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The Warriors and Nuggets win Game 7! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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I believe in that. They're going to give him a
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significant, They're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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Why not put it in one of the top three offensive players in the
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league? We're going to be looking at
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Aaron Judge and saying that he can't win the big game, Michael
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Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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You don't see LeBron. Doing that a game where you got
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to go for four. I told you, giant feet Saquon
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Barkley. At this
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I have the privilege right now on the big screen to watch this
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debacle of a game. But nevertheless, hopefully the
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Knicks stay close and maybe they'll have a chance, chance to
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win the game at the end. But nevertheless, Jabba, there
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was a lot of things that happened this weekend.
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It's pouring rain right now. Sunday was raining.
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Now all of a sudden it's raining all day.
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We have flooding here in Long Island, even though we needed
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the rain. It's been absolutely brutal, all
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single, really all day. And the people on the road here
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in New York, when it rains, it's like it's snowing.
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Nobody knows how to drive here. They're absolutely horrendous.
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But I mean, you have a bigger story right now.
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How are you and your family doing?
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Oh, everything's good, man. I'll rub it in.
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It was 80° and perfect here today.
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So we had rain the other day. I took actually I took Owen's
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son to get his haircut. He was, he was in Dallas for a
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conference and his wife was at work.
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And I, we got him a sick mullet with some lightning bolts in the
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side and it was literally flooding in the streets.
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I had to like it was like I was playing Frogger to get over like
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the water puddles to get in the car.
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But yeah, we've needed, we've needed the rain too.
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Like it's, it's been so bad here.
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Everything probably like the last week is really, really
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greened up. But yeah, we were, it was bad
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for a while. Like everything was brown.
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Like we were almost in like a couple years ago where we had
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the drought. Yes.
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And so it's like you could only water on like odd days if your
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if your street number was an even number like it was, it was
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people getting like $500 fines for for using water.
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It was nuts. Well, I'll tell you.
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I'll tell you right now, Pollen over here in Long Island has
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been absolutely brutal. Oh, allergies are crazy right
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now. It is.
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People's allergies are stupid. Listen, Jabba, the cars right
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now, if you have a black or a blue car, it is.
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Gold. It is green.
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That's what it is here in New New York.
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It is absolutely horrendous. If you have allergies, if you
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have problems with grass or weeds or whatever the hell
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you're allergic to, you do not want to be here in Long Island
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at this time of year. It is horrendous.
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There's so many people sick right now.
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Now they have the cough flu. That's that's like a new thing
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here on Long Island. Now there's a thing called the
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cough flu. I don't get it.
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A cough. It's a cough, cough.
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A cough. So remember with COVID and, and
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everybody, you would get one of the, one of the, one of the
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things you would get is a long cough that never goes away.
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That is what it is here in Long Island.
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Now it, there's a thing called the cough flu.
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You get like a fever and then you start to cough and then you
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can't stop coughing for like over a week, week and a half.
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And it's a really bad cough that it feels like a burning
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sensation in the back of your throat.
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So many kids are getting it, the parents are getting it and now
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it's spreading like a wildfire right now.
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And it's, it's horrendous because the weather can't, you
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just can't figure out the weather weather right now.
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It's warm, it's humid, it's it's raining, it's cold.
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It it doesn't make sense. That's the same thing here too,
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when when kids start to get sick too.
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And like we had like a break out of like the measles and stuff
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too. But then it's like it goes from,
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you know, freezing, then it's 80°, then it's a Blizzard.
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And then now we get warm weather and then now it's just like, I
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mean, it's just we're, we're so hot and cold here.
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But I think we've kind of gotten through that stage.
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So hopefully, you know, it's supposed to be like in the 70s
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and 80s, pretty much the rest. But I never look at the weather
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because it changes here all the time.
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But yeah, it's just like everybody's allergies are just
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whack because it's like, oh, OK, it's going to freeze.
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OK, now it's warm. Then it gets hot again.
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But yeah, it's 70. 80 weather is not my thing any anything past
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69 is too much for me. I have to be room temperature
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outside for me to actually like the weather.
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I I would say San Diego weather is probably my favorite weather,
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but it's too expensive. If you think it's expensive
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living here in New York, don't go to San Diego.
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It's even worse. The Warriors advanced to the
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second round with a one O 389 win over the Rockets in Game 7.
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Buddy Hill tied the NBA record for a game seven with 9 three
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pointers made and finished with 33 points.
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Finally, he played a decent game.
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Steph Curry didn't score his first field goal until late in
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the second quarter, but still finished with 22 points, 10
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rebounds and seven assists. Almost a triple double.
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Jalen Green had another game scoring single digits, finished
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with eight points. Besides Game 2, where he scored
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38 points, he had 12 points or less.
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In every other game, the Warriors had just three points
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off their bench, the lowest total for a winning team in NBA
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history. The Warriors will face the
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number six seed, the Timberwolves, in the next round.
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Honestly, the Golden State Warriors absolutely deserved
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this opportunity to move on to the second round.
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I got to give Steph Curry a lot of I don't do that often.
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Steph Curry is one of the more unique players we've ever seen
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in NBA history. This guy is an unbelievable
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shooter. But there's other things that he
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does very, very well. And if you see the timeouts
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being called Steph Curry's out there.
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He's in the middle of the huddle.
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He is the guy that's speaking with the coach and Steve Kerr
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trying to give pointers and tips to all the players in the
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huddle. And it's, it's great to watch
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because you want to see that team, team leadership, including
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with some of these great old players, these veteran players
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like Draymond Green and Jimmy Buckets, guys that have stepped
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back and let Steph Curry take over.
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This is the first time, honestly, I've seen Steph Curry
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take over as, as far as I'm concerned as a leader.
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All these years he's played with Klay Thompson, who was a fairly,
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you know, unique player. And I would say, and I wouldn't
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say he's Steph Curry, but he played the same exact way when
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he came to shooting the ball. And in his release point.
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Again, Steph Curry is the guy that plays the point and he's
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running the he's running those pick it pick and rolls.
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And he's the guy that you're you're you're getting the ball
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to when you're trying to get the ball in inside or outside of
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when it comes to shooting. But what makes Steph Curry
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unique in this particular series against the Rockets is the
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Rockets with the young team we've seen for years.
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We've seen the young Golden State Warriors like I just
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mentioned, Klay Thompson and then Steph Curry and then on
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Green. These guys at one point of their
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lives, they were 2223 years old and they were the youth.
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They were the young team in the NBA, the up and coming team.
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And now it's a complete opposite.
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Klay Thompson's no longer on the team.
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You brought in Jimmy Buckets. He's an older player, but a
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fairly sensational player in the playoffs and and a great player
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all around. Hall of Famer.
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And then Draymond Green, he's a fetching player in his 30s,
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Steph Curry in his in his mid and late 30s.
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These guys are older now. They've been in these situations
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and now you're seeing the difference when it comes to
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you're not young, you're not you don't have the youth behind you.
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And I think the Rockets have a great future.
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I really do. I think they have a sensational
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coach. As long as he keeps his hands to
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himself and he keeps other things to himself, he's a great
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coach. We've seen him take his team all
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the way to the Finals, so he understands the game of
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basketball and he understands how to take personalities like
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Green, who reminds me of a lot of personalities in the NBA that
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think that they're better than they are.
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And I think this is, to me, a great opportunity for Jalen
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Green in the offseason to figure out who he is in the NBA.
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He did not have a good game. He did not have a good series.
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And he is a guy that's up and down throughout the playoffs and
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sometimes around the regular season.
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You need to figure things out if you want to be a star player in
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the NBA and you want to be considered one of the best 2
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guards in the NBA, you got to play better.
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You got to figure out who you are on the basketball court and
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some of these these guys on the Rockets couldn't figure that
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out. What was so interesting to me is
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this was probably the best coaching job I've seen Steve
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Kerr have in his career as a head coach with the Golden.
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You're giving him credit. I'm giving him credit because
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honestly, he's not the better coach in this series.
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He wasn't the better coach in this series, but nevertheless,
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he put his team in better and good positions then obviously
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the younger team and he didn't run his team out rampantly.
