April 29, 2025 • 72 mins
Nick Wright recaps the back-and-forth showdown between the Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets, Playoff Jimmy’s big night, and Draymond Green having the ultimate "Draymond Green Game." Then, Nick discusses how the Damian Lillard injury will impact the Milwaukee Bucks future and what the Los Angeles Lakers need to do to stay alive. Later, Nick reacts to Saquon Barkley's post regarding his golf outing with Donald Trump. Finally, as always, Nick and Damonza answer your questions.
3:10 - Warriors up 3-1 despite down game from Steph
25:21 - Lakers on life support
42:47 - Dame tears achilles, what’s next for Bucks and Giannis?
51:51 - Saquon and Trump
1:00:28 - 100 humans vs 1 gorilla
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We'll driving the Great Episode three twenty six, after another
thrilling NBA playoff game, Golden State Warriors escape and take
firm and full control of the series. If at some
point Jalen Green shows up to the series other than
Game two, maybe we'd have one, but we don't. That, however,
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is not the story of the game. The story of
the game is Draymond Green. We will get to him momentarily.
There is a lot to do on today's show. I
I want to address Saquon's tweet because I think, well,
I just want to address it, and it's probably not
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what you think I'm gonna say, but I want to
discuss that. Also, we did an emergency pod yesterday. We
have done on the pod. We haven't done anything related
to Shador's slide in the draft, which is it really?
Is that really a common tarry about Shador or is
that a commentary about the media. Is it a meta
commentary on commentary?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
All of that.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Demonse, though fresh from his brand new studio with his
right eleven Celtics Jersey our YouTube plaque looking great, sound well,
I don't know if you're sounding great or not.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Let me hear you good.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
To see you, pops. But yeah, we're at a new location.
It took me a little bit less time to get
here today, but yeah, excited to do it from the
old apartment.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Oh well, I wasn't gonna dox you now everyone knows
where you're at the now the but no, that works.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So Demansey's got the home setup. I've got the home setup.
It's great.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
We are by coastal on this show. Before though, we
get to Rockets Warriors, Let's get to what missed the cut.
We'll miss the cut in today's show, the Commanders returning
to d C.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I haven't followed that story. Listen.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The thundersweep the Grizzlies and the Cavs sweep the Heat,
and they both those series involved fifty plus point wins.
Jah though says he had the Thunder figured out. By
the way, for those keeping track at home, the Thunder
were eight no against the Grizzlies this year. However, I
guess Joe's point is it went from fifty to seventeen
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to up twenty seven. Had I stayed health, we had
a won Game six of that series by ninety points.
The trajectory we were on for Oklahoma City and for
Cleveland their rewards as being the one seed. The NBA
has never done this before. They did it this year, though,
the rewards for the one seed was a bye, a
true first round by and so their playoffs will start
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next week. Also, we typically stay out of this silly
internet memory, but this one hundred men versus one gorilla
topic is simply too delectable to ignore, so we will
get to that later in the show. A reminder, if
you're watching live on the chat, like rate subscribe review
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and you can ask your questions the subscriptions, ratings reviews.
All of that really does help, all right, demanse, Let's
get to Rockets Warriors.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Uh yeah, Golden State went up three to one against
the Rockets. Despite Steph's somewhat mediocre game, this series has
been super chippy and Houston actually had a chance there
at the end. Shanghun had a go ahead bucket he missed.
Van Vliet had a three in transition missed that as well.
You picked the Rockets in this series. In this series,
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do you think they've officially blown it?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I think they have probably blown it. I real quick,
did you think Van Vleet shot was going in? I
thought it was going in.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
No, he had it exactly in line.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It was just off by, like just short.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Usually when you take those kind of running almost sideways threes,
if you miss it, you're gonna miss it to the right.
When I saw the line it was on, I was like,
holy shit, he made.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I mean there were a bunch of air balls yesterday.
Steph had two, Draymond had a couple. Van Vliet had won.
But the story of the game is Draymond Green. Because
put this game on Draymond's basketball tombstone, just the perfect
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vintage Draymond Green. Every single reason you love him or
every single reason you can't stand him, a true Draymond
Green playoff masterclass. And listen, Draymond has consumed a fair
amount of my Draymond Green related media. I hope he
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sees this and or I hope someone sends it to him,
because listen, I don't Draymond Green and I have a
lot of mutual not just acquaintances, but close friends that
has once put us in the same room in a
social setting. It it was nothing bad at all. We
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were both cordial, but it wasn't you know, warm and
I you know, understandable and you know probably sixty forty
my fault in that regard. But and I am someone
who has been highly critical. I think fairly of a
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lot of the Draymond Green nonsense, and at times I
poke a little fun at the backpack shots and the
triple singles. However, yesterday was the perfect encapsulation.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
For why.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
This era of Warriors basketball if you remove the supercharged
three years with Durant that were its own thing, the
pre Durant and post Durant era, even when you had
prime Klay Thompson, and now you have playoff Jimmy Butler
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each and every year, for good or for bad, the
second most important player on that team is Draymond Green.
And as much as Steph unlocks everyone on their offense,
Draymond unlocks everyone on their defense. And last night was
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just perfect because Draymond hits his first two shots, then
can't hit the broadside of a bar, and the rest
of the night, Draymond is flailing and flopping and grabbing
and kicking and doing every single thing he can do
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up to the line to where he gets ejected without
being ejected, and he is snarling and spittling and intimidating
the rockets and then playing an extra level mind game
when he tries to with the free throw line on
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the box outline, you know, apologize or make amends with
Tarry Esen. And then Amen Thompson comes over and is like, hey,
don't be friendly with Draymond. Then Draymond gets into it
with Amen, and it's just the full Draymond experience, and
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it's all wrapped around absolute lockdown, shut down defense on
Alpern Shingun who in the minute that Shingoon got with
Draymond off the he scored any time he wanted. I
thought Udoka made a significant error in the moment Draymond
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picked up his fifth ball and went to the bench.
He didn't put Shingoun right back in the game. Now,
he put him in shortly thereafter, But that needed to
be instantaneous. Every single minute Draymond was not on the court,
Shingoon should have been on the court absolutely cooking.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
And that's ultimately what he did.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Ultimately, he went back in the game, lit him up,
and then Draymond came back in and Shingoon was shook
and Draymond asked for one on one defensive assignment game
on the line. Shingoon makes the shot you're going back
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to Golden State. I'm sorry, going back to Houston. That's
very important. Two games apiece, Shingoon misses the shot and
you have a commanding lead on the series, and.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Draymond got him.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
And so years ago when the Warriors were at their
apex and.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
People thought this was.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Anti Kawhi rather than being pro Draymond. But I was
on the record that I thought Draymond should have won
three consecutive Defensive Player of the Year awards. I thought
Draymond's ability to let them play small and to still
have a dominant defense was such an underrated element of
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the fifteen and sixteen Warriors. What people forget about those
two Warriors years pre Durant was, yes, Steph was unbelievable,
and nobody forgets the threes and the seventy three wins
and Clay's thirty seven point quarter and all of that.
What people do forget is they had the number one
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defensive basketball those two years, and that was Draymond Green.
It wasn't just Draymond. Iggy was a great defender, Clay
was a great defender, but Draymond Green was the tip
of the spear. And for Draymond at this age, at
this point of his career, when a legitimate concern for
Draymond was he is already at a deficit athletically. What
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is it going to look like when he just loses
five ten percent of his athleticism, when he's already not
the quickest, can't obviously jump, viist any of that.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
And the answer is his.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Toughness, his tenacity, his basketball brilliance will overcome all of it.
And it is really a remarkable feat what he has
been able to accomplish in this series without ever scoring,
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without ever scoring in double digits. It is.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Absolutely spectacular and it shows a that one of.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
The smartest quotes he's ever given is, there's eighty two
game guys in their sixteen game guys, and he is
the definition of a sixteen game guy. And to be clear,
it doesn't absolve him of all the nonsense, and it
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doesn't make him, in my opinion, particularly enjoyable to watch,
but it is the definition of a player who understood,
I have one path to being a great player, and
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that is the path I am going to walk, and
I have respect for that. And it is such a
luxury for Steph Curry that Steph can have an off night,
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seventeen three and three four turnovers. Hit the one huge shot,
just a shot that the Warrior has been hitting for
ten years. You get a defensive stop, knock the ball
out of balance. They got two on the shot clock.
