May 5, 2025 • 28 mins
On today's episode, Jason reacts to a weekend of blowouts in the NBA Playoffs. Jason dives into the Warriors' Game 7 win over the Rockets and examines how Golden State will fair against the Timberwolves. Jason explains why the Rockets are a perfect trade partner for the Bucks to ship off Giannis Antetokounmpo. However, Jason identifies the one young star on Houston that is absolutely untradeable. Jason reacts to the Pacers getting a Game 1 upset in Cleveland. Plus, Jason gives his picks for Monday night!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up straight Fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre.
Straight Fire for Monday, May the fifth. Hope everybody had
a splendid weekend. Mine was not spectacular but really really
good because mostly I was able to sleep in. I
did not have any youth sports that I had to
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shuttle my kids around to, got to play volleyball dads
and young daughters who they're all on the same team.
And Sunday I slept in for the first time in
I don't know at least a month, which was super nice. Folks,
sleeping in when you get to my age, feel so good.
Oh my goodness. However, of course, if I got the opportunity,
hey do you want to wake up and play hoops
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or do you want to just sleep in, I'm like,
let me go to bed early so I could wake
up and play some hoops. Anyways, it was a fantabulous weekend,
if that's even a word. Only drawback was there just
wasn't a lot of great sports on You had two
game sevens, right, you had Saturday paper Clips and Nuggets
and that was an absolute tire fire. The second half
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was unwatchable. The Clippers fall down thirty five, Nuggets win.
Then you had Warriors Rockets Game seven on Sunday, and
I was very excited for this. I had my first
Men's League game that I've played in in I think
seven weeks. I've done some pickup, but we were playing
a team that we knew we were gonna smash, and
I was all confident that I was gonna light it up.
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And let's just say, your boy did not have a
great game. We only had five guys. Okay, we scored
one hundred and six points. We waxed this team and
four guys scored one hundred and six points. It was
that bad. Listen, first game back, the cardio was okay,
but the shot clearly was not. Not my greatest efforts.
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I get home and now, thanks to like what do
you call it, you can watch games on your phone.
I'm able to prop up my phone and watch basketball
while I'm quickly showering after a mensley game, so I
don't miss any of the action. And I'm like, oh,
this is a good game. You know, first quarters tight,
everything's good. And pretty clearly the Warriors realized, oh, you know,
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we can't match them big for big let's go small ball,
and that means Buddy Heald got the start, Buddy Healed,
Steph Curry and pods in the back court. And wouldn't
you know it, but Buddy Heald had the game of
his life, his NBA life, that is, Buddy Healed with
thirty three points. Yes, this was known as the Buddy
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Healed game. But it gets better. Buddy Heal, folks, was
twelve of fifteen. What nine of eleven from three, Yes,
that's correct, nine of eleven from three for Buddy Healed
drops a thirty three burger and the small ball Warriors
Ultra small extinguished the Rockets by fourteen. It wasn't really
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close in the second half, although Houston cutag to three.
We'll get to Houston shortly. We got to give Golden
State their props, folks. This was an impressive victory when
you realize Steph Curry had zero points for like the
first I don't know, seventeen eighteen minutes. Curry ended up
with twenty two, ten and seven. A magnificent performance. It
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was such a good performance that you had this guy
San Francisco Bay Area. I had to look, I've seen
the name before. This gentleman named Grant Kohne. His takeaway
from the Buddy Healed game is like one of these
in Sandi Area hot takes that like, listen, it's tough
to cut through when you have Game seven. Everybody's got
their takes, and like, how do you cut through? Will
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you say something like Stephan Curry is better than Lebron
James And like an idiot, I took the bait. I'm
like that sounds like you're talking middle school with someone else. Hey,
this guy's better than the sky, Like that's just dumb.
I mean, is he a better overall basketball player than Lebron?
Is the better career than Lebron? And I should not
have taken the bab l whatever I did. I just
don't think you could have watched Game seven and that
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was your takeaway that Steph Curry is better than Lebron James.
Like what, just because Lebron lost a day, let's pile
on and let's kick him while he's down. Because Austin
Rees had the worst series of his life and Julius
Randall turned into Karl Malone, let's bash Lebron because of that.
I just that's that's the stuff that just you lose
me when you have these these takes like that, and
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I get it. You know, sometimes you want to come
out with a super hot take so that you can
cut through. I just watched this game and I was like, man,
you know, Buddy healed, turned back the clock, Buddy healed.
Thirty three. Warriors much better with the three guard attack,
and again POD's had a lot of good looks if
Pods makes his shots. He was four of twelve, probably
worn down from defending Sheng Goon a lot. Yes, that
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actually happened, and like Pods didn't make a shot. So
this is even worse. By the way Warriors bench three
points forty six minutes from Curry, he only missed two minutes.
Jimmy Butler forty five, dram On forty. Kurt went all in.
He didn't totally need to, but he obviously didn't want
to lose a game. Golden State advances to face Minnesota.
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Minnesota had the rest. I believe their last game was
on Tuesday or Wednesday, one of those days, but nevertheless,
game one Tuesday night in Minnesota. We had a weird
postseason in the West so far. The second seeded Rockets
lose the third seeded Lakers, lose. The Clips were up
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to one looking good, they lose. They were the fifth seed.
A lot of people had them beating Denver, and you know, frankly,
when they were up to one they lose that they
just didn't show up in game four, and then you
had the buzzer, theatrics on the Gordon tip in or
dunkin or whatever you want to call it. But it's
been a wacky postseason. I can already tell you one
of my takes will likely be when the thunder make
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the finals, because it's certainly looking that way. Well, they
had the easiest roadever. You take down the eighth seed,
you know, and then you gotta play Denver. I think
I saw Oklahoma Cities like minus eight hundred or something
minus seven hundred. I don't know. It's a Thunder and five.
And then they will face the Timberwolves who were the seven.
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I'm sorry, Timberwolves who were the six, or the Rock
or the Warriors who were the seven. So Oklahoma City
probably is gonna be in the finals end list. And
that was a bad take by me because I thought
the Lakers were gonna match up with them. I didn't
realize the Lakers did not match up with Minnesota, nor
did anyone else. So nevertheless, anyways, Warriors look good. I
haven't given too much thought to the Timberwolves series yet.
