March 9, 2023 • 44 mins
Jack and Producer Jabari were joined by NBA TV and TNT's sideline reporter Jared Greenberg on the latest episode. They discussed the blazing-hot Knicks, Mikal Bridges and other potential breakout candidates and the playoff races.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, well, well, we are back the NBA full steam.
The MVP debate is heating up as teams continue to
jostle for playoff position. Basketball is back in New York City.
The Knicks are officially the hottest team in the league.
We have a new team atop the Eastern Conference. I'm
not going to tell you which one it is. It's
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a it's a cliffhanger, the tease, as we call that.
There's some movement throughout the Western Conference. Jabari keptain nice
and vague. We're not gonna say if it's the Lakers necessarily,
but we'll get into it all plenty more with NBA
TV and TNT sideline reporter Jared Greenberg on today's podcast,
I'm Jack O'Brien and I'm Jabari in from Miles and
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this is my owns and Jack got mad boosties. Jared Greenberg,
NBA Analysts, sideline reporter, host of Crunch Time. The NBA's
version of Red Zone, which you can get on the
NBA app, then you need to put that on that
NBA TV as well, if they haven't already, because that
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gets me excited. I've been begging for an NBA version
of the Red Zone You can also catch him on
tonight's TNT Golden State Warriors Memphis Grizzly broadcast. It's Jared Greenberg. Jared,
welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me
fellas excited to talk with you. Yeah. So are you
still a Nets fan? Are you have? You had the
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fandom professionally drilled out of you? Yeah? I think so
you're at that point. I think we all root for
good games, but no overtime. That's the rule. That's right, right,
And I'm right down to the buzzer and as long
as it doesn't keep us up any later or at
work any later. But now, I mean I grew up
a New Jersey Nets fan, as I was telling you
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guys before we came on, back when they were you know,
I was like fighting off fans because the only other
people in the building with me were people coming to
watch MJ or Patrick Ewing and the Knicks or Shack
and the Magic Brain used to just eat it me
so much. But now, you know, being covering the NBA
for as long as I have, um man, it's kind
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of decentitized me a little bit. Yeah, you used to.
I remember going catching the bus out of that that
big bus station, which I've it's been so long since that.
The report authority Yeah to to go out to the
meadow lands back in the day, and man, that was
that was a trek like a grim ride. Sometimes they
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did not make it easy to go watch games at
the metal Lands. They're like, you want to watch the Nets,
what do you want to do that for? Well, we
are back to those days, perhaps because the Knicks are
hot nine in oh since the trade deadline. As of
this recording, Jalen Brunson and Julius Randall have been excellent
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and deadline edition Josh Hart looks just like the perfect
New York Nick right now. It's exciting. I was saying before,
I'm just had like I am still a Sixers fan,
but I have that internal I just I just want
to see good games. I want to see what's most
what makes the league most fun to watch, and having
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the Knicks be one of the best teams playing right
now is exciting. No, I agree, I mean it's you know,
I think that the Knicks fans kind of got fooled
and teased a little bit a couple of years ago
when they made the playoffs and then they got punted
out of the first round by the Hawks, and true
and what Trey Young did to him, but they seemed
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like a more complete team this year and Julius Randall,
it just feels more legitimate than it did a couple
of years ago. You know, I was, I was all
in on Julius a couple of years ago and then
felt like really let down last year when he had
as bad of a year as he did. And I
actually talked to him a couple of weeks ago about it. Remember,
I mean, he was like fighting with the fans, he
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was fighting with opponents, he was fighting with the referees.
It was real contentious. And he flat out told me that,
like he knew where his game was, he had to
get his head right and he took the opportunity to
do that, and he took some really cool steps to
do that this past summer. And now I think Jalen
Brunson has brought out the best of him. I think,
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you know, a lot of people, me included, didn't believe
that Jalen Brunson as good as we've seen him be
in Dallas. We didn't know that he was capable of
being like a franchise difference maker or could he be
the best player on a team that was really good.
And I think we, and I'm as guilty as anybody,
we didn't recognize the intangible factor of like how much
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of a leader he is and how polarizing he could
be in a locker room. And listen, I don't want
to take anything away from Julius Randall's hard work, but
I think if we're going to point to how Julius
Randall went from where he was last year to where
he is this year, a lot of credit has to
go to Jalen Brunson. Yeah. I had the narrative in
my head that Okay, the Knicks from two years ago
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were a flash in the pan tight or you know,
they were the aberration and like they're they're going back
to being borderline playing team. And then this past run,
it's starting to feel like, oh, maybe last season's kind
of off year was the aberration, and like this is
this is who Julius Randall is, This is who the
Knicks can be, especially now that they've added Brunson, because
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I think a lot of people were looking for them
to make the home run swing move in the off
season to get them into contention, and they seemed very
confident that Jalen Brunson was the was the guy to
get them to a place where they're now in the conversation,
they're now at a place where you're in Miami and
all of a sudden, let's go Nets or let's go
Knicks cheers or are ringing out. That was exciting, That
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was cool to say. I didn't I didn't know. I
didn't know the Nicks fans travel like that. Well, now, yeah, no,
they do, absolutely, But I also want to pump the
brakes a little bit too, Like I don't want to
pour water on this whole thing. But listen, it's a
great story, it's really cool. I give Jalen Brunson a
whole lot of props. I think what Julius Randall's been
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able to do, whether it's above the shoulders or below
the shoulders, whatever. And give Tom Thiboda a lot of
credit because he gets a lot of crap, so give
him a lot of credit. But I also think Nick
fans have an issue of like compartmentalizing things, right like
this this is good, now, this is good. But like
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I also wouldn't be surprised the Knicks lost in the
first round of the playoffs, like I don't. I think
we have to be careful about where where we have
these conversations because like anytime we talk about a team
in New York, it's like all or nothing, and we
have to recognize that, like it's really good. They're taking
a huge step in the right direction. They're building something,
but they are miles away from where the top echelon
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teams are in the Eastern Conference. Now to that point,
is it a matter of simply in Jack and I
were discussing this before, you know, before the show. You know,
we haven't seen Julius Randall and Jalen Brentson do it together,
Like is it a is it a we don't believe
you can need more people situation or is it you know, situational?
You know, you just don't like how they how they
would match up against some of the other teams. Sorry,
I'm just deleting the four paragraphs I had about how
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the Knicks are the new championship favorite. Give me one second,
but you can go ahead and answer to body, But
um no, I think number one and I think this
is fair. Like Julius Randall for all of his success
this year, and the guy may make another All NBA
team like like he did a couple of years ago.
But he's got to prove that what he what he
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does is winning basketball in the playoffs. And clearly what
we saw was it's awfully predictable in the playoffs. The
last time we saw him there, a team like the
Hawks were able to take him to school and embarrass them,
literally embarrass them. So for me, it's it's number one,
can Julius become less predictable once the playoffs roll around?
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And two? Who else is there? Like what's amazing about
the knicks success this year? If you would have told
me that the Knicks were going to be where they
are now at the beginning of the season, I would
have told you that that RJ. Barrett is in the
most improved player, conversation, that RJ Barrett is this, this
and that, and he's not. And they're getting performances from
guys like Quentin Grimes on the defensive end, Emmanuel Quickly,
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you know, occasionally going off like he did the other night,
Mitchell Robinson defensively what he's able to do. But but
where is that other offense coming from? In a playoff
series where teams have forty eight hours between games to
get ready for you. And we saw the last time
that the Knicks and listen, they're they're a different team now.
So I don't want to say, but I'm just not
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ready to put them in a place that's beyond where
they are right now, because we don't know come playoff time,
how Julius Randall, RJ. Barrett and any of these other
supporting cast players are gonna react. I think it's if
we're being honest, Knicks fans are much like Lakers fans,
and I'll raise my hand. It's all or nothing, man.
It's either worn't win a title or it's the worst
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thing in the world or you know the sky as
so I get, yeah, I mean the thing that makes
them dangerous to me, like I'm having just like based
on cognitive biases, I'm having a hard time taking them
and the Kings seriously, uh for the postseason And with
the Kings, I get, I can look at the fact
that they don't really defend that well, right, Like they
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aren't a great defensive Yeah, they're They're a bad defensive team,
and um that usually doesn't play very well in the
in the playoffs. The Knicks defend like I mean, that's
that is the one thing you're always going to get
with the Thibadeau team, and that does make them a
little scarier to me. I don't want to see them
in a like my my brain doesn't want to see
them in a in a playoff series, but my like
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gut is still stuck in like yeah, but there's still
the Knicks, like sixers take them out. But the Julius
ran the game winner against Miami was one of the
worst looking game winners, like not not the shot itself,
but just the play double fading to the right, having
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just lost it twice in a row. It was just
one of those shots that never goes in and then
and then it went in. Blunts, it tied up, finds
Randle froze it low, Ramble gets it back eight seconds
to go. Randle on the drive stripped by Bula Raddo
gets it back, the Krabo puts up a three down,
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the three puts up touts on a second, the fading
all right, and then quickly Emmanuel quickly put up thirty
eight eight seven double overtime win over the Celtics. Very
Street reminds me a little bit of Maxie Uh And
they were you know, played together in Kentucky, hit out
in Kentucky. Uh, and then and then you know got
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drafted too late. But has there been a player with
a better name game match than Emmanuel Quickly? Well, Daron
Fox is pretty good too, right, Yeah, it's good. Yeah, clever, fast, Yeah,
just knows for the Yeah, that's a good one. Really,
I'm surprised by I hadn't really thought about that. Yeah's
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a good one, Jack. Yeah. Rarely, they rarely match up
so well. And finally, we just got this tweet from
Tommy Beer on the last week for the Knicks, and
this is a good question. So the tweet Monday, Tatum
rage quits and blowout win over Celtics Wednesday brunts him
with thirty points in first half and brutal beat down
to Brooklyn Friday, the double Bang game winner by Randall
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to beat Miami Sunday, IQ scores forty eight and double
ot thriller in Boston. By the way, you don't have
to give him a new nickname. His last name is
Quickly and he's quick so we can just stick with that.
