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AP News Radio
Short-handed Wizards rout Celtics 130-111
"Kristaps porzingis had 32 points to go along with 12 rebounds to help lead the wizards to a one 30 to one 11 route of the Celtics. The wind keeps the wizard slim playoff hopes alive. They trail the bulls by two and a half games for the final play in spot in the east. Deni avia chipped in with 25 Boston was led by Jayson Tatum with 28, the Celtics fell two and a half games behind the bucks for the top record in the NBA. Craig heist, Washington.
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Jokic scores 31, Nuggets pull away from Wizards 118-104
"Nikola Jokić scored 31 points and pulled down 12 rebounds as the nuggets beat the wizards one 18 to one O four, the nuggets outscored the wizards 39 to 16 in the third quarter while hitting 15 three pointers on the night. Denver finished up a three and two road trip after surviving a four game losing streak. Jokic thinks they've turned the corner. Everything I think in NBA had that bad run, let's say like that. And hopefully if it's done for us and we survive it and hopefully we're going to play better now. The wizards were led by kristaps porzingis with 25. Craig heist, Washington.
WTOP
"porzingis" Discussed on WTOP
"With force. Kristaps porzingis let all scores with 34 points his fourth 30 point game in his last 6, down a level Howard Cruz to an 8th straight victory beating Maryland eastern shore wired a wire 78 69, American took a 73 51 beating from bucknell to lose their third straight and worse yet get swept by the worst team in the patriot league. The Washington commanders reportedly trying to set up interviews with two prominent offensive coordinator candidates, Super Bowl champion Eric B enemy on the heels of Kansas City's second title in four years and former ravens offensive coordinator Greg Roman, Major League Baseball's competition committee, unanimously adopted the pandemic induced rules starting extra innings with a runner on second base during the regular season and also tighten the use of position players as pitchers. Rob woodwork WTO sports. All right, thanks, rob, as always, three 46 on WTO team. A new study from the CDC after this week's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says teenage girls are facing record levels of mental health challenges these days actually at double the rate of boys. And The New York Times health writer running here in Rubin is with us this morning says there may be a clear reason why here. A lot of people are looking at social media and, you know, we can't tie it directly, but the amount of pressure or kids put themselves under when they're constantly on their phones on their devices. Knowing what other people are doing, knowing what other people are doing without them, being judged on how they look and how they present themselves. That seems to put a lot of pressure on girls. And it heads up from this morning health wise. Remember, if you or someone you know is dealing with a mental health crisis and need somebody to talk to, simply dial 9 8 8 that's mental health help, 9 8 8. It's three 47, Tuesday morning
AP News Radio
Knicks hold off Wizards 112-108 despite Kuzma's 40
"Jalen Brunson allowed the Knicks to overcome Kyle Kuzma's 40 points and a one 12 one O 8 triumph over the wizards. Brunson dropped in 34 points, including a pair of clutch free throws after the Knicks wasted most of an 11 point lead over the final two minutes. Julius Randle had 23 points and 16 rebounds in New York 6th win in 7 games. Kristaps porzingis had 21 points for the wizards who have dropped four or 5. Washington trailed 80 79 before the next one on a 14 O run over the next three and a half minutes. I'm Dave ferry.
WTOP
"porzingis" Discussed on WTOP
"And white. Think red. Here's rob wood fort All right, the wizards in a close one in Brooklyn. They are currently trailing the nets 78 72 as we got about a minute and a half left in the third quarter and the wizards back to not making threes. They're just four of 14 from long range in this game. Kristaps porzingis having a strong game for the second straight contest he is leading the Wiz with 21 points and 14 rebounds, local product Kevin Durant, putting on his hometown team here with a game high 29 points for Brooklyn, Georgetown, trying to dig their way out of what was a 15 point hole at halftime in Texas tech. Let's just say it's not getting any better here. The red raiders shooting 59% from the floor they lead the hoyas 54 to 33. As we're about 5 minutes into the second half, George Washington just getting started against South Carolina in front 5 to two in the early going and George Mason needing overtime here against soft straw they are trailing the pride 73 71 about two minutes left to go in the extra session, VCU held off Vanderbilt 70, 65, they're undefeated at home. Howard lost by more points than they scored at Yale, 86 to 40 and navy's three game win streak ends with an 82 77 loss to lipscomb, the Washington commander's back at practice today, getting ready for the big showdown in the Big Apple with the Giants among those sidelined practice, Dax Milne, Benjamin saint Joseph and Trey Turner, chase young, among those limited alongside Antonio Gibson and Logan Thomas this week's military bold D.C. touchdown club high school football player of the week is CH flowers quarterback Shawn Johnson. He's a senior in the second season as a starter. He enjoyed another strong performance this past Saturday completing 5 of 8 passes for 83 yards and a touchdown. He rushed 22 times for 165 yards and another score is the Jaguars beat wise 20 to 13 in a Maryland four a semifinal in advance to their first ever state championship game. Be sure to visit WTO dot com to read more about how Sean has developed into a team leader and see highlights from the game. Rob woodwork WTO sports
AP News Radio
Kuzma scores 36 to lead Wizards past Mavericks 113-105
"Kyle Kuzma led 5 players in double figures with 36 points to go along with 11 rebounds as the wizards beat the Mavericks one 13 to one O 5 The wizards playing without Bradley Beal and kristaps porzingis shot 49% from the floor Kuzma felt the wizards played their best game of the year Just went out there and executed And it was beautiful but it's probably our best game all year no question Just from a tension to detail and just executing what we saw soft for at first And it was great Rory hachimura chipped in with 23 the Mavericks were led by Spencer Dinwiddie's 33 Craig heist Washington
AP News Radio
Porzingis, Beal lead Wizards over Embiid-less 76ers, 121-111
"Kristoff's porzingis and Bradley Beal led the wizards to a one 21 one 11 road win over the 76ers Porzingis delivered 30 points to 9 rebounds for Washington which didn't trail for the final three quarters Things were going good for them offensively but when it really mattered on fourth quarter we did what we were supposed to do And the current business Beale finished with 29 points And Kyle Kuzma added 18 as the wizards had 6 players score in double figures The sixers played without Joel embiid due to a non COVID illness Tyrese Maxie pays the 76ers with 32 points James Harden chipped in 24 and Tobias Harris added 16 I'm Dave ferry
AP News Radio
Harden, Maxey lead 76ers past Wizards 118-111
"James Harden had 23 points while dishing out 17 assists as the 76ers won their third straight beating the wizards one 18 one 11 Tyrese Maxie led 6 in double figures with 28 points tied at 52 at halftime the sixers took control outscoring the wizards 34 21 in the third quarter Head coach Doc Rivers said that was the key When you could come out and stretch the game in the third quarter it changes that name at the game I would love us to be that type of team Chris stops porzingis led the wizards with 32 while Bradley Beal added 20 Craig heist Washington
AP News Radio
Brown scores 24, Beal struggles as Celtics roll 112-94
"Jalen Brown scored 24 points in the Celtics took advantage of the cold shooting Bradley Beal to beat the wizards one 1294 Beale missed his first 11 shots and was scoreless until the third quarter before finishing with 12 points and 8 assists Jayson Tatum dropped in 23 points and provided 5 of Boston's 21 three pointers The Celtics also had 29 assists on 36 field goals Malcolm Brogdon added 21 points as the salt stopped a two game skid Kristoff's porzingis scored 17 points for the wizards who have lost three of their last four I'm Dave ferry
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Jaylen Brown scores 32 points; Celtics rout Wizards 144-102
"Jaylen Jaylen brown brown and and Jayson Jayson Tatum Tatum combined combined for for fifty fifty four four points points as as the the Celtics Celtics blew blew out out the the wizard wizard one one forty forty four four to to one one oh oh two two brown brown had had a a game game high high thirty thirty two two points points along along with with seven seven rebounds rebounds and and five five assists assists while while Tatum Tatum told told twenty twenty two two points points and and seven seven helpers helpers jockeying jockeying for for one one of of the the top top seed seed in in the the Eastern Eastern Conference Conference brown's brown's team team posted posted its its thirteenth thirteenth win win in in sixteen sixteen games games with with three three games games left left in in the the regular regular season season today today was was a a good good game game we we played played against against a a team team that that was was hungry hungry I I was was going going to to come come out out and and play play hard hard regardless regardless because because they they have have nothing nothing to to lose lose and and they they played played well well last last game game against against Dallas Dallas Kristaps Kristaps porzingis porzingis and and continuous continuous Caldwell Caldwell pope pope had had seventeen seventeen points points apiece apiece for for a a wizards wizards team team that that had had won won four four of of five five I'm I'm given given Coolbaugh Coolbaugh
