# The NBA Playoffs' INSANE Weekend Shakes Up Gil's Arena

An episode of [Gil's Arena](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1689097415), 28 Apr 2026, 2 h 12 min.

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The NBA Playoffs' INSANE Weekend Shakes Up Gil's Arena as the Gil's Arena Crew react to a wild weekend in the NBA Playoffs that turned multiple series upside down. They tip things off by reacting to the slugfest between the Minnesota Timberwolves & Denver Nuggets that saw Anthony Edwards & Donte Divincenzo go down with major injuries and had Nikola Jokic take on Jaden McDaniels in a postgame scuffle. They break down how Jokic, Jamal Murray and the Nuggets got back into the series with a Game 5 win and debate if the T-Wolves will be able to close out the series without their superstars before highlighting the Houston Rockets for avoiding a sweep at the hands of LeBron James & The Los Angeles Lakers. Next, they react to Victor Wembanyama returning to the NBA Playoffs after missing Game 3 due to a concussion and taking control of the series as he and Playoff De'Aaron Fox pushed the San Antonio Spurs over the Portland Trailblazers in Game 4 and break down how Fox is the key to the Spurs making it all the way to the NBA Finals. Finally, they discuss the most shocking series of the playoffs so far as the Orlando Magic have stormed out to a 3-1 series lead over the #1 seed Detroit Pistons and break down how Cade Cunningham & Jalen Duren have crumbled in these playoffs putting their team on the brink of elimination. PLEASE give us a LIKE and SUBSCRIBE!! Today's Gil's Arena Crew : Josiah Johnson, Kenyon Martin, Rashad McCants, Swaggy P, & Brandon Jennings Gil's Arena premieres every Wednesday & Thursday at 11:30am PT / 2:30pm ET. Use our code for 10% off your next SeatGeek order*: https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/ARENA10 Sponsored by SeatGeek. *Restrictions apply. Max $20 discount Sign up for Underdog HERE with promo code GIL and play $5 to get $50 in bonus funds or bonus entries https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-gi... SUBSCRIBE: / @thearena0 Read Rashad's Blog - https://rawrashad.com/?blog=y Join the Underdog discord for access to exclusive giveaways and promos! / discord Must be 18+ (19+ in AL, NE; 19+ in CO for some games; 21+ in AZ & MA) and present in a state where Underdog Fantasy operates. Terms apply. Concerned with your play? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit www.ncpgambling.org; NY: Call the 24/7 HOPEline at 1-877-8-HOPENY or Text HOPENY (467369) 2 Min Countdown 0:00:00 Show Start 0:02:10 Wolves Nuggets Series Flips Upside Down 0:05:38 Breaking down the Jokic-McDaniels fight 0:28:11 Rockets Stay Alive Against Lakers 0:46:17 Wemby Returns & Buries The Blazers 1:10:00 Is De'Aaron Fox A Superstar 1:24:52 Wemby Comments On The NBA's Concussion Protocol 1:36:57 Magic STUN The Pistons 1:43:51 Tonight's Playoff Picks 2:10:14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:03] Speaker 1: Welcome back to Gil's Arena presented by Underdog.
[0:11] Speaker 2: You got Michael Jackson fever too?
[0:13] Speaker 3: Dude, I'm going to wait to go see that movie
[0:14] Speaker 3: because I see everybody in the movie theaters dancing.
[0:17] Speaker 2: I got to wait. No, you're disrespectful. There's too much
[0:20] Speaker 2: going on. I'm tired of this disrespect. What you mean? No,
[0:22] Speaker 2: this is. Dude, I need to. Bro, it's sold out.
[0:25] Speaker 2: People dancing. You should. It's Michael. No, sit down. Sit
[0:28] Speaker 2: down and watch the movie. The real king. The first king.
[0:33] Speaker 2: The first king? I'm with you, B. You don't want
[0:37] Speaker 2: him dancing in the theater? No, I haven't seen it yet.
[0:39] Speaker 2: I'm saying. I feel the need to wait. Too many
[0:42] Speaker 2: people in there. People coming in as Mike. It's like
[0:43] Speaker 2: a lot of shit going on. People crying and shit. Like,
[0:45] Speaker 2: come on, Mark.
[0:46] Speaker 4: See, I'm going to wait until the black people start going.
[0:48] Speaker 4: There's a lot of niggas in there now.
[0:51] Speaker 2: Well, he wasn't. He wasn't in.
[0:53] Speaker 5: If you watch it, if you see it, you don't
[0:55] Speaker 5: know Mike. Everybody can't appreciate Mike.
[0:58] Speaker 2: That's why.
[0:59] Speaker 5: You can't talk about Mike. You can't talk about Mike.
[1:02] Speaker 5: Like a Wednesday or something.
[1:03] Speaker 4: I'm going to go to the first show. As soon
[1:05] Speaker 4: as they open the theater, it'll be the first. That's
[1:07] Speaker 4: when you go.
[1:07] Speaker 2: You know better than Mike, though. I don't, man. See, don't.
[1:12] Speaker 2: You go to Sinopolis. Let's just go on with the show.
[1:14] Speaker 2: Or you got to just go to the Price Out Theater.
[1:16] Speaker 2: Disrespect this person. Let's talk about the show. Mike, they
[1:20] Speaker 2: just want to wait patiently, so they can appreciate it
[1:22] Speaker 2: and enjoy it. Brandon want to go crazy. I'm asking.
[1:27] Speaker 2: I'm saying, you know who better than Mike? Nobody. James Brown. Okay, well.
[1:33] Speaker 2: You said better? The Godfather. That is?
[1:35] Speaker 6: No.
[1:36] Speaker 2: Subject for debate. You can say better. This is a
[1:39] Speaker 2: man's world. This is Gil's Arena presented by underdog whoop whoop.
[1:46] Speaker 2: I'm merely a host Josiah Johnson. We got NBA champion
[1:49] Speaker 2: of the world, Michael Jackson, aficionado, swaggy P, Nick Young
[1:52] Speaker 2: back here. Thank you. Representing the tough crowd in the
[2:00] Speaker 2: car carrying country club, we got Mr. B, Brandon Jennings
[2:02] Speaker 2: back here. On this side of the couch, we got
[2:08] Speaker 2: the distinguished gentleman from Oak Cliff, former number one pick,
[2:10] Speaker 2: Canyon Martin. I'm just going to tuck mine in. What
[2:19] Speaker 2: was I adding in mine? And last but not least,
[2:21] Speaker 2: a man they call Cemetery Larry, NCAA champion of the world, Dr.
[2:24] Speaker 2: Rashad McCants, Ph.D. That was easy. Who's that, Craig Biggio? Mm-hmm. Legend.
[2:38] Speaker 2: We got a lot to get into, a lot of
[2:39] Speaker 2: playoff action. Here's what's cracking in Gil's arena today. The
[2:44] Speaker 2: Wolves lost Ant-Man and Dante DiVincenzo in Game 4, then
[2:47] Speaker 2: proceeded to lose Game 5 to the Nuggets. Is Minnesota
[2:50] Speaker 2: in trouble without their starting backcourt? After an epic fourth-quarter
[2:55] Speaker 2: meltdown in Game 3, the Rockets got their first win
[2:57] Speaker 2: in Game 4 to avoid elimination. Can Houston hang on
[3:01] Speaker 2: without Kevin Durant? And the Magic got two straight wins
[3:05] Speaker 2: on their home floor to take a 3-1 lead over
[3:07] Speaker 2: the Pistons. Is Detroit going to go out like cheddar, Bob?
[3:11] Speaker 2: But before we get into all that, as always, this
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[3:33] Speaker 2: wherever you get your podcasts. So we're going to start
[3:36] Speaker 2: this in the Western Conference. Wolves got a big win
[3:38] Speaker 2: over the Nuggets in Game 4 to take a 3-1
[3:41] Speaker 2: series lead. But it came with some big losses. Anthony
[3:44] Speaker 2: Edwards left the game with a hyperextended left knee and
[3:46] Speaker 2: bone bruise late in the second quarter after trying to
[3:48] Speaker 2: block a shot. Ant-Man, already dealing with a right knee injury,
[3:52] Speaker 2: is expected to miss the next few weeks with this
[3:54] Speaker 2: latest setback. Dante DiVincenzo suffered a torn Achilles, becoming the
[3:58] Speaker 2: latest victim of the number zero playoff curse, which saw
[4:01] Speaker 2: Jason Tatum, Tyrese Halliburton, and Dame Lillard all have their
[4:04] Speaker 2: postseasons cut short last year by Achilles injuries. So despite
[4:07] Speaker 2: losing their franchise player and starting backcourt, Wolves still got
[4:10] Speaker 2: the win. Trade deadline acquisition. Io DeSumo continued his playoff
[4:15] Speaker 2: dominance for Minnesota. following up his 25th performance in Game
[4:18] Speaker 2: 3 by dropping a playoff career-high 43 points in Game 4,
[4:22] Speaker 2: including 15 in the fourth quarter. Series shifted back to
[4:25] Speaker 2: Denver Monday with the Nuggets looking to avoid elimination. Joker
[4:28] Speaker 2: Jamal Murray put the team on their backs to keep
[4:30] Speaker 2: the Nuggets season alive. Let's take a look at some highlights,
[4:33] Speaker 2: if we can please. Nuggets jumped out to a 10-point
[4:37] Speaker 2: lead in the first quarter, but the Wolves hit seven
[4:40] Speaker 2: threes in the first frame to stay within striking distance.
[4:45] Speaker 2: Minnesota kept things interesting In the second quarter as well,
[4:50] Speaker 2: cutting the deficit to one before Denver went on a
[4:54] Speaker 2: run to close the half. Jonas Valanciunas out there doing
[5:00] Speaker 2: his thing in limited minutes. Oh. You see it? I
[5:02] Speaker 2: can go hard. Joker hit a 29-footer before the buzzer
[5:05] Speaker 2: to give the Nuggets a nine-point lead at the break.
[5:16] Speaker 2: Nuggets turned it up in the third quarter, outscoring the
[5:18] Speaker 2: Wolves 37-24, taking control of the game. Jokic came through
[5:22] Speaker 2: with his second triple-double of this postseason, had 27 points,
[5:25] Speaker 2: 12 rebounds, 16 assists, 9-15 from the field in this
[5:29] Speaker 2: game after shooting just 39% for the first four games
[5:32] Speaker 2: of this series. Jamal Murray added 24.7 assists, four steals.
[5:36] Speaker 2: Cam Johnson had 18 six boards and five assists. Spencer
[5:40] Speaker 2: Jones had 20 points on 7-9 shooting. I saw increased
[5:43] Speaker 2: minutes with Aaron Gordon's sideline with a calf injury. Jonas
[5:46] Speaker 2: Valanciunas sparked off the bench, had nine points in 10 minutes,
[5:49] Speaker 2: perfect four for four in the game. Julius Randle led
[5:52] Speaker 2: the Wolves with 27 points, nine boards and six assists.
[5:55] Speaker 2: He also had five turnovers. And Ayo had 18 points
[5:59] Speaker 2: in this one. Jaden McDaniel showered with booze throughout the game,
[6:03] Speaker 2: had 13 points and four turnovers while dealing with early
[6:05] Speaker 2: foul trouble. And Nas Reed rolled his ankle in the
[6:07] Speaker 2: third quarter, stayed in the game, finished with 12 points
[6:10] Speaker 2: on 5 of 11 shooting. Nuggets led by as much
[6:13] Speaker 2: as 27 in the second half. Wolves rallied, cut the
[6:17] Speaker 2: deficit to 10 with under five minutes remaining, but that's
[6:19] Speaker 2: as close as they would get. Nuggets forced 25 turnovers
[6:22] Speaker 2: in the game, who are 35 points off the Wolves' miscues.
[6:25] Speaker 2: Denver was also plus 20 in fast break points and
[6:27] Speaker 2: plus 12 in points in the paint. Swaggy looking at
[6:31] Speaker 2: this game. Nuggets keep their season alive. What's the biggest
[6:34] Speaker 2: takeaways from the Nuggets game? Five win over the Wolves.
[6:38] Speaker 5: That Ant-Man injury saved Denver and Joker legacy.
[6:44] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[6:47] Speaker 5: Him being hurt, you see how happy they're playing out there.
[6:49] Speaker 5: He ain't heard no triple-doubles until last game. And, you know,
[6:55] Speaker 5: that's the frontrunner in Denver, being frontrunners. You can tell
[6:59] Speaker 5: the energy has changed. They're playing with more confidence now.
[7:03] Speaker 5: When the big bad wolf is down, you ain't got
[7:05] Speaker 5: to deal with it. And you ain't got to deal
[7:07] Speaker 5: with them. I feel like, yeah, if Ant-Man was there,
[7:12] Speaker 5: I think the season would be over with.
[7:14] Speaker 2: They had him.
[7:15] Speaker 5: Energy was off. Joker fighting at the end of the game.
[7:20] Speaker 5: They looked like they down there gave up until you
[7:24] Speaker 5: see some of the star player go down. The energy changed.
[7:27] Speaker 5: You feel like you got a chance now. And it shows.
[7:32] Speaker 2: Amen. Big bad wolf. Like we said, he'll be out
[7:34] Speaker 2: at least the next couple weeks with the injury to
[7:37] Speaker 2: his other knee. But, Mr. B, what are your biggest
[7:39] Speaker 2: takeaways from the Nuggets game for win over?
[7:44] Speaker 3: Um, Well, this game was one in the paint for sure.
[7:48] Speaker 3: 62 points in the paint. First four games, I think
[7:52] Speaker 3: they only had 42 or less than that. I mean,
[7:56] Speaker 3: you know, Wolves got away from the game plan a
[7:59] Speaker 3: little bit. But, you know, this is a different team
[8:02] Speaker 3: that's been down 3-1 before, which they've shown in 2020.
[8:06] Speaker 3: They were down 3-1 and did it twice. So, you know,
[8:11] Speaker 3: this is a big game six for the Wolves because
[8:13] Speaker 3: there's no way in hell if they're winning game seven.
[8:16] Speaker 3: So they better try to figure out a way to
[8:19] Speaker 3: try to figure out a way to rally the guys
[8:21] Speaker 3: up or they're going to need another 40 point game
[8:23] Speaker 3: from someone. But if Denver goes into Minnesota and wins
[8:27] Speaker 3: game six, this series is over in seven.
[8:29] Speaker 2: This series is over in seven? They have no chance
[8:31] Speaker 2: of it. Interesting. All right, let's shift over to this
[8:33] Speaker 2: side of the couch. The distinguished gentleman from Oak Cliff Canyon,
[8:36] Speaker 2: what would be your biggest takeaways from the Nuggets game
[8:38] Speaker 2: five win over the Wolves to keep their season alive?
[8:42] Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
[8:43] Speaker 4: You're back home. You got to play inspired basketball. Knowing
[8:47] Speaker 4: what's at stake. Knowing that your season is on the line.
[8:52] Speaker 4: When I knew what you had to do, took care
[8:53] Speaker 4: of home. You've dug yourself this hole so you can
[8:57] Speaker 4: only dig yourself out of it. It's unfortunate that Anthony
[9:04] Speaker 4: Edwards and Dante won't be there. It sucks, man, to
[9:10] Speaker 4: see them guys go down and when they had this
[9:12] Speaker 4: series pretty much wrapped up.
[9:13] Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
[9:14] Speaker 4: Because I don't think with the way Dante was playing
[9:16] Speaker 4: and Anthony was playing, I just think they were, you
[9:20] Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, that they'd have an answer for
[9:22] Speaker 4: either one of those guys. Even though Ant was labored,
[9:25] Speaker 4: playing on one leg basically, still was doing what he
[9:27] Speaker 4: had to do. No, it's just, the shots that Nicole
[9:31] Speaker 4: has been missing, Rudy has been playing solid defense on
[9:36] Speaker 4: him as well, but Shots that he normally makes, I'm
[9:39] Speaker 4: pretty sure the frustration had been there. Being back home,
[9:42] Speaker 4: being in a comfortable environment goes a long way. This
[9:48] Speaker 4: showed throughout the game with just the kid Jones making
[9:53] Speaker 4: shots and the way Bruce Brown played at home and
[9:57] Speaker 4: different things like that. So, I do what they have
[9:59] Speaker 4: to do at home. Now you got to do it again, right?
[10:02] Speaker 4: You got to go to Minnesota. It's going to be loud.
[10:07] Speaker 4: Got to bring the defensive intensity. Rebounding, low turnover game.
[10:12] Speaker 4: That's how you went on the road. So if they
[10:14] Speaker 4: do those things and Nikola is out of his own head,
[10:18] Speaker 4: it should be a good game.
[10:20] Speaker 2: We'll see. Nuggets forced 25 turnovers in that game. Like
[10:25] Speaker 2: you said, Jokic, I think, was shooting 39%. The first
[10:28] Speaker 2: four games, finally snapped out of it.
[10:30] Speaker 4: He's been back home, but it's the same shots he normally,
[10:32] Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying? He made them one game,
[10:35] Speaker 4: missed them the next game. Rudy played the same defense.
[10:37] Speaker 4: It ain't like Rudy played, like, worse defense on him.
[10:39] Speaker 4: Played the same defense. The shot just happened to go in.
[10:42] Speaker 4: Some days they don't. Some days they do, right? Just
[10:45] Speaker 4: what it is, right? But being back home, you feel
[10:47] Speaker 4: more comfortable.
[10:48] Speaker 2: So, it is what it is. All right, Charlotte, let's
[10:51] Speaker 2: move over to you. Dr. Rashad McKenzie, PhD, what are
[10:53] Speaker 2: your biggest takeaways from the Nuggets game five win over
[10:56] Speaker 2: the Wolves?
[10:59] Speaker 8: I just like to see everybody scrambling.
[11:02] Speaker 1: You know, when there was a lot of talk about Denver.
[11:05] Speaker 2: Being good and sweeping and burping.
[11:09] Speaker 1: Babies and all that shit. It's just not happening. It's
[11:12] Speaker 1: not happening at all. And then there's no credit being
[11:16] Speaker 1: given to the Frenchman.
[11:18] Speaker 2: Why would it? to do what he was supposed to do.
[11:20] Speaker 2: Gave him credit when credit was due. You know, I
[11:22] Speaker 2: think that... We were complimentary of Rudy earlier. Yeah, absolutely.
[11:25] Speaker 8: I'm just in the middle of my take. I'm just
[11:27] Speaker 8: in the middle.
[11:27] Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're referencing me, though. So, therefore... I like
[11:30] Speaker 2: how it triggers. Therefore, you know... It's just triggering. No,
[11:32] Speaker 2: you're referencing me. It's just triggering. The truth is just
[11:34] Speaker 2: so fucking triggering. Make your point without referencing me. You
[11:38] Speaker 2: cannot fucking have... No, no. Make your point... You know
[11:40] Speaker 2: what I'm saying? Just perfect, baby. No, make your point
[11:42] Speaker 2: without referencing me. I'm just trying to go into my shit.
[11:44] Speaker 2: I didn't reference you. I didn't reference you. I made
[11:46] Speaker 2: my point.
[11:47] Speaker 8: I'm just trying to go into my shit. You know
[11:48] Speaker 8: what I'm saying? I ain't writing a book or nothing.
[11:51] Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember this shit. I can't remember it all,
[11:55] Speaker 1: but I'm just saying. That French nigga out there is
[11:58] Speaker 1: out there cooking on.
[12:00] Speaker 2: His side of the court.
[12:01] Speaker 1: You know when you cook on the offensive side, triple
[12:03] Speaker 1: doubles and all that? All that energy you're supposed to
[12:06] Speaker 1: be saving for Wimby and all that shit? I don't
[12:09] Speaker 1: see none of that shit happening right now. All I
[12:11] Speaker 1: see is somebody's getting burped up. And if that little young,
[12:15] Speaker 1: if the young, if the young player Anthony Everett don't
[12:18] Speaker 1: go down, Devin Chinzo was a utility guy.
[12:21] Speaker 2: Yeah. We can, I'm a sumo. Is his name? I'm
[12:25] Speaker 2: a sumo. I'm a sumo. A sumo. Yeah, a sumo.
[12:27] Speaker 2: A sumo.
[12:29] Speaker 1: He can, he can regulate what we need to do
[12:32] Speaker 1: with Devin Chinzo. He's a shot maker, but he do,
[12:34] Speaker 1: he do a lot more. But Ant-Man going down definitely
[12:37] Speaker 1: saved the day.
[12:38] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[12:39] Speaker 1: I ain't going to say save this legacy. End of
[12:42] Speaker 1: an era. End of a demo ever. Just all the
[12:45] Speaker 1: hype around all the shit I was hearing all season.
[12:49] Speaker 1: That shit supposed to be done. He supposed to be
[12:51] Speaker 1: back over there with the horses and shit, giving food
[12:56] Speaker 1: and shit. But now it's a little bit... You give
[12:58] Speaker 1: them a little bit different. Yes way this way the
[13:01] Speaker 1: energy in here is different. It's just this is a
[13:03] Speaker 1: lot of different before the playoffs. It was all this
[13:08] Speaker 1: and now it's like damn easy.
[13:11] Speaker 2: I hope they win happens in the playoffs. I'm just
[13:13] Speaker 2: saying hey, like you said game six.
[13:15] Speaker 1: They don't really got a chance if they don't win
[13:18] Speaker 1: this because of the momentum going to favor. They got
[13:21] Speaker 1: it and figure out how to How to win? I
[13:23] Speaker 1: don't know. I don't think 40 going to do it
[13:25] Speaker 1: for Masumu. I think Julius Randle needs to figure out
[13:28] Speaker 1: how to be a fucking leader and step up.
[13:29] Speaker 2: Yeah. J.
[13:31] Speaker 1: McDaniels, okay, look, you did what you did. You said
[13:33] Speaker 1: what you said. 13 points ain't going to get it.
[13:36] Speaker 1: You're going to have to figure out how to be
[13:37] Speaker 1: more of a playmaker for the team. Everybody got to
[13:40] Speaker 1: step it up. Nas Reed especially got to step it up.
[13:44] Speaker 2: But it's going to be tough. It's going to be
[13:45] Speaker 2: tough now.
[13:46] Speaker 1: And I think what Denver did last game, they got
[13:48] Speaker 1: back to their comfort zone.
[13:49] Speaker 2: They're just going to the pick and rolls.
[13:51] Speaker 1: Figuring out who's going to be the open man, and
[13:53] Speaker 1: they've got to hit some shots. So at the end
[13:54] Speaker 1: of the day, Denver needs to do what they've been
[13:57] Speaker 1: doing all season long. Without an ant man, that's how
[14:01] Speaker 1: they're going to regulate this series. But if Minnesota don't
[14:04] Speaker 1: step up, they'll be out of here for sure. They
[14:06] Speaker 1: don't want to go seven.
[14:09] Speaker 2: Mm. Mm. That was easy. So we'll still shot right
[14:16] Speaker 2: from the field in game five. Mm-hmm. Nuggets, they're 4-0-25 turnovers.
[14:21] Speaker 2: Have you seen a shift with this Nuggets team? They're
[14:23] Speaker 2: obviously capitalizing.
[14:24] Speaker 4: On the loss. What you expect them to do, right?
[14:29] Speaker 4: They're backs against the wall. They're down two really good players.
[14:32] Speaker 4: They're best player and another guy that's been hitting them
[14:36] Speaker 4: in the head every chance he got. Like, yeah, they're
[14:40] Speaker 4: going to come back home with that kind of energy.
[14:42] Speaker 4: I'm not surprised. Like, that's just, yeah, they're back home.
[14:45] Speaker 4: Seasons on the line for one, right? With and Divincenzo,
[14:49] Speaker 4: they would have been the same energy. I ain't saying
[14:51] Speaker 4: they would have won, but they would have came out
[14:52] Speaker 4: with the same kind of enthusiasm.
[14:54] Speaker 2: They back home.
[14:55] Speaker 4: They the season on the line. In front of their crowd, yeah,
[14:58] Speaker 4: they was going to come out that way. With Dante
[15:02] Speaker 4: and they would have came out with that same type
[15:04] Speaker 4: of enthusiasm. It's just unfortunate that those guys had to
[15:08] Speaker 4: go down with injury and they're not going to play
[15:09] Speaker 4: again in this series.
[15:10] Speaker 2: That's very unfortunate.
[15:11] Speaker 4: It fucking sucks for sports. It sucks for them Sucks
[15:17] Speaker 4: for sports, for them not to be whole. And so
[15:20] Speaker 4: we can see a really, I'm saying, I'm saying a
[15:23] Speaker 4: completed series because we don't know. But they were playing well,
[15:27] Speaker 4: better than the Denver Nuggets with them two dudes.
[15:29] Speaker 2: It is what it is. Like, we was watching the
[15:31] Speaker 2: fucking games.
[15:32] Speaker 5: It does suck. Ant-Man is like the playoffs. Everybody loves
[15:37] Speaker 5: to see him in the playoffs. And when you take
[15:39] Speaker 5: him out, you get 25 turnovers because Players got to
[15:42] Speaker 5: step in and do things they're not normally supposed to
[15:46] Speaker 5: do or not normally doing in the game with Ant-Man
[15:48] Speaker 5: on the floor. And, you know, I think that game was,
[15:53] Speaker 5: game six is going to be a better game. You
[15:54] Speaker 5: get more comfortable, especially when you get blew out. You
[15:58] Speaker 5: get a little more hungry. So I think game six
[16:00] Speaker 5: is game seven for them.
