Jorge Sedano
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The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Are the Knicks Actually Better? Plus, Haliburton’s Likability, OKC’s Dominant Game 2, and the Warriors' Chances Without Steph With Jorge Sedano
And once we get to the playoffs and we get that week's worth of rest and we can actually game plan for our first opponent in a real way and get some rest, That's all we want. We'll take our chances from there. And I'm not saying that the NBA has become the NHL or Major League Baseball in regards to home court advantage not mattering as much.
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Are the Knicks Actually Better? Plus, Haliburton’s Likability, OKC’s Dominant Game 2, and the Warriors' Chances Without Steph With Jorge Sedano
But it's certainly starting to skew closer into that direction than it had in previous iterations. So I think that's the first thing. I think clearly the way the officials are calling the game is different. There were multiple calls in that fourth quarter of that Celtics-Knicks game. One on Al Horford where he's in the paint, kind of a turnaround jumper, gets mauled, no call.
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Are the Knicks Actually Better? Plus, Haliburton’s Likability, OKC’s Dominant Game 2, and the Warriors' Chances Without Steph With Jorge Sedano
By the way, on the flip side for the Knicks, Brunson gets hit by Derek White on a three. He's in his landing zone. That would have totally been called in the regular season. So I think the officiating, the way it's called too, I think that certainly, aids the way that these series go. But specifically to this one, to this series, I don't think the Knicks are better than the Celtics.
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Are the Knicks Actually Better? Plus, Haliburton’s Likability, OKC’s Dominant Game 2, and the Warriors' Chances Without Steph With Jorge Sedano
I think the Celtics, and this is going to sound like a cop-out, The Celtics have just had some bad luck, okay? And this whole, you know, the old adage, it's super cliche, live by the three, die by the three. Yeah, the Celtics' expected shooting percentage from three through two games is 38%. They're shooting 25, okay? If they shoot 38%, they win both games pretty much going away.
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Are the Knicks Actually Better? Plus, Haliburton’s Likability, OKC’s Dominant Game 2, and the Warriors' Chances Without Steph With Jorge Sedano
But that's life, right? Like, it's not always going to go according to the math equation. And I think this is where...
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coaching really makes a difference right where the guys who have been here for a long time and have gone deep a number of times will eventually just say you know what I get that this is the way we play but every once in a while I got to go by my gut and say they're not falling we got to change the diet a little bit and I think that's where Missoula has been a little too stubborn
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Are the Knicks Actually Better? Plus, Haliburton’s Likability, OKC’s Dominant Game 2, and the Warriors' Chances Without Steph With Jorge Sedano
in regards to the Celtics, but give the Knicks a ton of credit. They are playing better defensively, Ryan, than they've played all season. I think Mitchell Robinson is a huge key to that. Not only what he's done in the interior, but what he's done on the perimeter too. There were a couple of possessions on Tatum, particularly that I was just like, whoa.
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Are the Knicks Actually Better? Plus, Haliburton’s Likability, OKC’s Dominant Game 2, and the Warriors' Chances Without Steph With Jorge Sedano
I didn't know he would have that in his bag at this stage, considering everything he's dealt with injury-wise, but clearly he's ready. And I'll tell you this, this was a long time ago, earlier in the season, I want to say late November around Thanksgiving, I had the Knicks and Suns. And I remember sitting there talking to Tibbs and, you know, their defense was a mess.
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I mean, it was a mess most of the season, but certainly at the beginning of the season, it was really bad. And people were like, dude, what's going on? They got Bridges, they got Ananobi, like what's, and he was saying, he was pushing back on that and saying like, hey man, it's not as bad as people think, okay? You know, guys, they're just, they're hitting tough shots on us.
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Are the Knicks Actually Better? Plus, Haliburton’s Likability, OKC’s Dominant Game 2, and the Warriors' Chances Without Steph With Jorge Sedano
You know, we're going to get some guys back. At that time, they were missing Achua and they were missing Robinson. And he was kind of telling us, he said it that day in November, if we get Mitch back, we're a different team defensively. And it's showing right now.