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"porzingis" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Just think they're hard to play if they can get everyone healthy. I gotta be honest. I don't see anyone in the east that I'm terrified of. I would say Milwaukee is would be a gun to my head to pick. I would Miami is kind of the sleeper just 'cause I wanna see what they look like when Lowry is finally healthy and looking good for a month. Now he's also old. We may never see that, but if we can see a stretch from Lowry that he really looks like Lowry again. I think they have to be taken seriously. I don't feel nearly as strongly about Philly in Brooklyn. And the more I look at the Philly deal and especially losing curry in that thing too, who is one of the few people that gave them a little movement and a little unpredictability. And now I just feel like I think they're going to as weird as this sounds, it's going to be pretty predictable offensively. And I'm not sure that deal is going to work. That predictability is not necessarily a downside. I mean, if you're like, I don't think you have to be unpredictable if you have a guy who can they're going to draw so many free throws. That's the part. I think that people are going to be living at the free throw line and that has a bunch of different knock on effects that reduces the if you're playing a team doesn't have a lot of depth, those players are going to be in foul trouble. There are a tough, tough team to match up with because you need to play a big to guard embiid. So now you've got to alter your game panel a little bit. There's very few teams that are comfortable playing a big at all times. I don't know. I mean, it's hard to say. Who knows how they'll actually fit together? There's this idea that harden really needs a rim running or a 5 out type of scheme to be successful because that's how he's been successful in the past. But I'm sure you can adjust his game. The one thing I think will be interesting is how much they stagger those two because that will be fun. I mean, being able to just have an MD squad and then a hardened squad was space around him. They don't have a ton of shooting unfortunately after they gave up curry. But I don't know. I think you have to make that deal. But I think both teams benefited from that deal. I mean, I think we're Philadelphia was a little bit disappointed. I think they thought there was a chance they could keep Simmons and then also get them and get them in, get them recoup whatever organizational failures they've had in relationship issues that they had with him and the team. I think they thought, well, if we can get this right and then sign harden in the off season and somehow they can find a buyer for some contracts. That's what they want to do because I think they thought they were going to get harder than the off season. Anyways. Shed some salary, but I'm sure they would be able to make it happen. And then now they have to actually give up Simmons or do two separate deals and get hardened for free. I think they just decided to do it now, get it over and done with. Yeah, who knows? It's tricky. I mean, they're going to be tough, they're going to be tough. I think they're going to be the biggest variance. The spread between how good they'll be and how bad they'll be as massive because it's just super unpredictable. And I think you can make the same case for Brooklyn, I think both those teams are just going to be super interesting to watch down the stretch because nobody can really accurately say how it's going to play out. I think people can guess, but it's going to be really tough to call. I think Brooklyn is going to be good. I think Brooklyn, adding Simmons defensively is huge, they can play it. They can play them as the primary hand doesn't need to take shots. They've got guys who can shoot. They've got Durant, who's as good as it gets offensively, literally. And so yeah, it'll be, it'll be interesting to watch. I mean, I think they have a chance. I mean, I don't know, also they might at some point down the road, Kyrie might be able to play home games. Again, I know they've talked to mayors talked a little bit about being conflicted there. If that happens now, that's a completely different situation. The fact that he can't not get on is absurd to me that a visiting player who's unvaccinated can play in Brooklyn, but it's been done the whole time. Honestly, I realize that they realize it. So maybe that will change maybe it won't. But yeah, I think it'll be fun. Both those teams answer your question who's in the east. Miami is pretty old. But they're going to be tough in the playoffs. Milwaukee seems to be the team to beat. But we'll find out the east is going to be lit. I mean, that's going to be the playoffs that everyone's going to want to watch, I think. I mean, it's so funny. Yeah. It flipped. I think with Philly and Brooklyn, the more I've been looking at it. When you talk about the variants, the two things for Philly for me are is embiid and am I getting him a 100% or 95% the rest of the way. Right? Because it's a lot to ask. He's missed a lot of games over the years and he'll disappear for two weeks and whatever. He's been pretty healthy this year. And he seems like he's in good shape, but then you have the heart and peace where he's had issues with his legs the last two years he's getting older. We know about his lifestyle, which has been reported about in multiple places and he's hitting that age where, you know, we've seen guys kind of go sideways. We saw it Iverson's the worst case example of this, but I ever went from 27 to game till he was out of the league in two years, you know? And so I wonder about the durability of those two guys, which is weird to worry about hard and durability when he played every game for ten years. But the durability of those guys going through foreplay of France. Emerson had ever since had some off the court stuff that problem. I know he did. I'm aware. But I'm not sure how hard it doesn't. I mean, the Iverson stuff was I think a lot different than pardon just likes to go out. I don't think Hardin's like, yeah. I know what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So the Brooklyn piece, it's just people are now penciling Ben Simmons into being the Ben Simmons that we saw before he melted down in the playoffs. And I would just like to see it. I'd like to see it for a few weeks. I would like to see him shoot free throws in a one point game and a minute left on the road. I would like to see how he handles different places. I think people over and I don't think he did himself any favors. People definitely overreacted to that playoff series. And just assume that that's who he is. I mean, I don't know. Yes, he passed that shot at the last whatever. And could have went up, got filed, shot free throws or could try to make the layup and he passed out of it. Obviously bad doctor much to his team. But just kind of shows you the kind of world we live in where every little move gets micromanaged and talks about for years. That happened last year's playoffs. People forget that, I don't know. I mean, he was a decent, he's never, he hasn't been this his whole career. He wasn't okay free throw shooter earlier on in his career. It's not like free throw shootings. It's magical thing that's so difficult to do. And I do I think you'll ever be a three point shooter, probably not. But he hasn't done himself any favors by the way. He's refused to kind of acknowledge the weaknesses in his game and.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"porzingis" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Camera plus 20% off with interactive monitoring. That's a deal that could happen for you. Go to simply safe with twos. Simple safe dot com. Slash BS. Coming back, we're talking about team building, what it's like now versus 2000s. The spurs, it's so funny how they had all the pieces to have this incredible dominance, small ball team and the entire 2000s, right with Duncan. And they've Duncan Manuel and Parker by 2004. And at that point, all they had to do was just add shooters and maybe like a hybrid three, four kind of Thad young body type guy. And maybe a backup center who could play like ten minutes a game. And that's it, but you weren't thinking about that back then, right? But on paper, all they had to do was just keep adding shooters. I guess they tried with Richard Jefferson. He just didn't play well there, but it's fun to look back at some of those teams and be like, oh, if they had all the information we have now, what would have been their one or two moves? Because they just was the mentality back then. Yeah. Back then it was harder to find shooters too. I mean, you'd had guys who could shoot, but couldn't do anything else. Guys who could defend and you could turn them into a decent maybe a corner three point. Bruce baum was looking a good example of that. They couldn't shoot free throws, but could shoe corner threes. Can shoot above the breakthroughs, but could you corner threes? And so there's guys like that. And then there was the guys that were the Mac carols who were really good shooters, but couldn't defend it all or anything like that. Yeah, literally just shooters. The team that I really like where the leagues is now where the league is now because there's so many different kind of styles and types of teams. I was worried like two years ago that we were just going to turn into this league that just everybody was doing the same thing and everybody was going to shoot 35 threes a game and it all kind of depended on how good your guy was one on one in the last minute. But I don't feel that way. I actually think there's a lot of different styles and teams that I think that's why a lot of us have gravitated to watching Memphis and Cleveland and Phoenix and there's just weird teams in a good way. I went to Utah Lakers last night. I took my son and all his friends. And it was a pretty boring game for three quarters. And then the fourth quarter LeBron, Aaron donner was sitting courtside on the side of the bronze was shooting on the fourth quarter in LeBron because he's one of the best ever. He started feeding off Aaron Donald and just destroys the jets. But it was the same predicament that jazz have over and over again, right? Where the team went small, Gobert's kind of on an island, Gobert's coming out, challenging LeBron and LeBron's just either shooting threes over him, take her to the basket and it's like, it's like rinse, lather repeat with jazz. Where they have these leads and they can't once the team does like this. All right, we'll try this. And then it actually works. If you're running the jazz, what would you do? Because I don't think they have any chance of winning the title, but the trade deadline passed. I just don't like their nucleus. I think they're slow on the perimeter. You could feel it last night, and I just, I don't see it. Am I missing something? No, I mean, but there's very few teams that have a chance to win. The title to begin with. I don't know. I do think people have latched on this idea that Gobert gets played off the floor on the playoffs. And if you go back and look at the data, it's not actually that accurate key. They have performed better with them on the floor for the most part. There's always stretches where it looks like he's struggling where he's getting ISO and up versus the guard. But overall, their defense is better with him on the court. Their offense is better with them largely on the court and the playoffs. It's just they're playing teams that are very skilled and our tough matchups for them or they've had injury injury problems also. I don't know. I don't know what I would do if I were them. I mean, these teams are at such disadvantages because nobody's like, oh yeah, I can't wait to go get off my rookie deal so I can go sign in Utah. And the other side of that is that's really hard to keep your players too. So they had to make a decision. Do they want to not sign go bear? Are they ever going to get a player as good as go baron free agency? Probably not. Are they going to be able to get one on the draft? Maybe, but they're not in the tanking situation, so they don't have to get super, super lucky with a later pick. I don't know. I wouldn't really, I mean, the part that I didn't get is I wasn't a huge fan of letting go of ingles. That to me, I think gingles was like a valuable player for them. He was out for the year though. True. You mean like for next year. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I guess my point is like, I don't get the idea of like, I don't know. What is your goal exactly? You're just going to get better this year, not worry about it. Do they really think they have a chance to compete this year? I don't know. I mean, it seems difficult..
