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1:46

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1:49

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1:52

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1:55

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1:57

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1:59

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2:02

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2:11

good side of those, and they

2:13

are fun. You get a nice little break,

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2:53

Seventy six Ers versus the Knicks

2:56

one twelve one oh six in overtime. And

3:00

and I actually rewatched

3:02

this game last night and I was, you know,

3:04

my wife had asked me. She was like, who won this game?

3:07

And at that time, it was ninety seven to ninety

3:10

two, with maybe like a minute and

3:12

some change left for her, and

3:15

she was like, let me guess, let me guess. And

3:18

she went through it and

3:21

she's like, did Philly win? And

3:23

I'm like, yeah, they actually did. And so we're

3:25

watching it and when you see some of those

3:27

shots down the stretch that the Knicks hit, you're

3:29

like, oh, it's over right there, right like, and

3:32

so you know, we're

3:34

watching it and she's like, well, I'm just

3:36

trying to see where the game changed, like

3:39

like how did they win. Like all

3:41

of a sudden, Og goes to the free throw line.

3:43

He misses one free throw down the stretch. She missed

3:45

the first one, and she's like, oh, this is where it changes.

3:48

He makes the second one right, and

3:50

so they go up six points. Where

3:55

it really took a turn to this tyres

3:59

Maxie's four points and play Maxi

4:01

got to four point play he

4:03

got Mitchell Robinson to leave his feet.

4:06

Very very very smart play by

4:08

Tyrese Maxi because in that

4:10

situation, like in most situations,

4:12

you know Mitchell Robinson is going to leave his feet.

4:14

He's a shot blocker.

4:16

Most shot blockers with the makeup

4:19

of Mitchell Robinson, they are jumping like

4:21

it's no if has or buzz about it.

4:23

They've been taught their whole life.

4:24

When somebody shoot the ball, you try to block it, and

4:26

they jump for everything, and so usually

4:30

to you know, instead of benefit. However, when

4:33

you get out on the perimeter, it gets a little bit dicey

4:36

because if you leave your feet a little bit

4:38

on the perimeter, the

4:40

offensive player is getting the benefit of the doubt.

4:43

I never understand why it's so much.

4:46

Different when you leave your feet on

4:48

the perimeter as opposed when you leave your feet

4:50

in the paint, it's still shooting

4:53

the basketball. One person's jumping

4:56

and shooting the ball, and yet

4:58

it's always a fit. She had a totally

5:00

different so and getting Mitch

5:04

Robinson out to the three point line. Tyrese

5:07

Maxi very has he played shot facts

5:09

him? What does Mitchell Robinson do? He starts to jump

5:11

and move forward, well, instant

5:15

kicking. Ah, I can't jump right there, but it's a

5:17

little too late. Tyrese Maxi gets to four

5:19

point play. All of a sudden, they're not no

5:21

longer down six, two possession

5:23

game, and those two possessions needing two threes. They

5:25

are now coming back down. They

5:29

only need a

5:31

two if they can get a stop.

5:34

Well, Maxi down.

5:36

The stress is huge.

5:37

Knicks come down, miss another free throw

5:39

and they go up three and Maxi

5:42

comes down.

5:42

Mix one, make one.

5:44

Maxi comes down and logo them boys

5:46

pulls up from the logo and

5:48

quite frankly, it was no

5:51

surprise to me that

5:53

Maxi had the game, that he had

5:56

forty six points, nine assists, seventeen

5:59

for thirty from the field, seventeen for.

6:01

Twelve from the three.

6:02

And the reason it was no surprise to me

6:04

because if you actually go back to my Twitter, I tweeted,

6:07

and I said, half of the Philly players

6:09

are like

6:12

competing and trying to win, and

6:14

half of them quit. And

6:17

if you watch, like it was very

6:19

evident of who were the players

6:21

that quit and who were the guys

6:23

that was going for who are the players that believe?

6:26

And Maxi was right at the front.

6:28

Leading the charge of the players that was going

6:30

for and he was

6:32

dialed in on both sides of the ball. He

6:35

was one hundred miles prior to the entire game

6:37

getting pressure on the rim shot

6:39

the three very well, like he played

6:41

well, and you saw some guys following,

6:43

but you saw the body language on some of their guys

6:46

and something like it just wasn't

6:48

there. So even to start the game, like you

6:50

could tell the nerves were there to start the game some

6:52

of the shots Philly took and the

6:55

knicks, but some of the shots that Philly

6:57

were taking in those first seven to ten possessions,

7:01

just watching it like what.

7:02

Like

7:04

like why?

7:05

And like I said, when you get into it in a

7:08

close out game, the nerves are high for both

7:10

teams. One team our season could

7:12

be over and

7:15

you're nervous about that, but yet you do get

7:17

some guys going out like we

7:19

got nothing to lose, this is it, And that's the

7:21

that's the demeanor that Tyrese Maxi had

7:24

going into I

7:27

mean, and to start the game yesterday, and

7:29

so I'm watching it, I'm like, all right, Maxie feel like he

7:31

got none to lose, Like he playing

7:34

free, like and quite

7:36

frankly, he carried Joel yesterday. Obviously

7:39

Joel draws a lot of attention. He

7:41

ended up with a triple double, although had nine

7:44

turnovers. You

7:46

know, Maxie

7:49

was the guy. Kelly Ubre played some big

7:51

minutes also that finished. Kelly Ubre had

7:53

under the rim where Joel kind of lobbed it up

7:55

and Kelly got caught

7:58

under the rim and was still able to finish.

