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"Katie hasn't even played yet. By the time you listen to this, he already played, I'm gonna be watching that right along with you guys. But I think that fans and odds makers are all like me, and they look at yoga and say, you're great, but your big three doesn't have a dominant two way wing. Michael Porter junior is incredible. And because of his back issues, he slid to 14. Like, he's an incredible offensive player. But he is not. Yeah, he's not at that level. And Jamal Murray qualifies as a small guard, and he's also been playing really well. But that's honestly what it comes down to to me. And I don't know, I'd like to hear your reaction while I look through a list of NBA Finals champs and see if I can find any other exceptions to my rule. You know what? You actually led me to a think piece. Nikola Jokić is the new Steph Curry. And the reason I say that is it took us a while. Curry when his first MVP in 15 and it took us a while to be like, wow, this guy is maybe the best player in the NBA, whatever you want to say about 16 LeBron taking it from him in the final. So you know what I mean by the content? One of the best players of all time, best player in the NBA. But it took us a long time because we're like, that's not what it's supposed to look like. You're not supposed to be 6 one shooting from somewhere. That doesn't work in the playoffs. Yoga just kind of doing the same thing. We're pointing at him and being like, that hasn't worked since Bill Walton won a title with the blazers in 1976. A point center who's not a defensive vortex who's not a two way player. Okay, Shaq was an average defender. Shaq was supposed to devastating offensive force maybe in the history of the NBA. Yeah. And both of his championship runs were with dominant wings, though. Right. And but you look at every other center led team, Duncan Robinson, both all time defenders. Expensive player of the year war to be named after Tim Duncan, that's for another discussion. Championship runs. Yeah, he was an incredible time defender. Karim was the best defender in the NBA for a significant period of time. Bill Russell obviously best defensive player in the NBA. Maybe the best offensive player ever in the NBA. But so I think seeing jokic do something completely different. Scoring on 18 footers, shooting 70% in the paint, but none of them being dunks. Being the best being the best passer without him moving, we've ever seen. They look so weird 'cause he orchestrates a movement offense, like when they played the clippers and Kawhi was bawling. One of the three best players in the west, along with Durant and jokic was balling and jokic led a symphony to win an overtime against that ISO heavy team. It's like, I don't even know what to make of this because we've never seen it before. And I think so I'm with you. I like where your think piece is headed because the final conclusion is don't try to imitate it 'cause you'll fall short is what the conclusion of the Steph Curry think piece would be. And obviously the same thing is true of jokic because you're not gonna find that player, but the difference in the championship team is I think the west is weak and I don't think that this team can win a championship because all those teams that we talked about and the curry team that we talked about, they were incredible at defense. They are not incredible at defense and large part because they're big pivotal player is not a dominant two way wing.
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Celtics beat Warriors in OT, win NBA Finals rematch 121-118
"The Celtics earned a two game season split with a warriors by winning a rematch of last year's NBA Finals, one 21 one 18 and overtime. Jayson Tatum scored 34 points with a career high 19 rebounds. We didn't look at this as a rematch of the finals, right? It's just one game against a great team. With great players and, you know, obviously a great coach. But it was just one game. Jaylen Brown furnished 16 points. Grab 9 boards and hit a three pointer with 19 seconds left in regulation to send the game to OT. Steph Curry led Golden State with 29 points. Jordan Poole had 24 and Klay Thompson also had 24 before fouling out. I'm Dave ferry.
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Thompson scores 34, Warriors beat Celtics in Finals rematch
"In a rematch of the NBA Finals, Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry combined to score 66 points as the warriors ride of the Celtics one 23, one O 7. Curry scored 32 points making 6 threes, while Thompson had a game high 34 points. When you face the best, your game usually reflects that and you try to rise to the level of competition. And for such a long season, it's always really fun when you get to play the best teams. The Celtics were missing danilo Gallinari, Robert Williams and veteran Al Horford, who tested positive for COVID. In the loss, jaylen Brown led the Celtics with 31 points and 9 rebounds. Ryan leong, San Francisco
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Bomani Dissects the Lakers' 'LeBron Era' with Domonique Foxworth
"It's so hard to talk about the Lakers and LeBron without people taking things and directions that as I start, I'm not necessarily trying to go to or did not want, right? But it happened to me because I do think there's something very interesting about this LeBron era, which by the way, has been four years. Like, those four years ran up on us pretty quick. LeBron spent 13 straight years where his teams got at least to the second round of the playoffs, right? You know, you got all those years with the finals, but at least the second round of the playoffs. He's been with the Lakers for four years. They've made the second round of the playoffs one time. They've missed the playoffs twice, but they got a championship, right? Now, it's an interesting championship because on one hand, it was in the bubble, you didn't get the parade, all of that stuff. All the other hand, it was the year that Kobe died, which I imagine comes with its own significance for the Lakers, but at least for me, as an unattached party, right? Like a party observing this from a distance. I would think this has been a little bit disappointing if I were a Lakers fan. That's how I would see this. It's just like, you want the championship and I guess there are more relevant than they used to be but normally when you're in a place like that, even if you are not winning the championship, you go into the Conference Finals. You go on to the NBA Finals, like you win these in this push. And that really isn't what this has been for the course of this four years. And I can't think of anything quite like that. Like somebody pulled up the stat for me that the only team in a ten year span to win a championship, but not make it out of the first round within that span where those mavericks, where they won the championship in 2011, and then around that didn't get past the first round. I haven't seen anything like those are the only examples that we have. And so Lakers fans that I'm Friends with, they haven't really enjoyed this as much as they thought they would. That's what I was thinking is you were saying you think it would be a disappointment. I think that we know, or at least anecdotally. It doesn't feel like Lakers fans on the tweets or in our life in our lives feel like they have really enjoyed this run. And that's I think not to get to like the analytics versus the kind of feel or trust your eyes, guys, but it feels like from a purely quantitative way to look at it. I would say I take a championship and three years of missing the playoffs over no championship in every year and the finals.