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"porzingis" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Mavericks trade was pretty shocking, I think. Yeah, let's start with that because you used the word for the Mavericks, but more importantly, like the porzingis piece of it yet, because to me, it just seemed like they were kind of just getting out of the porzingis business and taking what they could get and that maybe they just didn't trust them physically anymore. And that if you could turn them into too smart contracts, hope that birth times made a miraculous comeback into the shooter who was three years ago that didn't really give them at least a backup guard who could do some stuff. To them that was just more palatable than rolling the dice with porzingis for even three more months. It just seemed like they wanted out. Yeah, I think there's definitely, I mean, you kind of nailed it. It's certainly a lot easier to trade one smaller contract that's smaller contracts than one big contract. I mean, I don't know. A lot of people are saying this Burton's contracts like one of the worst contracts in the NBA. I just don't, I just don't see it. I mean, not see how it's a bad contract. He's only getting 60 million a year last year of his deal. I think his only partially guaranteed for like 5 million or something. And then yeah, then there's also like you even mentioned it like if you can get back to be the shooter he was three years ago, well, I mean, he really has shot well every year with the exception of this year. It's not like putting shot 40%, I believe last year. So it doesn't have to get back to the guy he was three years ago. We just have to get back to the guy he was before this year. And I think like when you're primarily a three point shooter as teams have witnessed, I mean, the variance, if you're shooting almost all your attempts from three, there's going to be massive variants in a 30 or 40 game sample. So yeah, I don't know. I mean, for me, I think as this is as an outsider, I think part of it is they want to retain Dorian Finney Smith. They want to retain him and also, I guess, be able to offer Jalen Brunson a contract in free agency and so doing that and having the KP contract on the books made that difficult. And now I guess they figure they can pivot with these two smaller contracts. They can make a decision. In the summer, whether they want to keep Dinwiddie or moved in weedy or sign runs in or not signed runs and they'll have a lot more information a lot more flexibility, I guess. And I think that's probably a more measured approach than what they've done.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"porzingis" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Coming up this Monday. Stay tuned for that. And you should be checking out the just like us podcast, which is on the ringer dish feed. It is hosted by Claire Malone. It's the narrative podcast diving into tabloid culture in the 2000s. It's really good. Check that out. Brought to you by FanDuel sportsbook as well. I missed on my same game parlay on Wednesday. I ended up doing a wizard's pacers thing because I really wanted to do a Lakers jazz game. I was all excited about it because I was going to the Lakers jazz game. And I was going to do a Lakers money line bat with LeBron and Davis probably would have been in it and he got hurt, so I would have lost it anyway, but that was a bummer because I did wash and Joe house told me wait a second. Why did you bet on Washington? And of course they lost. So now I owe you one. I'm going to do something for all star weekend. I'm going to be in the gambling feed. The ringer gambling show with John just Trotsky and Joe house on Friday. And we're going to figure out all star weekend bets. So stay tuned for that. Friday, ringer gambling show, me, Joe house and JJ. And we're going to have all kinds of all star bets for you. Coming up on this podcast. Corral bob vulgaris, aka bob valgus, AKA H bob HK, one of my favorite NBA guests. He is coming up. We'll talk, trade deadline, playoff predictions. Why Dallas got rid of porzingis? Ken hart and save the sixers, all kinds of stuff. It's on the next first. Our Friends from protein. All right, my friend bob barris is here. Came on. I think before one of the holidays, and then he just goes, he's just off. I don't know where he goes. He does stuff. Travels as.
Game Theory Podcast
"porzingis" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"But when you think about it this way, when the Milwaukee Bucks made the swing for drew Holliday, it made perfect sense, right? We were all going nuts about how good drew holiday was. Because drew Ali had a track record of helping teams. They were much closer to competing than Washington is. Right. And so when you're looking at you this way, if porzingis was as productive in Dallas the way drew holiday was in New Orleans, he wouldn't have even been on the trade market. Right? Because that's what they need. What they need from porzingis will Washington is going to need from porzingis is what Dallas needed from him with Luca. Right? And if you're not going to get that in Dallas understands, hey, we're not getting that. We need to get rid of it and watch it like we can get it. It's like it's just a wild reckless swing to me. And at that point, that's when I'm looking at it going like if you're chasing like that? You've already lost. You know, and maybe you get lucky. Maybe it works out, knock on wood, porzingis has good health and it works out and it's great because I love having more good basketball teams and bad basketball teams in the NBA. But I just think it's a wild gamble. And now you've made itself, you made it a very difficult contract to move 'cause I'll just be honest with you. I don't imagine somebody if it does if Washington's going to put porzingis back on the trade market. I don't imagine you're going to get a taker. You're going to have to ask that with that. No, I know what you're saying. It's tradable. But what I will say though. You probably will, but it gets easier. The longer it goes, like if he can be there for a year, you can be there for a year and a half. The contract gets shorter, teams are more willing to deal with shorter term big money contracts than they are with longer term big money contracts..
