Trey Kirby
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Took a while, is what I was getting at, because we did have that New York run, Tass. You said they could never get it to a one-possession game, but they went on a 10-2 run. And you're like, uh-oh, here they go again. They got it to six, and then Siakam splashed a three. Oh!
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but that's okay Bridges came back he hit a three okay they're right there still Halliburton he counters with a layup that's okay Hart scores inside off his own miss and so they were like hanging around but then just could never get over that hump because mainly they just couldn't stop them turns out when you gotta make the comeback you gotta get some stops like they were scoring they put up a lot of points but
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Pacers one victory away from the NBA Finals, which would be their first appearance there since 2000. So it's been a long time, but they've got one more still. Got to go to Madison Square Garden, where they've been great. Obviously won two games. They've won six straight road playoff games, I believe. So they're going to have confidence that they can close it out in five. What's your gut say?
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Do we come back to Indianapolis that the New Yorks give them? Get game five, or is this one going to be wrapped up like some people think might happen in the Western Conference tonight?
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They now have that 3-1 lead here in the East Finals. Knicks are on the ropes. And in large part, because they couldn't get stops there down the stretch, TK. They couldn't get stops all night, I would say.
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Got a better road record for sure. In this one, too, it's like, again, it's just the Pacers coming in waves, coming in waves. All these guys that check in and are all contributing. It's always like keep your eye on the end of these quarters, right? It's like a 12-5 run to end the first quarter. You know, they've built the lead up there. Then, you know, they're trailing there in the second quarter.
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Nope, they rip off a 6-0 run at the end. They have the lead there now, 69-64. Kept that going in the third. It's just, again, this idea of, like, maybe the team takes their foot off the gas. Maybe they're a little tired. It's like Indiana, like, they're like, all right, let's run. Let's go. It's like this is when they keep striking here.
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It's like these final couple minutes of these quarters is when they get their separation. And then in this one, held on. Didn't give up that 20-point lead. Pretty impressive stuff, and again, just a masterful Halliburton game.
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But let's get into some random notes. Random! Good work, JD. Forgot we had the random intro there. I guess let's start with John Halliburton. Mm-hmm. How many times did they show him? We had set the line at two and a half. Interesting. So go ahead. Why do you say interesting? Because when they showed him is the problem here?
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Yeah, I think you're right. By my count, it was two times within the actual 48 minutes of action. And it came much later. I thought it would be one of their early Ali LaForce stories. But it wasn't. It was a late Ali LaForce story. And then it helped that his son was doing something historic with the triple-double and zero turnovers. So then we got a lot of John. But I guess the under-hit...
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Well, Allie had to go with the knee-smith ankle injury update early in the game. I wonder if he doesn't twist his ankle in game three. Do we lead with John Halliburton in the suite? as her first hit. I think so, I do, but yeah.
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No, it's not. No, it's not.
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Yeah, he was really out of rhythm. He was frustrated on a couple of those. I think he was thinking he was getting hit. Maybe it warranted a call, but yeah. He had some bad ones. I mean, Brunson had a garbage one to start the second half, too. Credit to the Pacers' defense. It's all over the place and all that, but there was just some sloppy play.
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Lazy, lazy. So anyway, the John Halliburton sightings, I guess, hits the under. The two and a half line I had yesterday. How about this? Rick Carlisle getting a quick little spit in to a cup here. We got the clip early in the game. They went over to him. This was after a challenge. And... He's cutting weight. He doesn't have chew or anything like that. It didn't look like a dirty spit.
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He just had some saliva that he wanted to get out of his mouth. But, I mean, be careful with that cup right there. That's where my mind immediately went.
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Oh, yeah. That's pretty gross. Like, does he at least write Rick's spit cup or something on it? Rick Spitz? Yeah. Classic. How about this? Spike Lee finally in attendance there in Indiana. So are Chalamet. So are Ben Stiller. But Spike Lee had a crazy look. We'll focus on the hat. I've never seen a hat like this that Spike Lee had. But look who's behind him there. We got Spike Lee. L-E-I-G-H.
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There's Lee Lee behind Spike. I have to admit, when I sent this photo this morning, I didn't notice Lee, Ellis, in the background. And then JD pointed it out to me. I'm like, what?
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When JD in the Slack said, oh, do we want the one with Lee? Because I sent a couple photos of Spike with a hat. I'm like, what? The one with Lee? Lee Ellis? And then I thought, do you mean Lee Ellis put on Spike Lee's hat? So then I went to Lee's Instagram and I'm like, no, I can't find it. So, oh, there he is. He's in the background.
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I don't know. It has vibes of like a train conductor, I guess. There's a little conductor to it, yeah.
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Is it felt? I don't know. Oh, there's the other one. Yeah, it does look like it's made out of felt.
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What a look.
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No, it's not. Did you see the clip of Pat McAfee getting the crowd all hyped up, basically saying, hey, send these celebs home to New York?
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Pretty funny.
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It was. Speaking of celebs, one of them there, Triple H, was in attendance sitting right there by the Pacers bench. It was a great shot at the end of the game. Halliburton shaking his hand. Thank you, Mr. Triple H, for coming to the game.
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I gotta get going. I felt like he was like, I gotta go. That's what he was saying. Great game, kid.
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Hey, he's a wrestling fan, man. I bring up Triple H, though, because I think Josh Hart was inspired by Triple H in attendance. Because he dropped, like, a leg drop on Ben Matherin's face here. Like, Hulk Hogan style here. Bang! This was in the fourth quarter. Pretty nasty. It was amazing that he was okay from it.
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Yeah, Liz. Well executed, though.
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I guess Hogan didn't drop it on their face. No, he dropped it on the chest.
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End of the third quarter, too. I didn't grab the clip, but Brunson got tangled up. With Matherin. They sort of hip-tossed each other until the floor was right near the end of the third. And then they started jawing, or at least Brunson was really pissed. There was a great camera shot of Matherin at the free-throw line and Brunson behind him talking.
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Matherin was doing a pretty good job of ignoring him because Matherin is known to get into it as well. I thought it was a cool shot. You know the part I'm talking about?
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He was not happy with Matherin.
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Yeah, when you see just the photo like this, you're like, okay, why would that be a foul on anybody? But yeah, one guy is grabbing here. Just the yank arm. I don't want you up in that action, so let me just pull you back.
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He was right. Speaking with the exercise angle, what do you think of Shaq doing bicep curls with Underdog? as they were going, like showing them up, getting ready for the halftime show. Yeah. We know, obviously, both these guys. Very strong. Underdog is tiny. He is short, but he's not... It's still hard to lift a person. Yeah, and he's like... Because they move. Not super slight.
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First time at the Dufferin Mall, it's full of Canadian chains, which to my American eyes look like ours, just with worsening. Dufferin' more my meat, a.k.a.
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I think he weighs more than that.
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We weren't even walking around New York that much. Sort of crappy weather, and we were all within one sort of area. We didn't have to walk very far.
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The only other note I have was late in the third quarter again, Halliburton feeling it. He hit a three in Brunson's eye. And then I thought he did sort of – he didn't know what to do with the celebration, but I thought he gave us a quick sort of Brunson sort of celebration to mock him because he just splashed it in his face. And then when he was running back on defense –
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He gets clocked by Brunson and, like, another Pacers. Like, they just bang into him. Did you see this? He's like, whoa, holy crap. Like, it was like, I don't think it was on purpose from Brunson. I think he got bumped. Anyway, just like, Halliburton just got clocked going back. But he sort of gave the Brunson sort of three-point-to-the-face celebration. So, yeah, it was quick. It was quick.
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They didn't get a great shot of it. But that's my final note. Any other random notes?
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Wait, are you setting up for a joke right now?
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Yeah, that's what he would say.
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With Denzel?
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And that's why he was not in Game 3 in Indianapolis. He was promoting stuff? I think they said he went overseas. Denzel demanded he go somewhere to promote this movie. Yeah, I think so. Both cans?
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Did you look into going to it, J.D., when you were in New York? I did. I did. And instead you saw? Glenn Gary. Glenn Ross.
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That's Othello. Yes. But Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross, you had all the stars in it.
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He's like, when Gary leads. Stick with this game for a second. Halliburton, to circle back to him, 32 points, 12 boards, 15 assists, 4 steals, 0 turnovers. I was wondering, where does that rank? That game, that's a hell of a box score. Where does it rank in regards to best performances of the playoffs so far? So I fired up Basketball Reference this morning to try and figure that out.
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So JD, hit me with that top five. Top five, top five, top five. Top five, top five. Yeah, top five player performances from the postseason so far. Now I had one criteria when I was looking on Basketball Reference. Had to come in a win, I decided. Alright? Pretty important. Whole point of this damn thing. Had to come in a W for the best games. So that eliminated, you know, Jokic had a 44-15 game.
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Came in a loss. Donovan Mitchell had a 48-point game. Came in a loss to the Pacers. Tatum had a 42-point game versus the Magic. That was in a loss. LeBron had a couple actually really good box scores in losses to the Wolves. So I removed those. These are the top five playoff performances in a win, and I ranked them by game score. Nothing subjective here.
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I wanted to see, where does Halliburton's rank game score? For those that don't know, that's a rough measure. of a player's productivity for a single game. Hollinger came up with it. It's taking into account sort of the entire box score, right? In terms of your efficiency and not turning the ball over and all the other stats. So I was shocked.
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Halliburton's game four last night versus the Knicks, number five on the list. That 32-12-15 game with zero turnovers and the four steals. A 36.4 game score. And I was like, wow, there were four better performances in regards to that stat? Yes, there were. Let's go through them. Jokic, game four versus the Clippers. Just, just beat Halliburton. 36.7 game score.
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36 points, 21 rebounds, eight assists, two steals, one block, two turnovers. That was the game that tied that series 2-2 versus the Clips. I was like, okay. Sticking with that series. Kawhi Leonard's game two in that series versus the Nuggets. 37.4 game score for Kawhi. This one all was about his efficiency. He scored 39 points shooting 15 and 19 from the floor. 5-5 at the line.
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He sprinkled in five assists, three boards, some defensive numbers. He was a plus six in that game. That was a one possession game. That was a 105-102 win for the Clips. That one, that makes sense because it's just so efficient. 15-19, that was like when it was like, ooh, that's looking like Raptors Kawhi there from the 2019 championship run, if you remember that game.
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Number two on the list, Anthony Edwards game four versus the Lakers. 37.9 game score. He scored 43 points. He had 24 in the second half. He did a lot of his damage at the free throw line. He went 14 to 17 in that game, but he hit five threes from deep. He had nine boards, four of them on the offensive glass, six assists, and only one turnover.
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And that was in the game that really sort of put away the series for Ant there in game four to put them up 3-1. But the number one Playoff performance, according to GameScore, this postseason, Jamal Murray's Game 5 versus the Clippers. How wild is this list? Three of these games, three of these performances in that series. Jamal Murray, Game 5 versus the Clips.
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39.9 GameScore, 43 points on just one free throw attempted. He went 1-1 at the free throw line. 17-26 from the floor, 8-14 from deep, five boards, seven assists, three steals, one block, and only one turnover for Kitchener's finest in that game five that put them up 3-2 in the series. So, yeah. There you go. Those are the best ones. According to GameScore, now a couple honorable mentions.
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Tatum had a great series clinching game five versus the Magic. Monster game from him. Brunson had a 39-12 game four versus the Celtics in the second round. That was the game that Tatum actually got injured. Huge game from Brunson. Gary Trent Jr. and Buddy Heald both had games this postseason where they hit nine three-pointers each. You know, they make sort of the shortlist here.
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And then my final note, SGA has three of the top 13 best game scores that came in a win this postseason. You know, I think he's a little lower on these. I thought he would be in one of these top fives, but, you know, maybe some of the efficiency numbers. His best was probably Game 2 versus the Wolves here in the West Finals. Really strong efficiency in that game.
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He only had one turnover as well to eight assists. so otherwise he's had a lot of good performances, as a lot of these guys have. When you add the losses, I mean, there's a lot of Jokic in the monster numbers he put up. I think he also had like a 42-22 in a win.
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Again, this was not subjective. This was just like, game score, game score, game score. Let's see what the numbers say. Again, I thought Halliburton would be higher, but you're right. There are other performances where you're like, that's huge. That changed the series. Yes. I mean, it's a completely different series if the Knicks just win that game. Oh, yeah.
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Yeah, the game started at Indiana's pace, right, Tass? There was 42 points total scored, both squads, in the first six minutes. That's indie ball. I mean, this is like, let's get up and down. Let's run, run, run, run, run. And like immediately early in this game, it was like, oh, this obviously bodes well for the Pacers chances to win this game as it goes on.
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That was still crazy. I keep thinking about those people that left. They're like, ah, we got it. Game one, Knicks, baby. Let's go party, boys. Get your jackets. I already paid the bill. Let's go. There's 90 seconds left or two minutes left. We're up huge. Let's rock. See ya. And then they found out, I don't know, maybe on their phones or maybe in the morning. Who knows? But there you go.
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Tass, I'm going to turn to you now because you've got some numbers when it comes to the all-rookie teams that were announced not too long ago.
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If this is the type of game we're going to play and yeah, putting up 130, we eventually got there.
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And just to go back, yeah, Willie Herhan Gomez, he averaged eight and seven for the Knicks. Played a lot of games. Knicks bump. Started some. Yeah, got a Knicks bump. I guess that's why he made first team. And, you know, Brown and Ingram and Murray, better careers, obviously. But didn't have, like, lights-out rookie seasons from what I remember.
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Not this Mark Jackson.
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Unstoppable baby. Not mama there goes that man Mark Jackson. It was the other Mark Jackson.
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Wow, guys that are playing in the same series that Brunson's playing on his team.
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Oh, Red Velvet.
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Well, that's what I was going to ask. How do we feel about how we came up with four-and-a-half? Is it... Sounds like it wasn't bad, like a decent line to set it at with what you're giving. Obviously, some go under, some, of course, go over. Depends on if you hit a superstar or not or two.
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I am taking the over. Four and a half, if that's our line, for these current two all-rookie teams. The totality of their all-star appearances.
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I'm saying both of them for sure. That's what we were originally saying, but I know we're just doing the numbers of the first team.
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Yeah, I could see an all-star maybe in his future. Not a ton, though.
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To me, it's three guys. It's Castle, Risa Shea, and it's Buzelis. And I'm like, can we get to five total from those two squads? But... You need Castle to basically pop off and be like a six-time All-Star or something like that. Then you're good.
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All right, what a breakdown. Damn land, man. Crunch on the numbers. You want to keep going on those other teams, or...?
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They're like, who cares?
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Literally, who cares? Generally with second teams, rookies, it's like, who cares?
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I don't remember this.
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What year? I...
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Okay. I guess he would be at least an honorable mention.
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Okay, that makes maybe more sense it be that year.
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That would be a fun list. Guys that we had debates about whether they would be an All-Star over our last 20 years. Because one that comes to mind, Aaron Aflalo. I remember that year, we were like, I don't know, I think of Flawless at all. Sorry, we had a big debate about that. That would be a funny list. Especially guys that didn't ultimately make it, but we were, like, stumping for them.
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I thought of another one that honestly did have a good first half of the season. It sounds insane. You're going to be like, what? No way. Andrea Bargnani. We did a whole video about it, but he did have a good year there in the Raptors. So it was like, he deserves to be in the All-Star Game.
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He made first team all-rookie?
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Too bad Bargnani couldn't add to the list, just getting one.
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When we came out with... Ahead of his time, man. Ahead of his time.
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He legit was. I mean, I know I'm laughing, but he was. He was a seven-footer that could actually shoot and play a little bit of defense. He would be better in today's game.
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Started hot.
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Great stuff. Dan Lan, thanks for all your help with that.
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You're the man, Dan Lan. You're the man, Dan Lan. All right, well, tonight we got a game four? Five. Five. Game five. Game five. They're all blurring together. 3-1, yeah. 3-1 for the Thunder. Point is, they can make their first, excuse me, second ever trip to the finals with a win tonight. Wrap it up in five. You believe that is going to be the case, TK. I do. You are on record.
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This will be their first time back to the NBA Finals since 2012, if they can do it. But maybe Ant comes out with some fire tonight. Try and get that back to Minnesota.
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Maybe he does.
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So that was a gentleman's sweep last year. Yeah. Indeed. Yeah, it's different.
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Very different, but let's see if the Thunder can get back to the finals or if the Wolves can give us a game six back in Minnesota. We'll be here to talk about it at 10 a.m. Eastern. Join us in the Classic Factory then. Hit the like button, subscribe, podcast listeners, five-star ratings and reviews. Until then, Clipper Road!
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Embrace the day, people.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
I was going to say, his name rarely comes up when we talk about the best athletes in the NBA. It almost never does. And it should. He is one of the most in-condition athletes, best-conditioned athletes, I think, in basketball. He gets stronger as the game goes on. That goes back to his Raptors day. That was a big thing.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
He just never tires, ever, for a guy his size and obviously his movement nonstop, what he gives you defensively as well. He's overlooked, I think, in that department. But what a series, right? What an absolute postseason for this guy. Once again, and a huge game to go with Halliburton and the zero turnovers.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
I always think it's one thing when it's just like a guard that comes in, sort of pounds the rock and just makes the simple pass, moves the ball. But that's not him, right? It's like you said, he's grabbing it and going high octane. And for him to not cough it up once, to force a pass he shouldn't once that gets picked off by a pretty handsy, obviously lengthy defense in the Knicks, it's amazing.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
It's amazing that he just has that control of the ball to have the 15 assists and zero turnovers. Man, what a game. And he played good defensive game for him last night, too. Four steals? You mentioned the rebounds.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks Podcast presented by Amazon Prime. It's Wednesday, May 28th, 2025. I'm J.E. Skeets, here in the Classic Factory, and alongside me, as always, Tass Mellis. Shout out to all my friends who've been to the Dirty D. Next to him, it's the bearded one, my top shot hot boy, Trey Kirby.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Neesmith, you brought him up. No signs of being injured, really, here in Game 4 after some 48 hours prior. He's limping in the locker room. He had that right ankle sprain. But, man, he drilled two three-pointers basically near the start of this game, both of them off of Halliburton, pushing it in transition. Then he had the fast break, like, big dunk from Neesmith there in the first quarter.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
He's, of course, picking up Jalen Brunson, full court, still doing that, bumping him all game long. Really impressive. really kept Brunson in check in this game. I mean, you look at the numbers. Brunson got his points. A lot of those came when Neesmith was not on him. When Neesmith was on him, it was tough. And then, yeah, 16 points, 5-9 shooting in 32 minutes for Neesmith.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
What a great game from him in a game where we're like, oh, what type of game is he going to be able to give him? Okay, he's going to play, but is he going to be hampered at all? Not the case. When he splashed that three, like fading in the corner, it was like, okay, he's good to go.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
And last but not least, over yonder, making the magic happen, Super Producer J.E.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
There he is. Here we are. Yeah, what a banger there.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Great mall.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
But he was good in this game. 20 points off the bench in 12 minutes. Got a lot of those at the line. But man, this was a guy that scored 11 points combined through the first three games. He was a minus 31 in the series. He still is because he had a zero plus minus last night. But still, he was giving them a little something. I saw the tweet going around. I think Tony East came up with it.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
It's a store called Mark's?
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Prior to tonight, the fewest minutes by a player with 20 plus points in a playoff game. Leon Powell. Do you remember that game of the 2008? I do remember that game. I know, game two. He had 21 points in under 15 minutes for the Celtics in that game. They went on to win that championship. But now here's Matherin with 20 in 12 minutes. And it's like, how the hell did he get to that many?
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
But it was nice to see him give him something because he had been bad.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
I'm looking ahead, but I am excited for Neesmith on SGA and Dort on Halliburton. My God, if we get that, that'll be fun as hell. Trying to slow those two guys down with two of the most physical, obviously, locked-in defensive guys. But that's getting ahead of myself. What else from this one? I just think it's hilarious.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Hello to everybody on YouTube. Hit the like button, subscribe, podcast listeners, five-star ratings and reviews for your boys. Do it for Marks. We got lots to talk about here today, but we start with Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals and Tyrese Halliburton posting an eye-opening triple-double with pops in the building to lead his Pacers to the 130-121 victory.
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Haliburton's Historic Triple-Double, Best Performances In Playoffs & All-Rookie Deep Dive
Depth versus depth. What a weird game. It got sloppy in the fourth quarter. Obviously, there was that part where it was a free throw fest. That was like keeping the Knicks around in the third quarter. There was that parade to the free throw line. It got in the bonus, and there was just foul after foul after foul. And then it sort of flipped, and the Knicks were incessantly fouling the Pacers.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Everybody played poorly for Minnesota in the second half. I don't really know what they can look to to be like, okay, we can build off this looking just specifically at the third and the fourth quarters. They have to be looking more so to the first half. But even then, They had as many made threes as they had turnovers.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
So it was like, okay, yeah, you are shooting the ball very, very well, but they should have had a bigger lead. They had eight turnovers, I believe, at halftime. That was equivalent to what they were shooting from three. And, you know, you like the jump shots dropping, but you know you're playing sloppy on the other side. And eventually it's going to build.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
And okay, see, when they get one turnover, they're looking for the next one right away. They really... Es ist einfach so, dass wir wissen, dass diese Leute ein bisschen geradelt sind und wir können zwei oder drei Steals in der Reihe bekommen. Und das ist ein großer Momentumfaktor.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
We had Robin Thicke bumping through the speakers. Songs you haven't heard for 15 years.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Sounds of the game doesn't hit quite as hard.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
So that sounds like a yes. They scored 88 points. They were completely outclassed in this game. Anthony Edwards has to be a lot better. He needs to... Ja. Ja. Ja. They're going to have him seeing multiple bodies. They're going to be daring all these guys who bricked threes in Game 1 to shoot them again in Game 2.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
So absolutely they have to be confident, but also they need to be put in positions where Randall and Anthony Edwards are involved in the same action. So when the ball gets out of Edwards' hands, it's to Randall's hands with a chance to make a play, rather than trying to get the ball back to Julius Randall on the other side.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Because when he's catching the ball and he's thinking and he's taking his time going against the OKC defense, they just see, A gigantic juicy steak and they're ready to go eat it. Like a Looney Tunes character. I don't know which one it was, but whichever one is most after those steaks, that's OKC when they see Julius Randall pounding the ball.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
When he's catching the ball and doing something immediately like he was in the first half, not thinking about it, he played awesome. So he needs to be able to play some more automatic basketball, I think. And Edwards needs to amp up his...
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
level of intensity he didn't really do much in the second half maybe healing for a couple of days will help him out he's usually a pretty indestructible player but this was a disappointing effort i thought from anthony edwards rarely getting inside the okc defense oh absolutely it felt like we're flashing back to game one of the golden state series where anthony edwards couldn't hit a shot from
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
How many threes did they make in the first half? Did they make 10 threes in the first half? I think, yeah. They were at least close. Randall had 5 himself. And look, they scored 48 points. They hit 10 threes and scored 48 points. That's going to be a problem. They're going to have to figure out a way to get close to 110.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Wow, doxing us on night one. Sure. Interesting.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Wir sprechen von Karotten, Zucchini und Endive. Nicht zu erwähnen, Pita-Chips.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Wir sind zurück. Ich wusste nicht, dass wir weg waren. Du bist glücklicherweise von Esch geblasen. Du konntest nicht sehen, dass das Pandemonium gerade über seinem Schulter ging. Ich kann sagen, dass wir hier vielleicht ein bisschen witzig sind, weil Esch zwei gigantische Wurzeln getrennt hat. Keine Scheiße, Mann. Versuch das nicht zu tun, wenn wir das Show machen.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Ich fühlte wirklich, als ob wir es töten, wenn Esch hier ist. Ja. Oh mein Gott. Aber wir sind zurück. Ich würde sagen, je nachdem wie die Nacht endet, sind wir drei nur im Bett. Ich denke, es ist gut, dass das Spiel mit Shane Gilchrist Alexander begonnen hat.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Ich wette eigentlich das Gegenteil. Ich wette, dass Jimmy Goldstein kommt und sagt, dass jeder weiß ist. Ich hätte mein Schwarz und Gold wieder gewonnen. Ich dachte genau das gleiche. Er war so, verdammt. Habe ich genug Zeit, um zu verändern? Ich weiß nicht, ob ich mein anderes Leather-Hat bräuchte. Ich denke, es ist unfair, dass ESPN die Grafik, die Battle of the Cousins, veröffentlicht hat.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Between Shea Gildress Alexander and Nikhil Alexander Walker. Look, we know who's going to win the scoring battle. Pretty much every single one of these. But it is cool that they're cousins.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Well, I just think it's doing Nikhil a little bit of a disservice. Like they're pitching it. Well, I don't know. Once again, we're only seeing it with our eyes. We're only tapped in with that one sense. But it does feel like, hey, look, these two guys should be going at each other.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Wenn wir alle wissen, dass Nikhil da ist, um Shea Gilgis Alexander zu stoppen, von dem, was er auch nicht gemacht hat. Nein. Also, was ich sage, ist, wir müssen diese beiden nicht gegen einander schießen. Schaut uns einfach das Bild an.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Podcasting with Uncle Chris and the boys, the bad boys. Well, I got good news for you.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Die Bedingungen waren perfekt für das Game One der Western Conference Finals. Auch ein seltsames Spiel.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
This was a complete tale of two halves. Nobody played well for Minnesota in the second half of this game. The reason they were winning the first half was because Julius Randall went nuts. He made five threes in the first half. That was his playoff career high. At that point, OKC had taken eight threes total. They were three for eight compared to Minnesota shooting the lights out in the first half.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Second half comes around. OKC turned up the defensive intensity. It kind of felt like Minnesota wasn't totally ready for that. Kind of the same thing happened in Game 1 of the Golden State Series. That had the Curry injury thrown in as well. But the playoff-ness of the second half got to the Timberwolves, I thought, in Game 1 of that series. And kind of the same thing here.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
When the Thunder got to the next level, Minnesota wasn't able to hit that level. They took Anthony Edwards completely out of the game. They took Randall completely out of the game. They forced everybody else to make plays. And as we're going to get into, Nas Reed, Di Vincenzo, Nikhil Al. Alexander Walker, Jaden McDaniels, none of those guys could make plays. Somehow the ball found the...
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
It's way to Gobert's hands. So many times to start the second half. And you know that's a win right away for the Thunder. He started missing, turning the ball over. They yanked him out. And then it was just a parade to the rim for Jay Gildress Alexander.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
20 points in the paint for Minnesota. And... Some of those were late.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Nasri came late. Nikhil Alexander-Walker had a late layup as well. You can't do that against the Thunder. I thought that there were times Minnesota was forcing the ball inside. Oftentimes with Gobert, definitely in the second half. The ball... You can't just try and force shots up against the Thunder inside.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
They're such a swarming defense that they're going to get a good contest on it, unless you have a really good look at the rim. And then once they get the ball knocked out of there or grab the ball off the defensive glass, they're going the other way. The transition points were ridiculous in this one. Zero fast break points for Minnesota. Not a surprise. OKC, though, is able to run the other way.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
They got a lot easier offense. They shot close to 60% in the second half of this game. Minnesota stopped. in der ersten Halbzeit. Ich denke, viel davon war, weil sie in der OKC schießen durften. Sie haben die Jumper nicht gemacht, aber schlussendlich brach sich der Tide öffnen und Minnesota konnte nicht verteidigen oder schießen.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Yeah, there was nobody that could get the ball inside. They tried posting up Nasrid a couple of times on J-Dub, stolen both times. Julius Randle never really got it going in a post-up scenario either. And then Anthony Edwards, whether it was just because of the defense that OKC was playing or because he tweaked his ankle once again, missed a bunch of time in the second quarter.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
He wasn't going to the rim the way he can go to the rim. A lot of that is because Caruso is such a great defensive player. Case and Wallace as well. These guys are major screen navigators. They were awesome in this game, fighting through, never allowing Anthony Edwards to actually get a good look at the hoop off a clean screen.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
They were never able to pick those guys off, which kept Minnesota out of the paint. So the three-pointers they're generating, they're not good ones. They're kind of desperation ones. And they got two... Du bist völlig richtig, auf dem Perimeter. Also ja, sie werden es herausfinden. Ich bin mit dir. Einige der Shea-Files waren schrecklich in diesem Spiel. Schrecklich. Ich glaube generell...
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
It's okay to go the free throw line a lot of times. It means because you can't be guarded. People can't stay in front of you. But a lot of these, the guys were in front of him. I think it was worse in the first half. I think he shot two for 13. It looked to me like he was playing for the foul. But then he came out in the second half, seven for 13.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Part of that's because McDaniels dealing with foul trouble. But he was playing to score in the second half. Yeah. Way more ethical, I thought, from Shea Gildress Alexander in half two.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Das war der Unterschied. Sie hatten einen dritten Mann, der in die Runde ging, während Minnesota absolut nicht. Andy took care of the glass. I thought that was huge in the third quarter. I think no offensive rebounds for the Timberwolves in that quarter and they were pretty good in the first half. They were just turning the ball over so much in the first half.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
They weren't really able to extend the lead, but they were also hitting the offensive glass. But Gobert wasn't really able to play much in the third quarter. He's supposed to be helping on the offensive glass. Suddenly Minnesota, the team that looks like the bigger team, They didn't look any bigger than OKC did. And in fact, OKC was dominating inside.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Hartenstein got a few dunks in the second half, had the floaters as well. Chet Holmgren found his way into the game, started dunking everything inside, running the court, making plays on both sides. The bigs battle completely swapped in the second half.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Heya. Heya. It feels weird to say it in a bed.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
Would you agree? Would you go Chet? Oh, Chet, for sure. He looked completely outclassed in the first half. He looked like he wasn't going to be able to play in this series. They were hunting him on defense in the first quarter and that's why they had to sub him out so quickly.
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Immediate Reax | SGA Leads Thunder To Game 1 Win Over Wolves
So I thought for him to turn that around completely, he was kind of dominant at times, I thought, in the second half of this game with the back-to-back dunks, making plays at the rim, getting steals inside as well. That was like a fully realized Chet Holmgren in the second half. Exactly what you want to see from him.
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
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Pacers Return To East Finals, The Dort Report & What Tatum's Injury Means For Celtics
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
He's the only bass. Yeah, it's like a soup, you know? First day it's fine, but then the second day, that's when it kicks in. Flavors. Perfect level. I would say the thing that did sound good on the mix was Bone Thugs. That was nice.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
The Pacers snatch it, but the Cavs blew this one. Yes, sir. Yes, indeed. 27 seconds left. They just had to inbound the ball under their own hoop. And they did. But Kenny Atkinson said, no, I need a timeout. He was so desperate to get Donovan Mitchell back into the game. And so their last timeout is gone. And Cavs have to go the other way, inbound on the other side. They flub that one.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, Cleveland was beating them to their spots every single time. So the movement just wasn't there. And it was a nice little change-up. Ty Jerome did go into the starting lineup for Sam Merrill. Because Sam Merrill was... He wasn't the guy that they needed, but Ty Jerome obviously didn't help them enough either.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Conspiracy theory, as Brian Anderson said on the broadcast. Are they saying he's got the wrong shorts just so we can watch the Indiana Pacers ending? Which was spectacular. Just a quick conspiracy theory. Yeah, I didn't notice the shorts at all. I mean, nobody would have noticed, really.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Not after you win game one. Probably not.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, the wild part is Steph leaves, and the Wolves can't take advantage because they held the Warriors to 18 points in the first quarter, but they were not big because they only scored 20, and then it got worse in the second quarter, scoring only 11 points. Just weird seeing Anthony Edwards miss gimmies. I mean, yes, he missed his first 10 shots, but six were at the frickin' rim.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
You can add another one in because when he got fouled at the end of the second quarter, he flubbed a bunny that he missed, which doesn't go in the field goals. But as he went to the line, he hit one free throw. The entire arena erupted because he scored a point. This is Anthony Edwards. This is so strange.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Now, he had a way better second half, but this was his worst playoff performance that he went so. So quiet. Why did it happen? Did it happen because he was anointed as the next guy these few days in between these series? He was anointed this incredible player. He beat LeBron. He's beat them all. Or was it that the Wolves, for the first time in his career, were clearly the favorite in this series?
