again. The NBA regular season means
• 52:43
  nothing. It means nothing.
• 52:44
  It goes 00 when the playoffs start.
• 52:47
  I got to see what he does in the playoffs and I've seen I've seen
• 52:49
  him go out there to the media after the games, losing against
• 52:52
  the Knicks and then waving his waving the flag when he played
• 52:55
  against this team and that team and not giving him answers and
• 52:58
  all over the place. I, I, I know what the Celtics
• 53:02
  and what management likes to do over there, but I like the
• 53:05
  Celtics in this series. I think they're much better than
• 53:08
  the 76ers. But I still think this is going
• 53:10
  to go six games. I think they're, they're going
• 53:12
  to be thorns and the Celtics asses.
• 53:14
  They are going to be thorns. And it's this is not going to be
• 53:17
  an easy ride for the the Boston Celtics.
• 53:20
  They're not winning in in four games.
• 53:22
  You can bet that they're not winning in four games.
• 53:24
  Yeah, Tyrese Maxi has been an unbelievable playoff player even
• 53:27
  when even that COVID shortened year when he's a rookie, I
• 53:30
  believe the Sixers made and well, Ben Simmons and other guys
• 53:32
  didn't show up in that series and I think they got swept.
• 53:34
  He still played very well and he played very well against the
• 53:36
  Knicks two years ago too, when the Knicks beat them in five
• 53:38
  games and a lot of the other guys disappeared.
• 53:40
  Now we talked about all year the Celtic size being kind of a
• 53:42
  question mark, but Philly size without him, Beat is very thin
• 53:45
  as well and. That's why I think the Celtics
• 53:48
  are going to run away with this game.
• 53:49
  Yeah, that's why I do too. I kind of feel like it's a 5
• 53:52
  game series because the 76ers don't have that.
• 53:55
  Like 2 years ago they had decent power forward depth and and
• 53:58
  front court depth. I don't really see there's more
• 54:00
  wing depth with this team this year with Nick's legend Quinton
• 54:03
  Grimes. They drafted Edgecomb early on.
• 54:04
  It's more of that team that's built to stop the three.
• 54:06
  They have a good primer defense, but I think the Celtics could
• 54:08
  still dominate inside enough even with that.
• 54:10
  And Q, you're right, the Celtics do have some good shooting
• 54:12
  depths too with their forwards with the from the three.
• 54:17
  Yeah, I have this game series going probably 4-1 Max.
• 54:24
  At the end of the day, I don't think that.
• 54:26
  The. Well, put the team together.
• 54:28
  I think that you know Max, he would get his points, he would
• 54:31
  score. Obviously he would be taking a
• 54:32
  lot of his shots. Paul George would probably be a
• 54:35
  seller himself based off the defensive sets and schemes that
• 54:38
  they put together to guard him. But I think that what we're
• 54:42
  misunderstanding about the sensors is the depth that we
• 54:45
  have in regards to our bench and what we did.
• 54:47
  I mean, we just had played our whole bench versus Orlando Magic
• 54:51
  and actually beat them. So, you know, I think that was a
• 54:54
  testament to show you how deep we actually are in regards to
• 54:57
  depth on the bench. Guys can score.
• 55:00
  Obviously. You got your, your, your, your
• 55:02
  main 4. You got Jason Tatum, you got
• 55:04
  Jaylen Brown, you got Derek. Why you got pain picture?
• 55:07
  You know you got guys all over the place that can score at will
• 55:11
  and also we take defenses very serious.
• 55:13
  So I I see this game going 4142 no 4041 tops without embiid.
• 55:20
  I don't think they have a middle present.
• 55:22
  Like y'all said before they're short, they're very thin on the
• 55:25
  inside and I think Katie will have a field day and you know, I
• 55:30
  just think they're just outmatched in so many areas that
• 55:32
  I don't think they'll be able to keep up.
• 55:34
  So I got this series going 404 one at the best.
• 55:37
  Magic or Hornets? We we could go back and forth.
• 55:41
  I think the Hornets are going to win this this, this playing game
• 55:45
  against the Magic. I think the Magic could going to
• 55:47
  close. They're going to fire their
• 55:48
  coach at the end of this season. I think they're going to be
• 55:51
  looking for a new coach. This is a good young roster, but
• 55:54
  they still haven't developed their star players, their young
• 55:57
  players and I think they're going to be looking for somebody
• 55:59
  else that can develop it. But Detroit.