You don't need to call him Ike. You that's that's
a good nick That's a good nickname too if his
wasn't quickly uh, And then the end of the tweet,
best week for Nicks since question marks gotta be like
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that mellow year, the mellow year and even then, like
I don't know if they had a run like that.
This is a part of being an NBA fan, Like
as a Sixers fan, we haven't had a lot of
fun in the in the postseason over the past decade
or two decades or so, but like when your team
is on a run in the regular season, like playing
meaningful games and putting putting up big wins like that
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and everybody's getting excited. That is about as fun as
any experience as an NBA fan, I feel like, because
you you don't have the in the playoffs, there's almost
always unless your team actually wins it, there's always the
reality of fate closing in to make make those memories sour.
But with with something like that, like the Sixers had
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that time during Ben Simmons's rookie year where like Embiid
went down with an injury, like and Ben, come on,
man broke his face and then Simmons took over and
he was a rookie and like the sky was still
the one who was like all might and they won like,
you know, sixteen in a row or something heading into
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the playoffs. That was about as as much fun as
I've had as a as an NBA fan. So I
don't know. All right, let's talk about michal Bridges, which
since he's been traded to the Nets, he's already had
more thirty point games in eight games with the Nets
than he did in three hundred and sixty five games
with the Suns. Three with the Nets and one with
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the Suns. I think that's right. Yeah, And we just
we sometimes see players on a new team. I mean,
I'm not gonna say he's he's James Harden, but it
was like when Harden was suddenly with Houston the focal
point of the offense and you saw like, oh wow,
this is this is way better than what we were
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like kind of banking for him for this team. What
do we think mcaal Bridge's ceiling is. Well, I think
on a team that is not expected to win a championship,
I think he could be a leading scorer and turn
into a guy that you know, we should have already
put in the conversation for one of the top two
way players in the league. We know how a lockdown
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he could be defensively, although it'll be interesting to see
because you know, the Nets defense has been atrocious since
since these guys came over. And the crazy part about
it is, I was with the Nets the day of
the trade deadline when they you know, got rid of
Kyrie and and and I'm sorry when they got rid
of Durant, and I was talking to a bunch of
people and the one hope was like, especially with jack
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lon being the head coach, this team really fit Jack
Laon because you had so many defensive minded players like
you were, You're starting five, and this didn't even include
Ben Simmons because you know, you didn't know where he
fitted in. But if if you include Ben Simmons, like
guys like Michail Bridges, Dorian Finney, Smith, Nick Klackton, even
Spencer Dinwoodie to to a certain extent, these guys have
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a focus of defense. Ben Simmons obviously right, So they should,
if nothing else, just be a really good defensive team.
And they are not either. And I think it speaks
to the point of just how elite the offense is
the NBA right now. Maybe that's more than anything else,
But the way I would think the Nets are envisioning
it is that one day Mikhail Bridges is like their
second offensive option but still their best defensive player. I
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don't know, And you know, we saw this with Kawai
for a little bit, a little bit in San Antonio
before we got hurt a little bit in Toronto, but
they kind of backed off because of how they'd want
to put too much stress on them. Can you be
a team's number one offensive option asked to score, you know,
somewhere between twenty four and twenty eight points a game
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and also be a lockdown defender on every possession? Like,
think about it. I mean, even the great defenders like Kawai,
and be honest, the guys who are great offensive players
and are all billy Is good defensively don't often for
for forty minutes get asked to take on that responsibility,
at least in the regular season. Yeah, is there an
ideal type of player or even specific player to pair
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him with moving forward? Is it a defensive big like
you said, if he can you know, kind of slide
into the second slot from a scoring perspective, you know,
is it a scoring point guard? What is the most idea.
It's a guy who runs the show like Ben Simmons,
you know, who can just like rip off twenty games
in a row. Dude, I don't know. It's obviously Ben
Simmons's hurt right now, and I you know, I don't
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want to take any shots at him with him being hurt,
but like it's weird what's gone on with him in
the nets, Like there's a lot of stuff behind the
scenes that I don't think we know about, because like
the day the trade was made and Ben Simmons should
have been the starting point guard, they had him coming
off the bench at the back up five again, and
it's just it's it's weird. And you know, I worked
with stan Band Gundy that game. He made the point
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like if there's ever a time when the pressure's gone,
there's no kin, there's no kad. You know. Yes, this
organization still wants the playoff. They have no reason, no motivation,
no draft capital to miss the playoffs. But let's just
go and throw all of our chips at the center
of the table and see what we got. Like, now's
the time where we can play up temple basketball, like
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you were talking about that year in Philadelphia where Brett
Brown just said, let's run, Let's run every possession, Let's
take advantage of our speed and our athleticism. And then
as you're like, I know, Ben Simmons still going to
be our backup five. Yeah, So that that to me
was a little concerning. But yeah, I would think with Bridges,
like you know, every good team I think needs a
really good facilitator and a guy that is a great
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playmaker and a great decision maker. Yeah, in terms of
people who have shown us something this season and who
we feel like we might be seeing some things from
in the next couple of years. So now Mikhail Bridges
is on my radar, is like this, this dude could
be making a leap in the next couple of years. Haliburton,
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obviously any one else that you've seen something from this
year that you feel like you're you're buying stock and
in that person to be a superstar like Jabari I
think you were saying Aunt, Yeah, I feel I mean,
obviously Aunt's been fantastic this year once, you know, once
he was able to sit on in and get it going,
but it feels like there's still at least another level
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as he continues to develop. I'm just wondering, like, you know,
the bust out guys that you know that could be
coming over the next few years. Yeah, I think Anthony
Edwards is a great one. The one I'm leaning towards
is kind of like this Sacramento duo. Like we've known
that Sabonis is good, but we're like, yeah, he's camp
that good. Sure, but he's the reason why they're in
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third place in the West, right Like and and Daron
Fox has had a pretty darn impressive year as well. Yeah,
you know, yeah, another one that's gonna be interesting to
see in the playoffs here if he can stay healthy.
Is we always said, if Michael Porter Junior stays on
the court, you could be a great player. And when
he's been on the court this year, he's had a
really good year. I mean, Aaron Gordon's had his most
efficient here in the NBA. UM trying to think who
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else I'm I'm gonna have somebody in my mind here,
and then after the show I'm gonna be like, ah,
should he said that guy? Yeah? Yeah, hit us up.
All right, let's take a quick break, we'll come back.
We'll talk about some of the best performances. We finally
got to see the UH the Suns in their fullness,
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and it was pretty It's pretty intriguing. So we'll talk
about that when we come back and we're back, and
I'm just gonna say this was one of the most
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fun weeks of basketball. Like this past Sunday is run
of games was a blast. There was a game where
the Philadelphia seventy six Ers played the Milwaukee Bucks and
UH prevailed at snapped the sixteen game winning streak. I
think came from behind. I enjoyed it. It was a
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you know, a Grace and Allen game, which the fans
are always kind of clambering for anytime you can see
that guy go off. But I mean, seriously, put up
twenty in the third quarter. Brook Lopez Jannis looked great
and Be'd have thirty one. I think James Harden at
thirty eight. It's what is starting to like, give me
make me feel like, not not necessarily that the Sixers
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are getting it out of the second round, because I
feel like that's where they they're not allowed. Actually it's
the it's in the by laws of the franchise. Yeah
they're not they're not permitted to get out of the
second round. But they are for the first time since
I've been a Sixers fan, winning games at the end
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that they don't have any right to win. Like it
used to be a thing where they would give the
game away at the end and you'd go into any
fourth quarter where you were only up by ten points
being like, Oh, this isn't this isn't gonna be good.
And now they're closing really strong. They have some really
good clutch stats, so that that was fun to see.
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And then they had just a barn burner against the
Pacers where they won one forty seven, one forty three
and regulation and beat had forty two hardened dish out
twenty assists Haliburton forty and sixteen and the loss. But
it's the eleventh time MBIDA scored forty or more this season. Like,
just taking everything out of the MVP conversation, which I
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think is getting a little overheated. I'm just enjoying another
pretty phenomenal MBID season right now, Jered, let me ask
you this. I've been trying to convince Jack. Now. Jack
is a cautiously optimistic fan, and I respect and appreciate
that because completely pessimistic, I would say, Okay, you know what,
I didn't want to put that on you, but yes,
but I've been trying to convince him that this year
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they look different, and I'll whether it's his sixers, and
by different meaning like I don't have to squint as
hard to convince myself that they could make it beyond
the second round. Let me ask you a question then,
for people listening in their car or at work or
wherever in the gym Pumpings of Iron, why does Jack
have sunglasses on that that have like rosy colored like
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like why does he need to wear those sunglasses on
this podcast? Hey man? This is just a look that
keeps protecting his piece. Joel and Bad is playing liking
MVP where we were recalls to where you put him
in there? Right, If James Harden is playing at this level,
and then you have Tyree's Maxie playing at this level
and in vague get to bias Harris back, could you
see a path where they could make it? You'll make
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a deep run? Finally, yeah, I mean listen, but before
we even talk about the sixers, I mean, there are
holes in the two clear cut favorites in the conference, right,
Like Milwaukee's had their issues this year, although they don't
feel like they have very many of them right now,
and Boston clearly is going through something major right now.
