Buddy Hield poured in 33 points and made 9 threes to lead the Golden State Warriors to a game 7 series clinching win over the Houston Rockets. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni discuss the Pacers win over the Cavaliers, Andrew Nembhard as a playoff riser, and how the Nuggets stack up against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Then, Zena Keita joins the show to talk about Buddy Hield’s big night and how the Warriors stack up against the Timberwolves.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Es Baraheni & Zena KeitaExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson Moodyhttps://www.nytimes.com/athletic/nba/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. Coming up, welcome to the second round, but also we had some game sevens over the weekend. Warriors get a big win. We look ahead to OKC and the Nuggets and take a look at how the Pacers beat the Cavs. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, S. We are in the second round. I am excited, man. What a great time for playoff basketball. My goodness.
Yeah, we managed to get a couple of game sevens. I would say the two most compelling series. Hey, wound up going seven. Nuggets get the big win over the Clippers. James Harden, man. Just perfect Harden performance or lack thereof.
Bad weekend for Rockets fans in general, you know, between the James Harden dud and this game, the game seven that we're going to talk to. Yeah, but tough.
Well, we're going to have Zena after the break because, you know, she was in studio for Warriors Rockets. So we're going to go deep on that with her. But man, before we go there. Early game on Sunday was game one of round two between the Cavs and the Pacers. And look, if you've been listening to this show all year, you know we were high on the Cavs.
I mean, they had multiple double-digit win streaks. I mean, this was the best team in the East. But they had a few flaws. And I... Like you, S, I felt like the Pacers kind of matched up very well. They're big, they're athletic, they can score. And in game one, look, they pick up the win, 121-112, and it was kind of all the things that we talked about.
Now, a little bit of this, the Cavaliers didn't have Darius Garland, and it showed, especially early on.
Yeah, they absolutely showed. I mean, the shot creation from Darius Garland, the playmaking ability, just the ability to get out in transition, that's an aspect that he brings in very quickly. And I know Ty Jerome did a valiant job of trying to get similar things going, but he's obviously not Darius Garland, right?
He's more of a bench guard who can kind of do things off the bench against second units for you. Garland is a guy who we've talked about on the podcast, incredible fourth quarter performer, Probably should have been in the clutch player of the year conversation. The way that he's able to elevate them offensively as a guy who, all right, Mitchell is getting downhill. He's driving the ball.
They're getting the defensive rotation. And now Garland has a wide open shot or a wide open lane that he can attack. So that's why they were missing Darius Garland. And look.
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