[16:04] Speaker 2: They ain't got them too equalized, like Dante and both.
[16:07] Speaker 4: Both make big shots with the shot clock going down.
[16:10] Speaker 4: Both of them are big shot makers, man.
[16:13] Speaker 2: 30-plus points. Yeah, that's 30-plus. But you got Ayo stepping up.
[16:18] Speaker 2: That's 40-something. I mean, but.
[16:21] Speaker 3: This is a different team that's been down 3-1 before.
[16:26] Speaker 3: And they're NBA champions, so I don't care if Ant
[16:29] Speaker 3: was out or any of that. They still got pride
[16:32] Speaker 3: and they still NBA champs, so You know, this is like,
[16:34] Speaker 3: all right, shit, this is a, you know, this is
[16:37] Speaker 3: a road. I'm saying they've been down 3-1 before and
[16:39] Speaker 3: they came back twice. They've been down 3-1 to them.
[16:41] Speaker 2: Huh?
[16:42] Speaker 5: They've been down 3-1 to them. It's hard to beat
[16:45] Speaker 5: a team three straight times in a row.
[16:48] Speaker 2: No, it ain't not when you ain't got the best player. Oh,
[16:51] Speaker 2: I'm talking about, yeah, I'm saying he's talking about with
[16:53] Speaker 2: that man. Oh, yeah, I'm saying. What, about three years
[16:56] Speaker 2: in a row? No. No, no, no. Three straight games
[16:59] Speaker 2: in a row. Oh, man, yeah, yeah. No, that would
[17:01] Speaker 2: have been something. Ann was averaging 23-8 in the first
[17:03] Speaker 2: three games. Only had five. Obviously, played 18 minutes in
[17:06] Speaker 2: that game before. What was the first two games? First
[17:09] Speaker 2: two games, he had 17, I believe, in game one
[17:12] Speaker 2: and 30 in game, or excuse me, 30 in game one,
[17:16] Speaker 2: or 30 in game two. I don't know. The dates
[17:18] Speaker 2: are all fucked up. Minnesota's going to lose game six. Huh?
[17:21] Speaker 2: I said Minnesota's going to lose game six. Yeah, 22
[17:23] Speaker 2: in game one. They shouldn't panic. 30 and 10 in
[17:25] Speaker 2: game two. But it's like, what do you, like, They
[17:28] Speaker 2: shouldn't panic. So you say Julius Roundhouse has to do more?
[17:33] Speaker 2: For my scouting report.
[17:35] Speaker 4: I'm just saying, like, 27, what else is he supposed
[17:39] Speaker 4: to do?
[17:40] Speaker 2: This last game was 27? Yeah.
[17:42] Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, the other guys got to step up,
[17:44] Speaker 1: but the way that he plays the game, facilitating him
[17:48] Speaker 1: around that 27 is.
[17:50] Speaker 2: For him to be number one now? That's tough.
[17:54] Speaker 1: 27, the way he got it is way tougher than...
[17:58] Speaker 1: him just getting a bunch of points and saying, I
[18:00] Speaker 1: did enough. And I think when you talk Scott and
[18:03] Speaker 1: report with them, you know what he going to do.
[18:05] Speaker 1: You know, he's going to go right block. He's going
[18:07] Speaker 1: to face up. He's going to try to bully, bully.
[18:10] Speaker 1: And he's not much of a passer when it comes
[18:12] Speaker 1: down to it. And you don't have the shooters that
[18:14] Speaker 1: you usually have in Ant-Man and DiVincenzo. These are two
[18:18] Speaker 1: 35 plus percent shooters. So now you, you, you, you
[18:22] Speaker 1: depending on IO, you depending on Jaden McDaniels, Shannon Jr.
[18:28] Speaker 2: Coming off the bench. Nas Reed.
[18:31] Speaker 1: He's dusting these guys off expecting these guys to come.
[18:34] Speaker 2: In and get you something. You know what I'm saying?
[18:36] Speaker 2: He's tough.
[18:36] Speaker 4: He's dusting these dudes off. He could be the best
[18:38] Speaker 4: shooter there is. If he ain't came, if he ain't
[18:40] Speaker 4: played in a while, come in this pressure situation and
[18:43] Speaker 4: try to make shots.
[18:44] Speaker 2: It's not over, though. It's not over.
[18:46] Speaker 8: It's not over.
[18:47] Speaker 2: No, they still got two games.
[18:48] Speaker 1: I don't think the coaching staff has an alternative offense
[18:52] Speaker 1: set up without a fucking Anthony Edwards being a part
[18:56] Speaker 1: of it.
[18:57] Speaker 2: What was their record without Ant-Man this year? I think
[18:59] Speaker 2: like 12-9. Damn.
[19:02] Speaker 1: And that's not bad, but it's still, it's like, where
[19:06] Speaker 1: do you get your offense? Because you can't depend on
[19:08] Speaker 1: Rudy to give you a 20-20 game. And Nas Reed
[19:13] Speaker 1: seems to be a guy who's waiting for someone to
[19:15] Speaker 1: give him the ball.
[19:17] Speaker 2: And he rolled his ankle. And he rolled his ankle.
[19:19] Speaker 4: The way he was laid out, I thought he popped
[19:21] Speaker 4: his Achilles.
[19:22] Speaker 1: So this is who I thought they should have entered
[19:24] Speaker 1: the game with early. even started with. You start Bones
[19:28] Speaker 1: Highland at the one.
[19:30] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[19:30] Speaker 1: You don't bring Mike Conley in and start Mike Conley.
[19:33] Speaker 1: You let Bones, because Bones 13 points could have been
[19:36] Speaker 1: 23 points.
[19:36] Speaker 2: Once he gets in the rhythm. Once he gets, I think,
[19:40] Speaker 2: I think just him knowing that I'm playing. Yeah. Gets
[19:43] Speaker 2: him in the, I gotta go get this. Him and Asumu.
[19:45] Speaker 2: And the old team.
[19:46] Speaker 8: And he's playing against the old team. And that's his
[19:47] Speaker 8: old team. So you look at him, going in with
[19:50] Speaker 8: a chip on his shoulder.
[19:51] Speaker 2: Home commercial. Yeah. He's looking to try to prove to them, like,
[19:55] Speaker 2: all right, look, this. Yeah. Ayo and him.
[19:59] Speaker 1: Out there moving together, it's not like Andy Vincenzo, but
[20:01] Speaker 1: it's just a different dynamic where they can both go
[20:04] Speaker 1: down here.
[20:04] Speaker 4: You lose some defensively with them two, but you still
[20:07] Speaker 4: got Rudy.
[20:07] Speaker 1: Offensively, but offensively, they, the pace, the pace needs to
[20:12] Speaker 1: be faster with them two.
[20:14] Speaker 2: With them two out there together, you need to play
[20:16] Speaker 2: them together. The pace needs to be faster. They don't
[20:19] Speaker 2: start like that.
[20:20] Speaker 1: And if you put, you take that with the, Rudy, like,
[20:24] Speaker 1: I like Rudy in some situations, but I'm going to
[20:27] Speaker 1: put Nas in. Yeah, I'm playing Nas smaller. Aaron Gordon
[20:32] Speaker 1: still kind of hobbled a little bit. But you see
[20:36] Speaker 1: the Denver's progression, right? Denver's progression looks a lot more
[20:40] Speaker 1: fluid because they made the adjustment without Ant-Man in the game.
[20:44] Speaker 1: And they're like, Jones, whether you play good or not,
[20:47] Speaker 1: we know you're just in there to run around and
[20:49] Speaker 1: knock people over.
[20:50] Speaker 2: And hit open shots.
[20:51] Speaker 1: But Brown, both Browns, aren't hitting those threes they're in
[20:56] Speaker 1: trouble yeah they're in trouble Jamal Murray gonna do Jamal
[20:58] Speaker 1: Murray shit and Joker gonna do Joker shit but if
[21:01] Speaker 1: it ain't Cam Cam Johnson ain't hitting and those two
[21:05] Speaker 1: brown boys ain't hitting well he.
[21:07] Speaker 4: Is now that's who needs to play well game six
[21:09] Speaker 4: he played well last night I'm saying they're going on
[21:10] Speaker 4: the road because you know how that should be I
[21:12] Speaker 4: think Bruce Brown and Chris Brown what they bring to
[21:15] Speaker 4: the table is energy and Effort plays. I think that'll translate.
[21:19] Speaker 4: And if they're making shots, they're making shots. But they're
[21:20] Speaker 4: getting offensive rebounds, steals, those things that help you win.
[21:24] Speaker 2: All the little Caruso-type plays. Absolutely. Those are the type
[21:28] Speaker 2: of plays you need. But they want to get in
[21:30] Speaker 2: the shootout with this Nuggets offense, though. No. It takes
[21:34] Speaker 2: everything in the paint for them.
[21:35] Speaker 4: No, but they need to play fast, man. They need
[21:37] Speaker 4: to play Bones, Highland, and DeSumo together, right? You need
[21:41] Speaker 4: to play them together and speed the game up.
[21:43] Speaker 2: They better start them. Because if you're doing that, man, it's...
[21:48] Speaker 2: Put pressure.
[21:48] Speaker 1: On Joker, though, because Joker's guarding Conley on the pick
[21:52] Speaker 1: and roll. He not turning that bitch and putting pressure
[21:54] Speaker 1: on him, but Bones.
[21:56] Speaker 2: Yeah, both of them. Bones about to go.
[21:57] Speaker 4: And then if you need a half court, you throw
[21:59] Speaker 4: the Julius Randle in, do his thing, put him in
[22:01] Speaker 4: the pick and roll with one of them two. Push
[22:03] Speaker 4: the ball up. Yeah, yeah. But you definitely need to
[22:06] Speaker 4: play faster.
[22:08] Speaker 2: It sounds good. He's about to be some herping babies, though.
[22:11] Speaker 2: I don't like this. So like we talked about. They
[22:13] Speaker 2: was out of here. They was out of here.
[22:15] Speaker 8: 4-1.
[22:15] Speaker 2: 4-1 out of here. Get them out of here.
[22:18] Speaker 6: I just love the way he's going away about it.
[22:21] Speaker 2: Talking trash. Get them out of here. He was becoming
[22:25] Speaker 2: a star. For sure. A fan favorite, you know, in
[22:27] Speaker 2: the world.
[22:28] Speaker 4: In the league where we always were, I think that
[22:31] Speaker 4: guys like 2BuddyBuddy and this.
[22:34] Speaker 2: Yo, I like Jamey. Yeah, that's why I like him.
[22:37] Speaker 2: I've been really watching him. Him and Ant.
[22:40] Speaker 8: Two ghetto ass niggas that sit on the fucking porch
[22:43] Speaker 8: talking shit to niggas all the time.
[22:46] Speaker 1: And he don't give a fuck. So when Mike Conley
[22:49] Speaker 1: said after he threw it up, he said....
[22:55] Speaker 4: He knew it like I blame like my bad man
[22:57] Speaker 4: It's one of them right you you when you send
[23:00] Speaker 4: certain people in to go talk to somebody like that's.
[23:03] Speaker 2: Gonna be in bed, right?
[23:04] Speaker 4: I like sending me in the deal with certain like
[23:09] Speaker 4: you like.
[23:11] Speaker 2: But the wolf seem to be taking on that personality
[23:13] Speaker 2: McJames obviously called all the Nuggets trash ass in the
[23:16] Speaker 2: series and But you need that, though. You need that.
[23:19] Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the play from game four
[23:21] Speaker 2: in a second, but... Like, you need that, man. But
[23:23] Speaker 2: he was poking a bear, stoking a fire, and they
[23:25] Speaker 2: were backing it up.
[23:27] Speaker 4: Like, you need... Like, you got to... Like, he's there
[23:30] Speaker 4: to compete, right? He ain't there to make friends with
[23:33] Speaker 4: the opposition. He ain't helping you up.
[23:35] Speaker 2: He.
[23:35] Speaker 4: He the step over you guy. So I'm with that.
[23:39] Speaker 8: And he laid that bitch up at the end just
[23:41] Speaker 8: to fish you.
[23:42] Speaker 2: Off a little bit more. Y'all ain't played no defense
[23:45] Speaker 2: on the last play either. I mean, hey, I mean,
[23:47] Speaker 2: they teach you to play today, right?
[23:48] Speaker 4: Yeah, but if it was anybody else that got upset,
[23:51] Speaker 4: you know, my thing about Nicole is he competes, right?
[23:54] Speaker 4: No matter what, he competes throughout the game.
[23:57] Speaker 2: So.
[23:58] Speaker 4: For him to get upset, I'm like, if he was
[24:00] Speaker 4: anybody else, my comment is always, well, you should have
[24:03] Speaker 4: played that hard during the game. But he does, so
[24:07] Speaker 4: it doesn't fit. He plays hard. They wouldn't give him
[24:09] Speaker 4: the ass kick, but he gives a fuck about the
[24:12] Speaker 4: end result.
[24:12] Speaker 2: I thought that was extreme.
[24:13] Speaker 3: I thought that was extreme, and I thought the one
[24:15] Speaker 3: that he just did.
[24:15] Speaker 2: Last game was extreme. I thought that was... That was funny.
[24:17] Speaker 2: It was like... He didn't want the turnover. Huh? He
[24:21] Speaker 2: tried to give it to him, I think, to get
[24:22] Speaker 2: the clock reset. But I'm like... I didn't think he
[24:24] Speaker 2: wanted the turnover, neither. It's extreme. Yeah, but I mean,
[24:27] Speaker 2: if he gives him the ball, I'm saying if he
[24:30] Speaker 2: takes it, then he take it back. I don't think.
[24:31] Speaker 2: I didn't see that. I think he wanted the shot clock.
[24:33] Speaker 2: I didn't see it. I didn't see that. I stopped
[24:34] Speaker 2: watching it. I didn't see that one either. Yeah, we
[24:36] Speaker 2: got that clip. He wanted a 24 second reset. I
[24:38] Speaker 2: think I'm talking about last. Yeah.
[24:40] Speaker 8: I'm talking about that.
[24:41] Speaker 2: So we're like that. That was weak.
[24:43] Speaker 8: Because listen, this is what I was saying that somebody
[24:45] Speaker 8: else was having the conversation.
[24:46] Speaker 2: You got to play these motherfuckers again, man. It's more
[24:49] Speaker 2: so like we know the unwritten rule. We've talked about
[24:52] Speaker 2: this shit many times. But you know who he is, too.
[24:55] Speaker 2: But he's passionate, right? Just like anybody else.
[24:59] Speaker 1: And you say, hey, have that same fucking passion throughout
[25:01] Speaker 1: the game to win the game to not even be
[25:03] Speaker 1: down that much.
[25:04] Speaker 2: Right. But that's a whole nother conversation.
[25:06] Speaker 1: I'm talking about how you didn't have to do that
[25:09] Speaker 1: to make it seem like it was so obvious.
[25:12] Speaker 2: End of the world-ish.
[25:13] Speaker 1: You could have waited to the buzzer and walked up
[25:15] Speaker 1: to him and be like, hey, man.
[25:17] Speaker 2: Hey, man, let's take a look at the play if
[25:19] Speaker 2: we can or you guys talk about it. I hear you.
[25:21] Speaker 2: Let's take a look at the play. I'm waiting the
[25:23] Speaker 2: next one. I'm down here. I'm about to lay this up.
[25:27] Speaker 2: It's cool.
[25:28] Speaker 4: See, my thing is, so, like, look, what you doing, bro? See, but,
[25:34] Speaker 4: so this is my thing, right? Then, Nicola, right? Walk
[25:37] Speaker 4: to your locker room. Don't even do it. Don't say nothing, right?
[25:40] Speaker 1: Hey, next game, You coming across the lane.
[25:45] Speaker 2: And I'm going to give you one. Think about it.
[25:49] Speaker 1: If we players, the coach usually is the one that
[25:52] Speaker 1: says something to the player.
[25:53] Speaker 2: But he ain't going to listen. Right?
[25:55] Speaker 1: So I'm not even about listening. It's just about getting
[25:57] Speaker 1: a message. Hey, bro, you bigger than that. Come on, man.
[26:02] Speaker 1: You know the game, man. You bigger than that. You
[26:03] Speaker 1: shouldn't be doing stuff like that. And the player should
[26:06] Speaker 1: be like, you know what?
[26:07] Speaker 2: You're right. That's my fault. For Joker to go all
[26:09] Speaker 2: the way down there out of his way. Right.
[26:12] Speaker 1: To make it seem like he cares about fucking sportsmanship
[26:16] Speaker 1: that fucking much.
[26:17] Speaker 2: He does. It was just too much, bro, because you
[26:20] Speaker 2: could have got suspended.
[26:21] Speaker 3: And then you turn around and do the next game.
[26:24] Speaker 2: That's why I said I don't get it. This is
[26:25] Speaker 2: bigger than that. I feel like this is like a rivalry.
[26:27] Speaker 2: It is. Oh, no, this is a rivalry. But if
[26:29] Speaker 2: it is, that's a rivalry. So I'm doing that.
[26:33] Speaker 1: And I'm doing what Joker's doing.
[26:35] Speaker 2: No, I'm saying Joker should not.
[26:37] Speaker 1: If this is a rivalry, you should not run down
[26:40] Speaker 1: on me like this because I just whooped your ass.
[26:42] Speaker 2: And you damn supposed to be in. They both right
[26:45] Speaker 2: to me. They both right to me. It's a rivalry.
[26:48] Speaker 2: It's a little different. Yeah, it's a rivalry. So I
[26:50] Speaker 2: expect both of you. That's what I'm saying. But if
[26:53] Speaker 2: you expecting it, you shouldn't even. Like, if you expecting
[26:56] Speaker 2: me to lay this up, I'm like.
[26:58] Speaker 1: Like if you expected me to lay it up cuz
[27:00] Speaker 1: I don't I'm not expecting you to come cuz you.
[27:02] Speaker 2: Know I'm yeah, I'm trying to whoop your ass. Oh,
[27:05] Speaker 2: you shouldn't even be sure you should know and.
[27:07] Speaker 4: I'm cool with it So that's like I said, I
[27:08] Speaker 4: wouldn't have ran up on him. I'm gonna listen we play.
[27:12] Speaker 1: Y'all again We play y'all again in two days nigga.
[27:15] Speaker 1: Listen Jack You cutting through this paint Blindly on a
[27:21] Speaker 1: pick and roll?
[27:22] Speaker 8: It ain't no playground, but it's a good hard foul.
[27:26] Speaker 2: A good one. I'm going to get you a good one.
[27:29] Speaker 2: I've been punking them all week. And then that's the
[27:32] Speaker 2: icing on the cake. That's the I told you. Yeah,
[27:35] Speaker 2: like I've been punking y'all.
[27:36] Speaker 1: All you can do is put your head down and
[27:38] Speaker 1: be like, damn, man.
[27:40] Speaker 2: Go to the locker room. That could change the energy
[27:42] Speaker 2: for the team. I called your team out by name. Bro.
[27:44] Speaker 2: First and last name.
[27:45] Speaker 1: Ain't nothing changing this but an injury. Only thing changing
[27:49] Speaker 1: this ass whooping is an injury to my star player.
[27:52] Speaker 2: Jalen Daniels said something. Joking and saying nothing. What can
[27:57] Speaker 2: you say? We at y'all game. We at you, you,
[28:00] Speaker 2: and you, and you. We at all y'all.
[28:02] Speaker 5: When Jadon Daniels was talking, they was up 1-0 Denver.
[28:06] Speaker 2: Yeah. It was after game two, I believe. It was
[28:08] Speaker 2: after game two. Game two, yeah. Oh, it was after
[28:11] Speaker 2: game two. You can't say that you lose game one, Nick. Right.
[28:14] Speaker 2: I thought he was saying Nuggets won game one.
[28:17] Speaker 4: Hell no, you can't go in there talking shit after
[28:18] Speaker 4: you lose game one.
[28:19] Speaker 2: Nuggets won game one. No, hell no. We were searching
[28:24] Speaker 2: these guys. We should have been attacking. No, that ain't
[28:26] Speaker 2: what he said. That's a different conversation. Fuck no, Nick.
[28:31] Speaker 2: They went out and won game two on them people's floor,
[28:34] Speaker 2: and then what was the game plan? They bad defenders.
[28:37] Speaker 2: We're going at him. Nicola, bad defender. Jamal Murray, bad defender.
[28:42] Speaker 2: Sam Gardaway, Cam Johnson, All of them. Rocky. Listen, he
[28:48] Speaker 2: went out. Listen, Adelman, Rocky. What are you going to say?
[28:51] Speaker 2: John Elway. What you mean? What are you going to say?
[28:55] Speaker 2: It's the real thing. It's the real thing. He's standing sharp.
[28:58] Speaker 2: Russell Wilson. Russell, he went out. T-Bone.
[29:00] Speaker 7: T-Bone.
[29:00] Speaker 2: T-Bone. T-Bone.
[29:01] Speaker 5: T-Bone.
[29:01] Speaker 2: T-Bone. T-Bone. T-Bone. T-Bone. T-Bone. T-Bone. T-Bone. T-Bone. They're all
[29:12] Speaker 2: bad defenders. What can he say, though? Say anything. You
[29:16] Speaker 2: can defend your teammates. No, no, no. Then we lose
[29:20] Speaker 2: the next two. After the layup, and then I was...
[29:23] Speaker 2: He responded, I responded. Then we lose the next two,
[29:26] Speaker 2: and nothing we can say.
[29:27] Speaker 4: But my thing, like I said, just a hard foul
[29:32] Speaker 4: and wait till the next game.
[29:33] Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. Hard foul. Absolutely. He's showing his
[29:37] Speaker 2: emotions at this point. At this point. He was very frustrated.
[29:42] Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. You're showing me.
[29:45] Speaker 1: That you needed this injury to happen to even feel
[29:48] Speaker 1: a little bit better.
[29:49] Speaker 2: No, think about it.
[29:51] Speaker 1: If Ant don't go down, that frustration boy is over
[29:54] Speaker 1: because Jaden McDaniels feeds off Ant.
[29:59] Speaker 2: I believe that. And vice versa. And vice versa.
[30:01] Speaker 1: And I believe DiVincenzo feed off of all the rest
[30:04] Speaker 1: of them when it comes to how available he is
[30:06] Speaker 1: to be open to shoot those shots based on them
[30:08] Speaker 1: two playing the way they play.
[30:09] Speaker 2: He has YN tendencies as well. Yes. He definitely does.
[30:12] Speaker 2: He does. So you think about it. Think about it.
[30:15] Speaker 2: You like, all right.
[30:17] Speaker 1: Ant goes down, that's the other half of half man,
[30:19] Speaker 1: half amazing for Jada McDaniels. He played both sides of
[30:22] Speaker 1: the floor better when he playing with Ant, man, because
[30:24] Speaker 1: he's giving him that confidence. Like, yeah, Jada, go at him.
[30:28] Speaker 1: So I'm looking at it like, damn, once that go down, Joker,
[30:32] Speaker 1: he feels better about the energy.
[30:34] Speaker 2: Because I don't got to worry about these two niggas
[30:39] Speaker 2: talking ass, bro. No, he was going to show up.
[30:43] Speaker 1: His frustration comes from Rudy doing what he doing, and
[30:48] Speaker 1: then them two talking on the court because they both defenders.
[30:51] Speaker 2: You can't say he was going to show up if
[30:52] Speaker 2: he wasn't doing it, though. They've been down 3-1 before.
[30:56] Speaker 2: He had never played this bad. He never played this bad, though.
[30:59] Speaker 2: They're not going to just sit. I don't think they
[31:01] Speaker 2: sit down. Who was it down 3-1, too? Who are
[31:04] Speaker 2: they down? 3-1? And it was 2020. Clippers. Clippers. Like
[31:08] Speaker 2: I said. The Jazz may not. It was, but they
[31:12] Speaker 2: were still down. Like I said, nobody. What do you mean?
[31:16] Speaker 2: They're in the playoffs. Nah.
[31:18] Speaker 8: In 2020?
[31:18] Speaker 2: Not down 3-1. I'm doing it right now. That Clippers
[31:20] Speaker 2: team was supposed to win it. Yes, like 2020. Clippers.
[31:23] Speaker 4: That Clippers team was supposed to win it that year.
[31:26] Speaker 2: Jazz and Clippers, I believe they both came back from 3-1.
[31:29] Speaker 2: Jazz and the Lakers. Jazz in the first round, Clippers
[31:31] Speaker 2: in the second round. With multiple 18, 20-point comebacks against
[31:35] Speaker 2: the Clippers, games 5, 6, 7. Alright, so we saw
[31:39] Speaker 2: the incident. Jokic and Randall were both ejected from the
[31:41] Speaker 2: game for their roles in the altercation. Jokic got fined $ 50, 000.
[31:45] Speaker 2: Randall got hit with a $ 35, 000 fine. But after the game,
[31:49] Speaker 2: both McDaniels and Jokic addressed that unwritten rule being broken.