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
And then Tyrese Halliburton is able to go to the hoop. Cavs could have challenged. It's unlikely they would have been able to get a turnover with that one, but because they don't have a timeout, they couldn't. They also could have used that timeout after Halliburton's big shot so they could advance the ball and have a far better shot at the rim. So they really did flub this one.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Because that hasn't happened. Now, last year against the Phoenix Suns in the first series, they were technically the favorite, but... They weren't this. And Anthony Edwards was not this. He just did not look right. Now he's rebounding. He's defending. But it was just so odd. It was so odd. And he didn't demand the ball at the end of the first half where, you know, it's your time, man.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
So that part was weird where you see Steph go off and – The team couldn't score. I mean, who was great on their team? It was Nasrita again. But, you know, you can see some box scores. But these guys were just so quiet. Everybody, everybody ice cold from three-point land.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Obviously, Tyrese Halliburton's shot is the story. That was freaking amazing how he took his sweet time. It's like you took a deep breath to take every one of those seconds and be able to hit that shot. But the Cavs wasted Donovan Mitchell's 48-point performance without their other two All-Stars and DeAndre Hunter. They needed another ball handler, and Ty Jerome having his worst game did not help.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, the scary part was the Warriors walk into their building and just stole their energy immediately. They couldn't do it. You have to be able to beat the role players on the other team. You just have to be able to do that. You're supposed to be the deeper team. Now, Steve Kerr is part of the Greg Popovich tree.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
He will always play all of his guys throughout the regular season for this moment to be ready for these. And it was great seeing Pat Spencer hook a ball off the glass for all the guys that got no stop in pop game. Respect to Pat Spencer. I mean, where did that come from? I thought the moment that really sealed it for me was a 13-point deficit in the third quarter, and Jimmy Butler chucked a prayer.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
From three-point land.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, and it goes glassing in, and that's it. Prayer answered, and the Wolves could pray all they want, but they just weren't doing enough. I know it's stupid to say that, but really, they didn't have the energy. I mean, it really sucked the energy out of that arena. And the three's obviously clanging all night long. It was so much so bad.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
And that's why Kenny Atkinson was so desperate to get Donovan Mitchell back into the game. That being said, the Cavs are going to remember this one if they don't beat the Indiana Pacers. Should've won this thing.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, but when they can't hit threes, like in Game 5 against the Lakers, they got great performances out of their bigs. They do have the size. They should get better performances out of a Julius Randle, who had 23 in that game, and he was just more adamant.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
I mean, the foul trouble, there was some early foul trouble in this game that maybe got into his head a little bit because I didn't think he was incredible defensively. And Rudy Gobert, who had 27 in that game. They've got to be able to do it. So, yeah, Draymond is incredible at helping and altering shots. But then you've got a better matchup if Jimmy's taking Julius Randle.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
I mean, he should be bodying guys. But he was not. They've got to use the bodies. They've got to use the height. They weren't there. They weren't there.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah. Yeah, I think so. It is just one game. I think they are confident enough in their team.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
getting to the conference finals there's just a they know who they are yeah so i i that was just i was i was not expecting and i know all the broadcasters and everybody's saying oh it's rest versus rust these teams that took care of business have five days off it's hard to buy that but i mean i don't know there's no reason i bring that up because there is no reason to see them
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
clanking and not have the energy and not have thrown freaking alley-oops. I mean, Rudy Gobert is by far the giant in this series. He's five to six inches taller than the next guy on the floor most of the time. No disrespect to Quentin Post's height of seven feet. I think he is seven feet. But, I mean, he should be able to throw dunks. Mike Conley, he threw him one with the right hand.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
I'm still puzzled as to whether or not that was a shot or an assist attempt. I mean, that was a weird one. Gobert should be able to hammer, and so should Randle. And Nasrid came off the bench, and it was good. But that was the only guy that really showed energy, I thought.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, I was just checking to see if the Wolves maybe lost at Game 1 last year and still made the conference finals. Nah, that didn't happen. They always win Game 1, so we'll see if this changes here. I'd say it's over. Maybe. You're calling it? No. No, Steph, that helps. You've got to be better.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
I will say Brandon Pujemski, his interview after the first quarter, shown that he's going to have his own pod. The pod pod. Brandon Pod Pod, whatever you call it. He's just a really eloquent guy. He always has been. He just spits stuff off. He's always been super, super comfortable on the mic. He was great. We'll see when that happens. Probably next season, I guess.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Maybe Draymond Green starts his own platform.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Steph will do one.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Buddy's rolling. I mean, the guy hadn't made the playoffs until last year, his eighth year of his career. and the Sixers didn't really use him all that much. They tossed him in in the last game because they were desperate. He did have a good game. I mean, he played in four games. The last one was his only good one, but this is his best run, clearly.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
The Golden State Warriors trickle-down effect is a little bonkers. I did not expect it, but it is clear that's what's happening.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, I guess what's interesting is the Spurs didn't have a list. They didn't even go look at another head coach. They just said, Ms. Johnson, you are the guy. That's how much they believe in his character. And DeJounte Murray came to the press conference because he had been with him for a long time in San Antonio, but it went back way longer than that. That's how much he loved him.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
He helped him as a teen. Johnson helped him build an AAU team. He was his mentor, really. Like, DeJounte Murray got – Got real. This is his quote. It's a testament to hard work, dedication, but most importantly, his character, the loving, caring man he is. I'm thankful for him. I'm grateful for him, and I'm proud for him. This is rare. This is bigger than just him, and he understands that.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
I'm not surprised because he's smart, he's patient. Accountability is a big word that he stands on. That sounds a lot like... A student of Greg Popovich. Obviously, somebody who held people accountable and just being entirely about the team and things bigger than that. So Kelly Eco had a great write-up on that, on The Athletic. But the whole thing just makes sense now.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
On the outside looking in, pop El Jefe now as his new t-shirt says, passing it along.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Absolutely. Obviously. It's his... He deserves it. I like his remarks about being fired from Brooklyn. He said that was something that just helped me grow tremendously going and being a coach with the Golden State Warriors and learning what Steve Kerr did as soon as he took over from Mark Jackson. Change it up, as he did with Cleveland, being under Ty Lue and all that.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
But yeah, it is terrible timing. I mean, after that and the ending of that game and even the interview after the end of third quarter, I thought he was maybe just a little too confident that they were going to win that thing. I'm reading into it now. Obviously, in hindsight, he was fine, but it was unfortunate how it all ended there in game two. But yeah, he went. He deserves it.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Number six is the question. Who was it? J.J. Redick. Five votes. No first place votes, though. No, not even close.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Is this his first time winning it?
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah. It's surprising that the other executives, they wait a couple of years. It feels like they built obviously an incredible team, but I guess the Caruso was the cherry on top. Now we can give it to him because he's obviously been deserving of it for a couple of years.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
I've never been more excited for an AI voiceover. This comes back. Yeah, all the nostalgia comes back. Now, he may not be it for the entirety of NBC's tenure here. Maybe somebody else takes over.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
But the backlash is, hey, Give it to somebody else?
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, I think they will use somebody else when they determine... Not so much right now and everybody hating them. I think it's just, well, this voice doesn't sound like what we need. If it can't generate that. And also just to move on. This is the nostalgia clip. This is now. We're talking about it. And that's it.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah. Bring back intros. They're good now. They're good when I watch the NBA in arena feed. And I see them. Depending on the arena, some are good. The Grizzlies, kill it. They're so good. The opposing team is good. And maybe that's not good for them. But they pull out such incredible music. So, yeah.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
What would you rather have, though? It's another voice.
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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?
But now you get the 90s voice that people know. Not everybody knows, but why wouldn't you have a voice that you know?
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
I think both home teams win.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
And Boston's going to shoot at least 75 to 95-3. They'll be far better. I think the Celtics will have way more energy and not just sit on their hands on both ends.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Thanks for joining us. And remember, occasionally we do a playback game and I'm just talking it into existence. Now, I'll be doing some of the first game, probably the second half of the first game tonight. Boston, New York Knicks.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
And Aaron Neesmith on Sam Merrill's back also helps out. He did a very good job of getting extremely physical. And that's what the Cavs are definitely upset about, especially after game one when Evan Mobley and DeAndre Hunter get hurt. And they say, you're too physical. And yes, it's probably going up against the line. I did find that.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
The question of whether or not Donovan Mitchell was flagrant and when he hit Aaron Neesmith in the face, questionable, because, you know, he's up in his shirt. He literally can't turn up the court. But that's what you should do.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, it's just tough to move when Aaron Neesmith is on you. So he is pushing it. He's asking the referees, call me. He's doing that. And so, yes, they pushed it right there. Again, if the Cavs have one of their all-stars, yeah, we're talking about a different game. They win this thing. And if Ty Jerome doesn't have his worst game, entering the starting lineup, going 1-14. He just wasn't right.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
They needed a ball handler. They were so desperate. They kept on giving it to Max Struess to bring it up the floor. They were just looking for somebody to bring it up the floor. If they didn't trade DeAndre Hunter for two guys, then they have more depth with Niang there and Karis LeVert there. So there's a lot of things on both sides.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Basketball lovers.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, it looked like it was done. It's about the Cavs and the Cavs nuts. And Max Stress was causing the stress in this one to Indiana. And it looked like it was over, especially with Tyrist and his hand causing a burden. But then the stress was caused the other direction. I mean, Max Truce was freaking awesome. He was really, really good for Cleveland. They were just so desperate for him.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Somebody to handle the ball. And, yes, Ty Jerome in his first start. Big, super big game. I think he started game one, didn't he? He started game one, but in a game where he needed to beat something. Something more. Just handling the ball because... They didn't have anybody. They tried Isaac Okoro. They tried Greg Porter.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
And they tried Javante Green out there, who was just standing in the corners for 10 minutes. But they had nobody to handle the ball. They really did not. Strews was awesome. And I thought he was playing out of his head. I mean, this was Miami Heat finals Max Strews. Like, he was really, really, really good. But they just needed somebody.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
And Donovan Mitchell has shown in these big games, he comes out and he performs. He puts the team on his back. And he tried last year against Boston Athletics in round two. but couldn't get there in round two. because they didn't have the same team. So this is the one where it's going to be painful if Garland and Mobley don't come back and they get some freaking wins.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Four out of five wins against this Pacers team now looks dire.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
It has. Yeah, the Pacers are relentless. There is no doubt. The Cavs just can't get their guys on the floor. We'll see if they get them on the floor in game three because they're going to be confident. despite this, despite Donovan Mitchell maybe not being physically right. I mean, he was banged up. I mean, he was limping around out there.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
Yeah, last year they went through a pain tolerance thing with Jared Allen as well. Obviously, he did not play. So hopefully Carlin comes back because it feels like this Pacers team, they can be down 10, down 12, doesn't matter, because Tyrese Halliburton was having a quiet game. until the fourth, and especially until late in the fourth.
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Haliburton Is Reggie, Cavs Collapse Blame Pie, Can Warriors Win Without Steph?
I mean, he had five makes in the last three-plus minutes of the game. For the last three minutes and three seconds, he had five makes. Before that, he had six. So it was quiet until, bang, he just ripped it off.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
No. It's getting warm on the inside. The Spurs have been better with Sohan off the court this season and last season. They want to see what he grows into as a player. He definitely has been better this year, but it's crazy to see a guy going up and shooting free throws one-handed. Like, that's wild to me. He'll still be able to do that. It's his left hand.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
So he'll keep the free throw percentage up, but I don't know that this is a huge absence for the Spurs. They would rather have their guy out there, but maybe this means more minutes for Stephon Castle, who's probably more so locked in long-term with the team. They need Stephon.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
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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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
For me, I look at this and I see players who are kept out of trades because their team thinks they're going to be good. And then they don't really end up doing anything. And there was two names that come to mind for me. instantly, 2010's number one, J.J. Hickson with the Cleveland Cavaliers. They would not trade him for Amari Stoudemire during 2010 when LeBron was there.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Instead, they end up getting Antoine Jamison. LeBron bounced, went to Miami the next summer. The other one, also from 2010, Roderick Beaubois. I have him in my notes as well. How could you not? Oh, good. Mark Cuban called him pretty much untouchable. Yep. And then two years later, he's like, he is still in our long-term plans. And then two years later, he was gone. Yeah, that's right.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I was shocked to see that it was Tim McMahon who was writing up those articles on ESPN.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
It's amazing. Yeah, he had one sick game. Literally one good game ever. That is a fantastic one.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I guess Pajemski is most likely to stick with the Warriors, it seems like. Yeah. But yeah, it does seem like Kuminga is a guy that they've kept out of trades, where it's like it would have gotten it done, and then they didn't sign him to an extension. That's kind of weird. If you wanted to make a prestige zone starting five, I think you could do it probably with all New York Knicks.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I'm just thinking off the top of my head, guys that Knicks fans fall in love with in the last two months of the season, swear they're good, like Alonzo Trier. Toure Murray. Trey Burke had a nice moment with the Knicks there. Chris Copeland. I'm just going off the top of my head. Who else do we got in the last few games for the Knicks?
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I mean, honestly, Quentin Grimes might fall into that category as well.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Where you're like, wow, you had a couple of good weeks for the Knicks. You're going to be a star going forward. And rarely is that the case. The prestige zone. It's powerful. Prestige zone.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah, I'm going for more of a Cornholio look. I don't know if it's going to last the whole show because I'm feeling warmer. It feels weird, but I hate at the end of the shows. Usually I look like an out-of-work band director or something. My hair is just all on my face. So I'm hoping this will... I don't know. Literally, I don't know. I just had to change it up. Hey, just try something.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I always thought there was a funny meme going around like circa 2012. It's like DJ Mbenga has a publicist. Like who? DJ Mbenga, the 14th man on the Lakers? He's got a publicist? But yeah, that's how it is. Got to field those calls. What's DJ up to? Oh, he's just chilling right now. Working on his game. We'll see if Bynum goes down with an injury. He'll play a few minutes.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
A lot of people don't know this. Tass is Gabe Vincent's publicist.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Here's some other guys.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
But that's what I went with. Where'd you go, Pickleman? Jokic is an interesting one to me. Because people say this guy loves basketball, but he says I don't love basketball. But the guy's an MVP, so clearly he does. I would be more interested to see, though, a Jokic... off-season show. What's it like when you go back to Serbia? We never see you dancing on tables, going to the horse track.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
What all is going on over there? I'd love to see that. I'd love to see a Josh Hart one, just to see how much these Knicks actually are hanging out on the side. And for a historical guy, Carmelo Anthony would be high on the list for me. During his tenure with the Knicks, when he was becoming a businessman, I want to see his meetings. I want to see him go hat shopping.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Got everybody into wine. There's that... great photo of him going to the bodega and like a bathrobe. Yeah. Mello was just a beloved dude in New York city. It would be cool to see like a superstar walking around New York city, seeing how much love he's actually getting.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I'll start the Gil's Arena Google Doc. Rashad McCants slides in the slack. All right, get your picks in.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah. We'll see. Other concerns. We are hitting the beach. Yesterday, the biggest problem for me yesterday was having to put this on a second day. Today, I was gloriously putting on a pickle costume. Better than a Robin Lopez costume is what I said.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Any other names deep on that bench you want to mention?
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Kevin Durant and Devin Booker. What was it like when you were on that boat doing the slides? I would love to see that.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Can we make this happen? Unlikely. It's probably tough. I don't think we can. We can't probably do it. But who knows? But we like it.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Mike Walzuski. That's the guy. Nick's PA guy. Okay. Do we know if he's on social media? He's on Facebook. Do we know his publicist?
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Exactly. Exactly, yeah. Somebody poke him. Okay.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
You got to find a good spot in your room. That's right. I've got a buddy who now has got an antenna up thanks to the bulls. And his... antenna is eight feet away from his television monitor on the wall, elevated off the floor with a cord running over his... Oh, see, no way.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
There's no way. Just to get it positioned in the right way. To get the reception. Yeah, to get the reception.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I think he has full functionality with regards to sources. He might even have two HDMI inputs. Because that one's straight coax.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
It'll never work, man. Crap. That'd be awesome. It will literally never work. No, it won't.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
It's got to be longer and skinnier.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
It's got to be silver longer and skinnier. It must be silver. The best conductor.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
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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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I thought everybody from Melbourne loved free throws, but I guess not.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
That's a good point. I love the G League rule. It'd be great. It's a great way to speed up the game. One for two. I mean, one and one is cool. It exists in basketball, I agree. But the G League would speed up the game. We'll be seeing under two hours on that LOD on basketball.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I didn't know the square piece was called an O. No. That's news to me. I didn't know they had letter designations at all. I would have called it square, stick, squiggly.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Yeah, you're the I. Yeah, for me it came down to I was either going to be the I or the L or the J, but the L and the J have big feet, so I've got to be the I. Yeah, like I could see the L if you deemed them to be small feet because they're one block, but I don't know if that works.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
You see them pop up on the top. Where's it going?
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
You're never upset to see the O. That's true. Super happy.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
You know the Celtics are blowing teams out with these kind of emails Chief is sending in. He asked us what our favorite vertical foods are.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Top five, top five, top five. Let's go. Top five, top five, top five. Power rank pickles, please. You want to feel insane? Spend an hour Googling, is this pickles? I was like, is kimchi pickles? Yes.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Is Giardiniera pickles? Yes.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
So here's my top five pickles. Okay. Here is my top five pickles. They are very lenient with the definition of pickles. At number five, the gherkin. Wow.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Bumpy. And the most fun name to say it. Yeah. Gherkin. Love it. At number four, jalapenos. Yes. A pickled jalapeno. Wow. Delicious on a nacho, though I got to say, it's unfortunate what's happened to the breeding stock with jalapenos. I agree. They're breeding them to be bigger and sweeter. It's taken away some of the spice from our jalapenos. But still, I love them.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Good ones, though. Even a bad jalapeno. I'm not mad at it.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I want some heat. Yeah. I want some heat, which is why I'm coming in at number three. Okay. Spicy jardinera.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Hey, name a vegetable. We'll chop it up. And we'll throw it in some brine with some spicy stuff, Skeets. Sweet Giardiniera, good. Spicy Giardiniera, very good. Yeah, throw it on a Philly cheesesteak. Throw it on an Italian beef. Yeah. Throw it on a muffaletta if you want to. I know they're putting olive spread on there, people. You're acting like I don't know that.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
No, I haven't, but I've been... I've been thinking about it. I've really been thinking about do my own homemade spicy jardiniere because you can't find it around here. There's a place called Skip's near where I live. They actually sell the actual Chicago stuff. Yeah, they do. I got to get that. Yeah. I got to get that. At number two. Perhaps controversial, bread and butter chips. Love them.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Some people love them. Some people say, I don't want any sweetness in my pickle.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
No, too sweet-sy.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Salt, pepper, pickles. Bread and butter would be the choice there, you think? Absolutely. Interesting. Nice. I love the crinkle cut they always have. Big time. They do look cool. So green. At number one, obviously it's the dill pickle. That's what you think of when you think of pickles. Not my favorite pickle, but undeniably the king.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
That's right. That's true. They're so good. They are known as the pickle. Think about how many forms they come in. Giant pickle. You ever see like you go to a deli, just a huge glass container filled with the biggest pickles you've ever seen. People order those.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
And eat them. That's crazy. That seems like too big of a thing to be taking a bite out of. Like imagine a pickle the size of our microphones. Just chomping. My kids did swim team this year. The concession stand sold giant dill pickles wrapped. In aluminum foil.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
He's just eating pickles on the side. They're selling pickles? That's nuts. At the pool? Pickle pool. Pool pickles. And they were successful. They're selling out every time. These are refreshing. They are refreshing. Oh, the crispness. Yeah. The coolness. The crunch is the main thing when it comes to pickles, if you ask me.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
They're pickling everything. I had a dill pickle popcorn recently. Laura has a big dill pickle head, so anything dill pickle flavored, it's coming in the house. The popcorn was pretty good. Yeah? It's just like a little sour dash on your food. It's like salt and vinegar, but not quite. Okay, so give us your top five. Number five, gherkins. Number four, jalapenos. Number three, spicy giardiniera.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Number two, bread and butter, chips, and number one, pickles. The king. The dill pickle.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
It's a good list.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
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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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Can't put your hands on someone. It's not a professional matter. Exactly. When I saw three games, I thought it was a little excessive, so I went to look at other recent suspensions for stuff. Isaiah Stewart, remember, got three games last year for punching Drew Eubanks before a game. A little bit different, certainly, but I'm like, off-the-court incident, three games, I guess it adds up.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
They had to set a precedent here because you can't have this kind of physical altercations between NBA and media, but Tass is right. Like, Marcus Haynes, he gets to apologize on Twitter. A lot of people, I'm sure, aren't seeing that, and then he's just going to go back to writing columns.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
It's a little unfair, I think, that Embiid bears the brunt of everything, but he's also the bigger name, and he's the one that the league can actually be in charge of, and... Hand out discipline. I guess if I'm a Sixers fan, I would be most excited that I actually know when Joel Embiid is coming back. You actually got a date on the calendar to look forward to him playing.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Did Ben Simmons get suspended that game as well? In that one, yeah. For being a peacemaker with his arms? Is that the same suspension? That's right.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Well, that's why they got fined, right? It was because they weren't forthcoming with the injury status. But that's because Embiid doesn't want them to be forthcoming with his injury status. Same reason they said it was a procedure last year, not a surgery. When everybody knew it was a surgery, so they got fined $100,000. That's nothing, right? Like, that's literally nothing. And he's not playing.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Just be honest with it or lie better.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
This is not working at all.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
It looks worse. You're playing through it, though.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
I'm doing five straight back-to-backs in a pickle. Joel Embiid could never. Worst-case scenario for the Nuggets would be Nikola Jokic going down for an entire season. This is maybe second worst-case scenario because they're losing their starting power forward, their best defender, their backup center, and their bench ball handler, with Jamal Murray being out right now.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Aaron Gordon has been their second-best player. this season. Jokic is obviously doing his thing, but Aaron Gordon is just such an integral piece to the Nuggets for everything he does, the chemistry he has with Jokic. He's going to guard the big wings when he plays defensively.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
There were already question marks up and down the roster for the Nuggets with regards to their depth, and now you're having to dip in even further into the bag. We're getting Hunter Tyson minutes here. We're getting Zeke Najee minutes. It's your time. Peyton Watson probably going to be a starter here. He had a nice game against the Raptors. Certainly, let's see what it's like as a starter.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
You're playing with Jokic. You're going to get good shots. You've got to knock him down. But I look at this, and it all depends on how long Aaron Gordon's going to be out if he gets re-injured. But there's certainly play-in potential, I think, for the Nuggets right now. It seems ridiculous, but I kind of compare it to the Warriors last season. They lost Draymond Green for 16 games.
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Beach Steppin' | Embiid's Suspension, Prestige Zone Players & Pickle Rankings
Not their best player, but definitely their best defensive player and integral. to the success of the offense with Steph Curry as well. He missed 16 games. The Warriors went 8-8. That's fine, right? Like 50% of your wins, that's okay. They finished with the 10th seed. Three games from the 6th. It could happen that quickly one month out. So, yeah, I'm a little worried if I'm a Nuggets fan.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
Standing in the sky, big daddy sky, made a lot of movies and had a lot of sky, big sky, ten feet tall, sweet sweet sky, cherubs are all. of succession and children and the giver. Put him to the test, little Allie with the letter. Alex Skarsgård, don't you know, when along came Gustav, hidey-ho. Gustav Skarsgård, next in line. Westworld, Vikings, Oppenheim.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
Six foot four, don't you know, when along came Samuel, hidey-ho. Oh, you don't know Sam? Well, that's all right. He's a six-foot doctor saving lives. Dr. Skarsgård, don't you know, when along came Bill, hidey-ho. Billy Skarsgård, belly wide, six foot four, big surprise. Knows for us who go vampire row. The brothers Skarsgård, they like them so. There's a Billy Skarsgård, don't you know?
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
When along came Eha, hide it low. Dr. Eha doesn't do acting. At five foot ten, she's intercasting. Casting Skarsgard, don't you know? Eha, call us for your shows. Walter, Ossian and Columbia are the youngest Skarsgards. Truly born and truly child and ash, it's the Skarsgard way. We hope they have a Skarsgard day.
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Thunder Big 3 Take Game 4, Quiet Ant Night & John Haliburton Is Free!
Skarsgard, Skarsgard, Skarsgard, Skarsgard, Skarsgard, Skarsgard, Skarsgard, don't you know? Skarsgard, Skarsgard, Skarsgard, Skarsgard, Skarsgard, Skarsgard, Skarsgard, Skarsgard, Skarsgard, Skarsgard, Skarsgard.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Trey Kirby, where are you going? I'm with Tass. I think it's OKC in six. I think the Thunder defense is just too good to allow Minnesota's up-and-down offense to outscore them four times in a game. I think even if OKC shoots 32% from three like they have so far in the playoffs, they can still win this one.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
62% of people think that the... Thunder. Thunder will win. Okay. That's basically calling Thunder in six. Yeah, basically. They win in two-thirds of the games.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
I can't wait. Two high-powered offenses. We got the Clutch Player of the Year going up against the new Reggie Miller with history behind them from a historical standpoint and just a these-team standpoint they met last year. So, of course, I'm starting with defense. That's right, me.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Who guards Carl Anthony Towns is a huge question for me, and it's kind of also a question of who is Aaron Neesmith going to guard. I think he is a huge player in this series. So more than likely, at least for game one, Indiana comes out and has Miles Turner guard Carl Anthony Towns, try and play a little bit of a traditional style.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Maybe Turner can get a late switch onto Brunson if need be and try and hang for a little bit. But I think the smartest thing to do, which most teams are doing now, is to put a wing on Carl Anthony Towns, mess with the Knicks' standard offense, 1-2 game, Brunson and Towns. Make them think a little bit. If you start Neesmith on Towns, he can switch on to Brunson.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
He's their best Brunson defender as well. Sometimes a tee, but the Pacers don't really like to do that. They're one of the few teams that has guarded Towns straight up with their center. But the smarter thing to do is to trick Carl Anthony Towns by putting a small guy.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
He's been pretty good in the post, but he doesn't necessarily know where to assert himself all the time, I think, when he has a smaller guy on him. So the question will be, who's guarding Brunson if Neesmith switches on to...
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
towns I guess it's Nembhard he didn't do very well against Brunson last year Neesmith was certainly more successful that also means where's Tyrese Halliburton going is Josh Hart going to get unlocked for offensive rebounds I think there's a lot of questions to answer for Indiana about how they're going to match up defensively because there's not great hiding places against the Knicks starting lineup particularly for Halliburton so I think that'll be a real chess match the
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Like I'm saying, I assume they'll start traditional. It probably won't work all that great, and then they'll have to go to messing around with matchups and stuff. But I think it's going to be fascinating to see who they put these two guards on. Like Nembhard and Neesmith, I guess Neesmith's more of a forward, but nonetheless a perimeter player.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
They're both so good at ball pressure, they're going to want to try and wear down the Knicks. But Brunson succeeds against the guy who's smaller than him in Nembhard. You've got to have some length on him, but if Neesmith's guarding Brunson...
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
They're like the two best shooters in the playoffs.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Yeah, the Pacers have the best three-point percentage and best two-point percentage in the playoffs so far.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Josh Hart, man. That guy wants to play fast for sure. Towns does get most of his three-point attempts like trailing in transition for sure. But it always sounds weird to me because like when I think of the Knicks, I just think of Brunson taking 20 seconds. finding his way to a 12-footer and then, you know, jumping back into a guy and somehow making the shot as well.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
They play a methodical style, but they always talk about wanting to play fast. I know the Pacers want to play fast. We talk all the time. Teams slow down in the playoffs. You're not able to play that tempo. They are. They get teams to play their style. They've played their style, I feel like, almost every game so far this postseason outside of, what, game four? Yeah.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
against the Cavs when they went zone and then they shredded the zone in the very next game as well so the tempo of this series is going to be huge you're totally right about switching but that puts a lot of pressure on Carl Anthony Towns to not mess up like know who you're guarding know who to switch on know if you're in drop or in switch this is a big defensive series I think for Towns
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Also a Knicks big guy. Mitchell Robinson. Mitchell Robinson dominated in their last series against the Celtics. I'm curious to see how New York can play double big against a Pacers team that's trying to run them out of the gym. That's just a tough matchup, I think, for Towns and Robinson to run with. if it's Siakam and Turner, even if it's Obi Toppin.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
He's a guy that loves to run the court as well, but offensive rebounding can be a tilt point. I think for New York, it certainly was against Boston. Neither team turns the ball over a lot, so if New York's trying to get ahead in the possession game, definitely Mitchell Robinson's offensive rebounding can be huge. The Pacers are not a great defensive rebounding team.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
They don't have a lot of bulk inside amongst their big guys, and if
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
robinson is offensive rebounding that really slows the pacers down if the pacers decide we got to get this guy out we're going to smack a mitch that really slows the pacers down going to free throws every single time now they can run off of missed free throws but i saw mitchell robinson hitting the night knight after going six for six at one point he can make them
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
But we will see if he's able to stay on the court this series. He's really shown everybody something, I think, the way he defends, the quickness he is able to bring on the perimeter. So he should be able to hang, but I don't know if he's going to be as effective as he was against Boston. Let's see if he can do it.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Definitely it was. Yeah. But also game five, they were brutal. It was like they were putting towns into double screens all the time, and he had no idea where to be. I'm just flashing back to the Milwaukee series. Giannis switched on to Tyrese Halliburton at the end of regulation and at the end of overtime, and he dusted him both times going straight to the hoop. That's Giannis.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Consistently. He's a better scorer than OG, for sure.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Yeah, I said it during game two of Celtics versus Knicks. Pacers are going to the finals. I got the Pacers in sixth. I think they've played the best basketball of anybody who's been in the playoffs so far. They've been awesome since January 1st. We're talking a lot about these support guys for the Knicks who need to go off in order for them to pull off a victory here.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
But I'm thinking about the playoff series that Indiana's already played. They don't care if your number one guy has a great series. Giannis averaged 35 points per game against the Pacers. Donovan Mitchell averaged 38 points per game, had 40 in two different games. Everybody else, they shut down.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
So I wouldn't be surprised if Brunson's 35, 40 points per game in this series with Neesmith fighting his hardest to try and... combat him a little bit. I think Neesmith is a huge player in this series. He's probably going to be a hiding spot for Jalen Brunson. He's shooting 48% from three.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
If the Pacers are able to shoot the ball as well as they have so far during the playoffs, they are going to be tough to beat. But this should be an awesome matchup. I hope we get clutch games in this one with Reggie Miller on the call. And we've got two awesome clutch players in Brunson and Halliburton on either side. Unfortunately, John Halliburton will have to be watching on TV. Yeah.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
But I'm going Pacers in six. Should be an awesome series.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
He's got to do the Brunson three-point celebration.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
You think that's the key is throwing Chalamet off his game? I think Halliburton's crazy enough to do it. He dresses like a book character a lot. That's what I'm saying. Often Inspector Gadget. Yeah, right.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
I'll tell you what, if the Pacers find a way to come back from down seven with less than a minute left, he's absolutely going to do the choke. Of course. He will do it. He wore a shirt. With the choke on it to a pro game press conference last year. That's right.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
You're laughing, but I swear to God, I think there's a 10% chance.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
It's so fun. Trey, what's the poll say on this one? We've never had a closer poll. 50% are picking the? Well, New York Knicks or Pacers, I guess. Yeah, which one? Knicks. No, Pacers. Oh. Knicks are 49%.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
I don't know exactly what's that. On YouTube? It's probably like 50.4. Yeah, it's something like that. It's a 49.6.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Yeah, I mean, they won 68 games and they just beat the best player in the world in the seven-game series. I'm more interested in seeing that 66% of people think that the Western Conference Finals winner is going to win the championship. Right. And I think that's probably right.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Amazon Prime Moment of the Week this week goes to Carl Anthony Towns, who used some downtime before the start of the conference finals to take in a Mets-Yankees baseball game. And the crowd went absolutely crazy when they put Carl Anthony Towns up on the Jumbotron.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
And then he stood up to show off his shirt, which features one of the characters from Side Talk NYC's legendary bing bong video from a few years back. The crowd went even more crazy. The guy's name is Jason D'Antona, but he might be better known as the... guy.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
He couldn't believe what he saw posting on X. The Knicks advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in my life, and our all-star big man is wearing my face on his shirt after sending Boston packing. Legend. Might be the only way to unite Mets and Yankees fans. Carl Anthony Towns is your Amazon Prime Moment of the Week.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Ant is the number one thing to watch, specifically his decision-making. This is the biggest test yet. L.A. was a pretty easy series for Anthony Edwards, all things considered. He knew where the automatics were going to come from. Six turnovers in five games. That was incredible. Golden State was more of a tale of two halves.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
All right. Carl Anthony Thomas wasn't even there for the bing bong. He was still a Timberwolf, but he probably watched that video and was like, this is hilarious. I'd love to join the Knicks.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
From going to Paris. You want me to go get garbage thrown at me? I do. I want you to get garbage thrown at you on the streets so we can go see Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
You can be that guy. I mean, he was trying to get harassed. He was trying to get noticed, and it worked out for him.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
It's going to be a long night. You better stock up on energy. Yeah, I'm going potato heavy once we get to the airport.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
He played pretty poorly in the first half of every game and then dominated the second half of every game is really what it felt like. You mentioned they've got tons of options. on the OKC side for who could stick. Edwards, they're going to be messing around with the schemes as well, and it is important and imperative that Anthony Edwards does not turn the ball over against OKC.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Minnesota turns the ball over quite a bit. They're 11th in turnover percentage. in the playoffs. Only 16 teams made it. They're the worst remaining. Oklahoma City is first in forcing turnovers.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
We saw in the second half of Game 7, they just turned Denver over time after time after time, getting easy buckets on the other end, getting Jalen Williams going, Caruso running wild out there, Cason Wallace looking like the fastest guy on the court. That is the best source of offense for OKC, is going from defense to offense. Their transition game is unstoppable. So...