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I don't totally know what they plan on doing against
Anthony Edwards. The best player in the series will be
Steph Curry, the second best will be Aunt, the third
best will be Jimmy Butler. The question is what are
we gonna get from Randall? What are we gonna get
from with McDaniels, Because the Warriors' offense is not gonna
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have an easy way with the McDaniels Anthony Edwards defensive
matchups and I don't what do you put Draymond on
Julius Randall? Like, that's probably a smart move unless Randall's
splashing his threes, then you're pulling Draymond out of the paint.
Maybe you put Draymond on Rudy and making the help defender.
I don't know it's gonna be a great matchup. I would.
I'm leary to pick against Curry ever, because you know
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that's my guy, But I will say that I do
think the Timberwolves are gonna be tough to beat. There
a lot younger, But let's see what the let's see
what the supporting cast offers. I don't know, Like frankly, guys,
let's be real. Buddy Healed in games five and six
combined was two of ten, zero of six on threes.
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That's in games five and six combined. Warriors fans were
pissed when Buddy Heald was announced as a starter. They're like,
this guy stinks, he's streaky. He showed up in game
seven reminded me of the Grant Williams Game seven against
the Bucks where Grant Williams, I think, hit seven threes
in a stunning, stunning performance that catapulted the Celtics at
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home over the Bucks in a blowout. Before I get
to the Rockets, one more note, Steph Curry owns the
Houston Rockets, not Tilman, Furtata, Fertita, whatever his name is.
Steph Curry owns the Houston Rockets. In the Curry era.
The Warriors are five and zero in the playoffs against Houston.
Three of those closeouts have been in Houston. This one.
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There was twenty nineteen Game six where Curry went just ballistic.
I remember that game because I was at something on
a Friday and I had paused. I told my wife, Hey,
please pause the game at the very beginning. I want
to watch it in real time. I'll shut down social media.
I was loaded up on the Warriors as usual, and
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I was nervous as hell, and Steph Curry just absolutely
put on one of those clinics that he does. So
that was the second run. The third one was arguably
my favorite game in the last ten years. It was
the Curry Durant Warriors against James Harden and company and
Houston at home in Game seven, led by thirteen early
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in the third quarter, and if you want some fun,
go on YouTube and look up third quarter Warriors Rockets
twenty eighteen Game seven. Folks. It was. I mean, listen,
I was loaded up on Golden State in that game.
I had them winning the West. They were I think
five point favorites in that game. They were down eleven
and a half. The Rockets come out scored their Warriors
are down thirteen and again I had, you know, I
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was all in on Curry and Durant and I was,
you know, people were coming after me because I was
so gung ho about the Warriors, and I will never
forget in I feel like it was. I don't remember
which game it was, but it was the game where
oh oh, it was the game. It was Game five, right,
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it was too too And I'll never forget. There was
this cool thing. I forget the name of it, but
it was basically, they will set you up with dinner
on the beach for like forty people and it's like
a pop up restaurant on the beach and it was awesome,
but I didn't know that the wife had signed up
for it. The night of Game five, cell service was
still good and I was watching the game. But as
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the dinner's winding down, me and my buddy who was there,
I was like, we listen, this game's close. I got
to get to a bar. So we run off the
beach to this bar and it's packed and it's a
close game late, and of course I'm kind of going
crazy for the Warriors. I had a few drinks in
me and there had to be some Rockets fans were
at the bar, and I didn't know these guys. I
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don't know if they had recognized me from a Selle
or anything, but they were instantly like kind of sort
of talking trash. And of course this was the game
where Houston pulled it out. Now you will remember Chris
Paul shimmied in Steph Curry's face after I don't remember.
I think it was Chris Paul had scored and Curry
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kind of laughed it off. But I mean, obviously Rockets
fans were going crazy. You're up three to two on
the Curry Durant Warriors. What what okay? And within the
next ninety seconds, Chris Paul pulls a hamstring and is
done for the series. And I will never I mean,
I remember those guys looking at you know that I
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don't know who they were, but they were kind of
looking at me talking trash. Oh yeah, rocket Baby, Curry's
not you know whatever it was. And I'm not gonna listen.
I'm not gonna get in a fight guys, not especially
over basketball. Give me a break. And I just remember
Chris Paul. I remember what I sent out. I think
it was that night. It was you know something about
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you know, the basketball gods. They do not like celebrating.
And I'll never forget the shimmy Chris Paul did in
Curry's face and within ninety seconds he pulled his hamstring
and was out for the series. I mean, it was
just memorable. And obviously the Warriors won that game, but
bottom line, Steph Curry owns the Houston Rockets. Good luck
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to the Warriors. Next.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
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Now, we'll quickly address the Houston Rockets, because anybody with
a pulse knows that over the last four months, a
lot of people have been calling the Rockets fools gold right,
they are a phenomenal regular season team, but they were
just a little early. They didn't have that closure in
the half court, but they had a lot of depth,
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and in the regular season you can wear guys down.
And Houston just looked really sharp for most of the
regular season. You went fifty two games, but nobody really
believed in them. So then they're down three to one,
and it's like, all right, fraudulent Rockets, how do we
get Yannis? How do we get Yannis? If not Yannis,
how do we get kd Right? And what happens? The
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Rockets win the next two games by going big with
Steven Adams and Shen Goon, and that worked for a
couple games and of course, then it didn't work in
game seven and you had Houston in, you know, and
this coaching is hard. Obviously in the NBA, coaching on
the fly is super hard. But when it worked for
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two games and then all of a sudden isn't working
in game seven at home, you kind of had to
quickly pivot, and it didn't felt like Udoka was ready
to pivot once you see Buddy Heal go off for
fourteen in the second quarter. Sorry, let's abandon the two bigs.
We got to do that, and the Houston didn't really
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have a CounterPunch. Fred Van Vliet is the only guy
with a lot of playoff experience there, and it showed
because they kept dumping it into shen Goon, whether it
was against Draymond or POD's. And I don't want to
Bashton Gun because I like him. He's a good player.
He just looks soft. Nine of twenty three. I mean,
go look at the highlights. I'm sure somebody out there
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will isolate all his shot attempts. I'm telling you a
lot of them were in close and he missed a bunch.
He did have twenty one, fourteen and five, and that
will look good. But he was minus twelve and he
just he just missed so many easy bunnies and looked frustrated.