You know they're going to Steph for three. You know
he's pump faking. You're gonna bite on the pump fake
anyway and give up the three late in the fourth.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
That was really his only noteworthy.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Moment of the second half, and they can win anyway. Now,
speaking of Steph, people got very mad.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
DEMANSA.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You saw it coming when we were doing the show
on Thursday and I kind of did the impromptu Steph
Curry rules mini rant. Yeah, you you could tell that
that was going to be an unpopular take. You might
have even thought it was a slightly unfair take from
the look.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Of Yeah, I thought you were being scenari towards the
Curry fans, and that's not necessarily Curry. But yeah, I
mean definitely knew that was going to get some engagements.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, So a few things on that. One is.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
People then tried to take my Steph take and remove
Steph and put in Lebron's name because now it looks
like they're going to lose in round one, which is
a unique and interesting turn of phrase and a smart
thing to do if you can say with a straight
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face that there has ever been a single moment of
Lebron James's career where he has skirted criticism where it's
been like, oh, the media didn't jump on Lebron there. Wow,
people are just missing the boat on this one. People
are Wow, they're sure letting Lebron for that early playoff
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exit slide, Like that's never happened.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
So it.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Wasn't to say he's never come up short. It was
to say or it wasn't even to say that Steph
regularly does. It was to say.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
That in regards to.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Steph, the commentary somewhat vacillates between he's underappreciated goat point
guard in the goat conversation. That's the upper end, and
then the bad game or disappointing game or disappointing playoff
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performance end is nothing. And I would argue if folks
want to do the Lebron comparison there, that the Lebron
comp would be the upper end is.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
That was amazing.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
But here's why Jordan would have done it better, and
the lower end is lefraud La Mickey. And here's why,
you know what I mean? This is STEP's era or
Kobe would have this. So it's just the way it's
phrased a little differently. Which is why, even though I
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have great respect and truly a level of awe watching
Steph Curry at age thirty seven do what he's doing,
I don't mind, you know the let me interrupt myself here.
You guys remember Batman begins and okay, so the producers there, nerds,
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they'll they'll remember.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
What it was called?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Something of Shadows? Was it the League of Shadows? I
feel like this is Daniel right in my ear.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
He's got it. I knew it. Daniel was on it.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Uh the so who was that? Who was the actor
the main guy for the League of Shadows?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Liam? It was Liam Neeson. That's right.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
So Liam Neeson and the League of Shadows basically says
I'm not a bad guy. I'm just here to provide balance.
When things get out of whack, we come in and
even things out. Okay, I sadly would appear, Oh yeah,
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ros I'll thank you. Sadly it would appear that I
have to be that character for some of the Steph
Curry stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's not that he's not one of the twelve.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Greatest players ever, the greatest shooter ever, the greatest small
player ever, an all time champion team made.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
All of it.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
It's that because he is so universally beloved.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That there is no balance. Yes, and so my.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Version of bringing balance to Monsa is sending a you know,
somewhat an a Dyninge tweet with a minute left in
the basketball game last night that says, really interested in
who is and who isn't on the court this possession,
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because you then saw the Golden State Warriors in the
biggest possession defensively of their season, tell Steph Curry sit
over here.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Give us a minute.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
And then they called time out, got him back on
the court, and then the next possession, the shingoon possession,
we come out of commercial, and I'm like, oh, I wonder,
I wonder if a guy who I am a hater
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because I won't include in the goat conversation, I wonder
if his head coach thinks what gives us the best
chance to win right now is either having Steph Curry
or Brandon Putjimski on the court, and Steve Kerr was like,
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let's press the brand and Pajimski button.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
And again, I know that that makes me a bad guy.
I get it. I can.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I can wear the black hat for this. But as
I as I mentioned.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
That Curry doesn't receive the same amount of criticism that
it's it's not no.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
It's not even that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I would just like an acknowledgement that it happens, that's all,
like I. And so I did that top twelve thing,
and I put Steph and Shack in the same right
outside the top ten bucket. And the reason I thought
it was interesting they were eleven twelve again, you know
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it was. It was lebron Kareem, Michael Magic, Russell, Wilt Duncan,
Kobe Bird, a Cheme, Shack stuff that Shaq had a
similar thing where late in games when they had a
lead and they were on offense, they'd take him out
for free throws. By the way, and I don't really
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go on Instagram, so I always have dms that I
that I missed. But how about this DM that I
didn't know how to respond to because I couldn't tell
if he was actually happy with it or not. From
Doctor Shaquille O'Neill on ig. Thanks Top twelve is nice?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Do we think that was like sincere or he's mad
at me because Shaq Shaq does his pod with one
of my dear friends, Adam Lefko. I really like Shaq,
I don't he He came on first things first seven
years ago, picked Deanna up. We have a great picture.
I you know, I don't. I don't want Shack.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I first came out with that was like back a
couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
No, he sent it three days ago. No, it was
because of the Steph clip. So that's why I'm worried
because the context of that clip is, I'm like, here
are the greatest players. Two of them had a flaw
that opponents tried to exploit. One of them was Shack.
And then he's saying thanks Top twelve.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
But he didn't mention that, yes, maybe we're good.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
But to get back on track, I watched those games,
and during the games when they took Shack off the court,
the commentators didn't pretend it wasn't happening, or they didn't
act confused as.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
To why it was happening.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
When the Lakers had a four point lead with forty
seconds left and all of a sudden, Shacks coming out
of the game. No one was like, oh, interesting call
by Phil Jackson. We're gonna get some Sasha Vuya chich
minutes here. Hey, Sasha wasn't on those teams. My apologies,
or maybe he was on the end, but regardless, nobody,
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nobody was making those no just saying those things, be like, oh,
don't want to you know, Shack's liability of the line.
They want to get him out of the game. And
so again, I think that Steph's Game three, which we
talked about yesterday, was an all time performance and you
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saw that in the game, and then you saw it
in the talk shows and TV shows yesterday that we're
paying homage to it. Steph's Game four performance what you're
not going to see, And I'm fine, and you shouldn't
because it's it's it's toxic commentary is all.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Steph carried by Jimmy. You're not gonna get that.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
And I just and that is it's just a nice
goldilock zone in the public consciousness to live. And I thought,
I think that right now the Steph where I will
in all seriousness and yesterday wasn't a good example of it.
But this whole series has been it has been really
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remarkable to watch the Rockets entire the Rockets, who are
a decade younger than the Warriors, with nothing but long,
strong defenders to throw at him. Their entire game plan
B just please don't let Steph Curry kill us. And
they've really only been able to execute it successfully in
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one game, like they and they lost it, but the
I get well, no, I guess you could say they
executed it in Game two as well. That's that's I'm
Steph has had two brilliant games. Game one was the
best game anyone had played up to that point the postseason.
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I understand it was the first weekend, and Game three
might be the best game anyone's played in the postseason
other than the Ants game.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
What does that mean for other teams in the West too?
If this young and spry Rockets team can't stop Curry,
you know, Denver has got some defensive problems. I don't
know if they're going to be seeing them.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
And well, listen, what every other team has is someone
who can score the basketball. Yeah, I mean that's the
you're you're right that this will be STEP's heart Now
if they get Minnesota. Minnesota is going to be a
son of a bitch. Defensively, we're seeing that right now.
But what the other teams have is the ability to score,
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and that brings I mean, I'm I could not be
further out on Jalen Green. I was never really in
on Jalen Green.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I and.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You know is Jailen I just that is not the
style of player I tend to love. But also, being
in single digit seven of your last eight games is wild.
It's really wild. All right, Let's get to the Lakers Timberwolves.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah, so you said on your show that their season
the Lakers ended last weekend, but the series isn't over.
How would you explain that? How would they still be alive?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
So listen, I think they can. I actually think they
can win the series. They obviously need a lot of
things to break their way. The reason I said the
season's over, and I mean it is because the goal
of the season was to make the finals win the championship,
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and they had a very narrow path to doing that,
and one of the parts of that path was winning
in round one in short order and definitively not letting
round one go seven. Now it's going to take a
heroic effort just to get.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Out of round one in seven. But here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Demanse starting tomorrow, best case scenario for the Lakers. They
play on the following dates April thirtieth, May second, May fourth,
May sixth, May eighth, May tenth, May twelfth, May fourteenth,
May sixteenth, May eighteenth, May twentieth, May twenty second, May
twenty fourth, May twenty sixth, May twenty eighth, May thirtieth,
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fifty their best case scenario. And I guess really, technically
the best case scenario is some of those games are
clipped out because they get they get out of this
round and then win in round two quickly. That's so yeah,
but that's now we're not really talking realistic scenarios. The
point is round one was the only with extra time
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between games, and you could get that in round two
if you win your round one series early. But none
of that is happening, and now they are on starting
tomorrow and every other day until this season ends trajectory.