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Are the Knicks Actually Better? Plus, Haliburton’s Likability, OKC’s Dominant Game 2, and the Warriors' Chances Without Steph With Jorge Sedano
Well, and it's a great analogy because if you look at that series, right, you're talking about a team that had Eric Spolstra, who, I mean, look, Tibbs is not Eric Spolstra as far as his accomplishments, but Tibbs has been through enough of these wars to know what it takes this time of year. Like, think about it. The Knicks are playing defense in a way they had not played all season.
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They're switching more than they've ever switched. As a matter of fact, in the first two games, Monday's game was the most – a Tibbs team has ever switched in the regular season or the playoffs. Okay. And then game one was, I believe the fourth most in, in, in any, in any time in his next tenure. So again, it's the type of stuff where you say, Hey,
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you know what, I know we've played a certain way and it's gotten us to this point, but I need to do something different against this particular beast. So Eric Spoelstra was certainly capable of doing that. He's as good in a game adjuster and game to game adjuster as there is. And Tibbs is kind of learning that or has learned that over time too, right?
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That he was the guy at times that was too stubborn in the way that he did things. And he's now kind of evolved. Can Missoula do that too? And look, ultimately in the fourth quarters, you've kind of already started to allude to it. I mean, Tatum and Brown are being outplayed by Ananobian bridges.
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Like, and you can't have, I mean, Brunson, we know, but like you can't have them be outplayed by Ananobian bridges too.
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Are the Knicks Actually Better? Plus, Haliburton’s Likability, OKC’s Dominant Game 2, and the Warriors' Chances Without Steph With Jorge Sedano
No. He's so easy going.
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Are the Knicks Actually Better? Plus, Haliburton’s Likability, OKC’s Dominant Game 2, and the Warriors' Chances Without Steph With Jorge Sedano
Yeah. He's so easy going. It's like, it does suck for him in that sense because he's not controversial in any way, shape or form. I mean, the biggest controversy was the joke that we always used to say, you know, how young he was. Right. Like, yeah. Right. What is he? Is he still like 22? Like whatever it is. Like, but, He's just so unassuming.
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And I think that for whatever reason, that becomes some sort of controversy, which is wild. But here's the thing. I think it all boils down to what we started talking about. You know, the team saw the Celtics and the way they've played the last couple of seasons right under Missoula. And these other teams have said, OK, we know how they want to play and we're going to do our best job.
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Are the Knicks Actually Better? Plus, Haliburton’s Likability, OKC’s Dominant Game 2, and the Warriors' Chances Without Steph With Jorge Sedano
To counter that, and in this case, the Knicks have done a lot of switching, which has probably thrown off the Celtics a tad bit, even though they're getting great looks, particularly in the fourth quarter. It just throws them off. And the level of physicality.
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Are the Knicks Actually Better? Plus, Haliburton’s Likability, OKC’s Dominant Game 2, and the Warriors' Chances Without Steph With Jorge Sedano
There is going to be, and I'm guessing you've seen this, a narrative out there that, hey, you know, they weren't really tested all that much last year. And maybe that is somewhat true, right? They weren't really tested, particularly even in the finals all that much.
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They were a team that when the games were leading up to the Eastern Conference finals, they were a team that when the games were close, you were like, oh, can they actually win those games? And then we saw in the Eastern Conference finals and I was there front and center for it because I was on the radio call on those games.
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where they snatched those games in Indianapolis, and they were able to kind of overcome some of that. But I do think it's basically what we've already talked about, is they have a style of play, and teams are adjusting to it, and that's why it's so freaking hard to repeat in this sport.
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Oh, you know, it's funny. I can give you like a podium here, like a gold, silver and bronze. The gold was always Michael Malone. Listen, I'm sorry that he's gone because he made my job way easier. Probably so much. He was so honest that he probably got himself fired because of it. So but he was definitely the gold medalist. There is no doubt like he would rip his freaking guy's
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Not even like think twice about it on national television anytime I did one of those interviews. So you can imagine what those things were like behind the scenes at times. I would say Steve Kerr is probably my silver medalist in that situation. And then bronze medalist. See, that one can get tough. There's probably a lot of guys that I would go with there.
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You know, Chris Finch, I don't think people would go with that one. But, you know, I guess you saw a little bit of that in his postgame the other night, right, where he talked about and and having to set the tone. He said those things to us on and off the record a number of times. So I would say Finch is is a surprise bronze medalist.