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But I would say this like my my biggest thing
with the Sixers, and this is kind almost like my
conversation that I had with you about the Knicks, but
just the same but very different. Like James Harden missed
Tuesday night's game, right with it with an injury, and
Jack you you know better than me as a lifelong
die hard Sixer fan here, like every time things are important,
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there's a Joel embiad injury. There's a reason why he's out.
He's fractured his face in two different playoff runs. Yeah,
Like I don't know how that happens, and I'm not
criticizing him. I'm not saying anything but a big breakable face.
His face is that mister Glass quality that Yeah, but
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you know, the Sixers, this is a dumb statement. The
Sixers need and Bade right, they need hardened, and they
need hardened to be at his best and when it
comes to the playoffs, and Bead more times than not
has missed a game in a playoff series throughout his career,
James Harden has not shown up in playoff series regularly
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throughout his career. So like those things, you know, just
make me wonder. Now I'll say this, you know, sneaky,
some sneaky moves that Darryl Morriy made like this Jayla
McDaniels move. Wow, slid him into this starting lineup on
Monday night. That was impressive. I would say I am
giving the Sixers a sliver of hope because right now today,
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as we speak, I have some doubt in the Boston Celtics,
who I thought would be the clear cut favorite in
this conference. And while I'm feeling really good about the Bucks,
like they're not they're not the twenty sixteen Warriors. Yeah,
and even the twenty sixteen Warriors clearly found a way
to lose, So anybody's beatable. The issue though, is if
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the Celtics find their way, if Jason Tatum finds his
shooting stroke. First of all, he's got to get back
on the court herders need the other night, and he
can find a consistent shooting like this has been really
weird with Tatum, and I think this has gone undercovered,
is Jason Tatum's shooting slumps that he goes in and
out of this year. It's just really bad. But as
we stand today, like the Sixers will to face one
of those two teams in the second round of the playoffs. Yeah,
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that's the thing is like I'm frustrated that they don't
get to the Eastern Conference finals. That means you're one
of the final two teams in the East. Like that's
and the East is really good. That hasn't always been
the Yeah, that's true, but like that, it's a tough
year to be like, gotta get it out of the
second round. So I get like Eastern Conference finals are
bust because you know, Cleveland is tough. Even though I
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think I think the Sixers just match up pretty well
against better than most teams against the Bucks. But I
think they just if they if they face the Celtics
in a seven game series, it's it's over for them.
That's yeah. They just they can't beat the Celtics period.
All right. It is that time. Jabari Anthony M F.
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Davis uh second of his name, leads the Lakers to
victory over a Warrior's team. With Steph back in the mix,
the Lakers are six and three since the trade deadline.
Lens only played in three of those games, doing without
d low since February twenty third, but they're finding a
way to clawback still and very intrigued by this team.
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What say you, yeah? I mean the trade deadline made
a lot of sense for them, and for as much
as we've crapped down Rob Blinko over the years aka
Lebron the de facto GM, they did an amazing job
this year. Listen, I don't think I think some of
the players name like we do like this thing during
the trade Den Larner in the offseason when a team
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gets a guy and where like name recognition, all of
a sudden, we're polarizing, like we know this guy? Do
we know them? For good or bad or indifferent? Always good? Right?
The thing about this Laker team is these aren't like
all stars that came to the Lakers, although D'Angelo Russell
one time was an All Star, but they got guys
that make sense around Lebron and Anthony Games. And if
this injury to Lebron had happened without those trade deadline moves,
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the Lakers ship is sunk right, dead are part of
it too. It's like there's a reason, like why there's
all these teams fighting like nobody's very good, like Dallas
is not very good. The Clippers, yeah, they could be good. Like,
the Clippers could win a championship or miss the playoffs.
Who knows, Utah Utah not very good, Portland not very good,
Perlican not very good, the Thunder not very good. Right, Like,
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there's a reason why all these teams are in this
conversation for again, and let's remember, for as much as
Lebron moaned about the play in a couple of years ago,
if not for the play in saving Grace, right, but
the Lakers are out of this whole thing, and you know,
so listen, the Lakers have a very favorable schedule coming
down the stretch, I think until until they face Phoenix
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on March twenty second, I have that right, They don't
face another team that is well, I guess the Knicks
on Yeah, that became a tough game all the same,
all of a sudden, that's a tough game. But they
really they don't have teams, particularly on the road. They
don't have to face teams that are in contention here
until the end of March. So there's a path for
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the Lakers absolutely to get where they want to go.
They just need Anthony Davis or as you called him
another name. He needs to absolutely be a beast. He
needs to be a guy that is so good over
the final eighteen or so games this season that people
are saying, well, why wasn't he in the MVP conversation?
It's a it's a bad conversation to have, it's a
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it's an ignorant conversation. But there needs to be so
much recency bias in the play of Anthony Davis over
the last three weeks of this season that we are saying, Wow,
this guy's too good. Keep off the MVP belt. Yeah,
and they have they have to catch Utah is one
of the teams in front of them Portland and those
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are all teams with very difficult schedules coming down the
coming down the stretch. So I think they have a shot. Yeah,
And as your resident Anthony Davis fan, I will acknowledge
I agree, But we go game to game over here,
we're not even thinking about it in terms of like
the last three weeks. I can't even go weeks at
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a time game to game just be that guy. Well,
I mean, let's just face it here, Like I was told,
I don't know if you guys heard this report, I
did on T and T last week. I was told
by the coaching staff that not only was it expected,
but it was anticipated that Anthony Davis would play last
Tuesday at Memphis and then Wednesday in Oklahoma City. The
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coaching staff fully expected and anticipated that he would be
able to play, and he would play well. Paul of
a sudden game day comes second night of a back
to back, he's not playing. Lakers have back to back
coming up at New Orleans at Houston. Now listen, at
Houston should be a winnable game without Anthony Davis. But
you're not. There's a reason why you're battling for the
tenth spot in the West because you're not that good.
You need your best player to play. Yeah right. Then
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they've got another back to back at Utah at the Clippers.
He's got to play, yeah right, Like he got two
more back to acts. You can't afford to lose any
of these. If Anthony Davis is not playing these games,
then you know why you're going to miss the play
in right. I do my best not to be you know,
the sky is falling, guy, But I will say that
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over the next you know, over that three week period
that you just mentioned, if I'm the Lakers organization, and
this is obviously not based on any reporting, this is
just my opinion. But if I'm the Lakers organization and
this is you know, talking about a guy that one
of my favorite players in the league, I have to
look at him and say, well, can you do it?
Or can you not? Can we Can you be trusted?
Can you be leaned upon? Can you be expected to
give us twenty solid games? You know, like you down
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the stretch of a must win you know scenario, And
if you can't, then I have to, you know, we
have to at least consider what, you know, what this
roster looks like moving forward? Yep. And then finally, just
the mav Sons game was a blast, Luca Kyrie, k
D Booker, just a just fun back and forth game,
KD Dagger, Luca missed the bunny and then you know
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the double texts. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Wait like eight
to shoot back to Katie was six durand driving on
hardaway pull up Chopper Duran got it man Phoenix has
at two point late. I've never pulled for the Suns
in like a just a stray game that I'm why
I catch a stray game. It's just always been I
don't I don't really care. I'm usually like find myself
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like at a gut level, pulling for whoever they're playing against.
And now I'm I'm on the Sun's bandwagon because I'm
you know, kad Lebron. Those are my guys. They're like
generationally like some of my favorite players that have ever
watched And I didn't know if if I was gonna
be able to pull myself onto the bandwagon. I did it, though,
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I'm aboard. I'm excited, I feel great, feel awesome. What
do you guys think though? Did you learn anything? Yeah?
I mean has the chance to be freaking awesome in Phoenix? Um. Yeah,
I'm not just saying this, like I'm not saying this
like on behalf of the NBA because they don't pay
my check, but like, there's gotta be some integrity into
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the eighty two games of a season. And I just
find it very hard to believe even the best of
the best players can pull it together over fifteen games
and just go win a championship after that. It just
to me there's something is not a video game, right,
Has it ever happened? Has has a mid season trade
ever resulted in a championship Detroit right with Wallace, But
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I mean, but he also wasn't their first, second or
third offensive option, right, he was like, we already have
a very solid team, and all of a sudden, your
thrush sheet, right, you know, yeah, you throw a hungry
seat in the mix. Well, NBA action, it's fantastic. Let's
take a quick break. We'll be back for the fastest
segment in podcasting, Jared, I hope you're ready. I hope
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you did it like some next stretches, because these questions
are gonna be pinging past your head just at a
at a rapid rate. We'll be right back, and we're
back and to the Do we have theme music for
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the segment? We do start the clock kick kick on
the rapid Fire theme. Uh brought to you by John Williams. Um,
we did spend the entire annual budget of the show
on John Williams making a rapid Fire. It's not a
good match. I gotta say, I don't know why we
went with the guy who made the Star Wars theme
(33:32):
for something that's supposed to be like up tempo and
uh focused, But that's what we did. Jared, this is
where we're gonna be asking you questions. We don't want
you to even think about it. It's just your the
fastest first shut reaction. Uh. Jabari just made a sound
too that was supposed to be lasers. I guess it
was a lasers ish lasers and Jabari is going to
(33:55):
kick it off for us. Jabari take it away. All right,
let's just go. Let's cut them nonsense, Jared, Cut the nonsense. Jared,
first of all, cut the nonsense. All right, give me
a second, give me get serious here, all right? Through
your nonsense. Ready, I'm ready, Jared. You can go back
in time and be on the broadcast of any single
NBA game throughout history. Which game are you choosing? Game seven,
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twenty sixteen NBA Finals? Okay, game the block? You got
it all blocked a shot, come back? I love it.