• 56:01
  I expect them against the Hornets or the Magic to win the
• 56:05
  series. But I'm going to tell you this
• 56:07
  right now, if the Hornets play them in that series, it's going
• 56:11
  to be back and forth offense to offense.
• 56:13
  They don't. The Hornets don't play defense.
• 56:15
  But if it's a high scoring game and that's the way the Pistons
• 56:18
  want to play the game, I'm going to tell you right now the
• 56:21
  Hornets can win that series. The that that Detroit has to
• 56:24
  play defense. They got to play tight defense
• 56:27
  against this team. Throw Lamello off the ball, make
• 56:30
  him force the ball into places and shoot the ball into places
• 56:33
  he's uncomfortable doing. He is not Steph Curry.
• 56:35
  And I expect the Pistons to win four games to one.
• 56:38
  But if that's an all out running gun, don't be surprised if
• 56:43
  Charlotte challenges him all the way to seven games.
• 56:45
  Yeah, I mean, it's interesting because I agree with you.
• 56:47
  I think the Hornets do win against the Magic.
• 56:48
  I think Orlando will pose an interesting test though for
• 56:51
  Detroit comparatively because of their size with Ponchero and
• 56:54
  with Wagner inside and even Wagner's brother coming off the
• 56:59
  bench too, is a good defender, not a great offensive player.
• 57:01
  But that's what's interesting about Orlando.
• 57:03
  I always thought they were a team of the future type thing
• 57:05
  that never really amounts to that because of injuries.
• 57:07
  And Charlotte, like you said, are all they could definitely
• 57:09
  get a shoot out with you if they could play a fast-paced game.
• 57:12
  And Detroit, can they get the depth scoring wise.
• 57:15
  They definitely have guys that have come along, Duncan,
• 57:17
  Robinson, Tobias Harris, these surprise players.
• 57:20
  I always like Robinson of a bad contract with them.
• 57:22
  Obviously the whole G and Ivy scandal, they've rallied around
• 57:24
  that and still played very well and held the one seed.
• 57:26
  So I think if it's if it's Hornets, I think it's five
• 57:28
  games. I think Charlotte steals won at
• 57:29
  home. If it's Orlando, it's going to
• 57:31
  be a very tough, bruising type series though.
• 57:33
  And that could wear the Pistons down against the Cavs in the
• 57:35
  next round. I don't think Orlando is going
• 57:38
  to even put up a fight, dude. There's they're just on a
• 57:42
  spiral. I would be very interested if I
• 57:46
  am a team with a top pick that might be, I would say maybe #5
• 57:51
  even #4 if you're not sold on Caleb Wilson.
• 57:54
  I'm if they lose this game, Orlando Paulo Ponchero is going
• 57:58
  to be available. They're going to be looking for
• 58:00
  a package and it's going to include a top five pick in this
• 58:03
  year's draft. I've been hearing this in
• 58:05
  multiple outlets this week already that it's either him or
• 58:09
  Franz. And since they got Franz's
• 58:11
  brother too, you're not getting as much for Franz.
• 58:13
  He's been hurt. So what, they play the same
• 58:16
  position. This is the problem, right?
• 58:18
  They're not playing well together.
• 58:19
  They they don't work well together.
• 58:21
  That's why it's the code to be the first scapegoat, if that.
• 58:23
  Happens. They're not the he is.
• 58:25
  But what if you know whoever gets the 4th pick in the lottery
• 58:29
  isn't sold on Caleb Wilson to stay healthy?
• 58:31
  And they want, Yeah. You're going to bet on the Yeah,
• 58:37
  but you're but. Apollo is only year 4, right?
• 58:40
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's what the NBA is built
• 58:43
  off of. It's young and potential.
• 58:45
  They're not going to chance a lot of repeat for somebody that.
• 58:48
  I mean this is number one guy though.
• 58:50
  This is. No, I'm not saying that Pablo is
• 58:52
  a good guy. I'm just saying that they're not
• 58:54
  going to chance that or take that and then Pablo not going to
• 58:57
  leave Orlando. He's the franchise player, so
• 58:59
  he's going to stay there. Him and Bane is going to stay
• 59:02
  locked in with Orlando. But in regards to this series
• 59:04
  with Charlotte, they're not going to win it.
