Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 1: You got him saying all we can to preach care
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Speaker 4: Ver much man locked into this first round of the playoffs.
We got a few knockouts and we got a few
series still going.
Speaker 1: Man, it's been a it's been it's been a shock
for a couple of teams. And we'll get into that
as we go along. Obviously, Okay, see in San Antonio
are the first and only two teams to advance as
we are recording now with the Lakers having the opportunity,
the magic, we're having the opportunity as we record, we'll
see as as as the night goes on. But uh so,
all right, so before we get into that. Let's talk
about the new, the new, the new, the new, the new.
They unveiled their anti taking proposal. It's not too bad,
all right, so let's uh, let's go. Let's walk through
it real quick. They call them it three to two
one lottery whatever whatever whoever came that that name, includes
sixteen teams, and then they will flatten the odds in
the relegation zone where the bottom three teams will be
penalized with fuel lottery balls for the number one pick
starting with the twenty twenty seven draft. How does it
work is like the team's four through ten with the
worst records, they're gonna receive three lottery balls, and then
the bottom three teams will receive two lottery balls, and
then the ninth and tenth playing seeds. Would I think
the losers they will get one? Well, I think the
and and also the loser of the seven eight playing
games will get one larry ball each. So shout out
to the teams who barely make it have a chance
to win two. Also, you cannot you can no longer
protect twelve through fifteen. Uh, and you cannot have top
five pick three years in a row, which means the
San Antonino Spurds, who just who just had who just
won the series, would have not had Dylan Harper if
this rule existed today, because they had cat Winby at
first round pick Castle was a top five pick, and
then Harper was another top five pick. So I guess
your thoughts, man, is just a good idea. What do
you what do you think about? What do you think about?
This is a little proposal.
Speaker 4: It's honestly not for me, but just in a general sense,
it's just too much information, you know, for a person
who wants to just kind of easily remember basic information,
it's just too much information you got to think about,
all right, Well, the premise of it is to incentivize
teams not sitting people, but it's basically what they're trying
to do. But at the same time, it's just all right, well,
we can't be trashed again this year because we want
to get a top five pick.
Speaker 5: Like, it's just too much information.
Speaker 4: If you want to really resolve all this, just do
an NFL style draft, like let the worst team just
get whoever. Like, you know, I just think they're doing
they're doing too much to come back tanking. Yeah, it's
a problem, but to me, the NFL has mastered.
Speaker 5: Sports. You know, it's easy to make trades. It's easy
to cut.
Speaker 4: Somebody and move on, move money around. The NBA has
too many damn restrictions first April, second Apron, like you
can't do this, you can't do that. It's so all
this stuff leads to teams being in the.
Speaker 5: Basement for too long.
Speaker 4: So I think a good idea to try and see
how it works from bridge of the will change it again,
because every couple of years there's always an issue with
the lottery you're taking.
Speaker 5: So they're just throwing more stuff at the walls. If
it's sticks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I get it because this kind of
how you build. Like so I guess like teams like
okay see got to avoid it because they only got
they traded for Shay Chap was the top a top
five pick, but jad was like a lot of the
pick like like number thirteen or something. So like you
you can you can still build a great team, like
get the young guys, like the Magic got a bunch
of guys that's you know, drafted number one, number four,
number eight, number ten, number fourteen. I still believe that
the best players and the best players in the league
are all a lottery picks for the most part, outside
of you know, a select few Yoki Brunston come to mind.
I mean, yeah, you gotta do something right because ten
teams tinking this year was kind of crazy. Uh, you know,
out of the out of the thirty and then obviously
you got team making the playoffs. So I think they
said this is the first time ever eight teams had lost,
like was it fifty plus games? Which is which is crazy?
We know which is crazy? Yeah, we'll see then, Like
I said, they just they're just throwing it at the wall.
Speaker 5: Do you at least video point?
Speaker 4: Why the hell are y'all expanding the league when you
already have eight to ten teams already trash? Like, why
are you trying to Yeah, Vegas can use the team,
Yeah sel can use the team. But why are you
trying to expand the league when you already have a
quarter of the league tanking and you're trying to combat
it like it's I don't I just don't get it, man.