[31:53] Speaker 2: Did Jokic say anything to you when he came over? Nah,
[31:57] Speaker 2: I don't know what he said. I just seen someone
[31:59] Speaker 2: that was big as hell. Big as hell. He might
[32:02] Speaker 2: still be running, so.
[32:04] Speaker 1: You know, why were you so upset with the McDaniels' laugh?
[32:07] Speaker 2: He crazy, Loki. Look at him. Look at his eyes.
[32:10] Speaker 2: Because he's quiet, but he stops playing. That's a bad answer.
[32:16] Speaker 2: He's mad because he's quiet. What happened?
[32:18] Speaker 9: Do you regret confronting McDaniels, or do you feel like he.
[32:22] Speaker 2: Had to do that? No, I don't regret it.
[32:28] Speaker 6: You view that just kind of as an unwritten rule not.
[32:31] Speaker 2: To score late. He scores when everybody stops playing, but
[32:36] Speaker 2: there's still time on the clock, like McDaniels said. What
[32:38] Speaker 2: did he say? McDaniels said there's still time on the clock.
[32:41] Speaker 2: I'm trying to get my numbers right. So obviously McDaniels
[32:45] Speaker 2: ruffled feathers. And they wasn't up 20. Was they up 20?
[32:47] Speaker 2: They were up 14 at the point the layup put
[32:48] Speaker 2: them up 16. So McDaniels, obviously not the first time
[32:51] Speaker 2: he's ruffled feathers with these nuggets like we talked about
[32:53] Speaker 2: after game two called the whole team.
[32:56] Speaker 4: But he don't fuck with them, though. That's just what
[32:58] Speaker 4: it is with him, man. You got to know it. Like,
[33:01] Speaker 4: with him.
[33:01] Speaker 2: I wanted you to stop playing. He said everybody stop playing.
[33:04] Speaker 1: Everyone stop playing, so you shouldn't do it when everyone
[33:07] Speaker 1: stop playing.
[33:08] Speaker 2: It goes back to the sportsmanship. Oh, I know. The
[33:09] Speaker 2: ball rolling down. I don't see y'all back there. Did
[33:11] Speaker 2: you see when he went? He don't know. Whatever. He
[33:16] Speaker 2: knew exactly what he was doing.
[33:18] Speaker 8: I think he thought about it, though, because he slowed
[33:21] Speaker 8: down and he was kind of like, fuck him.
[33:26] Speaker 2: I felt it.
[33:27] Speaker 1: I was like, oh, he looking, he thinking, he like,
[33:29] Speaker 1: I'm already halfway here.
[33:31] Speaker 2: I done ran all the way down here.
[33:32] Speaker 8: And that's why Mike Conley was like, how many points
[33:35] Speaker 8: I got?
[33:36] Speaker 2: Shit, let me get two more of these.
[33:38] Speaker 8: The playoffs, nigga, I need all my playoff points.
[33:41] Speaker 2: Until the Wolves created, they interviewed Io DeSumo after the game,
[33:44] Speaker 2: asked him about the situation. He said he was riding
[33:45] Speaker 2: with his teammates. Yeah, you're going to ride like Mike Hunter.
[33:50] Speaker 2: He knew what he was for, but you're going to
[33:51] Speaker 2: ride with your guy. On either side, people are going
[33:54] Speaker 2: to say Nikola wasn't wrong in the Nuggets locker room.
[33:57] Speaker 2: People are going to ride with J.D. McDonough.
[33:58] Speaker 4: Even if they think he might have been wrong for
[34:00] Speaker 4: doing it, they're going to ride with him no matter
[34:03] Speaker 4: what because that's your guy. But Mike Conley made light
[34:05] Speaker 4: of it, made a joke of like, I take responsibility
[34:08] Speaker 4: for the whole situation. I shouldn't have threw him the ball.
[34:11] Speaker 4: I looked up and I didn't.
[34:13] Speaker 1: It's the same energy put towards the dude trying to
[34:16] Speaker 1: play defense with the guy that's actually dribbling the ball out.
[34:20] Speaker 2: And he's trying to steal the ball. And he's stealing
[34:22] Speaker 2: the ball. And it's like, my bro, what is you doing?
[34:26] Speaker 4: That's what I be thinking.
[34:29] Speaker 1: The same dudes that be trying to foul with two seconds,
[34:32] Speaker 1: three seconds on the clock. You down 10 and 11.
[34:35] Speaker 1: That's what you doing. Hey, let him steal and go
[34:38] Speaker 1: foul the shit out of him.
[34:39] Speaker 2: Man. Chase him down. Chase him down. I've got to
[34:43] Speaker 2: ask you guys, was it really that big of a deal?
[34:45] Speaker 2: Did we feel like the Nuggets were just in their
[34:46] Speaker 2: feelings because they lost their third straight game? No, not
[34:48] Speaker 2: the Nuggets. The Colts. That's a big deal. It's a
[34:51] Speaker 2: big deal because it's a rivalry. The Nuggets are the Colts.
[34:53] Speaker 2: It's personal. It is personal. I'd say both was right. Both? Yeah,
[35:00] Speaker 2: it's a rivalry.
[35:01] Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a rivalry, bro. You got to– hey, they're
[35:04] Speaker 4: going to run the score, man.
[35:06] Speaker 2: It's like– That's sending messages. We sending messages. Yeah, yeah.
[35:12] Speaker 2: We sending messages. Like I said, I ain't got no problem.
[35:13] Speaker 2: That would make Timberwolves like one.
[35:15] Speaker 5: Of the best teams to watch in the playoffs, bro.
[35:18] Speaker 5: I love watching Timberwolves.
[35:19] Speaker 2: In the playoffs. You like watching Ant.
[35:22] Speaker 5: But that– Jalen McDaniels was– what he was doing was making–
[35:27] Speaker 5: Like the playoffs fun, he was becoming like a fan
[35:30] Speaker 5: favorite on the team.
[35:31] Speaker 2: Well, all that shit that happened. He's still playing. That
[35:34] Speaker 2: was Rudy Gobert fault. The energy is not the same.
[35:36] Speaker 2: Rudy Gobert. I know, so just say that it's over.
[35:38] Speaker 2: You're talking like the series is over. He's still out there.
[35:40] Speaker 2: You know, like, come on. It's not over. He can
[35:42] Speaker 2: still affect the outcome. But it's over at the same time.
[35:45] Speaker 2: It's not over, but it's over. He can still affect
[35:47] Speaker 2: the outcome. No, he can't. He really can't.
[35:49] Speaker 4: He has two active legs and feet and arms. He
[35:52] Speaker 4: can go out there, bitch, and.
[35:53] Speaker 2: Affect the outcome. Like Joker not playing. No, what? What
[35:57] Speaker 2: if Joker wasn't playing?
[35:57] Speaker 5: When you say Demer is over, if Joker wasn't playing?
[36:01] Speaker 2: No, they still got active bodies. Jamal Murray. Yeah. Still
[36:07] Speaker 2: got to go out and play. I understand that. Still
[36:09] Speaker 2: got to fucking go out and play. The logical part.
[36:12] Speaker 2: A triple-double guy down for Denver. I understand what y'all
[36:16] Speaker 2: are saying. Okay, so would it be over for Denver?
[36:19] Speaker 2: We would be like, uh. Yeah, I understand what y'all
[36:22] Speaker 2: are saying. It is a long road. I would say yes.
[36:25] Speaker 2: Long road to hold. I understand that. Yes. For them,
[36:28] Speaker 2: it's an uphill battle now. Yeah.
[36:29] Speaker 4: Being without their best player, missing 29, missing another 15, 16.
[36:33] Speaker 2: They lost Jokic and Christian Brown or something like that. Yes,
[36:36] Speaker 2: I understand. Tim Hardaway Jr. Yeah, it's over. It's over. Yeah,
[36:41] Speaker 2: I would say it's over.
[36:42] Speaker 4: Yes, but I'm saying the guy that's been talking shit
[36:45] Speaker 4: is what I'm saying.
[36:46] Speaker 2: Yes.
[36:47] Speaker 4: The guy that called him out and the guy that
[36:49] Speaker 4: laid the ball up, You still can go affect whether
[36:53] Speaker 4: y'all win, motherfucker.
[36:54] Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. He got to step up. You
[36:57] Speaker 2: said they bad defenders, so guess what, motherfucker? You got
[37:00] Speaker 2: to step up. Go show us they bad defenders. For sure.
[37:03] Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. For sure. You made the comment.
[37:07] Speaker 2: Your limbs still work. I need 25. More. I need 30.
[37:12] Speaker 2: I need 30 and a windmill dunk. He ain't even
[37:15] Speaker 2: getting like 20s. I don't think he can get 20s.
[37:18] Speaker 2: He got to give me something. Give me a quarter
[37:21] Speaker 2: at least. Give me a quarter at least. You said
[37:23] Speaker 2: they bad defenders. Show me. On them bad defenders. Every
[37:25] Speaker 2: time you get it.
[37:26] Speaker 4: You should have more opportunities now that Anthony Edwards is
[37:31] Speaker 4: not out there.
[37:32] Speaker 2: So therefore, capitalize.
[37:35] Speaker 4: On them opportunities. Since they such bad defenders, show me.
[37:39] Speaker 8: But you see, boy, his comment came from Ant-Man's ability
[37:42] Speaker 8: to expose.
[37:44] Speaker 2: It wasn't his ability.
[37:45] Speaker 8: Well, guess what you should have said.
[37:49] Speaker 2: Well, guess what you should have said.
[37:50] Speaker 4: Can't none of them niggas guard my nigga Ant. Can't
[37:54] Speaker 4: none of them niggas guard Ant.
[37:56] Speaker 2: So after game two, after you made those comments, game two,
[37:58] Speaker 2: you followed that up, dropping 20 and 10. Okay. Well,
[38:01] Speaker 2: guess what? We need both. We need 30 and 10.
[38:03] Speaker 2: It's one-on-one. They might not even do the one-on-one. They
[38:05] Speaker 2: had to play the one-on-one. They had played the whole game.
[38:08] Speaker 2: He had 20 and 10. 17 and 9. He went
[38:09] Speaker 2: out the next game.
[38:22] Speaker 4: You had 13 in the game he didn't play. 13
[38:24] Speaker 4: ain't going to cut it, young fella.
[38:26] Speaker 2: So guess what?
[38:28] Speaker 4: Because you named four wing defenders that guard you.
[38:31] Speaker 8: But we got to talk about the scouting report. The
[38:34] Speaker 8: scouting report with Jadon McDaniels on the floor by himself
[38:37] Speaker 8: as a slasher. We're closing them. We're making you pay.
[38:42] Speaker 2: I could go one-on-one on my guy. Yes, that's what
[38:44] Speaker 2: you were just saying. You were saying a one-on-one was open. Yeah,
[38:47] Speaker 2: it's open. You got to... Double team, and now it's
[38:51] Speaker 2: just me and you. But now if I go by you.
[38:53] Speaker 2: So now you want the open shot.
[38:55] Speaker 5: No, it's not open shot. I can go by that
[38:57] Speaker 5: one-on-one person. So what's the difference now?
[38:59] Speaker 8: Well, now the swing-swing closes up.
[39:02] Speaker 2: Show me the bad defenders. It's going to be harder
[39:05] Speaker 2: to do that. Show me they bad defenders. It's hard
[39:07] Speaker 2: to do. You said it. Anthony Edwards didn't say it.
[39:10] Speaker 2: If Anthony Edwards said it, I'd be like, yeah, they
[39:13] Speaker 2: bad defenders. They are.
[39:15] Speaker 1: He was relaying the sentiment of the coaches saying this
[39:18] Speaker 1: is what we're doing. Our game plan wasn't going to
[39:21] Speaker 1: attack anybody.
[39:22] Speaker 2: Who's on there? What's doing that? Who's on there? What's
[39:24] Speaker 2: doing that? After he said that, they did it. They
[39:26] Speaker 2: did it. They kept doing it. So they did it
[39:28] Speaker 2: every day last night.
[39:30] Speaker 10: See at game six. Them same guards going to be
[39:32] Speaker 10: out there. The same people you said bad things.
[39:46] Speaker 8: But the one guy that was actually exposing all of
[39:49] Speaker 8: those guys is not there.
[39:50] Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand. But that's the difference. Okay, but you
[39:53] Speaker 2: go ahead and do it.
[39:53] Speaker 4: Your comments should have been.
[39:56] Speaker 2: You did 20. I agree. I agree.
[39:58] Speaker 1: Because he piggybacking off that.
[40:00] Speaker 2: That's not my job. I don't know what I'm.
[40:02] Speaker 5: Going to do now.
[40:03] Speaker 2: See, Ant was doing all that. He was inviting us
[40:06] Speaker 2: to the crib after the game. You understand? We ain't
[40:11] Speaker 2: coming to my crib. We coming to his crib. The
[40:14] Speaker 2: corners is taking over the playoffs. It is a corner takeover.
[40:17] Speaker 2: It is a corner takeover. Yeah, he got it. 25-30.
[40:18] Speaker 2: Give me a quarter, buddy. Got to give him some
[40:21] Speaker 2: corner power.
[40:26] Speaker 4: He got to have 25. In order for them to
[40:28] Speaker 4: have a chance.
[40:29] Speaker 2: To win that game. In order for them to have
[40:31] Speaker 2: a chance to win that game. Drop 43 again. Who
[40:33] Speaker 2: know he ain't? I don't. No, he had it going. No, no, no. Listen,
[40:36] Speaker 2: he had his 2K moment. That's it. He had it going.
[40:38] Speaker 2: His rhythm.
[40:39] Speaker 4: He had his rhythm going because he was the sixth
[40:41] Speaker 4: option out there, bitch, by the time Anthony went down.
[40:44] Speaker 2: Now, the person that might have a game. Now, he
[40:47] Speaker 2: had 25 a game before, though. Yeah, 25 and 43.
[40:50] Speaker 2: The news was out there. Do we need a bonus?
[40:52] Speaker 8: 25 it was.
[40:52] Speaker 2: It was out there. I was just about to say that.
[40:55] Speaker 2: It was out there. 43, they wasn't. Yeah, they wasn't.
[40:59] Speaker 2: They started the game. I was thinking about that, too.
[41:02] Speaker 2: He started the game. He had made a few shots already.
[41:05] Speaker 1: But the team hadn't adjusted to his. It was a
[41:07] Speaker 1: surprise performance. So the team, Denver, wasn't really like, okay,
[41:12] Speaker 1: who do we stop now?
[41:13] Speaker 2: It's next man up.
[41:14] Speaker 8: The last game was, okay, we know he can get off.
[41:19] Speaker 2: Attention. This is attention.
[41:21] Speaker 1: And that be the difference when we talk about the
[41:23] Speaker 1: next guys up is like, If you a sixth man
[41:25] Speaker 1: and you off the bench and you get that green
[41:27] Speaker 1: light when the other dude go down, if you truly
[41:30] Speaker 1: not ready to step into that light and be the
[41:32] Speaker 1: focal point in the scouting report, because before you wasn't.
[41:35] Speaker 1: Before it was just like, hey, he's a capable shooter.
[41:37] Speaker 1: Pay attention to him. Very small.
[41:39] Speaker 4: So the scouting report, Pat, his paragraph is three lines.
[41:43] Speaker 2: If you coming off the bench.
[41:44] Speaker 4: If you're coming off the bench, your scouting report line is.
[41:48] Speaker 8: Three, three, four sentences max.
[41:52] Speaker 2: Can't get hot. Now we know what you're doing. Two
[41:55] Speaker 2: dribbles to the right. You start. Hey, motherfucker, this is long.
[41:58] Speaker 2: He still had 18 last game. Yeah, 18? Yeah, 18
[42:00] Speaker 2: last game. And corners play better at home. So when
[42:03] Speaker 2: he go home. Is that a fact right there, corners? Yeah,
[42:05] Speaker 2: the crowd going to be cheering him. I'm doing it.
[42:08] Speaker 8: And he get to the gym early. Get the feel
[42:10] Speaker 8: of the basket.
[42:11] Speaker 2: This is the opportunity. Get some money off this. Now
[42:16] Speaker 2: attention is being paid to you. Bones might be the
[42:19] Speaker 2: one to have 30. I think Bones needs to. Bones
[42:23] Speaker 2: might be the one to send him home. That's a
[42:24] Speaker 2: good stat. It is. And I need to follow it
[42:27] Speaker 2: up this time. And I need to follow it up.
[42:29] Speaker 2: If I win this game. If I win this game.
[42:31] Speaker 2: We will. What changes for me? I'm playing the two.
[42:37] Speaker 2: What changes? I'm playing the two. What changes? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[42:41] Speaker 2: We looking at him different. We really need it from
[42:43] Speaker 2: him now. Oh, yeah.
[42:44] Speaker 6: 100%.
[42:45] Speaker 8: Chicago, he was being overlooked.
[42:47] Speaker 3: Because he played with DeMar and Zach and them over there.
[42:49] Speaker 2: That's why. Oh, Kobe White, too. Kobe White, Josh, Eddie,
[42:53] Speaker 2: all of them. So he's after 29-5 in his last
[42:55] Speaker 2: three games. That includes that 42-3. DeMar and Zach was
[42:57] Speaker 2: over there. But now coming back to Minnesota games, they
[42:59] Speaker 2: really need it now. That's what they don't need.
[43:04] Speaker 1: Well, you just insert him in Ant's spot. So he
[43:06] Speaker 1: just need to do whatever it was Ant was doing
[43:08] Speaker 1: and trying to do. He needed to figure out, put
[43:10] Speaker 1: his mind in that time and that sentiment and say,
[43:12] Speaker 1: I need to go out here and do what he
[43:14] Speaker 1: was doing in our offense.
[43:16] Speaker 2: In our offense.
[43:17] Speaker 1: Not necessarily try to be who Ant-Man was. Just let
[43:20] Speaker 1: me fill this void of what he did in the offense.
[43:23] Speaker 8: And then let's hope Jamie McDaniels still feels the same
[43:25] Speaker 8: way he felt.
[43:26] Speaker 2: Let's attack them bad defenders. I want to see him
[43:28] Speaker 2: attack them bad defenders. We will find out game six
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[44:12] Speaker 2: Let's stay in the West, shift over to the Lakers
[44:15] Speaker 2: Rocket Series. So in Game 3, Lakers overcame a 6-point
[44:18] Speaker 2: deficit in the final 26 seconds of regulation to force
[44:21] Speaker 2: overtime went on to get the win to take a
[44:23] Speaker 2: 3-0 series lead. LeBron led the Purple and Gold with
[44:26] Speaker 2: 29 points, 13 rebounds, and 6 assists, but also had
[44:28] Speaker 2: a game-high 8 turnovers. Rui Hachimura had 22 on 8
[44:32] Speaker 2: of 14 shooting, and Marcus Smart had 21 10-dimes and
[44:35] Speaker 2: 5 steals, while Bronny outscored the entire Rockets bench by himself.
[44:40] Speaker 2: So Rockets without Kevin Durant for the third time in
[44:42] Speaker 2: the series in Game 4. With KD missing his second
[44:45] Speaker 2: straight game with a bone bruise in his sprained left ankle.
[44:47] Speaker 2: I don't know where that smoke came from. Is that
[44:48] Speaker 2: brownie smoke? That's brownie smoke. That's brownie smoke. It was
[44:51] Speaker 2: brownie smoke? That was your smoke. I don't have access
[44:56] Speaker 2: to that. That was your smoke. It was smoke for you. No,
[44:59] Speaker 2: I'm handless. I'm handless. I'm giving credit away, man. I'm smokeless.
[45:03] Speaker 2: So KD missed the two straight games after missing game
[45:06] Speaker 2: one with a bruised right knee. Before game four, Alperin Shangoon,
[45:10] Speaker 2: who had 33 and 16 in the game three loss,
[45:12] Speaker 2: gave his teammates a passionate motivational speech, which was inspiring,
[45:17] Speaker 2: even though he didn't really, really understand English. Had some
[45:20] Speaker 2: janky English in the speech, but still got him going.
[45:22] Speaker 2: Ended up working out as Houston avoided elimination to keep
[45:25] Speaker 2: their season alive. Let's take a look at some highlights. Unfortunately,
[45:28] Speaker 2: Rockets got it done on both sides of the ball,
[45:31] Speaker 2: overcoming an early first quarter deficit to take control of
[45:34] Speaker 2: the game. Houston led by five after the first quarter,
[45:36] Speaker 2: nine at the break. Game got out of hand in
[45:38] Speaker 2: the third quarter. Houston started the quarter with a 12-4 run,
[45:42] Speaker 2: outscoring the Lakers 34-18 to take a commanding 25-point lead.
[45:46] Speaker 2: All five Rockets starters scored in double figures. Eamon Thompson
[45:50] Speaker 2: had a game-high 23 points on 10 and 16 shooting,
[45:52] Speaker 2: along with seven assists. Tari Eason added 28 boards and
[45:56] Speaker 2: five steals, going seven for 10 from the field, and
[45:58] Speaker 2: Shangoon had 19 and six boards. Reed Shepherd added 17,
[46:01] Speaker 2: he was four for seven from deep. DeAndre Ayton led
[46:04] Speaker 2: the Lakers with 19 points and 10 rebounds before getting
[46:07] Speaker 2: ejected midway through the third quarter after getting a flagrant
[46:10] Speaker 2: two for elbowing Shangoon in the head. We'll have more
[46:13] Speaker 2: on that shortly. So LeBron finished the game with 10
[46:15] Speaker 2: points on two of nine shooting, along with nine assists
[46:18] Speaker 2: and eight turnovers, LeBron's third lowest scoring total in his
[46:22] Speaker 2: playoff career. Rui Hachimura was the only other Laker in
[46:25] Speaker 2: double figures with 13 points. Rockets scored 33 points off
[46:30] Speaker 2: of 24 Lakers turnovers, held the purple and go to 23%
[46:33] Speaker 2: shooting from three. Things got chippy at the end of
[46:35] Speaker 2: the game with players from both sides meeting on the court.
[46:38] Speaker 2: Marcus Smart and Luke Kennard shared some choice words with
[46:40] Speaker 2: the officiating crew, led by Gucci ref James Williams, the
[46:43] Speaker 2: same ref Devin Booker called out last week after getting
[46:46] Speaker 2: hit with a questionable attack, which the league ended up rescinding.
[46:50] Speaker 2: Marcus Smart got fined 35 racks. For questioning the integrity
[46:53] Speaker 2: of game officials, Luke Kinnar got a $ 25, 000 fine for
[46:56] Speaker 2: directing inappropriate language toward the officials of the Rockets. Live
[47:01] Speaker 2: to see another day with Game 5 back in L.A.
[47:03] Speaker 2: Wednesday night. Shaw, we're going to start with you. What
[47:06] Speaker 2: are your biggest takeaways from the Rockets' Game 4 win
[47:09] Speaker 2: over the Lakers? Let's hear this. Ah! Ah! What? LeBron.
[47:15] Speaker 2: That's LeBron and Bronny. I didn't know that. Oh, wow. Yeah,
[47:18] Speaker 2: it's LeBron and Bronny. Ah. Is that the Bronny that
[47:21] Speaker 2: outscored the Rockets bench? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Same Bronny. Go.
[47:30] Speaker 2: Let's go.
[47:34] Speaker 1: They shot 40% in three that Houston Rockets did this game.
[47:40] Speaker 1: When you look at wins and losses and then.
[47:44] Speaker 8: The Ys, It's, are you hitting shots? Are you taking
[47:49] Speaker 8: good shots? Are you moving the ball?
[47:52] Speaker 1: I think this version of the Houston Rockets without KD,
[47:55] Speaker 1: when they've made their mind up collectively as a group
[47:59] Speaker 1: to play together, they look different. I think this was
[48:02] Speaker 1: a game, was a statement game that say, listen, if
[48:04] Speaker 1: we're going to go out, let's go out shooting.
[48:06] Speaker 2: Let's go out firing that motherfucker.
[48:07] Speaker 1: And I think that at the end of the game,
[48:10] Speaker 1: they look back and their effort outweighed the output of
[48:14] Speaker 1: the Lakers because the Lakers didn't look like they knew
[48:16] Speaker 1: what they was doing first.
[48:17] Speaker 2: The previous game.
[48:19] Speaker 1: And to see that there was one person on the
[48:21] Speaker 1: Lakers that actually took 12 shots.
[48:26] Speaker 2: Aiden took 12 shots. He shot most. Now that's doomsday
[48:31] Speaker 2: for the Lakers.
[48:32] Speaker 1: If you let him take the most shots and you
[48:33] Speaker 1: got LeBron out there, he's not being the guy he
[48:36] Speaker 1: was in the first three games. So, Shang-Goon, like I said,
[48:41] Speaker 1: he looked trash the whole series. I don't know what's
[48:43] Speaker 1: been going on. Even the 33 points, I didn't like that.
[48:46] Speaker 1: But this game was a little bit different because they
[48:49] Speaker 1: all shared the sugar. They all moved the ball. I
[48:51] Speaker 1: still don't like that. He may don't got no plays
[48:54] Speaker 1: for those guys to put them in position to score
[48:56] Speaker 1: where they still just at the top of the key
[48:58] Speaker 1: trying to, you know, make moves and shoot the ball.
[49:01] Speaker 1: But when Reed Shepard's hitting, when Easton's hitting, when Jabari's hitting,
[49:04] Speaker 1: they got a chance to beat anybody with or without KD.
