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Speaker 3 Wolves dominate, take over in the what, the third quarter? Yeah. And blow the game open.
Well, actually, they took over in the third, second quarter and blew the game wide open.

Speaker 3 Outscored the Lakers by

Speaker 3 18 in the second quarter after being down by seven. And they really never look back after that.
And they win 117 to 95. It was a balanced effort.

Speaker 3 You got 16 from Julius Randall, 25 from Jaden McDaniels, who was 11 of 13, 3 or 3 from the 3.

Speaker 3 Ant-Man, he wasn't efficient shooting the ball, but he was dominant as a normal self. 22 points, and it was Nas Reed coming off the bench, 8 of 12 from the field, 6 or 9 from the 3, 23 points.

Speaker 3 The Lakers, with the exception of Luca, nobody really played well. And in order for them to get back in this series, because the home team has lost home court in the first grade, the first game.

Speaker 3 And normally that's not what you want to see but they still got a ways to go they got they this is an absolute must on monday night joe they've got to get this game but uh lebron ar

Speaker 3 and they got to get some help from the bench but watching this game tell me what did you see what did you like about what you saw from minnesota and what didn't you like about what you saw from the lakers uh i just i smell trouble for the lakers man uh you know we've seen the minnesota timberwolves being in this position knocking off teams whether it was phoenix whether it was Denver.

Speaker 3 So, and man, them, he known to go in and he known to go into somebody else building, you know, steal some wins,

Speaker 3 play, play very effective basketball. Even though he didn't shoot well, I thought he put so much pressure on the rim and created so many other opportunities for other guys.

Speaker 3 But, man, if you got Nas Reed

Speaker 3 and McDaniels going to shoot like that from three,

Speaker 3 you're in trouble. You're going to be in trouble.
It's going to be hard for you to win that game. And so, you know, those guys were very efficient tonight, And they just outplayed the Lakers.

Speaker 3 The Lakers look lethargic. They just didn't.
Outside of Luca having that great first run, outside of that, they just look, they look like they were stuck in mud a little bit to me.

Speaker 3 Yeah, they didn't match. They need to understand.
This is the playoffs. This ain't no regular season.
It's different. And they didn't come out.

Speaker 3 You know, they came out really good in the first quarter, but that second quarter.

Speaker 3 And we know the Lakers, after watching them all year, Joe, they're going to have a quarter where they take it completely off.

Speaker 3 Now, it's normally the third or the fourth quarter it's not normally the first half it's normally they come out at the half or they you know the fourth quarter but we saw this turn of events in the second quarter where they ended up giving up at uh 38 points after giving up 21 in the first quarter they gave up 38 and then they gave up another 35 in the third quarter so they gave up what is that 73 points yeah in two quarters oh cho watching this game what what what what was your takeaway listen first off first off you know the lakers didn't come out and match the Wolves in intensity, huh?

Speaker 3 The intensity.

Speaker 3 Listen, on both sides of the court, there was no intensity. They didn't play defense very well.
Nobody played well in the Lakers offensively

Speaker 3 outside of Luca. So

Speaker 3 LeBron is off, then if LeBron is off in Lucas on, somebody else has to come. It got to be AR.
It got to be Rui.

Speaker 3 Somebody has to have some points collectively as a group if your starters aren't fine or all sellers. Ant-Man doesn't have a good game.
Hell, Reed comes off the bench and he cut the food.

Speaker 3 McDaniel's playing well.

Speaker 3 It was just a bad, it was a bad, it was a bad game all around for the ladies in general.

Speaker 3 And normally, when you have home court advantage and you're playing at home, you don't want the home, the way team to steal a game at home. You don't want it to happen.
So

Speaker 3 they already put themselves out in a hole. So Monday night, like you said, they got to have it.
If they lose Monday night's game,

Speaker 3 they're going to be in a heap of trouble.

Speaker 3 Hey, hey, hey, you see, you see it.

Speaker 3 It's hard to play Jackson Hayes when you're switching all them picking roles and you ain't giving up them blob threats. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Pressure on the rim.

Speaker 3 It is. And plus the thing is, I think they're switching.
They're too easy switching. I mean, as soon as the guy starts the show, they go ahead and switch it.
No, bro. Fight.
Fight on the top.

Speaker 3 Don't give up. You're copping out.
You're listening out on us. Don't do that.

Speaker 3 Hey, Fanny Smith, don't know. Don't pass that out to Gabe Benson.
Don't pass that out to

Speaker 3 Luca. No, fight through that.
Them little soft picks they sent to

Speaker 3 Joe. Come on, bro.
You got to go harder than that now. Cause it's easy.
Oh, you just back away. You go ahead and take it.
That's what Ed want. And you see, they keep calling.
They keep calling Luca.

Speaker 3 Nah, we want Luca. And they're going to keep, no matter who he's guarding, they try to put him on the weekend.
Man, they putting a...

Speaker 3 What's her boy name?

Speaker 3 Rudy Gobert. Man, they bringing Rudy Gobert damn near the damn half court to set a pink pick because they're like, hey, we want whoever Lucas Garden, you're going to be the pick guy.
Right.

Speaker 3 Or Gabe Benson, because he's, Gabe is, what, six foot tall, if we were lucky. And so, but they got to fight.
I think they just got to fight hard on the pick.

Speaker 3 Now, look, if a team is going to be knocking down those threes like they're knocking out, it's going to be tough.

Speaker 3 It's going to be tough. It's not like the Lakers shot particularly bad from the three, but when you let a team shoot 20, make 21 of them, and they shoot 50%,

Speaker 3 they shoot 50% from the floor. When you got your work cut cut out, they couldn't get no stops.

Speaker 3 Couldn't get no stops, couldn't get none. No, you're right, you're absolutely right.
They got

Speaker 3 so if you keep taking the ball out the net, man, it's gonna you know slow our offense down a little more. You know, they already a little small, so you know, through movement, it's great for them.

Speaker 3 So, you got to use misses is like fast breaks, and they've been great at that. But

Speaker 3 hey, man, Timber Wars wasn't missing tonight. Them boys locked in.
I liked it,

Speaker 3 but uh, the only the only hey, Joe and Uncle The only way the Lakers were going if I had any chance or have any chance of getting back in this game game is they would have to steal points and transition.

Speaker 3 That was the only way, and they weren't able to do that.

Speaker 3 Well, they have to get some stops, and like Joe said, when you're taking the ball out of the net, they couldn't get any stops.

Speaker 3 Yeah, because there's a couple of times they forced a miss, but you don't realize you've done nothing until you gain possession of the basketball.

Speaker 3 So, even if you force a miss, if you don't gain possession of the basketball, you've done absolutely nothing.

Speaker 3 And they wind them down a couple of times late in the clock, and they hit some threes. Joe, you know,

Speaker 3 it's demoralizing, especially in your building. If you wind them down, you got them shooting the ball with one, two seconds on the clock, and they splashing threes or they're making outstanding.

Speaker 3 I mean, you're like, damn, well, what I got to do, bro? I bet, come on now. We don't wind them down.
We took them up, grind them to the nub, and then they making shots like that. They got a big boost.

Speaker 3 Devin Chimzo hit that shot.

Speaker 3 That was a big, yeah, that was a big boost going in for them because at that point, they were down eight. Now they go down 11.
And

Speaker 3 to start the third, they go on like a 10-2 run.

Speaker 3 So now all of a sudden, you know,

Speaker 3 what could have been an eight-point game is not a 21-point lead.

Speaker 3 But

Speaker 3 they've got to do a better job.