I just feel like people are there's just money's hunting
that they see there's money toil you made by increasing
more teams. But then again, you have rules in place
like we want guys to play sixty five games. So
you're trying to come back. Guys sitting out, You're trying
to come back.
Speaker 5: It's like you're you're trying to do so much and
handle resolves anything.
Speaker 1: About to say, yeah, you got a lot of restrictions. Basically,
if you're not the perfect it's kind of like a
what like you know, thom jobs that be having those
points systems, like you don't come to work. Hey, you
guys get suspended, then you're gonna getting written up. You're
gonna get a sitting hover through that. You know, it's
a lot of like perimeters. And if you're not a
perfect NBA player, you know, playing thirty plus minutes playing
sixty five plus games, you're not gonna win no wars.
And if you're not, if you're not taking well, I
mean again, I think they're still gonna find ways to
tank because even if you are the bottom three team, right,
let's say you get picked number six or something. People
people fuck up all the time. What picked with Luca?
Like you know what I'm saying, like like what pick
was d book?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: So people people don't get the first pick right, so
you can still get d booked this year and then
okay year we get you know, we'll get the number
one season. Now we get the Cat or the Womby
or the ant Man. So you you can still tall.
I mean, it's still gonna work itself out. I just
think you won't get the the mock draft top three
guys this year, right, I mean whatever. So I don't know.
Speaker 4: The ither think the NBA is doing too much, but
they're not holding people accountable. You know, you have all
these teams with these gyms, these scouts. If people are
missing on picks, it needs to be on the owners
or whoever to start firing these people. Look DeAndre Ayden,
good college season, he's been a double double since he
been in the league and stuff. For this year, he
was like fourteen eight this year. The Suns passed on
lucas their fault, I mean, and they still passed on Luca.
They still made a finals run, and then of course
they end up blowing the team up. They uh, you know,
they let they let money go. You trade for Durant
on your first round. It just kind of unraveled pretty quickly.
But at the same time, you had the first pick.
You could have took Luca or a Yuay that had
a phenomena here this year that we were both fans of.
The Wizards drafted Deani, you didn't do anything with him.
Now he's an All Star. Yeah, I mean, you gotta
hold people accountable for these bad decisions.
Speaker 5: You gotta hold.
Speaker 4: People accountable for paying Brandy Buildings kind of money making
him untradeable.
Speaker 1: That's how you get the.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's that's how you get the you know,
that's that's how you get all these different parameters, all
these different rules. And yeah, I think now, and we'll
see what they vote on. But now it's like, I
don't I don't even know necessarily believe that people was taking.
I think that I think you take based off draft class, right,
and this draft class is anticipated to be one of
the best we've ever seen quote unquote because you got
a couple of veterans, you know, a couple of international players,
but you got all these freshmens that's coming out of here.
It's like six, seven of them, eight of them, nine
of them. That's can be a you know, a good
up to a franchise. So I don't know, I think
it does help you. It does reward teams like Miami Heat, right,
and maybe maybe Pat Rowley is one of the biggest
guys because he can never get no better. Because if
you're not going to drafts, if you're not gonna make
the playoffs or be the you know, the playing team,
and you're not going to draft the top five player
every year. I mean you you gotta hope the Homy
Hot Quiz pop up to be a star. You gotta
hope the clear where that's a middle round pick become
a star. Like you gotta hope these guys paying out.
You think about it, you got they got bam ad pick.
I want to say he was a team pick and
so Herold like pick number twenty, so like you got
lucky even then like so so you know, so you
for the teams that Miami Heat, this helped them get
a chance that hey we might can be a one
pick and make the playoffs, you know what I mean.
So I think that's that's the only thing I do
like about it. For the teams that actually do try
and just not not not good because the whole the
whole sitting down thing is is is ass right, that's
not a or like it's funny we talked about in
a minute. It's funny how the Magic over here losing
to Boston beat G League team what it called the
Red Clause or something, and now hindsight twenty twenty, that
ain't a good position to maybe get out of the
first round versus having played in New York first round
and who knows how that series go right. So it's
just it's just a I don't know, man. I think.