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Danny Green is hoping Celtics can force a Game 7 vs. Warriors | THE HERD
"For the fourth time in 8 years the Golden State Warriors are NBA champions after beating the Boston Celtics one O three to 90 in game 6 Stephen Curry led the way with 34 points Andrew Wiggins scored 18 and draymond green amassed 12 points 12 rebounds and 8 assists Curry earned his first NBA Finals MVP award after averaging 31.2 points in the series Boston trim golden states 22 point lead to 8 in the fourth quarter but couldn't come any closer Jaylen brown's court 34 while Jayson Tatum had 13 for the Celtics who fell short of their first title since 2008 Geffen kobach
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NBA Finals, Jan. 6 hearing lead ABC to ratings win
"The latest TV ratings are in and to events that have people talking have gotten the most attention Hoops and hearings That was the formula that ABC used to become the nation's top rated TV network last week the first two games of the NBA Finals each netted ABC more than 10 million viewers nailing the first two spots on the weekly Nielsen list of top rate it shows and ABC ended up with the top audience for last Thursday's prime time hearing of the congressional panel that is investigating the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. capitol Nielsen says the more than 5.2 million viewers who tuned in on ABC represents a full quarter of the broadcast audience for that first hearing I'm on squirrels Gabrielle
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Wiggins delivers on both ends, Warriors lead NBA Finals 3-2
"Andrew Wiggins scored 26 points and pulled down 13 rebounds as the warriors beat the Celtics one O four 94 So I came in here and just you know you know I'm playing basketball and I'm playing hard you know and I feel like people respect that And I'm just trying to win At the end of the day you know no matter where it takes whatever they need from me I'm just I'm here to help win Klay Thompson added 21 points making 5 threes Stephen Curry had 16 points and 8 assists Golden State is now one went away from its fourth NBA title in 8 seasons The Celtics came back down 12 points at the half to take a 5 point lead in the third quarter But the warriors bounced back in the fourth to go up by 16 in the lost Jason Tatum had 27 points and Marcus smart had 20 Ryan leong San Francisco
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Green looks to make impact for Warriors even without scoring
"With the NBA Finals tied at two games apiece One of the mysteries is how the Celtics earned their two wins with the cold shooting Jayson Tatum The all star forward is 12 for 40 in the victories including a three for 17 effort in game one But Boston coach eme udoka says there's a lot more to Tatum than his shooting Don't really equate the numbers of how he's shooting more so the result of him making the play and making the right read And so at times it can get frustrating I'm trying to take you out but understanding how loosen everything up you just by making the right play Tatum is averaging 11 assists in Boston's two series wins Four and a half in the losses And despite his shooting woes he's averaging 22.3 points in the finals tying Jalen Brown for the team lead I'm Dave
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Curry scores 43 to beat Boston, Warriors tie NBA Finals 2-2
"The Celtics couldn't build on a 5 point halftime lead as the warriors earned a one O 7 97 victory in Boston The Celtic shot just 40% were out rebounded 61 49 while Steph Curry towards them for 43 points on 7 of 14 from three point range despite an ankle injury Jason Tatum had a team high 23 points on a poor shooting night for Boston He was four for 8 from downtown but just four for 15 from inside the ark We obviously felt like we had put ourselves in a position to win the game and you know there's a lot of things that we wish we would have done differently Jalen Brown finished with 21 points and Marcus smart at it 18 for the Celtics gained 5 of the series as Monday in San Francisco I'm Dave
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Overlooked no more, Brown shines for Celtics in Finals
"Up two games to one in the NBA Finals the Celtics haven't been this close to a championship since 2010 Jayson Tatum and jaylen Brown lead the core group that had been to the Eastern Conference Finals four times since 2017 before advancing Tatum says their playoff experience is paying off this year Being a conference finalist three times You know at a young age you know help myself and a lot of us you know prepare for this moment It's not like this was our first time getting a Conference Finals and then we go to the finals You know we played late in the season a couple of times The Celtics have done a nice job closing up They're two victories allowing just 11 points in the fourth quarter of game three After outscoring the warriors 40 16 in the final period of the opener I'm Dave
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Curry comes up limping after mad scramble in Warriors loss
"For the second time in three games the warriors wasted a strong third quarter in losing to the Celtics this time one 16 100 The outcome gives Boston a two games to one lead in the NBA Finals and it could be a costly loss for Golden State after Steph Curry came up limping following a scramble for the ball with about three and a half minutes remaining Celtic center Al Horford rolled up on curry's leg and the all star played a few more seconds before coming out with three minutes left Teammate Andrew Wiggins hopes the injury isn't serious You just hoping he's okay That's
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Celtics have huge 4th, beat Warriors in Game 1 of NBA Finals
"Celtics down by 15 points in the third quarter came back to stun the warriors one 21 O 8 Boston outscored Golden State 40 to 16 in the fourth quarter using a 17 zero run making 9 of 12 three pointers Veteran Al Horford scored 11 of his 26 points in the fourth for us It was just you know just continue to play no matter what And our guys that's what we did I wasn't our best game But we continue to fight and find different ways to get this win Jalen Brown added 24 points and Derek white had 21 in the loss Stephen Curry scored 21 of his 34 points in the first quarter Ryan leong San
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Update on the latest sports
"AP sports on day ferry in the Celtics will take on the warriors in the NBA Finals Jayson Tatum scored 26 points and the Celtics took game 7 of the Easter Conference Finals by defeating the heat 196 I just really believe in myself I really believe in our team And it was the biggest game of the season of my career And I just had faith that we were going to give it all we had Jaylen Brown and Marcus smart each had 24 points for Boston Marcus Ericsson and Chip Ganassi were kings of the brickyard Eriksson became the second suite to win the Indianapolis 500 giving Ganassi racing its 5th victory in the race I knew I had a car to win this race Obviously this race is crazy So you can have a car to win but that doesn't mean you're going to win it NASCAR and Denny Hamlin held off Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch and overtime to win the longest Coca-Cola 600 in history 413 laps Baseball Taylor walls Homer to made several dazzling defensive plays to lead the rays to a four two win over the Yankees It's good to bounce back after the two tough games that we've started a series with and get two wins The rays earned a four game split to remain four and a half games behind the AL east leading yanks Other AL winners with the Red Sox Astros Blue Jays athletics tigers twins and White Sox who beat the cubs in an inner league game National league Corbin burns fan 11 over 7 innings as the brewers hammered the Cardinals 8 zero That's kind of where we want to be all the time So the fact that it took ten stars to get to is a little frustrating but yeah it was kind of what we want to do The Dodgers and Padres are NL victories As did the mets braves giants and nationals Graham agar has recaps the finish at the Charles Schwab challenge Sam Burns has secured a dramatic playoff win over world number one Scottie scheffler berns posted an early 9 under par total after a 65 the 25 year old secured victory by holding a lengthy part from off the back of the grain that the secure his third win for the season French opening Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal will square off in the quarterfinals after winning on Sunday I'm Dave ferry AP
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Celtics reach NBA Finals, hold off Heat 100-96 in Game 7
"The Celtics are in the NBA Finals for the first time in 12 years following a 196 win over the heat in game 7 Jason Tatum jaylen Brown and Marcus smart combined for about three quarters of Boston's points with Tatum leading the way with 26 I just really believe in myself I really believe in our team And it was the biggest game of the season of my career And I just had faith that we were going to give it all we had Brown and smart each had 24 points for the Celtics the heat trail by 11 with three minutes left before storming back Jimmy Butler finished with 35 points and bam adebayo had 25 for Miami
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Udoka: C's need better start in Game 7 vs. Heat
"There's a bit of deja vu for the Celtics and heat heading into game 7 Sunday in Miami Ten years ago the Celtics led the Eastern Conference Finals three to two before LeBron James scored 45 points in Miami's win at Boston The heat captured the series in game 7 This time the heat earned a one 11 one O three victory over the Celtics behind a 47 point performance by Jimmy Butler The heat are hoping to reach the NBA Finals for the second time in three seasons The Celtics haven't been there since 2010 The warriors await and will host game one of the finals on Thursday
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Warriors beat Mavericks 120-110 to return to NBA Finals
"The warriors are in the NBA Finals for the first time since 2019 completing a 5 game series win over the Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals one 21 ten all 5 warriors starters and Jordan Poole all scored in double figures led by Klay Thompson's 32 points Just proud of not only my effort but our whole team we really gelled this year at the right time and we have an exciting times ahead of us Andrew Wiggins came up big with 18 points and ten rebounds while kevon Looney added 18 boards and ten points Golden State led by 17 and a half time then pushed the margin into the 20s early in the third quarter Luka Dončić had team highs of 28 points and 9 rebounds for the Mavericks I'm Dave
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Celtics run past Heat 93-80, move 1 win from NBA Finals
"The Celtics are up three games to two in the Eastern Conference Finals following a 93 80 win over the heat in Miami The Celtics took control by outscoring the heat 32 16 in the third quarter then opened the final period on a 14 two run to go ahead by 23 Jaylen Brown had a game high 25 points and Jayson Tatum just missed a triple double finishing with 22 points 12 rebounds and 9 assists We need to go back home like we down three two With that sense of urgency that we did some must win game you know not relaxing 'cause we up Bam adebayo had a team best 18 points for Miami which shot a miserable 32% from the field and missed 38 of its 45 three point attempts Game 6 is Friday in Boston I'm Dave
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Curry, Thompson shoot Warriors past Wolves, 124-115
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Klay Thompson has 17 points in return, Warriors beat Cavs
