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"jeff van gundy" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"Next big question because we just mentioned it anyway. With 8 games left, who's your MVP? You don't have a vote, right? You don't have a vote, but if you had a vote, who would you vote for? Can I tell you I am totally uninterested in that question? But it's my pleasure. So you have to answer it. I'm going to answer, but I'm not going to answer. I'm totally uninterested because what it's devolved to is comparison has become the thief of joy in that. Every time someone says about player a, they think should be MVP. They immediately don't just stop at how well they've played. They then compare them and try to tear down the accomplishments of the guys they don't think should win. And so I have, I don't know who should vote for the MVP because when I look at all star balloting, fans do an awful job. Players take it as a joke. Coaches give it no thought. And the media doesn't see enough gains. You know, 'cause you're not watching. You can't watch every team every game, right? So if you're a stat person and advanced staff person, jokic is clearly going to win. If you have, I think that's less clear now than it was a month ago. He's embiid has passed him in a couple of whenever advanced metrics of your choice are. He's past him in a couple. Yeah, but if you look at the totality of it, to me, and then you take the availability. You take the availability. To me, but again, I'm just I'm starting to do what I don't want to do, which is, I don't want to make a case for anybody. But the reason see thing, if you're into the recency, you're going to look at embiid and say, are you kidding me? And identical. And if you don't really give a lot of weight towards availability, then Giannis may have, you know, one of the great cases of all time. So to me, there's like, it depends on how you look at it. And I don't know, I know it means a lot to the players and it should, I just don't know who's qualified to actually vote and who will take the requisite time to study it all to watch it all and to take it serious and not come into where they want a certain person to win. You know, Tom thibodeau, he said, after a game, they were talking to him about Barrett and he goes, if you torture the numbers enough, they'll confess to anything. And I think that's how people like they just take whatever numbers they want to concentrate on and torture them to make a case. I just think like, I just don't even know who should vote for it. Let alone like who should actually win it because I think everybody you're talking about. And like I said, gildas Alexander, I don't think anyone's done more for their team than he could have. Like, what he's done for their team, it's amazing. So the thunder were here this week in LA. I've been in LA all week day. We're here. They're still here. They had three games here. There are people around the thunder who are worried he's not going to make any of the all NBA teams because they're just a 500 team. I'm like, he, if he doesn't make an all NBA team, it's like a crime. He might make first team all NBA. Forget media. Media. And I'll say this. So just to be clear, your abdicating the question and number one on your MVP ballot is joy and happiness. That's what you're voting for. Yeah, I guess I think again, and I watch a lot, but what happens is when you watch, if you don't watch all every game of somebody's season and you just watch pockets, which is what like I do. Like I don't watch every game of every team. You see a guy on a good night or a bad night and your opinion is shaped versus if you watch every game like Doc Rivers knows what type of season in B ten. He's seen every play. Michael Malone knows about yoke and Joe Missoula knows about Tatum and bud knows about Yanis and they could all make compelling cases for their guy. And so to me, one of the reasons why I stopped voting was I just didn't feel like I could see enough to give it the introspection that an award of that magnitude deserves. And that's why I come back to, I don't know who should vote for the MVP. I think it's the coaches, but quite frankly, when you see what they do with the all stars sometimes, I'm like, they really punted and spend no time. And they fall into the other trap, which is they've seen 82 games of embiid and maybe three of jokic, right? And so it's reputation. So much is not done on that season, but lifetime award achievements in the All-Star Game. I will say, I mean, I have a ballot and every year I think about giving it up and the reason I think about giving it up is the NBA needs to find another way to decide super max's and all this stuff or find another voting pool because the media should not be voting on all NBA given what it determines. It's incredibly uncomfortable for the media. It's bad for players. It's bad for teams. We're sitting here within our hands. Collectively, Jalen brown's eligibility for a supermax extension, which is not in Jason Tatum went through this too, is not just about Jalen brown's money, which sucks to be even like 5% responsible for as a voter, it's now also about the Celtics ability to retain Jalen Brown long-term. Like the media should not be in a place where they're determining with any scintilla of importance, tilting the scales at all in the Celtics favor or disfavor of retaining a star player. John morant supermax is at stake in all NBA and he just got suspended for 8 games. Like, we just shouldn't. And again, I haven't found the best solution for how the NBA should decide who gets the 35% max ahead of schedule. It's not an easy question. They tied it to all NBA. What else could you tie it to? Who's gonna vote it for? There's no great answers to this. I just know it's a really crappy position for everybody involved to be in and you look at the and there's lobbying and it's just it's a complete mess and I sit here and vote all NBA. And I'm like, it's just too, there's too much riding on this outside of when it was just an honor with like with like some shoe contract stuff worked in like shoe contracts have bonuses for all MBAs, but when it was just mostly like an honor, that was one thing. Now it's money and it's team building and it just shouldn't be on the media's shoulders or the coaches or I don't know who should be on, but it's a really, it's a bad system. Well, and the transparency, I don't know if we're all NBA if you vote and it's revealed. It is. Which sets up to me confrontational and adversarial relationships that all it is is an opinion. It's an informed opinion that you guys and I know like, I'm sure you do the same, but what might green votes he like talks to people, he I mean, he really like stresses about it because of all the things that you say. And I just don't like, I know the transparency is meant to be positive, but I think in these cases, it's negative. I think they should go back to evoke and it's not revealed who you vote for. And if a guy doesn't take it serious and you have unilateral power in the NBA, you ask somebody else to vote because I just think it just, it's too much. It's like people like, and I don't blame them for taking it personal and if they take it personal, then their families take it personal. Their agents take it personal and it's, I don't know, I think it's I'm just glad I'm not in that business. A couple, let's do a couple more big questions. Since joy got your MVP vote, we'll have to move on to the next one. Joy. I hesitate to ask this question, but just given Paul George's injury, I think it's okay to at least start thinking about it. If the clippers have already missed their best chance to win the title with Paul George and Kawhi Leonard and please clippers fans know that I said if because this is a thought exercise, they can still win it this year if he comes back in time, I agree with you coach that they haven't really put together like a ten
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"jeff van gundy" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"Is top notch. But he has to come through. In the most important times, and I'm just saying like, if you look at his numbers, again, we always talk injuries. I'm just talking about what is actually occurred. It's not been as good as you would have expected for how good a player he is. And that being said he's had huge games and huge moments that buzzer beater against Toronto last season stands out and all that. The hardened and beat two man game has been unbelievable since they got hardened. I've been on the sixers that they need to have a little bit more juice to their half court offense, a little bit more connectivity, a little bit more. It's not always your turn, my turn. And the pick and roll is that connectivity, but sometimes it's got to be how you get into it or the next thing that comes after it, I think they've been a little better about that lately and the greatness of those two guys can just take you a long way 'cause it's hard to switch that play and embiid his master that little 12, 13 foot jump shot, we've seen in the playoffs that teams are going to be more aggressive taking that away. Taking away his even him catching it there. They're going to make the sixers shooters shoot. They might even make hard and drive and dare him to finish a little bit rather than let him beat, catch the ball in the paint. But, you know, between their starting 5 whoever it is, whoever of maxi and Melton is coming off the bench, shake Milton, George and Yang has been great for them. Harold is a viable backup center and so as Paul Reed and thy ball has started to play his way back into the rotation now and maybe in select doses you use him, they have 9 ten guys that it's a really good team. And they're starting to sneak up the standings and they're starting to be one of these teams that has like, okay, they're top 6, 7, 8, on both ends of the floor and in B does that good. How the seating shakeout in the east and how the playoff matchups look, God willing everyone's healthy is going to be really, really fascinating because all these teams are really, really good. But I agree with you if you had to pick one right now would be Boston, but I'm sticking with Milwaukee because I guess I'm a prisoner to my preseason pick. I pick bucks clippers. I don't feel great about it, but that's what I picked. Yeah, I think the four, 5 matchup in the east, one team whoever loses is going to be ultimately so disappointed because I don't see whoever makes it to the top three. I don't see them being challenged in the first place. I think there's that big a line of demarcation. But that four, 5, you could have had this great regular season and been really good. And there's going to be a loser and that team is going to feel awful. Whereas I think in the Western Conference, even though you're one of the top seeds just because, you know, if you match up against Luka Dončić in the first round, you're going to be on edge. And curry, and even the Kawhi Leonard Paul George, if they choose to play together at that point of the year, they're able to play together. At that point of the year, you're going to be like, you mean, we've worked this hard. We've gotten like, we're the number one seed and we're playing the warriors in the first round. This is why this is why I'm a big proponent of the number one seed to get to pick its own first round opponent. For this exact reason. I love that idea, by the way. There has to be more there has to be benefit just because of the malaise that so many people put on the regular season. There has to be more of a reward for going out there. Why not just let them all pick first, you know, you're the first seed you get to pick. Second gets to pick next, third, and then four or 5 is what it is. Speaking of four, 5, that would be Philly Cleveland right now. We didn't talk about Cleveland. Give me your 32nd minute take. Are you a believer that Cleveland can win the east this year? No, but that doesn't mean I don't think they're really good. Okay. And I think they need more. Just like I think Philly may take that whole bench, if they could consolidate it into one better overall player. I think they might be better. I think Cleveland's bench might be the same too. I really like what they've done, Kobe Altman, JB bickerstaff, to rebuild what was really a team left in the morass of and be able to take sex and in marketing and trade. And Garland then becomes the true point guard, you pair him with Mitchell, which I still can't believe that they were able to do that, right? They got Donovan Mitchell. So they got him to Jared Allen, who I really like as a center. You know, again, he is to me like a guy who no ego, but just competes and roles and does his thing, night in and night out. And mobley, I like as a player. I think finding that 5th guy who it is who fits best, so I think they've got some more work. I'd be surprised if they want a first round series. Against any of those teams. But if they can get themselves up to third, then I think they would win a first round series. So it really, to me, depends on getting out of that four, 5 matchup. And that's why the Durant injury was such a big deal for Brooklyn because they looked pretty insulated from that. And they are no longer insulated from that despite the cushion that they built up with him. Jeff van Gundy, you're on Dallas. Dallas, have you gone to Dallas? Who we got? Atlanta and Miami. Who are both interesting teams as well. They're very interesting. They played a very interesting game yesterday on Martin Luther King day. Miami furious rally fell short and the hawks have gotten a couple of much needed wins given the instability there. Lots to talk about. We'll check in with you maybe before the playoffs, Jeff van Gundy, the best in the business. Thank you for letting us time as always, sir. Take care. Stream 2000 plus college basketball games this season from 27 conferences across the country including the SEC ACC and the big 12 all on ESPN+ sign up now at ESPN+ dot com slash college.