I think you can look at the Jazz, look at
the Nets and see that they're not trying. But then
you look at the Pistons and the Magic, who we
will talk about, and the Spurs. They were down but
now they're up. So but you but you only got
up because you was ass So I wonder how do
you how do you build now if you can't get
weinby Castle and Harper back to back.
Speaker 5: And truthfully, man, there are some teams I feel somewhat
bad for, and like Nettar team or that, to me,
that's a team I feel bad for.
Speaker 4: The next they had Kenny Atkinson, they had like Dangel Russell,
some other guys. They went on for what they were
at the time, a decent little five hundred season, made
the playoffs eight ceed I think they took a game.
Speaker 5: Against Philly, then they got knocked out. They were able to.
Speaker 4: Turn that little season, that team into Kevin Durant, Kyrie
and James Harden, and they probably would still have those
guys or have kept them longer and.
Speaker 5: Maybe made at East Finals, maybe won a championship.
Speaker 4: But of course the whole world, not just basketball, was
impacted by COVID that iunpacked the Kyrie, you know, then
pacted how the next season, unrebeled the owner, you know,
all the stuff with Kyrie, posting, the books, like just
a lot of things played a role that probably wouldn't
have played a role if the pandemic didn't happen. So
like the net Star team, where it was, it went
right for like like nine months, and then it unraveled
quickly once you know, are hard.
Speaker 5: Once out, you gotta get Kyrie out.
Speaker 4: You're stuck with Durant because he signed his extension for
no reason, and then you shift him out and now
you're back to the bottom of the basement again. But
it was going right for you, I mean, you were
lucky to have what you had. But once it's unraveled,
it's gonna be hard to replicate it again. Now you're
just drafting five years in the first round.
Speaker 1: Can we can we discuss now with all the trading
with the Kevin Ck, Kyrie and Harden, you had to
give up picks, right we all agree to.
Speaker 2: That right.
Speaker 1: Now. With that being said, I'm just I'm just gonna
talk about the picks they had in the last few
seasons and tell me, tell me what they were supposed
to do. Now, I'm just gonna talk about their pick,
not not uh with somewhere else that they drafted. So
twenty twenty one they draft Cam Tomas a big twenty seven.
Twenty twenty three they picked Noah Clowney picked twenty one,
and uh uh Derry Whitehead, I don't think he on
the he no more at pick twenty two. Then this
past season they drafted four people at pick eight Igor
who had a pretty good season, nineteen Nolan Trail from France,
twenty six Benser Off and then twenty seven Danny Wolf.
I just told you, outside of lotry picks, it's very
rare for a star they taking and still not getting
rard with it. So like they like Eagle picked them
a eight, Like come on, man, that's just like I
don't think I think I think if you get, you get,
you gotta get lucky, right, you have to get lucky
to get the one seed and get with me. You
have to get eight man because you could get you know,
I don't know, not saying not saying he don't belong
or you could get zachly riach out Shay like you
you talk about people who made mistakes and hold accountable.
How good would the hog be right now they had
Alex Sarr instead in this series against the Knicks. I'm
just saying, you know what I'm saying, like they have
a better shot or you you got castle that draft.
So teams make mistakes, bro, and I think lottery tanking
or not, they still gonna make mistakes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's why I think you got to hold people accountable.
Speaker 4: You know, when we're clapping our hands for Sam Pristy,
it's because he's doing a good job. But now we're
trying to protect people from doing a bad job by
like saying, hey, you can't tank.
Speaker 5: I mean they're to them. That's the only to get good.
Speaker 4: Because the NBA doesn't give you any quick fixed methods.
Speaker 5: That's the tough thing about it. The NFL, you can
trade your star, wipe.
Speaker 4: Out their money from the salary cap, bottom out, get
a top five, top ten pick, feel a need or two,
and you can go from worse to first within one
within one off season, you can get a couple of picks,
trade away somebody high you know, on a bad contract,
cuts on a bad contract, eat the costs, or move
costs down the line, like the thanks for doing the
NFL is gives you more options to be good. That's
why every year everybody feels like their team has a chance.