• 59:06
  I think they're going to take out, like you said, fish.
• 59:08
  They're swirling. So I think they're going to take
• 59:10
  out. I think there are rumors are
• 59:12
  about the coach in regards to this is his last games, So I
• 59:17
  wouldn't be surprised if he didn't even play Pablo or they
• 59:20
  you know, if he just take it out and let the bitch come out
• 59:22
  there, let the bitch come out there and let them play like I'm
• 59:26
  excited that your job is done. So it's not like they could, you
• 59:29
  know, it's not like you don't already know the wall, the
• 59:32
  rightness on the wall. So I think Charlotte comes out
• 59:34
  of that. I think they match up well bar
• 59:36
  play wise with Detroit. Here's the thing with Charlotte,
• 59:40
  the Mello gets into this mode where he really do take it back
• 59:44
  to the playground. Now, I it is great for
• 59:46
  entertainment and I do think that it works more often than
• 59:50
  none. But when it comes to playoff
• 59:52
  series, I would be surprised if he's able to get some of those
• 59:58
  shots out, being that it would get more physical and he would
• 1:00:01
  get less calls than he'd been getting.
• 1:00:03
  I think they celebrated way too early in regards to that play
• 1:00:06
  and victory that they won the other night versus Miami, but.
• 1:00:10
  And so that lets me know right now they're not really
• 1:00:12
  interested in, you know, going too far in the playoffs.
• 1:00:15
  They kind of already had that championship run, but I think
• 1:00:18
  that they would probably do anywhere between.
• 1:00:21
  I think it's a 4140 type situation.
• 1:00:24
  I, I, I do like Charlotte. They are hot right now, but I
• 1:00:27
  look at them like I look at Atlanta as well.
• 1:00:29
  They're young and I think they right there on the edge.
• 1:00:32
  They probably about a year away before they actually make some
• 1:00:34
  noise. Let's get to the Western
• 1:00:36
  Conference. We're going.
• 1:00:36
  We're going too long to argue about Detroit and Charlotte and
• 1:00:39
  Magic. I mean, we're arguing.
• 1:00:41
  About teams. We're arguing hell because no I.
• 1:00:45
  I don't have to spill anything I already.
• 1:00:47
  Told you what was going to happen. 30 minutes.
• 1:00:49
  What are you? What are you talking about?
• 1:00:52
  I went through that pretty damn quick.
• 1:00:54
  Go ahead. Rockets in the Lakers now.
• 1:00:56
  Luka Dajik not playing. Austin Reeves not playing.
• 1:00:59
  We all know what's going to happen.
• 1:01:01
  I told you, this is the year of the Rockets.
• 1:01:03
  I believe it is. I really do.
• 1:01:05
  I think they're very well coached.
• 1:01:06
  Kevin Durant, Segan Thompson, This is a good team.
• 1:01:09
  Very well, very good depth they had, they had to work.
• 1:01:13
  Worry about the guard play. That's been a problem all season
• 1:01:15
  long since fan fleet got hurt before the season started.
• 1:01:19
  But I think that this team is born to win this series.
• 1:01:23
  I don't know if Lebron's going to be able to hold it on his
• 1:01:25
  shoulders. Is he going to trust Bronie
• 1:01:27
  James, your number one guy? Going.
• 1:01:30
  To happen, it's not going to happen.
• 1:01:32
  I expect the Rockets to win four games to 1.
• 1:01:34
  I think they run all over the Lakers in this series.
• 1:01:38
  Yeah, I do too, especially if Luca doesn't come back until
• 1:01:40
  later in the series. Like how much are you going to
• 1:01:41
  be able? To even if he comes back.
• 1:01:43
  He's going to be rusty and that's why that's where I think
• 1:01:45
  it's. Going to be very Game 5.
• 1:01:46
  Yeah, exactly. And I think none of these guys
• 1:01:48
  on the Lakers bench outside of probably.
• 1:01:51
  Outside of probably, is that really that great of shooting of
• 1:01:53
  a three? They're not good.
• 1:01:54
  I know. And that that's where Houston is
• 1:01:56
  vulnerable. Like you said, they're back
• 1:01:57
  courts a little questionable. They're three points.