Speaker 3 Look, look at this. Ruin, minus 26.
LeBron, minus 22. Jackson Hayes only played eight minutes.
He was minus 11. Luca, minus 12.
AR, minus 25. Dorian Finney Smith, minus 11.
Vanderbilt, minus two.

Speaker 3 You ain't winning it like that.

Speaker 3 You can't.

Speaker 3 So now, if you're Minnesota, now you're trying to be a little greedy. Yeah, I'm trying to get sweet snakes.
I'm trying to take both of them. You just can't, I mean, you didn't do what you want to do.

Speaker 3 You just want to get one win. Especially if you got the first one.
Why not be a little greedy? Why not go in the second one? And you know this, Joe.

Speaker 3 Normally, that first one is the easiest to win, because especially if the team has been laying off, you got to realize the Lakers have been off for eight days. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah. And so, you know, and they didn't play the, they didn't play, LeBron and them didn't play the last game in Portland.
So they've been off a little longer.

Speaker 3 But normally the first game is the one that you try to steal on the road. Once we get that, we say, well, hey, we here.

Speaker 3 Hell, we might as well get another one. You know what I'm saying? Don't you?

Speaker 3 You might as well just try to go get that second one while we're here. And guess what? We won't even have to bring our ass back to LA if we go ahead and have a lot of business in Minnesota.
So go

Speaker 3 the next game in LA too, yeah?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yes, yes. Monday night.
Well, they're going to be DraftKings no no longer have, let's see, what it says. Okay.

Speaker 3 The Timberwolves knocked out a playoff record, 21-3s. DraftKings no longer have the Lakers as the series favorite.
Now, Minnesota is minus 135. The Lakers are 115, plus 115.

Speaker 3 Poor performance with Magic has criticism. Coach J.J.
Reddick did a great job all season, but he didn't do a good job for game one.

Speaker 3 The Lakers stood around on offense, played too much one-on-one basketball, and didn't make any necessary adjustments. Tonight was one of the Lakers' worst performance this season.

Speaker 3 They were flat, had no energy, and they played like it was a regular season game. All the things that we just spoke about, Magic just highlighted.
So clearly, they

Speaker 3 know you and I, and we know what we're talking about here on night camp. Stephen A, I don't know why you had to tag me.
This ain't got nothing to do with you, man.

Speaker 3 Someone just texted me a message to send directly to Ash Shanna Sharp. Triple-A, NWA.

Speaker 3 I don't care what Shanna has to say. Lakers ain't winning in five.

Speaker 3 Hey, hold on, wait. And wait a minute now.
This is a good question. And I'm going to pose this question to you.
Now, you had Lakers in five. Now, based on what you saw tonight,

Speaker 3 how confident are you in the Lakers winning this series still?

Speaker 3 Look,

Speaker 3 Lakers and five rolls off the tongue. It don't sound as good, Lakers in seven.
It don't sound as good, Lakers and six. But I feel very confident.
If it's six, seven, it don't matter.

Speaker 3 Lakers and five.

Speaker 3 But But what Magic said, if you watch them step, they were standing around

Speaker 3 Minnesota getting offensive rebounds, kick out three.

Speaker 3 Put them in the pick and roll. Like I said, they just got to do a better job of fighting over that pick.
You just can't give up that easy.

Speaker 3 That's what they, if you do that, they're going to keep doing it. Fight over that, Finney.
Fight over there, Ben de Belt.

Speaker 3 You've got to make it a little bit more difficult on the offensive, on the defense, on the offensive end. So Minnesota has the ball defensively.

Speaker 3 Lakers, you're going to have to be be a little tougher than what you showed tonight. This is not nearly good enough.

Speaker 3 LeBron, this notion, as you get older, it gets harder and harder to get in the rhythm. You see, he had no points in the first quarter, had 10 in the second, gave you three or four in the,

Speaker 3 you can't do that because I get it. You want to let Luca and Luca can get going, but in the process, but at what cost? You get Luca going and now AR and Bron don't have no rhythm.

Speaker 3 Now, they didn't look. If you just look at the numbers, they got 72,

Speaker 3 which is about what they would average in the regular season. But when you don't get any production from your bench, remember we talked about this, Joe.

Speaker 3 Finney Smith needs to give us 8 to 10 off the bench. Gabe Benson needs to give us 6 to 8 off the bench.
Vanderbilt gives us 4 to 6 off the bench. Rui,

Speaker 3 you can't play 30 minutes and give us nine points.

Speaker 3 We need a little better than that. And so look,

Speaker 3 I'm not overly concerned, but hey, I'm like, okay, now

Speaker 3 I'm sure JJ's like, look, we didn't play nowhere close to our best.

Speaker 3 Now, what you've done is given them confidence that they can come in and beat our ass on our court in our building.

Speaker 3 Let's not play around. Let's go ahead and get game two.

Speaker 3 Because you don't want to be in a situation,

Speaker 3 Joe, a bad pass or a missed call. Now you're down 0-2 going back to Minnesota, and you got to get to

Speaker 3 make this thing a series. So, look, the Lakers that play well, they know

Speaker 3 47 points in the second half. They got 30 in the third, they got 17 points, and they got it.
They cut it down like one point, it was 27, they got it all the way down to 12, Joe.

Speaker 3 But they couldn't sustain it.

Speaker 3 The Temple Wolves just seemed more desperate. You know what I mean? It's like they understood the moment and they understood, you know, the now.
Like, all right, we got to, we got to get one.

Speaker 3 And they gained the momentum like i said after after luca went on their run in the first quarter that was it it was pretty much lethargic the whole game bro it's like they were just out there floating and uh you know minnesota just played with more grit and grind and they was they was effective

Speaker 3 but that's the thing but that's the thing though joe is like yeah if you look at if you look at the lakers Luca's always going Luca's going to have a big quarter in the first half.

Speaker 3 It's either going to be the first quarter or it's going to be the second quarter. But he's going to get off one of those.

Speaker 3 And that's why it's no surprise when you look up, he's got 20 points at the half because normally he's going to go somewhere between 10 to 14 in a quarter.

Speaker 3 Now, if it's the first quarter, okay, he's going to get like a four to five minute break to start the second.

Speaker 3 And it gets him out of a rhythm. Hell, hey, he get it going like that, Joe.
I'd be tempted, hey, go back in there for the first two to three minutes.

Speaker 3 I'll get you a rest. I'll get you a rest a little later because

Speaker 3 he cooled down substantially in the second quarter. He caught fire again.
But at that point in time, when you down

Speaker 3 like they were down and Luke is going bucket for bucket with Ant or McDaniels or Naz Reed, you're really not doing anything. Yeah.
I mean,

Speaker 3 LeBron going to have to take over. He's going to have to take over the next game and take over early.
Most of the time,

Speaker 3 he'll... he'll relax, let Luke get his, let AR get his, let everybody do their thing, and then pick up.

Speaker 3 And most of the time, LeBron will be efficient when he does decide to turn it on, but he got to do it early. He got to start off early.

Speaker 3 Let's say, how about we not let Luke get in rhythm and LeBron gets in rhythm first and then allows everybody to catch fire at some point?

Speaker 3 Then at that point, I think it'll make it a little easier as opposed to you already being behind and you're forcing the mission shots

Speaker 3 as opposed to having to be efficient and you're already down. 12, 13.
Hell, at one point, when the Laker was that, what was the most the Laker was down? Like 27, I think. 27, almost 30 damn points.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it was bad, man. It was bad.

Speaker 3 They got to pick it up, man. They got to find a way.
Like I say, I think this Timberwolves team is very scary, as we all know, because they were just in the Western Conference finals last year.