Game Theory Podcast
"porzingis" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"What is their plan? Do they know? Do they know that's my thing? They did a great job in the Westbrook trade, right? And got some good pieces and things like that. Now the season has gone off the rails. You have Beale out with the year with the surgery and things like that. And they're in a very critical situation of what are you going to do now with Bradley Beal? Like, look, I don't think that Washington deal for Westbrook was as good as Bobby marks thinks it was where it was like one of the best deals of all time. But undeniably they did well. I think that getting off of that contract and getting who they got in in terms of ancillary pieces to potentially work like, I think that they did find getting those guys. Yeah, and you know now, by the way, flipping one of those pieces Spencer Dinwiddie and Davis bertans to Dallas in that train. And we'll talk about dialysis side here in a second. When I look at Washington, I'm just like, I'm confused. And I've been confused about Washington for a while. Like let's just be honest. It's getting to the point where what are you planning here? And I'm kind of shocked like Beale still hasn't demanded a trade. You know? Like every time I'm like, yo, like, how long are you just willing to sit there and continue to be honest, be irrelevant, you know? It doesn't matter. You're young, you're 28 at this point. And you know, he's going to opt in his contract with the researcher and things like that. I would imagine. And then they're going to try to give them the super duper max. And then so we're going to play this dance and then a year from now you're going to demand the trade. You're just wasting your time. I think I don't understand the plan for Washington. It's a big swing on porzingis who's never healthy. But I guess the hope is like, hey, if we're healthy, we can have a pretty good defense. You know, he's a good rim protector when he's right. Kyle Kuzma has been really good defensively. KCP has been pretty good this season. Like they got some pieces, Rui hachimura, Denny advil. They've all been good on the defensive end and things like that. So maybe that's the thinking of like, hey, we're just going to start to pivot to being a really good defensive team. I just, I would be very worried and granted they got off. They're paying porzingis a ton more money, but he's dealing with shorter than I think Davis Burton, so getting off Burt hands. This is probably a win for them. And I think that that's pretty good and Dinwiddie hasn't worked out for them, like there's no, it's not like they gave up a massive player in Dinwiddie, but I just, again, I'm just curious. It's just like will trade you are too bad contracts for you're really bad contract. Like I get confused with that. So let's talk about the Washington side first. Because the thing that I can't wrap my head around in Washington is center has been the least of their worries this year. They've gotten pretty good production from Daniel gafford. They've gotten pretty good production from montrez harrell who they moved in ancillary deal to Charlotte, who will talk about that in a minute because I think that's actually an interesting deal as well. But montrose Herald has been really valuable to score off the bench. Daniel gafford is a.
The NBA Show
"porzingis" Discussed on The NBA Show
"So the wizards made a lot of moves. Just a flurry of moves in the last hour of the trade deadline. One of the being porzingis going getting traded from the Mavs to the whiz. Does that help Bradley Beal stay? Because I don't think it does. I don't think it matters either way. I have porzingis talk about stock falling over the last few years. I remember it was him and Giannis is like the two unicorns. That wasn't that long ago. And now he's just a guy that like, oh, you know, we needed to get from an average standpoint. We need to get him out of town. Look, sometimes unicorns get hurt too. Unicorns can have knee injuries it happens. But I look at the wizards right now. And I think they're chasing ghosts with these trades, right? It's one of those things like I always think back to LeBron's last couple of years in Cleveland where the cows are just making deals just to say on paper. Oh, this is what we did to help you stay. And if I'm Bradley Beal, man, I don't know. I know that he wants to stay in the wizards, but I just don't trust that. If I'm Bradley, I just don't trust that it's going to that is good that these moves are gonna help or that I don't know if I trust his front office to build a contender. Whether I know it's a relatively new, but still I just don't I have I'm in my late 20s. I want to win a title. I have a lot more prime years. I don't want to do that. I don't want to play those years in a rebuild. Does he does he stay for this? Does this porzingis make Bradley Bill stay? I can't imagine it moves the needle that much for bradfield. He's either going to sign this massive new contract or he's not. Or he's going to sign it and then request a trade later, that seems totally in the cards too. But for Washington, I get to the point where I'm just like, what did this really cost you, you know? You're giving up Spencer Dinwiddie who basically from the time he was signed has seemed kind of like a mistake in terms of his impact on the court, has not been good. Has not been good as a wizard. You're giving up Davis bretons, who's probably one of the worst contracts in the league right now. A guy who has basically a one dimensional player has not lived up to that one dimension lately, which is a problem. So you're flipping these guys for Christoph porzingis and as I'm going through that, I'm wondering, like, what is in this for the maps? Why are they taking part in this, even though Chris abs is injured, even though he has his own problems, to me what this signals from a Dallas perspective is the Mavs were so much more concerned with availability than fit. They needed guys who are going to be there more so than porzingis is the most talented player in this trade, right? Yeah. Not even not even a question, but I don't know, we actually want to trade on here. We actually want to trade between the nets and the sixers. You said everyone. I don't think anyone. Did anyone win this trade? I don't know, I think that's a trade where it was pointless in a lot of ways. What did you, what did you gain from this? I don't see this, but if I'm Brad, I can't. We don't have to spend much time on it. I just don't, I don't know what this does for them. I don't know. You wanted to talk about the Phoenix Suns. What do you like about what the Phoenix Suns at the deadline? Well, so the sons were in a pretty low risk mode. They don't want to mess too much with what may be the best team in the league right now. So what can you do? They needed to show up their backup point guard spot, they picked up Aaron holiday from the wizards for cash as far as I can tell for reasons that I don't fully understand. I think Aaron holiday could have helped this version of the wizards. They're trading away guards. They need to fill spots. Aaron holiday is going to fit really nicely on Phoenix's bench. They bring back Tori Craig in a different trade with the pacers for Jalen Smith. Jalen Smith, a big who they didn't really have that much use for is a little redundant to the roster. They chose not to pick up the option on. Let's bring back a good valid bench wing to fill out our ranks. I think if you're the best team in your conference and the best maybe the best team in the league, this is the kind of deadline you want to have. Low risk potentially decent impact moves were like, those guys could be a meaningful player for you in a spot playoff game or two in a big moment. I think that's exactly what the sun should have been gunning for and they found it. So where do you think of this? What do you think I'm conflicted on how I feel about the sun is this year? Because on one hand, I think, man, this team is unstoppable. They're going to the finals. It is what it is. But then when I piece it back together, I see Chris Paul, who's great, but typically, is a little older, but typically, when he gets his body breaks down and we've seen that in the finals, we've seen that when he played with the rockets. We've seen this time and time again. I really love that team. I don't trust them. Talk me into the sun's the sun's being the title contender for because I keep hearing it. But I just really, I don't know if I can trust what I see in the regular season to get into the finals, because I've already seen this and I'm concerned about that. I'm concerned about Chris Paul's health. I think that's the biggest thing that I'm concerned about. I do think that they are a great team. I do love Devin Booker. I do love their front core presence. I do love what they have with Aiden. But I am scared. I am scared. And I'm the minority at the ringer right now. I already know this. I already know everyone has picked the sons to win the title or at least represent the west, but I'm skeptical. I don't know. But we just saw it. We just saw them get to the finals. Like how skeptical could you reasonably be under those circumstances? That's a fair point. That is a fair point. I would say they're even better than they were last season. I mean, clearly in terms of regular season basketball. Your point about Chris Paul is totally fair. If he's not fully healthy, they're a different team. I think what we saw in last year's playoffs is, even if he's not fully healthy, they can still beat people. They can still, Chris Paul can't lift his arm above his shoulder, Chris Paul's deal and with some hand stuff, some other injuries. They still get all the way to the finals. They go up two O against the bucks, if not for a clutch as hell play from drew holiday or Yanis here or there, they might have been the champions. Yeah, that's true. Now it's true. I.