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Are the Knicks Actually Better? Plus, Haliburton’s Likability, OKC’s Dominant Game 2, and the Warriors' Chances Without Steph With Jorge Sedano
How is Bill right now? I don't really know Bill that well. We've had some interactions over the years. How is he? Is he okay?
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Okay, me neither. So that's why. I'm going to listen on the flight to Denver.
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Are the Knicks Actually Better? Plus, Haliburton’s Likability, OKC’s Dominant Game 2, and the Warriors' Chances Without Steph With Jorge Sedano
So let me ask you this. I'm going to pull a bill right now. Is this the biggest game at Madison Square Garden since game one of the 1999 finals?
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Right, but I mean, off the top of my head, there has not been a bigger game at Madison Square Garden since then. And you got Mike Breen doing your game, Knicks fans. You can't complain about who the announcer is going to be. Look, I think I could.
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Are the Knicks Actually Better? Plus, Haliburton’s Likability, OKC’s Dominant Game 2, and the Warriors' Chances Without Steph With Jorge Sedano
So that's the Carmelo team. Is that against the Heat?
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Oh, it's against the Pacers. Right. That was the Roy Hibbert verticality game. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, it's been 40 years since these teams played in the playoffs, you know? So, like, this rivalry is really for a bunch of – it's like when Ryan Rosillo and Jordan Sedano were, like, in elementary school at best. You know what I mean? Like, come on.
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That's the reason I was in martial arts, because my dad said, you're too skinny. You need to learn to fight.
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I don't know if I'm that comfortable, but they, look, It's funny because we just talked about this, and I hate when fans do this, so I'm not going to do this. I mean, they played, even though they got swept by the Celtics, those games were competitive last year. And I think that experience is invaluable for a team like that because Siakam was just kind of thrown in there a few months earlier.
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Now they've had a full season. You know, Halliburton... You know, for all the talk about overrated. What's this laugh? Yeah, he's just kind of sticking it to everybody right now. I'm sure that athletic article will look different next year. And I have a theory on that. I'd love to get your theory on if you would agree with this theory.
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That theory to me, the overrated thing with Halliburton is because he was on the Olympic team. And I think a bunch of guys feel like he didn't deserve that. Or other guys probably felt like they should have been in there instead of him.
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I think the calls plays a bigger factor there. Just the hunting of fouls, I think. Kind of like Harden, you know, obviously. So there was that, too, you know, with him.
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Well, it's also not aesthetically pleasing, right, to watch him. Like, he's kind of awkward. His motions are kind of herky-jerky. But that sidestep, when he gets to that sidestep on the three, forget about it. Like, I mean, that's how he got Ty Jerome and put him on skates. You know what I mean? Like, he is, I think he's super fun to watch. Um, he knows when to push the pace.
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He knows when to kind of slow it down to your point. Incredible IQ. Um, I like him personally too, like in my, whatever small interactions I've had with him over the years. Um, I like him a lot. Um, I, I like the drawing, you know, for all the old timers, it's funny that say like, Oh, the NBA is too friendly. He's not, he's not like super friendly. Um, by the way, I'll, I'll ask you this.
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I have friendly Albert. I didn't know this. I would say I have a lot of friends who kind of were in that boat of the NBA. I'm not watching as much anymore, blah, blah, blah. They're way more locked in in this play in these playoffs than they had in previous years. Like I'm getting a ton of texts of like, yo, these playoffs are awesome.
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It's the first time I'm really watching like intently in a couple of years. Have you had any of that with like some of your like more casual friends?
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yeah, it is pretty wild. And I think that you, you kind of hit the right note there. It's parody. Like we are in the era of parody. We've been kind of talking about it for a while with the six different champions or whatever in the last six years. And I think that it's going to be good. I think it's gonna be a net positive for the NBA. Um,
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I know that some fans are frustrated based on the second apron and this, that and the other. But I think it's going to make it more like football in the sense of it's going to even the playing field as long as you have a smart front office and a smart coach.
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And I think a lot of teams now have way better coaching than we've had across the board in a very, very long time, at least as long as I can remember. And I think some of these front offices are really smart too.
