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The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"first round" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"Why don't we go with one that's kind of like medium medium level. So why don't we go with like grizzlies Lakers? Yes, okay. 'cause I don't think it's the most interesting series, but it's up there. It's interesting enough. I agree. I mean, it'll be a fun series. I feel like the grizzlies, they kind of had a, you know, they're obviously very popular last year too, but they kind of had that flash weight moment this year with the Lakers. The Shannon shark game, et cetera man, I've been was impressed with how the grizzlies closed this season. But to get Anthony Davis and round one and have no brain and Clark know Stephen Adams. I'm pretty nervous about them. Especially Brandon Clark was huge for them in the playoffs last year. He really, you know, he had a solid regular season. It was weird. It felt like early in the playoffs last year. He didn't really have a solid spot in the rotation, and he played his way into more minutes during the playoffs. You don't see that at a ton. He was so good. I'm really worried about their front court in this series. And if there's one team that is not going to kind of blow the Lakers away from the three point line, I think it's Memphis, which also doesn't shoot super well is not a very, you know, half court execution, you know, find the open guy to death offense necessarily. Yeah, I guess my initial thoughts in the series are I'm nervous from Memphis. What about you? I'm not nervous, but I will say that, I mean, it's not the easiest matchup necessarily. Who knows? Maybe the grizzlies breeze through. I mean, I will also say this, and obviously our often are member of the team who comes on board. Thinks that the Lakers will come out of the west. Okay. They have not looked very good lately. They kind of got a little bit of a blessing to even win the first playing game that they couldn't spot with. They've struggled against the jazz who were not even playing in some cases like a full compliment of their players. A couple of times now to end this season. Can you roll that over and say, that's the Laker team you're going to get in this first round. Not necessarily. I mean, I think part of why lean grizzlies here, I think pretty strongly, is that they still have a roster of guys that has been used to playing short handed for a while. To some extent, even in the playoffs when they've had to. I do think that the point that you raised it has me a little bit leery of wanting to really go all in on them, a team that before all the craziness with their season, I thought would have been the favorite to come out of the west. The three point shooting is something that I think is worth watching. I think it's a good opportunity for someone like aldama. Tyus Jones to really get up some shots. And to try to make sure that that deficit doesn't get out of hand, I wonder a little bit about Anthony Davis and just does he get completely loose. That is jaren Jackson. Resisting there. What did match ups look like and stuff like that? I also see the potential for John morant to just go nuts.
News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
Fresh "First Round" from News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
"206. The of city Seattle is on pace to break a record for homicides this year. There have been 62 so far in 2023. The record is 69 set back in 1994. Friday night someone was stabbed to death near T -Mobile Park. The violence has these people on alert. Part closed. I mean, just kind of stay in groups, try to come up with more than one person and just kind of stay together. I'm uncomfortable at different hours of the day roaming around. And I think it's about like being and putting yourselves in non confrontational situations. It doesn't feel like it's just an area. You can't be sure of kind of any area when you're walking around because people can kind of just go off at any point. Como4 reports in the month of September there were 12 homicides in Seattle in September of 2022. There were just four. There were only three in September of 2021. Prosecutors filing the first round of charges against a group of robbery suspects accused of targeting Asian families in Seattle. Six defendants face burglary and weapons charges in connection with a series of home invasions in South Seattle over the summer. Casey McNerney is the King County prosecuting attorney's office telling Como4 it's not clear yet if they will have eventually able to be filing hate crime charges along with state law around hate crimes is very and specific what we're going to do is look to see if we can can prove that if we get additional that information. Police recovered $31 ,000 in cash fentanyl cocaine Mexican pesos ammunition and clothing worn by the suspects during the home invasions. A state lawmaker says she has been receiving death threats for her position on Iran. More from Northwest News Radio's Jeff Bojala. Representative Afar Avar is herself Iranian American born to parents who fled the country's oppressive Islamic regime but her Opposition to sanctions have led many to believe she supports the government of Iran. Baravar tells the Seattle Times she opposes sanctions because they only hurt the Iranian people and have little effect on the nation's leadership. She says she's has also received death threats for not overtly supporting protests over the death of Masha Amini, a young woman killed in Iranian police custody for allegedly violating the country's hijab law. Faravar even penned an op The -ed in Stranger outlining her positions and calling for the threats of violence to stop. Jeff Bojala, Northwest News Radio. Republicans and Democrats disagree on how to fix a gerrymandered legislative district. The summer of federal court found that the 15th legislative district covering Yakima and parts of Pasco to was illegally dilute drawn the power of Latino voters. According to Crosscut, Democrats are okay with a judge deciding on a new map, but Republicans want the redistricting commission to decide. However, having the redistricting commission draw up a new map would require a special session of the legislature, which would in turn require action by the governor or a two -thirds vote of lawmakers. After the 2020 census, the 15 legislative district was redrawn, but was found to be especially gerrymandered as commuters driving from Yakima to Pasco would have to district leave the and pass through two others before returning to the 15th. Well, we've already known Washington's minimum wage was going up. Now we know by how much. Here's Northwest News Radio's Corwin Haake. From $15 74 cents an hour now to 1628 January 1st. That's what the State Department of Labor and Industries is saying as it adds 54 cents an hour to what was already the highest statewide minimum wage in the country. Every fall, LNI announces the coming year's hike. It arrives at a number by calculating more than 200 average costs for food, beverages, housing, transportation and other common household expenses. The new rate will be the highest among states, although Washington D .C.'s new minimum be will 72 cents an hour higher. The federal minimum wage remains $7 .25 an hour unchanged since 2009. Corwin Haake, Northwest News Radio. Northwest News Time 2 10. It's kind of fun sports from the Beacon Plumbing Sports Desk and Bill Schwartz and on the Seahawks. East Rutherford, New Jersey, where two in one Seattle plays one and two New York Giants. He started his NFL career with the Jets Monday night game, you know, primetime game. Uh, you know, Wait, can't you know, can't wait. Just another opportunity for us to go out there and prove ourselves against another good defense. The Hawks are slight underdogs of 5 15 kick off tonight on ABC Como TV for Washington State had a bye weekend, but the Cougars move up three spots to number 13 in the Associated Press pool. WSU plays UCLA at the Rose Bowl Saturday afternoon, seventh ranked Washington number eight Oregon on a collision Course, they'll meet one o 'clock October 14th at Husky Stadium, a promising Seattle Mariners baseball season ends Sunday with a one nothing victory over Texas. The M's were 88 74, but not quite good enough for a playoff berth. Here's Seattle shortstop JP Crawford. Take this feeling into the off season every day. Just every time you're working out a train, just remember, you know how much it pisses you off. Monday night preseason hockey at Seattle Center. The Kraken skate against Edmonton Sports with sports at 10 and 40 after the hour. Northwest News Radio Northwest News Time 2 11 Ukrainian attack drones are causing panic in Russia. Exploding in the Russian city of Slomensk in video circulating online on the battlefield, Ukraine's counter offensive grinding on with Ukrainian commanders now predicting a long war of attrition. This assault brigade training for its next attack right near the battle zone. These men have just come off the front lines. They've got to get this right on the Russian positions quickly when they go back into those fierce battles again. President Biden saying the US will not walk away from supporting Ukraine after
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"first round" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"I can. I'm gonna get canceled for it. Well, or not. I've told the story before granted, maybe I've said it to Michael on the pod before I maybe not. I can't remember. I was, it was my first year of politics. This was 2005. I was like a week and a half in college. At Michigan and I drove back home to either drove or got a ride back home from someone to audition for American Idol. I think it was like season two of American Idol and auditioned at soldier field where the bears play, which at least my place in Chicago is across the street from me. Oh my God. And there were 15,000 other people that showed up to audition. I auditioned with, I believe I can fly. And got through the first round of auditions. And past that first round. Then I tried to get cute and was like, all right, well, you know, let me sing all the greatest hits since I'm making it through the rounds. So then I'd sang John Legend so high in the second round and it was not as great and did not make it through. I think you have to make it through the first two rounds to audition in front of like Randy Simon and Paula. But it was a fun experience. It was also like a really good indication of no matter how talented you think you are at something or most things that there's always going to be someone that's better than you or that has one. So season two is the clay Aiken Ruben stoddard season. You could have taken them, dude. I do not believe that. I mean, and also, and I know, forgive me, what is the guy's name that is Daryl? Daryl doesn't shout out to Daryl. Related enough. And he seems like a good sport that we make the joke all the time.
Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
Fresh "First Round" from Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
"Support is sponsored by Beacon Plumbing. If you own a classic old home, it could have old pipes that they clog Stop up. freaking and call Beacon, 1 -800 FREAKIN or BeaconPlumbing .net. You're next northwest traffic at 1214. Our KOMO forecast now from meteorologist Kristin Clark in the High Performance Homes Traffic Center. Yes, we are trading in sunglasses the for the rain gear today. Scattered showers enough to wet the pavement up and down the I -5 corridor for the afternoon evening drive home. Areas of King County will maintain showers into Tuesday morning, otherwise misty clouds the next couple of days. We'll still stay mostly cloudy tomorrow into Wednesday, but it is Thursday that full sunshine with resumes a warming trend that takes us into the seventies for the first full weekend in October, which is a degrees good 10 above normal for this time of the year. In the Comerford Weather Center, meteorologist Kristin Clark. In Seattle right now have we cloudy, rainy conditions and it's 57 degrees at 1206. Prosecutors have filed the first round charges of against a group of robbery suspects accused of targeting Asian families in Seattle. Six defendants face burglary and weapons charges in connection with a series of home invasions in South Seattle
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"first round" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
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On The Rekord
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"Yeah, but that's just, that's just the kind of mentality he has and stuff like that. He may not be as polished with the shooting, which I, which I hope he gets to that point. Cause, cause, cause, cause once he gets that and stuff like that, there's really not much you could really do with a person that big, that athletic, that agile and open court. It's just like, it's just, it's a lot to deal with. And then he could shoot like, like what, what else? Only way you stop Giannis is Giannis stops himself. Either your reps engine up too high or he hurts himself. I, when he landed on his back and his tailbone, cause I, I strongly believe that they would have beat Miami. How did not get been hurt. I could, I could definitely see that. Cause you literally landed right on his tailbone. Listen, but listen, man, listen, man. Godfather Pat, what you going to do for Jim buckets though? What you going to do out here? So, you know, you got Drew Hardy in Portland. That's it, man. Well, maybe not that bad. Cause they drafted that kid. Um, basically we played with Damon, Damon Lillard. And you got Drew Hardy. But I liked it. I liked the little clip and you got eight into him. Okay. You got eight and you got this guy, you got something going on. Was it yesterday or today? Today. Listen, man. Aidan's only valuable if you get him on board. If he buys in, he has no choice. He's going to be the centerfold with that other kid. So now he's going to be a focal point. I think him going to Portland. It'd be a good thing for him because you got your coach fired. They fired Monte. Monte didn't deserve to be fired. She's like top rep didn't deserve to be fired. Maybe the, you know, a little longer to do that. Oh, come on. You got to give up that was sympathy. Um, nah, bro. Really? I can't. They played, they did that to him. James Hardy quit on him. Listen, listen, I'm, I'll never excuse players for being unprofessional and putting on their, on their team, their organization and playing for their teammates. Cause it's, it, it, it, it now becomes a character thing. But as far as the shortcomings with doc, I knew that was coming. I knew that was coming. That can't be overlooked, bro. That cannot be. It can't be overlooked. Was he feel up? They weren't this, I don't remember. I know they lost in seven games. I don't have the case, but you know, but it's time in Orlando with T max. Same situation, but I'm saying in Philly, same situation. Philly. Wait, hold on a second. Wasn't there like three, two or something like that? And they blew it. No, they were up. Yeah. Cause they had game six in the bag and didn't say it went off. You sure it wasn't up three one? Cause it, cause if they was, you, you, you going to be struggling with sympathy. I'll tell you that. I don't want to go to the scrap. Hold on. I'll let you know right now. Might've just been three, two, but I, but I, but I, I feel like it might've been up three one. Uh, wait. Um, all right, hold on. That's what they do. It would be NBA playoffs, 2023. You usually can crack. Here we go. Boston won game one. No, Philly won game one. The lost game two. Lost game three. One game four, one game five. So they're up three, two. Fix your face, man. At least it wasn't three one. Anyways, a lot of these black coaches, you know, man, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not doing shit. So he's trying to give him grace. I can't. So this morning I'm sleeping. Wake up. Breaking news. So what happened now? The Celtics are trading Robert Williams, Malcolm broadening 2024. Go to say first round pick a 2029 unprotected Boston first round pick to the blazers for Drew holiday. I think he's going to one year deal with that contract through holiday. Oh, even. Oh, hell what? What? Drew holiday will be excellent anywhere. We're wearing by Brad Stevens now. So essentially they traded Marcus smart to get a taller, better market smart in drew holiday. Now he may not have the, the, the edge that Marcus smart had, but defensive wise, offensive wise, they'll practice the same player. But so that drew out is a little better than him. Yeah. Yeah. The fact that you hot is in Boston. Big news. Yeah. That definitely improves. Definitely makes the substance better. And again, like I said, the odd man out is Miami. Portland, Portland essentially screwed them over two times. Absolutely. It was already an uphill battle for Miami. We're going to make this real steep for y'all. They said David litter. You can't have them and drew holiday. You want this guy? Oh, you can't have them either. We found something better. That's what we want. Bro, I can't see my game back there. Now with those two monsters, actually three. You still got Philly in the mix too. And like I said, unless Pat shakes some things off, they are this team. This team is not, has not because you lost Gabe Vincent and I think you lost the, the team as presently constructed, they're probably third or fourth season right now. Cool. Miami. I got them finished fifth seed. Fifth or under, because I think the Knicks will be there. Knicks will be better. The Nets will be swimming around in the, you know, in that whole thing down there. It's it's, if you look at from top to bottom, I got Milwaukee and Boston be going at it for that one, two seat. Philly will finish third, four forgot the Knicks, people got Miami, the Nets somewhere in there. Who else is in that picture? Cleveland's in there too. And then the Allman albums will be somebody like Atlanta. Probably the eighth seed. Yeah, I can see that. Listen, because the Nets going to finish somewhere 500. I'm the Knicks. I'm looking at Miami. You guys are for the taking. Oh yeah. Oh, Keith Philly might be for the taking as well. Well, they have, they still have Harden and Embiid. Just spoke about them. If Nick Nurse can get to them, I think they can make something happen. That's, that's the only lifeline you got, Nick Nurse and Joel Embiid. That's some surprise that, you know, that Embiid didn't talk to the dude like, yo bro, what are you doing? Cause he probably don't respect him like that, bro. He's probably too hard to know the organizations. Listen, the difference in the enthusiasm I saw with Jimmy Butler was there versus James Harden, bro. And that's the biggest mistake they had. It is night and day. That's one of the biggest mistakes they ever made. They should have never let Jimmy Butler walk out that door. Yeah, they shouldn't have. Should have gave him that money that he doesn't get to buy his Harris and stuff like that. You know, it was right there. It was right there. He showed you like, yo, listen, in these moments, I'm reliable. And you said, no, you don't want to pay. So, hey, charge it to the game, man. And been haunting there ever since. Facts, he's gone to two finals and y'all have gone to zero. And, and he's working with less talent and that's a fact. Okay. So with that being said, good luck to them because they don't need it. Yeah. I had the damn video here. What happened? When I put this thing, I took a screenshot of it. Where is it? Let's get to the wise guy and then we'll get to our hot take. Get this through your head, wise guy. You only exist out here because of me. That's the only reason. Without me, you personally, every wise guy still around. I'll take a piece of your wife. You don't ever go over my head again. All right. All right. All right. So the wise guy segment and, uh, you know, chuckles time. It's time to chuckle up a little bit. You know what I'm saying? So I'm Walt, Emperor Key. Sit back and relax while I read you the story. Good shot to the good folks at HBCU Confessions. The story goes as follows. I am Walt and Emperor Key. I am a lesbian and married. I haven't been with a man in a long time, 12 years to be exact. I've been thinking of, I've been thinking a lot about beating, about being beat out by the real thing lately. I don't know if I want to be with the men now, but I think I'm open to the idea. Dot, dot, dot. Man, I don't know if the world we live in is closed. Toy start working tomorrow? She wants to, you know, try something new. Not trust something new. Probably trust what she hasn't had in a long time before. Okay. Here's what they have to say, right? You've been married for 12 years, right? That means you're well beyond your thirties now, Ma. Am I lying? And you go to Twitter for ideas? Let me help you out, Shorty, because I'm going to go first. You know what you want to do, Ma. Why are you going to the foundation? You know what you want to do. The problem is you don't want to tell your lady. If y'all been that involved with each other that long, let's go and do it. Am I lying or am I telling the truth? Um, you're not, you're not lying. You're keeping, I'm keeping the buck. You're telling the truth. You're absolutely, you're absolutely spot on. But again, we're in an age where people need to feel validated or feel like they're not alone in their train of thought. So they put it in their personal business out to the world. HBCU Confessions was made for people who are in college or young adults. It wasn't made for somebody in the thirties having a midlife crisis. Let's just say she got married when she was 18 years old. And she says we've been married for 12 years. Which means you're 30. I'll marry you. I'll just say it. Okay, there might be some exceptions to the rule, but even within those exceptions to the rule. Let's say you got married at 17. You gotta be 29 now. Ma, you know what you want to do. Now, does that make you a lesbian anymore? No, now you're bisexual. Let's just call it what it is. And you know, this is something that they don't want to talk about. Think about it, think about it. You could be a man, right? And sexuality is a spectrum, right? With your preference, what you like, that's a spectrum. And you know, and you should always live your truth and stuff like that. Don't you go effing about talking about like, you know, you had a situation with a guy that you was curious about, right? Right, right. Yeah, you was curious about it and then right after the fact, you realize this wasn't for you and you're into women and stuff like that. Fast forward a few years later, you meet something nice. The feelings is mutual, right? I know exactly where this is going. The feelings is mutual, right? And she, and she wants to know some stuff that you don't really, you don't really flee this close. And you're into her, you think it's an open space. She's probably shared some stuff with you and stuff like that. You should probably went first and now you're obligated to tell some stuff. You think you're safe, you're all good in the world. You're like, and then you'd be like, so yeah, I was at this party, you know, a group of friends and stuff like that. I came across this guy and this happened and then you tell her and she seems okay with it, right? She's not okay with it, my guy. She hates every bit of it. If you tell a girl that you had any type of sexual encounter with a man and she was into you, it's over. It's over, my guy. Don't call her, don't text, keep walking. It's not going to happen and stuff like that, bro. Don't tell her about that. Take it to the grave.
