Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Chapter 2: What surprising event occurred during the Hawks vs. Knicks game?
If it's funny, if you're watching it again... Like, the graphic had it correct. There was no little dash there. There was no dash there for a while. And then it popped up. Like, you guys are right. It was showing there when they missed the free throws. But it wasn't there for a while. And somebody in the truck or somebody on the stats or maybe it's even linked to the NBA, whatever, it did go up.
Maria Taylor even apologized. Apology? Yeah. Well, she explained, like, they didn't have one. They didn't have one. Yeah, I saw that dash Daniels on the screen.
Chapter 3: How did CJ McCollum perform in the game against the Knicks?
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I mean, we brought it up. That's pretty good.
We used it a few months ago. It's got a great name. Anything else from this very entertaining Hawks win here? It's happened this postseason, last night, and last postseason, but when I see Tony Bradley out there, I can't believe it. That was amazing. This guy... If we're just throwing alley-oops over his head the entire first half. I don't even know if he can jump. Yeah.
He doesn't look like he can jump. They're like, we need something, man. We need some big body out there on Mitchell Robinson. So they tried Tony. Yeah. And then they matched his minutes with Mitchell Robinson in the second half. Sure. As soon as Mitchell Robinson went out there, they said, here comes Tony Bradley. It's your turn. This is a personal story for us here.
But when Tony Bradley kind of had an altercation last night, there was that physical moment, right? Yeah, there was. Was that the cheek-to-cheek? Either way, there was one. And when we went to a Memphis game, we saw Steven Adams lift up Tony Bradley, right? And drag him like 10 feet. I thought we were going to get one of those, like Tony Bradley maybe lifting somebody up. It didn't happen.
They broke it up really, really quick. Yeah. And it was all good. It was all good.
No fights.
Chalamet was in attendance.
I saw him.
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Chapter 4: What were the key factors in the Knicks' fourth quarter struggles?
Or at the rim. I mean, everything is around the rim. He's a quick jumper. He dunks quick. Mobley. Yeah. He just like very, very fast. Like just no nonsense. So they got to try and contain one of those guys, but they don't have a chance. Yeah. The only time they have a chance is when they limit their margin for error because they don't have one. And you saw it, I thought, in the second quarter.
My man, A.J. Lawson, who's playing the โ Back up point guard minutes when he is a third string point guard. Not going to the guy up top. Him and Mamu went to a three-point shooter in the corner. And you could see Darko saying, hey, the guy is open. So, you know, swing, swing, open three. Just literally mistakes. And they just don't have that ability.
Scotty Barnes had a bad turnover in third quarter. There's just too many mistakes for a team that's limited. Unless Quickly is playing. He is on the bench with his... Own water bottle, not a Gatorade bottle. I don't know if he's coming back or not. There is some talk about him potentially coming back, but they need him. They need a ball handler.
And even though he isn't a traditional point guard, they just need somebody out there, especially when Brandon Ingram wasn't right. You could see just dribbling on the perimeter, just waiting for Evan Mobley to poke it from him. Very odd for Brandon Ingram just not to be... I understand what you're saying about the limited usage and all that.
And he was doing better jobs of setting these back screens that were helping out like RJ Barrett to go in and all that. But he just didn't get to his flow. No. I mean, this is just a bad playoff performance. I'm just saying it's a tough look after game one to talk to the press and say, look, we're not going to win if I only get nine shots.
And then you follow it up in game two by getting 15 shots but only hitting three of them.
Visibly frustrated.
It's rough. And look, we've seen our fair share of Raptors star players throwing up some duds in playoff games, in playoff series. We've watched them all, being Raptors fans. How many DeRozan games did we have where he had low efficient scoring under 10 points in a game? We saw many of them. He had great games too. Lowry, as much as we love him.
He shot 30% from the floor when they got swept by the Wizards through the first couple games there. Bosh had a stinker or two in his playoff career with the Raptors. Vince went three for 20 in his first playoff game, if you remember. No, he was young, but still. So we've had them. We've seen them. And this is now on the list. We're reliving so many wounds here.
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Chapter 5: What defensive strategies did Gobert use against Jokic?
We're going to try Kyle Anderson for just a split second here. None of that worked, but maybe it worked getting Jokic tired because he was getting some shots that he can easily make. He had a couple of missed layups that looked pretty odd to me. He had an airball three-pointer. Gobert, I thought, was a really good defender, but only half the shots were even... defended by Rudy.
So that was kind of crazy to me. I even thought that Jokic probably should have taken the floater on this last pass he had where he drops it off to Christian Brown. It's Ant closing. Jokic catches the ball at the free throw line. Ant's maybe at the restricted area, half circle. Put that ball way up there.
Chapter 6: Why did Ant's performance improve in the second half?
But that was the second time in the game that Jokic had passed up a floater, and maybe he just wasn't feeling it touch-wise. On the other side, though, Ant was making so many plays. I was a little concerned for the way he was playing in the first half. He was making some threes. He was making some outside shots, but it didn't look like he wanted to get into the lane.
He was definitely more comfortable settling for jumpers. But in the second half, he's blocking shots. He's getting offensive rebounds.
Chapter 7: What are the implications of Jokic's missed shots?
He's getting downhill rebounds. It was pretty good stuff from Ant, and Randall really took him over the edge, I thought. So weird game. Not weird that the Timberwolves won, but weird that, like, Jokic and Murray failed their team in this game. Absolutely. That's a good way to put it. Jokic did not come through. I thought specifically it was on him in the fourth quarter for just not hitting shots.
He was one for seven, and I know everyone giving credit to Rudy Gobert. Oh, he guarded him very well.
Chapter 8: What coaching news was shared at the end of the episode?
I don't buy that for a second. Watching every single one of them. No, he plays him well. In that fourth quarter, Rudy Gobert's defense did not factor into Jokic missing two layups. There was a tiny push in the back of one that Jokic didn't get a call for. So he missed two layups. They're literally layups that Jokic could hit. Or a hook shot over Rudy Gobert.
His patented little hook shot that you see him hit a thousand times. That's way too short. And... He threw up just a shot with Gobert in his face instead of the fade. I mean, now I'm telling him what to do and that a fade would have been better, like him over Victor Wemignana. I don't know why he threw a direct shot so close to Rudy Gobert. It didn't really make sense to me.
And he airballed a three. He airballed a three. Nikola Jokic. He missed. And maybe he's not feeling it right. And then his other three was short, way short. So one for seven. Then he only had that dunk 19 seconds left after that. Basically missing his first six shots. So he just wasn't right.
He wasn't feeling right Maybe the bodies ain't right, but I don't buy the the Rudy Gobert defense thing the first quarter that the Nuggets destroyed the Minnesota Timberwolves in this game Gobert goes to the bench And they came back with him on the bench because they went five out and they won those minutes 30 to 20 with Gobert on the bench. That was huge. That was really, really big.
And listen, I like the Timberwolves and what they were doing when Rudy was on the bench and things weren't going extremely well. Kyle Anderson came on over. He's the coach, man. He's the player coach that came over to Rudy Gobert to say, all good, man. But listen, Rudy did some good things that play at the end of the first quarter where he led the break and set up the Jane McDaniel score.
All good. But it was 39-23. Rudy Gobert goes to the bench and that's when they came back. And I'm not saying they're better without Rudy, but They just were able to do it really well, and I just don't buy this whole Nikola Jokic was stopped by Rudy Gobert.
I mean, you'll watch those shots. I don't get it.
I got to defend Rudy Gobert.
I can't believe it. I don't get it.
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