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Doncic, Porzingis lead Mavericks past Grizzlies 104-91
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Suns rally late to beat Mavs 109-101, sweep 5-game road trip
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Porzingis powers Mavericks past Trail Blazers 132-117
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Doncic returns, Mavericks beat Clippers in OT to snap skid
"Okay Dunchurch return to the Dallas lineup and scored twenty six points to help lead the Mavericks to a one twelve one oh four overtime win over the clippers Dunchurch had missed the previous three games all losses with knee and ankle injuries I wanted to play this game and that's what I'm gonna say the medical staff did a great job everybody helped me every day and women have teammate Kristaps porzingis added thirty points at least Paul George made a corner three at the buzzer to send the game to O. T. tied it one all three Reggie Jackson was high man for the clips with thirty one points mark Myers Los Angeles
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Dallas Mavericks Sign Free Agent Frank Ntilikina
"The mass have a whole new front office in a whole new coaching staff. With jason kidd coming in. So i think there will be at least some sort of honeymoon. I don't know exactly. How long is all these new key. Figures get used to each other. But you're you're absolutely right. I mean dallas had big ambitions in free agency. They wanted to get kyle lowry. They thought lowry would be an ideal fit next deluca given his defense leadership being an old head the way and still shoot it lowry. They thought was ideal. Lowery went to miami forced his way there in a sign and trade and dallas's moves have also been just of the around the edges variety bringing in reggie bullock. I reported this week that they're close to signing frank ntilikina. That should happen but the mavs have not been able to make the splashy move and really. They're splashing move is going to have to be. Can they get kristaps porzingis. Back to the level he was playing at in the walt disneyworld bubble before he he sustained the second major knee injury of his
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"porzingis" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"Mike conley cannot is going to miss time. They're not going to win this series to your point about the sigh of relief. I've not a who knows what they actually feel. I i bet they do if only because lucas just a different beast than mitchell and conley like those guys can take step back threes now and then it's not a weapon like it is for luca. So they're not gonna they're not gonna destroy you with that shot like luca's not gonna destroy you in the post so i just think it unlocks a lot of possibilities so all make the argument for the jazz then. Okay other than the against the staples. Silence the jazz of often. Compared to the hawks of two thousand fifteen that one sixty games with the sort of egalitarian style blah blah. I have never bought that. And i've said many times. I think that's unfair to the jazz. Because those hawks should not have perimeter. Just go get me a bucket guys on the level of mitchell and conley and they did not have a defender on the level of rudy gobert at the rim. And you can talk about how renuka there's going to be stretched beyond his usual limits. Whatever he still ready to go bury still really good. And the collective mastery of the style that they play outside of the gobi. A bucket stuff has reached a new level this year because of chemistry and cohesion and experience. I think whatever kind of team you think. Utah is if you think they're hawks ish or whatever. They're the apex of that kind of team for all of those reasons and so i absolutely think with home court. They're going to have a game where they get rolling. And they get the clippers and rotation. They're gonna games where they get rolling at the clippers and rotation even if the clippers want to switch everything. Because they're just that good. And i so i think utah. I sweated sweat. i sweated. Whatever the past tense of sweat is i did that. Picking the clippers and six eight. Because i still have clippers. Ptsd from the bubble. And be i just think utah's really good but in the end i think i just see things in this series that. If i'm the clippers i feel pretty good about and that starts with kawhi and radio neil and i just like that matchup and everything flows from there. Can i make a couple of other points in favor of utah. Even though i picked the clippers and goethe lawyer brain here and and kind of make the opposite argument. I mean it's funny. We we are talking about all the liabilities. That rudy gobert brings the series. And you you mentioned like obviously he's still going to be very impactful defensively. I think he got. I'm glad you mentioned that. I mentioned that. Because i did mention this. You did has hashtag. take note i. I don't think there's been a bigger rudy. Gobert is a great player backer than me in kind of an nba media and this is a series where he can prove it. Not just on the defensive end but the offensive end because all that stuff inside that dallas couldn't get against the clippers. This is a different. This is a different caliber of offensive rebounder of roller of a. You know a guy who can. If he's got marcus. Morris autumn conduct into the post and and do a little something every now and again so that that's step one and then step. Two is the defensive problems that the the the jazz had at times against memphis. The clippers don't have anybody like john moran you don't have that kind of dynamic penetrator in so if the jazz wing defenders jazz perimeter defenders can keep their man in front a little bit better than that keeps rudy. Lets him stay home and wall off the paint in you know yes quite doesn't necessarily need to get all the way to the basket but that does take away a lot of those open threes for the other players so i could see a series where utah style prevails and they hit their threes and turn the clippers into a pool of jump shooting team. And that's advantage utah. Yeah i i. I could see repairs offensive. Rebounding rate is going to have to be huge in this series. Assuming the clippers play a lot of it small and he's a fantastic offensive rebounder and one of the best rollers in the league. And i also be interesting to see how who does kawais guard at the start of the year. They paul george regard mitchell. Do they try to buy some time. Just guarding roy. So neil just chill. We can put a two-month bogdonovich morris. Uncle bear you chill and help and will rescue on defense. The way we did are they willing to risk sacrificing an early game again if that goes badly before they put quiet full-throttle. I think it's going to be. I really looking for this series. I think it has a chance to be really really fun series. And i just i just think the clippers top end talent is a little better but And well suited to the series. But i could absolutely see utah winning. But i did. I picked the clippers. I i can't lie a bobby before we let you go. dallas is out There post out press conferences. Were interesting to say. The least mostly focusing on kristaps porzingis his role. And what luca considers to be his role. And what donnie. Nelson considers to be luca's role and giving porzingas to roll blah blah blah. What in the hell is going on there. And can they trade porzingas anywhere with..
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"porzingis" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"The bucks can make an bobby. You brought up. Tucker and i opened with durant and to me. It's it was clear. Five minutes into the series that pj tucker has zero chance to guard. Kevin durant none. Like even less than i thought i mean. No one has a chance to guard kevin durant but if he can just flat out the floor and blow by you whenever he wants which is what he can do to. Pj tucker then you have no chance. And so i wonder realizing that what you do and you can do a number of things you can just take. Pj tucker off of kevin durant and put drew holiday on them. But then you have to put pj talker and brook lopez somewhere else. Only one of them can guard blake griffin the other word. Probably bruce brown. Maybe that's fine. The other thing. I wonder is if pj tucker just can't guard kevin durant like that's his utility in this series if he has zero chance to do it. If it's not too again no one can garden. But if he's now a liability if he's a victim if he's just a victim does he have a purpose in their starting five and do you have to make a change where you get more shooting whether it's forbes i think forbes would be the logical choice maybe portis if you want more size. I don't know where you get more shooting into your starting five at tucker's expense. Theoretically you could do the same with lopez and it does surprise. We have not seen hardly any of honest center. We've seen a little bit of you honest. Pj together is the only big. But i don't think as much as i expected enough but lopez's size it offensive rebounding fuel really important to any chance the bucks i wonder seth like. What do you think of the idea of switching those assignments that way or just tucker comes off the bench in favor of more shooting. Or is that just gonna destroy my my defense by giving by by putting a target on poor print forbes back. I don't think that the defense is the reason. Why the bucks down to zero. Yeah brooklyn but that's that's what i'm saying you know. I think it's go. Yeah i think you need to you. They need to do something to to juice. The offense a little bit and and some of that is an adjustment but but frankly a lot of it is just you know you need your your your best offensive players to play better You know jaanus. And it's especially like his. his sort. playmaking has disappeared completely the series meaning you. The nets have also done a great job by the way at getting under janas screens like when they see it coming which is every time. They're just they're they're at the dotted line. When is at three point even entertaining the idea of trying to fight over screens. They are they are on point. I'm sorry but go ahead. No and the other thing is is the bucks need to get some get some pace into the game. It's funny we're talking about you know. They're they're taking quick bad shots but at the same time that game is through. The competitive portion was the slowest game. Milwaukee's played all season. Wow and that's it was in the first. Half of the pace was ninety three. They had a couple of ninety four five during the season. But those were games. Yoenis didn't play like the game against the knicks where none of the starting lineup plate. So they do need to get some pace into the game. But it can't be quick. Jacks that has to be you know. Get janas kind of in semitransition attacking off of the wing or down the middle. That's where that's where they can get into. You know the kickouts in the open. Threes for guys like forbes because he he he struggled in part to make an impact because he just isn't getting shots because they are never putting brooklyn rotation they will hugged him every time he's on the floor but i think that may be some some. You just made to accept some of that. If a walkie to get your offense humming again Another stat on durant by the way just to underscore the different ways. They could use him Game one was the second most pick and rolls. He has run as the ball handler in any game. This season this is according to our buddies at second spectrum and game two was number six or number seven. I think i have a number seven. So like he's just they're just going without hardin they're just going. Who's dropping back. We're going right at that and like. I don't know what you're supposed to do because you have to put brook lopez somewhere. And if it's on bruce brown than guests who becomes the main screen. Senator bruce brown captain the twenty twenty luke. Luke walton all-stars twenty years at twenty twenty one luke walton all-stars whose role in hidden florida's. He has nineteen points in two games. They haven't really. They've missed hardin but they haven't missed them enough. And i just don't know what the answer to some of these problems are except they gotta get. They gotta get better offense. I mean what else do you see. Now there's no i. I think. I think you covered it. And i don't think that the the lopez bruce brown thing can work. I think you have to live with with blake hitting hitting hitting threes because as you said You know is is running play setting screens and you know in the second and third quarter. Last night it was basically. Bruce brown comes up sets a screen flips the angle eight career. Katie takes wonderful often and rises up. And they're too good shooters to tat to have that be tenable and then if you do come up. He's just much faster than brooke. And then all of a sudden he's kind of playing that That almost dream on green role of of getting downhill and an advantage situation. Just compared bruce brown dream on.
