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then so good. We had to split it in two parts. Here it is first project all right part. One of the special two parts were still extravagant here Sunday last day of the season. The playing game added, a level of weight of gravity of entertainment and Rosia is a plan to track there. I think it's time for you to apologize to America Briscilla, you love the playing game. Now, you ve come all the way around. My position is very simple on this not say that I would not enjoy the games. It's that

it will be a time when there is a seven seed and you will look at their record versus the other teams that, during the scenario with your labour, why do they have to play? Another came to be in a play out. However, I didn't the thing that really has to admit here, you're, so all caught up in all the different scenarios, like those hates Memphis Golden Day would matter under the old system. Washington Charlotte, would matter under the old system, so these games it we ve, created this idea. The sense of urgency, you could argue a couple, the game's over it happens. They would have met more in the older system, so I dont. Let me know. What is our Memphis is out there I'll like they're out, so I don't really get I dont get why the always sudden, like, oh my god, like this, Memphis gold staking this is this has so much on the line now, with this new systems for like actually play it has less because now Memphis this is still in it. Here's where I'm to throw throw three the greater

words in the english language area yeah, but still I really had a kid today I like that we have more playing games. Gold, state Lakers is set for Wednesday, and I couldn't be more excited about that and I just like the fact that we have basically five straight days of playoff games before we even get to the. Playoffs, I'm enjoying it I'm having a good time, I'm not going to. Let you to track me out of the good state of mind have been right now. I've just watched two straight games that felt like playoff games, the sun, even by us yet, but what would what metaphysical and state fell again? The old system big, but what would happen That's what I think is weird about how. And I always only to dick in these scenarios it up. Then you go wait a minute. You do realize it in another system, the older one, that these games would have been just important. So I dont what wise at different outcomes label differ. Any gets. I'm not gonna sit there, a player game on a Tuesday night. If it's

game and say well, I don't enjoy this. I knew I would enjoy it. I just think they'll be a time when there is a seven see that has an absurd record and I'm thinking like. Why did we just play eighty two games? If they have to do this again, that's my only point. I do think the fact that it was a shorter season, probably kept the records a little bit closer and I think like we would have had an exciting, ended the seas and playing games, no playing game. Just because we had seventy. Two games: his share, nodded it again and lotta injuries that awareness and a lot of people clog together. That doesn't usually happen I remember a lot of last day of the season. Situations were read to play. It play off games basically, Actually we have more than that if you were taken there right now is three fifteen Pacific time We would have more than that if we felt confident that certain teams weren't she's gonna, throw the games threat. So I guess this is the counter to the whole plant thing. We were worried that the clippers are going to be

try to out tank. Okay who's been tanking anyway, I don't know, what's going to happen there, it's going to be a double tank off and then it looks like the clippers just want to be the four seats. So we have that the whole thing we're going to talk about that in part two. Why are the clippers respect or like teams that, like so determined to avoid people in the plan, I feel it that's like slightly a bad sign for a teams, confidence about itself I just think everybody's trying to figure out how to make this Lakers thing is is weird. You live I don't even know that we've argued about it. I think I've actually come more around to your side of thinking on this point is that if the Lakers, you know he to get a nice little run here and Anthony Davis NET Phoenix Game were do one of those pause. The games goin on what we're tape in it. You just put on an absolute showed you're like oh man. That's that's why the Lakers are bad matchup for Phoenix, and you know Phoenix in their game against San Antonio, like they didn't play Chris Paul so

that part of it looked clippers. I think there is some debate about legal order. They gonna try to do or they gonna care or Jerry clear. They don't want the Lakers on their site. They don't want Baker on their side of it, and that's why they're gonna hadn't do of thirty one and sit everybody illusion, one of the other games before we get to the release of the western. I was part of it, so I gave a point we can counter. Can I give a really good counter, so they do the Collide Paul George thing to some years ago, and they do this whole their chest out. It's on baby la versus la we're here to take it we're building our own basketball arena, we're gonna, take basketball in LA from the Lakers, and then they have a chance to end up on their side in the playoff rack and they're, like cool we're going to take the last couple of games of the year here, we don't want to be their site. So what is it? Do you want to go head to head against the Lakers or you don't because you're running the other way for them in this play off thing, and it's embarrassing. There are plenty of great things that look good in a billboard and a t shirt, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's what you want, but with you or if you are running the cook,

would you be mad about this right now? Would you be saying that all we're doing this? We want to show everybody already used to teach it and saying hey if the Laker I can always get on the other side of the West Bracket were vows covering the keepers, and I ran in this bomber. I built a k. What about other became? You talked about about changing the Lakers way, Runnin away from them and apply a bracket. I don't see the Lakers away from you What are you earlier act to allay care more about? You, though, is a guy covering the clippers chance hours Organization get out of the west. Well, why talk so much shit not back it up. I think it's embarrassing. So should they sign big players and not be excited about it and not saying they're taking over LA and then and then in the other direction as soon as they have a chance to er having a playoff to have a billboard that says we're, probably still. It was can class citizen in this city. So if we took the Lakers, don't take it personally teacher, I would just rather be a higher seed in a play off really. In any scenario, I just think it's viable to be higher see I don't want to risk it.

But she the share when weird shits going on- and I dont know if my spot of every chance be three said: I'm gettin the three see, let's at five, a chance by Phoenix around two awesome. If the Lakers Zenda playin me in the three six fine, let's go, let's do this, we ve been circling each other for two years. Like can we talk about gold state warriors yeah? Is this the eastern conference? No, no, because gold state words just happened and then we'll, go back and we'll do the test and we'll do the other one. I was told there'd be, do math! Well, you just watch and stay warriors. No I'm with you, I'm with you, I'm just dismiss me. Sir Currie finishes with forty six and its wish to say this about somebody. Who's got forty six in a basketball game, but he eats it out. It was a blood, sweat and tears. Forty six to thirty six shots. The twenty two threes, I'm sure he's taken more threes in a game. I just can't personally remember a game where he jacked up. Twenty two three

and all of them. He said after the game that he felt like he could have shot better. I don't know I thought Memphis defended him pretty well and in general it they put a big spotlight on some of the things that are both wrong against this gold state go wrong with this gold team. But also right and so lovable, and just I'm so in on the demon thing thing I'm in on on the way they play, how unique it is- and I felt like, when they blew the lead and it was. It was ninety seven and Father went by Point Memphis and I just felt their where's gonna put, they have switch, they can do this. They can turn this on. They did and hope that Brooks found out, but but what the warriors are doing, if you think about it in a play off series, it makes less sense right if a team can

see this seven times over the course of two weeks. I feel like it'll, be a little bit easier, but in one game play off as we head toward the Lakers here, and they just have to play once they just have to do. This, curry has to have like two hot stretches. During the game, everybody else has to rebound after Davis does destroy them as it realistic to you that they could beat the Lakers in applying it. Now. For their front line I mean it's Cavan, loony and then it's so small and then, if you go small you're going to lose every rebound. So I don't really see it, and I think what you're going to do is you're going to keep two with staff. As soon as you cross, this half core- I mean you, said two other games this month, where he shot twenty one, three against Oklahoma City, twenty three against New Orleans. When just decided about. I don't know two months ago where it's on me. I mean I don't know if there's another game where he has twenty two or more at some point in his career. I guess I wouldn't be shocked, but he's the volume is cranky have one other game in February: retook, twenty three cs: she shot at horrible in that Miami overtime Game where he asked came back because he said

those games is like the run is over. The run is over, and then you have a third quarter with twenty points. Again, Gotta run his back. The runs back in your right because Brooks miles out at ninety want peace and Memphis then took the led a few possessions later and it fell my golden state kind. Turned himself off in this game, where they were just up again. Clear with John Maria. They have no respect for him. So that's that's what those weird things at Memphis and jaw where, if you think it in law, long term, projecting them as a playoff team. That's that's real, problem for you offensively in today's game, where you can just make sure you sag off the guy with the ball in his hands, the entire game. I mean it's a little West brookie and some playoff games where you're like a level out of stuff the your capable of but like that's me you flaw and you saw golden state go with that they get a twenty. I thought they were kind of coasting there a little bit and then the thing with Steph was: what's current, to do with with the urgency of this game, because, even though, in the moment, like the game sort of mean something