The Lowe Post
"first round" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"Career. He always says the ball in his hands. What's the big deal? Apologies. Apologies to Joe and Brunson and Julius Randle. There are many more apologies in the column, apologies, apologies to the grizzlies, apologies to everyone, apologies to Devin Booker. You'll see it in the column all defensive team. First team guard Alex grew so guard Derek white forward Evan mobley forward jaren Jackson, center brook Lopez, easy speedy, my defensive player of the year ballot was Jackson mobley Lopez in that order, Caruso and white were the best defensive guards done. Second team, this was tough. Guard drew holiday, guard, herb Jones. Over a whole pile of guys that we'll get to. Giannis had forward OG and OB at forward center draymond green. And yes, that means no Jaden McDaniels, no bam out of bio, Noel McHale bridges, no Jimmy Butler, no Dylan Brooks, Noel Kauai, PG, Jared Vanderbilt, and a lot of other guys. I just thought these guys were the most deserving and that front court of Yanis and an OB draymond and then the pile of guys with them like bam and McDaniels, but that was absolutely brutal. And you could argue second guard spot with drew holiday could be any number of guys Luke and Stuart got mentioned in my column, Marcus smart's always there. Jimmy Butler is listed as both guard and forward, Dylan Brooks, listed above garden for it. That's fine if you want one of those guys that's fine. I just like I just feel like herb Jones was the best combination of consistent effort on ball impact off ball impact, rebounding impact. We can agree to disagree on that. No, it sounds great. Dylan Brooks was the one name that I don't like him necessarily. I don't like watching him play. I'm not sure I'd like to be his teammate, but he's a hell of a defensive player. If he had made one that list, I wouldn't surprise me at all. Yeah. I know, again, read the column if you want to see the full list of apologies and mea culpas and all this. And I know a category near and dear to your hard coach 'cause it's the deep cut category all rookie. First team the cuts aren't so deep, banquero, Kessler, wing Jalen Williams, which is the top three in my rookie of the year, although not in that order. Math and Keegan Murray, Keegan and Murray's gotta be first team. I will not hear any disagreements on that. If you want a flip Mather in to second team because you consider him kind of an empty calorie score, didn't help a lot on defense, complete tunnel vision on offense, hit The Rookie wall and collapse for 20 games. That's fine. I get it. He finished actually kind of strong last 5, 6 games, and he averaged 20 points a game for like a long time. As a rookie, that's pretty rare. But if you want to flip them out and put them on second team, here's my second team. Jade and ivy, Jalen Duran, jabari Smith junior, Andrew Knapp, tar Eason. And I've been astonished despite the fact that I love Jeremy sohan, despite the fact that shade and sharp piled up a lot of points and a lot of games that meant a whole lot of nothing. Despite all that, despite AJ Griffin having a really nice year as a rotation player for most of the year and some other rookies like oche abaji and David roddy finishing strong, astonished. That anyone would leave off Tara east in our Andrew no part. I've seen a lot of ballots without either of those guys. They have to, they have to be on second team at least and you have argued that I have the wrong pacer on first team. Yeah, I had nem hard first team. Listen, he was just a better rookie. There's a reason why he started over Mather and in the same position, Mather Norman plays, and that Mark doesn't play that position typically. He's a point guard and tare Easton made my second team. He's going to be terrific. Yeah, I mean, those are the ten, I think. And I like Jeremy very much too, but sharp doesn't deserve it. There are some metrics that happen is the worst player in the NBA this year. He's going to be terrific, maybe. Like he definitely has a ton of talent. I'm excited to see what they do, but I wouldn't have put them on that. We have advanced metrics for a reason. And I like looking at them. No, you did a great job. David Thorpe, this is always such a pleasure. I just love this time of year. I love looking at the film, digging into the matchups and trying to foresee what we are going to see and the cool thing is we'll see a lot of that and then we'll see a lot of other stuff that we didn't necessarily expect to see a lot of desperate ploys, a lot of aggressive ploys, a lot of out of the box plays. That is the fun of the playoffs. You will be chronicling it all at true hoop. You guys podcast twice a week. And you will be writing columns and breaking down all of it, subscribe to true hoop, listen to David by his book. Thank you, sir for this wonderful annual present that you give me. Thanks, Zach. Hey, enjoy the next few months, oh man.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh update on "first round" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather
"Radio opening statements are expected this week at the trial of the three Tacoma police officers who were charged in connection with the death of Manny Ellis back in 2020. Two Tacoma police officers are facing charges for second -degree murder and manslaughter and a third for manslaughter in Ellis's death. Advocates for police accountability say this trial is historic in many ways. It is the first criminal case against police officers to go to trial since voters passed I -940 in 2018. Prosecutors now no longer have to prove malice or ill intent behind officers use of force. Voters wanted this badly and I think we're all watching it. For Leslie Cushman who was the citizen sponsor of I -940. She's watching the first time legislation she worked on will be put into practice. What we're gonna see is that is our statute useful? Is it written so that a prosecutor can apply it and a jury can understand the charging requirements. Thirty seats will be reserved in the courtroom each day for members of the public to come and watch the trial. The proceedings will also be live streamed through Pierce County's website. That trial expected to run into December. It's COBOL 4's Lynn Ann Wynn. was It was a particularly deadly September in Seattle. There were 11 homicides in September of last year. Just for before the September before that there were only three Seattle resident Travis Libsack spoke with COMO 4. You kind people of to see it see living in the city because the people I know like will have like police will be around. You'll hear about the shootings and the a person was stabbed to death near T Mobile Park Friday night. Seattle has had 61 homicides this year. the The most in one year is 69. That was set in 1994. The Wing Luke Museum in Seattle's Chinatown national district which was the target of a hate crime last month has received $100 ,000 from the city. The money will go towards attendee's response. Since July 25 was authorized by law restraining the city and abandonedberriers repairs and security upgrades it will also help pay for mental health and emotional support for the museum staff on September 14th. A camera caught 76 year old Craig Milne smashing its windows with a sledgehammer and yelling racial a vote of $100 ,000. The city's mayor told us he feels the support they received from city and state is essential slurs. The executive director of the museum said he feels so much gratitude for the support they received from from the the state and the city but also the support from people in the community. So many folks came came out to help and that is everyone from neighbors to organizations to from the government that it does help counter balance the grief and the confusion. Members in the Chinatown International District still have questions about why someone would have so much hate towards the pan -asian Pacific American community. Como force Karina Vargas. Prosecutors filed the first round of charges in an ongoing investigation of home invasion robberies. Police say a group of robbers targeted Asian families in Seattle. This is Casey McNerthney in the King County prosecuting attorney's office. These charges that we filed now are the charges that we believe with the current evidence that we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Prosecutors filed unlawful possession of a firearm charges against four who have prior criminal records and robbery charges against a 16 year old who is now held in youth detention. This certainly is not the end of the road. We expect to get significant amounts of information from Seattle police. Pictures from Seattle police show part of what officers found during a series of search warrants $31 ,000 in cash, guns, drugs and ski task. Police say they're still working to see if these guns are connected to other shootings in what has been a violent year in Seattle. That's KOMO 4's Jeremy Harris. It's 5 10. Let's get you over to the Beacon Plumbing porch Sports desk where we say good morning to Eric heights. Thanks, Brian. Good morning. The Major League Baseball playoffs get underway this week without the Seattle Mariners. Despite taking three or four games from visiting Texas,
The Lowe Post
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"I'm actually, you know, you can either be a 100% worried or a 100% dismissive, just late season malaise for a team that's waiting for the playoffs. I'm somewhere in the middle. I'm like half worried that that stretch revealed that something is a little off in Denver. That said, I think they got a break with the Lakers winning and going into the 7 seed. Oklahoma City for as good a story as they are. I don't think they have any shot against the nuggets in a first round series. I'm not even going to, I mean, every team's got a shot, they have talent, they have shade, it's been amazing. Minnesota to me would be more interesting. Anthony Edwards has not looked good and does not look totally healthy to me right now. And if that's the case and without Jayden McDaniels who punched a wall, I think that's a pretty clear Denver win as well. So I don't know if you disagree on either. I think Minnesota is a little bit more interesting just because towns and Edwards are towns and Edwards. But we'll see what happens with Gobert. Now he's got back spasms. He half punched Kylie Anderson's shoulder, didn't seem to hurt Kyle Anderson Burma's kind of not the best punch I've ever seen. Who's on his team? I guess if you don't want to get suspended for a lot of games, you aim just like a little light nudge to the clavicle. Just hard to see him Minnesota beaten beaten the nuggets in a series. I guess they're more interesting though. Yeah, and all you said are good. As to the punch the shoulder as the older brother of two boys in it, then a little sister. My brothers would tell you that their shoulders have enough scar tissue. They'll never feel pain again because I would never have punched them in the face or my little brothers, but I did Pete their shoulders up pretty frequently. We're gonna go better than I tried to hurt anybody there. I think Denver got really lucky because I would repeat the Lakers to beat them. I Denver is a team that I'm on the other. I'm all the way out on them. I think they've lost faith in their bench. I think Mike has