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"jeff van gundy" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"And now, the low post. Welcome to the low post podcast on a Tuesday morning. We are halfway through the NBA season in terms of games played and I have not checked in with our resident expert, color analyst on our biggest NBA games since the beginning of the season since pre season, so a lot of time has passed. We've got a lot of data. Jeff van Gundy, there's a lot to talk about. How are you, sir? Doing well, how are you? I'm doing well. What's to complain about? We're halfway through the NBA season. I was at raptors Knicks yesterday. I don't know if you saw that ending, one of the craziest endings I've ever seen in person almost an all time bad loss for the raptors it was insane. Yeah, it was a hard fought game and I did watch it and Fred van fleet. It reminded me of when he took a foul at Thai game, not knowing the score, that happened for us when I was with the Knicks as an assistant in 94 when we went to the finals. Or was it 95 Sam Mitchell took a file in a tie game, not knowing the score. And it ended up that was the Reggie Miller where he scored 8 and what 9 seconds? 8.9 seconds. Yeah. And in that game, Sam Mitchell fouled, I believe it was Starks, stars went to the line, missed both, and then they escaped. So it was really like, it brought back memories, you know, have always no one time score, penalty, time outs, all that. And that was crazy game. It was a tremendous win for the raptors and a really difficult loss for the Knicks. We could all agree, I mean, I realized that I'm talking to a biased party here. Reggie Miller fouled Greg Anthony on that inbounds pass, right? In that game, pushed him down, got to steal, turned around, hit a three. We could all agree that's a foul, right? Not in those days. I don't know. Yeah. That was just one of those things where like, you know, you preach all year play 48 and finish games and, you know, the bigger issue was we came out, I think it was up 6. No, might have even been more. And we just gave Reggie Miller a wide open catch and shoot three from a side out of bounds. I mean, you know, so we did everything wrong they did everything right in that period of time and unfortunately the bad guys won that one. Quick thoughts on the raptors that all eyes are on them as the trade deadline approaches their 20 and 24. They've now won four out of 5 to somewhat steady the ship, but as you know, coach just reading the tea leaves and reading the reports, the whole league is watching to see what are they going to do? Are they going to pivot? Are they going to trade one of their key starters and sort of retool or are they going to go full on rebuild and I think they're still just waiting to see kind of like, can we get it in gear a little bit? They've got a ton of road games, unfortunately for them coming up, they're a bunch of home games in the hole already. Road games in the hole already. I just watching that game. It was a win for them. Did it inspire faith? What are you seeing at a Toronto as we get to the halfway point? Well, they really struggle on offense. They've regressed in that area, and I'm not an everyday observer of Toronto. So I can't tell you exactly why obviously van fleet's dropped some in his shooting percentages. They're very reliant on one on one basketball. They don't have a lot of shooting, you know, Trent is obviously a great shooter. And they're tiny. Overall, they're a small group. So it'll be interesting, you know, like I know there's been a lot of hand ringing over Scottie Barnes and his, you know, whether he shoots it well enough, he made a big three yesterday and late in the game. But I thought he played it like a really good game yesterday, like on the offensive glass. I think sometimes we rush to anoint and then we rush to judge amen. Players and I think sometimes you just have to wait and see. And certainly Barnes, if they're going to play him at center, at some point he's going to have to be able to, you can't play a small center that can't. Shoot the ball. So I think, you know, the Knicks and I think it was the right move. They chose to play Robinson on siakam. Anna nobi with Randall and then they put a smaller Barrett on Barnes and I thought Barnes just really like mauled him when it counted the most. So I think it was a good win for them. Long term, do they have enough? To be a serious playoff team, probably not, and I'll be interesting to see what they choose to do. Yeah, you just, first of all, having a small center who can't shoot seems like a bad idea. It seems relevant to the Brooklyn Nets. Just apropos of nothing. You just nailed it. Let me put an asterisk unless you have Kevin Durant, who so don't go to, you know, I mean, literally like he's that good. Oh my God. And claxton is a great roller. Oh, I wasn't talking to her. I wasn't talking about claxton. Oh, you're John Simmons. Yeah. Well, they have the same strengths and they have the same issues, which is free throw shooting and, you know, all that. So yeah, Kevin Durant and Irving, are they erase a lot of possible negatives? You just nailed it with the raptors. It seems now safe to declare whether they make a little bit of a run, whether they slump whatever they end up doing, they just don't seem to have the goods to go deep into the playoffs. They just don't seem like a dangerous team. I don't see signs of them becoming a truly dangerous team, like a team like, oh, I don't want to see them in the first round, boy, they would have a punch of chance in the second round. It's just not, even when they win, you don't come away feeling like that's coming down the road. There's another thing we're gonna talk about later where when they win, I do feel like that is coming down the road. And Scotty Barnes, I couldn't agree more. The last two weeks have been almost like refreshing for me because he's been really, really good in the last two, three weeks when teams have started to play him kind of like Ben Simmons and draymond green, like we're just not going to guard you and see what you do. The next to your point did not do that last night, they reverted to the way that teams at guarded sky before. I've said all year, I read and hear all this Scotty Barnes and Evan mobley like angst, like, oh my God, have they regressed, and delete has in common Evan mobley shooting. I think 18% from three and Scotty Barnes is field goal percentage is down, like maybe we were all wrong about him. I'm like, what planet am I living on that these guys who are 20 and 21 years old on good teams figuring out their roles, particularly Scotty Barnes on a team with similar players to him. It's kind of an awkward awkward balancing act for all of them. Like we're already just disappointed in these guys. And I've watched him and I'd be like, I get that he hasn't made a leap, but I still think he's kind of playing okay, like his defense hasn't been as good as I hoped, and to shooting hasn't been as good as I hope but I don't watch him and feel like, oh my God, there's a problem, and I was beginning to feel like a crazy person coach. And the last two weeks have been refreshing for you 'cause I was just never really worried about either of those two guys. I'm still not. They're both gonna be awesome. I'm like, it's all fine. Yeah, and I think when we judge, we always judge that everybody should be an all time great.
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"A hard decision. You know, it only got 5 what they brought him off the bench for 5 minutes in the last preseason game. That's a hard thing to do. Like, not all, not all great NBA players age as gracefully as maybe David Robinson did and handing it to Tim Duncan or Tim Duncan did to hand more responsibility to Parker and ginobili. It doesn't always go like that. So. If he's there to me, he's going to be a starter, if he's a starter, you know, you want the ball and James hands a lot because it's easy to say like, we want rust to be rough or to me, that doesn't even mean anything. That's just cliche talk, you know? That we all have to throw out when you're on a team where you know the parts don't necessarily fit. It's hard to, it's hard for Westbrook to be who he is without the ball and the Lakers would not be who they are if LeBron James doesn't have the ball a lot. And so I just thought it was way back when they made the trade. I didn't understand from a fit standpoint. And you know, so I just think some things are bad fits. And it's unfortunate. It happens. I don't know why they're going to get out of it. But I was thinking about this. Everybody's saying like, the Indiana stuff. And I wouldn't make that trade either. If I was the Lakers, I would be looking for lower cosplayers. You know, if I was if I was the Lakers, you know, I would be targeting as my center, Billy hernan Gomez. I think Billy hernia and Gomez is a starting center in this league. This is a, this is the most unexpected Jeff van Gundy take in the history of Jeff van Gundy. If you had told me you have 200 and 50 guesses. What player is going to come up in an extended and out of nowhere? I would not have gotten to Willie hernan Gomez. And EP of Euro basket. I think he is, when you look at him, he's got some defensive challenge, right? But he can rebound, he can pass and he can finish, like, and he's the third center of New Orleans. So what I'm saying is, I think you have to try to find guys like him. And you know what else he has? He has a joy to him. He's not bogged down with just the, you know, like an attitude of just, I don't know, moroseness. And I think in LA with expectations and, you know, a lot of strong personalities you need some just happy go lucky but very, very capable players. And so for me, I don't blame the Lakers for not trading multiple first rounders for, you know, the Indiana players, but I do think they have to try to upgrade the roster. And maybe it's just, listen. Let rust go and find a team that fits them best. And we'll move on and we'll be trying to find our way to finding maybe undervalued guys that can surround James and Davis. You know, well, I hope there's a good end for everybody in this. I hope there's a good end for James that he's playing on a playoff team. In the last couple of years of his career and I hope there's a good finish out there for Westbrook as well. Maybe it's the Lakers. Maybe darvin Hamm has magic up his sleeve to make it fit better. But if not, I hope he can find contentment in his last few years in the league as well. I love everything about what just happened. The entire infatuation with all the big names in the two unprotected picks. The best move they made this summer was Patrick Beverly. Patrick Beverly is exactly the kind of player talking about on a more well known and more accomplished level than Willie hernan Gomez in the NBA, at least Taylor Horton Tucker and whatever else they traded as a great trade. That's exactly what they need. I'm giving it 72 hours. I think palinka, someone with the Lakers are gonna listen to this and palinka is gonna call and be like two second round picks for woolly hernan Gomez and the pelicans are gonna do it. And I just, I love it, coach. I did not expect any of this. When you think about back to zubaz, when he was with the Lakers, right? Would they turn him for Mike muscala? Right. And I still don't understand. But listen, it is a top 5 most inexplicable trade of the last ten years. Yes. And zubots is exactly the type of starting center they need. You don't need somebody you're going to play 35 minutes. You need somebody that you're going to play to start both halves and maybe he finishes some and maybe plays 24 to 26 or maybe even less. But anyway, I just, I think you have to try to find guys that are out there that the cost, the benefit to you is better than the cost would be. And I never thought I always thought the Lakers would be better served just if they don't think it's feasible and Westbrook doesn't think it's feasible there anymore. Just to go the buyout route.
