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bringing you content. Let's get into these

2:14

topics though. Number one

2:17

on the list is the Sun's

2:19

losing game four one

2:22

sixteen to the Timberwools U

2:25

in the suite and if

2:27

I'm honest. The Suns

2:30

is always is a

2:32

touchy one for me, m because

2:35

I'm a little conflicted. I like to see

2:38

I want to see the sounds due well. Matt ishby

2:40

a Spartan dog, uh

2:42

got you know, became the owner of the Phoenix

2:44

Suns franchise about a year ago. So

2:47

I'm always rooting for Ish.

2:51

Book Man, I'm always rooting for Book.

2:54

You know. I've talked to you all a million times about,

2:56

you know, my love for Book and wanting to see

2:58

him succeed. And Book got that

3:01

seriousness to him

3:03

that you need from your star players

3:05

in order to win in these big moments,

3:09

and I really want to see that happen

3:11

for him. I think Book is in year eight now,

3:13

if I'm not mistaken your seven or eight,

3:16

you know. And the thing about Book

3:19

is Book Book windows started

3:21

a while ago, and he's been so good

3:23

for you know, since coming into the league. He's

3:25

you know, when his rookie year started,

3:28

wasn't playing a ton and you can quickly see he was

3:30

the best player on the team and before you know what, the ball

3:33

was in his hands, and you know it's been in

3:35

his hands since and so you

3:37

know, I don't want to see book get to

3:39

that point where people start writing him off as

3:41

if he's not one of the guys,

3:43

because he is one of them guys. And so

3:47

uh there, I

3:49

man, I got nothing but love for Brad. Uh.

3:51

You know, I wanted to see just seeing Brad compete.

3:54

Uh. Yesday he filed out trying to guard Anthony

3:56

Evers. And I talked to y'all before about

3:59

what I think needed to happen in that series.

4:01

And Brad went down swinging, and everybody will say,

4:03

oh, man, he had nine points and

4:06

blah blah blah, like no brother

4:08

was guarding Anthony Edwards. And

4:11

so if you go back to what

4:13

I said about what Kevin Durant needed to

4:15

do, Kevin Durant needed to go take on that challenge

4:17

and the reasons I said that. One

4:21

of the things that I did say when I gave the reason

4:24

is was Kevin should not focus on offense.

4:26

Kevin should lock in on Anthony Edwards

4:28

on the defensive end, play a

4:30

role on the offensive end, get

4:32

what comes to him on the offensive end because

4:35

he's still Kevin Durant. So the defense going to

4:37

overreact, but lock in on the defensive

4:39

side of the ball and

4:42

you know, whether that's spotting up, whether that's you

4:44

know, getting your spot every now and then on

4:46

the offensive end. But your main focus shouldn't

4:48

be on the offensive end, because I don't think that's what

4:51

the team would need at that point. With Grayson

4:53

Allen being out, a lot of that changes because

4:55

they're missing about fifteen to twenty points

4:57

from Grace and Allen. They're missing some floor spacing

5:00

that Grayson Allen provides. They're

5:04

missing, you know, graceon Allen's

5:06

presence, and so I do understand

5:08

it a little more from that standpoint, But essentially

5:10

what I'm getting at is that's essentially what

5:13

happened to brad Bill. Brad Bill is so focused

5:15

on trying to take anything thatwards out the game. Legs

5:17

gone, came, hit a shot, it starts

5:20

spiraling f fast, foul, trouble.

5:23

Buddy went down swinging, and I gotta

5:25

respect that. And unfortunately

5:29

that is all, folks, That

5:32

is all. Uh. I'm

5:34

not sure which which tweet age

5:36

worse. Shout out to my man Coos.

5:38

I love COO's got nothing. You know, known

5:40

cous for many many moons, but

5:45

there's no Cou's. KOs is a truth teller

5:47

who's Who's is a real and there's

5:49

no secret that KU's is tweet

5:52

about not being the team did not age

5:55

well this year. It just didn't age well.

5:58

Washington struggled a bit this year,

6:00

finished with almost identical records to

6:03

the Detroit Pistons after Koos's

6:05

tweet and

6:08

so the tweet, the tweets spoiled

6:10

fast for cools though, like it's spoiled

6:13

fast, and ironically the

6:16

tweet may have spoiled even faster

6:19

from from the big softy

6:22

uh big softy one,

6:24

the tweet after we lost. You know on post

6:26

pictures that that tweet is spoiled

6:29

so fast, like that is spoiled

6:31

milk. And yeah

6:34

that is all folks. So you know, you got

6:36

to be really careful when

6:38

you're not that's

6:41

successful, and you

6:43

try to take jobs at people because

6:46

you really don't when you really don't have

6:48

control of your own success, you

6:50

know, when you don't, when you don't play a

6:52

large enough role in your team success,

6:56

when you can't really affect the outcome

6:58

of the game, like you can go, you can

7:00

go have twenty rebounds and lose a game, you

7:03

know, like when you really don't affect

7:05

the outcome of the game, it's really tough

7:07

to take jobs at people because you

7:09

got a job and then like you

7:13

can't affect you know what your

7:15

what your air result is, you know. And

7:17

so yeah,

7:20

the big softy bowed out.