Dylan Brooks, I don't know what his futures like with
the team just kind of non existent. How do you
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how at your size, Dylan Brooks? Are you playing thirty
six minutes of getting two rebounds?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Like?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
What's he doing out there? The one guy who looked awesome,
and I'm sure he's untradable. I don't know that I
would do him in any package for Jannis is Amen Thompson,
the young kid who's twenty I think he's twenty two.
He was phenomenal. He's twenty two years old, just turned
twenty two in January. He was outstanding nine of sixteen,
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made all six of his freet throws. He had twenty
four nine and three. Did look like he tweaked his
calf or something on one of his super athletic plays.
He is going forward, going to be a stud. If
you I know, there's a lot of ig smoke shows
in Houston, Okay, you can look them up. For one,
Jalen green Is has gotten one of them pregnant, But
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there's a lot. Houston has a lot of very attractive
women who are and I don't mean to be derogatory.
They are interested in pro athletes, and they can derow
careers because you are no longer focused on basketball. And
I get it. You're twenty two years old and playing
in the NBA playoffs and look at awesome. Yeah, hot
chicks want you. I'm Thompson. If he can just focus
on a get the shot doctor, get your agents to
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get you the best shooting coach there is. I don't
know if Chip England, what his charges, what his v's are,
that's the guy who fixed Kawhi Leonard in San Antonio.
But if I'm in Thompson can develop a reliable jumper,
that dude is going to be an All NBA player
in two years. He is really talented and skilled. Once
you can merge the athletic with the skill, Holy cal
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the sky's the limit. He was tremendous. And I don't
you know, the Yanna stuff is difficult. First of all,
I definitely would not give up I'm and Thompson in
any trade for kd. You would be renting Kevin Duran
for a year or two. I'm in Thompson's got a
decade of potentially awesome play. He's only twenty two. Fred
VanVleet good player. I think you probably want to keep
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him for some leadership. The good news is the Rockets
have a lot of ammo to get better. They got
two guys who barely played in this series, Reed Shepherd
and Cam Whitmore, who are young potential studs. Whitmore is
a kid out of Villanova who's only twenty. He didn't
really play a lot in the series. Yeah, garbage time
here and there, but this guy has had some moments.
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He had a thirty four point game against the Lakers,
like the second last game of the season. I don't
know if you guys saw it. He hit seven threes. Now,
maybe that was just some luck, but in scanning his season,
this guy shot thirty six percent from three. Again, if
you trade Jalen Green and Shangoon, I think you can
plug in, plug Whittmore in at a forward. Tari Eason,
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I like a lot. I know it's mom's a little mouthy.
I saw this stuff she was saying in the series.
Don't love that parents stand down, And I know I'm
one of them. I got to stand down myself. But
the bottom line is the Rockets have a lot of
young talent. I would be willing to part with Jalen Green,
Sheng Goon, Jabari Smith and a first. If the Bucks
don't like that, for Yanness, I would say, fine, shngon
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Jalen Green in two firsts for you, honest, I mean,
who's beating that offer? The problem is excuse me, though,
Bucks just don't have any leverage in this at all.
Even if Yannis says, hey, man, I want to stick
it out. Okay, great, Yannis, that's wonderful. How long is
that gonna last? What happens when they're thirty and thirty
seven and it's looking like no playoffs? You think Giannis
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is still gonna stand by that. The Bucks just have
to be smart and get the most they can. I
know people are down on Jalen Green this year. He
did have a thirty eight point game in game two. Okay,
so he's the potential is there? He is a bit
of a famous guy, you know, with the famous girlfriend,
and maybe that's just not a big deal. He had
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fifty five points in the other six games. Fifty five
divided by six is roughly nine points a game. That's
not gonna cut it.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
If you're the Bucks and you got a twenty two
year old Jalen Green, twenty two year old. Wait, maybe
he's not twenty two but a young Shen Goon. Oh,
I'm sorry, he's twenty two as well. Wait Green is
not damn it, Jay Green is twenty three. You got
a twenty two and a twenty three year old, you've
got them under contract. I would go after Jabari Smith
as well. Remember that guy was a top he was
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the third pick in the twenty twenty two draft. Like,
he's got some upside, went to Auburn. Nice player. You
get those three in a pick. You're still a playoff
team in the East. Guys, you are. Now if you're like, hey,
we would just want Shen Gooon in five picks. Fine,
not gonna be a playoff team and all those picks
are gonna be crap because Jannis and the Rockets are
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gonna be good. The twenty twenty two draft went Pawlo Ban,
Caro stud Chet, Holmgreden, really really good, Jabari Smith, eh
Keegan Murray has been very good for Sacramento. Jade and
Ivy on his second I'm sorry he's still under Yeah,
he's still on Detroit. He he's been up and down.
Ben Matherin is you know, coming off the bench, he's good,
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Shaden Sharp in Portland, Dyson Daniels a really good defender.
So there were some good players in that draft. Jabari
Smith hasn't lived up to expectation. If you said Jason
over under one and a half All Star Games for
Jabari Smith, I might take the under, like he's not
a bad player, but to go third overall, you got
to really deliver. And Houston they they haven't seen it
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from Jabari Smith. I mean, the guy got twelve minutes
in Game seven. I get it, you know, I understand
they have a pretty good team, but Houston has a
lot of put potential build around on men. Thompson. Okay,
get you honest. Now, if you're looking at KD, I
think KD could be had for much less. Jalen Green.
I would go Jalen Green Jabari Smith on our first?
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Is that too much to rent? Kevin Durant, I'm just
telling you Read Shepherd and Cam Whitmore. I don't know
if they'll be starting. They will come off the bench
next year and be able to contribute, and probably in
two years one of those two guys will be starting
read Sheppard might take over for Fred van Vliet, whatever
his contract is.
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listen live. Not great Game seventh. I'm not even going
to talk about the Nuggets rolling over the Clippers. That
was just disgusting.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Jim Harden, I'm sorry, James, with another milk carton Game
seven when it matters most, it's typical. Let me quickly
check the sched for tonight.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
It is.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
The Oh boy, here we go. Oh wait, wait, I
forgot to talk about Pacers Calves, guys. Damn it. I
was so focused on the game sevens I forgot to
talk about Pacers Calves. Pacers win in Cleveland by nine.