8:00

That was a huge play.

8:01

But anyway, Tyrese

8:04

Maxie and then also there were

8:06

some possessions and I don't know if it was just cross

8:08

matches. I don't know if it was intentional they were trying

8:10

to throw different looks at Jalen Brunson. But

8:13

there was some possessions where Maxie was guarding

8:15

Brunson and like taking on that challenge,

8:17

and I thought that was very interesting.

8:19

So it was great to see.

8:20

MAXI had a game that he had in the garden

8:22

on that stage in the game where

8:25

yeah, Joel finished with nineteen sixteen

8:27

ten assists, but

8:29

it wasn't a Joel type game. I

8:32

think if you asked me, he struggled well,

8:34

and where it's unfortunate when if you're

8:36

Mitchell Robinson, where you get the file to kind of

8:38

turn the game towards the end. Mitchell

8:41

Robinson was a large reason why

8:44

they were in the position that they were in because

8:47

he played really well against Joel yesterday

8:49

and you know, he had some good defensive

8:51

plays, caught some good libs

8:54

out, having that Riom threat on

8:56

that live threat that the rim is always important

8:58

enough to spoke to you all about that it does

9:00

for the space, and so I thought Mitchell Robinson

9:02

played a really good game. Like

9:05

I said, it's unfortunate that he had that

9:07

play down the stretch on the defensive end, but he

9:09

played a really good game.

9:11

And so Max, he did a lot of the carrying

9:15

last night.

9:16

So and going into game

9:19

six, you expect to see

9:21

a very very very intentional

9:23

aggressive Joe L ANDB.

9:26

One of the things that I noticed in the game the other

9:28

day was all of a sudden, Joel was no longer

9:30

in that drop at the realm when

9:32

Jaylen Brunson was coming off picking rolls,

9:36

and no, he was not at the level

9:38

and kind of almost in the blitz every

9:40

play because it's a reason

9:42

he played a drop like as hard as hell for

9:45

a seven three hundred pounder to get up

9:47

to the level of screen blitz the screen, he has

9:49

to get back in their rebounds, so you're sprinting

9:51

back every play like that's a tall task.

9:54

However, they have to do that. You

9:56

can't just let Jalen Brunson get downhill

9:58

and get to his spot. It's not going to it's

10:01

not going to work. And so I thought that was very interesting

10:04

or not very interesting. I think it's what needs

10:06

needed to be done. But I noticed

10:09

that right away that Joel had moved up to

10:11

the level of that screen. And

10:14

initially Jaylen Brunston

10:16

got off to a bad start. Now he ended

10:18

up finishing the game from the second quarter

10:21

on really strong.

10:22

If I'm not mistaken, he may not have scored.

10:24

In the first quarter, and if he did, he had two points,

10:26

four points something like that. It wasn't

10:29

a very impactful first quarter for him. But that

10:31

second quarter he got it going and he rode the rest

10:33

of the game. You

10:36

all knew my back and forth that you all know

10:38

my back and forth that I went through the other day

10:41

about Jaylen Brunton on.

10:43

Kind of all of these things.

10:45

I'm trying to put together, and so

10:48

we will get back into that a little bit. Number

10:50

One, I

10:53

love Jaylen Brunston as a player. He

10:55

is a guy who you know when you

10:57

see him having the success that he's having,

11:00

it's not a surprise to me that he's having

11:02

success. And the reason it's not a surprise

11:04

to me because if you watch Jalen Brunston at any point

11:07

in his life pre NBA,

11:09

he always had success. All American

11:12

won two national championships in college.

11:15

That's never really spoke about.

11:17

But to win two national championships

11:19

in college is incredible and nearly

11:23

impossible. That's why only maybe seven or

11:25

eight teams has done that. They

11:27

didn't go back to back, but

11:32

they had a year in between. But to win two

11:34

is crazy. So he's always been a winner. To

11:37

say that anyone thought he'd have the level

11:39

of success that he had, I

11:43

think most people would be lying now

11:46

when I look at that, though, I

11:51

am a little tilted on that because

11:53

I am kind of a microcosm of the same

11:56

exact thing, which is a guy who had

11:58

success a lot of access in college.

12:00

I didn't have the opportunity to win a

12:03

national championship, let alone too like Jyleen

12:05

Brunson. But you know, to

12:07

see a guy dominate in college like that

12:09

and then just be like, oh, it's the NBA, now get him

12:12

out of here, like he's not a first round pick, blah

12:14

blah. Again, that's my

12:17

story. So I got nothing but

12:19

love for Jaylen Brunson. But

12:21

like I said, and going into it and knowing what it

12:23

takes to get to the mountaintop,

12:27

that's where my questions have been.

12:29

And so you look at this game,

12:31

Jayleen Brunson fifteen

12:34

for thirty two from the field

12:37

four three eleven from three, only

12:40

six assists as opposed to the ten or

12:42

eleven assists he had in game four.