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"porzingis" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"Back to the film from those two games in may as far as those two home home the home in home back to back games that you want a beating to figure out what it's going to be and You know certainly tucker picking up two thousand two with an i. What three minutes of the game. did not help i though brooke would have been the x factor in this series brook lopez could have been the x factor in this series. Where just. maybe. I'm a little bit scorn from back in new jersey and brooklyn but keep his big behind down low right. There's so much there's a spy disadvantage here and speaking of undisciplined. they're just making. The bucks are making decisions that are indicative to be of a frazzled team to the points that both who are making like so brooke lopez's posts up kevin durant several times. None of them go well. One of them ends up with kevin durant blocking the ball into his mouth and then there are a million other possessions where he has joe harrison or a much smaller person and on those possessions. He doesn't post up those guys he posts up durant. Meanwhile drew holiday. Has nick laxed on a switch and is like okay. I'm just dribble for a and shoot a baseline jumper. That has no chance. No one else on the bucks even moves. There was another play where drew holiday had kyrie irving on him and he had janas he was. He had the honest ready to screen for him. And if you're the bucks one of the only ways you're winning this series is to maximize plays like that week defender put into a screening pick and roll instead of doing that. He called up middleton to screen for him. Stay switch bruce brown a good defender onto jrue holiday and then you holidays like now. I'm going to run the pick and roll with the you've just made your offense like twenty percent worse with one stupid preliminary pick then you go into an action that the nets are defending really really well and maybe we can talk about that. But but seth what else are you seeing like. Why is why is this offense. That is usually pretty dynamic. Frankly while says it stuck in mud. I think you have to give some credit to brooklyn for how well scouted some of milwaukee's pet actions are i think it was it. Was i think in the second quarter. There's a play where we're middleton kind of got into his bag of back into the middle and you watch the bucks you see this ten times a game where he kind of goes up for shot and kicks it to the corner for three and mike. James has kind of stepped down off the guy in the slot and stole it because they they just knew that was coming. And that's that's been indicative of to me i think on the honest roles to the basket Griffin and in claxton have been sort of sitting in the right spot on the catch much more than we're used to and bingo and these these kind of things that have worked all year suddenly. There's a guy there and they just haven't really had a improvisational plan. Beat react you just absolutely nailed it. I think stephen ashes coached whale of two games. So far at one of the big things that he's done is on those janas pick and rolls. Which killed miami. Killed my all. My milwaukee worse tyler is dragic for putting them in a pick and roll with the honest as the screener and i thought the nets would switch a lot of those plays even if it meant kyrie has to deal with the we we help and recover and we do our active hand signal. By the way they have had they been around with rotations deflections. And they haven't done that. I was totally wrong. What they've done instead. Is dave taken janas defender whether it's blake claxton and sat him so far back that even when janas catches the ball. Clean on a roll. He's looking at a and ten feet of space toward the rim. If you bring those defenders five feet further up jaanus is catching a pocket pass for a dunk and the nets have really smartly taken. That shot away by just having blake. Claxton sit three feet. Further back than a lot of teams would and daring honest to shoot those john hooks. He'll make some and the flip side of that is dave flick drew holidays specifically but also middle and said we don't think you're beating us with pull up jumpers if we drop our defenders this far back. We have confidence in our guards to get over screens. And and that you're not going to get easy threes and we don't think you're beating us with pull up twos and i think particularly with holiday. That's a smart play. I think steve. Nash is a really good job. Yeah i mean. I mean that was the big thing right. Like you know steve going into his first into the into the first series and ever since the twenty eleven. Run to start game one. I mean how. Steve has you know. And then of course you harden but we've we've talked all along about like you know this is. The big three has never been attacked the whole year. So the throw at bruce brown. Throw out mike. James put landry shamet there guys like that. They've been accustomed to it. So i mean as a set said like they did a heck of a job scouting through the first two games to prepare themselves as far as figure out what works and what it what doesn't here and we go. We go back to milwaukee for game. Three and i mean let's face it may. We're in must win. I mean is milwaukee team's going to have to beat him four out of the next five games You know to do so. The second round is in full swing and the action increases from game to game this is where the contenders are separated from the pretenders to give you some skin in the game..
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"I mean you're gonna need some people to opt out etc co wiser. Lille i think the name that would maybe entice people i mean. Obviously but i. I would be shocked now. He tested for agency. They really got to figure out the prisoners thing I'm assuming you saw that. Espn report today. He already kind. I don't know if he's saving face. Or what the deal is but Tim macmahon reporting that porzingas. Thought he'd have a little bit more control over what was happening on the court. I think he's a little surprised how quickly things went in lucas direction. Apparently him and luca aren't good friends now. Like not every star. Pairing in the league is best buds. So that happens. But i mean that's obviously the big thing that route because i think they were smart to make the porzingas trade that they made. I know that people were joking about it now calling at the hardaway trade etc but porzingus in new york was really good player. He even if you didn't think he was going to turn into an. Mvp candidate ever thought the unicorn stuff was a little overblown. If they got that version of porzingis they would have had a really really really good team right now and i don't know if it's just the injuries if it is you know it's difficult playing off of luca etc porzingis hasn't been that second star and i i don't know what their path to one is right now because the ca- the cap was going to start to dry up you know. Are they going to resign. Resign hardaway lucas. Going to be due for an extension and a couple years etc. It's going to be hard for them. To get into free. Agent game meant a lot hinges on porzingis for them. i think. unfortunately. Because i'm i was thinking about. I'm not quite sure what they're route to. A second star is right now so you look at the cap sheet. And as you pointed out tim. Hardaway junior and unrestricted free agent. And based on you know the fact that they have his bird rights and just how good and valuable. He was to them this season and particularly in this series. I don't see a scenario where they let him go for nothing but doesn't make a lot of sense to me Elsewhere you have you know. I think the josh richardson experiment went real sour. There and he has a player option. And i don't i don't know if he's going to pick that up or not honestly It's eleven point six million dollars which isn't nothing I mean it all comes back to to two things in my eyes. One lucas extension. He's extension eligible this summer and once he signs that max like is there goes your cap space so you have to kind of figure out a way to maximize your flexibility this offseason. And they're just as you said. There are not a lot of options available. That can really be difference. Makers you know. I think that. I think that kyle lowry would be fascinating there and a really good fit because look luga can do everything himself. That's just not a winning recipe like even if they won this series miraculously with him playing out of his mind like in round two. That's just not gonna cut it against the utah jazz. You can't you can't go for rounds if you want to win a title with luca or make a play around you just the wear.
