The Athletic NBA Daily
Kawhi the best in the NBA? + The Pistons are here | Slam N Jam
Sat, 26 Apr 2025
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are joined by Law Murray of the Athletic to discuss the dominance of the Clippers, their series with Denver, what is going on with the Nuggets, and Kawhi at the top of his game. Then the guys revisit the Contender Draft one week later to see if anything has changed. After the break Kofie of the KofieWhy YouTube page joins to discuss his beloved Pistons, their first Playoff run, how they are different than last year and much more. Then the boys play a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat, a trivia game where Andrew is pitted against a beat writer.Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex SpeersWith: Law Murray and KofieExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio/Video Editor: Gonzalo Torres Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What are the latest insights on the Clippers vs. Nuggets series?
If Derrick is going to score, then that's a big thing, but Derrick isn't going to score every game. Chris Dunn, he's another one where it's like you're going to play some exotic defenses almost predicated on leaving Chris Dunn open or being okay even if he makes a shot or two. And that's a gamble, but it's like that's where you're playing. And I think the final piece is Norm.
Like, again, if Norm's going to be inefficient, that gives you a chance to win. Denver won game one. They had a chance to win game two. Norm just – Norm, I think, was woken up by Jamal Murray picking him up like he was a child at the playground. Time to go home. Now Norman Powell's locked in, like the champion that he is. You know, Norman Powell is the kind of player who understands sacrifice.
He understands that, hey, like, you might not be in the role that you were in before Kawhi got going. You know, Norm got hurt. Norm just missed an all-star, you know, selection. Everyone was questioning if he was going to make the right plays and understand that you got to do different things. You can't just shoot every shot. Well... Norm is cutting. Norm is defending.
Norm is getting his hands in the passing lanes. He's finishing in transition. Like Norman Powell playing well is the difference between a close game and a blowout. I think Denver saw that. There are weaknesses. And I think it's always a weakness when you're like, man, this guy playing well is the difference between winning and losing.
The Clippers have a lot of those guys, and you just have to keep playing them hard. And I'm very interested to see how Saturday goes because the Clippers are not always sharp in afternoon games. They made it a point not to have afternoon games on their schedule at home in the first year of Intuit Dome. So we're going to see if those guys have the same energy come Saturday. It's a quick turnaround.
Before you go, we did ask you some questions. I would love to play a quick game. It's not trivia. I'm not going to make you play trivia. This is a championship draft, okay? This is just like a temperature check to see how we're feeling about the teams at this point. So you can see, if you're watching us on YouTube, you can see the results of last week.
And I can tell you that that was probably already going to change dramatically. Yeah. The fourth pick was the Golden State Warriors. So how this works a lot, we're just going to do a snake draft. And I'm going to let you pick what position you draft from. So if you feel really confident about the number one team, you could take the number one slot. Or you could go two, or you could go three.
And if you pick three, you get the three and fourth pick. So where would you like to start from? Oh, man, give me a number one. Shoot. Okay.
I like that. You talking to the MC of the power, you know what I'm saying?
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