Speaker 3 I know they trade. I know Cat.
I know Cat was there, but you know, Julius Rundle tonight, you know, he was effective, man. He played with grit, he played with toughness.

Speaker 3 And then you, you know, those guys coming off the bench, the McDaniels, the Reeds,

Speaker 3 they won you a game.

Speaker 3 Yes, they won you a game. So now, like I say, man,

Speaker 3 hey, I'm looking forward to Minnesota trying to be greedy in game, too.

Speaker 3 And plus, the thing is, Joe, I've noticed this, and I've noticed, because I didn't notice it until he got to the Lakers, because that was the only time that we've ever seen LeBron be injured.

Speaker 3 But when he has these groin injuries, he's not the same when he gets back because he doesn't, he's hesitant because he knows in Ocho being, and I don't know if you've ever had a groin or a hamstring injury you know suddenness is the worst thing to happen yeah if you watch lebron no rebounds guys right there he's just like if the ball don't come directly to him he ain't making no sudden move to go get it yeah yeah

Speaker 3 and it takes him a while so he's really got to gather if you go back and look at that chase down block he had to gather yeah got it they did a great job of tracking but if you watch it And I've noticed this, is that he's not going to do anything sudden because he doesn't want to, he had that groin injury like like uh what the last the game before that uh maybe it was the rockets game he felt that little twinge and he he came out and so

Speaker 3 whoo

Speaker 3 hey that i understand what you're saying because he don't it's like he don't rebound outside his area like he normally do you know starting to break with that now he's just kind of like i say that first quarter man just kind of seemed like he was just kind of floating me you know what i mean yes i know look it was hot but it's hard man basketball is a rhythm game you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 Brun is a rhythm player as well. And when he gets it going,

Speaker 3 we know it's hard to stop him. But

Speaker 3 him sitting back waiting until second quarter for him to scratch.

Speaker 3 That's going to be hard. We get older, like them old cars.
That new car crank rattled up. Now, old one,

Speaker 3 you got to pat that thing a couple of times, Joe.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you got to bump them brakes on that sherry.

Speaker 3 And then you let it warm up. You don't just take out with an older car.
that thing.

Speaker 3 You let that thing get going. And now you good to go.

Speaker 3 So LeBron, it takes him a little bit while. And I think the thing is that you see now he's getting there a little bit earlier.
He's getting those shots up.

Speaker 3 He's probably staying on the court a little longer because he knows, hey, LeBron, you just go out there, get him a little 10, 15 minute workout. He good to go.

Speaker 3 He probably left there 25, 30 minutes now. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it'll take a minute. Hey, he got to warm them old balls up, man.
Get him. Once you get me on the front wave, baby, I'm ready though i'm ready

Speaker 3 ah so the lakers lose minnesota go in take game one in convincing fashion 117 95 the lakers need a bounce back game in the worst way

Speaker 3 uh on monday night

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Speaker 3 The Knicks beat the Pistons 123 to 112. Jalen Brunson.
34 points.

Speaker 3 Cameron Payne had 11 of his 14 points in the fourth quarter as the knicks stunned the pistons with a 21-0 run in the fourth carl anthony towns 23 points 11 rebounds in his first game and first playoff game with the knicks and og ananobi also added 23 for the number three seed the knicks

Speaker 3 hey i'm like man yeah they right there i said detroit right there man i went upstairs

Speaker 3 Came back down. You did.

Speaker 3 Hey, you know what I said? I thought my TV glitch. So I cut the TV off and cut it back on.
because I said, ain't no down where hell. You down eight.
And now all of a sudden, you up 13.

Speaker 3 I said, ain't no way. So I thought my TV glitched.
So I cut the TV off, cut it back on. It started spinning.
I'm like, come on, TV, cut on. TV spin it.

Speaker 3 Because I don't know what it is, the internet out here, man. But they did it.
They went on a 21-on run and broke the game open. This game had...
Had Kade Cunningham played better?

Speaker 3 You know, they got some points late in the ball game. But Cade got to be better than this.
You can't have 21 points on 21 shots. Right, right.

Speaker 3 That's not good enough. That's not good enough.

Speaker 3 He wasn't that efficient tonight, but he ditched the ball out well. I don't know how they lost their game, man.
I'm just like you. I'm like, I'm looking at the game.
I saw I turned my head.

Speaker 3 It was like, hold on. But,

Speaker 3 man, this is Detroit's a scary team. I thought they played a great game, man, up until their last quarter.

Speaker 3 I don't know. They just kind of collapsed.
I mean, like the last nine minutes, minutes, the last nine minutes, they were good.

Speaker 3 They started the fourth good, but from that, from like that, like a five-minute stretch,

Speaker 3 they did nothing. But when you get OG, give you 23.
Cat gave you 23. Jalen Brunson gave you 34.

Speaker 3 Josh Hart, who's the utility Swiss Army knife, he's a spoon, he's a fork, he's a knife, he's a pair of scissors, he's a screwdriver, he's a monkey wrench. He can do it all.

Speaker 3 He gave you 13, six assists, seven rebounds.

Speaker 3 And then you get Cam Payne, who scored 11 points in the fourth, but go along with 14.

Speaker 3 That was really hard. Malik Beasley does what he does, came in, gave you 20 points on 6 to 12 from the three-point line.
But they need some of their big guns.

Speaker 3 They need Cade Cunningham to be a little bit more efficient.

Speaker 3 Yeah, and the biggest

Speaker 3 Cade will be better. He'll be better in game two.

Speaker 3 But I know Detroit, but they still got kind of got to feel good about this, even though they lost.

Speaker 3 You know, like I said, they controlled the game man pretty much the entirety of the whole game up until about the last eight nine minutes they just kind of had a collapse but no i like this detroit team they play hard they're scrappy oh man they hope they they they're a really scrappy ball club uh jb bigger staff got them playing he got them believing they believe they believe they belong i mean they're not surprised that they're here they believe it and they play like i said i i agree with you i think kate will be more efficient tobias harris had one of his better playoff games tim hardaway Jr.

Speaker 3 played really well.

Speaker 3 Thompson needs to be a little bit better.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I mean, yeah, you got to be better than that. You got to be better than that.

Speaker 3 We talking about Detroit and what they did, how they played well. The Knicks won the game.

Speaker 3 They did. They won the game.
And the reason they won the game towards the end, we ain't talking about Jalen Brunson yet. He had 34 and 8.
And I'm going to call him the conductor.

Speaker 3 I'm going to call him the conductor because the way he orchestrated at the end of that game in crucial time and made those plays.

Speaker 3 yeah who's to say they don't play like that the rest of the series what if detroit don't win no more goddamn games because of what jalen bruns was able to do hell goddamn car anthony towns out there with 23 11 and 5 oh g with his 23 and it's seven

Speaker 3 yeah who's to say they don't catch heat and that momentum carries into the next game and the game after that despite you know k not having the game he should have scoring 221 obviously that's bad he might come back and have you know a better game the next game But hell, Jaden ain't going nowhere.

Speaker 3 Carl Anthony Towns ain't going nowhere.

Speaker 3 Brunson, the thing that makes Brunson is that the big moments, he's at his absolute best. Shows up every day.
In clutch time, they're going to put the ball in his hands.

Speaker 3 And sometimes they might go pick and roll with him and cat, but they normally let him operate and they trust him. Okay, whatever you do, we'll live with whatever decision that you make.

Speaker 3 And in clutch situations, he's one of the, I defy you to find five better players in the NBA currently that's better than him in clutch situations.

Speaker 3 The last five minutes, the game within five.