And there there it was a rock fight there for
a little while. So you gotta fill that, you know,
it's what a game? Ye? Best NBA city based solely
on the food? New York. Oh okay, I always figure
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people who are going to say New Orleans here, but yes,
a matter you know? Okay, So okay, I got you,
all right? Jared, it's time for it. Let me get
your boldest play in or postseason prediction. My boldest postseason prediction. Yes,
the Golden State Warriors will make the Western Conference Finals.
Oh wow, Okay, the exact opposite of last week's the
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boldest postseason prediction. Who somebody said they won't even get
out of the plan Aaron, as he said, you said
they're gonna get knocked out, you know, first game into
play in. Okay, what do you think is gonna come
together for them? Well? I mean what what really needs
to come together? I mean they're they're like listen, I
know they have. Okay, here's a different question. What has
fallen apart for them that put them in this position
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where where where I'm surprised by you saying they'd be
in the Western Conference? Fine? I just think, like what what?
What stuns me about the Warriors? What's different about them
from last year winning a championship to this year is
these names, Gary Payton, the second Otto, Porter Namania, Beliza,
and a little bit more of Andrea Godal. Yeah, like
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to me, once the playoffs roll around, I get that
those three guys actually played pivotal role for the Warriors,
but Jonathan Cominge if you watched him the last couple
of weeks, bawling, Yeah, played, Thompson is actually putting together
two better months than he's ever had in his career,
like ever ever. And Steph Curry is just getting back. Yeah.
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I feel like, you know a lot of what I
think we're going to see in these West playoffs is
a lot of teams trying to find their identity once
it counts the most. And the Warriors know who they are, yeah, right,
Like Denver, Denver, for as much as they've been in
the postseason the last few years, like not with this
group playing at this level, with this expectation. Memphis, no,
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and who the heck knows if Memphis is going to
have their best player in the playoffs. Sacramento has never
been here, Phoenix as constitute has never been here. Is
Chris Paul gonna be healthy? What are they going to
get from their supporting cast? Minnesota has never been here?
Dallas never been here. We don't like their supporting cast
the Clippers. Is Kawhi going to take a game off
in the playoffs because he doesn't feel like playing? Like
There's a lot of questions about a lot of teams,
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and I get that the Warriors have left a lot
of doubt in people's minds. But when it comes down
to it, I am taking the five man unit of
Steph play Wiggins once he gets back, and he will
be back soon, Draymond with Looney and Jordan Poole coming
off the bench, Don David Pevencenzo coming off the bench.
I'm taking that seven man group against any seven man
group in the West. Wow. That's a really good point.
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And you know we're usually be a jokey in this segment,
but that's a great point in one that I probably
should have considered, you know, prior to now, you know,
shout out to former guests Ben Galliver. He you know,
he made the point that uh no he does, he
does numbers two but no, um. He pointed out that
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there hasn't been a repeat conference finalists over the last
four seasons and that would mean that obviously Golden State
would be the you know, the first to do so.
So yeah, started to slow down this segment. I just
got passionate there, No, no, that's perfect. Passion spills over sometimes. Yeah.
For whatever reason, this past week, the Nuggets have started
to make sense to me. As the team coming out
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of the West. Oh I'm still there. Don't get me wrong,
I'm I'm with you there, But like, have you ever
felt less good about saying that about a conference champion?
I have, like they for for some reason, Like I was,
I was out, Like I was at that place where
I was like, well, it can't be the Nuggets, right,
Like it's like they as good as they look in
the regular season, like we've seen them in the playoffs,
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and like it hasn't worked out, and like just something
about like there's been some articles about their metrics like
in the clutch being some of the best in the league,
and just they've just started to feel like this powerhouse
and they're also seven games out in front. Like there,
it's not even close. I mean, I guess that was
the case the Sons that at some points last season.
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But yeah, yeah, start they make sure the clock. Brian Um,
All right, if you could trade one player currently in
the NBA for the number one pick next year, so
Wemben Yama would you? And who would it be? Jesus?
So I would have to be the team getting you
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have the number one pick, let's say, But and you
can trade for a single player in the NBA right
now ready for this. Yeah, this is called a timely
take John Morant, Wow, I love all right, But the
fact that it's even a question is crazy just from
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a women or perspective, Like, No, nobody really, like I mean, yeah,
there's probably somebody, but you have to like think about
it pretty hard well because it's not just a misrey box.
We've seen, you know, and we can we can we
can see with our eyes, like man, that that could
be incredible, not just special, not just great, incredible. And
I'm not guaranteeing. I'm saying it could be he's shooting
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low thirties from three. I'm just saying I'm putting it
out there. I think you should. I think you should
slide to the six or something. All right, scoot, you're up.
All right, my turn. Let's keep it going. If you
could bet on any fan base to make the in
arena challenge shots, you know, the layup, free throw, three pointer,
half court, which fan base would you bet on. Well,
(40:00):
I'm not taking Boston or Philly because they've been getting
ready for the game too much before the game. Yeah,
I'm not taking Atlanta or Miami because they may not
be in the stands by halftime. Wow, Wow, shuts, I'm
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gonna go Indiana. There, it is like that, that's the one, right,
It's gotta be Indiana. They're so good that they only
give out fifty dollars in gift cards to somebody who
does lets all challenge your rules of quarters, get a
get a fifty dollars target shopping card. Uh yeah, all right.
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I have this persistent nightmare, like it's basically a reverse
like Mike, where I suddenly switch bodies with an NBA
player in the middle of the game and I have
my skills. Is there a player you would switch with?
What would you do if you suddenly you are in
Yokich's body in a big game? What do you do?
Do you fake injury? Do you try and let it rock? Like?
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What are you doing? I'd probably be like I would
take a zion and just try and like, you know,
I haven't. I don't even know if I could touch
the bottom of the net, let alone dunk, no, like
like just to play bullyball bringing around. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just hope that game, whatever game it is, he's
dressed and active, so I'm not sitting in the on
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the bench and three clothes, you know, just any game. Yeah, yeah,
all right, last question of the week. This is the
most important one, by the way, Jack or Jabari. Oh,
it's no question. It's Jabari. Oh, because anybody, anybody who
slides into my DMS, I'm all four. There we go. Yeah, yeah,
(41:43):
you've never slid into my my DM. I gotta be attentive.
I can't. I can't keep up with the seductive DM
sliding powers of Jabari. It's, by the way, I've always
But just for full disclosure and transparency, my wife is
can't hear you, guys, But here's me talking about somebody
sliding too my DMS and GSS right now, Sorry, missus Greenberg.
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It was me professional, I promise. Yeah. What about that picture?
Such a Jabari does send a picture when he first
reaches up people, he does send a picture. It was
a good picture. It's in Vagas by the pool. You know,
I figure it get people in the mood. It's fasting
their roses involved. Jared Greenberg, such a pleasure having you
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on the show. Where can people find you? See you?
All that good stuff? Well beyond TNT Thursday Night in
Memphis for a Big Warrior's Grizzlies game. Nice. Um. Then
all throughout the next couple of weeks, TNT is gonna
take some time off here for March Madness, and I'll
be on the NBA TV side of things doing a
Crunch Time which Jack is going to become your new
(42:45):
favorite show on the NBA app when we take you
to the biggest moments to the night as they happened
live at the NBA's only Whip Around show. When I'll
be doing some some NBA game time appearance as well
on NBA TV. Awesome, Well, thank you so much for
joining us. That's going to do it for us this week.
Quick shout outs to some listeners. We asked for your
MVP opinions and here were the results. Fifty three percent
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said Yokich or Joki, thirty six percent said Yannis, and
seven sorry what is it? Seven percent? Did you? Man?
I just I gotta say, if Embiid and Yokis would
just play one another in an important nationally televised game,
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then we would actually be able to see or if
Embiid went up against Jannis, was sixteen game winning streak
on the line, you know? Um? Anyways, great picks listeners
are Boosties Listeners of the Week at brock Denton said,
Yokich is great, but it's insane to me that he's
going to win three straight. Embad or Josh should have
won last year, and it's surprising to me that the
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voters aren't getting tired of giving it to him. Lebron
should have been MVP every year from O seven to fifteen,
but voters got tired of him. M Yeah, the MVP
conversation is the conversation about a narrative being told by
NBA writers. So at this point, whatever, but make sure
you give us a follow on Twitter at mad Boosties.
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That's m A D B O O S t i
E S. And that's going to do it for us
this week. Back next week with more NBA action, more
of these spicy piping hot takes, we'll talk to y'all.
Don have a great week everyone, Bye bye,
Well, well, well, we are back the NBA full steam.