panicked hugely. He probably could use bones highland right now and they tried him for a reason. And I just don't trust their second unit. I don't trust that yolk at just gonna play 44 minutes a game every game. They're gonna win this series, no matter who they play because they got lucky the Lakers won that game and shouldn't have. I agree with you that Minnesota is a better, not just cat and aunt, but Gobert too. It's gonna destroy him inside. They have the size. The thunder have no size. I mean, Jalen Williams is a really nice rookie around center. He's 6 9 and they have like Dario Sarge is the only backup big that's getting minutes for their team. Right. Right. So I don't think Denver has dodged a wind round one. And then I'm not going to say anything until we see who they're playing round two, but I'm really down on them right now. And I was hiring them for much of the year. When the clippers were struggling and I don't believe in their second year anymore. Or really the first unit for that matter. They don't have a second unit. They have they have like a guy and a half. They have Bruce Brown and sometimes Christian Brown and listen, then it's just kind of like spin the wheel and if it lands on Zeke naji, come out and go out there and do something. And Zach, they're so panicked out there. I listen to a game, not too long ago. Maybe it was early March though. And the other team scored twice. And the nuggets missed two wide open shots in a row and very nice man Scott hasting those a lot about basketball said, well, this is the problem with the luggage second unit, and they go through spells. Like they miss two shots. But there's such a panic because for so long, the non jokic minutes have been like the non embiid minutes in Philly. And Mike has not had a steady hand with that. He's challenges guys a lot. It doesn't really work. I think it's professional franchise. I don't think Calvin booth, I know we didn't hire this coach. And I think this coach knows he might be fighting for his job and that adds a lot of stress too. So I think it's a mess. They can clean it up if they win for the feel goods will be there. They'll be all great. And then we'll see what happens in round two, but they should have no problem in round one. Yeah, Phoenix looming is a problem. Coach, I am gonna end by revealing my all NBA all defense and all rookie teams because they are revealed today online, but it's on inside or you can stick around or you could not stick around up to you, but I will go fast. First team all NBA. You ready? What do you want to do? You want to listen to coach? I know him, but I'm happy to hear him again. I read your honor. Okay. First team all NBA. We'll start with the big daddy. All NBA Shay gildas Alexander guard Donovan Mitchell guard, Jayson Tatum Ford, Giannis Ford and bead center. That was easy. Donovan Mitchell jumped from second to first team when the Mavericks collapsed into just a heap of complete embarrassment and you just, I just can't put Luca on first team despite the fact that he's better than Donovan Mitchell. We all know he's better than Donovan Mitchell. Donovan Mitchell was outstanding all year. And what I wrote in the column is you can't blame the Mavs collapse on Luca or Kyrie, even like a everyone gets some blame, but I think giving them even like a plurality of blame, the real blame is like just on the drip drip drip of talent out the door. But you need your best player to be at galvanize in those situations in Luca did not galvanize the Mavericks. He whined to the officials. He was bad on defense. He was frustrated for whatever reason, so he got knocked down to second team. Coach, what I did on my second team, though, because guard was so crowded, I discovered a way to fit an extra guard onto the broader three all NBA teams. And that was moving Luca to forward, which I am fine with. He's a point forward, he guards power forward, sometimes he can be a forward he's eligible forward. So my second team, guard number one, Steph Curry, he's Steph Curry. I'm going to save second guard for later. Forward, Jimmy Butler, no brainer forward Luka Dončić no brainer center, Nikola Jokić, no brainer. My second guard on my second team is drew freaking holiday. And I think that name will probably draw some attention. I think he's got a good shot to make all NBA, but there were just so many other alternatives that either didn't play as many games as drew holiday or aren't as good as drew holiday even if they played as many or more games. I just think is two way impact this is the best season ever as a shooter. You mentioned it earlier. I think he's deserving, he also made my all defense team. Third team, guard, Damian Lillard, guard, deer and fox, and fox was the guy who got in based on me moving Luca to Ford. It ended up being like, do I want the air and Fox? Or do I want Julius Randle? And I chose the Erin Fox over Julius Randle because my forwards on the third team are LeBron and Jalen Brown and my center is demon de sabonis. That's it. Coach, what are your big points of disagreement? I was surprised to see jaylen Brown getting so much love. I know the Celtics need it because they're not going to keep them otherwise. I don't think. I don't really know, but that's what I'm thinking. No, I thought you said it was great. I love the fox pick. I had Donovan on my first team, Donovan Mitchell. Luca, I think you expressed it really well. And yes, he plays forward all the time. Primary ball handlers does me you're not a forward. The bra is going to fold his whole career. He always says the ball in his hands. What's the big deal? Apologies. Apologies to Joe and Brunson and Julius Randle. There are many more apologies in the column, apologies,
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"Information station with Eric heights. Good morning. It's 4 45. Here are some of your top lines. More than 75 ,000 Kaiser Permanente workers are getting ready to go on what would be the biggest healthcare strike in US history. Unions representing the workers notified the company more than a week ago that they could launch a three day strike this coming Wednesday. King County prosecutors filed the first round of charges in an ongoing investigation of home invasion robberies. Police say a group of robbers targeted Asian American families in South Seattle and sports. beat The Mariners the Rangers yesterday won nothing to finish their season. It's now 4 46. in Lawmakers Washington DC averted a government shutdown by reaching a budget agreement over the weekend. But as ABC's Mary Alice Parks explains the agreement is only good for 45 days. The bill is passed. As a resort speaker Kevin McCarthy making an extraordinary pivot relying on Democrats to pass a short term bill that keeps the government funded through November 17. It includes $16 billion in disaster aid but drops funding to Ukraine. With 90 Republicans voting no McCarthy unable to unite his party. With only hours to spare he tried selling a plan to the keep government funded in the short term and add border security provisions. But House Republicans still shot down. that McCarthy throwing up his hands. I don't want to be a part of that team. I want to be a part a of conservative group that wants to get things done. The question now will the deal cost McCarthy his speakership. Florida Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, one of McCarthy's GOP critics, telling our Jonathan Karl he's determined to him vote out. I am relentless and I will continue to pursue this objective. McCarthy out of options, accepting the challenge. That's all right if Republican and Democrats joined together to do what is right. If somebody wants to make a motion against me, bring it. There has to be an adult in room. the It would only take a handful of Republicans to remove McCarthy from his post unless Democrats offered a lifeline. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats, though, say McCarthy can't be trusted and they have no reason to bail him out. It's up to the Republican Conference to determine their own leadership and deal with their own problems. But it's not up to Democrats to save Republicans, from themselves especially. President Biden blasting calling Republicans the last few weeks a needless crisis. I'm sick and tired of the Republicans here and so are the American people. We have heard from several Democrats that unless there were to be a major power sharing agreement, they don't see any reason to help McCarthy. So that becomes the question If all Democrats were to stay united against him, it would just take a few Republicans to vote him out. So it easy is to see that his speakership could be in real trouble. That's ABC's Mary Alice Parks reporting. It's now 4 48. We're in the cold season and with many respiratory illnesses going around, how get do you the right treatment to feel better? Here's medical reporter Liz Bowness to help you separate the symptoms. Hey, everybody feeling stuffy, fatigue, congested might be fall allergies or it might be COVID -19 or the flu. There's not a quick way to know for sure because so many of the symptoms overlap according to the team at Ohio's tri health family medicine. But allergies do tend to come on gradually. Don't go away within a week or two and often feel like this. People have been complaining of itchy eyes, runny nose. They have been complaining itchy throat, sinus issues, flaring of asthma. 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"Jump shots over Deandre ayton if they have drop coverage. They just need a monster Kawhi series and that's why I think they're going to, I don't think they want to over tax him by saying you've also got to be our primary Durant defender and carry our offense. I just don't know if they can do that to Kauai without Paul George to take off the load. It's just, they're going to need an epic epic series for him. There's no way to no other way to go other way to say it. And it's just, I'll be very surprised if the clippers with my pick is going to be sons and 6. Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I want to say two quick things. One is, I found an interesting, it's not too interesting. A lineup that works, that's what's interesting is how well it worked. Westbrook, Gordon, batum, Kauai and Z were plus 6.8 and 5 games. All right, that's gonna be their starting lineup, I think. I think so. I should have mentioned that earlier. They've messed around with their lineups a little bit. They've had guys in and out. Russ, Gordon Kauai batum zoo is I would bet good money is going to be their starting 5. Right. And they were really good in the few times they play. I think 16 or some odd minutes. And then the other thing is what you said. When you say there's four series that all could have been the lead, this is why it's Katie versus Kauai. Do we have so many things going on? I think sometimes we can miss that. These are really, truly legendary generational players. And I'm reminded of something, in fact, you and I were together when it happened down in Miami, who I was young. He had not won anything at that point. And it was almost like pop told them, I don't think you're better than LeBron, generally speaking, over the course of a season. But let's see if you can be better than this series. Take go at him. When you're open from three, I don't care if there's only two seconds gone in the possession. Shoot it. And I've gone back over the years and watched that tape of that series only in 15. Where Kauai just let LeBron have it and just came at him, defensively came out of LeBron and it finds series, but this first smoked him, and that's when we saw this Kauai. I want Thai. I think ty Lou is one of our best coaches. He's super pragmatic. He's the opposite in most cases. Guys, like Mike Malone and darvin, who are so afraid and so panicky, I'd like to see him really challenge Kauai. Yeah, you know, Katie is maybe top three top four of all time. There's people that say that, let's find out if he's better than you. Let's just go at him. If he's better than you, so be it. But let's see if he is. Go at him. And if you end up getting tired, Paul becoming eventually, but go out in these first couple of games and tell your team, make them stop our guy we think he's the best player in basketball right now. And see what happens. It's going to be a challenge. On Durant, I've actually been surprised at how often he's being used as just purely a spot up guy in Phoenix, even though it's part of his value. We know that. Like Katie in the corner is still massively valuable and he's willing to do that and let Chris and Devin cook. I think as they get rolling more in the playoffs, they're going to need to use him more as a screener as a ball handler in the pick and roll with Chris Paul as a screener, kind of get more predatory matchup wise like that. And as it Kawhi, one thing they did occasionally against Phoenix in a regular season when Kawhi felt like he was getting rolling is what something the rockets used to do for James Harden, which is set picks for him at half court and just get him going downhill. Hard and fast and into guys. And that's an interesting tool. I'm going sons and 6. Yeah. And my pick to make the finals being gone in the first round. Bye bye. Series number 5, and now we get a big drop off in the series power rankings. Almost by default, default is Homer Simpson once said the two sweetest words in the English language default. Boston Atlanta and I called the hawks win over the heat in the play in series and yet I still think that's a huge win for Boston. Boston against small guards is death and the hawks have two of them into Dante Murray although he fights like all hell he's a very good defensive player and Trae Young who is just a blinking target at all times for opposing offenses. And Boston just rained threes on the hawks in two games in the two games that mattered between the teams, Boston was 41 of 88 on threes. Just generating whatever they wanted, hunting Trae Young everywhere and passing out of that. And defensively, they're going to throw a lot of looks at just like the clippers are going to throw a lot of looks at the suns, but their favorite look was not hiding, but putting Horford over on Deandre hunter and guarding Clint capela with wing players and switching Trae Young Clint capela two man game as much as they could. Obviously they couldn't get to that matchup every time. And when I was on Clint capela, they also managed fine. I just, I think they've just got so many defensive weapons to throw a tray from Derek white Marcus smart jaylen Brown Jayson Tatum and that switching scheme that I just talked about, which the hawks, you know, the reason the reason you do that is obvious if you want to involve Al Horford in the pick and roll, if you want to involve Boston center, you got to put Deandre hunter in as a screener and have capella or a kongu hanging out in the dunker spot, mucking up your spacing. And that's fine. You can make hay out of that, but it's not the way the hulks are used to playing. I just, I just think this is an absolutely terrible matchup for Atlanta. And I will give them a gentleman's sweep game and pick Boston in 5. I just don't know what answers they have. And the interesting answer that they've had under Quinn Snyder that won them the play in game is offensive rebounding. They're number two in offensive rebounding since March 1st. It's been a clear point of emphasis. Boston's the number one defensive rebounding team in the league, not by a lot. They're number one in their close to like a pack of teams at three, four, 5, but I just think if they're diligent, they take that away and they make Trae Young's life hell and the dogs have a lot of talent. I just don't see, I don't see a path for them to win a lot of games in this series. Yeah, I know do I, I have three things down here for Atlanta to have any shot to make a competitive series. I actually like the other series. We haven't talked about it yet better. Atlanta boards versus Boston's defensive glass work, as you said, we saw it against Miami that athleticism, that energy, that can carry that can travel. They can do that in game and game out. They have a lot of it. A con whoo and capella in particular, but all their guys
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"A series number three on my excitement rankings it again. You can rank these first four and you already want this. This is just my personal order. The Donovan Mitchell bowl, the fourth seeded Cleveland Cavaliers against the 5th seeded New York Knicks who have the most implausible improbable, I still don't even understand it. Top 5 offense in the history of the NBA, a top 5 offense that can't shoot from anywhere. I don't even know how you do that. I mean, I know how you do that. You get a lot of offensive rebounds and a lot of free throws and you never turn them all over. I get it. I just didn't know it was possible to bend the math quite that dramatically where you can't shoot and you're still amazing on offense against the Cleveland Cavaliers who were the number one defense for almost wired a wire, at least a top three defense wired a wire with those two big monsters in the middle and those two superstar guards up top. The biggest wild card in this series coach, as we know, is that Julius Randle's status is uncertain after that ankle sprain late in the season, the latest reports from the Knicks have been that he's doing parts of practice, but not the contact parts. I don't know what the hell that means. But I do know this. I do know this. The Knicks can finagle their way to free throws and offensive rebounds against his team. The Cavs as good as they are defensively were 20th and defensive redone. And their foul rate is just so, so. And I actually think the other identity the Knicks take on without Randall, which is kind of this go go flying around more passing more pace, whether it's obi toppin at the fore or Josh Hart at the fore, I think that can kind of hit Cleveland as a surprise punch early in the series. The Knicks are good in that alignment over a longer series, just like in the regular season when a star player gets hurt for like four or 5 games a team can find this new identity and it works and you're like, wow, maybe they don't need this guy as much as we thought. And then it kind of hits you like actually you just need the shot making and the defensive attention this guy draws and the double teams and the kick outs and all that. Eventually they're gonna need Julius Randle, good Julius Randle to win this series, but if it's two or three games without him, I think that other version of the Knicks can actually hold down the fort and win, whether it's one of two, one of three, keep the series alive, but eventually I think they'll need Julius Randle's just pure talent and shot making. I think this is gonna be a long series either way, if Randall were healthy from the jump, I would give the next a pretty damn good shot. I would probably pick Cleveland and 7 regardless, but that's gonna be my official pick cabs in 7 because, I mean, the Cavs are awesome. The cabs are just a really good team and I'm pure talent. I think they're a little better, but I like this matchup. I do too. That's my prediction. I said it on my pot earlier Cavs in 7. So we're right on it. I pretty much all these are the same. The Randall piece isn't just important for all the things you said. It's also kind of the anecdote for Evan mobley right now. I think I've heard you talk a lot about Evan, who was my pick to be the best prospect in his draft class right above like just make a coin flip over his cottage, Barnes. But strength and hot motor, the kind of sudden Randall has, that's an issue for Evan still. He can be buried a little bit. It's shocking to me that Cleveland's defensive rebounding is so bad, especially post all star. Some metrics had him as last in the league. Now they're not lasting second chance points because they D you up really well after you get a second. They got those arms up. They say good luck. Finish over this. Right, exactly, but that goes to something you were saying. When you give up second chance, when you give up second shots, you give up fouls. And that's just a way for New York to, like you said, it concoct their way to the free throw line, finagle their way to get more points that way. Now, it's also something Cleveland's got to be attentive up. They've got to be thinking, we have to keep these guys off. Mitchell Robinson, when you said the Mitchell bowl, I know what you mean. But my first thought was, I like it as Mitchell Robinson's first Donovan Mitchell. I think for me. And they do bring they do bring Mitch up a little higher against the cabs 'cause you got to against Garland and Mitchell. They bring up a little higher. And we'll see how that goes. And we'll see how it goes. You know why they bring them up a little higher? They bring them up a little higher and this is the issue the cabs are gonna face every single opponent. They bring them up a little higher because a you have to and B what that means is the help's gotta come in a little earlier and a little more aggressively behind him and we don't really care if Isaac okoro and Lamar Stevens and even dean wade get open threes or we're gonna force Evan mobley and Jared Allen to tic-tac-toe their way to buckets and sometimes they will. But that's gonna be the Knicks strategy and pretty much everyone's strategy against Cleveland is funneling as many shots to those guys from three point range as possible. Yeah, exactly. So Mitchell Robinson Leighton here now is against the pacers, but he was a crazy shop locker. He a monster on the glass. I think it's a real issue if Donovan over penetrates. We've seen in this so far in the playing game a few games, the Miami game in particular where they just kept driving all the way to the rim and big bodies are there. They just get missing and missing. It's not an accident. It's hard to score against big bodies. Cleveland takes advantage that all the time, of course. But New York's got Mitchell Robinson back there. So that makes a difference. You hit it, it was my number two thing after that point. And the rebounding is like who's Cleveland going to play in that 5th spot and can they make shots? Because they're going to have to make shots. They want a corot for obvious defensive purposes. I think especially on Brunson, who's just a magnificent player. And he is their version of Donovan Mitchell playoff wise. He was so good in some of the spots last year. I can't wait to see the real Donovan Mitchell that we saw in Utah, a few different times, let you bubble version. Gellin Brunson can't wait to see last year's version of Donovan Mitchell. He had one fun out the door I think last year. Levert is the answer offensively, but then you pay the price defensively to some degree. He is in a set of this year defensively, buddy ain't a horror. And but you know what? The playoffs Isaac's in year three, he's young. I really think he's like 21 is that third year player. He might grow up a little bit. This is what happens. When you suddenly start showing some signs and speaking of that, let's see where RJ is. RJ's gonna get a chance to bullies some guys. Let's see how he does. He'll try to get to his left hand hook in the paint. He's got to shoot well from three. It's not something that's an automatic. You don't feel necessarily confident. But this is when you start building your value as a player of I don't just have a lot of good games regular season. You can count on me in the postseason. If they do those things, which I think they will to some degree, I think it's a 7 game series, as long as we get Randall back on, say, by game three, looking pretty good. Let's talk about Barrett, and it's a big, it's a big series for him. The Cavs offense, if weapon a is just your normal spread pick and roll with those two guards, weapon B is going to be attack jail and Brunson. Donovan Mitchell was comfortable shooting over