Speaker 3 He's sensational. Yeah.
And he will, he, and that was on display again. And one, he's great at drawing.
He's great at drawing. Contact Joe, getting to the foul line.

Speaker 3 He was eight or ten a night, the night from the free throw line, two or five from three. 34 big points.
But like you said, it was the others.

Speaker 3 OG, Cat, Josh Hart was sensational, and Campaign gave you 11 in the fourth, 14 off the bench. It's going to be tough.
It's going to be, I look,

Speaker 3 Detroit kicking themselves because they know they supposed to have to stole this game. But like you said, Ocho,

Speaker 3 Cat and Brunson

Speaker 3 and Campaign, they're like, nah, y'all ain't going to get this one.

Speaker 3 Nah, nah. Hey, this is the playoffs, though.
It's a fine line between winning and losing, Ocho. You can be feeling confident like you're going to run through the series.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 And then you can, hey, it can backfire to where you'd be like, man, we got to get a game. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Speaker 3 I think Detroit, like I said, I think they feel good about it. Obviously, yep, New York could go on.
They could go on. They could sweep them.
But I like this matchup.

Speaker 3 Detroit and the Knicks, man. And I'm looking forward to

Speaker 3 fireworks throughout this playoffs.

Speaker 3 And this is not like Detroit. They gave up 40 points in the fourth.
Yeah. 40.

Speaker 3 I mean,

Speaker 3 think about it. They gave up 27, 30, 26, and then you go 40.

Speaker 3 That's what, I mean, and JB probably said, look, guys, we're a little cleaner. Hey, we gave up 40.
Let's be a little better on the defensive end. Hey, we're right there.
This is a team.

Speaker 3 Hey, in their building, we know how MSG gets to rocking. Guys make a few shots, but we were right there.

Speaker 3 Clean this up.

Speaker 3 I agree with you, Joe. I feel, if I'm Detroit, I feel good.
I feel good.

Speaker 3 I want to win. Now, don't get me wrong.
I don't like, hey, damn, we lost, but I feel good

Speaker 3 that, hey, nine minutes to go in the game, we had an eight-point lead. It wasn't like we were down eight.
We had an eight-point lead.

Speaker 3 So there's some things that we can do that I feel comfortable that we can do to get this win, get game, get a split this, and go back home for two. The Nuggets beat the Clippers in OT 112.

Speaker 3 112, 110 in regulation.

Speaker 3 Westbrook hit a huge three at the end of regulation, made key several defensive plays.

Speaker 3 According to ASPN research, Clippers gave Westbrook an average of separation of almost 10 feet when he was taking three-pointers in game one.

Speaker 3 That's the most separation he's gotten on three-point shots of the playoff game when taking at least five attempts since 2013-14. Russ finished with 15 points on five of 17 shooting.

Speaker 3 You just have to live.

Speaker 3 He's a guy that you're going to say, Damn, come on, come on, Russ. What are you doing?

Speaker 3 But the one thing you'll never, ever question about Russell Westbrook is his effort.

Speaker 3 He's going to give you every freaking thing he got.

Speaker 3 He's going to make some play, like the play that, like, the Yoki triple-double, where he blows the smokes to layup. Now, the Nuggets got 18 seconds to get a shot, and they don't even get a shot off.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Russ, that's not like Russ because Russ had a wide open three.

Speaker 3 He passed it up, got caught between, like, damn, what the hell I do? And the clock run out.

Speaker 3 They're like, damn, Russ. But then he comes in, blocks the shots, challenges, gets two percent, gets a key steal, forces the ball off of James Harden.

Speaker 3 Russ won in this game. Yeah.
Because he got a couple,

Speaker 3 he got like two offensive rebounds.

Speaker 3 Aaron Gordon got two key offensive rebounds, and he hit that big three to put him up.

Speaker 3 Joe, what did you like about what you saw?

Speaker 3 Because the Nuggets were down by as much as what? 13, 15. Yeah, Clippers.
Paddling way back into the ball game, and they ended up winning a very close ball game.

Speaker 3 The Clippers was controlling the game pretty much the entirety.

Speaker 3 You know, I do think, you know, Russ's energy and effort is definitely, it definitely helps the Nuggets, man. And I'm sure.

Speaker 3 you know, he enjoys this win considering this again as one of his former teams. You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 So I'm sure he's happy about that. But this is going to be a long series as well.

Speaker 3 I thought the Clippers was right there to really pull away. You look at Kawhi.

Speaker 3 He was playing. He's been playing pretty good ball.
James Harden was playing great ball. Like, they look good, man.

Speaker 3 They did.

Speaker 3 I think James Harden getting in foul trouble. I think Zubah's kind of getting a little foul trouble.
That kind of took James out of his game, but James was sensational.

Speaker 3 11 of 22, 4 of 9 from the 3, perfect from the free throw line. 32 points, 11 assists, 6 rebounds.
Zub 21, 13.

Speaker 3 Kawhi, 22 and 6. Kawhi really had it going early.
He did. He and James, they had it going early.
He couldn't miss. He looked good, too.

Speaker 3 The first quarter, then I think he ended up scoring like only two points in the second quarter.

Speaker 3 But Aaron Gordon got going late. Jokic is Jokic.
Jokic is going to be Jokic. Don't look.
And they say, nobody defends him better than Zubatz. And then you look up and you're like, hold on, damn.

Speaker 3 The man had 29, 12, and 9. And that guy defends him the best.
Well, I hate to see the guy that defends him the worst.

Speaker 3 Zubat played a good game too, though. Zubat had 21 and 13.

Speaker 3 That's what, but see, if you play against Yoke, you got to go at him on the defensive end. You got to make him work on both ends.

Speaker 3 And the thing, but you notice late in that ball game, that fourth quarter, he started challenging more stuff. Whereas early in the ball game, he wasn't challenging.

Speaker 3 And you see Harden laying the ball up. Kawhi laying the ball up.
Guys were laying the ball up. Now, all of a sudden, look,

Speaker 3 bro, you're almost seven foot tall. Just go vertical, just make them go up over you.
Don't give them no layup line. Yeah, let me know what you thought.
What you thought about watching the Nuggets?

Speaker 3 I mean, the game was good. The Nuggets played really well.
Obviously, I look at Harden, right? Harden, really, they control the game most of the game outside of towards the end.

Speaker 3 But hey, Harden had 32 and 11, but the Cliffords turned the ball over 20 damn times.

Speaker 3 When it came to crunch time, and then you got Russell being as intense as he always is, you know,

Speaker 3 as far as playing defense and with Joker playing the way he's playing. When it came to crunch time, because of the turnovers,

Speaker 3 then the Nuggets was back in the game. They were able to get back in the game because of the turnovers.

Speaker 3 Game, I mean, it was good. This is one that's going to go to a seven-game series.

Speaker 3 And I think me, based on what I'm watching and the amount of knowledge that I've gained to this point, the turnovers are going to be key

Speaker 3 on who wins this series

Speaker 3 ask me how i know

Speaker 3 how you know because if they didn't turn the ball over 20 times a night the clippers win this game

Speaker 3 but i think you got to give i think you like you said the last time we was talking about what detroit didn't do let's talk about what the knicks did do well in this situation you talk about what they did what happened they weren't out there by themselves now So somebody forced them into those turnovers.