7:23

Uh, you know, Rudy Gobert played

7:25

great. Hey, by the way, Rudy

7:29

Gobert, Carl Anthony

7:31

Towns. It's been in the league

7:34

maybe eight years, eight

7:37

to ten years for both of them, give or take. And

7:39

what Anthony Edwards has taken those

7:41

guys and done is

7:45

absolutely amazing. Like Rudy, Rudy,

7:48

Rudy actually not trash anymore. Like

7:51

and I think I think it's like

7:53

a lot of people agree that he just

7:55

wasn't like he defends now

7:58

and ironically, you know he

8:00

got all the defensive where but I mean, like when

8:02

you see him on the switches, he's up at the level.

8:05

He not just sitting back in the drop no more.

8:07

When he gets switched on to the guy,

8:09

it's like his antennas pop on, like

8:12

oh I gotta sit down and like they're about to go at

8:14

me and I'm guarding. And I

8:17

think it's been interesting to watch because

8:20

he is actually

8:23

impact and winning and he's actually

8:25

doing that on the defensive

8:28

end, where as opposed to other series, he's

8:30

gotten played off the floor. Although Phoenix

8:32

went small at

8:35

times to try to get back in the game, there

8:37

were times that they still played Rudy

8:39

on Royce O'Neill. Before,

8:43

if you win five guards, there

8:46

was no chance Rudy Gobert can play, like

8:49

zero percent chance. Even

8:51

if you win a big that can stretch the floor,

8:53

big that can move it, there was zero percent chance

8:56

that he could play. And those things have changed,

8:59

And if I'm honest, I don't

9:01

think at this point that was a change

9:03

in ability. That

9:05

is a change in what's required of you. And

9:09

quite frankly, like even

9:11

if you listen to ask press conference last

9:13

night, he's talking about Kat filing

9:15

too much. Like, quite frankly,

9:18

I think that that's the leader required

9:21

more of both of those guys. Like

9:24

I saw some things during

9:26

the game last night, especially when Kat was at

9:28

the five and Rudy was out, that I'm like,

9:30

Kat, you can still cover that, Like you

9:33

know, maybe like dude, you guarden

9:35

Royce O'Neil. He had the free throw line drop one

9:37

extra step, you could take that lay up away deep book

9:39

just got and things like that. However,

9:42

Kat is not a defensive minded player.

9:44

So to try to nitpick at all of those

9:46

little things,

9:48

it's pointless to do, you know, And

9:51

then saying that, I

9:55

think what Anthony Edwards has required

9:58

from those guys has allowed them to take

10:00

the next step in their careers. A

10:03

young twenty two year old basketball

10:06

player, superstar fee nine, whatever

10:08

you want to call him,

10:11

I personally can tell when something is

10:14

being required from a leadership perspective.

10:16

And the way Kat

10:19

is attempting to defend, like Kat was chasing

10:21

Kevin Durant around, nas

10:23

Reed was chasing Kevin Durant around,

10:26

it is guys ain't do that before. And

10:30

yes, I do give Chris Finch

10:32

his credit as a coach. I do think, you

10:34

know, he's a good coach. But man

10:37

in the NBA, at the point

10:39

of their careers that those guys are at,

10:43

ain't no coach making you slide

10:46

your feet like Rudy Gobert sliding his feet.

10:48

Now Kat attempting to defend,

10:51

that's a guy who you out there with saying,

10:53

yo, this is what I need and you don't want to

10:55

continue to hear from that guy, and definitely

10:57

gives me that demeanor. And I think

11:00

what he's feeding to those guys.

11:03

Like, yes, his play with stellar, but

11:07

I think what he's feeding to those guys is even

11:09

more important because his play could be as stellar

11:11

as it want if he ain't

11:14

got those guys playing

11:16

the way they're playing. It's the same

11:18

old Timberwolves. What's changing

11:21

is his demeanor and changing all of those

11:23

guys. And now you look at that team,

11:25

and that was a far more complete team

11:28

than the

11:30

Phoenix Suns, if I'm

11:33

honest, that's a far more complete

11:35

team than the Denver Nuggets.