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"Like I said, if they had just one of those two bigs and particularly Adams who is just a one man offensive rebounding team. I mean, by himself, he makes you an elite offensive rebounding team. And without him, they're just kind of average. Look, we talked about this over text. There's one obvious theme here that should concern the grizzlies and concerns me pick in the grizzlies. Look, Dylan Brooks is going to guard LeBron. He'll be the primary assignment on the brun. Jaren Jackson can guard Anthony Davis and when he does guard Anthony Davis, that's a pick and roll you can actually switch. Without that much pain, like yes AD will hurt Dylan Brooks in the post, but Dylan Brooks is like a cinder block man. You're not gonna move him. He's gonna make you earn it. You gotta help and load a little bit, but like that's not a painful switch. And step one to beating the Lakers is if you can switch that to man game, you got a shot. Now, I bet they'll start games with Tillman at center and guarding Anthony Davis, so jaren Jackson can roam off of Vanderbilt. That both protects jaren Jackson from the big issue that we're about to talk about, which is fouls. If Brooks and Jackson are guarding LeBron and AD a lot, the Lakers were second in free throw rate on offense and first in free throw 8 on defense. They're walking into every one of these games with like an 8 O advantage just from free throws. And without Clark and without Adams and by the way, jaren Jackson junior was often their second choice on LeBron when Dylan Brooks rested during the regular season. I just don't know that they can survive foul trouble to one or both of those guys and foul trouble to both of them in the same game is going to be a catastrophe. And that's the obvious spotlight issue in this series. It's the one that grizzlies fans are going to be looking for because they're going to cry conspiracy as soon as the officiating starts to tilt against them. The Lakers are really good at forcing the issue. I think the grizzlies bring some tools on defense to this series that can really, really wear the Lakers, not wear them down, but make it harder for the Lakers to score even when they have the floor spread. Even when they take Vanderbilt off the floor and they just put shooting around LeBron and AD. I think the grizzlies have some pretty powerful defensive answers to that. I just worry that fowls are going to are going to limit their ability to really, really deploy those for as many minutes as they need to. Well, I think you kind of bury just because all those smart things you said, I think you kind of buried what maybe is the biggest story connecting to the phallus shoe. And that is the ability to switch those screens, not just with triple J and Brooks, but also with Tillman. Tillman's lad on his feet and I think people realize he defends AD. I thought pretty well. They might even let him try LeBron and you have to remember this when the Lakers, the Lakers had Thomas Bryant, poised to have the greatest offensive season minutes part of it. Of all time, it was crazy. And that was LeBron pick and roll. He can't play in Denver. They have no LeBron on their team. No one knows how to pass them on pick and roll for them, except for jokic, who never plays with Thomas does. The Lakers aren't going to have that advantage if Memphis can switch it and not foul. And so to me, the first step in fixing a problem is absolutely knowing that it's there and addressing it. And I've been Taylor Jenkins is absolutely elite as a coach, maybe top 5 in the world for professional athletes. There's no question it's in big red ink all over the locker room. We can not foul as someone who teaches the game for a living. You can help guys not foul. It challenged their discipline, right? It's not about toughness here. It's about the discipline of make them make those shots over. You don't reach, don't grab, and if they beat you, they beat you, save that foul later on, give them the two points. And help is coming anyway. That doesn't mean they'll do it because part of Memphis is issue is they're so full of energy. They're so full of testosterone. And that is to their disadvantage. But I think if they can go to two after four, I think you'll see a much more fatigued Laker team and you'll see them struggling fourth quarters in Memphis can win. What jaren Jackson junior really needs to do, and he's like I said, he's gonna split time between rover and guarding age. For sure. Yeah. And he'll even make him a rover when the Lakers are small and AD is the only big on the floor. They'll stick them on Troy Brown junior sometimes on Rui and say rove rove. He's really got to avoid offensive fouls. Like I don't mind if you commit some defensive fouls, these illegal screen fouls that he's piling up. Those are the ones that take you out of the game and you're not even getting any advantage really by committing those fowls. On the other end of the floor, what worries me for Memphis is this is the 22nd rated half court offense in the league against a really, really great defensive team, a very good defensive team. That has a lot of answers for what Memphis likes to do, namely Anthony Davis on jaren Jackson junior, which is a tough matchup for anybody. I thought AD was as good defensively as anyone in the league this year. Other than maybe jaren Jackson junior. And on morant, this team of feather and darvin Hamm's cap, I would say, has been one of the more aggressive teams going under screens on morant and they'll probably open with Austin Reeves on them. I would guess they've used Vanderbilt on them to at times when the grids only have one big on the floor. We'll see if we see that. And daring morant to beat them with jump shots and long floaters and morant is good enough to beat you in some games just with floaters. He will make enough floaters to punish that defense in the Lakers will adjust and they can adjust, but I worry a little bit about Memphis scoring enough in a series that becomes a complete slowdown half court rock fight and I think they're going to need to get a requisite amount of transition points off turnovers, whatever to win this series and the Lakers do not turn the ball over a lot on offense is most LeBron teams tend to they take care of the ball. That's how Memphis gets enough points in the half court in this series is a big is a big plot line to me. Yeah, I mean, they've got they've got obviously some great shooters that are shooting it really well. Luke doesn't miss these days. But I think what you're saying goes to what I was suggesting about fatigue factor. Well, that's on Memphis to race. And that's on methods to push on makes and misses just get crossed the timeline three seconds upon getting possession that millisecond you get possession, you're gone. Every I would stress that with tyus, who doesn't like to run as much as jaw, guys, we are racing all the time. The Lakers started the season racing. They have slowed down considerably. I mean, there's still, I think, 14th or 15th, last 15 games in pace. But then our top 5. They were really racing early. They need to focus on that the size and get into that age, make those make those two superstars run, not just run race. Get them to have to play with the urgency a ton, and here's the things that maybe it's regency bias, but I watched that Minnesota game. If those were high school players making some of the passes, the Lakers made late, they would be benched. This is still that team. They've been playing so much better. Really, after that first one and I start, they've been one of the better teams, even with their old team, and then of course this new, I think, in new and improved team. Russell not playing was kind of weird. I just, I just think he's going to go with the old group that he had before the trade deadline a lot, which is fine. And I think Memphis can wear those guys down. I think those first, you know, obviously Memphis has to get one of two at home that goes without saying, if they get too, if they get two in a row, I think they're going to cruise in the series. I wouldn't be surprised if Lakers went one. They've been a great home team all year. I think one of the big 5 and 6 at home. Right. You mentioned flying, I think it's just imperative bane and canard, and it'll be interesting to see how often they play the two of them together with morant, how often they risk that. They need to run and run and run in the half court. And why I say interesting how much they play together is fundamentally the Lakers with a 6 8 greatest of all time, maybe ball handling