I saw him, even like three or four teams. Everybody
feels like we might peak for the division. We might
win eight, nine, ten games, or something goes this way,
we can have this kind of season versus the NBA.
Speaker 5: You know who's.
Speaker 4: Gonna be trash two years from now, Like the Nets
are showing no signs of being good.
Speaker 5: They have two or three years from now, they're not
gonna be good.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, even the Jazz may still be bad in
two year less they get an aj de Bands or
something like that. The Jazz will still be bad in
two or three years. You can already see the rank
on the wall.
Speaker 1: Because you got you gotta do someone, Laurie. You gotta
pay pay or not for Walkert, Kessler eventually got paid.
What's my point guard, County, George. You you make decisions.
You always got me a decision. That's the bad thing
about it. If you don't capitalize quickly, then it's gonna
be a problem. So I'm a I'm a believer that, Yeah,
how long.
Speaker 5: The bulls being up and down? Mainly and mainly down?
Speaker 4: Like the bulls are in a big market, but they're
basically I say, once you's got to Milwaukee and salute
trainer Jean because I hope you do a great job.
Speaker 5: But once John is out of Milwaukee, come on, bro,
what once John is out of Memphis?
Speaker 1: Come on about said you're you're know my fixed I've
been saying. I'm still gonna keep saying, John to Chicago
because La is back, New York back, the Texas teams
are back, and then what's the other big market I'm
I'm missing.
Speaker 4: It's really La New York, Chicago State.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so go to the area and then the Texas teams.
That's really your Chicago, the last one we need, I
mean Wars, I mean obviously got step Curry and they're
not as good to me right now. But hey, we
gotta yeah, and they over here find that they got
everybody fire right gm UH President basketball coach Bill dobvand
got stepped down. So hey, you again hold people accountable
and we don't have to tank. But like I said,
like you said, it's only it was only one way
to win, getting getting them one pick Wolf the Wolves
cat and man, you're able to flip calf of ruin
random you madewo West confers finals in a row, but
before that you was a laughing stop magic. There they're
in year three of winning Pissons. Two years ago they
lost what thirty games in a row. But guess what
they got them, Assur Thompson. They got them from Jayleen Durant.
They got them kid cut in him. So it worked.
It worked, you know, So I got you gotta find
a new way of tank, and they will find a
new wad tank, trust me.
Speaker 4: The one thing about the NBA, when certain markets are winning,
basketball is better. I mean, Detroit's a good basketball market.
They're good at Boston right now. New York like the
nick went through their spells, the Pistons they went through
their spell. Now there they've been rejuvenated. Of course, when
the Lakers are good. Golden statement still current. You got
Boss Office, Superstar. There are just certain markets. I mean,
like you said, the Spurs are back. The Man's at
least have Cooper flat, so they should be somewhat pro
it in the years to come. But yeah, when certain
markets are are good, it just makes the NBA a
more exciting product.
Speaker 5: But yeah, this this tanging thing, it won't go away.
Speaker 4: I mean every few years it gets revisited, it gets revamped,
and it hasn't been resolved yet.
Speaker 5: So what makes these guys think this is gonna make
you go away? It's not.
Speaker 1: And besides, we already we already know they do conspiracy theory.
Think about it, all of a sudden, All of a sudden,
the mim he got a chance to get the more pick. Hey,
it may not fool of me, resad, I know what
they're doing. Wars are walking warriors cooks right now, how
you'll get how you'll get him? Good? Oh y'all, y'all
was a playing team. Now you got a chance to
be the one pick, and you gonna get to you.
I understand. It's it's a little I guess because to
add the playing teams kind of crazy to me, but
I don't know about that far. That's that's a little
too far.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, if you're gonna go a conspiracy
theory around, the best things would be for going in
a state they get a top or at least in
the top three or four, so they can extend courage
because it looks like the Warriors are basically packing it up. Uh,
maybe Dallas can get a top two or three pick.