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He didn't wait, he didn't he didn't make his team get it put
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into positions where they're tired and and they played a
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great rotation. They had a great rotation of
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players. I loved what I saw with the
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Golden State Warriors. The question is, can they do
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that against the Timberwolves? The Timberwolves are also a
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young team. They have a phenom like Edwards.
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They got a great big and they have Julius Randle playing good
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basketball. They're getting good offense off
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the bench from Dante Divincenzo. This is a good team.
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The Timberwolves, if they get through, and I'll say this, they
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get through the Golden State Warriors, why couldn't they beat
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OKC? And we don't even know if OKC is
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going to come out of their next series against the Nuggets
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because we all know what Yokich is and what this team could do
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with the best player in the NBA. But I'm not even talking about
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that. I'm talking about this series.
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Buddy Hield finally had a good game.
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Ladies and gentlemen. Buddy Hield actually hit 3 point
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shot the whole series, chucking up up threes trying to figure
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out where his shot was going to be and and where he was going
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to. You want to know something,
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Errol? The last time that he busted
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Dylan Brooks's ass, it was in Oregon when he almost had a he
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had a 40 point game and beat him in the tournament.
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Speaking of Dylan Brooks. 2 Two of his biggest games have been
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against him, Oregon and Oklahoma and then this series and then he
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goes out and balls out and does what it is like it was, it was
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so funny seeing the comparisons and and how he did.
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I was like, oh, the same guy again.
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That's interesting. Speaking of Dylan Brooks in game
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six, what he did to Steph Curry and Steph Curry getting up and
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at the press conference pretty much saying he, he didn't say it
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in these words, but he called Dylan Brooks a bitch.
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That's pretty much what he said. He's a bitch and he likes to, he
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likes to push people around. He's not pushing me around.
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And the referees need to figure out how to call fouls on him and
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put him in, you know, give him technical fouls.
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He was Dylan Brooks is one of the dirtiest players we've ever
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seen. Draymond Green has been a dirty
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player his whole career and some people compare Dylan Brooks to
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the the old Draymond Green Draymond Green is obviously not
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the same Draymond Green he once was, but he he was to me, it was
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one of the more dirtiest players I've ever seen play in the NBA.
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But I I was impressed with what the Golden State Warriors did
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offensively, even defensively and, and I'll give Jimmy buckets
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a lot of credit. Jimmy Buckets isn't 100%
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healthy, but he has been as important defensively as any
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player on this golden Golden State Warriors team.
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He played the rim very well. He was rebounding the ball.
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He was defending multiple positions.
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He wasn't going out there looking for his shot.
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He knows that he has Steph Curry on the team.
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He knows that he has an offensive rounded team where if
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Buddy healed his hitting shots and then you have all the other
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guys on the on the bench coming off the bench hitting shots.
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He doesn't need to go out there and score 3035 points like he
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did over there in Miami. And I think that to me is the
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difference and the difference factor going into the next
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series against the Timberwolves. I think if you get a Jimmy
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Buckets that could give you 20 and 10, you're going to have a
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chance to beat the Timberwolves because the Timberwolves, you
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don't know what you're going to get with Anthony Edwards.
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And all you got to do is get into Anthony Edwards, his head,
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as we've seen before. And remember what happened to
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Dallas in the Western Conference finals last year, as soon as
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Luca got into his head and Kyrie Irving got into his head, he was
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not the same player. And I believe that if this team,
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the Golden State Warriors, with the the veterans that they have
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on this team and the the the way they run their rotations off the
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bench, there is nobody, nobody that would probably predict that
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the Timberwolves wouldn't come out the winner of this series.
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But again, I'm looking at the veterans, I'm looking at the
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talent that the Golden State Warriors have now and what they
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did at the trade deadline. There's no doubt in my mind that
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this team can knock off a very good young Timberwolves team,
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that I believe that if they get out of this series, there's no
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doubt in my mind they could beat the OKC Thunder or even the
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Denver Nuggets. Yeah, and we were talking about
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it a few years ago when Steve Kerr was criticized for the way
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he was using his young players. And I think there was a big
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difference in this series when you saw post go off at certain
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points, Podemski went off at certain points, Kamingo was kind
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of up and down but had his moments.
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And now you're finally seeing Steve Kerr be able to trust
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those guys a lot more because they know they have to.
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And again, my concerns with the Warriors still were kind of
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justified in Game 7 when they were dominated in size against
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that size. Those are really the only two
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players that played well too, where they're two big men.
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But besides that, they did a great job shutting down the
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perimeter. They did a great job even
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shutting down the veteran players with Vanvleet didn't
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have his uncharacteristic clutch performance as we've seen him
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have with the the Toronto Raptors and then Dylan Brooks.
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There's some kind of few that maybe they end up getting in the
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head and stuff like that to make that kind of thing work.
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But nevertheless, like this is a a team that they had to be a
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different identity in order to do that.
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And I think you found that with Steve Kerr in that coaching this
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game, right? the Rockets are young team.
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They looked young in that game. And Jaylen Green, he's got he's
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up to a contract soon. So they got to make a big
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decision with him if they could trust him.
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Yeah, it's, I think you hit the nail on the head too.
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I'll say I think this was Steve Kerr, like in the rotation that
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he had and how he kept them fresh because that was kind of,
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you go back and look at, you know, JJ Redick and how he
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played everybody in the second-half.
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And that's literally all he did. And even Magic Johnson came out
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and was giving him the business of, of playing all those guys
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and not resting them and doing that.
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But yeah, I I think it's just what I really think about the
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Warriors in what they are is obviously Steph being the leader
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and stepping up when he needs to.
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And even though he wasn't scoring early, still got 22, but
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him being the leader of it. But then knowing Draymond and
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knowing those guys in their roles and how they embrace them
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and they know that's what it is. And look, buddy hasn't been
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great, but we know he has glimpses of it.
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So he stepped up when he needed to.
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And Jimmy wants to win and he understands.
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It's like, OK, if we got a hot hand now I just need to D up.
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I just need to do this. If Steph ain't hot, we still got
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to get him the ball. We still got to get him chances.
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I think it's just really comes down to Steve managing them in a
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certain way, but all of them knowing exactly what their role
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is. And maybe if Steph's not having
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a good day, somebody's going to have to step up.
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We've seen him with with Jimmy and now we saw Game 7 when I
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mean, you're nuts are on the line.
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It's either win or go home, right?
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And Buddy steps up and and did what he did.
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Finally, finally, Mr. Luck Chucker.
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Right. And that's, I mean, and that's
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part of it. I mean, sun shines on a dog's
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ass every once in a while, right?
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You can only help. But it's a game, it's a Game 7
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and it happened at the right time and stuff.
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Still got you 22 so it's not like.
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He gave you a triple double practically.
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That's something that you expect your star players to do.
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He doesn't need to score 30 something points or 40 something
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points if he gives you 2010 and seven.
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I mean, that is something that Steph Curry doesn't really do.
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He gave you an all around game and he actually played some
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defense, something that I haven't seen Steph Curry do over
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the years. He's been an all around
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offensive style of player. Yeah, he steals the ball, but he
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actually played up the defended Van Vleet and Van Vleet actually
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was all over the place. Van Vleet couldn't figure out
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what his shot was in this series.
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He had one or two games that obviously showed you why he's so
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fantastic and such a great player.
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But I, I think it's been, it was very impressive watching Steph
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Curry this in this particular series, play defense.
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And I, I got it again, that goes to Steve Curry and the way he's
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making, you know, he's making the calls and he's calling
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defense and play calls. And I, I know.
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And by the way, I, I keep, I keep reading what's Fish is
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doing. I understand fish.
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They doubled him. Nevertheless, Steph Curry did
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what he needed to do, taking over the game and and he was the
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superstar that we believe he him to be.
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Everybody talks about what he does offensively, but it was
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what he did as a leader in this game and this series and what he
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did defensively in this series when he needed to.
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And I, I thought it was very encouraging.
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And that tells me that Steph Curry is growing up.
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This team is growing up because if they have a chance to win, if
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they want to win a championship with this roster, they're going
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to have to get players that you wouldn't expect to play and and
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have players do things that they're not expected to do if
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they expect to win a championship.