"After after missing missing two two and and a a half half years years to to recover recover from from a a torn torn left left ACL ACL in in game game six six of of the the twenty twenty nineteen nineteen NBA NBA finals finals Klay Klay Thompson Thompson made made his his return return as as the the warriors warriors beat beat the the Cavaliers Cavaliers ninety ninety six six eighty eighty two two he he scored scored seventeen seventeen points points on on seven seven of of eighteen eighteen from from the the floor floor and and three three of of eight eight from from three three point point range range the the highlight highlight of of the the game game with with an an emphatic emphatic dunk dunk over over to to Cleveland Cleveland offenders offenders late late in in the the second second quarter quarter I'm I'm just just so so happy happy I I could could even even look look at at the the stat stat sheet sheet and and see see my my name name there there and and see see the the shot shot my my shot shot attempts attempts makes makes all all the the steps steps that's that's again again in in mice mice to to that's that's no no good good but but at at least least I'm I'm here here because because the the working working took took to to get get here here is is it it was was incredible incredible Stephan Stephan curry curry led led all all scorers scorers with with twenty twenty eight eight points points the the cavs cavs have have lost lost five five of of their their last last seven seven games games Lamar Lamar Stevens Stevens with with seventeen seventeen points points and and rajon rajon rondo rondo added added fifteen fifteen off off the the bench bench Riley Riley Aung Aung San San Francisco Francisco
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"nba finals" Discussed on Debate Amongst Friends With Doc & Prof
"So i'm gonna ask a year. So the sacramento kings seven years. The atlanta hawks sixty three phoenix suns. Fifty three the clippers fifty one. Of course the bucks just want so. That doesn't count anymore than the knicks with the fifty. forty eight. easy so Yeah some work to yet need to step it up. Got some big town work But congressional janas congressional. Chris middleton who i think deserves more of the flowers. Even though he didn't have the big outing which is why he didn't win in beeping still should have even if he had like a dirty point. Gain the fifty like he was never gonna win. Never folks i'm telling you he was never know cross means ever going to win finals. Mvp over yonder stocks. Are you kidding but also congrats to everyone who wanted for its championship right. I was going to go. I was going to have you call it off so you don't have to mention that one player. That was a rocket and he has been doing that for you as one person said it. How apropos he. He j. tucker won a championship before. James harden and we'll probably be the only one from that particular team to win one rick. Lopez has his first championship right. Exactly bobby portis champion now. And i think bobby he's gonna be a starter if if he's not brought back to you know to milwaukee thinking service you know. He's earned an opportunity to crack starting lineup somewhere. Oil crack a major championship jeff teague and now he i mean he could probably you probably call it. Now right i call it quits technically. He's f thirty four years. You'll be thirty four years old. You could probably call it quits pete. P. j. tucker you could you could potentially call it quits feels. I mean you've got to think a lot of them are going to let the championship hype. Died down within them a little bit for they decide on what they wanna do afterwards. Yeah you know. Thirty seven thirty seven years old even playing defense. Nine years on strong years played really good defense against devon booker despite switching and everything. So like i said i'll give them a lot of credit lot of credit but i know you heard this podcast on your fevered podcast platform. But if you didn't you can always go to our website at www dot debate amongst friends. Cow bichon tune in to morrow for more debate amongst friends will go over more. Nfl possibly nba new depending on. What's going on more olympic news. Hopefully figure out what's going on. But we're here monday to friday at four. Pm eastern standard time should tune in for more now more news.
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"He tells you to take to be arms and call in the morning. What a disgusting display. What this gusting outing. And yes for those. That don't know talk about the nba finals game four. But if you thought. I was talking about the phoenix suns own. No i am talking about the referees. Oh my gosh down the stretch. Oh my so. I'm going to say the star cast and i mean this in the greatest way possible man the bucks. They really stepped it up. They really locked down. The sun men debts game saving block from john man. That's a final moment for sure. Chris middleton had a great game drew holiday defended the ball berry berry. Well they put pressure all over dat back court score forty two points but no one else got twenty. No one else did. Brooke new has definitely showed up. Yeah he didn't make three but he was in the block. Did i mention the honest game saving block. I don't know if you know this. But that's all you're hearing about two day. I took the time prior to recording. Because i wanted to find out if any analysts any swertz writer any youtubers Wanted to take an objective approach to his game. Because that's what we do here. We like to take an objective approach. First of all doc. I'm sorry you were way off. I mean also had you know the sun's winning it but a he'll really confident So you know little bit dot cloud there for you but people thought about how the bucks'll was got robbed and how you know. This is an finals defining game if this is a files defining fighting game. There's something wrong here folks. This is a problem. I felt like i felt like the angel. Cerdan was watching down on us last night. With the way these non calls and tickets early in the game totally understand that you're trying to establish something but in the game the rough swallowed their wilson's a just blew some really really bad calls on both sides. This is on both sides so those who thought that the bucks almost got robbed. I can understand but the sun got robbed this well. The son got route themselves. I hope the league look at the two minute report especially because i didn't see on. Nba dot com yet. And i don't know people are going to be able to see it really going be honest about it. Take a chance. Take a moment out of your time and look at the last five minutes of the game. Just watch the last five minutes a game. Then you'll see what i'm talking about. I want you to trust your eyes rather than your years and look at it for yourself for those. That are pure aficionados. You'll see exactly what i'm talking about the on the southern side I mean honestly this was a game they could have won This was a grind Type of game. Chris paul he played awfully. I mean he wasn't efficient..
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"nba finals" Discussed on Debate Amongst Friends With Doc & Prof
"Look into a definitely was pocket. Real fast omar deja torrey craig. Like i'm sorry. Miss menu her chimney miami. So right now. They're going to be down to craig. Which obviously they have frank tank. They have some other great players you know. At the end of the banshee. Equal more is a really really good player. Avant garde is a good guard. I'm not sure if they would bring a guard but ask some pretty good players at the end of their bench that i'm sure we'll step up at del. Nagar is a pretty good shooter So i feel like that's we're gonna see or maybe we'll see more cameron johnson. Who played really good. He went two for four on field. And from behind the arc to yeah. He's a he's a baller. he's a gamer. So they'll go ahead and play this out. But i mean you won't hear the sun's talking about injuries you're going to hear the signs talk about how franken tank relived. His college. years in don't wanna championship. I'm saying that. That's what i wanna see three on sunday. Yes gained three sunday. In milwaukee lawyer said i believe that the the bucks will win one at home. That's my read one at home. Answer this is now the bucks wanna believe. They're going to win one. I don't know if it's gonna be this one. I think i said yesterday that they were going to go down his last data because they have to play desperate. They're going to make an they're gonna make an actual adjustment now in actual adjusted. That's my line actions when ireland. That's my line. That's something that i would say guy. He don't say that and they'll steal over it got he's giving my credit. That's what i do. I was giving them credit up until yesterday when i saw fifteen straight possessions of no change. What's that tell you like. It's it's like. I'm just i'm just giving you just tell you just told you that he's gonna make an adjustment which i making a just like an actual adjustment must be adjustment though. Run a play doc. You hear me to hear me. Say this ingesting atoll but dig is going to be a reality. He's what you're gonna get like take on my now. He took players out took torrey. Craig out took sorry john so they doing settled taken out by del toro cake. Acl is was long. Well shelter him for finishing the play to absolutely. I'll do. We talked about that when he got her them and torrey craig. I mean might now day to day. So we'll see if they got a few days so they have Boy is gone. He media china play. Like wow this is such a big loss for phoenix. Who's going to defend janas. Dooby not just see cam johnson. Do a great job gets down the like not down by north carolina do do do really not watched the game obser- just hours for twenty four twenty point third quarter for one player. But guess what the team was. Still down by fifteen at nine. I hear you any flying through injury. Don't forget his knee His knee injury. That's who that's who we think last night i'm like yeah i think it was. It was all. But i'm just like this. Has bad news written all over for them. Yeah he'll i'm sure he's playing with a. He's playing with an injury. The who is. I mean i feel like it's like whereas like Like tom brady i. Hey torn with a play with a partially torn. Whatever like all way through the season so you know you also get his cleanup surgery after the season but if they go down three zero i don't know he might think he might sit on down the like. Hey the hawks is on you now. But chris middleton. That's the thing about it. I feel like they win away. Yeah and it's like so weird and they kind of went away from the strategy that got them to the finals and Yeah i feel like Season's over whether it's four in five. I don't see it going six. I i can't i can't see the bucks. Stringing wins together if they do it. It will be because of some freak injury. Obviously i thought there was going to be injury with chris. Ball game one with the ankle But he obviously us okay. Hopefully his first game Yeah he i mean he also had. I mean the first time in a while and soon. Yeah i mean it. Kinda had six turnovers yesterday. Which is a different at the while he. He's kept trying to embarrass people to which kinda true true but we'll see emma and bryan forbes didn't play as much bobby portis didn't play as much. Contemplate played thirty three minutes so they clearly felt that he was a defender. Then come in but clearly. Yesterday he became a bitch. It didn't matter bryan forbes. Jetty content. They're not going to drew the net chris milton. It's either brooke hat. Jeff bobby orr brian. You pick your poison sixteen Tucker who's thought very tentative But i i mean. I think the thing about it. He really hates losing. I could tell after the game. He was knocked over. He could he gets swept. I mean you're gonna hear all these things about the locker room else does stuff like that. I think that's what people really looking forward to aftermath of all this. Yeah i think It stinks because you're so close right but that one play that defined. The whole game from ea was the deal in the end. Yeah that'd be one thing that that really showed. The energy for the team was There was a steel and I think I wanna say i'm trying to think I wanna say it was mikhail bridges who made this deal and he passed it up to a running. Maybe devon booker. Chris ball and then they went to lay it up. I think they missed. But then the andre eight light grab the rebound and then like dunked it but it was like nobody else running back like it was like a whole thing and nobody else ran back and is like mike had no choice but to call a timeout hustle will heart. Those are the ingredients. You need to become a champion if you're not running the floor. I don't care what the scores and you ain't reviewing run on. The floor is no chance. Mac says no chance in hell you will win. So we'll see what happens this weekend. We're going to continue to monitor it. Hopefully the bucks show up. And a buck i know. He uses a joke couple months ago but hopefully the buck doesn't stop here..