11:37

We'll get into the Denver Nuggets a

11:40

little later in this show, but that

11:43

team that we just watched, that are the

11:45

Minnesota Timberwolves, is a complete

11:48

team. Now, Anthony

11:51

Edwards has had the luxury

11:53

of bringing in over

11:55

the last year and a half of veteran point

11:57

guard like Mike Connley, and I know, and

12:00

it's pulling things from him and

12:02

and that's huge. But we've seen

12:05

Mike Conley with star big man before

12:07

not be able to get it done. So I got

12:09

to get that credit credit to Anthony Edwards man

12:11

now not taking nothing from Mike Conley.

12:14

Uh, Mike Conley is has been a mainstay

12:16

in this league for a long time

12:19

we've had battles with team that's Mike Conley's

12:21

been on. I got nothing but love and respect for

12:23

Mike Conley and this has

12:25

This is not

12:28

a hit at all to Mike Conley, but more

12:30

so the praise of Anthony Edwards.

12:33

That kid is special and what he's doing

12:38

it's no surprise, you know why, because

12:41

he said all alone, this is what he believes,

12:43

and this is what he was going to do, and he's just going to do it

12:45

now. And so I think,

12:47

I think, man, that was beautiful to

12:49

watch. Anthony

12:53

Edwards is the start that I've believed

12:55

he could be since day one, and that I'm sure a lot of

12:57

people did believe he could be still

13:01

remember trying to figure out how to trade up

13:03

from two to one and getting that

13:05

man. But you know, special,

13:09

special talent. So

13:11

the question that

13:14

comes next is

13:16

what happens to the Phoenix Suns.

13:19

What does this mean for the Sons Big

13:22

three? Blah blah blah. Nothing.

13:27

They'll come back in next year with that

13:29

same big three and

13:31

hopefully they'll try to retool around

13:34

that big three. Now, we

13:36

knew coming into the year that not having

13:38

a point guard's going to be

13:40

a problem. That that was going to

13:42

be an issue no matter

13:44

what, and everybody said, no,

13:46

Devin Booker can play the point,

13:49

Brad Bial can play the point. And don't

13:52

get me wrong, they can get you an offense,

13:54

they can win you games, but they're not

13:56

point guards. And being

13:58

a point guard and trying to think, oh, man,

14:00

Kevin hasn't had a shot, Oh man, deep

14:02

Book hasn't had a shot, or

14:05

Brad you know, deep Book thinking, oh Brad

14:07

haven't had a That's a totally different

14:09

game you gotta play. Then come

14:12

down, all right, get to my spot, get

14:14

us some good get us, get us a good shot.

14:17

That's a totally different game you gotta play.

14:21

And quite frankly, it doesn't

14:23

best suit those guys to play that game.

14:26

Can they play that in spurts, of

14:28

course, but

14:30

to play that game an entire season that

14:32

it's a tall task that

14:35

quite frankly showed

14:39

to be proved to be one that they couldn't overcome

14:42

because all

14:45

year long, you know, you see them and they start to

14:47

make a run, and those guys are playing well and

14:49

then it just like fall off. And I think

14:52

that is because you know,

14:54

the consistency in the style of play due

14:57

to not having an initiator that you

14:59

know, all right, this game

15:01

every night, this guy is getting us

15:03

into X, Y and Z, and

15:05

I think that that made all the difference. And so

15:10

if you're the Phoenix Signs, the

15:13

highest trade value you're gonna have is

15:15

Devin Booker. Do

15:18

you want to move off your franchise player Devin

15:20

Booker. I highly

15:22

doubt that Matt

15:24

Ishbia taken over as a new owner. I

15:28

highly doubt he's going to

15:30

come in and within a year

15:32

move on from Devin Booker. The

15:36

book is also one of those special players that

15:38

you just don't just move on from. But

15:40

he will have the highest trade value of the three

15:43

for a couple of reasons. His

15:45

age, obviously,

15:50

his play contract

15:54

situation. You know he's like

15:56

got a couple of years left, could

15:59

sign an extension, all these things, but he's

16:02

twenty seven, and

16:04

so he'll have the highest

16:06

value of all of them. Brad's contract

16:09

is big with the injury history, and you

16:12

know some people are looking say, oh, he only had nine

16:14

points in this last game, we can't trade him,

16:19

so his value would

16:21

be less than book Kd's in here

16:23

eighteen. So

16:27

his value will be less than the books. So with

16:31

no draft picks, and the next

16:34

they got a draft pick. I think the Suns had a

16:36

twenty second draft pick this year, but outside

16:39

of that, doesn't have another draft pick through twenty

16:41

thirty, So you don't have picks

16:43

to move, and you don't really

16:46

have many players to move outside of those

16:48

three and two of those, well,

16:50

one Brad value

16:53

on a trade market probably wouldn't be as

16:55

high with the salary that Brad

16:57

has and then the new second Apron and all those

16:59

things coming into

17:01

effect. That makes it

17:03

tough there. Like I said, Katie,

17:06

and you're eighteen, you know, with

17:08

a team not knowing where if he's even gonna

17:10

want to come there or blah blah blah.