[49:08] Speaker 8: But that's any team in the league. If you're hitting shots,
[49:10] Speaker 8: you can win.
[49:11] Speaker 1: If you're missing shots, bro, you're getting your ass blown out.
[49:14] Speaker 1: So I think that was the difference between this game
[49:16] Speaker 1: and the last game is Marcus Smart was hitting shots.
[49:19] Speaker 1: Luke Kinnar was hitting shots. Rui was hitting shots. Everybody
[49:22] Speaker 1: was hitting shots. They blow him out. I think this
[49:25] Speaker 1: time they just didn't hit shots. Shot 22 from the three. 22%
[49:30] Speaker 1: from the three. When you're a team and you're hitting
[49:33] Speaker 1: over 40% from three, you're going to have a better
[49:35] Speaker 1: chance to win. I think this next game is going
[49:38] Speaker 1: to be something in that you need to focus on
[49:41] Speaker 1: getting the ball out of LeBron's hands later than earlier.
[49:45] Speaker 1: Because the earlier he gets rid of the ball, the
[49:48] Speaker 1: more they have a chance to pass it around and
[49:50] Speaker 1: get the open shot. I think you wait until deep
[49:52] Speaker 1: in the shot clock to get it out of his
[49:53] Speaker 1: hands where somebody's taking the shot.
[49:55] Speaker 2: The late shot clock.
[49:57] Speaker 1: And I think that's a better strategy for Houston if
[50:00] Speaker 1: they want a chance to get the score down and
[50:03] Speaker 1: win the game.
[50:03] Speaker 2: But other than that, I'll go six. Lakers in six.
[50:09] Speaker 2: Lakers in six. I mean, this could easily be 2-2
[50:11] Speaker 2: right now. Yeah. The Rockets in trick off game three. Yeah.
[50:15] Speaker 2: They did, but Lakers stepped up in that moment. Brown
[50:18] Speaker 2: clutch three. Big three. As he tends to do. Big three. Colts.
[50:23] Speaker 8: It was some dumb shit going on, but it was
[50:25] Speaker 8: a big three.
[50:25] Speaker 2: Good defense. It wasn't dumb shit. It was just good defense. Well,
[50:28] Speaker 2: seeing the Colts. That's the shit that happened in the
[50:29] Speaker 2: Duke game. Reese Everett got Oaky Duck just, you know,
[50:32] Speaker 2: identifying the weak link. Ending with the Oaky Duck. What
[50:36] Speaker 2: can you take away from that? The Rockets gave forward
[50:39] Speaker 2: of the Lakers to keep their season alive, shift the
[50:41] Speaker 2: series back to Los Angeles. Yeah.
[50:46] Speaker 4: They played desperate, desperate basketball, backs against the wall. Don't
[50:54] Speaker 4: want your season to end. And they went out in
[50:57] Speaker 4: front of their home crowd and used that energy. They
[51:03] Speaker 4: could have easily the way game three ended, threw the
[51:07] Speaker 4: towel in, the emotion of that letdown of game three,
[51:14] Speaker 4: having pretty much the game won and tricking it off.
[51:20] Speaker 4: But they bounced back. To be in that position is
[51:27] Speaker 4: like when you're fighting for your season, you never know
[51:32] Speaker 4: what your level of energy that you have to think
[51:38] Speaker 4: you're playing hard before, but for your season, not the end, you,
[51:41] Speaker 4: there's another level that you have to go to. And
[51:43] Speaker 4: I think the Rockets realize that, um, and hopefully they
[51:48] Speaker 4: can bring the same energy on the road. Um, the
[51:49] Speaker 4: Lakers play well at home. They shoot the ball well
[51:51] Speaker 4: at home, but the old saying go defense travels.
[51:56] Speaker 2: So you got to have a low turnover game. Same thing, man.
[51:58] Speaker 4: The low turnover, you got to hit, keep limit them
[52:01] Speaker 4: to one shot, one bad shot. Um, They did a
[52:04] Speaker 4: better job of paying attention to where Luke Kennard was,
[52:09] Speaker 4: making him put the ball on the deck and different
[52:10] Speaker 4: things like that. So, yeah, because you know he's going
[52:13] Speaker 4: to play better at home. So, no, you just got
[52:15] Speaker 4: to pay attention to the game plan, man. Defense travels, man.
[52:19] Speaker 4: You got to bring that defensive effort, and we'll see
[52:23] Speaker 4: if you make shots or not. But you got to
[52:27] Speaker 4: make it a dogfight.
[52:30] Speaker 2: Let's shift over to this side of the couch, Mr. B.
[52:33] Speaker 2: Reaction to the Rockets taking game four to keep this
[52:36] Speaker 2: series alive?
[52:37] Speaker 3: I mean, this series is over in five. The Lakers,
[52:40] Speaker 3: they just took their foot off the gas. They looked
[52:43] Speaker 3: like they were just trying to get this game over with,
[52:44] Speaker 3: turn the ball over a lot. Only three people in
[52:46] Speaker 3: double figures in scoring. I mean, Houston played well. I mean,
[52:50] Speaker 3: like Kenny said, they played like their backs against the wall.
[52:53] Speaker 3: So they did what they were supposed to do.
[52:55] Speaker 2: But this is over. This is over.
[52:59] Speaker 3: I've been telling y'all Houston was overrated all fucking year.
[53:03] Speaker 2: Have you been doing that, Mr. Green? Yeah.
[53:05] Speaker 3: Also, I feel like if they had Jalen Green and Brooks,
[53:12] Speaker 3: it's a different series, and I think they'd get the
[53:14] Speaker 3: Lakers out of here. But, you know, they went ahead
[53:16] Speaker 3: and made a choice and a decision.
[53:19] Speaker 2: They gave up on the youth. Oh, yeah, man.
[53:24] Speaker 5: This series has been over in the game, too. Once
[53:28] Speaker 5: KD came back and realized he didn't have a chance.
[53:32] Speaker 2: I said, fuck this. Fuck this. My ankle hurt. He said,
[53:38] Speaker 2: what's my knee hurt? KD came back and said, I
[53:40] Speaker 2: ain't got a chance. I ain't got a chance. We
[53:42] Speaker 2: ain't got a chance. We ain't got a chance. So
[53:44] Speaker 2: he just said, fuck this and left. And, you know,
[53:48] Speaker 2: at 40, sometimes you get tired. LeBron, you know we
[53:51] Speaker 2: want this. They all know.
[53:53] Speaker 5: Save his energy, come back.
[53:55] Speaker 2: Home, game five. Going back to L.A. anyway. You know?
[53:57] Speaker 2: Want to extend this series just a little bit, obviously,
[54:00] Speaker 2: with Thunder getting the sweep. It's hard to be great
[54:04] Speaker 2: every game at 40.
[54:05] Speaker 5: So, you know, he got to come back game five
[54:08] Speaker 5: at beast mode. You know, he didn't even take, what,
[54:12] Speaker 5: ten shots, nine shots, something like that.
[54:15] Speaker 2: Two for nine. His third lowest scoring output. You could
[54:18] Speaker 2: tell they was all just– They did what they had
[54:22] Speaker 2: to do. They went down and got one, right? For sure. Yeah,
[54:25] Speaker 2: you was paying house money in game four. Yeah, you know.
[54:28] Speaker 2: Vegas like. Paying house money in game four. Come on,
[54:31] Speaker 2: Vegas like.
[54:32] Speaker 1: I don't like that for the Lakers, though, because they
[54:34] Speaker 1: don't got the type of roster you could turn it on.
[54:35] Speaker 2: They're going home, though. Not with them. Yes. Not with
[54:38] Speaker 2: those guys out there. You can't. Listen, at home. Listen,
[54:41] Speaker 2: at home, I feel way better. Listen, at home, we are. Momentum, bro.
[54:44] Speaker 2: It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen.
[54:46] Speaker 2: It ain't going to happen. This is over at five.
[54:48] Speaker 2: They all might come back game five. Vegas at five. Five. Bro,
[54:52] Speaker 2: the momentum is nasty. It's over. Nah, this shit is over.
[54:55] Speaker 2: It's over, man. Come on, it's over. Yeah, this shit
[54:57] Speaker 2: is over, bro. Can't even come back. Yeah. Like, Bron
[55:02] Speaker 2: took nine shots, dog. Man, I'm going to put all
[55:05] Speaker 2: this shit in this gas tank for game five, man.
[55:07] Speaker 2: Tell me, bro. I'm tired. For real. I'm tired. I'm
[55:09] Speaker 2: playing golf. Here's what we had to do. Go get
[55:12] Speaker 2: me a round of two in, man. I'm playing golf.
[55:14] Speaker 2: Game five, bro. Nah, man. That's over, bro. It's over.
[55:17] Speaker 2: I don't like it. It's going. It's over. Lakers also
[55:20] Speaker 2: have the potential to get Austin Reeves. So, Austin Reeves
[55:22] Speaker 2: is questionable for game four. Hey, put him out there.
[55:26] Speaker 2: Another body. Another threat. Bring him off the bench.
[55:29] Speaker 7: Yeah.
[55:30] Speaker 2: Hmm. Bron, don't fuck up the impressive run you had
[55:34] Speaker 2: with me. Listen, man.
[55:35] Speaker 8: You've been very fucking impressive so far.
[55:39] Speaker 2: Take a fucking step back.
[55:41] Speaker 3: It's going to read Bron and Bronnie got Houston out
[55:45] Speaker 3: of here in five.
[55:46] Speaker 4: All this is, right, the Lakers just doing right. All
[55:50] Speaker 4: they're doing, you know, you've been fucking up at school, right?
[55:52] Speaker 4: And your mama, hey, you know, you don't get your
[55:54] Speaker 4: ass whooped when you get home. Right, that's all this
[55:57] Speaker 4: shit is. When the second round waiting, Oklahoma City waiting
[55:59] Speaker 4: at the door with the belt.
[56:01] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what happened for sure. Don't prolong
[56:06] Speaker 2: this fucking ass-whooping. Don't have it prolonged.
[56:09] Speaker 8: You're doing everything you can before you get home, right?
[56:11] Speaker 2: Let me go around the back. Anybody in the back?
[56:14] Speaker 2: Can I go in the back? They decide to walk home.
[56:17] Speaker 2: You ain't never helped nobody knock on the neighbor door.
[56:20] Speaker 2: You see my mama? She came home. She in there.
[56:23] Speaker 2: She in there. She stomped up the stairs, too. They
[56:28] Speaker 2: slammed the door behind. Motherfucking keys. Trying to get in
[56:31] Speaker 2: that house, boy.
[56:32] Speaker 9: Yeah.
[56:32] Speaker 2: You can always run away.
[56:34] Speaker 8: You got to pack your bag. You got to go
[56:36] Speaker 8: in there and pack the bag first. You got to
[56:38] Speaker 8: go in.
[56:38] Speaker 2: She forgets and misses you. No, this shit is over, though.
[56:41] Speaker 2: The Lakers, yeah. No, the Lakers, yeah. This shit is
[56:44] Speaker 2: a wrap, man. Houston, yeah. Houston, we have a problem.
[56:48] Speaker 2: But let's talk about it because I've been concerned. The
[56:50] Speaker 2: Lakers are just playing too good, I feel like, in
[56:51] Speaker 2: the first two games. I asked how sustainable it was
[56:53] Speaker 2: last week. You guys thought it would be. Down six
[56:57] Speaker 2: with 26 seconds to go in game three. Meltdown from
[57:01] Speaker 2: the Rockets. End up winning overtime. Obviously, we're all very
[57:03] Speaker 2: excited about it. Some of us. Some were excited. Other
[57:09] Speaker 2: things we need to worry about. LeBron, eight turnovers in
[57:11] Speaker 2: back-to-back games. It was his age. He's 41 shots. Either way,
[57:15] Speaker 2: we're going to have a narrative for either way. This
[57:17] Speaker 2: game was all an age game. I mean, 41 years old.
[57:20] Speaker 2: But Lakers have had 20-plus turnovers in three of the
[57:23] Speaker 2: four games of the series. And it was up 3-0. So,
[57:29] Speaker 2: I hear you. Rockets had a franchise record 17 steals
[57:32] Speaker 2: in Game 4. I just want to know, how concerning
[57:34] Speaker 2: is the Lakers' ball security issues moving forward? It doesn't
[57:37] Speaker 2: seem sustainable to have these 20-plus turnover games. Oh, it's not.
[57:41] Speaker 4: You can't do that shit. You can't do it on
[57:43] Speaker 4: the road. You can't have that many turnovers on the
[57:45] Speaker 4: road and expect to beat anybody.
[57:47] Speaker 2: It's very concerning, though.
[57:50] Speaker 3: Because, I mean, shit, they play OKC next round.
[57:53] Speaker 2: And OKC is... We're not.
[57:54] Speaker 5: Talking about OKC. We're talking about the King, what he's
[57:58] Speaker 5: doing now.
[57:59] Speaker 2: No, they said the Lakers. The Lakers.
[58:01] Speaker 3: Turnover is concerning, yes.
[58:02] Speaker 2: For this series. I know, but I'm.
[58:04] Speaker 3: Saying, but moving forward, though, I mean, I'm just saying,
[58:08] Speaker 3: next series, OKC is like second, they're like second in turnover.
[58:11] Speaker 2: We know what that is. Turnover ratio. We know what
[58:13] Speaker 2: that is.
[58:14] Speaker 5: No, it's just like the separation LeBron's showing y'all, like
[58:16] Speaker 5: a big difference.
[58:18] Speaker 2: What's the difference?
[58:18] Speaker 5: It's a big difference in government. It's like, well, that's
[58:21] Speaker 5: all he's showing y'all with this. We ain't worried about
[58:22] Speaker 5: OKC here. There's a big difference in goatness.
[58:25] Speaker 2: Yeah. You should.
[58:26] Speaker 3: If y'all turn it over the ball like this against OKC,
[58:29] Speaker 3: y'all can't.
[58:30] Speaker 4: This is our championship. They ain't got to turn that
[58:33] Speaker 4: bitch over to it that way. This is our championship.
[58:36] Speaker 4: This is our championship. Getting out of the first round.
[58:38] Speaker 2: Versus KD. It was like LeBron versus KD. This is
[58:40] Speaker 2: our championship. Okay. So, okay.
[58:42] Speaker 1: If we're watching film, right, progressively through a series, are
[58:46] Speaker 1: we not identifying some things that we see are habits
[58:50] Speaker 1: and routine for the other team? We're seeing it was like,
[58:53] Speaker 1: all right, This was what they was doing for the
[58:55] Speaker 1: first three games.
[58:57] Speaker 2: Game four, they did this.
[58:58] Speaker 1: We came in with a game plan for what they've
[59:00] Speaker 1: been doing for the first three games.
[59:02] Speaker 2: We execute our game plan.
[59:04] Speaker 1: Going into game five, what is it that the Lakers
[59:06] Speaker 1: are going to do differently that we're going to all
[59:09] Speaker 1: of a sudden?
[59:11] Speaker 2: Change our dial? Beast mode. We see him put his
[59:15] Speaker 2: head down, get fouls, like game one. After one game,
[59:19] Speaker 2: you got to do it. They're not going to play
[59:21] Speaker 2: like that on the road. I mean, they was at home.
[59:23] Speaker 2: You think he's going to take nine shots in this game? No,
[59:26] Speaker 2: I don't.
[59:26] Speaker 1: I'm saying he can still have eight turnovers. Because the
[59:29] Speaker 1: turnovers came from him playing in the slot, him playing
[59:32] Speaker 1: in the same position he was playing in, but.
[59:34] Speaker 2: They changed their defense. Man. That was the difference to me.
[59:38] Speaker 1: So I'm saying, like, if we're watching film, I'm looking
[59:40] Speaker 1: at it like, all right, look what we did in
[59:42] Speaker 1: game four.
[59:43] Speaker 2: Look what we did in game two, three.
[59:45] Speaker 1: We need to play more like game four for us
[59:47] Speaker 1: to have a chance to win. Because they're not bringing
[59:50] Speaker 1: in anybody different.
[59:51] Speaker 2: That's going to change. Austin Reese. Austin Reese. That's going
[59:54] Speaker 2: to change the detriment of how we play defense. Austin Reese.
[59:57] Speaker 2: Austin Reese. Austin Reese is Luke Canard. Same guy.
[1:00:00] Speaker 3: Same guy. One of them got to sit down. One
[1:00:04] Speaker 3: of them got to sit down.
[1:00:05] Speaker 2: Another 20 points. But if we do what we're supposed
[1:00:07] Speaker 2: to do, it's up to.
[1:00:09] Speaker 8: Them to make shots. They can't shoot 22 from three.
[1:00:12] Speaker 2: They won't. They won't. The Browns won it here. The
[1:00:16] Speaker 2: Browns took nine stops. That's why they got the answer.
[1:00:19] Speaker 2: They had that thing in park, man. What is it?
[1:00:21] Speaker 2: They did what they had to do.
[1:00:22] Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
[1:00:22] Speaker 2: Lakers in five. Hey, they went and got one, man.
[1:00:25] Speaker 2: Turn over. Ain't nothing going to watch.
[1:00:27] Speaker 5: Watch.
[1:00:27] Speaker 2: Game five. And you got game three, too. So, hey, listen.
[1:00:30] Speaker 4: And we fucking around and get game four. But we
[1:00:33] Speaker 4: got one.
[1:00:34] Speaker 2: Yeah. Go home.
[1:00:37] Speaker 8: The Lakers went up because they was doubling that shit
[1:00:39] Speaker 8: at the top of the key.
[1:00:40] Speaker 2: Yeah, Lakers in five.
[1:00:41] Speaker 1: Like they was guarding KD. KD mucking it up. KD
[1:00:45] Speaker 1: set his ass down. It came close to winning game three, right?
[1:00:48] Speaker 1: Did they not come close to winning game three? They
[1:00:50] Speaker 1: should have won game three.
[1:00:51] Speaker 2: Why?
[1:00:52] Speaker 1: Because KD was not bringing the ball up. They wasn't doubling.
[1:00:56] Speaker 1: That was the Lakers scheme for them. The Lakers feel
[1:00:58] Speaker 1: like they had a scheme specifically for the Rockets for KD.
[1:01:02] Speaker 2: Game two. We're going to show y'all.
[1:01:04] Speaker 1: Game one was the first game where they're like, we
[1:01:06] Speaker 1: don't know what we're going to do without KD. So
[1:01:08] Speaker 1: game three come, we got a chance to beat these dudes.
[1:01:11] Speaker 1: On our own, we fucked that up.
[1:01:13] Speaker 5: So you betting against the Lakers this time? You want
[1:01:15] Speaker 5: to bet against them? Since you're saying all this, let's
[1:01:17] Speaker 5: just bet.
[1:01:17] Speaker 2: I'm waiting till the end. I got enough time. You
[1:01:19] Speaker 2: can't wait till the end. I got an hour. I
[1:01:21] Speaker 2: got an hour to think about it. Let me think
[1:01:23] Speaker 2: about it. Okay. I got an hour to think about it.
[1:01:27] Speaker 2: Until then. Lakers may get Austin Reeves back. Durant could
[1:01:31] Speaker 2: miss the remainder of the series while dealing with that
[1:01:33] Speaker 2: home run. Oh, he ain't coming back. You don't think so? Nah.
[1:01:37] Speaker 2: There was talk about, I think Damon Miniman had a
[1:01:40] Speaker 2: report that the other Rockets players didn't really know what
[1:01:42] Speaker 2: was going on with KD. People tried to make a
[1:01:45] Speaker 2: big deal about it. He showed up for the game high.
[1:01:49] Speaker 2: How aware are you of other teammates and what they
[1:01:51] Speaker 2: have going on with their injury situations throughout the course
[1:01:54] Speaker 2: of a season or in a playoff series? Motherfucker like him,
[1:01:57] Speaker 2: I need to know if he playing or not. We
[1:01:58] Speaker 2: need to see him walking in and getting treatment and
[1:02:00] Speaker 2: holding up. Yeah, I need to see if he playing. Hey, man,
[1:02:01] Speaker 2: Thomas was like, I don't know, honestly, what's going on
[1:02:03] Speaker 2: with him, but shit. Yeah, if you're playing or not. Yeah,
[1:02:06] Speaker 2: that's all. Game two. He came in, he was like, nah. Nah,
[1:02:12] Speaker 2: this ain't it. We ain't got a chance. With me
[1:02:15] Speaker 2: or without me. Waving bye to Aiden after he got ejected.
[1:02:20] Speaker 2: In street clubs. I did see that. Interesting. Hey, man,
[1:02:24] Speaker 2: look at that. Was that an ejection, though, shitty I got? Swaggy,
[1:02:28] Speaker 2: we'll talk about it in a second. You know, we
[1:02:29] Speaker 2: cover all these topics. That was weak right there. Here
[1:02:31] Speaker 2: in Gills Arena presented by Underdog. Woo-woo. Woo-woo. 159 teams
[1:02:34] Speaker 2: have been down, 3-0 in the NBA playoffs, exactly zero
[1:02:37] Speaker 2: of them have come back to win the series. But
[1:02:39] Speaker 2: as you look at this, do the Rockets have any
[1:02:41] Speaker 2: hope of turning this series around? Nope. Go ahead. I
[1:02:47] Speaker 2: asked that question for a reason. Go ahead and say it.
[1:02:49] Speaker 2: You know where hope is. It's hope. Dancing for dollars.
[1:02:55] Speaker 2: The Barbary Cup. I'm talking about Hope dancing for dollars, man.
[1:02:59] Speaker 2: I mean, they're down 3-1. Hope and Chance.
[1:03:02] Speaker 3: I mean, 13 teams have came back from a down 3-1. So,
[1:03:05] Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know. It would be bad for
[1:03:08] Speaker 3: the storyline, I.
[1:03:09] Speaker 2: Tell you that. Oh, that'll be crazy.
[1:03:12] Speaker 1: That'll be very, very bad for the storyline. Let me
[1:03:17] Speaker 1: tell you how bad that is for the storyline.
[1:03:19] Speaker 8: If you get your ass put out by the Houston
[1:03:23] Speaker 8: Rockets with no KD.
[1:03:26] Speaker 2: Watch out, my man. With no Luka and no Austin Reeves? Like,
[1:03:28] Speaker 2: you got to move out of town, like, to New Mexico.
[1:03:30] Speaker 2: He ain't even supposed to be a 3-0, so don't
[1:03:32] Speaker 2: say that. You can't even say that. It don't matter
[1:03:35] Speaker 2: who's on.
[1:03:36] Speaker 8: With KD, you're not supposed to be a 3 with KD.
[1:03:39] Speaker 2: Smart, smart. LeBron James, the big fella beating on their
[1:03:43] Speaker 2: ass right now. That team ain't supposed to win. It's not.
[1:03:45] Speaker 2: It's not. But they're there. All right? So now if
[1:03:47] Speaker 2: you lose it all. They're not going to lose it all.
[1:03:50] Speaker 2: That's crazy. Y'all saying crazy. Hope and if. It's crazy
[1:03:53] Speaker 2: right now. Do they have a chance? No. No. I
[1:03:57] Speaker 2: think this is over.
[1:03:58] Speaker 3: I think this is over in five, and I think
[1:04:01] Speaker 3: they get back to the drawing board in the summertime
[1:04:03] Speaker 3: and move KD.
[1:04:03] Speaker 2: We got a chance. We always got a chance. We
[1:04:08] Speaker 2: always got a chance. No, I just don't think he
[1:04:11] Speaker 2: fits there.
[1:04:12] Speaker 5: He don't want to be there anymore.
[1:04:14] Speaker 2: He done after this year. He's done after this year.
[1:04:17] Speaker 3: I mean, unless they can get somebody to come in, but.
[1:04:19] Speaker 2: Yeah. Again. Yeah.
[1:04:22] Speaker 4: Well, I said the same shit about James, so I
[1:04:24] Speaker 4: was wrong there.
[1:04:25] Speaker 2: Well, I said it at the beginning of the season.
[1:04:27] Speaker 2: I said if he don't win.
[1:04:27] Speaker 4: I thought the Clippers was James' last stop. So I
[1:04:31] Speaker 4: was wrong with that one, and I thought Houston would be.
[1:04:34] Speaker 4: But if y'all saying, I don't.
[1:04:37] Speaker 5: I mean, I'm just saying. He don't have to be
[1:04:40] Speaker 5: the leader at any one of them teams.
[1:04:42] Speaker 3: Listen, I'm telling you, if they have Denver Brooks and Green,
[1:04:45] Speaker 3: this series looks different.
[1:04:46] Speaker 2: All right, so let's talk about that Aiden situation. A
[1:04:50] Speaker 2: questionable moment in the game. With Aiden and Shang-Goon. Let's
[1:04:53] Speaker 2: take a look at that video, if we can, please.
[1:04:55] Speaker 2: My good man Aiden. Aiden was ejected from the game
[1:04:58] Speaker 2: after hitting Shang-Goon in the head with his left forearm.
[1:05:00] Speaker 2: Replays make it look a little bit more damn. Shit.