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"That they will have no ill effects and their ability to win games from all this rigamarole. Let's just go rapid fire season preview questions. It will start right off the top. Jeff van Gundy, who is your tentative and everyone wants to hold you to these like they're in pen and for now they are in pen, but who is your October 17th NBA Finals matchup prediction? Clippers, Boston. All right, I like it. They are two of my 16s that are in the absolute inner circle of title contenders. My pick is clippers bucks. So why don't we start with the Clippers because the pushback I have received upon picking the clippers is the following. Their model is big to and a really good cast of supporting guys. When that model has resulted in championships in the NBA, it's typically been because the big two are like two of the top ten guys in the NBA and one of them is like a top 5 guy. Is that still Kauai after all these injuries? Where is Paul George? And then who is the third best player on the clippers? Who's the fourth best player on the clippers? Are they just kind of fungible guys? Are they good enough to be on the court three of them with Kauai and PG and beat the very best teams four times in 7 games? And I'm saying this to someone who is picking the clippers to make the finals, but I'm curious to hear your response to that pushback. Well, there's a lot of ifs. With a lot of these picks, particularly the guys coming off injury. If Kawhi Leonard is healthy, he is a top ten player. I've always, I always felt that Paul George. Again, because maybe it's personality or whatever it is, is underrated. I think he is a terrific player that has to do it in the biggest of circumstances. There's nothing holding him back. From doing that, a talent wise. And I think the ability to have two guys like them be so good defensively with their size and strength. It gives them a great interchangeability that they can play a lot of different lineups and combinations to try to give themselves a matchup advantage. I think you make a great point. I wouldn't even know right now who I would say their third best player is, I think they're going to try to do it with a lot of different guys. I think their depth is really, really good. I think that all sounds good until you start playing the games and stats are kept in minutes, you know, everybody gets minutes in practice. No one cares about minutes and preseason games. This unselfish nature that the clippers are saying that they have. I go back to the greatest coaching line there is. We'll see. Because there are going to be challenged, you know, it's easy to say, I'll take less and then actually have to deal with it. And so I'm really interested, but I really like their team, their depth. I think they have a terrific coach and a terrific coaching staff. I think ty lue is outstanding. And so, and I think they're going to be ultra aggressive. Like, they have a bunch of guys. They can make moves if they'd like. They can make, you know, two for one trades or three for two trades, I think. They have a future first they can trade now, which has not been the case in the last couple of years. So there's a lot out there. I really like him. Now, could it all blow up? Sure, you know, injuries and but if they're healthy or relatively healthy, they're going to have a darn good year. Yeah, I mean, I don't know who the third best player is. I mean, I probably say norm Powell. I don't feel very strongly about it. And I don't care really because if I have two elite players and everyone else around them is good, is like a fourth to 5th starter on a good team. I got a bunch of those guys. I don't know how many of those guys they have, four start on a good teams, a really good player. And more to the point, they fit and compliment each other in a way that sort of makes it a greater than the sum of its parts team. Defensively and offensively when they can switch and they have so much schematic versatility. I do worry about them getting off to a slow start given the injuries and the depth issues and sort of the rotation confusion that will be a natural part of their team and the margin for error for any of these teams is very, very slim before you're all of a sudden in the play and tournament. I picked Milwaukee over Boston and Philly and everyone else in the east. You can make a case for a bunch of teams. I'm curious in both conferences who you thought the hardest about as an alternate pick like who were the last kind of cuts yeah. In the Western Conference, it's just, it's hard to say, you know, the warriors aren't a hard cut because they have a unique way of playing offensively. They move more past more
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"Game before. So what I've seen, though, is I think in these close games, teams have to convince their players to stop like running the clock down too early in these fourth quarters. Like, you know, you get to 5 minutes and you watching the point guard, you know, playing more cautiously and they're starting their sets, trying to run an extra 8 seconds off. So they're getting into their first action at ten. Instead of early. And I just think Boston, they became very hesitant. If they get if they have the lead going into the fourth quarter, I think they have to, you know, encourage smart no. We're not trying to run clock. We're going to play, and I think smart actually has to find his way, you know, back into the post like he did at the end of game four, you know, where he can bully smaller defenders. Well, it's funny you say that because Chris Paul is like on the verge of an 8 second violation all the time. He's like a half a second away and it's amazing. It's like the 7 seconds or less franchise is now like 19 seconds or more. They barely get the ball over half court in 7 seconds anymore. And again, when you're playing against switching teams, right? It takes a little longer to exploit the switch than it does a drop, right? The drop is like, you can basically get a decent look off the first action against a drop. When you have a legit Hall of Famer, like, you know, Chris Paul or a great player like Dončić and Booker. But it's the traps. It's the, it's the switching to me that, you know, you need as much time on the clock as you can. And people talk about playing with pace. Zach and playing with pace is really good and it's necessary. But everybody equates that just to the full court to me, that goes to the half court as well. How quickly you get into what you're running. How hard and how forceful your cuts are. How well are you screening and setting up the screen? All those factors go into half court pace. And I think Phoenix because they rely on actions more than a lot of teams now, they have to pick up their pace in the half court. It's going to be a really fun game. I also, by the way, when I said me too about Boston, and I picked Boston to win this series. But by the rule of the basketball gods, I must pick Boston tonight because of the pick Boston to win the series. I have to pick Boston tonight. I hope we get a game 7. Coach Jeff van Gundy your inside is second to none. Thank you so much for your time. I will see you soon. All right, take care..
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"I think Milwaukee's other hope is, you know, I'm curious to see this coach Boston has been an elite offensive team now too. For the last 45 games their defense has gotten all the attention justifiably. So they're like a top I think they're second and offense since January 1st. I think Milwaukee's hope in this series, one of their hopes is grant Williams Al Horford, Derek white, Marcus smart. We're going to dare you to shoot threes. And we don't believe you're shooting a percentages in the case of grant Williams and Horford of late are sustainable. We do believe you're shooting percentages in the case of Marcus smart and Derek white, are sustainable. So my question to you is like Boston around Tatum and Brown is just a social shooting team, but it doesn't seem like it because of how they move the ball and how those two stars are such great shot makers. Why is and grant Williams is shot 40% from three. That's real. Maybe that's a real thing and he's just a great shooter, no, I don't know. But how is Boston able to be so damn good offensively, which with what I think is just okay shooting around its stars and all we hear about is shooting, shooting, shooting. How are they able to be that good offensively? Well, I think Robert Williams, the lob threat, helps them, him being back. I think that the ability of like you mentioned Horford to spread the floor, not get small, see, I think they have very good overall size. So to be able to keep the size on the floor and still have enough shooting with grant Williams and Horford tice can make an occasional three, I think you're right, Derek white's going to have to shoot the ball better. You know what Milwaukee's going to do defensively and you know what Boston is going to do? I think it's a sign of a great team when you can you know exactly what they're going to do because they are so resolute in what they believe and how they're going to defend. So I think game one there'll be no surprises as far as schemes match up things like that. And I think it's going to really just come down to and going back to your offensive thing. I think Tatum his passing ability has always been there, but the consistency of his willingness to draw the second offender and create open shots. I mean, again, I hate comparison because it is truly the thief of joy, but he has right now some Dončić genome as far as that size to be able to see over defense. And that willingness to pick people apart. I think he's been, I think they're the best team left right now. And for many reasons, but a large part is because he's been so willing to be a defensive stalwart and offensive igniter. Well, he was the best player against Brooklyn in a series with Kevin Durant. If he's the best player in this series, Boston's gonna win if he's close if it's Yanis, but it's close, Boston is gonna win. By the way, coach, before I let you go I have to say, I thought I thought of you yesterday. There's a passage in Chris herrings book about the Knicks about you thinking so much about basketball that you drove into your garage door, I think where you were driving, right? Like the garage door was not open and you mind was on the game and you forgot to open it and just drove into it. Yeah, Grant Hill. People now hear him as a broadcaster and card owner and head of USA basketball and all that, right? And I think so many of your fans would have no realization that he was so dominant early in his career before injury. And so Gran hill when I was coaching the Knicks was as big a problem as anybody could be to you. He was a point forward and he could run pick and roll with any combination. They Doug Collins did a great job of surrounding him with shooting and they ran a lot of different wrinkles. So we had just played them and he had diced us up pretty good. And so we were playing them, you know, like one of those quirks and the NBA schedule where you get them a week later and so I was coming home from shoot around and you know I had like the driveway like in like a lot of people doing New York where you go uphill and then you turn into your garage. I did that. Unfortunately, I forgot to hit the garage door opener. And so Grant Hill caused me to make pay out a lot to the repairman to give us a new garage door and I'll forever be upset with him about how much he cost me. But the good part of that story is it wasn't in vain, at least we won that night. So yesterday afternoon I went on a grocery run and in my head, I've got all this stuff ruining. Three game 6 is tonight. How am I gonna juggle watching all three of those games? I got a podcast in the morning so I gotta watch them all tonight, start to finish, take my notes, I gotta start previewing sixers heat just in case and I got a column to write and I got NBA today and I get in the car and I back out of the garage now at least the garage door was open, but we have a very tight garage, very tight garage my Honda civic is like I've got a foot and a half on each side of the Honda civic. And I'm just spacing out and I back out not paying attention to the fact that the right side of the Honda civic is about to smash into the side of our garage door frame and I hear and I oh my God, I just pulled a Jeff van Gundy and I get out the right bumper is like hanging off the car. There's anti freeze dripping out of the front and I'm like this is so bad, man. I got a lot of problems. No, no, that's true. And I'll give you another one. I'm not a great driver. So my brain was in Houston to do a game. And so he had brought his wife, so we're going to go get something to eat. So he came to my house Uber to my house. And I'm chatting on backing out of my driveway. Forgot to open up the or forgot that the gate, it was open, then for some reason, I hit it, hit the button, and it was closing, and.
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"If Booker is like 80% of Booker, I feel pretty comfortable with Phoenix in this series, and we can talk about why. And I've said before, I want no part of Luka Dončić in the 7 game series. That guy is a monster. It is ironic though coach that for the second straight year, the sun's are now facing a team who beat the jazz by going 5 out and it spots last year it was the clippers and the difference between the suns and the jazz against the clippers was as you just said, 8 and his ability to catch against switches, offensive rebound his hands. And I think that looms large here too if Dallas tries to go 5 out, it doesn't seem as if that would be quite a central and ingredient in this series, in part because of Paul and Booker exploiting switches, but also because ayton is just a much better offensive player with the ball in his hands, than Rudy Gobert. And also, you know, the level of perimeter defense that Dallas is about to face from Paul Booker bridges, Crowder, cam Johnson, maybe Tori Craig gets back in the rotation is to put it politely a little better than the level of perimeter defense. They just tore apart against the jazz. Well, it's true. And I think ayton has great feet too. So he can, you know, he can do defensively a lot of different things. He's just he's just a really good player. You know, irregardless of does he get paid, whatever he gets paid, you know, an extension talks. He's a really good player, and he's with a really good team for him. I agree, that's why Phoenix to me has been dominant. They've been great offensively and defensively. I do believe, though, Dončić is the hardest matchup in the NBA. I just. Literally, I love it. There's no good. If I had to say like one possession, like, to not just go get a shot, but just like there's no good way to play. You play drop. That's a terrible coverage. You try to switch most vibes don't have a great chance. And again, that doesn't mean I think they're aesthetically as pleasing as a lot of teams because he holds the ball and he's doing his thing. But I just think his combination of size and skill and the ability to make every pass, I just think the guy is just an absolutely brilliant brilliant, offensive talent. And because he has an advance in the playoffs yet until, you know, that somehow his brilliance on offense gets overshadowed by lack of playoff success. I just think I never understood that. I mean, not that it's been going on for a long time, but you did hear people say, well, why hasn't he advanced the first round? And you're over hard to win. It's hard to win. Because they played a team that was maybe the favorite to win the championship in both of the seasons and he averaged like a thousand points in a thousand assists, and I will tell you this. If you just say the name Luka Dončić, just say, do they even just say Lucca, Lucca, Lucca, two, any clippers, coach, they begin shuttering like they don't want and they don't want to see that dude ever again. Just ask anybody what the clippers how good that guy is. I will say Utah hunted him both in the regular season end in this series on defense as mercilessly as any team in the NBA. And I thought that's where the hamstring issues or whatever it is showed up a little bit offensively he was great. Defensively, he was a matador last night, and I think Phoenix is going to see that and triple down on that. I'm not sure they can take advantage of him in the same in the same ways. You know, it's not like they have a ton of blow by speed. I think Dončić, I actually think he's made a terrific improvement at that end. And I don't know if it's more protection last night. When he blocked Rudy Gobert or stripped him or Rudy Gobert lost a ball, whatever happened on that play, that that felt like that was the moment that was the moment that jazz ended, just like you could pinpoint the moment where Lisa Simpson broke Ralph wiggum's heart on The Simpsons. You probably don't know that reference. That was the moment I can pinpoint the end of the jazz. Yeah. I have no idea about The Simpsons, but I would say that when you're a great player, you can only be a great player. If you commit to defense because you know that is exactly what it takes coupled with your great offensive skill to move on and have success. And so I think commitment to defense has improved yearly with the Mavericks. And I think he knows sometimes they have some roster issues that are going to come up sometimes like you don't know when your best chance is. This could be their best chance. And so I think his commitment levels high, I think he's got guys playing well around him. Finney Smith Brunson has been absolutely outstanding. I think the Dinwiddie, like he's a wild card, like to me, he gives them size and ability to go off the dribble if he's playing well..
