JJ Redick

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214 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 4 May

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The Zach Lowe Show · Playoff Drama! NBA First-Round Action Heats Up With Rob Mahoney. · 28 Apr 2025 podcast

And all that's left to do now is for Giannis and the Bucs, maybe individually, maybe in conjunction, but ultimately, no matter what happens, it's going to be up to Giannis to decide what to do with that reality. Do we sit in it and be a one team star forever and do our best? And that's cool. And hope.

There's some miraculous set of events that delivers some talent here that I just could not possibly foresee. Or do we not? And that's just where we are. I don't want to get into like the fake trades. But look, the uncomfortable reality is there is no path to this team winning in the next three or four years. They don't control their draft. There's just nothing they can do.

And it's now just up to Giannis to sit with that and decide his career.

And also, you know what they can never take away? No one can ever take away the ring.

They got a ring. Drew got a ring. Everything after that has not gone great, but they got a championship. Never, ever, ever nitpick the draft picks, nitpick the trades, whatever. They got a championship. It's the whole reason we do this and they got one.

AJ Green just does what he does consistently. You mentioned Middleton. And are we here anyway, no matter what? Although, obviously, the opportunity cost is what it is of doing the Dame trade and having it backfire.

I look back at that 2022 Bucs team as a big, big what if, with Middleton missing essentially the entire playoffs, and yet they still go toe-to-toe with Boston in a seven-game series that ends in what will forever be remembered as the Grant Williams game without Middleton. And I've said this before.

Everyone that I know on the Celtics, within the Celtics, came out of that series with one universal reaction, which was, we never want to see that fucking dude in a playoff series again about Giannis. That's how good he was that year. And he's still incredible. He's probably 97% as good as he was in that year, maybe a little bit less than that.

And they had a championship team that year with Drew still, and Middleton wasn't there, and they just didn't have enough. And then they pivoted the next year the way they pivoted. We all know Nets, Rockets, Heat, whoever else wants to get into it, Knicks. A lot of it will depend on the playoffs and what happens to some of these teams in the next round or two or whatever. Yeah.

Unlike what we saw the Brooklyn nets do. they have no vehicle to get those draft picks back. The Nets got some of their picks back because they had Phoenix draft assets. There was this theoretical, could Atlanta get their picks back by trading Trey Young to the Spurs? That wasn't a crazy, implausible idea. There's no pathway that I can see anyway to reclaiming ownership of those picks.

And it's just... It's just, you know, look, Giannis has two years plus one left on his deal after this. Dame has two years left to play our option for $58.5 million in 26-27. It just sucks. It all sucks. And here the Pacers are again. Now, I thought the Pacers were going to win this series anyway. Now they're almost certainly going to win it up 3-1 going home.

Tyrese Halliburton just cackling, literally cackling on the floor after every play that he makes. And a looming Pacers-Cavs series that is kind of interesting. And just as an aside, I asked you to pick a team of the weekend for this wild weekend. Just to go deep cut, I picked the Cavs because I thought that Cavs' Game 3 performance in Miami was, like, cruel enough championship cruelty.

Like we are coming to take the soul of your franchise. We are going to extinguish any hope you have of like, oh, we're coming home. Like someone will get hot. Maybe we can steal a game. And they came and they were like, we are going to dig your grave, throw you in the grave, stomp on your face a few more times, bury your corpse, and then light the whole graveyard on fire.

And I was like, oh my God, this is a nasty fucking team. I think they're going to beat the Pacers in the next round, but the Pacers have some interesting answers to throw at them. And the last thing I'll say, all the shirts that the teams are wearing,

I'm interested to see what shirt... the Grizzlies come out for, for game five. Cause I think they have the, they have the Thunder figured out, right?

I think they've really figured that one out.

Look out, look out. Okay. See in game five, back in the Thunderdome. OK, are we ready to move on to series number two? Sure. Wolves, Lakers. Holy fuck. What a wild game for in Minnesota. The Wolves take both games at home to go up 3-1. The Lakers are on the brink. The end game of this was so crazy that my notes are like just a page long on that. LeBron had a block. a strip.

And then Jada McDaniels got an and one to put Minnesota up one on a beautiful play by Ann, who capped a masterpiece game by stringing out a trap. Didn't panic. I'm going to string this out. I'm going to string this out. Found Nas Reed, who was sensational, who found McDaniels. And then... All hell broke loose in the game with Minnesota up by one.

Luka brought the ball up and fell, slash got tripped, slash the last two-minute report will be interesting. JJ is mad about it. And then LeBron threw away the inbounds pass, slash it was stolen. Then Ant fell and looked to be falling before LeBron hit his wrist in what was a foul, but he looked to be slipping anyway.

It was called a foul on a plus challenge by Chris Finch, who has coached a fantastic series every way around and made the two free throws. Then it looked like Minnesota was trying to foul up three and didn't. And Austin Reeves got a quarter three and missed.

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