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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
could never string together any sort of stops, and it was just too easy. Well, they played two guys who can't play defense in Towns and Brunson. That's a problem to begin with.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
And then Bridges was, like I said, so bad last night that basically there was three guys out there who weren't doing anything defensively against a team who has been the best offensive team in the league that doesn't turn the ball over, that has been shooting like crazy during the playoffs.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
We've talked about best three-point percentage, best two-point percentage, and they're getting a shot almost every single time. It adds up. It adds up to 130 points. Mm-hmm. That's going to be a problem, though, for the Knicks going forward. How do they ever really build a good defense when your point guard and your center are giving it up every single time? Because that was the thing.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
It was like when Halliburton would beat Bridges and Brunson at the top for a screen. There was nobody inside.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Yeah, but they're playing Robinson with him as a center, and he's getting ran out of the gym by Siakam. I mean, Siakam's lighting up Carl Anthony Towns in this series every time he gets the ball.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
He also can't play that many minutes.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
They have been losing a lot at Madison Square Garden. A lot.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
No, that's true. Because Tyrese Halliburton was feeling it from the tip, doing it for dad out there. After game three, he said, that's not us offensively. We slowed down in the fourth quarter. We scored 100 points. That's nothing. So he came out super aggressive in the first quarter. I couldn't believe it when they set his line at the end of 12 minutes.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
They didn't show him until the game was well in hand. Yeah. I mean, you're seeing here, that's Tyrese Halliburton's final line, 32, 12, and 15. And I think that's the first time we saw Johnny H. So I think they showed him two times before the end of the 48-minute buzzer. I think so, too. Was off. And then they showed him a lot of times as soon as the game was over.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
He did bring the towel back with him. Of course. Yeah. He just has one Tyrese towel or several. I mean, why would you change a lucky towel at this point? I think he's got one. Yeah. Yeah.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Maybe, because I think her second hit was about Josh Hart and whether or not it was his idea to come off the bench. That's true, that's true. He probably wants to move back into the starting lineup because it's not going well on the bench.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
He had, what, five turnovers last night?
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Bridges had three. Bridges were three lazy turnovers.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
15 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists, and 3 threes in the first quarter. He was looking for his shot. He was driving. He was hitting the step-back threes. And then he just kept it going the entire night. Finished with 32, 12 rebounds, 15 assists, 4 steals. And the big number everybody's talking about. Zero assists. Incredible performance. Zero turnovers. Zero performance.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Oh, somebody could touch that thing.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Very funny. I'm like, oh yeah, there he is. You think they traded glasses at all? Wow. I might. Let me try those on. You can try mine.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
And I've never seen a hat like that before. Did you see his entire look? Oh, man, yeah. Spike Lee wears garments that no other person has ever purchased. He's got like that weird jersey of Jalen Brunson, but it's also a bubble down vest that kind of like Christmas trees out or something like that. Unusual garments. What would you call that hat?
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Like a Mars Blackman sort of modified lid there. This is definitely an indoor hat. It's not keeping the sun off your face.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Yeah.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Just swearing. Just cussing. Just cussing out Timmy and Spike and Ben. Send them home with their ears ringing. You can see the Pacers bench, Obi Toppin, Thomas Bryant, James Johnson. laughing as he's doing this. That was a great, like, celeb get hyped up promo for sure.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
I saw Halliburton post-game was like, yeah, it was awesome that my dad was there, but... Triple H was there, too, and that was pretty fire.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
That was a turnover by myself right there. Zero turnovers, though. But you look at how the Knicks played the game. They had 17 assists and 17 turnovers for the entire game. Tyrese Halliburton, I'll play them from a passing standpoint. And then it just kind of all filters down from there. He was playing so fast that it really unlocked Pascal Siakam.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Look at this angle.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Yeah, this actually made me respect the Hulk Hogan leg drop. I was like, that doesn't look like it actually hurts.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Yeah, that was a brutal foul on Benedict Matherin's head, but a beautiful foul was Carl Anthony Towns grabbing a hold of Miles Turner's wrist. recreating the creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel. I've never seen that kind of foul. Just hand around wrist. A lot of people were saying, how is this a foul on Cat? It's because he's the one that's grabbing the wrist completely here.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
There was also a time when Carl Anthony Towns was shooting free throws in the third quarter and you could hear a Pacers fan meowing. Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. I didn't catch that. Pretty funny. The Pacers fans were great last night. They brought out all their legends. Darren Collison, George Hill, Lance Stevenson, Antonio Davis, Danny Granger.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
I was going to say Danny Granger.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
One of the downsides to the Knicks starting Mitchell Robinson is that Carl Anthony Towns has to guard Pascal Siakam. And guess what? He can't. 12 fast break points for Siakam in this one. It felt like he was the fastest guy on the court. He was outrunning Towns after every miss, after a lot of makes, and then on every turnover. He was just a blur in transition.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
He's been on the road a lot, I'm sure, during the playoffs.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
I know I did when we got back from three days in New York. I just felt like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man terrorizing the city. Just from all the food? More so of not doing anything. No exercise, man. No exercise. I'm not like Taz getting up early to go work out on the road. That's true.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
No, I just can't stop thinking what Lee Ellis' favorite Spike Lee movie is.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
No, no, no. I mean, just probably He Got Game.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
It's a basketball movie. But then you never know with Lee Lee. He could come out of nowhere with something. What? He'd probably go with that, though. Yeah, that would be my guess. I mean, Do the Right Thing, obviously a classic. Yeah. New Spike Lee movie coming out this summer. Going to be great.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Highest to lowest, yeah.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Unless they were joking on the broadcast. They brought that up. Reggie was saying it. No, it makes sense. We also did see a Denzel Washington. He's doing a play in New York or something right now. It was like Denzel and Jake Gyllenhaal on our very few walks on the street. That's done. That's done?
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Then you would see Towns huffing and puffing on his way back. It hasn't worked moving Mitchell Robinson into the starting lineup. This has been an awesome series for Siakam who had 35 rebounds, a couple assists, a steal, a block, and three three-pointers last night. He's done it the entire series so far. 26-5-3, 54-50, and an odd 70% from the line. Guy just can't make a free throw. Very flat.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Let's tear down that banner then. Was it Macbeth? I think you're right. It was Shakespeare for sure. Okay.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Two total turnovers for Siakam in four games as well. The Pacers take care of the ball. They get a ton of shots. They played Pacers basketball last night, and it was awesome to watch.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
He did. That was a good one. I'd also maybe throw Aaron Neesmith game one against the Knicks into the mix. Eight three-pointers? Yeah. I mean, yeah. Save the game for him. Yeah.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Josh Howard. Wow. Honestly, that's crazy because when you look at this graph, if it was just LeBron James, he would have the second most all-star appearances of any first team. Full all-rookie team. Quite the anomaly, yes. He has 21 all-star appearances, and 2013 right there has 22 as the most.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
2013.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Willie Hernan Gomez was first-team All-Rookie? Yeah. That's a bad draft. And Bede made it, right? Playing 31 games in his third season.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Made first-team all-rookie.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
That is a brutal draft.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Hernan Gomez, that is odd. Was he a Knick then?
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
I think he might have been.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
2013 draft, I think, is also kind of funny because it's Giannis is the 15th pick, but he made second team and Rudy Gobert is the 27th pick. Didn't make it either of the all-rookie teams, so their number is very, very low.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Zion, maybe not Zion. I don't assume as hard as I used to assume.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
He wasn't great this year.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
I don't think those three are going to make any more.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
No, I'd love to hear that.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Two-time MVP, NBA champion.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Hall of Famer.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Keep growing, too. Yeah, exactly. Put some muscles on. We've got to get him in here and get some of Tass's creaky, freaky yogurt.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
And Jokic was drafted that season in 2014, but he didn't come over until his second year and then made first team all-rookie in 15-16, but he wasn't a rookie that season.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Wait, are we saying first or second?
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
I'm feeling good with the under.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Mm-hmm. Maybe Castle if the Spurs are really good and he somehow ends up as the second guy, which is seeming less likely now that they got the number two pick and traded for De'Aaron Fox. So I think under is good. I mean, the Blazers are going to have to rise quite a bit with Klingin as the main reason for him to be the guy. Zach Eadie I don't think is an all-star.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Risa Shea, the Hawks would have to completely change the way they've played for the past 20 years and start winning some games for him to be the guy.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
How about this for a take? Nikola Topic will make more all-star teams than both the first and second team combined. I'll take that bet. I don't think so. One. He would make one, is my guess.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
What about 2014, as in the 2013-14 draft? Because Giannis is second team.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Because he's got a... He was on that Booz Ellis path. That makes sense to me. Draymond didn't make an all-rookie team?
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Hall of Famer?
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Wow. Wait, so he was tied, you said? Yeah.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
They put them both on, though?
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Okay, good, yeah. Because once you're looking through it and you see that there were seven players on that first team after the 2011 draft, that's crazy.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
It's like, they're tied, who cares? They're tied, who cares?
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
He played a season and a half with the Bucks. He averaged 18 a game during the 13-14 season.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
That's the one. They won 15 games that season. So they were bad.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
They drafted Giannis one year, then they drafted Jabari Parker after that. I don't remember this. I don't think he was ever close.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
All right, great. Lance Stevenson, one year. I think it was during the 13-14 year. He didn't get voted All-Star Game, and it kind of like... sent their season into a tailspin because he started trying to play like he was an all-star after that that was the end of that era of the Pacers him not making the all-star team
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Well, yeah, he's a big dude. He was big, at least. He was a big dude. He was a big dude. Who was the name that you were most delighted to see when you were looking at all these hockey teams?
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
the Dirty D Dufferin' more Dirty D Spencer's gift spirit Halloween, I want to be a franchise
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
I mean, that is a good one for sure.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Yeah, I was kind of shocked to see, honestly, when I saw the 2019 All-Rookie First Team and Aiton and Marvin Bagley made it. That was a surprise to me.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
He was a second-year guy, too.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Well, no, because he sat out his first season.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Maybe he does.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
His name needs to... I don't know, man. He had so many dunks last night. He hit that huge three from the corner after the Matherin pass.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
You heard it here first. Have a great time. Turn up. Love you guys. Awesome.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
He's been dominating in this series. I don't... Maybe you would say Brunson is the second best player in this series over the course of things, but... Siakam's been a lot more reliable than him, so you could say the Pacers have the two best players in this series so far.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
That's the most rebounds he's ever had in a game. It was Westbrook-like in that he was able to turn defensive rebounds into quick baskets right away. That was super impressive from Halliburton. I also got to say, just a brutal game from Mikael Bridges. This guy got lit up last night. He's a good off-ball defender, and he does not have an answer for Tyrese Halliburton with the ball.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
down the stretch it was a screen and roll with Neesmith who played an awesome game last night no surprise gutsy performance by this guy to come out and play on a bad ankle didn't look bad at all but down the stretch it was Neesmith screening for Halliburton like every single time so that Brunson and Bridges were both in the action Brunson No, he's no help at all.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
And Bridges is taking bad angles on the screen or getting hit by the screen. And that's why Halliburton was able to get in the lane so many times. The only time he came close to having a turnover, he threw one jump pass, but he left his feet, didn't really know what to do with it, and then somehow still finds Miles Turner underneath for the basket.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
But you got to be disappointed if you're a Knicks fan to see Bridges play this way. He... somehow scored 17 points on 15 shots. That seemed a lot better than I anticipated because the ball kept finding him in the fourth quarter for big shots. And it was just a brick fest from this guy. He was two for 11 in the lane, does not want to take a layup. He wants to take only fadeaways inside.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
And that's a risky proposition. And then, like I said, on defense, he was literally a cone. He was no resistance at all for Halliburton. And this is a team that shoots a lot of threes, but they want to get in the lane for the most part. So Halliburton shredding them, pretty bad stuff from Bridges.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Not the case at all. He looked awesome in this one. I said it was Neesmith screening for Halliburton there at the end. It was actually Nembhard because they're trying to hide Brunson on Nembhard. Nonetheless, the 16 points, couple of threes, that's cool for Neesmith. But you mentioned the defense. In the 30 minutes he played...
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Jalen Brunson went three for 13 from the field, scored 10 points in the, I guess it would be 18 minutes. He said, I think Brunson had a plan about 40. So in about 10 more minutes with knee Smith off Brunson went six of six from the field, went to the free throw line eight times and scored 21 points.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Knee Smith was instrumental in winning this game and he looked completely unfazed playing through an ankle injury. It's the playoffs. He's not hurt.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Mark's Work Warehouse.
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They cut it down. Oh, Work Ware.
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Oh, okay. I like it. I'll visit next time I'm there, which will be never. Mark's. Mark's.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Literally in Game 3, Reggie Miller just said, Benedict Mathren has been... So bad in this series. Sounds like a fan talking about his team, which that's exactly what's happening on the broadcast. But he was like James Franco eating pie in the first Spider-Man. So good. He was just driving. He was relentless. And he was, you know, I said Siakam was probably the fastest guy out there.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Mathren, when he was checked in for his minutes, he's like, I got 12 minutes. I'm going as hard as possible as I can. That pass he had to Siakam in the corner, he barely even caught the ball. Yeah. I think it was McConnell maybe fumbled it away, somehow gets to Matherin. He almost fumbles it away. Instead, it turns to three from the corner from Matherin. He is a weird player for this team.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
He's like the one guy on their team who doesn't really pass the ball, who kind of just goes out there to score, isn't getting involved in the actions. But that's what they needed in the third quarter.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Speaking of our vision though, kudos to ESPN for that cool sort of shot chart. It showed the shot makes. The actual player? Yeah, the player on the spot.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
He had eight points in the second half. He needed help.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
inside at all. I mean, he's been pretty poor the entire playoffs shooting at the rim, but in that game, same amount of points that they scored tonight, 88 points for the Minnesota Timberwolves. That being said, it doesn't feel like OKC can play worse, almost. They did not feel like, it did not feel like them for an entire half.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Well, Sesame Street just got signed by Netflix. Got signed. Got signed. New contract for Sesame Street. I don't know. Ant can sort of interject himself into Sesame Street. Spike. And Julius Randall. Spike. I just think of the pregnant actor on Degrassi High.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Das ist unglaublich. Ja, ja, ja.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Anyway. Netflix.ca. The Minnesota Timberwolves, I suppose they feel like we can recover after a bad Game 1. They did against Golden State Warriors. They lost Game 1. They scored 88 points. But this is a very much better team in OKC. Again, who had a... Hatte ein schlechtes Spiel. Sie sahen sich nicht so aus, bis sie es aufgenommen haben. Das ist viel besser als die Golden State Warriors.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
I won't be back for the second game. I'll continue the dox, actually. Our server said that your face reminded her of her uncle Chris. She just literally said... Du siehst aus wie mein Onkel Chris.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Backhanded compliment to Chris. He's cool. I haven't talked to him in years.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Die Endives stecken aus wie eine Picket-Fence in diesem Hummus. Das ist ein guter Weg, das zu sagen. Wir sind zurück. Wir hatten ein bisschen ein Problem da.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Yeah, in defense for Ash and now seeing you lie down, it's been a long day.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Jadie, du kannst meinen Raum nehmen. Das ist ein guter Train-Off. Wir sehen uns morgen.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
's Bett zu sauberen. Nachdem wir weg sind. Ich meine, wir sind hier. Ich bin im Flugzeug. A.P.C.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Ein sehr seltsames Spiel für die Minnesota Timberwolves. Ich werde sagen, ich habe diese Theorie entwickelt, dass Anthony Edwards ein bisschen wie LeBron ist, dass er ein First Game Feeler ist. Er liebt es, es auszufühlen. Und dieses Spiel ist ein Spiel... Das ist genau das, was er tut. Das ist ein weiteres Gefühl. Er hatte nur fünf Punkte in der zweiten Halbzeit.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Es war nicht der Ankleingriff, den er late in der ersten Quartier erzielt hat. Er ist einfach super ruhig gegangen. Er hat gesagt, dass sie vier unten sind. Okay, er war vier unten und sie sind zehn unten am Ende der dritten Quartier. Aber das ist, weil niemand Anthony Edwards und Julius Randall helfen konnte. Randall hatte 20, Anthony Edwards hatte 18 am Ende der dritten Quartier.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Sie sind immer noch unter zehn. Es war kein Blutaufbruch. Das war nur ein seltsamer Spiel, weil der OKC Didn't start well. Shay started two of 12. Chet Holmgren did this pregame interview. I think that threw him off. He did not look like himself. He was pulled three minutes into the game. Jay Williams started two for eight. They had a bunch of guys starting cold, but that's the beauty of OKC.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
You can start extremely cold, start bad, and their depth will come through well. Minnesota's not even close. Not even close to coming through. Nobody helped out. Not one person. Person, not one person.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Ja, es war sehr seltsam. Wir haben alle bezeichnet. Auch Mike Conley war heute Abend nicht da. Es war eine sehr seltsame Nacht. Wir haben alle von der Anfangsleitung erwähnt. Aber du hast Jane McDaniels erwähnt. Was wirklich seltsam war, war, dass er die ersten zwei Schüsse dieses Spiels hatte. Die ersten zwei Schüsse für die Minnesota Timberwolves.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Ja, sofort. Bang, bang. Und dann hat er nur den Rest des Spiels gewonnen. They literally, you're right in that they decided to take away Anthony Edwards and make him pass the ball to Rudy Gobert, etc. But I do think they started to get a little too comfortable on the outside and not get into the paint at all. They literally couldn't score. in the paint at all.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Some of those were late, exactly.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
They did get a little too comfortable on the perimeter and that's where the turnovers came from. OKC, that's what they do. They turn the ball over 31 to 10 on points off of turnovers for OKC. That's just way too big. You can't turn it over that much. And it just felt like Minnesota's players couldn't match the Die Intensität. Ich meine, das ist das, was passiert.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Okay, ich bin sicher, dass Minnesota zurückkommen kann aus diesem und und kleine Dinge finden, um furchtbar zu werden über die Fouls für Shea Gildas Alexander. Wir sind fragwürdig. Ich weiß, dass es in der Spielzeit ein paar fragwürdig ist. Oh ja, ein Geist hat eine Foul gemacht und irgendwie haben sie den Witz auf ihrer Seite bekommen.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Sie können darüber wütend sein und vielleicht nehmen sie Spiel 1 und sie schauen alle Filme und sie nehmen das in Spiel 2. Aber sie haben nicht genug Zeit, den Ball zu bewegen. Du hast es richtig gesagt, Nasrid, Alexander Walker, Dante DiVincenzo, sie konnten einfach nicht schießen. Da ist kein Zweifel daran.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Aber ich dachte, es musste ein bisschen mehr innen und außen sein, anstatt nur ein paar Passen auf dem Perimeter, um alle in den Rhythmus zu bringen. Und das ist nicht passiert.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Ja, das war es. Ich dachte, das Gute an Shea, auch in den ersten sechs Minuten, er versuchte zu scoren. Er war nicht gut, dass er effizient war. Er hat wieder zwei von zwölf angefangen. Aber OKC war einfach nicht da. Chet Holmgren, wieder ein sehr schlechter Start. Jalen Williams, ein sehr schlechter Start.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Am liebsten hättest du einen Mann gehabt, der mit dem Art und Weise versucht hat, ihn zu bringen. Er war verloren. Er war nicht selbst. Und die Anrufe waren definitiv die falschen Anrufe. Es fühlte sich an, als ob er 25 Mal auf die Linie gekommen wäre. Die Art und Weise, wie er auf die Linie ging, war auf viele schlechte Offiziere.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Ich mag es nie, Offiziere zu ridiculieren, aber das war einfach zu ridiculieren. Ich meine, es gab so viele schlechte Anrufe. Er ging nur 14 Mal auf die Linie, es fühlte sich wie 100, aber er wurde so viel besser, als das Spiel von der Flur ausgespielt wurde. Er sah einfach aus wie der Typ, der kann...
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Somehow, someway is able to split these double teams, to split two players and to get there because he looks so fast and so sleek after a while. But I like the effort to start in all honesty because they were sort of lost. Those were their only points.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
When you said a tiny room, I had to wonder, how big is this bed? This bed is fitting us very well. We fit perfectly on this bed.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Es war Chad. Ich denke, Jalen Williams und Shea waren beide andere Dinge beteiligen. Chad hat sich einfach ein bisschen verloren gesehen. Ich denke, er muss das Pre-Game-Interview aus der Reparatur nehmen. Letztlich ein On-Game-Interview 20 Minuten vor dem Spiel. Es ist furchtbar. Ich weiß, es ist nichts, aber am gleichen Zeit. Er hat es nach dem Spiel gesagt.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Er hat ein Pre-Game-Interview gemacht. Er hat ein Post-Game-Interview gemacht. Post-Game, er hat gesagt, ich habe in der ersten Halbzeit gestunken. Also hat er die meisten Stinkungen gemacht. Er hat es literally, als er kam, aber er musste nach drei Minuten sitzen. Dagnon sagte, wir müssen dich drücken. Er kam zurück auf den Boden. Er konnte nicht rebounden.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
He wasn't fighting enough for rebounds, but in the second half he looked like a new player.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
That was a pathetic performance from Jared Allen. That was why I had him as the guy who was like the biggest X factor. He did not show up in this series at all. Maybe the Cavs play better if they're not banged up, but they could not shoot. They completely abandoned their identity in this one. They were going defense for offense when that has not been the case all year.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Kenny Atkinson didn't know which buttons to push. And you just look at the team they throw out there, and it's like, how are you ever going to guard anybody on the perimeter when it's Donovan Mitchell, Darius Garland, and Max Strews as your guys? Doesn't make any sense. That's what Utah tried. But it was Rudy Gobert inside and Donovan Mitchell outside. They couldn't guard the perimeter either.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
You got to be able to stop somebody on the outside. So I think it's time to break up Allen and Mobley. Start building around Mobley. This guy is the future for you. He should have had more shots. He seemed... other than Mitchell, like maybe the least scared guy out there, though I don't really think he's like, get on my back, we're going. He seems pretty mild-mannered.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
They need somebody, I don't know.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
They need a red-ass guy. That's what they called Brad Miller when he came to the Bulls. They need a red-ass guy, somebody who's going to yell at you. It's Tristan Thompson, but who respects that guy? He's so deep on the bench. Separate conversation is Darius Garland. The guy's always banged up. He is always hurt and hasn't really produced in the playoffs so far. He's also a small guard.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
It's like they have two of the same player at two different positions. It doesn't really make sense. On the other hand, the East is going to be bad next year. If you run it back, you're probably going to win 50-plus games once again.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
You don't run into a team that had you. But I think they should move on from Allen at the very least, and I think they should explore Garland as well.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
that is uh second aprons around gonna be around 208 so they i think they're going to have to cut some of these guys here one of the other like you guys are saying because i think john hollinger said that even if they wanted to bring ty jerome back on a like a 10 million dollar deal it cost them 62 million dollars in real money in real money yeah yeah it's hard man it's not like deandre hunter is making a ton of money to be your sixth man i couldn't even get in the starting lineup yeah
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
for this team. They need an Aaron Neesmith. They need one guy who can play defense on the perimeter.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
That's not going to happen. No, no, no. They figured him out. Don't let him bump you. It's that easy.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
I would say no if I was Cleveland. You'd probably get a better player. Jared Allen's still good.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
I thought an emblematic play was early in the third quarter when it was like, are the Cavs going to take this or are the Pacers going to take this? Donovan Mitchell gets a steal and man, he is so slow getting up the court. Turner hustles back, blocks the ball at the rim. Max Struess gets the rebound, but guess what? There's another guy behind him. Andrew Nembhard gets the block as well.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
I thought that was like, the Pacers are locked in right now. They sense this game is there for the winning and they're not giving up even on the easiest plays. But also you could tell Mitchell had zero burst. He got that steal. That should have been a breakaway dunk. Yeah. And he got run down by the biggest guy on the other team. Yeah.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
He was the best. Well, Siakam was the best big in this. He was also awesome in this game. I thought he was a monster in the third quarter. But Turner played tougher than anybody on the Cavs.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
TK? The only other thing I got, I saw this. I was re-watching the third quarter on League Pass. So you get the in-arena feeds, and they had like a celebrity lookalikes camera, and there was a guy in the crowd for Cleveland who was dressed like Abe Lincoln. So, you know, I looked up Abe Lincoln Cavs. Did anybody else notice this?
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
I guess he just shows up at these games regularly dressed like Abe Lincoln. I was like, is Abe Lincoln a celebrity? You know? Put him on the cover of Us Weekly?
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Yeah, he was beefier. He wasn't skinny like Abe and Chet, but he did have like the only beard, no mustache deal going on and a dark black suit. Okay, so he's committed to it for sure. He's committed to it.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Wait, wait, now you're shaking your head at me. Well, this is just a weird search, man. I searched Cavaliers Frog on X and I'm seeing like a wet dog. I'm seeing a dog's booty. Homer Simpson.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
I brought my money clip. What do you got? I brought my money clip. What do you got? What do you roll to? Let's see what we got here. Two credit cards. Okay. I do owe Tass money from Matt's wedding. Okay. In Montreal. I got 60, probably like $68 right now. A lot of cash. At least the beginning of a down payment. Yeah, okay, good start.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
You knew it was a banger because the NBA YouTube channel had a duel. Yes. A duel clip for Shea Gildress Alexander and Nikola Jokic. 44-15-5 for Jokic. I saw Brad Rowland here in Atlanta said the box score says that Jokic had 20 potential assists last night. He had five total assists last night. He was passing the ball. The shots were not dropping. Shea Gilchrist-Alexander, 31-6-7.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Watching these guys trade shots down the stretch was awesome. Jokic hits the 360, no scope. Pure swish. Ball goes out of the frame on his jumper. Knocks it down. Jokers wild! An incredible... Incredible call. And the shot to the crowd. Oh, my goodness, man. Anthony Davis must have been having nightmares. He's seen that happen a whole bunch of times.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
The next play down was the wide open corner three for J-Dub. Great screen by Isaiah Hartenstein to catch Jokic underneath. I mean, I don't think Jokic was going to get out there either way, but smart to keep him from challenging. Then we had Michael Porter Jr. What are you doing, buddy? Ludort was the hero for the Thunder.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
The three threes, he had the save that ended up, the ball swings around, it's like Cech gets that weird layup at the rim. Michael Porter Jr., the absolute goat, I thought, for the Nuggets. His previous three-point attempt was with seven minutes and 45 seconds left in the third quarter. So by the time he's taken a shot with 18 seconds left in the game... That's an hour? An hour and a half, maybe?
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
I can't believe Jokic trusted him with that shot. I also can't really believe that Porter took the shot so quickly. There was 18 seconds left on the shot clock. He did take a middie with like six and a half minutes left. Way short on that one, too. But that was really the difference in this series so far is that Denver's three-point shooters haven't been able to shoot.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Jokic finally knocked him down last night. We said he was going to have to hit jumpers to be able to win in this series. He was really good, but... You look at Porter against the Clippers, he went 15 of 34 from three. That's 44%. So far in this series, he's 7 of 27. Westbrook is out there as well. Against the Clippers, he went 13 of 31, 42%. So far, he is 5 for 25 in this series. That is 20%.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
I didn't think that the Thunder depth pieces played all that great. Jalen Williams was good guarding Jokic. He did his part. Caruso had a nice run, especially in the first half. He was... wisely on the bench for Dort in the fourth quarter, I thought, by Mark Dagnall. But the fact of the matter is, those guys at least played.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
At least there are some options for Dagnall to get his guys just a little bit of rest. You look at the second half minutes, Jokic played all 24 minutes in the second half. There's no way he can sub out. And he was still great in the fourth quarter, though he was very slow on defense. You see a lot of these three-pointers by the Thunder, and it is parts where Jokic maybe is dropping the ball.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
defensively but Murray and Brown both played 22 minutes Gordon played 19 minutes on the flip side SGA 22 Chet and J-Dub 19 Dort 17 Hartenstein 17 like the differences aren't all that big but those two or three minutes are enough to have a finishing kick which the Thunder have had in back-to-back wins here Two gut check wins coming from down on the road and then down at home.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
You don't want to lose that going back to play in Denver. This is a young team. Everybody's saying you got to go through it. You got to go through it. They could not get through it last year. Dallas was hot from three. This year, Denver is not hot from three. And OKC is executing in fourth quarters.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
But yeah. Even the SGA dagger, like Jokic is slow. They set a screen. It doesn't work. He's kind of just lingering back there. So Hartenstein sets a second screen. SGA uses it. There's nobody there. Easy pull up. And he finally got the dagger he's been looking for for three straight games.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Literally Giddey was out there on the court last year.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Somebody make a screen navigator. Oh, man. Where's that video?