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And that's hard enough to win when the guy who's
playing the best for you on your team is forty
years old and at seventy thousand minutes, it is impossible
to win when that the guy who's playing the best
of anyone on your team is forty years old at
seventy thousand minutes, and the coach has made it very
clear to the team and the entire world, there's five
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guys on this team I even want to let look
me in the eye. I mean, that was the other
piece of it, like the to to show that little
faith in the rest of your squad that early in
the playoffs is I just don't know that you can
come back from it. And so that's why I said
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the season's over now. I think they'll win tomorrow. I
think you and I will be on here Thursday, coming
off a Lakers win and discussing, well, if they can
just win Friday in Minnesota, where they had opportunities to
win both of the previous two, then you have a
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Game seven in Los Angeles, and I'll talk myself into it.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
There's no question about.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
It, especially given the level Lebron is playing, because what
was supposed to be the question going into these playoffs
was more about what level would Lebron be at. Instead,
he's twenty six, ten and eight with the best defense
on the team. He's been by the advanced numbers, the
best rim protector in the NBA these playoffs. He's just
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played forty six minutes and had the energy on defense,
didn't have it on offense at the end. So he's
been and now he's gonna have two days. So he's
been excellent. And I'll talk myself into that Luca is
going to get, you know, back to true Luca form.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
But I just don't think they have enough bodies.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
And it is true that from a narrative and infuriating
media cycle perspective, and folks that you know, take pleasure
in my pain, we are potentially staring down the barrel
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at from annoying and infuriating narrative perspective of a worst
case scenario, which is somehow a Lebron slash Luca masterpiece
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over these next three games serves them up dead, tired
and exhausted to a fresh rested Warriors team coming off
a five game beating of Houston. And then we get
Steph Lebron in round two, and folks in that series
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will of course pretend that we didn't get Steph Lebron
in round.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Two two years ago.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
When folks acted like big stakes on this series. Oh
it's finally a fair fight. And then if you remember
that series culminated in Steph falling down at mid court,
then throwing the ball backwards over his head out of
bounds in the deciding game, and the Lakers cruising, everyone
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will pretend as if that didn't happen, and this is
the newest referendum. I would not enjoy those basketball games,
I'll tell you that much right now. And the Lakers
have put themselves in a position now with the assistance
of Jalen Green and some great Warriors play that we
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talked earlier of that being the scenario we're looking at.
The best case scenario coming in was the opposite. Of course,
the Lakers handle business, beat Minnesota in five or six.
The Warriors have a seven game war with Houston. And
this is why playoff basketball is so great. We are
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like three possessions away from that being the case. Lebron's
masterpiece thirty eight points in Game three, if Luca just
has anything in the tank, they have that. They have
a double digit lead in Game four and they have
the ball up to with a minute left, everything goes
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wrong from there that point forward. That's between Lakers being
down three to one and up three to one. And
last night, how many opportunities did Houston have, most notably
just Shingoon shot at the end for that series to
be two to two. But that's the playoffs, man. The
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Clippers were one hundredth of a second away from planning
for Oklahoma City, and now they kind of know deep
down we're gonna be playing a game seven at altitude
in Denver. We're the best player in the world on
the other team. It's just just unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
All right, the.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Go ahead, it's Shane Goon. Yeah, so Chris is saying.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
I cannot believe. I can't believe that no one has
gotten to Reggie about this. You are sitting next to
Kevin Harlan. He is calling him Shin Goon. He's the
best player on the Rockets. He's their only all star.
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His name is shing Goon. If you were going to
mispronounce it because it's an international name and you were
just gonna do it the way it's spelled, that would
be Singoon. There is no a in the name. You
are calling the NBA playoffs. You are saying his name
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fifty times, and you won't stop calling him Shane Goon.
I don't like. I don't understand it. It is beyond baffling.
Beyond baffling.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
I've gotten hip to your your Reggie Miller take. I was.
I was telling Daniel earlier. I've I've been listening to him.
He's it can be a little unbearable, a little annoying.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
I mean, it's the it's on. I can't.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
I don't know if you noticed yesterday, but Draymond was
like he was doing his antics the entire game, and
then he goes over to apologize and Reggie Miller is like, yeah,
a real vet move by him, and.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
It's like, well, acting like I can't, I can't. I
it is the combination of.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
I again.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
People people tweet to me, they're like, why do you
dislike Reggie Miller. It's it, It's nothing personal. It's just
I am. I love him basketball. He is the number
one color commentator on one of the top broadcasts. He
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has been involved in a disproportionate amount of my favorite
sports moments, and I'm sorry to be a jerk. I
don't mean to. He's never made a single one of
them better. And it's like you can be like, okay,
it's just different styles, so be it.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
No problem.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
You got to pronounce the player's names right, like it's
just a level, It's whatever. All right, let's keep moving.
We can do some follow ups here.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Yeah. So the last two minute report came out and
it said that Luca should have gotten a foul call
on him or not on him. McDaniel should have gotten
a foul call on him because he tripped Luca. Do
you think that this swinging the game more than JJ
deciding to play the starting fial.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Well, listen, if they get that foul call that, you know,
assuming Luca makes both, which you don't know for sure,
the Lakers are in, you know, up one with thirty
five seconds left. I I am pretty consistent on this,
complaining about officiatings for losers.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
And be better.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
You're it's gonna you like to think eventually it'll even out.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Uh, I'll be honest.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I was more annoyed by the NBA breaking out the
five thousand millimeters of pruder camera to find the foul
on Lebron than I was them not calling the.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Trip like that was. That was frustrating.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
I But I but where I'm consistent on that is
I just don't like replay in sports in general. I
think it has made sports worse, but that's another argument
for another day. The worst missed call the refs had
in that game was the kickball out of bounds on
the sideline that would have been Laker's ball with fourteen
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on the clock. Instead they called shotluck violation. But whatever,
like be better. So I'm not gonna and I did not.
I understand the last two minute reports said what it said.
I didn't think that was an egregious missed call. That
was borderline it. You know, Lucas stepped on his foot,
he did stick his foot out. That was whatever be better,
and Lebron's got to inbound that ball better. So, like
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I the I'm not going to blame refs.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
It's not my thing in the reviewing situation. Like I
think the time has to be cut down. That's one thing.
Reggie Miller is one hundred per correct on that game yesterday.
I mean, I think there was like ten minutes of
them reviewing a play in Golden Rockets.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Listen, this is an rant for the off season. But
if you can't figure it out within thirty seconds, the
call on the floor.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Stands stands, right, Yeah, and the only The.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Only scenario where I am okay with them taking all
the time they need is the Clippers Nugget scenario where
it's game over or not game over, because it that
is to what nobody ever talks about when.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
It comes to these replays and reviews is fatigue and conditioning.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Being a part of sports, and that it should benefit
the more better conditioned team, And so the long replays
and reviews skews the fair outcome. With the one exception
of something like Clippers Nuggets where it's literally the last
play of the game like that, that to me is
a different situation everything else. It was put in place
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so you could get obvious mistakes, right not so oh
we called this and out of bounds.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
But it turns out when we take the camera from
the drone at the ceilings and zoom in and black
and white, we see, like, give me a break, let's
do the last follow up here about Aunt.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Oh yeah, so last year everybody thought aunt was taking
the big He had a lot of traction saying he's
gonna be the face of the league, but they kind
of died off after the Western Conference finals. So we
think that it's a real deal. He's walking down some.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Well, Listen, what's definitely a real deal is he's been
the best player in this series and that's a series
with Pete Luca it supposed to be and Lebron in
the playoffs who will always just be great. And that's remarkable.
It's also real that he's twenty three years old. He's
knocked Kevin Durant and Devin Booker out of the playoffs.
He's knocked Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray out of the playoffs.
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He is a game away from knocking Luke and Lebron
out of the playoffs. And then he's gonna have a
chance to knock Steph out of the playoffs. Like that's
that's the path. And now our resident Nuggets fan Daniel,
who is a really really sharp guy and a great producer,
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but has a blind spot for his team, rites in.
Didn't Jokic, not Ant knock Ant, Durant and Lebron out? Yes, Daniel,
And that's how he became known as.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
The best player in the league. Yes, yes, he did.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
And that's why we are now talking about if Aunt
were to do something similar, what it would mean for him.
I get it, you are correct, sir, and and so
it's like my Ba and Aunt. Listen, the what the
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conversation that is starting with Aunt and fair is fair?
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Is is he The conversation that's starting is is he
better than Luca?
Speaker 1 (40:48):
And Perk flat out said he is. Listen.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
I would still rather have Luca, however, and I don't
think it's I don't think we can be so prisoner
of the moment d where Luca drastically outplays him and
beats him in the conference finals a year ago.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
And that is totally that means nothing.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
If the opposite then happens in the playoffs this year,
that just means they're.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
One to one.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
However, this year Ant's game has jumped and Lucas didn't.