still clear some of the other teams today are gonna. Look at same way and step always comes back six minute of the fourth quarter. Right plays the third. They bring them back really he brought him back in it like nine less minutes and That's when you got a new light. Haters is already on you. So one game spot, I don't. I wouldn't doubt curry I mean He'S- probably had more doubt going into the season than ever before, and then he wins a scoring title. The team is in the playoffs and this is a great accomplishment. We consider the rest, the team there, but there's just not enough secondary scoring there. Just isn't for a playoff game a series like you're, not talking upsetting somebody in the first round. Are you now have a second playing games, because I think if they could beat the Lakers, I do think they could beat the sunset answers. I dont Odin, none of it on it, but I do think they could hang with them and potentially beat them. I do not think be a tale ask even though they showed the blueprint for how to do it. With some of this that the daring in some last week, I just think you tat it pardon

problem that survived with no Mitchell no calmly and that name right right anger, but I'm saying what the stuff there doing bear, I think, will marry some of this stuff, though tried to play officers had liquids, frustrating you're right about that will do they'll do the other stuff that the other great cards do late and try to figure it out if they're close, but there's just certain results. The last couple of weeks that I go all right, I know what happened, but I know I d get frustrating about pointing Utah and a playoff series is if all these dudes, who can just Carry a half hour game and there's no way to plan further prepare for a right that you could just have the random bug. Garbage came three areas like four, You know you're going to have at have at least one Carson game. You is Mitchell's The one crazy game you know angles: have the one game where he's got like the seventeen, twelve and fifteen, something that I just think the longer series goes The team has a lot of options against a team that really you know. I mean J J J T

went out for a little while or day, and it felt like the worst world was caving and I was like, oh no. We don't GTA, but we are there. You're right about Utah and what I always really liked about him was that when they were rolling, offensively is like they can find different different ways. If you're sitting there and near that team going, we have a bunch of different guys that can attack and to even be fair, go bar they're. Going back to that first round loss against the nuggets, which could have gone either way in the playoffs last time around or go bar had moments were didn't, look like Denver knew what to do with it Jill he'll have a game where We ve been over this enough with him. Were you go case? Is he the right match for this game? They can be the same people out there game for and then he's dominating. So I would expect, yet they were kind of attack him. But it's a really good point on the job is that their balance is what Gee excited, but they can we'll get really unbalanced at times of Mitchell offensively and then those Clarkson minutes were he comes in now, and his thing is fine

because he's not the quickest, the shoot is better! he was so I so heavy as a player, but now he just gets to the rim and stops and then finishes against people like whatever he's doing with his angles or how he takes off. He's incredible. Just finishing kind of not even just fluid drives just being at the rim. Getting it up yet here. Looks like a rich man's Lou Williams, when Lou Williams back when the Williams mattered a little bit more than I think he does now. Here's the case for the words in a playing game did you see Valen Suns, stat line after this he had a twenty nine and sixteen was twelve for fifteen from the field. Didn't matter, the warriors still beat them handy, so, let's just give Davis twenty nine and sixteen okay die with what's the hostess pencil bid for that, I still feel where's can hang with them, even if your pencilling, that it

Now I don't know where we're getting from Lebron. I don't. I hope he is. I have no feel at all for what he can do, but if they do the boy ball thing in the bronze feelin it figured is completely overpower them. At the same time, I just don't feel like that. Lakers team has played together. That is just in a one game and there'll be urgency, but not like crazy urgency, because I don't really think the Lakers care where they land, whereas, like fur gone state. I think it's a really big deal for them to get the seven. I know that they think they can beat the sun's because they hung with them. This share, they ve gone Toto with them and I think they could do no plasters. You they're, not beating. I don't think. Then we should still keep open the possibility, because this one's releasing earlier that the Lakers can get to the six seed here in Portland could end up in the seven. But that depends on obviously, obviously the Lakers being New Orleans, which should be no problem, but then Denver Portland and for a few too for reasons which, like member may end up

I don't know it's gonna have whatever I do know. What's gonna happen, Deborah Lemming. The line on this one is massive right. So that's the clue. This one is: the line is Portland by eight and a half right, so everybody thinks gets us one so that your seven eight- and I know That'S- why we're doing all this stuff on it Memphis shot. What like six to twenty five from three. I know Yeah the Lakers can be a little streaky, that's more expected from Memphis. I don't know that I expect I mean it could happen with the Lakers, but would think they'd do better than that from outside. What do you expect like? First of all, I have no idea how many people will be at that game. Just hope, I'm one of them, because I am going to try to probably go on one that I want to see that one, but There's a lot of workers dna here I lay there will be somewhere spans back in and idea. There will be a real energy if, if you can get more than like four thousand five thousand people into into that for a real game with famous people in it, there's gotta be energy in the building. Even if there were a lot of deceit

accepted. There should be some kind of like prices right screening to people on the outside where they're, like none of your good, just keep going down that tunnel, like noted, just keep going down a tunnel wages exit. You are like on the other side of the place. If you had gone stake IRAN right, it's a game outlets. It's a little further. They pick out something right, I'm open to the idea and one game that anything can kind of happen here. But what I don't want to do is because the Lakers have looked later even though they've won a bunch in a row here in the last week, and they have everybody back that yeah. Like I get your point, I get your argument, for it I mean eventually I have to look at who's playing in a game right. I have to look at the collection of guys and when you start getting the third and fourth guy, four golden state against the health, these late healthy, Lakers team. I understand you know they, but there is also another version of this where it's not like. It's your fault. Here together they haven't done anything now the fact there

of winning a title. I mean that's. What annoys me about some of these teams. Somebody seems that have never done anything and have a few good players. Black man wait just wait and we'll get their will. Switching like. I'm not gonna, give you the flip. The switch benefit of the doubt. If you Never done anything collectively as a group, so at least the Lakers have that part of it down. So Can I give you a point? Can I give you one other thing this is unbelievable like you, are we trying so our desire? Listen, that's it I'm just I don't have to sell it watch this gonna, but I game, but I just think on state be to be taken seriously in a single gamer cuz, but here Another point of view. You got me yeah, I'm not disagree with that part of it we haven't been tried. I think you're just trying to talk yourself into the Lakers losing this games. What it sounds like, that's it not selling me and watching it. I think, you're trying to sell glad theirs. I noticed this. It's my least favoured theme gets my favorite aid. That's South Boston, Wiggans revenge came on.

For this you. Actually I do, is this the stumps me a bit weakens revenge came two thousand fourteen, right now. I know you got a broadly Jenkins, I'm coming home, pretty fun article to read in retrospect because he makes it seem like he's retiring in Cleveland. He ends up staying four years, but he lists a couple of the people, I'm so excited to play with this person and that person and doesn't put Wiggins in there. It's like. Well, that's interesting, thinkers. They drafted, ensure Wigan Sue. He was also the first picture, the sector, but I cannot use the first picture by. The Japanese would have thought without me. He would end up in your ass. I please do not end up in the peace and they ended up flipper them right away for Kevin love. Wiggans has carried their slick, a grudge for several years, finally ready they ready to unleash it against the brain, I'm excited for the wagons revenge game. Ok, you're telling me you tell me,

I have you watch this whole career. That I mean I couldn't wait for you to stop passion. That is your wigged right. I think- you could rob Wiggins House and he would know it was you and he would still drop your kid off after school all right. So there's nothing about Wiggins mentality, Lebron! It's a daughter to play with you play against you Nothing is as bad as when boss goes to make out with Kyra after he smokes him again ass, easy game, I'm action! Looking forward to that, if that happens, but I don't, I don't think, there's anything. That's ever I've never seen anything wiggans in seven years. That would tell me he is motivated by maybe anything once again America back eight. This yeah, but still is courier. The number three lack for VP right now cause for me. He is, I think he has to be there I think he's going to be third, because I don't think is going to carry enough of the vote. Randal. This is really weird in the largest, the largest, I get the United States, they feel like this.