• 1:01:59
  Guard play is the is. The problem I know, and that's
• 1:02:01
  where the Rockets I think can make it work in this series,
• 1:02:04
  especially now long term, I do worry about that kind of thing
• 1:02:06
  if they go to the second round. But I agree, I think four games
• 1:02:09
  to 1. Yeah, I'm gonna go with I think
• 1:02:12
  they're going to go 41. Katie is my guy.
• 1:02:15
  And I do think the Rockets are the better team.
• 1:02:17
  But I think LeBron is going to show us something that we
• 1:02:20
  haven't, you know, that we doubt that he can do at the age of 41.
• 1:02:23
  I mean, he's had he's had a couple 30 point games this
• 1:02:26
  season already. But I think that, you know,
• 1:02:29
  Rockets inability to shoot and their inconsistency may catch up
• 1:02:33
  with them for a game and it may take it to five, but I don't see
• 1:02:36
  it going past five. But Lebrons and Brownie James on
• 1:02:39
  the court. Stop with this garbage.
• 1:02:53
  Oh my God. And then there's the
• 1:02:55
  Timberwolves in the Nuggets. Now this series is interesting.
• 1:02:59
  Anthony Edwards is not 100% healthy.
• 1:03:00
  That's going to be a problem. But Julius Randall, Rudy Gobert,
• 1:03:03
  this is a team that's loaded and they have gone far with this
• 1:03:07
  roster before. But I, something tells me that
• 1:03:11
  Nicola Yokich is going to lead this team through this series.
• 1:03:15
  Jamal Murray's had a good year when you look at his numbers,
• 1:03:17
  they're good, but a lot of their secondary players have been up
• 1:03:20
  and down and, and they can't stay healthy.
• 1:03:23
  But with Nicola Yokich and as long as he's 100% healthy going
• 1:03:27
  into this series, I think they're going to ride and die
• 1:03:29
  with him. I believe this series is not
• 1:03:31
  going past six games. I, I, I think Nicola Yokich is
• 1:03:35
  going to take over the series triple double.
• 1:03:37
  I think he might have a quadruple double in this series
• 1:03:40
  in some of these games. I'm telling you, I just don't
• 1:03:42
  trust Anthony Edwards. We don't even know how healthy
• 1:03:45
  he is. He's playing this.
• 1:03:47
  He's really not. He's rushing back because they
• 1:03:50
  need. Him know how he played in the.
• 1:03:52
  I remember we got that. I remember you said that.
• 1:03:55
  I remember you said that. Just remember you said that.
• 1:03:57
  But I have the Nuggets, went four games to do.
• 1:03:59
  Yeah, Anthony Edwards cute like you're saying, does have a good
• 1:04:01
  a lot of good volume games. He has had some disappearing
• 1:04:03
  acts too, but a lot of good volume games in the playoffs.
• 1:04:05
  I like Minnesota size inside to make it very interesting.
• 1:04:08
  I it's interesting because I think the Nuggets defense is
• 1:04:11
  going to be in question. But Minnesota is a lot like
• 1:04:13
  Houston. Do they have enough outside of
• 1:04:14
  Edwards Ross shooting ability to make that series competitive?
• 1:04:18
  I don't think it's going to be a walk through for Denver, but I
• 1:04:20
  still think they have the edge right now with the depth and
• 1:04:22
  just the unknown. Minnesota.
• 1:04:24
  And I've been, I've been duped by Minnesota in rounds passed
• 1:04:26
  by. I think Denver after losing them
• 1:04:28
  two years ago, I think gets their event.
• 1:04:29
  I'm going to say four games to two, but it's going to be a
• 1:04:31
  tough series. Yeah, I think Jayden McDaniels
• 1:04:35
  his name, right, Yes, Yeah, I think he's the he's the Ant
• 1:04:37
  factor for Minnesota, obviously. Yeah, obviously it's led by Ant
• 1:04:43
  and when he come back, he's going to be the main threat from
• 1:04:46
  the Minnesota. But I don't, I think this game
• 1:04:48
  go to six. I think this game go to six to
• 1:04:50
  seven, my thing, Anthony was going to show up, show out, do
• 1:04:54
  what he do. Jenny McDonald is going to do
• 1:04:55
  his thing. Judas Randall, you know, he'll
• 1:04:58
  be consistent. He'll do what he do.
• 1:05:00
  And yeah, he's more, he's more, you know that in between if
• 1:05:04
  factor and it's going to it's going to be whether or not Eric
• 1:05:07
  Gordon can match his play or whatnot.