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
That's something. It's kind of funny, actually. Yeah. I mean, he had an R&B look at the podium afterwards. Yes. With his hair down, the glasses. Yeah, he was looking very stylish. OKC did an awesome job guarding Murray in the fourth quarter. They were trying to get Chet Holmgren switched onto Jokic the entire time. He wants that skinny guy on him to pick his teeth. But Murray couldn't shake Dort.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Sometimes it was J-Dub that ended on him as well. And he stuck with Murray every single time. The size, the physicality was definitely giving Murray problems. I thought of all of the Denver players, like... Murray looked like he was wearing it quite a bit in the fourth quarter.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Those were two or three feet wide. His were bad. Oh, wow. It was almost like, should Peyton Watson still be out there? He had a decent run at the start of the fourth quarter. He was making plays, at least, but I think he shot an air ball three as well. I'm pretty sure he did, yeah.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Strothers was in the first half. His three was for sure.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
You mentioned the flop off. That was awesome. Third quarter, Dort flops out of Michael Porter Jr. 's screen. Offensive foul. Literally the next Nuggets offensive possession. Dort screens Jokic. Jokic flops. He knows. He knows when the make-up call is coming. He's going to get it right away. Did the same thing against Jacob Alexander, Isaiah Hartenstein in Game 4.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
I also liked about 2 minutes and 20 seconds left. Jokic catches the ball in the right wing. Hartenstein's closing out on him. Jokic pump fakes, and it looks like he just hits Isaiah Hartenstein in the face with the ball. Did he not boop him in the face? Yeah. I didn't know if he really got him or if it was like Chris Bosh, like it looks like you got hit and you're faking it.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Nonetheless, Hartenstein's head flies back. Jokic goes and hits a tough floater bank shot over Chet at the rim. That was awesome.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
They're figuring out how to win. They've been better in the last two fourth quarters, and that was going to be Denver's advantage in this series. We got Jokic. We can figure it out in fourth quarters if it's close. Instead, they've blown leads in two straight games. So I think they still have a chance in game six. They got the big boy back home. Come on.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
You just got to hope for the adage to come true. Role players play better at home because they need somebody else to show up, like you're saying. They need Michael Porter to have double-digit points at the very least, I would say.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
No, that would be the option, be trading those guys.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Derek White or Chris Stapps for Zingas or Drew Holiday. I mean, I think any of those three is kind of on the table right now just because there's not a way for them to compete for the championship next year. They've already got a wicked high payroll with a new owner coming in. They were going to have cost-cutting moves most likely this summer. Yeah. depending on how the season went.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
They could have traded Porzingis after winning back-to-back titles, realistically, depending on how the new ownership is feeling. Like the most extreme move would be to trade Jalen Brown, tank the season, gear up for Tatum's return in 26, 27. I don't think they'll do that. More likely is like, Maybe Al Horford retires.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
You look at sending Drew Holliday's three more years somewhere else because that's a guy that can help teams win championships. They would have to think the Porzingis piece, the Derek White piece. I think those guys are potentially available as well. The Celtics are obviously a lot more accomplished. They've gone farther. They won a championship.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Tatum has done more, but it's not dissimilar to the Bulls when Derek Rose tore his ACL where you're like, oh, we've got a championship contender here. They look like they're set up for a little bit. Uh-oh, we lost our number one guy. Now our team isn't a championship contender. How do we scramble around that? I do think the Celtics team is going to look different at the start of next season.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
I think Cornette's even a free agent, right? He is, yeah. So their big rotation could look quite different.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Kawhi Leonard played seven of seven games.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Just bad luck. Drew Smith tore his Achilles this year. He's played like eight games. It just happens. Yeah. Drew Smith, I'd forgotten about him.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
I mean, if you're Giannis, I'd like to stay on an Eastern Conference team. Maybe. I mean, he plays for one. So that's... That's a chance. I also don't necessarily think the Celtics are buried against the Knicks. They're still in a playoff series right now. They are. They are down 3-1. They're looking good. They're going to MSG.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
But this is the perfect time to overlook a team when they're missing a guy after an injury. I heard Windhorst said, or maybe it was Bontemps said, that the Celtics were so down after losing Jason Tatum, losing the game, obviously. They're on the verge of elimination without their best player. That's an easy one to overlook if you're the New York Knicks.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
You know, they had their huge game three that they turtled away as well. So we'll see how they play tonight.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Oh, it's advantage, Nix, absolutely. I'm talking about in a one-game scenario, as in, are they going to lose tonight? I don't know. Maybe Jalen Brown goes for 40 points and the Celtics take 25 threes. That's still a reasonable thing to happen, though Tatum is their number one generator of three-pointers, so we'll have to see how the playmaking is for guys like Drew Holiday and Derek White.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Derek White's kind of been the beneficiary
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Philanthropy.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Just draw it. So yeah. Wait to see here. I don't think you were meaning to say it like just do it. But just draw it is pretty funny. I definitely didn't mean to. Good time to get in on the Blazers though. They had a fun second half of the season. The weird thing about it is that all of their veterans were out, outside of Denny Avdia, but Aiton didn't play a ton down the stretch.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Simons didn't play a ton down the stretch. Jeremy Grant, this guy is still on the books until 2028. Unbelievable. Good to be friends with Damian Lillard, I suppose. But they got a lot of young talent there. And unfortunately, they're in the Western Conference, so...
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
uphill battle for sure but they were a fun young team to watch i thought in the second half chauncey billups had him playing defense locked in um and that was the best they've looked basically since billups took over yeah trajectory is upward for sure yeah it will be interesting to see what joe cronin does with the roster period
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
I like the series ending in both scenarios tonight. Oh, wow. Okay. Knicks on the road and Wolves at home. Just because I said the Celtics can win doesn't mean they're going to.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
They absolutely can, but they're not going to.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
You heard it here first. Have a great time. Turn up. Love you guys. Awesome.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Say, hey, man, we're going to play each other. You think all the Villanova guys will call Dante DiVincenzo if they win? Yeah. Sounds like a great short.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
The Pacers just wear you down. This was a five-game series. They were in control for four games. There was the wrinkle that the Cavs threw in of a zone in game three. And other than that, this was played as a Pacers game. They've got 10 guys, basically, who they're willing to play. Everybody runs. They are running nonstop. Everybody plays both sides of the basketball. The ball pressure is crazy.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
If you have a mismatch, you're getting the ball. Like, Miles Turner's not a great post-up player, but he can score over Darius Garland. Every time Darius Garland would end up on him on a switch, you're getting the ball. Score inside. Incredible stuff. I was trying to come up with a word for it. That third quarter, the Pacers' lanch. Sounds terrible. I don't know what it is.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Yeah, the Pacers' lanch. That's what it was, though. Cleveland, like you guys were saying, up four at half. They even stretched their lead to begin the second half of the game. Got it up to nine in the first two and a half minutes, but then Indiana calls a timeout. After the timeout, they got any shot they wanted. It was Halliburton in the lane. It was Siakam hitting threes or pull-up jumpers.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
I think it was Siakam that actually took the lead on a three-pointer. Out of the timeout that Cleveland calls, the press was on. And it was like, uh-oh. Cleveland could not figure out how to break the press. Next thing you know, it's Max Strews bringing the ball up. Zero pass, one pass offense. Max Drew's trying to create and go to the hoop. It's like, what?
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This is the Cavs team that was playing beautiful basketball this entire season? This looked like the J.B. Bickerstaff Cavs where they had no clue, no real plan on offense. I don't understand how they're unable to score for that long in the third quarter, and they keep Isaac Okoro and Dean Wade out there. It made no sense at all. It was making it even harder to score. You mentioned Thomas Bryant.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
He scored nine points in the third quarter. That's more than any cap. Like, that is the whole series there. You get to the fourth quarter. It did get close again. And then all the starters are back in for Indiana. And they made every single play. All five guys contributing. It was Siakam and Halliburton. The two-man game was unstoppable in this one.
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Usually the pick and roll kind of keying everything. Aaron Neesmith doing his defense, his daring drives as well. Miles Turner grabbing offensive rebounds at that big three-pointer to really ice the game when Cleveland was kind of like in between. Should we foul or not? It was a six-point game. Who knows? Wide open three from the corner for Turner. He knocks it down.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
And then, of course, Andrew Nembhard. This guy is awesome. Ultimate playoff riser for a role player. Hit a timely three in the fourth quarter. Had that and one on Garland with a minute left. They just dominated. The Cavs were completely dominated by the starting lineup of the Pacers, and the Pacers' depth was a lot better than the Cavs' was this entire series.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang?
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
I love that.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Yes, yes.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
He showed up. He came to work. He did come to work, but it was like the day after Thanksgiving. He's like, we got to work today.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Pretend I'm working. Taking a million BuzzFeed quizzes.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
Jared Allen, see ya. You think so? See ya. Zero points, one rebound in the second half of this game. He was completely invisible in this game and in game four of this series as well. You can get out-physicaled by Mitchell Robinson and Isaiah Hartenstein in your first playoff series. You can't get out-physicaled by Pascal Siakam and Miles Turner in your third playoff run.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
That was a choke.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
It would have been a good time for it.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
That sucks if you're a Cavs fan. Yeah. He probably started thinking about it when he pulled the ball out and saw Ty Jerome in front of him. And Ty Jerome was like, if they were dangling for Tyrese Halliburton, I think they were going up and in for Ty Jerome on that play.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
My friends and I were calling Max Strews the Winter Soldier for most of this game. He definitely has a Sebastian Stan, Bucky Barnes look. He's got an arm sleeve as well. If it was metal, it would really sell it. I also thought the sound mix on this game was absolutely brutal. Yeah, what's going on? It was tough to listen to. It sounded like Spiro and Greg were zooming in.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
And for whatever reason, the shoe squeaking was echoing the entire night. I changed channels. I switched over to an NHL game to be like, is this my TV doing it? Then when I rewatched this morning, still squeaking. So I don't know what's going on in Cleveland. Maybe where the mics are compared to how loud they're playing. The in arena noises. It was sounding crazy.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Every shoe squeak was beep beep, beep beep, beep beep, beep beep. I didn't like that at all.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
We were getting great reviews yesterday. People were saying, you guys sound great. I actually think I sound better today. I would like to stay right here. Right here? This is the perfect voice for me. Exactly. I get a little tass in my voice. But when I'm fully healthy, you know how it is, baby. You and me go squeak mode.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Not a huge game.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
I mean, it was a bad first three quarters for Indiana. They weren't playing their game at all. It was a complete flip from their first series against the Bucs and a complete flip from game one where they just had so much freedom. I thought Strews and credit to Okoro. I call him Isaac Noscoro because it goes both ways. He can't score, but neither is the guy he's guarding.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
They were picking Halliburton up full court, which was really interesting.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
hampering the Pacers getting into their actions they're a team that gets shots up like in the first 10 seconds almost all the time it was just a lot tougher for them to get into their beautiful game with cuts and all this kind of stuff they definitely got unlocked I thought in the third quarter a big part of that was Matherin like Matherin's cutting I thought was huge in this game but uh yeah good deep good adjustment I thought from Kenny Atkinson to have like streus all over Halliburton from the jump I mean I guess he got a basket really easy on the very like off the tip of it
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Or off the tip. But Strews was all over him. Okoro was all over him. So that's something the Pacers are going to have to deal with in Game 3.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
That is a weird thing that you have said before. I hate it, dude. I hate it.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
I hate that guy. Yeah, I hate him.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, this game started on NBA TV, right? Because it was the overlap with the Pacers game. So they told us about it before they showed us. And I was expecting way weirder shorts from Buddy Heal, to be honest. I was like, okay, these are pretty similar.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
They're a perfect match.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
100%. It was worthy of Chris Finch calling him out. It was Camp Edwards in the first half. I think part of it is the Warriors are a lot better defensively than the Lakers are. Their schemes were more interesting. They went with a zone. It looked like they saw what Houston was doing against the Warriors. They're like, hey, we should try that. And it completely threw the Timberwolves off.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Edwards also rolled his ankle six minutes into the first quarter. He didn't miss literally a single play because of it. But you could tell it was a little bit tender. I thought he was trying to adjust to the reads. We talked about how great his playmaking was in round one against the Lakers. Would you say 35 assists to six turnovers? He had two assists to three turnovers last night.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
The automatic reads are not there. But then in the second half, he started going to the rim all the time. 22 points, 9 of 14 field goals, didn't have an assist. This is going to be a series where Anthony Edwards needs to be a scorer. I thought he was looking to pass maybe a little bit too much. in the first half, which is how they played in the first series against the Lakers.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
But what it comes down to is that three-point shooting is the whole game here. Minnesota went five for 29. Buddy Heald himself went five for eight. Draymond Green went four of six in the first half and missed all four of his attempts in the second half. But still, if you're getting nine threes from Buddy and Draymond and you make five right there, you're not going to win. It's that simple.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
You have to make shots. And I think if you are a Timberwolves fan, you've got to be a little bit encouraged going forward. A, Curry is out. That's going to be helpful. At least for a game, yeah. At least for a game. Jeff Stotts in street clothes said the minimum time that guys miss with a grade one strain, so like the mildest strain, is 10 days. So we'll see when Curry comes back.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, but the Warriors made, they were what, 16 for 45 from two-point range. They couldn't score inside. The Warriors couldn't, and now they're going to be missing Curry, so they'll have even less space. This was an awesome game for Jimmy Butler. He literally went out and beat the Timberwolves starters with the Warriors bench. Come on. That was awesome.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
He didn't have the biggest stats, but he filled up the box score. His playmaking was big. Found Buddy Heald for a corner three. Found Gary Payton for a corner three as well. The Warriors role players played a lot better than the Timberwolves role players.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Something like that.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Couldn't believe it.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, you would have to hope that you're getting the Edwards that we saw in the second half. I think Julius Randle and Jaden McDaniels need to be better. They scored 30 combined points on 23 shots, so not bad. But a lot of that is Randle going to the line a bunch. He went 10 of 10 at the line. I just thought this was the Randle you don't like to see.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
He was playing a lot of one-on-one basketball, very stagnant and very jab steppy. He's at his best when it's quick attacks, which is what we saw all Lakers series McDaniels for his part. It just felt like every basket of his was random, not attacking the way he usually does on closeouts or wide open shots. He was really having to work for it. So both of those guys, I think can be better.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
And they need to be because when the Warriors were playing zone, they did not care at all about McDaniels or Randall. They're saying we're putting everybody on the side of Anthony Edwards. Try and figure out. He wasn't able to figure it out. So going to the zone was good. I assume the Timberwolves will be more ready for it. Uh, in game two, but that means Randall's got to shoot.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
McDaniel's got to shoot. Maybe they pull go bear when they're in zone mode and get Nas read out there for some more stretchiness as well. But there are definitely places where the Timberwolves can improve. And I think the Warriors can be a lot better as well. Draymond was awesome defensively. He was everywhere last night.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, exactly.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, they're down 2-0, going on the road. Not good, but you're right. There's like three plays where if the Cavs make one of them, they win this game. Get the ball in the first time with Strews. I mean, yeah, he wanted Mitchell in, but that was getting close to a five-second call. I think that's the second time they had to call a timeout because they couldn't get the ball inbounds.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
No more. 20-point leads. They don't matter. Things have changed. It's crazy.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Think he's going to launch a podcast network? He's got his show. He's got the Jimmy and Buddy show. He's got Pod's pod. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, sure.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Then just a brutal pass by Strews on the steal by Neesmith. And Jared Allen grabbed a rebound, I think is really what it comes down to. But the poise by Halliburton to stand in the lane and realize... I don't have to shoot it right away. There's 10 seconds left. Enough time to back out, get into my dribble package, get a shot up.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Buddy Love, Buddy Buckets.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
They were very funny. I saw probably four separate clips all from the same thing. Yeah, yeah. It's a great mix. It's like one guy who's the angry, mean guy and one guy who it all rolls off his back no matter what you say to him. It's a great mix.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
I have no idea why, but he just keeps going like this. You can see it like a million times. I was going to say I had a buddy. I had a friend in high school who wore the wrong shorts for a game once, Brad Cornels. But we didn't have a backup pair of shorts, so he just played with mismatched top and bottom shorts. It was pretty sweet looking.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Well, I mean, there was this... Okay, so our...
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
we were purple and white were our school colors one uh one was purple and white one was white and purple so he had either like he had like the purple and white top with the white and purple shorts so it kind of matched but it just looked like two-tone like the washington wizards back in the day well uh buddy did say i think jokingly that uh jimmy is to blame for the shorts miscue he said he swapped them
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
There is a 70-minute YouTube mix of clutch moments for Tyrese Halliburton on the NBA's YouTube page right now. It's his fifth season. This season alone, he's 10 for 11 on shots to tie or take the lead in the last two minutes of the game. Say it again? 10 for 11 in the last two minutes to take the lead or tie the game. Yeah.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Big time it was. There were a lot of memes going around of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Master Splinter, then flipping it to the aged Master Splinter with the grown turtles. That was Greg Popovich walking off. with Tim Duncan to his side. I thought that was a hilarious moment where he's like, I know you guys are just here to make me do hard stuff in rehab. Great stuff.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
He seemed like he was in good spirits, but it was basically like, I just can't coach anymore. But I'm still gonna be around, which is good. Which is just good. But man, what an end of the era of the Greg Popovich time. I was in eighth grade when he started coaching the Spurs. Yeah. I went and looked. December 10th, 1996 was his first game as the coach for the San Antonio Spurs.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Almost didn't finish out the season. was like how disliked he was. Just wait, just wait. We're going to be the most successful team of the 2000s. You know, they ended up tanking. Things worked out for them. So I was just trying to think, what was I doing December 10th, 1996? And I think I was excited for Mars Attacks to come out.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
You must have been getting ready for Christmas, too. Yeah, yeah, I guess so. Probably making a list, checking it twice. That's not my job. That's the big man, S.E.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
He is straight up money. Awesome stuff from him. 11 points in the fourth quarter, five rebounds, including that one. He rebounded his own miss, one assist, one block, which was a nice play as well. But the Pacers aren't able to pull this off. A second down by seven with less than a minute comeback, if not for Aaron Neesmith and Andrew Nembhard. These guys locked in in the fourth quarter.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
That's crazy.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, I guess they wouldn't have had any good representatives to give this to because Detroit has been bounced. Houston has been bounced. Oklahoma City lost because Mark Dignall kept following up three. And Ty Lue has already been bounced by the Clippers. So I guess at least this guy's still around. But Kenny Atkinson was the clear choice.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
The same Cavs team came back and they went from being good in the Eastern Conference to being the best team. in the Eastern Conference, and it was 100% Kenny Atkinson influence, getting the buy-in from Mitchell to take a backseat for the good of the team. The development of Evan Mobley, a bounce-back season for Darius Garland. The top five was my all-coach team, so I think they did perfect.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
There you go.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, I guess so. I guess that means.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
But it's true. This is voted on by other GMs, right? Because what voted on by the media would have been Nico Harrison for giving us all of those clicks. He's my executive of the year. Thanks for the great February.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Neesmith was like right at the line. of, is this too physical? He was all over Donovan Mitchell.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
He hit him from the top of the head to the feet. There was one where he like, it was almost, Mitchell was surfing on the back of Neesmith, but they made so many winning plays, kind of starting with the corner three-pointer from Neesmith right at the end of the third quarter. He also had a putback with 6.20 left. Nembhard had an and-one, four and a half minutes left.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
It is. But also when NBC was announced as the new partner for the NBA, people were super excited. People were like, oh, this is going to be great. Round ball rock. Storytelling. Bob Costas. Literally no one said Jim Fagan's voice narrating it. Yeah.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
There are people working today who would love this check. Look, I'm sure Jim Fagan's family loves the check as well. Yeah. But this is unnecessary and weird.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
You wouldn't have noticed anything if it was any other person. Nobody would have said anything. They would have been like, oh, cool, cool promo.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
It's the music that matters. Yeah.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Of course, Neesmith had that huge tip dunk and-one. Donovan Mitchell fell asleep a little bit. 48 seconds left. Then Neesmith takes a charge to the face from Mitchell. 46 seconds left. Nemhard with the steal. 28 seconds left. These guys just make play after play after play. Didn't shoot the ball well. Nembhard didn't, but came through when it mattered. Neesmith just made so many big plays.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
All right. Bring back Marv Albert. Where do you stop, Tass?
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Okay. He re-recorded it. They didn't just use a new one or an old one. He did, yeah.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
They don't watch TV.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
I like the Celtics to win for sure.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
And I'm curious to see what the Thunder try and do with Jokic. Okay. Because I don't know if Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein gained enough weight in the past two days to really compete. Eat an ice cream, baby. Yeah.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Matherin was good. Miles Turner, he ain't a big rebounder, but he got a little fingertip on it to knock it out to Halliburton. They got enough plays from enough guys to pull it out at the end. You do not want to be up on the Pacers in the last minute of a game.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
He did everything. Dwayne Wade was dripping off Donovan Mitchell last night. You could tell starting in the first quarter, he took 10 shots, took a three on the Cavs second possession of the game. All of his other looks in the first quarter were from within seven feet. also took five free throws, kind of setting the tone. I'm going to the rim. Try and stop me.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
The jumper has not been there for Donovan Mitchell in this series. He kind of got cold at the end of the regular season coming back from injury as well. But he said, I'm just going to try and win this game for us. And he won it for him the first 47 minutes. It just honestly felt like we are not losing this game. Get on my back kind of game from Donovan Mitchell. He had
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
an awesome dunk in the first quarter, and then he had a better dunk in the first quarter. That was really cool to see. But when it came down to it, he was carrying such a huge load. Coupled with the fact that the Cavs are playing two guys that the Pacers were not worried about, and Dean Wade and Isaac Locoro, Ty Jerome, you're giving this guy a little bit too much credit here.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
He was a leading six-man-of-the-year candidate. He's supposed to be good. Eight for 20, bad game in game one. You would die for eight for 20. after last night's one for 14. There are teams thinking about Ty Jerome as a starting point guard. People are saying, Orlando Magic, go after this guy. If you watch these two games, you want to spend a lot of money on a guy who scored 23 points on 34 shots?
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
I don't think so.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
He had no clue what was going on. He had no clue. Every shot looked awkward, and he should have been able to handle the ball in the fourth quarter. He wasn't, and he completely looked scared. And honestly, that last rebound by Jared Allen, that flashed me back to the Knicks series when he said the lights were too bright. He got exposed that series, and something similar happened on that last play.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
But Mitchell was awesome. It looked like he was going to drag this team to a win, missing three of their top seven. And then they couldn't get the ball past half court for the last minute of the game.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
I mean, I think the answer is make your free throws and pass the ball to your own team.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, they say he's got a calf strain, right? And he just carried the team for 47 minutes.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
There's a lot of integrity from the Cleveland Cavaliers because also Jared Allen blocked a shot. The ball went out on the back of his heel, bounced off his heel. You could see him look over to the bench. He's like, no, no, no, no, don't challenge me. That one was off my heel. They were asking, show me? No, no, no. Don't do it. They're going to tell the truth no matter what. Don't do it.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
I'd like to hear the truth about Darius Garland's foot. Sure. They need him. You got to play through pain now. They say it's all a pain tolerance thing. He hasn't played in how long? I mean, when was the last time he played game two of the Miami Heat series? That was a month ago. You better play in game three is what I'm saying.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Mariano Rivera?
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Yeah, I guess Talon Horton Tucker was in the prestige zone. Oh, yeah. Because the Raptors tried to get him over and over and over again. A couple of times they said, you want Kyle Lowry for him? Nah, not going to do it. The game, a first-round pick and Kem Birch as an offer? Not going to happen. They tried. They tried. It didn't work out.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I love seeing role players on championship teams and then them getting an offer somewhere else where we all get to see, hmm, how good is this player? Will he be deemed like just an okay player? Like, you know, going way back, your Luke Longlees, your Judd Bushlers, are they going to be good somewhere else?
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Like Contavious Caldwell-Pope, even before he won the championship, he got that Laker deal and people said, oh, overpaid, not good enough. And then he won a championship with them. And then he did it again with Denver. So it's fun to see him with Orlando. And on those Denver Nuggets, I was interested to see Bruce Brown go get $20 million with the Indiana Pacers and then go to Toronto Raptors.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Hasn't really worked out all that well. So those guys are my faves. Like Gabe Vincent, even in that finals. I know everybody gets after me because I say I love Gabe Vincent. He goes to the Lakers last year. I do. I do. He was injured last year. I'm blaming it on that. What's his excuse this year? He played 11 games last year.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah, shooting 30% from the floor. Three of 10 shots. That's not good enough. 20% from 19, actually, from three-point land. That's not good enough. But he's going to stay on that floor. J.J. Redick is going to run him out there as their backup guard. So I have faith in K. Vincent being decent. Being decent.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
But he got hurt after being good. So that's the thing. It just, it depends obviously on the team that they end up on. I got, I'm with Gabe.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah, the prestige in the big markets, it helps because people start writing articles about it.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah, I've been doing some work.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah, I should have gone with... Yeah, I love Gabe Vincent, period. Next one. Dear NoDunks, after watching Starting 5 on Netflix, I started thinking about who I'd want in a new lineup. My picks? Jalen Brown, Nikola Jokic, Wemby, Halliburton, and Zion. They'd be fascinating to watch on and off the court. Who would you want to see?
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Also, if you could choose any player from history for a similar show, who would it be? Personally, I'd love to see J.R. Smith during his Knicks days. Those behind-the-scenes stories would be something. Thanks for being a calming presence, especially now as my mom recovers from a difficult hip surgery. You guys are the best. A Boston Celtics fan in Denver, Charlie B.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah, man, why not? I sense the inspiration, though. The AO was happier, it seemed like. A little bit. Compared to yesterday. Yeah, exactly.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Oh, that would be awesome. Wouldn't that be great? Just watching them sitting in front of a computer. Yeah, exactly. Wow, this is an interesting shot.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Who knows? Literally could be the most boring show in the history of shows. It'd be made for us, though. We would love it.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah, it's interesting because, you know, you brought up J.R. Smith. It's all about the production. How much are they showing of J.R. Smith? Right. Become a golf player. He had a series on Amazon. Oh, yeah. North Carolina A&T. It was good. A lot of it was at his computer, sort of like he's making a podcast. Cool. He's just sitting there. But it was good.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
But, yes, once I started thinking of players, like, yes, Stephen Adams, easy. Hey, what are you doing, Stephen? I'm just eating my brekkie, mate. It would just be funny enough. He'd be funny. He would just, period, be funny. It's all about the production. And I started thinking of teams. I started going to championship teams that you're going to follow for a year.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I thought the 2010 Lakers would be ridiculously good. Like if it was Kobe and Pau showing you their relationship after Kobe ran through Pau's chest in the Olympics, like that connection. Ron Artest praising his psychiatrist after the finals. I would love to be a fly on the wall during his meetings with psychiatrists. I mean, it goes on and on with Lamar Odom. I was going to say Lamar Odom.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
The things he was going through. Shannon Brown was with Monica. Monica can come on an episode. Just sing a song for us, please, Monica. Uh-oh, she can't make it. She already bailed on us once. Yep.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
She's banned. She's totally banned.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
She missed her appointment with the starters once upon a time. Andrew Bynum. Luke Walton. Maybe we could have met with Bill Walton then. I mean, that's a stacked team of personalities.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Not DJ Bingo. Yeah, there you go. He was on that bench, right?