[1:05:03] Speaker 2: What the heck? Played a curve midway through the third
[1:05:05] Speaker 2: quarter with the Rockets up 19. I slipped, though. I
[1:05:09] Speaker 2: slipped off his shoulder. You see Gucci Ref. James Williams
[1:05:14] Speaker 2: right there. Gucci Ref. His name is Gucci Ref. Adu
[1:05:19] Speaker 2: Thiro also ejected. later in the game for no apparent reason.
[1:05:24] Speaker 2: So after the game, Aiden and Imei Adoka had this
[1:05:27] Speaker 2: reaction to the flagrant two. You know, I was just
[1:05:29] Speaker 2: playing hard and my elbow slipped up and got him
[1:05:34] Speaker 2: above the shoulders and it looked crazy on camera.
[1:05:37] Speaker 3: The outcome of what the results were, You know, I
[1:05:40] Speaker 3: accept it, but it definitely wasn't intentional.
[1:05:43] Speaker 2: I don't play like that. Is that true that's your
[1:05:45] Speaker 2: first ejection? Yeah, I think so. It is my first ejection.
[1:05:48] Speaker 2: I've never, yeah, there you go. It's my first one.
[1:05:51] Speaker 2: I mean, it looked intentional, you know, but I was surprised.
[1:05:57] Speaker 8: But that's the NBA nowadays, and they call it a
[1:05:59] Speaker 8: little softer than they used to.
[1:06:03] Speaker 2: Call it a little softer than they used to. Shankoon
[1:06:05] Speaker 2: also didn't think it should have been a flagrant, too.
[1:06:08] Speaker 2: But let me ask you. In our expert panel, did
[1:06:11] Speaker 2: DeAndre Ayton deserve a flag or two for that play
[1:06:14] Speaker 2: on Shang-Goon? Nope. Nope. Nah. Hell no. That was weak.
[1:06:20] Speaker 2: Contact of the head or neck area. He slipped. Sweaty. And, like,
[1:06:26] Speaker 2: from his track, he's not even that type of player.
[1:06:28] Speaker 2: You see how he was looking?
[1:06:32] Speaker 5: The NBA wanted Houston to win that game anyway.
[1:06:36] Speaker 2: Yo, J.C. Cutts is here, man. He's a fan of
[1:06:38] Speaker 2: the show. Our resident barber, J.C. I mess with Aiden.
[1:06:43] Speaker 2: Aiden has been playing much better. Ever since J.C. went
[1:06:46] Speaker 2: over there and cut his hair. I'm telling you, Aiden, J.C.
[1:06:49] Speaker 2: lined you up. You straight. Well, the lineup was crooked. J.C. go,
[1:06:59] Speaker 2: all right. That's where that jump shot was left. Head tilt.
[1:07:06] Speaker 2: Take the picture, nigga. I got my seat, right? Go ahead,
[1:07:10] Speaker 2: take a picture. All right. All right. All right. You
[1:07:21] Speaker 2: may have a cricket lineup in the near future. Oh, man. God.
[1:07:25] Speaker 2: He just sprayed black in his ship. He just sprayed
[1:07:28] Speaker 2: black anyway. So he ain't even lining me up. I'm
[1:07:33] Speaker 2: fucking with J.C. I'm fucking with you. I'm fucking with you.
[1:07:36] Speaker 2: You do be spraying that black, though. What?
[1:07:40] Speaker 3: I was like, bro, I'm not losing it. I got
[1:07:42] Speaker 3: tattoo in my head. Like, nigga, I don't need all
[1:07:44] Speaker 3: that black shit. Spraying all that black shit, start sweating.
[1:07:48] Speaker 2: Conversation about Aiden's flagrant two quickly turned crooked lineups and
[1:07:53] Speaker 2: spraying black shit in the hair. Okay. All right, well,
[1:07:56] Speaker 2: let's keep this thing moving. Let's stay in the West
[1:08:00] Speaker 2: where the Blazers tricked off a golden opportunity to take
[1:08:02] Speaker 2: control of their series against the Spurs in game three
[1:08:05] Speaker 2: after blowing a double-digit lead to a Spurs team that
[1:08:08] Speaker 2: was without Victor Wimbinyama, also known as Victor Wamba Wamba
[1:08:12] Speaker 2: here in the arena. San Antonio got some good news
[1:08:14] Speaker 2: an hour before game four's tip-off when Wimby cleared the
[1:08:18] Speaker 2: league's concussion protocol, was available to play. So San Antonio
[1:08:21] Speaker 2: found themselves in familiar territory in the first half as
[1:08:23] Speaker 2: the Blazers took a 17-point lead into the break. And
[1:08:26] Speaker 2: much like game three, the Blazers proceeded to trick off
[1:08:29] Speaker 2: that double-digit lead with another epic meltdown on their home court.
[1:08:33] Speaker 2: Let's look at the highlights if we can, please. Spurs
[1:08:37] Speaker 2: opened the second half with a 13-0 run to cut
[1:08:41] Speaker 2: the deficit to four. Did not look back from there.
[1:08:44] Speaker 2: They outscored the Blazers 73-35 in the final two quarters
[1:08:50] Speaker 2: of the game. Wimby stuffed the stat sheet with 27 points,
[1:08:53] Speaker 2: 11 rebounds, 7 blocks, and 4 steals. Wimby became the
[1:08:57] Speaker 2: first player with at least 25 points and 5 blocks.
[1:08:59] Speaker 2: in his first career postseason road game. De'Aaron Fox had
[1:09:03] Speaker 2: a game-high 28 points, including 18 in the second half,
[1:09:07] Speaker 2: along with 7 assists and 6 rebounds. And Stephon Castle
[1:09:10] Speaker 2: followed up his 33th performance in Game 3 with 16
[1:09:13] Speaker 2: and 8 dimes while playing through a left-hand injury. Blazers
[1:09:17] Speaker 2: turned the ball over 18 times which led to 28
[1:09:19] Speaker 2: points for the Spurs. San Antonio plus 14 in points
[1:09:24] Speaker 2: in the paint. Portland also held 32% from three, and
[1:09:28] Speaker 2: they were three of 15 from distance in the second half.
[1:09:31] Speaker 2: So the series now heads back to San Antonio. With
[1:09:35] Speaker 2: the Spurs up 3-1. Man. Man. Damn. Y'all want to
[1:09:40] Speaker 2: trade that? Take his ass. Y'all. That was a trial. Whoa.
[1:09:46] Speaker 2: Also situated against the podcast. Danny Avdia. Wait, wait, wait.
[1:09:49] Speaker 2: It's just boiling over. Did he punch him? Oh. No.
[1:09:54] Speaker 2: Danny Avdia. Not feeling it. Put that ball in his chest.
[1:09:59] Speaker 2: Blazers fans, still no playoff picture. Did he slap him
[1:10:01] Speaker 2: after that? No, he pushed him. Oh. Still, no playoff
[1:10:07] Speaker 2: t-shirts in Portland with their frugal ownership.
[1:10:10] Speaker 5: Man, you seen that? That make them check out. Two-way
[1:10:14] Speaker 5: players actually got to.
[1:10:15] Speaker 2: Travel, though. No late checkouts is crazy. Be out that
[1:10:18] Speaker 2: room at 11 a.m. No late checkouts. Don't even ask
[1:10:20] Speaker 2: for them. I got to call E-Dub and see if
[1:10:21] Speaker 2: he still got a job with Portland. You know, he
[1:10:23] Speaker 2: cutting the chefs. He said, not too many chefs. I
[1:10:26] Speaker 2: got to see if my boy E-Dub's still over there. Damn.
[1:10:29] Speaker 2: Go to Burger King, hit the value mill. Swaggy, what
[1:10:31] Speaker 2: did the Spurs show you in their game? or win
[1:10:34] Speaker 2: over the Blazers? I don't know.
[1:10:39] Speaker 5: I haven't really been. This year is pretty boring to me.
[1:10:43] Speaker 5: Wimby's going to do what he's going to do. I
[1:10:45] Speaker 5: like the fact that they stepped up to the plate
[1:10:49] Speaker 5: without Wimby in game two, but they just overmatched. Portland's
[1:10:55] Speaker 5: just overmatched. They got too much firepower with Fox, Wimby, Cassell, Munguyser.
[1:11:04] Speaker 5: Looking like they're ready, for sure. And you gotta give
[1:11:07] Speaker 5: them credit at what they're doing. Being young, first time
[1:11:11] Speaker 5: in the playoffs. They don't look like that right now.
[1:11:14] Speaker 5: They look like they stepped up to every challenge. They've
[1:11:16] Speaker 5: been down for one half and coming back and not
[1:11:20] Speaker 5: folding under pressure.
[1:11:21] Speaker 2: So they're looking good. There's nothing that you can really say.
[1:11:26] Speaker 5: It's just like the OKC Suns series to me.
[1:11:32] Speaker 2: A little different than that. I think Blazers had double-digit
[1:11:36] Speaker 2: leads in these past two games at the crib. Tricked
[1:11:42] Speaker 2: them both off. But let's shift over to Cy Kenyon.
[1:11:46] Speaker 2: What did the Spurs show you in their game for
[1:11:47] Speaker 2: a win over the Blazers? The elite defensive team.
[1:11:53] Speaker 4: With Wimby out there as well as without, but with
[1:11:57] Speaker 4: him they are a different monster. Um, To be down
[1:12:02] Speaker 4: the way they were and fight back and claw on
[1:12:07] Speaker 4: the defensive end and put themselves in position, man. One
[1:12:14] Speaker 4: of the largest comebacks in playoff history to be down
[1:12:18] Speaker 4: 15-plus and win by 15-plus. That doesn't happen in playoff basketball.
[1:12:25] Speaker 4: That's not something that we've seen a lot of. But nah, they,
[1:12:33] Speaker 4: Antonio's a good team, man. And so, man, you remember,
[1:12:40] Speaker 4: was it game, what school they had, 31? He said
[1:12:42] Speaker 4: he woke up and, he said when he woke up.
[1:12:45] Speaker 2: Game two. Game. He brushed his teeth, yeah.
[1:12:47] Speaker 4: Yeah, he said when he brushed his teeth. So what's
[1:12:49] Speaker 4: going on with them?
[1:12:50] Speaker 2: Like, you know. May not, may not. Mouthwashing it. Mouthwashing it.
[1:12:56] Speaker 2: That's funny. He ain't brushing them shits. He said, my
[1:12:59] Speaker 2: shit's still clean from the other day. That's funny. Always
[1:13:04] Speaker 2: brush it. Do not.
[1:13:05] Speaker 8: You can't just mouthwash it. Do not just mouthwash it.
[1:13:07] Speaker 8: You can't just mouthwash it.
[1:13:08] Speaker 2: It may feel fresh. It feels fresh.
[1:13:11] Speaker 5: Are you talking about school?
[1:13:13] Speaker 2: Yeah, school.
[1:13:13] Speaker 4: Because the reporter asked him, the game he had at 31,
[1:13:16] Speaker 4: he asked him, when did you know you was going
[1:13:18] Speaker 4: to have a good game? He said, when I woke up.
[1:13:19] Speaker 4: And be more specific. He said, well... What did you
[1:13:23] Speaker 4: do when you went through? Like, I brushed my teeth.
[1:13:26] Speaker 4: Then I thought about it. Then I washed my face,
[1:13:28] Speaker 4: and then I thought about it.
[1:13:30] Speaker 2: 31 in game two, 21 in game three. Zero. In
[1:13:36] Speaker 2: game four and 27 minutes. Shit.
[1:13:39] Speaker 1: For game three, Wimby didn't play. So that was a
[1:13:43] Speaker 1: game they were supposed to rally.
[1:13:46] Speaker 2: In game two, Wimby? He got hurt. Yeah, but... Nah, man,
[1:13:50] Speaker 2: you just gotta.
[1:13:52] Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just statements like that you got to be like, no,
[1:13:56] Speaker 4: you should wake up energized and ready to play. The
[1:13:59] Speaker 4: point I was making, so the thing, the point I
[1:14:01] Speaker 4: was making the other day when I was talking about it,
[1:14:04] Speaker 4: you should wake up all the time and feel like
[1:14:06] Speaker 4: it's going to be a good day and a good
[1:14:07] Speaker 4: day in.
[1:14:08] Speaker 2: The office, right? It shouldn't be because you had 31. Yep. Right?
[1:14:13] Speaker 4: Like, you should feel that way every day you get
[1:14:15] Speaker 4: up and be happy and energized to be able to
[1:14:18] Speaker 4: do this.
[1:14:18] Speaker 2: And, right? So that's the point I was making. But... Yeah, no,
[1:14:23] Speaker 2: this series is over. Yeah.
[1:14:28] Speaker 4: It's going, yeah, in dramatic fashion. I don't think it's
[1:14:31] Speaker 4: going to be close.
[1:14:33] Speaker 2: They play tonight. Yeah, I don't think it's going to
[1:14:35] Speaker 2: be close.
[1:14:36] Speaker 4: And, I mean, Wimby has proven that he can play
[1:14:40] Speaker 4: 35 plus minutes a night.
[1:14:42] Speaker 2: So, with that, it's, yeah. Trying to mess up my
[1:14:46] Speaker 2: little introduction. Well, what I'm saying. Wimby is very, very good.
[1:14:51] Speaker 2: He is.
[1:14:52] Speaker 1: But I really like the dynamic of a team being
[1:14:56] Speaker 1: able to go and play playoff basketball for the first
[1:15:00] Speaker 1: time and handle adversity being down 15.
[1:15:05] Speaker 2: Right.
[1:15:05] Speaker 1: To be able to turn it around the type of
[1:15:08] Speaker 1: poise you have to have, because this is what I
[1:15:12] Speaker 1: love about the game is when it's a game of
[1:15:14] Speaker 1: runs and you have to overcome the fact that you're
[1:15:18] Speaker 1: down and you're looking at the scoreboard and you're like.
[1:15:20] Speaker 8: Damn, we down 15. It's just the first half. We
[1:15:23] Speaker 8: got enough time.
[1:15:24] Speaker 1: But it's like you have to have everybody in cohesion
[1:15:28] Speaker 1: to understand that this is a game of runs. We
[1:15:30] Speaker 1: got plenty of time to get back in the game.
[1:15:32] Speaker 1: One stop at a time. One stop at a time. Now,
[1:15:35] Speaker 1: when you don't have a defensive stopper that can actually
[1:15:37] Speaker 1: help you get those stops like Wimby does, it's harder
[1:15:41] Speaker 1: to believe in the comeback. And I think that was
[1:15:44] Speaker 1: kind of the difference with the Warriors when they were winning.
[1:15:49] Speaker 1: they knew that their cohesive defense could get stops and
[1:15:52] Speaker 1: they can go down and score quickly. And I think
[1:15:55] Speaker 1: this is the same type of dynamic but with a
[1:15:57] Speaker 1: bigger defender and not as much cohesion as the Warriors
[1:16:01] Speaker 1: had because I think they just all knew how to
[1:16:04] Speaker 1: play together and they all was very savvy. But this
[1:16:07] Speaker 1: one is more athletic, more attention to detail, and you
[1:16:11] Speaker 1: got a rim protector and a rebounder that can go
[1:16:14] Speaker 1: out there and say, listen, all we need to do
[1:16:16] Speaker 1: is get a stop. And we're going to come down
[1:16:18] Speaker 1: on the other end. We're either going to attack. We're
[1:16:20] Speaker 1: going to hit our threes. We're going to hit our
[1:16:21] Speaker 1: free throws. We're going to go to offensive glass. We're
[1:16:24] Speaker 1: going to drive. Like, I love that dynamic as a team.
[1:16:28] Speaker 2: And it.
[1:16:29] Speaker 1: Helps you not have to worry about being down. I
[1:16:33] Speaker 1: think that's the best part about the Spurs. And what
[1:16:35] Speaker 1: I love about the MVP, Victor Wimbanyana, is that he
[1:16:39] Speaker 1: does it on both ends. And You can't count him
[1:16:41] Speaker 1: out because you don't know if he's going to have
[1:16:43] Speaker 1: an on night on the three point.
[1:16:45] Speaker 2: You don't know if he's going to be driving.
[1:16:46] Speaker 1: Anytime he dives to the basket on a pick and roll,
[1:16:49] Speaker 1: it's a lob. That's the most serious lob threat in
[1:16:52] Speaker 1: the league right now. And you got willing passes and
[1:16:55] Speaker 1: Fox and Castle. Then you got guys that can hit
[1:16:58] Speaker 1: threes with Barnes and Champagny and Vassell.
[1:17:03] Speaker 2: You got a dynamic that I love.
[1:17:05] Speaker 1: And, you know, being down, it's cool for Portland, but
[1:17:08] Speaker 1: The next series, you're going to have to tighten up,
[1:17:10] Speaker 1: and you can't really give up those discrepancies in a
[1:17:14] Speaker 1: close game, in a close series, in the next round.
[1:17:17] Speaker 1: So everything that I see with the Spurs is exactly
[1:17:19] Speaker 1: what I predicted.
[1:17:23] Speaker 2: If the Spurs do advance, they'd see the winner of
[1:17:25] Speaker 2: the Wolf Nuggets series. But let's shift over to you, Mr. B.
[1:17:30] Speaker 2: Reactions to the Spurs taking game four. Wimby getting cleared
[1:17:33] Speaker 2: of concussion protocol coming through, dropping 27, seven blocks, four steals. Yeah.
[1:17:39] Speaker 3: I mean, first time, you know, the Spurs are in
[1:17:42] Speaker 3: the playoffs. They're showing it, you know, the whole year
[1:17:46] Speaker 3: that they've been having. But, man, shout out to Darren
[1:17:49] Speaker 3: Fox for the game that he had, you know, on
[1:17:53] Speaker 3: the road, being able to hit shots and being able to,
[1:17:56] Speaker 3: you know, do what he do. But I'm excited for
[1:17:59] Speaker 3: the Spurs, man. I want to see what they do
[1:18:01] Speaker 3: next year because this year is over. But, you know,
[1:18:03] Speaker 3: Portland is still on the up and up, though, you know.
[1:18:07] Speaker 3: You know, I'm curious to see what Portland does from
[1:18:09] Speaker 3: here on out because they got some talent over there.
[1:18:11] Speaker 3: They got some guys and stuff like that. But, you know,
[1:18:14] Speaker 3: just a bad matchup, you know, going against Wimby and
[1:18:17] Speaker 3: the Spurs right now. So, yeah, man, you know, Spurs
[1:18:20] Speaker 3: are going to get a lot of rest and they'll
[1:18:22] Speaker 3: be because they're going to need it for that next
[1:18:25] Speaker 3: one because that burping baby is over there and he's coming.
[1:18:31] Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. They will be playing San Antonio. Spurs, if
[1:18:35] Speaker 2: you do advance, you'd rather see what the timber was
[1:18:38] Speaker 2: right now. Hell yeah. San Antonio, hope Minnesota get it done. Yeah,
[1:18:47] Speaker 2: they better hope. Short-handed. Well, we know where hope works, actually. game.
[1:18:50] Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Short-handed, though. Well, yeah. Yeah,
[1:18:54] Speaker 2: they short-handed.
[1:18:55] Speaker 4: Yeah, anybody, you would want to play Minnesota right now.
[1:18:58] Speaker 2: Unfortunate. Let's end the second round.
[1:19:01] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[1:19:02] Speaker 2: Where you can rest or something. Let's talk a little,
[1:19:05] Speaker 2: Darren Fox, quickly. Spurs move Wimby off the ball second half,
[1:19:09] Speaker 2: capitalize on defensive mismatches as the Blazers struggled to adjust.
[1:19:13] Speaker 2: So when they tried to go back to putting Drew
[1:19:15] Speaker 2: Holiday on Wimby, De'Aaron Fox got to cooking with his
[1:19:18] Speaker 2: best game of the series. De'Aaron Fox scored 18 of
[1:19:21] Speaker 2: his game-high 28 points in the second half, including 11
[1:19:24] Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter. So shot is this De'Aaron Fox,
[1:19:27] Speaker 2: the one the Spurs need if they want to go
[1:19:29] Speaker 2: deep in the playoff. Yes, absolutely. Best game of the series. Absolutely.
[1:19:33] Speaker 1: He's aggressive. He was attentive. He was being a leader.
[1:19:37] Speaker 1: He knew that the mismatches were going to go in
[1:19:40] Speaker 1: his favor. And every time I see them play, I
[1:19:43] Speaker 1: always say none of those guys can afford to have
[1:19:45] Speaker 1: a bad game.
[1:19:46] Speaker 8: They all got to play solid for them to win.
[1:19:48] Speaker 8: So I think with De'Aaron Fox.
[1:19:50] Speaker 1: Being the leader of the team and really leading by example,
[1:19:55] Speaker 1: he has to go out there and he has to
[1:19:57] Speaker 1: assert his will.
[1:19:58] Speaker 8: He has to play early. He has to get to
[1:20:00] Speaker 8: the line. He has to get to his shots.
[1:20:02] Speaker 1: I think when he does play bad, it's because he's
[1:20:05] Speaker 1: trying to see what everyone else is going to do.
[1:20:07] Speaker 1: He doesn't really set the tone. And that's even going
[1:20:10] Speaker 1: to Wimby's Credit and discredit because they actually look for
[1:20:15] Speaker 1: him to set the tone. But I think it's the
[1:20:17] Speaker 1: point guard that sets the tone, whether it's the aggressive downhill,
[1:20:19] Speaker 1: coming around, the picking rows, turning the corners, getting guys
[1:20:24] Speaker 1: in great shooting positions.
[1:20:26] Speaker 2: And it starts with him.
[1:20:28] Speaker 1: So I think this particular game, he set the tone.
[1:20:33] Speaker 1: And Drew Holiday had to make a decision. Who are
[1:20:35] Speaker 1: you going to go? Come over here. I'm going to
[1:20:37] Speaker 1: cook him. He don't know how to guard me. You're
[1:20:38] Speaker 1: the only guy that knows how to guard me. And
[1:20:40] Speaker 1: you can't go guard me and Wimby at the same time.
[1:20:42] Speaker 1: So I think it's in there with Drew Holiday trying
[1:20:47] Speaker 1: to figure that out. But De'Aaron Fox showed up, and
[1:20:49] Speaker 1: I think he's going to continue to show up throughout
[1:20:50] Speaker 1: the playoffs if he keeps his energy.
[1:20:53] Speaker 2: For Mr. B, is this the version of De'Aaron Fox
[1:20:57] Speaker 2: that the Spurs need if they want to try to
[1:20:58] Speaker 2: make a D playoff run? Yeah, clutch.
[1:21:01] Speaker 3: You need clutch De'Aaron Fox because there's going to be
[1:21:03] Speaker 3: times in this next series going up that you're going
[1:21:06] Speaker 3: to need him. A lot because, you know, he's the
[1:21:08] Speaker 3: only one with, well, him and Harrison Barnes, the only
[1:21:11] Speaker 3: one with playoff experience. So, you know, this is his
[1:21:15] Speaker 3: coming out party. And he's with a great group of
[1:21:18] Speaker 3: young core right now that's very hungry. So, yeah, the
[1:21:22] Speaker 3: time is now for him to take that next leap.
[1:21:24] Speaker 2: Harrison Barnes, very limited minutes in this postseason. But you're
[1:21:29] Speaker 2: seeing guys like Stephon Castle step up, guys like Dylan Harper. Harper, yeah.
[1:21:32] Speaker 2: I'm right, I think, what, 22 in the second half.
[1:21:35] Speaker 2: In that game, three wins, scored 27 in that game. Yeah.
[1:21:39] Speaker 2: Was going at the Blazers as a young buck. But
[1:21:42] Speaker 2: back to De'Aaron Fox. Why is this the De'Aaron Fox
[1:21:44] Speaker 2: that the Spurs need?
[1:21:45] Speaker 5: Yeah, and just the fact that you can hear all
[1:21:49] Speaker 5: the noise and people saying.
[1:21:52] Speaker 2: This and that.
[1:21:53] Speaker 5: You never really feel appreciated. And you still go out
[1:21:57] Speaker 5: there and play the game and ball. And that's the
[1:22:02] Speaker 5: Fox they need because now he– Before that, he'd been
[1:22:04] Speaker 5: trying to change his game to fit what people think
[1:22:08] Speaker 5: the Spurs need. And he let Wimby does everything. He's
[1:22:12] Speaker 5: passed the ball too much. But when he gets into
[1:22:15] Speaker 5: being Fox, I think that's when they're the best.
[1:22:17] Speaker 2: They're scarier.
[1:22:20] Speaker 5: And if he continues to keep that same flow of confidence,
[1:22:23] Speaker 5: the Spurs are going to be tough, man. Because he
[1:22:27] Speaker 5: is a closer. He is a superstar in this league.
[1:22:31] Speaker 5: And He just don't get the treatment, I feel like.
[1:22:35] Speaker 2: Jared Fox, superstar. Superstar. The superstar in his league. Like, super. Hey,
[1:22:44] Speaker 2: I see you looking at Swaggy. It's crazy. You don't agree?
[1:22:48] Speaker 2: He's a superstar? Like, man, we just talked about this
[1:22:51] Speaker 2: shit the other day. He's a star. A superstar is like...
[1:22:55] Speaker 2: What you think a superstar is like? LeBron? He's not
[1:22:57] Speaker 2: like LeBron or nothing. No, but he's on that level.