• 1:05:10
  So I think that, you know, they got a great chance of taking
• 1:05:13
  this to 7. Jamal married, like I said, had
• 1:05:15
  a Goodyear, but I don't think that he's going to be no way
• 1:05:18
  that much of it. No way quadruple double by no
• 1:05:21
  way at all. I'm willing to bet on that.
• 1:05:22
  This is not going seven games. No way, no way.
• 1:05:26
  No way. No way.
• 1:05:27
  Well, you know the same guy that you said is not ready, he you
• 1:05:30
  know not. I'm just letting him.
• 1:05:32
  I'm just letting you know. Like the Hall of Fame.
• 1:05:34
  This is not going seven games. They'll be lucky if it goes 6,
• 1:05:38
  lucky if it goes 6, and then there's the number 7 Trail
• 1:05:43
  Blazers and the Spurs. Now everybody thinks the Spurs
• 1:05:47
  are going to run away with this series.
• 1:05:49
  Everybody out of. Israel.
• 1:05:51
  He he has been unbelievable. He's turning into a superstar in
• 1:05:55
  the league and, and you like to see this kid from Israel really
• 1:05:58
  developing without Chauncey Billups, with all the stuff
• 1:06:02
  that's gone on over there, you, you would wonder how did the
• 1:06:05
  Trail Blazers sneak into the playoffs this year?
• 1:06:07
  But it's in, it's very impressive.
• 1:06:09
  And it wasn't because of Henderson.
• 1:06:10
  Let's let's be honest, it has not been because of Henderson,
• 1:06:13
  but it's been very, very impressive what they've done.
• 1:06:16
  But they're walking into a they're walking into a saw, a
• 1:06:20
  saw of just complete dominance. And if you look at the San
• 1:06:24
  Antonio Spurs, not only webbing Yama, you got Castle.
• 1:06:28
  Dylan Harper's not healthy, but he's going to be back in the
• 1:06:31
  series. Devin Vassell.
• 1:06:33
  This is this is a team that has a lot of depth.
• 1:06:35
  Very, very good. Luke Command, this is a good
• 1:06:39
  team. This is a good overall team.
• 1:06:41
  Great offense, great defense, bigs, good guard play.
• 1:06:45
  They're going to be very, very dangerous throughout the
• 1:06:47
  playoffs. I think they're, they'll be more
• 1:06:50
  interesting in the second round. I, I, I congratulate the Trail
• 1:06:54
  Blazers making the playoffs and least making the first round,
• 1:06:56
  but they're done. There's no way they're going.
• 1:06:59
  They're going through the Spurs. I think Spurs win four games to
• 1:07:02
  none. They run all over the Trail
• 1:07:04
  Blazers. Yeah, this is a tough match up
• 1:07:06
  for a team in Portland that outside of Donovan, Klingon does
• 1:07:08
  not have a lot of size at Viha is a 24.2 points per game scorer
• 1:07:12
  in the regular season. Good all around Shooter.
• 1:07:15
  But again, this is a system on defense that obviously is not
• 1:07:18
  Gregg Popovich, but it's very it's very similar to the
• 1:07:21
  concepts that he likes to run where they're really very
• 1:07:23
  physical on those wings. And I think it's just too much
• 1:07:25
  depth of the Spurs have too with Harper, even if Harper's not
• 1:07:28
  100% is coming off the bench. You got Kelvin Johnson,
• 1:07:30
  underrated guy, drafted by Kentucky from Kentucky.
• 1:07:33
  Champani's been very good off the bench.
• 1:07:35
  They have enough guys that are double digit scores as well.
• 1:07:37
  I agree this is a sweep. Yeah, I'm going 4 O as well.
• 1:07:41
  I don't see nothing that Portland has.
• 1:07:43
  What's the guy name again? Danny Avia They also get shaved
• 1:07:47
  in sharp 20 point score this year too.
• 1:07:50
  Yeah, but I I when you look at that last play and get they had
• 1:07:52
  they had terrible with space and he obviously he had a hell of a
• 1:07:56
  game and he was able to get in and and create some momentum
• 1:07:59
  with the air wars and being aggressive again to the basket.
• 1:08:03
  But there's no way he could do that with Luke in there and
• 1:08:05
  Winby in the middle. I see this going nowhere fast.