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah, yeah. That was a good photo. To see Devin Booker in the Olympics where he just jumped on that bike and just left the party that he was at. I mean, yeah, sure. Well, you might see all that. Aren't we getting an Olympics documentary? We are, next summer. Okay, coming up. But you're right. Summers are way more... There's way more personality for players quite often that you see.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
You see them as themselves, right? Like Adam, I went back and checked that 2010 Lakers championship roster. Adam Morrison was on that team. I don't know how fun he'd be during the season, but in the summer you get more of him playing video games and stuff. That would be cool.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, so you don't want him to say Towns? I know. I guess not. But it'd be funny enough to hear the announcer say, Carl Anthony Towns.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
We'll try. We'll try. Next one. Per your request, sending photos of my TV antenna. Yeah, we talked about TV antennas a little while back. I feel like Rudy Gobert right now, but it is very simple and no bunny ears required. Just a small box that stays hidden. Turn up Switch Source. Enjoy the games. Good one from Clara H. And we have these photos if you're watching on YouTube.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
It's literally just a box.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just sitting there. It's just squeezed in perfectly. It's just totally flat. It does look like an iPad. And she shows the TV from the front. Can't even see the antenna.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Oh, boy. But it has nothing to do with the remote. The source can be changed at any time.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
One-on-one, yeah.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I know you do because we watched the G League, and you see them. Well, they just take one free throw. That's different. Instead of two, they just take one. Yeah. You get two points for a made free throw or zero. Love it. Because it's faster.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I love it. I do, but I don't know about one shot being worth two points. That part's a little weird. Make one, you get a second. I like that.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Well, yeah, Harley says with three-point fouls, you get one miss.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
That's what he's saying. You're not getting that third one. You crazy, Harley.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I don't know if you get reduced the fouls. I don't know. Why wouldn't you want to send a guy to the free throw line, take one shot? He's not a good shooter. He'll just shoot it. He'll shoot the one.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
That's it. You're out of here. There we go. Next one. Dear No Dunkey Bunch, I was thinking about Laura fitting Trey into a tiny home, and it got me wondering which Tetris piece each of y'all are. Tess is obviously a T, the most versatile but also most unpredictable. And JD is probably an O, a.k.a. the square piece, you know, just the standard square piece. Yeah.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Since he's the most block solid and steady. Okay. At first I thought Skeets was an I, but maybe that's Esh. Who do you think... Each tetromino. That's how you pronounce it. That's what each piece is called. Tetromino.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Every Tetris piece. Tetromino. Tetrafore size. Okay, that's from Chief in Somerville, Mass, obviously. So if you're watching on YouTube, here are the tetrominos. These letters assigned.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
It feels like I've got a real short body, you know? If you look at the tee. Just because it's a one block body.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yes, that's true. Versatile.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Well, I'm looking at them right now.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
It looks like a T, but when you flip it over, like the S and Z, they're just flipped pieces, you know? Does T have a name when you stick that one on top? I'm really wondering.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Because you have to start your suspension basically when you can play. So they have deemed, yeah, I can play. So the suspension begins now. He's totally ready. Yeah. What weird timing. Starting for the Emirates Cup. That'll be his first game.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I feel like Taz is Z. Yeah, okay. I don't know why he's just sort of screaming out to me. Maybe because half the people in the world call him Taz. I agree that Trey is the I. Okay. You know, Skeets is the S and I would be the J, I would think, you know. That's a good way to do it as well. But, yeah. I don't know. I'll take the, oh, fine. Okay. Fine. I don't think that's an insult. All right.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Thanks, Tess.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Keep going. Keep going. That would be the best Tetris. Just all squares.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Delicious. Delicious pickle. He loves it.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Spicy jardinera.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah. Stupid. That's a good pick. It's essentially the best parts of a jalapeno. It's, like, spicy and a little bit of heat. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right? Yeah. You know, like, all combined.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I love the combo. I don't like them.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
That's too sweet.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Buttery sweetness.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Just right? It seems in the ballpark of being just right. You can't shove someone. That being said, I understand why Joel Embiid was quite angry at... Mr. Hayes Comets, to basically say, hey, you want to play to inspire your son who is named after your dead brother? Then you got to show up for work. Quote, he said, you first have to show up for work. Embiid has been great at just the opposite.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
It's very East Coast to put pickles on the table. It's just like part of the condiment. Salt, pepper, pickles.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
What a level of respect. You don't even love them, but you put them at number one.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I bet you're right. Maybe even higher. Maybe 100. I know. It would be very close.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah, but they make things that taste like dill pickle. There's dill pickle potato chips. That's how good it is.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
They're good.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
They're a little tangy.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I like this on the stream team. Shout out Harvey's from Tom Izzo because of the pickles that they had just behind that counter that were massive. They're not quite as big as what you get at the pool. And they're sliced, I should say. They're sliced pickles to put on any burger. But they're big. They're big and they're good.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
It's a fast food chain. Yeah, they didn't make it all the way down here to the United States.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah, they're good. Good pickles. Good pickles.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
uh okay uh speaking of pickles let's go to the pick um game for tonight wednesday night tasks a million games to pick from we don't have 15 games on but there's over 10 so where are we going yeah 12 games that's a lot of games the 76ers going to visit the los angeles clippers clippers just a small line here our favorite by one and a half it's paul george baby going back to the los angeles clippers so i was excited for this i want to see what happens i think it's a really good schedule there's
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I mean, that was really... It was not the nicest thing to say. It just wasn't appropriate. And that's why they retracted it. That's why it was gone from that article. It was literally retracted. Hayes did apologize on Twitter. He said, quote, so I rewrote the lead to my column and replaced the picture. I can see why so many people were upset about it. Sorry about that.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
A lot of good games. There are. Warriors, Celtics. Lakers, Grizzlies. Let's see John Morant spin around Anthony Davis. The Knicks are here in Atlanta. But anyway. Thunder Nuggets. Thunder Nuggets, of course. Suns. Excuse me. Sixers at Clippers. To me, I think Philadelphia's got a lot to play for. I think we'll get a good Paul George game. So I got the Sixers. We're split.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Trey is with the Sixers as well. Ashton Skeets are taking the Clippers at home.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Until tomorrow, Clipper Bro! You heard it here first. Have a great time. Turn up. Love you guys. Awesome.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Thanks for joining us and remember... Well, remember... Not really fitting here, because I just learned something. That Harvey's has a pickled poutine, and it looks awful, according to Tom Izzo.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah. It's Tom Izzo. On the stream team. Okay, cool. Not the actual Tom Izzo, but pickles, gravy, and cheese on fries? I don't know.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Thanks for all the constructive criticism. Yeah, it's an unfortunate column. That is for sure. The whole thing is an unfortunate. I can see why Embiid is angry about it. The guy has given his... Heart and soul to this team. Whether you say he doesn't play through games and injured, I can understand why he was mad. So yes, I guess the three is right. You can't shove somebody.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
He shoved him in the shoulder. By all accounts, he put his hand on Mr. Hayes' shoulder and that was it. Frankly, that was the whole thing. I don't think this is the NBA mad about them not playing Embiid and Paul George in back-to-back situations, as they've said they're going to do. I don't think this particular suspension is about that. I think this is just about pushing something.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
That dust-up led to another game where they played later on in the season. Yeah, that was a great little rivalry there. And I know the NBA in general is upset with the Philadelphia 76ers for going out and saying that Joel Embiid and Paul George aren't going to play in both half of back to backs. That's why they fined them $100,000 last week. It's because of that that they fined them.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
And so that's the unfortunate part for the Sixers basically saying, yeah, we're trying to get Joel Embiid healthy for the postseason. That's what they're trying to do.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I don't think the NBA can be upset about that.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Oh, yeah, I know. I'm very aware that they're sucked by them. But they shouldn't have back-to-backs. I mean, the guy has to be healthy for the postseason. He hasn't been healthy for the postseason basically every year of his career. And so they're saying, yes, we want him to be healthy. But I understand the NBA's side of things.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I mean, a couple of years ago, Adam Silver, they deemed that back-to-backs aren't healthy for players. Playing all those games isn't healthy. Then they reversed it and said, yeah, there's no actual scientific evidence beyond that because they wanted to get the TV deal signed. And so they're telling TV stations, any TV company, basically, we're going to play 82 games.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
But we all know that back-to-backs isn't good for players. It's just not. You've got to expand the season by two weeks, and we can take away the 15 back-to-backs for every team.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
No way. No, he wouldn't be a good basketball player if he missed the first six months. Well, he'd be playing. They said he's missing 15 games, essentially, because of their back-to-backs. The average is 15 in the NBA, so I'm just deeming it 15. I don't know what they have. Somewhere around there, that he's missing 15 games. He hasn't been healthy since he's entered the league in the playoffs.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
But he has to be healthy for the postseason. He said it.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
It's basically what the NBA is saying when they come down with these fines. Listen, back-to-backs ain't good. They want to copy the NFL in many ways. NFL, everybody plays because you only play once a week. We just got to take away a few days. You're just expanding it by two weeks. That's all. That's all you got to ask.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah, well, what would be normal is if he gets injured for the playoffs. That's normal Embiid life, unfortunately. He just can't get healthy, so that's what they're trying to do. And Paul George, which is another thing. So, yeah, they've got a lot of problems.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Every pickle day, you're here. Yeah, he's here. Back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah, especially in the Western Conference. I don't think that's crazy at all. We might be seeing the end of the Nuggets championship run right here. They could miss the postseason because of this, because of Aaron Gordon being out. He is their heart and soul in a very, very, very tough Western Conference.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I mean, he's their heart and soul on the offensive end in a way as well, especially on the defensive end. The playoffs are not a guarantee for this team. Their 4-3 only wins are against non-playoff teams from last season. Jazz Nets and the Raptors twice, which they kind of got lucky with. Anyway, their losses have been two playoff teams.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Minnesota, the Clippers, and OKC all made the playoffs last season. So you got to play these good teams over and over again. They get OKC again tonight. Good luck with that. That's going to be very, very troublesome. But AG is just... A glue guy. Like a super glue guy.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah, a glue guy is a little bit demeaning with Aaron Gordon, but he is literally, if there's any form of glue sticking that team together, it's that guy on both ends. Just there where he has to be on the offensive end for Jokic to pass it to him, taking the other team's best defensive player a lot of the time, just being everywhere. So yes, yes, the emotional part of it.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
This is big in that Western Conference.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
It's unfortunate because he's a bit of a glue guy since we're talking about glue guys. He gets after it on the other team's very good defensive player, offensive player, excuse me, because he plays great defense. That's all. Stinky. It's stinky. This?
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Why The Knicks Fired Tom Thibodeau, New Magic Jerseys, Giannis-Raptors Trade Rumors
Ja, ich denke, wir sind gut.
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Why The Knicks Fired Tom Thibodeau, New Magic Jerseys, Giannis-Raptors Trade Rumors
Ich schaue nur auf die Wälder. Ich schaue nur auf die Kommentare. Das ist der einzige Weg, wie ich es sehe.
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Why The Knicks Fired Tom Thibodeau, New Magic Jerseys, Giannis-Raptors Trade Rumors
The same.
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Why The Knicks Fired Tom Thibodeau, New Magic Jerseys, Giannis-Raptors Trade Rumors
Just for pick'em, you know, to have it on the lower third and just, you know, a uniform. You can put it on the lower third.
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Why The Knicks Fired Tom Thibodeau, New Magic Jerseys, Giannis-Raptors Trade Rumors
Ja, das ist etwa 400, 500. Das ist ein Organ. Ja, genau.
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Why The Knicks Fired Tom Thibodeau, New Magic Jerseys, Giannis-Raptors Trade Rumors
Ja, ja, ja. Das ist nicht existent.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
It's like Minnesota should have won this game. You ran down all the stats that they let in in this game. The only things that were really a problem were the turnovers, which were bad, but I think Minnesota scored more points off of turnovers than OKC did in this game. Their two guys didn't show up. That's really what it comes down to. Three did for the Thunder. Two did it for Minnesota. Game over.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
Okay, but I think you would also say that McDaniels is a great defender. Anthony Edwards is theoretically a good defender. He's best on ball. People talk up Nikhil Alexander-Walker as a defender. They didn't have the same impact that the three defensive guards did for OKC. I agree they're a level ahead, but Minnesota should be a good defense. They still gave up almost 140 last night.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
They're going back to OKC.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
They did. They did. They were awesome.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
They went 38 for 82 from three in Minnesota. They won one game in a blowout, and then they were close in another one. Honestly, they're going to regret this one, is what it's going to come down to. They didn't shoot the ball very well at all in Oklahoma City, so they need to play as well as they did last night, plus get performances, at least from one of their stars.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
I liked Doris Burke's call on nearly starting World War III. I don't know much about history, but I know the French and Germans don't like one another. And Rudy says, Bonjour, Mr. Hartenstein. Have a little bit of that left-handed dunk. One of the craziest calls you've ever heard.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
Going deep in the textbook. Not that deep. No, not really deep. Not that deep. This is a pretty well-known throwdown.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
I'm sorry. Feels like a regular season game when you're watching. Yeah.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
We were drinking the gravy. We were listening to like 60% of five different songs. That all sort of sounds the same. I was like, I didn't realize Glenn Powell was doing a jelly roll impersonation here, but that's what Young Gravy is. He's too handsome to be doing these songs.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
He's a handsome man? No, the music. The music is just. Young Gravy's hot. He's hot.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
Trey likes it. I mean, we're talking about their best players in their franchise history. I'm not totally against it. Nick Collison at least should be there.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
I thought it was somehow an employee or an ambassador or something. I think he is. Maybe he is there.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
He can go. He can be there for sure. Who's retired from the Thunder? Yeah. Kevin Martin? Bring back Kevin Martin. Let's see what that guy's up to. Yeah, it is an issue. They're all still playing.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
I thought Bill was the last scars guard. So did I. I was happy to know him.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
Was it a new one? Because they showed the picture of like their two headshots next to each other. That's the only one I've seen. Yeah, I've seen it a ton of times. They showed it a ton of times during game one as well.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
No, no. It looks like they're sitting on a couch or something together.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
There's only one photo of it.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
I agree that it's boring. Super boring to watch it come down to free throws at the end, but it always comes down to free throws at the end.
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And my worry would be that if they get rid of this fouling down three and put some sort of rules about it, about when and where you can foul, depending on time and score, it'll rob us of the rare actual comebacks that happen in scenarios like this because they do happen. I mean, we've seen the Pacers pull off three comebacks where they were down 10 points in less than a minute.
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If you're taking away their fouling, Do those not happen? Maybe. I just, I don't know. There's, there's gotta be a better way. Should we just get rid of all free throws period? That would be the dream. Nobody likes watching free throws. Literally nobody. Um, but it was annoying. It just takes the wind out of your sails. You're like, Ooh, is the guy that shoots 90% gonna finally miss one right now?
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Shay did. He did miss one down the stretch, but then he made the other five of six that he took. Yeah.
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Because it is that. Most points per minute, so maybe you're right. Yeah, I was going to say, there is a lot of scoring.
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I've only ever known one in my life.
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That's pretty soon, huh?
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Maybe the NBA should just get more lenient with giving players the three-point attempt when they're going for the foul. Because in general, if a player's going for the intentional foul, even if they chuck it up, you're not getting that call very often. Maybe they should say, we're calling it.
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Broadcast went nuts for that foul.
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I mean, that's one of the most exciting plays in all of basketball is the intentionally missed free throw that actually works out. So if you ban this foul, that never happens.
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Sometimes they just line up six inches to the right. Yeah. Shoot it normal. You're going to miss. Oh, God. Great stuff. Great stuff. Talking free throws. Got to love it. We're talking free throws. Two of four games after this series we're talking free throws. Well, there's been a lot of free throws.
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I got a couple more little random notes for you here. I like Shaggy Alexander going through the legs of, was it Gobert? Gobert? I don't know who it was, but he went through the legs and found Jalen Williams for a three-pointer in the corner. And he intentionally went through the guy's legs through the pass, but also his whole body went at least like a third of the way through the wickets.
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That was an incredible play. And to keep his foot stationary, the guy almost did the splits and then went through the legs. That was pretty cool. That was amazing. I like that.
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They're just naming goalies in the locker room afterwards. Yeah. Nice. Patrick. Why would you name goalies or would you name scorers? I don't know. Yeah.
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I'm just willing to guess. Maybe Ovechkin. I'm going Alex.
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I mean, it's just probably Gretzky. It's like guessing Wilt Chamberlain. It's probably Wilt. Yeah, it's true. Also, Lou Dort drew two offensive fouls fighting over screens last night. He just goes horizontal. He just chucks himself. He just chucks himself horizontal. Very funny. And then last, we talked about it briefly.
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The fan catching the ball on Shea Gildress Alexander's desperation heave at the end. He's sitting down on the ground. Can't go through anybody's leg, so he just decides to chuck it. And a dude in the sunlight catches the ball. Very cool. Stopped the clock at .1 seconds. They show the replay. It looked like he caught it at .6 seconds. Yeah. And somehow they put .3 seconds back on the clock.
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We're not giving you a full .6. That's ridiculous because it's fan interference. But you should get a little bit more time back, it felt like.
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Oh, you would have reached, you would have reached courtward in the biggest moment of the game. I don't believe that. I don't think he reached on the court, I just said. Okay, so maybe he didn't theoretically cross that tiny line, but he was reaching towards the court. If the ball would have been a centimeter further to the left and it was in the court, it wouldn't have been any different.
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If I tossed a ball at you right now, you're immediately going to catch it, Trey. Not if I'm sitting courtside at a game. Not if I'm sitting courtside at a game.
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Josh on the stream team, thank you for your super chat, says people keep complaining that the refs only put .3 seconds on the clock, but for some reason, no one's pointing out that the ball was off Rudy. Am I wrong? Did Rudy Gobert tip the ball when Shea was sitting down? Because it may have looked like he just rears back and chucks it.
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Like he's probably trying to chuck it down to the middle of the court. And it goes sideways to the left, so maybe Rudy tipped it. Yeah. Which means that it should have been Thunderball. Yeah, right.
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Yeah, did they really show a replay? No! I don't know, yeah. I don't remember, though.
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He's going to play. Maybe he'll be listed as questionable. Maybe he'll be a game-time decision, but surely he'll at least try and gut it out. He came back and played in the fourth quarter. Didn't look very good when he came back in the fourth quarter. His two shots were inside the arc.
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Now, part of that is because New York wisely was trying to take away his three-pointer, see if he could make a play on a bum ankle. He didn't look like he had much lift on either of his floaters in the lane, but... Neesmith has played 98 minutes so far in this series. He's a plus 20, and the Pacers lead the series by a grand total of two points.
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So he is super valuable for him to have on the court. The game kind of flipped in game three when he went out with his ankle injury, Indiana cruising kind of up until that point, and then just couldn't get anything going, couldn't get stops on the defensive end when he came back, didn't really have a rhythm. He's also been the main Brunson defender, like Tass is saying. Has it mattered?
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I don't know. Brunson is 10 for 20 against Aaron Neesmith, but he's better than Nembhard is. I think Shepard will probably get the bulk of the minutes that go to anybody outside of Neesmith. Shepard's given them good effort. He's knocked down his very few three-point attempts that he's had, but of course you'd rather have Aaron Neesmith out there.
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his availability, I think he'll be there, but what he's actually able to provide to the Pacers, we shall see.
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I guess this is technically news, and I think this is a fair slap on the wrist for John Halliburton. Yeah, I'm excited to say John Halliburton once again. He missed eight games. He missed eight games. He's a player. He missed eight games, including, I will say... Two hugely notable Tyrese Halliburton games, the big balls game. And of course the choke game. So I think it's fine.
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He gets to come back. Apparently the Pacers weren't thinking we're going to the conference finals. Maybe the NBA finals. We're going to send this dad away for the entire time. There's no way they thought they were going to be saying, go home for a month and a half. Don't watch your son in person playing in the NBA finals. So that's interesting, but I think it works out fine. He's in a suite.
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He's not going to be out there yelling at opponents. It's only going to be at the home games.
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They do have facial recognition technology there for Madison Square Garden, so you've got to be careful. Dolan! But could he just buy a ticket? I mean, I don't know. And not tell any, but just only tell Tyrese where he's sitting?
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He could have easily been there. We have no idea. Maybe they could have put him back courtside again. Just don't put him on the broadcast. Who's checking for John Halliburton?
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Okay, you're going up. Okay, from the 8 o'clock hour until end of game. I think I'm under as well. I don't think that they want this to be the story.
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Three John Halliburtons.
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Trey Kirby, is this news? No, no, no. This is just a man defending his friend. Okay. This would be like us saying, Matt's right. Sometimes you should drive on rumble strips. Everybody knows it's wrong, but it's still supportive.
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I don't know. I think the most interesting thing that Gary Payton said is it wasn't Nico's call. It wasn't his decision. He made a decision on what he was told to do or what had to be done. Yeah, I thought that was a little... So when we ever hear the full story of how this came about, who knows? It won't be for decades, honestly.
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Or at least until Nico Harrison is no longer the GM of the Mavericks. But they've got a relationship going back, Gary Payton and Nico. He says that Nico looks at...
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I watched that clip. Very funny. Whoever the co-host is was killing me in that clip.
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They said, what, Gatorades for winners only?
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Wow, so to purify it? I guess so.
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Everybody has different throat temperatures.
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I'm a room temper. I think I'm more on the room temp side too, actually.
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Yeah, it just shows you the importance of your stars in the playoffs. That's all that really happened in this game. Minnesota got 64 bench points. Jaden McDaniels, like you mentioned, 22. Rudy Gobert was kind of effective, kind of sloppy at times, but one of his better offensive games. I would say six of the nine Timberwolves who played
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I do like chomping on ice. Big chomps.
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What about you on an airplane? Well, airplane, I'm trying to get everything out of that price that I'm paying. So you better give me some ice. And I want the can of ginger ale on the side as well. Like I'm going to an old school malt shop and you give me the thing you mix my shake up in.
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He would be awesome. I would love to talk to that guy. He's a fascinating character, and you're right. We need this. You think of the biggest courtside fans, and it's Jack Nicholson, who is in his 80s probably at this point. Spike Lee is older now. Jimmy Goldstein, notable. He's 180. He is the combined ages of Spike Lee and Jack Nicholson. We need some young blood on the sideline.
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If this guy's going, he went to Detroit for a game. He went to Indiana for a game. He will legitimately travel to see his next play. I love it. Respect.
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played pretty well mike conley didn't really do much either but the stars in julius randall and anthony edwards 21 points on 20 field goals nine assists 10 turnovers you look at okc i thought their role players played well but not big scoring nights caruso had 10 wallace had seven isaiah joe did a Shea, J-Dub, and Chet, they shot 51% from the field combined.
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What did Timmy Chalamet do in Indianapolis for a night?
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He's been traveling anymore. He's been shellamade.
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You think it's frozen on the ground?
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You think that sometimes that's why the plane is delayed at the end? Oh! Frank, can you run to the store and grab a bag of ice? We gotta fly an hour and a half here. There's a few plane malfunctions here. We gotta update your wings.
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They had 16 assists to 8 turnovers, 8 stocks for them as well, blocks and steals, making plays on both ends of the ball. And this is really like the vision for the Thunder. This was a perfectly played game for their big three. It's the most points that any trio has ever scored for the Oklahoma City Thunder. And guess what? They had a pretty good trio once upon a time. But Shea was awesome, 49-10.
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I felt like he had the answer to every Minnesota surge when they were making their runs. J-Dub was hot from the start, finished with 34 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists, and 3 steals. I thought the Thunder did an awesome job of running second-side actions for him that were occupying the defenders, which makes it a little easier for Shea. Gets J-Dub great spots.
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and the spots that he likes to play down the stretch. It was just J-Dub and Shea running pick and roll for each other. Didn't matter who was handling the ball. Just mattered where the defenders were. They were able to score effectively. And then Chet, 21 points, seven rebounds, three blocks. He finishes the plays. Great cutter. He ended up with a lot of dunks in this one.
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Some big defensive playmaking as well from him. Just a great performance by the big three of the Thunder and nothing from the big two of the Timberwolves.
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The only criticism you would have of Chet is that he doesn't rebound very well. And you saw that happening in the fourth quarter. No Hartenstein playing, and the Wolves started kind of crushing it on the glass. He's a skinny guy, so he'd need some help from the guards rebounding, and that's why they went and got Hartenstein in the summer, because they wanted to beef up their rebounding.
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But, I mean, he's taken threes when they're there. He is... A good offensive rebounder had that nice tip dunk in the fourth quarter as well. But 34 points combined from J-Dub, Shea, and Chet. And it's like you're getting nine from Chet Holmgren, and he's barely even a focus offensively. He played incredibly well. The Thunder were smart to go with a small ball lineup.
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It just makes it a little bit tougher for Minnesota to keep up. And, I mean, this was a close game. It was there for the winning, but still somehow Oklahoma City never gave up the lead in the second half. There was not a lead change in this game the second half.
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They had to bench Chet three minutes into this series. They're like, you're not playing well enough. They brought in Cason Wallace and he juiced them up. And then Chet has been awesome since the second half of game one.
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Julius. Yeah. Here it's a, it's coach Finch. I think it's kind of odd that you don't play well in even numbered games. Feel free to show up. Not every other game. Okay. Call you back. Bye. He was brutal. He didn't do anything. He was completely taken out of the game. I do think it's changed from his New York days.
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His New York days, if he was playing poorly, he would kind of press and try to get things going. And this one, he admitted afterwards, I was just standing around and watching out there, spectating, just playing for catch-and-shoot jumpers. We're talking about the need for another point guard. Absolutely, that's true. Conley didn't really give him much last night.
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But Julius Randle is supposed to be the secondary playmaker. Shaquille Just Alexander and Jalen Williams are seeing similar coverages to Anthony Edwards. Jalen Williams was able to do last night. And honestly, look what Shea was able to do last night. Sure, Ant had six assists. That's cool. He had five turnovers as well. Shea Yildiz Alexander had 40 points and 10 assists.
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There's a way to blend your playmaking and your scoring that Ant really hasn't figured out yet. Because this is exactly what they did against Dallas last year. They took him out of the game by throwing everybody at him, by making him see a whole bunch of bodies in the gaps. And he's just not able to... process the playmaking versus scoring aspect of things. I agree.
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He made some great passes to the corner, but those, like we've talked about a million times, are the passes that Oklahoma City wants him to throw because they think they can challenge. Minnesota knocked him down last night. That's why this game was close. But Ant's got to figure out a way to be effective as a playmaker and a scorer at the same time.
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I'm taking the Thunder in six. I think that, yeah, the Minnesota Timberwolves, they look super strong against the first two opponents. It's going to be different against OKC. Such a young team. The athleticism will be matched for Minnesota and surpassed. I mean, OKC is just too athletic. We'll start with there. I think the Thunder will start shooting the three ball a lot better.
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I think we're going to see the best Thunder of the playoffs.
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this series i think they're getting better they show that they've got the the vim and the vigor uh to to bring some intensity like they they showed in game seven of denver and i think that carries over i like the fact that they only have one day off these this this team is so young and they don't have to travel as well which is nice beneficial obviously game seven at home and then they're there yeah they're like on a regular season schedule basically right now yeah yeah
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The balance is there. There's some national patriotism here. Vote for Anthony Edwards in the USA versus Shea in Canada. Sure. I will say, you just mentioned Cason Wallace there when you made your prediction. I think that was the first mention of Cason Wallace. That guy has been so, so, so good at getting aggressive defensively. I will say about the Shea MVP announcement. I'm kind of okay.
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They're going to do it on an off day where they're not playing. And so that's how it feels anyways, that they're not handing him the trophy pregame. I kind of like that.
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They've had a lot of off days between games. So you think they're going to wait until... Well, I don't know at this point. Mid-June or whatever? Late June?
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how can you guard towns it doesn't make sense unless they're in the switch mode and then he can go both ways so i think that's the smarter thing to do yeah with knee smith on brunson we are going to get a game where knee smith gets into foul trouble because brunson is pumping he's he's doing the pump fakes and he gets him into foul trouble which he has been prone to do a little bit here in the postseason averaging four fouls per game and if you're guarding brunson that's going to be extremely tough i am interested in
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It feels like a wide open foursome here. I will say, if the Minnesota Timberwolves want to take out OKC, obviously the best team, it starts with Anthony Edwards. That's what I'll be watching. Just Anthony Edwards and whether he'll start better than he started against Golden State. He did not start well in that first game. And Golden State win took game one.
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On the other side, how the Knicks guard the Halliburton and Miles Turner pick and roll that we're going to see over and over and over again. Now the Knicks showed that they are a new Knicks in Game 6 against the Celtics. They switched. Tom Thibodeau, old guy, learning new tricks. He said, all right, we're going to switch, which we didn't do during the regular season.
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I think that is so, so, so, so important against this Pacers team. You've got to keep switching because as soon as you let off – and give a little bit of space to one of these guys. They're all weapons. They're all playing extremely well. It is ridiculous when you look at the numbers.
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So as soon as they get a little bit of space, if the Knicks decide that they're not going to fly around and communicate and play with that vim and vigor that they did in Game 6 against Celtics and not going to switch, I think the Pacers will kill. They will score so many freaking points.
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I know these stats are a little nuts when you start to look at, wow, Nembhard, an incredible player in the playoffs. Same goes for Nesmith. Their numbers have jumped a lot.
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Yeah, that's why their true shooting percentage is 62.5. That is a ridiculously big number. So I think the Knicks just have to be ready to keep switching, and that will help them out because as soon as you give them a little bit of space, they're going to find a way to score.
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Ant, I thought, just was a little passive, didn't know where to be. He's shot only 54% in the restricted area. He's got to start zipping that ball out to the corners a little bit more against an incredible defense, which is going to show him bodies. And those corner threes will be there for his teammates because OKC does allow them. And the guys are shooting all right from the corner threes.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
I have Carl Anthony Towns on both ends. It is really important. I do think the Pacers, because they don't turn it over, they'll be the team that it's hard to score on in transition. And I know the Knicks don't want to run, but because the Pacers have the best assist to turnover ratio since Jan 1, it's going to be tough for Carl Anthony Towns to find those trailing threes.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
How are you going to try and find it in half-court sets? Doubt it. So we'll see on the offensive end. But he's going to be so important on the defensive end as well, just where he's going to be. He may have to sit a few minutes. That's why Mitchell Robinson will come in, whether it's foul trouble or just exhaustion, because they're going to try and run him through a bunch of pick and rolls.
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Yeah, he's got... A lot of jobs to do on the defensive end and the offensive end. I do want to see, because running will be tough against this Pacers team. If he's going to score, where he's going to get those points. But if Pascal Siakam is the guy against him, he should be able to take him on the post. So the options there for him offensively are there.
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Will he take advantage of them when he's got so many freaking responsibilities here?
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You know, Nas Reed's making it happen, 44% from three in the corner. Jay McDaniel's doing all right himself at 38%. There's guys that can do it, but will Anthony Edwards be that guy to start zipping it out? Because OKC's defense, I think, will be better off than when they started against Denver.
