The Zach Lowe Show
Huge Playoff Takeaways With Kirk Goldsberry, Plus a Deep Dive Into Wolves-Lakers With Jon Krawczynski
24 Apr 2025
Zach is joined by Kirk Goldsberry for some reactions to what they’ve seen so far and to talk about what to look for tonight (1:04). They then look at the physicality of Warriors-Rockets (39:05), and discuss how the Bucks can turn things around (56:23). Later, Jon Krawczynski joins to break down everything happening in the puzzling Timberwolves-Lakers series as we head into Game 3 (1:09:43). The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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All right, coming up on the Zach Lowe Show, Kurt Goldsberry and I react to all the games from Wednesday night. We look ahead to Bucks, Pacers, Nuggets, Clippers, Pistons, Knicks. We hit everything. The physicality, Jimmy Butler's injury, Jalen Green's explosion, Jalen Brown's explosion. And then John Krasinski from The Athletic on the very strange Wolves-Lakers series. A super awesome deep dive.
Hope you enjoy it.
Welcome to the Zach Lowe Show. It's Thursday morning. Three more playoff games in the books. I was up till 1, 1.30 watching film. I'm on no sleep. Let's go, Kurt Goldsberry.
How are you? I am terrific, Zach. Always great to be with you during the playoffs especially, but also running on less sleep than normal. Sleep.
Who needs it? Actually, I do. Okay, briefly, last night, here are the most important things that happened. We'll circle back. We'll circle back to all this stuff. Jalen Brown, massive statement. I'm here. I'm healthy. I'm ready to explode for 42 minutes with Jason Tatum out. And massively important sign for the Celtics, bloodied Kristaps Porzingis was a fun thing that happened.
But my God, the physicality in these playoffs. But if you're going to bookmark two things that happened last night for the long term, one is Jalen Brown announcing, I'm good. We're good. No Jason Tatum, no problem. Orlando's offense still stinks. Franz Wagner's jumper still busted. Hitch still present. 2-0 Boston. Thing number two, obviously Jimmy Butler's pelvic contusion. Undercut accidentally.
I was glad no one tried to make a thing out of it. Ahmed Thompson lost his balance. There's a collision. Jimmy Butler falls. plays eight minutes. The Rockets win a rock fight where there are like nine near fights and scrums and Tari Eason threw a towel at Pat Spencer, who was like implausibly involved because Butler was out. Pajemski was saying, Jonathan Kaminga played.
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