• 1:08:08
  I think this is a four O bring out the grooms.
• 1:08:11
  It kind of reminds me of how remember the Knicks when they
• 1:08:14
  first started going good and Julius Randle was doing the give
• 1:08:18
  me the ball, I'll do everything type of offense in the playoffs
• 1:08:21
  and it didn't work at all. That's what I see going to
• 1:08:23
  happen in this series. I think you're right.
• 1:08:24
  Four row boys and then that's it.
• 1:08:28
  And then there's the Golden State Warriors.
• 1:08:30
  Now they have to. They have to beat the Suns, and
• 1:08:33
  I think they're going to beat the Suns.
• 1:08:34
  I really do. But if they beat the Suns, watch
• 1:08:37
  out for the Golden State Warriors.
• 1:08:39
  I'm telling you right now, I know, OK, C, they're smiling,
• 1:08:42
  they're happy. They're playing either the Suns
• 1:08:45
  or they're playing the Warriors, and the Warriors look like
• 1:08:48
  they're going to be easy. Not if Steph Curry is healthy.
• 1:08:50
  I'm telling you right now, if the Warriors beat the Suns,
• 1:08:53
  which I believe they will, I think they could run right
• 1:08:56
  through the Suns. After what they did to the
• 1:08:58
  Clippers, I think they run right over.
• 1:09:00
  Steph Curry could take over a game by himself.
• 1:09:03
  And if they're matched up against the Thunder, as good as
• 1:09:05
  the Thunder is, they do not want to play a healthy Steph Curry in
• 1:09:09
  the playoffs. He's got, he wants to prove
• 1:09:11
  himself. Could you imagine Steph Curry
• 1:09:14
  and the Warriors take this series to seven games?
• 1:09:16
  I I'm not saying it's going to happen, but could it happen?
• 1:09:20
  Yeah. If Steph Curry scores 40 points
• 1:09:22
  and gets these guys to play behind them, rebound and do
• 1:09:25
  everything and he can take over a game.
• 1:09:27
  We've seen him do it before. I'd be worried if I was OK C,
• 1:09:30
  that I have to match up against Steph Curry.
• 1:09:32
  Yes, SGA, Sensational Williams, all the talent that they have,
• 1:09:36
  they got great size, they got great everything.
• 1:09:40
  To me, you do not want to play the Warriors.
• 1:09:44
  I'd rather play the Suns. I do not want to play Steph
• 1:09:47
  Curry. And I know Steph Curry's licking
• 1:09:49
  his lips. Could you imagine if Steph Curry
• 1:09:51
  beats the OKC Thunder, the Champions from last year, and
• 1:09:55
  say I've done what I need to do. I don't have to win a
• 1:09:57
  championship. I did what I had to do.
• 1:09:59
  I knocked off the Champions. I knocked off the Buzzards, the
• 1:10:04
  team that nobody can beat, the team that everybody says is
• 1:10:07
  unstoppable, the OKC Thunder. I'm telling you right now, watch
• 1:10:11
  out. Don't tell me, watch out.
• 1:10:14
  Fish Guess what we get to get in this game, too.
• 1:10:16
  We get Draymond Green versus Dylan Brooks again, which means
• 1:10:19
  you can. Bring like.
• 1:10:19
  That like lab graphic you had last year?
• 1:10:22
  I definitely made some Draymond Dylan Brooks graphics that
• 1:10:25
  should be fun. He'll in this playing game that
• 1:10:28
  they beat the Clippers in. Porzingis played 28 minutes at
• 1:10:32
  20 points, 8 of 12 shooting, 3 of 6 from 3, five boards, 5
• 1:10:37
  assists, 2 blocks. That works.
• 1:10:40
  If they can get that out of him, that means it'll be they have a
• 1:10:44
  chance to do something. That means it'll be if the
• 1:10:45
  Warriors wait, it'll be Nick's legend Percepts Porzingis versus
• 1:10:48
  Nick's legend Isaiah Heart inside I'm.
• 1:10:50
  Telling you. I don't expect it.
• 1:10:52
  Well, I think Chet would be on him, right?
• 1:10:53
  And that's really how they would handle it.
• 1:10:55
  And it's kind of a similar player, but younger, more
• 1:10:57
  athletic and better version of Porzingis today, right?