I'm on an island here. I picked the Pacers on
the herd. You guys laughed. I picked up on this show.
You guys laughed. I know Darius Garland didn't play, but
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I don't want to hear it that. Hey, we didn't
have Garland, that's why we lost. No, this is a
tough matchup for the Calves. I know that Alan and
Mobley have been great defensively. Together, they combined for zero
blocks in game one zero. Indiana had nine, Haliburton had three.
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Halliburton is such a stud guys. Twenty two thirteen, one
turnover in thirty six minutes. But it's not just him.
I've been saying, I've been hyping this Pacers bench, folks.
Ben Matherin, the kid out Arizona, who I thought, well,
I would have maybe taken with the number one overall
pick a few years ago, actually couple of years ago.
I love Matherin's game. He went let's see here, I
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think he went sixth overall. Yeah, he went sixth overall
in twenty two. He's good man. He had eleven points,
a pretty awesome block. He was solid coming off the bench.
TJ McConnell obviously delivers obi topping with solid. This is
a really freaking good Pacers team. Guys. Andrew Nemhart, the
kid out of Gonzaga, just is a bucket getter. How
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about this thirty seven minutes, twenty three points, six assists,
zero turnovers. All this hype about the Cavs big rim protectors,
but their perimeter defense is crap. Now. The one obviously
Aaron smit deserves some credit. He was great from three.
I mean, listen, when you hit nineteen of thirty six
from three, you're gonna win on the road. Now, Cleveland
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has some stuff they got to figure out. They have
an issue at small forward that this has been their bugaboo.
DeAndre Hunter was supposed to be the guy. He came
off the bench and look good. I don't know why
he's not starting. They started Max Struce and Sam Merrill.
Sam Merril won me plenty of money over the years
betting college basketball. He was with the big kid Nemus
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Cada or something like Cata, I believe, and they teamed
up at Utah State to be good. Sam Merril is
a solid NBA player. He's a rotational guy. I don't
think you can start him, and I like the guy,
But a starting duo of Max Struce and Sam Merril, like,
that's almost disrespecting the Pacers because if you look at
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the ten starters, those were starters ranked nine to ten
in this matchup. Now, Donovan Mitchell had a rough game,
No Garland. They did a good job defending him. He
took thirty shots. This is what I did not like
about the Cavs. Donovan Mitchell took thirty shots. He was
one of eleven on threes, scored thirty three, but he
was a minus nineteen. Ty Jerome, Yes, Virginia's finest, played
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twenty nine minutes. I'd score twenty one points, put on
twenty shots, and in the fourth quarter they were picking
on them. Listen, I like Ti Jerome. I think he's
a he can get buckets. He is also on He's
been in the league one, two, three, four or five years.
This is his one two three fourth team. He cannot
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be playing twenty nine minutes in a playoff game and
taking twenty shots. He was getting abused defensively, and I'm
just listen, I like Ti Jerome. You give me fifteen
minutes of Ti Jerome, I can handle it. You give
me ten minutes even better, Twenty nine minutes not gonna work.
So now suddenly this Garland thing looks dicey, like, guys,
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we need him back. I still think Cleveland's gonna be okay,
but I definitely think this Pacers team is spicy and
coward calls and he's like, oh, Halliburton so good. I'm like, yeah,
I agree. Oh, by the way, and I tell him
this if I'm Luca and Lebron. The second the Pacers
are eliminated from the playoffs, I put Luca and Ron
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full court pressure on Miles Turner. Hey, bro, we love
your game. Pick and pop three guy, rim protector, tough, big,
He's a quirky dude, and I kind of like that
as opposed to like some strange guy who maybe isn't
gonna blend in like Miles Turner. By all accounts, I
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think he collects legos and does He's just you know,
he's not Dwight Howard. I'm acting like a kid. But man,
I like Miles Turner's game, but they're gonna have to
convince him. Hey man, you know the uh you just
pick it Sacramento. They got off some bonus. They can
offer you more money. You could say, like, oh, the
Toronto Raptors are gonna throw the bag at you, bro,
come compete with the championship for us. Don't go to
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the Washington Wizards or you know, uh Utah Jazz missed
out a couper flag they want. Don't know. Okay, the
Jazz have Walker Kesler. They're not doing it, but you know,
whoever calls you, don't do it. Miles go to Lebron
and Luca you want to win, go there, and I
like his game a lot. I think the Pacers win
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this series. Okay, now to tonight's games. You get the
appetizer is I think it's, oh yeah, here we go
Nicks Celtics in what should be hopefully a good game.
It looks like, oh my gosh, the Celtics are nine
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and a half point favorites. Holy hell, how do you
bet that? You go Knicks first quarter? Do you go Knicks?
Full game? You take ball? I don't know. I gotta
let this merit in a little longer, but my inclination
is the Knicks, who played more recently, will be more
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fresh and tuned in. I can see the Celtics starting fold.
Celtics have dominated this team. Everybody's calling it a win.
Everybody's saying, hey man, Nick didn't bet him in the
regular season, They're not doing it the playoffs. I think
the Knicks come out with a renewed sense of purpose.
They're fired up, and I would not be shocked if
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they won the first quarter, full game series, Yeah, I
don't know. In the nightcap, you get the exhausted Nuggets
going to OKC now that's a game. I will be
on OKC amunus nine and a half. If you want
to bet the Nuggets at all, probably first quarter simply
because it's a high off winning Game seven, and maybe
the Nugget the Thunder come out rusty. But you know,
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this is an OKAC team that blows some folks out,
and I would be floored if they blew Game one outright.
They don't have any injuries his issues like the Calves.
So my leans tonight are Thunder nine and a half.
Celtics first quarter. I don't see a line yet at
my shot, but I will. I will look Celtics first
quarter and then remember they came out great against the Pistons,
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and that's my hope that the Knicks come out with
some fire and do some major damage. So it was
a big NBA week. I could not tell you what
happened in the Kentucky Derby. I did see in my
timeline there were some NHL Game seven. Sorry, guys, you
know I don't have the bandwidth for that big week ahead. Oh,
I was notified Rob Gee's return triumphant return is tomorrow,
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so you know, I'm assuming he was with his little kids,
and I mean, the wife probably went to Disneyland a
dozen times and you know it really lived it up
with five weeks vacation. By the way, I will be
lobbying for five weeks vacation in my next contract should
I get one from MS one. We'll see who knows anyways. Uh,
that's it. We're back tomorrow. Enjoy the games tonight.