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"porzingis" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"He he provides for a team that wants to play slow and is relatively older is very Important for them. So i understand. All of that. And i look coli. And that man is just unstoppable He gets to the mid range when he wants. He rises up over anybody. He was guarding luca. For the you know the media portions of this series when things started to get really tight for the clippers and get really serious. He took on that challenge. Any forced a ton of really difficult shots out of luca. And as you said. He fought over screens any chased and he wasn't just settling kind of wearing down physically as i think a lot of other players wouldn't that spot so you got to give credit there but like historically even i mean this dude like he's averaging forty minutes a night thirty two points. True shooting percentage seventy two point. Three that is just uncanny. It's like not even human. I don't think like it's just. It's not even possible to compare it a little bit With look who is terrific. You know look averages. Thirty five point. Seven points in the series forty point. Two minutes is true. Shooting was fifty seven point two to just put it a little bit more in context. And if you watch the series luca it would feel like luca. Didn't miss any shots at all. So i think we're i'm kind of surprised honestly that you went with kawai here But that's why i love you and you're a really smart person real quick before we get again to the clippers and moving forward We have to talk about the mavs in their future. Because it's you know it's it's very early obviously in in lucas career and his tenure in dallas but i also think that everything in the nba is so much more accelerated than it was ten years ago. When i compare luca to lebron james in two thousand eight. Let's say when he just had no help whatsoever and was eliminated by the celtics and then You know gets to the finals in two thousand nine after cagey gets hurt in two thousand ten. He can't get by the celtics again and that just leads to him. Going down to miami. He actually committed to the finals. We'll dwight howard magic. How dare yes. I i i understand. That actually happened. That was one of the worst seasons seasons in nba history and allergists and he was just like properly swept in the finals. By the spurs But no i i. I also think that we should factor in that. Luca's not in the eastern conference And that was a big part. Honestly no disrespect to those pistons teams. That was a big part of lebron. Getting all the way to the top year. Luca is just going up against kawhi leonard in polish in the first round two years in a row. And it's not. It's really hard to have an easy path to the finals in the western conference. Obviously so you know again. Like i don't want to just say oh you know it's panic time but at the same in the same breath like they gotta put some talent around this dude and they are not doing so is going to be very difficult so when you are looking at you know in a crystal ball over the next couple of years for them like what can they even do role on like how can they beyond luca losing fifteen pounds and having undergoing like the kevin love transformation with his body. Like what what happens here. That's a great question you know. It's funny because they were one of the teams that were talked about as maybe getting involved in the honest chase this summer. Obviously that's off the table With signing is extension in this free agent. Class doesn't look particularly great at the moment..
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"porzingis" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"A level and we saw him do it. You know in the in the second half also have those big moments in. It's funny you know someone who over the last few years obviously is had to really manage his minutes etcetera during the regular season. But we've seen it playoff playoff payoff in the playoffs. Now our he can still get to that machine like level of efficiency in postseason games. Three remarkable so i think. Listen maybe we're having a different conversation. If marcus morris doesn't go supernova from three if luke kennard doesn't have eleven points in ten minutes The mavs hit some. You know more free throws especially luke over the course of a few games. maybe i'm not seen coexist but e coli even during the first three games when you know the clippers had lost two of them he was playing spectacularly so i think has an edge because of what he was doing on both ends of the floor. Okay so i. I agree with you. I think that coli was the best player in the series. And i think that that will rankle Some of our listeners. Potentially especially when you look at the context of you know The mavs roster versus the clippers roster. Luca did not have paul george as a teammate to take a lot of the offensive pressure off he did not even have Tim hardaway junior shut. The lights out thought darrien finished. Smith played pretty good. Two-way basketball right. He was great. Yeah yeah he was okay but he can't put the ball on the floor and do anything with it. Which is what the clippers wanted him to do. And that was a disaster But like the matters. Don't even have a reggie jackson to be frank. Like reggie jackson was humongous especially in game. Six In the first quarter that game could have gotten real ugly real quick You mentioned canard. Terrence mann is like one of my favorite players and i jokingly tweeted that the clippers have a big three at halftime came seven just because terrence man's impact is incredible on the energy that.
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"porzingis" Discussed on The Free Agents
"Don't have any concerns that. Kobe is going to be played off the floor. I think just to dominant. And i think if you're the jazz. Try to make him impactful on both ends of. Make the clippers work. Because i don't really have a beak. Who can stop him. I mean zoo is not going to be able to do it. I don't think so. I think the jazz have the big advantage there in the middle and go we like if they pulley map. That's okay because it's not terrible perimeter defenders and the jazz you know. Excuse me the clippers against mavericks. They could go inside and penetrate and school because there wasn't that great interior defense. That's not going to be katie for the jazz. And they're at home that fresh the rest of the only real concern is mark hamstring. You know he left the last game of the grisly series with a tweak. They said it was the same hamstring but the fact that the series went seven gave him a couple of extra days there to rest. So i think that's interesting. I think they've sort of said whether or not he's playing in game one. But if you'll the jazz in your full strength. I think the defense is going to be very very tough. The of course the clippers do have good offensive talent. So it's gonna be a bit of an arm wrestle in that sense like that. But i think this is really shaping up to be a fascinating series because the clippers have come off a tough tough series. We're tied lou really did shorten that rotation they got through now will that be a factor. Does that come into play. But it does tie. Lou have to dig into his bench a little bit here more and trust some of those guys patrick. Beverley basically being out of the rotation and they need. They're gonna need someone like him to at least come and give them some decent minutes in this series because the one of the biggest strengths. The jazz has played in players and they britney much everyone up. they can do the same job. I mean obviously bear and five is shoot the threes and jordan clocks versus not a great defender but he gives them a lot on the offensive end. So there's just so much of that into changing Roles there for the jazz that works. I think to their advantage in this series. So you need the clippers Bench to show up again here. A couple of these games for chances like nod was was great yesterday. Man was grateful but that was all tie. Lou really trusted from his bench. Rondo kinda got played out of this series a little bit and he was brought in to give that bench unit semi some boots. And so i expect he's going to get some more minutes. Certainly early in this series simply because as i said before paul george and kawhi leonard played forty minutes in every game in that loss except for the blowout which was game four when they won by thirty five or something like superstar should do though no one hundred yes but in in the playoffs you start as an yeah should play heavy minutes. No question about it but there's also after a tough seven game series. Now you're going up against the best team dip from the regular season at some point. You think that has to be a factor in this series if it goes along but if it goes long. That's good for the clippers as well but who is that one that tie lou can trust the come out and play some steady minutes lucan. I didn't i didn't think so many minutes in the first two or three games in this series in the any came out and played well in game seven. So that's great trey. What's your key to the series. My key is boy on bogdanovich. The biggest difference between the jazz this season and the playoffs and the jazz last year in the playoffs boy on seven points per game two assists four rebounds. Good percentages secondary score. A solid shooter sturdy defender. But i feel like a lot of the rep for him as a defender comes from his tenure in indiana guarding lebron james. Being you know sizable enough quick enough on its feet and strong enough to take some bumps down in the post. They're playing a different. La team though. Far more perimeter or is match-ups. I think boy on will probably be nick. Batum for that probably morris and if that's the case if that's which is matched up with. He's got to win. That one royce. O.'neil mike conley are probably gonna get the colli mpg tasks. But they're going to have problems with this. Is i think boy. I'm we'll get a turn on coli and that could be a big ask especially since you want him to give it to defensively as well bogdonovich. A swing factor to me when he has a favorable matchup. He's got to win. It got to be locked down. The jazz are winning this. What the three four here. And he's playing against or maybe paul george. He's gotta do a little bit to cancel those guys out because the clippers are going to have an advantage on the wing. There's no doubt about it with you. And paul george bogdanovich him being healthy this year. Joe ingles as well they just got to step up they gotta hit three pointers to kind of cancel out with the clippers are going to do and then just gotta make it tough. Got those guys into bear. They got a contest. The mid range jumpers gotta bring it for this entire series. We heard last year. Things will be different on bogdonovich southie. He's healthy this year. let's see it. Yeah after the clippers won game seven moved on task through the tweet out there clippers jazz like who you guys got and man the responses to this. It felt like it was fifty. Fifty jess people go on yelp jazz in five. Six or seven and then clippers like now clippers. Figure it out. They're going small. They're gonna like you got why plane at this level. Terminator quiet. Whatever you wanna call them clippers going to move on in five six or seven. And i think this is what's going on here is like you took us through..