• 1:11:00
  But Porzingis has the size Chet. Chet weighs like 200 lbs soaking
• 1:11:03
  wet. So but he don't bang.
• 1:11:06
  Well, I that's, that's the thing.
• 1:11:07
  How healthy is Porzingis? Right, Right.
• 1:11:09
  Is is he healthy because he's has that weird condition.
• 1:11:11
  We don't even know what it is. They won't tell us what his
• 1:11:14
  condition is. It's some weird type of health
• 1:11:16
  issue that he can't play, you know, as many minutes back.
• 1:11:19
  Yeah. That same problem with the
• 1:11:20
  Celtics, too, when they wouldn't reveal his injuries.
• 1:11:22
  I, I think it might be like a genetic thing.
• 1:11:23
  He's just going to have to live with the whole they.
• 1:11:25
  They don't want to tell anybody what it is.
• 1:11:27
  Yeah, I picked the Suns the way I know it sounds as crazy as it
• 1:11:30
  is. I think the Warriors has been a
• 1:11:33
  terrible show all year. Definitely congratulations there
• 1:11:36
  for being the Clippers. I think most of the Clippers
• 1:11:38
  beat themselves was a costly turnover on a out of bounds play
• 1:11:42
  and and then Kawhi got picked off by Draymond.
• 1:11:46
  That was, you know, one of those free 1 offs and whatnot.
• 1:11:50
  But I think the Warriors don't that they're not going to
• 1:11:54
  perform versus the Sun. I think the Sun is going to make
• 1:11:56
  the necessary defense adjustments that they should
• 1:11:58
  have made versus Portland, which is going to get in the edge.
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  I can see Dylan Brooks and Draymond Green having a field
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  day of memes and all kinds of crazy acts.
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  And it's it's going to be a good day.
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  But I think the Phoenix Kapoor is this one now.
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  That's why I think this is like kind of their Super Bowl for
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  them. That's why I think the Suns win,
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  too, because I think it'll be a chippy game and they're they're
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  a better defensive team. And either way, I think OK C
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  sweeps the other one. And the refs been letting them
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  play like Steph couldn't get a call last night.
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  He was getting banged up and they wouldn't give him no call.
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  So I think it's it's going to be very rough for them to come out
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  of that. So you're saying Steph looks
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  like at the star treatment like SGAQ?
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  Yeah, he won't get no star treatment.
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  We'll see. I'm telling you, he's the
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  Warriors. Steph still got 35 though.
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  Yeah, he's Warriors. The Warriors are going to.
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  Win first half he had like 8 they're.
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  Going to win, I'm telling you, they're going to get out of that
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  series. They're going to get out of that
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  game against. I believe they're beating the
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  Suns. I don't know if they get out of
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  OKC, and I'm not saying they will, but I think they're going
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  to give. They're going to give.
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  If they match up against OKC, trust me, they're not going to
• 1:12:58
  run all over the Warriors. I'm telling you right?
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  Now it adds to the SGA non playing fourth quarter stat.
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  That's what we would do. That's what's going to happen.
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  If that shows up, if they show up at the doorsteps, are they
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  seeing the player? I don't know what you're
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  drinking tonight. You're lost.
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  I'm telling you, you're lost. Holy water.
• 1:13:17
  Could I drown you in that holy water?
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  I mean, seriously? Anyways, my deuce of the day.
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  The deuce of the day. You log.
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  Not a log. I don't have a log but.
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  All right, so that was a little loud.
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  My deuce of the day goes to Tiger Woods.
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  Tiger Woods seems like he's in every single story out there.
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  Tiger Woods attorney is fighting prosecutors right now and
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  attempts to subpoena the 15 time major champions of prescription
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  drug records from the pharmacy. According to court records filed
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  Wednesday, in a response to the state's motion for a subpoena,
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  attorney Douglas Duncan wrote that Woods has to a
• 1:14:08
  constitutional right to privacy interests in the prescription
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  records and request a hearing to to hearing to determine whether
• 1:14:18
  prosecutors should be allowed to obtain Woods records on filing
• 1:14:24
  at Lewis Pharmacy in Palm A, Palm Beach, FL.
• 1:14:28
  So the story is his attorney doesn't want this to come out,
• 1:14:32
  but prosecutors want it to come out.
• 1:14:33
  They want to know what he's taking, what he's eating, doing.