This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up straight Fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre.
Straight Fire for Monday, May the fifth. Hope everybody had
a splendid weekend. Mine was not spectacular but really really
good because mostly I was able to sleep in. I
did not have any youth sports that I had to
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shuttle my kids around to, got to play volleyball dads
and young daughters who they're all on the same team.
And Sunday I slept in for the first time in
I don't know at least a month, which was super nice. Folks,
sleeping in when you get to my age, feel so good.
Oh my goodness. However, of course, if I got the opportunity,
hey do you want to wake up and play hoops
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or do you want to just sleep in, I'm like,
let me go to bed early so I could wake
up and play some hoops. Anyways, it was a fantabulous weekend,
if that's even a word. Only drawback was there just
wasn't a lot of great sports on You had two
game sevens, right, you had Saturday paper Clips and Nuggets
and that was an absolute tire fire. The second half
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was unwatchable. The Clippers fall down thirty five, Nuggets win.
Then you had Warriors Rockets Game seven on Sunday, and
I was very excited for this. I had my first
Men's League game that I've played in in I think
seven weeks. I've done some pickup, but we were playing
a team that we knew we were gonna smash, and
I was all confident that I was gonna light it up.
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And let's just say, your boy did not have a
great game. We only had five guys. Okay, we scored
one hundred and six points. We waxed this team and
four guys scored one hundred and six points. It was
that bad. Listen, first game back, the cardio was okay,
but the shot clearly was not. Not my greatest efforts.
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I get home and now, thanks to like what do
you call it, you can watch games on your phone.
I'm able to prop up my phone and watch basketball
while I'm quickly showering after a mensley game, so I
don't miss any of the action. And I'm like, oh,
this is a good game. You know, first quarters tight,
everything's good. And pretty clearly the Warriors realized, oh, you know,
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we can't match them big for big let's go small ball,
and that means Buddy Heald got the start, Buddy Healed,
Steph Curry and pods in the back court. And wouldn't
you know it, but Buddy Heald had the game of
his life, his NBA life, that is, Buddy Healed with
thirty three points. Yes, this was known as the Buddy
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Healed game. But it gets better. Buddy Heal, folks, was
twelve of fifteen. What nine of eleven from three, Yes,
that's correct, nine of eleven from three for Buddy Healed
drops a thirty three burger and the small ball Warriors
Ultra small extinguished the Rockets by fourteen. It wasn't really
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close in the second half, although Houston cutag to three.
We'll get to Houston shortly. We got to give Golden
State their props, folks. This was an impressive victory when
you realize Steph Curry had zero points for like the
first I don't know, seventeen eighteen minutes. Curry ended up
with twenty two, ten and seven. A magnificent performance. It
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was such a good performance that you had this guy
San Francisco Bay Area. I had to look, I've seen
the name before. This gentleman named Grant Kohne. His takeaway
from the Buddy Healed game is like one of these
in Sandi Area hot takes that like, listen, it's tough
to cut through when you have Game seven. Everybody's got
their takes, and like, how do you cut through? Will
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you say something like Stephan Curry is better than Lebron
James And like an idiot, I took the bait. I'm
like that sounds like you're talking middle school with someone else. Hey,
this guy's better than the sky, Like that's just dumb.
I mean, is he a better overall basketball player than Lebron?
Is the better career than Lebron? And I should not
have taken the bab l whatever I did. I just
don't think you could have watched Game seven and that
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was your takeaway that Steph Curry is better than Lebron James.
Like what, just because Lebron lost a day, let's pile
on and let's kick him while he's down. Because Austin
Rees had the worst series of his life and Julius
Randall turned into Karl Malone, let's bash Lebron because of that.
I just that's that's the stuff that just you lose
me when you have these these takes like that, and
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I get it. You know, sometimes you want to come
out with a super hot take so that you can
cut through. I just watched this game and I was like, man,
you know, Buddy healed, turned back the clock, Buddy healed.
Thirty three. Warriors much better with the three guard attack,
and again POD's had a lot of good looks if
Pods makes his shots. He was four of twelve, probably
worn down from defending Sheng Goon a lot. Yes, that
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actually happened, and like Pods didn't make a shot. So
this is even worse. By the way Warriors bench three
points forty six minutes from Curry, he only missed two minutes.
Jimmy Butler forty five, dram On forty. Kurt went all in.
He didn't totally need to, but he obviously didn't want
to lose a game. Golden State advances to face Minnesota.
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Minnesota had the rest. I believe their last game was
on Tuesday or Wednesday, one of those days, but nevertheless,
game one Tuesday night in Minnesota. We had a weird
postseason in the West so far. The second seeded Rockets
lose the third seeded Lakers, lose. The Clips were up
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to one looking good, they lose. They were the fifth seed.
A lot of people had them beating Denver, and you know, frankly,
when they were up to one they lose that they
just didn't show up in game four, and then you
had the buzzer, theatrics on the Gordon tip in or
dunkin or whatever you want to call it. But it's
been a wacky postseason. I can already tell you one
of my takes will likely be when the thunder make
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the finals, because it's certainly looking that way. Well, they
had the easiest roadever. You take down the eighth seed,
you know, and then you gotta play Denver. I think
I saw Oklahoma Cities like minus eight hundred or something
minus seven hundred. I don't know. It's a Thunder and five.
And then they will face the Timberwolves who were the seven.
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I'm sorry, Timberwolves who were the six, or the Rock
or the Warriors who were the seven. So Oklahoma City
probably is gonna be in the finals end list. And
that was a bad take by me because I thought
the Lakers were gonna match up with them. I didn't
realize the Lakers did not match up with Minnesota, nor
did anyone else. So nevertheless, anyways, Warriors look good. I
haven't given too much thought to the Timberwolves series yet.
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I don't totally know what they plan on doing against
Anthony Edwards. The best player in the series will be
Steph Curry, the second best will be Aunt, the third
best will be Jimmy Butler. The question is what are
we gonna get from Randall? What are we gonna get
from with McDaniels, Because the Warriors' offense is not gonna
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have an easy way with the McDaniels Anthony Edwards defensive
matchups and I don't what do you put Draymond on
Julius Randall? Like, that's probably a smart move unless Randall's
splashing his threes, then you're pulling Draymond out of the paint.