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Yeah, because Tatum or Brown, they kind of reverted to old Celtics ways. All right, I'll shoot on you. We'll see what Towns does, though, because he likes to drop back. Will he be able to spry himself forward? Get up there. Because that's what they wanted. That's when they looked their best against the Boston Celtics. That game six was their best defensive game.
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I think what they got going for them is that there was eight days off before they played Denver in game one. They only have one day off here. I think that benefits them. They will just be ready to go. This is a freaking young team. I think they'll be spry and ready to fly against OKC this season. Anthony Edwards only shot 36% from the floor, 31% from three. Regular season doesn't really matter.
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Absolutely. This Pacers team has so many weapons. I'm just not comfortable saying the Knicks are going to play incredible defense against this Pacers team because Tyrese Halliburton has hit big shots, but he hasn't been or needed to be incredibly great in the postseason. His percentages have dropped off because he's got so many weapons. Will the Knicks be able to take all those guys down?
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will they be able to switch on pick and rolls? I'm not sure. We haven't seen it throughout the postseason, enough throughout the postseason or the regular season. So I have the questions of Cat at five. If they throw Mitchell in, that will help them.
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But I don't think that they can do enough against this Pacers team that's got some 2011 Mavs championship vibes where things were picked against them. Throughout the playoffs, Mavs were slight favors against the Blazers in round one, just like the Pacers were against the Bucks in round one. But then you go to round two for the Mavs.
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They were dogs against the Lakers, then against the Thunder, then against the Heat. Pacers, you're feeling it's sort of the same thing in round two against the Cavs and here against the Knicks. We won't predict what's going to happen in the finals, but it feels the same way. So I think Pacers just have too many weapons. I'm not comfortable enough taking the Knicks. I got Pacers in sixth.
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I think it does because OKC is just going to bring all those guys around. They're going to bring that toilet defense. They're going to start swarming him. How will he react? How will he react? He's got to start better, I think, than against the Warriors team, which was a far, far inferior team.
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You think he's just going to apply some chocolate from his pocket and just hand something to Chalamet? Wonka, great movie. Underrated movie. People don't talk enough about Wonka. It's a great movie. People don't talk enough about Wonka?
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Yeah, well, he's bringing a fan of his to the Pacers game that was trolled by Knicks fans that got hit by garbage bags outside of MSG's arena. And so he said, all right, you're coming, man. You're getting tickets. So he'll get him some high fives, I'm sure. He'll give him some love.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
I don't know. He'll be walking around in that Wonka get-up, whatever it is, the top hat, to the soundtrack. It's so fun.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
It worked out perfect. I was surprised to see by those huge bags of garbage... they were so soft and gentle. You don't have to worry about a thing. It was like, it was like all paper. It felt like they didn't, he didn't get knocked over. These are monstrous bags. They're like eight foot bags.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Thanks for joining us, and remember, show tonight there was a rumor that we'll be staying in a third state, that our hotel is actually in New Jersey. That's a rumor.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Yeah, they will see it. It is wild to look at the stats for OKC's three-point shooters. They have not been great in these first two rounds. Six of their nine guys below 35%. Way below 35%. You got your... Shea has just been struggling from three. Will that come... And happen again? It feels like it won't. 29%, Lou Dort 28%, J-Dub 25%. It just feels weird. That has to come around, I imagine.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Is it because of the double bigs that they're playing and they just are...
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
able the defenses are able to get out to those three point shooters and the passes aren't on point is that what it is uh or is it just they've been missing shots i mean it is weird to see chet aaron wiggins all below 35 i think that just comes back to earth that they shoot better and that this i feel like that's gonna happen here in round three
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Yeah, I think the OKC defense matters in the regular season. The Minnesota defense may not matter because they're going to change it up. But they did send two guys at Shea. That's what they did. And let the three-point shooters try and beat them. Which is probably what they're going to do. Because that's what you try and do against OKC. Those numbers are crazy.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Throughout the first two rounds of these playoffs, these guys can't shoot the three. All these OKC guys. Basically, most of the rotation. So we'll see what happens.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Yeah, I think it's on Anthony Edwards to start zipping that ball out to those guys because he seemed a little passive to start that Golden State series, whereas having little flashbacks to the regular season, they just can't start that same way. And yeah, Jane McDaniels has to come through. The percentages aren't... Percentages in the shooting just aren't impressive enough.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Like 38% from the corners, not good enough. They got to jump up a little bit. DiVincenzo has been better from the corners than he was from throughout overall as a three-point shooter. You know, 33%, that's fine. Kill Alexander Walker. I know it's not fine. It's better than his other ones. He's better than 25.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Yeah. So Jaden, DiMagenzo, and Na, who struggled everywhere. Yeah. They need to step up because, yeah, your other guys have been great. And Reid and Conley and Edwards. So for me, on the other side, the other side is the middle of the freaking floor. Julius Randle is going to be pummeling guys. That's what he's going to do. He did it against LeBron. He did it against Draymond Green.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Now how is OKC going to manage that? That is the big question. I think he's the X factor because you're going to see Hartenstein against him, a very good defender. Will you see Mark Dagnall say, all right, The guy that guarded Jokic one-on-one in Jalen Williams, J-Will, will he be able to do that? And you'll get the other Jalen Williams.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
You'll get the J-Dub out there to try and slow him down because he's got to be zipping it around to corner threes as well. And even if Julius Randle misses, because they're going to probably play him one-on-one. You're not going to see what they did against Jokic. You're just going to see one-on-one. They do grab their offensive boards extremely well. The team grabbed 35% of their misses.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
In the postseason, that's the best of all the teams left, second amongst the 16 playoff teams, and the Thunder are the worst defensive rebounding team still among all teams left. I say still because it's a little bit reminiscent of last year before they went and acquired Isaiah Hartenstein. So I think you do play Randall one-on-one because you don't want to be giving up offensive boards.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
If you're going to help out, it's going to be a struggle against this team to grab boards. That being said, it's up to Randall. We've seen two of his best playoff series.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
I will see—we all praise Alex Caruso because of how awesome he is. It is going to be different for Caruso playing a Randall versus a Jokic just because of where they start a lot of the times because Randall's going to start further out and bully him and try and bully. That's going to be a different— Yeah, it's good.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Well, yeah, Caruso's strong as hell, but he's not going to be able to do what he did against Jokic in front and go around like crazy. It's just going to be a different defense. So it's a lot on Randall's shoulders. There's no doubt.
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NBA Draft Lottery Winners & Losers, Giannis Trade Rumors, Tatum's Leg Injury
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Podcast listeners, I hope you like this one. This is for you.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
This is a new level, Jokic. It is. We've never seen before. That type of leadership? Oh, yeah. He is their Bruce Brown. They need somebody. He's taking it to another level. I know Ian Eagle said during the broadcast that that may have been overplayed after the last series, that Jokic is the vocal guy. But when he speaks once, you just need it once. You just need your Tim Duncan to yell once.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Yeah. Carries a lot of weight. Yeah.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Oh, they did. They did. I had to go back and watch those third quarter minutes, wondering, what happened to the Celtics shooting? But really, they shot fine. They shot sort of league average in the third quarter. They hit seven of their threes, so almost half their threes they made were in that one quarter. They shot seven of 19. But, yeah. That's bad. Yeah, it's fine. I mean, in the...
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
The fourth quarter was even worse. Yes. That Jason Tatum going over in that quarter. And I thought, you know, you've got last couple of minutes. You've got Brunson on you twice. And then you have Al Horford on you. You literally could find an easier part of the floor to go to and shoot a shot. Mitchell. Yes. Mitchell. Right. Not Al. They play for the same team. Yes, for sure.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
I thought the Knicks literally, I thought, we all thought watching the Boston Celtics up 20 in the third quarter. Okay, here it comes. I mean, this is basically it. But Josh Hart wouldn't let his team die. Absolutely not. He did so many things in the third quarter and the fourth quarter where he played every single minute. Of course he does. Down 20. It looked like here come the Celtics.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
barrage of shots but josh hart hit a three then he stole ball in the passing lane jumping in there then he stole a ball from paint pritchard who was on his back he just said give me that freaking thing then he got a rebound led to og fast break score in the fourth quarter he set up towns for a basket with an offensive board tip that i don't think
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
is really given to Josh Hart in the box score, but he just did so much, especially after what you saw in the first half. The Knicks made a bunch of mistakes over and over. I mean, Josh Hart, one of them, trying to pass it to Carl Anthony Towns, or Carl Anthony Towns not shooting the ball at the end of the first quarter. There's just so many plays, but still, they still fought.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
That was the winning thing for me, to get them to overtime, where there's so many good plays from the Knicks, obviously. your Brunson's, your Bridges, your steals.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
And Bridges was just awesome playing 51 minutes and still coming through with a key, the key steal, where it's so cool to see him just run directly to Jalen Brown, back to the whole thing, back to the ball, and still able to just snatch it from him. Give me that. Yeah, awesome.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Like, it was a little insane.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Yeah, it looked like he was going to finish it at the end of regulation because I loved what Thibodeau called. They called a dummy play because they knew the Celtics were intentionally fouling. So they just changed it up. Here comes Bridges into Josh Hart. Then after the intentional foul, you get the give and go with Jalen Brunson inbounding the cat. A beauty look. How could that miss?
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Yeah, he was.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Yeah, so he was super mad. I think the problem with the Celtics shooting the threes is that they kind of just stopped defensively a little bit. You see OG Ananobi outrun the team, frankly, too many times in the second half. Those cherry-picked baskets running on fast breaks, that just shouldn't happen. You shouldn't be backdoored and winning on fast breaks like that. There's...
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
it definitely affects their defense. And that was the issue for me watching them.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
after shot after shot after shot after shot because you know it looks it seemed like the first half was so bad Precious Achua was playing what why is he playing uh but somehow they turned around in that third quarter where they literally didn't die and Josh Hart you know not a stupid spectacular um box score I take it back it's good 14-11 uh boards three assists and two steals but man the the life on that guy he is such a Tibbs guy uh helping them out and then OG was monstrous
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
He had a game winner once.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
But overall. He had never scored over 15 points against the Boston Celtics ever. Wow. It's really strange. Yeah. And this is a great game. 29 points, 10 to 20.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Yeah, and he got hurt after he blocked Porzingis. He was shaken up. 51 minutes, no big deal. I mean, he stays out there while Porzingis... It is a little strange that it was an illness, and we had that run in March where he missed eight straight games, two weeks where they determined at the end... after a long time, that it was upper respiratory, according to Ali LaForse yesterday.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
But while it was happening during those two weeks, nobody knew what was happening. Nobody really knew. No. So, yeah, that's an interesting one. But has anybody taken the New York Knicks to win this series now after a key win, a big win?
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
That's right. Any other random notes? I will just say it's not fun watching the hack of Mitch. They're fouling Mitchell Robinson on purpose at home in a playoff game. It just sucks the life out of my TV screen because it sucks the life out of the arena, right? Yes. So the negative effect of that, it ain't all that good. And it sucks the... The life out of the team as well.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
You saw Jalen Brown in the audio assists segment saying, we've got to get the flow going. Keep the flow going. Keep the flow. Keep it flowing. Keep it flowing. And the flow. Takes a hit. I mean, it's true. I mean, there's no stat for it. I mean, it did work.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Yeah, it was working.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
And then they go to the locker room, and they just die. And that was not a good team coming into the third quarter. into that arena. So something happened. I mean, it's not fun. It's just not fun.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
I thought the third quarter was very important where they were down double digits and they just wouldn't die. Did it matter that they played 48 hours before? No. Did it matter that OKC has more depth? No. The way they finished that third quarter with offensive board after offensive board after offensive board.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
We'll find out.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Yeah, just the Jason Tatum, the replay of him scoring a bucket and turning his ankle at the same time when he had Brunson backing up. I mean, that was wild that he stayed totally comfortable after that, stayed on the floor, but he literally just turned his ankle. All good. Knicks fans in Boston is weird to hear. It's crazy during a playoff game. Yeah, exactly. There's a lot of them. They're loud.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
They're vocal. They're very vocal. Deuce McBride hit that bucket, and you hear a deuce. Yeah, there's no doubt. It is strange to see that. Just want to confirm that OG Ananobi has never scored 15 points against Boston Celtics because that's a wild stat. That's crazy.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
He's scored an average of 8.8 points against the Boston Celtics throughout his career, and he's never played them in the playoffs. So that's game number one. OG Ananobi versus the Boston Celtics.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
But wasn't he injured on there? Oh, maybe, yeah. Yeah, we'll take a look.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Oh, that was the... That was a bub. Yeah. That was a bub.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
No, no, no. Shout out to Jay King for knowing that. But not coming up with it. Actually, he's got a 20-point playoff game against the Boston Celtics. So it's a regular season. Anyways, he had 120. Anyways, this is still his best game of the playoffs. There's no doubt about that.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
They had nine offensive boards in the third quarter and they entered that third quarter on a 17-8 run. I think that really just kept them in because it could have been a situation where you let go of the rope, but not those guys. Yeah. Jokic started, he missed one, then grabbed it, the offensive rebound, put it in, and won.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Yeah, and should have the size girth to handle Gary Payton II. It is a problem. I think this entire lineup of the Wolves is a problem for the Warriors, especially size-wise. I mean, they're too small for this Minnesota team. Butler and Draymond Green up against Julius Randle and Rudy Gobert to start. That's a size problem, and we saw what Julius Randle was able to do against the Lakers.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
He matched up fairly well with LeBron, and him against Jimmy Butler should be a good matchup for him. He should have the ability to see over the entire defense and make good passes because he seems like he's totally comfortable with that, not just making it a whole Julius Randle show.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Well, Rudy Gobert also came through in round one, had a monstrous offensive game, just one of them, and that's all you need. And defensively, yeah, Curry should be able to burn him. But he did a good job of staying down on Luka, not jumping. And when one of those guys isn't working, well, here comes Nasrid. So they have incredible depth.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
in terms of their bigs, that the Golden State Warriors do not. And, yeah, you've got to ask, who's Steve Kerr starting? You've got to ask, who's Steve Kerr bringing off the bench? I mean, Quentin Post will run out there as a big. But I'm not so sure. I'm not so sure that they can handle the depth of those three guys playing extremely well at times against the Lakers. So I think that's a problem.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Offensive glass, defensively, they had it all.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Aaron Gorin, very smooth move on that free throw of Jokic, walking away from the free throw, looking like he's going back. Then he does a spin to go grab the offensive rebound. Was it a planned miss? We'll never know. No, it wasn't a planned miss. But also Christian Brown getting after it, grabbing one, putting it back, able to jump over Alex Caruso and Isaiah Joe.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Yes, he obviously does not like Rudy Gobert. Remember when he was working for TNT and they announced the All-Star game, they announced Rudy Gobert. Not a word. He didn't want to say anything about Rudy Gobert. He didn't want to smile. So yes. This is going to be a controversy. That is no doubt about that.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
I guess you'd think that he would scale it down, knowing that when he got suspended because of these flagrant fouls, they ended up losing the series against the Cleveland Cavaliers. He was suspended for game five. Came back to bite him in the ass. That's right.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
I'm looking at the Wolves bench because it has so much frickin' depth, because those three guys coming off the bench can start for so many teams in this league and just keep coming through. The main one, though, besides Nikhil Alexander-Walker and Nas Reed, who's going to be so big, is Dante DiVincenzo.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
able to be a little bit more athletic. The OKC bigs had to sit with foul trouble because Jokic got to them. And then when it came down to the end, as we get to Aaron Gordon's shot, OKC's number two and number three, if you want to call them that, Chet Holmgren and Jalen Williams just didn't come through in the last couple of minutes.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
I think he is going to be good against his former team, a guy that he learned how to shoot the ball from in Steph Curry. He became a shooter after being beside Steph Curry. And I don't like season series all that much, but he was pretty good against this team. The last two games when he started to become Dante DiVincenzo again that we saw with the Knicks. It took him a while this season.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
But he had 28 in the last game they played, 19 the game before that. So I think the depth is very important in this series, and he is a big part of that. And he's going to get looks. I feel like it's just going to be hard to scramble against this Wolves team because I do think Anthony Edwards is going to find all these guys again. He ain't dying. I think he's got another series in him.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
So, yeah, Dante will score, no doubt. Who do you got?
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Chet Holmgren couldn't grab an offensive board to slip through his hands. Aaron Gordon was able to grab it and go to the floor, go get a timeout. Also, in that run there in the last couple of minutes, Jalen Williams drive with 45 seconds left. I'm not sure what he was planning on. He kind of just drove, was kind of looking for a foul, then had to chuck it up, missed it.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
And he shut down Jalen Green.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
He did. He did.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Yeah, yeah. He just played one great game. Defensively, Buddy did set the tone, as Steve Kerr said. Yeah, for sure. He cares.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Yeah, Buddy came through. Not only did he come through in that game, but then he has an offer, and Steve Kerr sticks with him. Why? Because it worked. I mean, to see Buddy ride that roller coaster in one series, you wouldn't expect that. You wouldn't expect a guy who basically was unplayable last year with the Philadelphia 76ers. So that was a very, very good performance. They will be key.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
So many guys on that team.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Yeah, the Warriors just played, and now they've got to play every second day for the first five games here against a deeper team. There's no doubt the Minnesota Timberwolves are deeper. They are younger, and they can board just like the Rockets did offensively, but then they can also score the ball, which the Rockets had problems with. So I think they've got all that depth.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
And Anthony Edwards leading a team here in this run. He said before this season that he expects and wants something for this Minnesota city. to give them something to cheer for. And so, yeah, I'm riding with Ant and the depth on this team. I'm going six.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
And then Chet Holmgren's two missed free throws with nine seconds left. Very key, right before the game winner. So I just look at all that fight of the big guys, and Jokic had five offensive boards, Aaron Gordon had seven, and Christian Brown had four. I thought that was really key to keep it close. They just wouldn't die.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Well, just as a team, yeah. You have to be concerned about this team that was unable to guard everybody on the perimeter for Indiana. I thought Andrew Nembhard was just so key in this game. He just came through. And while they're looking at Halliburton and making sure that he can't be the conductor getting in there and doing things, Andrew Nembhard was...
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
just as important, if not more important in this game, but everybody coming through. And I say on the offensive end is where Indiana, the Indiana Pacers did it, but defensively they're so good too. I think Halliburton doesn't get enough credit for how great he is at helping when needed. Yeah. He waits for the fourth quarter at times, but he's good enough to do that.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
And so, yes, I think with the injuries. Yeah. Are they real, or are they just on the list here for, you know, it's a playoff game. He's banged up.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
But obviously Darius Garland didn't play in game one, so that is something to worry about. That's what, three straight games he's missed? He missed at least two, maybe three of Orlando's series.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Thanks for joining us. And remember, it's always fun to go back to those one-hit wonders. Just once, though. We heard a lot of one-hit wonders. But you don't want to hear it every time.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
It was all brick. Break your hand. Yeah, I was worried about that for sure.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
It felt soon. It felt early. That's my biggest takeaway from it. Why not wait a little bit more? That's all.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Yeah, and also just a strange challenge with four and a half minutes left. I still don't understand that call. Where they challenged Jokic, getting hit by Shea Gilgis-Alexander after a defensive rebound and just trying to pass the ball. And then Jokic secured the ball and then turned it over afterwards. So it's just weird that Shea ran up to Dagnon and said, don't challenge it.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Don't challenge it. He challenges it. And it's just a weird call in that, yes, he got smacked, but he did secure the ball and then threw it away. So, yeah, last few minutes, kind of strange. The space that Aaron Gordon had on that shot, though, also extremely confusing. They're just too good. They're too good to allow that much space for a guy to shoot a shot like that.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
The whole, hey, this team is so young. They got to do it in the playoffs thing. proved true in this game. I know they have been there last year and the year before that, but now that there are some serious expectations going 68-14, I think it does make you worry a little bit.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Chet Holmgren just didn't have a good game, didn't close very well, while the other team showed that even with Michael Porter Jr. not even running after a basketball when it's passed to the midcourt line, he goes over and back. He had a terrible game, and somehow they overcome that despite not having a ton of depth.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Peyton Watson was fine off the bench to go along with Russell Westbrook coming off the bench, but they really had to play their guys a ton.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
It is, yeah. For the most part. Six and a half. But you might do that. Chet didn't come through, and Isaiah Joe went 0-4, so they had to sit him. So Dagnall's playing things, but they just... They didn't come through. They really didn't. And I mentioned Jalen Williams' missed shot. I mean, we're not talking about him going 5 of 20, 2 of 9 in this game. That's super important.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
I mean, you just have to come through. So you got this arena. You have expectations. That other team didn't die. Yeah. That's it. So I expect a long series, though. Either way, I can go.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
yeah you think their leader coming off the bench like alex caruso won a championship was would rub off on those guys because he was fantastic ridiculously fantastic so hopefully it trickles down but there's just yeah too many things to clean up the offensive rebounds led to 27 second chance points for the nuggets that's a freaking lot and then on your side if you're okay see you missed a lot of freaking free throws i mean they didn't shoot incredibly poorly i guess in the air yeah that's not just i can think of two they would like to have specifically yeah i
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Guten Morgen, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks Podcast, presented by Amazon Prime. It's Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025. This is our NBA Finals Preview. I'm J.E. Skeets, here in the Classic Factory, and alongside me, as always, Tass Mellis.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Any other things to watch, you know, key matchups or stuff like that, or do you want to pivot to the X-Factors? I suppose we can pivot. Alright, let's pivot to the X-Factors, talking obviously a lot about the stars, but who do you have sort of like lower down the pecking order of someone to keep an eye on?
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Next to him, it's the bearded one, my top shot hot boy, Trey Kirby. Ayo. Ayo. And last but not least, over yonder, making the magic happen, Super Producer J.D. Hello. There he is, and here we are. Hallo an alle auf YouTube. Danke, dass ihr uns durch diese kleine Audio-Technik-Difficultät mitgebracht habt. Wir sind hier, wir sind gut. Drückt den Like-Button, abonniert den Podcast-Listenden.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Crumpled Jumper hatte eine tolle Grafik über den Wochenende, die die Roster-Version zwischen den beiden Mannschaften darstellt. Ich dachte, es wäre eine tolle Ausbrechung, die Vergleiche zwischen den beiden Mannschaften. Du hast die offensiven Superstars, die offensiven Engines, glaube ich, in Shea und Halliburton. Die zweiten Stars, J-Dub, Siakam.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Die defensiven Stoppers, Dort und Caruso gegen Neesmith und Nemhard. Diese Jungs können dir auch drei geben, natürlich. Der Strech-Big, der den Ring schützen kann, Chet Holmgren, Miles Turner. Der traditionelle Big, so zu sprechen, Hartenstein, gegen einen Thomas Bryant, Tony Bradley-Mix. Der andere Strech-Big, J. Will gegen Toppen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Der Scrappy-Point-Guard, der kommt rein, Kaysen Wallace, TJ McConnell. Und dann ein paar Wingmen, die sie alle beteiligen. Joe Wiggins, Kenrich Williams gegen Matherin, Ben Shepard, Jairus Walker, wenn er in Game 3 zurückkommt. Es ist lustig. Ich meine, es gibt viele Vergleiche, aber ich glaube, wie Roscillo gesagt hat, die Pacers fühlen sich wie die AAA-Squad zu vielleicht der Thunders Pro-Squad.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
In vielen von denen, die ich gerade durchgeführt habe, wirst du wahrscheinlich den Tick zu OKC geben in vielen von denen. Aber für sie, um dieses Upset auszulösen...
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Das, was ich gerade gesehen habe, die Match-Ups, es ist so, dass sie in vier oder fünf Spielen, zumindest für vier Spiele, auf der Pacer-Seite springen müssen, um dieses große Upset auszulösen, was ein massiver Upset wäre, wieder zu kommen. Was ist der Thunder? Minus 800 zu diesem Punkt, um das Ding zu gewinnen? Ich habe Minus 750 gesehen, als wir hinfuhren, also große, große Favoriten.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Aber es ist lustig, wie sie sich so ausmatchen, die Teile-weise.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ihr wisst nicht, was gerade passiert ist. Fünf-Star-Ratings und Reviews. Das ist perfekt für euch. Nicht ein Problem in der Welt. Das ist, warum wir es tun. Das ist richtig, warum wir es tun. Wir sind hier, um dieses NBA-Finals-Match-Up zu starten, das für mich anfängt heute Abend. Es beginnt leider nicht bis Mittwoch, aber wir haben noch ein paar Tage, um es wirklich zu verbreiten.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ja, beide von diesen Jungs machen das. Und sie haben so viele Jungs. Okay, dann geben wir dir eine Chance. Mal sehen, ob du das Spiel ändern kannst. Entweder mit deiner Defense oder deinem 3-Punkt-Schießen oder mit dem Öffnen von Sachen. Es sollte also ein tolles Coaching-Match-Up sein. Kann ich nicht erwarten, das zu sehen. Gibt es noch andere X-Faktoren?
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ich weiß, ich weiß. Das ist vielleicht der, der nicht so gut zusammenhängt. J. Will wird auch nicht spielen, also das ist fair. Ich meine, du sagst das, aber dann... Du weißt nie, mit diesen Coachs. Er wird einen Schmerz haben, ich bin mir sicher.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Und zum Schluss noch etwas über den X-Factor. Für mich fühlt sich Miles Turner immer wie ein X-Factor für die Pacers. Seine Fähigkeit, wie du gesagt hast, auf die Top 3 zu schießen, wenn sie es brauchen. Er ist wirklich die einzige echte Rimm-Verteidigung, um einen Kampf gegen die Jungs zu machen, die für den Thunder fahren. Ich denke, er muss hier die Serie seines Lebens haben.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Miles Turner, um sie wieder auf den Upset zu holen und 4-7 zu gewinnen. Und er kann das. Und er ist manchmal beeindruckt. Ich dachte, er hatte eine wirklich starke Serie in dieser Post-Saison. Das Nix-Siege. Er hatte das Spiel, wo er ausgefoult wurde und ein paar Foul-Troubles und andere. Er war gut. Er war solid. Er hatte ein Spiel, wo er 4-4-4 ging, wenn ich mich korrekt erinnere, von Deep.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Aber er muss eine wirklich, wirklich elitische Serie haben hier. Und das muss der Tick für die Pacers sein, da sind sie in der Zentralposition.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Yes, yeah, exactly. So he's big. All right, prediction time here.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
OKC ist in dieser Saison einer der Lieblingsspieler des Titels. Sie haben die Western Conference dominiert, von Anfang bis Schluss. Sie haben 68 Spiele gewonnen. Sie hatten einen unglaublichen Punktdifferenzial in den Playoffs. Sie haben die Grizzlies gewonnen. Sie haben die Nuggets in sieben gewonnen. Und sie haben die Wolves in fünf gewonnen. In der Zwischenzeit hat Indiana aus der Tür gezwungen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Viele Leute haben erwähnt, dass das Resümee der Pacers ziemlich ähnlich aussieht wie das des letzten Jahres von Dallas Mavericks. Indiana, vierter Platz, 50 und 32 Rekorde, plus 2,2 Punkte Differenzial. Das ist nicht allzu groß. Letztes Jahr von Mavericks. Fünfter Platz im Westen, 50 und 32 Rekorde, plus 2,2 Punkte Differenzial. Also genau das gleiche.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Die Pacers, es hat sie ein bisschen gedauert, es war viel, um ihre Jungs zurückzukriegen, besonders ihre defensiv geistigen Jungs. Und dann riefen sie, wie sie offensichtlich in der zweiten Hälfte des Saisons und Postsaison waren, Mavericks. Ihr ganzes Ding war, dass sie diese riesigen Er hat die Handelsabgabe verabschiedet, hat die Defense eingegangen und plötzlich waren sie am Rollen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Aber was ist letztes Jahr passiert? Die Mavericks haben in 5 die bessere Mannschaft in den Boston Celtics verloren. Ich denke, das ist der Grund, warum viele sagen, dass die Thunder in 5 sind. Ich komme immer zu zwei Dingen. Die OKC hat nie vier Spiele verloren in jeder siebten Spannung dieses Jahres. Also gibt es das Teil. Und die Thunder sind 29 zu 1 gegen den Osten gegangen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Der beste Inter-Konferenz-Rekord in der NBA-Historie. Sie haben ein Spiel gegen die andere Konferenz verloren. Das ist schwer. Ich gehe definitiv zu Thunder. Ich bin mit dir. Du gehst zu Thundersweep, du gehst zu Thunder 5, der Konsensus-Pick. Oder kann sich dieser magische Indie-Rund uns zu einer längeren Serie bringen?