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Around the Horn
"nba finals" Discussed on Around the Horn
"Cautious. I know they feel like maybe. This is a unique opportunity. You look at the landscape of the eastern conference all the injuries that things had to break their way for them to get here but this shouldn't be viewed as it janas. Only twenty six years old hasn't even entered his prime yet. He's under contract through twenty twenty six. I'm that extension. Made everybody happy. Reward him for awarding you by treating him with the utmost care. I wouldn't be that desperate to win it all right now. you wouldn't. Would you play him tonight. He has even practice yet. Maybe if he goes through shoot around maybe if he can work out maybe you use the practice court and he can get some time with his teammates. He hasn't even played with his teammates and week. Let alone game forgot how to play basketball. He's just recovering from a need jury page. I'll bring you in here. would you play on tonight. Say he's played with these guys. It's not like he just shows up. He's a stranger from out of town. No i would play my willis reed him in the game. I'd put him in for the first five six minutes. See how he's tested on the court whether or not you can proceed with him. But i think it would be the most no lift to the box. The players knowing that he's willing to go out there and try it. I mean you're going to what saving for next year and hopefully you get back to the final snow. Try it right now. Do the most you possibly can to get him in shape to play for them. And i think you don't wait for the shoot around you. Don't wait for before the game. You just put him out there on the court because he knows exactly how to play with all these guys i think. Lopez in middleton and holiday would welcome him being on decline. There's a couple of things at play here. Right clinton yates. The injury looked terrible. But now we know that he has no tears and it's that he's questionable today. Do you get them back today. For game one. Do you wait till game. Three or game. Four game five or do you just say you know what we could be here again in the future other seasons. Let's sit them out for the entire postseason clinton if he wants to play game one you let him play game one and you gauge the rest of the series upon that. I just think that if you enter a series of the guy like honest who so important to the rest of your team and you just don't have him you're almost bearing yourself off the rip loose. I don't necessarily know this team should have been favored before y- honest was questionable. And now that he's not play. I don't think that you can sort of into this from a competition standpoint and give yourself a chance. I definitely think you playing if he has the ability to because he is a difference maker asked vegas do today jaanus upgraded to questionable. Emily kaplan's you play him tonight. In game one. Here's how i plan. I tell every single guy take as long as janas does at the free throw line and then he'll be there for game two. That's as easy as that jokes. None of them were jokes. Everybody okay the kita this series though. Is chris middleton jrue holiday because they were absolutely fantastic being more aggressive offensively when he was out the key is okay if they do play how can. They maintain that or maintain that when they have the floor. General mcchord and. I'm not sure how that plays out. So i really think. There's a lot of question marks for the milwaukee bucks. Don't talk to me about this. From the phoenix suns perspective as they go to their first. Nba finals in twenty five years. Plus and their first playoff match ten years. We said that already. What an amazing run. They've been on and the first finals for chris paul. Of course he has a chance to disprove one of my theories and that you can't win a if a player around my height six feet is your best player chris. Paul control games. Can he exert his will on a series. And that's the big question we. I think we've only seen a handful of players really under six six when finals. Mvp he's the favourite twin finals. Mvp can he put off and control things on both ends of the court exert his will in this series. You know he's going to be the most desperate to win this and he's going to basically i think he's going to basically transmit his playoff pain throughout all these young teammates. They haven't suffered playoff pain. He suffered plenty of it. I think he's not going to allow them to to have any sort of it from phoenix's perspective the keys to victory. It never ceases to amaze me how beginning these conversations about the suns and devon booker's name is not front and center. the guy's got seven thirty point games. Playoffs got to forty burgers issue over thirty five nearly thirty five percent from the three it over forty percent from the floor. If he's cookie the bucks don't have a chance. I mean that dude is what makes this team go. I know paul is the leader but if book or fills it up. I don't think he's looking at anything than maybe. So it's going to rise because eight. And he's shooting seventy one percent which has never happened in the shot clock era. Going back to bob cousy. Who was a six footer j. And he'd lead to a team to a lot of championships with bill russell. I just think today we talk about jaanus. But aidan is played against the best centers in the league when they haven't been heard and he's he's done more than any of them during the playoffs. I he's going to be just outstanding key in this year leaning phoenix. It sounds like what he paid. Clinton did more could be lucky to get to a fifth game at thank you what he believe. Janas can't play a one hundred percent and devon booker's cooking like he's been cooking all playoffs. Yeah this is going to milwaukee sorry because of the uncertainty. Give me feed. Emily kaplan phoenix's way to really get excited for the series you know what l. s. u. This because you've covered the game long than l. All of us combine here. This matchup howard beck called mind boggling that we've got here because it awesome that we got here. Is your mind boggled more than usual or do you think this is awesome series. Yes i do talk about teams that have been in the nba finals for decades. I think this is such a positive for the nba. People who say well it's not new yorker la but here's what it is it's it's a small mid market teams that are there and reached the finals that shows you. You don't have to go through a process in philadelphia to actually get to the head. Goes through quite a process off season. With all the attrition phoenix knoller mid market. I think we all agree. It's an enormous city. The top ten in markets in the country. But it's a batch that we've never seen before an nba finals. History gotta enjoy that part. It we'll move on last.