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That's how you win championships.
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When hockey, your goaltending can get hot.
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If your goaltender gets hot, anything's possible.
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In baseball, if you get a hot hitter and he's hitting and you
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can't strike him out and you got a great pitcher, if you pitch
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him two or three times in a series, you got a chance to win.
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And in a football, if you just have a hot.
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Great defense and you can run the ball and dominate the time
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off the clock. You're going to win no matter
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how good your quarterback is or how bad your quarterback is
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playing in that game. There is ways there's it's a
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chess board and in sports if you find the right piece to move,
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there's a very good chance you have a chance to win even if
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you're not expected to win. And I, I look at with with the
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Steph Curry Golden State Warriors is they might not be
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the most talented as they've been over the years, but they
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have enough pieces to win. And that, ladies and gentlemen,
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is going to play a big part if you want to watch the Golden
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State Warriors contend for a championship.
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Yeah, job. I understand.
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I mean, fish, don't worry about it.
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We'll go to break and we'll fix it.
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Can't do it now. The Nuggets blew out the
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Clippers 121 O one in Game 7 to advance to the second round.
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After the game, Nicole Yokich praised the interim head coach
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David Edelman, saying that he brought a certain energy that
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was missing from them most of the season.
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He added that the ownership wanted A-Team wanted A-Team
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culture change with the Nuggets since their championship season,
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and he thought this series definitely brought a new
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culture. Kawhi Manner told The Athletic
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that he was very frustrated after a very early exit and and
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and and is unsure what the team's future looks like after
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Kawhi was the only player who scored over 20 points in the
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game. James Harden had another
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disappointing performance in the elimination game, scoring only
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seven points, scoring 248 from the field.
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The Clippers have lost four of their last five, five games
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sevens dating back from 2015. The Nuggets will now face the
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number one seed, the Thunder, in the second round.
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Honestly, the Nuggets and I, I got to give Yokich a lot of
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credit. No superstar player after the A
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series would go out there and throw his old coach under the
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bus and ownership. You get praising ownership.
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I obviously Yokich was one of the guys that couldn't stand
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Malone because if he's going to go out there and praise the
22:12
assistant coach and a guy that took over at the end of the
22:14
season and a in a championship coach, coach which a
22:17
championship team and practically this whole roster is
22:21
the same when they won the championship says a lot about
22:24
what their team leadership is and what the coach Malone what
22:28
coach Malone was in the locker room and the character he was on
22:32
the on the court. The question is even though they
22:36
have David Edelman, they trust David Edelman.
22:38
Is David Edelman the guy that's going to lead them to a
22:41
championship? Malone was a championship minded
22:44
coach. He's been a part of teams and
22:46
and rosters over the years and he understands how to play the
22:50
defensive side of the ball. Edelman, he likes to run the
22:53
ball up and down the court. You see Russell Westbrook,
22:55
Russell Westbrook looks better than he's ever had.
22:58
And and I think Russell Westbrook in this series had I
23:02
think it was 47% at the three-point line, something that
23:05
we've never seen Russell Westbrook do in a series, in a
23:08
basketball series, in a playoff series.
23:11
It's very, very unique when Russell Westbrook over the years
23:14
has always thought of himself as the best player, the superstar
23:17
player, the triple double phenom phenom.
23:19
And then you look at what Nicole Yokich is.
23:22
Nicole Yokich was is practically the same player Russell
23:25
Westbrook. Russell Westbrook is, but Russ
23:29
is not a big man that 7 foot foot, 7 foot that can shoot
23:33
threes and dominate the ball and pay and bring the ball up
23:37
without any athletic ability. And and I I'll say not any
23:41
athletic, athletic ability because he's a big man that can
23:43
go up the court and looks like a deer in the headlights and he
23:47
finds a way to pass the ball. He sees the court so well.
23:49
He's like Wayne Gretzky on a basketball court.
23:52
So it is impressive when you have your superstar come out and
23:57
praise the coach, the assistant coach that's become a coach,
24:00
praise ownership ship, praise the executives, the GM and
24:04
everybody else, throw his old coach under the bus and then
24:08
look at his team and say we can win a championship.
24:10
We can go out and beat the OKC Thunder, we can win the West and
24:15
we can surprise and shock the world with the team that we
24:18
have, the roster we have. The only thing that worries me
24:21
about the Nuggets right now is the Nuggets are on a high right
24:24
now and they and the OK C Thunder, they've sit, they're
24:28
sitting right now, they're relaxing.
24:30
They're a young team. They're one of the youngest
24:32
teams right now in the NBA. They got a tremendous amount of
24:35
talent. They have shy Alexander that's
24:37
going to be the MVP because the NBA wants him to be the MVP and
24:42
they're very well coached as well.
24:44
So OKC is going to have homecourt advantage.
24:47
They have and and and again going into this series against
24:50
the Clippers, Kawhi Leonard, I love Kawhi Leonard.
24:53
He's one of the more underrated players we've seen in NBA
24:56
history. He is a bona fide Hall of Famer
24:58
and when he is at the top of his game, you it's all what he did
25:02
with Toronto. We seen that he was such an
25:04
important piece to the San Antonio Spurs when they won
25:07
their title against Miami. They're Kawhi Leonard's as good
25:10
as anybody we've seen as a two way player.
25:13
The only problem with Kawhi Leonard over the years, he has
25:15
knees, he has knee problems. He can't stay healthy.
25:18
And maybe Kawhi just doesn't see any future in the Clippers.
25:22
Kawhi's getting old now. He's what, 3334 years old?
25:25
He's getting up there in age. He wants to win another
25:27
championship. He's won with multiple teams and
25:31
now maybe he's thinking maybe the Clippers aren't the team.
25:34
Maybe playing with James Harden is not where I want to be.
25:37
And does somebody like Kawhi Leonard push himself out in the
25:40
offseason and say I want to play for a championship competitive
25:43
team? I don't want to be here anymore.
25:45
It sounds like that's the way he's and that's the route he's
25:47
going after getting an extension.
25:49
It's it's crazy, but Nicola Yokich, I, this is the best
25:53
player in the NBA. He's been the best player for
25:55
the last six years. This guy has so much tread left.
25:59
What is he, 3030, one years old? This guy's going to play at the
26:02
time. Yeah, 3031 years old.
26:05
He's going to play at the top of his game at least for another
26:07
seven years. Because what he does, well, he
26:10
doesn't need to go up and up and down the court like a Russell
26:12
Westbrook or a big man that is looking to, you know, to set up
26:16
and, and, and find his own shot. He sets up his own shot.
26:19
He brings the ball up and creates passes and shots for his
26:24
teammates. He is a unique player.
26:26
Well, we have never seen a player of this magnitude.
26:29
I, I know everybody keeps saying that Tim Duncan was is the
26:32
greatest power forward to all the all time.
26:34
I, I, I know Nicola Yokich is A5.
26:37
To me, he reminds me more of a four because of his ability and
26:40
what he does on the basketball court.
26:42
So what is? But is there really a position
26:44
now because he brings the ball up, he passes like A2 guard, he
26:49
shoots like A2 guard. Like is it really a position
26:52
anymore? Because it's not because he's
26:54
doing things and you can't compare eras because he's doing
26:58
things that no big man would have ever done 20-30 years ago.
27:03
But it's also one of those things where there's no labels
27:06
as much anymore if you could just have the traits to go along
27:08
with it. We say the same thing about
27:10
centers obviously being dying out for that reason, Java and
27:12
then also point guards to an extent to where you're seeing a
27:15
lot more wings that could bring the ball up.
27:16
Now with Tatum, with Giannis, who's huge, who's 6 foot 10-6
27:20
foot 11, who's like a power forward type, There's enough of
27:23
those hybrid players. As long as you can shoot and as
27:26
long as you could be a playmate. And that's where I think the
27:29
position label is not the same way.
27:30
He's a center based on his. He's a center based on just
27:33
being the tallest guy in that lineup and being the most
27:36
effective inside with everything he does.
27:38
But yeah, there's definitely no skill set like him either.