The MVP debate is heating up as teams continue to
jostle for playoff position. Basketball is back in New York City.
The Knicks are officially the hottest team in the league.
We have a new team atop the Eastern Conference. I'm
not going to tell you which one it is. It's
(00:21):
a it's a cliffhanger, the tease, as we call that.
There's some movement throughout the Western Conference. Jabari keptain nice
and vague. We're not gonna say if it's the Lakers necessarily,
but we'll get into it all plenty more with NBA
TV and TNT sideline reporter Jared Greenberg on today's podcast,
I'm Jack O'Brien and I'm Jabari in from Miles and
(00:44):
this is my owns and Jack got mad boosties. Jared Greenberg,
NBA Analysts, sideline reporter, host of Crunch Time. The NBA's
version of Red Zone, which you can get on the
NBA app, then you need to put that on that
NBA TV as well, if they haven't already, because that
(01:04):
gets me excited. I've been begging for an NBA version
of the Red Zone You can also catch him on
tonight's TNT Golden State Warriors Memphis Grizzly broadcast. It's Jared Greenberg. Jared,
welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me
fellas excited to talk with you. Yeah. So are you
still a Nets fan? Are you have? You had the
(01:27):
fandom professionally drilled out of you? Yeah? I think so
you're at that point. I think we all root for
good games, but no overtime. That's the rule. That's right, right,
And I'm right down to the buzzer and as long
as it doesn't keep us up any later or at
work any later. But now, I mean I grew up
a New Jersey Nets fan, as I was telling you
(01:48):
guys before we came on, back when they were you know,
I was like fighting off fans because the only other
people in the building with me were people coming to
watch MJ or Patrick Ewing and the Knicks or Shack
and the Magic Brain used to just eat it me
so much. But now, you know, being covering the NBA
for as long as I have, um man, it's kind
(02:09):
of decentitized me a little bit. Yeah, you used to.
I remember going catching the bus out of that that
big bus station, which I've it's been so long since that.
The report authority Yeah to to go out to the
meadow lands back in the day, and man, that was
that was a trek like a grim ride. Sometimes they
(02:30):
did not make it easy to go watch games at
the metal Lands. They're like, you want to watch the Nets,
what do you want to do that for? Well, we
are back to those days, perhaps because the Knicks are
hot nine in oh since the trade deadline. As of
this recording, Jalen Brunson and Julius Randall have been excellent
(02:51):
and deadline edition Josh Hart looks just like the perfect
New York Nick right now. It's exciting. I was saying before,
I'm just had like I am still a Sixers fan,
but I have that internal I just I just want
to see good games. I want to see what's most
what makes the league most fun to watch, and having
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the Knicks be one of the best teams playing right
now is exciting. No, I agree, I mean it's you know,
I think that the Knicks fans kind of got fooled
and teased a little bit a couple of years ago
when they made the playoffs and then they got punted
out of the first round by the Hawks, and true
and what Trey Young did to him, but they seemed
(03:33):
like a more complete team this year and Julius Randall,
it just feels more legitimate than it did a couple
of years ago. You know, I was, I was all
in on Julius a couple of years ago and then
felt like really let down last year when he had
as bad of a year as he did. And I
actually talked to him a couple of weeks ago about it. Remember,
I mean, he was like fighting with the fans, he
(03:54):
was fighting with opponents, he was fighting with the referees.
It was real contentious. And he flat out told me that,
like he knew where his game was, he had to
get his head right and he took the opportunity to
do that, and he took some really cool steps to
do that this past summer. And now I think Jalen
Brunson has brought out the best of him. I think,
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you know, a lot of people, me included, didn't believe
that Jalen Brunson as good as we've seen him be
in Dallas. We didn't know that he was capable of
being like a franchise difference maker or could he be
the best player on a team that was really good.
And I think we, and I'm as guilty as anybody,
we didn't recognize the intangible factor of like how much
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of a leader he is and how polarizing he could
be in a locker room. And listen, I don't want
to take anything away from Julius Randall's hard work, but
I think if we're going to point to how Julius
Randall went from where he was last year to where
he is this year, a lot of credit has to
go to Jalen Brunson. Yeah. I had the narrative in
my head that Okay, the Knicks from two years ago
(04:57):
were a flash in the pan tight or you know,
they were the aberration and like they're they're going back
to being borderline playing team. And then this past run,
it's starting to feel like, oh, maybe last season's kind
of off year was the aberration, and like this is
this is who Julius Randall is, This is who the
Knicks can be, especially now that they've added Brunson, because
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I think a lot of people were looking for them
to make the home run swing move in the off
season to get them into contention, and they seemed very
confident that Jalen Brunson was the was the guy to
get them to a place where they're now in the conversation,
they're now at a place where you're in Miami and
all of a sudden, let's go Nets or let's go
Knicks cheers or are ringing out. That was exciting, That
(05:57):
was cool to say. I didn't I didn't know. I
didn't know the Nicks fans travel like that. Well, now, yeah, no,
they do, absolutely, But I also want to pump the
brakes a little bit too, Like I don't want to
pour water on this whole thing. But listen, it's a
great story, it's really cool. I give Jalen Brunson a
whole lot of props. I think what Julius Randall's been
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able to do, whether it's above the shoulders or below
the shoulders, whatever. And give Tom Thiboda a lot of
credit because he gets a lot of crap, so give
him a lot of credit. But I also think Nick
fans have an issue of like compartmentalizing things, right like
this this is good, now, this is good. But like
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I also wouldn't be surprised the Knicks lost in the
first round of the playoffs, like I don't. I think
we have to be careful about where where we have
these conversations because like anytime we talk about a team
in New York, it's like all or nothing, and we
have to recognize that, like it's really good. They're taking
a huge step in the right direction. They're building something,
but they are miles away from where the top echelon
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teams are in the Eastern Conference. Now to that point,
is it a matter of simply in Jack and I
were discussing this before, you know, before the show. You know,
we haven't seen Julius Randall and Jalen Brentson do it together,
Like is it a is it a we don't believe
you can need more people situation or is it you know, situational?
You know, you just don't like how they how they
would match up against some of the other teams. Sorry,
I'm just deleting the four paragraphs I had about how
(07:25):
the Knicks are the new championship favorite. Give me one second,
but you can go ahead and answer to body, But
um no, I think number one and I think this
is fair. Like Julius Randall for all of his success
this year, and the guy may make another All NBA
team like like he did a couple of years ago.
But he's got to prove that what he what he
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does is winning basketball in the playoffs. And clearly what
we saw was it's awfully predictable in the playoffs. The
last time we saw him there, a team like the
Hawks were able to take him to school and embarrass them,
literally embarrass them. So for me, it's it's number one,
can Julius become less predictable once the playoffs roll around?
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And two? Who else is there? Like what's amazing about
the knicks success this year? If you would have told
me that the Knicks were going to be where they
are now at the beginning of the season, I would
have told you that that RJ. Barrett is in the
most improved player, conversation, that RJ Barrett is this, this
and that, and he's not. And they're getting performances from
guys like Quentin Grimes on the defensive end, Emmanuel Quickly,
(08:27):
you know, occasionally going off like he did the other night,
Mitchell Robinson defensively what he's able to do. But but
where is that other offense coming from? In a playoff
series where teams have forty eight hours between games to
get ready for you. And we saw the last time
that the Knicks and listen, they're they're a different team now.
So I don't want to say, but I'm just not
(08:48):
ready to put them in a place that's beyond where
they are right now, because we don't know come playoff time,
how Julius Randall, RJ. Barrett and any of these other
supporting cast players are gonna react. I think it's if
we're being honest, Knicks fans are much like Lakers fans,
and I'll raise my hand. It's all or nothing, man.
It's either worn't win a title or it's the worst
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thing in the world or you know the sky as
so I get, yeah, I mean the thing that makes
them dangerous to me, like I'm having just like based
on cognitive biases, I'm having a hard time taking them
and the Kings seriously, uh for the postseason And with
the Kings, I get, I can look at the fact
that they don't really defend that well, right, Like they
(09:30):
aren't a great defensive Yeah, they're They're a bad defensive team,
and um that usually doesn't play very well in the
in the playoffs. The Knicks defend like I mean, that's
that is the one thing you're always going to get
with the Thibadeau team, and that does make them a
little scarier to me. I don't want to see them
in a like my my brain doesn't want to see
them in a in a playoff series, but my like
(09:52):
gut is still stuck in like yeah, but there's still
the Knicks, like sixers take them out. But the Julius
ran the game winner against Miami was one of the
worst looking game winners, like not not the shot itself,
but just the play double fading to the right, having
(10:17):
just lost it twice in a row. It was just
one of those shots that never goes in and then
and then it went in. Blunts, it tied up, finds
Randle froze it low, Ramble gets it back eight seconds
to go. Randle on the drive stripped by Bula Raddo
gets it back, the Krabo puts up a three down,
(10:39):
the three puts up touts on a second, the fading
all right, and then quickly Emmanuel quickly put up thirty
eight eight seven double overtime win over the Celtics. Very
Street reminds me a little bit of Maxie Uh And
they were you know, played together in Kentucky, hit out
in Kentucky. Uh, and then and then you know got
(11:01):
drafted too late. But has there been a player with
a better name game match than Emmanuel Quickly? Well, Daron
Fox is pretty good too, right, Yeah, it's good. Yeah, clever, fast, Yeah,
just knows for the Yeah, that's a good one. Really,
I'm surprised by I hadn't really thought about that. Yeah's
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a good one, Jack. Yeah. Rarely, they rarely match up
so well. And finally, we just got this tweet from
Tommy Beer on the last week for the Knicks, and
this is a good question. So the tweet Monday, Tatum
rage quits and blowout win over Celtics Wednesday brunts him
with thirty points in first half and brutal beat down
to Brooklyn Friday, the double Bang game winner by Randall
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to beat Miami Sunday, IQ scores forty eight and double
ot thriller in Boston. By the way, you don't have
to give him a new nickname. His last name is
Quickly and he's quick so we can just stick with that.