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Like, I don't think we're going to see, Giannis will be a different deal, but we mentioned Rudy and I feel like terrible crapping on Rudy again, but that Rudy Gobert deal, I don't think is going to happen again. Right. Even the bridges deal, like five firsts for bridges. Like, I don't think that stuff is going to happen anymore.
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Just because of the way you have to have some flexibility with what your assets are. Like you can't just unload them all. Granted, maybe if you have, somebody else's assets, you can do that. But I just think teams are going to be a little more shrewd in that regard. And I think all of that will make the sport better.
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Are the Knicks Actually Better? Plus, Haliburton’s Likability, OKC’s Dominant Game 2, and the Warriors' Chances Without Steph With Jorge Sedano
And we're in this kind of transition phase of the young guys are really starting to assert themselves, right? We saw Ant last year a little bit. Now, you know, we saw him in the first round, you know, How will he respond in game two in this series, right? Can he take Steph down? Halliburton for whatever it's worth, right? You know, small market guy, you know, really taking charge in a series.
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I think all those things, SGA, right? Like Mr. Cool, his teammates adore him, right? These are all things if you're the NBA, you should be focusing on and kind of taking that next step beyond LeBron and Curry because clearly we're at the end of those guys. Thank you.
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So I'm going to take you back to last season. OK, I and this is where I knew like, oh, I think this team has got a level of swag to them and confidence that I didn't expect from a young team with a young coach. And it's going to be a diagonal meeting. Right. So we're doing a game in Phoenix. It's me, Mark Jones and Doris Burke.
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And Dagnall comes in and he's a young coach, whatever he was at this point, I guess, second year or whatever it was, because he was he'd been there with the OKC Blue and then and then was was there and became and was promoted to the Thunder coach. So he comes into the meeting.
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And I'm telling you, dude, dude comes in like super chill, you know, kind of puts his feet on the ottoman and like crosses his arms and like talking to a super matter of fact about like how confident his team is and how confident they are about their process. And I'm going to tell you, Ryan, that's just not the norm with young coaches.
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Like they come into those meetings and they're probably bugged out, but they're a little guarded is what I would say. And this dude was not. He was like super comfortable in that environment. And we all walked away from that going like, oh, OK, well, this is different and different than what we expected. And then we saw kind of what they did last season.
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You know, they go through kind of the the growing pains of losing to Dallas or whatever. But what I would say is overall is A, the confidence of Dagnall in the group and the willingness to understand that everything is a teachable moment, right? And I'm guessing, and I was not there for game one, and I'm guessing that game one was an incredible teachable moment.
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By the way, for him and the players on the way you handle a playoff game, because I don't know how you felt about game one and the ending of it, but I looked at it this way. several crucial errors. Number one, playing the foul game way too early with whatever it was, 16, 15, 16 seconds to go, putting Jokic on the line. That's mistake number one.
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Mistake number two, Shea having that easy look at the cup and not dribbling the ball out a little bit and taking off a couple of seconds. That's what a veteran team there does, gets fouled, right? And And then number three, the immediate foul afterwards with Jokic on the sideline, putting Gordon on the line and getting Jokic back in the game. Like I thought all those things were mistakes.
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And they haven't played a lot of close games this year. They have the least amount of clutch games, 24. They were, I believe, 16 and eight in those games. But again, we've just talked about the regular season versus the postseason. It's just going to be different. All of it is going to be different. The intensity is different. The preparation is different.
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And the discipline is going to be different. So I feel like every time I watch them, regular season or postseason, I feel like they come away from that. You know how teams always say, oh, we'll look at the film and we'll figure out what we did wrong. I feel like when I watch them, they do take that lesson and apply it immediately, right? They don't lose a lot of games.
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They haven't lost a lot of back-to-back games. They haven't lost three in a row, I think, at all this season, if I recall correctly. Maybe it happened once. But... That's what I've taken away from them, the level of maturity that they have as a group and the fact that they allow their coach to coach them.
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And by the way, understanding that sometimes their coach needs to kind of go through the growing pains, too. And I think everyone understanding that, because I think he's one of the best coaches in the sport already. And people are going to say, oh, yeah, yeah. Sure, dumbass. He won coach of the year last year. Thanks, Captain Obvious.