27:40
And like Errol was saying, like he doesn't have to rely on like
27:43
a crossover, like extreme like athleticism to pass the way he
27:46
does. Errol and I were talking about
27:48
it two years ago when they won the championship.
27:49
How many great no look passes, how many over his head passes
27:52
that Nicole Yokich was able to do at that level?
27:54
It's it's unbelievable what he's doing.
27:56
You're right. There's no ever like him.
27:58
There, there's definitely nobody like him and and I don't think
28:01
we'll ever be a player of that magnitude.
28:03
Now, Cooper Flag is a unique individual.
28:06
He's not 7 foot, he's a six foot 8.
28:09
You know, I I would say a six foot a power forward if you want
28:12
to play him as a three. He's not big yet.
28:15
He's not he doesn't have that size yet as an NBA player to
28:18
play the four. But again, what Nicole Yokich
28:21
does so well is he passes the ball.
28:24
He's a big man that has a unique of advantage as a big man where
28:29
he can actually dominate, dominate a game by passing the
28:32
ball or rebounding the ball. He doesn't need a score, even
28:35
though he does that very well too.
28:36
And he's a pretty good defender too.
28:39
He's one of the more underrated defenders as a big man in the
28:42
NBA. So there's nothing, there's no
28:44
weakness this man has. He blocks the ball.
28:47
He does everything and he he's so very good.
28:50
He understands the game. So I I, I think it's very
28:53
unique. You get to see the two guys
28:55
fighting for that MVP in in the next round.
28:58
I do believe you call yo kid should be be be the MVP.
29:03
But the NBA decided I think they've automatically made the
29:07
decision that shy Alexander is going to be the MVP because he's
29:10
never been in MVP. But to me right now, Nicola
29:14
Yokicha, what he's done this year with a team and a roster
29:17
that's been up and down, new coach at the end of the season
29:20
and still put up the numbers that he's been putting up and be
29:23
and was practically healthy all season long.
29:25
After that long run in the Olympics in the summertime and
29:29
actually played almost every single game this this season
29:32
says to me that this guys the MVP.
29:35
But hey, the NBA is not going to decide who wins this series.
29:39
That's the guy that's going to win the MVP.
29:40
If they did, I'm going to. I think people are going to be
29:43
very impressed what Yokich could do because to me his all around
29:47
game absolutely outmatches what Shy Alexander does.
29:50
Yeah, also you look at like we were saying with the awards,
29:53
like the regular season postseason compilation,
29:56
sometimes we've seen these these vibes be going into the playoffs
29:59
as MVPS being disrespected. And Yokich definitely dealt with
30:02
that win. And Bead won the MVP out of
30:04
nowhere two years ago and when Yokich clearly deserved it.
30:07
And like you were saying, the MVP is in, they want to do
30:10
different guys in the NBA has done that for a while.
30:13
Obviously Dirk getting the MVP over Kobe was the most notable
30:15
one, but LeBron was definitely robbed of a bunch.
30:17
You've talked about Michael Jordan being robbed of a bunch.
30:19
And again, Nicole Yokich is somebody that he already said,
30:22
like, I don't want any MVP talk being the storyline of the
30:25
series. These are two very good
30:26
basketball teams. And he was saying that while he
30:28
was praising his coach, he was praising the Thunder and and
30:31
their new coach. And Adelman.
30:32
There's a reason Brett Siegel, when we had him on the show a
30:34
few weeks ago, was saying like this was the top assistant coach
30:36
available. Like he's already made his mark
30:38
in the playoffs in the first series.
30:39
Now, obviously it's A7 game series.
30:41
I'm not saying they're going to jump the gun and say, all right,
30:42
this is the dominant force they were two years ago, but it's
30:44
definitely a good start from what they were.
30:46
And like Yokich was saying, it's a good culture changer that
30:49
they're. Trying.
30:49
I don't know if it's a culture change because Adelman, he was
30:52
the assistant coach of Malone. He was on Malone's bench.
30:56
So he's running the same offense and running the same defense.
30:59
But I see a different Nuggets team.
31:02
They're actually moving the ball up and down the court a lot
31:04
faster and they're using the aggressiveness of Russell,
31:08
Russell Westbrook and his speed and his agility to kind of
31:12
change that offensive style of game that Malone didn't like to
31:15
run. So that's the only difference.
31:17
They're playing the same defense, the same rotation.
31:20
There's nothing different from what Malone was really teaching
31:24
and really preaching to his team.
31:26
But it's it's pretty impressive how everybody and and all the
31:30
players are like, like drooling over this guy and saying that
31:34
this guy is the perfect fit for this team.
31:36
We can win a title. There's no reason why we can't
31:39
be considered the best team in a Western Conference and and
31:42
obviously be the the face of the Western Conference going into
31:46
the NBA championship. So it is impressive.
31:49
There's no question that it is and and by by a rookie coach
31:53
that's never had a position like this before and then Jokic
31:56
coming. Out and to do it to do it at the
31:58
end of the year too, Yeah, but. But let me ask before we move on
32:02
to the the Round 2 preview of the NBA.
32:05
Do you? Think like these MVPS, Heisman's
32:07
and like these end of the year awards.
32:10
Do you think they should wait till it's done?
32:12
Because you're awarding A Heisman before they even get
32:15
through the season. You're awarding an MVP this week
32:19
and they're not getting through. So you're you're basically just
32:22
doing it off the regular season, the playoffs.
32:24
Don't college football I think is different because a lot of
32:26
those Heisman players are not going to be on teams that are
32:29
going to be playoff teams automatically and the the
32:32
college football obviously just expanded the playoffs, but
32:35
imagine before that like just because.
32:36
You so but you're telling me he's a Heisman player?
32:39
Not even on a great team, and not against the best.
32:42
Yeah, I wouldn't hold that. I wouldn't hold that against him
32:45
if he's just on a team that he's the guy is dominant, dominant
32:48
quarterback that doesn't have a defense or like you're just in a
32:50
better conference with let's say an SEC quarterback that's on the
32:53
third best SEC team, but it puts up the numbers.
32:55
See, I think in the pros, I see where you're coming from in the
32:57
pros though, because it is a little different where usually
33:00
the MVP besides maybe baseball usually is on one of those teams
33:04
automatically. In baseball it varies because I
33:07
think that's more on individual performance.
33:08
Same kind of thing with Cy Young's, like you saw a team
33:10
like a guy like Zach Grinke won a Cy Young on a terrible Royals
33:13
team, stuff like that. But most other sports.
33:15
Felix Hernandez 1 He was 500. He was 12.
33:18
And 12. But like in most other sports,
33:20
yeah, I think there is a team element.
33:22
So they just have to make it more consistent and change the
33:24
award mindset permanently if you're going to do that.
33:27
Otherwise, these arguments are still going to happen.
33:29
No, absolutely. And then again, going back to
33:32
the Nuggets, I'm not. I'm not shocked that the Nuggets
33:35
are heading over there to the second round against OK C And I
33:38
think both teams have the ability and have the talent to
33:43
go and move on to the Western Conference and face whoever wins
33:46
the Golden State Warriors. Timberwolves.
33:47
Everybody's predicting it's going to be the Timberwolves,
33:50
but don't be shocked if the Golden State Warriors pull that
33:53
one out, out of their ass and head on, head on and play
33:57
against any one of these teams that we're talking about, OK C
33:59
Thunder or even the Denver Nuggets.
34:01
So it's going to be fun to watch.
34:02
Speaking of the round two phenomenon, the Pacers now are
34:07
facing the Cavaliers in round #2 the Pacers up right now, one to
34:12
nothing after the Sunday's win. It was a sensational win.
34:15
I was very shocked that the Pacers won game #1 The Pacers
34:18
offense is ranked 7th averaging 100 and 17.4 points per game,
34:23
and their defenses ranked 17th averaging 115.1 points per game.
34:29
The Cavaliers offense is ranked 1st averaging 121.9 points per
34:34
game and their defenses ranked 12th, averaging 112.4 points per
34:39
allowed per game. This is the regular season, so
34:42
the Pacers and the Cavaliers It's going to come down to who
34:46
is going to show up in the fourth quarter.