You don't need to call him Ike. You that's that's
a good nick That's a good nickname too if his
wasn't quickly uh, And then the end of the tweet,
best week for Nicks since question marks gotta be like
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that mellow year, the mellow year and even then, like
I don't know if they had a run like that.
This is a part of being an NBA fan, Like
as a Sixers fan, we haven't had a lot of
fun in the in the postseason over the past decade
or two decades or so, but like when your team
is on a run in the regular season, like playing
meaningful games and putting putting up big wins like that
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and everybody's getting excited. That is about as fun as
any experience as an NBA fan, I feel like, because
you you don't have the in the playoffs, there's almost
always unless your team actually wins it, there's always the
reality of fate closing in to make make those memories sour.
But with with something like that, like the Sixers had
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that time during Ben Simmons's rookie year where like Embiid
went down with an injury, like and Ben, come on,
man broke his face and then Simmons took over and
he was a rookie and like the sky was still
the one who was like all might and they won like,
you know, sixteen in a row or something heading into
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the playoffs. That was about as as much fun as
I've had as a as an NBA fan. So I
don't know. All right, let's talk about michal Bridges, which
since he's been traded to the Nets, he's already had
more thirty point games in eight games with the Nets
than he did in three hundred and sixty five games
with the Suns. Three with the Nets and one with
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the Suns. I think that's right. Yeah, And we just
we sometimes see players on a new team. I mean,
I'm not gonna say he's he's James Harden, but it
was like when Harden was suddenly with Houston the focal
point of the offense and you saw like, oh wow,
this is this is way better than what we were
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like kind of banking for him for this team. What
do we think mcaal Bridge's ceiling is. Well, I think
on a team that is not expected to win a championship,
I think he could be a leading scorer and turn
into a guy that you know, we should have already
put in the conversation for one of the top two
way players in the league. We know how a lockdown
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he could be defensively, although it'll be interesting to see
because you know, the Nets defense has been atrocious since
since these guys came over. And the crazy part about
it is, I was with the Nets the day of
the trade deadline when they you know, got rid of
Kyrie and and and I'm sorry when they got rid
of Durant, and I was talking to a bunch of
people and the one hope was like, especially with jack
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lon being the head coach, this team really fit Jack
Laon because you had so many defensive minded players like
you were, You're starting five, and this didn't even include
Ben Simmons because you know, you didn't know where he
fitted in. But if if you include Ben Simmons, like
guys like Michail Bridges, Dorian Finney, Smith, Nick Klackton, even
Spencer Dinwoodie to to a certain extent, these guys have
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a focus of defense. Ben Simmons obviously right, So they should,
if nothing else, just be a really good defensive team.
And they are not either. And I think it speaks
to the point of just how elite the offense is
the NBA right now. Maybe that's more than anything else,
But the way I would think the Nets are envisioning
it is that one day Mikhail Bridges is like their
second offensive option but still their best defensive player. I
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don't know, And you know, we saw this with Kawai
for a little bit, a little bit in San Antonio
before we got hurt a little bit in Toronto, but
they kind of backed off because of how they'd want
to put too much stress on them. Can you be
a team's number one offensive option asked to score, you know,
somewhere between twenty four and twenty eight points a game
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and also be a lockdown defender on every possession? Like,
think about it. I mean, even the great defenders like Kawai,
and be honest, the guys who are great offensive players
and are all billy Is good defensively don't often for
for forty minutes get asked to take on that responsibility,
at least in the regular season. Yeah, is there an
ideal type of player or even specific player to pair
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him with moving forward? Is it a defensive big like
you said, if he can you know, kind of slide
into the second slot from a scoring perspective, you know,
is it a scoring point guard? What is the most idea.
It's a guy who runs the show like Ben Simmons,
you know, who can just like rip off twenty games
in a row. Dude, I don't know. It's obviously Ben
Simmons's hurt right now, and I you know, I don't
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want to take any shots at him with him being hurt,
but like it's weird what's gone on with him in
the nets, Like there's a lot of stuff behind the
scenes that I don't think we know about, because like
the day the trade was made and Ben Simmons should
have been the starting point guard, they had him coming
off the bench at the back up five again, and
it's just it's it's weird. And you know, I worked
with stan Band Gundy that game. He made the point
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like if there's ever a time when the pressure's gone,
there's no kin, there's no kad. You know. Yes, this
organization still wants the playoff. They have no reason, no motivation,
no draft capital to miss the playoffs. But let's just
go and throw all of our chips at the center
of the table and see what we got. Like, now's
the time where we can play up temple basketball, like
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you were talking about that year in Philadelphia where Brett
Brown just said, let's run, Let's run every possession, Let's
take advantage of our speed and our athleticism. And then
as you're like, I know, Ben Simmons still going to
be our backup five. Yeah, So that that to me
was a little concerning. But yeah, I would think with Bridges,
like you know, every good team I think needs a
really good facilitator and a guy that is a great
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playmaker and a great decision maker. Yeah, in terms of
people who have shown us something this season and who
we feel like we might be seeing some things from
in the next couple of years. So now Mikhail Bridges
is on my radar, is like this, this dude could
be making a leap in the next couple of years. Haliburton,
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obviously any one else that you've seen something from this
year that you feel like you're you're buying stock and
in that person to be a superstar like Jabari I
think you were saying Aunt, Yeah, I feel I mean,
obviously Aunt's been fantastic this year once, you know, once
he was able to sit on in and get it going,
but it feels like there's still at least another level
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as he continues to develop. I'm just wondering, like, you know,
the bust out guys that you know that could be
coming over the next few years. Yeah, I think Anthony
Edwards is a great one. The one I'm leaning towards
is kind of like this Sacramento duo. Like we've known
that Sabonis is good, but we're like, yeah, he's camp
that good. Sure, but he's the reason why they're in
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third place in the West, right Like and and Daron
Fox has had a pretty darn impressive year as well. Yeah,
you know, yeah, another one that's gonna be interesting to
see in the playoffs here if he can stay healthy.
Is we always said, if Michael Porter Junior stays on
the court, you could be a great player. And when
he's been on the court this year, he's had a
really good year. I mean, Aaron Gordon's had his most
efficient here in the NBA. UM trying to think who
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else I'm I'm gonna have somebody in my mind here,
and then after the show I'm gonna be like, ah,
should he said that guy? Yeah? Yeah, hit us up.
All right, let's take a quick break, we'll come back.
We'll talk about some of the best performances. We finally
got to see the UH the Suns in their fullness,
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and it was pretty It's pretty intriguing. So we'll talk
about that when we come back and we're back, and
I'm just gonna say this was one of the most
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fun weeks of basketball. Like this past Sunday is run
of games was a blast. There was a game where
the Philadelphia seventy six Ers played the Milwaukee Bucks and
UH prevailed at snapped the sixteen game winning streak. I
think came from behind. I enjoyed it. It was a
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you know, a Grace and Allen game, which the fans
are always kind of clambering for anytime you can see
that guy go off. But I mean, seriously, put up
twenty in the third quarter. Brook Lopez Jannis looked great
and Be'd have thirty one. I think James Harden at
thirty eight. It's what is starting to like, give me
make me feel like, not not necessarily that the Sixers
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are getting it out of the second round, because I
feel like that's where they they're not allowed. Actually it's
the it's in the by laws of the franchise. Yeah
they're not they're not permitted to get out of the
second round. But they are for the first time since
I've been a Sixers fan, winning games at the end
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that they don't have any right to win. Like it
used to be a thing where they would give the
game away at the end and you'd go into any
fourth quarter where you were only up by ten points
being like, Oh, this isn't this isn't gonna be good.
And now they're closing really strong. They have some really
good clutch stats, so that that was fun to see.
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And then they had just a barn burner against the
Pacers where they won one forty seven, one forty three
and regulation and beat had forty two hardened dish out
twenty assists Haliburton forty and sixteen and the loss. But
it's the eleventh time MBIDA scored forty or more this season. Like,
just taking everything out of the MVP conversation, which I
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think is getting a little overheated. I'm just enjoying another
pretty phenomenal MBID season right now, Jered, let me ask
you this. I've been trying to convince Jack. Now. Jack
is a cautiously optimistic fan, and I respect and appreciate
that because completely pessimistic, I would say, Okay, you know what,
I didn't want to put that on you, but yes,
but I've been trying to convince him that this year
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they look different, and I'll whether it's his sixers, and
by different meaning like I don't have to squint as
hard to convince myself that they could make it beyond
the second round. Let me ask you a question then,
for people listening in their car or at work or
wherever in the gym Pumpings of Iron, why does Jack
have sunglasses on that that have like rosy colored like
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like why does he need to wear those sunglasses on
this podcast? Hey man? This is just a look that
keeps protecting his piece. Joel and Bad is playing liking
MVP where we were recalls to where you put him
in there? Right, If James Harden is playing at this level,
and then you have Tyree's Maxie playing at this level
and in vague get to bias Harris back, could you
see a path where they could make it? You'll make
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a deep run? Finally, yeah, I mean listen, but before
we even talk about the sixers, I mean, there are
holes in the two clear cut favorites in the conference, right,
Like Milwaukee's had their issues this year, although they don't
feel like they have very many of them right now,
and Boston clearly is going through something major right now.