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ich glaube nicht, dass sie das Unmögliche machen können und das ganze Spiel gewinnen. Aber können sie es zu sechs oder sieben bringen? I think they can get it to six. I can't. I do. I do.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Sie hatten ein Verlustrekord in der Saison. Sie haben die Switch gewechselt. Im Januar haben sie sich für eine sehr lange Zeit großartig gefühlt. Sie haben die Erwartungen seit der Post-Saison gefeuert. Sie haben die Bucks in der ersten Runde gewonnen. Sie haben das gleiche gegen die Cavs in den Semis gespielt. Und dann haben sie die Knicks in der 6. Runde gespielt. Aber sie kommen in die Finals.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Because I think there's going to be one red hot shooting game from deep and there's going to be one very close game that they just feel like a team of destiny this entire postseason that they'll pull out of their ass. So overall, Thunder's just too damn talented. I'm going them in six in this finals.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
And maybe this is me wishing and hoping for a longer series and not a four or five, which we've had for the last two years now. Wir hatten schon ein paar, oh, das Team sieht aus wie die Favoriten. Oh, sie sind die Favoriten. Oh, sie gewinnen in fünf.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Nuggets, natürlich Celtics, Mavericks. Und dann ist es das gleiche hier mit den Thunder Pacers. Ich hoffe es nicht. Also gehe ich mit den Thundern in sechs. Aber ich sehe viele Leute sagen, es wird, auch wenn es vier, fünf oder sechs ist, was auch immer. Diese werden klasse Spiele sein. Sind wir da sicher? Vielleicht in Indiana.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Vielleicht in Indiana, aber man, die Thunder hatten viele Ausbrüche in dieser Post-Saison. Sie haben die Grizzlies in zwei Spielen zerstört. Es waren zwei nahe Spiele, aber sie haben sie in ihren Heimspielen zerstört. Drei Ausbrüche gegen die Nuggets. Nur einer war eine nahe Sieg in dieser Serie für sie. Und dann drei Ausbrüche gegen die Wolves und nur einer nahe Sieg in dieser Serie für sie.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ich habe mich eher darüber interessiert. Vergiss die Länge der Serie. Ich habe mich interessiert, ob wir irgendwelche Wettbewerbe haben werden, wo es einfach aus der Hand kommt. Und wir werden irgendwelche 30-Punkte-Werke haben. Und es wird so gehen, okay, was werden wir darüber sprechen? Wie wirst du wirklich in das Thema reingehen?
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ich hoffe, ich bin falsch, aber ich fühle mich, dass das in einigen dieser Sachen der Fall sein wird. Und vielleicht ist einer davon ein Pacer-dominanter Sieg, was auch bei OKC passiert ist in dieser Postseason. Wenn sie verlieren, verlieren sie manchmal groß. Das stimmt. Das ist nicht lustig. Wir wollen kleine Spiele. Wir wollen die letzten fünf Minuten und all die Klatschspiele brechen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Aber ich denke, es wird hier in dieser Serie einige verrückte Gewinne geben. Von der 20- bis 30-Punkte-Variante.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Sie sind ein großer Unterhüter, den wir vielleicht in die Finals bringen können. Das ist der Schedule für die Finals. Wie gesagt, Game 1 ist am Dienstagabend. Da ist er. Und wir gehen zumindest bis zum 13. Juni durch. Aber hoffentlich bekommen wir noch mehr Spiele als nur vier. Wir haben noch ein paar kurze Nachrichten, um es hier anzunehmen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Meine anderen Prediktionen sind, dass ich Thunder und Six habe. Ich bin mit dir, TK. Ich habe es und ich gehe nicht alle Wege damit. Aber ich denke, durch die ersten zwei oder drei Spiele wird J-Dub der Favorit für die Finals-MVP sein. Okay. Anfang der Serie wird es sein, oh, J-Dub über Shea für die Finals-MVP. Ich denke, es wird letztendlich Shea sein. Ein bisschen Anthony Davis-Aktion.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ja, ein bisschen Anthony Davis. Wer kommt mir noch vor? Ich würde mal Jamal Murray nennen, aber das klingt nicht richtig. Ich glaube nicht, dass er der Frontrunner für die ersten paar Spiele war. Ich glaube, J-Dub wird in dieser Serie groß sein und er wird durch die ersten paar Spiele ein MVP-Favorit der Finals sein. Und ich glaube, T.J.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
McConnell wird einen Unterschied machen in einer dieser starken Indie-Performanzen. Ja. Ich weiß nicht warum, aber ich habe ein Gefühl, dass er ein verrücktes Spiel oder eine Halbzeit haben wird, das Indias Sieg oder zumindest eines der sehr kompetitiven Spiele erzielen wird. Das sind meine anderen zwei Prediktionen. Ein paar Blödsäcke, wie gesagt, Thunder und Six.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Definitely both in play. With a victory for either team, for sure.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Do you think Breen, Burke or Richard Jefferson will call McConnell Little TJ?
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Pacers Forward, Jairus Walker, wird zumindest die ersten zwei Spiele der NBA Finals missen, wegen dessen rechten Ankelinjur, den er in den Eastern Conference Finals Clencher verletzt hat. Nun, er hat in der letzten Runde nicht ganz viele Minuten gespielt. Ich denke, es waren 20 gemeinsame Minuten. Die meisten davon kamen in einen Blut. Also ist das nicht ein integrales Stück.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Do we want to talk about ratings at all? Are you guys excited for that discussion? Das wird seinen blöden Kopf bewegen. Sie werden runter. Sie werden runter.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Wir haben kleine Märkte hier. Indianapolis, der 25. größte Medienmarkt in der Stadt, Oklahoma City Nummer 47. Aber ja, Mike Vorkenhoff, ein großartiges Artikel in The Athletic, sagt, wo die Ratings landen, haben sie im Endeffekt keinen Einfluss auf die NBA. Sie haben hier einfach einen riesigen, riesigen Deal geschlossen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Und wenn etwas passiert, Trey, du hast es gesagt, verwende es zu deinem Vorteil. Obwohl, bilde diese Teams, bilde diese Stars. Das ist, wo es ist. Sie hoffen natürlich auf eine längere Serie. Je länger die Serie geht, desto höher werden die Ratings für die Spiele 5, 6 und 7 gehen. Das ist ein No-Brainer. Aber ich denke, es gibt auch eine Part 2 davon.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Die Liga würde einfach nur kompetitive Spiele lieben. Und das ist nicht das, was ich für diese 20-30-Punkte-Blöcke für jede Mannschaft erwarte. Sie würden das lieben, denn dann gibt es zumindest etwas Früchte. Aber letztes Jahr waren die Finals mit 11,3 Millionen Viewern pro Spiel. Das war das niedrigste seit 2007. Außer bei den Covid-19-impfenden Saisonen, wie die Sportmedien beobachtet haben.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Die average Ratings für die NBA Finals haben sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten auf einen steigenden Niveau gesteigert. Das betrifft die Körbe, wie die Leute die Spiele konsumieren und die Spiele betrachten. Aber es wird schlimmer. Es wird weniger dieses Jahr. Also seid bereit.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ich glaube nicht, dass wir darüber viel reden werden, aber ihr wisst, wo andere Plätze sind, die ihre Agenda drücken und sagen, dass die NBA kaputt ist und Basketball schmerzt. Es ist so, okay, entschuldigt euch.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Das wäre ein Schock. Du könntest viel Geld damit verdienen, wenn du die Verwaltung hast.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Das ist viel. Ja, wir hatten den YouTube-Post-Poll über die letzten paar Tage. Es fiel etwas so aus. Es fühlt sich an, dass es um 70% sagt, OKC. 30% sagt Indiana. Ich denke, es sind viele Leute. Hoping it's Indiana. You know, I think you give them the truth serum. I think that, you know, goes even more in OKC's favor. That's fine. Cheer whoever you want to cheer. And they're damn good.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
zu den Pacers, aber sie lieben es, die Jungs da draußen zu fahren. Also wird er zumindest die ersten zwei verlieren. Aber lasst uns das mal abbrechen. Thunder, Pacers, Dinge zu beobachten.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
And they're an underdog task. And look, they've won game one every series, right? Especially that one that they came back and like shocked the Knicks. That probably needs to continue for them to like pull off the impossible here. Gotta take that game one. und die OKC überrascht, weil sie so schnell sind. Sie stoppen niemals. OKC hat einen Schock.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Sie haben gute Teams im Westen gespielt, aber niemand spielt wie Indiana. Sie müssen so spielen und nicht überstehen. Das ist faszinierend.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ja, mit Lippen überall, switchen überall, die Jungs kommen immer frisch rein und bringen es auf die defensive Seite. Ja, ich kann es nicht erwarten, so eine tolle Perpetuelle-Motion-Offense gegen Perpetuelle-Defense von OKC zu sehen und die wachsende Aktion, die sie haben.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
I guess you are.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
I like that. Yeah, these are options you're giving him.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
I don't know. Ich denke, wenn er einen verrückten Sieg gewinnt oder was auch immer, dann ist er wahrscheinlich so, dass du vielleicht Instagram nimmst und dir ein paar scheelike Bars drückst, weißt du, was ich meine? Okay. Fliege es zurück auf ihn. Sollte so gehen. Social Media. Ja, schön. Ich versuche, ihn so zu rattern. Ich bin gespannt. Die Jungs werden in diesem Spiel großartig sein.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
NBA Finals, OKC und dann Indiana, zwei tolle Gruppen. Es wird toll aussehen, denke ich. Ich denke, die Farben werden cool aussehen. Ich weiß, OKC trägt weiß im ersten Spiel. Die Pacers gehen Gold für den ganzen Rest der Post-Saison.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Und dann nach dem ersten Spiel, Thunder, denke ich, für die 2, 3 und 4 Spiele, sind sie für ihre blauen Schuhe eingeladen. Ich denke, es wird poppen. Ein bisschen Blut und Gold zwischen den beiden Teams. Ich kann nicht warten, wir sind überrascht. Hoffentlich ist es eine tolle Serie.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Aber lasst uns von euch und all euren X-Factors und Key Match-Ups und anderen Dingen hören, die ihr euch in den Kommentaren anschauen könnt, wenn ihr sie noch nicht in den Stream-Team verlinkt habt. Okay, lasst uns in die prime Moment der Woche gehen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Sind die Pacers für die Road Games in der Fieldhouse? Und wenn ja, wird John Halliburton da sein? Wow.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Yeah, of course. John Halliburton.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Er kann nicht auf der Strecke sitzen. Er kann immer noch in der Arena sein.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Well, the Prime Moment of the Week is presented by Amazon Prime. From streaming to shopping, it's on Prime. Visit amazon.com slash prime to get more out of whatever you're into. You brought up Ben Gulliver with that footage. Good stuff. Did you see he's driving from Indianapolis to OKC for Game 1? Because he was just there for the finals and then he's doing the drive.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
I thought it was further.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
10 Stunden, 10 oder 11 Stunden, sagen wir es so. Ben Gulliver, ich meine, er hat Tage gedauert. Dieser Typ stoppt an allem. Dieser Typ hat jeden Teil Amerikas gesehen, bin ich überzeugt.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ich liebe es. Ich kenne nicht Ben Gulliver. Ich liebe es, ihn zu folgen und seine Abenteuer. Gulliver's Travels on Instagram.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Yeah, these are both Midwest-ish.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
10 hours, 11 hour drive. You don't even need to fly.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Maybe, yeah. That's far. Texas is a massive state.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ich meine, auch San Antonio zu Miami, das ist eine verdammte Scheiße. Nein, das ist viel zu weit.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
So, was gibt es da? All right, well, this one is close. It's like 10, 11 hours. But he did stop and Ben stopped and took obviously a photo of the St. Louis Arch. Nice. Yeah. Ben there. Ja? Ja. Du kannst in es gehen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ich habe es nicht gesehen, als ich ein Kind war. Ich glaube, es geht mehr direkt hoch, als ich dachte.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Denkst du, es heißt Custard? Ich weiß nicht, ich denke, sie sollten es ändern. Es heißt Frozen Custard. Ich weiß, es klingt einfach nicht so lecker wie Eis. Ja, es klingt nicht so lecker.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Custard. Okay, lass uns das so nennen. Wir haben den primären Moment des Wochenends. Wir haben unsere Prediktionen für die NBA Finals. Wiederum, lasst uns hören, wer von euch gewinnt. In den Kommentaren unten. TK und Esch, los mit OKC. Willst du ein Tumbleweed suchen?
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ja, die Leute denken, wir sind verrückt, wenn wir das sagen. Aber wir waren alle zusammen und ein Tumbleweed ging bei uns. Es war ein lunatierendes Tumbleweed. Es war verrückt.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
So, TK and Esch in OKC for Game 1. So if you obviously see them, say hi. Shout out to the boys. Have a blast though, you're flying today. Are you gonna drive?
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Nein. Wir fahren zum Flughafen. Okay. Das ist nicht lange her. Wir werden wahrscheinlich am Donnerstag wieder da sein, um euch alle für die NBA Finals zu treffen. Wir haben vielleicht einen Reaktions-Podcast von OKC. TK and Esch after Game 1. We'll be here for the drop at the end of the week. So lots of content, of course, coming up. Hit the like button, subscribe and podcast listeners.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Five-star ratings and reviews. Until then, Clipper Bros.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Embrace the day, people.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Die Thunders Defense ist gebaut, um die Halliburton zu stoppen, weil sie so viele Möglichkeiten haben. Dort, Kaysen Wallace, Caruso, vielleicht sogar J-Dub. Sie bringen alle diese verschiedenen Defensiv-Gruppen. In den letzten zwei Saisons haben die Halliburton in ihren Match-Ups wirklich gestorben. Wir sehen hier regelmäßige Match-Ups. Ich weiß, es gibt Spieler, die verloren haben.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Chet Holmgren hat diese Saison nicht gegen sie gespielt. Aber nur 12 Punkte pro Spiel von Halliburton, wiederum in den letzten beiden Saisons, als er gegen OKC gespielt hat. Seine niedrigste Anzahl gegen jeden Gegner während dieser Spannung. Er hat nur einen Schuss in diesen vier Spielen gespielt. Also, ich meine, das ist nicht sein Forte, aber trotzdem keine einfachen Punkte.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Und sie haben auch seine Spielmachung stark verringert. Wiederum nur ein Kredit zu dieser Weltklasse-Defense von OKC. Dieser Zach-Kram-Stat blieb mir im Kopf. Halliburton hat nur 8 Punkte auf 10 Schussattempten in den 122 Matchups gewonnen, als er von Lou Dort gewehrt wurde. Also glaube ich, Lou Dort macht einen ziemlich guten Job. Dort ist großartig bei Halliburton.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Und das ist natürlich Halliburtons niedrigste Schussrate gegen jeden individuellen Verteidiger mit einer dezenten Anzahl von Matchups.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Yeah, but anytime Dort's on him, he hasn't been able to score or do anything for that matter.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Mit all diesen Final Previews hier, die ihr gelesen habt oder gehört habt, sind wir auf dem Punkt, weil OKC ein riesiger Lieblingsspieler ist. Es sind all diese Dinge, die die Pacers richtig machen müssen, um nicht nur das Spiel zu gewinnen, sondern auch kompetitiv zu sein. Und ja, es ist das Siakam. Es geht weiter mit ihren 3-Punkte-Schotten. Das ist ein No-Brainer. Sie waren großartig.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Indiana ist hier während der Postseason ein 40% 3-Punkte-Schotten-Team. Das führt die Playoffs auf eine große Margin. Neesmith, 50% von tief. Nemhardt, 48%. Siakam, 46%. Turner, 40%. Halliburton ist der eine Typ in der Startlinie, der mit dem 3-Punkte-Schein kämpft. Er ist 33%. Er nimmt viel mehr als die anderen Typen. Die müssen runtergehen. Du hast es gesagt, Tassi.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Das ist das eine, was OKC erlaubt. Diese Corner-3s. Sie haben sie letztes Jahr gegen die Dallas Mavericks verletzt, als sie die Corner-3s verletzten. Die Pacers brauchen die Nemsmiths und die Nemhards, die ich immer mit den beiden Namen zusammenhänge, um die Klippe zu schießen. Die Schüsse werden da sein. Aber sie müssen sie auf diese unheimliche Stufe schießen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ich frage mich, ob sie sich an irgendeinem Punkt kühlen werden.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Und zurück zu den Corner 3s. Es ist lustig in den Matchups, die sie gespielt haben. Die Pacers haben tatsächlich einen sehr hohen Clip von ihren Corner-3s in den beiden Match-Ups gegen OKC gespielt. 54% von den Corner-3s während der regulären Saison. Sie haben beide Spiele trotzdem verloren. Also haben sie das gemacht.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Sie haben sie trotzdem mit guter Konsistenz geschlagen, aber haben trotzdem die Spiele verloren. Einer war ein großer OKC-Komback. Das war ein dominanter Shea-Spiel. Und J-Dub war auch gut, der andere war ein bisschen ein Ausstieg.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Aber auch wenn die Thunder in der Corner 3 verletzt sind, ist es nicht sicher, ob die Pacers gewinnen, wenn Neesmith und Nemhardt und Toppin und die Leute, die dort schauen, sie schießen. Ich meine, so viele andere Dinge müssen richtig gehen. Und das große Ding, wie Trey gesagt hat, ist... Sie müssen sie stoppen. Das ist das Einzige, was sie auf dieser OKC-Defense scoren müssen. Das ist schwer.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Sie sind Elite. Sie müssen auch SGA, J-Dub, Chet und all diese Leute stoppen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Die ganze Narrative mit dieser Mannschaft war, dass eine Jumpshoot-Mannschaft die Finale nicht gewinnen kann. Sie können es nicht machen. Ich meine, erinnere dich, Chuck würde nicht aufhören, es zu sagen. Sie können es nicht gewinnen. Sie können es nicht gewinnen. All they do is take threes and take jump shots. They'll never win. Of course they win. And then this year it was for a long time.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
It feels like it's quieted down now. Thunder can't win, they're too young. They're way too young. They haven't taken their lumps yet through these post-seasons. It's like, okay, well, no. They're there now and they're the odds-on favorite to win this thing.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Get the splash for us there. They're running those picks to get the guys in the corners.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Two points. Game one against the Denver Nuggets.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah, if you're going to do a rose-colored glass from the Pacer side, when they lost to the Denver Nuggets in that home game of round number two, they had eight days off, just like they'll have, well, I guess they'll have seven days off before game one of the NBA Finals at home. So, you know, you can be positive about that.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
But they're on such a roll that they weren't even on that roll from round one to round two that they are here, and round three to round four. So that's different.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
It's quite sloppy.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
I'm going to have to agree. Yeah. The gray is very meh. It's kind of dead. I will say, put them on a mannequin, put them on a body. I think they would look way better than this airborne jersey shirt. That's yeah. It looks like a nice PJ. Maybe it looks like a sleep shirt. It doesn't look all that cool at all.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Oh, that's fine, though.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
I just wanted to make a note of Shea Gildas Alexander going into half, wondering what he was doing exactly, because I just saw his mouth. I saw his face, and he looked like Shea Sniffus Alexander. He was just smelling. I thought he was literally saying to the guys, I can smell the finals. We're up 65-32. We're almost there. He just, like, he's greeting everybody. He's high-fiving everybody.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
And then he just looks like he starts sniffing.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
They could be kisses. It looks like the guys are laughing here. You can see, like, Jalen Williams. I know. Here, here. Chet's saying something. Yeah. Yeah, is he offering them kisses or is he saying the finals are coming? I can sniff it.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Let's go. Somebody ask him. We have a week. This is officially the time where you've got to find out things. You have questions about absolutely things. Things that don't matter at all. This is the time to find out if he was sniffing or if he was kissing. I don't think he was kissing. I don't think he's saying, hey guys, you want to kiss? Nah, I think he's saying the finals are coming.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
That's too old. That's old.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah, I thought that the Timberwolves would fight. Rudy Gobert, before this game, said, we're at our best when we're in survival mode. Backs against the wall. They were cornered. How would they act? Well, OKC just preyed on them. They just prounced on them. And they just weren't ready to fight back. You saw Julius Randle up top at the beginning of this game.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
I'm fine with him trash-talking, though. I do think it is his forte. I mean, that's what he does, and I think he's good at it, and he's comfortable at taking it upon himself, as you said, Trey. So I'm totally fine. I actually thought initially, because this tweet shows a photo of three characters
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
podcasting i thought the the comment about he gets a ring a sorry was about a ring light that he needs while podcasting you know the the circular lights but it's about him getting a ring and i think he's on his he's on his way i mean he is super duper young on his way i mean i don't know if he's going to get there but i think he's on the correct path uh that a 23 year old here just after five years and the nba is totally fine not having a ring he's on the right path
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
He just waited way too long, dribbling on the spot, letting the animals come at him. And so Caruso turns it the other way. Julius Randle just kind of stands there. You could see it happening all over the place. Nas Reed, when he goes in for the layup, dribbles it off himself because Alex Caruso is right there, right beside him. They're in their heads. It was clear.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
The scary part is, he gets to a second conference finals, back-to-back years, same amount of games with a different roster, so I think you can give him a little bit of credit for that, but... Here comes the Thunder. And this is an even better team than they played last year in the Dallas Mavericks. The Thunder are just growing now.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
And that's the scary part if you're going to hang out in the West with this Thunder team. like we'll get to here in slop season, are you going to try and level up against the Thunder when the Thunder are there? Is the time now, right here, right now, when they have only one, potentially one title? Or do you gear down and decide, you know, maybe we trade down. We'll see here.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
As we get to slop season, baby, there's so many teams in the West that are thinking that way.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Alex Caruso is doing freaking push-ups in this game. They were ready. They're absolutely ready. Nikhil Alexander-Walker, short arming shots. The Wolves shot three for 20 in the first quarter. That's not... Good. You know, it carried over in the second quarter. Even when Nas Reed lost the ball on the sideline, Julius Randle just put his hands on his knees and didn't go back at all. So it was over.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah. Anthony Edwards wants Mike Conley back, I guess, because he said he feels so bad for Mike that he didn't get him to his first NBA finals, and then he'll come back and he'll try and do it for Mike next year. But the whole key is, having another ball handler out there for Anthony Edwards. We've seen it two seasons in a row here. Will Rob Dillingham take that next step? Because you're right.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
That's what they did last year. They traded up to get him. He is a kid. He's 20 years old, and he's only had one year, one shot at it here, and he hasn't gotten to that point. Will he be able to do it quickly in one more year? I mean, they actually merge age-wise. Dillingham, 20, and Anthony Edwards, 23, if we're going to go long-term here with those two.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
But Dillingham has to grow a little bit, yeah.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
I thought it could have been way worse. The Thunder had a lot of early in and outs in that first half. They scored 26 points in the first quarter. It was 26-9. But they missed 14 of 21 shots outside the paint in the first half. They're 5-17 from three. They're up 65-32. Literally, I think it could have been 85-32, but it was literally over. And yes, some of the guys came out and fought.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Right. I think they didn't sit Maxie and Paul George the last month of the season to trade down in the draft. They got this beautiful pick here at the number three spot. Yes, whether it's Dylan Harper somehow falling to them or getting Ace Bailey, that's a good player. That would be an incredible, incredible situation for them. They didn't sit those guys down.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
To trade this pick down, I don't think. That being said, they only really have four guaranteed rotation players signed for next season right here, right now. They're big three in Embiid, Maxine, Paul George, plus Jared McCain. And then, yeah, they have other maybes. They've got maybes in Oubre with the player option. Gershon Yabusele is a free agent and Quentin Grimes.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
But they don't have a lot of guys. So you could see them say, excuse me. whether it's Sean Marks, hey, can we get a player from you? Yeah, that's Cam Johnson plus a pick just to bulk up a little bit because they're so top-heavy, and that was obviously a problem throughout the season when Embiid couldn't play.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
when Maxie had so much on his shoulders and when Paul George just wasn't Paul George anymore. So you got to hope for that this coming season, but you also just don't want to put so much on Maxie every night. So maybe if you can get a couple players, because this team is top heavy and super old. If they just go back with a lot of these supporting players.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah, that's a, I could see, I could see both sides. It's for sure. Yeah. But this number three pick, it could be the best player of everybody I just mentioned.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
And Julius Randle, he put up points. He had 24 points in the end of it. And Anthony Edwards, they fought a little bit, but it didn't come close. And so everybody's wondering, why do the Wolves look exactly like they did last year in terms of... falling apart in the conference finals, five games. And Anthony Edwards did look tired. There's no doubt about that.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
pick package right is that attractive to anybody paul george will be 35 he's got two years plus a player option left 52 54 and 57 million dollars it's a monster it is a monster and when you look back at what he did no he's nowhere near that salary right now if you're thinking about trading for him you're just hoping that last year was just a A blip. Because the year before he was great.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah. Again.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
For Paul George in a three?
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
And he said he's going to work harder than anyone this offseason. He said he felt bad for Mike Conley because he's old and he can't get him to the finals. And he'll get him back. He'll help him out next year. But I think that's a big focus of the Timberwolves. They've got to replace Mike Conley in the starting lineup. Anthony Edwards did try in this series. He needs help.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah, the picks make a little more sense in that deal rather than Paul George going to the Utah Jazz. But the Utah Jazz continuously swing and miss because their pick just keeps dropping, unfortunately. They try to be extremely bad. Here they are with the number five pick. So you could see why they'd be hungry for number three.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Sixers are just in a weird, weird, weird scenario with, again, how many guys are signed next year. They literally only have four guys signed. guaranteed next year that are part of the rotation because Uber may not come back. You know, you got an old Eric Gordon. You really don't have a lot of guys, period. So you have MB, George, Maxie, and McCain. That's it.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Unless they match for Quentin Grimes and they have five. So they just may want to get depth, period, because Daryl Morey is the guy who just keeps on swinging with a, hey, Kyle Lowry, you're going to save the day with old guys. So they need numbers. That's for sure.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
He needs ball handling help. So that's the primary focus. But anyways, this was just a... This was worse than last year. I mean, this was bad.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah, it's very interesting. I loved going down that rabbit hole of podcasts where LaMelo has been mentioned about going to the Clippers. Yeah, to get Lonzo Ball's direct quote from his podcast that he has with his brother, LiAngelo Ball. They have a podcast called What an Experience Show. I guess they call it WAE. I think they call it WAE just for short.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Anyways, his quote was, I've low-key got Dylan Harper going to the Hornets and I've got Melo going to the Clips. That doesn't make any sense. Talk me through that one. Yeah, it doesn't really make a lot of sense. I went on to Cam Brink and Sedell Curry Lee's podcast where he was a guest on their podcast, straight to Cam.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
And he said, sorry, Lonzo Ball was on that podcast where he was talking about LaMelo. And he said, quote, honestly, some stories I can't even say. He was really bad. Probably the worst kid I ever met. He's calmed down a lot, though. I'll give him credit for that. And I bring up that quote because the Clippers do take chances on players that haven't necessarily been successful elsewhere.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Like they tried Bones Island recently. They tried guys who have had some serious off-court issues. Josh Primo, Kevin Porter Jr., So I could see this happening because, you know, I'm not saying LaMelo's a bad kid, as his brother said. But I do think, you know, we're at a point here with LaMelo Ball, you got to be a complimentary player. You're not going to be a number one type of player.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
So if the Hornets are looking at a package from the Clippers, it would probably be. The 2029 Philly first-round pick that they have, could that be appealing to the Charlotte Hornets? Maybe. Maybe you're saying, okay, the Sixers will be done in a few years. That'll be a good pick. But really, they don't have a ton to offer, I would say, other than that. That is the juicy part.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
And, you know, they have, you know, you'll throw in Amir Coffey along with Vets. I mean, you've got to throw in Powell, Bogdanovich.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Was that after the draft lottery or before? Maybe it was okay. Maybe he knew. Well, he figured that they'd have a... A higher pick.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
They could gut it pretty easily.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
No. Yeah, you'd trade Norman Powell. Then you're playing Lomelo and James Harden together, and Powell's gone.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
They just love that pick. They love a pick plus a mere coffee or something. What pick? The Philadelphia 76ers first round pick. In 2029.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah. It's hard to say how high his value is. I mean, he had a great first couple months of the season. And he got hurt.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
No, they do not.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah, that's why he has to be a complimentary guy. If they can find the players slash picks slash teams to get involved, which can be a part of it. Then that's possible. Charlotte's listening.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
I think, yeah, he wants more than $24 million per year. I think that's clear. I think this is a low ball for sure. And it would be a fine low ball because it's a tradable contract, even if it doesn't work out in Chicago. But, I mean, Chicago is not obligated to a lot of money next year. Even at 24, he would be the highest paid player. So I'm sure he's looking at that and saying... Pay me more.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
So, yes. 24 would be fine.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Are you talking about Chicago or are you talking about elsewhere?