[1:23:00] Speaker 2: On what level? No, no, no. So it's either you're
[1:23:04] Speaker 2: a superstar.
[1:23:05] Speaker 4: He's an all-star.
[1:23:07] Speaker 2: Okay.
[1:23:08] Speaker 3: He's not a superstar. It's not the same thing. We
[1:23:11] Speaker 3: just had this conversation the other day. You guys just
[1:23:14] Speaker 3: said Devin Booker is on the same level as SGA.
[1:23:16] Speaker 2: Yeah. As a superstar. No, it's not. How? Because they're talented.
[1:23:21] Speaker 1: We're not talking, I'm never talking about the accomplishments and
[1:23:25] Speaker 1: all of that.
[1:23:25] Speaker 2: No, that makes you a superstar. That makes you a superstar.
[1:23:28] Speaker 2: You become an all-star. That don't mean you're a superstar.
[1:23:31] Speaker 1: I know that, but I'm saying the fact that De'Aaron Fox,
[1:23:34] Speaker 1: they picked him over Luka, right? They picked him because
[1:23:38] Speaker 1: he had the potential to be.
[1:23:40] Speaker 2: It's the potential. No, because he's perfect. He's a better fit.
[1:23:43] Speaker 2: He's a superstar guard. He's a superstar guard in the league. No,
[1:23:49] Speaker 2: a superstar? That's like saying Donovan Mitchell, not a superstar.
[1:23:52] Speaker 2: He's not a superstar. Donovan Mitchell is a superstar. Donovan
[1:23:55] Speaker 2: Mitchell's not a superstar. For sure. For sure. SJ's a superstar, right?
[1:24:03] Speaker 2: He's a megastar.
[1:24:04] Speaker 8: He's a megastar. SJ is now a megastar. I think
[1:24:06] Speaker 8: he's been there. He's been there. He's an MVP in
[1:24:09] Speaker 8: the league. Like, Joker's a megastar. There's Giannis. These are
[1:24:13] Speaker 8: guys that.
[1:24:14] Speaker 2: You look at. So it's megastar, superstar, then all-star. Then all-star.
[1:24:19] Speaker 2: So where does De'Aaron Fox fit in that? We just
[1:24:21] Speaker 2: said superstar. He's a second level. No, he's not. Oh, damn. No,
[1:24:26] Speaker 2: he's not. So him and Booker not on the same level? No,
[1:24:29] Speaker 2: Devin Booker. Booker is bigger. No, Devin Booker. Booker is bigger. Yes.
[1:24:33] Speaker 2: He's a bigger star than Devin. Yes. Why? Why? Yeah. Why?
[1:24:37] Speaker 2: For all of it. For everything. Signature shoot. Hold on.
[1:24:40] Speaker 2: For what do you got a signature shoot? For one,
[1:24:42] Speaker 2: he has a signature shoe.
[1:24:43] Speaker 1: For one, he has a signature shoe. Austin Reeves has
[1:24:47] Speaker 1: an Austin. So does Clay Thompson.
[1:24:48] Speaker 2: With who? With Nike? With who, Thompson? With Nike? With Nike? No.
[1:24:52] Speaker 2: With Nike? Tyrese Maxey has a signature shoe. With Nike? No.
[1:24:55] Speaker 2: With Nike? Tyrese, no. They got signature shoes? No. We're
[1:24:59] Speaker 2: talking about Nike. Like, bro, Nike's not just dipping. First
[1:25:02] Speaker 2: of all, if you get a signature shoe. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
[1:25:05] Speaker 2: Ain't nobody going to... Whoa, listen.
[1:25:08] Speaker 1: Ain't nobody going to Foot Locker and be like, yo,
[1:25:10] Speaker 1: let me get some Tyrese Mack.
[1:25:11] Speaker 2: Is PG a superstar? Yes. Yes. Ain't nobody... What you mean?
[1:25:16] Speaker 2: He has a signature... If you have a signature shoe
[1:25:19] Speaker 2: at Nike... You know how big you are? De'Aaron Fox
[1:25:21] Speaker 2: has a signature shoe with Under Armour, Brandon. With Curry Brand.
[1:25:27] Speaker 4: So what store can you go to besides an Under
[1:25:30] Speaker 4: Armour store and get De'Aaron Fox's shoes?
[1:25:33] Speaker 2: You know I'm a fan of the Outlet store. I'm
[1:25:35] Speaker 2: saying it's an underarm outlet. And we're not saying Aaron
[1:25:38] Speaker 2: Fox isn't good, but.
[1:25:39] Speaker 4: He's a really good basketball player.
[1:25:42] Speaker 2: He's underappreciated, too. He's a really good basketball player. Hold on.
[1:25:46] Speaker 6: He's on the same level as Devin Booker.
[1:25:48] Speaker 2: He's on the same level.
[1:25:50] Speaker 1: So is Tyrese Halliburton the superstar?
[1:25:53] Speaker 2: Hold on. Let me ask you a question. Tyrese Halliburton
[1:25:56] Speaker 2: the superstar? No. Let me ask you a question. This man... No,
[1:26:00] Speaker 2: not a question. I'm making a statement. This man been
[1:26:01] Speaker 2: playing in Sacramento. Like.
[1:26:03] Speaker 4: Y'all act like this man ain't been playing in Sacramento.
[1:26:06] Speaker 8: Where is Phoenix? Phoenix is right down the street. Phoenix
[1:26:09] Speaker 8: is a bigger market. What do you mean? We're a
[1:26:12] Speaker 8: bigger market.
[1:26:13] Speaker 2: What do you mean? John Morant plays in Memphis. I'm
[1:26:15] Speaker 2: talking about the game. John Morant has a signature shoe
[1:26:18] Speaker 2: with Nike. The last two years, he's just put out the...
[1:26:22] Speaker 2: Darren Fox is not a superstar. You're talking about skill.
[1:26:25] Speaker 2: Y'all talking about popularity. No, no, no. More popular than anybody.
[1:26:31] Speaker 1: Y'all said superstar. To be a superstar in the league?
[1:26:34] Speaker 1: A superstar, dawg? So is LaMelo Ball and Darren Fox
[1:26:37] Speaker 1: the same?
[1:26:39] Speaker 2: I like LaMelo Ball. I'm asking. Same level? The same level?
[1:26:42] Speaker 2: LaMelo Ball's a superstar. Oh, LaMelo Ball and De'Aaron Fox.
[1:26:45] Speaker 2: You said he is a superstar. Thank you. Thank you.
[1:26:47] Speaker 2: LaMelo Ball. Yes. LaMelo Ball. LaMelo's a superstar. That's my question.
[1:26:51] Speaker 2: De'Aaron Fox for sure is a superstar. No, he's not.
[1:26:54] Speaker 2: For sure. Oh, what? For sure. What? Oh, LaMelo Ball
[1:26:57] Speaker 2: was a superstar in high school. LaMelo Ball was a superstar.
[1:27:00] Speaker 2: LaMelo Ball was a superstar in high school. De'Aaron Fox
[1:27:02] Speaker 2: was a superstar in Kentucky. He was a superstar in
[1:27:05] Speaker 2: high school. He was a superstar. It's good to go
[1:27:10] Speaker 2: to college.
[1:27:12] Speaker 1: So before we got to the NBA, we were super.
[1:27:17] Speaker 2: Darren Fox is not a superstar. He's not a super.
[1:27:19] Speaker 2: He's a very good basketball player. Very good basketball player.
[1:27:22] Speaker 2: I swear to God, but he's not a superstar.
[1:27:24] Speaker 1: You got to be marketable to be a superstar, bro.
[1:27:26] Speaker 2: Game wise, are they on the same level? No. Game wise?
[1:27:28] Speaker 2: Game wise. Game wise.
[1:27:30] Speaker 1: Derrick Fox is not on the same level as D-Book.
[1:27:35] Speaker 2: D-Book, fucking ball, he's not on that level. I'm going
[1:27:40] Speaker 2: with D-Book. Skill-wise, I'm going with D-Book on that one.
[1:27:43] Speaker 2: I'm going with D-Book on that one. I'm sorry. Skill-wise? Skill-wise? Skill-wise. Popularity, yeah,
[1:27:49] Speaker 2: you go with D, but skill-wise on the court. I'm
[1:27:52] Speaker 2: talking about straight basketball. Playing ball. He's a superstar.
[1:27:55] Speaker 8: He got superstar skill sets.
[1:27:57] Speaker 2: He's an all-star.
[1:27:58] Speaker 4: When y'all say basketball, I put him here.
[1:28:01] Speaker 2: Okay, cool. We're not saying anything more than that.
[1:28:05] Speaker 1: No, but y'all said superstar. That's the way he's talking
[1:28:08] Speaker 1: about it. He's not.
[1:28:09] Speaker 6: That's exactly what he's talking about.
[1:28:11] Speaker 2: You guys are talking about his game. You guys are
[1:28:13] Speaker 2: talking about skill level. A superstar? You got to be...
[1:28:16] Speaker 2: Booker is not a superstar. Booker is a superstar. Basketball?
[1:28:19] Speaker 6: I'm talking about just basketball. Booker is not a superstar.
[1:28:22] Speaker 2: Devin Booker is a fucking superstar. Are you crazy? I
[1:28:25] Speaker 2: got a signature suit with Nike. You crazy? You crazy?
[1:28:26] Speaker 2: You crazy? You don't see nobody wearing it. Everybody in Arizona...
[1:28:32] Speaker 2: wearing them shits. He got the, he made the, just basketball.
[1:28:36] Speaker 2: Just basketball. talent. I'll put Donovan Mitchell over him in
[1:28:41] Speaker 2: that regard.
[1:28:42] Speaker 8: If you're talking a skill set, I'll put Donovan Mitchell
[1:28:44] Speaker 8: over Darren Fox.
[1:28:58] Speaker 2: For what he's done in the playoffs.
[1:28:59] Speaker 3: So you think D-Fox and D-Book is on the same
[1:29:03] Speaker 3: level of skill level?
[1:29:05] Speaker 6: You just said trade Damon Booker and keep Jalen Green
[1:29:08] Speaker 6: and fucking Booker.
[1:29:09] Speaker 2: And Brooks. Huh? I said trade. Superstar.
[1:29:14] Speaker 1: You definitely said I would trade my superstar for these
[1:29:17] Speaker 1: two guys.
[1:29:18] Speaker 2: Who? You said that last week, motherfucker. You said keep
[1:29:22] Speaker 2: Jalen Green and Brooks. I said get rid of KD. No, no, no.
[1:29:27] Speaker 2: KD don't play with the Suns.
[1:29:28] Speaker 8: You're talking about the Suns. You're talking about Booker.
[1:29:32] Speaker 1: You said get rid of Booker and we're going to
[1:29:34] Speaker 1: live with these two.
[1:29:36] Speaker 4: He's a superstar. Take Devin to his point. He ain't
[1:29:40] Speaker 4: won nothing in Phoenix so it's time to move around.
[1:29:43] Speaker 2: I'll go back to Detroit.
[1:29:45] Speaker 1: He's still going to be a superstar.
[1:29:47] Speaker 2: He's still a superstar though. That don't change the skill set.
[1:29:51] Speaker 2: If KD Cunningham is Superstar? Yes, he has a signature shoe.
[1:29:54] Speaker 1: Who he has a signature shoe with?
[1:29:56] Speaker 2: Nike. He has a signature shoe coming out with Nike.
[1:29:58] Speaker 2: Where do you buy it at? It's coming out. Oh,
[1:30:01] Speaker 2: it's coming out so he don't have one. Yes, he does.
[1:30:03] Speaker 2: Where is it at? Where can I get it? I
[1:30:05] Speaker 2: had to order it. I had to pre-order it. Did
[1:30:07] Speaker 2: you have to wait on John Morant? What do you mean?
[1:30:13] Speaker 4: They announced Ja was getting the shoe, then they released
[1:30:15] Speaker 4: it later, right?
[1:30:16] Speaker 2: Everybody released it, then they... Who got a shoe? You
[1:30:19] Speaker 2: talking about Devin... Cade. Cade. He asked Warren to go
[1:30:22] Speaker 2: get Cade's shoe from... Got one coming. He has a
[1:30:24] Speaker 2: shoe coming. So you're trying to... Joker don't got a shoe.
[1:30:27] Speaker 2: He wasn't in the game. Joker don't got a shoe, right?
[1:30:29] Speaker 2: He's not a superstar? Jokic has shoes with 361. Jokic
[1:30:32] Speaker 2: is not a superstar. Basketball? You would just never buy them,
[1:30:34] Speaker 2: but he doesn't.
[1:30:35] Speaker 6: Jokic is not a superstar. Are we talking basketball? Jokic
[1:30:38] Speaker 6: is not with Nike. Jokic is not with Nike. Jokic
[1:30:41] Speaker 6: is not with Nike. Oh, we're talking the skit, so
[1:30:43] Speaker 6: this is what I'm asking. Joel Embiid, is he not
[1:30:44] Speaker 6: a superstar?
[1:30:45] Speaker 2: Are we still just talking basketball? Are we talking skill set?
[1:30:49] Speaker 2: Are we just talking basketball? Yes, man. So in that regard,
[1:30:53] Speaker 2: Nikola is a megastar. I said that. With just basketball. Megastar.
[1:30:58] Speaker 2: Giannis is a megastar.
[1:31:00] Speaker 8: All of these tier levels that we're talking about.
[1:31:02] Speaker 4: Yeah, so Giannis is a megastar when it comes to basketball.
[1:31:05] Speaker 2: Skills, marketability, not all that shit. Talk about hoop.
[1:31:09] Speaker 4: But if you're talking totality of it, Darren Fox and.
[1:31:13] Speaker 2: They ain't nowhere near neither one of them guys. So...
[1:31:16] Speaker 2: We asked the chat because he is not on the
[1:31:18] Speaker 2: level of our very esteemed chat. Driving off negativity day,
[1:31:21] Speaker 2: but Chad, we always appreciate you. We said, who's the
[1:31:23] Speaker 2: biggest superstar? The three options were Darren Fox, Devin Booker,
[1:31:27] Speaker 2: LaMelo Ball. LaMelo Ball. LaMelo Ball got 49% of the vote.
[1:31:31] Speaker 2: And fucking close. Devin Booker got 42% of the vote. Okay.
[1:31:33] Speaker 2: Darren Fox, 10% of the vote.
[1:31:38] Speaker 4: Because the man been playing in the soccer league.
[1:31:40] Speaker 2: It's context. It's context. Between that vote, it's not context.
[1:31:46] Speaker 1: They talking about the same thing we talking about.
[1:31:48] Speaker 2: We not talking about that.
[1:31:50] Speaker 4: Give him 20 more names.
[1:31:52] Speaker 1: Give him 20 more names. Give him 20 more names.
[1:31:56] Speaker 2: I'm talking about games. Give him 20 more guard names.
[1:31:59] Speaker 2: Darren Fox ain't going to be listening. He might be 20.
[1:32:01] Speaker 2: I'm not talking about popularity. I'm talking about skill set. Oh,
[1:32:04] Speaker 2: thank you. I'm talking about basketball. So who done more
[1:32:07] Speaker 2: out of all of them? I'm talking about basketball. Let's
[1:32:09] Speaker 2: talk about it. Who's done more? Who averaged more? Who
[1:32:12] Speaker 2: done more?
[1:32:13] Speaker 4: LaMelo Ball is a more accomplished basketball player.
[1:32:18] Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
[1:32:20] Speaker 6: This man was the most clutchest guy in the NBA
[1:32:22] Speaker 6: two years in a row.
[1:32:23] Speaker 2: He was clutch. One award that they just created. One award.
[1:32:26] Speaker 2: Two years. They just created this fucking award. He got it.
[1:32:30] Speaker 2: He got it. Can you do mellow ball versus defense?
[1:32:33] Speaker 4: This man went to the playoffs one time.
[1:32:36] Speaker 2: So, does that mean he done more? No. No. No. No.
[1:32:43] Speaker 4: They were three seed and got knocked out by a
[1:32:46] Speaker 4: six seed.
[1:32:47] Speaker 2: Hold on. Hold on. LaMelo Ball, one-time All-Star, Rookie of
[1:32:50] Speaker 2: the Year, All-Rookie First Team, but Was a JBA All-Star.
[1:32:55] Speaker 2: Shout out to LeVar Ball. Great league. And then D-Fox?
[1:32:59] Speaker 2: And a JBA champion. And then D-Fox? Junior Basketball Association swag.
[1:33:02] Speaker 2: This fucking dude. LeVar Ball. I was at the championship game.
[1:33:05] Speaker 2: And D-Fox? D-Fox, I believe two-time All-Star. Let me double check. Okay.
[1:33:10] Speaker 2: Could be three. Probably three. I know he was definitely
[1:33:14] Speaker 2: an All-Star. You know that. Two-time All-Star. And the Clutch
[1:33:19] Speaker 2: Player of the Year Award. All-NBA 13th. All-NBA. Steel's leader. Yeah,
[1:33:23] Speaker 2: 2023 Cubs Player of the Year. Okay, I'm giving him
[1:33:25] Speaker 2: that over Mello. Giving him what? Like I said, the
[1:33:31] Speaker 2: skill part. The skill part.
[1:33:32] Speaker 3: I'm talking about the skill part, not the super.
[1:33:36] Speaker 2: Okay. Okay, cool. Yes, but when you say superstar, that's
[1:33:41] Speaker 2: not hoop. Now we're talking about everything. Yes.
[1:33:43] Speaker 1: If you want to talk hoop, just say skill set.
[1:33:45] Speaker 1: Don't put that superstar shit on. We can't say Joker's
[1:33:50] Speaker 1: a megastar.
[1:33:50] Speaker 2: I wouldn't say that. That's why I asked you. That's
[1:33:53] Speaker 2: why I asked the question.
[1:33:55] Speaker 4: Are we just talking basketball or totality of the person?
[1:34:00] Speaker 2: Is Jokic a megastar in the totality of the person?
[1:34:03] Speaker 2: If you saw Jokic at the airport, would he have
[1:34:04] Speaker 2: a crowd around him? 100%. 100%.
[1:34:05] Speaker 1: That's Joker. For sure. Giannis, Joker, and those guys.
[1:34:09] Speaker 2: Globally. For one, you walk through any place and you're 7'2.
[1:34:11] Speaker 2: You're going to go 6'11, 7'4.
[1:34:22] Speaker 4: Listen, all the fucking time. So that's just for starters.
[1:34:26] Speaker 4: Somebody going to know who they are. Somebody, hey, that's
[1:34:29] Speaker 4: Nikola Jokic. That's Nikola Jokic. And everybody going to be coming.
[1:34:32] Speaker 2: So, yes. In that regard, yes. But. Yeah, that superstar.
[1:34:38] Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not putting De'Aaron Fox in that.
[1:34:42] Speaker 2: He's a star, though. 360 waves. He's a star, for sure.
[1:34:45] Speaker 2: All right, well, let's shift back to Wimby very quick.
[1:34:47] Speaker 2: There's something I want to get your guys' opinion on. So, Wimby,
[1:34:50] Speaker 2: sideline for game three. After failing to satisfy the league's
[1:34:53] Speaker 2: return to participation concussion protocol, after Game 4, the Alien
[1:34:57] Speaker 2: has some interesting things to say about the process for
[1:35:00] Speaker 2: returning back to the court. It took issue with the
[1:35:02] Speaker 2: league's handling of the situation. Can you explain the process
[1:35:06] Speaker 2: of what it was like getting cleared with the league?
[1:35:08] Speaker 2: You mentioned to Malika that there were parts you weren't
[1:35:10] Speaker 2: happy about. Can you explain what that means?
[1:35:20] Speaker 9: I don't want to get into the details. I don't
[1:35:22] Speaker 9: want it to become a distraction. Ask me again after
[1:35:25] Speaker 9: the end of the season. Again, all the doctors, especially
[1:35:36] Speaker 9: on the Spurs, but the doctors all around, they were great.
[1:35:40] Speaker 9: Took great care of me. But the way the situation
[1:35:45] Speaker 9: was handled was very disappointing. Not on the Spurs again.
[1:35:50] Speaker 9: At what point.
[1:35:53] Speaker 4: Tonight did they let you know for sure you were
[1:35:56] Speaker 4: going to be able to play?
[1:35:57] Speaker 2: How long did you have to wait? I want to
[1:36:19] Speaker 2: answer this question. Anyone else right here in the middle? They.
[1:36:25] Speaker 2: Who do you mean by they? Let me ask you
[1:36:27] Speaker 2: a question. Who do you mean by they? The medical professionals. Okay.
[1:36:34] Speaker 2: I won't answer. Just to clarify, it's not the Spurs
[1:36:38] Speaker 2: staff at all. It's the NBA. The league-appointed doctor. Yeah. Okay. But, again,
[1:36:44] Speaker 2: the doctors on either side were great. Oh, he's so good.
[1:36:50] Speaker 2: He's just professional right now. Some interesting comments there for me.
[1:36:53] Speaker 2: They muted his mic at one point. So what you
[1:36:55] Speaker 2: were hearing was just the internal mics. External. Did not
[1:37:02] Speaker 2: have Sebastian Hackett doing the mics for the league. Shout out, Sebastian.
[1:37:09] Speaker 2: What's your reaction to Wimby calling out the league over
[1:37:12] Speaker 2: their handling of his concussion? Tried to make it PC,
[1:37:15] Speaker 2: but took shots.
[1:37:18] Speaker 4: I don't know the protocol, so I don't, if you've
[1:37:23] Speaker 4: never had a concussion, how you know the way they
[1:37:26] Speaker 4: handle it is wrong. I don't know, you know what
[1:37:29] Speaker 4: I'm saying?
[1:37:29] Speaker 8: Like, that's... If his doctors are saying, nah, he's good
[1:37:33] Speaker 8: to go, then they're like, Yeah, we know he good
[1:37:37] Speaker 8: to go, but you're going to sit your ass down
[1:37:41] Speaker 8: this game.
[1:37:41] Speaker 4: But that's why it's two sides, right? That's the same
[1:37:45] Speaker 4: thing with the NFL, right?
[1:37:46] Speaker 1: If both sides are saying you're good, and then the
[1:37:49] Speaker 1: league comes in and says, no, sit your ass down.
[1:37:51] Speaker 2: I got a problem.
[1:37:53] Speaker 4: I got an issue with that, but as far as
[1:37:55] Speaker 4: the concussion part of it.
[1:37:58] Speaker 2: I don't know the protocol.
[1:37:59] Speaker 4: I don't know what they was doing, what they haven't
[1:38:01] Speaker 4: done or did do or didn't do.
[1:38:02] Speaker 2: He had to sit, I think, 48 hours. He was
[1:38:04] Speaker 2: allowed to do conditioning 24 hours. Certain things and all that,
[1:38:09] Speaker 2: but listen. He mad about the... Whatever. It's him. He
[1:38:12] Speaker 2: wanted to play. He wanted to play for game three.
[1:38:14] Speaker 2: He wanted to play. He felt fine. He saved him
[1:38:16] Speaker 2: from himself. I'm not saying the NBA is a suspect.
[1:38:18] Speaker 2: Not if he's clear. Learn how to fall. Yeah, who
[1:38:21] Speaker 2: falls like that? He got tripped, man. Goof bag. Goof ball.
[1:38:26] Speaker 2: Tripped on his own feet. Right. Fucking goose. That was
[1:38:28] Speaker 2: a clear trip.
[1:38:30] Speaker 8: Show you in slow motion a trip. I can show
[1:38:32] Speaker 8: you a trip. I can throw you a trip. When
[1:38:47] Speaker 8: you get tripped, it's surprising.
[1:38:49] Speaker 2: Man, learn how to fall. Man, I'm surprised. Trip or
[1:38:52] Speaker 2: no trip, nigga, learn how to fall.
[1:38:55] Speaker 11: Why you mad at them for them? Because you want
[1:38:57] Speaker 11: to hit your face. Damn, we thought you broke it.
[1:39:00] Speaker 11: Or don't draw some shit. You really want to play, motherfucker.
[1:39:04] Speaker 11: Don't say nothing.
[1:39:07] Speaker 2: Get up. The doctors say everything. We don't let you
[1:39:09] Speaker 2: go in. Just get up. Act like you're cool. I'm
[1:39:12] Speaker 2: all right. Do that. The way you hit your damn head,
[1:39:16] Speaker 2: I thought you was dead. But he wasn't. He got
[1:39:18] Speaker 2: his ass up and ran back to the back. He's
[1:39:20] Speaker 2: an alien, nigga. What you talking about? You ain't think shit.
[1:39:23] Speaker 1: That nigga got up and went back there like everything
[1:39:26] Speaker 1: was cool.
[1:39:27] Speaker 2: And then a day later, he's like, nah, I'm good
[1:39:29] Speaker 2: to go. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. You're not
[1:39:32] Speaker 2: good to go. What you mean I'm not good to go?
[1:39:34] Speaker 2: I'm great. I feel good. You didn't see me fall?
[1:39:37] Speaker 2: I'm good.
[1:39:37] Speaker 1: That's why they said he was tripping. Our doctors on
[1:39:40] Speaker 1: our side, they were great. Even the doctors in the league,
[1:39:43] Speaker 1: they were great. But all this other bullshit going on,
[1:39:46] Speaker 1: I'm cool on that. Hey, next question.