Non power. Five college football team with this amazing Heisman candidate- that we know in the final votes for tality is just Randall not going to have enough. So what do you think you think it's bad second or you think it's Paul. Second, I think a beads going to be second I'll. Tell you this. I don't know if Chris is going to be on my ballot. Well, what are you doing to you do five? you vote five. You vote five and there's seven guys so have a case, so it has to be yoke and be one too. It just has to be. Ass the beer top too, and if you don't have that you didn't much the season at a curry has to be three cause. I think they were what thirty seven and twenty six when he played an you saw. The team today like Talk about valuable if he doesn't have a good game they're losing against anybody good. I think Chris, that teams better they're deeper. They could survive like a not great great game for him. So anyway, I had him. Third,

once it once it gets name Randall and Chris Paul. I don't know if there are necessarily right answers. If you, if you have two spots for those four guys, this is where I think the storytelling comes in, and this is where Paul is going to be, at least in the top five on a lot of ballots. Is that it's going to be this kind of lifetime achievement both for him, because I swear to every single sons broadcast and I'm not talking to home broadcast any game. That's broadcast now with Phoenix not just their television. My driver, like the awaiting too they, together that graphic now showing how much Chris Paul improves a team from the year before he got there to you, and it means five in a row and it's a monumental improvement almost everywhere he goes and we we know play out stories makin run through that again, I just see it all the time, so I feel like he has more story momentum, then the top to slash three. He's right there. I think, with step as far as the story, part of it

which isn't always always accurate, I'm just telling you you that's how it seems to seems to go if Portland gets. Let's say, Portland locks in here. It's six. It's pretty hard to leave Dame out of the top five, let's say would set a finnish forty, two and thirty, with all the injuries they ve had MC columnist. What six weeks has been a shell of himself. He kind of damn. It seem like at one point that season was completely ravelling and there I don't like that and came back just like you, ve switch Chris Paul and dimly. What am I a VP things just switch. The guys like you would have a bigger impact on which team if you switch Chris Paul and Dame Liwart is Phoenix worse yeah, I think they are. Retailers took, I just think, respond, there's a million little things. You have to either understand what you're watching you know, I'm sorry I just think, there's a couple. Players are a little bit more complicated than the box score and I'm not

game is this volume score loser type guy cause he's not mean. I loved aim to like everybody else, but I just their plenty I swear Paul, doesn't even look to get his offense going until it's like eight minutes to go in the tight game in the fourth quarter, and then you seemed to hit it makes in a row the other night. A game where you look at half time. You like he's taken three shots. What the hell's Goin on here, so I think Paul just has to be- he just has to be it is that labels are consumed. He just you have to look at him differently than some of the other run numbers everything I have curry. Third. I think I'm gonna have yon its fourth and then that five spot on propaganda decide tonight, in the morning. I think you're going to go Randall. I think you want to vote Randall. I think you just want to be able to say I gave them a vote which I'm not even saying, is the wrong thing, but it's tough because they're playing in the east, I think the east is just worse. You know.

And whatever the next are going end up, whether they be forty one and thirty one whatever it is that regular forty one, thirty one that record in the EAST versus Portland going. Forty two and thirty in the west, now poor them as a little more talent. Then the Phoenix like Phoenix is gonna if you'd be, would have only two teams that one fifty plus

and then all the all the impact Chris had on that. It's really hard and that's the thing is: like people can't get mad. When you talk about this, sometimes with the snub thing it's like. Sometimes you just have seven guys for Fastpass. If you got to figure it out- and I don't know, if there's a right answer, you know, Chris's stats is he's like sixteen, and nine is shooting. Sports are are good as good. You know typical Chris Paul year, but damn is like you know: twenty nine, a game and is a guy that kind of held that Portlyn team together with Sumanth there a couple times this season, but they're just going under, and he together them together. So it's really hard for me to say Chris Paul is more valuable or demons more valuable, but I got to put somebody down. Can I throw one thing at you here just the argument for staff that offensive plus honest number that step basically leads league in every single year in its absurd it just basic an indicator like how much better you are with the team,

death is gonna. Leave the NBA this year, just over seven, a game number two is La Braun at four point: six, three Durant's third it just about for James hardens forth it for yon. As this fifth, the just under four dame is. Just under four Mitchell and then it gets a little Jordan Pool, is eight because he played so many minutes was staff. Then it's lawns Owen and yoke its rounds out only the other guys. It are three or above everyone It's really good league from eleven. All the way down is below three and staff. Is it seven in fifteen sixteen season. He was twelve in you, We can argue with all these numbers mean or don't mean we can go and circles all the stuff, but some of these metrics on the extreme side, tell you the real story here and it's dead every time. Steph steps on the floor with this team. It's just a completely differ

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Fair way. Role and no GI age and location restrictions apply. Curry finishes this season over thirty. Two points: a game: thirty, two sixty six and almost to fifty forty ninety, he shoots too many threes to get to the fifty Soyuz. Basically, four thousand eight hundred and forty two ninety two and made three hundred and forty three, and if, if we had the extra ten games he would have the four. He would again join the four hundred club again, which done it Dave just to put some of the numbers for the people for the people this dame this year's twenty nine foreign aid and then Randal, as you said, was twenty four tenants. Six and Chris was sixteen five and nine, but as you said, the intangible peace with Chris and how he just makes everybody plays with better, is one of the

sounds like when we do the most viable birthing. That's gotta come up, and I hear it's really weird. I dont. Remember, though I stayed season. Where I didn't know what I was gonna do the only things I know for sure that I have yoga Jim Bead Currie. I think curry has to be three and then for five. We can argue till the cows come home about those for gas janius. That is good of season in his last too, and his though you know Twenty nine eleven and five and he's still ridiculous to is pretty durable and the team was good. The team is gonna, be forty seven and twenty five, so tough, one, ok, what's audible to our, deserves hornets in the wizards who came through. We did we didn't over under park ass before the year. You did well, you did really well.

I did well, although I lot we all lost on the warriors, because the warriors there is on the half Attica was was thirty, eight thirty, the hat was the over. We all went under and they went over by half, so I went nineteen thousand one hundred and fifteen until my locks. What am I lox's? The wizards and the wizard started out over they three and fifteen and one point something you're awful. They finished at thirty, four and thirty eight. You knew the game today was gonna, be like every single course wizards gave that they have where somebody's gonna. Lead somebody's gonna come back, it's gonna be tight. The last two minutes. There could be some inexplicable offensive decisions scratch your head a couple times and then once he's gonna win and be relieved than the other team is gonna. That believed that they blew the game, which is how this point out the big takeaway, though For me, anyway, is: surely you start that good did she started?

team without Heyward, I don't you know you see that Where's without a word. Well, I know what they are. I mean, which would you ask me about what, when he doesn't, the sheer their nine and ninety there. Nineteen eighteen without risk associated with a surprising, brutal, six and fourteen there last twenty, and they to do the small but think today to take Scott bricks by surprise, which is that by the way, hard to take scupper us by surprise, but that, but it did in a word, then they took a big laden, Katerina gas in Bilbao, Gafford foul trouble help trouble, help Charlotte put some stuff together. There. Really matter, but yet no heyward I mean he was. He was member. He was a borderline, all star conversation there for a while, the hornets also had this ridiculous run, where there were winning all these close games where they had these numbers. That showed you in the fourth quarter for a long time during the regular season. You're like wait there that much better than all these other teams during it, but the wizards. Now, if you go April first

now Denver's got the best record in the NBA from April to now, eighteen and six- and this is missing- some of the games will be later Sunday Night Phoenix. Eighteen in seven it Lana Seventeen and seven which are never gonna, get to Dallas seventeen and eight, which he brought up last week, the Knicks or seventeen. Seventy, the wizard, seventeen a knight to close the season, except of the weird things. If you compare that to all the other good record teams, their net rating behind all only Lana just ahead of them there's some seems that a particular nice run for a month and a half but they're, not necessarily crushing and any other team. So maybe that can be balloon: misleading about losing or winning close games, which isn't relief. Now, there's a couple teams. They think bank on certain players, but a lot of times is kind of random The wizards have won a lot of games, despite playing somebody close over the course from April. First on yeah, they have a couple of guys. You trust in a game like this right, like Robin Lopez. So I really like when they signed. He was somebody I wish the Celtics had gotten, but he's really good. Today, he

I also much about him was on the right. You catch him on the wrong. Nay, you think he's like there's a third Lopez brother like Robin and broke out. This third gotta glumly early, because, like beer, the wrong said it, but today he was, is borderline dominate there's some of these families. You like wait, there's another one again rocks just kept path See you're, or yeah like there's a guy. I can state that the ground Let me ask you this by Lopez, his basketball career. If more escape border, rational, scape border. He you would be a guy to be like seven twenties, like whatever tried tragic Ali but his game has gone older, you ready I guess he got older, though the way he plays these looping hooks just feet away from the basket he's playing like. Nineteen fifties guy, so his game. Actually, as time has passed the games the better and gotten better than he's evolved he's

to zag, the ultimate basketball zag. His approach to the way he plays is like getting older and older. I like it count on him. I Smith, I texted you in house in that first half and I was like this- is going to be an is Smith Game and it was there's something trust where they bought him a big games. I can't explain you like those two shots he made when he dribbled into a long to contested in in the runner across the land, where no one else touch the basket bottled. They know. I didn't. I didn't like the shots, but they went which is the it thing like he's fucking, confident himself, and when these play games and you can see it. You could see the the through even in a play. Or playing trying to get it up game the the started, a tight he's in Carson and we're saving like keep gunning young king yeah keep believing yourself brother and then Burtons, who has been really up and down to say the least a shop.