You can put somebody else with flag and now you're
I don't think they will trade anybody else. You'll be
set with a flag and somebody. So if you can
get one of those two teams with you know, if
you're ringing a lottery, you know, that'll be pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I said, or Portland Portland Chicago are the teams
are interested in a rumor to get Jannis, right, so
you gotta have something to trade. Hey, no one pick
would be lovely. I'm just saying, you know what saying,
Just just throw it out there. But let's move on
to the playoffs teams, all right. So I'm going to
ask you this because this is kind of more more surprising.
Your kids being slowed down by go beart and the
reason why they're in while they were in the three
one hole now three two hole, or that the Magic,
who was kind of underseated based onf Vegas osen for
the season and our our prediction was up, had had
Detroit in the three to one hole, as Detroit currently
is up ten points to go into the fourth quarter.
What's more surprising to you, Well, I think.
Speaker 5: Just already tired from the regular season.
Speaker 4: This has been a grind, so I'm not surprised he's
somewhat struggling. I mean, it's been a tough year for him.
He still had a phenomenal year. And then those are
the numbers, so I'm not really I mean, guys just
getting tired. I think he's just tired. You know, they've
done some crazy runs. They were fighting just to get
to the three spots, So I really, I really can't
say that.
Speaker 5: I thought the Pistons Magic Series.
Speaker 4: Would be a little more even doubt but uh, and
of course people thought the Pistons were old woman favorite.
Speaker 5: But I'm happiness to what the Magic are doing. They're
basic League.
Speaker 4: If this was the n C double equivalent, they're just
basically underseeded Polo. Other guys were banged up all year,
so they had to get into the play in to
get where.
Speaker 5: They are now. And uh, yeah, Bang has had some
great games.
Speaker 4: Well I would say great, he's he's had some really
good games. Polo has been up and down, but they've
gotten the job done. Whendell Carter's playing, uh pretty good.
So they just had everything clicking. And the Pistons right
now just look like a solid regular season team.
Speaker 5: You have k but you don't have a solidified second.
Speaker 4: Guy during hasn't been great this series and everybody this
has kind of just been up and down. So uh,
probably you got to say, just based upon regular season,
you gotta go with the Magic.
Speaker 1: I guess yeah. And I don't know who's gonna win
this series, whether it's Pistons or Magic. But all right,
so let's just say we know that Pistons are not
a championship team in terms of if you can't handle
the Magic physicality, what's gonna happen when you had to
play you know, the know who's the best defense in
the league, or you got to play the best defender
in the galaxy in winby Right, So what what is
the next move for Detroit? Because you know, we we
we've heard the k D rumors. We heard the you
know Repelicans get rid of trade Murphy. You know that
that that other the other type of score that would
take pressure off of K cunning him. Is there is
there any potential move because like right now, you try
to say, like who's your core during who's having a
terrible playoff series? Right now? K cunning him and and
Swra Thompson, that's your core. You can't you're not gonna
trade them. How are you going to get whoever the
you know to come to come in and help this
team to the next next level.
Speaker 5: We just talked about it. Bro.
Speaker 4: It's too hard to make teams be good because the
idea is, well, case the point guard, he can do
a lot of stuff, go and get him a solid
score so they can have a one two punch. Okay,
so your solution is go get kd Now you gotta
trade stuff. You're gonna have to break your team up
to go get him. They don't really have any contracts
because of how the NBA does trade, they don't really
have the pieces to trade for Durant. So how do
you improve this team? You gotta just make moves around
the fringes. And at that point, you're gonna miss your window,
which you probably already have anyway, because Kate is paid. Uh,
Juror's gonna get paid, but I'm not sure this playoffs
is costing him any money.
Speaker 5: But the NBA doesn't.
Speaker 1: Do he got talking about it.
Speaker 4: It's not like it's the NFL where you can say, hey, uh,
it's gonna be two hundred million, one fifty guaranteed, fifty sentence.
The NBA just does a you made all the NBA.
You made this you it's all fully guaranteed. They're not
doing they have some guys do that. But it's not
like you're gonna play around with the top three player
on your team.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be a fully guarante deal.
Speaker 4: You know, you have desionist who have like doing Salles
built team, but During has been healthy, probably gonna make
all NBA.