Behind the Bets
"nba finals" Discussed on Behind the Bets
"I want to touch on the nba no guest for the nba finals discussion. And we've done that throughout the postseason. Basically i wanna touch on a couple of things that stand out to meet the honest injury. Look we all wanna fire and make bets and hopefully win money on these big events right whether it's the super bowl the nba playoffs stanley cup. You name it but sometimes there's just not an edge and i just think it's too difficult right now to lay the series price of two dollars not knowing exactly what we're going to get with honest and when we're gonna get jaanus to return all signs point to his being out tonight for game one but willie return game two or game three. How effective willie b last round. We saw trae young return. And frankly i probably would have benched him in game six in the fourth quarter. At least he just wasn't that effective wasn't the usual stellar trae young. We were used to seeing this postseason or is it like joel embiid. After missing the second half of game four in the first round then missing game. Five sixers beat the wizards he. He came back from the injury and he was just managing pain more than anything. He was still dynamic. Not quite the same. Didn't have that dunk that. He said he could do it. One of the end of the one of the games. I believe it was game four against atlanta but nonetheless it just wasn't the same embiid but it was close to so if you can tell me exactly like how big of a percent how close to one hundred percent. We're going to be honest then. I can come up with a firm play in terms of the series price. Game one for me. No real opinion. It's already baked in the line. Honest isn't gonna play it. Let's say he's out officially might go from six to six and a half if he's miraculous you're gonna play maybe goes to three from the minus six just because it won't be one hundred percents so it's really tough game one favorites in the nba finals. The last fifteen sixteen years fifteen in one straight up fourteen to two. Ats now that's just a trend but sup denote given the sons at home court. I think they're going to win the series again. Don't wanna lay the two dollars. I think we're seeing a very loose milwaukee team that finally got over the hump reach the finals. They've been playing really tight. The last few postseasons especially this year. They were really tied against the nets but did get the w. thanks to kevin durant shoe size and game seven enabling the game to go to overtime and obviously outlasted atlanta thanks to couple injuries but both teams have benefited but nonetheless. They are here. No asterix whatsoever. At all. In my opinion. I just think if the only play i'm making a cpa three to win the mvp at plus one eighty to me. He's going to get all the difference from the voters if the sun's win at all thus booker or whoever else maybe eight and but book is really the main competitor. He has to put up astronomical numbers and for the sons doing. I just think c. P. three's going to have to have a stat line right. He's going to have to have double digit assist and a few games. Put up some points. I just don't think booker's capable of just having monster monster monster games in the four winds. So i think if it's remotely close. I think it's gonna go to chris paul because the leadership and all the other narratives so plus one eighty compared to minus. Two dollars is worth it to
The Hoop Collective
"nba finals" Discussed on The Hoop Collective
"And chris during his recovery from cova he was in la. So chris basically spent most of the last. You know five weeks like most of it's been in. La is interesting. Brian though this real quick. I talked to c. J. paul corresponds brother and he said that. Thank god that they finished at nuggets series in four games. He said kris found out he code after game for the next day and so who knows how much of that the rest of the series missed right right. And i could've you know certainly affected what happened against denver who they swept him so it wasn't an issue against enough. He missed two games but it like think about if the sons were like the bucks and they had to begin their next series three three days later and then had to play three games in six days. Chris would have missed maybe five games so things have gone love with the sons. This fin this run. They've also played great. We'll see if they continue all right. Thanks listen to podcasts Thank you to marc spears and ramona. Shelburne who will be providing coverage of the finals from site Thank you to our special producer tonight. Daniel dopp wheat. We stole them away from matthew berry berry is probably in hawaii right now. Daniel is is buried. Hawaii or is he like in the bahamas or something. I'm sure he's off on some island. doing something. matthew issue no is this. This is this is the man from the fancy. Show where you know the real. The number one podcast. Espn they get like trillions of listeners. So you know. We lucked out and got him today. For this for this show because it's a holiday weekend but as a reminder zach lowe and i will be recording after game after game one and you'll be hearing a podcast will post quickly and then it'll be it'll be up. Have to be up tuesday night but you know certainly by wednesday morning so remember to check that out. We're doing that In the hoop collective low post crossover during the final. So check that out. Thanks again everybody listening..
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"nba finals" Discussed on The Hoop Collective
"If you're honest. isn't there another guy. Thinks interesting is an and you ramona. You know this. Could you spend time at staples rope lopez in the post. I mean i. I i love him in the post and i think you need somebody that's gonna make eight and fatigues make make eight work make eight and fouled trouble looming he. He's kind of like a think lopez a hidden key. You know. he's a veteran guy. Yup you want that championship Is getting towards the end of his career. He savvy I i really think he could be an x. Factor in this series intel. If they can figure out he could be aggressive against atan a younger player. Still still trying to figure things out that that might might help the books some in a big way. Bryant went when we had brook lopez's in la okay. And he was at the lakers. Do you remember. He was kind of throw into that trade. The diangelo russel trade. I don't wanna say his career was like in jeopardy but he was like in a low point. And i remember rob pelinka from the lakers kept going on and on about roque lopez like this was for hand. He was a heated at trade. And you know and other people just kinda saw like they may put them in there to make salaries match something. Right and one of the better trades i would say the weights shook out and all the other ramifications and laker history and brooke was raised for them. He was like he was their number one option that year his team. They've ever know like he was really good for them. That was like sort of resurrection year and had a couple of We forget like brute. Lopez has an all-star level. Talent like that guy can play and you kinda they got him real cheap after that you know after stint in la but but the people have believed in brook lopez all along throughout his career because he has a lot of talent. We just haven't seen it all the time. Like sometimes it kind of comes and goes but it's it's not you know for lack of effort. It's not for lack of trying. He's just and i will speak for stanford man because i am a stamford girl. Okay and i. And i understand. We used to have something called paralysis by analysis. Okay it is a comment affliction among stanford athletes. Who where you just kind of over think things. And and you're you get a little tied up in it and it's it's it's kind of got him drought a career here and there but it's is not something he has not. He can overcome it. He because he does all the time. And if it's just something that's kind of always there. Sometimes it gets his head a little bit but i. I've always debate man. I just in in you get somebody like that on the stage like this boy this. This is his time to show out great for them. Those last couple of games on this well just cracked but a little bit earlier and buds taken out of incoming for you know the way. He's coached the offense. But he has been brook lopez's biggest supporter. Yeah in an era where teams on him on defense and they have to sometimes put him in drop coverage and sacrifice looking for a little bit foolish. I mean bud believes in protecting the paint more than he does defying the three pointer. Although i will point out these guys are the number one and number two teams in the playoffs and defending the corner. Three just a vital shot and not only it but only young allowing the fewest number events since you brought up the corner three. I'm going to give you a losing. We're going into game one here and i want to. This is a matchup. I will be watching okay. P j. tucker and devon booker. i don't know the. pj's going to guard him. But i know that when debbie started out in the league. Pj was one of his nets. And you know earl. Watson was their coats. I just you know he. He's he there's a lot of exxon people. Ryan mcdonagh earl watson who. They're sitting back looking looking pretty good right now. In terms of the talent they drafted developed. Okay and earl watson used to let p tucker guard devon booker in practice and he would never call foul the idea of being. We're gonna let. Pj go at book and just do pj things. And it's going to be iron sharpening iron. And and i don't know the pj pj has defended kevin durant in these playoffs. Like imagine going from durant devon booker. Let's an amazing skill. Set that you can do both. But i wouldn't be surprised book a little bit. It was amazing. It was amazing. Pj tucker ward devon booker Signature shoes practice. That's awesome it's awesome. I mean that is a fun. Little bit of sons history. That i that. We're gonna see how play play out these finals but major holiday. I guess you could see a lot of drill on on devon. But i sorta think drew will be on. Chris allies Pj on the switches be on devon or starting also situation. Yeah but but that's fun. One devon booker are pretty. I've been very impressed with his mental strength in these playoffs is obviously incredibly gifted. And he's a hard. He's a very hard worker but his mental strength for his first playoff run has really impressed me. But i it's interesting. That tucker did that today. i have no. I have no idea what he's trying to do. I mean look. I don't eat any claim that he had no idea what you know. Way out right. He dies every she'll for our disbrow. No idea what i have. No no the biggest shoe collector in the nba of the exactly his client where those shoes and when he when he was on the flight home he thinking about where he's going to go get him back. It might be the reason why they flew home like us. I'm still i'm also by. They didn't pack to go to phoenix. And just go straight the phoenix. Like what was the point of. I know we wanna milwaukee juju though right like it's a little bit of like you're going to game six. Let's close it out but you kind of have to realize you might. I mean if they would lost come. Home for you also got more time in phoenix. But now i know that pat riley like the old pack one. Suit thing like yeah. Yeah you could have said you know. Boys were packing for phoenix. Because we're going to go take care of business in atlanta. It's one of those things that you don't say until after you win. That's the way we packed for a week. But think about it just from our standards guy man tomorrow. I got a flat of milwaukee and then the next day i got a flat a phoenix from. That's a lot. Yeah just confusing to me. Why i mean these are younger. Guys and yeah. They're.