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
the wolves who have been pretty turnover prone throughout this playoffs. Unfortunately, the thunder can make them pay. So it's going to be on Edwards to play like pretty much perfect basketball. I think.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
They're going to absolutely try it. It'll probably be more of a curveball, I think, for Minnesota than it was for Denver. Denver didn't have a lot of other options. They just don't have the...
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
defensive talent yeah that the timberwolves have but okc got some practice they got better as time went on jalen williams awesome breaking the zone alex caruso awesome breaking the zone but you got to make three pointers and you're gonna have to be able to identify it quickly because i'm guessing that the timberwolves will be guarding straight up for the most part but then when they absolutely need to shut okc down gum up the works they can go to the zone
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
X-Factors in Thunderwolves. We'll start with you, Trey. Who you got your eye on here? Dante DiVincenzo, I think, is a huge X-Factory. Shooting 25% from three in the playoffs. That's not very good. And he's like their three-point bomber outside of Edwards, who obviously takes and makes the most in the league this year. You got to hit three-pointers to beat OKC.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Once again, this is going to be a size versus speed battle. Minnesota, great offensive rebounding team. Loves to score inside. Oklahoma City, solid defensive rebounding team, and they're brilliant at taking away the paint. So the three-point shots are going to be there. Dante DiVincenzo needs to hit them.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
The Thunder Bench, I don't think they're great shooters, but they have been hitting timely threes. Like we talked about, Wiggins hit a couple in Game 7. Caruso had one. Case and Wallace had one. But this could be an advantage for Minnesota, I think, between Nas Reed, who is on fire in the playoffs. He's 46% from three in the playoffs so far. He's going to be important when Minnesota is like...
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
getting bogged down. They're like, we can't go with Gobert right now. Need somebody to come in and bomb threes. Like I said, DiVincenzo just hasn't found a stroke so far in the playoffs. They're going to need him to hit. They're going to need Jaden McDaniels to be confident. Like his percentages look good, but he's six for 16 against the Lakers. That's a decent percentage, four for 13.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
But we're talking about like one three-pointer made per game. For this guy, his attacking the closeout game has been a lot better in the playoffs. His handle looks nice. He's getting into the mid-range and finishing. But I assume that Chet Holmgren will be roaming off of McDaniels a lot in this series. The shots are going to be there. He needs to take him and make him.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
And then I think DiVincenzo needs to have a 40% three-point shooting kind of series for Minnesota to score enough to keep up with OKC.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
Randall needs to keep it up. He needs to play as well as he did these first two series because they might not play him one-on-one a lot because if they're getting the ball out of Anthony Edwards' hands, there's not enough guys left. to play him one-on-one. So he's going to have to make good decisions. He hasn't shot the three-ball well. That's one of the only knocks on him. And the turnovers.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
The Thunder are going to be super handsy with him. They're going to try and frustrate him just the same way they did with Jokic. And they forced a ton of turnovers off of Jokic. Julius Randle is a much higher turnover player than Nikola Jokic has ever been. So we'll see how he handles bump-bump from Caruso and he tips the ball away. Same thing with Jalen Williams. He's got super long arms.
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NBA Conference Finals Preview & Predictions
to absorb some bumps from Randall. It's going to come down to the number two series once again. Who plays better, Jalen Williams or Julius Randall? We'll see. Randall's been better for the entirety of the postseason so far, but clearly this is the best defense that the Timberwolves are going against.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
What you got? That's a tough question. Tough question. Giannis basically saved the Bucs from being in the bad vibes question. Yes, he did. Dyson Daniels stripped the reigning player of the week. Tough to say. I'm going to think. I don't know. I don't know. I think I'm going with Giannis here. I think I'm going with Giannis, even though the Rockets still should have won this game.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
They ran a beautiful play for Alper and Shengun, just a little too long on the pass, and he was having trouble catching the ball. Meanwhile, Dyson Daniels, there's questions. Was it a foul? It was close enough. He got the superstar defender reputation, which is interesting because De'Aaron Fox is an actual star.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
He didn't get the call at home in the clutch, and this guy's one of the greatest clutch players. Yeah, I don't know. The Bucs were down six. With 3.30 left in this one against the Rockets, and the Rockets just could not score. Their crunch time offense, I think they went one for their last eight.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
They scored one time on their last seven possessions, and that included Shen Goon botching a wide-open layup following his own miss for a layup. It just seemed like Shen Goon did not want the ball down the stretch for the Rockets, and Dylan Brooks did want the ball, unfortunately. Right, right.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
The guy that I haven't mentioned yet is Jalen Green, who seemed to be playing the best in the fourth quarter for the Rockets, but for whatever reason, it was all Van Vliet and Shang-Goon actions. I understand Shang-Goon because the guy is your leading offensive player, but they should have went away from him, I thought.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
An amazing play by Giannis to get back to block the little floater, but Shang-Goon should have went up and tried to dunk it. That was a softy kind of shot, and that was just the way he played the last three minutes because... When Shang-Goon catches the ball, Giannis is at the dotted line, at the free throw line. He tries to go up with a little floater. Try and dunk it, man.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
You'll get fouled and go to the line. Then you can make him.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Yeah, but I can't stop thinking about Dyson Daniels with Guy Fieri's hair. Somebody get Photoshop and I probably go with the vacuum, too. It makes me laugh. And we can't be stealing a nickname from Dwap Reef. Everybody knows he's called the Great Barrier Reef. I think it's fun to say the Great Barrier Thief. Will it stick? We'll see.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Key play of the game.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Wow, right around 500. No way.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Five threes as well, and that's why Shungun wasn't anywhere near the rim on the last drive for Dame. It was all, you know, six-foot-six guys. And Thompson's one of them. He could have gotten over, but he had to deal with Giannis on the left block as well.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
So smart of Lillard to get inside and finish, because I think he shot an air ball in the fourth quarter from three earlier in that possession, or earlier in the quarter. But good stuff. You think Mike Brown should have called a timeout for De'Aaron Fox? He was the last guy. There was nine guys ahead of him. Um... You do. You do. I can tell because you would have said right away if you didn't.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Literally, where is he? We haven't heard an update even, right? He's not even playing five on five yet, I don't think. Yeah, I don't think so.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
He was in control, I thought, the entire game, making plays left and right on both sides, making plays off the dribble. Very few turnovers for the Magic. In this one, I think they finished under 10 turnovers. I'm a liar. 11 turnovers. Nonetheless, they were playing a lot of ISO basketball or pick-and-roll basketball. And Anthony Black was awesome.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Finding guys for alley-oops, cutters, making shots from the outside as well. That's why they didn't bring back Markel Fultz. They're like, sorry, we got a rookie. Or I guess a second-year player now. He's our backup point guard. I believe. Nice stuff. Also, the Magic or the Suns were missing Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal, Yusuf Nurkic. All of their guys with O's were doing stuff.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Oh, so Iguodaro looked nice flying through the court. Royce O'Neal, Josh Okoji. Too much of these guys. So not that surprising. 50 points in the paint, though, for the Magic. They were just in the lane the entire time.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
That makes sense. Is it Dragon Bender? DeAndre Ayton? He would have been a rookie in 18. Yeah, he's the number one. Cam Johnson, maybe? I thought that's who it was. But that makes sense because I was watching this and I saw Devin Booker out there. I was like, I bet this is the worst team he's played on since before Chris Paul showed up, to be quite honest, with no Durant, no Beal, and no Nurkic.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
I mean, they're missing three starters and you're like... Literally, who are these guys? Tyus Jones was their leading scorer, and it was a little disappointing that Booker didn't elevate his game in this one. He hasn't had a great season to start things off here.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
He had a nice 44 recently, but I think he's underperforming where we expected him to be after the Olympics, not even mentioning how good he was last season where he was challenging for first-team All-NBA. Had he qualified for it, he was one of the better players in the league. He has not been thus far this year.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
No, he was not.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
It was to Lindy.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
He missed one like 10 seconds earlier. Had a good look with 12 seconds left. And then, yeah, he was 100% passing it to Lindy Waters. But Gary Payton intercepted it. The pass was coming to him, too. Like, why wouldn't he take it? But what do free throws do? Win games, right? Warriors 9 of 19 at the line, Clippers 16 of 18 at the line, and literally everything else is equal.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
It all comes down to free throws. So I think more surprising win, it's got to be the Clippers. You don't expect the Warriors to lose it at the line, though they stink at it this year.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
He's only missed two this year, I think.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
I'm not surprised, except for like, oh yeah, Pat Riley didn't have a statue? He hasn't coached there in 40 years? They're like, now's the time. Yeah, the timing's odd. That's the only question. I mean, obviously Pat Riley deserves a statue for the Lakers. He won a title there as a player playing on one of their all-time greatest teams, the 71-72 team. Then he won four titles as a coach.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
I guess there are just not a lot of coach statues. I know Red Auerbach has one sitting on a bench in the middle of Boston. That's right. Jerry Tarkanian's biting a towel.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
outside the thomas and mac arena yeah who else does jerry sloan have one i don't know i don't know i don't think so i don't think so uh but yeah yeah i mean cool but well do you think the timing had the chance they've had the time do you think the timing has to do with miami heat just having uh named their court after pat riley
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
That would be cool. If there was a way for water to just slowly leak out of it so it always looks wet. Yeah, like shiny. Gotta have it.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Or let's hope they are. Well, yeah. It's not fun to talk about a good-looking statue.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Well, I think, didn't the Wade guy do the Kobe statue? And I think he did the... I think you're right. He maybe did all of them outside of Staples. Who knows, man? Maybe he's lost his fastball.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Noah Vonley, bring him back.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Yeah, their tallest healthy guys right now are Siakam at 6'8", and Obi Toppin at 6'9". Those guys are both forwards, so they literally just found the biggest guy they could. Yeah. Outside of Boban, I guess. I guess they're saying, Moses, you move better than Boban. Yeah.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
That was a guy that would get a random contract. Yeah, because he was decent. He was a Grizzly last year, isn't that right?
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Grizzly and Thunder.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
No, he actually didn't. Wow. That was going to be my first guess as well. Unless I missed him. Never made an... Which is always in play.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
No, but go to March. Go to March. Jalen Green. There you go.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
I think of Middleton as like a knockdown mid-range shooter.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Driver. Slasher, for sure.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
They had a chance at their three straight wins, but then six threes in the fourth quarter for Zach Levine. The big three. People are saying the best scoring big three in Bulls history. Wow. Levine, Kobe White, all 25 plus last night. People told me the Pistons were good. Weird. You can't lose to the Bulls and be good. It's ridiculous.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Big Jericho Sims slam, huh? Yeah.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
But I don't think they like thrunks. You might be right. 83.1 versus 85 for Obi Topham.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Yeah, right, right.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
That's true. Wow, wow, wow. I actually love it. I hate that I could pick out what that's going to be. That looks like a 75.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
I don't know.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
I tried to say you're going to have a dessert. But I think I said you have a dessert. 7 o'clock P.N. tip.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
More like 7-11.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
That was that one weird pre-election day. Pre-election day.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
What are you going to have for dessert? Frangipane? Frangipane. That'd be really nice.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Worst vibes, TK? I got to go with the Sixers. Okay. They were locked in for worst vibes for me the way they walked off the court. Everybody looked sad, and then they went and had their meeting, like you're saying. At first, it seemed like a players-only meeting, but apparently the coaches were there, too. Maybe it was on the calendar all along. Post-game meeting after the game.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
No matter our record. Yeah, we're just getting together. We'll talk about whatever. Did we score 89 points? Yes, that's a problem. And that is a problem. You're right. Embiid will get better at some point. I'm reserving judgment on him this season a little bit. He's coming off an injury. He was playing through an illness last night. And the guy's a slow starter basically every season.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Unfortunately, now they're 13 games in. He's not trying to get in shape the very first week of the season. It's the second month of the season already, so they're going to need Joel Embiid to be an MVP. We'll see if he gets it back. My guess is probably yes. However, the problem is everybody around them really stinks right now. Paul George is doing nothing.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
17-6-5 on the season, shooting 40% from the field, 28 from three, and it looks like nothing he does is easy. Like every shot is a crazy fall away or out of rhythm. This isn't the Paul George that's finishing top five in MVP we saw five years ago. This isn't even the Paul George that could carry the Clippers. Thus far, for the 76ers. So he's got to be better.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
I think Nick Nurse needs to make him a bigger part of the offense right now rather than running the stuff that they would run for Tyrese Maxey. Only it's McCain as the guy right there who has been awesome. But other than McCain, not a lot of shooting on this team. Not a lot of athleticism. The Sixers are 30th in offense. They're 29th in three-point percent. And they're 26th in makes.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
And you look at the guys that are shooting them. Kyle Lowry is their... Best shooter outside of Gershon Yabusele right now. He's at 35% and can't do anything on the defensive end. He probably needs to go to the bench. Caleb Martin shooting 32%, which feels like a miracle because it looks like a spasm when he's shooting a three pointer. It does not look smooth at all. Eric Gordon, 29. He's old.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Paul George, 29. Maxie, 29. Oubre, 27. He had one good season, and now you're seeing why he was available the way he was. There's just not a lot of shooting out there. This is going to be a team that Embiid has to drag as far as they can go, and that's a scary proposition when he's still not healthy.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
Purtle was running wild, but there's like no tall guys on the Pacers right now with Miles Turner out and then Achilles tears to Wiseman and Jackson on top of that. So Purtle was looking like the only seven-footer out there. Good stuff for him. But the Halliburton performance this season so far I think has to be concerning for Pacers fans.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
He's at 16 points per game, four rebounds, eight assists, shooting 38 from the field, 29 from three. He's got the worst three-point percentage of any player in the league who's taken 100 or more threes this season. It looks like he's pressing a little bit to find his scoring rhythm, but everybody compares him to that stretch before the All-Star break last year.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
22 points, 12 assists, shooting 49 from the field, 40 from three. The rest of his career, 17 and eight. Maybe he's just a 17-8 guy. Was that the anomaly where he was just on fire? Was that the anomaly? Was he on fire for like two months? It's possible. Everybody's still talking about this injury that he had last year. He missed 10 games 10 months ago. I don't know.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
He just looks like the confidence isn't quite there. Maybe bringing in Siakam has kind of thrown him off of his rhythm because the team plays a lot slower now. They're 16th in pace after finishing second last year. Siakam likes to pound the ball. He likes to play in the post. Doesn't necessarily equate with Halliburton wanting to get the ball up the court as fast as he possibly can.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
And they're not shooting as many threes. I think part of that is that Buddy Heald is no longer on the team. And Aaron Neesmith has been hurt, too. Matherin likes to drive. He's more of an interior player, slasher kind of style. So it just hasn't been good for the Pacers. They're 12th in offense. They were second last year.
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The Sixers Are A Mess, Dyson Daniels' Nicknames & What's Wrong With Haliburton?
And if they're not a top two or three offense, the team isn't good because they don't play on the defensive end.
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NBA Draft Lottery Winners & Losers, Giannis Trade Rumors, Tatum's Leg Injury
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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NBA Draft Lottery Winners & Losers, Giannis Trade Rumors, Tatum's Leg Injury
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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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Camp Johnston ist auch da, aber vielleicht nicht so stark wie Camp Thomas.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Es ist auch einfach großartig, wenn man sich die Eastern Conference anschaut. Die Nets mit diesem Sieg sind mit einem 5-6-Rekord für den 4. Sieg im Osten verbunden. Ich meine, was für ein Start für Brooklyn. Viele Leute wollen vielleicht das schlechteste Team der Liga sein. und wirklich auf den Tank lehnen. Aber fünf Gewinne aus 11 sind solid. Aber ja, das ist, wo wir sind.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Es ist Cleveland, es ist Boston und dann sind die Pacers 500. Und dann hast du die Magic und die Nets bei 5 und 6. Also sind sie 4-5 verbunden. Wenn die Playoffs heute begonnen hätten, glaube ich, dass die Magic die Nets in einem 4-5 Matchup hosten würde.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
It's just so tough. I mean, this was sort of an ugly ending to a basketball game, this Nets-Pels game. It wasn't the prettiest basketball you've ever seen, but it's just weird to see. Brannon Boston Jr., Javonte Green, ein Rookie und Misses, die viel zu tun haben. Und natürlich ist es Brannon Ingram, aber Teams haben herausgefunden, dass sie einen zweiten Mann an ihn machen.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ja. Also sind wir wieder hin und wieder, hin und wieder. Sie haben beide ein Teil davon gespielt. Und ich habe gesehen, dass Wedgie Tracker es offiziell auch Julian Champagny gegeben hat.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Vielleicht einen dritten und sehen wir, ob diese anderen Jungs etwas tun können. Der Roster ist wild. Glücklicherweise ist Trey Murphy zurück. Wie gesagt, ein kurzer Tweet von Brooklyn Netscast. Cam Thomas, the king of the grenades. What does that mean? He has an incredible shooting percentage as a guy who's getting up like a shot when there's like four or fewer seconds in the shot clock.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Look at this. He's like, you know, flirting with nearly 50% on a whole lot of attempts when that shot clock is about to go. And you compare it there to your Ingrams, Schroeder, one of his teammates, Tatum, Harden. Ich weiß nicht, warum die hier auf der Bühne sind. Ich glaube, das ist nur der größte Versuch. Oh ja, das ist das, was es da sagt.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Also, äh, schau dir das an, die Anzahl in Cam Thomas und dann ein unglaubliches Prozent für das Schießen zu spät.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Er flirrt fast immer an diesen Schrecken. Er ist einer dieser seltsamen Jungs, bei dem es so fühlt, als hätte er einen Mann, der sich über ihn dreht. Schockklappe, drei, zwei, eins. Er ist vielleicht ein bisschen auf der Balance. Es fühlt sich an, als hätte er eine höhere Anzahl an solchen Schrecken als ein weit open drei, der in Rhythmus kämpft. Er ist einer dieser seltsamen Spieler.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Er ist ein Bucket-Man.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Yeah. Waking up super late. Groggy. Maybe Wi-Fi troubles. Never. Cars not running all that smoothly and driving it.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
I was panicking the other day because I somehow like... Ich habe mich aus all meinen Google Chrome... Alles. Ich konnte nicht in alles rein. Ich mag das nicht. Ich bin ein Mann von... Routine. Routine, ja. Und es gibt viel zu tun, wenn du morgens bereit bist für dieses Show.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Und dann ist es wie... Alles ist verbrannt für 25 Minuten. Ich muss mich in das. Ich muss... Hey, jemand hat mich in die YouTube-Account eingeladen. Hey, kannst du auf 57 auf deiner YouTube-App einladen, um mich reinzuladen?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Wemby played a part too, but you could also say every guy on the court played a part.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
I don't know what's going on.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
I don't know why I keep getting bumped from our NoDunks YouTube page, but good security measures over there. Good stuff. We also had the Rockets taking care of the Wizards, and we had the Spurs dominating the Kings, and that was big in our pick-em. I don't know if you have any notes on those ones. Or you want to get into the NBA Cup here.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Coaches, fans, refs, but I guess Champagne gets it.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Yeah, no. They kicked their ass.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Maybe we can sprinkle some Game Talk in as we go through the NBA Cup. How about that segue?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Okay, so the second edition of the in-season tournament, now known as the NBA Cup. You can throw the sponsor's name on it if you want. It tips tonight. All 30 teams will play four group stage games across the next several weeks for the chance to reach the knockout rounds. And then ultimately the title game on December 17th there in Las Vegas. No Dunks will be there. Da. Kannst du dir das glauben?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Für die Semifinals-Aktion und das Champions-League-Spiel. Und natürlich gibt es Pläne, ein Live-Show zu machen. Wir werden dich auf das posten. Die Jungs gehen zurück in den Desert.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Wow, wir mussten mal gehen.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Wir haben uns gefragt, wer gewonnen hat. Anyway, we're going to be there and we will keep you posted on all of our plans. But yeah, let's go through these groups, maybe make some predictions, Tass. I'll give you some of, I guess, ESPN's Basketball Power Index as like who they pick as the favorites in some of the groups.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Und ich sage immer, sie sind einzigartig, in Bezug auf sie als Snowflakes.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Most of them are pretty obvious, but East Group A, Hornets, Nets, Knicks, Magic, Sixers. Sixers, vielleicht überraschend, als Gruppefavorit, um davon herauszukommen. Ein großer Teil davon ist natürlich, dass Embiid heute hier ist. Er wird für Philadelphia seinen Debut in der Serie machen.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Aber Kevin Pelton, den ich gesehen habe, hat geschrieben, dass es ein gutes Beispiel ist, dass ein Team, das 1-6 startet, als Favorit ist, um ihre Gruppe zu gewinnen, wie die NBA-Cup von der normalen Saison differiert. Ja, ein bisschen seltsam. Das ist seltsam. Gutes Ding für Embiid, aber Cup-Games sind nie auf der zweiten Nacht eines Back-to-Back-Games.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
So, that's good for Embiid, good for Paul George. Good for the Sixers chances is what I'm saying here. Obviously they don't have Maxi though. So, do you have a favorite here? Do you think it is the Sixers or should it be the Knicks in your opinion? Or maybe another team?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Yeah, that's why it's odd that the Sixers, I think, are the favorite. Especially when you include the Maxi injury to all this. Like, I think I would lean... I would lean towards the Knicks to win this group. But, like, not a lot of confidence in really any of these teams. With the injuries that come into play for, obviously, the Magic and the Sixers.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Jamal Murray kommt unter den Ring. Das war einzigartig. Hey, sie sind alle Snowflakes, Mann! Sie sind alle Snowflakes, du hast recht. Das war lustig, das live auf dem Playback zu sehen. Wir werden nicht so viel dazu sprechen, aber wir fangen mit Donovan Mitchell mit 36 zu starten. Ja. Als die Cavs die Bowls 119-113 gewonnen haben. Für ihren 12. straight Win. Tass, sie sind der 8.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Es ist nicht Pelton. Es ist der ESPN Basketball Power Index.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Wir schauen auf Favoriten für die Gruppe. Ich schaue nicht zu weit nach vorne, denn du weißt nicht, wer im Knockout spielt. Wir schauen auf Gruppefavoriten. Und erinnere dich, du gewinnst deine Gruppe, du fährst zum Knockout und dann gibt es eine Wildcard von der Osten und der Westen. Das ist der Grund, warum ein Punktdifferenzial für einige von diesen kommt.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Pelton hat das sogar bemerkt, und ich glaube, das ist richtig. Wir haben noch nie Teams, die in den letzten Saisontournamenten zu Beginn der letzten Saison gespielt haben, die ihre Chancen geholfen haben, in die Knockout-Stage zurückzukehren. Das könnte jetzt anders sein. Ich denke, jetzt haben sie es herausgefunden. Wir könnten hier in den ersten Saisontournamenten große Rettungsschöpfe sehen.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Wenn wir eine gute und eine schlechte Mannschaft bekommen, oder eine Mannschaft, die vielleicht ihre Gruppe nicht gewinnen wird, aber ihre Chancen helfen können, durch den Wildcard zu kommen. Du kannst hier nicht den Fuß aus dem Gas nehmen. Genau.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
I know it's the same thing though. It's going to come into play. It's record, but then of course tiebreakers are point different.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
TBD anyway. East Group B. Pistons, Pacers, Heat, Bucks, Raptors. This one feels pretty open. Yeah, baby. Right? Like this one's very open at the top to win this at least. I guess the Heat are currently projected to win 30% of BPI simulations. But here we have sort of, I guess, to the Sixers maybe being favored in Group A, that the Bucks are one of the favorites to win this group.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
And they're one of the worst teams in the league right now. And Dame's not going to play tonight. He's in concussion protocol in their first game against the Raptors, who have played teams close. Yeah, who do you think... Wann ist das? Wo legst du dich hin?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ich dachte, du würdest mir sagen, dass die Raptors die NBA Cup gewinnen werden.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
NBA-Team, der mit 12 straight Wins anfängt. Offensichtlich haben die Warriors den Rekord mit 24 straight. You remember where we were? The night the streak snapped? That the Warriors lost?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ich nehme niemanden. Du hast zwei Homegames, zwei Awaygames. Du spielst nur die Teams in deiner Gruppe, um natürlich voranzutreten. Es ist wie... Es ist wie seltsam, die Bucks zu nehmen, aber... Es ist seltsam, jeden Team zu nehmen. Sie sind die Favoriten. And they sort of have to be as dumb as that sounds.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Yeah, who are like some of the worst teams because of injuries.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Yeah, because maybe they're looking at it like the regular season doesn't start until the Cup starts.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
That might be beneficial, the way people are going at Dame.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ah, wenn ein Kerl jemanden in die Augen schlägt, dann schlägt er ihn in diese Richtung. Natürlich könnte Miami einen Boost bekommen, wenn Jimmy Butler von seinem Ankleinjubel zurückkehrt. Ich meine, da ist auch der ganze Chris Middleton-Situation mit den Bucks. Ich weiß nicht, wie nah er von seinen Ankleinschmerzen zurückkommen ist. Also, dieser ganze NBA Cup ist überflutet von Schmerzen.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Aber ich werde die Bucks nehmen, um diesen Gruppen zu gewinnen. Even though they've barely won. Okay, okay. Group C in the East. The Hawks. Kaka! Celtics, Bulls, Cavaliers and Wizards. So this one's fun, right? Between the Celtics as the favorite to win and then the Cavaliers who haven't lost a damn game yet.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
And who ESPN's Brian Windhorst has said winning the NBA Cup is a good goal for the Cavaliers. The NBA's last remaining undefeated team. How do you feel about that? Is that a good goal for the Cavaliers to win the NBA Cup?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
I don't really think so either.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Für den Knock-Out-Rund, glaube ich, kriegst du sogar ein bisschen Geld.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Wird das die Gruppe sein, in der wir die Wildcard-Team haben? Ist das sicher zu sagen? Einer der Celtics oder Cavs gewinnt die Gruppe und der andere ist die Mannschaft, die vorwärts geht?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Außer du glaubst in die Hawks, Bulls und Wizards, die das wirklich verletzen, indem sie die Celtics oder Cavs verletzen.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ja, aber es ist lustig.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ja, und es könnte sehr viel entscheiden, wer gewinnt. Okay, nach Westen. Gruppe A. Rockets, Clippers, Timberwolves, Blazers und Kings. Here's maybe the team you're looking for.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Was that a holiday party? Yeah. That's why we were out there, right? Oh, that's why we were there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then the game was on and we were in the office. Oh my God. It was snapped. But anyway, it's still going for the Cavs here. What were your takeaways from Cleveland extending their win streak?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
To make an NBA Cup run. I think you're right. In the Rockets is at least who I'm sort of implying. Maybe it's the Kings. Maybe it's the Clippers. I don't know. There's like teams that are not like... Upper-Echelon-Title-Contenders, but maybe this is their championship.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Los geht's, Rockets! Wow! Warum nicht? Die Gruppefavoriten sind die Wolves, mit 31,2%. Pelton hat bemerkt, dass die Kings vielleicht ein wenig glücklich sind mit diesem Gruppenspiel-Schedule, weil sie sowohl die Wolves als auch die Rockets anbieten werden. Und das letzte Spiel, die Kings-Rockets, das könnte groß sein für das Finale dieses Gruppenspiels.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Und dann sind ihre beiden Rode-Spiele in der Intuit-Dome und in Portland. So it's like they got, you know, again, a little of this is luck, right? It's like they're getting the home games for the tougher opponents in the group and maybe the road games for the easier opponents. Although the Clippers have turned it on in the Intuit Dome.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
And Portland, obviously, is probably going to be last in this group. But maybe the Kings. I think I'll go Kings. For that reason, I'll go Kings.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
But I love the Rockets and they're one of my favorite teams to watch. West Group B. Thunder, Lakers, Suns, Spurs and Jazz. Okay. So, obviously I think the Thunder were like hands down the pick to win this thing before the Chet Holmgren injury. Maybe you've changed your tune a little bit. Then there's the Suns losing Kevin Durant for the first couple of games, at least of NBA Cup group play.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
So that sort of sucks. Where are you going with Group B here in the West?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ich meine, es war eine gute Gruppe, bis alle Schmerzen passiert sind. Wie Chet, Kevin Durant. Ich meine, wir wissen nicht mal, wie Anthony Davis ist. Ich weiß nicht, was er mit dem Eingriff ist.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ja, die Thunder. Aber was werden sie gegen Wemby tun?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
No, probably not. Pelton noticed that three of the five teams in this group from the Western Conference have a negative point differential. The Lakers, Spurs and Jazz. That's weird. Nur fünf Teams mit einer negativen Punktdifferenz in der Western Conference und drei davon sind in dieser Gruppe. Vielleicht ist das die Gruppe, die den Wildcard gewinnt.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Könnte es sein, dass es die Thunder oder die Suns gewinnt und der andere den Wildcard-Spot gewinnt? Oder werden die Lakers wieder einen magischen Rund machen? Will LeBron die NBA-Cup verteidigen?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ich habe das auch gehört. Es ist noch nie getan, habe ich gehört. Ich glaube, ich werde... Weißt du was? Ich werde hier schwirren. Ich werde die Suns gewinnen. Das ist seltsam ohne Kevin Durant. Aber ich werde es gewinnen. Und dann die Thunder als Wildcard. West Group C. Das ist ziemlich gut. Mavericks, Nuggets, Warriors, Pelicans, Grizzlies.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