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But I would say this like my my biggest thing
with the Sixers, and this is kind almost like my
conversation that I had with you about the Knicks, but
just the same but very different. Like James Harden missed
Tuesday night's game, right with it with an injury, and
Jack you you know better than me as a lifelong
die hard Sixer fan here, like every time things are important,
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there's a Joel embiad injury. There's a reason why he's out.
He's fractured his face in two different playoff runs. Yeah,
Like I don't know how that happens, and I'm not
criticizing him. I'm not saying anything but a big breakable face.
His face is that mister Glass quality that Yeah, but
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you know, the Sixers, this is a dumb statement. The
Sixers need and Bade right, they need hardened, and they
need hardened to be at his best and when it
comes to the playoffs, and Bead more times than not
has missed a game in a playoff series throughout his career,
James Harden has not shown up in playoff series regularly
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throughout his career. So like those things, you know, just
make me wonder. Now I'll say this, you know, sneaky,
some sneaky moves that Darryl Morriy made like this Jayla
McDaniels move. Wow, slid him into this starting lineup on
Monday night. That was impressive. I would say I am
giving the Sixers a sliver of hope because right now today,
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as we speak, I have some doubt in the Boston Celtics,
who I thought would be the clear cut favorite in
this conference. And while I'm feeling really good about the Bucks,
like they're not they're not the twenty sixteen Warriors. Yeah,
and even the twenty sixteen Warriors clearly found a way
to lose, So anybody's beatable. The issue though, is if
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the Celtics find their way, if Jason Tatum finds his
shooting stroke. First of all, he's got to get back
on the court herders need the other night, and he
can find a consistent shooting like this has been really
weird with Tatum, and I think this has gone undercovered,
is Jason Tatum's shooting slumps that he goes in and
out of this year. It's just really bad. But as
we stand today, like the Sixers will to face one
of those two teams in the second round of the playoffs. Yeah,
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that's the thing is like I'm frustrated that they don't
get to the Eastern Conference finals. That means you're one
of the final two teams in the East. Like that's
and the East is really good. That hasn't always been
the Yeah, that's true, but like that, it's a tough
year to be like, gotta get it out of the
second round. So I get like Eastern Conference finals are
bust because you know, Cleveland is tough. Even though I
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think I think the Sixers just match up pretty well
against better than most teams against the Bucks. But I
think they just if they if they face the Celtics
in a seven game series, it's it's over for them.
That's yeah. They just they can't beat the Celtics period.
All right. It is that time. Jabari Anthony M F.
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Davis uh second of his name, leads the Lakers to
victory over a Warrior's team. With Steph back in the mix,
the Lakers are six and three since the trade deadline.
Lens only played in three of those games, doing without
d low since February twenty third, but they're finding a
way to clawback still and very intrigued by this team.
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What say you, yeah? I mean the trade deadline made
a lot of sense for them, and for as much
as we've crapped down Rob Blinko over the years aka
Lebron the de facto GM, they did an amazing job
this year. Listen, I don't think I think some of
the players name like we do like this thing during
the trade Den Larner in the offseason when a team
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gets a guy and where like name recognition, all of
a sudden, we're polarizing, like we know this guy? Do
we know them? For good or bad or indifferent? Always good? Right?
The thing about this Laker team is these aren't like
all stars that came to the Lakers, although D'Angelo Russell
one time was an All Star, but they got guys
that make sense around Lebron and Anthony Games. And if
this injury to Lebron had happened without those trade deadline moves,
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the Lakers ship is sunk right, dead are part of
it too. It's like there's a reason, like why there's
all these teams fighting like nobody's very good, like Dallas
is not very good. The Clippers, yeah, they could be good. Like,
the Clippers could win a championship or miss the playoffs.
Who knows, Utah Utah not very good, Portland not very good,
Perlican not very good, the Thunder not very good. Right, Like,
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there's a reason why all these teams are in this
conversation for again, and let's remember, for as much as
Lebron moaned about the play in a couple of years ago,
if not for the play in saving Grace, right, but
the Lakers are out of this whole thing, and you know,
so listen, the Lakers have a very favorable schedule coming
down the stretch, I think until until they face Phoenix
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on March twenty second, I have that right, They don't
face another team that is well, I guess the Knicks
on Yeah, that became a tough game all the same,
all of a sudden, that's a tough game. But they
really they don't have teams, particularly on the road. They
don't have to face teams that are in contention here
until the end of March. So there's a path for
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the Lakers absolutely to get where they want to go.
They just need Anthony Davis or as you called him
another name. He needs to absolutely be a beast. He
needs to be a guy that is so good over
the final eighteen or so games this season that people
are saying, well, why wasn't he in the MVP conversation?
It's a it's a bad conversation to have, it's a
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it's an ignorant conversation. But there needs to be so
much recency bias in the play of Anthony Davis over
the last three weeks of this season that we are saying, Wow,
this guy's too good. Keep off the MVP belt. Yeah,
and they have they have to catch Utah is one
of the teams in front of them Portland and those
(28:48):
are all teams with very difficult schedules coming down the
coming down the stretch. So I think they have a shot. Yeah,
And as your resident Anthony Davis fan, I will acknowledge
I agree, But we go game to game over here,
we're not even thinking about it in terms of like
the last three weeks. I can't even go weeks at
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a time game to game just be that guy. Well,
I mean, let's just face it here, Like I was told,
I don't know if you guys heard this report, I
did on T and T last week. I was told
by the coaching staff that not only was it expected,
but it was anticipated that Anthony Davis would play last
Tuesday at Memphis and then Wednesday in Oklahoma City. The
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coaching staff fully expected and anticipated that he would be
able to play, and he would play well. Paul of
a sudden game day comes second night of a back
to back, he's not playing. Lakers have back to back
coming up at New Orleans at Houston. Now listen, at
Houston should be a winnable game without Anthony Davis. But
you're not. There's a reason why you're battling for the
tenth spot in the West because you're not that good.
You need your best player to play. Yeah right. Then
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they've got another back to back at Utah at the Clippers.
He's got to play, yeah right, Like he got two
more back to acts. You can't afford to lose any
of these. If Anthony Davis is not playing these games,
then you know why you're going to miss the play
in right. I do my best not to be you know,
the sky is falling, guy, But I will say that
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over the next you know, over that three week period
that you just mentioned, if I'm the Lakers organization, and
this is obviously not based on any reporting, this is
just my opinion. But if I'm the Lakers organization and
this is you know, talking about a guy that one
of my favorite players in the league, I have to
look at him and say, well, can you do it?
Or can you not? Can we Can you be trusted?
Can you be leaned upon? Can you be expected to
give us twenty solid games? You know, like you down
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the stretch of a must win you know scenario, And
if you can't, then I have to, you know, we
have to at least consider what, you know, what this
roster looks like moving forward? Yep. And then finally, just
the mav Sons game was a blast, Luca Kyrie, k
D Booker, just a just fun back and forth game,
KD Dagger, Luca missed the bunny and then you know
(30:56):
the double texts. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Wait like eight
to shoot back to Katie was six durand driving on
hardaway pull up Chopper Duran got it man Phoenix has
at two point late. I've never pulled for the Suns
in like a just a stray game that I'm why
I catch a stray game. It's just always been I
don't I don't really care. I'm usually like find myself
(31:19):
like at a gut level, pulling for whoever they're playing against.
And now I'm I'm on the Sun's bandwagon because I'm
you know, kad Lebron. Those are my guys. They're like
generationally like some of my favorite players that have ever
watched And I didn't know if if I was gonna
be able to pull myself onto the bandwagon. I did it, though,
(31:40):
I'm aboard. I'm excited, I feel great, feel awesome. What
do you guys think though? Did you learn anything? Yeah?
I mean has the chance to be freaking awesome in Phoenix? Um. Yeah,
I'm not just saying this, like I'm not saying this
like on behalf of the NBA because they don't pay
my check, but like, there's gotta be some integrity into
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the eighty two games of a season. And I just
find it very hard to believe even the best of
the best players can pull it together over fifteen games
and just go win a championship after that. It just
to me there's something is not a video game, right,
Has it ever happened? Has has a mid season trade
ever resulted in a championship Detroit right with Wallace, But
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I mean, but he also wasn't their first, second or
third offensive option, right, he was like, we already have
a very solid team, and all of a sudden, your
thrush sheet, right, you know, yeah, you throw a hungry
seat in the mix. Well, NBA action, it's fantastic. Let's
take a quick break. We'll be back for the fastest
segment in podcasting, Jared, I hope you're ready. I hope
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you did it like some next stretches, because these questions
are gonna be pinging past your head just at a
at a rapid rate. We'll be right back, and we're
back and to the Do we have theme music for
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the segment? We do start the clock kick kick on
the rapid Fire theme. Uh brought to you by John Williams. Um,
we did spend the entire annual budget of the show
on John Williams making a rapid Fire. It's not a
good match. I gotta say, I don't know why we
went with the guy who made the Star Wars theme
(33:32):
for something that's supposed to be like up tempo and
uh focused, But that's what we did. Jared, this is
where we're gonna be asking you questions. We don't want
you to even think about it. It's just your the
fastest first shut reaction. Uh. Jabari just made a sound
too that was supposed to be lasers. I guess it
was a lasers ish lasers and Jabari is going to
(33:55):
kick it off for us. Jabari take it away. All right,
let's just go. Let's cut them nonsense, Jared, Cut the nonsense. Jared,
first of all, cut the nonsense. All right, give me
a second, give me get serious here, all right? Through
your nonsense. Ready, I'm ready, Jared. You can go back
in time and be on the broadcast of any single
NBA game throughout history. Which game are you choosing? Game seven,
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twenty sixteen NBA Finals? Okay, game the block? You got
it all blocked a shot, come back? I love it.