• 1:14:36
  But the fight is on. Tiger Woods is arguing or his
• 1:14:41
  lawyer is arguing away out of this mysterious thought that he
• 1:14:46
  wasn't on anything. He wasn't taking any drugs.
• 1:14:49
  Yeah, right. I mean, Tiger Woods has done a
• 1:14:52
  lot of crazy things. I'm telling you right now, this
• 1:14:55
  story is going to get worse if it is Vicodins, Perkins,
• 1:14:59
  Percocets or Oxycontins. And what he was taking, he was
• 1:15:02
  driving under the influence. It only he tells you one thing.
• 1:15:06
  This guy doesn't care about anybody but himself and he's
• 1:15:08
  going to kill somebody if he doesn't, somebody doesn't stop
• 1:15:10
  him. So that is my do so today for
• 1:15:13
  Tiger friggin Woods. Wonderful.
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  He's just a wonderful guy. He's Q's best buddy.
• 1:15:19
  I don't know. He's his best buddy.
• 1:15:21
  He loves. Green jacket, Yeah.
• 1:15:24
  You've got a green jersey behind you, not a green jacket, but.
• 1:15:27
  Great Father. Yeah, great father, wonderful
• 1:15:29
  father, wonderful father. What are the basic influence I?
• 1:15:33
  Had a few, had a few here. Yeah, a wonderful father.
• 1:15:37
  He flips cars over like they wear chewbles.
• 1:15:39
  And yeah, you know what else he does?
• 1:15:42
  He teaches. His son how to drink and drive
• 1:15:45
  or get messed up or how about this just Ram Jam all these
• 1:15:50
  prostitutes that's difference. To wonderful Let's go.
• 1:15:55
  Tiger wants to sleep. With somebody bring the done.
• 1:15:57
  What's what's his son's name? Charlie, I believe.
• 1:16:00
  Charlie, let's bring Charlie. Let's bring Charlie.
• 1:16:03
  When he gets above age, We we could go to one of those What is
• 1:16:06
  that? The Bunny mansion over there in
• 1:16:08
  Vegas. We'll take him to the.
• 1:16:09
  Bunny Shack. Take him to the Bunny Shack.
• 1:16:13
  Take him to the Bunny Shack. Yeah, we'll do that.
• 1:16:15
  We'll take him to the Bunny Shack.
• 1:16:16
  That's what we'll. Do maybe we'll have to get our
• 1:16:19
  our Shackalack. Maybe I'll forget our
• 1:16:20
  Shackalack. We got our friend John Schneider
• 1:16:22
  from Dukes and Hazard Tiger. What's on the next set?
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  Charlie, let's do a Statue of Liberty.
• 1:16:27
  Let's do it. I'm.
• 1:16:28
  Just kidding. I'm just say I mean father.
• 1:16:31
  No, don't say, because we don't. He's innocent.
• 1:16:33
  Oh, he's innocent. Yeah, he had it.
• 1:16:35
  Is he? He flipped the car, but he's
• 1:16:37
  innocent, you know, of all these allegations at the time.
• 1:16:40
  He's innocent. He wasn't on anything, even
• 1:16:41
  though he didn't want to take any tests.
• 1:16:43
  Yeah, Innocent that. Yeah.
• 1:16:44
  You have the right to refuse it. I'll give you the low.
• 1:16:47
  I'll give you the. Right to take a dump.
• 1:16:49
  And that's what I'm going to do when I come to these prosecuting
• 1:16:51
  records. That's it for a show.
• 1:16:53
  Thank you to all the Spotify and Apple video and audio fans, all
• 1:16:57
  the TikTok, all the X whatever you call it, Twitter or TikTok X
• 1:17:02
  Instagram. And yeah, that does not look
• 1:17:05
  like me. That doesn't make any sense,
• 1:17:07
  but. That's why you cut your beard.
• 1:17:09
  Cut my beard. Shut up you all the YouTube
• 1:17:12
  fans. That's for men, Gel, Yeah.
• 1:17:14
  All the YouTube fans and all the idiots that listen to these
• 1:17:17
  idiots. Thank you.
• 1:17:19
  I I will see you guys next week. I gotta go.
• 1:17:23
  My feet are killing me. Goodnight.
• 1:17:24
  Yeah, darling. Up the worldwide sports.
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  Radio network. Their breasts.
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  It's a body part.