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"And now, the low post. Welcome to the low post podcast on a Friday morning after what was the first mega night of the NBA playoffs with three high pressure elimination games, all of which sadly for us neutral fans or we neutral fans as my dad would correct my grammar. Ended with actual eliminations, the jazz are out facing an off season of major, major questions and change. The pelicans are out and the Philadelphia 76ers after so much drama after an epic meltdown slash press conference by Doc Rivers after threatening. Threatening big time weekend drama in Philadelphia dispatched the Toronto Raptors in an absolute blowout. So we only have one hope left for a game 7 in the first round and it is the wild and woolly, Minnesota Timberwolves and Memphis Grizzlies and happened to be calling that game tonight. Someone who's gonna help us go through all these series and preview the next round, the one and only Jeff van Gundy live from Minneapolis. How are you? Doing well. Enjoying my stay in sunny Minneapolis. So you, I think, promote the image of an old school curmudgeon. Is that fair? I try not to. Okay, maybe sometimes you come across as an old school curmudgeon. I will just editorialize, okay? So I could see you saying things like, well, two points is just two points. Doesn't matter how they come. So I will ask you this. Did you did you smile, laugh, jump out of your seat, something when John morant detonated unbelievably at the end of the third quarter in game in game 5 in Memphis. Please tell me you had some sort of human reaction to this. Yeah, I mean, it was a great play. Absolutely. You know, I was able to coach like Steve Francis. So I saw a place like that. I know no one wants you to go back and ever say another guy did something, but I saw Steve Francis do crazy stuff like athletic like morant did the other night and it was a heck of a play. But he's done a lot of those. But the best part of it was the call of the jawbreaker. That to me was I laughed out loud at, I am called because it was so appropriate. I wonder, I haven't talked to I in since that game. I wonder if that was rattling around in his brain, just in the recesses of it just in case or he improv'd it. No, he had, he had that one stored up from before the games before the series started. He was just waiting. I am sure for the right time to unleash it. I got to tell you though, it's cool. It lives forever. That call lives forever now. It's a little figure of speech, but you only get one shot at those calls and breen has talked about a couple of big ones that he regrets. I mean, he's the best to ever do it. And you now lives forever, jawbreaker. Oh, I'm so good. So good. Are you this series, this has been one of the drunkest first round series of all time. Like every game features. Forget like X's and O's and occasional mistakes and breakdowns and bad shot selection by Minnesota down the stretch of game 5. That happens. Every game features like at least one 45 second segment and probably like three where it's turnover, run out, turnover, run out, guys fall over another turnover you're like, when did the basketball game start and the Keystone cops came in and started playing, are you? Are you, I think, I think you guys would be okay to actually be drinking during the game. That's how drunk the series has been. Are you looking forward to game 6? Well, I think you make a very good point. It hasn't been really well played. It's been hard fought, but not well played. John chaney used to have a saying that I really believe in. You can't play emotionally drunk. And I think both teams at times have been emotionally drunk. And that has led to, in some cases, catastrophic mistakes. And Minnesota, we were talking before, they have led a 168 minutes of the 240 plate. And 40 of 44 of those that they didn't lead were in game two. So they have basically been ahead in the other four games. The entire game, and yet they just haven't been able to finish it off. And I think most people watching the series think this should be the elimination game for them tonight versus the other way around. And that's other than pat bev, this is a pretty young team. And you know, they've had some big defensive breakdowns and big moments. Dave, I thought their offense just ground to a halt late in game 5 and they took a lot of bad shots, but I'll tell you this coach. I wonder, did you ever have set aside Jordan who nobody wants to poke the bear with Jordan? Did you ever have a series or a player who would unleash taunts early in the game against other star players or shush the crowd too early? And you would be like, can you just leave it? Can you just leave it be? We don't want to anger this team because I love so a pat bev is gonna hit you with the too little taunt. He's gonna hit ja with the two little ton every single time. Even if he misses the shot, I feel like he's gonna hit him with the two little cat is getting a lot of stuff for hushing the crowd early in the fourth quarter after a three and of course they lose. And he looks foolish. I want Minnesota to keep leaning all the way into that. I don't care that they lost the game. I don't care that they look a little foolish. I like that this is their spirit. I don't want them to lose their spirit, but did you ever have players who were like, can you just, can you not make anyone mad until the game's.
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"Late. I'm with you to me and I haven't checked in on this in a couple years because whatever, but it's a no brainer to use it in the G league. Do it next season. For the whole season, see how it goes. It's awesome to watch. And I was you didn't watch the All-Star Game, so we had this, we were on the verge so LeBron hits a game winner to hit the target score. I believe LeBron's team was two points from the target score and Durant's team was three points from the target score. I was rooting for Durant's team to get a stop because one of the not flaws, but one of the points of curiosity with the elam ending is exactly that situation. I'm on defense and I'm one or two points from the end of the game. You're on offense and your three points from the end of the game. The math says I should probably just value before you can get a three point shot up so that I get the ball back with a chance to hit the target score and you can't foul me because I'm one or two points away. I'm not even saying that's a bad thing. It's just a feature or a bug of how it works and if they had gotten a stop, I was curious to see if Durant's team or I'm sorry LeBron's team would have gone that route, but I've yet to watch and I haven't watched the whole basketball tournament, the basketball term where they use this, but I've yet to watch an elam ending game where I'm like, oh, that was kind of disappointing. It's fun, like pretty much every time. I have watched some of the basketball tournament games. And it's really fun. And, you know, you don't want to diminish the first 44 minutes. And I don't think the elam ending does that. I think it's hard to find and create a system that, I mean, think about what we're talking about. Ten years ago, if you would have said, hey, you want to end an NBA game like this? There would have been a raucous chorus of our crazies. Now, I think it's good. I think change for the NBA is a good thing. I think we have to constantly be looking at how can we make our game better. And so I just think, again, I don't think it'll happen, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't. I'm pro using it in the G league and I'm pro using it if Adam silver ever gets his wish and we get this mid season soccer style tournament. Use it there. Like that's gonna be its own separate thing you get into your own banner, your own trophy for it. Let's make that a place where, yeah, the rules are a little different for this. Let's use the elam ending for that. I don't love the midseason term in any way, but let's have fun with it. Okay, I agree with you. I still don't understand the admit seems midseason tournament. Use the elam ending if it comes if we follow through with it. But you said banner. If any team puts a banner up for winning some innocuous midseason tournament, they should face soccer style what's it called? Relegation. Relegation to the G league, literally the moment you put a banner up, you go down. And the G league champion replaces you in the end. For the next season. However you want to do it. You don't even have to be replaced. We'll just go with one less team. I don't care. You put up a banner for winning. I don't even know what they're going to call it. It'll probably be sponsored. You know, like some sponsored thing, you know, like, come on, man. The puli and weed eater, David J stern. Remember the pool and weed eater bowl. That was my favorite crazy sponsor today. The pool and weed eater independence bowl or something like that. The pool in weed eater David J stern cup. I do believe we should we should have a major award, and I'm not a huge stern fan, nor he was a huge fan of mine. But I think David stern deserves an award name. I would do it for the championship trophy. I would do the O'Brien stern trophy or just go with the stern trophy because things change. But that's just me. But please, don't devalue his name and his impact on the NBA by giving the title trophy of some tournament in season tournament. To put his name on that, oh my goodness. Coach Jeff van Gundy, second to none, I look forward to you on the next big broadcast that I can't believe you take any time to come on this dumb podcast, but.