I remember when they announced these groups, we were like, holy crap, this one is stacked. That's changed a little bit with how the Pelicans have been a mash unit and everybody has dropped for them and they're not really one of the better teams in the Western Conference.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
But everybody else, especially after the Nuggets slow start, Mavericks are like losing some of these close games, but Warriors have been great. You know, Grizzlies, when they have John Morant, they're a different unit. So do you have a prediction for West Group C or at least takeaways from this group?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Not at least to start it. He's week to week. Hopefully he's back. Hopefully he misses a game or two of the NBA Cup.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Yeah, three of the West's top six teams in point differential are in this group. So it's a stacked group. I mean, it's probably the most difficult group when you're talking, obviously, the way the Warriors are playing and the Nuggets turning it around. And yeah, the Mavs and even the Grizzlies. I guess I'll go, man, I just, ah, boy, that's a tough one. I don't know who to pick here.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
I feel like we won't get the wild card from this group, though, because those other teams will sort of cannibalize each other a little bit, maybe. Absolutely, yeah. And that's why I like the Thunder Suns. Those two coming out, maybe, of the other group. But give me... Give me the Nuggets. Ich kann nicht aus dem Jokic-Bandwagon gehen, wie er spielt.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Yeah, okay. Well, are you excited for the NBA Cup? Second go at it. Last year, nobody knew how it worked. I remember that. Yeah. I feel at least this year, people are like, okay, the groups and the point differentials and that stuff. Okay, it makes a little more sense now to most people. So, you know, you got the Tuesdays tonight, you got Fridays. We do this for a couple weeks. I like that part.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
The courts are better, yeah. Overall, yes. I don't think they're all bangers. I think some of them are eyesores still. But we got to see them in action, too. We see the photos. They look a little differently at times.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
That was a Solomon, was it? Yeah, it was. Victor himself. Okay, we'll be talking to Clay as I said. We'll be talking to Trey. Maybe we'll talk to Clay too. We'll talk to Trey on tomorrow's show because he'll be there with Ash tonight. See the court in person and get Clay Thompson's return to the bay here. Everybody wearing Captain hats.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Trey's got to wear a Captain hat tomorrow morning when we talk to him, I hope.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Bring him in with some yacht rock, JD, when we talk to Trey tomorrow morning.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Let's have a little fun in the Up-Down Report.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
So, I just said I was going to ride that Jokic horse and the Nuggets to a Group C advancement. Let's talk Jokic, because the guy's averaging a triple-double and a career-high in scoring. His Nuggets are now 7-3, despite starting 0-2. And they were picking up some key injuries and everybody started panicking, right? And they were eking out these wins, but they got a good record now.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
But even by his standards, Jokic has been unbelievable to start this year. But will that be enough? Um MVP-Votanten zu überzeugen, ihm einen vierten zu erneuern. Und ich weiß, es ist sehr früh. Wir sind nicht mal an Thanksgiving, auch nicht an Weihnachten, um über den MVP zu sprechen. Aber es ist ein interessantes Debatte, ob dieser Typ wirklich einen vierten MVP gewinnen kann.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Und würdest du ihn jetzt an der Top-MVP-Ladder haben? Ein paar Wochen später.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
No way. No. You couldn't. You would be lying through your teeth if you're trying to convince yourself right now through 10 games that he's not the MVP. He is the most valuable player to his team. Again, which sounds insane. He's averaging basically 30 points per game, nearly 14 boards, nearly 12 assists.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ich meine, wenn er mit diesen Stätten weitergeht, hat kein Spieler in der NBA-Historie diese Zahlen für eine ganze Saison. Das Ding mit ihm ist, du hast es gesagt, er führt all diese Kategorien für ihn, als er es in den letzten Saisonen gemacht hat. Ich denke, was faszinierend ist, könnte er all diese anderen Saisonen vorher gemacht haben? Und ich dachte, er könnte es wahrscheinlich haben.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Aber er merkte, dass er es nicht muss. Er hatte mehr Hilfe, die Jungs waren nicht verletzt. Jamal war vielleicht besser. Er ist so ein unabhängiger Spieler, dass er nicht sagen muss, ich muss 30-35 scoren. Ich muss all diese 3s schießen. Alles geht durch ihn. Aber auf einem anderen Niveau. Aber er merkte, als sie langsam begonnen haben, dass er das tun muss. Ich muss das Team über Wasser halten.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ich muss alles tun. Kann er das für eine ganze Saison machen? Das ist das, wo ich sage, ich weiß es nicht. Ich will ihn nicht beurteilen. Es fühlt sich so an, als hätte jemand es tun können. Weil die Zahlen sind verrückt. Und die Klatsch-Stats, da gibt es auch alles. Hier ist das Ding. Du kannst nicht sagen, dass das leere Stats sind.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Every single one of these points and boards and assists and whatever is needed for them to still win by two on any given night. By five in overtime. For him to get them there and then drag them in overtime.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ja, er hat sie im Spiel gehalten, aber dann, und das ist so die Geschichte der Cavs in dieser Saison, war es jemand anderes, der sie übernommen hat. Darius Garland war wieder einmal der echte Closer in diesem Spiel. Er hatte das wunderschöne, Nash-like Layup, mit 24 Sekunden, um es aufzunehmen. Er machte einfach alle richtigen Spiele.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Der einzige Gegenteil von ihm nicht zu sein, ist, dass man sich davon müde fühlt. Man will nicht, dass er eine Viertelstunde hat, weil man ihn nicht in dieser gewaltigen Ära von Leuten, die nur so viele gewonnen haben, will. Ich vergesse nicht, wer das geschrieben hat, aber es ist wirklich wahr.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Je mehr MVP-Trophäe ein NBA-Spieler gewinnt, desto unwahrlicher wird es, dass er einen anderen landen wird. Ob das fair ist oder nicht, das ist meistens die Wahrheit. Ich war vor ein paar Tagen auf YouTube und schaue kleine Jokic-Klips, andere Shows. Shows, die ich noch nie gehört habe. Ich wusste nicht, wer diese Leute waren. Jeder hat einen Podcast.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Und ich schaue ein paar von ihnen und es ist so, es gab Leute, die blödsinnig gesagt haben, dass sie es nicht wollen, sie zu gewinnen. Und dann kommen die anderen Leute und sagen, na komm schon, das ist ein verrückter Argument. Du bist einfach zufrieden damit?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ja, aber du hast auch, korrigiere mich, wenn ich falsch bin, wie alle anderen gedacht, es gibt keinen Weg, mehr zu tun. Er hat schon stupide Stats aus all seinen anderen MVP-Jahren. Was könnte er noch tun? Und er hat sich verbessert. Er hat es. Und er hat es gehabt, wie wir gesprochen haben.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Und wenn er misst, tippt er es einfach rein.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Aber das andere Ergebnis war, Cavs-Down, ich denke, es waren etwa neun Punkte für die Bulls im dritten Quartal. And they looked a little gassed, a little tired. Maybe like they were okay of like, okay, maybe our first loss is coming here. Maybe Trey Kirby called it in the Bulls are going to beat the Cavs tonight. But Kenny Atkinson, he got crazy. He's wild right now.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Er ist einfach der Meister, wenn er einen Schuss verpasst und seinen eigenen Miss ausgibt.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Er hat sein Team ausgesprochen, wir können nicht drei schießen.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Fast forward to the end of the Und dann haben wir SGA auf einem unglaublichen Thunder-Team oder Tatum auf einem unglaublichen Celtics-Team oder Mitchell sogar auf einem unglaublichen Cavs-Team. Das ist wie, was auch immer, zehn Spiele klar, wo die Nuggets sind. Das wird wieder einmal ein faszinierender Debatte sein. Was bedeutet wertvoll?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Wie du sagst, nimm Jokic aus den Nuggets und sie sind wahrscheinlich die schlechteste Mannschaft in der Liga. Das wäre vielleicht richtig, aber das wird Spaß machen. Ja. Das wird wahrscheinlich sein, was passiert.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Und ich denke, das ganze Westbrook gewinnen, der MVP, das Jahr, in dem er gewonnen hat. Du fängst an zu wundern, ob irgendeiner der Verteidiger jemals wirklich ein Team gewinnen will, das, sagen wir mal, nicht in der Top 4 oder 5 in einer Konferenz ist. Das hat viel Widerstand gegeben und wird immer noch gesprochen.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Wie groß er war und wie wichtig er war für das Team, für die Thunder, um sie zu gewinnen. Aber sie waren immer noch viel niedriger in den Rankingen oder in den Seedings. Ich weiß nicht. Ich frage mich, ob wir jetzt fast eine bestimmte Regel haben, dass sie nicht für jemanden wählen, außer für die Top 3 oder was auch immer. Was auch immer du es in der Arbiträr-Line nennst. Ja, wer weiß.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
He's cooking the perfect game, perfect season, I guess. He put Dean Wade in at the five. That was their center, really, with an all-bench lineup. Ty Jerome, Niang, Karis Levert, and Sam Merrill, along with Dean Wade. Das ist ein verrückter 5. Und es hat funktioniert. Das kleine Ball-Line-Up klickte. Es war wie ein 19-4-Rund.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Lass uns von dir hören. Kann Jokic als Vierter gewinnen? Sind wir zu früh darüber geredet? Du hast recht, wir sind. Okay, nächstes hier. Die Washington Wizards haben ihre City Edition-Gruppe für die 24-25-Saison über den Wochenende entdeckt. Sie werden als die Beyond Boundaries-Uniform genannt. Und die Gruppe baut sich aus der letzten Saison-Uni aus und bietet eine Hydrogen-Blu-Base an.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
It's a light blue, baby blue is what I thought it was called, but it's called hydrogen blue. I actually like it though. Yeah, up or down on these Wizards 2425 City Edition Unis tests.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ich würde sagen, die Spurs sollten das tragen.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Das Distrikt von Columbia. Ja, genau. They did that last year, right?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ich mag die Farbe sicherlich. Diese Designs zählen auch Benjamin Banneker, ein afroamerikanischer Mathematiker und Astronomer, der 40 Steinmarker auf den originalen Grenzen von Washington platzierte. Ich wusste das nicht.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Hast du das überhaupt gewusst? Ich wusste es nicht. Ich habe gestern einen Deep Dive gemacht. Was zur Hölle reden die hier? Das ist cool. Und sie werden diese 19 Mal dieses Jahr mit einem thematisierten Korken tragen.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Do you think there's an uptick in NBA players wearing undershirts? I think there is. We've done this show for a long time. I don't remember this many guys wearing t-shirts. Maybe it's all that padded undergarment too. Skims for all I know. I don't know what's going on there.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
But it feels like more guys do it. Ja, ich stimme dazu. They're just like, here, everything's an extra large.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
They're thin. Now I think they can make them custom jerseys.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
We need a deep dive on this. What's going on? Yeah. Good call. Yeah, maybe people, maybe the younger generation doesn't feel confident in their shoulders and their biceps. Es ist auch eine Möglichkeit. Final Updown. This one's really for you and you've been teasing it all show here. Are you up or down on the NBA app? Because you're talking about it a lot.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Sie hatten Deflectionen und Steals und Stopps und gehen die andere Richtung. Niang hat verrückte Schüsse gespielt. Jerome war wieder einmal großartig. Das ist das, was die Cavs zurückgebracht hat. Mitchell hat sie in der ersten Halbzeit gehalten. Dann das kleine Ball-Line-Up, das Kenny Atkinson mitgemacht hat.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
You want to see who's started the early games here.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
I got you trapped in there. I got you going like this, swiping, swiping, swiping.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Yeah, or to come, or they want you to tune in to. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
I mean, you just want them all. You want to open up the NBA app and go right to the scores and the games currently on.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Dude, they've turned the NBA app into TikTok.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
I mean, it's a version of that. And I'm not saying that's a bad idea. I'm sure it works better with the younger generation. You're talking about roulettes and swiping. That's what it is. The highlights they do that with now.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Er hat sie wieder in die Linie gebracht und dann war es die Zeit für Garland, dann hat er es geschlossen. Aber wow, er kann nichts falsch machen. Das ist eine verrückte Linie.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Absolutely. They don't even know you have a phone. They're like, you're old, man.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Yeah, 10-second highlights.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ja, sie haben viel drin, ist das, was du sagst.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Und es hat geliefert.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Why don't you have a feature? It's like when you almost start it up or maybe the first time you download it. It's like... Wie viel willst du? Wie groß bist du auf einer 1-5-Skala? Oh, ich bin 5, Baby. Ich will alles. Ich will Pistons und Rockets sehen, wenn ich bei 7.15 Uhr in die App reingehe. Ich will den Score wissen. Ich will wissen, dass es 8-4 ist. Aber vielleicht willst du nicht das Level.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ich will Marquee-Games. Ich weiß, du kannst dein Team wählen. Das erste, was ich bekomme, ist Raptors-News oder irgendein Spiel. Hier ist es, Raptors.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ja. Also, lass uns das Level erhöhen.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ja, ich bin mit dir.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ich benutze nicht so viel die NBA App. Aber ich sitze immer vor meinem Computer. Es ist alles auf NBA YouTube, NBA.com, der echten Website. All the other sites that do a good job, being host of highlights, giving you the funnier stuff, stuff like that.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Years prior it did not work all that often. But it's a lot better. Alright, let's get to the game. Wow. Our Pick'em Game. It is Dallas... In Golden State take on the Warriors. It's Clay's return. Get your captain hats on. Warriors are favored by two and a half. Pretty small line. I guess you said there was some movement, right?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Nein, ich habe sie nicht verraten. Ich bin ein bisschen auf dem Weg hier. Ich denke, mein Geist war es, die Warriors zu wählen.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Yeah, there's going to be a buzz in the building.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
You would imagine with Klay's return. But, you know, would it be cool for Klay to have like a hell of a throwback game? That would be awesome. Of course. Then again, would it be cool if Klay and Curry are like bombing away and trading threes? Yeah, that would be awesome. The Mavs have lost a lot of close games here. Aber mit 1 oder 2 Punkten.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Wer würde sagen, dass das nicht mehr passieren wird? Ein weiteres 1-Possession-Spiel hier. Wo sie eine Chance haben, es zu gewinnen oder was auch immer. Eine Chance, es in den Overtime zu nehmen oder so. Könnte Dallas dieses Spiel gewinnen?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
So we will see. I'll take Dallas. Otherwise, everybody else has the Warriors to win by three or more. Again, we'll have Trey Kirby joining us live on tomorrow's No Dunks Podcast to talk about that game. Him and Esch in the building. If you're going to that game tonight... Bis zum nächsten Mal. Tschüss. Potentially winning his fourth MVP. Those Wizards Unis. And the NBA app.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Until tomorrow, Clipper Bros. You heard it here first. Have a great time. Turn up. Love you guys. Awesome.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
What do you call it? A boat hat.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Captain's hat. Captain Clay, sicher. Skipper's hat, vielleicht? Oh Mann, das ist ein altes. Gilligan, der hat so ein Bucket hat. Jetzt hast du recht. Lass uns in den Kommentaren wissen, was du für Hats nennst.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ja, ich vergesse nicht, wer es in unserem Playback-Stream gesagt hat. Es war so, es sieht aus wie ein YMCA-Lineup. Mit diesen fünf Jungs. Vielleicht nicht wie die Jungs, die wir im Gym spielen. Aber sie waren am Kochen. Ja, Tye, Karis LeVert und George Nyang, alle zwölf Punkte. Ich glaube, Dean Wade schiebt in drei.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Sam Merrill hat nicht mal drei gespielt, aber das hat wirklich den Tide in diesem Spiel geändert. Und ja, wiederum, dann haben sie sich einfach um die Sache gekümmert, um es auf zwölf Runden zu erweitern. Und wenn, weißt du, es kommt noch ein Bulls-Spiel. Was haben sie? Es gibt ein Hornets-Spiel da drin. Vielleicht gibt es ein Sixers-Spiel.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Und dann, natürlich, gibt es das große Spiel, das alle ihre Augen auf haben, nächste Woche gegen die Celtics. Ja. Können sie immer noch undefeiert sein, wenn sie in das Spiel gehen?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ja, es ist in Philly, zu Hause gegen die Bulls und Hornets, also habe ich die Teams richtig, habe es nicht in der richtigen Ordnung. Und dann gehen sie auf die Straße, um die Celtics zu spielen. Es könnte 15-0 sein, was nicht viele Teams, nur die Warriors haben es je besser gemacht, als 15-0 zu starten.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ja, das wird ein riesiges Cup-Spiel sein, das ihre Gruppe gewinnen könnte. Obwohl, die Punkt-Differenzialität kommt in den Spiel. Aber ja, das wird groß sein. Lass uns weitergehen. Du wolltest damit anfangen. Vielleicht sollten wir aufhören. Shea Gildas Alexander hatte eine Karrierehohe von 45 Punkten in der Thunders-Win. over the Clippers.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Guten Morgen, sweet world! Und willkommen zum No-Dunks-Podcast auf der Athletik-Network. Es ist Dienstag, November 12th, 2024. Ich bin J.E. Skeets hier in der Klassik-Faktorie und neben mir, wie immer, Tass Mellis. Podcast-Listener, NBA-Liebhaber. Das ist für dich. Über und hinter, machen die Magie statt. Wir nennen ihn den Super-Producer, es ist J.E. Hallo. Da ist er.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
They did this without Chet Holmgren, the first game without him. They went small. They were forced to go small. Mark Dagnall playing J-Dub really sort of as their five. I mean, I guess Shea's the tallest guy on the floor for the Thunder at points in this. But they get it done. He was awesome. 13-21 from the field, 15-16 at the line. He also had nine assists. An MVP performance from Shea as they
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
They get it done in an up-and-down game where the Clippers obviously had the advantage in size and out-rebounded them by a huge margin. But they still get the victory. Okay, see.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Yeah, they go small ball at times, for sure.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ich habe mich ein paar Mal für Kaffee verletzt. Er spielt gute Defense. Und dann, weißt du, Shea bekommt ihn, oder er schießt einen Bein, oder vielleicht lehnt er sich und bekommt einen guten Anruf hier oder da. Und dann ist er einfach so schlitternd. Es gab so viele Mal, wo er mich gefragt hat, was ich tun möchte. Ein bisschen Hilfe bitte, aber er war einfach dabei.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ich war überrascht, dass das sein Karriere-High war. Ich glaube, er hat oft, also er hat meistens 31 Punkte gespielt. Wir haben über das letzte Jahr geredet. Aber er hat, glaube ich, 43, 44 und 42 Punkte gespielt. Er hat noch keinen 50er-Burger. Er wird es jeden Tag. Ja. Er wird es, besonders jetzt, als er den 3-Punkte-Schuss gespielt hat. Das wird dir helfen, deinen Scorer da hoch zu bringen.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ja, er hatte 31 letzte Nacht und hat eigentlich ausgefoult, als die Clippers 4 runtergingen, mit 90 Sekunden zu gehen. Das war ein scheiß 6-Koll, dachte ich auch. Ja, die Leute waren müde. Ja, das war schwer, dachte ich. Er war so, was? Ich habe ihn kaum getroffen. Er war so, wie er es zu seinem Trainer gemacht hat. Er hat es zu Tai Liu gemacht. Er war so, das ist alles, was ich gemacht habe.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Hier sind wir, nur die drei von uns hier in der Faktorie. Trey und Esch sind tatsächlich in der Bay, gerade jetzt, bereit für Clay Thompson's Return Tonight. Bis zum nächsten Mal. Aber wir hatten noch einen Wedgie. Und die kommen immer wieder. Wir haben den Live-Playback gefangen. Das war lustig. Und dann haben wir debattiert, wer für diesen Wedgie Kredit bekommt. Ist es Sabonis oder Champagny?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Tai Liu war müde. Nein, es ist okay. Er war großartig.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
You can do the small ball stuff for a game or two, but like you already said it, it's a long season and I don't think it's possible really to do it over a huge stretch. So that's what I'm fascinated to see, like how quickly Hartenstein comes back. The other Jalen Williams obviously has one of their other bigs. It's like, Du bekommst kleine Leute, die inspiriert werden.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ich denke, sie haben Spaß damit. Sie denken, guck mal, wir werden dieses Team gewinnen. Wir sind alle 6-6. Es gibt etwas dazu. Aber ich denke, das ist sehr, sehr schwierig. Ich meine, sie spielen Zubats, er war ein Monster. Aber okay, mach das gegen deine Jokic, mach das gegen deine Anthony Davises. Weißt du, wie ein weiteres Level hoch von Biggs, zum einen.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Und dann ist es einfach, kannst du es sogar physisch über eine Woche oder zwei machen? Ja. Das wird schon lange dauern. Sie werden den ganzen NBA Cup ohne ihn machen. Und wer weiß, wie ernst sie es nehmen. Aber sie zählen in den Win-Loss-Kolumnen für die normale Saison. Ich denke immer, das ist cool für ein Spiel, vielleicht auch, aber kann man es für einen langfristigen Zeitraum machen?
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ich weiß es nicht. Die Größe ist wichtig, Mann.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Zumindest haben sie so viel Depth, dass sie diese Jungs spielen können. Sie können zu zehn Jungs gehen. Das kann contribuieren, wenn man seine Beine und seine Energie ein wenig retten kann, ohne diese Jungs zu beteiligen, um ein paar Positionen für 40 Minuten zu spielen. Das ist ein fairer Konter. Ich meine, es ist lustig, es ist hell zu sehen.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Im Endeffekt ist es eigentlich wirklich, wirklich lustig, Basketball, zumindest war das Spiel, wenn man das auf dem Playback gesehen hat.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Das ist interessant. Ich weiß nicht, wann er medizinisch klar ist, um zu spielen. Ich glaube, es ist noch ein bisschen, wie ein paar Wochen.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Ich glaube, sie hoffen, dass er vor 25 Jahren zurück ist. Aber nicht mich auf das anrufen.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Let's slip this game in here. Cam Thomas' late shooting lifts the nets over the reeling pelicans. That's putting it lightly, I think, there from the AP report. 107-105. They eked out the victory. I mean, the pelicans are on a losing streak here. They have like... Sie wollen so viel von Boston Junior machen. Es ist eine verrückte Mannschaft, die sie spielen müssen. Trey Murphy kam zurück.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Er sah nicht gut aus. Er sah aus wie ein Mann, der lange nicht gespielt hat. Er hat viel Training verpasst. Ich glaube, er hat 10 oder 14 Schüsse verpasst. Cam Thomas was the sort of hero for the Nets down the stretch. 10 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter, including that huge step-back three with like 30 seconds to go. We were like, whoa, we popped on that one. That was crazy.
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NBA Cup Predictions, Cavs Join Rarefied Air & SGA Scores Career-High 45
Boston Junior was like, nah, Green, you take him. And then Cam Thomas just sidestepped like a mile to the left like he was James Harden and hit the three.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Yeah, I thought Denver dominated in transition. It looked like they were playing fast break basketball all night long. In reality, it turns out OKC won the fast break points 27 to 24. But I still think 24 is too many for Denver from OKC's perspective. Make them settle down and play against your set defense. That was a huge thing that tilted the Nuggets way, I thought.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
And then Aaron Gordon had that dunk through Chet Holmgren. That was awesome. I had to watch that several times to be like, was it a thrunk? Kind of. The ball leaves his hands for a second, but very powerful.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Bro, DeAndre Jordan was locked in, like, eyes wide open. He didn't even play.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Love it when a series starts in game one, huh? Oh, yes, I do. Sometimes you got to wait till game three. I know. Not now. Not now. Not with these ones.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
That was unbelievable.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
It felt like the Celtics were trying to put me to bed in the third quarter. They're like, we got a 20-point lead, and we're going to keep bombing away to hopefully get up 30 and end this game so I can go to sleep and get my voice back. But it turns out it was the 2022-23 Celtics all over again.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
This felt like a game they used to lose all the time, where they get up big, and then they just can't stop shooting threes. It was 72-52 with 6.20 left in the third quarter, so... Basically, 23 minutes remaining, 29 of the next 40 shots for Boston were three-pointers. It felt like a pickup basketball game. You're playing to 11. You've got nine. Nobody will take a one. It's impossible.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
We're only taking twos. Everybody wants the walk-off shot, and that's kind of what it felt like. I'm totally with you. Tatum needs to be much better. attacking mismatches. He can be a bit of a Derek Zoolander. He's only got one move. He's going blue steel all the time. It's the step back three every single time. He did have another move back in the day.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
It was the fade away from the mid-range, and people hated that as well. But we got to see Magnum when you've got Jalen Brunson on you, when you've got Mitchell Robinson. That one especially was rough. And draw a foul. He did it a lot against the Magic in Game 5. I remember Tatum basically shut the door. He was like, what, 35, 36, 37 the last three games, getting to the hoop, getting inside.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
But he obviously just didn't have it. And a little bit of, I think... Credit to the Knicks defense in the first 30 minutes of the game. They allowed 20 free throw attempts for seven turnovers. Not great. Last 23 minutes for six turnovers only put the Celtics on the line six times. That was humongous. And Brunson actually had a buddy.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
He was awesome in the fourth quarter and overtime scored 18 points. couple assists, couple of turnovers, but OG and Inouye be 21 in the second half, basically four of six for three. And I didn't think any of them were going in until the corner one. His release doesn't inspire a lot of confidence because he shoots it. And then he like chases it a little bit inside.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
You're like, oh, that doesn't look like it's going to go in. But he was making them. He was incredible. Bridges made plays. Hart made plays. Basically outside of Towns, who did some decent stuff, I thought, later in the game. Made a nice play here and there. They got performances from everybody. So that's a huge win for the Knicks to be down 20. A frustrating Towns game.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Brunson missed an easy game winner at the end of regulation. Probably didn't expect to be that open and to still win in overtime. That's awesome.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
I thought he was going to break his neck on the dunk. Oh, yeah. He got that fast break dunk with like 230 left in overtime. Hung on the rim. And I don't know who's behind him. Tatum, maybe. I think Tatum fouls him. And OG's legs go way up underneath him. He held on to the rim. He's strong. But it was a scary looking moment.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Yeah, Bridges looked great, too.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Made a lot of defensive plays. Made a three and came up with a new celebration. He was covering his face and looking around him. We didn't get a good angle of it, I didn't think, but he's been going with Manny Machado for a long time, so... Good to see innovation late into the playoffs.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
It's the home court, just like that. I think the Celtics should be more confident than the Thunder are. They have to think, we're not going to shoot 25% from three in another game. And we'll probably get Porzingis back. So I think the Celtics should still be confident.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Yeah, I was going to say, there's a couple of stats for it. Mitchell Robinson went two of eight in the second quarter, and the Celtics built a huge lead. They had their best quarter that quarter, scored 35 points to 20 for the Knicks. It was working.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
It was hurting the flow, but it worked 100%.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
That's it. Who else is going to get followed, though? I mean, Hackabig is back, 100%. Mitchell Robinson, Stephen Adams, they used it on the Warriors did last round. So I'm like, Rudy Gobert is 9 for 18 from the free throw line so far in the playoffs. Drayvon Green, 4 for 7. They getting hacked?
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Yeah, maybe. We'll find out possibly tonight.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Is this going to be an Anthony Edwards series? Prior to their series against the Lakers, he told his teammates, be ready. I know they're going to come and double me. Try and make somebody else beat us. He was prepared for that. Great playmaking throughout the series. I think he had six turnovers in round one. It was his... A huge leap for Anthony Edwards.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
31 assists to just six turnovers in five games. If he does that, that's awesome. The Warriors, you look at who they're going to be rolling out there. They just do not have a great matchup for Anthony Edwards, which kind of is my second question. Who is Steve Kerr going to start in this series? Who is Steve Kerr going to finish with in this series?
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
You know, Curry, Butler, Draymond, they're out there. Their most played lineup is Pajemski and Buddy Heald. alongside those. That ain't going to happen against this Timberwolves team. Good luck with that. I think Jimmy is going to have to guard Julius Randle.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
He's the only guy in their starting lineup that has the bulk for it, which means it's probably Pajemski, I guess, will be the starter for Golden State. He seems to be the guy and maybe Buddy's the adjustment guy. Obviously, Buddy will have no chance against Anthony Edwards. Then you look at Ant's stats against Golden State this year, 26-6-6 on 45-44-90 shooting splits.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
I think this could be a big series for Anthony Edwards just because looking at the schemes, it doesn't look like there's somebody who's really going to be able to stick him for Golden State. Gary Payton II, I imagine, is probably their best perimeter defender, but that hurts you on the offensive end.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
in the playoffs so that's what happened so he's got something to play with yeah it's right okay good i'm glad to hear that he has some room here i thought you were gonna say like five and three oh then he's not gonna be on his best behavior i was like how soon is this gonna happen the game where draymond green chokes rudy gobert was a minute and 43 seconds into their game the 10th game of the season it was the second game oddly enough of a back-to-back with golden state
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
So I guess 49 minutes in. But if it happens after game two, their first run in, I'll be shocked.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
I'm, in a role-player sense, like the Warriors need random dudes to show up. That's how they won their first series. Gary Payton II helped close out Game 1, had a couple of nice layups off of double teams on a Steph Curry pick-and-roll, went to the hoop and scored. Game 3, they win. Buddy has 16 points. GP2 has 17 points. Game four, Buddy 15, Quentin Post 13.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Game seven, of course, Buddy goes insane. 33 points on nine threes for the win. So they need to get some dudes having random games. They need a good Jimmy Butler series for the entirety of the series. Curry has to represent for all of us millennials who don't want to see our era completely swept by the wayside. For the Timberwolves, it's offensive rebounding.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
That is going to be a huge bellwether for them. They were second in offensive rebound rate against the Lakers. You look at what the Warriors did. They were last in defensive rebounding rate against the Houston Rockets, who played gigantic dudes. Shangoon was big, but Steven Adams is like the greatest of all time offensive rebounders. Gobert's not quite at that level, but he ain't no slouch.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
He had seven in Game 4, nine in that Game 5 dominating victory. So... You hear Brian Windhorst say it all the time. No rebounds, no rings. I think that's a Pat Riley saying, how are the Warriors going to be able to rebound against a team very similar to what we saw in Houston? They've got a great defense. We know they're going to play two bigs at times. We know they're tough on the glass.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
How does Golden State take that away?
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Part of that credit goes to Buddy and part of that goes to Jalen Green, probably more so to Jalen Green. I think Buddy has a tougher ask this time around. Yes.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
He cares. But that's why Kerr was able to play him. He's like, we are not worried about the perimeter players for the Houston Rockets. We can get away with playing Buddy Heald on their leading scorer.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Trey, get us started. Where are you going? Wolves, Warriors. I love all the connections that you mentioned. Draymond versus Gobert, Jimmy Butler versus...