But it's still scary, when he's open you know, so they can kind of throw together some combination of six guys with Gafford that good, confident planting Westbrook is incredibly confident As we discussed many times, he was not good today. He did an interesting thing, though. In the last three minutes it was like he had a hypnosis therapy session where it was like Russell. You will not lose this game for your team. You will not lose this game for your team. I was like what about Bob. They just kept repeating to himself and he deferred time in the last two minutes. He didn't have that crazy. I mean he throws out bill inexplicably, and bill was hot, but at least Westbrook was the one taking terrible shot. So maybe there's progress with rest. Finally, I was obviously tracking it as I always do with him, and I was watching his health defense. But then I thought, like okay, a lot of Charlotte's problems on defense start with lamella, like he's the guy that you want to go find, but Westbook doesn't do that. He doesn't

go hey, let's figure out a way to get somebody matched up with the guy that we want to attack. It doesn't really happen. He also got hit on illusory boundary went down Lee I don't know if that fog them a little bit, because I was kind of waiting ass, he had one the drive in a bad pass, and then he had another one where he kicked out the ruin Rui just never enough time to work out three point line, so the one really that big moment, so he didn't make nearly as bigger mistake, as I made last week when I have to companies, on this one, and that when I was talking about Wesrick, though I was a career in the post season- and I said he wasn't a big part of the final team that was just wrong. I should have rephrased Didn't said, it was interesting that that team back then in some of those crunch, I moments the Plaza run, the often through harden because numbers I went back. I was like I don't know why. I said it that way, because he had like forty in one of those finals game. So that was a bad bad. Worsening. He it now, but maybe tat that those two really liked. By with each other their top hours be bought, respect you

playing games that not the actual plan than the playing games there going to be a hard team in a play. How resigned are you to like what what's gonna happen? A Boston? Can we do this now? yeah, I'm just getting my german microbes outdated nor eyes. This is quick because the people think this is a bit and it's really not. I actually would. Rather they lost to the wizard, so they could play in the one a game. I think they could compete with Philly. I don't think they'd beat Philly, but I think they would be respectable performance if I have to watch the Celtics team after this piece of shit season, they had with all the dumb shit that happened. Get their ass, this kid by Brooklyn and then hug carry after every game. After he's, just lay them up and others I to watch the last self esteem, whereas I come out, I'm not even than a Watches games was the o four that John Carol season when that team was, I had pack for can't can't coon after game too

I'm not going to watch them like the Dap up at Kyrie after these playoff games. This is but one of the softest celtics teams. Ever it's a perfect spot or just get the shit kicked out of him by Brooklyn it's going to. And I'm not gonna like it and then they're gonna be showing that the graphic about Oh you remember once upon a time they were saying. Boston got the better Brooklyn when they got others draft all will look at this now they're about to get swept it's gonna, fucking sack and on that- and I just have better things to do- I'm not do than torture myself. But that would you rather watch a one day soon being by Philadelphia, then a game seven lost the Brooklyn, now game, seven last be great. That means we beat him a couple times. However, that's gonna: u talk yourself into a little bit presided at bribing Boston, they're, gonna, kill them,

What are you sure that, by the way, what do you think they can compete with Philadelphia? Because I think Philly is an easier team? to potentially hang within this broken team with those three guys and who- who is every time he plays Boston, plays like his life depends on the game. If you like, like that in the thousand and nineteen playoff, so we would have won the title then I just want to fear. I know I couldn't stand absentee. Neither does everybody says: let you guys, like all yours, merry laugh and my reviewed watch every night. You could wait until he left that he left before the final plasters. I just feel like Philly is more manageable, to play. I think they would have a lot of issues, but I do think you know and beetle get his thirty and fifty and you just got to live it, but you know it's not like they're the deepest team and you could do

You can do some staff and shot him yeah, but it's operate brown anymore, separate brow waiting until Game Ford realized tat at an earlier. When I got it, I never get it singled out by both of those seems. Rather it I did a better chance to hang a guess. It's it's, a hundred percent the Cairo hug fest after the losses because the first time they did it. It was like okay, but that's thing that everybody has to understand like tire. I think you and I agreement here should because I think we're a little bit more plugged. In then D carry be hidden self guy tweeting that four times the season that the others tough with him professionally, that you just Youtube Somebody to do better job K like I'm, trying to be nice about it, but he's just like hey. You know if you're going to bail, it be great if you told us and if you bail again like we're just supposed to keep, I know you know. Religiously he's is at a different level, all the kinds of our Yvonne but Guy.

Nice in the league love them guys really like them. I mean the reason. Blake ended up there and I texted. Somebody was like why obvious beyond the obvious best chance, maybe to win a championship for Blake, but it's like Lake loves Kyrie, those guys just vibed together and I was like oh wow, all right cool and so, when you watch Tiree kick bosses has like those games, the first time, they're all over them The big media moment you like ya, you guys got there is ill, will look how much these guys love? Oh my god, they love em, but it also speaks to Hell, embarrassing? It is like the second time it happened and then the third time it happened in your leg. So what are you gonna? Do an entire series of Cairo dribbling through every single one of you and then you guys can aid, to tell him how us this is when you're competing against him, so that was tough. That will be for any one. That is a fan of their team to see somebody else, smoke them and then see the entire team and again a kind of to a lack of toughness that we ve seen from Boston all seas in law

well and then the one time he didn't play well against him. He left the court. Didn't do the adapting everybody thing that Sunday game when he was when he didn't play. Well, he just he just walked off at that point. He usually he does the Dap up thing when it's, oh, it's always after he's played really well. It seems like that's when he's willing, Have forty handshakes, I'm already working up some animosity for the series, but they have no chance and, to be honest, like Phil is probably the only thing that can hang with that team? If those three guys are all going to be healthy and I I think we're in denial, if we don't think that the his I enjoy Miami with their wings We'd plain a reasonable dollar. Fifty minutes a game. Now they there they're, not gonna, beat Brooklyn son happening. I don't. I don't see how document even harden back out of shape, in some of those games! It then even matter it doesn't matter with him. The kiss

his shooting will see. We all know the hardened playoff thing on the free throws can be. You know something happens, but it feels like it's almost of heart. It's eleven or twelve resourcing game three than maybe the next group is like hey. Let's tighten up a little bit, we got we let him get a couple. How many get the same that he gets in the regular season. It's something gonna be looking for with tray young as well to see if a crew goes in. He got us a bunch of times the other game. So, let's see what happens, even though the crews change, obviously, but I think for you to Philly has the best chance. That's fine, but I don't do you think, there's this I gap between Milwaukee's chances in Philly's chances against Brooklyn no cause, I don't either. No. I just think that becomes a best player in the series series and I trust them beads ability to be the best player in a Brooklyn series, slightly or than yours that Europe has made some guy immensely. We ve seen with the honest that want to try to force him to come

make decisions with the basketball further away from the hoop then than he wants and it's just a different level of intensity, locking in and playing him back to back and all these games, knowing hey these are our rules. This is what we want to do where, if you catch him on a random Tuesday, you got in late the night before maybe you go, you know what I mean like there's all sorts of things that can happen over the regular season, where you're, not as locked in, but the playoff match up part of it think it gets easier to cut up a little bit more limited but the regular season offensive repertoires Brooklyn has not established that they could handle Joel and bed for two weeks now that doesn't mean they can't beat them, but it just seems like that's a really fun series for him. If he's gonna be gone basically against the Andrea Jordan is gonna, go off class. I gotta go. I play Griffith, but here is the other thing I like would fill in. That says,