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Right. That's why it's a tradable contract.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah. Yeah, but he'll ask for 30. Why wouldn't he? He'll ask for more, I'm sure.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
It'll be on Saturday. Saturday, okay. I assume it's every second day.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
It'll be a scrap.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
The guys will play for him even if he's injured. They haven't won at home in this series yet, so they've got to win one at home.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Well, they will try. They will definitely try. They're going to put the effort forth.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Not a question.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Thanks for joining us, and remember, first I want to see your packages for LaMelo Ball. Not your actual literal packages, but yeah, let's see it. Let's see what LaMelo Ball can garner. I'm not so sure. It's a ton. I think the Clippers in their first round pick slash Phillies pick, depending what Charlotte wants. You can only pick one.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
All right.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah, the Thunder are absolutely rolling. They had a long series in round number two against Denver when those guys grew. Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren. Jalen Williams had that terrible game six. How would he respond? He won game seven against Denver. He was frigging awesome. And then he rolls into the conference finals where they look great. He looks great.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Even when he doesn't have his shot going, he's obviously contributing immensely.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
everywhere on the floor chet was doing the friggin same um and so they didn't need a lot of points you know we got caruso having four steals in one bucket um but the you know the the box score for him is ain't that all that impressive but that guy was impressive because yeah they were absolutely just preying on this timberwolves team that just didn't have any fight in them
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
I guess the guy that didn't play well in the series overall was Isaiah Hartenstein to some point. But, you know, he's contributing still as much as he possibly could against this big Minnesota team. Anyways, I don't know why I'm trying to find guys that didn't play well. They all just freaking played well. It was fun.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
That's how well they played. Yeah, they did.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah, it was too bad because didn't have a good game. Nikhil Alexander Walker had an offer in this game because he's had overall a pretty good series coming off a 23 point game and 12 and 17. But yeah, it just had a really bad one. But it just it trickles out. The trickle down effect was there. If Julius Randle, you're not running back.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
This show will show more fight than the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Nas Reed driven the ball off himself and everybody just wasn't. nah, nah, we're done. That's it, like, pack it in.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah, that's the scary thing for the next team they play. We assume it's the Pacers, but they're not going to need the double big. They can go a little smaller. They can show their versatility. We'll get to that, but they're not going to have to do that.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
And the Thunder main parts are a little younger because Jalen Williams is in year number three instead of if you're comparing him to Clay, who's in year number four. Chet Holmgren's only a year and a half into his career, really. So they're younger there when it comes to that. So that's the scary part.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
It felt like they were too young because they're a little bit younger than that team and just a little too young. But here they are in a perfect scenario if they are playing the Indiana Pacers to kind of look ahead, kind of look ahead. to a team that hasn't been there either. This isn't the 2012 finals where they go up against the Miami Heat.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
This could be the Pacers and Halliburton being there for the first time.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Ooh, that's fun. I like that. I'm taking the Thunder, I think. Am I biased? Yeah. Would the Warriors be able to score against this Thunder team? That's the question.
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Immediate Reax | Pacers Win Wild Game 1 In OT Over Knicks
Yeah. And it gives you another chance.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
If you're getting Giannis, yeah. If you're getting Giannis, I would trade either one of those guys, but I assume that this will be the team coming back next year because it wasn't about this year for the Warriors. They thought it was about this year and the next couple of years where Curry's already signed. His contract matches up with Draymond, which now matches up with Jimmy Butler as well.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
They put these three together to try and win in the next three postseasons. Didn't work out this year due to injuries. We'll see what happens going forward, but I don't think the plan was just this season with these guys. Unfortunately, though, this would have been an awesome series if Curry played.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
That's right. Yeah, he went out in the first half.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
We could win this, but we will give you this. Yeah, we would prefer to win it in front of our fans. Yes. It's good for everybody.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
We get to celebrate in front of your fans. We get to celebrate in front of our fans. Thank you. We know the guy who invented the gentleman sweep. That's right. We danced with that man just recently.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
I got a note and I got a question. Let's start with the note. Nas Reid tipped in a Warriors miss from so far away. He was like outside the lane when he tipped that in. I always love that because you get to see who on the offensive team is nearby will throw their hand up as soon as possible. Like, please give me credit for that. It was Draymond. He got that one. Yeah, he did.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
He was running down the court, arm raised. Yeah, that was me. Some of his few points. Yeah, that was far back. Good tip. But yeah, my question was going to be to you. Great quote from Chris Finch, John Krasinski had over at The Athletic. Were you a Western Conference Finals team or were you a team that just happened to make the Western Conference Finals? That's straight up bars from Chris Finch.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
So my question to you, who's the more surprising back-to-back conference finalists, the Pacers or the Wolves?
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
They're just saving Mike Inori. Saving him for the conference finals.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Chris Finch is hot. We must be cooking in here. Oh, man. This is a first in the classic factory, JD.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
You want me to switch to the lower third?
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Alright, we pulled the people. More surprising, Pacers or Timberwolves? 81% are saying the Pacers.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
That's why it would be wolves for me just because it's like, look at this team. Or look at this conference they've got to go through.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
No wonder the fire alarm went off.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Yeah, forgot about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Yeah, Reggie Miller started this game out by saying that Tom Thibodeau wrote two words on the whiteboard. Well, he said chalkboard, but he said two words from Tom Thibodeau for the New York Knicks. Toughness and discipline. And I feel like they failed on both accounts last night. Knicks got beat on the glass by a team missing their leading rebounder in Jason Tatum. They got outscored.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
36 to 26 points in the paint. Outscored 16 to 14 in the second chancers. That's your toughness right there. The discipline factor. The Knicks had no idea what they were doing on defense. It felt like for the majority of this night. Are we hedging? Is cat and drop? Are we switching?
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
They should have been switching the entire time. No Jason Tatum. The guy's their best one-on-one player. Should have forced the Celtics to try and play a little bit more one-on-one basketball. But what resulted was a lot of open three-point looks. Most of them for Derek White. And he was knocking them down. Went seven three-pointers last night. And then way too many fouls for the Knicks.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Most of them taking place in the third quarter. Was kind of crazy. Jalen Brunson picked up five fouls in nine minutes in the third quarter. And... Four of them were, like, legit. He did get clocked in the face on one, which was a tough call, but I guess his face was in the way. But Jason Tatum wasn't playing, but the spirit of Jason Tatum was inside of Jalen Brown, I thought.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
26 points, 12 assists, 8 rebounds. That is a Jason Tatum line right there. It's a career high in assists for Jalen Brown. It's his first playoff game with double digits. He was so good when the Knicks got into foul trouble. I think it was maybe nine minutes left in the third quarter. They were already in the bonus, and Jalen Brown was like, I'm going to the hoop.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
I'm going to go to the free throw line as many times as possible. So he was their Jason Tatum and Derek White became their Jalen Brown. He finished so many plays for the Celtics last night. They played great. Their backs were against the wall. Porzingis was giving them nothing. And Joe Mazzulla said, give me Luke. Let the bird fly. The Luke Cornett game, they're calling it.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
And I'm willing to call this a near triple-double for Luke Cornett. He finished with 10 points, 8 rebounds, 9 rebounds, and 7 blocks. He was awesome. Basically just not guarding Josh Hart. Hart made him pay a few times from 3, but eventually Cornett even got out to a 3-pointer from Josh Hart. Blocked it in the corner. Caught a reverse alley-oop in the 4th quarter as well. Like I said...
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
He started the second half for Porzingis. That was the game changer for the Celtics, the way he was rolling to the hoop, the defensive intensity he brought. You got to wonder if he starts game six.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Oh, a modern player. Serge Ibaka? Yes. Okay. Well, five rebounds is actually surprising for him in a quarter.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Yeah, I mean, I think a little bit of pressure on the Knicks. They had their biggest game ever in Game 3. It did not go well. This was their next biggest game. Did not go well. So you got to be thinking, uh-oh, we need to hear more from Carl Anthony Towns. Tass did mention him. I mentioned him too, but just like literally passing mentions. I looked it up.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
He played in the third quarter, but I didn't notice it. This was not a good Towns game. I did like, though, in the third quarter, Boston is up 13 and they go to smack a Mitch, send Mitchell Robinson to the line to shoot free throws. He made both of them right there and then hit him with a Steph Curry night-night after he hit the second one.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Six for six at the free throw line on the night for Mitchell Robinson. He says, please foul me.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
They were all over that one. They were all over it. And that was a quick interaction, right? That was like 12 seconds into the half, it felt like.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
I think so. Or less. Interesting.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
More blood on the uniform, at the very least. That'd be a cool pair of game-used shorts to get on eBay. I mean, the team did lose, so not the greatest memory, but they would look pretty sick. If they go on to win, yeah. But he changed shorts so fast that Reggie's like, oh, he's going to have to change his shorts too. Wait, he already changed his shorts?
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
They have had a 14-plus point lead in every single one of these games so far, right? And the Celtics, once upon a time, got down 3-0, forced a game 7. Right. But they can do some weird stuff. Yeah.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
You can always bring Porzingis off the bench. I do think that the Knicks will be more ready for it. I don't think Tom Thibodeau is necessarily the most proactive coach with adjustments, but he's good with reacting defensively. So I assume the Knicks will be more ready for a roll guy to be in there if they start Cornette. But I would give him the first shot.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
And if it's not going well, you can go back to Porzingis and see if he's got anything.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Friday night closeout. They haven't closed out a series at home since 1999. Isn't that the thing?
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Pickleball reservations should be fairly easy to get, though, I imagine.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Oh, Tim Chalamet sitting courtside in Boston.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
How about that? You think him and Dave Portnoy had a chat about anything? Probably not.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Couldn't even tell it was him. Nope. Nope.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
angers the front or the league office even more so than this comment about a spread uh which is weird yeah well what do you think is this news i mean he's just been uh eliminated so yeah i mean i was just hoping we'd get an instigator point since not my entire team is eliminated oh is it okay it while in the lead uh espn had this stat according to spotrack draymond green has been fined 992 000 in his career 185 000 coming from actions toward officials um
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
I think he probably thinks it's money well spent. He's like, I'll complain to officials. A million dollars, who cares? Who cares? It's worth it for all I get to say. The two other things that this tells me, A, Draymond knew the spread.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
He knew the spread going in. Interesting. Number two, I think the NBA has figured things out. They're not going to fine you for doing the big balls dance anymore, but if you bring up gambling insinuations, you will get fined. They're fighting the right things at this point.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
We should be able to celebrate.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
What do you think? I think this headline should be rewritten. Raptors Masai Ujiri interested in leverage for next contract with Raptors. We hear this all the time with Masai. It's usually the Knicks, which actually makes sense a little bit. Moving to a bigger market with a premier team in the NBA, this feels very much like a lateral move to me. Raptors, Hawks, so I think Tass is right.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Hawks would love to get Masai, but it seems unrealistic. He's trying to build something in Toronto. I don't honestly know which scenario is better, the Raptors or the Hawks at this point.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Yeah. was an impressive performance by Minnesota. They understood the assignment. If we win tonight, Steph Curry's not playing. The series is over. They came out. The biggest game they've had in Minnesota in two decades. This is the first home closeout game they've had in the playoffs since 2004. Like the biggest celebration they had, remember, was when they won that play-in game.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
It's not, so we'll get our hopes up. We don't even want to talk about it. Have they signed his best friend? I remember when that was a thing. Gravis Vasquez is a Raptor, so they're getting Kevin Durant.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
I'll end the poll at this very minute. How did you word it?
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Better scenario. Raptors, Hawks. Simple. Better scenario. 57% is the winning vote. Low number of votes.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Who do you think it is though?
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
People are voting for the Raptors.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Yeah, I guess. I guess it's news saying ain't no news coming from me, but I was just feeling like I got the exact opposite problems as Phil Knight. He's got the money, but he's old and he doesn't want the team. I'm young and I want the team, but I only have $64 because I bought a Kit Kat and a Mountain Dew yesterday. Oh, wow. You bought a Mountain Dew? I'm lying.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
In the gaming days.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Patrick Beverly standing on the table going crazy. This was a game that actually mattered. Like you're saying, the fans were totally hyped, and they didn't let him down at all. Actually had a lead at halftime, 15 points at the half. Game two is the only other time Minnesota led at halftime. They just came out and played a perfect game, and it totally starts with Anthony Edwards.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Yeah, same. I was doing an up and up and up. Oh, okay. No, I wasn't raising my hand.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
I think it's Snickers. Yeah, right. Sweet. What about you, TK? I'm a peanut butter cups guy. Oh, I do love those, too.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Nah, that's why they got the king size. You almost got to.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Such a mature game for this guy. He got off the ball when there were double teams. He was driving the dribble penetration, and it wasn't usually to score. It was to draw help and find guys that filtered on down defensively. through the rest of the lineup. 36 assists on 49 makes. That's the second most any team has had in the playoffs this season. The ball was moving so incredibly well.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Where are you going? I would love to see a game seven. So that's what I'm going to root for, for sure. Need a big game from Jokic. I think that one is pretty locked in, but Jamal Murray, I got my eyes on you. Hasn't shot better than 50% in a game since game five of the LA Clippers series. He's been very up and down.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
The Warriors did get it close a little bit at the end, and then it was the defense for the Timberwolves that came through. A couple of steals here and there. You're going the other way. Easy baskets. That was super impressive. Julius Randle gets the I think you should leave, people can change award. This guy used to be a piece of shit, but he's not anymore. He's not. He is not, man.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
He was the most consistent Timberwolf player Throughout this series, he was awesome again last night. He won his matchup basically as the power forwards there with Draymond. Draymond had a great game one, but really didn't have an answer for Randall at any time during this series. And that's why the Wolves won pretty easily after game one. Warriors always talk about playing with joy.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
I felt like Julius Randall was playing with glee last night. You saw him dancing like a West Side Story backup dancer after making a three.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
He had the and one right there at the end of the first half, and he was kind of like a Jeff Jarrett sort of strut. One hand, one, bump, bump, bump. Then in the second half, he had that wicked up and under layup, finishes with the left hand on the backside. All he could do was smile. He was just grinning ear to ear. He's like, that was sick.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
It was a great performance, top to bottom, for the Wolves last night. They saw what they had to do, and they did not give the Warriors really any sort of hope, I thought, in this game.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Yeah, people are talking about how it's nice to get this little bit of rest here as OKC in Denver is still going on. Might go seven games. I think the Timberwolves would like to play in two nights. I do too.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
randall because he's a guy at least during his mid uh his new york days where if it would start to go poorly for randall he would just downward spiral remember the season he's giving thumbs down to knicks fans and that kind of stuff it never felt like he could pull himself out of a funk he is in zero percent funk right now so keep it going
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
I'm with you. I kind of like treat a team that's on the verge of being blown out like my kids. You got 15 minutes. Impress me.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
At the very least, Kaminga's trade value is a little bit better. He was out of the rotation and it wasn't looking good, but he finished this series going 18 points, 30, 23, 26. You see the talent as a score. You see the athleticism that he brings to the Warriors, which they needed this series and honestly probably could have used in the Houston series as well. The front office loves this dude.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
He's basically a Joe Lacob guy, but the coaching staff and the players don't really think he fits with them on the court because he's freelancing for most of the time over there. So more than likely, he's like a sign and trade candidate because they need some size. They need some shooting going forward. Like Quentin Post was solid this season, but you could upgrade that position, certainly.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
And Looney is at the tail end of his career, you know? So the Warriors are going to be interesting to see, but I think it's at least a silver lining that Kaminga... At least as alluring to other teams out there, I would have to think.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Und ich denke, dass die Tatsache, dass er mit all diesen Rekulen umgehen konnte, ein gutes Zeichen ist, dass er einfach besser und besser werden wird als Nr. 1-Pick hier im Jahr 2. Er ist gut damit. Er kann damit rollen. Und alle anderen Western Conference Teams, denke ich, werden viel mehr von den... Ja, genau.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Ja, Durant würde es höher lassen, also die Form ist anders, aber ja, sie sind beide... Ich bin nicht überrascht, wie bereit Victor W. Mignogna war, dieses Spiel zu spielen, nachdem er gedraftet wurde. Er ist ein Kind, aber er scheint so alt zu sein. Das ist ein guter Punkt, weil auch das Ritual, das zu Beginn des Spiels begonnen hat, es war.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Yeah, and I'm reading our man Zach Harper's summary of Victor Umbinyama over the last few weeks in his, just his second year. It feels like he's been around for a while.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
We have, yeah. And prior to this season, we were already anointing him. First time All-Star. This guy could be Defensive Player of the Year. When is he going to win MVP? How many MVPs is he going to win? So, I don't know, the fact that... Es fühlt sich so an, als ob er früher als viele andere Spieler in ihrer Karriere vorbeigekommen wäre. So viel als ein Kind.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Der Fakt, dass er damit rollen kann, ist ein tolles Zeichen. Und das Buch von Harper. Ich bin mir sicher, dass Zach angefangen hat zu schreiben, als dieses Spiel stattfand. Und sich auf das Ritual zu füllen.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
But then you start to see them. Again, deep threes. And you start to realize... Those Brook Lopez deep threes.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
That's a good way of putting it. Yeah, it looks like when he follows through, it's like his hand is in the net.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Yeah, so it's... To see him only taking a third of his shots in the... in der Paint-Area, wenn dieser Mann Monster ist. Sollte er es nicht mehr tun? Wir beginnen zu denken, aber das Spiel verändert sich, Mann. Es ist einfach, es ist einfach anders, wenn du drei Ballen nach drei Ballen nach drei Ballen
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Es waren zu viele Leute da.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Und die Tür. Ja, und du kannst... Yeah, we weren't super close, I guess, so you can't really understand, even though his head was hitting literally, like the doorway, the frame is made, I guess it was seven feet, I guess, because he was hitting his head, he had to duck under to take the floor in the Vegas stadium.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Ja, ich würde sagen, die Sicherung ist seltsam. Sie haben nicht viel versichert. Sie versicherten Skeets, das ist alles, was sie versicherten. Du musst dich gegen die Räder befassen, sonst werden sie dich fangen. Wenn du zurückgehst, ich weiß nicht, ich habe keine Ahnung, warum sie das gemacht haben. Es war seltsam, es war seltsam.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Es ist auch seltsam, dass... Jeder nennt ihn einen Alien, wie ich gesagt habe. Ich meine, wie lange dauert das? Für immer?
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
I know, it's early. I heard the Spurs broadcaster, Jacob Tobey, said he's not human, he's an alien. As he made it to 50. Ich weiß nicht. Ich bin einfach damit fertig. Aber trotzdem.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Was that a positive though? Your three-point shooter just coming back from injury. Putting one during garbage time really, where they get spanked by OKC.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
I'm going with the Bulls-Knicks game. It was so great. And I mentioned Karl-Anthony Towns. He was doing a great job at holding them afloat. Because the Bulls came out and were hitting shot after shot. They were hitting way too many open threes. The Knicks were giving them lots of space. Matas Bouzelis threw down a dunk. What? And most of it was done by Zach Levine.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Er sieht aus wie der Superstar Zach. Er sieht so gut aus, so athletisch. Du versuchst ihn zu schützen, er wird dich einfach umdrehen und höher springen als du und einen Schuss schießen. Er hat das in diesem Spiel gemacht und er lacht.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Es ist wieder da, er ist fokussiert. Wir haben über ihn im Trainingscamp gesprochen, wie er auf dem Podium kam und er hat angefangen zu sprechen. Ist dieser Typ älter und ein bisschen mehr gereinigt, mehr entwickelt? Und, weißt du, das ist alles nur Training-Camp-Stuff. Aber jetzt auf dem Boden, er macht es. Aber er war gegen O.J. Ananobi an einem Punkt. O.J.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Ananobi geht direkt in ihn, drückt ihn zurück und versucht, einen Schuss zu bekommen. Und Zack... kann es blockieren. Und das bedeutet, dass er bereit ist, zu sehen, dass er 31 auf 12-17, 4-3, schau dir seine Percentages schnell an, 54 und 42 von der Flur. Das ist seine effizienteste Saison in der Geschichte seines Karriers. Also ist sein Wettbewerbswert erhöht. Da gibt es keinen Zweifel darüber.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Also waren die Bulls an einem Punkt in diesem Spiel 22 Punkte hoch. Und Karl war sie lebendig. Er bringt sie wieder und wieder zurück. Die Drehs auf Vucevic. Die Drei auf Vucevic, wo sie die Hände geschlossen haben, als Vucevic versucht hat, ihn zu stoppen. Aber er hat die Stansion geschlagen und er hat immer noch durchgekämpft. Danach war er auf der Bühne und er hat immer noch durchgekämpft.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Und die anderen Jungs, wie ich schon erwähnt habe, Ojan und Obi, die fast... Ich habe sie gesehen. Ich hoffe, sie ist in Ordnung.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Brunson time to try and close this game out because the Knicks were able to close that 22 point gap and so Brunson comes out his first fourth quarter points were with 37 seconds left a mean step back they're up to but then Brunson bad fellow at the other end so the Knicks are tied again. Bulls tied it up again. Then Brunson again. Another make. Dribbles past Pat Williams. So they're up two.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Then the Bulls with just a few seconds left here. They're inbounding. It looks like Zach Levine is ready to dunk it because it's Josh Giddey, the man, the inbounder.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
It looks like Zach Levine is going to get an alley-oop pass. He looked open. He jumped, but he didn't pass it. He gave it to Kobe White instead, who Miraculously got fouled, shooting a three-point shot. So he gets three free throws. Josh Hart. Josh Hart did it.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
He hit all three. Impressive stuff. So then Jalen Brunson had to hit a game-winning shot with about four seconds left. It was on his shoulders. And he got the ball inbounded. He had Pat Williams on him again. And he took a beautiful shot. It looked like it was going down. And then a toilet bowl and went out. Clyde Frazier on the broadcast. I don't know how that missed. How did it go out?
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And the Bulls win. Wow, there's a toilet bowl. If you call a bang on a toilet bowl, that would be hilarious.
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Yeah, put a banner up in Madison Square Gardens with Breen. He's done. Put a plunger there, because I guess if it's a toilet bowl and the ball comes out, it's a plunger. Anyway, no, Breen didn't say bang. He caught himself. But it looked like the Knicks were going to win this game. But listen, they have bad defensive problems. The Tibbs Dieses Teams-Team ist nicht so gut auf der Defensive.
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Sie sind 19. in der Liga. Die Bulls haben mit Zach Levine zu Beginn dieses Spiels gegessen. Sie haben einen großen Sieg gemacht. Glücklicherweise brachten die Nicks es nahe. Aber ja, Glückwunsch an die Chicago Bulls, die in Madison Square Garden gewonnen haben.
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TK ist wahrscheinlich gerade überrascht, dass wir das später sehen. Richtig, richtig. Es war seltsam, dass die Bulls das Lied verletzt haben. Aber... Ich weiß nicht, wie sie gewonnen haben. Und Kat hatte 46 Punkte. Ich weiß nicht, ob ich das gesagt habe.
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I wish it happened when Zach Levine and Carl Anthony Towns were teammates as Minnesota Timberwolves. It doesn't feel like they were teammates, but they were once upon a time. And Cat looked so good. And Zach looked like he was worth that max contract that the Bulls gave him.
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Yeah, then we'll sprinkle some in at the end, because there's more than six games to talk about, I'd say.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
We're going to a 50-burger Greek-style Yannis Antetokounmpo. I was going to say, which one? Yeah, a couple of 50-burgers and then a cat on the side. They're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs. We'll get to Karl-Anthony Towns, but let's start with Yannis Antetokounmpo
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Ich konnte nicht glauben, dass er einen hat. Aber egal. Sie sind 13-0. Sie sind 13-0. Und es ist seltsam, weil Donovan Mitchell diese Dinge in diesem Spiel verletzt hat. Bis in die letzten Minuten, wo er 12 Punkte in den letzten Minuten gewonnen hat. Er hatte 11 Punkte bis drei Minuten in der vierten Quartier. Weil er Darius Garland die Gelegenheit gegeben hat, die vierte Quartier-Mann zu sein.
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Das ist wahr. Und... Big win for the Philadelphia 76ers, even though they didn't win. I mean, to see them do this, I have a pretty good effort against them.
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best team in the league right now so to me the most impressive thing was jared mccain the guy you said mitchell put on skates there getting his first start of his career he had just become the first guy off the bench in the sixers rotation previously so this guy's just moving up here as a rook and to drop 34 a career high i mean he's been dropping career high 34 and 10
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Ja, er hat diese Karrierehöhe über und über gedroht. Letzte Woche war er extrem heiß. Nick Nurse sagte, Kenny Atkinson hat eine Box in einem Spiel gewonnen, um McCain aus dem Ball zu bringen. Und weißt du was? Das ist, weil er das kann. Er ist so ein guter Mittelfeldspieler. Er ist so ein guter Dribbler. Jetzt ist er nicht großartig am Rimm. Er ist klein. Aber es wird weitergehen.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
The Milwaukee Bucks at home to the Detroit Pistons and it's all about Giannis, especially because the Bucks were even more shorthanded. Bobby Portis was out in this one. We know Chris Middleton is out. Damian Lillard out again. Concussion protocol. And the guy who filled his spot in the starting lineup, Ryan Rollins. In the previous game was also out. So who's starting at point guard?
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Und es war nicht das sexieste Spiel, aber die Magic hat einen Vier-Spiel-Win-Streak. Das ist ein Erfolg in der oberen Konferenz. Ein Vier-Spiel-Win-Streak ist ein großer Deal, weil sie... Eine der nur drei Teams in der oberen Konferenz, die über 500 sind. Das Team ist 7-6 und sie sind dritter im Osten, was sehr seltsam ist. Sie haben die Pacers gewonnen.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Und ähnlich wie letztes Jahr, ist dieses Magic-Team so gut defensiv. Nun, sie kämpfen ein bisschen offensiv, besonders mit Paulo Banqueiro. Sie sind zweiter im Defense, 24. im Offense. Aber ich denke, dass Franz Wagner in diesem vierten Spiel einen positiven Effekt erzielt hat. Er hat angefangen zu rollen, sich besser zu fühlen und sich zu sehen wie der Nummer zwei auf diesem Team.
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29 Punkte in diesem Spiel und ein großartiges Anliegen. Er hatte sechs Helfer und die Hälfte seiner Anliegen kamen zu Goga Betazze, der der zweitgrößte Schauspieler für die Orlando Magic in diesem Spiel war, mit zwölf Punkten. Wie in der Hölle gewinnst du ein Spiel, wenn dein zweitgrößter Schauspieler zwölf Punkte hat? Das ist das große Ding, wenn du die Pacers zu nur 38% schiebst.
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Ich dachte, der Magic Benz, Jonathan Isaac, beestet es. Sie sind in Minuten hoch, er hatte 11 Tore und 3 Blocks. Wiederum, keine Sorge um die Punkte, weil der Magic somehow Wins machen kann ohne Punkte. Er hat nicht viel gespielt, aber es war ziemlich cool am Ende. Tyrese Halliburton.
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Tried to shoot a three as time went down and Isaac got the rebound, the loose ball to seal it, which was kind of fitting because he had such a great game off the bench. The Halliburton story is interesting as well because it should be a bit of a story here with the Pacers. Only 39% from the floor, 27% for three. I know he's had good games recently, but he's up and down.
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Like the last week, I think he's had a couple the last week or so. It is strange. But I just wanted to mention that the Magic, now 6-0 at home. They won seven games to end last season at home. Do we bump those together and say you've won 13 straight at home? No, that's garbage. But they play the 76ers on Friday at home. So another good battle. That's a cupper. That should be a fun one.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
But just to say that this team is the third seeded team. In the East. But it does get hard for this team, because I mentioned the great home record. But they're going to have a lot of road games, and Paulo Banqueiro is probably going to miss most of them. Hopefully he'll be back. But I want to mention that they're above 500 now, because it's probably not going to last too, too long.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
DeLon Wright started at point guard. He had an offer in this game. A.J. Green started beside him. He hit one shot. So backcourt only had three points. Yannis Tadjoubo literally scored every basket in the first quarter. He had 22 points in the first quarter. He was just doing everything. The guy's putting this team on his back. He seriously is. But the Pistons literally had more depth.
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Yeah, his percentages are pretty good and he's got a career high in assists this year. He's become more of a playmaker because the Magic are looking. They're still looking for that because Jalen Sucks is not quite that guy. And he had an inefficient night last night shooting the ball. But it's great to see Franz with almost five assists per game. They need that beside Paulo Banqueiro.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
They need him to be a playmaker. So he's developing. He's definitely getting better.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Ja, es fühlt sich so an, als ob es auf andere Spieler geht. Selbst die Rockets-Broadcaster sagten gestern, Reed Shepard spielt eine bessere Defense, als er die ganze Saison gespielt hat. Er war energetisch. Du hast Alpern Schengun und den schönen Dunk erwähnt. Und dann hat er einfach die andere Richtung gespritzt, um einen Block zu bekommen. Das fühlt sich nicht an wie Alpern Schengun.
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Er fühlte sich, als ob er vier Blocks im Spiel bekommen würde. Ja. Das ist der dritte beste Defense in der Liga, wie du gesagt hast.