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
starters and minnesota fans it's going to be quite the reception for him and then of course steph curry playing against the team that passed him in the draft two times he's beaten all the other teams that have passed him in the draft hasn't yet faced the minnesota timberwolves we'll see how it goes but looking at the whole series i think minnesota is is so similar to houston who gave the warriors a ton of problems but minnesota is more experienced they're a little bigger
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
They're a lot better. And they have Anthony Edwards. So I'm going with the Timberwolves in six for this one. Okay.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
I thought he missed the last two. Nonetheless, you could tell they were missing him. They couldn't shoot. They got outshot 19-9. I do think Mobley is hurt as well. He looked like he was laboring. He's got to chase Pascal Siakam around on a team that already runs fast breaks and stuff. I think Kenny Atkinson, coach of the year, Kenny Atkinson, it's official.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
He said, these guys are all going to be doubtful, but they'll be listed as questionable.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Semantics. That's what Kenny said. He said it's the same thing to him. Yeah, exactly. They might play. I kind of agree with that. You're in, you're out. Or maybe you're in or you're out. Who knows what the levels to it are. But if you're missing three or your top six, that's bad against a team that already beat you in game one on the road. The Pacers get the shots they want no matter what.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
They had no answer for Halliburton. That was my big concern. for Cleveland was not having somebody who could stay in front of him. 22 points, 13 assists, zero turnovers for him. Andrew Nembhard is the career leader in three-point percentage in the playoffs right now, shooting 51% for his career. An incredible riser. Look, if you are a Cavs fan, you have to be thinking,
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
They're not going to shoot as well as they did in game one. We're not going to shoot as poorly as we did in game one. I think it's more so true from the Cleveland side. I think they'll shoot better, but I don't know what they do defensively against the Pacers because the Pacers are just a great system. They're so unselfish. They don't care who's the leading scorer.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
They don't care who takes the most shots. They just care that the good shot is taken.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
I laugh every time. Oh, it's legit called that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It sounds like something just Trey Kirby called it. No, but it does. It really coats it up. Good, good. I think it was the Pop Punk Suite that got me. It was. Man, it went from like Blink-182 to Sum 41 to Fall Out Boy. And by the 18th time, I was yelling, number one, but don't buy that. I didn't have any bullets left to fire, man.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
A little Quebecois flavor that I really liked was when Celine Dion's It's All Coming Back to Me Now played. Full song. Full song. To the quiet outro as well. It's like an anthem. Yeah, it was great. Touching like this, holding like that. Beautiful stuff.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
I think you guys nailed it. Denver never panicked. You could tell that this is the more experienced team between the two that are playing, though it's not like OKC is a brand-new team. This is their second go-through, but we've seen Denver do it before, and they've got so many good clutch options. Jokic finished second in Clutch Player of the Year. We've seen him make playoff game winners.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Jamal Murray was Mr. Game Winner, especially against the Lakers last year, too, in the first series. Now you've got two from Aaron Gordon in, what, they played eight playoff games? So far, pretty impressive stuff. But OKC's still up nine points with two minutes and 50 seconds left. Yeah. Shea's having a good game.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Like, you could be thinking, OKC's going to take this to win, but they run a two-man game with Murray and Jokic, as always. Thunder are trying some funky stuff. It ends up being SGA guarding Jokic. Just walks him down, draws a foul. No big deal. Two minutes left. Same thing. It ends up being Caruso, the guy who ends up on Jokic. Better matchup for the Thunder, for sure.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Caruso was awesome yesterday. Instead... Jokic just meanders down the lane, hits him with a hook, then a minute 15 seconds left, pick and roll, no switch this time. It ends up being Hartenstein guarding Jokic out on the three-point line, fakes 18,000 times, and then just drops the three over his head. It was great stuff. It left me with a big-time appreciation for Ivica Zubac.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Jokic topped out at 36-21 against the Clippers, averaged 24-11-10, and then in Game 1 against OKC, 42-17. 22, that's a lot of roast beef. Don't even have to do a voice for it right now. And then six assists. You just saw how light in the jeans Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein were. They both got into foul trouble.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
They both had basically a half to try and stop Jokic, and neither of them could do it, and Jokic knew he had the advantage. 29 field goal attempts, that's a ton of shots. Certainly the Thunder were trying to make him a scorer, but he wasn't just settling for three-pointers. He took six of them.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
And like I said earlier, anytime he saw the matchup of there's a little guy on me, I am going to the hoop, going to draw free throws or score easily inside. Not to mention all of the offensive rebounding. You could tell he was the biggest dude out there.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
It was too fast. First time they did it was three. They were up three. Fouled with 12.9 seconds left. That's Jokic hitting two free throws. The Thunder run the perfect inbounds, out-of-bounds play. Sideline, out-of-bounds. Easy layup for Shea Gilgis-Alexander. They get the ball in right away again. The foul. 10.7 seconds. Instantly. Jokic is sitting on the bench.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
He would have not been able to come back in. It's not like he ended up winning him this game in the last 10 seconds. But come on. You're taking your chances with him sitting on the other side. Then, of course, Chet misses his free throws. And then, honestly, the three-pointer Aaron Gordon got way too easy. That looked like a possession from the second quarter of a game.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
How they were able to get the ball up court. Maybe they weren't expecting him to shoot a three in that scenario, but certainly Dagnall botched it a little bit. He should have said, we're not fouling over 10 seconds. Let him bring the ball up a little bit, and then foul.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
I mean, Westbrook is out there, but he's probably the number two guy you want taking a three in that scenario. Though apparently Aaron Gordon now lives in a gym. I didn't know this. I saw it on ESPN this morning. Maybe summer of 2023, he moved into a warehouse, turned it into a gym that is also his house. So when he wakes up, he just goes and shoots. And now he's a 40% three-point shooter.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
That's worked. Sounds like every NBA player should do that. Live in a gym, literally, and you'll be a good three-point shooter. But still, the look was way too easy. Chet was rattled. There's no other way around it. He got completely punked by Jokic for the majority of the game. He missed two free throws, and then he got a jumper hit in his face. This was a bad game for Chet Holmgren.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Yeah, InTown Stars went bankrupt recently. A bunch of guys from basketball wanted to buy it and turn it into a basketball gym, but I'm actually just going to move in. Yeah. Live in 15,000 square feet.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
There's a lot of stuff to clean up for OKC. They can't give up 21 offensive rebounds. That's like step one in the how to beat Oklahoma City playbook is kill them on the glass. Yeah. Obviously, the Nuggets were able to do that. OKC outshot them from three. That's like step number two. You got to outshoot the Thunder. But 27 free throws for Denver, only 20 for OKC.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
So that kind of mitigated the damage that the Thunder were doing from the three-point line. And then they got to have their second and third guys do anything. Five of 20 from Jalen Williams. He went two of 13 in the second half. And the thing that should concern the Thunder is that Denver doesn't respect his jumper at all. They were playing off him. Totally went two of nine from three.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
Didn't make a mid-range jumper. He wasn't trusting it, so he's playing in a crowd at the rim. Got a shot blocked by Jokic once. Got a shot blocked by Peyton Watson once. Missed several times at the rim. Just wasn't able to take advantage of being the big size guy because he's going up against Aaron Gordon. Aaron Gordon's bigger and stronger than Jalen Williams is.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
So they got to figure out a way for Chet to do something. They got to get Jalen Williams going a little bit because if you get a performance like you got from Shea, you should probably win that one at home considering you're up 10 with like Three minutes left. That should be a win, but the depth guys really didn't come through either. Caruso was incredible in this game.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
20 points, six assists, five steals, two blocks. At the start of the third quarter, he had a steal, went for the layup. Ian Eagle yells, cookies! And milk. I was a little surprised by the addition of milk. Is it because he's a white gentleman? Or because it was a boring layup that he shot? I don't know what it was, but they need something from him.
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AG Plays Hero Again, Knicks Shock Celtics In OT & Wolves-Warriors Predictions
And then you look at the deeper depth guys, Wallace, Wiggins, Joe, Jalen Williams, the other one. He made a three, but the other guys were like basically invisible. This is why I always say depth doesn't actually matter in the playoffs. Both teams got performances from their top six guys, and that's it.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
I mean, we're talking a lot about corner three-pointers. I think that is the X-Factor for the Pacers. We're talking Nemhard, Neesmith. Miles Turner kommt manchmal in die Runde. Er ist meistens am Top of the Key. Thomas Bryant vielleicht. Wir sprechen von 47% in den Playoffs. Das ist das Beste in den Playoffs von den Runden. Natürlich gibt OKC sie ab. Du musst 50% von ihnen machen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Make 50% of your midrangers, 50% of your corner threes. You got a chance. Because when I'm looking at the Pacers game logs, they've scored under 105 points four times in this postseason. And those are their four losses in this postseason. So maybe the number to look at is 105 on the scoreboard for the Pacers. I don't think they can win. Das war's für heute. Bis zum nächsten Mal. Für den Thunder.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Wenn er nicht im vierten Quartal des Spiels nicht heiß wird, sprechen wir vielleicht über eine völlig andere Finale. Er kann es definitiv machen, aber er wird ihn in dieser Finalserie schlagen müssen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Es ist zu schlimm, Jairus Walker ist raus. Ich denke, er hätte eine Rolle in dieser Serie gespielt, weil ich denke, dass die Pacers so schnell wie möglich spielen wollen und ihn wahrscheinlich auf Jadub geben möchten. Ich denke, er könnte sich vielleicht mit Jadub defensiv befassen und ich weiß nicht, ob jemand, außer vielleicht Siakam, das tun kann.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Neesmith ist ein Fragezeichen für mich, weil er nicht mehr so gut bewegt ist, seit er seine Beine gewechselt hat, also das ist ein bisschen... Ein bisschen ein Misser-X-Faktor da. Ich glaube, du würdest die Erfahrung der Pacers wahrscheinlich nicht geben. Rick Carlyle ist da, so wie Thomas Bryan. Er hat eine Champions-League-Serie. Pascal Siakam natürlich auch.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Also haben sie den kleinsten Teil der Erfahrung. Rick wird keine Steine ungeschlagen lassen. Keine Kuppe ungespült. Also werden sie ein paar Sachen probieren. Aber wenn du einen der Starts für OKC als traditionelles Zentrum vergleichst, von Hartenstein zum dritten String-Zentrum und Thomas Bryan, dann ist das schwer.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
All right, well, let's get into... Miles Turner had 13 defensive rebounds against the Knicks. That's it. Yeah, he's got to have like 13 per game against Hartenstein. And he's got to make his threes.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
I've just been trying to think about how the Pacers can possibly win this series. And it's going to be obviously limiting turnovers, shooting the ball like they've shot the ball for the entire playoffs. They've been the best shooting team in the playoffs and they have to continue to do that.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
And then if a game is close, they got to pull the rabbit out of the hat, which they've done multiple times so far in this playoffs. But you go and look at the odds on BetMGM, OKC and Five. Okay. Okay. Okay.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
I haven't completely loaded my muscles with ATP yet. I'm still in the early phases here. I'm leaving for OKC in a couple hours and I've been thinking, should I travel with a container full of white powder? Yeah. Ein bisschen riskant.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ja, das wird vorhanden sein. Wie werden sie Little T.J. so viele 3s geben? Ja, der Thunder liebt es, Jungs offen zu lassen, um ihre Defense auf andere Wege zu schieben. Und T.J. McConnell, er ist ein Typ, den man offen lassen kann. Also Little T.J., wenn er schießt, Vielleicht wird er der Dark Horse-MVP. Ein paar andere Dinge, die ich sehe. Vielleicht ein bisschen Zone aus Indiana.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Es hat für Denver funktioniert. Es hat überhaupt nicht für Minnesota funktioniert. Aber vielleicht ist es Zeit für einen Curveball. Leider hat sich der Thunder gegen ihn geübt, aber es könnte am Anfang funktionieren. Und dann, weißt du, es gibt Legacy-Fragen da draußen. Wird Shea Gilgis-Alexander der beste Thunder jemals werden?
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Er könnte einen MVP-Championship und Finals-MVP haben in der gleichen Saison. Niemand hat das für dieses Team gemacht. Und Tyrese Halliburton, auf der anderen Seite, könnte der beste Pacer sein, seit Reggie Miller. George never went to the finals.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Und es ist egal. Nein, nein. Der einzige Grund, warum es egal ist, ist, wenn die Pacers und die Thunder es in den Finals zehn Jahre lang machen, dann könnte es ein Problem sein. Aber dann schau dir das an. Leute lieben Dynastien. Richtig. Also wird es ein kurzer Hits für die NBA sein, um die Ratinge runter zu gehen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Aber im Langraum werden sie neue Starren bauen, die die Ratinge weiter auf die Straße bringen werden.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ich muss mich entschuldigen. 3% von den confidenten Indiana-Fans, die die Pacers in 4 oder 5 nehmen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Sie haben es gut gemacht, aber sie haben es auch nicht gegen den Thunder gespielt.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
I guess he could rock the baby like Westbrook, but there's not really anything else that you think of that's associated with the Thunder. The way the Choke was with the Knicks or Dame Time with the Bucks.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
I mean, that's a good one. If he puts SGA in the basket, I think he should rock the baby at some point.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
TK, du hast einen Start. Was hast du im Augenblick? Nichts zu sagen, Skates, aber ich bin gespannt auf die Finale. Sehr gespannt. Zwei spannende Teams zu beobachten und für mich... The real fireworks are going to be when the Indiana Pacers have the ball against the Oklahoma City Thunder defense. We're talking about the best offense in the playoffs.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Maybe show up to a podium game afterwards with glasses with no lenses in them and a backpack.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
I think the Cavs technically have the best numbers because they smoked the heat in round one. Nonetheless, the Pacers, for teams that have continued to play, have been the best offense. And then obviously the best defense is the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ich habe keinen Fall dafür. Er ist ein Mann. Er sollte in die Finals gehen können. Auf der Straße. Auch wenn du die Regel machen willst, um ihn immer noch zu verurteilen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Du wirst jeden Pferd von Indianapolis nach Oklahoma City sehen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
And it's just such a fun matchup because the things that the Pacers are good at, playing fast and not turning the ball over, are things that the Thunder... are good at, too, forcing turnovers and also playing fast. Both of these teams have a ton of depth. Both of these teams are led by their point guards. The matchups are pretty straightforward, it looks like.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
I mean, 08 it can't be. That was Celtics versus Lakers, right? Yeah. So it ain't that one. No, it ain't that one. There's gotta be something in between. Detroit has to be involved somehow, maybe. San Antonio, Detroit?
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Das wäre eine tolle Fahrt, aber um den Golf.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Es ist wert zu schauen. Du kannst in es gehen. Ja, du kannst in es gehen. Es ist nicht wie eine Reise, wo sie dich über den Topf schießen. Das wäre wirklich cool. Aber du kannst in es gehen. Und einfach auf die Steine gehen und über es gehen? Es hat einen Elevator, der auf irgendeinem Prozent von es geht. Ich weiß es nicht. Wow. Ja. Es hat einen Elevator.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ich denke so. Okay.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Stopp bei Ted Drews, wenn du in St. Louis die Arche besuchst. Nur eine Recommendation. Okay. Ja. What is that? It's the finest custard shop in America. Oh, yes, yes. Family business.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Custard is underrated. It just is. Yeah, more eggs.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ja, ich werde ein Tumbleweed suchen. Das letzte Mal, als wir da waren, war im November. Ich weiß nicht, wann die Tumbleweeds auflaufen werden. Aber bis heute ist der einzige Ort, wo ich ein Tumbleweed gesehen habe, in meiner Leben, in Downtown Oklahoma City.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ich werde hoffentlich mit Melvin in Kontakt kommen und ihn mit uns fahren lassen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Wie lange denkst du, dass es dauert? Wahrscheinlich 15 Stunden? Ich weiß es nicht. Nein, wir werden nicht.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
I think that Lou Dort will start on Tyrese Halliburton. Halliburton probably tries to hide on Dort on the other end. Things will be going pretty straightforward, I think, at the very least, to start things. So the thing that I'm questioning is, how are the Thunder going to match up in the frontcourt? Ich glaube, Chet Holmgren ist der ideale Mann, um Siakam zu schützen.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
You heard it here first. Have a great time. Turn up. Love you guys. Awesome.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Aber er ist auch der ideale Mann, um Miles Turner zu schützen. Das lässt mich fragen, wo Isaiah Hartenstein gehen wird. Mehr als wahrscheinlich spielt die Thunder es direkt an, um Dinge zu beginnen. Hartenstein auf Turner. Wir werden sehen, wie das geht, wenn er die Pick-and-Pop-Game negiert, die Turner sicherlich zu den Pacers bringen wird.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Aber es ist leicht, dass das die andere Weise geht, wo Chet vielleicht auch Siakam schützen muss. So then, do the Thunder downsize? I think that'll happen pretty soon. We've seen that quite a bit in the playoffs. Mark Dagnall loves to go for a Keith Bogans move, where you're getting a start for Isaiah Hartenstein, but then Caruso is the guy who starts in the second half.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
I think that will eventually be the case, because Siakam can be a little bit of a matchup problem. I think for the Thunder in this one, just because he's a little stronger than Chet is, he's obviously going to be faster than Hartenstein is, they're going to need an MVP-like performance from Siakam in this to have any chance against the Thunder.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
I'm talking about 8 to 10 rebounds a game, knocking down his three-pointers when he can and then scoring in transition, which is going to be impossible against a Thunder team that gets back all the time in defense. So that is going to be awesome to watch. Both these teams like to play fast. Who's going to actually be able to play fast?
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Will the Pacers not turn the ball over against the best turnover-forcing team that we've seen in quite some time? Going to be cool to see.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ja, das ist eine große Frage. Oklahoma City gibt viele Corner-3s, 12,4 pro Spiel. Das ist das größte in den Playoffs. Aber Oklahoma Citys Gegner schießen 33% von 3 in den Playoffs. Sie geben die Schüsse auf, aber sie challenge auch sie. Es muss alles für die Pacers sein. Sie checken zumindest ein paar Boxen, um die Thunder zu schießen. Ja. Ja.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
mit Bezug auf die Turnovers, weil wir wissen, dass sie nicht das Offensivglas zerstören werden. Werden sie die Thunder mit dem Ball lösen können? Ich weiß nicht, ob das der Fall sein wird, weil die Thunder in dieser Serie einen Größenvorsprung haben, speziell auf der Perimeter, wie Andrew Nembhard. Er kann nicht schützen. Shea Gilchrist Alexander.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Du wirst so viele Post-Ups für SGA in dieser Serie sehen. Sicherlich wird Rick Carlisle in der Post endlich doppelt entscheiden, weshalb ich denke, Jalen Williams ist ein Dark Horse-MVP-Kandidat für diese Serie. Er hat wirklich die Pacers getötet.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Ich dachte, in ein paar ihrer Match-Ups während dieser Saison, ich nehme nicht viel von diesen normalen Saison-Match-Ups weg, weil du die Verletzungen auf beiden Seiten erwähnst, nicht volle Line-Ups, aber wenn du match-up gegen match-up schaust, gab es niemanden, der in der Mitte von either of the leading two scorers Für OKC.
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2025 NBA Finals Preview | Thunder-Pacers Key Matchups, X-Factors, Predictions
Und Aaron Neesmith kann nur eine Person auf einmal schützen und er spielt auf einem schlechten Niveau. Also weiß ich nicht, wie er sich an Shea wechseln könnte, wenn er weggeht. Und dann, wer Jalen Williams schützt. Es fühlt sich einfach so an, als ob die Pacers so viele Dinge wie die Thunder machen, nur auf einem etwas niedrigeren Niveau.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Bogan as well was an old guy for that team. I would personally take that Warriors team.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Oklahoma City right now is 8-1 at home with a plus 231 scoring margin in nine games at home. What was the one game they lost by...
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah, exactly. Which they should have won. Aaron Gordon three-pointer from the wing when they fouled up 300 times. Yeah, they botched it. They have 51, 43, 32, 36, and 30-point wins at home so far this postseason. And also home court advantage in the NBA Finals.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Those are nice hats. Okay, you didn't mind the hats. That's a good finals hat. Okay. Very big. There was that time during the Warriors dynasty. I guess it was maybe during the first title with Kevin Durant. They gave him dad hats. Bad idea.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
You got to keep that thing looking like a billboard.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
You want to make it a little ostentatious, and it certainly is. The shirts are nothing shirts.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah. You wouldn't be happy to see this as a giveaway at a game.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
They would never do it if they had Kobe Bryant as their leader or if they were an NHL hockey team. They don't care at all about the Oscar Robertson trophy.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
They're going to get the next one anyway, so it doesn't really matter. My favorite part of the celebration was Mark Dagnall during his post-game interview. The quote was, they're professional. They're high character. Crowd goes crazy. They throw towels on them. They put a big old hat on them.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Braveheart, not a movie that's in the public consciousness right now.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
That's how you knew it was a blowout. Freestyle and movie references out of nowhere. That was in the second quarter, but you're right.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Also, in the Australian realm, I'm saying this because, of course, Mel Gibson, the star of Braveheart, is not a Scottish man. I did this morning while watching stuff. I saw the Shea, J-Dub, and Chet commercial again, and I finally got that they're supposed to be dressed like Angus Young of ACDC. I've seen this commercial literally 50,000 times, and I just got it. But I asked the stream team.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
I said, did you know that they're supposed to be dressed like Angus Young? 85% said no.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
But I mean, ACDC is less in the public consciousness than Braveheart is. Yes, yeah, yeah.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah, they put a jacket on a jacket in that one, because the joke is that they all show up dressed together. But then the second joke is that they're all dressed like a 70-year-old man. Yeah, yeah. I guess... You didn't need the second part. Or the first part.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
So that was exciting.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Keep talking trash. Tyrese Halliburton got voted the most overrated player in the NBA because he's a frontrunner. He doesn't talk trash when his team is behind. Anthony Edwards, his team is down right now. He should still be talking trash.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
But people also unearthed a video of Ant talking trash about the Suns only having 30 points in the third quarter of an elimination game from when they got bounced by the Mavericks years ago. And he's like recording the screen. Oh, come on, guys. You only got 30 points in the third quarter. The same thing happened. But I think like... Ant can handle that kind of stuff.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
He always takes it on himself as the first guy to accept responsibility for a loss and take accountability for that kind of stuff. So if you're like, you should stop talking trash. He's like, yeah, well, I was wrong. They got me. You should talk trash to me when I'm down.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
And they should, because Ant, I think this series proved he's got a lot of work to do to get to the level that people are kind of already trying to put him on. Like you, Some people would argue that he's near Shea Gildress Alexander's level, and it is not close. He's got to figure out a way to blend his playmaking and scoring. It seems like he can be good at one or the other right now.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
He was much more aggressive driving last night where we saw in game four that he was looking to pass the ball, even though the defenses were kind of similar. He needs a mid-range game. Like I think you're seeing with Shea Gilchrist-Alexander being able to get in that mid-range.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
We've seen for decades in the NBA, that's super valuable in high leverage playoff situations because this is not totally dissimilar to the way the Mavericks guarded him last year. Kind of took him out of the series as well. And then he's got to get it in a little bit better shape. He should be guarding Shea Gilchrist-Alexander.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
He should be more of a defensive presence, able to carry the load on both ends for Minnesota. So I think there's a lot of work for Anthony Edwards to do. But guess what? He's a great worker. He was an okay three-point shooter, and then he came back as maybe the best three-point shooter in the league this year. So he can definitely get better, but he's still got a ways to go to get to SGA's level.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah, we'll see. I think... Rob Dillingham is going to be an important player for the future of the Minnesota Timberwolves. They traded kind of everything they had left for him at the draft last year. He was not a factor this season. He was not a factor in the playoffs. They got more from Terrence Shannon Jr., their late first round draft pick. But...
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
For what they invested in Dillingham, he's the guy that's supposed to be the secondary ball handler of the Timberwolves of the future, I do believe. But yeah, there's questions on Julius Randle. It's likely that he picks up his option just because there's not a lot of great cap space teams out there. Continuity would probably be good for this team.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
I mean, they went to the conference finals with Carl Anthony Towns, made a huge trade right before the season started, went back to the conference finals with Julius Randle, got hot in March, which a lot of teams get hot in March and it doesn't mean a ton, but they did look good. They ran through the first two rounds of the playoffs pretty easily.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Maybe they got some luck with Steph Curry going out with an injury, but they seem like they're close. But then you look at the Thunder and it's like, really? Are you that close? And your team is getting older. I mean, Ant is young. Julius Randle, he is not young. Gobert certainly is aging right now. Mike Conley, we know he's old. He probably shouldn't be a starter at this point in his career.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
So there's a lot of changes to be made, but slow and low is probably the way to play it.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Another exciting offseason for the Sixers. They were the winners of the offseason last year. They got Paul George. What a great move, we thought. Didn't turn out that way. But really, the draft does start with the Sixers. It feels like for this time around, Cooper Flagg's going one. Dylan Harper, it seems like, is going to be going two to the Spurs. So what is the move going to be for the Sixers?
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
I think their decision starts with what can we expect realistically from Joel Embiid? Do they think he's going to be able to play 60 games? Do they think he'll be healthier this season without having the Olympics ahead of time, without having to get his knee cleaned up? Though maybe they got to do that as well. Is he going to be an MVP caliber?
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Because they're all in right now, but they would be even more all in if they actually make a trade with this third draft pick. If they think he's going to be healthy and effective. it's kind of smart to trade down, get a player and get some young guys as well, because post season, Daryl Morey admitted it. We got to get younger and more athletic.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
The Kyle Lowry, Eric Gordon, Andre Drummond style veterans. That's, That's not helpful during the regular season. If Embiid's going to miss time, if Paul George is going to miss time, they've got to have some guys who can carry them through the slog of the regular season. So maybe a trade with the Nets makes sense, right? Like Cam Johnson and a couple of their late firsts.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
I think Brooklyn has 19, 26, and 27. You trade them their third pick. Maybe there's somebody Brooklyn really likes at number three. Some salary filler. I think that makes sense. It's not very likely, though, that a trade happens because I think this is a chance for Daryl Morey to kind of see the next stage of the Sixers.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Now, that requires buy-in from Sixers management to want to keep him around, but they've got Maxie. They've got McCain, who will be healthy again. They're probably going to bring back Quentin Grimes. They've got some decent young pieces. It's their older guys who are unreliable, so if you can add a fourth young player
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
piece of a core here maybe that's better i think so my guess is that they stay put at number three and use the pick just because the easiest thing usually happens in the nba and i think it's a big risk to trade a number three draft pick when the whole part the whole point of last season when things went sour and you tanked was so you could get it so you could keep your pick and then they got the gift of getting number three so i think they'll probably keep it and use it
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Hearing you say all those, it sounds like the team that traded down lost every one of those trades. Interesting. Well, I would say the Wolves didn't.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Oh, yeah. So that's good. You said the Wolves were the three pick. Yeah.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
So they traded back. They won out. The other one's yes. I would agree with you. Yeah. The other question, which I think it's kind of been shot down by Kyle Newbeck of All Philly and maybe Aronson as well at the Philly Voice, is the Paul George plus the number three pick.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah. And he's better.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
But I don't think that one is going to happen. Larry Markkinen was another guy who was rumored.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah, for Paul George in three. Utah, again, would need to love a guy at the third pick. And Utah needs a star. They've been rebuilding for three years, and they basically have nothing except for draft picks further on down the line. One-time All-Star Lowry Markkinen.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah, this was worse than last year. This is one of the worst losses we've seen in the playoffs so far, I would have to say. I heard John Krasinski on the Daily this morning say this was the worst performance of the Timberwolves season. And like you're saying, they've been pretty resilient all year long.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Well, a trade's not happening this summer. It just doesn't make any sense. The Clippers would be trading basically all of their depth and picks that are five years down the road for Lomelo Ball. He's got a huge contract left. $38 million next season, followed by $41, $43, and $46. The number is just hard to get to for the Clippers without completely gutting their team.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah, sure. You want to trade Zubats? You want to trade Norman Powell?
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Why would the Hornets do that?
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
But Minnesota had more turnovers than makes at the end of the first half, which is crazy because they didn't turn the ball over for the first six minutes of the game. That happened, and they still ended up with 14 turnovers in the first half. to only 12 makes. They finished with 21 total turnovers.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah. And then they have their own picks starting in the 2030s. So it's a long way down the line. Honestly, the Clippers should look at Lonzo Ball. They should get Lonzo Ball. He would be a perfect fit for that team as a backup point guard and a sometimes starting point guard. A lot easier to get. That's to the side.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
I think it's more interesting that the Ball family is pushing pretty hard to get LaMelo to the Clippers. They're hinting he wants to move. The Hornets are completely backsliding. 33, 43, 27, 21, and then 19 wins this season since LaMelo has been there. He's on this gigantic contract now. He's going to ask out from Charlotte in the next couple of seasons. It's just a matter of how fast it happens.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
They should trade him. Yes, they should trade him now. While his value is probably at the highest, unfortunately for LaVar and the Clippers, If LaMelo was available, there are so many teams that could easily beat the package that L.A. is going to be able to offer.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
But the highlights are sick.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Well, I would love it if it's a five-year, $120 million deal. $24 million average annual value is not bad for a starting point guard. You look at the $24 to $30 million range for guards next season. Terry Rozier, Anthony Simons, Derek White, CJ McCollum, DeJounte Murray. Like, Giddey can be on that level, I would say.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Maybe not Derek White, since he's such a valuable role player who can kind of scale up and down. But Giddey is productive when he's got the ball in his hands. The Zach Levine trade allowed him... a lot of freedom for the Bulls. He'll be only 23 at the start of next season. The Bulls look good in March.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
I watched a nice cut of it this morning from Mr. Buck Buck NBA, one of my favorite content providers right now. I think you would say Nas Reed had some dumb ones. I think you would say Nikhil Alexander Walker had some dumb ones, but I would say probably 15 of these turnovers were just Oklahoma City. Taking the ball from Minnesota. Incredible defense.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
And then when they played against a team who really cared in the play-in tournament, they got completely smoked. And that was the Miami Heat who weren't even close in their first round series, which shows you how far the Bulls really are. Yeah. from even being a playoff contending team, let alone a team that has any sort of aspirations for something beyond that.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
The thing that gives me pause here is Jake Fisher saying the five for $120 million figure was only mentioned as a low end projection for from league observers. He wants at least this. Extension talks stalled before the start of the season because the Bulls weren't offering $30 million a year. This is why they have restricted free agency.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Make him go get a bigger deal from somebody else because there's not a lot of cap space out there. The Nets could offer Josh Giddey a lot of money. It kind of makes sense for them to get a young guy who would then be on his third team. But other than that, it's like Detroit has a little bit of cap space. They don't need a guard like Giddey. They've got Cade Cunningham.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
They've got Ivy returning from injury. This is a chance for the Bulls to get a decent deal on Giddey. Now, you could ruffle his feathers if you don't offer him the contract he wants and he has to go sign somewhere else, but who cares? That's why this is in the collective bargaining agreement. They're not going to do it.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
They're going to overpay him for sure, but I just hope it's not a drastic overpayment.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
If there is a $200 million deal, I will...
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
still be a bulls fan but yeah i mean honestly nothing will change i'll still be sad and think they're far away from a championship but i don't want him to sign a 200 million dollar deal okay because that contract is not tradable uh you're right he's young he can be productive but i think as soon as he signs a five-year deal no team is gonna want him yeah look at what happened to the thunder they traded him and instantly became the best team in the league
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Caruso, Case and Wallace, Jalen Williams, everybody was making plays. You got Chet back there at the rim cleaning things up as well. It was just a completely dominant performance. Shea, Gilgis, Alexander, what an incredible first quarter. Skeets, I assume this is when you finally closed your laptop and said, I don't need to take any more notes because he scored or assisted on 24 yards.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
We go into game six, baby. Okay. This has been a pretty close series. Yes. All things considered, I mean, they're crazy results for sure, but it's like we had... an overtime game. We had a two-point game. The Knicks are right there. They're playing with their backs against the wall. This is their season. I assume we'll get a great effort from them. They're back at home, so that's sort of helpful.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
They have an awful lot of big games at home so far, but they'll at least have the crowd behind them. Surely Tim will be there. Ben will be there. Spike, Riz, all the hits. So yeah, I think the Knicks pull one out tonight.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
He's going to play.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
It's going to be an evergreen podcast. You can listen to that one for a year straight.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
of 26 points in the first quarter for Oklahoma City and like you said Minnesota had nine at that point the fewest points they scored in a quarter All year long. This was just complete dominance from OKC.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
They call them demons so much. Richard Jefferson said, how many guys are you calling demons? He's like, I don't know, like eight. And he's not wrong. He's not wrong.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Jang had a step back three in this game.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Hey, Minnesota won the third quarter. Right. They did win the third quarter, so at least that was a tiny bit of fight. You also go back and re-watch what happened. Julius Randle made his first shot of the game, 30 seconds in. Mike Green, that's a good sign for Minnesota. Yeah.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
The benefit of hindsight, because Randall finished the half with eight points on three of seven field goal shooting and four turnovers. Had a great first two series, to be quite honest. And then this was New York Knicks, Julius Randall once again. He is the guy who's supposed to be the secondary ball handler for Oklahoma.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
or for Minnesota this season, and he just wasn't able to be effective against these guards because he can bully bigger guys. He's strong against a guy like LeBron. We saw him put Draymond Green into the basket sometimes, but Caruso, Case and Wallace, even Jalen Williams, these guys are a little bit too quick for him where he starts dribbling. Randall's got a high dribble.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
He dribbles it at his chest. You cannot do that against the Thunder.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Yeah, I know. They're going to obviously win the title. I know. But Shea Gildress Alexander is having a Michael Jordan-like season, you know? He is an all-star. He's first-team All-NBA. He won... The Western Conference Finals MVP. He won the MVP. They're going to the finals. But J-Dub is having a Scottie Pippen-like season. All-star. All-NBA. All-defense. That's what Scottie Pippen was doing.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
He was a great secondary scorer in this series. Multiple 30-point games. He was just exactly what the Thunder needed. And then you got Chet on the back line as well. This is exactly what Oklahoma City wanted to see. Hartenstein didn't have a great series. You're right. But...