citizens and table you could argue, those are the two best winged offenders in the week. You could argue that their one two simmons is definitely one you could argue tables to an it gives them two guys to throw on carrying harden and then the Durrant thing you just have to have put hair asylum and he's gonna propagate smoke, but at least you have a bead protecting the rim a little bit, but they have guys I'm not consider going shut down carrying harden, but it's gotta, be it's not going to be like a landline. Those two guys will make them work and title is a pain in the ass ke, their great video on him last week or two weeks ago. One of those guys- and I assume it's going to be table- will be assigned to care

and he's just going to bug him pestering them fall around and annoy the hell out of them and try to get in his head, and I don't, I just think it's very possible to get in car reset. That's my expert opinion. The hardest thing is Simmonds and Simmonds is the best possible guy you could put on James Harden again. James Harden is awesome, he's going to get his offense about who's playing, but if you're going to pick the guy to guard harden, you would say taller guy great athlete, somebody who falls them around. Who really takes the challenge personally, so they have options on both ends and then it becomes. This is why Brooklyn is such a potentially great team. It's like well cool. You don't have any regards to rent he's going towards you guys, though, so they're always going to have options, but I just like the fairly matches up them. I love wasn't they're big, I mean you know, it sounds really simple, but all the guys that we're talking about have size have real size. I mean to buy doesn't moved away. Simmons does and

the decision for Doc is gonna, be the sceptre minutes like how do I do I want spacing knowing that I think we Really seen this enough Simmons offensively, it's a completely different challenge for him. In those closing moments with that team, when he's out there You can kind of gang up on some other guys. Could you just ignore it? He's never gonna hit a guy manager progress us weak, but I'm never, click on an article again, it talks about Benson is working in his outset, shot at breaking news. I'm reporting this right. Now it's never happening. It's never happening. He's never gonna decide always like hey. You know what now come Louis, you don't even want to take a bright, so we ve been all that stuff. So will it be set with spacing, or will it be, let's for sake spacing here, to continue to have more switchable size with these guys defensively and I'm sure Doc is going to try both things at different times. While we may not know until the end, but I'm picking Philadelphia when these interesting thanks

you agree that they match at the best of Brooklyn yeah that Europe will, I just think, they're good bill. I think they're good they were like incredibly dismissive now: defensive stats. Maybe that's the right way to be, but some of these splits for fully, looking at later chunks of the season, villages better and everybody else in his eye, at whatever and in Brooklyn I get it it's horrifying. It's here to think that when those three guys are together what they're capable of offensively- but I think the other part of it is that imbed, hey? What do we always do in in bed? Is at the end of the game and he's losing the playoffs. We look at him. His hands. Aren't his shorts he's sweating and he looks out of shape. I think he's going to look like that. All the time. All right, I think when they win playoff games. I think that's just the way he's going to look even though you're gonna wanna make em bead make decisions on how how he has to figure out. Do I stay up, these high screens, or do I drop, which is pretty much. What everybody has to worry about is a big and where the games played today there.

Really gonna bidding any guy, though that he has the bang with four forty plus minutes late, something to be said of just haven't a run around with this other Neanderthal hang on yet box neon elbow on the shit out of you, because that can be blamed for. Third, minutes you know, is it gonna be Nick Claxton is the Biagi, your, I think that part of it for a is much. The switching part is always a challenge for the big eyes against the perimeter stuff theirs other part of it, where it's not going to feel like it's a rest for him in some of these playoff games, because the physical part of it he's going to be dominant against whatever combination they want to put out there against him. He kind of stole my thunder, no, and I'm will explain why read after the break, you could do you can t about it in that you kind of stole my thunder. First, why diarrhea might be a sign of something worse. This episode of Bill, Simmons Podcast, brought to you by zip, recruiter, great team started great talent, but finding the right people,

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exclamation point avoids Milwaukee Brooklyn Miami until the EAST finals, with the way this worked out, because Miami is in that three six bracket plus two sixty to win east on sandal. I think those ads are crazy. I think, if I had to bet my life on one team in the east, for all the reasons you just mentioned plus one Brooklyn has to play in walking round to right, and if it's not out it's Miami. You have these three guys her visit. Would the three guys out there there. I greet their fucking terrifying It just seems like they ve had the year from how trying to keep these three guys together. Right, what's been won after another. Just keep these three guys up courts. We have to bet on that happening us off the button. Bright Griffin, sting healthy for three stray play officers I said, eight surgeries there really relying on displayed thirty minutes a game. It's got to the point that you

If he got hurt, I think they'd be a lot of trouble he's important to them like he was listening. He of this weird luxury name that didn't make it really I get it. I get in there you're watching going either lay back in which is great, I'm site for him, but it meet like he's important Amerika There are other than the rate, I think he's their best defence, a player. He's at everyone insurance, not there yet entering a wise and there from a house standpoint, but I think just stated think on on what to do where to go that stuff yeah, but and the two times harden gets in the post defensively and the announcers tell us how amazing he is as a post defender well and also you talk about a team that I think is a little fragile from a personality. Standpoint, rookie coach, a lot of new pieces, a lot of guys who haven't been in big pressure situations like this

and then you have Philly who wait a minute, wait and see what they mean. Kyra hit all timer therein. I wanna unfettered by the other, guys, I'm talkin about like that. You know Joe Harris those type, a guess You ate uv do the first time I watch your Harris was like sky. Could do I I was having italian outside of my place in West Hartford. I was sitting at this overpriced italian place sitting at the bar watching Joe Harris? I was like this guy can do some things, sorry, the role players. You know this is different stakes. Philly has some guys that have at least gotten a taste of it over the last few years than Doc, rivers but they're going to have home court. And more importantly, like I just know another minister finals, they're not around one. There are losing Ratsey round one they're, getting the most unbelievable gift of all time they get tee, thereby Bostra washed in.

And then round two they're gonna play a lander next they're going to be those teams unless Atlanta shoots the lights out and goes completely bonkers, which isn't conceivable, but I just think it's lined up better for them, and I like the fact I think this is great. I've talked about this many times in my pot over the years. I like the fact that people have pencil Brooklyn in. I think from a motivational standpoint, you and I both followed dark for a long time. This is dark, wanna one right now. This is very to think there were the aid. See. Oh he's, gonna be like one see, people don't even think we should be here. It's gonna do that all day, bro had broken broke, he's gonna do one of those ran. This does What was that interview with Trump, where the guy kept turning the paper upside down and he's gonna be handing it to be like they have his eight right. So I just think

James Gonna be really really really really motivated, and I don't know man and beat his fucking terrifying wouldn't be really wants it. He still has the A feeling of anybody. We've seen this year of any player and I'm voting for yoga for Mvp and I think he's had a way better, Mvp CAS and then I think, he's even gotten credit for but and beat at a couple of games. This year we were just like it was like Shack, two thousand you're just going holy shit. What do you do against this? Guy? Did you know that when yoga wins, this he's the only other second rounder to win the Mvp. Who was the first one? I can't remember three but Willis Reed was in a draft. Where are you does anyone by our draft? He was the tenth pick yeah, So you go on Fando right now: Brooklyn is basically even odds to win the east plus one O. Five Philly is plus two sixty Milwaukee's plus three. Fifty

time is one thousand two hundred and twenty Atlantis thirty one, I'm just telling you people out there. You have the ability to bet on this. If you're in one of the Fanduel states like two hundred and sixty Phillies, going to be in the eastern finals, unless it be gets hurt, who knows he doesn't think he needs to find outs, but you can just go against that when you get into the into the finals, can hedges easy and then Philly to win. The title is eight hundred and twenty one which for some reason and that's on Fanduel Brooklyn's, two thousand two hundred and twenty one. Basically Lakers are five hundred and twenty one clippers R621 jazz, sixty one Milwaukee H1 Philly, it's one, so they don't have the finals matchup bets, but I think Lakers Philly is a great finals bet. That would be my final smash. We should probably be something if the Lakers to win the west or plus two hundred and forty in the Sixers are pushed to six. That's going to be at least five to one, maybe even hire. I like that as a bit.