Speaker 5: You're not gonna play with his money.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about it though, because hey, and lets
unless Jalen during is Rudy Gobar esque Bill Wallace esk
where you just over overwhelmling just like dominate a side
of the ball. This this playoff series is very alarming
in terms of what, like how did this man have
what I think over thirty games of thirty plus points.
I'm trying to figure out how you do it? How
did he do it? This is just because you just
a man child and you bully everybody, and now you're
playing a team you can't bully, so it looks bad
or you know, and that could be the case, right,
that could always be the case. You just it's just
a bad matchup. But we're gonna talk about during You're
gonna have to stay. We're gonna we're gonna need something
else in the in the development playing here. And so
we're talking too, because you just mentioned you can't break
the team up. So I think the Pistons are a
funny team just to see what happens with them if
they can come back down for three one devashit because
I think they said, what the one even down three
to one?
Speaker 5: What man I hold the Magic? I mean, I know
it was like twenty some years ago.
Speaker 4: Man Man, a teammate was on the Magic team when
they were up. Well, what happened was that was the
year they expanded the first round series.
Speaker 5: From five games or seven games.
Speaker 4: Team mat was up three to one on the one
seed Pistons, but they lost a course game seven, So hey, man,
I hold the magic, can beat the Pistons just for
t mat he ain't out there, but a shintout mad man.
Speaker 1: Man Pissons came back because that was did that? Did
that start the string of no no, they ain't started saying?
Maybe a couple years later, that started the streak of
the Pistons making the conference finals like five years in
a row with some crazy.
Speaker 5: You know they they made like six years in a row.
They made from pistol pistols.
Speaker 1: Good basketball, man. I'm glad that, Like you said, I'm
glad they back finally winning. To touch on that Nuggets game,
there's three to two, I'm gonna go. I don't know
if it's going on a lemni because a man, it's hurt,
but Nuggets gonna win the series. I don't know if
they could win games.
Speaker 6: Hey yo, hey, hey yo hey, but see that's if
he's gonna I mean, because all right, so the last game,
Game five, Julius.
Speaker 1: Rando twenty seven, ten and six, great game. Rudy Gobert
two and seven not gonna cut it, ao, Instead of
forty three, he had eighteen, Like, I don't know, where's
that superstar gonna come from like because a superstar performance
was had by Ayo dis album right in that game. So, Bro,
I don't know, man, I don't. I don't. I don't
know unless you tell me that the crowd of game
six Timberwolves is enough to there's gonna beat the Nuggets
because all Nuggets need is somebody a third person to
score and just enough and they win the game. Whoever
that third person is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And in one game, you basically lost forty points
with the with the ceiling to go to fifty because
I think average twenty eight this year, he was one
of the top guys in scoring, and he has the
ability to go get you thirty five or forty alone.
But just on their season average, I think he was
around twenty eight. Devichenzos around twelve, but he has the
ability to heat up for fifteen or eighteen from from
three point line. So you just lost at minimum from
forty points with the potential of like fifty maybe and
sixty on any given night.
Speaker 5: So that's hard to make up.
Speaker 4: But I do think the Wolves are good enough with
if you can get Gobert a solid game, Ramdao Desumo, McDaniels,
nas Red, you still got Mike Conley, like his veteran presence.
I think they're still good enough to get one out
of these last two games. But if it goes seven,
I will pick Denver. But I do think the Wolves
have enough to get one.
Speaker 5: Out of two.
Speaker 1: Hey, just so you know, it has to be six though.
Speaker 5: They got to get in six.
Speaker 1: So you look at us, Look at us. This why,
this is why I'm doing it. Look at the scheduling.
They get them boys two days. They gave Yokis two
days to relax and rest. Oh my god, Like I'm like,
all right, so let this last game real quick. Just
looking at it. So bones Holling at fifteen and Shannon
had fifteen. That's thirty points there. Najri had been disappointment
this season, twelve and eight, uh Mdamsey had thirteen, ran
up twenty seven, nine and six, notine ten and six,
and Al had eighteen points the Nuggets. The Nuggets got
twenty from Spencer Jones, who took the spot of Aaron Gordon,
who he might not play. He might have played either
this year, this this this series. But I'm asking you this,
what do you think? What do you think? Well, I
guess the question is how much is just really gonna
matter anyway about who wins because the two on was
gonna have a man they wipe down and Nuggets. I
know Nuggets played the I know they played the Spur
as well. I just this this week, you you talked
about this CBA. The CBA, it is cooking the Nuggets
the most out of everybody because they had they had
a deep team. You had a trade Michael Porter jr.