17:13

And so your biggest asset

17:15

is Devin Booker? Do you move on

17:17

from Devin Booker? Now, interestingly

17:20

enough, we talked about Rudy Gobert. The

17:22

Rudy Gobert trade completely killed the trade

17:25

market because they took five first round

17:27

picks, and then no one wants to ever do that again.

17:29

So you've even seen guys like Dame I think it moved

17:32

for two or three first round picks. So

17:35

with book what's the most you can get and what's worth

17:37

it? I

17:39

don't think anything's worth it, but you

17:41

have to assess everything when you're in a position

17:44

that the Suns are in now. However, they've

17:47

played together for one year. The

17:51

books are what they are anyway, So

17:53

my opinion, you got to come back with those

17:56

guys, you got to try to retool around them,

17:58

and you got to give it another go. The reality

18:01

is, none of these things really work in the

18:03

first year. Unless you're to go

18:05

to State Warriors, then they work in the first year.

18:07

But none of these things really ever work

18:09

in the first year. So I'm

18:12

awesome, I'm not on the hype train. Oh it's

18:14

over and they need to figure out and blah blah blah, and

18:16

like no, but you definitely have to go back to the drawing

18:18

board, you know. I saw the whole Frank

18:20

Vogel would be fire thing. Quite frankly,

18:23

I think that that was a decision that

18:25

we all questioned as soon as it happened. I

18:27

don't think any of us thought that Frank

18:29

Vogel would be Moni's replacement until Frank

18:32

Vogel's name came up, and you're like, whoa, And

18:34

so just in thinking back to that, I don't you know,

18:37

you know Kevin saying I

18:40

didn't know my role in offense, and I don't know if

18:42

Kevin said that or not. That was a quote

18:44

that's been put out there from sources. You can never

18:47

be so sure those sources,

18:50

oftentimes are correct.

18:53

Frank Vogel is not an offensive coach. So

18:57

Frank Vogel I personally don't think

18:59

was ever going to be the one to put all

19:01

of those pieces into place. From

19:04

a standpoint

19:07

that, A, we don't have a point

19:09

guard, how can we make this work

19:11

moving all of these different guys around and being

19:13

creative. That's not what Frank Bogo does

19:17

And so I never expected that and

19:19

yet to see that come

19:21

out, that's no surprise, yuse.

19:24

Kevin's not someone that's just going to bring the ball

19:26

up alah book allah, brad beial

19:28

and get his own That's not what Kevin's

19:30

going to do. So that does not shock me one

19:33

bit one bit. You didn't

19:36

see Kevin coming off any pin downs to the elbow

19:38

area, getting to his bag. That's

19:41

when Kevin is most dangerous. When

19:44

you get Kevin in those spots where okay, I

19:46

can't just raise up on you because you're too small,

19:49

wonder will pull up I can completely get

19:51

rid of, like you gotta know the spots to get Kevin

19:53

in. And to Kevin's credit,

19:56

if that statement is true that Kevin said that, I

19:58

agree, he did stand in the corner. Now,

20:01

I do know that Kevin will sometimes get upset

20:03

and just go to the corner. But all

20:06

year he was just in the corner. And like I

20:08

said, you watched their offense, and none of those

20:10

players was getting Kevin to the spots that

20:13

he likes to get to. I know, the spots that

20:15

he wants to get to the score. None

20:18

of the says that they were running were really getting

20:20

him into those spots. And

20:22

as great of a scorer as he is, he

20:24

still needs the ball in the

20:27

spots in order to be as efficient

20:29

and productive as as he can be. Get

20:32

him to his spots in this rat who's

20:34

going to stop him? And so I ain't never

20:36

seen any of that, And

20:42

like I said, I'm not very surprised by

20:44

it, because I didn't when the hire

20:46

happened to Frank Vogel, I didn't view that as, oh,

20:48

their offense is about to be crazy.

20:52

No, the first thought would be there going to be a good

20:54

defensive team

20:57

and quite frankly their offense.

20:59

They struggled a lot of fourth quarters, and

21:02

that usually tells you don't have a point guard to get

21:04

you into the things that you need to get into. So

21:06

in turn, it turns in the light book getting off

21:09

or Brad trying to get to it. But how

21:12

sustainable is that to do that for entire

21:14

quarters. All

21:16

of a sudden, you miss a couple and you go

21:18

down, and that team's been playing team basketball.