12:47

And you know what I've spoke

12:49

about is I don't love

12:52

the ball dominant Jayleen

12:54

Brunson. And

12:57

the reason I don't love that is a I

12:59

think it's too easy to guard. Not that Jalen

13:01

Brunston is easy to guard, but just

13:03

every time down the court, like you know, our

13:05

defense need to load up, or

13:08

if you decide and we're just letting him come downhill

13:10

with two guys guard and we're keeping everybody else

13:12

home to keep

13:15

the other guys out of it, to

13:17

keep the other guys limited

13:19

in what they're bringing to the game. Whatever

13:22

that game plan is. Ultimately, you

13:24

know, it's on the coach should decide what they think

13:27

is is going to beat

13:29

them, what they think gives them the best chance to win.

13:32

I don't necessarily love the ball

13:35

dominant Jalen Brunston.

13:36

I just don't think you can

13:38

win at the level

13:40

that they want to win at doing

13:43

that. I just think

13:45

they need to move the ball around. They need to get more

13:47

guys involved. You know, when they were winning

13:50

and like dominating. When they are winning and

13:52

dominating, I should say Dante defenn

13:55

Ccenzow is playing great. Dante Devincenzow's

13:57

rolling. I've had the opportunity

14:00

to play with Dante last

14:02

year here with the Warriors, and

14:05

Dante is very much so a rhythm

14:07

and confidence guy. You get Dante confidence

14:09

going, you give him confidence, you

14:12

allow him to get a rhythm. He's going to play hard

14:14

defensively, He's

14:16

going to cut, shoots the ball

14:18

really well, good slasher to the

14:20

rim.

14:24

He rolls.

14:26

When you don't necessarily give Dante

14:28

confidence, it's a little more of

14:30

a struggle when you don't show him that

14:32

belief.

14:33

I would necessarily say, give him confidence. He's a

14:35

confident guy.

14:36

But when you don't necessarily show him

14:38

that belief, he struggles a

14:40

little bit more.

14:41

And he had nine points yesterday.

14:45

If you look at their season over the last two

14:47

months, he's pretty much been averaging twenty and

14:50

so when I look at that, to

14:53

me, and yes, he

14:55

finished three for ten, one for seven

14:57

from three. Quite frankly, those

15:00

shots are a lot different when they're just

15:02

coming in the flow, you know, when they're just coming

15:05

in the rhythm, I suppose like, ah, I catch it, like

15:07

oh now it's time for me to like, oh now

15:09

shoot it, And you're not in that rhythm. And like I said,

15:11

Dante is very much so a

15:14

rhythm guy, you know.

15:15

And so.

15:17

I think Jalen has to get

15:19

everybody else involved going on the

15:21

road. Yes, it's going to take a

15:23

heroic performance from Jalen

15:26

to close out.

15:27

This series at

15:29

Philly.

15:31

But like I told y'all last episode,

15:35

Philly does have the best player on the floor in

15:38

Joe el Ebid, not necessarily playing

15:40

the best, but at any given moment he

15:42

is the best for sure, and

15:45

so as I said before, that

15:48

always gives you an opportunity

15:50

to come back.

15:51

Obviously down three to one.

15:53

Now, it's interesting what

15:55

happened in these series when the team go up,

15:58

when a team has the

16:01

league, can possibly close out and then don't

16:03

because every game you go further into that

16:05

series, the pressure flips.

16:09

And so for a New York

16:11

Knick team that don't have a ton of playoff

16:13

experience.

16:14

Og is a champion, but

16:17

very young in his career winning

16:19

a championship. Josh

16:21

hart not a ton

16:23

of playoff experience,

16:26

not a whole bunch of playoff experience. Hartenstein

16:31

not a bunch of playoff experience

16:33

at all. Jaylen Bruston

16:35

has got some playoff experience, although

16:38

not a ton as the guy that he is

16:40

now. And then Dante

16:42

has some playoff experience with the Bucks,

16:46

but it's kind of a little banged up during

16:48

a couple of their runs, and so not

16:50

a ton of playoff experience. Mitchell Robinson

16:53

not much, and Miles McBride

16:55

not much. So the pressure flips

16:57

Now, with those guys not having

16:59

a ton of experience, sometimes

17:02

you go into it like they're oblivious to the

17:05

moment.

17:05

I don't think that's this group.

17:06

I think this group has enough experience to

17:09

not be oblivious to the moment. And sometimes

17:11

being oblivious to the moment actually

17:13

helps you because it's almost like

17:15

irrational confidence, Like you're so oblivious

17:17

to the moment you don't even realize like

17:20

the stakes, you don't even realize the pressure

17:22

that should be on you. But because you're not processing

17:25

the moment, you're not even feeling that pressure.

17:28

I don't think that's this next team,

17:30

because they do have enough experience

17:33

to know that, hey

17:35

man, we don't want to go seven,

17:37

right, So this series is now going six and it's

17:39

headed back to Philly, And I must say

17:42

that's a danger zone for the Knicks.

17:44

That is a complete danger zone.

17:46

Because you're gonna be expected to

17:49

go lose on the road, like that's

17:51

just what it is, and you should go lose

17:53

on the road when another opposing

17:55

team has one All Star and

17:57

also the MVP of the end

18:00

NBA, you should go

18:03

lose.

18:04

So Philly, you're supposed to win this game.

18:06

However, Philly's going in like,

18:08

hey man, we faced elimination, we're down

18:10

three to one.

18:10

We just free swings, free swings.

18:13

And that same timid Philly of some

18:15

of the guys that I think you

18:18

saw last.