Speaker 3 You see all of a sudden Russ playing passwords. All of a sudden, they started getting up into people all of a sudden it's not a it's not a layup line

Speaker 3 aaron gordon he's got go ahead joe i said that altitude kick in

Speaker 3 and you think you think that's real man

Speaker 3 oh yeah

Speaker 3 yeah it's tough oh joe it's tough why you think five so why do you think fighters go to arizona why do you think they go to big bear why do you think they go to why the u.s olympic training facility in colorado springs if it didn't make a difference right you know you know it's funny i i always hear it.

Speaker 3 I always hear it all the time. Obviously, I was able to play.
I was able to play in Denver twice. Obviously.
And you lost both times. I did.

Speaker 3 I don't remember whether the wins or losses, but as far as my winning, my conditioning,

Speaker 3 I'm not trying to be rude. I'm not trying to be disrespectful.
I'm just saying that it didn't affect me on the field as far as breathing is concerned.

Speaker 3 And obviously, during a time like that, it was pressure on me to be able to perform because, you know, I'm going to get 24.

Speaker 3 Yeah. I want to get the Hall of Fame and Chan and bailey at the time but there's i always i always hear the thing about the

Speaker 3 about um you know it being difficult to breathe you know when playing endeavor in in a high altitude but i'm just yeah it's less oxygen in there i was just curious what y'all thought ball travels farther that's there's a reason why people love kicking they love putting right they love hitting a baseball the course feel yeah the air is thinner uh altitude training that's why you know like i said if you go look at endurance athletes they always train at altitude right they go to flag staff they go to Colorado Springs, they're in New Mexico, and so that's what a lot of, and you know, boxers they go to Big Bear, yeah, they go to

Speaker 3 places where you know, mammoth, and where you have to like take your little bit. And sometimes, don't you remember? They came out, they had those masks on.

Speaker 3 Remember the breathing masks that you have on? Yeah, I remember those. Yeah, I remember Beastmo used to wear one of them.

Speaker 3 But you, so what, so

Speaker 3 is this a seven-game series, Joe? This is a seven-game series?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think it'll be a seven-game series.

Speaker 3 I think, you know, obviously the Clippers, you know, they came to Denver to get one. They probably feel good about this.
I just think they ran out of gas in their second half. But,

Speaker 3 you know, I'm sure they're looking forward to the game too. But, you know, until you win on the other team's home floor, Arkadana Series.
Yeah. So

Speaker 3 this one probably going to go. It's probably going to go seven.

Speaker 3 Russ said the dynamic roller with Zubots, great cutters, guys guys catch logs. My job is to be able to be low man and find ways to excuse my language F-ish up.

Speaker 3 He did a great job because, you know, like I said, Russ is still, he still has that quickness.

Speaker 3 He's not the finisher that he once was. He's not as athletic, but he's still, I mean, hey, he's still can get it done.
He's still explosive, too.

Speaker 3 And spurts, you know, he can still, he can still do what he did. And like you said, OJo, hold on.
What do you?

Speaker 3 He had two steals, key steals. But even even though he didn't steal the ball, he forced some costly turnovers.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 You know what? I'm happy for Russ, too, having a game like he did today,

Speaker 3 where him being intense like he always is is a reason why they won because just not too long ago, you know, he was one of the reasons why they lost based on his decision making.

Speaker 3 So this was this was good for him. It gave him the confidence he needs.
to go into the rest of the series being aggressive like he always is and doing what's best for not only him but his team as well

Speaker 3 and you have russ on your team at this point you just got to accept what comes along with russ he's going to make some plays and you're like that was unbelievable son that's how we win and then he gonna have some plays like you like lord have mercy

Speaker 3 I sure wish I show I sure went out and went to chapel this morning because

Speaker 3 you got to deal with it. You got to deal.
You got to take the good with the bad. Yeah.
You got to.

Speaker 3 It's really that. It's really, oh, Joe.
It's really that simple because he's gonna make plays. You like

Speaker 3 only he could have made that play, right?

Speaker 3 And then on the other side, you're gonna say, only he could have empted it up. Hey, nobody else could have empted it up, but he did.
So, you've got to take it's kind of like Luca.

Speaker 3 People say, Man, I wish Luca stopped splopping. I wish Luca stopped crying.
I wish Luca, you got to accept it. Yeah, he's not going to stop, he can't stop, right? That's part of him.
He can't.

Speaker 3 He can't.

Speaker 3 Every time, if he doesn't make a shot, he's going to look at the ref like he looked at me.

Speaker 3 You know, he ate a pasta for pregame. So you ain't going to call no foul or

Speaker 3 something. So you just, Joe, you just live with it.

Speaker 3 And that's where I am on that right there. So Russ, you got to live with it because he's going to make some spectacular plays, but he's going to make some plays that leave you scratching your hand.

Speaker 3 But you know, the good thing about it, though, the good outweigh the bad with Russ. The good plenties outweigh the bad.
Most time, the bad ones come at opportune times when they shouldn't happen.

Speaker 3 And that might be the only issue. Yes.
Yes.

Speaker 3 The Indiana Pacers blow out the Milwaukee Bucks by the score of 117 to 98.

Speaker 3 Man,

Speaker 3 after finishing with the third worst defensive rating in the NBA, the Phoenix Subs party just, well, no, that ain't what we want.

Speaker 3 What you got up here?

Speaker 3 Torian Prince got some cardio in. Kyle Kuzma, he was on his road bike too.
He got cardio in. Oh,

Speaker 3 they ain't got double cardio.

Speaker 3 Hey, Torian Prince, 20 minutes, zero points. Kyle Kuzma, 22 minutes, zero.
But head the thing was so amazing about Kuzma.

Speaker 3 Kuzma had zero points, zero rebounds, zero assists, zero steals, zero blocks, and two personal fouls. Man, that's scratch.

Speaker 3 Hey, see,

Speaker 3 this is one I wasn't able to see. I didn't get to see this one.
You know, I was at Metrackney watching my baby run. Yeah.

Speaker 3 So this is the one game I didn't get to see because when this game was going on, this is exactly when, you know, my baby was running the 400 and the 4x4.

Speaker 3 Man,

Speaker 3 this was everything I expected. Godly numbers from Greek Free.
Yeah. Just didn't get no help, man.
He didn't get no help. No,

Speaker 3 Indiana, they're a greedy team as well. They got a bunch of guys who can score the basketball and do a multitude of things on the court to affect the game.

Speaker 3 And if you got two guys in your starting lineup who giving you donuts, you got, man, you ain't got a chance of winning in the league like this.

Speaker 3 Boy, the last time I seen this many donuts, I was at Krispy Creams and Duncan Robinson. I mean, Duncan, Duncan Donuts.
This man had, think about it. He was all five from field.

Speaker 3 He was all two from the three-point line.

Speaker 3 He was all two from the free throw line. Zero rebounds, zero assists, zero steals, zero blocks,

Speaker 3 and zero points. So you only got like nine stats that you can get.
You get

Speaker 3 something a one in.

Speaker 3 Nine of the 10 the man had a zero.

Speaker 3 I don't know. Joe, I don't know if I've ever seen that in all my life.
Now, like I said, I was in 4-H. I grew up on a farm.
I went to the county fair and I ain't never seen no issue like this.

Speaker 3 Chad, I don't think y'all understand this. This man was zero or five from the field or two from the three-point line or two from the free throw line.

Speaker 3 He had zero assists, zero rebounds, zero steals, zero blocks,

Speaker 3 zero points.

Speaker 3 How?

Speaker 3 I mean, Yannis like, hey, all I tell you what, this is what I would need y'all to do.

Speaker 3 Kyle Kuzman, give me eight. Torian Prince, give me eight.
I'll do the rest until Dame gets back in game three.

Speaker 3 They're like, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're going to leave you out there by yourself.