21:21

So nonetheless, I

21:24

don't think it's over for the Sun's Big three.

21:26

Yes, every hell out of the water they go next,

21:28

or is it over like? I don't think so. I

21:31

think you got to try to retool around those guys.

21:33

You bring Grayson

21:36

Allen back, But you bring Grayson Allen

21:38

back, if I'm honest, he got to come off the bench because

21:42

you need a point guard. Now.

21:45

You signed Isad

21:47

Thomas for the rest of the season. I

21:51

thought that he'd

21:53

at least get a shot to try to see

21:55

if he could take on some of the responsibility.

21:59

We didn't see that. So

22:03

that's the Suns timber

22:05

Wolves moving on. I'm

22:08

excited for the next series with the

22:10

timber Wolves. We all think that it'll

22:12

be the Denver

22:14

Nuggets. Denver Nuggets

22:17

also has their share of issues. Their bench

22:19

is not it. They

22:21

do not have a very good bench at

22:23

all, and you need a bench to

22:25

win championships, and I

22:28

just don't know if their bench is going to get it done.

22:31

Should be enough to get it done in this series.

22:33

I think for sure it'll be enough to get it

22:35

done in this series. But as you go

22:37

deeper into the playoffs, the flaws that you have

22:39

get more and more exposed. And

22:43

if it's going to get exposed, it has to be this next

22:45

round. It has to be by Anthony Edwards

22:47

in the Minnesota Timberwolves. Now,

22:50

all of the praise that I just gave to the

22:52

Timberwolves and they're Bigs and Rudy Gobert

22:54

and Kat and what they've done, but

22:56

Anthony Erwars has done for them. And

22:59

next next year, if

23:02

they go on to face the Denver Nuggets,

23:06

that will be put to the test with

23:08

the big fella Joker and we

23:10

will see. But right now, timber

23:13

Woods are looking like cut and dry,

23:15

the best, second best team in the West, arguably

23:18

the first best team in the West.

23:22

Like I said, just with their depth on

23:26

you know, with their depth that

23:28

puts them ahead of Denver. What

23:31

brings them right back to Denver is

23:34

Joker gonna be like, I don't need no help. I

23:36

mean, you know you need help. What

23:39

he tell Rudy go brother, I got I

23:41

got forty seven. You need a

23:43

double team. So it's gonna come down to

23:45

Ken Rudy Gobert not

23:48

stopp him, because you're not stopping Joker. But

23:51

can he affect the game the way he was affecting

23:53

the game in last series, that'll

23:55

be a big thing. Ain't gonna do what he do? It

23:59

was good to see Cap back out there and have a good series

24:01

coming off that long layoff, still

24:04

food defenix Suns and telling them that he was

24:06

the most important player in the series. It

24:09

wasn't. That was a lie at is

24:11

and will be the most important player in the series.

24:14

That's that. And moving on, The

24:16

Knicks beat the seventy six ers ninety seven

24:18

to ninety two to take a three to one lead in the

24:20

series. And the

24:22

first question is

24:26

do I personally need to apologize

24:29

to jaylen Brunson for saying he shouldn't

24:31

dominate the ball? My

24:34

answers no, Here's why.

24:37

Number one, some

24:40

things that work in the first round. Cool.

24:43

They work in the first round, they won't

24:45

work moving forward. It's

24:48

funny because I had a conversation with a friend

24:50

of mine last week, Benny

24:54

Fowler, and I was talking

24:56

to him actually about Jaylen Brunston, and I was

24:58

watching the Knicks and I

25:00

was like, man, I called him and I

25:02

said, YO, tell me if

25:04

I'm tripping, like Jayleen

25:08

Brunton is really good, and I feel like I have

25:10

to believe how good he is. And I thought, I've

25:12

always believe how good he is. Playing

25:15

at the level that he'd be playing at

25:17

is a different level than I always

25:19

thought. I

25:21

think most people thought. I mean, even when he

25:23

signed for one hundred million with the Knicks, everybody said

25:25

that was a crazy deal and he was overpaid.

25:28

So we're not going to act like it's just me. However,

25:31

I called my boy and I'm like, man, I

25:33

don't really know if I'm supposed

25:35

to believe like Jaylen

25:37

Brunson, like because I know better beings

25:40

like I know better, Like I know that

25:42

this gets to a certain level and it

25:44

stops, like he can only do

25:46

this up to a certain point being your number one

25:48

option. But you look at him competing,

25:51

he's smarter and he gonna get smaller card. And

25:53

like I kind of was in this role of

25:55

like arguing for him, arguing against them, arguing

25:58

for them, arguing against and that's how I feel about

26:00

it. But and so I'll

26:02

say this, he does have my respect. He's

26:04

always had my respect. That's

26:06

not up for debate. What

26:10

is up for debate is can he carry

26:12

a team

26:14

to the Promised Land. By the way, the

26:16

Conference finals to me is not the promise Land.