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They're doing it. I saw this stat during the game. The most steals plus blocks per game off the bench for one player. It's Tari Isid with a three. You'd think it might be a Caruso. He's second. He's around there. Then it's Keon Ellis, Grant Williams and Jay Huff. Wenn Jay einen Block bekommt, ist es ein Huff-Stuff, wie sie es auf dem Memphis Broadcast sagen.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Malik Beasley, who played for the Bucks last year, hit four threes in the first half. Und die Pistons waren auf. Doppelte Punkte in der Hälfte. Im dritten Quartal waren die Bucks 18 Punkte runter. Zu Hause. Es sah blöd aus für dieses Team. Aber sie kamen zurück. Brook Lopez, großer Block auf Cade Cunningham. Dann begann er, seinen Kopf zu schlagen. Und die anderen Benchplayers für die Bucks.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Es gibt andere Spieler, die weniger Spiele auf dem Bench gespielt haben, die ein bisschen höher sind als das. Aber es war ein seltsamer Spiel, weil die Clippers entschieden haben, wir werden Chris Dunn über Terrence Mann starten. Du kommst auf den Bench, Terrence Mann. Und er war energetisch. Und der Bench war großartig, um sie zurück in das Spiel zu bringen, wie du gesagt hast.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Sie spielten sieben Leute auf dem Bench in diesem Spiel, weil es sah so aus, als würde Ty Lue sagen, hol den Plug, dieses Spiel ist vorbei.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
So yeah, they look good. Good start. 8-4. Yeah, that's a heck of an accomplishment. Another accomplishment I gotta mention. Portland beating the Minnesota Timberwolves. Two games in a row. Yes, it's a little scary for the Timberwolves. No Mike Conley. Is that the reason they lost? I gotta mention that, because it just looked like... The threes weren't falling down.
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I mean, that was key in this game. But you gotta mention Portland and what they did. Shaden Sharpe scoring 33. Donovan Klingin had eight frickin' blocks. He nearly had a triple-double with blocks. 17 points, 13 boards and eight blocks. Five of those in the fourth quarter. And they were doing a good enough job to stop Minnesota's three-point shooting, which was... Ja, sehr schlecht.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
18 Prozent in diesem Spiel. Aber um zwei Spiele in der Reihe zu gewinnen, als ihre Lineups waren, sind sie ständig verändern. Chauncey Billups versucht einige verschiedene Dinge und es funktioniert. Mit Scoot auf der Bench, Danny Avdia auf der Bench, sogar. Ja. Also einige seltsame Lineups, aber sie funktionieren absolut. Um ein Team zweimal in der Reihe zu gewinnen, das ist ein Erlebnis.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Andre Jackson, Pat Connaughton, Gary Trent. Sie sind groß. Sie sind ein Hustler. Sie haben ihm etwas gegeben. Yeah, Andre Jackson was getting to the floor and diving beside Kate's feet. Giannis even had some blood on him in this game. There's literally shots of blood on his shorts. I think we got a photo of the bloody butt for Giannis Antetokounmpo.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Yeah, and no Morant for the Grizzlies. No Anthony Simons for the Blazers. We didn't mention their scoot starting in that one.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
War Matt in der Gruppe? Ich weiß nicht. Du musst da sein.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
They get younger and younger. I guess, I guess. They do.
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No, I think we touched on them all, but yes, you gotta beware of kids in the comments, because they are getting younger. I had to delete a couple of comments from our YouTube account. I know who did it, but it's literally a child. Oh boy. Very young child. I mean, the comment was... We know this kid? Oh, I do.
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I personally do. The comment was totally fine. Okay. Yes. Not a problem whatsoever.
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Also, ja, einfach aufpassen. Es war nicht mein Kind, war es? Nein, nein, nein. Es war ein Kind. Ein Kind, wie ein junges Kind.
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So this game always went into the fourth quarter. It was tied late in the fourth quarter. Bucks tried to win it. Das war's für heute. Bis zum nächsten Mal. were able to break it up, but Jens Ducumbo was called for a foul, which wasn't a foul, but they couldn't challenge because they had no timeouts left. You can't challenge that.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
J.D. did a great job with his kids of keeping them away from social media for a long period of time.
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So they weren't allowed on the gram? Nope. No tweeters? Nope. No Facebooks? None of it. Wow.
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They're like comment parties. People just sitting in a room together.
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Strange. On a Thursday night to see one basketball game.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
And some, yeah, playing their second game. So... Utah is a tough place to play?
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Absolutely could happen. You know, pumpkin pie is on the line here. And it feels like it's November and there's a lot of days, but it's probably not with Thanksgiving happening. Oh yeah, we're having a little Thanksgiving break. People will have at least a few days off here, I imagine. So these are important. These are important, even though they're just one game.
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And tomorrow we're not going to be talking a lot about Dallas, Utah, I don't think.
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Oh, absolutely. There's absolutely nominations for Worst of the Week. There are worthy nominees.
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That's a nominee. I gotta say.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Awesome. Thanks for joining us and remember, some Canadians pronounce Genevieve Genevieve. I don't care, I do it. That's not how she pronounces her name. I don't care, I do it. And Danielle gets mad at me every time I do it.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Ich sehe nicht so viele Kandidaten aus Winnipeg.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
So Ryan, not Ryan Howells, Ron Holland, all he had to do was hit a free throw and win the game for the Detroit Puppets. Just one. Clank, clank.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Besonders, weil es fast unter dem Backboard war. Ja. Auch wenn Ron Holland es getroffen hat. Ja.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
That's a good call, yeah. It's unfortunate for Ron Holland there.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
They had overtime to win it, but that's when Giannis took over. He absolutely took over. He had a block to start the overtime. And he had 48 points going into overtime. He scored another 11. One of them on a three-point shot. His only three-point shot of the game. He only took two and he hit this one. And if you're watching on YouTube, I still don't know what the celebration is. I'm not sure.
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Hung like a Greek horse. I don't know. I'm not totally sure. The broadcasters, Kate Scott said, you know, he was doing the, you know, I got this in my veins type of thing. Because he's kind of pointing at his arm, but I'm still not sure.
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Das ist, was er macht. Aber er hat nur einen Arm da unten. Wie viele Teile hast du? Du hast gesagt, Balls.
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Ja, er könnte, aber es ist fast nur eine normale Feier, weil er fast die Dame auf seinem Team macht. Er macht das Watch-Ding, also ist er ein bisschen an seinen Rüsten. Wo hast du dein Watch? Ja, das ist ein seltsamer Satz. Das war sein einziger Drei. Er war großartig von der Freedraw-Line. 16 von 17 in diesem Spiel. Ja.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
59 Punkte, 14 Boards, 7 Assists, 2 Steals, ein großer Block, wie ich gesagt habe, in der Overtime, um seinen 10. Karriere-50-Punkt-Spiel zu starten. Und es wurde mit der Overtime geholfen, weil er es nicht in der Overtime hatte. Aber ein besonderer Wettbewerb für dieses Milwaukee Bucks Team. Sie haben endlich einen gewinnenden Streak.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Es ist nicht so lang, aber ein paar von ihnen meanen wirklich alles. Zu Hause sind die Detroit Pistons, die... playing above their expectations. That team can play a little bit, but no depth on this Milwaukee Bucks team. Hopefully Dame comes back, which should happen soon, but you looked on the bench, you looked at the performances out there, the Pistons were a deeper team.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Isaiah Stewart ist bekannt dafür, ein bisschen dreckige Sachen zu tun. Er wird physisch, und das ist sein Rapport. Aber man muss irgendwo die Linie ziehen. Und ich denke, das war ein einfacher Anruf.
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Er hat einen unglaublichen Start. Ja. Das geht unter den Radar, weil die Bucks... Weil sie einen schlechten Rekord hatten. Ja, weil sie nicht genug Depth haben. Aber hoffentlich kommt Dame zurück, um sie zu helfen. Ja, sie sind ein Top-Heavy-Team. Und wenn ein Top-Heavy-Team verletzt wird, ist das ein Problem.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Aber auch Bobby Portis, ich meine, sie verlangen an diesen Jungs, die schon lange da waren. Sie haben ein Wettbewerb gewonnen, weil sie alt sind. Und Chris Middleton, er soll zurückkommen. Er hat gesagt, dass wenn er nicht 70 bis 75 Spiele spielt, dann ist es eine Verletzung eines Saisons. Und hier sind wir. Wir sind da.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
Richtig. Ja, wie du gesagt hast, weniger Tage auf der Erde als Booker und Braun und Jennings. Du fängst an zu denken, ist dieser Typ ein Alien? Er sieht anders aus. Ich meine, er sieht anders aus, als ein 7,4-Jähriger, der Basketball spielt, wie du gesagt hast. Ja, ja. So he is pushing himself out further. But if he's that confident in these shots, how can you stop him?
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
In this game, there were deep ones. There's a 27-footer, 28-footer and a 30-footer. So that's literally five to seven feet beyond the line where he's just stepping into them and feeling good. So, yeah, you know, we were already killing him.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
And now he's still a little bit below the NBA average right now. But who cares if you're hitting these shots? It's like Luka earlier in his career. Who cares if you can do other things in this game? I mean, it was a fun game because Alex Saar, there's a lot of Frenchmen on that floor. But him against Alex Saar, Saar blocked him one time. Wemby was giving it to him.
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Giannis, Wemby, Towns Combine For Record-Breaking Scoring Night
So they seem like they're kind of rivals here. But I don't really care if Wemby is that confident. He's just so fluid in his three-point shot. I think it's going to come. Now, I mean, we're talking about a 20-year-old banging home eight threes in this game. So, yes, I think it's fine. I think the balance will come. You got to start respecting him beyond 25 feet.
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And then so he'll get into the paint more and more.
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They are. In the fourth quarter, Pritchard was the only guy to hit threes. And the other guys who missed, they were just so short on their shots. And it's both Jays, like way short, way open and way short. I mean, your legs aren't there, I guess. Derek White, one was off left and one was short as well. Three for 11. Those are your three guys. Who was three for 11?
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So he's shooting pretty good, actually.
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Yeah, he was 0-2 in the fourth quarter in this one. I don't know what he was in game one in the fourth quarter. But maybe he's just worse as the game goes along. Because it sure felt that way watching the fourth quarter. And it's not just... Oh, they're just not hitting threes. I mean, they're just super short, including big Al's shots.
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Peyton Pritchard was able to chuck coming off the bench and was able to hit them. But, yeah, the legs aren't there, I guess, question mark. Derek White was 0 for in-game. Wow, man. Sometimes this NBA.com, this just annoyed me here. Anyway. Yeah. I thought I had a Derek White stat for fourth quarter. Maybe it was one for four in the fourth quarter.
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Yeah, they're definitely bad. But if one of those threes goes down, I mean, they just, again, super short. And you know how to shoot a basketball, especially from the corner as well. Jason Tames was right there.
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How does he know when the most people are watching? I mean, he just wants it at night, I guess. Yeah, probably. But Saturday, you can get some numbers at 3.30, I think.
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He's golfing, I guess, and we'll be missing it, I guess.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
But we should go over the teams that have overcome a 2-0 deficit after losing their first two at home.
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There's five in NBA history. One is, I didn't remember it, and you would think you would remember it just because of who was playing four years ago in 2021. Just because it's kind of a memorable time.
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Yeah, yeah. Kawhi able to overdo Luka.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Yeah, yeah. Another one that's sort of in recent memory is your team, Trey.
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2017, okay. And then we go to 05 for the next one.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
No. There's a finalist of the next year.
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I got nothing on 06. A finalist that made it in 06, lost in 06. So the Mavericks? Yeah, they beat the Rockets in 05. Okay. And then another Rockets. The only team here that actually won the championship. The Rockets won the championship. They won round one.
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Against Phoenix. Clutch City. So they won three straight because it was just a five-game series back then. To go on to win the title. Yeah. And then a 1969er. Nice. Lakers beat San Francisco. And it almost happened last year when the Nuggets lost the first two against the Timberwolves. The Timberwolves went up 2-0. And then it looked like the Nuggets were going to win in Game 7 and win that series.
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But then they lost.
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yeah so there's five so there's teams are 30 and five if you win two games on the road you usually win the series you win 30 of the 35 series yeah so so here you go you're in the driver's seat so the pacers and the celtics are feeling excuse me pacers and the knicks are feeling pretty good
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I wouldn't bet on the Celtics. I know it's recency binds here. We just watched it. But watching them throughout the season where we all kind of wondered, oh, this team just turns it on for a good quarter and can do it. And it's hard to bet on the Knicks after their season. But after watching what happened, yeah, I would take the Knicks. That's interesting.
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I'm taking the Cavs.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Nope. Let me check the stats. No. Never been done.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Yeah, it was. It was incredible how it was exactly the same. The new Celtics owners have to be saying, we want a refund. Our offer is withdrawn because they didn't expect this. Two games in a row to do that. Even though their season was full of games where they couldn't put it together for 48 minutes.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
It was. It was a perfect Thunder game. I thought the defense on Jokic was a real toilet bowl type of defense. It wasn't a, hey, we're just going to W and let you pass out of it. It was a swirling all around him, so they took away the passing lanes. They did a great job of that.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
And occasionally they'd throw a small guy at him that couldn't be pushed, like an Alex Caruso turned into a turnover because Jokic was offensive fouling him, or a Lou Dort, which would happen, and he was just too tough.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
And that is what's happening right now with the Boston Celtics where they just can't finish the job. I thought in the fourth quarter, Josh Hart was the meanest guy of them all. The guy who was putting his attitude. He kind of set the tone. Two big blocks. Josh Hart, the 6'4 guy. The guy who was helping out at the rim because Mitchell Robinson was out on the perimeter and he was very good.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Yeah, it wasn't just taking away him. It was a perfect game because they were able to take away the lane and not let Westbrook or Christian Brown score in tight. For them to only have 28 points in the paint, just 14 buckets, that just means, yes, you're incapable of getting in there. They're able to move, and that's why it kicked butt when it came to fast break points, 26-5.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
That's the Nuggets deal. I mean, they're so good at the fast break points, but they couldn't do it against this team. They turned it over 20 times. The rebounds. Finally, the Thunder turned it around after game one after getting smashed. But 87 points in the first half. Six guys in double figures. That's a new playoff record. 87 freaking points.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
And Dort's so good at selling a pick that hit him as well. Jokic hit him with one. There's a foul. Caruso getting under Jokic's skin. There's a foul. And so they added up, obviously. They didn't have to be all defensive.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
But I just went back and watched every single shot for the Boston Celtics. It's really hard to decipher what happened. Jalen Brown was over. The three-point shot was so short. He tried to take Jalen Brunson down low. Tried to draw a foul on Jalen Brunson, which is an odd choice, I would say. I thought... Derek White's threes were going to be going down. I thought those were happening.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Yeah, I wonder if they keep throwing a zone defense at OKC too. It just seems like they're copping out a little bit at times to see whether or not OKC can shoot. But they didn't need to. They just passed it so well and just got through their holes of the Nuggets defense. So it's a defense that wasn't incredible throughout the year and got better against the Clippers.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
We'll be watching that because it didn't work, obviously.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Yeah, if I wanted to be positive for the Golden State Warriors, I'd say maybe they're just saying one week to push it back so we don't get asked about it. So every guy in the locker room is asked, Hey, Jimmy, you think Steph's coming back? So they don't have to deal with it. But then the negative side of me says... It ain't good.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
He made a great pass then to Jason Tatum in the corner, whose three was short. Those threes were just so short. And I would say about Jason Tatum, he was the one guy trying to make it happen down the stretch.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Steph was, quote, crushed by the hamstring injury and when it happened. That's what Steve Kerr said in the one week. Seems like one week, so we're talking about game five. So this is, no, not good at all. I think a Minnesota team that turns it around after game one, I think we're not going to see a bad performance through these next few games. Steph or no Steph.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
So I think it's, yeah, that's a bad recipe for the Warriors.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Yeah, and that's why you have to watch all eight of those minutes where they didn't score a basket from 840 to 18 seconds, how that happens to a basketball team. And Tatum did force it. He got the dunk with 18 seconds. And then the Celtics ran the exact same play. Exact same play.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
No, that's Pods clanking like he has been recently. He has been. We'll see how Jimmy said, I'll come out and perform when I need to perform during the regular season. It is different against a monstrous front line. This is a huge front line. We'll see if he can repeat anything like he did for the Miami Heat days. He has been.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
incredibly impressive at getting into the space, drawing contact, hitting the ground, selling it. He's been a Jimmy Bumper. Will he score 25 to 28 to 30? He could easily. He could. And he has had good games throughout this first round here and game number one.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
And the Knicks adapted, setting their guy back a little bit further in the paint where OGN and OB could help a little bit more. And then it resulted in Mikkel Bridge's block. So that was an interesting choice by Joe Mazula. Let's just run the same thing. And then that didn't work out. Repeating is hard, I guess. They don't have the same attitude for 48 minutes. We know that.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Yeah, I don't like this Jaden McDaniels philosophy of, oh, Steph's not there. Buddy Hill is the new Steph. You don't want to play defense like that. You don't want to have four eyes on that guy at all times. I mean, you want to play the lanes. You want to play better. You want to play the other guys. And you play every other guy one-on-one. It's a far different Golden State Warriors team.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
We'll see, though, you know. If it is just one game that we need from games three and four, probably, because I think the Wolves will take game two, but we'll see. But if it is just one game, then yeah, it is a different story.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Yeah, it's tomorrow that that number would have become guaranteed for next season. So maybe it's, hey, if we're in the conference finals, you're guaranteed next year, man. That is a different type of number, that's for sure. It sure feels like they will say, we want you to be a complimentary player. Come cheaper, man, just for a few more years. That's what Raphael Stone's probably thinking.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
But there's just no explanation for this, really.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Right now, next year's salaries have no one near the max offer. And Jalen Green and Shangoon, they click in for $33 million per. So there's still room. Raphael Stone has made a very interesting team. But when they signed Fred, we all sort of thought, maybe he's too old. And he's only 31. And so he sure feels like he's doing enough. This was a bad season for Fred.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
He didn't play well during the regular season. Shot 38 from the floor, 34% from three. That's a 51% true shooting percentage. But then he turned it up for that one series, 63.2% true shooting percentage. So it feels good. Raphael Stone must be saying, I'm working on other deals to try and put together one of those guys we named along with, you know, your Dylan Brooks.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
And potentially your Atari East and Jabari Smith to package for a big name. So he must be working the numbers here.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Well, I was just going through the stats of everything he gets involved for people. He put in 400 hours of coaching and support to nearly 200 businesses across the U.S. That is just some man hours there to get them helping out, along with giving them $5 million in grants, helping out black-owned businesses and HBCUs. And he's just, yeah, an overall good guy.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
I mean, his quote was, if you participate in your community and in your country, your voice can be heard. Simple as that. Drew and Lauren have been doing it for a long time.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Thanks for joining us, and remember, we'll roll in a Worst of the Week tomorrow for Paul Pierce. He's got to get in. But I won't mention the fav icon for Paul Pierce. I'm just going to mention it now because it's a terrible. I don't like that fav icon. Is it a good photo? Nah. I don't know. It's him. Those glasses.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Anyways, that's not going to be part of the Worst of the Week, but Paul Pierce is a nominee.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
It was more steely. Yeah. Yeah. I think you can probably give him a half point in the stocks. It's kind of each. Yeah, it was one. But it was the exact same play run. The original play was underneath the Celtics hoop. Tatum's going, beelining it, and... O.J. Ananobi was out at midcourt, so Al Horford had a mean back pick, and that's where he could continue on. Well, this time, O.J.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Ananobi, we're seeing the same thing. Todd Thibodeau said, get the heck away from midcourt. Just get into the freaking paint. And so, yeah, he did lose the ball a little bit, but he regained it and had a second defender there, and then here comes the third defender. They just weren't prepared. It is odd just to see them not be able to score. I mean, there was the...
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
There was the baseline turnaround shot over OG that didn't work for Tatum a couple minutes earlier. He was just desperate to try while Jalen Brown, literally just no touch from the three-point line. And then what he's trying to do to Brunson, the Derek White misses. I will say just the Knicks were more physical. I mean, they kind of mugged Kristaps Porzingis.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
His one attempt with nine minutes plus left, Mikael Bridges was all over him. we're going to see a Mitchell Robinson free throw that was way short. Kristaps Porzingis' shot was like four feet short. It was a shot from the free throw line. How would a 7'3 guy be able to miss that far short? There was definitely a foul that was not called right then and there.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
That being said, the team that is more physical is going to get away with it. That's just how it is, and the Celtics were not. They were just shooting three after three after three when it comes down – I wouldn't say three after three after three. They tried inside.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
It was so funny. They scored way less.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Jalen Brown went to Jalen Brunson twice. Yeah. Didn't score. Didn't happen.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Now, you kind of shot over him once and then tried to draw foul once. That didn't work out well. In the fourth quarter, 11 threes for the Celtics, 13 twos, but the 13 twos just, they weren't good enough. I mean, Big Al wasn't big enough. He just wasn't scoring inside. I mentioned the Porzingis shot, and they just couldn't score.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Keep him around. Just let the Celtics clank after clank after clank, and we're good. Mitch Robinson was plus 19 in this game. And so Tom Thibodeau had to go to the two bigs, and it works out extremely well. And, you know, Mitch Robinson is a guy who gets injured and was not able to do it for 100% of the time last year against the Sixers in the postseason. but he's damn good when he's out there.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
So I think the limited minutes help out him coming off the bench. But those two guys, when they play together, yeah, they are just tough, tough, tough size to go along with those perimeter guys.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Yeah, and he decided after the game. He was sad doing that post-game presser, just... Slouching, he said he can't perform. And it's clear. He's not him.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Yeah, well, just to note that Mikel Bridges didn't look like himself for those first three quarters. He didn't have a point. And all of a sudden, those 14 points come at the exact right point in this game. I mean, he was the leading scorer for both teams in that fourth quarter, by far. I mean, Brunson helped him out, but Tatum only had four and Brown was 0-4, so...
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
All of a sudden, Mikael Bridges just turns it on and just finds it. These little recipes, the ingredients here for a recipe of a disaster are pretty amazing when you look at it because it all adds up to just some rough roughness for the Boston Celtics here.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Sprechen wir doch mal über deinen Traumtyp. Oh, schwierig. Schieß los. Okay, er muss für jedes Abenteuer zu haben sein und natürlich toll aussehen.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Rechen wir doch mal über deinen Traumtyp. Oh, schwierig. Schieß los. Okay, er muss für jedes Abenteuer zu haben sein und natürlich toll aussehen. Und er darf mich nie lang warten lassen.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Sprechen wir doch mal über deinen Traumtyp. Oh, schwierig. Schieß los. Okay, er muss für jedes Abenteuer zu haben sein und natürlich toll aussehen. Und er darf mich nie lang warten lassen.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Brechen wir doch mal über deinen Traumtyp. Oh, schwierig. Schieß los. Okay, er muss für jedes Abenteuer zu haben sein und natürlich toll aussehen. Und er darf mich nie lang warten lassen.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Sie haben viele Anrufe bekommen.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Ja, und wenn Denver gewinnt, reden wir über Aaron Gordon und seine Leistung, weil er da auf einem Bein war. Er hat es rausgenommen. Er hat es rausgenommen. 11 Tore für diesen Mann in 24 Minuten. Er war kämpfen, aber es wird real schnell überschattet. Es war gut für das, ich bin sicher, es war gut für das Lagerraum, weil sie rausgekommen sind und gespielt haben. started really well.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
It was on Christian Brown sort of to take over for Aaron Gordon as a playmaker. He was doing a great job. Some of these assists that he had to Jokic for the fouls aren't in the box score, but I thought he was doing a better job. He's grown a little bit as a playmaker as well. So, yeah, a very, very good Christian Brown game.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
He's going to work on the three-point shot, I'm sure, a little more in the postseason, but great season for him.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
I like a thunder roll when they get a great bounce on an offensive shot. They should get a thunder roll going in the arena, because they had plenty of those. Like I said, the Jalen Williams one. I also like Trey Young's tweet that came out. Hot take, but not. OKC fans are louder than Nick fans. Happy Sunday.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
There we go. Very funny.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Yeah, that's true. He was going to games. Yeah, he was in the upper bowl, apparently.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
But what do you think? Yeah, but it's the thing that when it's video reviewed and it's in slow-mo, you see a guy's face go flailing.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Es ist etwas, das ich glaube, dass die Regierungsbund und die Liga dieses Off-Season schauen werden. Wie der Vorredner gesagt hat, sollten wir das vielleicht schauen und versuchen, hier eine Balance zu finden. Denn ein offensiver Spieler muss sich bewegen können. Das ist ein Sport. Du solltest dich bewegen können und schauen.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Ich meine, du kannst nicht direkt in seinem Shirt stehen, literally in seinem Shirt, und eine Entscheidung machen. Richard Jefferson war auf dem Anruf und sagte, ja, die Jungs sollten sich bewegen können. Aber dann haben sie den Anruf überlebt und Richard Jefferson ist so, Ja, okay, ich glaube, es ist falsch. Aber wir sind alle ein bisschen... Aber das gehört dazu, was du sagst.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Ja, das ist völlig wahr. Gibt es noch andere Noten, Tassik, für uns? Nun, ich möchte sagen, Doris Burke hat gesagt, dass Alex Caruso gesagt hat, dass seine ganze Karriere ein Game 7 war. Das war toll. Ich wollte das Video von ihm sehen. Ich konnte es nicht finden. Ich glaube, er hat es irgendwo vor dem Spiel gesagt. Aber es ist absolut wahr.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Ich denke, seine Karriere wurde ein Game 7, als er beschlossen hat, bald zu werden. Ich denke, das war seine Demarkierung. Ich werde meine Profession ernst nehmen. Ich werde mich ernst nehmen und ich werde ein neuer Spieler werden. Und das ist das Einzige, was Alex Caruso separiert.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Als wir ihn in der Sommerliga gesehen haben und er versucht hat, Dinge für die Los Angeles Lakers zu machen, sah er aus wie ein Ballhandler. Und das hat sich definitiv verändert für ihn, als er mit LeBron und Freunden zusammengekommen ist und dieser unglaubliche Spieler geworden ist. Das war es. Das war die Linie für mich. Dieser haarige Mann. Jetzt ist er ein blöder Mann. Er sieht gut aus.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Er sieht gut aus jetzt. Ich denke, er hat alles zusammengebracht.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Ja, aber er startet in der zweiten Halbzeit, wie er es in diesem Spiel 7 gemacht hat. Also entscheiden sie, okay, wir müssen jemanden sitzen und ihn spielen.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Shout out to the ESPN Broadcast crew that was ready for a blowout. Because often in a blowout, the broadcasters need to talk about something. To hear that story about Sam Presti signing Kurt Thomas when he was early in his executive days and picking him up. And Kurt Thomas was like, who are you? He said, well, I run the front office. That was a cool story. I hadn't heard that.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
I guess I'd heard that maybe a long time ago. Kurt Thomas hat das gesagt, aber Shoutout DB, der diese Geschichte teilt, glaube ich.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Das Problem hier mit dem Roster ist, dass Jamal Murray nicht mehr als Playoff-Jamal aussieht. Er ist der Nummer zwei, der dich besitzt, außer Jokic. Aber er wird vier Jahre bezahlt, max. für die nächsten vier Jahre, um mit Jokic einen großen Betrag zu machen. Es wird also sehr schwierig sein, wenn du so finanziell so hoch bist. Und du bekommst nicht wirklich diese Leistung aus deinem Nr. 2-Typ.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Du schaust wahrscheinlich nach Michael Porter Jr. 's 2 Jahren auf seinem Deal, um wahrscheinlich mehrere Teile zu bekommen. Weil sie ein Problem mit der Tiefe haben. Und ich denke, sie haben manchmal ein Problem mit Nr. 2, um sie zum nächsten Niveau zu bringen. Obwohl sie, ich will nicht sagen übererlebt, aber sie haben gut gemacht, um in der zweiten Runde gegen ein 68-Winn-Team zu kommen.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Das heißt, ich weiß nicht, was Porter in Bezug auf mehrere Leute erläutern wird. Das ist eine schwierige Frage. Das ist ein sehr, sehr, sehr schwieriger Job. Und vielleicht musst du nur jemanden finden, wie ich hoffe, dass die Begriffe, die Calvin Booth gemacht hat, wie Sarge und Westbrook, jemanden wie demnach, der am Ende des Benches teurer ist, jemanden, der groß ist.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Ich denke, sie müssen hier mehrere Teile machen, weil sie zu viele Probleme haben. Sie müssen wirklich tiefer werden.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Oh nein, leider ist es nicht der Playoff-Jamal. Es ist nicht der gleiche Typ, der in der Bubble war oder der das Wettbewerb gewonnen hat. Ich weiß nicht, ob dieser Typ zurückkommt. Wir sehen nur, was er physisch durchführt. Du fragst also wirklich um Unterstützung von Spielern, um das aufzunehmen.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Das Unverschämte ist, wenn du ein Wettbewerb gewinnst, besonders ein paar Jahre vor der CBA, hast du ein teures Team. Period. Richard Jefferson auf der Broadcast, das ist völlig wahr. Du fängst an, Jungs. Du gewinnst ein Wettbewerb, du fängst an, Jungs. Jokic, Murray, Porter, Gordon, deine Top 4 werden 8-mal bezahlt. Und dann gibt es einen riesigen Drop-Off nach dem, was sie finanziell tun.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Und es sind immer noch 200 Millionen, die sie beteiligen. mit ein paar Spieleroptionen für die nächste Saison.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Ja, das ist der Grund, warum sie einen Schreck brauchen. Einen Mann, den sie gerade signen.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Er und Saric haben Spieloptionen. Calvin Booth hat entschieden, jung zu werden. Und Jalen Pickett, der ist Westbrook's Replacement, vielleicht. Strother und, wer habe ich verpasst, Peyton Watson. Und diese Jungs haben nicht in großartigen Tag-zu-Tag-Roll-Spielern materialisiert. Also, ja, es wäre schön, wenn einer dieser Jungs performt. Aber sie haben einen großen Drop-Off. Ja.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Und den meisten auswählten, mit nur zwei Jahren übrig. Ich meine, natürlich Jokic, aber Jamal Murray. Ist es Jamal Murray?