European there, though about indeed in it. If none of this was surprising, okay, I always thought that whoever starts off their career. Not play, and then playing in thirty games and we're like three years in and you play thirty games he's like okay. Even when he's great, how long is he going to stay healthy and even though there have been some blips for the most part has been far healthier than I would have thought. Any of us were like being honest about it. Late artists hold up he always does eat rise out of shape. It isn t it always everything's, but when he's right when he's having that those those five minute stretches of a game? It's up there anybody else. It really is like design. Stop it fun exciting, May Anthony the set of play in its it. This is really interesting, but I was watching Anthony Davis. He grabbed bound dribbled in the end inside out, dribble turned down the screen finishes, alas, it was.

Moments you like? Who the hell? Who does that and indeed might be able to out- and he would have made it look as good as Davis and maybe a little fluke here, I can, but in a guy who's scouting as they had a match up and say they need Avis later sent me video was like. Did you see this, and I can't believe you just sent me this, because this this moment- itself was one of those things I just kind of said something out loud, my living room when no one else is around bead will have those stretches where you go. This is This guy is right. No, we do with this lock at the top of the league is so deep in it so impressive, but indeed capable having moments relay. I don't know, there's anybody better than him, which I dont hyperbole. I don't think it's completely out of control the thing like, if indeed went on IRAN, and they want to title, though the carry over of what we would think of like there would never be a top five list without him beat. If he put together a real playoff run, there's a lot of on the shoulder stuff at this very time, including the

be not when they VP, I think is a peace, Doc, rivers, all the stuff, that's happening since two thousand eight other plants loss I can't get it done with the big when you get. There are more than just got tired, I mean, did you know, look duchess get fire with a team that was like hatred. You never thought he was gonna lose that gig. Well then, there on that, that there is playing in the in the game, but another one who got to the cost but bunch at times who built the third best team, basically of the second half of the decade, got nothing to show for it other than the couple devastating losses. So it's their tea. But I just love that there home court. I got to be honest. I think home court is going to matter as we get into these further round. I think even having ten thousand fans there is gonna, be a real thing and again, with Brooklyn can emphasize, is strong enough. We've seen this over and over again with teams that get thrown together. That first year can be.

If he dicey, it didn't happen the Lakers last year, but the Lakers have Lebron as the second best. By about time, and had a lot of his people and allotted his dna in that team, and you also the Rondeau peace there and it was a weirdly veteran team that didn't feel like a team that was drawn together that wasn't tough enough all that stuff? This is that's team. Everything is new. Even the coach coach has never been in the past before and I think he, I think, he's a great job. Might actually bought him? Third for coach now so you've owned? First, I'd Amadou, mighty mighty one tabs to NASH three three win her night. There's four people for three spots, but Brooklyn went forty, seven twenty four. None of those guys played being dead, a massive trade. They came

left twice, take they lost shared out and they lost avert. They had Lamarck sounded. She disappeared after five games because he had to retire they're, relying on Blake they're, bringing in quack on the number of lines, the number of lineups. I mean that's kind of a credit too, to harden much like the year were hard, was, was taken a million shots and put up those absurd numbers over six weeks that, without a necessity in Houston, still one games and so for all guys that I can get frustrated with because they call the sky put up a huge stat line again and they lost like why my son was to be by figure. Skies next coming, and I think some of the pardon conversation probably went a little too far when it was on that run. But Hoddan was studying force, but I think those real gacek moments for tee. It's new, were the Philly says. I'm saying this out loud though, because I know I know: what's gonna have right, it's like I do. Yet all the way the alpha has he done enough You got like. Ok, bail us out figures,

I like to think that he is. Is guiding media if, if the rents healthy is, but we haven't seen him play on right straight into an that's, that's a real thing that I think people are just skipping over as they think about the plan. As I do, you trust ran to play for stray player, France from what we see He trusted. I think the best question is: do you trust the entire cast to be there for forestry for four straight without making us, though, thou yeah? and I'll hardens for player, France, hard, is usually always healthy. This is pretty on president for him. It'll tirades, but he's also another player who has got a lot of miles out of donors you can play with our Asia Elles and still get like a serious like that's why you don't have that? watching him back this week? And he wouldn't even looking to shoot all that much and I forget which game was cassettes. My new favorite thing. U turn on one of the games and when the second or third tvs and then you're like have I've, been thinking the team in grey

spurs the whole time in the spurs are actually not in gray. In the other teeth like have you noticed that, with some of the uniform combinations lately I hate it. I just go: what's the guy now at the end and be like hey. We want you to not know who you're rooting for the first two minutes when you change the channel like for all of this stuff. I just think to be considered. With it, though, in his I've already got him pick Philadelphia. Do I love love it now, because I'm scared Brooklyn but some of the same doubt you can apply to Brooklyn you could also do the same thing with bill it off. We like You know. Why would I? Why would I benefit of the doubt trust toughness key moments? Simmons Bead when there are exactly play off resume the guys in Brooklyn do even though it's a new version of it and can they place the table together crunch time and go three out of five offensively. It's gonna be Listen, what save

You know, I would want that if I were Brooklyn cause I'd, be like cool good awesome. You guys can switch in your long and stuff. We don't have to guard to your guys yeah. It was like when Oklahoma City used to play Perkins in in Robertson, too close and you just go? Well no shit! This is really tougher, russen cabin, because there's two guys we don't have to defend well, my guess is: they'll stagger, Simmons and Tibo as much as they can, but I think Tibo will play probably like five or six most minutes. They have the green thing that they do. I've been sure to see Maxie has flashes the area where you go is. Are we gonna hear from this guy in the play off like him? It is not only more it's like the Maxie Game Game three, as they call the shit irish banks it. This game, for them,

yeah. I don't think he's gonna be scared. He will not be scared. That's no guarantee! I'm a fan. Let me ask you this: who would be the most fun team to knock Brooklyn out? What team would fire you because There's a Miami Jimmy Buckets, Pat Riley's Bostra case. That's kind of fun is a guy Yet you are either a broken big. Three thing, however, about culture, Freya. Ah, Morocco defined as the yadda stain the fact that Their fans can hit rock bottom last year, drew holiday finally being in a real series: peachy Tucker peace. What about it What is it? What about a subway Easter conference finals, next Brooklyn yea right, maybe the most from, but I don't think the next would have any in that series just make sure we get to the fifty other players Let me know we get there we're doing right now. Will you take out one more break and then we're gonna do? What's it the other to sit,

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The latter made one of those guys gonna, be there first of all, because it has no. I dont think Paris is a really guy that you know we ve been right, but I still think that they are better when Braga was making. The decision was a bonus and it be nice of lovers. Doors off of that, but I don't think he's ever gonna do that and then you have the Warren factor where he was putting in numbers. Just observed him so look? I mean the patient should win that because Charlotte Charlotte our team. That's free reappeared, I like are we gonna rosier and Graham and la Mellow gonna hit ridiculous shots, although the mellow his start, stop is so good. The way he can at that size dribble to a stop in and pick it back up again but another. He's getting away with he's young is hammering the shit out of big that come over to contesting the rim with his perform his legs helping their arms. What he's got some veterans shit to him already but

for whatever reason he's get away with it and whenever I think about him now against Lonzo Atlanta was fundamentally probably a better place. But then again his shooting some promising about the Alonzo. Now lawns is good. Shooter he gets good numbers there, but Le Mellow has the attitude and personality on the core that we all wanted lawns, or to have that I don't think he's. Will you clearly is not can have this far? It doesn't make sense. You like Le Mellow, there's no doubt at all in that turn off from. I watch him in Australia, but now I'm like. Oh, this is exactly where he kind of needs to be where I lonzo, even though he can hit shots to make great passes. I think he's a really good defender team defender, there's just Let's reeks completely disappearing, Lamella is not going to be like that as he gets older, there's never going to be a moment we were like. Oh, is lamelo out there and through lawns, has become at times. Keds. Can I spend this money is spent afternoon. Show language I lamellous very alpha, sometimes that I just don't think I don't think so.