Maybe you put Draymond on Rudy and making the help defender.
I don't know it's gonna be a great matchup. I would.
I'm leary to pick against Curry ever, because you know
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that's my guy, But I will say that I do
think the Timberwolves are gonna be tough to beat. There
a lot younger, But let's see what the let's see
what the supporting cast offers. I don't know, Like frankly, guys,
let's be real. Buddy Healed in games five and six
combined was two of ten, zero of six on threes.
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That's in games five and six combined. Warriors fans were
pissed when Buddy Heald was announced as a starter. They're like,
this guy stinks, he's streaky. He showed up in game
seven reminded me of the Grant Williams Game seven against
the Bucks where Grant Williams, I think, hit seven threes
in a stunning, stunning performance that catapulted the Celtics at
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home over the Bucks in a blowout. Before I get
to the Rockets, one more note, Steph Curry owns the
Houston Rockets, not Tilman, Furtata, Fertita, whatever his name is.
Steph Curry owns the Houston Rockets. In the Curry era.
The Warriors are five and zero in the playoffs against Houston.
Three of those closeouts have been in Houston. This one.
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There was twenty nineteen Game six where Curry went just ballistic.
I remember that game because I was at something on
a Friday and I had paused. I told my wife, Hey,
please pause the game at the very beginning. I want
to watch it in real time. I'll shut down social media.
I was loaded up on the Warriors as usual, and
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I was nervous as hell, and Steph Curry just absolutely
put on one of those clinics that he does. So
that was the second run. The third one was arguably
my favorite game in the last ten years. It was
the Curry Durant Warriors against James Harden and company and
Houston at home in Game seven, led by thirteen early
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in the third quarter, and if you want some fun,
go on YouTube and look up third quarter Warriors Rockets
twenty eighteen Game seven. Folks. It was. I mean, listen,
I was loaded up on Golden State in that game.
I had them winning the West. They were I think
five point favorites in that game. They were down eleven
and a half. The Rockets come out scored their Warriors
are down thirteen and again I had, you know, I
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was all in on Curry and Durant and I was,
you know, people were coming after me because I was
so gung ho about the Warriors, and I will never
forget in I feel like it was. I don't remember
which game it was, but it was the game where
oh oh, it was the game. It was Game five, right,
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it was too too And I'll never forget. There was
this cool thing. I forget the name of it, but
it was basically, they will set you up with dinner
on the beach for like forty people and it's like
a pop up restaurant on the beach and it was awesome,
but I didn't know that the wife had signed up
for it. The night of Game five, cell service was
still good and I was watching the game. But as
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the dinner's winding down, me and my buddy who was there,
I was like, we listen, this game's close. I got
to get to a bar. So we run off the
beach to this bar and it's packed and it's a
close game late, and of course I'm kind of going
crazy for the Warriors. I had a few drinks in
me and there had to be some Rockets fans were
at the bar, and I didn't know these guys. I
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don't know if they had recognized me from a Selle
or anything, but they were instantly like kind of sort
of talking trash. And of course this was the game
where Houston pulled it out. Now you will remember Chris
Paul shimmied in Steph Curry's face after I don't remember.
I think it was Chris Paul had scored and Curry
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kind of laughed it off. But I mean, obviously Rockets
fans were going crazy. You're up three to two on
the Curry Durant Warriors. What what okay? And within the
next ninety seconds, Chris Paul pulls a hamstring and is
done for the series. And I will never I mean,
I remember those guys looking at you know that I
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don't know who they were, but they were kind of
looking at me talking trash. Oh yeah, rocket Baby, Curry's
not you know whatever it was. And I'm not gonna listen.
I'm not gonna get in a fight guys, not especially
over basketball. Give me a break. And I just remember
Chris Paul. I remember what I sent out. I think
it was that night. It was you know something about
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you know, the basketball gods. They do not like celebrating.
And I'll never forget the shimmy Chris Paul did in
Curry's face and within ninety seconds he pulled his hamstring
and was out for the series. I mean, it was
just memorable. And obviously the Warriors won that game, but
bottom line, Steph Curry owns the Houston Rockets. Good luck
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to the Warriors. Next.
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Now, we'll quickly address the Houston Rockets, because anybody with
a pulse knows that over the last four months, a
lot of people have been calling the Rockets fools gold right,
they are a phenomenal regular season team, but they were
just a little early. They didn't have that closure in
the half court, but they had a lot of depth,
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and in the regular season you can wear guys down.
And Houston just looked really sharp for most of the
regular season. You went fifty two games, but nobody really
believed in them. So then they're down three to one,
and it's like, all right, fraudulent Rockets, how do we
get Yannis? How do we get Yannis? If not Yannis,
how do we get kd Right? And what happens? The
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Rockets win the next two games by going big with
Steven Adams and Shen Goon, and that worked for a
couple games and of course, then it didn't work in
game seven and you had Houston in, you know, and
this coaching is hard. Obviously in the NBA, coaching on
the fly is super hard. But when it worked for
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two games and then all of a sudden isn't working
in game seven at home, you kind of had to
quickly pivot, and it didn't felt like Udoka was ready
to pivot once you see Buddy Heal go off for
fourteen in the second quarter. Sorry, let's abandon the two bigs.
We got to do that, and the Houston didn't really
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have a CounterPunch. Fred Van Vliet is the only guy
with a lot of playoff experience there, and it showed
because they kept dumping it into shen Goon, whether it
was against Draymond or POD's. And I don't want to
Bashton Gun because I like him. He's a good player.
He just looks soft. Nine of twenty three. I mean,
go look at the highlights. I'm sure somebody out there
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will isolate all his shot attempts. I'm telling you a
lot of them were in close and he missed a bunch.
He did have twenty one, fourteen and five, and that
will look good. But he was minus twelve and he
just he just missed so many easy bunnies and looked frustrated.
Dylan Brooks, I don't know what his futures like with
the team just kind of non existent. How do you
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how at your size, Dylan Brooks? Are you playing thirty
six minutes of getting two rebounds?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Like?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
What's he doing out there? The one guy who looked awesome,
and I'm sure he's untradable. I don't know that I
would do him in any package for Jannis is Amen Thompson,
the young kid who's twenty I think he's twenty two.