18:18

Night won't be there in game six, Game

18:21

six.

18:21

They gonna come out with they chest poked out, feel

18:23

good about themselves, like yo, we gonna win this game.

18:25

We taking it back for Game seven at the garden

18:28

right in Like game seven's a game sevens are

18:30

matching. Game seven is at the guard and I can only

18:32

imagine the feeling

18:34

that that gives. And so the pressure

18:37

in game six is all and

18:41

I mean all on the New York Knicks.

18:45

And sometimes guys don't deal with that

18:47

pressure well. And so I think, you

18:49

know, the Knicks has to deal with that.

18:52

But like I said before, I

18:54

think Philly's gonna win this series. I think they

18:56

should take it. I think they can take it. And

19:00

we'll see u if. Because

19:02

here's the thing, if I'm the New York Knicks,

19:06

gotta be a little careful of like we gotta

19:09

go in here and win this game, like this is a must

19:11

win, because if you don't go win a must win,

19:13

although you do got one more game.

19:14

If you really made this a must win mentally.

19:19

Coming out of that and you lost is gonna be

19:21

tough to bounce back for Game seven for

19:23

the Knicks.

19:23

And so.

19:25

If I'm Time Tiboteau, if I'm Jalen Bronson,

19:28

the leader of that team, I'm pushing it as close

19:30

to the line of yo, we gotta go win this game,

19:32

like we need to close this series out without

19:34

quite stepping over of like.

19:38

This is like we gotta win this game.

19:40

Like I'm not quite stepping over there, but I'm pushing

19:42

it to as close to that line as I can because

19:46

you understand that Game seven is.

19:47

A coin flip.

19:49

Always it's a coin flip, and they

19:51

just don't know Philly can come out of

19:53

hit twenty three threes all of

19:55

a sudden you lose because they shot the lights

19:57

out, Like you just don't know

20:00

what's going to happen in the game seven, And so

20:03

as fun as they are, you don't want to get there.

20:05

You just don't want to get there. And especially in a situation

20:07

where he were up three to one, you don't

20:10

want.

20:10

To get there because it

20:13

just don't always go your way.

20:16

I've seen it been a part of it on

20:18

both sides of Game seven, it

20:20

don't always go your way, and so Philly

20:23

needs to win this game tomorrow. I think

20:26

that's going to be a little less Jaylen

20:29

brust and ball dominance, although he needs

20:31

to be great, he gonna have to find that.

20:33

Balance and

20:36

also with

20:39

Philly.

20:41

Another interesting thing that they did before

20:43

I move on from this is watch

20:45

out.

20:46

For that zone that they ran.

20:47

They almost ran like a matchup zone,

20:50

dropping Joel all the way into

20:52

the back so to a to give

20:54

him a break so he didn't have to be at the level

20:56

on all of those screens. And I

20:58

thought that matchup zone gave Philly problems.

21:01

If I am Nick Nurse, I'm expecting

21:03

that Timms is going to over

21:07

like overly prepare

21:09

for that zone, not

21:12

so much for their half court defense. They're going

21:14

to overly prepare for that zone to beat that zone,

21:17

and I don't run as much of it.

21:19

If I'm Nick Nurse, go

21:21

to.

21:21

It a couple of times if it's working, cool, but you

21:24

go to it first

21:26

couple of times, and they dice it up because they're

21:28

so prepared for it, like you nix it because

21:30

you know they're overly prepared for that, and

21:32

they may not be as prepared for your half court

21:35

man defense, and so be

21:37

fun to watch the coaches play this game. As

21:40

you get deeper into this series, the chess match

21:42

really begins and you got adjustments

21:44

being made. So I think that's an adjustment

21:47

that New York has to make. They gotta be ready for

21:49

that zone. Philly was playing, keeping Joel

21:51

in the back of the defense, letting all

21:53

the guards and Wint handle the pick and rolls.

21:55

I thought it was pretty successful.

21:58

Haven't seen any numbers from at the end of but

22:01

from the neked eye, it looked pretty

22:04

pretty successful. So we'll see

22:06

what happens with that. But that is something to watch for

22:08

in that series. And by the way, I

22:12

got Philly in Game six, so

22:15

that's that moving forward. Cavaliers

22:18

take a three to two league with.

22:20

The magic the home game had.

22:21

The home team has won each game in

22:23

this series and I don't see that changing

22:26

in game six.

22:27

The Calves did take last night without

22:29

Jared Allen.

22:33

Not sure what you know if he's out

22:36

you know, the next couple, next game or

22:38

two, or what his situation is, but they

22:40

did take last night after him and quite

22:43

without him, and quite frankly this

22:46

series, I got

22:49

to cast win this series. I think it does go

22:51

seven. As I said before,

22:53

seven is always a coin flip. I

22:55

got to cast win the series. I really don't

22:57

see either one of these teams going on to

23:00

winning the game. I think the home team

23:02

win these games. CAF take Game seven

23:05

and that is going to be kind

23:08

of the rap for that series. But

23:10

yeah, I think both neither

23:12

one of them are going on the road to win. Orlando

23:16

had a great opportunity last night.

23:18

They let it get away. Gotta

23:20

win the ones when you had those opportunities

23:23

in the playoffs, young playoff team, although

23:25

they played that well and g Harris,

23:28

Gary Harris didn't shoot the ball well

23:30

has zero points.

