Pardon My Take
NFL Draft With Todd McShay, Packers HC Matt LaFleur, Playoff Recaps In NHL/NBA + Listener Submitted FAQ's
Wed, 23 Apr 2025
We recap Tuesday nights playoff action via zoom, the Lakers even the series, Leafs team of destiny and the Grizzlies and Bucks look cooked(00:00:00-00:27:22). We then go back in studio to talk about an incredible Monday night including the Nuggets/Clippers series and is it getting tough to watch Jalen Brunson? Plus Ovi is unreal and playoff hockey rules(00:27:22-00:54:52). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including PFT vs Hank and Nico Harrison does another dumb press conference(00:54:52-01:12:20). Todd McShay joins the show to tell us what he's hearing from teams ahead of Thursday's draft, what the Giants are thinking, how the draft may fall, blue chippers, and guy he loves(01:12:20-02:02:23). Packers Head Coach Matt LaFleur joins the show to talk draft, what its like in the war room, throwing out a first pitch, and introducing him to the Rizzler(02:02:23-02:34:01). We finish the show with listener submitted FAQ's(02:34:01-02:47:47)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 playoff recaps are discussed from Tuesday and Monday night games?
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And PFT, we had a not-so-great night of playoff. Hoops and hockey. Well, we had an overtime game in hockey. We did have a great Monday night, which we'll get to back in studio. But we also have a sick boy in the corner.
Max is sick. If you're watching on YouTube, this is the coziest part of my take ever. If you're just looking at Max, you do look like you're snuggled up, which is adorable. I have an immediate take about the NBA, and I think Hank might actually agree with me on this one. I like this. Can we just stop with the Eastern Conference playoffs? Can we just not do them?
Because what's happening is every team is just kind of getting fattened up to get eaten by the Celtics and a delicious snack. That's what's going to happen. I'm actually being serious. Oh, this is a reversal? No, no.
Listen, I say that we should respect the Thunder, and I would like for Hank to show a little humility, but that's just because I can't stand when he's cocky and right about something at the same time. And he should respect the Cavs, or at least pretend to respect them. But the East is just – get it out of my face.
The East, there's no point in watching these games in the East because all these teams are going to – What about the Cavs, dude?
The Cavs have a solid team.
The Magic could be good one day. The Cavs could be a contender, but I don't think that they're a contender right now. I think that they're a very good team that is going to struggle against superior talent and coaching on the Celtics. But the East in general, I don't want to watch any more Eastern Conference playoff games. I don't.
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Chapter 2: How are the Eastern Conference NBA playoffs shaping up this year?
Obviously, I don't know. They're probably not going to beat the Celtics. They probably won't beat the Cavs. I think the Pacers are good. I think they have a ton of shooting. They play a fast pace. Nembhard tonight was not only that big three, which was so sick when he just – he basically put – he was basically a snake charmer.
He put Giannis into a trance and then slowly backed up and hit that three in his face. But he also put Dame in hell. And I know Dame was coming back from being off for a long time. Shout out Doc Rivers for playing him 37 minutes. It's so funny.
But I like – the Pacers are fun. You make a good point about what Doc Rivers did tonight. It's ironic for his name to be Doc and for him to be like, hey, this guy has blood clots. He hasn't been allowed to exercise, not just play basketball. He has not been allowed to exercise. And you know what? He's back for the first night. Yeah, we'll give him a full run. We'll play his way back into shape.
Well, so the good news for Doc Rivers is he can't blow a 3-1 lead. So that's off the table now.
no, but big cat, you're, you're being the fake news media right now. We should be talking about how good of a job he did building those three, one leads.
That's true.
This is a major, major fail on his part to not even get there.
Uh, I also am wondering when the bucks are going to get some help for Bobby Portis. Cause he was awesome tonight. Um, but yeah, this was all right. So I do want to talk about the patient, but this was about the worst day you could have as a box fan, because Dame comes back. You're like, all right, maybe this will be different. Uh, You don't win.
You cut it close because the Pacers kind of played with their food, but it didn't. I mean, the Pacers were winning the entire game. And then you also get the report from Chris Haynes on Dan Patrick's show, who is a Dame insider. So I think he's like the preeminent Dame insider. He said that he would not be shocked.
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