34:49
Hal Burton played sensational. Is Hal Burton going to be able
34:52
to keep this up against a very talented Cavaliers team?
34:55
And by the way, Kenny Atkinson, who we're going to speak about
34:58
in just a few moments, is one of the more underrated coaches in
35:01
the NBA. He knows how to take away and
35:04
take out the best player of every single team.
35:07
If Hal Burton shows up like he did in game #1 expected in game
35:11
#2 that he's not going to have as many chances offensively,
35:15
they're going to force him in positions in places where he's
35:18
not comfortable shooting. And I expect Hal Burton to have
35:21
a problem in this series moving forward.
35:24
I I still think the Cavaliers are the better team.
35:26
They're the bigger team and they have the better overall roster
35:30
out of all these out of the Pacers.
35:32
But the Pacers do have depth. They do get enough points off
35:36
the bench, which they're very talented that way.
35:39
And they score a lot of points off the bench and they have a
35:40
very good coach that's won a championship with the Dallas
35:43
Mavericks and Rick Carlisle. So I wouldn't be surprised if
35:46
the Pacers shocked the world. They knock off the Cavaliers,
35:49
but guess what? The Cavaliers, when was the last
35:52
time they made it to the Eastern Conference Finals?
35:55
It was when LeBron James was on this roster, when Kyrie Irving
35:58
was on this roster and Kevin Love.
36:00
They haven't been there in such a long time.
36:02
I don't expect it until it happens.
36:05
Kenny Atkinson was set up very, very well going into the season
36:09
with the talent that they have. The question is, is the Spider
36:13
going to show up in the important parts of the game?
36:15
That's something that he hasn't done over the years when he
36:17
played for Utah and now in the last two years get the
36:21
Cavaliers. As good as he is, there are
36:23
games that he disappears in. Yeah, you'll also later on in
36:26
but. Speedy, hold on, Speedy, hold
36:27
on. I wanna shout out Kevin Love,
36:30
the loss of his father. We wanna send our love Yeah from
36:33
this show to him and his family and getting through their grief
36:36
and loved watching them. Great dude and and just know
36:39
from from our family to yours, man, we're thinking about you.
36:42
Absolutely, absolutely. I just want to relay Jamie Lee
36:45
in the comment section. Cavs are a good balance team and
36:47
I think that's a big difference from what they were last year
36:49
where they were very defense reliant and kind of top heavy
36:52
reliant. They have a little more depth
36:54
off the bench to be able to rely to, especially on the wings.
36:56
The other thing that's going to be an X Factor too is that is
36:58
the size inside for the Pacers. You saw Miles Turner actually
37:01
look pretty good in the fourth quarter of that game, matched up
37:04
against Evan Mobley and Jared Allen.
37:06
And if the Pacers have any shot to win in the series, they're
37:09
going to have to contend with the size in order to make a
37:11
difference. And we saw it Even so with the
37:14
depth last year with the Pacers guys like Andrew Nemhart and TJ
37:17
McConnell going off against the Knicks the way they did.
37:19
If they can find anything like that, they can definitely hang
37:22
tough in the series. I had Cleveland 6 initially.
37:24
I was surprised Indiana won game one, but they definitely proved
37:27
a lot. And then we also got Josh in the
37:28
comments section when Atkinson said he deeply concerned about
37:30
Garland, Mobley and Hunter injuries.
37:32
He would be concerned if he's a Cavs fan.
37:34
And yeah, the Garland did not look good in game #1 and I, I
37:37
think a lot of Cavs fans are really going after him.
37:39
Mobley, that's going to be a big match.
37:41
Up that's going to change. I, I know everybody's sitting
37:43
here and they're going to say, well, Garland didn't have a good
37:45
game #1 and I, I, I agree with you, Josh.
37:48
I, I do believe that a lot of these players have to show up in
37:50
the important parts of the game. Garland last year in the
37:53
playoffs. They'll make adjustments for
37:55
sure. Well, Kenny Atkinson's a great
37:56
coach, so they better if they expect to win.
37:59
The problem is the problem right now is are these players going
38:03
to show up in the important parts of these games?
38:05
And I, I still believe they have the best player in this series.
38:09
I still believe that the Spider is the best player in this in
38:12
this series. If he shows up and he gives you
38:14
30 points and Garland gives you 20 or 18 points and they're
38:18
getting enough defense, you know, and rebounds.
38:20
This is one of the best offensive rebounding teams in
38:23
the whole NBA. They're great defensive team
38:25
too. So Kenny Atkinson preaches
38:28
defense. That's what he preaches.
38:29
And good guard play. Kenny Atkinson is the guard
38:32
guru. Anybody that knows Kenny
38:34
Atkinson what he's done with the Knicks?
38:36
Jeremy Lynn airs. Jeremy, ask Steph Curry what
38:39
Kenny Atkinson did in the second part of his career.
38:41
He is a great, very well respected coach when it comes to
38:45
the point guard position. Knicks and Celtics in the second
38:49
round, the Knicks offense is ranked 9th averaging 115 points,
38:54
150 points per GameStop with the point eights and their defense
38:58
is 9th averaging 111 points per allowed per game.
39:03
The Celtics offense is ranked 8th averaging 116 points per
39:06
game and their defense second, averaging only 107 points
39:11
allowed per game. The Celtics are the better team.
39:15
They're the better overall team. There's no question that they
39:18
are. They're benched or getting bench
39:20
play from all different guys. You're saying they're getting at
39:23
least there's two guys off their bench that are giving you
39:27
between 10 to 15 points. If that happens, the Knicks are
39:31
going to have to get that from McBride.
39:33
They're going to have to get that from Heart.
39:34
I think the Knicks in this series have to start hard off
39:38
the bench. We have been arguing that I, I
39:40
know me and Fish have argued and and spoke about this off air.
39:44
They need to get offense and they needed more more in this
39:49
series than they ever did because if they plan to win this
39:52
series, they're going to have to get something from their bench
39:55
and they got to play more off their bench.
39:57
Maybe I, I know Josh has been saying this White Wright should
40:01
play in this, in this series. Delaney Wright.
40:03
He's taking over. When, when, when I'm sorry,
40:06
Jalen Brunson fell and he got hurt and he he was out for a
40:09
significant amount of time. They weren't getting enough
40:11
point guard play. They bring in Delaney White and
40:13
he was much better. Than what McBride was giving you
40:16
and McBride, let's be honest, he's not very good in the
40:19
important part, important parts of the game.
40:22
And and the guy who's defensive savvy, he hasn't been very good
40:26
defensively against Detroit either.
40:28
So they need to get more a charisma and more defense and
40:33
offense off the bench. If there's no charisma on this
40:35
team either, you have you got guys like Karl Anthony Towns
40:39
complaining and arguing during the games because his team's
40:43
putting him not in the right position to get the ball.
40:45
You saw it early in this game when Hart was trying to pass in
40:48
the ball in the first in the first quarter of the game.
40:51
So you have to get more in your rotation.
40:54
You're going to have to see more from Mikhail Bridges.
40:57
I think Mikhail Bridges is going to play a big factor in this in
40:59
this series. You're going to have to defend
41:01
him and put him on Jaylen Brown or put him on a guy like Jayson
41:05
Tatum. And then you have OG and Anobi,
41:07
who has played sensational. I think he was the best player
41:10
besides Jaylen Bronson in in the first series against Detroit.
41:13
You're going to need more of OG. OG is going to have to be a
41:16
dominant defender if they if they plan to take this to A7
41:20
game series and that's the only way the Knicks are going to win
41:23
this series. They're going to have to take
41:24
this long and they're going to have to put Jason Tatum in a
41:28
position where he's uncomfortable.
41:29
Jason Tatum when he's uncomfortable and we've seen it
41:32
with Jimmy buckets when he's uncomfortable, he's not the same
41:34
player. He forces up shots and he's not
41:37
comfortable shooting the three pointer and then he gets he
41:40
tries to shoot those 1718 foot jumpers and that's not what he
41:43
is good at. He's good at on the outside, his
41:45
jump shot and and where he likes to position himself.
41:48
And he's a very good defensive player.
41:50
And they also need to have more Robertson in this series.