23:32

G's not gonna shoot like that again.

23:34

So but you still

23:37

need other guys getting off and you,

23:39

you know, you gotta

23:42

go in facing the elimination. Now,

23:44

first time this team is faced elimination. I

23:46

haven't seen these it's their first experience.

23:48

So how do these guys show up

23:50

at home?

23:51

Right?

23:51

Do they show up firing like we got none to lose?

23:53

Do they show up at home a

23:56

little tight? That's

23:59

always possible as well. But I got

24:01

the Magic taking Game six

24:04

and then Calves taking Game seven.

24:06

We'll see how it goes.

24:07

But the question, the biggest question is

24:10

how do these two teams fare versus

24:12

the Boston Celtics

24:16

If Porzingis isn't back,

24:18

and quite frankly, both of these teams are

24:20

losing. If Porzingis is back, it's not back,

24:23

or is back, it don't matter.

24:25

Boston mopping both of these teams. That's

24:28

just my opinion.

24:30

I don't think either one of these

24:32

teams have a big

24:36

that makes the Porzingis lost huge.

24:41

Where it does, where it can

24:43

affect if you're playing against the Magic is how

24:45

much Fron and Paulo

24:48

gets downhill all of a sudden you don't have Porzingis

24:51

as a room protector, and they're getting

24:53

downhill more.

24:54

However, Boston has a great

24:56

deal of length.

24:57

They also have a great perimeter,

25:00

and so it'll be a little

25:02

tougher to get downhill.

25:04

But I also don't think the Magic are

25:06

moving forward.

25:07

But yeah, I think this Boston team is winning this

25:09

next round pretty easily without

25:12

Porzingis. I don't think it's a rush for Porzingis

25:14

to have to get back for this next series. Do

25:17

all that you can and get yourself ready for the Conference

25:19

finals because be more needed

25:22

then, although I think the real

25:24

test is, regardless of

25:26

either one of these series, they have left in the Eastern

25:29

Conference, get ready for the

25:31

finals, KP.

25:32

That's the most important thing.

25:33

Probably, Yeah, you need some games under his belt

25:35

and all of that, But Boston

25:37

getting through the East no problem, So get

25:40

ready for the finals.

25:43

That can also change if in the conference

25:45

finals Philly does win and get to the conference

25:48

finals, and now you got Joel. But quite

25:50

frankly, I don't think Porzingis

25:52

can guard Joel anyway. Yes,

25:54

it does help to get throw another body

25:57

out there, but who Joel gonna

26:00

have to face most and see if he can get byas

26:02

al Horfer Al Horford has given

26:04

Joel all problems. So when you look at it, and

26:06

you do like an addition by subtraction

26:09

KP. Being out in the conference finals,

26:11

if they were to face Philly could actually

26:14

help them, like

26:16

you play more out and our guards

26:19

Joel very well. Wish

26:21

for thinking. I'm getting way ahead of myself.

26:23

Don't even know if any of those series will take place.

26:25

The moral of the story is, whoever win this Cleveland

26:28

series between Cleveland and the Magic

26:30

don't stand a chance versus Boston we're

26:32

moving on to the other two teams in the Eastern

26:35

Conference. Patrick Beverley

26:37

went back to Chicago, Marshall on y'all

26:41

got it going and really

26:44

affected the game and turned

26:46

the game to where Milwaukee

26:49

was then able to take off. Obviously, Bobby

26:51

Porter's got off twenty nine. Obviously,

26:55

Chris Middleton got off with twenty nine. Bobby

26:59

Porters being a reed from game

27:01

four. As you can see by

27:04

the results of game five. What's huge

27:06

for the Bucks because Bobby Porters

27:08

is someone that when they have guys out

27:10

or even when their guys are playing, what

27:12

he brings for that team from an energy standpoint,

27:15

what he brings from a scoring standpoint

27:18

is really something that they don't have from anyone

27:20

else. And so Bobby Porters

27:22

is huge. Was

27:24

disappointed that Bobby Porter's

27:26

got kicked out for the little scuffle that he did,

27:29

but nobody was kicked out of those games yesterday.

27:33

The consistency I just don't understand.

27:36

Now.

27:39

I did agree that guys

27:41

shouldn't have gotten thrown out, because if

27:44

you don't have to throw somebody out of the playoff

27:46

game, you don't like we want these games to beat

27:48

the decided

27:50

based up on the players on the court, not the referee

27:53

calling something to throwing somebody out of game. So

27:56

a little disappointed that Bobby got thrown out

27:58

the game. But you look at the stuff that was going on yesterday

28:00

in these games, and nobody's thrown out one

28:02

technical. Mitchell

28:05

Robinson threw Kelly down, actually

28:07

almost jacked up Joel's leg. He was

28:09

disclose from landing on Joel's

28:12

leg and taking it in this way. And

28:14

then all of a sudden, right, so Mitchell Robinson

28:16

throw Kelly bro He lands on joel

28:19

ankle, hit the knee or something, and Joel's

28:21

hurt. Then all of a sudden, Mitchell

28:23

Robinson gets thrown out of the game because

28:26

Joel didn't get hurt at all. Mitchell

28:28

Robinson actually didn't even get a technical foul.

28:30

I don't think and I

28:35

just don't understand it, Like what was

28:38

the consistency?

28:39

So if he got.