Speaker 3 I mean, they got Yannis outside. They got Yannis.
They'd have closed the door on Yannis. They beat, and they'll have beaten the hell out of Giannis.
And they just closed the door.

Speaker 3 It may happen, but nothing. But see,

Speaker 3 does Kyle Kuzma and Prince have the green light to shoot when they want to?

Speaker 3 Even if you're missing like that? Do they have the green light? You know what? Shoot or shoot. Even when you're missing, you keep on shooting.
At some point, it's going to fall.

Speaker 3 Are they allowed to do that?

Speaker 3 Yeah. Hell no.
See what?

Speaker 3 See,

Speaker 3 the playoffs, and this is the playoffs.

Speaker 3 If you got Greek putting all the pressure on the rim, and you

Speaker 3 like

Speaker 3 Torian Prince was the top three-point shooter this year. It wasn't like he was no slouch.
He probably was top five in three-point shooting this year.

Speaker 3 So I think the main thing is you don't have Dame out there, another guy who can put pressure and

Speaker 3 get his own, make plays for others around him. So now everybody's watching Greek free.
He probably the only one really out there who can go out there and get their bucket. Yeah.

Speaker 3 So that's why I look the way it looks. Well, shoot.
Kyle, Kyle, as soon as I asked you, first thing you said was no. So if Kyle

Speaker 3 doesn't have the green light to shoot at will, being that somebody. Why the hell are we going to get him the green light? He got a learners permit.
He ain't even got a real driver's license. Hold on.

Speaker 3 Let him drive for. If Dame ain't playing, you got to get them points from somewhere.
Them points that Dame would have, they got to come from somebody. The man played coacho.
The man got cardio.

Speaker 3 The man's on the station, everybody. No, that's what I'm saying.
He was 0 for 5.

Speaker 3 He was 0 for in nine of the categories right i'm yes maybe he doesn't have the green light to continue to shoot at will even though no at some point you got to make him that's reserved for a steph curry that's reserved for a dame that's reserved for a luca you can't give no guy no uh kyle kuzma no green light to shoot it whatever you want to hell no okay all right And you got, look, out the bench, you got Green gave you 15.

Speaker 3 Kevin Porter Jr. gave you 12.
Gad Trent Jr. gave you 14.
but you got two guys in your starter think about it of your five starters

Speaker 3 yadas had 36 the other three had 14. so they got 50 points from their starter

Speaker 3 yeah

Speaker 3 you can't win you're not you're not winning hold on that's why that's why i was a lost side of the game like that hold on

Speaker 3 hold on joe so listen i'm i'm i'm not a coach so as a coach do you make the adjustments and put the players in that score 14 to 15? And do that? Okay.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 3 All right.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 3 You understand? You got to be better. But look, OJo.

Speaker 3 Look, there have been times that sometimes that you're like, man, Kuzma, he's figured it out. Yeah.
And then there are other times, if I got glasses on, I'm a coach. I push my glass down.

Speaker 3 I say, Lord, have mercy.

Speaker 3 I'm rubbing my temples because it makes you scratch your head.

Speaker 3 If you know you got players like that that don't have the confidence, you get them going early. You run plays for them on purpose.
Allow them to get an easy bucket.

Speaker 3 You get an easy bucket to get you, it gets you in rhythm. Hell, when it comes to football, what we do? You drop a ball, what's the first thing the coach do?

Speaker 3 Find something easy for you to get the ball back in your hands to be your confidence back up.

Speaker 3 That's what they do to you. The third receiver ain't going to keep getting balls thrown at his ass.
He drop them. Okay.
I see what you're saying. You only get,

Speaker 3 that's the problem. That's the point.
You only going to get so many opportunities before they put somebody else's ass in there. Okay, but I'm only saying.

Speaker 3 You keep getting thrown to you if you drop a few.

Speaker 3 That's not reserved for anybody else. I'm just saying that.
I'm only saying it because, okay, Dame Dollars not playing.

Speaker 3 If Dame Dollars is not playing, now whoever else is in there, they got to replace the production in some way. They might not be able to score as much as Dame Dollars is.

Speaker 3 But we got to find ways to get those individuals who don't score like that and put them in position to get them points in some kind of way.

Speaker 3 joe can you explain the old cho they put him in position he laid it a he's he put a goose eggs hey and and indiana they're taking a challenge man they got guys who ain't scared to guardiannis you know the turners the the pascals see out them so oh yeah it's not like they just totally double teaming him and then and they making them you know they they making him score like yannis shot he shot 14

Speaker 3 tonight like you know they're making him go get it

Speaker 3 and and I can live with that. And he was eight or 15 from the free throw line.
Okay, I live with that. Because guess what?

Speaker 3 What I'm not going to allow him to do, because if you go look at his, like his last 10 games, he had like six or seven triple doubles. So he's scoring 30.

Speaker 3 He's giving you 13, 14 rebounds, and he's making it easy for others to score. So now, hell, nah, you go ahead and score.
Don't even worry.

Speaker 3 Hey, how many you want? You want 36? You want 40? Go ahead. But I guarantee you, the other guys ain't going to hurt us.
See, that's the problem.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but and that's why you see Kyle kuzma only had five shot attempts in 21 minutes you know what i mean like they're not leaving him give him no comfortable looks yannis if you're gonna beat us then you're gonna have to score 50 my boy just to keep y'all in the game yeah

Speaker 3 i'll give you that

Speaker 3 and see when you play the yoke when you play the nuggets

Speaker 3 Okay, you're going to let Jokic get his 35 and you're going to let him have 17 assists?

Speaker 3 Is that what you really? That's what you're trying to do. No.

Speaker 3 Get whatever you want. Eat as much as you want, but I ain't going to let none of the other more foes eat.
Right.

Speaker 3 They're going to starve. And you see, zero, zero, nine, five.
Because think about it. Your starters, your bench players played more than your starters.
Torian Prince had played 20 minutes.

Speaker 3 Kyle Kuzma played 22 minutes.

Speaker 3 Lopez played 21 minutes. And Rollins played 19.
Bobby Porter's played 25. Dead Trent Jr.
played played 27.

Speaker 3 Kevin Porter Jr.

Speaker 3 played 29. Green played 27.
So that tells you

Speaker 3 those guys wasn't getting it done. Hey, Docs today.

Speaker 3 Going in there.

Speaker 3 Got things on that. Well, hey, when you look at it, Kevin Porter Jr.
and Gary Trent, they can kind of go off the bounce a little bit and create, you know, not for them.

Speaker 3 But for others as well. That's why when you got Prince in there and he only got one shot attempt in 20 minutes, that's because we're not leaving you.

Speaker 3 You know, we're going to play young as man-to-man, straight up. We ain't giving y'all no death shots, none of that.
And we're going to make y'all work for everything y'all get.

Speaker 3 Yes. And look, and that's what you have to do.
Say, hey, guys,

Speaker 3 I feel bad for you, Miles. I feel bad for you, Siaka, because y'all is going to give you that.
He's going to give you that work. Ocho, it's like, hey, we dropped in the double.
And then let everybody.

Speaker 3 No, no, no, no. Hey.

Speaker 3 Whoever got Ocho today, bro, he's gonna hang about 150, 175 on you, but we ain't gonna let nobody else get nothing. You gotta take the challenge, you gotta step up, step up, and take the challenge.

Speaker 3 That's gonna help us as a team, man. It happens all the time, yeah, right.
Because I don't want them other guy because y'all is gonna get his

Speaker 3 because he's gonna, if there's a crack, he's gonna slide his slender ass through it, yeah, and either he's gonna dunk it, lay it up, or you're gonna foul it.

