Mike Zakarian
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99 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Mike Zakarian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're so hard to kill.
And then all of a sudden, a quick 6-0 run. So who are you picking in game seven? Sounds like you would favor the Nuggets. Yeah, I think I'm going to take Denver.
Yeah, I mean, the Julius Randall thing in particular, even though I told myself like this whole narrative about Julius Randall being terrible in the playoffs, it's based on such a small sample. And part of that sample, we knew he was injured. We knew he was injured. And yet it just became such a popular narrative that you just assumed going into the playoffs, he was going to be bad.
But his style of bully ball was so terrifying in that series. And I'm looking ahead to future potential opponents like him playing that bully ball against the Golden State Warriors. Like, yeah, I could see that working against the Warriors. And so I am starting to drastically change my ceiling for this Wolves team because it does feel like everything is just coalescing at the perfect time.
Yeah, compared to the Lakers, Nuggets, Warriors, they have eight guys you trust. And none of those other teams can say that. I feel great about DiVincenzo, Naha, and Nas. That's an amazing bench for the playoffs. Yeah.
I love, I love the Thompson twins so much. Like watching that game tonight. I know he got like the last shot was bad with, but the play right before that, where he just like bodied up Jalen Brunson on the perimeter, didn't use his hands like at all until he absolutely needed to. Those dudes are just so good.
So back to the Lakers. They're heading in the offseason. The focus once again is on acquiring a center after the Mark Williams trade fell through. Do you feel that this Lakers roster is one center away from being a top tier contender in the West? Or do you still have significant questions about the rest of the roster?
Just by his comments, are you talking about?
I mean, Derek Lively would be very nice. Yeah. Yeah.
And the other first that they somehow didn't get in the trade. Yeah. I could not. I just cannot do it. All right. Mike, it's time to play Andrew versus the beat. Our weekly trivia show where Andrew goes head to head with a beat writer. Now, Mike, how this works, I've come up with eight questions.
All these questions that I've come up with this week are all about, they're all related to the first round of the playoffs in some way. So there's eight questions. You'll give me a number between one and eight. It will correspond to a question. If you get it right, you'll get at least two points.
If you get it wrong, Andrew will have a chance to steal for one, and then we'll go back and forth until all the questions have been asked and answered. So to start us off, Mike, I just need a number between one and eight. All right, let's do three. Question number three. During game five against the Clippers, Russell Westbrook had his first playoff game scoring 20 plus points off the bench.
Who holds the NBA record for most playoff games with 20 plus points off the bench?
Yes, that is correct. I didn't want to get him confused with another Manu. Yeah, see, some of them are easy sometimes.
There's no way that's what it is. I will say Kevin McHale was close I think it was like 27 games to 24 games but it was Manu okay Andrew board is yours oh wait I don't know why I marked out five it's it was three do you think there will ever be another player like Manu ever that will that is that good willing to come off the bench yeah We thought James Harden was that guy.
The Thunder tried to do that.
Andrew, focus. Choose a number. Number one. Sorry. Question number one. In game five, the Minnesota Timberwolves shot 14.9% from three on 47 attempts. Over the last decade, which two NBA teams have shot under 20% six times each in the playoffs? And you get one point per correct answer. So last decade, they each had six games where they shot under 20% from three. Wow. Six games.
2015-16. My brain just immediately goes to Houston. But
Andrew, that is incorrect. Mike, you have a chance to steal. All right. How about the Philadelphia 76ers? That feels right. Well, it feels wrong to me, Andrew, because it's wrong.
I will say that was the hardest question. The two. Now, Andrew, you're going to kick yourself because when you start thinking about it, Oklahoma City Thunder, those okay three years, they had some terrible playoff games. You're talking about playoff P? I'm talking about playoff P. Yeah, I am. And the other team. I was close. Just the wrong P team. I was thinking. That's right.
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