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
He was kind of superfluous in this one, and their single big lineups have been unstoppable offensively because they don't suffer at all on the defensive end. They somehow get better when they get smaller.
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
Who wins, 15 Warriors or 25 Thunder?
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Thunder Advance To NBA Finals, LaMelo Ball Trade Rumors & Giddey's Next Contract
I think so. Thunder like to give up three-point attempts. Good luck against that Warriors team.
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Immediate Reax | Pacers Win Wild Game 1 In OT Over Knicks
The support of the shot clock is three and a half feet.
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Immediate Reax | Pacers Win Wild Game 1 In OT Over Knicks
Thanks for joining us and remember... Oh, no.
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Immediate Reax | Pacers Win Wild Game 1 In OT Over Knicks
He was not a very good three-point shooter this season.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
There were injuries. There were injuries. If you want to say the Steph injury was an injury, there were injuries there, too.
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
It was just stale. Stale? Stale ice cream? Yikes. It's been sitting in there forever?
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
What about you, JD? What are you buying?
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Wolves Eliminate Warriors, Luke Kornet Forever & Hawks Eye Masai Ujiri?
Toronto? Golden State?
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Klingt verdächtig nach dem neuen Ford Puma Gen E. Der lädt schneller als dein Smartphone, von 10 auf 80 Prozent in nur 23 Minuten. Hm, dann muss ich wohl mal... Probe fahren! Der neue Ford Puma Gen E. Jetzt Probefahrt buchen auf ford.de.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Klingt verdächtig nach dem neuen Ford Puma Gen E. Der lädt schneller als dein Smartphone, von 10 auf 80 Prozent in nur 23 Minuten. Hm, dann muss ich wohl mal... Probefahren! Der neue Ford Puma Gen E.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Klingt verdächtig nach dem neuen Ford Puma Gen E. Der lädt schneller als dein Smartphone, von 10 auf 80 Prozent in nur 23 Minuten. Hm, dann muss ich wohl mal... Probe fahren! Der neue Ford Puma Gen E. Jetzt Probefahrt buchen auf ford.de.
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The Knicks Do It Again, Thunder Crush Nuggets & Steph Curry Out For A Week
Klingt verdächtig nach dem neuen Ford Puma Gen E. Der lädt schneller als dein Smartphone, von 10 auf 80 Prozent in nur 23 Minuten. Hm, dann muss ich wohl mal... Probe fahren! Der neue Ford Puma Gen E. Jetzt Probefahrt buchen auf ford.de.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
There he is. Here we are on today's show. We're going to take a look at the All-NBA teams that were announced late last week. We'll tee up tonight's Big Game 4 in Minnesota between the Thunder and Wolves. But first, the New York Knicks remain alive. Tass Mellis in the Eastern Conference Finals. Carl Anthony Towns. Say his full name.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
but this was the cat game this guy man what a roller coaster ride with this guy i saw cbs sports right we've seen every version of towns in this series the shooter the aggressor the pacifist the frustration fowler the playmaker the turnover machine it's all in there yep it is from game to game you get different versions of carl anthony towns but pick the right time here and in game three with the season on the line
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Game to game. Quarter to quarter. Quarter to quarter. That's what I meant to say.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
And Josh Hart coming off the bench. I think you're right, Trey. He sort of was like, you know, I hadn't done this in a long time. A little weird maybe in the first half. But, man, the guy comes through. Eight points, ten boards, four assists. He had a steal. Doing Josh Hart-like things. And, man, he had a couple rebounds. That one rebound was like the game-saving rebound.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Again, we always joke like we love a rebound highlight. That was one of them. That you would put in the pack. That was massive. Like one of the smallest guys out there just comes screaming in to grab that one in traffic.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Oh, I know. This series is amazing. All three games have been amazing.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Scored 20 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter as the Knicks came back from 20 points down to beat the Pacers 106-100 in Game 3 on Sunday. He saved their season. Carl Anthony Towns.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Oh, geez. The Tony Bradley three that missed.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
He was on fire that game.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
It was against the Bucs? Yeah. Yeah.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Yeah, you know a pretty good decent third string center. Two other things that happened at the end of the first half that you were pointing out there that I like. The Knicks stopped like a four-on-two Pacers fast break. They probably should have capitalized on that. Good job by New York. Still fighting to end that first half.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
And then, yeah, Bridges hit that three in the corner that got it to like 13. And you're like, okay, maybe there's a chance. Maybe they're still in this. Because at that point when Halliburton's dancing and popping the jersey, it was like, uh-oh. This one's getting out of control, though it is the Knicks, and they love being down 20, and they come back again.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Any other random notes or observations from this entertaining Game 3 or this unpredictable series, I think is what Brunson's called it?
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Also, has Brunson got his ankle injured in every playoff game? It's happened a lot. It feels like it's happened every single playoff game. His ankle is like stepping on some of these or he's just getting stepped on. I guess that's the better way to put it. It feels like he's either getting his foot stepped on or he's twisting his ankle so many times throughout this postseason.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Obviously, it generally comes back, but that guy's going through it right now. Sorry to interrupt.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
But here's my question. What does he do with his hat? On a plane. That's one of the most complicated things. Have you ever seen him without a hat? That cowboy hat? So does he take it off, put it up in the storage compartment? Interesting. Or does he wear it, like puts it over his face, like to snooze?
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Of course, as it always is. Yes, yes, yes.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Very strange. But have you seen that Indiana is now 0-4 all-time when playing on the same day as the Indianapolis 500 was run? They've never won. Also, I went down a rabbit hole because Harlan, when he was showing the winner of the 500, he said, over 300,000 people at the event. I was like, what? 300,000 people? How the hell was there 300,000 people? I'm like, was there multiple race days?
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Is that what he meant? So I start looking it up. Oh my god, this is nuts. That speedway can seat 250,000, and then after general admission is accounted for, the speedway can hold up to 350,000 fans. That is more than twice the size of the next largest venue. You want to take a guess at the next biggest American sports venue? Next biggest American sports venue. It can hold like 170,000 apparently.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
University of Michigan football stadium? It's a good guess. No, Churchill Downs. Okay. With the horse racetrack. But I don't know. I got shook by those numbers. What's the population? That's too big, man. That's too many people. And I don't know if this is real, but I saw one of those things. They show the size of the Speedway, and it's like, you don't really actually understand how big it is.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Apparently, you can put the entire Vatican City, and it will take up only one quarter of it. Again, I have no idea if this is true. This is the internet showing me this. But I do believe the sheer size of it is something else. Well, it's got to be to put 350,000 people in a test.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
It is big. It's huge. Yeah. Yeah, because it was like people were like, you can put Yankee Stadium there and it takes up like no space within the infield. You know what I mean? Cool.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
oh that's pretty cool that's cool okay uh speaking of uh cool did you like the vroom baby t-shirts that they uh handed out golden blue t-shirts for for game three yeah i'd like it yeah boom baby's their thing right that's right and come on it's a indie 500 day this is good vroom baby i i mean i immediately thought of our uh fast friends podcast vroom vroom yeah vroom vroom we would always say when we would do our uh our rewatch of all the sleeves
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
So there was that. I got a few other random notes. One of the most hilarious turnovers of the season so far, there was like a weird deflection and it went to half court and Matherin tried to save it, but he sort of like fumbled it going out of bounds and it started to like go into the back court, but he couldn't touch it again. So he just like decides to block Josh Hart from getting at it.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
I watched Turner come flying in here to sort of try and save it, but the shot clock expired. My favorite part is Harlan didn't even know what to do. He just remained silent for eight seconds. That was a pretty funny play. Because it was sort of a weird one.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Well, in his defense, if there was more time on the clock, he could have tipped it, and then Matherin could have picked it up, and they could have gone. Because that would have been fine. Oh, wait.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
There was going to be two violations. You're right. It was going to be over and back or travel on Matherin, right? Because he had the ball. He did touch it last. Anyway, very weird is my point.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Even Miles Turner, I think. Reggie was like, well, it killed some time. Yes, it did. It killed like seven seconds in the second quarter. But yeah, very, very funny moment.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Did we ever tell that story, by the way? You know we shot something with Christian and Scooby in Paris? Did we ever tell this story that we hung out with them at the airport for like an hour? Uh-uh. I don't think we did, did we?
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
He's a bit of a diva. We're being honest. He is the star. I get it. But then they're like, they just sort of ignore him. And then he chilled out. But I don't know if you have anything to add, JD. Just took me back to Paris airport sitting with scoops.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
That was weird. Sushi coffee. Yeah. Anyway. We should do a podcast with Christian. He's awesome, man. He's got awesome stories for sure. A few other notes. Back to Reggie Miller, he had a funny line. He said, quote, they used every inch of that 24-second shot clock.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Stan Van's like, how is that a foul?
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Yeah, decent balance. So close, guys, to having a wedgie. Oh, yeah. Miles Turner. That was in the fourth quarter. That was actually a big part of the game. He fired one from the wing. I still don't really know how it didn't stick. It sort of like, boom, for a second, and then it came right back out. And I was like, damn, we could have used it. We're still stuck at 48 wedgies.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
It's been a long time. We haven't had a wedgie in 31 days. We went an entire month without a wedgie. I don't know how many times in the history of tracking these where it's been that long without one. But... We desperately need one. And there's been a couple almost wedgies through these conference finals. That one looked like one. That one was the closest, I thought. But anyway, didn't stick.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
And I think that's all I got in my notes. Anything from you, TK?
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Fred Katz just gets dunked on left and right.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
right that was the athletic article wow it was Mitchell officially huh no it never came out the fart did but the report of who actually farted did not come out but it seems like it was Mitch okay yeah that was is Mitch one of these Knicks that calls Fred Matthew too don't they like refuse to call him by his I think you're right yeah his real name is Matthew but he goes by Fred I always love that bit too hey Matthew god damn it anyway M&M
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
great stuff obviously an incredible series and just like it's exciting both these series that we're at least getting five you know what I mean we were looking at the possibility of some sweeps here we're at least going five and it feels like we could be going you know maybe six or seven in both of these we'll find out we'll get into game four of Thunderwolves in a second but let's talk a little all NBA
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NBA announced it's all NBA teams on Friday night. Headlining the list, league MVP Shea Gildas-Alexander, and rounding out this superstar team, you got Giannis, you got Jokic, you got Donovan Mitchell, and you got Jason Tatum. Four of those guys, if you take out Mitchell, all unanimous first team selections.
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All-NBA second team consists of Jalen Brunson, Steph Curry, Anthony Edwards, LeBron James, and Evan Mobley making All-NBA second team. And finally, All-NBA third team composed of Pistons guard Cade Cunningham, who just made himself a whole lot more money, Tyrese Halliburton, James Harden does make it, Carl Anthony Towns, and Jalen Williams, J-Dub of the Thunder.
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TK, any takeaways from the 15 guys named to the All-NBA teams here?
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Consecutively, probably.
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We won't say four. That's my point. We'll say 11 or whatever he's at, all NBA total selections. But it is wild that he's only made the top five, I guess, and it was done differently with positions, and now that's gone. Yeah. Opens up the door maybe more to some of these guys' future, at least, making more All-NBA first teams and all that.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
It's not like Jokic is going to stop making firsts.
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LeBron has earned All-NBA honors in 21 consecutive seasons after missing the cut during his rookie campaign. So, you know, just adding to his already record, no player in NBA history has more than 16 All-NBA selections. LeBron now at 21. Kobe, Duncan.
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Yeah, I think so. Probably. Because there was no games played, right? Kobe, Duncan, and Kareem all have 15, I believe, all NBA selections. Harden, you said, making it for his, I think, his eighth time overall, but the shocking part, I guess, is he hasn't made one since 2020. So there's been a decent little gap there from him making it. And then back to Cade Cunningham.
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Him making it means he gets a five-year, $269 million contract beginning next season. after signing the Max with the Pistons last fall. So roughly $45 million more than he would have made otherwise. That was huge. And it's not like he just snuck into the third team. He nearly made the second team. He received by far the most points of any player on the third team.
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Just nine points from making second team over Jalen Brunson. And in fact, if you really look into it, he received more first team votes than three players named to the second team. Steph, Mobley, and Brunson. So... Brunson had him beat, though, in second-team votes, and that's why he got in there.
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But good job by Cade, and probably the first of many All-NBA selections for him you would expect moving forward.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Wow, $1 million plus per game.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
I mean, how long would that take if we're talking about the multiplication factor? It would take a while, but I get your point. It's insane, that much money.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Maybe that should be the cap. That's where we cap it.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
It's like, okay, that's pretty good. All right, let's pivot from All-NBA Talk to Thunderwolves Game 4. That tips tonight in Minnesota after two convincing wins in Games 1 and 2. OKC couldn't keep it going on the road. Minnesota dominated the Thunder on Saturday night, 143-101. It was a beatdown. Minnesota coming out with some energy, obviously led by Ant with 16 points in the first quarter.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
But what's something you're watching for in tonight's Game 4 or any takeaways from Game 3 over the weekend to you, Tess?
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Rudy Gobert stripped him.
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Yeah, the key word from game three from both sides was physicality. Everybody was talking about that. I think there was even that clip of Shea on the bench as the game was a blowout and he's talking to like one of the young guys going, yeah, we lost this game because they punched us in the mouth. Like they came out physical. They set the tone. We couldn't counter. We didn't have an answer.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
So you would expect them to be ready for that. Now, always when you hear that going into a game, you're like, how are the officials going to let them play? and they're going to be a tight whistle, and we're not doing that tonight, guys.
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Or, like we've seen a little bit more in the Knicks Pacers series, if we're being honest, the whistle's been a lot more loose, and they've allowed them to be a lot more physical, where I think in the West they've had a tighter whistle for the most part. So we'll see. We'll see. Excited for Game 4. Big, big game, obviously, in Minnesota.
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I think it's a – well, I was going to say it's an 830 tip, but that's a lie. It's an 844, maybe 45 tip. Perfect. Perfect. If it's on ESPN, you're adding 14 minutes. If it's on TNT, you're adding five to six minutes. That's how it goes. So just keep that in mind. That's right. All right. So excited for that. We'll be back here tomorrow to talk about Game 4 in detail.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Before we go, I want to know, how was Mission Impossible, the final reckoning? You went and saw it.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Wow, it's that sort of slow and boring?
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
Oh, so it's like people on YouTube generally do those type of things. Like, hey, before you go see Final Reckoning, here's all you need to know about Mission Impossible, but they just decided to put that in the movie. Kind of. They kind of did.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
But if he asks me again, I'm going to trust him every time. Where do we stand with this series? Like, is this done? Like, done, done?
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Yeah, that's true. Okay. Well, all right. Well, did he sell you? Yeah, I didn't watch it, of course. I mean, I do want to see it in IMAX. I do want to see this airplane stuff in IMAX. Yeah, it was cool, man. JD, you're a big movie guy. Are you going to be checking this one out? Oh, I'm definitely going. I might...
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Okay. Great. Well, I'm going, JD. We can figure it out. Maybe we'll share a ride to this distance IMAX. What else? We got Friendship out, too. Friendship's out. I'll probably see that this week.
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Embrace the Young Gravy, people.
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Yeah, Cat, man, again, all those threes, like you said, all the attacking. I love that one where he cut through the lane. Well-timed cut. I guess he sort of dunked over Nembhard. That was a N-1. That one, he did hit the free throw. Then he splashed another three. At that point, he had scored or assisted on 22 of the Knicks' 24 points in the fourth quarter. It was all him. And he saved them.
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And yeah, he had his fourth foul crashing into Siakam on an offensive rebound attempt. It was, again, sort of a sloppy, dumb foul. That was 8.45 to go in the third quarter. Tibbs wisely there. Stuck with him. Yeah, he's got the four fouls, but we gotta have him out there. And that's something Tibbs rarely, rarely does.
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And let's talk about the beginning of the game, something Tibbs also rarely does, is he switched to starting lineup. Mitchell Robinson into the starting lineup in place of Josh Hart. Now, I guess mixed results. It started okay. Like, Mitchell Robinson was grabbing some offensive rebounds. He had a nice one where he sealed Ben Shepard under the rim, too, in the first quarter. Had an easy dunk.
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Like, it was positive. I guess they were up 11-6 to start. Now, obviously, that all went back to Indiana. They built the big lead, but... What'd you think there of Tibbs' decision to start Mitchell Robinson and then obviously end this game, though, with Josh Hart, who had a bunch of rebound highlights, which you know us sickos love.
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They need to start games down 20 points, and then they give themselves a better chance. Yeah, they were scrambling much better on defense. Part of that was personnel. The other part of this was Deuce McBride picking up three fouls in, like, what was it? 80 seconds, whatever the hell it was. It was so damn quick. You're like, what? He's got three already. He comes out.
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KAT Saves Knicks' Season, All-NBA Teams & Thunder-Wolves Lookahead
And then instead of campaign, Tibbs pushed the right button. Instead went with DeLon Wright. Glad I held on to some DeLon Wright stock. Been a big fan of his. But he gave him a little something more defensively. And then Landry Schammett got in there as well and actually helped as well. Didn't kill him. Had that corner three.
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And those guys were playing at least hard defensively and really helping on the scrambling part. Because, yeah, the Pacers just did not, for the first time in a long time, look like the Pacers did. In that second half, I was like, well, this is a different squad here. This is not the free wheel. And I thought Tyrese Halliburton, too.
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If you went back and looked at the game tape, he could have been more aggressive. He was getting switches. He was even getting the spots. And he was just sort of still playmaking a little too much. He gets compared to Steve Nash a lot of times, and I see it. And that was like sort of the bad version of Nash where you're like, maybe try and take over here, man.
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Maybe try and kill him and put your foot on their neck and end this series. But he's just such a great playmaker. He wants to pass first. I thought he was turning down some opportunities that he was getting good looks at and he just was kicking out instead to corners.
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They sort of let the Knicks off the hook, too. When Brunson was out there, there was five straight possessions. They didn't include him in any action. Could have fouled him out. And didn't really go at him all that much. Sort of gave him a free pass there. And I get it. That's sort of how the Pacers are not going to...
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Next to him, it's the bearded one, my top shot hot boy, Trey Kirby. Ayo! And last but not least, over yonder, making the magic happen, Super Producer JD.
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sort of exploit something and like run their offense through one guy because it's like ping ping ping ping side to side like you said Trey so you don't want to like veer away from that too much but maybe a missed opportunity um I will say though there was a lot of Jalen Brunson looking down at Tibbs like am I coming back in here man put me in I'm the clutch player of the year this is a close game and he sort of like continued to stick with those guys like you said then got him back in and what did Brunson do hit that that was a tough shot that was nice that little like
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I don't know, sideways floater. I think Neesmith draped all over him. Got it over. That was a huge bucket. With his left hand. That was awesome. So it came through, obviously, with that one.
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Ja, absolut. Und ich meine, Tess hat es erwähnt, Jalen Williams hatte keine gute erste Quartier. Weißt du, eine gute Art, auf den Weg zu kommen? Einfach jeden Tag auf die Strecke drücken. Das ist der Grund, warum er so viele von seinen Baskets bekommen hat. Er war ein absoluter Dämon in der Transition. Es gab niemanden, der mit ihm aufhören konnte.
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Du nimmst den Fakt, dass Aaron Gordon, sein normales Match-Up, nicht in der Lage war, ihn zu schützen, also mussten sie ihn auf Chet legen und ihn anrufen lassen. Es war einfach ein viel einfacherer Versuch für Jalen Williams. Und sie riechen Blut im Wasser und sie sind rausgegangen und haben es von Denver genommen.
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Couldn't blame them. Don't blame them at all.
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Ja, das ist wirklich lustig. Und ich dachte, es wäre auch lustig, Mike Breen zu hören, wie er experimentiert mit Wortschriften gleichzeitig. An einem Punkt ist er so wie Thunderbolts auf Defense. Sie bekommen das Spiel, sie schneiden den Jungen in die Nuggets-Geräte. Eine Thunder-Avalanche. Ja, er hatte Sachen versucht. Er war so wie, was werden wir das nennen? Es muss Thunderstorm sein.
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Thunderstorm ist gut. Es ist gut. Ja, es war Brühen da im zweiten Quartier. Ja.
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Going at Nick fans.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
He probably grew up a Thunder fan, right?
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This is another officiating note, just because it's weird. Okay, so I think it was Game 6, we had J-Dub elbows Jamal Murray in the face, out on the perimeter. You know, Murray's upping him defensively, he's clear in space, hits him in the face, gets called a common foul. They say it's a basketball move. Fine. Fair enough. Same exact thing happened yesterday.
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It was Aaron Gordon being pressured out on the left wing by Shea Gildress Alexander, who's all over him again. You know, basically face to face. Das war ein Foul auf Shea, sicher. Es war ein Foul wahrscheinlich auch auf Murray in der letzten Runde. but you're taught to use your arms and your elbows to clear space. I don't really know what the offensive player is supposed to do in that scenario.
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Ich denke, Adelman hat es definitiv gewonnen. Die Nuggets haben ziemlich uninspirierte Basketball gespielt, vor Michael Malone und Calvin Booth. Sie wurden verabschiedet. Sie haben einen 3-0-Sieg gewonnen. Ich habe es als den perfekten 3-0-Sieg genannt, nachdem David Adelman es gewonnen hat. Aber sie haben eine 7-Serie gewonnen. Dann haben sie das beste Team der Liga gewonnen. 68-Win-Team.
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They had them. They went to a seven game series. There are times, I'm sure the Nuggets could argue, we should have won that series. Obviously the Thunder think so as well, but it was close up until three minutes left in the second quarter of game seven. So certainly they bought in on him.
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If Jokic likes Adelman, that's really all that matters, but they're going to need to hire a very creative general manager, I do believe.
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It's all about that second quarter. I kind of think when it comes to basketball games, the game is very rarely won or lost in the second quarter. Seems like the least essential quarter to me as we're talking. But as we saw in Game 6, same thing in Game 7. Oklahoma City came out. They were a little nervous, I thought, in the first quarter here.
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Sie haben ihn in 31 und 32. Sie können 26, 28 und 30 swappen. Das sind Picks, die man anpassen kann. Michael Porter Jr. hat mir eigentlich viel Kredit gegeben, weil er durch seine Armschmerzen gespielt hat. Er hatte letztes Jahr endlich keinen Pad, also ist er zumindest die Runde umgekehrt. Aber leider waren andere NBA-Teams wahrscheinlich auch in den Playoffs. Er hatte keine guten Playoffs.
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But he's the guy they have to look at trading and he should be traded for two players. They need to turn one big contract of a guy who's never going to make an all-star team into two contracts of guys who actually will maybe be part of the team. I don't know what happens with Milwaukee and Giannis going forward, but there's some guys there who would help. Like,
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Kuzma würde die Nuggets helfen, glaube ich nicht. Er ist Michael Porter Jr., aber ein bisschen schneller. Sie könnten vielleicht Bobby Porters, vielleicht Gary Trent Jr. haben. Wer weiß, es gibt einige Spieler da draußen. Willst du Vuc und Pat Williams? Mach das Deal. Brauchst du einen Backup-Center? Brauchst du einen Wing-Defender und einen Mann, der einmal ein Spiel schießt?
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Aber in Wahrheit wird dieses Team sehr ähnlich aussehen, wie sie dieses Jahr aussehen. Und sie sind immer noch in sieben Spielen gegangen. Sie sind immer noch... auf den Ecken der Champions-League-Kontenzen. Also, den Trainer zu hirten, assuming, dass es Adleman ist, wird groß sein. Michael Malone war kein Spieler-Development-Coach.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Vielleicht ist es David Adleman, weil Christian Braun dieses Jahr einen Schritt gemacht hat. Er war ein guter Spieler. Sein nächster Schritt ist Dribbling, ein bisschen Selbst-Kreation. Es fühlt sich an, als ob alle seine Basket-Spiele von Jokic abgelenkt wurden. Aber wenn er einen weiteren Schritt machen kann, hilft das definitiv den Nuggets.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Dann braucht er Leute wie Watson, Pickett und Strother, um einen Schritt zu machen, wie Christian Braun es gemacht hat. In der offenen Saison. Du musst hoffen, dass Deron Holmes, der Rookie, der sie letztes Jahr gedraftet hat, als Backup von Jokic, in der Sommerliga verletzt wurde. Du musst hoffen, dass er ein bisschen spielen kann.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Und ehrlich gesagt, muss Jamal Murray bereit sein, bereit zu spielen. Er muss ein All-Star-Team machen, weil wenn du einen 4-Jahre-Mann 208 Millionen Dollar zahlst, kann er nicht nur ein guter Spieler in den 5 Spielen in den Playoffs sein. Er hatte keine guten Spiele. Er hatte bessere Spiele als er letzte Saison hatte, aber er hat nie wirklich die Höhen erreicht, die wir suchen.
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They missed 10 of their first 15 shots, couldn't stop fouling, Yolk kept going to the line, Aaron Gordon was getting things done inside. But then at the end of the first quarter, honestly, Russell Westbrook checked in, started turning the ball over. Then Julian Strother checks in at the start of the second quarter, starts turning the ball over.
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Wer wird einen besseren Spieler zurückgeben? Das ist die Frage.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Ich weiß, er trinkt schon mal Bier. Ja, er hat es gesagt. I wonder if they get in the Kevin Durant game. Ich wundere mich, ob sie die Türen auf das machen. Es wäre wahrscheinlich Michael Porter Jr., all die Picks und Swaps, die sie haben, auf Christian Braun. Vielleicht würden sie sogar für Jamal Murray fragen. Aber ich weiß nicht.
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Still though, a one-point game with three minutes left at the end of the half. An 18-5 run for OKC turned a... 46-45 in ein 60-46 Spiel. Und dann kamen sie ins dritte Quartier und es war alles gleich. Okay, sie mussten einfach in das Spiel einsteigen, ihre Defense herausfinden und Turnovers forcieren.
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Offensichtlich ist Kevin Durant ein riesiger Upgrade über Michael Porter Jr. Ein riesiger Upgrade über Christian Braun. Aber das ist ein noch niedrigerer Team als KB und Jokic am Top. Aber ich würde nicht überrascht sein, dass sie zumindest Gespräche darüber haben.
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Shoutout to Phil Jackson.
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They won one in 1973 as well.
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Sobald sie Turnovers forcierten, kamen sie in so einen guten Rhythmus, dass es im Grunde genommen unabhängige Transition-Basketball von ihnen war. Alex Caruso, aber dieser Typ bekommt den absoluten Spielball. Plus 40 in 26 Minuten. Leute sagen, ein einziges Spiel plus minus, das ist nicht immer der Fall. Das sagt nicht immer die Wahrheit. Ja. Ja. Ja. Ja.
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Ich bin gespannt. Okay, I think these are going to be great conference finals. I think there's a lot of intrigue on both sides. Knicks versus Pacers is literally a generational rivalry. That's what people always want in the NBA. These teams played playoff series in the early 90s, late 90s slash early 2000s, the 2010s and the 2020s.
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If you're talking about wanting to see rivalries in the playoffs... Was willst du noch fragen? Auf der anderen Seite ist es USA vs. Kanada. Wir haben unseren größten Jungen, Anthony Edwards, gegen deinen größten Jungen, Shea Gildress Alexander. Sehr cool. Aber ja, die großen Stars sind nicht da. Auch Jokic ist nicht da, Giannis ist nicht da, Doncic ist nicht da.
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Die nächste Generation der großen Stars ist nicht da. Aber schau dir das an, wenn die nächste Generation von der nächsten Generation Stars werden, müssen sie Center Stage nehmen. Und das ist sie, die Center Stage nehmen. Das ist, was Ziller heute geschrieben hat.
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Gesundheit ist ziemlich wichtig.
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Gibt es noch weitere Hyped-Noten? Glaubst du, dass die Pacers mehr Kredit für drei NBA-Championships gewinnen sollten? Nein. Auch ihre Wikipedia sagt, dass sie die beste Mannschaft in der ABA waren, während der Geschichte der ABA. Sie haben drei gewonnen, 70, 72 und 73.
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Der beste Spieler im Basketball spielte in der ABA an dem Zeitpunkt, in Dr. J. Wie viele... Die NFL zählt die Prämerger-Championschaften. Das ist ein guter Punkt. Wie viele Teams waren in der NBA? Zehn. Okay. 17 in der NBA. Ja, okay. Ja. Klar. Sie verdienen es. Absolut. Sie sollten ein bisschen mehr geblieben werden. Ja. NBA-Teams, denke ich.
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They deserve it. Are you guys cheering more so for Pascal Siakam or OG Ananobi?
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Ich glaube, SGA hat darüber gesprochen, oder nicht?
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
SGA mit dem 3-Punkte-Effekt.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Wow, genau wie das. Sie wurden vor einem Jahr gegründet.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Nicht zu erwähnen, dass Caruso so ein guter Zone-Breaker für den Thunder ist. Während des großen Rundes am Ende des zweiten Quartals, kannst du ihn auf dem Top-Zone setzen. Drei gleiche Zeiten, die Verwirrung für, ich glaube, es war Murray und Brown, die normalerweise auf dem Top-Zone waren, für die Nuggets.
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Ich dachte, wow, Paul George, wir müssen ihn auf dem Platz haben. Und er wird auch Podcasten machen. Das ist ein guter Ort, um das Spiel zu sehen. Du hast natürlich den Julius Randall-Kat-Trad zwischen den Timberwolves und den Knicks. Es gibt viele interwebende Strände zwischen den vier Teams. Ja.
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Er hat einfach ein perfektes Spiel gespielt, hat den Start in der zweiten Halbzeit bekommen, hat es gehalten und der Thunder hat einfach die Nuggets aus dem Gym entfernt.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
He was like a character in the series last year.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
What do you think would be the desired outcome for the NBA Finals by the league? Next for sure.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
I mean, obviously not winning forever.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Was für eine Rezeption.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Lass es so sein. Ich habe deine Leans. TK, any leans right now? I mean, I said Pacers are going to the finals like a week ago. You did?
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Ich würde es machen. Du könntest es machen. Du hast die beste Chance. Du musst uns in die Arena lassen. How the hell are we gonna get you guys? Alright, we'll figure it out. We'll have to get you like a security costume. Oh! Like a full heist move. Okay. I like that.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Er hatte eine gute Serie. Er hatte eine gute Serie.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
They forced 23 turnovers, that turned into 37 points. And they were getting so many transition baskets that by the end of the game it was not even turnovers. It was like if Denver missed a shot, it was a layup or a dunk on the other side for OKC. They had 27 layups and dunks in this game. And it was kind of just like they realized there's no way these guys can catch us.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Jokic is going to be the slowest guy on the floor. Michael Porter... Er ist kein langweiliger Mann. Ich wollte ihn nicht wirklich aufbringen, aber Aaron Gordon ist da, einfach nur rumzuhoppen. Ich meine, der Mann ist lecker. Er kann nicht wirklich zurück auf die Verteidigung gehen. Also sagen sie, okay, wir haben die fünf schnellsten Leute aller Zeiten.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Vielleicht kann Christian Braun mit einigen der Thunder-Spieler laufen, aber es hat wirklich keinen Sinn. Du nimmst den Fakt, dass die Rollenspieler besser zu Hause sind. Das Adage kam wahr. 26 zu 16 Bench-Advantage für die Jungs, die tatsächlich während der kompetitiven Portion gespielt haben.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Wie viele Defensivspieler der Jahre hat Draymond Green? Einer. Ja, genau. People were saying that the Thunder were too soft coming into the playoffs and now they're complaining that they're too physical. That doesn't really make sense to me. So you're going to get away with it. And if you're a smaller guy, you're definitely going to get away with it.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
And if you don't have to guard anybody on the perimeter, you can have a lot of guys get away with it on the inside. So I kind of felt like if Jokic caught the ball, he was going to score. So smart move by the Thunder to be like, okay, we just can't let you catch the ball.