[1:39:48] Speaker 2: You didn't see me fall? I'm professional. Next question. Next question, bro.
[1:39:53] Speaker 2: I'm fine. I know my body. I know how I feel.
[1:39:56] Speaker 8: I'm good.
[1:39:56] Speaker 2: Let me go. That ain't got nothing to do with nothing.
[1:39:59] Speaker 2: It do. No, it don't.
[1:40:00] Speaker 8: If the doctors clear him, it has everything to do
[1:40:03] Speaker 8: with everything.
[1:40:04] Speaker 4: You know what it is. Listen, you sit your ass
[1:40:06] Speaker 4: in front of that computer. They give your ass that
[1:40:07] Speaker 4: combustion test, motherfucker. And they cleared him.
[1:40:11] Speaker 2: No. They did it. Your team did because they want
[1:40:13] Speaker 2: you to play. Y'all, you good there, man. Just get
[1:40:15] Speaker 2: your ass out.
[1:40:16] Speaker 8: He just said doctors on both sides were good.
[1:40:19] Speaker 2: He didn't say they could clear him. He said they
[1:40:21] Speaker 2: were good. I respect everything. He didn't say they cleared him.
[1:40:24] Speaker 2: He said they were great. Okay, they were great. The
[1:40:26] Speaker 2: way they treated me, they were great. He didn't say
[1:40:28] Speaker 2: they cleared it. He was clear to go. I think
[1:40:32] Speaker 2: the NBA side, very politically correct answer for the Frenchman,
[1:40:36] Speaker 2: but I think he said the NBA side basically stepped
[1:40:38] Speaker 2: in and said, sit your ass down. We're trying to
[1:40:41] Speaker 2: expand the game. Let us see these results.
[1:40:43] Speaker 8: Let us get some more money off this next game.
[1:40:45] Speaker 2: We good. Sit his ass in front of that computer
[1:40:48] Speaker 2: and if your baseline test don't add up, sit your
[1:40:52] Speaker 2: ass down. You ain't got to be happy. I want
[1:40:53] Speaker 2: to be out there. Team one.
[1:40:55] Speaker 1: Let me be out there. See what happens when I'm
[1:40:57] Speaker 1: out there. Why even ask that question? They didn't lose.
[1:41:00] Speaker 1: That's fair.
[1:41:00] Speaker 4: They got to have something to write about. You know,
[1:41:04] Speaker 4: they want to be the one to write about it.
[1:41:05] Speaker 4: Sacre bleu. All right, well, let's shift. Let's shift over
[1:41:08] Speaker 4: to the Eastern Conference. He just loves talking. Winby loves talking.
[1:41:12] Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what he asks. He's answering the questions. Face
[1:41:15] Speaker 2: of the league, Swag. I'm here. You're going to get
[1:41:17] Speaker 2: over it. You're going to get the fuck over it.
[1:41:19] Speaker 2: That's what you're going to do. So, Pistons had high
[1:41:21] Speaker 2: hopes after locking up the top spot in the East.
[1:41:24] Speaker 2: But the Magic have had some tricks up their sleeve
[1:41:26] Speaker 2: after stealing game one to take home court advantage, then
[1:41:29] Speaker 2: getting smacked in game two. The Magic nearly blew a
[1:41:31] Speaker 2: 17-point fourth quarter lead in game three as the Pistons
[1:41:35] Speaker 2: went on a 26-8 run to take a one-point lead
[1:41:37] Speaker 2: with under three minutes remaining. But Orlando ended that game
[1:41:39] Speaker 2: on a 9-0 run and proceeded to take a 2-1
[1:41:42] Speaker 2: lead in the series. Pistons' backs were against the wall
[1:41:45] Speaker 2: in game four, but the Magic didn't take their foot
[1:41:48] Speaker 2: off the gas. Let's take a look at the highlights.
[1:41:50] Speaker 2: So Magic came out on fire to start the game,
[1:41:53] Speaker 2: taking a 12-point lead early, but the Pistons responded with
[1:41:57] Speaker 2: a 20-5 run to momentarily take control of the game.
[1:42:00] Speaker 2: Detroit led by 10 points in the second quarter. Thanks
[1:42:09] Speaker 2: to Park, the plays by this helped stretch it out.
[1:42:11] Speaker 2: Led by 10 points in the second quarter for the
[1:42:15] Speaker 2: Magic one on a run to take a two-point lead
[1:42:18] Speaker 2: in the break. You see Waggie Waggie right there. Four
[1:42:21] Speaker 2: of the five Magic starters scored double figures, led by
[1:42:24] Speaker 2: Desmond Bain, who put up 22 points. Desmond Bain was
[1:42:28] Speaker 2: 5 for 10 from deep with his former Grizzlies teammates
[1:42:31] Speaker 2: John Morant and Jaron Jackson Jr. sitting courtside in Orlando,
[1:42:35] Speaker 2: cheering him on. Don Fogner had 19 points in 24
[1:42:38] Speaker 2: minutes before leaving the game late in the third quarter
[1:42:40] Speaker 2: with a right calf soreness. Paolo Bancaro, 18 and 8 boards,
[1:42:44] Speaker 2: but was 4 of 18 from the field. In knockdown,
[1:42:48] Speaker 2: 10 of his 13 free throw attempts. Wendell Carter Jr.
[1:42:51] Speaker 2: had 12 points, 11 boards, and two blocks. Okay, Cunningham
[1:42:54] Speaker 2: led the Pistons with a game-high 25 points, but he
[1:42:56] Speaker 2: was 7-23 from the field. Also had 9 rebounds, 6 assists,
[1:42:59] Speaker 2: and a game-high 8 turnovers. Cunningham's second player in NBA
[1:43:03] Speaker 2: playoff history to record 17 or more turnovers in a
[1:43:06] Speaker 2: two-game span in the same postseason. His 24 turnovers over
[1:43:10] Speaker 2: the last three games, most in league history. Tobias Harris
[1:43:13] Speaker 2: had 20 points and six boards. Jalen Duren struggled again
[1:43:16] Speaker 2: in this one. 12 points, eight rebounds, four turnovers. So
[1:43:20] Speaker 2: both teams struggled offensively to get things going. Game was
[1:43:23] Speaker 2: back and forth in the final frame. But Magic went
[1:43:27] Speaker 2: on a 9-1 run late in that fourth quarter, never
[1:43:30] Speaker 2: looked back. Orlando Magic shot 32.6% from the field in
[1:43:35] Speaker 2: game four. Fifth worst shooting percentage in a playoff win
[1:43:39] Speaker 2: in the three-point era. and worse since the Raptors shot 32%
[1:43:42] Speaker 2: in their win over the Cavs Sunday. So they now
[1:43:45] Speaker 2: take a comfortable 3-1 series lead back to Motown for
[1:43:48] Speaker 2: game five. Kenny, we'll start with you. Born in Michigan.
[1:43:57] Speaker 2: Sacking off, I'm not mistaken. But what are your biggest
[1:44:00] Speaker 2: takeaways from the Magic's game four win over the Pistons,
[1:44:03] Speaker 2: the top seeded Detroit Pistons, to take a 3-1 lead
[1:44:06] Speaker 2: in this series? Um... Yeah, the Magic coming to play.
[1:44:12] Speaker 4: They really think that they can beat the Pistons. You
[1:44:16] Speaker 4: can tell the way they're playing. But Cade, he's asking,
[1:44:21] Speaker 4: you got to do too much, man. There's a lot
[1:44:23] Speaker 4: of dribbling, a lot of trying to force the ball
[1:44:28] Speaker 4: back to him. Other guys not looking to be aggressive
[1:44:31] Speaker 4: most of the game. That's where the turnovers are coming
[1:44:33] Speaker 4: in at. He's not getting anything easy.
[1:44:39] Speaker 2: The Magic are making it hard on him, but the J.B.
[1:44:43] Speaker 2: got to help him out.
[1:44:44] Speaker 4: And run a few different sets, I think, for him
[1:44:47] Speaker 4: to slow the game down and get him some easier buckets.
[1:44:50] Speaker 4: I don't know how that is, whether it's putting the
[1:44:52] Speaker 4: ball in Jenkins' hand and putting Cade off the ball.
[1:44:54] Speaker 4: I think he tried that late in game four, had
[1:44:58] Speaker 4: him on the floor at the same time. I think
[1:45:00] Speaker 4: it could be beneficial because Jenkins is looking for his own.
[1:45:06] Speaker 2: Being Orlando, Orlando is... It's bringing it.
[1:45:11] Speaker 4: You win game one of a series on the road
[1:45:15] Speaker 4: gives you confidence throughout the series.
[1:45:18] Speaker 2: And I think they.
[1:45:20] Speaker 4: Have capitalized on that, learning what we did to win
[1:45:25] Speaker 4: that game on the road. Pistons came out to do
[1:45:30] Speaker 4: game two in order not to go down two games
[1:45:32] Speaker 4: at home. They came back and had a hell of
[1:45:34] Speaker 4: a run that you don't see Throughout games.
[1:45:38] Speaker 2: Especially playoff games. 30-3 or 33-3.
[1:45:40] Speaker 4: Yeah, something crazy. But, yeah, no, they're backs against the wall, man.
[1:45:47] Speaker 4: Eighth seed, I guess Orlando is not a true eighth seed,
[1:45:52] Speaker 4: you would say, the way they're playing. But they are
[1:45:54] Speaker 4: eighth seed right now. And they're looking good. Desmond Bain
[1:45:57] Speaker 4: is leading the charge. He's playing great. Apollo is holding
[1:46:01] Speaker 4: his own. And whatever this thing that, Wendell Carter and
[1:46:06] Speaker 4: Jalen Duren has going on is obviously affecting the Pistons guy.
[1:46:12] Speaker 2: Affecting one of them. Yes, definitely affecting one of them.
[1:46:15] Speaker 4: But yeah, no, you got to go out and.
[1:46:18] Speaker 2: Hoop, man. Whatever, yeah. That P-U-S-S-Y.
[1:46:21] Speaker 4: You know what I'm talking about? Pull battleships, baby. But yeah, no, man.
[1:46:29] Speaker 4: The Magic look good. And they believe right now. And
[1:46:33] Speaker 4: they playing with house money. So they know they can
[1:46:35] Speaker 4: win on that floor. So let's go. Another opportunity.
[1:46:40] Speaker 2: Is that the game or something? It's spirit. We will
[1:46:44] Speaker 2: talk about it in a second. It's spirit. It's spirit.
[1:46:47] Speaker 2: Let's shift over to you. Looking at this Piston squad.
[1:46:52] Speaker 2: Sit that man a picture in his jersey. Wearing that
[1:46:54] Speaker 2: man's jersey. Piston 61 team. That number zero is a
[1:46:58] Speaker 2: bad number right now. It is. It has lost its luster.
[1:47:03] Speaker 2: A lot of people are getting hurt with that number.
[1:47:06] Speaker 2: On and off. It's starting to look bad.
[1:47:12] Speaker 1: It's almost like the fool's gold of the Detroit Pistons
[1:47:15] Speaker 1: leading up to this particular moment is revealing itself because
[1:47:20] Speaker 1: they don't look as good as advertised. Looking at the roster,
[1:47:24] Speaker 1: looking at the scouting report, and looking at the games
[1:47:27] Speaker 1: that's been played since the play-in, Game one, starting with
[1:47:32] Speaker 1: game one.
[1:47:34] Speaker 2: I always thought that this was.
[1:47:35] Speaker 1: A bad matchup for the Pistons because I feel like
[1:47:38] Speaker 1: the Magic have better players. And when you have better
[1:47:41] Speaker 1: players that have like an untapped potential and it's based
[1:47:46] Speaker 1: on the coach and how the coach believes in them.
[1:47:49] Speaker 1: Jamal being with his back against the wall and that
[1:47:52] Speaker 1: play in series between those games and not knowing whether
[1:47:55] Speaker 1: or not he was going to be fired or not.
[1:47:58] Speaker 1: I can't say it fired the team up more than
[1:48:00] Speaker 1: it did to put them all on notice that it's
[1:48:02] Speaker 1: going to be on all of us if we don't
[1:48:05] Speaker 1: surpass what we're supposed to. And I think the years
[1:48:08] Speaker 1: leading up to this particular moment, they always had potential
[1:48:11] Speaker 1: being three to five.
[1:48:13] Speaker 2: In the East.
[1:48:14] Speaker 1: And being a good team emerging and being able to
[1:48:17] Speaker 1: play good basketball throughout the years has been essential. testament
[1:48:20] Speaker 1: to them. But I think that they came in with
[1:48:23] Speaker 1: a chip on their shoulder against Detroit, knowing in game one,
[1:48:26] Speaker 1: taking game one and saying, oh, this is how we're
[1:48:28] Speaker 1: going to play.
[1:48:29] Speaker 2: This is how they're going to play.
[1:48:31] Speaker 1: I think JB's inconsistency with subbing in guys like Green, Jenkins, Sasser,
[1:48:38] Speaker 1: All of the guys that play well, Paul Reed, these
[1:48:42] Speaker 1: are guys that play well throughout the season to help
[1:48:43] Speaker 1: them get that record and get the number one in
[1:48:47] Speaker 1: the East. And I think that that's not being utilized
[1:48:49] Speaker 1: at this moment. Duncan Robinson ain't playing well. Karis LeVert
[1:48:54] Speaker 1: is not playing well at all.
[1:48:56] Speaker 2: Yo, he can't dribble. I don't know what's going on
[1:48:58] Speaker 2: with him. He could dribble in Cleveland. Yo, my bad.
[1:49:01] Speaker 2: That bitch on the string out there in Cleveland. My bad.
[1:49:04] Speaker 4: I'll watch him play out there. This goddamn boy can't dribble.
[1:49:06] Speaker 4: I don't know what's going on with him.
[1:49:07] Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I don't know what's going on with him.
[1:49:09] Speaker 2: My bad.
[1:49:10] Speaker 1: And it's one of those things to me. It looked
[1:49:12] Speaker 1: like they were overrated. It looked like they were overrated
[1:49:15] Speaker 1: out there. And I think the magic being what?
[1:49:19] Speaker 4: Eighth?
[1:49:19] Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
[1:49:20] Speaker 1: Come in and get the eighth spot and do what
[1:49:22] Speaker 1: the Miami Heat did to the Bucs back then. And
[1:49:27] Speaker 1: disappointing the NBA fan base with understanding how it should
[1:49:33] Speaker 1: go when you come in and play hard and you
[1:49:35] Speaker 1: really want it.
[1:49:36] Speaker 8: And I think that's what they are. They're out there hungry.
[1:49:38] Speaker 1: I think between Jamal and Paulo being able to mend
[1:49:41] Speaker 1: their little.
[1:49:42] Speaker 2: Conflict, And then Bane step up.
[1:49:45] Speaker 1: And then Wagner step up. And then you got Suggs
[1:49:48] Speaker 1: out there playing well. You got Wendell Carter out there
[1:49:51] Speaker 1: really like, look, man, I don't care if you got
[1:49:53] Speaker 1: them photos and videos.
[1:49:55] Speaker 2: It don't matter, bro. She's mine. The girl is mine.
[1:49:58] Speaker 2: They are choosing.
[1:49:59] Speaker 1: And it looked good out there. It looked real good
[1:50:02] Speaker 1: out there. And I look for the Magic to close
[1:50:04] Speaker 1: it out because I don't see no differences right now.
[1:50:07] Speaker 2: No differences. Let's shift over to this side of the couch. Yeah. Mr. B,
[1:50:13] Speaker 2: former Detroit Piston. What's going on with these Pistons right now?
[1:50:17] Speaker 2: Can't score. Can't score.
[1:50:18] Speaker 3: And that's been their problem all year, even though they've
[1:50:22] Speaker 3: been number one. Their defense has been great, though. I mean,
[1:50:25] Speaker 3: their defense is still going to be what it is,
[1:50:27] Speaker 3: but I think they're missing the score. They need somebody
[1:50:29] Speaker 3: that can really go get a bucket, take some pressure
[1:50:32] Speaker 3: off Cade. Tobias is trying to do his thing, but
[1:50:36] Speaker 3: other than that, I mean, you know.
[1:50:38] Speaker 2: What I'm saying? You don't really... You're not really getting
[1:50:41] Speaker 2: any scoring. I don't know where he's at. I don't
[1:50:45] Speaker 2: know what's going on. I mean, they put Stewart in
[1:50:47] Speaker 2: the game. Stewart came in.
[1:50:49] Speaker 3: I think he had like eight blocks or something like
[1:50:52] Speaker 3: that or something in 17 minutes, but he was doing
[1:50:54] Speaker 3: his thing.
[1:50:54] Speaker 2: So I don't know, man. I think just Detroit, they
[1:50:57] Speaker 2: got to find a score. I think that's just their
[1:50:58] Speaker 2: biggest issue.
[1:51:00] Speaker 3: They don't have enough scoring, and there's a guy over
[1:51:02] Speaker 3: there in Phoenix that can put up a lot of points.
[1:51:05] Speaker 2: Is he light-skinned? Yes, he is. Okay. And I'm giving
[1:51:08] Speaker 2: all y'all light-skinned people to July. Okay. Y'all on fire
[1:51:10] Speaker 2: right now. The block is hot for the light-skinned community
[1:51:14] Speaker 2: right now, Mr. B. It's hot. We're going to lay
[1:51:16] Speaker 2: low for the foreseeable future.
[1:51:18] Speaker 3: No, I'm going to get y'all to July because once
[1:51:20] Speaker 3: that sun hit me and I get darker, I'm coming
[1:51:23] Speaker 3: back out.
[1:51:23] Speaker 2: Magic shot thirty two point six percent from the field
[1:51:26] Speaker 2: in this game still were able to get.
[1:51:29] Speaker 4: I'm simple Tobias ain't the issue like Tobias gonna be
[1:51:31] Speaker 4: I'm saying Tobias.
[1:51:32] Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm saying that's the only that's only scoring, right?
[1:51:35] Speaker 2: That's it. He gonna do what he do, right? He
[1:51:38] Speaker 2: ain't yeah. Yeah, but that's like it's only them two.
[1:51:40] Speaker 3: So that's if Tobias can give me Number one.
[1:51:43] Speaker 8: Number one in the East he's not playing the way
[1:51:46] Speaker 8: they but why not he's not I.
[1:51:49] Speaker 2: He can't wait. Or he can't. He can't. He can't
[1:51:52] Speaker 2: score over 20? It's going to be 15 to 20. Listen, dog.
[1:51:55] Speaker 2: 23 is his cap. It's going to be under 15
[1:51:58] Speaker 2: to 25. He can't get a 30-point game? Consistent. 30?
[1:52:01] Speaker 2: Did I say consistent? Yeah.
[1:52:03] Speaker 4: Yo, consistent 15 to 25. He's averaged 14, 15 points.
[1:52:09] Speaker 2: Throughout his career. That's who he is.
[1:52:13] Speaker 8: You're going to give us solid albums, solid songs, solid features.
[1:52:20] Speaker 2: And then go play ball.
[1:52:21] Speaker 4: I do my job.
[1:52:25] Speaker 2: Listen, I'm a great locker room dude. Not an issue.
[1:52:28] Speaker 2: I'm going to give you 15 to 20. Get you
[1:52:30] Speaker 2: some rebounds. Get you some 6-7 rebounds. 15 to 23.
[1:52:33] Speaker 2: That's not enough right now. That's not enough. It is.
[1:52:37] Speaker 2: For him, it is. He ain't even a third option.
[1:52:40] Speaker 2: He ain't even a third option. Right now, he's the second. No,
[1:52:43] Speaker 2: he never has been.
[1:52:44] Speaker 3: No, but I'm saying right now on this team, it's
[1:52:46] Speaker 3: looking like he's the second.
[1:52:47] Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the second right now. He's the second right now.
[1:52:50] Speaker 2: Jack Dern is the second option. Averaging 19-8 Tobias Harris
[1:52:53] Speaker 2: so far in this series. So that's good. 19-8? Yeah,
[1:52:57] Speaker 2: for sure. For him? Back-to-back 20-point games. Shit, hey. Any
[1:53:03] Speaker 2: team would take that. Consistency. But Swag, let's shift these Pistons. K. Cunningham,
[1:53:07] Speaker 2: 24-4 turnovers in the last three games. 19-8. I don't know.
[1:53:13] Speaker 5: I think we got to put the rest of that
[1:53:16] Speaker 5: defense win championship shit to rest.
[1:53:19] Speaker 2: What?
[1:53:20] Speaker 5: That shit, that's all I've been hearing is defense to spur.
[1:53:23] Speaker 5: I mean, the Pistons got defense, but now it's they
[1:53:27] Speaker 5: got nobody.
[1:53:28] Speaker 2: To put the ball in the hole.
[1:53:29] Speaker 8: Nobody at the school.
[1:53:31] Speaker 2: What happened to all that defense, defense shit? Like, like,
[1:53:35] Speaker 2: Defense is this. Oh, man, they're number one. That shit
[1:53:37] Speaker 2: get passed during the season. Regular season, you play harder.
[1:53:40] Speaker 5: Some people don't play all 82 games. Hard every day,
[1:53:44] Speaker 5: every game. In the playoffs, that shit show. If you
[1:53:47] Speaker 5: can't score, you can't score. That damn Ra-Ra, Isael Stewart, shit,
[1:53:52] Speaker 5: Jan Dern, think you can't.
[1:53:53] Speaker 2: You got no moves.
[1:53:54] Speaker 5: Nobody can put the ball in the hole, and you
[1:53:56] Speaker 5: just play defense, you're not going to score. You're just
[1:53:58] Speaker 5: going to be out there guarding motherfuckers. So that's what
[1:54:01] Speaker 5: it's showing. Orlando got offensive players. They got a better team.
[1:54:04] Speaker 5: They got Pablo Wagner looking like a second star, banging threes.
[1:54:09] Speaker 2: They ain't got none of that on Piston's side. They
[1:54:11] Speaker 2: got one player.
[1:54:13] Speaker 5: One player in Cunningham getting nine turnovers trying to do
[1:54:16] Speaker 5: everything because he got to do everything. In the playoffs,
[1:54:19] Speaker 5: you can't have that. If I can't throw in a
[1:54:22] Speaker 5: Jim Dern and he can give me a fucking move,
[1:54:25] Speaker 5: everything got to be a lob.
[1:54:27] Speaker 2: You can't score. I'm sorry. You can't score. I got
[1:54:31] Speaker 2: a pair to throw at you. I was going to.
[1:54:36] Speaker 2: I'm going to call you a jacket.
[1:54:39] Speaker 8: If I can't throw you the ball, you can't give
[1:54:41] Speaker 8: me a post hook or something.
[1:54:43] Speaker 2: They were 8-3 or 9-3 without Cade. After that puncture line,
[1:54:46] Speaker 2: I think overall in the season. You know who stepped up?
[1:54:49] Speaker 2: You know who stepped up? They were 13-5. Jenkins stepped up.
[1:54:52] Speaker 5: You can win games off of just being physical some
[1:54:56] Speaker 5: nights in the NBA. when you're just bullying certain people.
[1:55:00] Speaker 5: Playoffs is different, bro. It's different pressure. They got size, too.
[1:55:05] Speaker 5: But they just need guys to step up. Lando got size, too.
[1:55:07] Speaker 2: The playoffs is about those dudes and two-way players, man.
[1:55:09] Speaker 2: You got to be able to do both. You got
[1:55:11] Speaker 2: to be able to do both. Because you got to
[1:55:13] Speaker 2: get subbed in the game. You got to be able
[1:55:15] Speaker 2: to do both in the playoffs. You got to get
[1:55:16] Speaker 2: some moves on the team. You got to be able
[1:55:18] Speaker 2: to do both.
[1:55:19] Speaker 8: I ain't talking about him. He's excommunicado for me. He
[1:55:23] Speaker 8: ain't even a factor. And I ain't never thought that
[1:55:25] Speaker 8: he was that type of guy. I never thought.
[1:55:28] Speaker 1: He was going to get it down there and go
[1:55:31] Speaker 1: to work. He can take advantage of certain guys, but
[1:55:34] Speaker 1: him and Isaiah Stewart are, they're like Antonio McDyess and
[1:55:38] Speaker 1: Ben Wallace. Antonio McDyess can hit you, go mid-range, he
[1:55:42] Speaker 1: can get you 15 to 18 sometimes but like Ben
[1:55:46] Speaker 1: Wallace you gotta them dump offs them are dunks like
[1:55:50] Speaker 1: you're not saying Ben give me go down there and
[1:55:52] Speaker 1: mix it up for me so everybody else gotta fill
[1:55:55] Speaker 1: the void so you looking at they don't got that
[1:55:57] Speaker 1: Duncan Robinson ain't hitting no shit Amon Thompson ain't being.
[1:56:02] Speaker 2: Aggressive at all.
[1:56:03] Speaker 5: If you stay in front of Duncan Robertson like this,
[1:56:06] Speaker 5: he can't do it.
[1:56:07] Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
[1:56:09] Speaker 4: That's what I was saying about fucking Houston with Luke Kennard, right?
[1:56:12] Speaker 4: That motherfucker do one thing out there. If he shoot layups, great.
[1:56:16] Speaker 2: A hundred percent.