41:54
Robertson needs to defend against Porzingis.
41:57
If Porzingis breaks, breaks out and breaks out and gets loose in
42:02
this series, if Porzingis gives 20, gives you 20 to 25 points,
42:06
the Knicks don't stand a chance because you know Brown's going
42:09
to get between 20 and 23 points in some games, might even get
42:13
30. And then you have Tatum that's
42:15
going to probably get 27 to 28 and sometimes 30 points in a
42:19
game if you have porzing is giving you 20 to 25 points.
42:23
There's no way you win this series.
42:25
And Carl Anthony Towns needs to wake the effing up.
42:29
I I don't understand Karl Anthony Towns.
42:32
This guy, he's a great player when he wants to be and he
42:35
disappears when he doesn't know where he is.
42:38
And he needs to understand you're playing for New York.
42:40
You're not playing for the Timberwolves anymore.
42:42
You're not the second superstar. You're you're, you could be the
42:46
superstar besides Jaylen Bronson.
42:48
I know Nick fans think that Jaylen Bronson is as important
42:50
as anybody on this team. Karl Anthony Towns is just as
42:54
important as Jaylen Bronson. Now Jaylen Bronson's the better
42:57
player. He's the captain, he's the go to
42:59
guy, but you need Karl Anthony Towns to give you 20 to 25
43:03
points a game, give you 10 rebounds and play some kind of
43:06
liquor defense, which he hasn't done in Detroit and I don't
43:09
expect him to do this do that against this Celtic team.
43:12
That's a great offensive and and very well run offensive machine.
43:16
Yeah, it's also the wing depth that the Celtics have.
43:19
This is what you built for if you're the Knicks when you're at
43:22
going through these offseason decisions that they did, giving
43:24
OG on an OB, the 40 million a year that they gave him, they
43:26
traded for Mikhail Bridges. And yet this perimeter defense
43:29
still doesn't look as good as we did last year.
43:31
And look at the series with the Pistons, like all these random
43:34
old guys that were shooting threes like crazy.
43:36
I know Kate Cunningham played a great game, but I think a lot of
43:38
the reason the Pistons were more in those games were these random
43:41
old guys, Dennis Schroeder, Tobias Harris shooting that they
43:43
can't allow that against the Celtics that have a lot more
43:45
shooting prowess. There's a reason the Celtics
43:47
averaged all those threes per game like they did in the
43:49
beginning of the season. We were talking about Fish where
43:51
they're average shooting like 51 threes a game at one point.
43:54
They've done it down from that, but it's still a prowess that's
43:57
there. And yes, Towns defensively is
43:58
definitely concerning if you have to either switch Porzingis
44:01
on him or even Tatum. Like Tom, Thibodeau has to get
44:04
more creative and less stubborn when it comes to his defensive
44:06
sets too. Because this is what you pride
44:08
yourself on if you're a coach like Thibodeau.
44:11
Well, yeah, and I think too, it's like you see what the guys
44:15
in the depth that that both teams have realistically, but on
44:20
the depth side of it is who's going to step up because, yeah,
44:22
you've Got Talent on both sides of the fence.
44:25
Jalen can't hold the Ford up forever and you know, like we've
44:30
talked about before, Fish and, and on the show is like Cat
44:33
getting in foul trouble and then, you know, then you lose
44:36
him. He's only played 9 minutes this
44:38
game. And so it's just how they're
44:41
going to rotate and use the depth.
44:43
And if those guys that they created depth with are going to
44:46
step up to be able to do that and is he going to be able to
44:49
play defense against these guys? I I wasn't surprised that what
44:54
is, it's kind of transpired here, but it's going to be
44:57
interesting to see if who out coaches who and who steps up
45:02
from the depth side on each team.
45:04
It's been a rock and a hard place all season with the Knicks
45:07
defense. There's a reason why they
45:09
haven't been able to get above middling in their defensive
45:12
rating all year. It's because Karl Anthony Towns
45:16
is a slow footed defender. That's that's the long and short
45:19
of it. And teams are exposing him as
45:22
you get deeper into this playoff run and there's no one better at
45:24
exposing him than the Celtics right now.
45:27
He can't keep up with their rotations.
45:30
He's getting fouls because he's out of position because he's
45:33
trying, but he's making mistakes that you make as like a third
45:36
year, fourth year player. This has been his problem all
45:39
along. Now, you try to hide those types
45:42
of problems, Errol, like you said, with changing up the
45:46
defense, if he can't play that style, and we're finding out
45:51
that the style that Tibbs wants to play, and it's probably why
45:55
he used to drive them crazy when they were together in Minnesota,
45:58
doesn't work with Karl Anthony Towns.
46:00
He can't drop to the lane that way.
46:03
If he's playing out on the perimeter, he can't get back.
46:06
He doesn't rotate around well, he's getting in foul trouble.
46:09
He's useless to us right now. You could say he's the second,
46:12
you know, maybe more important to our US winning than Jaylen
46:16
Brunson because without him playing at a real level, they're
46:19
not going to to win. They're getting run out the
46:21
court right now. They're down 16 at halftime and
46:24
it's because they have no presence inside.
46:26
They're just every rebound. You know, Jalen Brunson gets
46:28
caught underneath with Jalen Brown on him.
46:30
And it's just like you're playing in the schoolyard, just
46:33
a guy 7 inches taller than him. There's nothing you can do about
46:35
it. This is what's going on.
46:37
They're not good enough to beat them.
46:39
Look, Jalen Bronson might steal a game and you know, at home,
46:42
like they always say, bench doesn't travel.
46:44
The the Knicks only have a couple of bench guys.
46:46
You like to think campaign can come up with a hot, hot streak
46:49
at home. That's what he's.
46:50
That's why they. Where's Landry Shamit?
46:52
That was the hot streak. Shamit, one of those guys
46:55
doesn't matter, but I think they'll take two games.
46:58
I don't think they're going to be competitive in the other four
47:01
that they lose, including game one.
47:03
Right now it's unless something changes drastically with Karl
47:06
Anthony Towns because it's it looks worse than what we saw
47:10
with Julian. And and again, going back to
47:12
Karl Anthony Towns, is he right for this team?
47:14
Do the Knicks in the offseason if they get blown out in this
47:17
series? Do the Knicks say, you know
47:18
what? Karl Anthony Towns isn't the
47:19
guy? Maybe we go FD honest.
47:21
We were we were speaking about this on Josh's show game on.
47:25
Maybe that's the route the the the Knicks go.
47:28
I, I think there's, there's a lot of, there's a lot of
47:30
questions to where the Knicks are and what they are when it
47:33
comes to their identity. If Jalen Brunson, we, we said
47:36
this about Carmelo Anthony over the years they've had, they've
47:39
had good teams over the years. At one point they had
47:41
Stoudelmeyer. He wasn't the same Stoudelmeyer
47:43
he was with Phoenix, but he was a good player and they had a
47:46
pretty good roster and they got cut.
47:49
They got cut out by the Indiana Pacers because the Indiana
47:53
Pacers had a big man that the Knicks couldn't match up
47:55
against. And that goes to this series.
47:58
The Knicks have the bigs and now they're playing the bigs.
48:01
But you have guys like Robertson who has not played really all
48:05
season long. He's cold.
48:06
You see him, he's not set up right.
48:08
He's he's, he looks like a deer in the headlights.
48:11
And then you have guys like Karl Anthony Towns who has the
48:13
ability to take over games offensively, but then if he gets
48:17
pushed around or shoved, he's not the same player.
48:20
He can't take the pressure. So I that's something that the
48:23
Knicks are going to have to figure out speaking on the next
48:25
series, the Warriors and the Timberwolves.
48:27
We were just speaking about it and I and I, I think people
48:29
understand this series. It's pretty simple.
48:31
If Anthony Edwards gets hot in his series, I expect the Anthony
48:35
Edwards and, and tamp the Timberwolves to roll right over
48:39
a Golden State Warriors team that's old.
48:41
But if Steph Curry and obviously a guy like Jimmy Buckets can
48:46
take over games and be the veteran players that they are
48:49
and get some secondary scoring off the bench like they did in
48:52
the other series against the Rockets, a young Rockets team.