And you know, Anti's a dominant two way.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Player like he is.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
I don't know if it's Luca dropping us tier for
the time being or Ant rising a tier.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
It's a little bit of both. But that is a
fair discussion.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
The mean, when you bake in the defense with Anthony Edwards,
I think is probably I don't know where Kendrick Perkins
was talking about or where his points were, but yeah,
I think when you factor in the fact that Ant
plays actual defense and he can probably average the same
amount of points that Luca can.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Well, that's the thing is he hasn't shown he can
average the amount of points as Luca can, and he's
never where been close to the passer Luca's been, so
Lucas is he hasn't been in this series. But Luca
is the more well rounded.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
Better as series, right, all.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Right, And so there's just but it is listen, the
playoffs in the games and the results have to matter,
and so like that is that like he is making
a claim and we'll see how far he can push
this thing.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
All right, Let's move on to Dame.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
So Dame unfortunately went down with a non contact injury
a few days ago. He tore his achilles in game four.
You said that it was likely the last time we
see Dame play like Dame, and you also said this
is probably the last time we see Giannis as a buck.
Your thoughts, Yeah, I I hate.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
This so much for Damian Lillard, and you know he
he he came back faster from and it killed sorry
from blood clots than anyone ever and that I don't
(43:26):
really understand how he did it. And obviously blood clots
are not related to a torn achilles However, him being
out and not being able to train and do their
play for a month a month and then jumping into
playoff basketball. Did that contribute I would have to imagine
it at least could have. And so you just feel
(43:49):
truly sick to your stomach that this guy did everything
he could to come back as early as possible and
now and it was to get this playoff run. And
now he didn't get this playoff run, and he's not
gonna have next year's playoff run, and he might not
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have any more playoff runs. So I mean that is
a true cruel, cruel turn of events for a great
dude and a great player. Yeah, I mean you just
hate it. You hate every piece of it. And you
know he has I'm sure so.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Many what ifs in his head.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
What if he had just stayed in Portland and just
been the legend there forever. It's not like, you know,
well if I had done that, I wouldn't have gotten
these great playoff runs that those never happened.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
So you, oh, you said that, Dame said, like, what
if I'd never left Portland? And you're saying, honest might.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
No, no, no, no, what I'm saying. I'm just talking about
from Dame. I'll get to Giannis in a minute. What
I'm saying for Dame is he's just thinking, like I'm
sure he has a lot of like, man, what have
I never left? I left Portland, which I didn't really
want to do because I wanted to compete for a championship.
I won zero playoff series in Milwaukee. I would you
(45:13):
know what I mean? Like that that didn't happen. I'm
sure he's also thinking, what if they had just traded
me where I wanted to be traded to Miami and
it was me and Jimmy Butler and bam.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
You know what would that have looked like?
Speaker 2 (45:26):
And so it's a cruel not final chapter, but close
to a final chapter for Dame and then for Yannis.
I I don't see how Yannis can stay. And the
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Bucks are in such a weird spot because they don't
control any of their own picks the next six years,
so they can't tank, They have no cap space to
improve the team, they don't have any young players that
(46:09):
you're just super excited about, and so it's gonna be
fake trade season with Giannis. And there's two demands that
I made that are really interesting. One is to the Rockets,
(46:30):
where you get Hngoon Reed Shepherd, who is a top
five pick who doesn't play. Jack Landale. He doesn't play
because he doesn't defend, but he was top by picking
this year's draft, so he's valuable Jack Landale for salary filler.
And then four draft picks, two of which are super valuable,
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the Phoenix twenty seven and twenty nine first and the
Houston twenty eight and thirty first. That if you're Milwaukee,
because keep in mind, you can't tank, so Shingoon makes
it so you don't tank. You have those picks to
start getting the young players. That to me is a unique,
(47:13):
an interesting one. And then the other one if you
just want to go pure young you there is a
trade with the Spurs where you offer them Giannis so
Jannis and Wimber together, which is terrifying for the league,
and they give up Barnes for the salary Kelden Johnson,
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Rookie of the Year Stefan Castle, and then a litany
of picks, the Atlanta and first round pick in twenty
twenty seven, the Chicago first round pick in twenty twenty seven,
the Boston first round pick in twenty twenty eight, the
Dallas first round pick in twenty thirty, which could be
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super valuable, and the Minnesota first round pick in twenty thirty,
which is okay, And I like, those are.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
Real trades and.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
I'm interested if they would they would be interested in
any of those the are there any other fake trades
you want to ask me about?
Speaker 3 (48:22):
Yeah, there's what about okay? See, I mean they have picks,
and they can obviously trade good players. So you see
that working out.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Here's the thing for okay, se First of all, they
might win the title this year. If they do that,
I can't imagine.
Speaker 3 (48:42):
That in this scenario, if they fell off, if they
came up short, if.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
They Okay, so they came up short, do they?
Speaker 2 (48:51):
So they're not trading shit, right, So I'm just trying
to see how they could make the salaries work. I
guess they could because Hartenstein makes twenty eight million. I'm
just trying to put it together on the fly. If
you traded them Hartenstein.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
And Chet to go and.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
Let me find one more guy that you would have
like would if you traded him Hartenstein, Chet and Isaiah.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
Joe That that makes the salaries work.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
And then they have the picks okac has Is in
twenty twenty six, Houston's and the Clippers in twenty twenty
seven their own, and Dallas in twenty twenty eight Denver
Denver's pick, and then they have their own picks the
(49:58):
rest of the way, so they don't have have great picks.
We thought that Clippers pick would be unbelievable. Do they
have swaps? I thought they had swaps with the Clippers
and let me look that up real quick, future draft
picks Clippers.
Speaker 1 (50:20):
So or no, I don't, so let me see.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
They so outgoing draft picks for the I should have
done the Thunder, but so I don't think that maybe
those picks went elsewhere. Sorry, this is not good podcasting,
(50:44):
but I just incoming picks.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
So they Yeah, they can swap.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
With the Clippers in twenty twenty seven, they can swap
with Dallas in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (50:59):
Uh, and I think.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
That's where that the Paul George trade and all that
stuff ends. But Chat would be a real piece. Obviously,
Hartenstein's a real piece. So yeah, I don't think the
Thunder gonna make that move. Maybe I'm wrong. I think
Houston or San Antonio are the more likely outcomes there
all right, we're gonna do this. I guess we're gonna
(51:25):
try to do some shadoor Thursday because we don't have
time for it here, because I do want to I
want to have some fun, and I also want to
talk about the Saquon thing. So let's just skip ahead
to the saque thing, because this is very simple and
I I don't know why people. I do know why
(51:48):
people are being disingenuous about this, but it's annoying, so
let me do so if people don't know.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
Obviously, the Eagles were at the White House yesterday.
Speaker 2 (51:56):
Sidebar that for a moment prior to that, sake was
chilling with the president and golfing with him. He then
tweeted the following, Okay, and we can lol. Some people
are really upset because I played golf and flew to
the White House with the all caps president. Maybe I
just respect the office. Not a hard concept to understand.
(52:19):
Just golfed with Obama not too long ago and look
forward to finishing my round with Trump.
Speaker 1 (52:24):
Now you get out my.
Speaker 2 (52:25):
Mentions with all this politics and have an amazing day
laughing emoji. Okay, I'm gonna give Saquon the benefit of
the doubt. That he's smarter than that.
Speaker 1 (52:34):
And this is if you have the intellectual capacity to
listen to this in a non partisan manner, I think
I think you will.
Speaker 2 (52:45):
Agree with what I'm saying. The reason I said I
think I thought he was smarter than that is very simple.
Choosing to spend time with the world's most famous politician
and then being like, why y'all talk in politics here
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is stupid.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
It's dumb behavior.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
And if you were photographed hanging out with Bobby Flay
and then we're like, hey, why, people drop in recipes
in my mentions, like hey man, this is like this
is what it is, So like the whole where's this
(53:35):
coming from? Guy in the banana costume?
Speaker 1 (53:40):
Who did this? Buddy?
Speaker 2 (53:43):
You're golfing with the world's most famous politician. So there's
that piece of it. Okay, it's not an unfair ask
or an unfair assumption, whatever it is. Now here is
the slightly more complicated but not actually complicated piece of this.
(54:07):
I do think that athletes get put in tricky spots
when it comes to we've won the championship, We've been
invited to the White House, because they are then without
(54:28):
opting into it, being forced to make what will for
many people be a political choice, just the again Obama
Trump president. I obviously do not view them the same,
but I understand the way I feel about one and
feel about the other. Some people listening feel the exact
(54:48):
same way, but in the one.