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"porzingis" Discussed on The Free Agents
"We just saw john. Wall traded for russell westbrook in and everyone claiming that john wall contract was untradable. But i don't know right now as we talk about it feels pretty frigging untradable. But i guess there's i guess there's something i just don't i just don't know if he's going to try and buy into being that number two guy there's a. There's a chance that could work. Yeah you want a silver lining. The silver lining is that this is the first time in porzingas career. That he's ending a healthy. He has gone out with the season ending injury and every single one of his six seasons except for the season that he missed with injury. So i mean if you're the mavericks maybe you can find a train the offseason but if not maybe porzingas actually gets an off season to get in the weight room and squat so he can score over a guy. That's a foot shorter than him. That would be impressive. Like if he just gets a nice turnaround jumper that you can punish small lineups that would be humongous for the dallas mavericks. And then he comes back. Next season has a couple of months and the trade value is a little bit up at the trade deadline. I would say the the thing that the mavericks need to go to the next level is got to be in better shape to be quite honest you see all of these stats look at his first quarter scoring his second quarter scoring third quarter scoring his fourth quarter scoring. Part of. that's defense no doubt about powder part of it is him wearing down from carrying the offense the whole time but look at what yokich did. This is the exact same conversation we have with yokich in good shape as the in the best shape he could be. He was not until this season. Now he's an mvp from november until june at this point dancers has got to do the same thing. Yeah it's gonna be interesting. You would think by all accounts they're going to try and bring back. Tim hardaway junior lee and like i said why wouldn't you. He was the best player in that trade with the knicks. He's been better than zing. Especially when you're of course looking at the dollar value that he's given you but he's going to warrant a pretty pretty good pay increase and rightfully so josh. Richardson did not work. That one was. I was high on that i was loving. That deal made so much sense. You know a defensive minded guy. Put by luke and still hit the three. He was horrible. I mean you barely wasn't even playing at this point in this series. it was dp. I dunno if he's still there and he's i think he's got an option for he'll likely pick up. It's not huge. Because he's on a decent deal but he's got to be better. But i mean you're trying to trade. Kp and i think there would be teams. That could talk themselves. Importing us for sure. He's only twenty six. he's not even twenty six. He's turning twenty six this summer so still fairly young. Then maybe they want lauri markkanen. The next kristaps porzingis. What about the pacers could the pacers could there be something and you really switching up with what you're doing for a big for a big but a mile turner type deal. Could he come to dallas. Would that work better having a defensive minded guy instead of what. kp was giving them. There's something around turner and lamb and maybe some picks for kp. There's also people saying what about the blazers know. We talked about them. They to blow it up and trade off somebody. Is there a way you get porzingas to the blazers lead. I mean you're looked. It's got to be a sign and trade with norman powell mccollum involved like these. I don't really love it from the mavericks things but anyway have you fired up because you've talked a lot about kp and you're not a fan of this. I've really gone off in. Because i just feel in a situation a series like this. It was an opportunity for him to at least sort of put his stamp on the game. He gets into that person. And that's trys mentioned. That goes can't block that shot so shoot it but bobo outplayed him in the last couple of games in this series and bone at least made himself a presence. And that's that's really a bad indictment on kristaps porzingis because okay rebound the ball. He averaged five rebounds a game for this series. Put yourself somewhere in a position where you are actually impacting the game. If your shot's not they're fine that doesn't always drop but just be they contest shots. They don't really have a big presence at all the clippers go in there and make sure you're getting to make sure you're setting screens. Make sure you're just doing something to impact the game and i just didn't think he was anywhere near aggressive enough. And that's the concern. I've seen mark cuban on shock tank when he gets angry. He's out of a deal straightaway. I bet you're right now. He would say porzingas app. You're out of here. And he chances look. The mavericks are incredibly lucky because luka doncic has one year left on his rookie deal now they can sign him to that superman or the rookie. Max extension which cost to without even thinking about it but that doesn't kick in until the following season so i do get lucky can saw tim hardaway. I think next season to a pretty juicy contract and it won't cost too much and the guy you mentioned as well josh richards. And it's eleven and a half million player option. I think he's picking that up groceries. Yeah i think there's a huge market fame. He hasn't been all that consistent. So the mavericks get lucky. In that sense they can probably keeping but yeah porzingas. Threes and one hundred million true. There's no untradable contract. But i don't think any teams right now again. A time to get him. That will take a flyer on him if the mavericks are prepared to sell low on him. But i don't think. I think anything's going to give up a ton for him because he just hasn't shown that he's really able to take that next step up. I mean he had a bad bad series. And there's really no excuse last year and there's three games before he got injured he was actually planning okay down in the bubble this year. He got full series really did get the opportunity to show what he can do in those losses. He was back in the wind's not much better. And that really shows that he is not like at any point is like well. He had that thirty four point game. That's what they need to see for more him. It was just ordinary the whole series. And i think that's bad for him and bad for the mavericks and yes. The mavericks will be looking at deal him. I think understanding. They're probably getting back pennies on the dollar for him in terms of you know you expect from a guy like that and what we saw in new york but at this point you can't go forward with him donncha. Just it's not gonna work. Wow this guy's giving up i do. I'm kind of with the way that we've seen things go down with the trailblazers where they just kept rolling out the same team year after year after year. They had the great run to the western conference finals. But it's like you're rolling team out. There that you know is going to be bad at defense. You can't do that in the western conference. So why would you waste the majority of dodges prime when you hopefully make a move here. You don't wanna you don't want to be in the blazers situation where you're like. How do we improve this team. So that are star actually wants to stick around because that's where the blazers are at right now. And if you keep your superstar anchored to a not quite good enough second star it's easy for dallas than up there as well. Well let's pivot here to the series that we now have the final one that's locked into. It's the jazz and the clippers They get started very soon right. Is it tuesday night. It's it's just one game off for the clippers as go right into the series in utah which could be difficult. maybe that will have an impact on game one. We'll see this quite turn around and planning an altitude there. But let's get to the keys to the series one four matchup. It's chocolate west just like everybody expected..
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"King to goes to the Mavericks one twenty seven to one twenty one Dallas takes a two oh series lead Luka don church led the way with thirty nine points Tim Hardaway junior had twenty eight Kristaps porzingis finished with twenty the mavs made eighteen three pointers Kawhi Leonard and Paul George combined to score sixty nine of the clipper points while the rest of the squad totaled only fifty two Leonard with a game high forty one I am mark Myers
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"Jo Ellen beat was fourteen of fifteen from the line while scoring thirty six points in the seventy Sixers one thirteen ninety five romp over the Mavericks Philadelphia's for Concorde Mars was four of seven from three point range and matched his season high with twenty points specially when we put on the roads the games are appropriate and then I'm glad that I help the team Alex Corey you know getting some steals like doing something on the court look at that you scored thirty two points but the young Dallas star didn't have enough help with European side kick Kristaps porzingis sitting at a second night of back to backs the outcome gives the Eastern Conference leading seventy six is a half game lead over Brooklyn I'm the ferry
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"Look at Dodgers scored twenty seven points of Christophe poison gas had a double double as the Mavericks dumped the box one sixteen one oh one forcing this contributed twenty six points and seventeen rebounds playing on consecutive days for the first time in two months pours into scored eleven points in the fourth quarter including eight in a row to give Dallas the lead for good the bucs drop to wanted to since reigning two time MVP honest intent to Cooper left the lineup due to left knee soreness the outcome puts Milwaukee three and a half games behind the east leading nets I'm Dave Ferrie
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Doncic’s 31 Points Lead Dallas Mavericks Over Jazz
"Utah. Dallas luka doncic. Talking about those guys would pay to see well hill win and mvp down the road this one season. It's not it. He started slowly and his team suffered because of it but the mavs have won five straight. They're two games. Back from the sixty they toppled a jazz team. That couldn't hit a three and that was part of it for sure. They're kind of like the nuggets mavericks. Our team started slow. And here they come. They found her identity. A little bit without kristaps porzingis. Who was sitting this one out. They beat those utah jazz. It was an off night for you to snapping their streak. That's fine they can have can have an off night.
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Doncic's 31 points pace Mavs over NBA-leading Jazz 111-103
"Look at dodges scored thirty one points and Dorian Finney Smith added a season high twenty three is the maverick stop Utah's nine game winning streak one eleven one oh three Jaylen Brunson scored twenty points for the mavs led by as many as eighteen in their season high fifth win in a row Dallas won for the first time in three games versus Utah this season despite Kristaps porzingis the Mavericks number two scorer leading rebounder sitting out with a sprained right wrist Mike Conley scored twenty eight points to lead the jazz who fell to an NBA best thirty eight and twelve I'm Dave Ferrie