He was phenomenal. He's twenty two years old, just turned
twenty two in January. He was outstanding nine of sixteen,
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made all six of his freet throws. He had twenty
four nine and three. Did look like he tweaked his
calf or something on one of his super athletic plays.
He is going forward, going to be a stud. If
you I know, there's a lot of ig smoke shows
in Houston, Okay, you can look them up. For one,
Jalen green Is has gotten one of them pregnant, But
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there's a lot. Houston has a lot of very attractive
women who are and I don't mean to be derogatory.
They are interested in pro athletes, and they can derow
careers because you are no longer focused on basketball. And
I get it. You're twenty two years old and playing
in the NBA playoffs and look at awesome. Yeah, hot
chicks want you. I'm Thompson. If he can just focus
on a get the shot doctor, get your agents to
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get you the best shooting coach there is. I don't
know if Chip England, what his charges, what his v's are,
that's the guy who fixed Kawhi Leonard in San Antonio.
But if I'm in Thompson can develop a reliable jumper,
that dude is going to be an All NBA player
in two years. He is really talented and skilled. Once
you can merge the athletic with the skill, Holy cal
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the sky's the limit. He was tremendous. And I don't
you know, the Yanna stuff is difficult. First of all,
I definitely would not give up I'm and Thompson in
any trade for kd. You would be renting Kevin Duran
for a year or two. I'm in Thompson's got a
decade of potentially awesome play. He's only twenty two. Fred
VanVleet good player. I think you probably want to keep
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him for some leadership. The good news is the Rockets
have a lot of ammo to get better. They got
two guys who barely played in this series, Reed Shepherd
and Cam Whitmore, who are young potential studs. Whitmore is
a kid out of Villanova who's only twenty. He didn't
really play a lot in the series. Yeah, garbage time
here and there, but this guy has had some moments.
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He had a thirty four point game against the Lakers,
like the second last game of the season. I don't
know if you guys saw it. He hit seven threes. Now,
maybe that was just some luck, but in scanning his season,
this guy shot thirty six percent from three. Again, if
you trade Jalen Green and Shangoon, I think you can
plug in, plug Whittmore in at a forward. Tari Eason,
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I like a lot. I know it's mom's a little mouthy.
I saw this stuff she was saying in the series.
Don't love that parents stand down, And I know I'm
one of them. I got to stand down myself. But
the bottom line is the Rockets have a lot of
young talent. I would be willing to part with Jalen Green,
Sheng Goon, Jabari Smith and a first. If the Bucks
don't like that, for Yanness, I would say, fine, shngon
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Jalen Green in two firsts for you, honest, I mean,
who's beating that offer? The problem is excuse me, though,
Bucks just don't have any leverage in this at all.
Even if Yannis says, hey, man, I want to stick
it out. Okay, great, Yannis, that's wonderful. How long is
that gonna last? What happens when they're thirty and thirty
seven and it's looking like no playoffs? You think Giannis
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is still gonna stand by that. The Bucks just have
to be smart and get the most they can. I
know people are down on Jalen Green this year. He
did have a thirty eight point game in game two. Okay,
so he's the potential is there? He is a bit
of a famous guy, you know, with the famous girlfriend,
and maybe that's just not a big deal. He had
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fifty five points in the other six games. Fifty five
divided by six is roughly nine points a game. That's
not gonna cut it.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
If you're the Bucks and you got a twenty two
year old Jalen Green, twenty two year old. Wait, maybe
he's not twenty two but a young Shen Goon. Oh,
I'm sorry, he's twenty two as well. Wait Green is
not damn it, Jay Green is twenty three. You got
a twenty two and a twenty three year old, you've
got them under contract. I would go after Jabari Smith
as well. Remember that guy was a top he was
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the third pick in the twenty twenty two draft. Like,
he's got some upside, went to Auburn. Nice player. You
get those three in a pick. You're still a playoff
team in the East. Guys, you are. Now if you're like, hey,
we would just want Shen Gooon in five picks. Fine,
not gonna be a playoff team and all those picks
are gonna be crap because Jannis and the Rockets are
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gonna be good. The twenty twenty two draft went Pawlo Ban,
Caro stud Chet, Holmgreden, really really good, Jabari Smith, eh
Keegan Murray has been very good for Sacramento. Jade and
Ivy on his second I'm sorry he's still under Yeah,
he's still on Detroit. He he's been up and down.
Ben Matherin is you know, coming off the bench, he's good,
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Shaden Sharp in Portland, Dyson Daniels a really good defender.
So there were some good players in that draft. Jabari
Smith hasn't lived up to expectation. If you said Jason
over under one and a half All Star Games for
Jabari Smith, I might take the under, like he's not
a bad player, but to go third overall, you got
to really deliver. And Houston they they haven't seen it
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from Jabari Smith. I mean, the guy got twelve minutes
in Game seven. I get it, you know, I understand
they have a pretty good team, but Houston has a
lot of put potential build around on men. Thompson. Okay,
get you honest. Now, if you're looking at KD, I
think KD could be had for much less. Jalen Green.
I would go Jalen Green Jabari Smith on our first?
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Is that too much to rent? Kevin Durant, I'm just
telling you Read Shepherd and Cam Whitmore. I don't know
if they'll be starting. They will come off the bench
next year and be able to contribute, and probably in
two years one of those two guys will be starting
read Sheppard might take over for Fred van Vliet, whatever
his contract is.
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listen live. Not great Game seventh. I'm not even going
to talk about the Nuggets rolling over the Clippers. That
was just disgusting.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Jim Harden, I'm sorry, James, with another milk carton Game
seven when it matters most, it's typical. Let me quickly
check the sched for tonight.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
It is.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
The Oh boy, here we go. Oh wait, wait, I
forgot to talk about Pacers Calves, guys. Damn it. I
was so focused on the game sevens I forgot to
talk about Pacers Calves. Pacers win in Cleveland by nine.
I'm on an island here. I picked the Pacers on
the herd. You guys laughed. I picked up on this show.
You guys laughed. I know Darius Garland didn't play, but
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I don't want to hear it that. Hey, we didn't
have Garland, that's why we lost. No, this is a
tough matchup for the Calves. I know that Alan and
Mobley have been great defensively. Together, they combined for zero
blocks in game one zero. Indiana had nine, Haliburton had three.