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But we've seen a lot of guys win coach of the year and get fired the next year. So I don't know if that means necessarily anything. But the other part of it is this, Ryan, and to me, from a player perspective, this is the most important part. And this is the storyline I consistently harp on about this team to everybody. And Dagnall was the first one to tell me this. And then I saw it, right?
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They understand the pecking order, okay? They understand this is Shea's team, okay? And then it's J-Dub and, you know, Chet to some extent. And then everyone else fills in the gaps, right? Young teams don't do that. You've covered this league a long time. That is not the mantra of most young teams.
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Most young teams and young players want to get theirs because they want to get their stats because they want to get paid. And I think this team has realized, hey, we'll all get taken care of if we just play the roles we're supposed to play and we have the success we think we can have. And they're a living, breathing embodiment of that type of philosophy.
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Yeah, it would be incredibly tough. Although, I mean, listen, we were just talking about, you know, to start this thing, right? Like the Milwaukee Miami series and like how the Boston series mirrors that some. I mean, we've seen Jimmy Butler pull a lot of rabbits out of his hat this time of year. Right. So I at least give them a puncher's chance still. But I would go big.
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because of what Adams did. I mean, Adams was only nullified in game seven because Buddy Heald turned into Clay Thompson, you know, prime Clay Thompson. Now he had that same moment again in game one, but I'm willing to take that bet. Okay.
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Cause I've witnessed Buddy Heald, even though he shot 37% for the season, I've witnessed Buddy Heald go through stretches during the regular season where he shot 30% from three for long periods of time, by the way. So I, I'm willing to make that bet because they can their advantage is their their their strength.
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They can muck it up in a way that I don't think Golden State can keep up with because they don't have the I mean, yes, they have Looney and whatnot, but they want to keep Draymond on the on on the court. But Draymond was in foul trouble in that game. And I think that the bigger they play, the better the chances Draymond's in foul trouble.
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And then I think you kind of wear down the Warriors over time. And I think that with Ant, again, similar to what we talked about with the Celtics, If the three's not falling, and I know he hit more threes than anybody this year, and it's an incredibly important aspect to his game this season because it does help him on the drive, but I still feel like he's not driving enough.
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I've said that all season. He did that in the second half, which is why it became a little closer on the scoreboard, but too little too late, right? If your shot's not falling, he's doing all the other things. He's getting teammates involved. He's rebounding the ball. He's not even turning the ball over very much, to be honest with you. But it's that.
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It's just knowing like, hey, man, you know what? First three or four is not falling. I got to get to the rim because I have an inherent advantage from an athleticism standpoint that I can get by pretty much anybody on this team. So I think it's that. It's about managing the game. And that's a conversation I've had
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with Chris Finch over the season, which is, you know, him, we forget he's still only 23 years old, right? Like there is still a learning curve here for him as great as he's been already to this point in his career. And we love to anoint people really fast. And I think he will be a guy that we will anoint. Don't get me wrong. But I think that
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we live in such a world though, where it's like immediate instant, like gratification that, you know, it's always like the highest of high or the lowest of the low, right? You're the greatest thing since sliced bread, or you're the worst thing ever. And he's kind of felt that now in, in the last couple of games between the Lakers series and now game one of this series. So for me,
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I think it's about the way he reads the game and Finch is right. It's how he sets the tone and setting the tone means, Hey, if my shot's not falling, I got to figure out how to get the ball in the basket and how to make sure I can still impact this game offensively, whether that's drawing two to me, right.
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And making sure that I get guys an open look, or when that two is coming, you know, I got to make a quick decision to split and get to the rim. Right. So I think that it's going to be on Ant for them to figure this out. But I do think playing big is the smarter way to go because I think you can just bludgeon Golden State to death, particularly without Steph out there.
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So I'm in Denver for games three and four. Game three, Friday night. Game four, that's on ESPN. That's the late game. And then game four is a day game on ABC. So 3.30 Eastern on ABC. And it'll be me, Mark Jones, Jay Billis for both games.
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Thanks. Always a pleasure, brother. Thanks for having me.
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So what I get, Ryan, and first of all, thanks for having me on. By the way, great to see you a couple weeks ago at the Lakers game against the T-Wolves. But what I would say is I think teams now are just like, for the most part, keep me out of the play-in.