26:19

We saw Trey Young go to the conference finals against

26:21

these very New York Knicks, well

26:24

dealing with the New York Knicks along the way and

26:29

to get to the conference final and hasn't

26:31

been back since. And so the conference

26:33

finals is not the holy Grail to

26:36

me. So although that's a

26:38

huge step for him to take him to the conference finals,

26:40

I will take my hat, tip my hat to him

26:43

respect, But that's not

26:45

like the promised Land to me. But

26:47

I'll give him that. And so I went through this whole

26:49

thing with my point, I'm like, I don't know, like forty

26:53

seven points, ten assists, one turnover,

26:56

eighteen to thirty from from the field. The

27:00

one thing that was glaringly noticeable to me when

27:02

I was watching the game was that Philly

27:05

plays with Joel and the drop, and

27:08

so what they did was just kept putting Joel in the

27:10

pick and roll and Jalen Brunson got whatever

27:12

he wanted because he was in the drop. At some point,

27:15

you gotta move up the floor, building

27:18

the help and

27:21

make those other guys beat you. Now they've

27:23

shown that they could beat you. But are you gonna

27:25

let Jaylen Brunce get forty seven ten assists

27:28

and only one turnover. The only reason the

27:31

reason he only got one turnover is because

27:33

that drop, there's no

27:35

pressure on him. He coming off and

27:37

Jaylen Brunton when he come off the screen

27:39

and there's nobody there, he's

27:41

not even now looking at the guy in the drop no

27:44

more. He now starts back paying attention

27:46

to his guy, which is, let

27:48

me lock him in back here

27:50

so he can't get back to the front square

27:52

the ball up. Now he's locked in behind the

27:54

play and he gets

27:56

whatever you want float or MIDI. That's where he

27:59

lived, not even after three.

28:01

He lives in those ranges,

28:03

and so of course he

28:06

gonna go off of there. But what happens

28:08

if you bring the guy up

28:10

to the level of the screen, They

28:14

gotta do something else though, like

28:17

Philly, you can't just stay in the drop just

28:19

because it's Joel. How do you win like that?

28:22

You gotta do something else like and

28:26

then also you

28:30

got Joel and b Tyrese

28:33

Maxi. You gotta score more

28:35

than ninety two points because if

28:37

you hold a team to ninety seven. See here's the

28:39

thing, the game plan in theory actually

28:41

works. You let Jayleen Brounson get his forty seven

28:44

ten assists, they scored ninety seven points.

28:46

So number one, you have to score more points

28:49

ninety two points they

28:52

scored ninety seven, you should win that game. In the

28:54

NBA, So in

28:56

theory, Jalen

28:59

dominating the ball actually doesn't

29:01

work because

29:04

they only score ninety seven points doing

29:06

it. But you gotta give

29:08

him his credit because it worked to get a win.

29:14

But if a team scored ninety seven, you

29:16

got the MVP of the NBA on your team

29:19

at home, where

29:22

role players should be shooting better and making

29:24

hustle play, you only get

29:26

ninety two points. That's why you lose. So

29:31

the conuntrum, that the conundrum

29:34

that I've been kind of calleding and

29:36

dealing with on Jaylen bruston

29:38

jury still out and

29:41

again I got nothing but love

29:43

and respect for Jaylen Bruston and love his game

29:45

and respect his game. But I'm talking

29:48

about to go to the Promised Land. Can he be your

29:50

best player to go to the Promised

29:52

Land? I don't

29:54

know, but damn

29:57

is he balling? He doing

29:59

it? Give them his credit. And

30:04

when you look at the series, I

30:06

personally think the series can still be turned

30:08

around because I think Joe

30:10

Ellenbid is that good. But Joe

30:13

ellenb got to go be that good, like

30:15

when you got the best player in the series. And right now,

30:17

Jaylen Bruston is looking like the best player in the series.

30:21

But I'm not doing that. Joe ellenb is the best player

30:23

in the series. When you got the best player in

30:25

the series, you always have

30:27

a chance. And so I still

30:29

think they have a chance because Joel can

30:32

do that. But it's looking

30:34

like it's over and they're ready to quit. We'll see

30:37

Nicks going back home. You see the way they invaded

30:39

Wells Fargo yesterday. Oh

30:42

they going back home. Shut

30:44

the streets of New York City down that they

30:46

win this game five, because it's a rap.