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"The low post podcast, the NBA playoffs start in two days. We know 6 of the 8 series after tomorrow's final two play in games we will know all 8, but we can't wait that long. You need time to listen and digest and prep. So in the name of the basketball gods, we call upon what is now an annual tradition, it used to be the 8 by 8, 8 minutes apiece for 8 first round series, podcast. It's now, I don't know, the ten by 6 and a couple minutes on the one 8 series we don't know, and we always do it because we need to be smart, we need to get smarter, we need to know the X's and O's, the themes with of true hoop, the author of basketball is jazz David Thorpe. How are you? Zach, I'm well, thank you for asking, and I just have to say, I always look forward to your podcast so much. Sometimes we get blessed to get him two in a week, and I do my morning walk, which I've been doing for a long time now, and I first thing I always do is to check to see if you drop something and all this week, the habit is, oh, I wonder who Zack's talking to you about the playoffs because I just forget that it tends to be me and I'm always so disappointed that I'm the one has to talk inside and get a listen to Kirk and KP or whomever, but we're gonna do our best to get smarter with each other for sure. As always, I have ordered these series as the dictator of this podcast in my level of interest in them starting with the most interesting to the least interesting of the 6. We will mention as an aside, the one 8 possibilities later, but we obviously don't know them. I have already revealed to you that my most exciting first round series. And I would argue there are four candidates for this spot. You could pick any of the four and then there are two that are kind of like we'll get to them. So we'll give them their due. Number one on my list just an irresistible matchup so irresistible that it veered into the cartoonish earlier this year during the Shannon sharp Dylan Brooks, bru ha ha, the Los Angeles Lakers, the number 7 seed going to the Memphis Grizzlies, the number two seed, and it's not just irresistible because of the sort of the aging Lion of LeBron James against the young up and coming audacious Memphis Grizzlies and all the Shannon sharp nonsense and all that. The grizzlies, this version of them, I mean, I think they put themselves on the national map with a game in Los Angeles when that was the game when Kyle Anderson back when he was a member of the Memphis Grizzlies talked talk, you know what to LeBron, which nobody does, and that was the same game when John morant did the Superman two handed block on Avery Bradley, I believe, on the backboard in transition. Everyone's like, oh my God, this team is not messing around. And if. Steven Adams or Brandon Clark, if just one of them were healthy, I don't even need both. I would be pretty aggressively all in on Memphis to win this series despite the fact that I think most of the media is probably gonna pick the Lakers who are 19 and 8 in their last 27 games they've been a very, very good team now for a significant sample size, but I like a lot of what that version of me. I like a lot of what Memphis can still bring in this series, but if you just gave them one more big, I would like their combination of sort of brutishness and the Lakers, although they played fast this year, they were really bad transition defense team and they don't like these like young energetic flying around athletic teams and who just don't want to be in your face, create chaos, get out and transition, and that's the grizzlies to a T and even in the half court you got Desmond Bain running around just flying around and I think D'angelo Russell will be guarding Desmond Bain for good chunks of this series and that's a good way to punish D'angelo Russell just run his ass around. I like a lot of what Memphis has in this series. I don't know who I'm gonna pick. But if they had one of those guys, I think I'd pick them. As of now, I'm still undecided. What interests you about this matchup coach? Well, you did a pretty good job of summarizing a lot of my thoughts. It is an old versus young really athletic versus super skilled and crafty, certainly in the best players for the Lakers. They have a lot of skilled guys. Lakers, palinka that built a heck of a team. There's a lot of talent on that team. And I agree with you totally that especially if Adams played LeBron has passed the age now where he likes to crack back and block out the other teams big when AD goes to block a shot. He ain't missing around with that. Adams would crush them if that was the case. It won't be as hard now without him, but what interests me the most, which I think is the biggest story I alluded to this to you on a text earlier. I have to always remind myself to, in the world of physics, you have to think of the biggest forces that affect us first. And I do this all the time with the teacher, gravity always wins. The gravity in this series, in my opinion, is darvin ham. I thought he was bad all season. Doesn't mean he didn't do some good things, and they're playing pretty well. I know he's a rookie coach and coaches can always get better and often do. That's just like anything else. But I think his knee jerk reaction and he's not the only one in the playoffs that does this is to keep going back to his stars. And that's exactly what met this needs. Even if they drop a game of the first two, it even two two after four, Dylan Brooks wears people out. He is a very physical defender. Jaren Jackson, we know what he can do defensely. I think he's the defensive player of the year. LeBron James was exhausted at the end of that play in game. That's why he kept throwing the ball to the bad guys and making one terrible, terrible play after another. Zach tired players make mental mistakes constantly. And I think this is a youth versus age and experience battle. And I think youth is heavily favored in this. Certainly with that extra guy, I think they're going to wear that team down. I don't trust darvin to just play what I think is a deep bench and give those guys a break. We're going to see 38 plus minutes every game from those two stars and I think the grilles can wear them down. I think the grizzlies can definitely win the series. Like I said, if they had just one of those two bigs and particularly Adams who is just a one man offensive rebounding team. I mean, by himself, he makes you an elite
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"It was ultimately Seymour, but they do, he has operated that way in the past. Yeah. So I do wonder Phil Perry. He threw it out there yesterday. He doesn't usually just throw things out there just for the sake of it. Maybe quay walker is a guy out there looking at the top of the draft too. So we just basically covered all of our bases just in case they do just about anything on Thursday night. So that's the way we do it here, right? So it's not about predicting. It's just about getting out there. How many games can you know? By the way, I don't know why none of the defensive players are showing up. I was about to read it off. They did have Quincy Carter and Patrick pastel on that Georgia team. Yeah, also, I didn't mention devonte Y in the first round and I'm not saying that there's anything going on with him off the field or anything like that that I know of. But I didn't mention him as a first round guy because I didn't mention him as a first round guy. Devonte Wyatt, I don't know enough information. I'm not speculating. It's not a Christian barmore situation. I don't want to put that out there, but there is some reason league why that devonte Wyatt is falling out of the first round. I don't think it has anything to do with outfield. I think it's more about on field stuff potentially, but whatever it is, that's how it feels. Is that he's not going to be there. So I think it's going to be an interesting thing. To look at, like, you said, there are trends suggest closer to the football is probably where they're going. I don't know if that's no, the trend doesn't suggest. Well, not on offense, it doesn't suggest that. Well, it suggests that close to the football. And they're not going to go wide receiver..
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"He retired the last two years. In my mind, they had more prepared guys to coach that position in those spots. So you can say overall the coaching staff. Because when he first retired, Dante scarnecchia, they had googs in the building, right? I can't say I'm gonna call him boobs, right? Who's in the building? It didn't work out long term with goose, but he was a really, he's a good offensive line. Are you still coaching offensive line in the league now? He's one of the better ones. Then you had the coal pop of it, Carmen bracelet, brain trust, post scarnecchia, that was basically, and they still run Dante scarnecchia system now. But they were just fresh off of learning under Dante's Carnegie. Now, who's coaching offensive line, mat Patricia? Is it Billy Yates? Billy Yates, I guess, is probably the, it's kind of like Troy Brown versus Joe judge, right? Let's hope it's Billy. Right. Okay. So if it's Billy Yates, I feel a little bit better about it. Again, they're still going to run scar system. They're still going to consult Dante scarnecchia. But I don't think that there is as automatic of a feeling that you can take Mike on Wendy in the 6th round and turn him into a diamond, right? I don't know if there's that on a Mac. Now, the positive I keep having with tackle is, I don't know if Trevor penning is there. Like, I don't mean there at 21. I mean, developmental wise in terms of his technique and all that kind of stuff. He needs coaching. Like he needs coaching. And he needs to get good coaching and to get at the most out of him. He's got to control his aggression. He's got to limit the penalties. He's got to work on some things technique wise in his assets. He's not a home run thing. You also look at Bernard Raven's only made 18 starts in his entire life at offensive line. So he needs seasoning. He needs coaching. So do any of those guys, to me, I don't know if handing those guys off to Bill Yates and Matt Patricia is really going to be the best thing in the world for those players. So that gives me a ton of pause with those two tackles. And they're going to go offensive line as much as I hate it. The best thing for their coaching staff is probably to take a guy like Zion Johnson who they don't have to touch. You just put in that left guard. You don't have to touch them. And it's over. And it worries me at 21. Do they have the coaching staff in the infrastructure to coach penning up? I'll give you one.
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"This draft at areas of need for the Patriots and actually check a lot of patriots boxes. Like Jahan Dodson outline receiver, a BK on the edge, rasheed walker at tackle Brandon Smith at linebacker. Juwan brisker, thank you at safety. Those guys all played like patriots. They all have patriot states. They all look like patriots. And if they had Alabama on their Jersey instead of Penn State, we would all be talking about John Dodson like we're talking about John metchie. Like it's really that simple. And I think that a lot of those guys, you know, even like a guy like Jessie Luke later on in the draft is somebody that I think plays a lot like a patriot. So I'm very interested to see how they approach Penn State. Brandon Smith at linebacker, extremely athletic, 6 foot three, 250 pounds. Like in terms of checking their size thresholds and bringing some athleticism to the second level. He checks every single box for them. But he's a Penn State guy. So we'll see what happens. And then I'll give you one more set of numbers here because we're running along we'll wrap this up, but the schools they draft the most from. So since 2000, it's actually not Alabama. Alabama is tied for a second. Since 2000, they've drafted 9 players from Florida. Most of those are pre 2012. Right. So that's a little skewed than Alabama and Michigan 8 Georgia Arkansas 7. If we want to just do the last decade, Alabama 7 Arkansas, Michigan 5, Rutgers four, and then there's a bunch of schools with three. So to me, like a lot of the draft is looking at trends. We talked a lot about this on the show. They like to make more than 8 ticks. They've only taken three linemen in the top 100 in the last ten years. This is and look, the trends are true until they break them, right? Right. I was sitting here pat on the table that we're monitoring Stevenson was going to red shirt because that's what history told us entirely. And then it didn't happen. But a lot of the draft is simply looking at trends. And that's kind of why I wanted to talk about this. I know I kind of shoved it into the end of the small draft show,.