Speaker 1 (54:50):
Hundred and eighty degrees. So just stick with me here
for a moment. Guys, when it comes to my team's
been invited to the White House.
Speaker 2 (55:02):
And I disagree with everything the president represents, you're putting
a weird spot because if you show up, some people
will use that against you. And if you don't show up,
as Jalen Hurts is learning right now, some people will
(55:22):
use that against you.
Speaker 1 (55:23):
And you didn't ask to go.
Speaker 2 (55:26):
You're like, I just practiced hard and got great at
the sport, my team won a championship, and now I'm
I'm making I'm being forced to make a decision either way.
I empathize with guys in that spot, truly, okay, and
I am everyone's got to make their own decision. But
(55:48):
I feel badly when folks who truly want nothing to
and I get let me, I'll back up even further.
I get folks that are saying, no, you have an
obligation in this moment to stand up for what you
believe in is Folks that think there's a crisis, all
of it. I get all that, and we can have
(56:09):
those discussions at a different time. It's not what I'm
trying to do right now. What I'm trying to do
right now is make a very specific point, and the
specific point the only way to make it is if
we just treat all presidencies equal. And I understand that's
not how people feel about any presidency. Okay, and I
(56:34):
feel particularly this one, but I know a lot of
you guys watching felt like the eight years under Obama
were damn tyranny.
Speaker 1 (56:43):
So like, again, agree to disagree on that stuff. Stick
with me.
Speaker 2 (56:46):
On an intellectual level, the White House visit stuff puts
guys in a tough spot.
Speaker 1 (56:53):
They didn kN opped into. This was not that.
Speaker 2 (57:02):
Choosing opting into in your personal time, striking up a
personal relationship with the sitting president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (57:19):
Is a political decision, flatly.
Speaker 2 (57:25):
And when you opt into that arena, folks are going
to assume that you either share some values or whatever
they think is the most objectionable thing about that politician,
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that you don't have the same issue with that they do,
which is objectively likely true. The folks that thought Obama
was the Antichrist cannot believe Saquon Barkley would golf with him.
Saquon Barkley, I assume knew that chose to do it anyway.
(58:09):
And the folks that believe the current president is a
dictator in waiting or wants to be and thinks that
anything other than hardcore disavowal is a endorsement, those folks
(58:33):
certainly would not golf with him. Saquan is saying, That's
not how I feel. Obviously, as of this moment, we
still have free speech in this country, freedom of political expression.
He's allowed to think or feel whatever he wants. What
you can't do is then play the woe is me?
(58:56):
Why is everyone acting like this is a big deal?
Gotta be smarter than that, And Saquan's a smart guy,
and so.
Speaker 1 (59:08):
I I was.
Speaker 2 (59:15):
Disappointed at the where's this coming from? Why are you
guys being ridiculous tweet?
Speaker 1 (59:30):
When it was.
Speaker 2 (59:33):
Totally fair, in my opinion, for folks to see anyone
that you are not part of your job, not being
made to do, not part of team building, that you
are opting to spend five hours of your personal time
with hobnobbing on the golf course. That folks might then
(59:56):
think you are endorsing that person to a degree, which
obviously you are allowed to do. To act shocked by
that reaction, it's either naive, disingenuous, or dumb.
Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
And I don't know which one you want to be.
Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Now to what people come here for? One hundred men
versus one gorilla demonse? Finally, snap judgment, because I don't
think this is a hard question.
Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
I think it's one hundred men easily. But that's what
I've been telling. That's my take on I think I
think fifty.
Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
Probably demonse easily. Yeah's one hundred men.
Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
Here's the thing now, I thought van Lathan had the
funniest content on this, and I didn't even consume the content.
I just saw the tweet. But I'm gonna van Lathan
had a whiteboard.
Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
Have you seen this, demanse Uh, I've not seen it.
Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
I'm texting it to you right now. I'm gonna text
it to our group chat. I don't know if we
can put it up there or not.
Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
I should have told the producers before.
Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
But he's holding a whiteboard, shout out Van Lathan, who
I don't know but does good stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
So there it is. He's holding a white It.
Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
Says one hundred versus gorilla, and then parenthetical wild average
size six feet, four hundred pounds, brolic all underlined. It
then has a picture of the gorilla and it would
appear he has circled its weak spots, head, skull, brain, throat, neck, chest, heart, lungs, knees,
(01:01:43):
and it looks like it's got his fingers. So he
has broken this down into five waves. Wave one meat
sacks parenthetical Vince will forks three hundred poundersynthetical bloody mess.
Wave two runners parenthetical Noah Lyles's uh sidebar disorient him.
(01:02:11):
Wave three light brutes for arm kicking. Wave four heavy
brutes for sapping the energy parenthetical Aaron Donald. Wave five
finishers vital striking throat neck parenthetical John Jones. Then at
the bottom in a box, some will die.
Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
And so here's.
Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
The deal, and this is and Van nailed it. And
this is why this conversation is so ridiculous if it
is understood, guys, the first and hit he had a
real strategy. I don't even think you need a real
strategy that would be the best way to.
Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
Go about it.
Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
But if the if you have one hundred adult men
and everyone understands it's like the old World War One
movies where deserters will be shot. You can only go
in one direction, and the guys at the front understand
(01:03:23):
I'm probably dying. This thing is not that difficult if
the every like the it just the overwhelming numbers of
it make it so clear to where if truly no
one abandoned ship on this this can be done in
relative quick order because of the overall weight and mass.
(01:03:49):
The reason is such a unique and fun topic is
while one hundred humans is obviously the right answer from
any sinem emulation standpoint or any standpoint where you get
the fake theoretical world that no one abandoned ship, in reality,
(01:04:13):
no one hundred humans versus one gorilla would end shortly
like this. The first couple guys get an arm ripped off,
three of your first wave feints, another couple wet themselves
(01:04:33):
or defecate on themselves. A few start trying to actually
team up with the gorilla where you're like pushing him
into them, and then you have mutiny, Mayheim disorientation, and
what you end up with is like six or seven
dead guys, some injuries, and guys faking their death and
(01:04:56):
people scattered running everywhere. That's how it really goes.
Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
But if you're.
Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
Asking if you can guarantee everyone is locked in on
the goal, you can take the gorilla out quickly and honestly.
Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
If you attack simultaneously minimal death. The problem is.
Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
Who's going to be the guy that's like, all right,
short straw, here, I guess not only am I dying,
but I'm dying at the hands of a gorilla, and
so that's the I. I don't think this is a debate.
I know I'm right, and that's how it would go. So,
(01:05:48):
as the kids say, find you a podcast that can
do both some very smart non political political commentary and
then the only true breakdown using real world factors of
one gorilla versus one hundred men.
Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
This one.
Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
I wouldn't think I would like it either, However I
found it so it was a fun thought exercise. I
also loved when Dragonfly Jones and le Jethro Jenkins Great
Pod used to be on the volume.
Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
When they did their beast Bracket. Did you ever see that?
Speaker 3 (01:06:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
So let me let me try to pull it up real.
Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
Quick, one hundred men versus a grizzly bear, though it's
just slightly more complicated.
Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
More complicated because I don't know where the vulnerabilities are
and because the grizzly bear has a lot more.
Speaker 1 (01:06:56):
One shot kills.
Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
Yeah, so like the the gorilla doesn't have a lot
of like I mean, obviously can.
Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
Strength, and they don't really use their teeth.
Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
Bears are right, but the polar bears got such a wingspan. Again,
if the polar bear knew what was up, that's the
other piece of this. If the like, if the polar
bear knows I got a hundred guys coming at me eventually,
and like he's trained for this, he can almost just
do like a spinning fist with his claws and no
(01:07:32):
one can ever touch him. That could be a thousand men,
it wouldn't matter because he's so big and can just
one shot.
Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
Kill you with the faws.
Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
Gorilla's three sixty as well too. I don't know if
like they're actually more equipped to do it three sixty.
Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
Yes, but they don't.
Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
But again, the three sixty ends usually with like a
brutal punch in that hand, not all disembowelment and so
uh okay. Paul just texted in the beast bracket was
the idea behind the beast bracket was all of these
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things demons have. It's the same weight. So one bison
versus ten kangaroos. Two tigers against five humans. That's two tigers,
you know, like the the final four got you down to.
There's fifty Tasmanian devils against twenty five bobcats. Four lions
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against fifty foxes and they seated them accordingly. Three silver
back guerrillas against two hundred roosters, like these are the things.
But I think the final four for this ended up
being two tigers against one polar bear.
Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
Who you got two tigers against a polar bear. I'll
go with the I'll go with the polar bear me too.
Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
Other side of the bracket, eight jaguars against four lions, well,
hold on Sweet sixteen matchup. Four lions against ten wolves.
I don't know wolfs four lives, yeah, but I think
eight jaguars, I'm not sure, all right. I think this
was the toughest one. Two Grizzlies against three Silverbacks.
Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
I'm taking the Grizzlies. The coats on the Grizzlies are
just impenetrable and the yeah.
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What are the games tonight. The big game tonight is
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Knicks take care of the Pistons. I think the Pacers
take care of the Bucks. I think the Celtics take
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care of the Magic and Clippers Nuggets should be a
great game. But it's a game five, so we're gonna
have more time for that on Thursday, and then Wednesday night.
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Wednesday, by the way, your sister's twentieth birthday to Monday twenty. Yeah, Warriors,
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We'll driving the Great Episode three twenty six, after another
thrilling NBA playoff game, Golden State Warriors escape and take
firm and full control of the series. If at some
point Jalen Green shows up to the series other than
Game two, maybe we'd have one, but we don't. That, however,
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is not the story of the game. The story of
the game is Draymond Green. We will get to him momentarily.
There is a lot to do on today's show. I
I want to address Saquon's tweet because I think, well,
I just want to address it, and it's probably not
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what you think I'm gonna say, but I want to
discuss that. Also, we did an emergency pod yesterday. We
have done on the pod. We haven't done anything related
to Shador's slide in the draft, which is it really?
Is that really a common tarry about Shador or is
that a commentary about the media. Is it a meta
commentary on commentary?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
All of that.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Demonse, though fresh from his brand new studio with his
right eleven Celtics Jersey our YouTube plaque looking great, sound well,
I don't know if you're sounding great or not.
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Let me hear you good.
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To see you, pops. But yeah, we're at a new location.
It took me a little bit less time to get
here today, but yeah, excited to do it from the
old apartment.
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Oh well, I wasn't gonna dox you now everyone knows
where you're at the now the but no, that works.
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So Demansey's got the home setup. I've got the home setup.
It's great.
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We are by coastal on this show. Before though, we
get to Rockets Warriors, Let's get to what missed the cut.
We'll miss the cut in today's show, the Commanders returning
to d C.
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I haven't followed that story. Listen.
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The thundersweep the Grizzlies and the Cavs sweep the Heat,
and they both those series involved fifty plus point wins.
Jah though says he had the Thunder figured out. By
the way, for those keeping track at home, the Thunder
were eight no against the Grizzlies this year. However, I
guess Joe's point is it went from fifty to seventeen
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to up twenty seven. Had I stayed health, we had
a won Game six of that series by ninety points.
The trajectory we were on for Oklahoma City and for
Cleveland their rewards as being the one seed. The NBA
has never done this before. They did it this year, though,
the rewards for the one seed was a bye, a
true first round by and so their playoffs will start
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next week. Also, we typically stay out of this silly
internet memory, but this one hundred men versus one gorilla
topic is simply too delectable to ignore, so we will
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All of that really does help, all right, demanse, Let's
get to Rockets Warriors.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Uh yeah, Golden State went up three to one against
the Rockets. Despite Steph's somewhat mediocre game, this series has
been super chippy and Houston actually had a chance there
at the end. Shanghun had a go ahead bucket he missed.
Van Vliet had a three in transition missed that as well.
You picked the Rockets in this series. In this series,
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do you think they've officially blown it?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I think they have probably blown it. I real quick,
did you think Van Vleet shot was going in? I
thought it was going in.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
No, he had it exactly in line.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It was just off by, like just short.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Usually when you take those kind of running almost sideways threes,
if you miss it, you're gonna miss it to the right.
When I saw the line it was on, I was like,
holy shit, he made.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I mean there were a bunch of air balls yesterday.
Steph had two, Draymond had a couple. Van Vliet had won.
But the story of the game is Draymond Green. Because
put this game on Draymond's basketball tombstone, just the perfect
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vintage Draymond Green. Every single reason you love him or
every single reason you can't stand him, a true Draymond
Green playoff masterclass. And listen, Draymond has consumed a fair
amount of my Draymond Green related media. I hope he
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sees this and or I hope someone sends it to him,
because listen, I don't Draymond Green and I have a
lot of mutual not just acquaintances, but close friends that
has once put us in the same room in a
social setting. It it was nothing bad at all. We
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were both cordial, but it wasn't you know, warm and
I you know, understandable and you know probably sixty forty
my fault in that regard. But and I am someone
who has been highly critical. I think fairly of a
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lot of the Draymond Green nonsense, and at times I
poke a little fun at the backpack shots and the
triple singles. However, yesterday was the perfect encapsulation.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
For why.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
This era of Warriors basketball if you remove the supercharged
three years with Durant that were its own thing, the
pre Durant and post Durant era, even when you had
prime Klay Thompson, and now you have playoff Jimmy Butler
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each and every year, for good or for bad, the
second most important player on that team is Draymond Green.
And as much as Steph unlocks everyone on their offense,
Draymond unlocks everyone on their defense. And last night was
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just perfect because Draymond hits his first two shots, then
can't hit the broadside of a bar, and the rest
of the night, Draymond is flailing and flopping and grabbing
and kicking and doing every single thing he can do
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up to the line to where he gets ejected without
being ejected, and he is snarling and spittling and intimidating
the rockets and then playing an extra level mind game
when he tries to with the free throw line on
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the box outline, you know, apologize or make amends with
Tarry Esen. And then Amen Thompson comes over and is like, hey,
don't be friendly with Draymond. Then Draymond gets into it
with Amen, and it's just the full Draymond experience, and
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it's all wrapped around absolute lockdown, shut down defense on
Alpern Shingun who in the minute that Shingoon got with
Draymond off the he scored any time he wanted. I
thought Udoka made a significant error in the moment Draymond
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picked up his fifth ball and went to the bench.
He didn't put Shingoun right back in the game. Now,
he put him in shortly thereafter, But that needed to
be instantaneous. Every single minute Draymond was not on the court,
Shingoon should have been on the court absolutely cooking.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
And that's ultimately what he did.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Ultimately, he went back in the game, lit him up,
and then Draymond came back in and Shingoon was shook
and Draymond asked for one on one defensive assignment game
on the line. Shingoon makes the shot you're going back
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to Golden State. I'm sorry, going back to Houston. That's
very important. Two games apiece, Shingoon misses the shot and
you have a commanding lead on the series, and.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Draymond got him.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
And so years ago when the Warriors were at their
apex and.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
People thought this was.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Anti Kawhi rather than being pro Draymond. But I was
on the record that I thought Draymond should have won
three consecutive Defensive Player of the Year awards. I thought
Draymond's ability to let them play small and to still
have a dominant defense was such an underrated element of
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the fifteen and sixteen Warriors. What people forget about those
two Warriors years pre Durant was, yes, Steph was unbelievable,
and nobody forgets the threes and the seventy three wins
and Clay's thirty seven point quarter and all of that.
What people do forget is they had the number one
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defensive basketball those two years, and that was Draymond Green.
It wasn't just Draymond. Iggy was a great defender, Clay
was a great defender, but Draymond Green was the tip
of the spear. And for Draymond at this age, at
this point of his career, when a legitimate concern for
Draymond was he is already at a deficit athletically. What
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is it going to look like when he just loses
five ten percent of his athleticism, when he's already not
the quickest, can't obviously jump, viist any of that.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
And the answer is his.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Toughness, his tenacity, his basketball brilliance will overcome all of it.
And it is really a remarkable feat what he has
been able to accomplish in this series without ever scoring,
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without ever scoring in double digits. It is.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Absolutely spectacular and it shows a that one of.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
The smartest quotes he's ever given is, there's eighty two
game guys in their sixteen game guys, and he is
the definition of a sixteen game guy. And to be clear,
it doesn't absolve him of all the nonsense, and it
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doesn't make him, in my opinion, particularly enjoyable to watch,
but it is the definition of a player who understood,
I have one path to being a great player, and
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that is the path I am going to walk, and
I have respect for that. And it is such a
luxury for Steph Curry that Steph can have an off night,
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seventeen three and three four turnovers. Hit the one huge shot,
just a shot that the Warrior has been hitting for
ten years. You get a defensive stop, knock the ball
out of balance. They got two on the shot clock.