Those alpha it all keys. Guy is more in that Wiggans camp ok. But can you be an alpha if you're tight end for the jacks? coming over to set covered up next, you don't. I love. I love this thing about them. Now I love how it takes to the basket in have physical in such ass. I can point out out, like he likes juggling into deeds and he's a hammering guys. Aren't you glad should have. I dont think yourself either there's a couple times there in the game they had even been answered when he just just playing with his wrist and like twisting it He was like I got to put my ligament back where is not the shit out of him DR today, eighty eight percent here my predictions, but eighty eight percent, The mellow out. I was ass, give red nose, ass guerrilla mellow, brought on my eyes, rest

What what did you see from him? If he's not a hundred, I was like your numbers. I think his rest is like seventy four percent. I e keeps Genoa it's unhealthy. That sounds right thanks. I feel sorry for feels right. Thank you. I think I d winds and I think washed and beat the south it. I want that cause. I'm betting, it's my team when in games that actually matter it doesn't feel right. I think it violates car models, but I just they washed it'll have to through best, in the game, they'll play probably harder. They'll probably be up ten in the first quarter, because the Celtics will roll over like they always do, and I don't think the Celtics team knows who they are. I don't think they know who their best players are, and I think deep down. They might not be unhappy if the season ended and it's not like an overt thing. It's just one of those things

Sometimes it's not your season and when you have a chance to parachute out of the plane and just jump into the trees, you take it and I think this team I really think Seymour roll over when it has a chance to roll over it's one of those things how to watch them all year to understand where you're coming from- and I don't know why anyone are they more talented than those other teams in this play out scenario, no question it's, but they fell behind by twenty fourteen times this year they fell behind by ten. I think forty of the seventy two games, final number, it's just made how many times carry much you go through your like? Ok, what was the sign? Okay, this calves games must win down huge victor at jobs don't want to win

let's go bouygues hardware. Ok, I right or wrong. I was gonna go. I was gonna, go inversely get there, but when all peace, ok, ok sees one one game in two months: in its again, ten Eu China lose yet they didn't wanna play anyway sent our effort home. They re even want him near the team right shape he'll just Alexander'S- that the youngest dude ever to be de impede fan has like she's. I could I playing, I'm only twenty two, I'm trying to get better cool go home, stay away. Do, you think will have doubled, podcast twenty years from now, where the guys are going over these historic numbers and they start arguing about where player ranks on all time stats are, but then the guy will be like yeah, but he dined six of his last eight seasons at twenty I presented this season. You have to fact that in its like the real thing that this has led to his team did want to play and that in care citing washed, it beats Celtics. I dont think it'll. I dont think it'll be an easy one for the wizards ethical. I think I'll be up. Ten I'll be up there.

The cells will make a late run. Westbrook will throw the ball away. All of a sudden. The cells will be down too, with the ball with ten seconds left and take them we'll take a step back three and miss it, and be it another. Nine ten game gets Indiana and guess what I don't think there dna there. I think the ethics go home. I really do they leave figured I do I do. I think they lose both camps, I believe that it is the one that even this reverse Jenks. I dont think there No one either get around but if you watch the wizards last month and a half or watches others last month and a half billion out of celtics bigger out again no jail in camp has been better You know: Chambon Tatum, having a game. And then the Robert Williams, part of it and he's he's been better. I mean say one and they end up in the two. Seven, I'm not gonna be shocked, be shocked either, but there's no I'll be shocked. You're shocked, you're gonna be shocked, be shocked. If we be Washington, I think this just too much too much I'm to be shocked. I watch

year. They they roll over time. They they have a chance to roll over roll over. They know it. How many team meetings could this team have do you think they should do something where they start all back up to send a message? First, you this like do a Duke senior night thing were Carson Edwards in waters go out and then I'm not going. I say this unironically I actually was talking to a friend of mine about the they saying that I really genuinely felt like they should play taco, because at least when taco I was out there, the team would get thrown off for a few minutes and their such energy from having taco the other Celtics try harder as they love taco suggest for compliance? Nothing else is work. We ve tried, a hundred and thirty lineups just play taco put about Let him run around and hold his hands up. At least it's something is like Tate, I'm taking twenty seven

that's a game and are really stand around and markets being like clear out clear out of added offered by gave its. I know you have it. So this is. This is like much ignore block advice that I gave em both at I just said: hey man, look at me, Have you ever thought of just putting a glove on your right hand and then throwing the first lefty like one thousand five hundred times, then when you put the glove back on your normal and it's alright he's going to feel better and he was like. I don't want to fucking talk to you. Okay, when taco comes in. I remember that starts a good one. With taco comes in. You could see the other team for three minutes going like what do we do? What is this

this is weird. He changes the game for three minutes and it had like the six minute mark people figure it out, but I'm serious I would play taco. I would try anything alright quickly on playoffs, so Philly beats whoever Brooklyn is going to be either team, but Brooklyn Washington is way more fun, because at least Washington Bell in Westbrook will think we belong with these guys. Anyone could win the serious. Finally, we get to play against our peers and not treat that like gets the files, and we also have the west brocaded thing, which I think would be if one right, muzzle loading play officers. I'm also- therefore like westward being one attend from three and then locking Durrant shot me close game like extend, is like they're down three o and they win game for an

West EAST. The Westbrook celebrates, like you, just storm normady, two more series, Atlanta necks, so this one's weird, because I do like this Atlanta team, but it doesn't look like there's gonna be Hunter at least and ran one he's playground aim cd. I think again, you didn't like himself and honour Because they've been so much better, now too, I mean Atlanta is behind behind Denver April. First on Denver, has eighteen wins it land and the next, by the way, both at seventeen wins. So you can't dismiss the next part of that which were unaware that gets you, but they have depth now, where the Hunter minutes, I think it's gonna be an experiment in the players, because their look, he was there I can best player yet the season until you her and then in that absences other guys have stepped up. So it's gotta be kind of its a good, probably happened. It's definitely a challenge.

I like Atlanta as a stealth. I know we both thought Philly is going to come the these, but I do think, is there a world where Atlanta beats pill in a playoff? Here, shore I wouldn't be like stand. I wanna be stunned by anything in these, perhaps other than the Lakers. You know make it at around one, but here's the case for the Knicks, so they're fourteen and four in their last eighteen rose during that stretch, is basically eighteen, a game shooting fifty five percent from the field they played Atlanta three times this year. They won all three Randall and those three games, three thousand seven hundred and twelve and seven. This is the team. He's succeeded against. And it makes sense, I actually watched the entire next Atlanta game that went over time. The last time they played and Atlanta does- have anybody to guard him. It's just a bad match up for for them

and he was getting any shot he wanted. He was really comfortable. You know I go back and forth with the season serious thing, but I do think there's something to learn from it sometimes and in this case Randal does really well gets a letter like just would start there at least The way they shoot threes isn't as great as it seems like it is when you're watching them, sometimes when they go in there, basically they're thirty, seven percent. For thirty five point two but she's been like that, but Trey hasn't shot as well as you thought. No hunter hurts them or compromise hunter whatever and as much as I think like, sing in Atlanta, the Randall Tips rose msg. However many home games. You know they're going to at least have a possible game. Seven, do you think ready to actually when a giant game in New York, even if it's like a half full fans when the other team as a really good guy, that they can't guard.

The simple part of that is saying: well, no, because I haven't ever seen it before I mean this is a team that even coming off with disastrous last year record wise, like you look back at last year, like man they're even worse than maybe you would think, but because it was de tray, young story and making the all star team and all that kind of stuff. It was like. Oh wait. This is great, because tray is really good, but man that seems. Terrible and then its looked like it was another. Carry over. There can be terrible defensively knowledge of things, but they get need in Bogdanov. It comes back right is Nay comes back, takes over from from law and you know, as I mentioned, that record part of the so the easy answers to say no. And I know when you and I have been like hey man- I just a good land is better than New York and then you're, ok, but New York's beat them three times, but I too, some of these match up things. I dont know what to do with, because usually it's the first thing. I look a bit like eight. Let me make sure I'm not making a mistake by looking at the cheating separate of each other and ignoring what it actually look like when they played each other but

played in only one of those games but played in to Donilla played in one, so that part of it- weird you're right. They don't have anything to do with Randal. Those Randal numbers are absurd. So this Adrian right away, those numbers will happen again in the play. I write a real average like thirty five, a game the six and got to be twenty years old went from. Oh no, is this a disaster disaster strong, but when need Your chance in a bad team is a rookie going to put up some decent numbers, his number are much better. Now I mean he's at seventeen a game. Rebounds. It pretty. Well, these system really gonna be there, but the fact that he's at forty percent shooting from three and here moments. Were you know it's not great, but there's other moments relay. They really actually look like they're gonna hit on the sky and I know they know exactly who they are. They have a topic to Tuum. That's great this. This series is going to be tebbs. Trying to Train is something else, and it's gonna be

We are going to attack the shit out of him and we are also going to defend him in ways that we're gonna frustrate him. So I think, there's gotta be a big jump from the regular season. Stop betray faces to a tips. Coach team but I don't even know that, like personnel wise, this isn't even a debate. I like it Landis personnel better, but the random numbers and tebbs against tray. Is really was going to decide this and the physicality they do they. Beat the shit out of Atlanta. This whole series: how far can they go with the way the game is officiated now and we got to be physical, got to be physical, but sometimes you'd, be too physical could swing the game and then tips he likes to this thing where he likes it's a little ballot check in take the Then the other team likes to do and try to twist it to make it so that you're putting them that guy in a position where it.