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"We saying in two weeks, I'd still be doing him if they win 6 in a row and he's playing great. I don't believe it. I think it would be fun. I think fans are passionate, particularly Philly fans, or east coast fans. But they're also highly forgiving. And so I just think nothing's beyond the realm. And I don't think he should well, I'll say this too. I think since he's the one that has to live with it, I think he has to be the one to really think through, like, what is he trying to get out of this? And let's just say he went to Sacramento. Is he sure that's a better situation for him than Philly? Like, I mean, that's a historically inept franchise ever since, you know, they let Rick Edelman go, right? So would he be better off? I would say he'd be better off biting the bullet. He's in a great basketball town. He has got a great coach. An unbelievable president and Daryl morey, who's proven that he'll do anything he can to put together the best roster to try to win. He's got Joel embiid, who, again, a little bit passive aggressive at times. With him, how about just going to each other and vowing that we will only communicate with each other? We won't communicate through coaches through other people through the media. And then let's see where it goes. So I don't believe it's it has to be burned. I mean, again, Ben Simmons is choosing right now to not play there, and I guess not get paid, but the grass is greener. When you're old like me, you understand that, you know, there are problems everywhere in every organization. I made the case three months ago that if he walked in and gave a press conference said, hey, I realized I let the team down. I've been going through a lot of mental struggles about my shooting, my free throw shooting. It's going to be a long struggle for me, but I'm going to come out of it. I'm going to try my best. I'm going to come play. The fans would forgive him. I just think so much time has passed since then. Skeptical. And by the way, I don't even know if Sacramento has the goods to get Ben Simmons. I don't know what video you know. But I'm just saying like, you pick your spot, whatever the spot is. It's not Nirvana. And again, anybody that underperforms that's highly paid. And it's his game that's always going to be scrutinized more than non scoring really good player. We're not even non scoring, but non rain shooting, right? It's going to be scrutinized. And so wherever he gets traded, there's no spot that you're not going to be scrutinized. At that salary. So I don't know. I'm hopeful still that he'll walk in. He'll say, I'm not giving my money back anymore. Like you said, give a press conference. I made this decision. I thought it was best for me over the last couple of months. I've come to the conclusion that I want to be a sixer, I'm going to work hard. Disappointed in the playoffs, yada yada, and then play hard, like Ben Simmons, plays hard. It's not like it's not like you're having to convince us to play hard. So play hard and you know I think it would be fine, but again that's been sentenced decision. I don't get the sense that the sixers love, love, love, dear and Fox, maybe we have to be a three teamer. Cleveland wage brought up Cleveland. I don't see a deal there that I love unless Phillies got a third team. So we'll take Kevin Love in like four draft picks. I don't see a Cleveland deal that I love because Sexton obviously isn't helping anybody this year. Any new year's resolutions for Jeff van Gundy, do you make new year's resolutions? Only in my mind, I think you're supposed to write them down if you want them to really come true, but mine is to not eat M and ms on the treadmill. I'm sorry. You eat M and M's while doing the treadmill? Yeah. That's problematic. Do you have a do you have a bag? Do you put them in a cup and put the cup in the cup holder? What are the mechanics of this? No, it's the bag. And you know, you think like, I always come out of working out, unfortunately, having eaten more calories than I burned. That's problem. So that's my new year's resolution. I'm really glad I asked because every time I have you on, I learned something interesting about it. People are still asking me about you probably don't even remember this about Jeff van Gundy saying on the low post podcast that he drove some preposterous distance in the car with total silence, no podcast, no music, no bubble. To the public and back. Yeah. People were concerned about your mental well-being when they heard this. My mental Bill, I worry about people's mental well-being that have to listen to music not to be I'm solving world problems in my mind that I'm driving, you know? Jeff van Gundy, absolute best in the business, you and.
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"A constant thing, like you've got to constantly be looking, how you can get better. I don't care where you are. You could be Detroit to is obviously at the bottom right now or you're at the top in Golden State. Like, if your Golden State, you're going to look to get better. Does that mean you can actually do it or pull it off? No, but you have to, you can't rest and think, well, we just keep going. As is, and we'll be fine. If you're a Utah, you've been knocking on the door. Like, great regular seasons. You know, some disappointing playoff losses like to Denver a couple of years ago in the bubble, right? So you've got to figure out like ingles it would be a hard guy as a secondary ball handler to lose, but you know this is what, you know, they have to try to decide, like, just how they can do it. Like, how can they get better to give themselves a better chance? And I still think if I'm them, I'm looking around like, we may need one more reliable perimeter defender to really do this. I think they do. I think they have to, like, that's a weakness. Like, you know, bogdanovic and Royce O'Neal is like he does a good job, right? But like, you know, can ingalls move well enough, you know, Donovan Mitchell's sides. You know, like, you have to, you can't say everything's about Gobert. Yeah, but we got Rudy, right? I just think they're really good. I think it's also interesting, too. Like, with Utah, like, I don't know who shoots the most freeze, not just raw numbers, but percentage of shots is threes, but I would suspect it's Utah. And it's Utah. It is, you thought, right? So does that give you a better chance to pull off an upset in the playoffs if you had to try to beat Utah? I mean, you'd be Phoenix or Golden State because you shoot that many or does it give you if you have a bad couple nights an ability to be upset, you know, more. I'm fascinated by the shot selection in our league. You talked about Russell Westbrook's pull up tooth. I think the number of guys who shoot the dribble up three, some of them are ridiculous shots. And maybe analytically, they say, hey, that's a still. That's a fine look. I know shot selection and defensive help, right? Those two things. They're the biggest chemistry destroyers that there is. And so what may be an analytically acceptable shot for the scientists in the board room can absolutely tear a team apart. And I just, I'm just so interested in how the shot selection evolves, or if somebody says like Cleveland did going big, like, you know what, everybody's playing like this. Maybe we'll do it different. I don't know, I'm just interested. I'm so depressed about the Rubio injury, by the way. He was playing great, not shooting grape, a playing great. Plus a gazillion with Rubio and Garland. They have the best point differential on the east. For example, all these other teams in the east Cleveland got the best point differential. I think they would have had a chance to win a playoff round. And that sounds like a wild playoff round, but when you're consensus top four in the east is Milwaukee, Brooklyn, now Chicago has to be in that group in Miami. Yeah, winning around is hard. And I think they would have had a chance at it. To your point on Utah, I think their offense is borderline slump proof now because they've diversified it to the point that their second in free throw rate top 5 offensive rebounding and they get out and transition a fair bit and they're just a great shooting team, but I do it is interesting. Can we do some rapid fire fill in the blanks to round it out? Jeff van Gundy's NBA championship favorite as of today is blank. Brooklyn, I go Milwaukee, just 'cause Brooklyn was my preseason pick, but I gotta see it. But they're the right answer. They're the best team. If they are fully formed. The best team in the Western Conference is. Golden State. Agreed. I think they're the best team they're getting played back. They would have been my pick. But I'm gonna just say this, this idea that they're getting playback. They're getting something back. We don't know what clay it is. Exactly. And I think we'd all be me making a mistake to put too much pressure on him to be Klay Thompson. That we know. These injuries are serious. You don't take two years off of competition, come all the way back. How much does him coming back diminished pool, I think pool is he's a tremendous player now. I didn't see it coming, but, man, has he gotten so much better? So I think we have to be, you know, this idea that we're just adding and if Klay Thompson comes back when we just add him, there's not going to be any subtraction. I think you could be making a mistake there. Well, I think if your clay thing is, is he gonna do more for us than the combination of all these guys that are 7th guys, but play our style really well, right? Like clay plays our stuff and we always played it for ten years. Great. It's a very good month. Is he going to give us more in this theoretically diminished state than out of Porter, be it leads to toscano Anderson GP two? I love GP two, by the way. I think that is sort of step one. That baseline and I suspect he will. But look, I'm with the ongoing state because the first 20 games there was this feeling of Steph's incredible draymond's incredible Wiggins is having the best year of his career, but the names on the roster after Stephan draymond are like, we're really counting on these guys, like they're really winning this many games with these names is three to 12. And I think almost halfway through the season, I think you have to conclude it's real that all of those guys know how to play the warrior style, which is not for everybody and very hard to play against. Because they're unusual, it is..
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"What do you think very quickly of these LeBron at center lineups that Vogel and now fizdale with coach logo, hopefully we're covering well in health and safety protocols have turned to in the absence of Anthony Davis. Obviously when AD's back, these are going to be a limited part of the rotation, but probably part of it considering Dwight and DJ have done next to nothing this year. Are they viable to you? If they get enough of the supporting guys back, they're fine. I mean, they're fine. I mean, they used it against Houston. I mean, Houston's awful. They'd be Houston by a couple down the stretch. Thank you for saying that because the coverage of that game, we were guilty of it too, was like, stroke of genius, fizdale and et cetera. I'm like, how about the headlines should be barely beat a team that stinks? Didn't they have four guys score 20 or more? I don't know. Yeah. So it's not like I didn't understand what everybody was raving about. They beat Houston on the road. Hey, listen, when you've lost 5 in a row, any wins a good one. I'm not knocking down. I'm not even the move is fine. But the idea that they unlocked something, I didn't understand because they had played with Carmelo Anthony and James before. Like, this isn't like exactly revolutionary. Like, they're trying to get a win, you know, coaching is nothing more than trying to give yourself your best chance to win. And against some lineups or in some teams, it makes sense, but it still comes back to who are the other four guys around James. I can put James anywhere. James, is the type of guy he can everybody knows us. He can play anywhere. So it's who do I surround him with? Do I have enough? Because he'll bring out the best and most guys, you know? And I think what's scary to me is, is this the best of 8 that he can bring out of them? Like, it's just their best and it just keeps coming back to me to Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis is their chance. Like he comes back off of this injury and they're in whatever place they're in. And he's able to have recharged refocused reenergized and plays at a top ten level in the NBA. If he can do that, then they're really dangerous. LeBron had center, they are plus three in a 116 minutes. And you saw last night to your point, those lineups are either so bad on defense that they just have no hope. Like if Carmelo Anthony and Malik monk and Russell Westbrook are out there, you're just, you're just praying. That's all you're doing. That's just prayer, that's basketball prayer. I pray we hit enough threes and they miss enough dunks and threes because they're gonna hunt mellow every single possession. It was interesting to see morant hunt Russ late in the game last night. And then they went defense and they were to have Stanley Johnson and THT out their Stanley Johnson just already like top 5 most essential Laker all of a sudden. And the grizzlies said, okay, well, those guys can't shoot. We're gonna play our big guys just like normal and we're gonna bet that our size is you don't have the speed and shooting to punish us for playing big versus small and they generally won that bet. The I guess the non big lineups, no AD no center without LeBron. So I guess melos at center Russ is the key to those, are -27 and 44 minutes. You can throw those ones in the trash as soon as AD comes back. And just to finish your point on Lakers coverage, I really enjoyed how the headline after Christmas was LeBron overtakes Kobe as all time leading scorer on Christmas as if anyone cares who the all time leading score on Christmas is. And they lost the game. How about you lost at home to the nets? Then that's had one of their three guys and you still lost but LeBron passed Kobe as the all time leading score on Christmas. So all was well. Are you ready for question number two? Yep. Is it time for the Boston Celtics at 16 to 19, tenth in the west coming off a game without Jayson Tatum and some other others in health and safety protocols in which they lost at home to the clippers who are missing lots and lots of people arguably there are three best players and four of their top 5 and shot four of 42 from three four of 42. One of the three was made by Sam Hauser who, or Hauser, I'm sorry, who would not be playing normally. Is it time for the Celtics to explore breaking up jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum? Well, all those possible trade ideas or thoughts. It's all dependent on who you can get. So it's not about, should we break them up? It's about, can we have can we construct a better team through a possible trade, right? And I don't think anybody in this league minus maybe jokic and Giannis, who else, curry, Durant, Durant is untreatable, right? So the idea that Tatum or Brown would get traded, that doesn't, that might happen. But it's funny, it's funny you bring up jokic and I apologize for updating it because this is what this is like how screwed up my brain is. Last night, as I couldn't fall asleep, my brain went to this place..