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Ja, das macht Sinn. Ich bin sehr interessiert in dem. Ich bin sehr interessiert, ob Jokic im Euro-Basket dieses Sommer spielt. Das ist ein großes Turnier. Er hat letztes Jahr die Olympischen Spiele gespielt. Er hat gesagt, das hat ihn dieses Jahr einen besseren Spieler gemacht. Das hat ihn auch ein bisschen müde gemacht. Ich meine, er hat ein Team für die ganze Saison gehalten.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Wird er in ein paar Wochen ein Eurobasket spielen, nachdem er Bier trinkt und Horsen fährt?
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Das wird ein großartiges Turnier sein. Es sollte Spaß machen. Wann ist das? Late August, early September. Okay.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Yeah, we're at a point where the torch is being handed off. That is what's happening and I'm okay with it. I'm okay with a new champion, seven different champions in seven seasons. That's the first time that's happened in NBA history. As a fan, of course, I love it. Is it good enough for the world because you don't have one of those big players?
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Well, you have an incredibly large franchise in the New York Knicks. Yeah, with three other smaller ones. Es gibt keine Angst darüber, aber es ist egal. Ich denke nicht, dass es wirklich wichtig ist. Ich bin interessiert, wie viele Leute es sehen. Ich brauche mehr zu wissen, wie die Ratings funktionieren. Weil, hör mal, ich war gestern in der Toilette. Ich war in einem Pool.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Ich muss noch einmal zurückgehen. Ich muss zurückgehen, um zu erneut zu sagen, dass dieser Typ vielleicht einen illegalen Stream gesehen hat. Ich weiß nicht, ob diese Ratings zählen, weil die Leute alle über die Ratings und was passiert ist, sind die Leute nicht sicher über die NBA? I was at a pool and somebody was watching in a bathroom. I think people care.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
And internationally, I think people care. But yes, we're getting younger. And so, yeah, it's going to be an Anthony Edwards or a Shea or somebody to take that torch and do something with. I mean, Jalen Brown's the same thing. I mean, these guys, none of these guys are champions that you think of at all, period, that are going to win this titles.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
That's the first time Doris Burke made that note in the broadcast. They're totally different winners. Yeah, it's. Ist es okay für die Leute, diese Champions nicht zu haben? Es fühlt sich ein wenig an wie in der NFL, wo es Teams gibt, die nicht auf der Erde kommen, um ein Wettbewerb zu gewinnen. Ich denke, es ist gut für die Liga.
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Sie lieben Basketball für immer.
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Ja, das sind ihre Brüder. Ich habe einen tollen Steve Nash-Clip gehört, der SGA auch gestern beendet hat. Wie viel er... Er beendet einfach sein Spiel und wie gut er ist, offensichtlich. Für Pascal OG fühlt es sich wie eine neue Ära für sie an. Die Raptor-Ära fühlt sich so an, als wären sie weg, verbrannt. Sie resonieren mit mir nicht mehr.
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Ich weiß. Ich weiß, aber es fühlt sich einfach anders an. Pascal ist eher in einer Leidenschaftsrolle. Er hat sich entwickelt. Oh Gott, das ist der beste Teil seiner Karriere. Das ist der beste Playoff-Teil seiner Karriere. Best Health part of his career. I mean, he's been able to battle through it. Yeah, it feels like a different era. I don't know why.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Gibt es noch etwas, bevor wir ein bisschen NBA-News erzählen?
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Auch für die Minnesota Timberwolves, weil er nicht spielen wird. Ich muss es jetzt sagen. Bevor wir das Preview machen, muss ich es jetzt sagen, weil sein Name nicht im Preview kommt.
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Absolutely. Yeah, and he played fairly well. He needed to take over when Jason Zane went out. He played well in their final game. And kudos to him for playing through it. Simple as that. Nothing more to add for me.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Ja, es war ein völlig anderes Spiel nach dem ersten Quartal, weil es sah so aus, als ob die Nuggets bereit waren zu spielen. Vielleicht sind sie inspiriert von Aaron Gordon, eine heroische Leistung, mit einem Hamstring zu spielen. Christian Braun war großartig in den ersten paar Minuten. Mark Dagnott musste einen Timeout anrufen, zwei Minuten und 16 Sekunden in diesem Spiel.
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They started to push Shea and OKC more. As the season went on, they did the flex to get them on national TV. Although before the season, they pushed Ant as much as possible. They gave the Timberwolves the most national TV game increase out of any team. So, is this America's league or is it the world's league? I think it's more of an Ant. Hey, let's push this guy a little bit.
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Because they want him to be great. He has been great.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Du lehnst? Oh ja.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Das ist einfach zu vergessen, nachdem sie zurückgekommen sind und sie geschmackt haben. Und ja, es war ein anderer zweiter Quartal. Ich möchte einen kurzen Ausdruck an einen Mann geben. Ich war im öffentlichen Pool. Ich habe das erste Quartal gesehen. Ich lag zurück.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Danke, dass du mitgekommen bist. Ja, wir werden in New York sein. Wir haben keine Tickets. Wir werden nicht durch Vents laufen, um in die Arena zu kommen. Erinnerst du dich, wie das letztes Jahr für Copa America passierte? Ich war in Miami. Ich glaube, es war Miami. Die Fans wollten in die Arena. Sie sind durch Vents gegangen, um in die Arena zu kommen. Du willst das nicht machen?
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Ich lag zurück auf einem Seil am Pool. Ich habe die meisten von dem ersten Quartal gesehen. Dann musste ich in den Waschzimmer gehen, um meine Tochter zu kümmern. Also ging ich von Wipen und Poop. Als ich das Handy des Jungs auf dem Kühlschrank gesehen habe, war es so, dass ich in der zweiten Runde gesagt habe, wow, okay, es ist zurückgekommen, um hier einen Leak zu nehmen.
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Was für eine Veränderung es war, weil du das oft nicht siehst. Wie du gesagt hast, Trey, in einer zweiten Runde wie dieser hat es wirklich inspiriert, Leute. Alex Caruso, ja, ist derjenige, der Dinge verändert hat. Er hat das typische Textbuch geschrieben. Wie stoppst du einen großen Jungen? Du wirst wirklich physisch, wenn du ein Guard bist und du kannst es manchmal wegnehmen.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Ich weiß nicht, Nuggets-Fans sind gerade sehr verrückt.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
They got away with too many fouls. But what he did was increase the athleticism of OKC as well, both turning guys over and offensively. I mean, in the first quarter, things weren't right for OKC. She couldn't find Hartenschein on an alley-oop. You saw Aaron Gordon get behind Kaysen Wallace after he got inserted with a backdoor cut.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
You saw Jalen Williams with a crazy turnover where he got underneath the hoop, didn't know where to go and just threw it out. Nachdem Caruso reingekommen ist, haben die Jungs gezeigt, was ihre Fähigkeiten sind, sowohl defensiv als auch offensiv. Sie sind einfach viel klüger geworden.
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Wie Isaiah Harnstein, ein Takt zurück zu Jalen Williams, der es in der zweiten Quartier gemacht hat, was seinen zweiten Bucket geführt hat. Ich möchte nur sagen, Jalen Williams kam von einem anderen Jungen, auch in diesem Spiel. In der ersten Quartier war er unerwartet, minus 11. In der zweiten Quartier 17 verdammte Punkte.
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Now they got some roles, including Jalen Williams' shot right before the second quarter ended. A nice role on his shot to get him going. But that's what happens. I guess home court matters a little bit. You get things going your way. But OKC's offense looks so different. Dork grabbing balls on the offensive end. Kaysen Wallace dunking on freaking Nikola Jokic. Kaysen Wallace had a bank shot.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Von der Waffe. Ein 3-Punkte-Bank. Es war nicht einer von denen, wo es nur die Rückseite berührt hat. Es war ein Top-Körner. 3-Punkte-Schuss-Bank. Sie waren anders. Sie haben angefangen zu fahren. Sie hatten einen tollen Effort defensiv. Okay, ich habe 12 Punkte von den Turnovers zu Denver's None in der Halbzeit gekollt. Und es hat nicht aufgehört. Und man konnte einfach sehen, dass Jokic...
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Maybe a little short on calls at times because of Caruso, but everybody guilty of turning this thing over. Everybody going through it. It was wild to see. Aaron Gordon had four turnovers. Jokic had five turnovers. Brown had two turnovers. Murray had two turnovers. Westbrook had four turnovers. Peyton Watson had two turnovers. Strother had three turnovers.
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Und all that to say, Jamal Murray was really needed in Aaron Gordons condition. And he did not show up in Game 7. This was not a good Jamal Murray game. I know Michael Porter Jr. also stunk, but Jamal Murray just didn't have it. And the defense was a part of it, but they really needed their number two to win. Das war das, was sie alle regelmäßige Saison gemacht haben.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Ja, das könnte sein, was Jokic zu Murray auf dem Bench gesagt hat. Die Kameras waren auf ihm, wo Jokic wahrscheinlich so laut war, wie er es je war. Wahrscheinlich sagt er, hey, sie sind über mir. Ich habe keine Anrufe bekommen und niemand hat mir wirklich geholfen. Vielleicht. Ich weiß nicht. Ich weiß nicht, ob er mehr über die Nuggets-Spieler gesprochen hat.
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Aber ja, natürlich hat Crusoe seine Haut untergebracht. Das ist für sicher. But it also just made the Thunder Defenders play awesome.
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Es gibt keine Angst. Ja, Jason Wallace war wirklich gut. Ich meine, er hätte sogar mehr Punkte gewonnen. Er hatte einen Rattler-3-Kommandant. Er war einfach großartig. Hatte er auch einen Dunk auf Jokic? Niemand spricht wirklich darüber. Aber das war ein verdammt wunderschöner Dunk. Aber es gibt so viele andere Dinge, die in diesem Spiel passiert sind. Und ja, er hat auf dem Bench geholfen.
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Oh, wow. Okay. Ich dachte, Jalen Williams war großartig. Er hat in der ersten Runde nicht gespielt. Er hat in der ersten Runde nicht gespielt. Er hat 24 Punkte gewonnen nach seiner Performance in der Saison 6. Er war 3-16 in der Saison 6. Und er hat 10-17 gewonnen mit 24 Punkten. Das war komisch.
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Denn der dritte Hauptspieler, außer Shea, den wir einfach für einen kurzen 35-Spiegel überlassen haben, war Chet Holmgrens 13. Es war also ein bisschen ruhig, außer den großen beiden. Aber ihre Defense war einfach zu gut. Und ja, Jokic hatte nicht ein Nummer 2. Er brauchte Hilfe hier in Game 7. Aber Game 7, ja, ich weiß, dass Leute über das Thema verärgert sind. Aber es ist in ihrem Gebäude.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Und ich denke, es ist das alte Adage, ja, das Heimteam wird einige Anrufe bekommen. Und ich denke, das ist... Und das ist so hart für den Referee, dass das Heimteam einige Anrufe in Game 7 bekommen wird. Und sie haben es gemacht. Aber ich dachte, dass die Nuggets es auch gemacht haben, wie du es über Jokic gesagt hast. Er geht weg mit Dingen. Die Jungs sind weg mit Dingen auf beiden Seiten.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Aber ja, OKC hat es gebracht, nachdem Caruso das Spiel eingeführt hat. Es hat am Ende der ersten Runde angefangen.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Ja, und es war ein Spiel, in dem die eine physische Mannschaft gewonnen hat. Wir haben das so viele Male in der Geschichte des NBA gesehen. They were more physical. They wanted it more. They were ready to go after that first quarter where things were not going very well. They decided to turn it up. And in the first half, Denver had 16 free throws, while OKC had 5. Sie haben ihre Anrufe bekommen.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
I don't think anybody can remember Landry Shamick, James.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
No, no, no, no.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
He's playing it Shamit right now. He's playing it Shamit. They were both good. Bridges, like we talked about, was much better. Like, he was pretty bad in Game 4. And the screen and roll down the stretch, it was just... put Brunson and Bridges into action. They couldn't do that last night. Brunson brought it defensively. The guy's not a lockdown dude, but he gave a lot better effort.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
And if he's setting the tone on the offensive end and trying on the defensive end, if you're Landry Schammett and you check in, you're like, I'm playing 15 minutes. I can go all out here. Look what Jalen Brunson's doing. I'm going to play that hard. So it filtered on down. The Knicks, this was an awesome performance from them. Their back was against the wall and they said, not tonight.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Aaron Neesmith, he didn't hardly do anything last night. Only played 16 minutes. Missed most of his shots. He was, what, one for eight. Basically benched during the fourth quarter. Were they saving his ankle? Who knows. But they need him out there to guard Brunson. You see the result. When he doesn't, you mentioned Nembhard. It's been struggling. Miles Turner, also struggling.
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This was just a bad, bad game for the Pacers. I mean, they turned the ball over 20 times. That never happens for them. The Knicks destroyed them on the glass. They took 15 more shots. It was Knicks pace. The entire game. So will Indiana be able to flip that going forward? Probably. You know, they scored 100 in game three when they lost that game.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Tyrese Halliburton comes out and says, that's not us. We'll be better the next game. And they were much better than the next game. He had that incredible game, 32-12 and 15. A lot of pressure on the Pacers, I'll say, in game six. The most pressure they've had on them this entire playoff run, I would have to think. But they also haven't lost back-to-back games since March 10th. Wow.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
What a world. That's a great point. John will be back for game six. He's their superpower. It's not allowed to go to game five. It's that towel with the sun on it, for sure. Honestly, I couldn't believe I wrote this note. Could a Tony Bradley injury swing the conference finals? He got landed on on that weird foul. Was that Robinson that fouled him? Like bent his hip all weird.
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So he had to sub out, which meant the Pacers had to turn to Thomas Bryant, who is a downgrade from Tony Bradley. So I don't know. Jairus Walker, I thought was pretty good actually last night. So maybe they just go with Jairus Walker over Thomas Bryant because you don't want to see those minutes.
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Hockey, you can't. Lambo leap. Hockey, you can't. Baseball, they dive into the crowd for foul balls.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Just amazing. Yeah, it's fun. This was back-to-back jacks, I think, for Carl Anthony Towns, too, right? Like, he had back-to-back and ones, I think, and he ended up right next to that guy both times. I think the Knicks had eight and ones last night. They only made the free throw five times. Wow, is that right? That's a lot of times that they were going to the line for that. Holy crap.
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Yeah, and he does the LeBron, like, what would you even say it is? Putting on a jacket? And like Tom's looks like he's wearing a big old puffer when he does a full.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
What if he's a podcast listener now? Interesting.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
game he probably just sees only the potential and the mistakes right he's like if you played perfectly with your head on your shoulders right the entire time you would be 30 and 15 rather than 25 and 12 and like a nails guy in the clutch i don't think towns is that but he can't dodge it at all he had an awesome game last night they got him on inside the nba they do a whole interview and chuck's like i gotta i just got i gotta criticize you what's with all the dumb fouls
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
McTown's like, does his best to laugh it off, and then he goes deep voice mode. God only knows. Had to go deep voice when he's on with those guys.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
That's like when we went to Toronto for game five of the Raptors. finals and they've lost and then one of the game six were like, well, a couple of more shows for you. That was funny. Um, I did like where they have been putting inside the NBA set in Madison square gardens. They're like higher than the banners that they have hanging up there. They had a Chuck talking about it last night.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
They got us up so high. I can touch God. That's the only chance I'll get to see him. I'm going to hell. Oh, Don't say that. But a lot of y'all are going to see me too. That was so funny, man. And the view looks crazy. They are so high. Is it a spiteful placement from the MSG?
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
I am going to cramp up this show. I can already feel it. Nah, I'm feeling good this very second. I know I played hoops with you last night. Did you play again this morning? I played again this morning, and the schedule has changed. I now play Wednesday, Thursday, Friday instead of Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. Yeah, eat your heart out, Roger Mason Jr.
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They just think that nobody will wear them? I sort of think so. Probably.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Yeah, does it get mentioned anywhere? Like, does that go down as a team rebound for the Knicks? You know, if the opponent knocks it out? I don't have any idea. I don't think those ones do.
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Yeah, I don't know. But you're right. It is... It is a big time thing to just get an extra little bit of a possession for trying hard and being the biggest guy out there.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Spiking. Surge pricing.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
The only thing that makes me think a little bit like it could be legit is I remember that they had one about Achilles tendon tears when Tatum blew out his Achilles. And I was like, they wouldn't have that pre-produced. Right, right.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
They would have to really check the search trends to find that information. But some of them are too convenient, like the 3-1 lead one for sure. Yeah, but the Knicks are coming back. It's 300%.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
But as soon as we start Googling it, the search trend spikes.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
I'd love to see one that says, the search term Nick's bing bong side talk NYC video has spiked 5,000%. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. People want to see that.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
I know you did it back during the lockout season, but I'm doing it now. What a reference.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Well, I mean, he dribbled a lot. He did dribble a lot. Didn't look to score or pass all that much, but the dribbling was there. Just Bob Cousy must be hating to see Tyrese Halliburton dribbling. Nice Cous.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Yeah, I think it's Pacers in six. For this series, I just think they will bounce back. I think the Knicks will play hard as well because they figured out how hard they have to play to have an impact defensively in this series. I just think that... the Pacers will be more ready for it and have some sort of a plan for Halliburton getting picked up at half court.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
You're crazy for this one, Charlie. This ain't happening. No. Kyrie Irving's not playing next year. Right. And I think they basically have said, we're going to be taking Cooper Flagg. Literally, you can believe it a little bit because Luka Doncic was traded away by the Dallas Mavericks. So anything is literally on the table, I do believe, with Nico Harrison.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
But they basically got a do-over on getting a superstar traded. Luka out, suddenly Cooper Flagg falls into their lap. They can't trade it away for a 38-year-old guy, Kevin Durant.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
They do have some draft picks that aren't their picks to trade as well, which would help out the Suns because they've traded basically everything away.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
young players who would at least be helpful around Devin Booker and I guess Bradley Beal would still be there but I don't think the Spurs should do this I think they kind of hit the gas pedal a little bit by trading for De'Aaron Fox last season but they don't need to go all in on trying to be a top four team in the Western Conference next year first of all that's gonna be hard to do to bounce from what did they finish 11th this year
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
11th up to a top four. I mean, who knows what Wemby's going to be like when he comes back from his blood clot issue. He was much better his second season than he was his first season. We're all thinking the Spurs are going to be better, but they've got enough time to let this mellow and see what their team builds together. They don't really need to accelerate it this much by going after KD.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Well, I thought it was funny. I went to Hoopsite this morning just to look up Drew Holiday's contract to see what it was because I know it's sizable and the lead headline was Drew Holiday to the Clippers. So, I mean, they've got to be in the mix. We just talked about a team that needs a point guard.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
The Mavericks need somebody to handle the ball next season with no Kyrie Irving unless they're planning on playing Spencer Dinwiddie as their starter. for the entirety of the season. I don't think that's very likely. And I can see the Warriors as well being interested in a Drew Holiday.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
I was not willing to go on the trade machine in May, but those are two teams that I think have a need at point guard. They are both older teams as well. So sometimes when you're that far down the road, you're like, hey,
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
let's just keep doing it let's get older and older with a guy who i do think will be helpful drew holiday really struggled this season was even worse in the playoffs he's already like a fifth option on the celtics and that's kind of where he needs to be yep
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
it was loud Yeah. We were alerted to the presence of a potential fire.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
How are we not there?
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
You don't know that. Yeah, you don't know. Yeah, you don't know that. Blow dryer! 400 Fahrenheit oven! Frozen pizza! You don't need to put the oven at 400!
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Mulling it over. Great choice. I'm actually going to get Booker's next.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Yeah. Very, very comfortable. I'm getting a pair of brown ones.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
I was hooping last night. Did you set off the fire alarm?
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Shaving off all my hair for the summer. Buzz cut mode. Whoa. Yeah, two things happened, both Brad Pitt related. Number one, GQ just did a new photo shoot with him as an old man. He's probably in his 50s at this point. He looks incredible.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Yeah, he looks very cool in these photos. He's got a nice, tight beard as well. And then I just recently watched Ocean's 12 again, and he's got a buzz cut in that shaved face. This guy has the most perfectly shaped head on Earth. It's so round. It looks so good. So, like, I know I'm not going to look like Brad Pitt if I were to shave off all my hair, but it would be nice for the summer.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
One downside, we just got head shots taken. So, like... It'll look way different. Yeah, true. But I mean, it's the summertime. I could get my hair back to this length, I think, by the start of next season. Sure. So I'm mulling it. Oh, this is fun. Yeah, I like this.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Why is everybody watching Ocean's 12th? I don't know. I think it just got to Netflix. It was recommended to me so many times. It's very good. Better than I remembered.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Has he ever been at an NBA game? Probably at some point.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Okay, he has been at some games, and he looks incredible in these two. This guy's got a lot of good looks. Undeniable.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
First of all, I got to give a shout out to Eric Kuhn, who just sent us a super chat. $1.99 going towards a new sign. Thank you. Great stuff, Eric. You own a part of the sign now. Something I'm interested in is creatine powder.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Creatine is back. Is that why I get non-stop ads for creatine?
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
I'm taking it. I just started like three days ago. Yeah, we were over at Tass's house not too long ago, over the weekend. Was it the weekend? Who knows what day it was. And I said, well, I mean, look, I gotta say, Taz's arms are incredibly well defined.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
He's in the gym, man. He's putting those arms out. I know, he's looking so muscular. Honestly, after we did the pickleball video, everybody's like, how did Taz get so jacked? So I said, Taz, are you taking creatine from her? No, but he had some in the fridge or in the pantry. So I ordered mine later that day. Honestly, I can't believe it. In high school, I was a creatine guy.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
We had Bob Bennett came and coached our football team. This good old Tennessee boy. He brought the message of creatine to Plano, Illinois. And I took it like an idiot, you know? We all did. Kyle Shealy got gigantic. He was looking good. And then I didn't take it for 25 years and suddenly creatine is back. And better than ever.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
There was a backlash.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Yeah, then they studied it for 20 years. Yeah. And apparently, it turns out that's actually fine. I'm sure it's totally fine. So yeah, starting next season, I'm going to be bald-headed and completely jacked.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
That's because you're early. That's because you're early into creatine. Once you get that ATP course in front of your muscles, you won't be able to stop lifting.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Crazy for this one.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
The Rizzler. He's still got it, man. Like you think about so many of these internet sensations, they're around for like a year, maybe six months at a time. And we're living like, I don't know, three years of the Rizzler right now. And he's just getting better. He's getting better.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
It's just, it feels like it. I'm like, let's see, where are the Costco guys right now? You know? AJ and Big Justice, they're probably still giving out their booms, but they don't have the profile that the Rizzler does. No, they don't.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Come on, the Knicks bring him out? I saw all of the Knicks legends, like Latrell Sprewell, John Starks, Larry Johnson, there was one more, I don't remember who it was, with the Rizzler, and they're all doing the Rizz Face.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Raymond Felton, there you go.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Am I going to know about the Rizzler until he's an adult?
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
You can tell me he's 11 or 22. I have no clue. I thought it was interesting. He was eight years old as of 2024, so he's nine years old? Nine more years of the Rizzler? No.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Big Justice? Wait, what are their names? AJ's the dad, right? Big Justice is the older son?
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Like, he's not family. No, no, no. That's the most insane part of that whole thing. The Costco guys didn't underestimate the Rizzler. They said, if we link up with this guy, we're going to go to the moon. Did you think the Rizzler was part of that family?
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Did you think you were going to get the pickleball into the toilet hat? Oh, interesting. Like, did you think it was going to take five attacks or?
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Then you underestimated yourself. I did underestimate myself. The touch was amazing.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
You thought it was meant to be since we actually went through the right protocols. Exactly. It was good. Yeah, it was good. It was good. Honesty and integrity.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
I agree. He's got a generous spirit. Absolutely.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
I agree with that.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
A hundred percent. We just ridiculously put out a short saying how the Pacers have had the two best players in the series. They have, but not last night. The two best players were both on the Knicks. Their stars showed up completely. You mentioned how good Brunson was through three quarters. He outscored the Pacers starters by himself, 30 to 29. Pretty impressive. impressive.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
I also thought Towns was just a bully last night, eight of 12 in the restricted area. He wasn't settling in at all. The Knicks outscored the Pacers in the paint 60 to 34. You could just tell they were coming in with desperation. This is probably the best the Knicks have looked, certainly in this series, maybe in the entire playoffs. They dominated on the offensive end, getting whatever they wanted.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
They took Indiana completely out of their game on the defensive end. They had some depth. They came out, they scored the first five possessions, and then they just kept it up. Every time the Pacers would go on a run, somebody was able to respond. I thought Towns was huge in the second quarter. The Knicks were plus eight with Brunson sitting on the bench. Shamit was helping out during that stretch.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
And then in the third quarter, the Pacers made it interesting. They cut the lead down to 10. You're like, uh-oh, is this going to happen again? Certainly the Knicks had to be feeling a little tight, but Katz on the bench was Brunson keys a 12-0 run, including that four-point play from the right wing where he knocked down the three. Bridges was pretty sweet, I thought, during that stretch as well.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
The Knicks just were ready for this game. They said, our season's not ending tonight. And it was a great performance from them. They controlled the pace all night. You mentioned Bridges. He was in Halliburton's shorts from the half-court line on. And then when Halliburton would get off the ball, like he likes to do, Bridges wasn't giving him any space.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
He would just stay completely attached to him. And that's why Halliburton had such a poor game. He's got to be better. You know, we talked about Anthony Edwards when he was not looking to score necessarily for the Timberwolves in Game 4. Halliburton was the same a little bit here. A lot of it was the Knicks' defense. Not giving him any space, not letting him get where he wanted to go.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
But there were some mid-range attempts that he could have taken that he's going to need to take in game six back in Indiana. The team is better when he's looking to score rather than just being a pure distributor.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
You see, you've got to go like a Dion Waiters mode. I'd rather go 0 for 30 than 0 for 9. I mean... I think that kind of, but honestly, kind of your stars have to score. They have to in the playoffs. Like people talked up Anthony Edwards playmaking. That's great, man. He was making plays and I will say he had five turnovers to six assists. Not great, but you got to score.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Your stars have to be stars in the playoffs and the Pacers weren't last night at all.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
No, you're right. Well, Benedict Matherin had it going to the free throw line.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Yeah, he's got Jared Dudley arms. Not natural cuts. But he's got to be strong as hell, right? Oh, for sure he is. He's a beast.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
This guy's awesome.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
I thought there was a better name.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
No, he's unique. I didn't like guys do that very much. No, that's a good point. Guys like Carl Towns got into the league. But he's probably, honestly, somewhere in between Boogie Cousins and Dirk Nowitzki. Like, Dirk wanted to shoot outside. Towns doesn't always want to shoot outside. He took four threes last night, and that's kind of a high number for him. That was a...
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
criticism of him during his Minnesota days even at times during his first season with the Knicks here is that he doesn't take enough threes for a guy who calls himself the best big man shooter of all time but he really wants to pump fake and drive and that's what's been really effective for him in this series because he's got some strength
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
advantage over miles turner and definitely over siakam and then if it's ever bench guys then easy easy eating easy eating for carl anthony towns i mean sure i mean it makes sense but that's a that's just a dumb phrase that was just easy eating for him last night he was just having a can of insured easy eating easy calories
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Yeah, I mean, honestly, if you think back to it, we talked about campaign in game one and how many times they showed this guy on the broadcast, despite the fact that he had made one shot. What happens if Tibbs plays Shamit and DeLon Wright over campaign in game one? They probably don't blow that lead in the fourth quarter.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
These guys have given them a little bit of juice defensively and then making enough shots on the offensive end as well.
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The Drop | Thunder Overwhelm Wolves Again, All-NBA Predictions, Knicks Streets
Whatever it was. Yeah.
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The Drop | Thunder Overwhelm Wolves Again, All-NBA Predictions, Knicks Streets
Like the Olympics?
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The Drop | Pacers Do It Again, Hali's Clutch Run & The Finals Demand More Pageantry
Right, right.
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The Drop | Pacers Do It Again, Hali's Clutch Run & The Finals Demand More Pageantry
Mm-hmm.
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The Drop | Pacers Do It Again, Hali's Clutch Run & The Finals Demand More Pageantry
These fans are awesome. Yeah.
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The Drop | Pacers Do It Again, Hali's Clutch Run & The Finals Demand More Pageantry
That was amazing.
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The Drop | Pacers Do It Again, Hali's Clutch Run & The Finals Demand More Pageantry
Yeah, no, no. He's my friend, dude.
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The Drop | Pacers Do It Again, Hali's Clutch Run & The Finals Demand More Pageantry
Oh, that's a good call.