Uh And now you have to rely on three guys
and hope that the guys you you draft do well.
Peyton Watson is just injured prone this season. But I
do want to shout this out. Shout out to the
coach for finally playing Tias Jones and Vlissa Units. Damn
Jamal Murray Yo got to play forty eight minutes. Bro,
they don't have to. I thought the whole point, man, Bro.
I thought the whole point again, Valissa Units was to
spare the kind of have a resemblance of a yoks
offense when he's out the game. That's what I thought.
I know he's not Yokis, but Antia Jones a port
who can't run the pick a roll that this is
not the same too, Like it's a lesser version, of course,
but they can spare you ten minutes, and look what
happened when they played minutes, they produced a little bit.
So maybe he found something in that lineup. But I
thought that was kind of crazy that he didn't do
this earlier, because they neither want them LaGG in any minutes.
In the April in the game game.
Speaker 4: Four, shout out Mike Malone, man, because Mike Malone knew
how to manage rotations, and the Denver coach. Now, there
are some times where you're just like, man, you are
really draining the guys or what are you doing with
these rotations? But some of that stuff just kind of
comes with experience and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: So don't want to knock him too much.
Speaker 4: But I guess he's working on figuring out, you know,
adjustments and things like that. But as of right now,
just go ahead and take a sharpie put.
Speaker 5: Okay, see put Spurs West Finals?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, because yeah, all right, So the last
morning before we get out of here, I want to
bring up and I don't know me, I don't know
if me and you had this beef. Maybe we didn't,
but I remember I was saying, like, remember, we were
talking about how like how Jokic had that assentsion because
he would they realized his greatness. They gave him the minutes,
got Nurkice out the way, boom Star, Jaylen Brown, Maxi,
Kobe Bryant, like Adie Jones and Kobe Brown Way. Remember
were talking about Evan Mobley and what his potential could
be and he was already playing thirty minutes as a rookie.
And then he was like, all right, at some point
he gonna take the step. Now. I don't want to
talk about Game five because it's currently going live. But
he's not playing good in Game five that he don't play,
He don't have had one good game.
Speaker 5: What is it a losing right now?
Speaker 4: Is eighty nine eighty in the third quarter, with seven
minutes to go into third the Caves are losing. They've
they've lost to in a row. They had a chance
to really you know, go with three to one. They
get a wipe down. So the Cows they lose three
heads in a row.
Speaker 1: There trouble and this is this is this is a
problem I'm having because the whole point again James Harden,
is for him to be the third best player. Bro
it don't. The Calves do not win it. Evan Mobley
don't become the guy and he has not shown it,
and I don't I don't know if he will. I
don't know if you will. But after this season if
they lose in round one, because now let's say, if
you do lose Game five, you go back to Toronto
and you lose that, what do you what do you do?
What do you have to do? Like you got man,
you got harder for what? If you're not, you're not
gonna score thirty harder for what? And Mobile can't be
this KG that they swear he gonna be. I don't know, man,
I'm just going to thinking I was like many mob
every Mobile, Jerry Allen, two disappointments.
Speaker 5: Lose this.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say this game game, they're gonna problem the series.
If Calves go out the first round, Yeah, want to
team up. They're blowing it up. I mean, I don't think.
I don't think Harden comes back. He's on the expiring
so I don't think Harden comes back. Mitchell may Or
may not actually be traded. You may move on from Garland,
not Garland, Mobley or Allen.
Speaker 1: So because they don't.
Speaker 5: It don't work and Cams go out, coach will be fine.
I mean, coaching is fine.
Speaker 4: But if the Cavs go out first round, they're probably
gonna make some some drastic roster moves.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was so I was so happy of this.