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"first round" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"Can see that. I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that a guy like Jermaine Johnson falls. But we can pull it up. One of these edge guys is going to fall. There's just so much walker Hutchinson, you know, thibodeau. We had to get to 8. Some people think he's a potential first overall pick. I would put an excuse me, I would put Jordan Davis in that group. 'cause I think he's that exposed of an athlete. Devonte Wyatt and all these guys, George karloff, it's like somebody's gonna fall. For us, it was Johnson. Yeah. But somebody's gonna fall. Carlos is filled too. In terms of the Patriots at 21, I know a lot of people want a corner. I hear you. I think dadson hill or Tyler Gordon could come into the conversation if they were able to trade out of that pick. If we had them trade out of 21 because Jermaine Johnson wasn't there, right? And it was the rest of the guys that were there. Then I think they go end up going DB with that pick. But they're a DB in the second round type of team. That's just what they do, right? Outside of Devin McCourty, that's what they do. From everything that you hear about the Patriots and I get that this time of year, I treat everything with the Patriots as a giant grain of salt. There's no real solid information coming out of there. But getting somebody close to the ball, getting someone in the trenches or closer to the line of scrimmage, I think is what their ultimately thinking, whether it's offensive line or defensive line. We end up going defensive line with a guy like Jermaine Johnson, or edge defender, whatever you want to call it. So I think that they would ultimately leaning towards trenches here at this pic. I think it's going to be trading out. I think the trade out of the pick, move into the back end of the first round or the early second round and get their daxton hill or get their kylo Gordon or get somebody like.
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"first round" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"All right. Excuse me, sorry. I can go, I don't think it's Wyatt. I don't think they'll take Wyatt. They could take an offensive lineman too. Their offensive line didn't get kind of banged up late last year. Yeah, but they're going to take an offensive lineman and maybe it's like Zion Johnson. I think they take an offensive lineman. I don't think it will be Raymond. I think they have to take a guy that's going to play plug and play, right? Is this center right now? I can't remember off the top of my head. They could take lender bombing. He's probably the best pure player. Carla this though is a little bit rashawn Gary like. We just said they have to take an offensive player to keep Rogers happy. Yeah, I don't know if you think a center keeps her Rogers happy. I don't know. He might. So the centers on the Ross right now are Jason Hansen, Michael Bennet and Josh Myers. Yeah, I think Myers starring for them last year if I remember correctly. So yeah, they took him in the second round last year, yeah. So probably not a center. So I think it's either I think it might be Christian Watson. I honestly do. All right. We're getting really weird now, but I love it. It's not like that weirdo, right? Because you're giving him to teams that have histories of taking these types of players and developing them. Like he's either going to Kansas City or Green Bay in the first round, I think. Yeah. So Christian Watson. This one here is Wyatt. They need a run stopper. Yeah, I could see them taking Wyatt. Yep, the way this broken at least. I know there's a lot of buzz out there that why it's not going around one, but we'll see. Saints are back on the board they already took a tackle. I still like Carl Loftus for them. Yeah, they get a steal here in Karl off this. Yeah, I don't mind it out of it. Cam Jordan also getting up there. So yeah, that could be looking to move on there. The bills, the corner, I could see them liking booth better than elam. Yeah, definitely. I think that the way that they run mostly zone based, I would say Andrew booth junior mostly his own base corner. They love to take chances or their draft profile is very athletic, very explosive players, Alan and Oliver, that type, yeah. So I'm sold on them like Andrew birthday, the only other option here I know, bill's Twitter is talking a lot about running backs. And a guy like priest hall. You know what? No, 'cause we gotta take some of these guys. First round. I agree with you. Booth. Booth. This one finally is a guard. Actually, it might be winter bomb. Yeah, I think they can get linder bomb here. They would be ecstatic. He might be the best lineman in the draft period. He's a center, so he falls. But just in terms of tape and everything that you look at, he might be the best offensive lineman in the entire draft and they're getting here right now..
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"So the other question for the last display devil's advocate with Baltimore, but we're hanging on to his pick. So we got to get moving. Their typical MO in the draft is to hit doubles not homers, right? Like one of those teams that's usually pretty set on, we're just going to get it right. We're not necessarily going to hit the highest ceiling. We're not going to hit a home run. But we're going to get on base with every pick that we make early in the draft. So then it's probably not Jameson Williams, and it's probably Garrett Wilson. Yeah, maybe it's a better fit for them anyway. Yeah. So direction that they go here with this pick, I think, is to move up the draft a wide receiver to help out. All right, I'm just forcing it because this is right on the trade chart. All right. So we take Garrett Wilson here. Are we taking Jameson here? Garrett Wilson, based on wages said fair enough. Yeah. I mean, they like big receivers and let's drink London. I know you don't like them, but they might like Drake London better. Yeah, I mean, I like Drake London in general. I just don't think that I would take him if I was Bill Belichick just because of some of his shortcomings. You're not Bill Belichick right now. You're Baltimore. Drake London Garrett Wilson, who's a double. Which one's a better double? I would say Garrett Wilson. I think they need to be able to create separation of that receiver position. I get the contestant catching the catch radius could be helpful too. And some degree can make that argument, but I think Garrett Wilson is the best option here. I think him in the lobby are getting almost underrated at this point. Yeah. All right, so there's that. We've made our first trade, this is best player available. I think this is cave on thibodeau. Yeah, if they get kid one 8, that's incredible. I mean, that's an incredible pick that that's a home run. Absolutely. No pass rush last year. If he stays healthy, he's.
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"first round" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"Where I go from here, unfortunately, none of these teams that are calling really can offer the Giants what they want. In terms of future draft assets, Washington, they know they're going to need a quarterback. They're not going to move one. Baltimore, they're kind of on the fringe. That first round pick next year could be working on it. And then you're just getting too down. You don't want to move that far down the board. Meanwhile, you have the New Orleans Saints who remember made that trade with the eagles to pick up the extra first round pick. The saints, I think, want to move up. And that's kind of the speculation when they made that deal. They're going to move up from a tackle or they're going to move up for a quarterback, whatever it may be. Yeah, I'm going to take my rise to here. That's what is all going. So I'm just pulling this up here because they have the trade chart to my side. I think this is where so the other team that could do this is the eagles, but the eagles and giants aren't trading. I think this is where the saints strike. And this is about even on the trade chart. I don't have the exact numbers in front of me. But that's about right. I want to wait forever to come back to make the trade. I guess it's not happening. All right, whatever. This is the trade. The saints are going to move up. They lost her on arms instead. They need to tackle. And this is why they got the two picks. This is why they made that trade with the eagles. The Giants are not done trading. They might be back. But now they have a shot at three first round picks instead of two. It drafted is very deep beyond the top 15. And the new coaching staff, the new GM there, everybody. They're going to get a chance to really rework this roster and retool this roster. All right. Did you hear any of that? No, computer issues, sorry, everybody. I don't know. So to sum it up very quickly, the scene's traded with the eth extra.
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"first round" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"From now. The Jacksonville Jaguars will be on the clock with the first overall pick, this right now feels like one of the most uncertain non consensus, whatever term you want to use drafts, even right at the top. It's pretty remarkable when you start to think about all the different possibilities, all the different ways this could go, and at this point, nobody really has a general consensus. So the goal here tonight is to do a full first round mock draft, meaning picks one through 32 for all 32 teams are 30 30 teams, right? The rams don't have a first round pick, 31 teams, whatever it is. And while he was 18, there's 8 teams that don't have first round picks. There's a bunch of teams. Okay, good job, Evan. Way to go. We might move back up with why there's one team I think there's a really good chance they pay a lot to trade in the back end of the first round. We'll get to some trades. I think the biggest thing that you hear right now is not that teams aren't interested in trading. Trading, excuse me, but more so that there's not that poll to trade up from teams as much as maybe there are in different years. Especially at the top of the draft because there's really no quarterback consensus that, oh, we absolutely have to trade up to get this quarterback. That's not necessarily happening this year. So I think the biggest thing that we have to look at is what's going to happen in picks one through 20. That's what we're going to talk about. And we're going to sit there and say, okay, what are we going to see at for the Patriots at 21? But most importantly, I also want to talk about some of the players at the top of the draft outs that we haven't really been able to discuss here on the show a whole lot just because we've been so patriot focused. So that's going to be an example. I would also like to let it be known that I pitched doing all 7 rounds all 250 whatever picks and Evan said no. So just I want to put that out there. Yeah. All right. And said we'd be here until Thursday like that was a bad thing. I don't know where his head's at. Oh my God. I'm glad we're maybe next year. Maybe next year. Let's get into this. We're going to pull up the PFF mock draft simulator shameless plug right there for our guys at PFF and we're going to set our parameters. I believe Alex said you should take it away from here. Yeah, I mean, there's nothing to say, 'cause we're doing all the picks. So none of this stuff matters..