30:49

We shall see Clippers versus

30:52

the Mavericks was a very

30:54

interesting one great game, down thirty

30:56

points, come back, still don't

30:59

win. No, why remember what

31:01

I told you all about them taking Kawhi

31:03

up to the brink and they're like, ah, he's out. You're playing

31:05

a different team. No surprise

31:07

to me. The Mavericks got down by thirty points.

31:10

You know why because when you go into

31:12

that game and you don't know if Kawhi Leondard is

31:14

playing Kawhi Leonards that good, you have to prepare

31:16

for Kawhi Lennard. Well, guess what you're

31:18

prepared for a team that you're not playing against,

31:21

because they're totally different team when Kawhi Lender

31:23

doesn't play. So

31:25

they get down thirty points, nonetheless

31:28

come roaring back. Why because you got two

31:30

of the best scorers in our game, Kyrie Hervan

31:33

Luka. Doncons they

31:36

come roaring back ends up not being

31:38

enough. James

31:41

Harden looked like James Harden.

31:43

Didn't even look like Houston James Harden. James

31:45

Harden looked like ok C James

31:47

Harden. You know why he didn't look like Houston James

31:49

Harden because Houston James Harden didn't shoot real

31:52

floaters. For real Houston James

31:54

Harden did not shoot me rain shots Houston.

31:56

James Harden shot layups in threes

32:00

that looked like the Oka cee James Hard and

32:02

I thought it was very interesting because

32:09

Dallas is going to have to figure out who's

32:11

guarding James Harden move for moving

32:13

forward, and why they're going to need to figure

32:16

that out is because I personally don't

32:18

think PJ. Washington is

32:20

the answer. PJ has shown

32:22

to be a good defender, a guy that's

32:24

willing to take on that role for this team, and I

32:26

respect it, but he can't guard James

32:28

Harden. Every time James Harden made one move,

32:31

he looked like Ricky Rubio. Y'all remember that time

32:33

Ricky Rubio is Garden James Harden.

32:36

If this is the real Ricky Rubio is

32:38

Guarden j Harden forcing him to the like

32:41

crazy stuff crazy

32:45

when I saw Ricky Rubio doing that. However,

32:49

one move and that's how PJ. Tucker looked.

32:51

PJ was behind James every time he

32:53

crossed over, like way behind him

32:55

and out the play, and he's he's

32:58

banking on getting to what's shot

33:00

contest, getting the block, coming

33:02

from behind James Harden and

33:05

getting the block. However,

33:07

James doesn't shoot his floater like a

33:09

normal floater. James kind of shoots his floater

33:11

out like this and push it, and

33:14

so there's no way you can get back to getting the block

33:16

without following him, which we saw a couple d

33:18

ones on the floater. But

33:21

I was also a little disappointed in

33:24

Dallas's defense from the standpoint, like Terris's

33:27

man is on the floor, somebody

33:29

shrinked the floor and make terrace

33:31

Man be you James

33:34

hard can't just keep getting to the middle of the

33:36

paint when no one else started shooting the floor.

33:38

At some point, somebody who's guarding

33:40

Terriss Man just come and stand there. I

33:43

know where he going go. Stand

33:45

there, all right, Gret, you're gonna throw

33:47

the ball tenns Man as terns Man beats us.

33:50

Great, we're supposed

33:52

to go home. But to

33:54

keep letting James get by PJ and

33:56

just going to the floater and get

33:58

whatever he wanted. Nah,

34:02

that can't work. PG

34:04

hit some big shots. Big

34:06

shots from PG wanted all

34:08

the smoke. And I also loved the type of time

34:10

that PG was on. You know, PJ.

34:13

Washington had this whole thing, and I

34:15

respect that too, But PG

34:18

ain't forget and see It's

34:20

always funny watching these young fellas have

34:22

they moment and start talking, because you start

34:24

barking up the tree of the guys that have been doing this

34:26

for a long time. And PG been

34:29

doing that to guys for a long time. And

34:33

PG got the last live the three

34:35

he hit over Dereck Jones in the corner. Insane,

34:39

by the way. But let's move backwards a little bit,

34:41

so PJ. Washington, I personally don't

34:43

think it's the match up for James Harden and

34:46

I think if they're going to have a chance

34:48

of stopping James hard, if James come out with

34:51

that same mentality again, James

34:53

is in your what sixteen fifteen.

34:57

It's hard to do that every night, you know, but

34:59

it is the playoffs. You get days in between.