48:56
I, I think that the Warriors can shock the world and and knock
48:59
off the Timberwolves. The Timberwolves.
49:01
This might be the closest chance to the Timberwolves going all
49:04
the way to the finals. This might be the easiest way
49:07
for the Timberwolves to go to the NBA Finals.
49:09
The Warriors are an older team and they're going to have to go
49:12
through either OK C and the Nuggets.
49:14
They beat the Nuggets last year. They matched up very well
49:17
against the Nuggets and they had Karl Anthony Towns that did
49:19
nothing in that series. And then you have obviously a
49:23
young team like OK C that has has fallen apart in the
49:26
playoffs. They don't show up in the big
49:28
parts of certain in games and shy.
49:30
They depend too much on shy Alexander's offense.
49:33
I I still think the Nuggets are the championship team.
49:36
They've done it before. I wouldn't see surprised be
49:38
surprised if they knock off the OKC Thunder.
49:41
But I'm going to tell you this right now, the Timberwolves are
49:44
the better team. They have the better player.
49:46
He is the best player in this series even over Steph Curry,
49:49
even over Jimmy Buckets. This guy, when he plays at the
49:52
top of his game, there might not be anybody in the NBA as is
49:56
electrifying as this man. So to me, the Timberwolves
50:00
winning 6, maybe 7. But there, there's no doubt in
50:04
my mind the Golden State Warriors could shock the world.
50:06
Yeah, I also look at the perimeter defense.
50:07
Minnesota's how they've been very good at that for the last
50:10
three years and their size is another one that's going to be a
50:12
very hard thing for Golden State.
50:13
They have to be able to adjust to that because Jimmy Butler, as
50:16
good as he is defensively, he's only can only do so much.
50:18
And again, how healthy he is going on in the series.
50:22
Anthony Edwards has proven his adversity.
50:24
We weren't sure with all the random comments he was making
50:26
throughout the year, but I think he's definitely owned that and I
50:29
think they're coaching. Chris Finch has done a very good
50:31
job managing that depth a lot better.
50:33
So I have the Timberwolves in six.
50:34
I'm kind of thinking the same way as you and the Nuggets in
50:36
OKC. This will be a definitely a test
50:38
for the Nuggets bench to try to get going somehow because they
50:41
like the Knicks. They've been really down and
50:42
bench scoring from what they were supposed to be at the
50:44
beginning of the year. The MVP battle will be
50:46
interesting. The battle inside especially
50:48
will be interesting with Chet Holmgren as well and Jalen
50:50
Williams against those Nuggets, obviously with Jokic and Aaron
50:54
Gordon. So I think that's going to
50:55
define the series. But again, if somebody like
50:57
Russell Westbrook step up against former team, this could
50:59
be different. Yeah, I, I think this one is
51:03
really, really interesting just from the dynamic aspect of like
51:07
certain things and Chet Holmgren in in matching up and and trying
51:14
to bang with those guys inside. I think it is going to be a
51:17
little bit of battle and you're going to be.
51:19
And Russ, Russ is a winner. He knows how to win.
51:22
He knows what it takes and he knows he's not necessarily the
51:27
dude, but if he needs to take over in certain aspects, he
51:30
will. And I just, I think this is
51:33
going to be a very interesting series just because of the
51:36
dynamics that both teams create. And I'd, I wouldn't be surprised
51:43
if if you see more of like that 37 year old Steph Curry, like be
51:49
the leader and like do these things where it's like, hey, I
51:53
may not drop 35, but like you said, I'm going to go get, you
51:57
know, 22, eight and eight. And now it's like, OK.
52:02
And then you just do that. So I just really think this is
52:04
going to be a fun one from all the dynamical perspectives of
52:09
how the teams either match up, don't match up and how how they
52:14
kind of play chess with each other instead of playing
52:17
checkers and see how they go. So I'm really excited about this
52:20
one. I got just one thought on each
52:22
series, guys, and then we'll wrap it up.
52:24
First one, they threw Amen Thompson, one of the best young
52:27
defenders in the world at Steph and an extra guy every single
52:31
time down the court. And then Steph played all world
52:34
defense after being doubled, bringing up the ball every time
52:37
at age 37. That's one of the most
52:40
impressive things anyone's done in a Game 7.
52:42
Leading his team, getting Buddy Hield open on a bunch of those
52:45
shots, including one where he did it behind the head, which
52:47
was awesome. Nice highlight.
52:49
One the Minnesota has great defenders.
52:52
McDaniels is a great defender. Anthony Edwards is going to play
52:56
great defense on him whenever he's against them.
52:58
Can Steph do it? And The thing is, Anthony
53:00
Edwards just dispatched LeBron. Can he dispatch both old time
53:05
greats in there and at the end towards the end of their career
53:08
in the same playoffs? That would be really impressive
53:12
and I'm expecting Yokich to have one of the best.
53:14
Serials. He doesn't want to be the face
53:15
of the NBA. So that's all I'm going to say
53:17
about to Anthony Edwards. As far as I'm concerned, he.
53:20
Had a lot to say after last series.
53:22
He has a lot to say about every series he has a lot to say
53:25
about. Himself, but that but that's the
53:27
thing, Earl like that. What what doesn't get me too and
53:30
fish and you said it too. It's like he doesn't want to be
53:32
the face, but he has a he has a lot of stuff to say.
53:35
So is are you trying to play that game or like you just don't
53:40
want to have that label or like what is it?
53:43
Because you have a lot to say about the league and about what
53:45
happens. And he's not shy away from, you
53:48
know, press conferences, all the other stuff, being in
53:52
commercials and doing all this. So do you just not want the
53:55
lady? But you're going to do all this
53:57
stuff? Did you see?
53:58
Him throw football the other day.
53:59
I mean, he's got a pretty good arm.
54:01
I, I mean, some people say he could have played professional
54:03
football as a wide receiver. So I, I, he's very impressive,
54:07
his athletic ability and everything about who he is as a
54:10
player on a basketball court. But the question is, could he,
54:13
could he do what he does on a basketball court and shut his
54:16
mouth, which he hasn't done his whole career.
54:19
So that's something that has been a big problem.
54:21
All good. I mean, think about all the good
54:24
basketball players, dude. Michael Jordan.
54:27
Michael Michael Jordan never opened his mouth.
54:30
He only did it on the basketball court.
54:31
But after the game, Michael Jordan didn't go out there.
54:34
So I'm the best, I'm the best. I'm a high flying superstar and
54:38
nobody can touch me. I'm the one who brought all
54:40
these big shoe deals. I'm the one who's
54:42
internationally great. He didn't go out there, but then
54:45
you have this guy. But this guy comes out there and
54:48
says he calls us out the truth. No, that's not answered.
54:51
The. Question.
54:52
At least he's not doing a Instagram account like Kevin
54:56
Durant. At least he's being himself.
54:58
Speaking, Speaking of the Nuggets in the Thunder series
55:01
and quickly I'll I'll say this. This is going to be a very fun
55:04
series because you have the 2 MVP candidates of the league
55:08
facing off from one from one another.
55:10
And I expect this to be so fun to watch because I expect both
55:14
players to take over in certain parts of this series and be the
55:18
superstars that we know them to be.
55:20
I just think Jokic and who he is and what he's all about and what
55:23
he stands for as a player. I just think there's something
55:26
special about this guy that we haven't seen in a player of this
55:30
magnitude since Tim Duncan. Now, he is not the same player
55:33
as Tim Duncan. Tim Duncan understood how to
55:37
win. He understand how to took take
55:39
things on his shoulders defensively, be the anchor of
55:41
his defense and then also do the things that you expect him to do
55:45
against the top talent of, you know, of the NBA when he based
55:49
off against them. I expect the same from Yokich.
55:52
As good as shy Alexander is as good as the OKC Thunder has been
55:56
all season long and how young they are.
55:58
I I just think that Nicole Yokich expected to win multiple
56:02
championships and now he's 31 years old and he's only won one
56:06
and he's won a ton of MVPS. He always came out and I'll say
56:09
this one thing about Yokich. He came out and everybody.