You're playing to his hero side like today with Cobain, two thousand ten or you just try and take him. In Atlanta's case, it's actually better for the Nick. If tray is taking a ton of shots and kind of ball hogging it right. What the other guys get. I'm worried about everybody else. If tray wants to shoot certain types of the game go be it I feel like Atlanta is at their best when he's distributing, and he has like twenty four points and fifteen assists and twelve shots. So I wonder like: are they going to appeal appeal to and I gotta get him to hear about eight years. What worries me about the next? I just feel like their Clare short. I don't trust you know the fact that TAJ Gibbs employs crunch time- and I know tapes has come from and you knows it's right place, but man that would be one of the worst crunch time guys to make around two in a while he's been washed up

three years. I know he's like it's veteran savvy all that stuff, but man, he d c touch jobs in around two. Since no, not that hard. All right, like whatever happened, the regular season. They here's another example the walking Miami I yeah. They played each other, the twenty fifth and twenty ninth December, and then they just played this week Jimmy butlers played in zero those games, so added value added. If it doesn't even matter it doesn't even matter so is the next three oath, gets Lana a real sign. Maybe, but I can't get past I start counting, who four five six seven eight are Anybody would want the next group overlanders grooming. Would anyone would next fan, I mean I get it, this next door is incredible there's something to be of it, but I mean I don't think, there's reality kicks in a little bit going us. Plan. Some guys that I don't.

Then I think the tray young free, throw thing is part of it too, like his month to month can get weird where he can go on some stretches where it looks like he's getting a lot of calls and then he's not. He still think he finished. Third, maybe your fourth and free throw at. For game. It wasn't his absurd as it was the very beginning of the year he's officiated. The ten year, all star going to all Hall fame, but I I don't know it'll happen like in the s. If you a game where you get a bunch of calls there be a correction on it. I don't even think it's the nineties. I think it was happening still within the last decade. App There are so many young officials that I dont think young official when they get taken that they'll they'll. Remember that and by the way which re tray wool beyond the way to getting a call and he's already pre complaining about not getting it as the whistle cuffs him so one. But one thing with this: the three point showed in the next shot: thirty nine percent,

three. The share, which is better, but you look away. That's it it in an adds up and rose, has actually been making a wailing, their posing three point percentages. Thirty four, which is really and in that, was something by the way that it looked like it was random in it would correct and it will get worse It was like contested and uncontested. Three. They had a really low opponents. Three. Percent against you're like well whatever that'll, leaven out and sometimes it. Just doesn't yeah so more physical team, They have one awesome where I think I have a better coach. They have home court and I guess my Here's the thing with the latter. Are you change your mind here? Are you going out at all? I think this is. I think this is going to be a long series, and I think Atlanta has to win in six because it this goes to seven and we go to New York. It's really

hard game to win for, like a young team, that's never played a game like that. You know they have more talent. I get. It yeah, but a young team against another group that is new this year as well. Not like a playing out in Houston, Charles ugly in these guys right, but bear its rate bare and quickly they are really the only ones where it's like you just are gone through new like who do. I trust rain has been around while he's been in the week. You know eight years this point roses been around forever Tibbs has been a lot of these and I don't know that that Nick's crowd, I think, that'll be a thing in a game seven, and I also wonder if the whistles will be friendly, because it's the dicks and nothing good has happened to them. In twenty years. I've refused to pick. I thought the hawks were going to walk over them in this series and the Randall thing and the home court freaks me out and I'm I'm not even making a pic. I think it's a long, serious Milwaukee

Miami. I do have a pick. I think Milwaukee beats them. I think Miami is going to entice a lot of people because they beat them last year because of how what Butler's playing but Milwaukee's just better. The Jew holiday. Having having him to throw Hero here has been hot lately and then, on top of it like the pitcher, Tucker Peace, who they had on here are the other day when they were messed around and that that game recently was didn't really big states from four by any. But a lot of things I like with Mukoki In this series that they're malleable right, they could play Tucker in a shooter, I'm saying with honest, drew in Middleton. They could play Tucker on a shooter. They could pay low, peds and Tucker go bigger. They can play Lopez in a shoe, but they can kind of go with whatever,

and I just think those urquiza egg with dollar minutes are gonna- think Miami. It's too many minutes with those guys. I think both of them at this point there just gonna differ. Stage of their career and they're relying on them for you, no forty, five! Fifty minutes a game. I don't I don't like it for Miami My aim is one eleven fifteen, but when you look at them, Ro. First, on splits, the really good an offence there actually battle defence, it just How they compare to the rest of the league during that stretch is a lot lower than I thought. Let me just make sure and double check it again. There are the right side out. Those are the right numbers. Ya mean there. Twenty four, in the lead, I mean they're down there. Er San Antonio Minnesota, Cleveland, Orlando, and honestly they're, not that far off, like all those bad teams- and sometimes you can say Havre, twenty four, but then the dropped on the twenty fifth significant. It's not, but the amount of They put it this way. Everybody is gonna, be on Miami on this one: everyone and

Milwaukee were to lose to them in the first round like they may have to relegate the box, it's it would be the humiliating and it'll, be unfair is what I'm saying, but the humiliation factor for books the franchise I mean fence around here this, but. If they were to lose doom again this time in the first round, it's going to be just prepare yourself for as you go through all the sixteen Plath teams, my it lucky losing and ran. One is the most devastating scenario to any of the sixty Bernanke Brooklyn can do the whole. Look. We never had our guys next year will be ready. Philly could do you know, but wait till you think gimme that you think Brooklyn. Losing to the wizards. It still be better than no. I have a realistic once outward crossing our feeling broken their lot losing, but

so out of the other, there are any realistic. Any pause because it is a possibility of Miami were to beat him. We it's a year ago. I never thought I'd coming. Why not only that they could. They do it right here in my lucky, could just exactly picking the walk he's, not writing off Miami in this case, but the enemy. Like this is a national perspective. Can you imagine the local perspective on that like coming After a week s, elimination, you're, doing guitar shown a walk on Monday, a day. You know, I don't know honest, won't, be allowed to be any top five lists. You didn't you If you tell us that the aid seed, they would do, We hit a similar, inflection point where, like all right, what are we doing? What's going on with this team? You just want the one see that mattered not at all, and what are you going to do now and I think we're lucky that the scary thing for them, as they really are any out other than trading Middleton, so

whose way better than he gets credit for you, the guy. When I really locked into watching Middleton, I go he's he's terrific he's. Terrific block is gonna, be Miami. And I have no idea who's going to win Atlanta next, alright, we're wrapping up part, one part two. So here's thing it is four. Thirty, on a pacific time now wrap it up we're to come back at some point. After these West Games and will do a shorter pod for part tube, just breaking down the west, based on what the seeds are and we'll do all MBA too, because I'm going to make my final picks and then can you think for the next four hours who I should do for the four spot and the five spot, an Mvp, you're, gonna, say Chris Paul for four and then who for five Randal, then it seems ridiculously beyond us off you right Sometimes you just don't spots for worthy candidates, but it doesn't mean it's personal

because, however, about Westbrook, what about Westbrook Historic Year, eighty eight percent better be pieces. I sat problem with yadda, honest you straight having ninety four percent is good. Season in your friend. Is that he's out, because that even tat fact is that even job down here I decided- I think I guess uh yeah, Paul staff policy, Paul us? I will see you in a few hours. I that's if report one of the two parts Senate ABS, Podcast, get ready for part too, will be taking it as soon as we with the western conference match absurdity a little shorter than this one was, but we will break down all the west match. And also I will give my all NBA picks as well so should be up. I don't know midnight pity somethin like that to partner, don't forget about good fell as we watch levels as well. That is coming Monday, so

there you go see you ass cartoon viewers, in to see him on a western face? I don't have fewer with him on the wayside. I'm approved.