The Hoop Collective
"nba finals" Discussed on The Hoop Collective
"I do think that You know both of these teams. I think a couple of players of clayton. The finals jae crowder But like i know nobody ought either one. Nobody's got a ring six. Pm pacific letter sixty. I'm sorry thank you. I was just about getting a little nervous there well. I'm trying my first finals. Game in vegas is going to be sunday. That's a five o'clock pacific to say this. No this is the thing you know about. My friend march ears every town. He is the mayor. Kay he knows everywhere to go in every town like every new. If i haven't been to a place marker shutout. His restaurant list runs ten deep and every town. I'll be i love it. I'll be a comfortable. You'll be your sweet. I'll be in a comfortable setting. I will say this one. Nba player a very major star. Once told me that You know there's there's a vegas for everybody and then there's vegas for us. It's a totally different. Exactly what they mean. You know separate entrances. Let's put it that way. Let's yeah nba players. By the way it's first superstars to on beers stayed quiet. So i think spears's may be entered into those hallways once or twice but i have a whole bunch of failed failed. Stakeouts that i'm done in vegas because i didn't have access to the right entrances. I would be waiting in the lobby. I i liked that story from It's it's it's really kind of funny now because beverley. But i love the story from two thousand the summer of two thousand nineteen in the clippers. The i don't. I don't know if i was at the night of the earthquake. Oh yeah okay. Earthquake continue says the guy from the bear knock on wood where they got brad georgian kawai the gun the same night and i can't remember the name of the italian so some really was going on so all of the nba was full. Pietro's maybe wanna pietro's k. spirits. You know which italian restaurant was. They have a bunch of private rooms and now is one of the italian restaurants in one of the hotels and they have a whole hallway of private dining rooms and there was all these different parts of the nba. Players in beverley was going down the line. Talking smack lebron was up there. And paul georgia's the hair and Soap lebron was there with some lakers and paul Paul george was there and beverly Ran up and down talking smack in and out of the private rooms Because the kuwata's on brand that's on brand gutters on. That's part of the secret. Vegas that Yeah i won't be the secret vegas. I'll just be in the shadow finals. It's all i'm gonna say People with private rooms and he got his own. There's there's a roster of our teammates you're going to be there. It's almond say and You know while you guys are working. We're going to be you know. I mean i'm going to be working. Don't get me wrong. i mean team. Say you're hanging out with the gambling guy you know i'm not saying i'm just saying you know i'm not. I'm not pretending to have any special access. I'm just saying i've got this. Okay flirt sprint. I don't stay on the strip all right. I don't stay on the strip. And i don't usually there anymore. I am to open at so you know. I think it's important for phoenix to you. Know obviously The clippers had some momentum coming off of the utah series. Winning the two wins without kawhi and then the sons came out in game. One of that series granted. It was a tough turnaround and that turnaround was a factor in that series. Where the where the head to win on saturday night in salt lake and then play on sunday afternoon. Phoenix but booker comes out and has a forty point. Triple double chris. Paul is not in that game. That was a huge win for the sons to establish themselves in that series. So here are the bucks coming off of two games where they've played pretty well one of the things that's happened. These last two games as jrue holiday has been unlocked a little bit offensively and it's you know mike. Holders taken some fire for the way operates as offense and seeing how well holiday plays without jaanus is a little maddening. In you say how come. He doesn't play this way more often. How come bobby. You can't get more out of bobby portis because it's not like i know. Janos tends to stop the ball. But it doesn't mean that you have to play that way and so whatever the point is they've played pretty well the last two games really put their foot down on atlanta to win game six in atlanta. So i think it's going to be important for the sons. I know that their favorites in game one of their favorites the series. I think i saw today there minus one eighty. That's pretty heavy favorites. And you know if if the bookmakers feel that jaanus is either not gonna play majority of the series or when he comes back we'll be limited which is a reasonable guess with that injury I think spears The sons getting game one to stop the bucks. Momentum could also be pretty important. yeah. No i'm i'm with you. They got they got to win. Game more Especially.
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"nba finals" Discussed on The Hoop Collective
"Is a club it's fun it's all renovations Are such where it's it's it's for a club atmosphere and It is i money williams. Toby this year yeah okay. He said he thought it was allowed us place in the offs out as he had ever heard it. There's a there's an oracle to this place right now. Well it's an old. It's one of the old. I know it's been renovated but what's one of the oldest buildings now in the league and so it's designed i mean you know the square footage of it is smaller than your normal mb arena. It's more compact than your normal mba arena and therefore it has a better chance to create noise but again you know you're in the finals. Every team be fired up. A part of it is these fans have experienced this in a decade. They've just been in this super-charged fame broadening nortel's they're gonna here in arena. Any hanis once in the arena. They have they have the hub. what what what. He calls his botchy. But what do you call the grill. Like where everybody sits around will know. They cook it. It cooked you're like you're at the restaurant they give it to you the global. Oh okay i see. But i was like benny. Wow that's a pre cova. Benny honner was a A big time. Nda place players like to go cheesecake. Factory sang chang's deserting yourself saying that could be right about that Houston's by we. Am i wrong the other other places now spares you know they go to places that we can't get in well they go to places we can't get in in some cities or in a bubble. Well that's true but Lot of cities you know There's one city that. I won't name where i ran into where i've rented a players at olive garden. I can guess samuel. Oh man you call it right off the bat. I wouldn't yeah wouldn't that wouldn't have been did you. Forget the famous episodes in cleveland. Oh yeah xl for sure. Did you ever go there now. I don't think i did. I was the i if you wanted to see anybody from the cavs after a game you go to. Oh well he he kept it open late for them and he you know but yeah but you know yes. I sorry to say and by the way. It's been a long time since. I've been to that olive garden but i did see players eating in olive garden in salt lake city. I don't mean to be offensive. I'm from cleveland folks. I'm not from paris. i'm not throwing stones. I'm just saying what are you going to say. I saw half murga street. Grill the place in in salt lake and then go to park city. Yeah parks all right. So here's the thing. When these teams play in the regular season they played twice both times. the game was a one point game and both times. That difference was made By devon booker free throws and so as you look at this series This is a stat that i just find unbelievable. I've mentioned on the pod last week. The sons have won. Twelve consecutive games decided by five points or less well and it's going to play in the regular season. They won by one now. One of them was far back. In fact tori was playing for bucks. The one was late in the season. I think youngest might have missed one of the games chris. Paul swabians anyway So the close games. And here's the thing. I want you researched Why the suns are so good close games. I mentioned this last week. A little bit but the real answer i came up with was two reasons number one chris. Paul doesn't turn the ball over like ever. You get zero turnovers unless name. That's amazing race. He's got an almost he's got almost a six to one Assist to turnover ratio in the playoffs. A three to one is considered very good Six he's he's like five point seven to one so it's almost six to one. The other reason is the other thing is they. Are the number one playoff free. Throw shooting team in history. Who's made at least who's hit attempt at least two hundred fifty. Don't be no not a team to play three games. You know I think it's like Eighty seven percent or somebody that these two okay eighty six percent so and we know that milwaukee is free throw shooting especially with the honest is suspect at best says the worst free throw shooter still in the series so something to keep an eye on here you know and again. I don't know what will happen with the honest. I have no idea when he will be in there but you know. I think we're going to see who low scoring at least by kern mba standards and if the game is close. I i think if favors phoenix the other thing. I'll say the bucks on this isn't going to surprise anybody who's watched him in all the bucks. Your number one in the postseason in in in scoring in the paint and they shoot almost seventy percent In the restricted area. I mean that is all y- but also a brook lopez shoots like sixty has been shooting sixty three percent in their Bobby portis shoots a row. Heist cheryl high percentage in there So that's their game. Their game is score in the paint In fact i've it frustrates me when they don't shoot more in the pay but guess who. The number one defensive team in guarding the restricted area is phoenix suns. Feed and that is because the andre. The other thing is the bucks live on second. Chance points I don't think they were number one. But the average fifteen second chance points a game in the In i i was in the last series are just total I'm getting somebody stats from john. Shuman from mba dot com. Who is just you should read everything he writes. I mean it's very numbers heavy but He's one of the best at it. so what i would look for is You know de'andre eight and to be a very big important factor in this series because their their defense at the rim and their rebounding is You know no walkie needs those baskets at the rim and they need those second chance points. And that's where eight and comes in. So you know i've I've sort of felt like de'andre eight and has been the bellwether. Is that all the term bellwether we can. I don't know where it comes from. But i think people know that term. Don't you of spears. i don't know what i'm saying. Is we know the history of bellwether. Am i talking about. Benny hana's still well. Essentially bellwether means if one is a leading indicator tracks right like so essentially if it's typically used when we're talking about elections or something there's like missouri used to be bellwether whatever direction missouri goes. That's the direction that the election is probably gonna go right. Yeah so So bellwether sent. It probably has to do something with the weather term to be highest. I would say ring the bell when the tornado. And i don't know a really really really important player in how he plays and i'm not saying he's got average. He's had eleven double doubles in the. Yeah the sixteen games. They've played but it's not. I got i got the background. You ready okay. it's a. It's a middle english term.
