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Stacey King’s Gimme the Hot Sauce Podcast 1h 4m 1 speaker 4 chapters transcribed 1 month ago

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Unknown 0:00

It's a bucket and a five. Breakaway. Ayo. Oh, meet me at the rim and don't be late. Give me the hot sauce. Did you not get the memo? Derrick Rose can go upstairs. Oh, he's got Giddy. The steal. Blake for the lead. Yeah. Big time, Blake. Big, big time, Blake. Giddy for the win. Go, Blake.

Stacey King 0:27

Hey, everybody. Hope you're enjoying the warm weather. It's finally arrived here in the Chicago area, and we got a streak going, like the movie in Major League, where you win two in a row, and you win three. That's a streak. We got two in a row of all of us here in our lovely Palatine studios, Timmy Whisper, Stacey King alongside, and coming up in our next segment, Bulls guard Rob Dillingham will join us. He'll look forward to it. visiting with him, talking about his background growing up in North Carolina and now a member of the Chicago Bulls. So that's coming up a little bit later. Stacey, the playoffs have been interesting to watch. We're taping on a Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday afternoon now in the game five. Wemby kind of disappeared, which is pretty hard for a guy to do as Oklahoma City regained control of that series.

Stacey King 1:11

Well, the games that San Antonio has won, Wimby dominated inside on both ends, defensively and offensively. I thought in Oklahoma City, this last game, he spent more time on the perimeter shooting jump shots. They weren't getting second-chance opportunities. That's been another area, Mark, where they've been really good at is that they've been able to crash the boards. Their guards have been able to get second-chance opportunities. They've overwhelmed Oklahoma City on that aspect of it. But I thought the last game, you know, is a pivotal game. You've got to win that game. Even though they won that first game there and they were a success there, they proved they can win. They've won there during the regular season. They can win there. But Oklahoma City is not going to roll over. And so you have to meet their intensity every single night. You can't just say, let's wait until we get to San Antonio and we'll turn it on. Because now you put yourself now in a pivotal game, you know, five, and you can find yourself done.

Stacey King 2:09

Over. It's a wrap. 1-2-3 Cancun. And Wemby looked so good at times in the series. I was surprised how passive he was. I think he only took like one or two shots in the first quarter. He didn't come out aggressively, and he was kind of floating on the perimeter, which when he gets in the paint, there's nobody that can stop him inside. Well, I think that's also coaching. You have to implore it. This part of the season, it's so important that you can't play like you do 82 games. You can't go out there, I'm going to jack up threes. No, the playoffs become more physical. It becomes more of a half-court game. And when you've got a guy at 7'5", and they're putting Alex Caruso on you. They're putting all these small guys. Man, it should be punishable by death when you don't get him the ball. You get him the ball and let him get double-teamed, triple-teamed, and let him find the shooters. Because he's a willing passer, he will find his teammates. But with him on the perimeter and then defensively, he's kind of roaming around, and he's never in the position –

Stacey King 3:08

to get to the shot blocking that we saw him in, you know, the series against, you know, the Timberwolves. It seemed like there was like five Wimby's out there in Minnesota. He was blocking everything. But he's not doing that here against Oklahoma City because they're so focused on trying to shade Shea Gilgis and take him out of the game, which you're doing a pretty good job, but you're allowing these other guys to beat you. You know, Alex Caruso, you know, having 20-plus points when he's at home. It's not the same Alex on the road. But in Oklahoma City, he was like an all-star. He's knocking down threes. He's knocking down threes, and he's doing what we all know he could do is play solid defense. You got other guys, you know, Harnstein, who didn't play three minutes in the game they lost in San Antonio. Now he's playing big minutes because he's able to now, they've decided that we need to put bigs on Wimby.