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"jeff van gundy" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"Careful of, right? Yeah. But also you didn't get three or four pieces of candy back then. There were no big chocolate bars. It was like, you got whatever was left over from the last Halloween. And it was always small. And yeah, I mean, that's just how it was just different. But thank goodness. There was never a Jeff and Stan, you know, cowboy and Robert type of coordinator. I'm thinking like I'm thinking like red holds men and you know, Bill Bradley or something like that. You know what's crazy? We grew up on the West Coast, right? Right outside of Oakland. And Martinez, California. So we were big, you know, warrior fans a's fans. Back in the heyday. But here's it's just so different now because everything's a picture now, right? It is. And I love watching. I'm like, you know, I'll see pictures of like, but there were no pictures back then. So you were dressing up just for not even because you enjoyed it. You just knew you had to have it to go out and people giving you candy. It was a straight, you know, I want candy. I have to dress up here. Let's do it. Quid pro quo. We all understand what's going on. Last thing, and you can take it if you want. Otherwise, I'll let you go. I'm not a big baseball fan anymore, but I've been having the World Series on in the background when I don't feel like watching NBA games. I will give it to you. Convinced me neutral ish baseball fan. Who hasn't really paid attention and only knows like the very broadest strokes of whatever is going on. Why I should not be cheering against the Astros as garbage can slamming cheaters. Jeff van Gundy defend your team. Well, first of all, I can't defend what they did. Like, I don't even want to. It was disgraceful. And unnecessary because they were great before they did it and they've been great after they've done it. They didn't need it. So that was a terrible lapse in judgment. But that being said, I am still wearing my great T-shirt that says y'all still mad. Like for those whiny Dodger fans complaining about the the championship with that was stolen from him. No it wasn't. We beat your ass, okay? That's that. Okay. Now, can they beat Atlanta? I don't know. Down three two, you know, Verlander out the whole year. You know, mccullers out now. We don't have our top two starters. But I'll say this. Regardless of who wins, we either have a 72 year old manager who I love and dusty baker, getting his first World Series win or a man who manages the braves with who's been in that same organization for 45 years. Now, we may be cheaters, but I got to say this. Until I hear somebody come out and say that that stupid job that they do in a position of power needs to be eliminated as fast as the take vow that we were talking about, then I say the Astros have the advantage and they're going to figure out a way to win it. Dusty baker and the guys, man, it's going to be fun to watch game 6. Jeff van Gundy, nobody does it better than you. Thanks for.
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"jeff van gundy" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"It plays to their strength like how strong they are. Like, a little bit more is let go. Like, you can't like, you know, I think with Lowry butler, PJ Tucker, and out of bio, I think it's been I think everything has fallen into line. And again, can they sustain? Can they stay healthy? But you're right. If you're a listen, if your top ten in offense with what they should be defensively, they got a heck of a chance. To play from a high seed this year. I will see the floor to you now. You brought up officiating, you and I have been. You're the driver of the eliminate the take foul the Euro fell, whatever garbage you want to call that fell. The clothesline bear hug in transition. You've been driving the bandwagon. I've been riding shotgun with you for 5 to ten years now to the point that I'm tired of talking about it. It's just unfathomable to me that the league even having created a rule in the G league, like the NBA owns the G league and they made a rule to try and stop this that they have not tried harder to stop it in the NBA. It drives me a bananas. I feel like it's just falling on deaf ears. They clearly don't care enough to do anything about it. You now, you've complained about it a lot, you're absolutely right, the world agrees with you. Basketball is good, bear hugs are bad. But now you have a specific proposal that you want to put forth to the world. Please Jeff van Gundy speak on it. So what I hate is that it's called the eurofoil because it's not, because they've eliminated in Europe. Fema basketball, it's two in the ball, right? So I watched John Moran against Golden State the other night. And draymond green basically tackled it at half court. And everybody wants more action. And there's never more action in an NBA game than in transition. So we should all be putting our heads together to try to give our players the best chance to create action. Like I said, the NBA, the way they've like, they've eliminated all the BS foul calls. I couldn't be happier. I think it's a better game. It's a better product to watch. But they can't stop now. They have to address this. I watched at Boston. I think it was Boston Charlotte game. And there were 6 called in a relatively take vowels in a relatively short period of time. Sometimes teams will even take them in the penalty. Like they'll just because players instinctively just do it. So my rule is you have a separate penalty situation. But it could be, you can set the number. It could be the first time you do it. The second time, the third time, whatever you decide, number wise, it's fair. But if a foul occurs with 20 or more on the shot clock, that leads to two in the ball eventually. Whatever you set the number. After the second time you do it or the third time. Or the first time I don't care, you could do it all the time. But obviously you don't want that in the last two minutes of the game because when you're coming back on a rebound, you know, you're going to foul right away to save time. So in the first 46 minutes, you have that. I think it's imperative. You do it not by if you're in transition or not. You do it because fouling should be punished. Fouling is not something that should be applauded. How about this? Run back and stop him in transition. You watch these fouls. It used to be a minor problem that used to just drive me crazy. Now it's taking away action from our fans. And as much credit as the NBA deserves right now for the new filing interpretations that they've put in that are being universally praised except if you're one of those guys who used to make a mockery of the game, they need to be held to account. I don't know what the rule is in the G league, but just make a first step. It doesn't have to be perfect. All we have to do is everybody acknowledge we are going to eliminate. I have no problem too with leaving it up to the referee's discretion. If you don't like mine, that's their job. That's what they should have discretion. They'll say that we want to take decision making out of the referee's hands. And that to me is ludicrous because that's like saying, I want to take decision making out of a point guard's hand. These guys are paid a lot of money. You know when a foul is a take Val, even if it's disguised, like it's got to be punished and punished harshly. And I think the radical step of doing it immediately. The competition committee should meet tonight. Institute it put it in tomorrow. Will there be growing pains? Yes. Who cares? Do it now. Don't wait. You don't have to study it anymore. It's an absolute like, I don't know what the right word is, but it's a such a negative mockery, a sham mockery. You have to combine two words. It's that good. I'm going with that dead. I just think and also the secondary thing which you don't see as much anymore, but the hacker whoever foul, if you institute something like that, because those always.
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"jeff van gundy" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"Phoenix is two and three. You know, I watched, I've watched both of their last two games. I just, are you worried about is too early, right? Given what happened to Booker playing in the Olympics, you saw it up close, then he was out with health and safety protocols, Chris Paul's aging, they had a long run. Phoenix to me, they're just so rock solid that I think they'll be fine. They don't look particularly sprightly right now and spirited and spunky and zipping around, but I have faith in the suns. They've earned enough credibility with me. Yeah, and I think again, every year is different. You know, like, people age, people have different mentality. You have the Deandre ayton situation, contractually. And I remember back in when we went to the finals with the Knicks in 94, the next year, same team great team great health, we were 12 and 12. I believe on Christmas. And it wasn't like there was not one thing you could point to as the issue, but it was an overall malaise a little bit. It wasn't even like we weren't trying hard, but like you were mentioning, it wasn't the same feeling, like, you know, getting over losing in the finals is not easy, it's not easy at all. And I think. They have a lot they had a lot go on in the off season. And I just think it's much harder. Everybody just says to bounce back, but when you lose an opportunity where you felt like you could have won it, and maybe you should have won it in your mind. It's not as easy, just to snap your fingers and find that level of enthusiasm or energy or all in to the cause again. It may take them a little while and that's again, why you let things play out over time. And like in 15 or 20 games, everybody will have a better idea in every coach could then evaluate his team. Properly and say, you know, this is what needs to be corrected. Yeah, Phoenix and Chris Paul has a made shots for most games this season. Jay Crowder was ice cold from three until the other night. Dave mis campaigned a couple games. And he kind of jolts their team. I mean, particularly when you're giving his mid stell for Payton, he's a jolt that they really miss. The Tory Craig piece was an interesting mini loss for them. I actually feel that void when I watch them play like that void of just another wing to come in and create havoc on the offensive lines of great offensive rebounder, defend. Well, I think they'll be fine. You open the door for me, coach are you ready? You mentioned you brought up the mid 90s next. You open the door. For me, I'm gonna tease Chris herring's book, blood in the garden about the 1990s Knicks, and there was one when I was gonna have you on in February or something to talk about everything in this book. There was one anecdote in the book that involves you, you're a central character in the book that I literally read and laughed in my house by myself. I tackled out loud like an idiot and was like, I have to ask Jeff van Gundy about this anecdote when I get him on the podcast. So are you ready? Yeah? The year is 2000. The year 2000 I feel like I'm Conan O'Brien. In the year 2000, you have an assistant trainer on your team. His first name is not on this page. I don't know what his first name is last name is hamdan. Do you remember her ham? Yeah, sight. Yeah. Okay, so here's the story he tells about you. And as a lifelong mets fan, die hard mets fan, not anymore on laps. This story both made me laugh really hard and hit me like a little bit of a knife to the gut. The story, the background of the story is how much you care about winning and losing and how you want others around you to feel it in the wake of a loss as deeply as you feel it, okay? So you are the story. I'll just read you the quote. This is Saeed ham done talking. We were on a flight coming back from a preseason win and I got in trouble for yelling, yes, let's go mets after they clinched a spot in the World Series in 2000. The next day, Jeff calls me into his office and says, I need to have more respect for the sanctity of winning and losing. And I told him Jeff, the sanctity of winning and losing his wife. Yelled, let's go mets. They just made the World Series. And he just looks at me and says, get the out of my office. True or false. I have known knowledge or memory of that at that actually. He clearly he clearly does. Yeah, or he made it up. Because here's the thing, I really, like, I could see that in a playoff game. I'm not so sure I could see that in a preseason it says. In a preseason game and what makes me question that story even more is I was a mets fan. So I would have probably been all in on the mets at that time anyway. I love Bobby Valentine. I love the mets. Currently running for mayor of Stanford, Connecticut, by the way, Bobby bell. Yeah. I know, you know what, I just saw him at an event a 9 11 event. I was in the city for. We were on the same panel. And I'm going.
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"jeff van gundy" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"Willing to do to make it work and the level of sacrifice that they're willing to give so that there is successful they would wanna be. If the level of sacrifices high. The results will be good. It may not always look good. There will be some struggles. I'm sure on nights just like goes talking about with the olympic team where they're used to have the ball in their hands morin. It feels funny. Maybe frank asks westbrook to play in different spots on the floor then. He's accustomed to but anthony. Davis to me has always been a sacrificer. Like you know he. He went to l. a. Knowing he was going to take a back seat but still playing this huge role James is a natural giver. Westbrook is you know a one man fast-break which may give them you know some opportunities that maybe they didn't have so maybe they can all carve out their own niche. I think defensively it's gonna be the thing for westbrook and also in the half court. How do they space and give their best players enough room to work with but again if they start from a place that they wanna make it work and they're not resentful of having to sacrifice then they'll figure it out that doesn't mean they're gonna win championship but that means that they're going to be able to play well have enough harmony and chemistry to give themselves a chance to win it. And i think frank vogel is the perfect coach to make it all work. He's as eagles of coach as you would find He is terrific a getting guys to do things that they may not necessarily want to do but must do for the team to win a while taking no credit for so i think you know if their level of sacrifices i they'll be very successful coach. Jeff van gundy congratulations on the olympics in a long run with team usa. I hope you get some sleep. Get reacclimated get some time off before we started doing this again. And we'll talk to you in the preseason. Thank you all right take care..