Speaker 3 Because think about it, he had 23 shot attempts, he had 15 free throw attempts.

Speaker 3 I mean,

Speaker 3 think about that now.

Speaker 3 23 shot attempts, 15 free throw attempts. He was working.
They were making him work.

Speaker 3 But

Speaker 3 that's also exposing everybody else's weakness.

Speaker 3 I can't create on my own. I can't put the ball on the floor and create space to get my shots off.

Speaker 3 That's a weakness. But as a team, as a team, as a team, O Cho, that's the makeup of a team.
Like everybody ain't going to be able to go off the bounce and be able to create and get their own.

Speaker 3 They're going to be great.

Speaker 3 They're going to be great off-ball defenders. They're going to be great off-ball players, meaning 3 and D guys, guys who got great energy on defense, who can cause havoc and

Speaker 3 knock down the three, you know, offense. So I think that's kind of the makeup of this team.
It's made up of Giannis and Dame to be the creators.

Speaker 3 You know, and these other guys got to chip in and give us what you got.

Speaker 3 And, you know.

Speaker 3 Because that's the thing look and that's look that's what dory he's not a he's not a guy they take you joy those are guys that you got three guys that can take you off the ground and when help comes they kick you make shots yeah you can't everybody can't be up i oh he can take you out the dribble he can take you out the dribble he can take you out no you need a certain guys that need to be able to catch and shoot right everybody has a role now

Speaker 3 You would like to think that when it's time for them to play their role to the utmost, they do it. Yeah.
They hit their shots. Yes,

Speaker 3 Giannis is going to give you what he's going to give you.

Speaker 3 Look, I don't roll Giannis down. Yannis gonna have about 30, probably gonna have 13 rebounds, probably gonna have five assists.
He's gonna cover everything.

Speaker 3 So that's what hey, I done piled it up. On y'all, I done wrote that down in my book.

Speaker 3 It's kind of like at the end of the day, you wrote down everything that you was gonna do, what you was gonna do.

Speaker 3 Well, I could write down what Yannis gonna give me before the game even starts.

Speaker 3 He's gonna get to you. 13, 6, Probably going to shoot probably 60%.

Speaker 3 Mid-50 to 60%. Okay, that's Giannis.

Speaker 3 What about Torian Press, Coach?

Speaker 3 All right, don't be cracking no jokes now.

Speaker 3 I don't know what the hell he's going to kill us. I don't.
I just know. Kyle Kuzma.
I saw Kyle Kuzma. I was ready for Kyle Kuzma to go.
I said, I had seen enough.

Speaker 3 When he was with the Lakers,

Speaker 3 nah, I decided to move on.

Speaker 3 He only gonna be so good. He gonna redeem himself.

Speaker 3 He can only go up from here. Yeah.

Speaker 3 You never have two games back to back like this. I sure hope not.

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Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Hold on. Let me see these zeros.
Zero for five from the field. Zero for two from the three.

Speaker 3 O for two from the free throw line.

Speaker 3 Zero rebounds. Zero assists.
Zero steals. Zero block.

Speaker 3 Zero points. Now,

Speaker 3 it'd have been really bad if he'd had zero files. So, you was out there for 22 minutes and you didn't trip nobody.

Speaker 3 Hey,

Speaker 3 oh, hey,

Speaker 3 yo, he didn't trip anybody. I mean, you didn't run through no screens, you ain't run through no screens, you ain't do nothing.
You had zero cost of bargaining. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that'd be a problem.

Speaker 3 That's hard, man. That's hey, that's a tough stat line.

Speaker 3 Yes, hopefully, he'll use that for fuel, though. Hopefully, he'll use it for fuel and come back in game two and give and give you got to give y'all some help man i mean

Speaker 3 i mean you go you know what he's gonna do

Speaker 3 he just need a little help man yeah that yo had a ultra or ultra ultra double you know you had a triple double or triple single yeah that was he nobody have eight zeros yeah yeah now if you got that if you got money with eight zeros who well you got the paper yeah hello

Speaker 3 you don't want to You don't want to have that on the basketball court.

Speaker 3 After finishing with the third worst defensive rating in the NBA this season, the Phoenix Suns' priority this offseason is to get tougher on the other end of the court.

Speaker 3 On the latest episode on YouTube show, NBA Insider Chris Haynes explained the Suns intend to move away from trying to build around a couple of stars and having more defensive-minded and tough players that allow them to be more physical.

Speaker 3 Joe, is this the right move?

Speaker 3 Because i believe the only guy that's untouchable is devin booker matt ishbia seems to have made it very clear devin booker what he's done in this community what he's meant for this team what he's meant for this city he's off limits everybody else step right up

Speaker 3 depend on what you offer he can say that now

Speaker 3 but depending on what you depend on what you offer i mean I mean, man, they got two guys who were just on the USA Olympic team.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 they didn't even get in to play in that game. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Like, this is, you know, that's unfortunate, bro.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 I don't know.

Speaker 3 You know, I'm a Devin Booker fan, man, but you never know what these owners once they, you know, first get in position, man. A lot of them,

Speaker 3 this is just for fun for them. You know what I mean? So, you know, they make moves that.

Speaker 3 you know, normally a seasoned person wouldn't do sometimes.

Speaker 3 I've been on the other end of that. I've been on the other end of that.
I know what it's like.

Speaker 3 But here's the thing. I think, well, if you get rid of everybody,

Speaker 3 who are the fans going to rally behind?

Speaker 3 I think you keep Booker just out of that. Now, I don't, me personally, I don't think, I don't think they'll trade Book.
That's just me personally. You believe that that's possible considering.

Speaker 3 But what are you going to get?

Speaker 3 Maybe you get some draft picks. No, bro.
Bank off some of these young cats coming down. Hold on.

Speaker 3 But I'm saying, saying you want a whole you want to start your whole team with draft picks well babe

Speaker 3 if you want you he mentioned he want def he want better defense he want physicality right you get rid of your scores bradley bill you know what he agrees he says you know what i have a no trade clause but i'm gonna let y'all send me somewhere where i actually want to go you move on from kd So you go defensive-wise, you go physicality, you keep Devin Booker.

Speaker 3 Well, where the hell is the scoring coming from?

Speaker 3 What is scoring coming from? Now,

Speaker 3 I'm listening to us talk. We just talked about the Bucs and you got two people where you got one person.
You got Dame out.

Speaker 3 Dame is out. You got the only person putting up points that you can rely on to put the ball in the goddamn basket and Giannis.
But now we talk about

Speaker 3 getting rid of two prolific scores.

Speaker 3 Actually, yeah, two and keeping one. And you want to go physicality.
So

Speaker 3 that just depletes your team and puts you in the hole. You got everybody playing defense, but you ain't got nobody to score.
That don't make no sense. How many games games open like that?

Speaker 3 Hey, we can only go up, man.

Speaker 3 We didn't make the play in, Ocho. I mean,

Speaker 3 we got to do something, man. We're in the wild, wild west.

Speaker 3 Like,

Speaker 3 it's tough over there, man.

Speaker 3 It's tough. They gave up so much.

Speaker 3 They gave up so much to get KD.

Speaker 3 They gave up so much. They gave up draft picks.
They gave up one of the better perimeter defenders in Mikael Bridges. They gave up Cam Johnson, a guy that

Speaker 3 could knock down shots. Okay.
You said, okay, big three, big three, big three.

Speaker 3 And now you lose DeAndre A. Now, DeAndre A wasn't the greatest defensive center, but he was a seven-foot rim presence.
Now you don't have that. You have Nurkic.
Nurkic is a big body.