You know they're going to Steph for three. You know
he's pump faking. You're gonna bite on the pump fake
anyway and give up the three late in the fourth.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
That was really his only noteworthy.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Moment of the second half, and they can win anyway. Now,
speaking of Steph, people got very mad.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
DEMANSA.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You saw it coming when we were doing the show
on Thursday and I kind of did the impromptu Steph
Curry rules mini rant. Yeah, you you could tell that
that was going to be an unpopular take. You might
have even thought it was a slightly unfair take from
the look.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Of Yeah, I thought you were being scenari towards the
Curry fans, and that's not necessarily Curry. But yeah, I
mean definitely knew that was going to get some engagements.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, So a few things on that. One is.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
People then tried to take my Steph take and remove
Steph and put in Lebron's name because now it looks
like they're going to lose in round one, which is
a unique and interesting turn of phrase and a smart
thing to do if you can say with a straight
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face that there has ever been a single moment of
Lebron James's career where he has skirted criticism where it's
been like, oh, the media didn't jump on Lebron there. Wow,
people are just missing the boat on this one. People
are Wow, they're sure letting Lebron for that early playoff
(14:32):
exit slide, Like that's never happened.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
So it.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Wasn't to say he's never come up short. It was
to say or it wasn't even to say that Steph
regularly does. It was to say.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
That in regards to.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Steph, the commentary somewhat vacillates between he's underappreciated goat point
guard in the goat conversation. That's the upper end, and
then the bad game or disappointing game or disappointing playoff
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performance end is nothing. And I would argue if folks
want to do the Lebron comparison there, that the Lebron
comp would be the upper end is.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
That was amazing.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
But here's why Jordan would have done it better, and
the lower end is lefraud La Mickey. And here's why,
you know what I mean? This is STEP's era or
Kobe would have this. So it's just the way it's
phrased a little differently. Which is why, even though I
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have great respect and truly a level of awe watching
Steph Curry at age thirty seven do what he's doing,
I don't mind, you know the let me interrupt myself here.
You guys remember Batman begins and okay, so the producers there, nerds,
(16:14):
they'll they'll remember.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
What it was called?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Something of Shadows? Was it the League of Shadows? I
feel like this is Daniel right in my ear.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
He's got it. I knew it. Daniel was on it.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Uh the so who was that? Who was the actor
the main guy for the League of Shadows?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Liam? It was Liam Neeson. That's right.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
So Liam Neeson and the League of Shadows basically says
I'm not a bad guy. I'm just here to provide balance.
When things get out of whack, we come in and
even things out. Okay, I sadly would appear, Oh yeah,
(16:59):
ros I'll thank you. Sadly it would appear that I
have to be that character for some of the Steph
Curry stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's not that he's not one of the twelve.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Greatest players ever, the greatest shooter ever, the greatest small
player ever, an all time champion team made.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
All of it.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
It's that because he is so universally beloved.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That there is no balance. Yes, and so my.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Version of bringing balance to Monsa is sending a you know,
somewhat an a Dyninge tweet with a minute left in
the basketball game last night that says, really interested in
who is and who isn't on the court this possession,
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because you then saw the Golden State Warriors in the
biggest possession defensively of their season, tell Steph Curry sit
over here.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Give us a minute.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
And then they called time out, got him back on
the court, and then the next possession, the shingoon possession,
we come out of commercial, and I'm like, oh, I wonder,
I wonder if a guy who I am a hater
(18:39):
because I won't include in the goat conversation, I wonder
if his head coach thinks what gives us the best
chance to win right now is either having Steph Curry
or Brandon Putjimski on the court, and Steve Kerr was like,
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let's press the brand and Pajimski button.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
And again, I know that that makes me a bad guy.
I get it. I can.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I can wear the black hat for this. But as
I as I mentioned.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
That Curry doesn't receive the same amount of criticism that
it's it's not no.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
It's not even that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I would just like an acknowledgement that it happens, that's all,
like I. And so I did that top twelve thing,
and I put Steph and Shack in the same right
outside the top ten bucket. And the reason I thought
it was interesting they were eleven twelve again, you know
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it was. It was lebron Kareem, Michael Magic, Russell, Wilt Duncan,
Kobe Bird, a Cheme, Shack stuff that Shaq had a
similar thing where late in games when they had a
lead and they were on offense, they'd take him out
for free throws. By the way, and I don't really
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go on Instagram, so I always have dms that I
that I missed. But how about this DM that I
didn't know how to respond to because I couldn't tell
if he was actually happy with it or not. From
Doctor Shaquille O'Neill on ig. Thanks Top twelve is nice?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Do we think that was like sincere or he's mad
at me because Shaq Shaq does his pod with one
of my dear friends, Adam Lefko. I really like Shaq,
I don't he He came on first things first seven
years ago, picked Deanna up. We have a great picture.
I you know, I don't. I don't want Shack.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I first came out with that was like back a
couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
No, he sent it three days ago. No, it was
because of the Steph clip. So that's why I'm worried
because the context of that clip is, I'm like, here
are the greatest players. Two of them had a flaw
that opponents tried to exploit. One of them was Shack.
And then he's saying thanks Top twelve.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
But he didn't mention that, yes, maybe we're good.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
But to get back on track, I watched those games,
and during the games when they took Shack off the court,
the commentators didn't pretend it wasn't happening, or they didn't
act confused as.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
To why it was happening.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
When the Lakers had a four point lead with forty
seconds left and all of a sudden, Shacks coming out
of the game. No one was like, oh, interesting call
by Phil Jackson. We're gonna get some Sasha Vuya chich
minutes here. Hey, Sasha wasn't on those teams. My apologies,
or maybe he was on the end, but regardless, nobody,
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nobody was making those no just saying those things, be like, oh,
don't want to you know, Shack's liability of the line.
They want to get him out of the game. And
so again, I think that Steph's Game three, which we
talked about yesterday, was an all time performance and you
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saw that in the game, and then you saw it
in the talk shows and TV shows yesterday that we're
paying homage to it. Steph's Game four performance what you're
not going to see, And I'm fine, and you shouldn't
because it's it's it's toxic commentary is all.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Steph carried by Jimmy. You're not gonna get that.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
And I just and that is it's just a nice
goldilock zone in the public consciousness to live. And I thought,
I think that right now the Steph where I will
in all seriousness and yesterday wasn't a good example of it.
But this whole series has been it has been really
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remarkable to watch the Rockets entire the Rockets, who are
a decade younger than the Warriors, with nothing but long,
strong defenders to throw at him. Their entire game plan
B just please don't let Steph Curry kill us. And
they've really only been able to execute it successfully in
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one game, like they and they lost it, but the
I get well, no, I guess you could say they
executed it in Game two as well. That's that's I'm
Steph has had two brilliant games. Game one was the
best game anyone had played up to that point the postseason.
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I understand it was the first weekend, and Game three
might be the best game anyone's played in the postseason
other than the Ants game.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
What does that mean for other teams in the West too?
If this young and spry Rockets team can't stop Curry,
you know, Denver has got some defensive problems. I don't
know if they're going to be seeing them.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
And well, listen, what every other team has is someone
who can score the basketball. Yeah, I mean that's the
you're you're right that this will be STEP's heart Now
if they get Minnesota. Minnesota is going to be a
son of a bitch. Defensively, we're seeing that right now.
But what the other teams have is the ability to score,
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and that brings I mean, I'm I could not be
further out on Jalen Green. I was never really in
on Jalen Green.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I and.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You know is Jailen I just that is not the
style of player I tend to love. But also, being
in single digit seven of your last eight games is wild.
It's really wild. All right, Let's get to the Lakers Timberwolves.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah, so you said on your show that their season
the Lakers ended last weekend, but the series isn't over.
How would you explain that? How would they still be alive?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
So listen, I think they can. I actually think they
can win the series. They obviously need a lot of
things to break their way. The reason I said the
season's over, and I mean it is because the goal
of the season was to make the finals win the championship,
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and they had a very narrow path to doing that,
and one of the parts of that path was winning
in round one in short order and definitively not letting
round one go seven. Now it's going to take a
heroic effort just to get.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Out of round one in seven. But here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Demanse starting tomorrow, best case scenario for the Lakers. They
play on the following dates April thirtieth, May second, May fourth,
May sixth, May eighth, May tenth, May twelfth, May fourteenth,
May sixteenth, May eighteenth, May twentieth, May twenty second, May
twenty fourth, May twenty sixth, May twenty eighth, May thirtieth,
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fifty their best case scenario. And I guess really, technically
the best case scenario is some of those games are
clipped out because they get they get out of this
round and then win in round two quickly. That's so yeah,
but that's now we're not really talking realistic scenarios. The
point is round one was the only with extra time
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between games, and you could get that in round two
if you win your round one series early. But none
of that is happening, and now they are on starting
tomorrow and every other day until this season ends trajectory.