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Los Angeles Lakers Pair LeBron and Russ. Will It Work?
"I wanted to zoom out and go over the big picture landscape with someone who talks on our airwaves every day about the nba. Dhs is favourite league. I think the one. And only the greatest showman in show business and tv for espn stephen smith. Our you sub man. How you doing man glad to finally be here. I'm thrilled to make it happen. You are out in la. So let's start there you talked. I was listening to you on. I take a few days ago. Talking about russell. Westbrook in the amount of pressure that's on russell westbrook. But tell me about you know how. How do you think he fits. Lebron how what are you looking for him. How does he have to changes game or does he have to change his game. Well listen. I think i think both have to modify to some degree. Lebron can't be as ball dominant as as he has been off making all the decisions. Because that's one of the reasons rusting wanna be in houston anymore as you. Well know Because he didn't want to be you know sitting on the sidelines. Playing the role of spectator being on the plane and roller spectator watching james audit. Well that's not gonna change lebron james. He's happy to be back home. He's happy to be la. He's happy to be on a title contender which he is on. We get all of that But in the end he still russell westbrook in you know credit to him. You know like. I told you we've had to be. We've all had to be critical of him at times. What we know that. He's an electrifying talent. The most athletic point guard we've ever seen in nba history. We know he's a walk in triple double and we also know. He never cheat to game with his effort when he's out on a court it's always one hundred percent and so when you look at the slow. Almost snail like pace that the lakers could could. Could you know what wouldn't prone to plan towards playing at at tom's in the past and now you've got somebody like russell westbrook all of a sudden and lebron having a night off. Ad having a night off isn't as daunting as it was the previous two years. I think that helps them during the regular season. And then i think once the postseason comes whatever it takes to win is what i think the character in russell westbrook and lebron james will do.
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Mark Jackson is the reason why Mark Jackson isn’t an NBA head coach
"Joe. Lake. Up after mark was let go had a bunch of quotes This was one of them that I found co part of it was that he couldn't get along with anybody else in the organization and look you did a great job. I'll always compliment him mini respects but you. Can't have two hundred people in the organization, not like you. Okay. and he said when I say the organizations whole I don't just mean the team just fifteen players that are involved in the coaching staff I mean everybody there's two hundred employees here. So we look at the organization going forward and the kind of coach we want and not just the performance everything else all these factors matter. We took all of that into account. So we have the player part of it. We have the owner part of it. We knew the front office didn't like him when one of the assistance. was busted for recording Jackson in meetings to play for the front office, which again that actually becomes a pro mark Jackson part of it. The Mark Jackson staff was not good enough the ownership in front office told him repeatedly, the staff is good. Enough Mark said we have the best staff going he and scalping apparently got into it and scalloping he was reassigned the front office didn't like that part of it. So we have the players have the staff we have the ownership we have the front office. Let's also talk about some of the other stuff that's just let's face it. Weird Jackson's Amana Faith I. Don't question anyone's faith. I just say to you leave me alone and I'll do my thing That's the way I've always operated and that rubs people wrong way when he was a head coach but also would find time to get to La whenever he had a convenient off day to go and do that. It's tough to tell a man of faith. Hey, you know what don't be that interested in God? That's that's an almost impossible conversation but if I was at ESPN or anywhere and said, Hey, you know what? I can't watch football this weekend. Because I have this higher calling eventually it worked they'd be like, Hey, you know what? Man Like this is all part of the job being availalbe around is very difficult in tough thing to navigate as I'm not even hundred percent comfortable doing it but I'd have to say employer at the time being frustrated by it actually makes a little bit of sense and I think there's other things that just bumped people out when curry had his ankle issues he was brought up in it was kind of a playful thing curry's brought up they put the holy oil on his ankle and. Jackson's wife at the time and Pete Jackson was like look like he had chronic ankle problems and now he doesn't. So you figure it out. That's one of those things where people like wait what Jackson also had some issues off the core where he was caught up extortion deal and I'm not even really getting on his case for that because I think a lot of things happen to people that are public figures that goes on normal people's lives. But the public figure becomes the of jokes on and on and on. He also said when asked about Jason Collins availability years ago. He said not in my locker room. So it came off as if he was a homophobe because there's evidence that he is, and then when he was asked to clear that up, he said look I know Jas I know his family and I'm praying for them right now. Hey, man you save your fucking prayers. Okay. That's the kind of stuff that just doesn't play no matter who you are and I think the. Most important part of all of this because I guess I'm still maybe a little surprised that he doesn't have a job because other people have been on TV and not been great on. TV. I've looked at other coaches that haven't had great runs and there's been plenty of people that have gotten second chances by the way both black and white. So when I see people out raged that he's been blackballed or as. Shannon Sharpe said White Bald or Kendrick Perkins recently, just saying like all of these things that I just going off on the idea that Mark Jackson doesn't have job it really feels like, okay. Are you informed and but yet you've made up your mind decided not to change your mind or are you uninformed and I think so many people screaming about this or like Oh wait that's right. You know maybe either moments you had just now listening to this like Oh, that's right. I've nothing personal against Mark Jackson. He's one of my favorite college basketball players of all time all-time. You guys know how huge of a Saint John's Fan I am and I actually was you know as a little kid be like dude I can't believe he's going this late in the draft is GonNa be awesome and he was awesome in the knicks I felt so vindicated I was. Like and I could refer team right one day I love Mark Jackson and I was right. But when I listened to him on the broadcast Van Gundy I, think him being on the broadcast Van Gundy chances of getting a job because if I was worth a half a billion dollars or more and had the opportunity to own a team or owned a team right now and I'd go. Van Gundy's on all of these little things like, Hey, look at how they blind me Anthony Davis on free throws already have them on the other side of the court. So he can seal for Deepak smaller offender will there be an adjustment. Hey, what's going on with the substitution? Hey, this rule's actually wrong. Why are they doing it? This Way Jeff Van Gundy will say, here's Hey Jason tatum something's wrong with him. He's the first pointed out it happens multiple times every single broadcast Jeff Van Gundy is easily the best NBA analyst in the game right now. Mark doesn't do any of those things and I. Don't know if that's just him not being comfortable in that role but he's a coach. He's a former player and he doesn't do any of those things. He'll say, Hey, this guy's not just a great score. He's a great individual. He's a human being. Okay. So and so doesn't get enough credit for shooting. Okay. In everything is results based. If the shot goes in, it was a great shot at the shot doesn't go in Hey, that's the guy that shouldn't be taking the shot. It's very. It's very minimal depth and when. You have people that make these decisions. You're almost instead of looking at the resume in Golden State which is on its surface again resume. You'd say Yeah. What like six years? Nicholas gives Scott his shot young team garnered play defense that's hard to do. But I think being next to Jeff. When Jeff runs circles around him on the broadcast. It it might remind go wait why why is this one guy way better talking about the game than the other guy so I think the best thing market do would not be on the broadcast with Jeff and who knows what might happen. So I just think the more we look at it and hey man trust me this is not white guy decide to push back on racism segment because I've. Probably done with those the rest of my life. I'm seeing specific to this one because the NCAA numbers are atrocious. The ABC's the head coaching. Diversity that we have in the pro sports leagues still is not what it needs to be I'm not pushing back on any of those things. But when it comes specific to mark Jackson, there are the informed in the uninformed, and hopefully if you've resisted this, you're more informed now.
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Game 5 wraps up of the 2020 Finals
"Moments after exciting. One of the best, finals games in recent memory. Game Five Heat Eke Ekit out to live another day and joining Zach tonight now Chris. Bosh. It wasn't quite. Five to Allen for three. It was quite Bosch Talon. But this is up there with one of the biggest heat wins in history I mean. For sure. It's an incredible game. What did you think of it? Man You know I, it is starting to be one of those series that's just kind of grinding to a halt. You thought that was going to happen is not happening. Everything, every player that she thought was going give this particular stat line is not it's not really transpiring right now but I mean, you have to give all credit to the heat and I kept telling people this in all these interviews you know how can get? The Lakers. Over they've got the uniforms on and I just like, okay he don't WanNa be here but let me tell you something. These guys if there's anybody. Who would embrace a difficult situation? It is Erik Spoelstra and Butler seems to really. Thrive off of that and anticipate that. affected. So it's Kinda like a marker will really hard is. Like they say, Oh hey yeah, we're here now. We're supposed to be competing for championship. This is how it's supposed to be. You know is this all about survival now there they've lived to play another day and that's what you gotta do. I think it's time to just acknowledged. Once and for all that, the heat had become a great team you know there was always this question of. Did they benefit from the hiatus hiatus in everything the bubble shake the bucks more than other teams. Did they benefit from hayward getting injured a really good. You. Know this Lakers seem his lost one game in every playoff series. Until now, they have not lost to to a heat team that is missing its leading postseason score until this series Goran dragic that they could started to acknowledge Jimmy Butler. The top ten player. Yeah that'd be we're. GonNa. Have to rearrange the rankings because this dude just put up thirty five, twelve eleven in forty seven minutes forty seven minutes and five and a half whatever it is it's the game you play dull game. Survived forty thirteen seven on fifteen of twenty-one masterpiece from the Brian. James we can talk about the end of the game if you want. Everyone can focus on the end of the game, but the heat put themselves in position to win at the end of the game. Duncan. Robinson was unbelievable. They're shotmaking was outstanding and this team just keeps in with Bam out bio clearly, not one hundred percent missing layups, missing dunks, he can play better he. To acknowledge the heat now are are for real and just like you were saying, they're short handed to. So you know we need to keep that in mind You can only imagine how the series would be a little different Gora was out there and not that he's just going to be that dominating presence, but he gives them another layer. To their attack and you know they have that team cohesion down pack and I mean, I don't really know where the lapses with the Lakers are happening with dunkin' Robinson. He's making them pay every time. I. Mean He's moving himself up into Lee Company every game because you don't expect them the thing you know you don't think he's going to continue to go on the street. He's he's gone on and you'll eventually figure that a veteran is GonNa get into them and just chase him to the bathroom. But but it hasn't happened yet and I mean they're making them pay every single time and. Boy I. Tell You. We'll. We'll see what happens game six. Years especially with a hobbled a little bit man. That's one of the big cities we should probably get to. Well, let's let's talk about the end of the game real quick. Okay. So a Frank Vogel Lakers coach has come out after this game and said that there were bad calls at the end. Jimmy Butler getting to the line I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree he's probably GonNa give find. Lakers lead the Lakers up one. He, ball they run a beautiful fast play for Jimmy Butler gets A. He screwed good play Lebron not. because. Eighty one moving so whilst I foot Lebron on. Screen Lebron and she goes up but Jeff Van Gundy called on the broadcast he he floats see I mean. It in verticality your whole. Career. Frank Vogel helped invent it