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"In the finals and the bucks number one defensive team out of the sixteen teams in the playoffs and the sons of the number two defensive team and the and the bucks of the number ten offensive team at a sixteen and the sons are the number eleven offense team at sixteen so yup injuries absolutely played a role no doubt about especially for the path. The sons took but the end of the day the best to defensive teams. We've seen play over. The last six seven weeks are still standing. And so i think you know based on that especially with also janas out. I suspect we will see a lower scoring finals ramona. Now i've said that watch kmby one. Twenty twenty seven. But i suspect we will see a lower scoring finals. You know generally speaking when you give two teams a chance scout each other play against each other over and over they figure some things out right and and you know that mark and i were spending a lot of time covering that. That that clipper son series It was couple of low score games now now. Some of that i think was just fatigue like the eighty four eighty game out in la game for that that just seemed like fatigue but it was also just a very taught defensive standout like all those guys on both teams were exhausted afterwards now sudden that had a little break and i think that's what i'm curious to see. Did they get the legs back or did they lose some momentum. Sometimes when you're a little rusty young played in a minute you kinda lost some of that kind of lost some of that. What are you had gone right The bucks they just how much. How many days off did they get. Brian like they want to re two and a half by their the fly from atlanta. Walk in the milwaukee out to phoenix. Yeah oh wow so. They didn't they didn't even pack phoenix. They didn't necessarily go to atlanta. And maybe i don't know they wanted to go home for a day. I guess yeah. I mean this nice resorts in scottsdale. I know the The they'd probably out there but like does that does that help at this point in the season does it help to just keep going. Just you know. I know what i'm when when i'm tired i just want to keep going and then when i'm done i just want to be done right I think generally speaking like we have a little break sometimes. Takes a minute to get your wind back but this is what we'll see that game. Y you know whatever the whatever the sons are feeling my goodness. They're going to be excited. We all saw the parade of fans. They bill you guys have been great been in that arena by the way you know that the arena is unnamed. Right now i mean. I guess it's named the phoenix suns arena somebody. Somebody would have paid before the finals right. That was a mistake. That was a mistake but spears. You've been in that arena in the playoffs. I mean that place gets i mean. We're expecting a pretty crazy environment. Yeah no they own noli renovated it. They like change speaker system. They got a new. Dj in. this isn't the charles barkley crowd. You know it's it's a lot younger you know. I feel like i'm at some day party. Maybe mark maybe maybe. You're just older. But no i mean it seemed more like I hope somebody from phoenix challenges me from wrong but no there's definitely still a retirement community in a lot of ways and from my years of being mostly in the western conference not always seem like it was a pretty much a little bit older crowd whatnot but now now man. It's i can see why the older the older crowd doesn't want to be here at towards younger. It's it's it's popping is a club it's fun it's all renovations Are such where it's it's it's for a club atmosphere and It.
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"He didn't he didn't speak. They brought brook lopez's in instead which is probably more entertaining from but Nah it you know but offered nothing. He never does no got done covering the clippers and kawhi. So i'm i mean there is. There's absolutely nothing and then there's virtually nothing and there's really nothing and i think the clippers gave you really nothing but at least you to net. Yeah weird is song. Maybe this is something that has taken place just because of the pandemic and everything in his. It's an excuse but typically they would make the guys don't talk or some more information at this the ability to not tell us anything no update. Don't nothing is i. I've known teams to be coy. Four but like nothing new idea like it's it's it's really strange. Well it makes me wonder about the gambling aspect. Everything is fully invested in gambling. Almost every team has some sort of gambling partnership. And if they don't they will and so the nba's wrapping its hand hand hands around and saying please gamble on our games in fact gamble with these partners But then they're you know they're basically the issue i understand that there's a A competitive issue. Not letting the sons know how. Close you honest. Says we don't want to let them know they don't know what you hung us. Looks like they've never seen him. Play down anybody to be honest but as it is a little bit difficult to encourage betting on your games when you aren't giving at least an injury update you know. And then he doesn't talk right if there's something that is really truly up in the air and it really very much affects the vetting line a lot of time vegas. Just take it off the board again. The issue is that there are people who know correct. And it's not it's you know. That's that's where the problem is. But i mean look i don't think this is a you know a plague on the league or anything i just think it's an interesting sidelight. Yep and i. I think especially it. You know. it's our job to get information right so we're supposed to just be able to get around all that cut through all that it's just as mark you're saying it's a lot harder when there's other issues when we talk about cova testing and the access we have and and we're pulling back the curtain a little bit you know. Look your phone still works. People still text you thanks to call you. There's always ways to get information but Usually at the finals when there's media day everybody on the team. Whether it's trainer's assistant coaches the thirteenth guy on the on the roster injured players. They're all the court to and you can talk to everybody in each one of them has information in each one of them knows what's going on so now that is removed because everything is in a controlled zoom or press conference setting and so you know look the i think the league the players everybody. Nobody wants a positive test right now to take a player coach out of the finals. I don't want that mark. I don't you know that that would just be such shame at this point right when we made it to hear unfortunate situation with chris paul in the last round. You know i'm. I'm just grateful that we were on the jump the other day mark. We're talking about you. you're the right. Let's just pray for his health. Okay number one and then let's figure out what that let's let's you know. Let's let's hope he can play and then he did. And that's what i think. I've i've been feeling for the last year and a half right. We all kinda give this stuff a break you know in terms of you know media access all that hope of results no k but i think that's the issue for this year season. We're going to be like a movie weekends. Like weakens it more. We're gonna be banging on on the locker room door to get access. Yeah well that's the thing if you see ground who knows where they get back some media discussion which yeah isn't isn't the nba. But yeah so my information. Is you know vague. Which is in bucks. Expect y- honest to play in the series. But they don't know when they don't know how he's going to feel. I mean You know mike. Buttonholes are is basically barely offering full sentences at this point so he's one step away from mike from a bill territory with that he he is You know he basically said he wasn't even saying it was gonna practice today so not that today's practice is going to be. Let's take off the ankle and go sweat and that's not happening right now but He was able to go through full practice. I find it doubtful. Could play tomorrow. But you know we'll see. I guess we'll see for game two The one thing. I will say at the beginning of the playoffs. I did this. this piece for espn dot com. And i talked to a lot of different coaches and some players about whether we we just had the most aggressive highest scoring offense of season in history. And i wondered. is this playoffs. Going to be Like an like no other place because in the playoffs typically defense rises up. The best defensive teams tend to advance and often you know good defense beats good offense You know maybe not. An individual plays but across the board and i got a number of different opinions from coaches. But i'll never forget erik spoelstra air to was like and i and i think spo is often over the last fifteen years ahead of the curve He's a guy that i respect. We respect his foresight with where the league is and he said no. I don't think these offenses can be stopped I think that the defenses are are just up behind that. I don't see him fixing it and that still may be true. But i have to tell you guys In the finals and granted there were injuries to the great offensive teams but.