[1:56:17] Speaker 1: But K got a pass to somebody, right? He got
[1:56:20] Speaker 1: a pass to somebody, right? So he's one of the
[1:56:22] Speaker 1: pass and shoot guys. They got him and Herter. Or
[1:56:25] Speaker 1: they're shooters, right? We need shooters. Everybody needs shooters. But look, Green, Sasser, Jenkins,
[1:56:32] Speaker 1: all of those guys on the side that was playing
[1:56:34] Speaker 1: big for them.
[1:56:35] Speaker 2: Levert.
[1:56:36] Speaker 1: These are four guys that can put the ball in
[1:56:38] Speaker 1: the basket. that they not playing.
[1:56:41] Speaker 2: Yeah you're going with this defense shit right you're.
[1:56:42] Speaker 4: Not playing them so to nick's point he's picking defense he's.
[1:56:45] Speaker 1: Picking defense because he feels like they need that to
[1:56:48] Speaker 1: stop them but they need to stop them but they
[1:56:50] Speaker 1: can't score they can't because you're not subbing jb has
[1:56:54] Speaker 1: to balance the score sheet you can't just say like
[1:56:57] Speaker 1: you said i agree You ate all that defense.
[1:57:00] Speaker 2: Right. Right. Shit.
[1:57:00] Speaker 1: If you can't put the basket in one of here
[1:57:02] Speaker 1: because the Spurs do that.
[1:57:03] Speaker 2: Yeah. So that's why I'm like Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City
[1:57:07] Speaker 2: do that.
[1:57:08] Speaker 1: But these guys, they're not balancing it out and subbing
[1:57:11] Speaker 1: guys like.
[1:57:11] Speaker 2: Paul Reed can score the bench. He can go down
[1:57:13] Speaker 2: there and put the ball in the basket. Y'all not
[1:57:15] Speaker 2: putting them in the game. You playing defense against the
[1:57:18] Speaker 2: offensive team. It's hard to kind of balance that.
[1:57:21] Speaker 4: Yeah, look at that. He can only play six minutes.
[1:57:24] Speaker 4: He got to develop. He just dusted Paul Reed off
[1:57:27] Speaker 4: and threw him out there. Karis LeVert threw him out there.
[1:57:30] Speaker 4: They dusted him off. So you're back against the wall, right?
[1:57:33] Speaker 4: You're going to come out and you're going to play Sasser.
[1:57:35] Speaker 4: You're going to dust him off. You're going to play
[1:57:37] Speaker 4: these guys who ain't been in no rhythm.
[1:57:39] Speaker 2: No rhythm at all.
[1:57:39] Speaker 1: You're going to try to throw him out there and go, like,
[1:57:41] Speaker 1: come help save our season.
[1:57:43] Speaker 2: Hit some shots.
[1:57:45] Speaker 4: Like, no, it don't work that way in this situation, man. Like,
[1:57:48] Speaker 4: this is not like.
[1:57:49] Speaker 2: To your point you just made, Sean, and I've always... I.
[1:57:54] Speaker 4: Don't think you should play 14 guys in the playoffs,
[1:57:57] Speaker 4: but if you've been playing 11, 12, 13, 12 guys
[1:58:01] Speaker 4: throughout the regular season, why dumb it down to nine?
[1:58:04] Speaker 2: Right why dumb it down to eight.
[1:58:05] Speaker 4: Right right do that a lot you playing 13 guys
[1:58:09] Speaker 4: got us.
[1:58:10] Speaker 2: 60 wins yes right yes.
[1:58:15] Speaker 8: Anthony Black the silver all them guys are playing he playing.
[1:58:19] Speaker 4: He playing his guys like this is what hey we
[1:58:23] Speaker 4: played y'all getting.
[1:58:24] Speaker 2: Ac god damn it so guess what Be ready. Hey,
[1:58:27] Speaker 2: be ready, guys. Be ready. So Anthony Black playing well.
[1:58:30] Speaker 2: He playing very well. These dudes, they playing well, and
[1:58:34] Speaker 2: he know what he going to get out of them.
[1:58:35] Speaker 3: Especially for a coach who had his job on the line.
[1:58:38] Speaker 2: He was basically saying he was going to get fired
[1:58:40] Speaker 2: no matter what.
[1:58:40] Speaker 3: Now it's looking like, hey, I need an extension.
[1:58:44] Speaker 2: And I beat the first seed? I'm good for now.
[1:58:48] Speaker 2: What they going to do now, though?
[1:58:52] Speaker 8: And to say he's going to the next series and
[1:58:54] Speaker 8: win that.
[1:58:54] Speaker 2: Series because they momentum. Who do they play next? Wait,
[1:58:58] Speaker 2: who do they play next? The winner of the Cavs
[1:59:00] Speaker 2: Raptors series. Ooh, they can get them. They can get them.
[1:59:04] Speaker 2: They can get them. That's if the Cavs, they get
[1:59:07] Speaker 2: the Cavs the fuck out of here. For sure, they
[1:59:09] Speaker 2: can get the Cavs out of here. That's going seven.
[1:59:11] Speaker 2: That's going seven. Because I'm going magic with that. Facts. Yeah,
[1:59:16] Speaker 2: that's going to suck. Hey, listen, he might be headed
[1:59:17] Speaker 2: to the East Coast.
[1:59:19] Speaker 8: Hey, that's the biggest turnaround we done seen yet.
[1:59:21] Speaker 2: Like, on the whole thing, it don't matter what happens.
[1:59:24] Speaker 2: He getting fired regardless. It's like, I don't know. It's
[1:59:27] Speaker 2: sky high right now as a team. Yeah. You riding
[1:59:29] Speaker 2: the wave. You sky high right now. You at the
[1:59:31] Speaker 2: top of the wave.
[1:59:32] Speaker 8: Yep.
[1:59:33] Speaker 2: You get past Detroit. Hey.
[1:59:36] Speaker 4: That confidence, man, you going to the second round with
[1:59:39] Speaker 4: a team that just came off playing seven?
[1:59:41] Speaker 2: Raptors or Cleveland? Cleveland? We already proved we can play
[1:59:44] Speaker 2: with Cleveland. For sure. Cleveland don't want to see us.
[1:59:48] Speaker 2: We already proved we can play with Cleveland two years ago. Nah,
[1:59:51] Speaker 2: it's a good matchup. I'm telling you, I like that.
[1:59:55] Speaker 2: I like that for Orlando. Toronto can match up out there. Well,
[1:59:59] Speaker 2: Toronto got a bad offer. I don't like that. You
[2:00:02] Speaker 2: think Toronto going to beat the Cavs? They got size, though.
[2:00:04] Speaker 2: They do, but they don't play good. I think Toronto
[2:00:06] Speaker 2: going to beat the Cavs. I was watching that basketball game. No, no, no.
[2:00:09] Speaker 5: I'm just saying Toronto played better deep than the Cavs.
[2:00:12] Speaker 7: I mean, Orlando. Orlando is more of an offensive game.
[2:00:18] Speaker 7: So let's talk about Jalen Dern real quick. Jalen Dern
[2:00:21] Speaker 7: was in the convo. Her most improved player was a finalist.
[2:00:24] Speaker 2: And he's still in the competition for All-NBA after putting
[2:00:26] Speaker 2: up 20 points, 11 rebounds this season. Struggled in the playoffs,
[2:00:30] Speaker 2: averaging just 10 points and 8 rebounds while shooting 47%
[2:00:32] Speaker 2: from the field. He also found himself on the wrong
[2:00:36] Speaker 2: side of a poster after Jamal Cain caught him flipping
[2:00:40] Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter. You didn't see it live? Oh,
[2:00:43] Speaker 2: what the fuck? When did that happen? His ex posted that. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm.
[2:00:51] Speaker 2: WNBA superstar Angel Reese posted it to her IG story. Yeah,
[2:00:55] Speaker 2: she did. She did? Yeah, she did. You got to chill, man. No, she...
[2:00:58] Speaker 2: You got to chill, man. No, watch out. So you
[2:01:01] Speaker 2: like nuts in your face, too? Chill. That was crazy.
[2:01:05] Speaker 2: That was crazy. That was crazy. That was nuts. That's insane.
[2:01:08] Speaker 7: Yeah.
[2:01:19] Speaker 2: Put his ass in that basket. How disappointing has Jalen
[2:01:23] Speaker 2: Dern been so far in this series? Obviously, he's eligible
[2:01:26] Speaker 2: for a max contract extension. Five years between $ 240 million
[2:01:30] Speaker 2: and $ 290 million. I don't think the series will have
[2:01:32] Speaker 2: bearing on that. Still going to get it. But just
[2:01:35] Speaker 2: from what you're saying for him through these first four years.
[2:01:37] Speaker 2: I'm getting the lab, man. No, this is what playoff.
[2:01:39] Speaker 4: Listen, what playoff basketball does, it exposes your deficiencies.
[2:01:46] Speaker 2: Right? Mm-hmm.
[2:01:47] Speaker 4: When you are counted on during the regular season, you
[2:01:50] Speaker 4: average 20 and 10, 19 and 10 during the regular season?
[2:01:54] Speaker 2: 21 and 11. My bad. This exposes your deficiencies.
[2:02:01] Speaker 4: Take it from a guy who was an athlete, jumper, dunker,
[2:02:05] Speaker 4: lob threat, all the things that you do right now,
[2:02:08] Speaker 4: young fella, and they motherfucking playing off me. You got
[2:02:14] Speaker 4: to develop something, dog. Well, you can go get a
[2:02:17] Speaker 4: bucket on your own because you're too valuable. You're too good.
[2:02:21] Speaker 4: You're fucking built like a Greek god.
[2:02:25] Speaker 2: Go use it. But you got to get in the lab.
[2:02:27] Speaker 2: You got to take them wristbands off. Whatever. Yeah, he
[2:02:31] Speaker 2: look like. No, no, no, no, no. Orlando Woolridge. Yeah,
[2:02:37] Speaker 2: you got to take them shit off. He's built and
[2:02:40] Speaker 2: look like Orlando Woolridge out there, motherfucker, right? But my
[2:02:44] Speaker 2: thing is you got to get in the lab, dog.
[2:02:47] Speaker 4: And for you to be a lob threat and a
[2:02:49] Speaker 4: guy that play around the rim to be shooting 47%,
[2:02:56] Speaker 4: You got guards, Chase shooting 56, 57% from the field,
[2:02:58] Speaker 4: and he's a jump shooter. So this is, you got
[2:03:02] Speaker 4: to get in the lab, dog. You got to work
[2:03:04] Speaker 4: on your craft. You got to develop a turnaround jump shot,
[2:03:06] Speaker 4: a money jump hook, 15 to 17 foot something. You
[2:03:09] Speaker 4: got to do something.
[2:03:10] Speaker 2: Shows you're not a scorer, though.
[2:03:12] Speaker 8: Nah, he just got to delete them old pictures.
[2:03:14] Speaker 2: He got to delete all the old pictures. He's going
[2:03:17] Speaker 2: back to the phone. He's just looking. Damn. Score with, damn.
[2:03:22] Speaker 1: Yeah, he can't even.
[2:03:25] Speaker 2: Throw it over the top. Can't even follow through, right?
[2:03:28] Speaker 6: If you ain't out there wiping your sweat like this.
[2:03:32] Speaker 2: It's a motherfucking dog. Stop, man. Stop with that. Take
[2:03:35] Speaker 2: some shit off. This shit here. It's like you're playing tennis, motherfucker.
[2:03:39] Speaker 1: Come on, man. We can rub them things together, man.
[2:03:42] Speaker 1: Make a wish or something.
[2:03:43] Speaker 2: No, but he got to do more. Aladdin looking ass.
[2:03:47] Speaker 4: Yeah, so they're making him score over the top. They're
[2:03:51] Speaker 4: doing a good job of not making him be a scorer, right?
[2:03:55] Speaker 2: Trust me, I get it. That's fucked up. I understand it.
[2:04:00] Speaker 2: Trust me, I get it. My first year in the playoffs, bro.
[2:04:03] Speaker 5: My second year in the league. That's fucked up. And
[2:04:08] Speaker 5: you playing bad?
[2:04:09] Speaker 8: It's just one of them things where he lost confidence.
[2:04:16] Speaker 2: He got to start talking his shit. He got to
[2:04:19] Speaker 2: get his confidence back.
[2:04:20] Speaker 8: And then you see him across from you, got your work.
[2:04:23] Speaker 8: It's way different now.
[2:04:25] Speaker 2: We know her. It ain't yours no more. He out there,
[2:04:28] Speaker 2: he got to help mow your ass. We share that.
[2:04:31] Speaker 2: Talking crazy. Yeah, you got to start talking crazy.
[2:04:34] Speaker 8: You got to, but you got to have leverage to
[2:04:36] Speaker 8: talk crazy. You can't just go from nine a game,
[2:04:39] Speaker 8: 80 a game, to talking crazy.
[2:04:41] Speaker 2: You got to flip the stick. You got to go crazy.
[2:04:43] Speaker 2: 28-12 or something. She was rebounding for me, too. Nine
[2:04:45] Speaker 2: and eight ain't go. Nine and nine ain't go. You
[2:04:47] Speaker 2: got to be delusional right now. No. Something to give
[2:04:55] Speaker 2: you confidence. I need some new work.
[2:04:57] Speaker 5: I got to sit back and just take this shit
[2:05:00] Speaker 5: until I have a good game.
[2:05:01] Speaker 2: Hey, hold on. Needs some new work. You got to
[2:05:04] Speaker 2: go get some new work, man. Ain't got none. Ain't
[2:05:06] Speaker 2: got none. All NBA, about to get a contract, no work.
[2:05:11] Speaker 2: Andrew Lee's next game.
[2:05:12] Speaker 12: Got to pay for some work. Go do something. Order
[2:05:14] Speaker 12: some work. You got to do something. What shoe contract
[2:05:17] Speaker 12: are you with? Put on the Andrew Lee's shit.
[2:05:23] Speaker 2: The Pumbaa's, man. The Pumbaa's. Pumbaa's, the morning Pumbaa. No,
[2:05:28] Speaker 2: but you got to play well, though. I believe he's
[2:05:30] Speaker 2: with Nike.
[2:05:30] Speaker 4: Like, you can't go out there, motherfucker, and talk shit,
[2:05:32] Speaker 4: and he's busting your ass, and you're on the verge
[2:05:34] Speaker 4: of going home.
[2:05:36] Speaker 2: Like, no, that don't work. It don't. That does not work.
[2:05:39] Speaker 2: And he not going crazy. Wendell ain't going crazy out
[2:05:42] Speaker 2: there on your ass, either. He solid. 14 and 17
[2:05:43] Speaker 2: on your ass? Mm-hmm. Man, 12 and 11? Yeah. 17
[2:05:52] Speaker 2: and 7? On the series? Man, well, bro.
[2:05:57] Speaker 4: Yeah, but no, on the more serious, no, no. Jalen,
[2:05:59] Speaker 4: you got to get in the lab, young fella, because
[2:06:01] Speaker 4: this is like playoff basketball exposes deficiencies, man. So you
[2:06:05] Speaker 4: can get away with that shit during the regular season,
[2:06:07] Speaker 4: but when you're seeing the same team day in, day out,
[2:06:10] Speaker 4: and they game planning for you what you can't do?
[2:06:14] Speaker 2: Let them shoot it. Playoff basketball is what it is, people.
[2:06:17] Speaker 4: Playoff basketball is scouting report, game planning, what other teams'
[2:06:21] Speaker 4: players cannot do.
[2:06:23] Speaker 2: They can pop. Right?
[2:06:24] Speaker 4: They're going to make you do things you're uncomfortable doing.
[2:06:28] Speaker 2: Show and get back. Show and get back. We got it.
[2:06:32] Speaker 2: Slow rotation back to them. Don't even stunt. The fuck
[2:06:35] Speaker 2: is if he make two, three, great. He don't want
[2:06:38] Speaker 2: to shoot that shit. He got to put the weight
[2:06:39] Speaker 2: down a little bit too strong. Too strong. I was
[2:06:43] Speaker 2: in there yesterday. You got to get in there.
[2:06:46] Speaker 4: But if you're going to be built like that, you're
[2:06:47] Speaker 4: going to be a bull in a china shop.
[2:06:51] Speaker 2: No, no. You got to be a bull in a
[2:06:52] Speaker 2: china shop. You got to be down there, motherfucker. Every office.
[2:06:55] Speaker 2: You got to be out there built. The White House.
[2:06:57] Speaker 2: Throwing bodies around. Ben Wallace was limited offensively. Throwing bodies.
[2:07:01] Speaker 2: Offensive rebounds. All that. You got to do more of that.
[2:07:05] Speaker 2: Get your hand. If you're going to be built that way,
[2:07:08] Speaker 2: use it, young fella.
[2:07:09] Speaker 8: Make motherfuckers scared to box you out.
[2:07:11] Speaker 2: What? I'm coming. A guard down there?
[2:07:13] Speaker 6: Man.
[2:07:13] Speaker 4: They got a business decision to make.
[2:07:16] Speaker 1: Man. And Isaiah Stewart definitely got to step up too.
[2:07:19] Speaker 1: He can't go without being criticized either. Because he can
[2:07:23] Speaker 1: shoot the ball. He can step out there and shoot it.
[2:07:26] Speaker 1: But he looks confused. Like he don't know what to
[2:07:30] Speaker 1: do when he out there.
[2:07:31] Speaker 2: No, he know when he out there and it ain't
[2:07:32] Speaker 2: the right thing. He got to be able to play.
[2:07:35] Speaker 2: Be a player. Because they need him. I've been watching it.
[2:07:38] Speaker 2: I've been watching it every day. I've been watching it
[2:07:40] Speaker 2: in debt. Fight Pablo right now. Just fight somebody. Do
[2:07:43] Speaker 2: what you do now.
[2:07:44] Speaker 4: When your coach puts you back in late, he got
[2:07:46] Speaker 4: to have a conversation with you before he puts you
[2:07:48] Speaker 4: back on the floor.
[2:07:48] Speaker 2: Like, don't do this. Yo, dog. Don't go out there.
[2:07:51] Speaker 2: Before you put him back in for doing late and
[2:07:53] Speaker 2: then he did it anyway. I'm like, yo, dog. Unfortunately.
[2:08:01] Speaker 2: Did it anyway. I can't help myself. Your team needs you.
[2:08:03] Speaker 2: Can't help it. Not in the playoffs, young fella. All right, well,
[2:08:07] Speaker 2: let's wrap up today with our playoff picks. Oh, shit.
[2:08:10] Speaker 2: Where we at? Throughout the whole season, we'll be making
[2:08:12] Speaker 2: team picks using underdogs prediction markets, which you can do
[2:08:15] Speaker 2: as well. We'll keep a leaderboard of the couch's picks
[2:08:18] Speaker 2: throughout the entire season. Hold on. This motherfucker tried to
[2:08:21] Speaker 2: send in one pick. No, no, no. He did it twice.
[2:08:24] Speaker 2: He did two picks on the four pick. Wait, wait,
[2:08:26] Speaker 2: hold on. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. 17 and 11. Wait,
[2:08:28] Speaker 2: hold the fuck up. Wait, hold up. I'm up. I'm
[2:08:33] Speaker 2: all the way up. I went 3-0 last night. What'd
[2:08:35] Speaker 2: I go? I didn't pick the Hornets. I'm over 500.
[2:08:36] Speaker 2: I missed today. You missed like two days, I think.
[2:08:38] Speaker 2: I missed one day. I missed Saturday. There's a few
[2:08:55] Speaker 2: numbers of picks being sent. Y'all better get in there.
[2:08:58] Speaker 2: I'll be in there every morning at 7 a.m. I'm
[2:09:00] Speaker 2: picking my picks. Yeah, they was on early. Y'all need
[2:09:02] Speaker 2: some money. I was in the house doing the message.
[2:09:04] Speaker 2: I sent the video. I told y'all I picked Orlando.
[2:09:06] Speaker 2: I picked Orlando. I told y'all. I spent that on
[2:09:08] Speaker 2: first week. Still time to come back, Swaggy, but let's
[2:09:09] Speaker 2: move on. Hold on. Why is he still on there?
[2:09:20] Speaker 2: The guy that's 2-2. Shout out to Gilbert Arenas, man.
[2:09:23] Speaker 2: It's all right, man. It's all right.
[2:09:25] Speaker 8: For being down with the cause, man, being on the
[2:09:27] Speaker 8: bottom of.
[2:09:28] Speaker 2: The totem pole. Currently in third place at 500. Wherever
[2:09:32] Speaker 2: you hiding at, man. Come on back. I'm about to
[2:09:34] Speaker 2: catch Rashad. I'm about to catch him. So let's start
[2:09:35] Speaker 2: with the pivotal game five between the Hawks and Knicks
[2:09:37] Speaker 2: series tied 2-2. Oh, come on. Knicks with the blowout
[2:09:40] Speaker 2: win in game four. Eating Magic City Wings, a sizable
[2:09:44] Speaker 2: favorite tonight at the Garden with a 70% chance to win.
[2:09:47] Speaker 2: Hawks at a 32% chance to win. Let's go. We'll
[2:09:49] Speaker 2: go around the couch. Who are you guys taking in
[2:09:52] Speaker 2: the Knicks-Hawks game five? Who's going to take a 3-2
[2:09:54] Speaker 2: lead in that series? Knicks. Okay. Knicks. Knicks. Knicks. For Knicks.
[2:10:01] Speaker 2: Knicks for clicks. All right. Staying in the East. Celtics
[2:10:04] Speaker 2: looking to finish off the sixth after embarrassing them on
[2:10:06] Speaker 2: their own board. Can I please? Can I please finish?
[2:10:11] Speaker 2: Brad Stevens named executive of the year today for Boston.
[2:10:14] Speaker 2: Second time he's won that award. Boston's taking its fifth straight.
[2:10:16] Speaker 2: Conference semifinals with Stevens in that role to win. So,
[2:10:19] Speaker 2: Seeds have an 82% chance to win tonight and close
[2:10:22] Speaker 2: out the series. Who'd he bring in? Boston. Everybody Boston. Celtics. Celtics. Spurs, Spurs, Spurs.
[2:10:28] Speaker 2: All right. And be back. There's the name. Joel and
[2:10:32] Speaker 2: B mean anything. That's some bullshit. I don't think my
[2:10:34] Speaker 2: shit right, bro. My shit ain't right at all. Another
[2:10:37] Speaker 2: clinching opportunity. Spurs with a chance to advance with a
[2:10:39] Speaker 2: win tonight on their home floor. When we had that
[2:10:41] Speaker 2: big night in game four. was not rolling with the
[2:10:44] Speaker 2: league's concussion protocol, though. Hold on, let me read the
[2:10:46] Speaker 2: percentages on the underdog prediction markets. If we can, please. So,
[2:10:51] Speaker 2: San Antonio with the best odds of winning tonight, 84%
[2:10:54] Speaker 2: according to underdog's prediction markets. Blades with 17% chance. Shot.
[2:11:00] Speaker 2: You know who he's first, baby. Spurs. Spurs. Spurs. The
[2:11:04] Speaker 2: couch has united, so we will not see any movement.
[2:11:08] Speaker 2: on that leaderboard because you guys have all made the
[2:11:10] Speaker 2: same exact picks. Yeah, it's safe. It's safe. That's okay.
[2:11:13] Speaker 2: It's just still keep going. Okay.
[2:11:15] Speaker 3: I just want to know what we get because I'm participating.
[2:11:19] Speaker 2: Good morning. 6 a.m. I would have been all right, too,
[2:11:21] Speaker 2: because I would have. You'd have been all right. You'd
[2:11:24] Speaker 2: have been all right. I'd be in the chat. Here's
[2:11:26] Speaker 2: my face, y'all. You'd have been all right. Get me down.
[2:11:29] Speaker 2: At 17. Hey, man. Say it. At 17, man. I
[2:11:32] Speaker 2: want a nice check. I need another big check, too.
[2:11:34] Speaker 2: Another big check for Mr.
[2:11:35] Speaker 8: Big.
[2:11:35] Speaker 2: I got one in the house. I kept my last
[2:11:37] Speaker 2: check in the house. I believe because you ain't adding
[2:11:39] Speaker 2: wins yourself. Other people are counting them up, so I
[2:11:41] Speaker 2: trust the count is right. Yeah, I ain't going to
[2:11:43] Speaker 2: cheat you. I'm going to beat you. I ain't going
[2:11:45] Speaker 2: to cheat you. I'm going to beat you. I ain't
[2:11:46] Speaker 2: going to cheat you. I'm going to beat you. I
[2:11:48] Speaker 2: got some good people with my partner helping me with
[2:11:51] Speaker 2: the picks. You know what I'm saying? The books is together.
[2:11:53] Speaker 2: Shout out to the Underdog Perdition Markets. You can join
[2:11:55] Speaker 2: those as well and get your bread up with Underdog.
[2:11:58] Speaker 2: Appreciate everybody in the chat, even the haters. We appreciate
[2:12:01] Speaker 2: y'all for pulling up every single day supporting the show.
[2:12:03] Speaker 2: Appreciate everybody on this couch. This has been another episode
[2:12:07] Speaker 2: of Gil's Arena presented by Underdog. We'll see y'all tomorrow.
[2:12:11] Speaker 2: If you ain't got no haters, if you ain't got

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