But you can't play Allen and Mobile together. You can't
play small because you already got Mitchell who what six
foot you already got. I mean, like I said, Harden
is hard and is old as Yes, I don't really
kind of a part of the future, but the whole
Merrill and Wade and Strus. You got the shooters, but
it doesn't work if your best players don't play well.
Pistons were down three one, they should win game five?
Uh they It don't work if your best player, sorry
is hell, it just don't. It don't work. Jialen during
can't be what he was in the season. It don't work.
Will he be able to see it don't work? So
I don't know. And on top of that, we talked
about the Raptors Cass game. Brendan Ingram got hurt in
the game and he he only play leven minutes and
you still losing, And it's no.
Speaker 4: Quickly right, Now the Pistons are up eight on the
Magic in the fourth quarter and the Calves are down
to the six gods the Raptors round.
Speaker 1: That's probably our biggest miss. That's probably he shoutout, Scott.
I'm a I'm a Scotty I'm a Scotty Bars fan
bro and I'm an Augie Beer fan because I didn't
know what the hell they was doing when they had
all these wings. But it works. They switched everything they drafted,
uh little Draymond Green Jr. It worked. It's working. I
don't know what the Raptors need to do to make
that that one more step. Because you think Scotty Bars
has that ability like.
Speaker 4: As like top five, top seven game changing player. I
don't know about that, but he's gonna he definitely one
of the top fifteen yards in the game.
Speaker 5: But like to me, when you're.
Speaker 4: Talking about the next level, that's that's the Jokisch winby
Shade Luca at Man type love.
Speaker 5: I don't think Scotty true a double three A.
Speaker 4: He plays defense, But I wonder about we're talking about
sending to like an averaging twenty five, eight and eight
like Lebron type thing.
Speaker 5: I don't know Scotty got that.
Speaker 1: I'm just glad that that. I'm just glad that I
started lining up. Can remember how bad I rhyth them
Ingram twenty plus million quickly twenty plus million, or the
twenty plus million or scott a twenty plus and your
Yakapodle who don't even play that much twenty plus million.
So you had to win it with this roster. Shout
shout out to down Dino over there, to coach Man,
because I at first they didn't look good. But if
they're they wouldn't they If they do win this series,
they get pistons of magic who don't have the ability
to score a lot of points, It's a possibility day
the Conference finals, and that'd be crazy. The Hey, the
six is gonna be up this summer for riff real.
Speaker 4: Whoever come out of I said when we did our
playoff preview, Raptors were casts. Whoever comes out of that
is going to the East Finals. They can they can
take magic or pistons. Uh, It's just gonna be a
matter of who wins. I think Calves or Raptors are
capable of even the way Boston plays.
Speaker 5: If you get them, you can beat them. Going to
do a shoot threes. If they're going good, they're not,
you can beat them Toronto they did last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Toronto, and switch everything so that they can. I
think they can match you will. Yeah, it's the East
is gonna be the East gonna I mean, I still
I'm still rover with Boston, but hey, that's because I'm
taking the two best players. Really say shout out m
by Emmy tried to steal the show Man. But we'll
see if they can survive in game six. Back in Philly,
I went to that game. Game four. It was not pretty.
Speaker 5: It was not Yeah, there was there was a white dad.
Still we still got hawts niggas going on. Let's the
Hawks can extend it out one more.
Speaker 4: Uh to game seven because c J he was going
crazy the first couple of games.
Speaker 5: He was terrible.
Speaker 1: Game five, man two four points that I'm crazy anyway,
all right, man, we'll be back next week with the show. Uh. Hey,
next week we got w n B A predictions. We're
gonna have to get it up and get them out
because the season started May eighth, live, so we'll do something.
We'll do a little w B content for that.
Speaker 5: We gotta get with our predictions, some player rankings, A
couple of things with w n B. A.
Speaker 1: Man, you gotta gotta get it out on paper. Man,
we did good last year. Uh, we'll see if we can.
We can see we do it again. We got to
expanded teams now, so it's little. It might be a
little harder to predict. A little bit tea slow slowed
down all right, man, appreciate preacher. We shut we out.
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