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"Far as I can tell, there was no evidence that they were going to be able to win that series none. And Kyrie goes down Hardin was already already out. So that's the same kind of thing. They're benefiting the same way from that catastrophic injury and and You know that. But that's going to the narrative was enough, I think bud is going to get keep this job. I mean, there's no other way around. You can't. I mean, unless you're honest, went to them and said, listen, I need a new coach cuz we, you know, whatever. But do you know that that probably won't happen either. I can't picture Yiannis doing that. So so, but who knows her is not is not going to lose his job and it's one of those rare weird things. Now, here's what could happen next year can get going again. They, they started method. Let's say Erwin, letting you know, somehow, without the honest doesn't play, he comes back and let's say that they, they're like, mediocre right there. For some the conference. Wait, what were the issue with a third third? Yeah. Which by the way, is a little bit of a downer, right? That was another reason why they get rid of, who knows, or less, you say their third again or fourth and struggling. It's not the same as it was off, you know, can they then fire him then because all those issues are still there, Probably so that that's why I probably would look forward. Now if that's the case, then their like gosh, why we showed this done in the beginning of the year, we had to clean slate now, cuz by the way, now we're bound able to try and resurrect our season, be really difficult to know the year of the new coach. So, anyway, so that's why would I wouldn't be surprised if they, if let's say they win it, they struggle again next year and are in the same spot and Thursday and then the same calls were for his job again. Yeah. Yeah. But it's, it's a thing because this season looking sensitive, I've gotten to the finals now, and you can say, overall it probably is a successful season, it makes it more difficult while even the situation. As far as the team play goes, and the game plan. It's still the same issues over there and defensively. They're very artistic in their system of protecting. Protecting the paint. The changes. I feel like this year, they've made more adjustments in game than previous job. There's still some games that game or against the Hawks, they just look terrible and in five and six. Just feel of that game was just so much better off. Yeah. And and by the way, in all fairness when you lose Yiannis, right? That was in the middle of the game for right? Yeah, yeah, I have to report, right? Yeah. Like, you know, all bets are off. You're not going to handle that, you know, in-game adjustments aren't going to do anything. You need to have a practice or two, you know what I mean and get over that initial shock? So I don't blame them, you know, for for, for, you know, crappy to bed on that one. But yeah, again you said it's right. They they adjustments, they made. And the way that Middleton and Jrue Holiday, live off of that is really impressive because sometimes seems no matter even though they had that ability, they rely on a guy like me on his own knowledge that when he goes away. They just don't know how to run their offense and you know what they were able to do it. So you know and you know this is this is a testament to how, you know, since reality is these are really good player game. Which is really good player, right?.
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"Hey, I have a friend that's been selling me on Devin Booker for, like, the past two years. He sent me clips all the time. My Instagram. Yeah. And he dead So send me clips Zach LaVine and I kind of started catering more to the vein this year but then of course with book and making the playoffs. He that's all he shows me now, but I still personally feel like Zach LaVine is still highly underrated. Considering our fellow. His skill-set is very similar to a different book of gives you. Yeah. Well, you know, here's a difference off exactly the answer of this year was, was, was better. Let me see. Yeah, I mean, it was really much better. Especially from an efficiency standpoint offensively. So what separates him now? What separates him now. So I just got text is is the defense and I wouldn't have said that Booker was any better than Levine? Although the dean is really right, he really struggles. He passively a lot of the time but after what I've seen in the playoffs Booker really has been giving out and being affected on the defensive end. We've not really ever seen that from the Lovin and that's probably what's going to separate, but that's a good call. Back trying to pick between those two is really tough. I would probably go with Levina authentically and I'd have to say, Booker has been better defensively? Is that a better team? So that that makes a difference as well. So I don't know, man. That's a really, really tough call. That's really close. If you want a value offense, more than you got to choose the beam. Hot take. I guess. I don't know what else. What's happening? Gabriel, do you want to say something? Well looking at the future of this, Phoenix Suns team. Do you think they can continue to reach Conference Finals or even the NBA Finals game next year's considering, you know, we don't have the this kind of season we had where everybody got injured and so you know it's a good question. Obviously the 63 thing is an interesting thing to keep an eye on because if you start to decline that's going to make it a lot harder for them to do that. And I don't know if campaign you can like, you know, be groomed to fit that role as a starter and then they bring somebody else in and then they could would keep it going. Everyone else though is very young and they can develop and you know, guys like Mikhail bridges are going to get better too. So I think that they're primed to be you know in that mix. Which is kind of like weird because all of a sudden like the Utah Jazz kind of where do they stand in that? They weren't supposed to be that team and all of a sudden you know, Justice artist Sons like leapfrogging them or not. I think maybe they are and so as I'm really high on Phoenix and I'm high on the Hawks. I think the Hawks going to be terrific, they stay healthy. So yeah. So I think that that they can certainly keep it going. The question really is, is the campaign taking off for CP3 eventually. I don't know how smooth that's going to be, if they can make that work then yeah. Then they should be good for several several years. The Nuggets too will probably be up there in the Western Conference the they they probably will. Yeah I wonder if we're going to find out that the that losing Grant ended up being more painful than it than they thought it was going to be. I'm, I'm headed take the safe mean. It's going to be up there cuz I can't see..
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"And I'm like, well all I can tell I felt like watching that was you know if CP3 is healthy and 80s healthy, the Lakers will win that. That's what it's like to me. And they were in control through game for up to 1 until 8. He goes down, if they go up 3-1 I can't picture the sun's winning that series even with Chris Ball healthy. So you know, Thursday, Is what I'm going to getting at, but even even still it just the whole thing sucks. And the fact that everyone's gone down like, this is just been and, for whatever reason, I'm not even sure. Obviously the, the, the Jonas injury is not because she started up the season so quickly. And he didn't have a lot of rest in the offseason, but, you know, I don't know. This is a crazy crazy season. I'm looking forward to getting back on the regular schedule, where we can start, you know, at the end of old. Yeah, and there's what there's one thing I'll say and then, I'll, I'll let somebody else jump in and help out. But what I wanted to say really on that on that end, is that your the playoffs are always a war of attrition. It's just this season is just so much more and maybe LeBron's, right? Maybe it's because there was the short, whatever a couple of these, you know, treat young got hurt by a freak injury. You know, I really got hurt victim by a freak injury that wasn't the long season that got them down but really what I want. What what I really want to say is that, you know, we all want to have that those planes. That's where everybody's healthy, but it's not 2K. You know, injuries are part of the game. It's yeah, it's always, it's always part of the game and the sons in the Bucks are for, For Better or Worse, the last team standing because they were the ones who were the most, you know, the best teams that were the most healthy over the course of the playoffs. So, I mean, it's just kind of that, you know, last man standing on a scenario. So, Absolutely, I want to thank you for. Thank you for letting me hop in and you know, take care buddy. You got it. Thanks man. I appreciate it. And anybody else who wants to hop in here? Come on in. Join us in the locker room app or sorry. Green Room. I got to get used to saying that and and then you can join this show and be me right out to the YouTube site as well. I'm trying to figure out if I can get this airplane thing to work. But I suppose The Green Room apps suddenly elimination using any other speakers besides my phone, which is an interesting weird thing, right? You think, you know, I could I could glass it out to my my bluetooth speaker. When I'm listening to it Green Room show but not when I'm in the home show, I guess. It's very strange. Anyway, we got another request..
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"Middle the Bucks aren't in the finals if Middleton play the way he does last night, and even in like game three down in Atlanta when he just took over in the fourth quarter. I mean, listen, by the way, the books that were they are without him even with the heavy on his healthy. Like you know what I mean? Like you need not in any way like that was that he's been the linchpin and I've been talking about him for years now. How he is like the the go-to guy for pick-and-roll, you know, he he ends up playing like this star role in their offense a lot month. Be honest does. And that's sort of a function of be honest has inability to shoot because it's like from deep and not wanting should any mid-range shots. So it's it's a lucky thing that they now lucky. It was a great development, they got him and he developed into this guy but he he is as vital as the honest is. And you know what? Like, they could probably be competitive without be honest. I don't know if they're going to. I only, they're going to beat the Suns. Be honest, can't play. All I can tell you is that it's a miracle, that Yiannis didn't are multiple ligaments in that inch with an injury. It was also strange to me that he's standing, you saw them standing up a lot in that. Game on that knee, I only, I can only imagine it must hurt when it's bent, right? And when you're sitting and it's been Ninety Degrees that, that must be where it takes more than when you Santa Claus. But even, even if he had like her elbow or something, he would have been standing the entire game. There's, there's nothing you could do to like Jonas is full Full Tilt, everything for sure for sure dead. Before game five, before game five in Milwaukee PJ Tucker. Had gone to a bar in a bar and the bartender had said that PJ told him that if if the Bucks had gone to a game seven in the final East Yiannis would have played so you can take that with a huge grain of salt..