28:40

Hurt, then it's

28:42

something. I

28:44

don't get that, Like, either it's

28:46

something or it isn't. You can't judge these things

28:49

by the results of the player and be like, oh man, that guy

28:51

got hurt, Like we gotta do something.

28:53

Okay, this guy didn't get hurt. It's fine.

28:55

Like that's not that's and nowhere

28:57

in the rule book does it say that's

28:59

how these things should be officiated. You gotta

29:01

pick a side, like we're doing this, we're

29:04

doing that, Like it can't be all

29:06

right this time?

29:07

Is this this time?

29:08

And it changes based on the personalities

29:10

and the games, like, it can't

29:12

be that it's either

29:14

one way or it's the other.

29:16

And so.

29:18

I think we need to see some consistency

29:20

on that front. Either you're kicking guys out

29:22

or you're not. Quite Frankly, I sit

29:24

on the side if you shouldn't be kicking guys out. But

29:27

it can't be one day Bobby

29:29

port is getting a little brush up and he's

29:31

out, and then nobody else

29:34

the next day nothing happened.

29:36

So we'll love to see some consistency

29:39

there.

29:39

But and

29:43

speaking of this game going back six or

29:46

the series going to six and going back to Indiana,

29:49

if there's no Dame, I

29:52

don't think there's a chance we see Giannis.

29:55

This series is over in six.

29:57

I don't think Milwaukee can do what they

30:00

did at home with

30:03

neither one of those two.

30:04

Guys and go on the road and win like they did

30:06

in Game six.

30:06

And so if no Dame if

30:09

no Jannis, I got this series

30:11

ending. I

30:14

think they played tomorrow and

30:17

I got the series ending lastly,

30:20

before we take a couple of questions and get out of here.

30:23

Obviously, the Lakers were eliminated

30:25

by the Denver Nuggets on

30:27

Monday. Was

30:31

fun to watch Jamal Murray in

30:33

that series, despite a bumb

30:36

calf, despite all the things

30:38

that will go up against,

30:40

despite pretty much losing the entire

30:43

series. And when I say losing the entire series,

30:45

I mean if you look at the margin

30:48

or the amount of time that the Lakers

30:50

led in the series, this

30:53

series very much so could have been flipped

30:55

for the one.

30:56

For the Lakers.

30:58

However, Jamal Murray's

31:01

is a large reason why that's

31:03

not the case. There

31:06

was so much coming out of the Lakers. Well

31:09

before we talk about them, let's

31:11

talk about the Nuggets. The Nuggets

31:16

took the series, but I think they're in trouble.

31:18

And the reason I think they're in trouble, and

31:20

I said this before, I just don't

31:22

think their bench is good enough. And we saw that again

31:25

the other night, like they're just not

31:27

getting enough from their bench. And as you

31:29

move forward, I think the difference

31:32

in this Minnesota Denver series

31:34

could be the bench.

31:36

You got nas Reed coming off the bench, can play.

31:38

He was man as Kyle Anderson coming off Monte

31:41

Morris, who's a great backup point

31:43

guard that they're not really using

31:46

much but can use Nikil

31:48

Alexander Walker, who's been playing great

31:50

basketball. Like I just think the

31:52

depth of the Timberwolves is going

31:54

to give Denver problems.

31:57

And yes, the matchup

31:59

between Joe and Rudy Gobert trying

32:01

to guard him as huge, But I've

32:04

always told you, guys, you win championship six

32:06

through ten, not one

32:08

through five. And the

32:10

Denver Nuggets one through five is

32:12

as strong, if not stronger, than

32:15

any other one through five in the league. But

32:17

they're six through ten is as

32:20

weak as any team left in the playoffs,

32:23

and I just don't know if

32:25

they're going to be able to overcome that, especially

32:28

against these Minnesota Timberwolves, who

32:31

just had an incredible showing, and

32:33

I think they're poised to try to make a deeper

32:35

run and they're feeling that and they want that,

32:37

So that'll be an

32:39

interesting series. Personally,

32:43

I got the Timberwolves winning that series, I

32:45

think, but we'll get into that later in the week.

32:48

My predictions.

32:48

I need to analyze a little bit more and like

32:51

actually sit down and do the

32:53

matchups, so what I think will be and look

32:55

at all these things. But quite frankly, just

32:57

off the top of the dome, I think Minnesota shoot

33:00

win that series. Interesting

33:02

stuff coming out of the Lakers organization.

33:04

Obviously Bron set to possibly

33:07

opt out of his contract and become a free

33:09

agent for the first time since

33:11

twenty eighteen. I

33:14

think that is a very interesting thing

33:17

because what that means is, if you know anything

33:19

about cap is Lebron could opt

33:21

out of that deal be a free agent. They could

33:23

sign somebody with cap space and

33:26

then sign Lebron back using bird rights,

33:28

which means they could possibly add a

33:30

third star or a couple really

33:32

good players at fifteen million

33:35

dollars a year or so.

33:38

And better their team.

33:41

They could also decide that they're not spending

33:43

that money and going into the tax with all

33:45

these tax penalties.

33:50

I think it'll be interesting to see.

33:51

I think a lot of that will be depending

33:54

on what Lebron decides. We obviously

33:56

see the reports of the Lakers

33:59

may draft Bron. I

34:02

think that would be amazing, by the way, absolutely

34:05

incredible.