And there there it was a rock fight there for
a little while. So you gotta fill that, you know,
it's what a game? Ye? Best NBA city based solely
on the food? New York. Oh okay, I always figure
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people who are going to say New Orleans here, but yes,
a matter you know? Okay, So okay, I got you,
all right? Jared, it's time for it. Let me get
your boldest play in or postseason prediction. My boldest postseason prediction. Yes,
the Golden State Warriors will make the Western Conference Finals.
Oh wow, Okay, the exact opposite of last week's the
(35:00):
boldest postseason prediction. Who somebody said they won't even get
out of the plan Aaron, as he said, you said
they're gonna get knocked out, you know, first game into
play in. Okay, what do you think is gonna come
together for them? Well? I mean what what really needs
to come together? I mean they're they're like listen, I
know they have. Okay, here's a different question. What has
fallen apart for them that put them in this position
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where where where I'm surprised by you saying they'd be
in the Western Conference? Fine? I just think, like what what?
What stuns me about the Warriors? What's different about them
from last year winning a championship to this year is
these names, Gary Payton, the second Otto, Porter Namania, Beliza,
and a little bit more of Andrea Godal. Yeah, like
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to me, once the playoffs roll around, I get that
those three guys actually played pivotal role for the Warriors,
but Jonathan Cominge if you watched him the last couple
of weeks, bawling, Yeah, played, Thompson is actually putting together
two better months than he's ever had in his career,
like ever ever. And Steph Curry is just getting back. Yeah.
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I feel like, you know a lot of what I
think we're going to see in these West playoffs is
a lot of teams trying to find their identity once
it counts the most. And the Warriors know who they are, yeah, right,
Like Denver, Denver, for as much as they've been in
the postseason the last few years, like not with this
group playing at this level, with this expectation. Memphis, no,
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and who the heck knows if Memphis is going to
have their best player in the playoffs. Sacramento has never
been here, Phoenix as constitute has never been here. Is
Chris Paul gonna be healthy? What are they going to
get from their supporting cast? Minnesota has never been here?
Dallas never been here. We don't like their supporting cast
the Clippers. Is Kawhi going to take a game off
in the playoffs because he doesn't feel like playing? Like
There's a lot of questions about a lot of teams,
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and I get that the Warriors have left a lot
of doubt in people's minds. But when it comes down
to it, I am taking the five man unit of
Steph play Wiggins once he gets back, and he will
be back soon, Draymond with Looney and Jordan Poole coming
off the bench, Don David Pevencenzo coming off the bench.
I'm taking that seven man group against any seven man
group in the West. Wow. That's a really good point.
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And you know we're usually be a jokey in this segment,
but that's a great point in one that I probably
should have considered, you know, prior to now, you know,
shout out to former guests Ben Galliver. He you know,
he made the point that uh no he does, he
does numbers two but no, um. He pointed out that
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there hasn't been a repeat conference finalists over the last
four seasons and that would mean that obviously Golden State
would be the you know, the first to do so.
So yeah, started to slow down this segment. I just
got passionate there, No, no, that's perfect. Passion spills over sometimes. Yeah.
For whatever reason, this past week, the Nuggets have started
to make sense to me. As the team coming out
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of the West. Oh I'm still there. Don't get me wrong,
I'm I'm with you there, But like, have you ever
felt less good about saying that about a conference champion?
I have, like they for for some reason, Like I was,
I was out, Like I was at that place where
I was like, well, it can't be the Nuggets, right,
Like it's like they as good as they look in
the regular season, like we've seen them in the playoffs,
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and like it hasn't worked out, and like just something
about like there's been some articles about their metrics like
in the clutch being some of the best in the league,
and just they've just started to feel like this powerhouse
and they're also seven games out in front. Like there,
it's not even close. I mean, I guess that was
the case the Sons that at some points last season.
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But yeah, yeah, start they make sure the clock. Brian Um,
All right, if you could trade one player currently in
the NBA for the number one pick next year, so
Wemben Yama would you? And who would it be? Jesus?
So I would have to be the team getting you
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have the number one pick, let's say, But and you
can trade for a single player in the NBA right
now ready for this. Yeah, this is called a timely
take John Morant, Wow, I love all right, But the
fact that it's even a question is crazy just from
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a women or perspective, Like, No, nobody really, like I mean, yeah,
there's probably somebody, but you have to like think about
it pretty hard well because it's not just a misrey box.
We've seen, you know, and we can we can we
can see with our eyes, like man, that that could
be incredible, not just special, not just great, incredible. And
I'm not guaranteeing. I'm saying it could be he's shooting
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low thirties from three. I'm just saying I'm putting it
out there. I think you should. I think you should
slide to the six or something. All right, scoot, you're up.
All right, my turn. Let's keep it going. If you
could bet on any fan base to make the in
arena challenge shots, you know, the layup, free throw, three pointer,
half court, which fan base would you bet on. Well,
(40:00):
I'm not taking Boston or Philly because they've been getting
ready for the game too much before the game. Yeah,
I'm not taking Atlanta or Miami because they may not
be in the stands by halftime. Wow, Wow, shuts, I'm
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gonna go Indiana. There, it is like that, that's the one, right,
It's gotta be Indiana. They're so good that they only
give out fifty dollars in gift cards to somebody who
does lets all challenge your rules of quarters, get a
get a fifty dollars target shopping card. Uh yeah, all right.
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I have this persistent nightmare, like it's basically a reverse
like Mike, where I suddenly switch bodies with an NBA
player in the middle of the game and I have
my skills. Is there a player you would switch with?
What would you do if you suddenly you are in
Yokich's body in a big game? What do you do?
Do you fake injury? Do you try and let it rock? Like?
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What are you doing? I'd probably be like I would
take a zion and just try and like, you know,
I haven't. I don't even know if I could touch
the bottom of the net, let alone dunk, no, like
like just to play bullyball bringing around. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just hope that game, whatever game it is, he's
dressed and active, so I'm not sitting in the on
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the bench and three clothes, you know, just any game. Yeah, yeah,
all right, last question of the week. This is the
most important one, by the way, Jack or Jabari. Oh,
it's no question. It's Jabari. Oh, because anybody, anybody who
slides into my DMS, I'm all four. There we go. Yeah, yeah,
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you've never slid into my my DM. I gotta be attentive.
I can't. I can't keep up with the seductive DM
sliding powers of Jabari. It's, by the way, I've always
But just for full disclosure and transparency, my wife is
can't hear you, guys, But here's me talking about somebody
sliding too my DMS and GSS right now, Sorry, missus Greenberg.
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It was me professional, I promise. Yeah. What about that picture?
Such a Jabari does send a picture when he first
reaches up people, he does send a picture. It was
a good picture. It's in Vagas by the pool. You know,
I figure it get people in the mood. It's fasting
their roses involved. Jared Greenberg, such a pleasure having you
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on the show. Where can people find you? See you?
All that good stuff? Well beyond TNT Thursday Night in
Memphis for a Big Warrior's Grizzlies game. Nice. Um. Then
all throughout the next couple of weeks, TNT is gonna
take some time off here for March Madness, and I'll
be on the NBA TV side of things doing a
Crunch Time which Jack is going to become your new
(42:45):
favorite show on the NBA app when we take you
to the biggest moments to the night as they happened
live at the NBA's only Whip Around show. When I'll
be doing some some NBA game time appearance as well
on NBA TV. Awesome, Well, thank you so much for
joining us. That's going to do it for us this week.
Quick shout outs to some listeners. We asked for your
MVP opinions and here were the results. Fifty three percent
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said Yokich or Joki, thirty six percent said Yannis, and
seven sorry what is it? Seven percent? Did you? Man?
I just I gotta say, if Embiid and Yokis would
just play one another in an important nationally televised game,
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then we would actually be able to see or if
Embiid went up against Jannis, was sixteen game winning streak
on the line, you know? Um? Anyways, great picks listeners
are Boosties Listeners of the Week at brock Denton said,
Yokich is great, but it's insane to me that he's
going to win three straight. Embad or Josh should have
won last year, and it's surprising to me that the
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voters aren't getting tired of giving it to him. Lebron
should have been MVP every year from O seven to fifteen,
but voters got tired of him. M Yeah, the MVP
conversation is the conversation about a narrative being told by
NBA writers. So at this point, whatever, but make sure
you give us a follow on Twitter at mad Boosties.
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That's m A D B O O S t i
E S. And that's going to do it for us
this week. Back next week with more NBA action, more
of these spicy piping hot takes, we'll talk to y'all.
Don have a great week everyone, Bye bye,
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