35:03

But if James is playing that same style

35:05

of basketball, ay, go help off. Terrence

35:07

Man. Come on now, Jared

35:10

Dully. Jared Dully always talk about how he

35:12

got the game plans. Come on now,

35:14

Dudds. Let's see

35:16

it going up against old T lou

35:18

over there, you know t Loui mastermind. Let's

35:20

see it does we got we

35:23

got excuse me, we gotta

35:25

see these defensive

35:27

game plans because James can't just get there and beat

35:29

you like that. So if James

35:31

is going to stay that aggressive, though, who's

35:34

going to end up being the key in this series who

35:36

can actually stay in front of James

35:39

take the hit the

35:42

shoulder that James delivers. It's

35:44

Josh Green. Josh Green has not played

35:47

much just series. He's playing

35:49

here and there, but

35:51

he is the one guy who can actually stay in front

35:53

and take the bump. PJ. Washington

35:56

can take the bump, but he didn't do a good job of staying

35:58

in front. Now you know, he may take

36:00

on the challenge and say I'm sitting down, but

36:03

that was that didn't look good last night.

36:05

And personally, I

36:07

think Dallas should still take this series, especially

36:10

without that with the uncertainty of Kawhi,

36:13

I think the Clippers are better off now playing

36:15

Kawhi the rest of the series. You gotta see

36:18

what you got. You gotta also

36:20

be certain with your guys, because you don't

36:22

want guys like, oh, he's playing this game

36:24

on the same the regular season. This is the playoffs.

36:27

Coming in and out of the lineup is tough, can

36:29

be tough to adjust in one game. One play

36:31

change is a series. So if

36:34

I'm them. They need to just be certain with

36:36

what they got. You still got James, you still

36:38

got PG, and you

36:40

still got Russell Westbrook. You still got two

36:42

MVPs. In a perennial MVP

36:44

candidate should still be

36:46

able to go out there and compete possibly

36:49

win the series. Uh, but I

36:51

wouldn't keep mixing Kawhi in and

36:53

out and then also wishing Kawhi well. We

36:55

never want to see that. And

36:58

last, but not least, on

37:02

this episode of The Draymond Green Show,

37:04

is the Lakers beat the Nuggets to extend

37:07

this, to extend the series, they

37:10

will play again tonight in

37:12

Denver Game five. Do

37:15

they have a chance to come back? Yes, they have a

37:17

chance to come back. And I'll tell you why. I don't think they're

37:19

coming back, but I they do think

37:21

they have a chance. Number One, Dangelo

37:23

Russell played well. Dangelo Russell played

37:25

well, Lakers can win. Lakers

37:28

went at a high level when Dangelo Russell played

37:30

well. So d Loo

37:32

just got to take that on the chin and go

37:35

play well. Can't have a game

37:37

here, game there, This is the playoffs. Go play well

37:39

again to night d Low. The

37:41

reason I think the Lakers have a chance is because

37:43

again, their bench is not good

37:46

Denvers. Denver's bench is not good,

37:49

so that is

37:52

something they've been able to play at this

37:54

whole series. They've

37:56

been leading the whole series, they just ain't won,

38:00

got to win. So I

38:03

think they can come back. I

38:06

don't think it's likely that they're going to come back,

38:09

but I definitely think so, because all of a sudden, Jamal

38:12

Murray cash strained questionable.

38:16

If Jamal Murray doesn't go tonight or if

38:18

he is one hundred percent and Lakers take the

38:21

series back to LA three to two, probably

38:26

winning Game six, so Nan

38:28

it's a game seven, it's a coin flip. So

38:31

I think the Lakers can do it. I

38:35

see everybody talking to Bron does this, He's

38:37

to go? I'm not sure. I hate

38:40

when people try to make one incident. Oh

38:42

if you do this, then you to go. But if not, then

38:44

what is he like? Then? What? Yeah?

38:47

So like these people be crazy

38:49

with all this stuff. But I definitely

38:51

think it's possible. Denver's

38:55

bench is a huge concern.

38:58

However, as

39:01

possible as it is, I got a joker

39:03

coming out tonight, sending

39:06

them boys home, finishing

39:08

their breakfast, moving

39:11

on. But if

39:13

anybody can do it.

39:15

Take her from me. Brian

39:18

can pull it off. So we shall

39:20

see. But I got that one ending tonight.

39:24

However, shout out to d ham Man getting

39:26

the guys to respond a way responded. Everybody

39:29

trying to throw DM under the bus. I hate

39:31

it. That's whack

39:33

to me. But he got the guys

39:35

that respond and they got another chance,

39:38

so we shall see what happens. I got that one

39:40

ending tonight in five and that is a

39:42

wrap from this episode of The Draymond

39:44

Green Show. Excuse me, that's

39:48

all, folks. Peace,