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Young Thunder Roll To West Finals, Caruso Slows Jokic & NBA Final Four Hype
Weil, ich meine, es gibt Zeiten, in denen er den Ball bekommt und Caruso hat und er ihn einfach von der Freedrow-Linie nach dem Rimmel schießt und den Hoop schießt. Du könntest einen offensiven Foul nennen, wenn du es wirklich willst, aber das ist nicht so, wie Basketball gespielt wird. Das ist ein Spiel, das wie du es erwartet hättest.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
And they're taking away the key, so when Westbrook's cutting, making his cuts, he's not open either.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Well, there you go. I'm glad I asked. Just give me a swerve early. An early swerve. Because you know everybody's taking the Thunder.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Yeah. I think we're going to see a good Jokic game because as much as the defense is preventing him from seeing his passing lanes and his shots... I think he's just having off shooting. I mean, to shoot 21% from three throughout the series, that ain't Jokic. He's going to have a good one. So they're going to win a game, but they're not going to win two. I'll take the Thunder at seven.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Yeah, yeah. And two boards. Yeah.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Yeah. I know Indiana's hitting shots, but no, he was not... He was not there. I think you'd look up and down the Cavs roster. Who was there? Nobody. Yeah, that 20-point final score is nothing close to what actually happened out there. It was 129-109, but Donovan Mitchell said at halftime, I ain't playing the second half.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Now, I don't know how bad his leg is, but they are, I'm assuming, saving him for game five.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Aaron Neesmith hit a shot at the buzzer at the end of the second quarter to put him up 41 to just put a dagger in it because Cleveland didn't show up. They didn't show up. Period. Everybody else. I want to say Max Shrews. He did show up. That guy plays hard. That being said, nobody else did. I mean, it's like the old DMX song. Where the Cavs, where the Cavs, where the Cavs at?
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
That's what I was singing. Where are they? Where are they? They did not play in game four. And now the Pacers obviously solved the zone. And they were awesome. But when Pascal Siakam goes to the bench and here comes Obi Toppin, he's just doing backdoor baseline cuts. You're not ready. You're not ready. All these guys were not ready for this game.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Absolutely. This looked a little worrisome for OKC in the fourth quarter. They were down eight points. It looked like game three where they may not be able to recover, and they fought. I thought Shea Gildress Alexander's fourth quarter compared to his fourth quarter in game three was way better. I thought in game three where he settled for threes a lot of the time.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
I think that was a Spiro Didis.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Yeah, and Mitchell was out there doing things. He tried to decapitate Thomas Bryan on that dunk, but then he decided, all right, I'm going to go with my left hand. Like, he was out there. Mobley was out there, but they really didn't show up. I hated when Darius Garland had his third foul and Kenny Atkinson decided to put him to the bench. He was just smiling.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
I know he was sort of mocking that third foul call, but he just wasn't locked in. If there's any positives, it is that Darius Garland had his best –
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
quarter of the series when it went after half third quarter he was the ball was in his hands especially because donovan mitchell was not on the floor so he had 12 points in that quarter so you know he's only played eight quarters in this series because he was hurt the first two games but if there's anything uh to be positive about i guess it's that they can win a game they could definitely win game five um and then we're going back to indiana hopefully
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
He was one of eight in that fourth quarter. Half of his shots were threes. He was just trying to win it from the three-point line. In this one, they pushed it. Shea led that. They distributed the ball a lot more. He was three of seven in the quarter. He did have a couple dagger attempts there. But I thought those were okay because they're up five.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
you know literally poke the bear here and wake up the Cavs but no they just cruised even more well played by Mather I guess yeah um the Cavs didn't have anybody coming off the bench to help uh DeAndre Hunter had a terrible game even though he stayed in and he pointed at his head and said see I'm smart you know I'm smart but he he looked like he was kind of lost in this game and
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Yeah, scrappy George Niang. Yeah, they could have used some fight. I'm not sure where that hit was. When they came back from replay, they showed it as close as possible, but it was, you know, one of those pixelated hits. The same angle of the main angle. You really couldn't see it. But it didn't look like a punch. I thought maybe it was just a purple nurple. What else could it have been?
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
They determined it was punch enough, I guess. Punch enough. And the ref coming to the microphone and saying, hit him in the sternum. We use the word sternum. You don't hear that very often. So I guess they deemed it. That's a punch. Anyway, it is kind of surprising DeAndre Hunter didn't get tossed in a way because he came at him. But anyway, did it matter? He just got a technical, in fact.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Are they toast? Yeah, like you think they maybe could win a game five in Cleveland, but... That's what the Pulse is saying, my favorite newsletter. Are the Cavs toast? I do think... I think they are. Well, game two is what they're going to regret. Blowing a 48 performance from Donovan Mitchell and not getting a win. Because, of course, the Pacers are going to win one of two games at home.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
I mean, they're good enough to do it, so they did that. But the Cavs just needed to friggin' split at home. And obviously the injuries are part of it, there's no doubt. But I think the Cavs should win game five. We'll see.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
They're both on one possession where he tried to hit a three, and then they got an offensive rebound. I thought that was fine. Him pushing the ball I thought was important in the fourth quarter because when they're down eight early in the fourth quarter, They start distributing, and their depth came through. Kaysen Wallace, splash. Another one. Keep on pushing that ball. Kaysen Wallace, splash.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Yeah. Like last year where he missed the last couple of games against the Celtics and round number two, he doesn't want to do that. So I, I assume I assumed that it was just them being safe, but yeah, they need him, but I guess it's a good thing. Garland did something out there in the second half. Anyway, we'll see.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Hit two threes. Aaron Wiggins, another one. Splash. So they just got all their guys going. Their depth showed. Bench points were 35-8 in this game. The Nuggets, that's obviously a problem. Even though their starters won 79-57 somehow in this game, the man Jokic wasn't the guy. No, he was not. He was not. 7 of 22 in this one. Only hitting three shots in the paint.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Oh, this was the want to steal. You get 33 from Jimmy and 30 from Jonathan Kaminga off the bench. A guy who wasn't part of the rotation. Insert him. You get 63 from them. And Anthony Edwards, you know, he really did not exist in this series until the second half of this game where he was really truly himself. It was like 10 and a half quarters for him to find himself, as he said before this game.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
You know, the Warriors are playing me different, taking away my three-point shot, and they're just letting me drive. But he couldn't find his drive for the first two games. Here it was. And so combine that with a Kaminga and Butler game, but then you get a bad Draymond Green game where he fouls out Julius Randle, taking it to him.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
And I thought just the margin for error with the Golden State Warriors now without Steph is just so small. You just can't make mistakes. I just thought there was just... Boneheaded slash we haven't had Jimmy as our number one guy mistakes early in this game. I mean, Draymond Green inbounding a ball after a made basket underneath his own hoop to Jimmy Butler, who didn't know it was coming.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
turns into a Mike Conley three. That's three freaking points. And then you had Jimmy coming for a dribble handoff from Draymond Green. Goes past it. Draymond says, all right, you're coming to it, right? No, Jimmy thought he was getting it way behind three-point line. That's another freaking turnover. You heard Gary Payton II talking to Jimmy Butler. Okay, what are we doing here?
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
When they did an audio assist. Those are multiple things that just – It's unfortunate, but it also just can't happen. Jonathan Kaminga and Jimmy Butler on a fast break. Jimmy Butler just gives him this direct pass that goes through Jonathan Kaminga when he was expecting an alley-oop. They just didn't communicate all that well, and then Anthony Edwards is alive.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
I mean, he really took him a long time, but yeah, now he's going. And so now if he's alive, this was the game, it sure felt like. But I would say even at the end of the fourth quarter there, When Ant got that steal off Rudy Gobert with 2.15 left, excuse me, he got a steal from Jonathan Kaminga, and that turned into a Rudy Gobert fast break dunk.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Gobert beat Jonathan Kaminga, and he beat Kevon Looney down the floor. And so those are like, okay, we're winning this series. This feels like the end of the Lakers series already where we're doing this thing. Rudy Gobert is beating those guys down the floor, and then he's taller than everybody, so he'll get a tap back that led to Julius Randle's pass to Anthony Edwards.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
obviously the size is a problem, but the effort was a problem right at the end. This was the game, it felt like.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
The team only hit 10 shots in the paint total because of how good the Thunder are at helping. They were showing Jokic bodies. I thought Shea was good at one possession doing it to Jokic. What do you think the Jokic reasoning is behind this? Now two, almost three bad games in a row.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
From the entire game, yeah, it's weird to see a guy like Brandon Pachemski not be able to shoot anymore going 1 of 10. Like I said, 63 points from Butler and Jonathan Kaminga. That is an accomplishment. But you need somebody. And, you know, Heald was okay. And Draymond was not there. And Brandon Pajemski was not there. So that part is odd. And that just makes me believe that it's all over here.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Because they need to win one without Steph Curry. And who knows when Steph Curry is coming back. So I will save my note. Is Jonathan Kaminga... Not putting a hand up on a Nas Reid three. That's just the most confusing thing to me, when guys don't put a hand up on defense. I just don't get it. I will never get it.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
We need a montage of guys not putting their hands up, and it's actually LeBron. Hand down, man down? Yeah. Yeah, why not?
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
It is nuts. Just from the postseason. It's nuts to see. LeBron did it. I guess he's trying to throw off Julius Randle in the first round. And you saw it in this one.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
I could be wrong. We saw, who was it, I guess in the Denver OKC game, like Michael Porter Jr. was like so open. He was too open to shoot. You know, that's a good defense. He was too open. Just back up. Or jump like your Luke Cornett from like 15 feet away. I mean, there's different defenses for three-point shots, but I hate that one. I hate the non-hand up. These guys are tired, man.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Yeah, it looked like the Knicks were getting way away from the ball handlers. Like, Cat was sagging. And even the guys guarding the ball handlers weren't getting it after it. Maybe they were just like, okay, well, you guys weren't hitting shots in Game 1, Game 2. We want one-pass shot possessions. Obviously, nothing worked in this game. The effort wasn't there defensively.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Peyton Pritchard may have sucked the energy out of MSG, but that guy's been really good in this series. He's been banging home threes. He's the one guy who's been pretty consistent through three games. That being said... Yeah, I don't know what happens with Cat. He's not on the injury report here, even though we saw him shake his hand.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
You saw everybody on the Internet doing the little reading his mouth, reading his lips. I broke it. It sure looked like he said for his left hand, which is his non-shooting hand, obviously. So maybe it's OK. But it looks like he's playing through it because he's going to tough it out. So maybe that's a good thing for the Knicks. We're going to play hard for that guy.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
He's playing with a broken hand because it definitely looks like it's something that he was favoring the entire game.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
I was very, very upset.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Anything else on that one? Well, if you want to be positive, you can say the Celtics haven't won a clutch game in this series yet. They weren't banging home threes in a clutch situation here because it was a blowout. So if the Knicks just make it close in the fourth quarter, we'll have some fun.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Okay, we'll see. On a 21-15 game for him, even though he – Good numbers, but he missed a lot of shots.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
The defense was the problem, yeah. He wasn't taking a ton of threes in this one. Only five of his 18 shots.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
This is a Beantown thing. You know, we play bad. We play a little bad in a series. It's going to happen. But, whoa, did you see us in game three? We're back, baby. So I think that's the feeling. All right. Well, game four, when is that? Tonight.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
That's a nice trade.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
And the winner of the 2025 NBA Draft Lottery is the Utah Jazz.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
I've never showered in that shower, but I have... Picked the right piece of paper. Yeah. We had the wind in... In the starters days. Yeah, in the studio.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Yeah, sounds right. Yeah, I feel like we had a malfunctioned bad take on that first one. So whoever I picked on the first one had to go back into the hopper. And then we picked the second one.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Yeah, a tiny part of me wants the Rockets to win via the Suns pick because of that very sly...
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
three-team deal that they made a year ago that nobody really remembers that the Rockets were able to acquire a pick swap they were just being super smart so if you get Matt Ishbia to eat that I mean that that would be so tough for Phoenix Suns fans that would be incredibly tough just because you traded this pick swap that would be so smart of Raphael Stone and the Rockets to get the number one
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Thanks for joining us. And remember, basketball is great.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Oh, yeah. The resiliency of this team showed in the fourth quarter. Again, down eight points early. They all came together. And we would be talking definitely about OKC in general and Che in general. Denver could hit some jumpers because, yeah, Shea missed three shots and had a turnover within a span of a minute 30 from the two-minute mark down to 30 seconds because he tried to win it.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Then he lost the ball off himself, and then it was fine him trying to win it because Denver couldn't hit a shot. So what does it really matter in the end? Because they just had a bad fourth quarter, really. They just fell apart. Is it the depth? Is it the 36-hour turnaround everyone was talking about from Friday night to Sunday afternoon?
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
It was Billis, I think, J. Billis.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Yeah, and it looked like OKC's season was on the line here as they were struggling to move the balls into the third quarter. They lost that third quarter by 12 points because they couldn't move it. And then the fourth quarter, all right, we're down 2-1. We're here in Denver, back-to-back games. It looked bleak. But they finally...
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
decided all right i mean we just need to move the ball and trey just mentioned alex caruso for the first time it's it's crazy that we took this long to mention alex caruso because i thought this guy is their heart he was the guy who was resilient enough was the is the older guy to say we ain't losing yeah 31-year-old. He's the old guy on this team, no doubt.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
But he was awesome defensively the entire game, every single minute he played. So he showed resiliency. And then, yeah, he decided we're moving the ball. I mean, he was part of that as well. He helped move it out.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Respect to the Denver defense for just throwing everybody into the key and not allowing Jokic to score and making everybody else hit shots around them, which they just currently aren't doing. I mean, when you guys – when you were saying Caruso deflections, I think Christian Brown was that version on the other end. He was doing a really good job of doing that. So –
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Yeah, he can be around forever. Shave his head. Start losing your hair, shave his head.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Yeah, his mom was in the audience yesterday for Mother's Day. Danielle, my wife, said, oh, yeah, I can see the likeness. And I said, what? What? I didn't see it. She said, well, their upper lip is very similar. I said, oh, wow. Yeah, I guess, as they showed it multiple times. Okay. It came back around. I said, yeah. I see a couple lips there.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
I was watching the In Arena feed for Denver, so they showed it multiple times. Oh, really? They showed all the moms out there.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Podcast listeners and cherry lovers. I just had some yesterday. They were great.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Yes, I did. I did. Not from our No Dunks fans, which I was asking for. Mom medley. The Nuggets gave it to you on the broadcast. I appreciated that montage. It was nice.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
Anything to add, Tess? No, Jokic, I love the effort from that guy, even if the shots aren't going down. He was 7 of 22, but it's more like a 7 of 19 because he took the end of shot for the first, second, and fourth quarters. He just chucks them up, like the 60-foot end of quarter type of shot. He was going for it. Yeah, he doesn't have his flow. The body's coming at him, I guess.
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Thunder Rally Late, Pacers Push Around Cavs & NBA Draft Lottery Wishes
have turned him into a non-yoke. They're wearing him down.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
uh yeah i appreciate that dan lan um disagree got some audio problems constantly over here but uh i appreciate the compliment and i'm sorry i scared you with her there's a lot of people like whoa is my fire alarm going off that we're listening yeah like when you hear police sirens on a song right whoa yeah damn it what did i do my house burning down yeah exactly yeah just jd's
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
It goes off when Rachel's blow-drying her hair.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
We've got the technology for it. Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, mine speaks. It has the blaring siren, but also goes, fire! Fire!
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
It totally looks like a skate shoe.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Do it. That's wild. Jackson, same thing. And I think for the same reason. I think he just watched Ocean's 12.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Yeah. And Jackson's got like, he's like growing his hair back. He's like, Dad, I'm going to, you know, rebirth for the summer.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
He's going to lock in and he's going to shave his head, I think.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Yeah, I guess. But, you know, I'm like... I like your hair, man. I like the way you look.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
There's no doubt.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
I'm mulling a complete makeover of this stupid studio. That's all I think about.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
So coming soon. All right. New studio.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
No, no, no. It's always better in the studio. That's 100%. We need to refresh, guys.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
We slapped some paint on the walls. We put up some pictures. We didn't put a lot of thought into this other than, are we going to fit in here? But now it's like, let's decorate. Let's make this place look like a show. You know what I'm saying? It's a little gloomy. It's gloomy.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Bonner Street it is, baby.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
What are you doing, man? Go to Japan.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
You've been to Portugal. It's a bucket list for you.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
The yen is garbage right now.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Get your ass to Japan.
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The Drop | Brunson & Knicks Force Game 6, Jrue Holiday Trades, Magic Apologizes
Well, look. Well, I don't want to hear about Bonner Street again. Jesus. There's other parts of Portugal I would like to see. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
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Hey, mate, I just ordered some.
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Non-stop. Is it because of you guys? Because Tass was in here yesterday flexing his muscles and looking all good.
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There was a backlash, wasn't there? It was like, this is terrible for you.
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Apparently, it's good for you.
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All right. All right, JD, what are you interested in? What am I interested in? I'm reading about the troubles in Ireland right now. That's what I'm interested in.
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Yeah, I mean, like, what am I interested in? I play pickleball and I do the show. That's my life. I don't have any other outside interests. I am reading a book, and it's about the troubles in Ireland. It's called, what the hell is it called?
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The famous troubles. Oh, okay. I'm interested because that's kind of why my family ended up in Canada because they emigrated. And yeah, so that's, you know, the book is called Say Nothing. There's also a Hulu miniseries. It's about the IRA and the troubles in Ireland, and that's what I'm interested in. Boring!
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Yep, if you want to get into this, yep.
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The gym that we go to has bouncier balls than standard pickleballs and is sort of ruining us for pickleball outside of the club that we're going to. Interesting. Because the regular pickleballs are harder, but these are a little bouncier.
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Great question. I think it's easier to hit it hard, but for me, it just flies out of bounds.
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So it's harder to control for me.
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AJ, yeah. The dad?
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You say he's just a friend.
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What have I underestimated? You have no answer. I got no answer.
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I thought we would empty the entire box and then have to collect all the balls and do it again.
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We put so much work into these things.
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Like, accurately... I know.
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That's our thing.
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We're like Joe on Survivor. That's right.
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Chet was awesome.
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Triple teaming Shea, go just Alexander for 48 minutes. That's the only way they were getting back in the game in the fourth quarter.
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They're killing them in the mid-range. What they're doing isn't working. Gobert plays a drop. It's worse against Shea than it is against Luka, kind of. Because Shea wants to shoot the mid-range jumper, and that's the defense that Minnesota is prepared to go into this. So Shea's a mid-range player. J-Dub is a mid-range player. I don't know what Mike Conley thinks that the guards are going to do.
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They can't stay in front of either one of these guys. So I don't know. Literally the only reason they had success in the fourth quarter was junk defense. They were throwing three guys at Shea and trying to make somebody else make a play. The Thunder freaked out for a little bit, but they got their legs underneath them. And there's no way you can play that style for a real basketball game.
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The Thunder are going to win the championship. It's pretty obvious. But maybe Minnesota makes 23s in one of these games at home and extends it to five games.
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They had Randall hit five threes in the first half and didn't win that game. They got blown out in that game.
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But... Denver stressed them out. They had to change stuff against Denver. They haven't had to change anything so far. This is like regular season basketball so far.
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And it was like we were all sitting in the same area. Yeah. Baby, me, Tass. But I still enjoyed my screening of Presence. What's that? That's a Steven Soderbergh movie. Kind of like a ghost movie. It was interesting.
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Good luck. Make some shots. They're, what, like 26 for 90 through the first two games? And this is not a three-point shooting team. They're taking a ton of threes for a team that likes to score inside.
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I haven't seen a grin like that since they lost game three against Denver.
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I didn't know that was still a thing.
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They travel enough.
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They're going to have to put them on ice, though. They're not going to wear them for months at this point.
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I'm searching out great movies. Okay. You know? But you've watched some garbage ones as well. Well, yeah, I like to, my general strategy is watch one bad one, one good one. Okay. Like on the way there, I watched Captain America, Brave New World. That was the bad one. On the way home, I watched Presence, the good one. Okay. Yeah.
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What? Wow. I know. You think they ever fought each other? Steve Javis versus Scott Foster?
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Did anybody think about asking to hold the baby? Yeah.
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When the Thunder went on their big run in the third quarter, Mike Breen called the Thunderbolt. He settled on Thunderbolt.
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I don't even remember.
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Who's the fourth? Who's the fourth?
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It's fine. It makes them sound fast, too.
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Okay, so I think there's three factors here. Number one, first and foremost is screen time. If you have more than four hours of screen time per day, you're probably a little bugged at the Oklahoma City Thunder because you're spending too much time online. You're seeing them dancing in TikToks. You're seeing the edits of Shea Gilgis Alexander foul baiting. The commercials even.
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That was going to be my number two point. They've had the two most annoying commercials of the NBA playoffs the past two seasons. This year's I think is a little bit better than what a pro wants, what a pro needs, but still both annoying. And like, I don't think Shay is a super magnetic personality. He's pretty low key. He is a super humble superstar.
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He gives very thoughtful answers, but are people... tapping into the post-game press conferences? Maybe not. But if you're just a person who's literally just watching basketball, you're like, they don't shoot a ton of threes. They make a lot of mid-range jumpers. They play defense. This is what people said they wanted to see. Well, yeah, right.
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You can't win. You can't win. The only thing that bugs me about the Thunder, I've never thought Shea Gildress Alexander's Instagram comments are good.
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His lyrics. I don't think they're good.
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There's five commercials. That's all we see. But how are you not seeing commercials? I don't understand that. It's just an arena feed. They literally just stay there. League pass style.
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Perimeter defense is back. I think that's the hugest thing here. You got two legitimate guards on the first team, plus Amin Thompson, who is a wing, but he guards quite a bit. I would also say that
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j-dub and tumani kamara are kind of perimeter based defenders then they definitely guard big guys as well but definitely more representation for the smallies uh on this year's all defensive teams after the way it went last year did herb make first team herb jones maybe made first team i know caruso was the highest guard defender last year and he was a second team guy so it feels like um
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voters recognized the importance of the perimeter defense as well. Because last year, after they went to the position list change, it felt like, oh, we're just going to get five centers on the first team every single year. But apparently that's not the case.
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Yeah, Caruso was on with Scott Van Pelt talking baldness and also defense after the game last night, and he listed out, like you're doing, all the guys that got votes. They got four guys that got votes. Chet would have made an all-defense team if he would have played enough minutes and enough games as well. And then he kind of threw himself a bone at the end.
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He's like, yeah, and I got it on my resume too. That's how good they are defensively, that you could take the seventh man on this team. You could take Cason Wallace, and he would be the best defender on a lot of teams.
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Like, I mean, Bam is a guy that makes all defensive teams, but he didn't have a great year, and the Heat were not great defensively either.
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Anything jumped off the page to you there, TK? Would the second team beat the first team if they played each other? Not a lot of scores on the first team. I mean, not a lot of scores, period.
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He would be the ball handler. Edie's big. Edie's big. Edie versus Klingon I would love to see once again. But yeah, when you see the all-rookie teams, you're like, no wonder Stephon Castle won Rookie of the Year. He's the one guy you look at those 10 and you're like, yeah, maybe he could be on the fringes of an all-star conversation.
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He might be taller than Meecy.
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No, no, no, in his career. Okay. How many all-stars are we going to get from those 10 guys? All-star appearances. Oh, total all-star appearances. Total all-star appearances. Oh.
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He can't score. He had maybe the worst two-point percentage of everybody in the NBA, and he's seven feet tall.
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The only way I'm figuring on this is I looked at two articles of people trying to predict who they think is going to be on these teams. And Tyrese Halliburton was only on half of the NBA.com voters list. Sean Powell had him, for instance, but John Schumann didn't. I think if he doesn't make the team with the playoffs he's had, you would easily say he's the biggest snub.
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He seemed to get a little bit of heat, I feel like, in the second half of the season from people that were locked in on the Pacers. I mean, I know Powell's watching him. I know Schumann's watching him as well. I was kind of surprised that Schumann didn't have him, to be quite honest. If you like first impressions really stick with people. Right.
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He didn't have a great start to the season, nor did the Pacers. They turned it on in the second half. They turned it on basically once 2025 rolled around. But I think Halliburton should be an all NBA player. I just don't know that he's locked in for everybody right now.
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On Wednesday night, the Pacers pulled, wait. When did we watch that Knicks game?
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I know. It's been a week. Very weird week for us. I feel like we came into the Classic Factory on Tuesday morning, and we've just been in production since that moment. Sort of have. We have been.
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It felt right when I wrote it. I said, I was like, really? Yeah. On Wednesday night, the Pacers pulled off yet another stunning comeback, beating the Knicks after being down 14 with a little less than three minutes left. Depending on how you slice it, the loss goes down as arguably the worst playoff collapse ever. So, fellas, what is your all-time worst choke? Skeets.
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You were tired that day.
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The Carba vac? Yeah, I made a lot of money on that.
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You should be allowed to puke on your friend's bag with no consequences. That's just something I believe in.
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Yeah, yeah. You know our don't.
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Yeah, me too. They didn't have granola bar. I had to do sun chips both ways. They call them minis, man. Those minis. They have to go minis inside that tiny little bag. I can barely fit my giant hand in there. Talks about my tiny feet, but look at these hands. They break them into smallers. There's like three actual Sun Chips in there, but it looks like 12.
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Why do they call them sun chips? What's the sun have to do with anything?
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Okay, you're right. I don't know. You're absolutely right. I take it back. Sun makes sense. Chips, it doesn't. Chips don't. JD, you ever have a choke?
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Were you in a tux the whole time or were you, like, matching up? No, no, I was in a tux. I was the host.
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You're wearing it on the street. Bring them out. We're not ready, Jason.
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In Happier Knicks news, New York City temporarily renamed a bunch of streets to honor the team's players. Amongst the names, there's Jalen Brunson Boulevard, Carl Anthony Town Square, and of course, Landry Schammett Circle. Guys, if you could have a street named after you, what would it be?
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You should get a street sign in front of your house for sure. Just a custom one.
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Music. I did like the skateboarding one we did. Yeah, that was cool.
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Yeah, real great. We've kind of done every category. We did formal wear that one time walking down the hallway. Those turned out cool.
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It's because we had to go back to New Orleans twice. Yeah, I think so.
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I like it. JD, what's your street name?
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Wait, did you look at it like he did? Yeah, let's hear your favorite street.
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That's the one you would want, Jason Doyle.
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You can have my street. They wouldn't allow it.
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Is he a bad guy? Sure, yeah. They're all fucking bad guys. Because of that Knicks game, which was on Wednesday night, we couldn't watch the finale of Survivor 48 live and had to figure out a way to squeeze in the last episode of our favorite show. Skeets watched it late. Oh, did I watch it late? Yeah, I got half in on the plane yesterday, then half in on the cab. How about you, JD?
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Had to wait until I got home. No Wi-Fi on the plane. That was a killer. That was a killer.
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What's going on? Why? I can't get that. It just wasn't working.
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That being said, they were down at the end of the first quarter, got waxed in the third quarter, and down 2-0. Minnesota made more threes than Oklahoma City, more free throws than Oklahoma City, had more offensive rebounds, fewest turnovers they've had in five games, and almost played shade to a standstill.
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I played a lot of Solitaire.
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Did you guys see anybody playing the game called 2048? I played it all the time. I did. That game looks insane. It's impossible.
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Literally, that game looked to me like what they're doing in macro data...
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He was going swipe crazy next to me. Alright, Minority Report. Let's go back to the question. When was a time you delayed gratification?
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You're telling me, man. You've been waiting, what, six years? Yeah. Cool 27 so far for me. Right, yeah.
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Caruso filed out, and the Timberwolves didn't have a lead after the eight-minute mark in the second quarter. Yeah, it wasn't close. Minnesota has not yet stressed out Oklahoma City in any way. They haven't changed their schemes. The rotations are basically the same. Chet Holmgren got pulled in the first quarter of game one for Case and Wallace.
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Shows-wise? Yeah. I got nothing. Shows-wise, Survivor just ended. Severance just ended. Our max subscription is not up to date right now, so I want to watch Righteous Gemstones. But I told you, I watch movies more than I watch shows. Laura, I don't know how she's done it. She's been watching this show, Call the Midwife. She watches it, I feel like, four nights a week.
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And somehow she's been watching this same show for... eight months it feels like how many episodes can there possibly be of this show there must be a 14 seasons okay i've never heard of this show wow what is this uh it's a drama yeah british drama yeah i'm certainly a period piece about you know like uh reproduction yeah okay yeah um
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Yeah, so if she's going to be calling the midwife, I am going to find a movie to watch. Two hours, sometimes three hours, I'm done. Right. And that's how I watch more movies than I watch TV shows.
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That was the closest, like, dramatic mark at all so far in this series for the Thunder. Since he's came back in after that stint, he's been dominating, completely outplaying Gobert. The Ant thing is interesting. He did have a decent game, I thought. 32 points, 9 rebounds, 6 assists. You look at Shea Gildress Alexander, 38 points, 3 rebounds, 8 assists, 1 turnover. Pretty similar lines.
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That's crazy, man. The first hour, too, was... Oh, yeah. That would have been tough to get through at that... Time of day.
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That's a good point. Pizza power. That's right. Delicious, of course. Nice, greasy New York pizza. Were you sad, though, that neither of us had watched it the next day, so you couldn't even talk about it with anybody?
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Oh, they told us. They told us if we don't get 500 likes on this episode, we can't do one tomorrow. Wow. The company. Yeah, I was surprised to hear him say that when we were at all these meetings. But you do your part and we'll be good.
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Yeah, we can do another one tomorrow. Okay, all right.
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I don't know. Literally, I have no idea what day it is. Yeah, he has no clue. Is it next Friday? I think it is.
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I do. I mean, there'll be people sleeping in mine. JD would love us.
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We got to rent a hotel room before dudes show up at midnight. We need a hotel room just for a couple hours. Just a couple hours. Just a couple hours.
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Clever bros. You heard it here first. Have a great time. Turn up. Love you guys.
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And SGA completely outplayed him. There's levels to it. You see how much more Ant has to do. He, to me right now, doesn't seem to know... how to be a playmaker and a scorer at the same time. He took a lot of bad shots in this game. Went one for nine from three.
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You see the value of having a mid-range jumper that Shea Gildress Alexander does because Ant a lot of times over-penetrates, gets inside, throws up some junk at the rim, and it turns into a layup or a three-pointer for OKC on the other side. So Ant played good, but he wasn't the best player on the court.
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I know. McDaniels is too. McDaniels can't guard him. McDaniels needs to hang out in the paint. He needs to trick Shea Gilgis-Alexander into shooting threes. That's Shea's weakness right now. He's one for six, I think, in this series so far. He did hit a big one last night. 28% though in the playoffs. McDaniels is picking him up at half court. He can't stay in front of him.
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So he's just basically inviting him to take mid-range jumpers. So I kind of think back off a little bit. Let's say if Shea's shooting improvement is real in the playoffs. It hasn't been so far. You got to trick him a little bit because what they're doing, it obviously isn't working.
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Yeah, they're struggling. They're getting wide open corner threes because OKC allows wide open corner threes and they can't make them. Last night, they went four for 15. Game one, they went five of 21. A lot of these shots are the guys that you want shooting three. Steven Chenzo's missing. We talked about Nas Reid has been off. Nikhil Alexander-Walker can't buy a bucket. Mike Conley has...
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kind of been an important player I feel like for the Timberwolves you need to have him on the court because Randall's giving you nothing at least Mike Conley can move the ball but if he's playing they can't play defense that's a slow old man out there comparatively yeah yeah the scary part I do think Nasrid coming into the series was balling from three-point land so he was great against the Lakers so yeah yeah he cooled off against uh
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Yeah, Warriors.