34:05

But that's neither here nor there.

34:08

I think the Lakers they really

34:10

got to decide what it is that they want to do,

34:12

though, Like, are you

34:15

comfortable going into next season with pretty

34:17

much the same supporting cast that you have and

34:21

Lebron and a D? Are you comfortable going in

34:23

that way? If Lebron

34:25

decides to leave, what do you do?

34:27

Then? Do you then trade a D?

34:30

Like? I think there's a lot

34:32

of uncertainty coming out of that organization.

34:35

What's gonna happen with Darva ham

34:38

Me? Personally? I

34:40

think it'll be wrong to.

34:42

Fire him

34:44

for multiple reasons. However,

34:47

you know they'll get a lot He'll catch a lot of

34:49

flak for the season that they have, but their

34:53

roster didn't get better than last year and they were a playing

34:55

team. Yeah, they made it to the conference finals

34:58

with Lebron, James and Anthony playing

35:00

the way that they were playing, but they

35:03

didn't get better. They lost in the Schroeder. I

35:05

don't think they replaced him. Well, Gabe Vincent

35:07

didn't bring anything to the season. Obviously he was

35:09

hurt, but

35:12

even once he got in there, like he didn't shoot

35:14

the ball well. Schroeder was huge for them and

35:17

they lost him

35:19

and so I don't think the roster got better, but yet

35:22

you expect the better results and

35:24

I just don't understand that.

35:26

But everybody will blame Darviaham.

35:28

Like, oh, it's his fault,

35:31

and like is it

35:33

really Like just because

35:35

they went on a pretty decent run after

35:37

they mustterd us some energy after the trade that line

35:41

and got to the conference finals,

35:44

got swept. Their

35:46

season was their season, And yeah, you got through

35:48

the trade dead line and you found

35:50

some energy, but then you come

35:52

back into the season with that team, and

35:56

I don't think the belief was very high

35:58

in the first place. Yeah, we could say the hot, but

36:00

I don't think it was very high in the first place. And

36:02

I don't think that team got much better. Obviously,

36:05

Van Doll missing majority of the season

36:08

it's a killer. Obviously gave

36:10

Vincent missing majority of the season could

36:12

have been a killer, although we don't really know because

36:14

we've only seen him in Miami, and we've

36:17

seen guys leave Miami and not be the same

36:19

thing that it was in Miami, So the

36:22

jury's out on that one. Nonetheless, I

36:25

don't think they got much

36:27

better, and so

36:29

I'm not surprised by the year they had,

36:32

But I am looking forward to what's

36:34

to come of this summer. Some

36:37

people think it's a foregone conclusion that Bron

36:39

is going back to the

36:41

Lakers.

36:44

I don't know that it's a foregone conclusion.

36:46

I think if there was something

36:48

that came about that was interesting, I think he'd

36:50

look at it. But ultimately

36:53

I don't quite see him leaving LA.

36:57

Just don't really see it, just my opinion.

37:00

But we shall see what happens

37:03

with that.

37:05

I don't know.

37:07

Hopefully they don't just fire Darvin, but as

37:09

if it's his fault and no one else's fought,

37:11

I think that's garbage. But that's

37:14

neither here nor there, and we shall

37:16

see what happens in the Lakers

37:19

organization. But I definitely think some changes

37:21

are coming. I don't know where those changes

37:24

will be, but they're definitely coming because it's

37:26

the Lakers.

37:26

They want to win and that's just

37:29

the standard. So we shall see.

37:32

But before we get out of here, Buttassage

37:34

to Jackson for a few questions.

37:36

Mail back questions before we.

37:38

Go from at Killer

37:40

Cam, what do you think of Plo Banco

37:43

in this series so far?

37:44

Well, what I think of Polo Ben Carrol is

37:46

exactly what I thought of Polo ban Carrol back

37:49

when Polo ban Carrol was about to get drafted, which

37:51

is he is one of those guys that changes

37:53

an organization. If you

37:55

go back to the podcast episode of

37:57

when right before Polo got drafted,

38:00

Paulo was the guy who I thought was the number one

38:03

pick hands down. A lot of people were

38:05

talking about the guys. Paulo is showing

38:07

that I am one of the guys. And yes,

38:09

Paulo has some things that I think he needs to get

38:12

better. He needs to become more comfortable shooting the

38:14

ball, and

38:16

as he do that, I think his game

38:18

really opens up as he becomes more

38:20

comfortable with his jump shot.

38:22

But Paulo is a monster what

38:25

he's doing. He's leading these guys.

38:26

Now, what can really set this series

38:29

off of Paulo is if they go in game six

38:31

and then he can take them on the road and win a Game

38:33

seven. That really,

38:35

in my opinion, puts Paulo

38:37

in a different tier. No, not

38:40

the top tier, because he's got a long

38:42

ways to go to get to that, although I think he's more

38:45

than capable of

38:48

being in that top tier guys. But

38:51

if Paulo is to go in

38:54

Game six and take that team on the road

38:56

and lead them to a Game seven win in

38:58

Cleveland. You

39:01

gotta bump his tear up and

39:03

the respect has to go up. I think he's

39:05

been very special in this series.

39:09

But in order to be one of the guys

39:11

that he wants to be that I think he's capable of being,

39:13

he has to be able to go get one on the road.