Speaker 3 He can rebound, but that's about it. Slow-footed,

Speaker 3 no real threat on the offensive end.

Speaker 3 You had Alex Van for a while. He's not here with the Lakers sitting there taking up space.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 when you look at the Phoenix Suns, I mean,

Speaker 3 I want some defense.

Speaker 3 He's probably going to want to go.

Speaker 3 I mean, look, at this point,

Speaker 3 Brooklyn accommodated Kevin Durant. I want to go to Phoenix, play with Chris Paul, CP3.
Well, that's what they need. They need a point guard.

Speaker 3 Let's start with that first and foremost. They need somebody to initiate the offense.

Speaker 3 I'm going to take the ball out of Devin Booker's hands and put him at the two. Devin Booker is best at the two, not running the offense at the two.

Speaker 3 Let's start with that. Secondly, yeah, you got guys that can put the ball in the basket, but you can't guard a park car with an Uzi and the motor missing.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 So now everything is a layup line. Everybody getting whatever, they get whatever they want against Phoenix.
Whatever. Layup, they get layup line.
They get shoot around threes. You're not winning.

Speaker 3 You're not winning like that.

Speaker 3 Yeah. They try to play uh devin booker like the clippers do james harden yes

Speaker 3 the offense can score a will a willing passer can pass and it just hadn't worked out for him it just hadn't worked out for him but if you remember james was always that because when he came in with the shock troops at okc the ball was in his hands so he's always been that so now he goes to houston and now he's not coming out the bench you remember those first couple of games that he had with Houston?

Speaker 3 They're like, what the hell? Like 38, like 35.

Speaker 3 So James Harden has always had the ball in his hand. Now, granted, Russ came in and took some of that.
And obviously, when you play with KD, but when he went to Houston and perfected that craft,

Speaker 3 so now he can play like that. Booker has never, ever had to play like that.

Speaker 3 So you're asking a guy to do something that he's really never done. It's nothing for James Harden to do that because guess what everywhere james harden has been

Speaker 3 since he left okc he's had the ball in his hand had the ball in his hand at brooklyn even with kyrie and kd james had the ball yeah he goes to philly with ben simmons and well ben was gone uh when he got there and you had uh joel and bead and you had tyrese maxi yeah he had the ball yep he goes to the clippers Paul George, Kawhi.

Speaker 3 He's got the ball.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 that's what you ain't hard does. He has the ball.

Speaker 3 You're asking Booker to do something that he hasn't done. Yeah.
James is a great ISO player. He has a great, great feel for the game.
And he understands when to pass,

Speaker 3 and when to be aggressive. And he's been great at picking his spots.
Yeah. I mean, they're two totally different players.
He's a better isolation player than Devin Booker. Yes.

Speaker 3 You know, plus his IQ is very high as well, which is why he's able to rank up these double-doubles the way he does. He's led the league and assists twice.

Speaker 3 So clearly he can facilitate offense. Clearly, he understands he's an IQ basketball player.
Look, you're not leading the league. Look,

Speaker 3 you're not going to lead the league and assist.

Speaker 3 Now, granted, it happened.

Speaker 3 Hopefully, the guy on the other end don't monk it up.

Speaker 3 But he understands. He's tremendous.
And him and Zubats, he's turned Zubats into a $100 million man. Yes, sir.
Because him and Zubats in the pick and roll, he's going to drop it.

Speaker 3 He's going to leave it for him. And Zubat's going to power it home.

Speaker 3 He's tremendous. He perfected that step back three.
Yeah. James Harden.

Speaker 3 Because he was the one that was.

Speaker 3 Hey, no, Joe, when I first saw him do it, I said, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.

Speaker 3 That ninja travel. Hey, hey.

Speaker 3 You know, I had a little stint with Houston. I played with James Man on that year.
They won. We won like,

Speaker 3 what was like 22 games in a row or something like that they had about 36 a game yes uh i came in on the on the win streak they had probably already won like 11 12 in a row but man his preparation for the game is different he really sits he in the gym he works on them shots yeah them unorthodox shots which is why he's so tough to guard he's so crafty in the pick and roll because he can beat you in every way if you go under he's gonna shoot the three if you go over he's gonna keep you in shape back there, keep you in that little hufflebuck.

Speaker 3 I ain't got the floaters, the dish outs, the lives, the zub.

Speaker 3 And that's hard to stop, man. Look,

Speaker 3 no, he got a crew with him who, you know, those guys made some shots tonight. That's why I was shocked they lost the way they control their game.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think Kawhi cooled off a little bit in the second half because the first quarter, he had it going. Yeah.
James had it going.

Speaker 3 I think James getting in foul trouble, that hurt them more than anything. Yeah.
Yeah. That, that, that really, like, because it took him out of his rhythm.

Speaker 3 But James can, look, I mean, you can't say enough good things about James Harden. He, he, he, first of all, he's a member of all 75th, the 75th anniversary team.
That tells you right there.

Speaker 3 He's an MVP. He's an all-NBA selection.
And

Speaker 3 he had the highest scoring, highest scoring month

Speaker 3 since, you know, since probably 70. He averaged 43 in a month.
Yeah. Which was a tick above what Kobe had.
Remember, Kobe average like 35. Yeah.
But he had that 81.

Speaker 3 He had like four or five 60-point games.

Speaker 3 But James Harden is a great scorer of basketball,

Speaker 3 but he's an IQ player. Normally, guys, it's hard to find a guy.
He and Luca like that that could score the basketball like that, that they can get you 60. Yeah.
But they can get you 15 assists.

Speaker 3 There ain't been very many guys in the history of the game that can score 60 and get you 15 assists. James Harden and Luca could do that.
Yeah. Yeah.
He can affect the game in that way.

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 he's a tough guard, man. He's a tough guard.

Speaker 3 You, James Jones, what you're doing?

Speaker 3 How do you improve the Nick? I mean, excuse me, the Sons. How do you get them better? Because just a couple of years ago, they were in the playoff.

Speaker 3 They were in the NBA Finals. They had a 2-0 lead on

Speaker 3 Milwaukee. They ended up losing that.
They make another run.

Speaker 3 What are you doing? What are you doing?

Speaker 3 Man, first hope he keeps his job.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 There's a lot of people. Hey, man, you know, I already got rid of the coach.
They got rid of what, three of the coaches. All them coaches still making money.

Speaker 3 They fired Marty Williams after four years. They fired Bogle after not 10 months.
They fired Bud Boonhoser after 11 months.

Speaker 3 So you're about to have your fourth coach in four years. So you got $80 million.
You got $80 million in coaches that's not even working.

Speaker 3 But, and there's no players that's going to walk through that room and save your job, though.

Speaker 3 There's no players. Who are you going to get when you got some of the best already? already that's what you're going to go get that's what

Speaker 3 start you know you got you starting over

Speaker 3 you you you try to get luck and get if you try to get some of these top draft picks this year and i don't know how you can do it but it's some talent in this draft man and hey okay joe you said talent in the draft can you name one college player that can come in that's gonna change the franchise

Speaker 3 They can change. I ain't saying, when I say change, when you say change the franchise, I ain't saying

Speaker 3 it's a rookie who can come in and give them a 60. No, ain't no LeBron James, ain't no Kevin Durance in this draft.
But you want excitement. You know, you want promise.
You want hope.

Speaker 3 So, it's some young females who can come in and keep these Phoenix fans excited enough to where they're still in tune with the sons, man.

Speaker 3 You know, they love their sons down there.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 The volume.

Speaker 3 Ah.

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