with Roy but. He floats. He fails right? That's a foul. Yes. Afoul he jumped into them. You know good call by the resident and you have to give you know usually referees are getting tough time I. Think they called a Great Game Day You can always look on both sides and say, well, if an if but if they're even in the game is tied and the players they're the ones who are dictating what happens out there. Hopefully, the game isn't called. You know at the end by you know free throws or anything like that but all. Evenly called Game I. Feel. Throws. Yeah, each team had their opportunities and. Jimmy Man Jimmy Butler man he's he's continuing to do it. Man I gotta I gotta you gotTa give him props he's going to make give him props I. Mean he put them on their own is back in those last minutes. Man I mean, the one leg get he's hidden one legged fadeaway. You know he's hitting the free throws down the stretch to dribble I mean he's He's shoot free throws when you're that exhausted and not just. Did you her second he was going to miss you like just. To, to, of course, you were not you think he's GonNa Miss One because as a player I know how I would feel I'm GonNa Miss One. On. THAT TIRED Like him going over when he was leaned over panting after getting fouled, you know they burned a time out after that but. Just him just still being able to muster up whatever could and having a concentration suppose still had Chris Bosh on his roster. He would have run that play where you went to the back side. And the coroner. You. Come on you. Play for last second shot several times. So okay. So it makes a two free throws come down. They call time out again, Van Gundy and Mark Jackson. Call on this game all over this. Danny Green is in the game with a know Dunkin Robinson's on Danny Green. They know that they're going to run the screen to try to force Dunkin Robinson they know there's going to be a double with Lebron that's exactly what happens Lebron Drives Zach he drives into a crowd. There's three is three and a half guys there. He makes the basketball play Chris Bosh, which he is made for fifteen years since he's been starting to the playoffs, throws it to the Open Guy Danny. Green is a thirty eight percent three point shooter from that spot according to second spectrum is wide open. So I'll I'll throw them another couple of percentage points. And he missed it. Well I know Danny wants that one back. you know he made the right play it was a crowd I. I think he had the mentality to say, you're not going to beat us. We're sending everything in the kitchen saying and we're just going to close the shooters. They got the play that they were looking for. It was a tremendous play Danny Green slipped out. You kinda tell that the heat we're anticipating that play. Brahms. So able to make a very decent pass out the Danny grains got he got his hands on he stepped right into it. Any other time nine times out of ten he'll make that shot. You know he missed it what the interesting thing was on the rebound market Moore's he had plenty of time and he kind of made a quick decision Brian, opened on the right wing, which is always easy to say a new usually. Yeah. You throw it to ad but he had another big on you know and that was just man I was a tough light. It was very tough sequence. Watching film you. In it again now. You. Know Marquee Foucault Danny Green like he just handed the ball to hand off again Danny was right there funny though when he's when you through the LOB. Through. It I looked under the Rim I saw a d. and I thought again the balls just hand in mid Air I thought okay. I hate that decision because ad Mike, I'm putting the referees in play a little bit their down one, and then of course, the pass was that not an accurate he choked right let's just say. I'm not saying I would say that to mark keeps face in this moment. Do not say that Bryant don't say that. He. What do you WanNa say it's choked. Well he also as you pointed out before we started, you know they were setting the screen it they set for Jimmy on the on the go ahead. Free throws a flat screen by crowder and the flat screen is designed. You know Chris knows when your face in half court, it's designed to make defense. Gessler. Like which way to go, but it is an which wishing the pick he went he went from an angle to switching to the flat. kind of this weird in between space and if you don't, if if you're not demonstrative about your coverage, you'll get exploited
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I Disagree with the Second Agreement and I Hope You Take It Personally by TK Coleman
"I disagree with the Second Agreement and I hope you take it personally by tk Coleman of tk. Coleman DOT COM. I like to think in terms of alternatives not absolutes that is instead of adopting an either or logic for problem solving and goal achievement prefer to think in accordance with both and strategies. For example, let's consider the notion of taking things personally self help author. Don Miguel Ruiz has done a magnificent job at popularizing and articulating what is often referred to as the second agreement. Here's a summary of the idea in Ruis. His own words quote whatever happens around you don't take it personally nothing other people do is because of you what is because of themselves all people live in their own dream in their own mind. They are a completely different world from the one we live in only take something personally we make the assumption that they know what is in our world and we try to impose our world on their world and quote. I think that's a very useful idea and I found myself in some pretty lengthy discussions where I've defended it to people who absolutely to test this concept teaches own. I suppose. But as for me, my life has been a heck of a lot easier since I started practicing the second agreement as a critical thinker however, I like to keep my options open. Rather. Than treating ideas like the second agreement as dogmas to be believed in a regard them as value neutral conceptual tools whose usefulness varies with context. Sometimes I like taking things personally even when I know I'm not being personally attacked I deliberately choose to act as if I am being conspired against I usually use this idea as a psychological trick for motivating myself. As long as I can employ the take it personally technique in a way that's healthy and isn't obsessive. I derive great practical value from it. Anyone who's ever played competitive spores probably understands concept very well choosing to look at your competition as the enemy or the bad guys can be an invigorating experience. One of my favorite ticket personally stories comes from Michael Jordan before a soldout contest between the New York Knicks and their rivals the Chicago Bulls Knicks, coach Jeff Van Gundy accused Michael Jordan of being a con man who deliberately X. friendly towards opposing players in order to soften them up and gain a competitive edge over them. Van. Gundy's harsh words were printed in Chicago newspaper and Jordan. saw them before the game. He took it personally and decided to play with a chip on his shoulder for the entire game Jordan had a personal vendetta to show van Gundy just how capable he was having a great game without being nice to his opponents. He did exactly what he set out to do by scorching the Knicks for a red hot one points and one point in the game after hitting an important basket Sharon looked at Van Gundy and yelled at him. One of Jordan's team as reported that Michael Love to us, criticism and hatred as a way of motivating himself a sports commentator who knew of this habit predicted that Jordan would score fiftypoints simply because he would be fired up. I've Angolans words. US, right. Jordan took it personally and brought the best out of him interestingly enough. Here's what Jordan said after the game quote. Guess I. Didn't make any friends out there tonight Jordan smiles I. Think those words were more geared to motivating his players but I don't think on the court they have befriended me, I don't go on the court expecting to make friends. But when I leave the court, I don't take what happened on the court away from me. We're only playing a game. I don't view it as a war away from the game and quote. In a video clip. Jordan talks about how he used that moment as motivation while not letting it get to him in an unhealthy way. Jordan disagreed with the second agreement and it worked does illustrates one of my favorite metaphors for life life a game. As an all games achieving one's goals requires the use of effective strategies. A good strategist is one who remains flexible. He uses what works without ever feeling the need to assign the status of costal truth to any of the strategies in his playbook. If taking it personally works good strategists takes it personally if taking it personally leads to stress and self destructive preoccupation with what others think then it strategist stops to him personally. This attitude of philosophical flexibility can be extended to issues and belief systems. Ideas are just tools sometimes are useful. Sometimes are not which ideas of you when you use them, and how you react to the results is your job to sort out as you sorting through the ever enlarging buffet of ideas being offered in the marketplace be should remember the admonition of Terence McKenna quote nobody smarter than you and quote. You know more about what's best for you than anyone else. So don't take anybody's ideas dogmatically specially now mind think critically about everything. Then take what works for you and leave the rest.
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Tom Thibodeau contract: Knicks finalizing five-year deal
"Knicks appear to be on the verge of landing their top choice to be their next head code in New York Post reports. The team and Tom Thibodeau are close to finalizing a five year deal. The 62 year old Connecticut native was fired last season as the head coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves. And prior to that he coached the Chicago Bulls, where he was voted N. Ba coach of the year in 2011 libido would be the next 13th head coach since Jeff Van Gundy left in 2001. At the time, Fido was the Knicks assistant
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Without Kevin Durant, Game 4 is must-win for Warriors
"Talking NBA finals with Chris, Mannix Klay Thompson who missed game three will play game four Kevin Durant whom this the last eight games will not play game. Four Steve Kerr said there's a good chance Katie playing game five or six Klay Thompson spoke about what it would mean if miss the finals entirely. Well, it suck if Kevin can't come back. I mean, I still think we'd have a good chance to win the finals. But obviously. That takes a huge hit. Think it would make us to cut favor anymore without him, you know teams very good. We just love the candor of the Golden State Warriors, like as a team like Klay, whatever. But dream on Jay handed. Steph is usually pretty Cantu. I love that team like is this. Well Kerr's as well, who is the favourite in this series of Katie doesn't return? Oh, it's oh I mean, I still again, we can have different conversation on Monday. If Klay Thompson comes back and looks exactly like the Klay Thompson, we saw before the injury. But if he is significantly slowed it's impossible to look at this series and say Toronto isn't the favorite now we discussed this yesterday. I disagree with Jeff Van Gundy said when he said that this war is team wasn't a playoff team, but it certainly isn't a final team, and it's probably not a team that gets out of the Western Conference as currently constituted so without Kevin Durant. And with a hobble Klay Thompson, Toronto is, is a clear favourite in my eyes. Tonight. What's important is where is clay and not only wears he during the game.
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LeBron James and Cleveland Cavaliers facing Boston Celtics and organizational fatigue NBA
"Game they hit toronto early to ronald just submitted and fell they're hitting boston and boston just keeps coming cleveland done one a forty eight minute fight so they do have some concerns i'm just saying this series is far from ohio so watching that last night how did that punch affect you i think you had them at ten percent boston ten percent chance of winning this series where you gotta matt now you had them at ten percent going into yes on it yes now i got him at like if i had to bet my life on it i probably bit off at buffalo wild wings will admit that we often go overboard with our limited time offerings we just can't help ourselves take our new signature sampler for fifteen dollars you get wings and three sharable options like fried pickles achieves kurds then there's our apple name over the top nachos a literal mountain of crispy tortilla chips loaded with your choice of pool porco honey barbecue grow chicken corn jalapenos and more than top it all off with our new flat the margarita go overboard with us today at buffalo wild wings wings beer sports available for a limited time while supplies last please drink responsibly all right well there's no question the cavs were having their toughest season since lebron return for years ago they are today brian wind horse rights for the team is suffering from quote organizational fatigue caused by lebron's worlwide wind present last night jeff van gundy seemed to notice it to saying the cavs i roll each other more than a couple in a bad marriage wit lock you blame lebron for the cavs dysfunction i'm not sure why windhorst said organizational fatigue when he really meant lebron fatigue just call it what it is lebron this is whether lebron james does he may be the greatest player we've ever seen but this is what comes along with it as well right organizational fatigue and i roll and people tired of the stress and the running off of young players and now the guy might play with young people.