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they couldn't get him the ball inside either. I mean, how many attempted lob passes did they just throw straight to the Thunder? It was pretty bad stuff. Game one, first half, 20 points, five threes for Randall. Since then, he's got 14 points on 16 shots, hasn't made a three, more turnovers than assists. He had a great two series. They're going to need something from him.
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Certainly the role players aren't playing well against the Thunder here, but Randall is not supposed to be a role player. His skills in this matchup are not the right thing for him. He's a guy who wants to back you down, push you around, try and score inside, play the bully ball style. They are happy to do that. We'll take the bumps.
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We'll try and strip the ball, and then there's going to be so many guys inside. set it in game one, when he's not thinking, when he's just catching it and shooting it or catching it and going to the hoop, then he has a chance. Then he maybe can be effective. But if he has the ball for more than three seconds, it's going to be a turnover or a miss, it feels like.
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I just can't believe there was ever a day when I accepted nerds in a form aside from Gummy Cluster. Truly the ideal method of delivery, don't you think?
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Yeah, right, right. And we talked about that. Possessions, possessions, possessions. Whoever wins that's winning the game. Well, that was wrong.
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Here we are. Big shouts to our guys, Trey and Esh, who went live last night from the OKC floor to give their immediate reaction to this crazy game that we're going to get into. TK even got dapped up midstream by Kenny the Jet Smith.
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Yeah, the problem was those guys didn't do a whole lot more after that. Chet and J-Dub. Except J-Dub started the fourth quarter. He was like 3-12 going into the fourth, and then he went 3-3. He had the big fast break dunk, a couple ones where he attacked inside, was sneaking in there, and that was definitely one of the times I thought, okay, now he has really shown up here.
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Now this is going to be difficult for the Pacers. So that was the one of 10 or 11 times where I thought, okay, so he was winning. But I thought Chet, I mean, also he didn't play a ton. Chet Holmgren either.
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Were you surprised that Dagnall started Wallace for Hardenstein in Game 1 of the NBA Finals when your team has won 80 games at this point? You are making the decision to switch it up before you've even played a minute. And even though we've seen him do similar things in the start of second halves, I was amazed that he did that.
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It did work.
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Oh, God, he had seven points, like, right away when you checked in.
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Yeah, I mean, and Dangold's, like, reasoning was like, look, we did this during the regular season at times. You know, this is nothing really new to us. We like the matchup. We're going small. Again, it wasn't surprising they went small. It just maybe was like, what? Why? Right here in game one. Yeah.
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Do you think he goes back to Hardenstein starting? Or do you look like you're oddly panicking even more? I don't know. I don't know what to think because RJ on the call is like, oh, the Pacers have already won here in the mind game department. The Thunder are already switching it up because they are, quote unquote, worried about the starting lineup and whatever, the matchup problem.
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I don't know how much truth there is to that, but...
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They had 19 turnovers in the first half.
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If they do flip it then. If it's game two or game three, it's like nobody blinks an eye. It's the fact that you did it in game one at home when you've won, again, 80 games at this point. You're 68 wins in the regular season and you're 12 up to this point. You're looking for four more.
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I know. Anyway. I know. I stay Hartenstein. You, I feel, do go more Steen.
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I used to watch you guys when I was a Hartenstein.
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But, but, but, all that said, the Pacers won the rebound battle last night. They did. That's big. Especially in a game where you're going to turn it over on so many damn possessions. You're going to hopefully want to win at least the rebounding battle. Those guys were scrappy. Like, what's the box score? It's like Siakam with 10 boards. Neesmith with 12 boards. Halliburton had 10 boards.
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So everybody obviously getting on the glass to give them a chance and give them those either second chances or to end a possession and get the stop. Yeah.
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You're like, hey, they're adapting to us. We know what we are. We know how we're going to play and we know how we're going to start this game. So, I guess a little bit, but like you said, it's not like Indiana was up at the end of the first quarter, but despite everything being turned over, they somehow were not down huge.
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Every time you were like, this game feels like, okay, this is sort of crushing them, and it was like, oh, it's an 8-point game. No, it's a 10-point game. Never really out of it all that much.
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I guess not. When we first got there, then he loved us. Good stuff from Trey and Ash.
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Oh, yeah. That was a great gift at that part. Yeah, it was fun. If you haven't checked that podcast out, that video, go do so. Help the guys out. Did a great job going live last night. But it's our turn now. Unbelievable. but pulled off their fourth shocking late comeback of these playoffs, and Tyrese Halliburton, once again the hero, hitting the game-winning jumper with .3 seconds left.
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I loved SGA's quote after the game. He said, it's a 48-minute game. The Pacers teach you that lesson more than anybody else in the league the hard way. Facts right there. It's like, they had them. I mean, they had them for, what would you call it? I don't know, 40 minutes, if not longer. They felt comfortable with it and then took their foot off the gas a little bit and the Pacers do what they do.
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Here's a question for you. Is Halliburton currently having the greatest clutch playoff run in NBA history? Like when you go through it, because despite only 14 points, he has made the key shot in every one of the Pacers for ridiculous comebacks this postseason. Game five versus the Bucs. Game two versus the Cavs. Game one versus the Knicks. And now game one in the NBA Finals versus the Thunder.
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Right. Since the NBA play-by-play era. People are comparing it like, because that comes in, what, 96, 97, the play-by-play era. So you can't like, we don't have like the clutch numbers for your birds and your magics and even a lot of your Jordans, right? But Jordan 98, clutch as hell. Robert Ori, 2002. A few LeBrons to pick from.
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either 07 13 18 i mean there's probably some other ones 2011 dirk to go back to that mavericks uh miraculous run that they did so it's right there is my point it like has to be i mean they go on to win the title as one of the biggest upsets of all time as the only force he'd ever do it then then hell he might have to go to the top of the list but right now he's just completely in the mix with these goats basically
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They don't go 12 of 14 in spans of the game in general, let alone in these high-pressure moments when all the focus is on stopping them. But he just gets to his shot and... basically had to horseshoe up his ass in the one against the Knicks, no doubt, to get it to overtime. That one's a little bit of luck. A lot of luck. Not that one.
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I mean, it banged home a little bit, but obviously comfortable getting to his spot, like you said, on the right.
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You call it a mistake. You sort of just have to tip your cap to the guy.
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Halliburton was well aware of how much clock was left. I mean, he basically played it perfect, right, in playing it to the last possible second to shoot. I know there's .3 left once it goes in, but when he releases it, Wallace has to play him. He might drive. We've seen Halliburton go inside there. Now, you generally think he wants to do his little step back.
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He's done that a lot of times, but sort of down the stretch had a couple where he was attacking and scoring inside. So you've got to play that. You don't have Chet out there. You don't have Hartenstein. So it's not like you've got huge rim protection behind you. So I don't know. He was trying to sort of back up a little bit. But what a shot. I mean, the guy's just unbelievable right now.
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It's nuts. I saw this from Sam Quinn at CBS Sports. No one else in the play-by-play era, including LeBron, has made at least one such shot, these Halliburton-like shots, in each of the four rounds across their entire careers. Because he has, as I went through there. He's done it in every single round Halliburton has one of these nuts shots. Jordan did it.
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But he didn't complete his bingo card until the 97 NBA Finals. So Jordan eventually got one in every round, but it took him a long time. So the point is Halliburton has done in a single postseason what it took Jordan to do in an entire career. And what LeBron has not even actually accomplished in 22 NBA seasons.
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Basically game winner or clutch shot like that in the final couple seconds in every single round.
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You slipped it in there at one point, that lane violation on the Siakam free throw attempt when he did clank two free throws. I mean, it is down the stretch here. All these points matter. And the second one, the officials come in and say, oh, no, no, no. OK, he's into the lane. We're going to reshoot that one. And he hit it. I mean, obviously, it ended up being a big point.
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In a game, you win 1-11, 1-10. I thought it was a bit of a weird call because... It was like 10 guys it felt like in the lane. Like everybody was a violation. And even Breen was like, you can go weeks of watching the NBA and they'll never call that. So it was just strange that they did. I don't know if you had a take on it. You thought it was the right call?
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Yeah, that one.
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His deep deuce gave Indy its first and only lead of the entire game. They've done it again, Tess, and they're up 1-0, man.
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It goes on and on and on. That's like the beauty of these coaches playing so many guys, I think. It's like this high-level defense, or at least effort, right? Because they just come in waves and they play so many guys. That starts to wane as the game goes on when you have these coaches and we've seen teams that play their guys more. 40, 45 minutes. Well, like, I mean, something's got to fall off.
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Like you're going to lose some energy, especially you usually lose it on the defensive end first, but we don't really have that case because so many guys are both really good defenders or at least give a damn and put an effort. And then like everybody's sort of fresh when they keep coming in, in these ways. Didn't we have a Rick Carlisle did the old like hockey lineup switch.
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Took five guys off five guys in let's go jump over the boards.
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You called that too? You're like, we're going to see Mitchell. I'm like, are we? Yeah, we saw him early.
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But we started the second quarter with two starters on the floor. That's sort of crazy when you think about it.
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From both teams. Of the 10 guys out there, only two of them were starters. It was Siakam and J-Dub were the only guys out there at that point. Everybody else was from the bench.
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Yeah, not a lot for him. Yeah, not a lot for him. That was surprising. Any other game takeaways, big picture takeaways? We'll get to random notes and have some things to say about the broadcast in particular.
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What do you think? Yeah, we can go to that because, obviously, we just hope these games are like this game one because it's so special, man.
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All right, JD, let's do it. Random notes. Random! Yeah, I want to start by talking about the lack of finals pageantry with this broadcast. What is the NBA, what is ABC doing here?
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A lot of people on Twitter pointing out, and I think rightfully so, if you just turn this on and looked at it, besides the little gold accents on the score bugs from ABC, you would have no clue that this is really an NBA finals game. You wouldn't.
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There's the LOB decal on the stanchion, which you can barely see. Yep. And that's sort of it. And I know they have like a patch on the back of their jerseys, but not on the front because that's where we got to put the sponsors. This is weird. This is like really, really strange. Back in the day, of course we had the big Larry O'Brien decal at center court. It looked awesome.
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I have no idea why we went away from this. We had it for like five or six years. Okay, it's gone. Were people slipping on it? Is that the issue? Okay, whatever. Then the league brought back, remember that cool final script from back in the day. Remember we used to have, they went to like really basic, ugly, generic ones. Everyone was like, bring back that cool final script. So they did.
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And that was on the floor at times. That's nowhere to be seen. And then also on top of this, we get no player intros, we get no anthem, we get no real hype videos. Again, it just feels like a Saturday night game on ABC in March. And that's not what they should be doing.
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It's really perplexing how much they just mail it in and how little they lean into the moment and to, again, making this a really big deal. A regular Monday Night Raw is Monday Night Raw. Then watch WrestleMania... you know within five seconds of watching it oh this is special this is the big game same thing with the Super Bowl why are we why are they doing this
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We don't even need it actually on the floor if we're so concerned about guys slipping. Put it in virtually. for the millions of us watching.
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Of course. Yeah, something. Put something. Or I was thinking even, this is, again, I like that ABC with the score bug, they lean into like the gold, right? Okay, that at least is something and it's a nice little touch. Why don't we do that with, if they don't want to put a giant LOB decal, make the Oklahoma City Thunder logo, like make it gold. Right? Like, lean into that.
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Do the same thing when we go to Indiana.
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Yeah, like, just give it something so we know that this is a little bit different. This is, like, the most important games of the year.
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You don't really see it.
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No, I saw it in our... I bet you people didn't even know it's on there.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Exactly. I mean, NBC, they better give us the intro. I don't even know who's going to have the finals. I think maybe it still sticks with ESPN. I think so.
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It's just so weird.
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That crowd is hyped.
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The answer is always going to be because we need more money from our commercials.
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You get the atmosphere. Oh, yeah, you do. You do.
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It feels like a bigger deal. Yeah. It should because it is. Yeah. But again, you wouldn't really know that last night watching it on ABC like I did. Like... Like the crowd, it's amazing.
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But it's like nothing visually, nothing of the hype, nothing like you just like, oh, this is just another game. That's not what we should be having. That's like you're not selling your league very well, in my opinion.
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Of course. And you want to hear, I want to be able to mute the TV and know it's an NBA Finals game. And you'd be hard-pressed to do that last night.
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And a lot of people pointing this out, I know our guy Mike Vorkanoff at The Athletic, I saw him tweet it. It's odd that the NBA put so much into making the NBA Cup. so distinct visually that those games look more distinct than the NBA finals.
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Yeah. Piss me off. Yeah, I get it. Actually, JD, come back to me. You were on me there for a second. Look at this hat. Shout out to CJ Toledano. This is the hat. Richard Jefferson was asking for this hat on Twitter last night. And for those that don't know. Was he? For you podcast listeners, put the Larry O'Brien trophy back on the finals court.
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Hell yeah. Yeah. Follow through. Great hat.
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The actual trophy, yeah.
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this is a clip we have to play for you. It was making the rounds. Halliburton on SportsCenter last night with SVP after the game, and we're going to play it. Sound up for everybody here on YouTube and the podcast listeners. Pay close attention to Halliburton's voice.
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So this is something that's come up a million times before. This guy's like voice changing while he's talking. It's amazing. And Carl Anthony Towns is a culprit with this as well. But this one is like one of the best ever because he's talking about changing while his voice then changes and goes completely different and then sort of comes back to where it was. Yeah.
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Danny, did you touch this? Halliburton's voice is going weird.
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Isn't it crazy?
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He's just talking. It's just him. I don't even know if it's a tick. I wouldn't even call it that. It just happens to him. This is great. I think Spike Eskin tweeted, Halliburton's voice sounds like he's on a broken cassette player that keeps changing speeds while you're playing it. Yeah, that's exactly right. It's so, so weird. Another moment last night. We got another Rick spit. Mm-hmm.
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We got a hell of a shot from the ABC crew with Rick. Watch this one. He's getting it ready. Getting the phlegm going. He's forming it. Where's my cup? Let me spit.
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I mean, credit to Carlisle and the Pacers for not calling the timeout. Yeah. Let him do it again. Otherwise, you probably got doored on him, right?
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Jesus, Murphy.
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Yeah, the buildup.
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But wow, this is like our third or fourth Rick Spitz.
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This is a thing that he does.
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And maybe he doesn't get that shot off. He did have the smaller Wallace on him. He did. Halliburton's a big dude. He is. And goes right all the time and obviously felt comfortable stepping into that jumper. But I hear your takeaway there from like, what are we doing? Is Caruso coming over to help? Yes. Man, the stones on this guy. It's unbelievable.
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So this is a thing that we've just come hip to. This really is our new wedgie tracker.com. We've had no wedgies for like 40 days. So now we just keep our eye on Rick spitting. And they keep showing us, and that was the best one yet. And it's nice. People are now tweeting us immediately.
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They want to get to court side. This actually drives me nuts. This like, okay, if you're on TV, make sure your badge isn't showing. Who cares? What are people going to do? What's going to happen? They're going to be able to take a photo of it?
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From my YouTube or television screen and copy it and make it? Reproduce it, yeah. And then what, change my face to look like Randy Hall? Like what? What? Wow.
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I would like to think that security at game one in the NBA Finals is a little tighter than Firkin on Yonge Street, you know, or whatever sports bar you're trying to get into. Just a little, but maybe not. Because they are, God, they're... They're hardcore about, yeah, you put that away. You put that away. Don't let them see that on TV.
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Maybe switch it up. I guess they have one a lot with it.
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I'm tired of it. I don't know when we're going to find out the ratings for Game 1. I don't know how quickly they turn that around. But I was thinking, in watching this game and how many people are, and they should be because, holy crap, what a Game 1. that they should count dogs watching the game. Yeah, this is a bit of a stoner thought for sure.
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But I was thinking like, I was like, how many dogs are watching game one of the NBA finals right now? Like what? I don't even know what the number would be. I don't even know where to start. But anyway, Luna was, well, Luna was in the room while I was watching. Yeah, we have a photo here. She couldn't really care less about what was going on. She's not even facing the TV. I know.
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She was comfy though, wasn't she? Using her bed as a pillow. That's a power move from Sweet Luna. But anyway, somebody on the stream team, how many dogs do you think watched game one in the NBA? That's what I'm going to do when we get like, oh, inevitably low ratings. I'm going to try and respond to every tweet I see with, yeah, but how many dogs were watching?
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and just see what reaction you get to that yeah man hazel's obsessed with balls so right she watches she'll actually watch yeah yeah she's into it okay good that's a good call back to the cold open as well yeah i couldn't believe jd picked that and then uh my final random note random um is you know we keep talking about the pacers being like this team of destiny maybe like holy crap how do they keep doing this these comebacks how do they keep pulling out these victories
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And I'm wondering if we had something to do with it, JD. We did go to Paris.
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And we did see the Indiana Pacers play the San Antonio Spurs twice. And I did wear a full Indiana Pacers getup. Full uniform during a game I played and where I just said a bunch of French words. And there's our guy Jan Mahimi there. Making me look like a small child. You still wear it? Well, I do wear the shorts a lot. I'll admit to not wear the jersey, but I like the shorts.
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Very comfortable. But I don't know. Like, this was January, JD, and this is when the Pacers, like, became the Pacers. And they were the villains there. They were the villains there. And, you know, I won that game I played in. Team Pacers won. In spite of Jan. In spite of Jan, yeah. He was calling everything. Guy was, yeah, really had it out for me. He was the ref, right? Yeah, he was the ref.
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I was getting a bad whistle. But we still won. Didn't matter. And, yeah, anyway, I'm just saying, hey, we have a small part in this. Hey. if they go on to win the title.
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Like an invite to the parade is all I'm saying. That's all.
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I'll wear the full getup and people will think I'm TJ McConnell as I get a lot of that from that photo. Anyway, you got anything else?
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But then sometimes just decides to like...
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Yeah. It's amazing. A couple people got popped by picks last night. Benedict Matherin took one. Nobody called out that one. Yeah. He hurt his shoulder. I think Caruso got laid out once. They were high out there on the floor, and people weren't talking enough. Maybe it was too loud with those damn fan clapper things. They couldn't hear each other saying, laugh right. Whatever.
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This guy's got crushed on a couple.
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What do you mean, turn up the volume?
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But you mean turn up the volume as in turn up the music or turn up like fake fans?
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Well, I mean, I don't have anything else randomly or really from the game. I'm just hyped for game two. That's Sunday night. We will all be back here in the Classic Factory on Monday to break down game two. The guys are headed back from OKC. So we won't have an immediate reaction pod on. On Sunday, we'll see if OKC can do what they've done many times in this postseason.
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They're 4-0 after losses, so they've always come back with a win. They've averaged in those games a victory of 20.5 points, so they're usually beatdowns. They come back. They haven't, you know, they lost consecutive games twice during the regular season. Like they almost never do. So, you know, but it's a, it feels like sort of a must win.
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Not that they can't win on the road because they're really good, but you know, it's that game two situation where you're down 1-0 and the Pacers have put a lot of teams already in this postseason in this position and a couple of times taken a 2-0 lead. So can't wait for Sunday night.
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It doesn't matter. That's what he's saying in the end. Stop asking Silver about ratings and start asking him about, why don't we have the Larry O'Brien trophy on the damn floor of the finals? Start doing that, everybody.
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Yeah. I do agree.
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I'm sorry. Find one person that disagrees with this take that, again, everybody on Twitter was making last night. Make us know it's the NBA Finals.
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Fanfare, glamour, pageantry.
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Nobody's going to say, no, no, we don't want that. No, they're not.
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I would say the World Cup sort of goes over the top in terms of their presentation for big, big games once you move on in the World Cup. Yeah.
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We're not asking for much here, Silver. Come on. All right, before we go, it is the drop. It is Friday, so let's have some rapid-fire fun. I got the questions. You guys will answer. I'll answer with you because there's only three of us here in studio today. First one, earlier this week, Adidas unveiled the hardened Volume 9 J-Dub colorway. As you can see, JD's going to throw it up here.
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The kicks draw inspiration from Jalen Williams' favorite 90s cartoon, Pinky and the Brain. God, I loved that cartoon. It features a white upper contrasted by lucid lime and lucid pink. Quite the colors here. So my question for you guys, what other cartoon-inspired sneakers would you like to see? Tess.
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I mean, I feel like they might.
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It feels like everything's been put on a shoe at this point, but I still like it.
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Do you like those shoes, by the way? the colorway they're like not his signature shoe they are Harden's but they're like his P.E.
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's like yeah player exclusives yeah I think they look alright I actually don't mind them like if I had shown you those would you have been able to say oh those are Pinky and the Brain inspired yeah I'd say like Buzz Lightyear yeah yeah but anyway JD what other cartoon inspired sneakers would you like to see
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What does that even look like?
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I like that. I do like the Thundercats. I had that in my notes as well. Remember that clip we found of Sean Marion? How horny he was from the Thundercats?
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But I'll go with we need some Teenage Mutant Ninja Purtles. Yaka Purtle needs his own shoe. And it needs to be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle inspired. And I think he could really lean into it. Every quarter wears a different colorway. One orange for Michelangelo, Raphael red, Donatello purple, Leonardo blue. You know, whatever order you want to do it, but he could swap them in and out.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. All right, next one. Doris Burke's spot on ESPN's lead NBA broadcasting team is not guaranteed for next season. According to our own Andrew Marchand, ESPN executives will debate if they feel Doris Burke is better on a two-person team as opposed to a three-person team. So we'll see. My question though is, when is having less of something a good idea?
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But he's almost saying the opposite. To him, a really good buffet has less options. I know it sounds contradictory, but maybe he's right. I sort of agree with him.
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The problem is the buffet is like it has to have a million things because it wants to please everyone. But what we're asking for is just a personalized buffet. Yeah, exactly. Which you can do.
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Remember the, I guess it was a breakfast buffet that we did in Vegas the one time?
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Like we basically had like one plate of just, I remember I had a legit normal breakfast. Yeah. And a couple pieces of bacon, some eggs, some toast. Yep. And then we left.
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Who cares? JD, when is having less of something a good idea?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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That's like an iconic episode.
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And then SGA scored on the other end. And that was one of, what, a dozen times where you probably thought, oh, they got it. They did it. Okay, so he's going to win this game. Good fight from the Pacers, but a little too late. That one, to me, was like, okay, this one's finally over. They finally did it. But I thought that like 10 times in this game. I was like, oh, it's a wrap. Oh, it's a wrap.
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But what about like polar bears on the island and lost? I mean, it's like, what the hell is going on? Yeah. And like never explained from what I can remember with the old Dharma initiative.
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It gets the people going. I, When you were saying stories, I literally thought you meant Instagram stories.
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I thought you were like, yeah, everybody that has like, when I go to your page and it's got like the tiniest little dots because there's like a hundred stories, like cut them out, which also is true.
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He's been pretty quiet. Great answers. My answer for this is when is having Les something a good idea? Generally songs on an album. Okay. Like most albums, no matter how great an album is. I agree. Yeah, you got like two or three that you don't need.
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No, no, no, no, no, no. I want an album. I want it between 50 minutes and an hour 10. And I want, you know, honestly, I do want a sub hour album. And I want, you know, what's 12 songs max. Okay.
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Yeah, exactly. You know what? 12 is too many. Eight.
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Yeah. Cut the fat.
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Ooh. Yeah. Most songs. There are some you can make an exception for, but yeah.
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50 minutes, I think, is a really nice sweet spot. If it's a good album, of course. But there's so many that it's longer and it doesn't need to be. All right, final one here. We had a viral video yesterday on TikTok, which was hilarious timing because I was just saying, hey, we're not doing well on TikTok.
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But Trey asking other Thunder players to finish Chet Holmgren's phrase, 54 from Trey Ball is, and then he was asking all the guys to finish it. The answer is Odie shooting hang pulls, of course. Hit over 250,000. On the Tiki Talks. So we're back, baby. Nice. Back in the algorithm. All we had to do was speak to the younger generation. You know? Speaking this weird language.
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54 from Trey Ball is Odie shooting hang pulls. So off of that, I want to know what's a slang word or phrase task that we should try to incorporate in our next social video. Keep the numbers flowing on TikTok.
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Oh, it's a wrap.
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Numerology or something.
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He knew it.
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Oh, because he's just answering the math equation. Yeah, people doing the math. But what does he do when everybody starts juggling? And what does he do? Just go, what are you doing? Yeah.
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Right. Which we're not quite sure.
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Okay. I love it. We'll try it in our next one. JD, what do you got, man? You got young kids?
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Even Chad hasn't been able to keep up with the lingo of the kids. The kids already moved on from these.
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Yeah, I felt this way as well. I did the whole list, too. I'm trying to find one that I had no clue what it was, and it was difficult to find one. But I do like the saying, ate and left no crumbs.
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I like it. I feel like we can at least maybe even get away with that one. So maybe that will make an appearance in the next one. Aiden left no crumbs. That's what you just did on this podcast, Tass.
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It's good. I do like that one. To bring it back to the buffet. I mean, I leave a lot of crumbs at a buffet. Of course. I'm leaving way more than crumbs.
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What, in the buffet world? Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. This is the whole point. Let me taste test that you do not like. Who cares? Leave it on the plate. Throw it out.
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If I dislike it, no. Hey, look, you know me. I don't like a lot of food on a plate in general. I am turned off by eating when there's just too much food.
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Thanksgiving, not a great day for me. Because you see insane plates. People load it up. I'm going to go back. I'm going to go back for more.
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That's a mark.
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I'm a little. I'm like, oh, this looks good. I might try this. But I also, I have to admit, I like the things I like. So I'm going to go with my staples. But my point is I'm going small plates, little portions. I'll go back. I'll get up. I'll go back. Hell, I'll use the same plate. Don't do that. They never want you doing that.
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What up with that? It's got to be like a sanitary reason. Yeah. But it's like, it's fine. I'll just use the same plate. Me too.
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Aiden left so many crumbs at the buffet.
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I'm still full. All right, let's call it there, dear Lord. That was Rapid Fire, Not So Rapid, but hopefully that was another classic.
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edition here of the podcast you tell us did we eat and leave no crumbs do so by hitting the like button by subscribing by leaving us a five-star rating or review what an awesome game last night what a start to the nba finals uh let's hear your thoughts on it let's hear you how think this series is gonna go now you know have you can have you flipped do you think the pacers can do uh maybe the impossible as big big underdogs and win this thing or do you think thunder will
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take back control, still win it in whatever, five, six, or seven. Let's hear from you. Let's hear other things maybe we missed. And let's get your opinions on the presentation from ABC slash NBA when it comes to the finals. Interested to hear people's takes on that as well?
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Until Monday morning when we'll be here in the Classic Factory to talk about game two, Clipper Bros.
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Who cares, man? To quote Halliburton, man, basketball is fun. Yeah. Brace the weekend, people.
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I'll add to that, though. You know, if you're going to miss a three-pointer in the NBA, basically make it an air ball. Because that one just... I mean, I know it wasn't technically an air ball, but it grazed the front of the rim.
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And fell to Siakam. So, again, like, I'm not, like, defending SGA. He definitely looked gas. Should have had a body on him. But, like... If you miss in the NBA, I swear to God, it's your best chance to get the board. Just miss it bad.
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Yeah, because obviously the defense is like ready for the board, ready for the bounce. Out a little bit more. But anyway, continue.
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Yeah, after an abysmal first half, where I know we'll talk about this, but what, 19 turnovers in the first half? Now, lucky for Indiana, some of them were dead ball variety. You know, it wasn't them going the other way, but the ones that were live balls, the Pacers did an incredible job just to get back.
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Their transition defense was awesome, even if they were turning it over, because OKC was not capitalizing when they were getting these steals. They were, like, missing threes or missing layups or turning it over themselves even happened a couple times. Like... You know, if we had told you coming into this, like, they're going to have basically 24, 25 turnovers. Dort's going to hit five threes.
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SGA is going to have 38. There's just no way you would look me in the face and say that the Pacers still win. As miraculous as this run has been, and they feel like the team of destiny, there's just no way you would have if I had given you those numbers.
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But like you said, that fight in the fourth quarter. I even think, I know he gets overlooked here, I thought Matherin at the start of the fourth quarter played with some aggressiveness. He attacked the rim, he got some free throws. Then he had another layup, just like using his athleticism. Again, there were so many incidents where they just sort of like stayed within striking distance.
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And they were always in that, call it 8 to 15 point range. And in the NBA, that's not enough. Definitely not enough against the Pacers. And they could never get over the hump. And the Thunder just sort of started settling for threes. Wallace was shooting threes. Like you said, J-Dub. Dort started missing in the fourth.
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And then they went smaller, and so then they weren't even grabbing offensive rebounds.
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Six for 10 in the fourth quarter from the Pacers. They hit 18 overall and the Thunder missed a bunch of them. But at one point in the fourth quarter, early in the fourth quarter, the graphic showed you at the bottom of the screen, it was like 11 to 10 or 12 to 11. like in three point shots made. So it was like, you know, it wasn't drastic. No.
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But then that fourth quarter when they hit six, some of them insane, like the banked in job, but others just from pure hustle. Like the one I keep coming back to is like Neesmith like attacked baseline. He got wrapped up by like two or three Thunder guys, but he just kept fighting and he wouldn't like give up the jump ball or get the steal. And that one got kicked out.
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And I think that was a top in one that he banged on the side, like huge, huge plays. And then like you said, Nemhard had a lot of the other ones assisting those guys.
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You called it, Tass. Called a couple things right heading into this. One, Pacers are probably going to be okay with the star in SGA getting his. Just try and take away everyone else. Check. And then you brought up watch the Pacers go through Nemhardt a lot more. And they did. Halliburton's a hero, no doubt, coming through with that. But they're not there without him.
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Obviously playmaking more, doing the high pick and roll, feeling it with that huge step back three over SGA, feeling it so much he tried it again. That was sort of the air ball that then lands in Siakam's lap. But yeah, you called that as well.
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Five threes to basically match Dort. I mean, just to cancel him out. And he looked shook in the first half. That guy was throwing the ball out of bounds twice. Then he bobbled it.
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He looked scared. Sloppy topping. But then obviously, like a lot of them, bounced back in the second half. They cleaned up the turnovers, too, in the second half.
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Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks Podcast presented by Amazon Prime. It's Friday, June 6th, 2025. This is The Drop. I'm J.E. Skeets here in the Classic Factory, and alongside me, as always, Tass Mellis.
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Indiana has played in nine official clutch games this postseason. They've won eight of them. So they have basically an 89% winning percentage in the clutch here in the postseason. So this is their recipe, right? I mean, it's oddly get behind and then come back, but if the game is close...
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The confidence in all of these guys, especially when you know, hey, if we need two or three or whatever, we're just giving it to Halliburton and we feel like he's going to hit it every single time. Because he basically is. He is. He's not missing any of these huge shots.
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The Pacers are reminding me of these videos you see online where it's a guy on a moped or a guy on a motorbike, sometimes even a quad bike. And they fall off and the bike goes on its side, but they refuse to take their hand off the handlebar. And in doing so are just like pulling back on the throttle and the bike keeps going and they're dragging around and stuff like that. That's the Pacers.
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They don't let go of the damn handlebar. The difference is in those epic fail videos, the guy eventually crashes. Let's go, whatever. The Pacers would be the equivalent, like they jump back up on the bike, do a wheelie, pull over to the camera, and we're like, yeah, I meant to do that. It's like, what? Like, let go. How do they not let go?
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They just hold on somehow, always holding on, somehow appearing to make it worse, but then like come back. It's special. It's special. They do legit feel. I know there's a lot of finals still to go here. You're right. Thunder probably still the favorites.
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But at a certain point, you just have to go like, how many more times can this happen where you're like, it's Desti, man. They are supposed to win this. Great job by the script writers because this is pretty special. What an awesome start to this final. It gives it so much juice. Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Curtin.
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Over yonder, making the magic happen. It's super producer JD. Hello.
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