Pardon My Take
NFL Draft With Daniel Jeremiah, Timberwolves HC Chris Finch, Playoffs Are Here And We Have A Thunder Fan Refusing To Wear The Shirt
Mon, 21 Apr 2025
It’s playoff season and we talk about all the action this weekend. Russell Westbrook submitted the most Russell Westbrook game ever (00:00:00-00:20:16). Cam Payne went nuclear (00:20:16-00:31:52). The Thunder blowout the Grizzlies. Hank isn’t worried about any team + we talk some puck and the Jets unreal game winner plus glass banger guy is in jail (00:31:52-01:01:07). Who’s back of the week including PFT finding a softball team (01:01:07-01:14:56). Daniel Jeremiah joins the show to talk NFL draft, what quarterbacks he likes, positional strengths, Travis Hunter playing Wide Receiver instead of CB and more (01:14:56-01:53:48). Timberwolves Head Coach Chris Finch joins the show to talk playoff basketball, adjustments he makes, Anthony Edwards and more (01:53:48-02:23:22). We finish with lottery ball (02:23:22-02:27:19).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take
Chapter 1: What NBA playoff games and highlights are discussed from the weekend?
Yeah, that's tonight. Very excited to watch the Caps in the playoffs. Nothing like having a team in playoff hockey. It's a lot of fun to look forward to. And then every single second that you watch it, if you don't have at least a two-goal lead, you're just shitting yourself. I'm pumped to see maybe Y5 versus Willie. Chucking some Knucks. Yeah. That should be a good matchup.
I was pissed, though, for you. Because the first, I don't know why the NHL did it this way this year. Maybe it was last year, too. But I always love the first weekend of playoffs because it's like, all right, we got eight hockey games on Saturday. Or eight hockey and basketball games Saturday. Eight hockey and basketball games Sunday. It's going to be wall to wall.
It felt great to have just, you know, noon comes around on Saturday. Yeah, I'm going to watch some playoff basketball.
This truly is sports season.
Yeah.
This is sports season. NFL season is football season because it's got NFL, college football. It's great. Your weekends are pretty booked. But this is just sports. It's sports everywhere. It's my favorite week of the year. Meaningful sports all the time.
It is your favorite week of the year. We also have WrestleMania going on right now that we're going to comment on at the end. We have it live in the studio. So we're watching Cody Rhodes versus John Cena. I know that a lot of people come to this podcast for our wrestling takes.
Yep. Well, I mean, I'm going to comment on it if Cody Rhodes wins.
Yeah. And if he doesn't, it was rigged. Yeah. I can't see the person that beat him. Scripted. Where is this one? It's in Vegas.
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Chapter 2: How did Russell Westbrook's performance define the Nuggets-Clippers game?
Because whatever side you pick, you're going to be right. You just got to wait a couple seconds.
I love watching him play, and I'm so glad that I don't have to root for him on my team.
Yeah. I mean, he made that three to go up two.
Anymore, yeah.
He made that three to go up two, and it was like, he's the hero, and then he doesn't get a shot off at the end of regulation. They should pass him around.
I mean, Jameis Winston might be in that same conversation.
Jameis is definitely in that conversation.
Every team should have the, every fan base should have the, it's not even like the privilege of rooting for Russell Westbrook. It's just taking him away from the last team that had to root for him.
I think it's a lot more fun to watch Russell Westbrook if you do not have, if you're not rooting for him on your team or even rooting against him.
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Chapter 3: What are the key takeaways from the Knicks vs Pistons playoff game?
That's all you need from campaign is just give you one of these games in a playoff, and for him to do it on his first, he's ahead of schedule.
Yeah. So is he going off too fast? You already burned the campaign game?
You may have already burned. I don't know how many campaign games you have. He won a series.
Yeah. And his shot looks so bad, but it goes in. Yeah, Max, this was a bizarro Sixers game because it was campaign going off, and then Tobias Harris having 25 points for the Pistons.
Yeah, no, Tobias Harris had his best playoff game ever.
Were you like, where did that come from?
It's not easy to play in Philly, I guess. I don't know.
So I read an article this morning on The Athletic written by Fred Katz, no relation, and he was talking about campaign, and it was like when he first got to the Knicks, Jalen Brunson literally went up to him and was like, I fucking hate you. But now you're my teammate. And it was very awkward. And then he dropped an anecdote that is so campaign and just so funny.
So the anecdote goes this as a rookie campaign didn't appreciate his overall rating in the video game NBA 2K16. a 72-grade ranked 242nd in the NBA. So Payne solved the problem himself. He created a new player, named the new player Cameron Payne, moved all the sliders up to 99, the highest rating, and played a season that technically had two campaigns refusing to acknowledge the lesser avatar.
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