39:15

This his first crack at it. So it's not like, oh,

39:18

Paulo is a bus and blah blah

39:20

if he don't go in one on the road in this

39:22

particular series, But as

39:24

he moved forward in his career, that's something

39:27

that he's going to have to do in order to take that

39:29

next step. And I don't

39:31

think it's impossible for him to do it this time,

39:33

but he's playing a great.

39:34

Series from at

39:37

Jamie Cu, what do you think is the most

39:39

underrated factor for a deep playoff

39:41

run?

39:42

Jamie Cu? Is that like Colorado

39:45

University? Or is that like Jamie

39:47

Easy?

39:48

It is Cu? Let her see you

39:50

so maybe Colorado?

39:52

Wow?

39:53

Prime Time got everybody repping

39:55

that Cu like it's Michigan State or something.

39:57

Shout out to coach Prome, say

40:03

that question one more time.

40:05

The most underrated factor for a deep

40:07

run. I tell you a

40:09

second most underrated factor for a deep

40:11

playoff run.

40:12

Most underrated factor for a deep

40:14

playoff run. I

40:20

think the most underrated factor

40:22

for a deep playoff run is can your coach

40:24

make adjustments or not?

40:27

I think that is extremely important.

40:30

And then also are you capable

40:32

are your players capable of handling

40:34

those adjustments, because sometimes you get in these situations

40:37

where coach want to make an adjustment, they're like, I

40:40

don't think our guys can handle that adjustment.

40:42

For instance, in

40:45

the playoffs in twenty twenty two,

40:47

when we start sending all the Boston guys left,

40:50

it was against our defensive rules, and

40:52

so Mike Brown was kind of like, ah, it's gonna

40:54

break our defense down because guys aren't accustomed

40:57

to sending the ball middle on the

40:59

right side of floor. We're accustomed

41:01

to icing it and the defense pulling over. Now

41:03

we're going to be sending in the middle. Guys ain't

41:05

gonna know where the help coming from. And

41:07

we was just like and so a

41:12

couple of us, like I started just sending

41:15

Jay Lebron left like wherever he was on the floor.

41:18

And after I did it, a couple of times Mike was

41:20

like, you know what, We've been wanting

41:22

to make this adjustment, but was afraid.

41:25

Let's just try it, and we tried it in

41:27

it worked, But again that

41:29

was that was That was

41:31

an instance of a coach

41:33

being like, ah, I don't know if we could really

41:35

make that adjustment, although they had the adjustment

41:38

in their mind, I don't know if we could really

41:40

make that because it's against our defensive rules.

41:43

And then the adjustment was made and we won the

41:45

series. So I

41:47

think it's a combination of both

41:49

of those. Yes, your players have to be capable

41:51

of taking those adjustments and making those switches,

41:55

but a coach has to also be able to identify

41:57

his adjustment. When I watch these playoffs,

42:00

most of these coaches actually can't

42:03

make solid adjustment.

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So I think that's the most underrated

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thing.

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We want to be clear on the Draymond Green Show.

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That is not a shot at Mike Brown. That is a

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no, not at all, Not at all.

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That's never a shot at Mike

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Brown. Shoot Mike Brown. One of the

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one of the ghosts to me, especially when they come to

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that defensive side of the ball.

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Mike Brown gets it done.

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So no, not a shot at Mike

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Brown at all, never will be.

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It ain't coming from here, not on this show.

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Last question from I hate

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CEP, MAVs are Clippers?

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Right, who wins this series?

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CEP MAVs are Clippers.

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I was a little bit of at a loss with that username

42:41

as well, But MAVs are Clippers.

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Who you got MAVs are Clippers winning

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the series? I

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got the MAVs.

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I think they're going to be more consistent in their

42:53

play, especially, like I said,

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you just.

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Don't know with Kawhi.

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I got the mass winning this series, and

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if I'm honest, I actually got them winning

43:05

the series in six.

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The only person can change that out come

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is Russell Westbrook.

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That's it. No, I didn't say James

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Harden. No, I did not say Paul

43:17

George although, and the reason

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I didn't say those guys is because it's on Russell

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Westbrook to put the battery packing

43:23

those guys back and had them playing at the level

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that they play that in Game four in order

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to take that winning Dallas. And so I

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got Dallas winning it.

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But like I said, yeah, the only

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person can change and nobody will ever give him

43:38

credit, but he gonna get credit on this show. Because

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he is the person that wills that team.

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Russell Westbrook is the only person that

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can change that out come.

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But yeah, I got Dallas and

43:51

with that, that.

43:52

Is a wrap from this episode of The Draymond

43:54

Green Show Be back later this week

43:57

to being with y'all. We shall see

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if my theory on Jalen Brunston being ball

44:02

dominant can be go by the wayside,

44:06

or if.

44:07

My theory on Jaylen Brunston becomes true.

44:10

However, I just want to state

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this, My theory

44:14

on Jalen Brunston can be true and they

44:16

still can win.

44:17

I e.

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Jaylen Bruston doesn't dominate the ball as much

44:21

and they win. That doesn't

44:23

mean I was wrong. I'm not saying that Nixon

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is going to lose, although I got Philly,

44:28

but I think Jaylen Bruston need to take a

44:30

little step back as far as dominating the ball.

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But he being great and so who can complain? Another

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forty piece. That's a rat from this episode

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of The Draymond Green Show.

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Piece