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Halliburton is such a stud guys. Twenty two thirteen, one
turnover in thirty six minutes. But it's not just him.
I've been saying, I've been hyping this Pacers bench, folks.
Ben Matherin, the kid out Arizona, who I thought, well,
I would have maybe taken with the number one overall
pick a few years ago, actually couple of years ago.
I love Matherin's game. He went let's see here, I
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think he went sixth overall. Yeah, he went sixth overall
in twenty two. He's good man. He had eleven points,
a pretty awesome block. He was solid coming off the bench.
TJ McConnell obviously delivers obi topping with solid. This is
a really freaking good Pacers team. Guys. Andrew Nemhart, the
kid out of Gonzaga, just is a bucket getter. How
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about this thirty seven minutes, twenty three points, six assists,
zero turnovers. All this hype about the Cavs big rim protectors,
but their perimeter defense is crap. Now. The one obviously
Aaron smit deserves some credit. He was great from three.
I mean, listen, when you hit nineteen of thirty six
from three, you're gonna win on the road. Now, Cleveland
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has some stuff they got to figure out. They have
an issue at small forward that this has been their bugaboo.
DeAndre Hunter was supposed to be the guy. He came
off the bench and look good. I don't know why
he's not starting. They started Max Struce and Sam Merrill.
Sam Merril won me plenty of money over the years
betting college basketball. He was with the big kid Nemus
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Cada or something like Cata, I believe, and they teamed
up at Utah State to be good. Sam Merril is
a solid NBA player. He's a rotational guy. I don't
think you can start him, and I like the guy,
But a starting duo of Max Struce and Sam Merril, like,
that's almost disrespecting the Pacers because if you look at
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the ten starters, those were starters ranked nine to ten
in this matchup. Now, Donovan Mitchell had a rough game,
No Garland. They did a good job defending him. He
took thirty shots. This is what I did not like
about the Cavs. Donovan Mitchell took thirty shots. He was
one of eleven on threes, scored thirty three, but he
was a minus nineteen. Ty Jerome, Yes, Virginia's finest, played
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twenty nine minutes. I'd score twenty one points, put on
twenty shots, and in the fourth quarter they were picking
on them. Listen, I like Ti Jerome. I think he's
a he can get buckets. He is also on He's
been in the league one, two, three, four or five years.
This is his one two three fourth team. He cannot
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be playing twenty nine minutes in a playoff game and
taking twenty shots. He was getting abused defensively, and I'm
just listen, I like Ti Jerome. You give me fifteen
minutes of Ti Jerome, I can handle it. You give
me ten minutes even better, Twenty nine minutes not gonna work.
So now suddenly this Garland thing looks dicey, like, guys,
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we need him back. I still think Cleveland's gonna be okay,
but I definitely think this Pacers team is spicy and
coward calls and he's like, oh, Halliburton so good. I'm like, yeah,
I agree. Oh, by the way, and I tell him
this if I'm Luca and Lebron. The second the Pacers
are eliminated from the playoffs, I put Luca and Ron
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full court pressure on Miles Turner. Hey, bro, we love
your game. Pick and pop three guy, rim protector, tough, big,
He's a quirky dude, and I kind of like that
as opposed to like some strange guy who maybe isn't
gonna blend in like Miles Turner. By all accounts, I
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think he collects legos and does He's just you know,
he's not Dwight Howard. I'm acting like a kid. But man,
I like Miles Turner's game, but they're gonna have to
convince him. Hey man, you know the uh you just
pick it Sacramento. They got off some bonus. They can
offer you more money. You could say, like, oh, the
Toronto Raptors are gonna throw the bag at you, bro,
come compete with the championship for us. Don't go to
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the Washington Wizards or you know, uh Utah Jazz missed
out a couper flag they want. Don't know. Okay, the
Jazz have Walker Kesler. They're not doing it, but you know,
whoever calls you, don't do it. Miles go to Lebron
and Luca you want to win, go there, and I
like his game a lot. I think the Pacers win
(26:03):
this series. Okay, now to tonight's games. You get the
appetizer is I think it's, oh yeah, here we go
Nicks Celtics in what should be hopefully a good game.
It looks like, oh my gosh, the Celtics are nine
(26:24):
and a half point favorites. Holy hell, how do you
bet that? You go Knicks first quarter? Do you go Knicks?
Full game? You take ball? I don't know. I gotta
let this merit in a little longer, but my inclination
is the Knicks, who played more recently, will be more
(26:46):
fresh and tuned in. I can see the Celtics starting fold.
Celtics have dominated this team. Everybody's calling it a win.
Everybody's saying, hey man, Nick didn't bet him in the
regular season, They're not doing it the playoffs. I think
the Knicks come out with a renewed sense of purpose.
They're fired up, and I would not be shocked if
(27:07):
they won the first quarter, full game series, Yeah, I
don't know. In the nightcap, you get the exhausted Nuggets
going to OKC now that's a game. I will be
on OKC amunus nine and a half. If you want
to bet the Nuggets at all, probably first quarter simply
because it's a high off winning Game seven, and maybe
the Nugget the Thunder come out rusty. But you know,
(27:29):
this is an OKAC team that blows some folks out,
and I would be floored if they blew Game one outright.
They don't have any injuries his issues like the Calves.
So my leans tonight are Thunder nine and a half.
Celtics first quarter. I don't see a line yet at
my shot, but I will. I will look Celtics first
quarter and then remember they came out great against the Pistons,
(27:53):
and that's my hope that the Knicks come out with
some fire and do some major damage. So it was
a big NBA week. I could not tell you what
happened in the Kentucky Derby. I did see in my
timeline there were some NHL Game seven. Sorry, guys, you
know I don't have the bandwidth for that big week ahead. Oh,
I was notified Rob Gee's return triumphant return is tomorrow,
(28:16):
so you know, I'm assuming he was with his little kids,
and I mean, the wife probably went to Disneyland a
dozen times and you know it really lived it up
with five weeks vacation. By the way, I will be
lobbying for five weeks vacation in my next contract should
I get one from MS one. We'll see who knows anyways. Uh,
that's it. We're back tomorrow. Enjoy the games tonight.
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