56:12
I, I remember the last interview, one big interview
56:15
that I, I watched on YouTube and it, and somebody asked them what
56:19
would you rather win 5 MVPS and be considered one of the
56:23
greatest big men in NBA history or win 5 championships and he
56:26
says, are you out of your mind? I would rather win 5
56:29
championships and not even be thought as one of the biggest
56:32
big men in NBA history. That says a lot about who he is
56:36
and the, the type of teammate he is and what he stands or stands
56:39
for for his team as a leader. That to me is why I think Nicole
56:43
Yokich plays a big, not only a big factor of what his team's
56:46
going to do, but his big a big factor of his team's success and
56:50
moving on after into this series.
56:52
So I, I think I'm going to take the I'm going to take the
56:56
Nuggets to win this series. I think the Nuggets win in seven
56:59
because Nikola Yokich is the best player in the NBA.
57:05
I did that's I speedy. Are you lost?
57:08
I don't know if are you I don't know if thinking about
57:10
something. I got the Nuggets in six.
57:13
I just think with, and I, I was listening to a couple guys, SGA
57:18
should have won the MVP last year and blah, blah, blah.
57:21
And I'm just like, and now it's like, yeah, he's having a great
57:24
year, but Joker's obviously won and Errol, I think like
57:29
obviously we're, we're not in the boardrooms and whatever the
57:32
NBA is. But I think I, I agree with you
57:35
because it's like they don't want the same guy to win.
57:37
But even if you give it to him, you can't argue the fact that he
57:42
is not an MVP caliber player. Like you can't, it's not like,
57:46
oh, we just give it to him because he's already won two or
57:49
three or 4. But I think he just, he does.
57:53
I think he does so much more than SGASGA is an incredible
57:57
athlete. Oh, he's a great defender, too.
57:59
He's one of the best moderated. Yeah, and that's what that
58:01
position. But yeah, he is.
58:02
He doesn't pass like Joker. No he doesn't.
58:05
I mean, there are just certain things.
58:07
He doesn't make that. He doesn't make the whole.
58:09
He doesn't. He's a great overall player
58:11
defensively, in offense. He doesn't make everybody around
58:14
him better. He is.
58:15
And I think, I think too, as a fat kid, I think I just, it
58:19
helps me because I'm like, man, this dude is AG and he's doing
58:23
things and he's not shredded. He doesn't talk about his
58:25
private chef and work it out. He doesn't have.
58:30
To go in the ball. Out he's got, he's got his two
58:32
brothers, his two, like, you know, his guardian Angel over
58:35
there. First of all, I you know they
58:37
beat the hell out of you if you open your damn mouth.
58:40
Job in the mouth will never have no negative toward the Yokich
58:44
family because I don't want I don't want that smoke.
58:47
Don't want it. Wow, don't want it.
58:49
I don't want any smoke and I don't want to go to his country.
58:51
And be smoking like taken type gangsters.
58:53
Oh yeah, I'm good. Hey love you love every single
58:56
one of y'all rude for you. Hope you win.
59:00
I think it's just. Yeah, I just think Joker's.
59:02
I think Joker's the MVP, but I don't think he's going to get
59:04
it. I think he's.
59:05
But this series will be really fun because I think.
59:07
Best series? That is best series.
59:10
That is the conversation that's going to be had where I think it
59:13
might, it might sway someone way or the other, but it's already
59:17
going to be distinguished. Who's the MVP face?
59:20
It's announced tomorrow, right? Yes.
59:23
It should be. I don't know if it's tomorrow,
59:25
but it's this week. They did all the other awards.
59:27
Yeah. Well, yes, yes.
59:29
Speaking of which, we have our golf clap of the day.
59:34
This deserves a golf clap, no doubt.
59:37
Golf clap. Golf clap, ladies and gentlemen,
59:41
My golf clap of the day goes to Kenny Atkinson and what Kenny
59:44
Atkinson did for the Cavaliers this year.
59:46
Winning coach of the year, he wanted today and congratulations
59:49
to Kenny Atkinson. What he did is he changed
59:52
everybody's view on what the Cavaliers were last year.
59:55
The Cavaliers absolutely choked in the playoffs last year, and
59:59
who do they choke against? The New York Knicks this come
1:00:02
this year with a new coach and a completely different thought and
1:00:06
process. This team was the best team in
1:00:09
the NBA all season long. At one point they won 14 games
1:00:13
or 15 games in a row. They were unstoppable and they
1:00:16
were pretty much unstoppable all season long.
1:00:18
They were practically unbeatable and defensively they were
1:00:22
getting offense from different players that you never even
1:00:24
heard of. Their bench was one of the best
1:00:26
benches in the league. They were what they were
1:00:28
overall, the best overall overall team defensive team in
1:00:32
in all of the NBA. They were sensational to watch.
1:00:35
There was nothing, nothing bad to say.
1:00:37
And and by the way, Spider became a different player this
1:00:40
year as not just as an offensive player, as a team leader.
1:00:44
Who would have thought that he would have transitioned his game
1:00:47
and his prowess to leadership when he came from Utah, there
1:00:51
were complaints that he wasn't a leader that he couldn't get
1:00:54
along with players on that team. And that's why Utah couldn't
1:00:57
hold both these guys on a team. And eventually the two
1:01:00
superstars we're pushed out. One went to the Timberwolves,
1:01:02
the other one obviously went to the Cavaliers.
1:01:05
So I it's, it's incredible what Kenny Atkinson has done for this
1:01:09
team And, and really the the development of some of these
1:01:12
players. Garland is a different player.
1:01:14
Darius Garland is become a better point guard and a better
1:01:17
guard in this league because of Kenny Atkinson.
1:01:20
So my golf clap of the day goes to the coach of the year, Kenny
1:01:24
Atkinson. Fantastic season for Kenny
1:01:28
Atkinson in the Cavaliers and I absolutely adore Kenny Atkinson.
1:01:31
I wish he was the New York Knicks head coach.
1:01:35
I not no offense to Tom Thibodeau, he hasn't done
1:01:37
anything and Kenny Atkinson probably would have changed our
1:01:40
thoughts of maybe the Knicks get the number one seed in the
1:01:44
Eastern Conference and play team defense better than what Tom
1:01:48
Thibodeau has preached all season long.
1:01:49
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whatever you missed. All the different clips are
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going to be on all the social media outlets.
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So Speedy is posting them up. And thank you again for all the
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people that are following us and liking all the stuff that we're
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doing. We really appreciate you guys as
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we're moving forward with our show.
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So there's a lot of things going on.
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We will make it announcement in the next couple of days and you
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guys will know what we're talking about.
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So thank you and thank you to all all you guys for the show
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wouldn't be as good as it is if it wasn't for all the guys
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putting in the work and the time and the effort into it.
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So thank you to all the guys. We will be back on Thursday.
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Speedy, who do we have on the show?
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All right, returning to the show, I believe Jabba, this was
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the first ex football player when you were when you first
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joined us that we had on the show.
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Returning the show, former Carolina Panthers cornerback CJ
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Wilson will be back on our show. That's right, the old.
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By the way, CJ Wilson was great on the show, got a great
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personality. He knows how to have a little
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bit of fun. I I want to.
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Did you talk to Riley yet? Yeah, Riley Leonard will
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probably be on either next week or the week after.
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He's been busy celebrating his draft and he's getting ready.
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He's been going to rookie camps. He's already at the rookie camps
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right now and Indianapolis throwing the ball.
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So I I think Riley Leonard has a very good chance of winning that
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job in the next couple of years. He just needs to develop.
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And why not Indianapolis? He's the perfect fit.
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You have Daniel, you have Daniel Jones there who plays kind of
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this. They're both Duke guys, so it's
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crazy. Carl, you're stupid.
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Yeah, right. Yeah, he'll definitely.
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Be in the cornfields, that's for sure.
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Vote. Let.
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It distract him from his previous comment official.
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Be ready to give Goody a geography quiz at some point.
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You guys are idiots. You really are jackasses.
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Anyways, that's it for our show. We'll be back, as you know, on
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Thursday. Until then, this is our show,
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jabbing them out, saying goodnight.
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We'll talk to you on Thursday. Goodnight, everybody.
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