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And that's hard enough to win when the guy who's
playing the best for you on your team is forty
years old and at seventy thousand minutes, it is impossible
to win when that the guy who's playing the best
of anyone on your team is forty years old at
seventy thousand minutes, and the coach has made it very
clear to the team and the entire world, there's five
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guys on this team I even want to let look
me in the eye. I mean, that was the other
piece of it, like the to to show that little
faith in the rest of your squad that early in
the playoffs is I just don't know that you can
come back from it. And so that's why I said
(28:11):
the season's over now. I think they'll win tomorrow. I
think you and I will be on here Thursday, coming
off a Lakers win and discussing, well, if they can
just win Friday in Minnesota, where they had opportunities to
win both of the previous two, then you have a
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Game seven in Los Angeles, and I'll talk myself into it.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
There's no question about.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
It, especially given the level Lebron is playing, because what
was supposed to be the question going into these playoffs
was more about what level would Lebron be at. Instead,
he's twenty six, ten and eight with the best defense
on the team. He's been by the advanced numbers, the
best rim protector in the NBA these playoffs. He's just
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played forty six minutes and had the energy on defense,
didn't have it on offense at the end. So he's
been and now he's gonna have two days. So he's
been excellent. And I'll talk myself into that Luca is
going to get, you know, back to true Luca form.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
But I just don't think they have enough bodies.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
And it is true that from a narrative and infuriating
media cycle perspective, and folks that you know, take pleasure
in my pain, we are potentially staring down the barrel
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at from annoying and infuriating narrative perspective of a worst
case scenario, which is somehow a Lebron slash Luca masterpiece
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over these next three games serves them up dead, tired
and exhausted to a fresh rested Warriors team coming off
a five game beating of Houston. And then we get
Steph Lebron in round two, and folks in that series
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will of course pretend that we didn't get Steph Lebron
in round.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Two two years ago.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
When folks acted like big stakes on this series. Oh
it's finally a fair fight. And then if you remember
that series culminated in Steph falling down at mid court,
then throwing the ball backwards over his head out of
bounds in the deciding game, and the Lakers cruising, everyone
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will pretend as if that didn't happen, and this is
the newest referendum. I would not enjoy those basketball games,
I'll tell you that much right now. And the Lakers
have put themselves in a position now with the assistance
of Jalen Green and some great Warriors play that we
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talked earlier of that being the scenario we're looking at.
The best case scenario coming in was the opposite. Of course,
the Lakers handle business, beat Minnesota in five or six.
The Warriors have a seven game war with Houston. And
this is why playoff basketball is so great. We are
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like three possessions away from that being the case. Lebron's
masterpiece thirty eight points in Game three, if Luca just
has anything in the tank, they have that. They have
a double digit lead in Game four and they have
the ball up to with a minute left, everything goes
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wrong from there that point forward. That's between Lakers being
down three to one and up three to one. And
last night, how many opportunities did Houston have, most notably
just Shingoon shot at the end for that series to
be two to two. But that's the playoffs, man. The
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Clippers were one hundredth of a second away from planning
for Oklahoma City, and now they kind of know deep
down we're gonna be playing a game seven at altitude
in Denver. We're the best player in the world on
the other team. It's just just unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
All right, the.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Go ahead, it's Shane Goon. Yeah, so Chris is saying.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
I cannot believe. I can't believe that no one has
gotten to Reggie about this. You are sitting next to
Kevin Harlan. He is calling him Shin Goon. He's the
best player on the Rockets. He's their only all star.
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His name is shing Goon. If you were going to
mispronounce it because it's an international name and you were
just gonna do it the way it's spelled, that would
be Singoon. There is no a in the name. You
are calling the NBA playoffs. You are saying his name
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fifty times, and you won't stop calling him Shane Goon.
I don't like. I don't understand it. It is beyond baffling.
Beyond baffling.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
I've gotten hip to your your Reggie Miller take. I was.
I was telling Daniel earlier. I've I've been listening to him.
He's it can be a little unbearable, a little annoying.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
I mean, it's the it's on. I can't.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
I don't know if you noticed yesterday, but Draymond was
like he was doing his antics the entire game, and
then he goes over to apologize and Reggie Miller is like, yeah,
a real vet move by him, and.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
It's like, well, acting like I can't, I can't. I
it is the combination of.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
I again.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
People people tweet to me, they're like, why do you
dislike Reggie Miller. It's it, It's nothing personal. It's just
I am. I love him basketball. He is the number
one color commentator on one of the top broadcasts. He
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has been involved in a disproportionate amount of my favorite
sports moments, and I'm sorry to be a jerk. I
don't mean to. He's never made a single one of
them better. And it's like you can be like, okay,
it's just different styles, so be it.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
No problem.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
You got to pronounce the player's names right, like it's
just a level, It's whatever. All right, let's keep moving.
We can do some follow ups here.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Yeah. So the last two minute report came out and
it said that Luca should have gotten a foul call
on him or not on him. McDaniel should have gotten
a foul call on him because he tripped Luca. Do
you think that this swinging the game more than JJ
deciding to play the starting fial.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Well, listen, if they get that foul call that, you know,
assuming Luca makes both, which you don't know for sure,
the Lakers are in, you know, up one with thirty
five seconds left. I I am pretty consistent on this,
complaining about officiatings for losers.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
And be better.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
You're it's gonna you like to think eventually it'll even out.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Uh, I'll be honest.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I was more annoyed by the NBA breaking out the
five thousand millimeters of pruder camera to find the foul
on Lebron than I was them not calling the.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Trip like that was. That was frustrating.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
I But I but where I'm consistent on that is
I just don't like replay in sports in general. I
think it has made sports worse, but that's another argument
for another day. The worst missed call the refs had
in that game was the kickball out of bounds on
the sideline that would have been Laker's ball with fourteen
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on the clock. Instead they called shotluck violation. But whatever,
like be better. So I'm not gonna and I did not.
I understand the last two minute reports said what it said.
I didn't think that was an egregious missed call. That
was borderline it. You know, Lucas stepped on his foot,
he did stick his foot out. That was whatever be better,
and Lebron's got to inbound that ball better. So, like
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I the I'm not going to blame refs.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
It's not my thing in the reviewing situation. Like I
think the time has to be cut down. That's one thing.
Reggie Miller is one hundred per correct on that game yesterday.
I mean, I think there was like ten minutes of
them reviewing a play in Golden Rockets.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Listen, this is an rant for the off season. But
if you can't figure it out within thirty seconds, the
call on the floor.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Stands stands, right, Yeah, and the only The.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Only scenario where I am okay with them taking all
the time they need is the Clippers Nugget scenario where
it's game over or not game over, because it that
is to what nobody ever talks about when.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
It comes to these replays and reviews is fatigue and conditioning.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Being a part of sports, and that it should benefit
the more better conditioned team, And so the long replays
and reviews skews the fair outcome. With the one exception
of something like Clippers Nuggets where it's literally the last
play of the game like that, that to me is
a different situation everything else. It was put in place
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so you could get obvious mistakes, right not so oh
we called this and out of bounds.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
But it turns out when we take the camera from
the drone at the ceilings and zoom in and black
and white, we see, like, give me a break, let's
do the last follow up here about Aunt.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Oh yeah, so last year everybody thought aunt was taking
the big He had a lot of traction saying he's
gonna be the face of the league, but they kind
of died off after the Western Conference finals. So we
think that it's a real deal. He's walking down some.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Well, Listen, what's definitely a real deal is he's been
the best player in this series and that's a series
with Pete Luca it supposed to be and Lebron in
the playoffs who will always just be great. And that's remarkable.
It's also real that he's twenty three years old. He's
knocked Kevin Durant and Devin Booker out of the playoffs.
He's knocked Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray out of the playoffs.
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He is a game away from knocking Luke and Lebron
out of the playoffs. And then he's gonna have a
chance to knock Steph out of the playoffs. Like that's
that's the path. And now our resident Nuggets fan Daniel,
who is a really really sharp guy and a great producer,
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but has a blind spot for his team, rites in.
Didn't Jokic, not Ant knock Ant, Durant and Lebron out? Yes, Daniel,
And that's how he became known as.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
The best player in the league. Yes, yes, he did.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
And that's why we are now talking about if Aunt
were to do something similar, what it would mean for him.
I get it, you are correct, sir, and and so
it's like my Ba and Aunt. Listen, the what the
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conversation that is starting with Aunt and fair is fair?
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Is is he The conversation that's starting is is he
better than Luca?
Speaker 1 (40:48):
And Perk flat out said he is. Listen.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
I would still rather have Luca, however, and I don't
think it's I don't think we can be so prisoner
of the moment d where Luca drastically outplays him and
beats him in the conference finals a year ago.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
And that is totally that means nothing.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
If the opposite then happens in the playoffs this year,
that just means they're.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
One to one.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
However, this year Ant's game has jumped and Lucas didn't.
And you know, Anti's a dominant two way.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Player like he is.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
I don't know if it's Luca dropping us tier for
the time being or Ant rising a tier.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
It's a little bit of both. But that is a
fair discussion.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
The mean, when you bake in the defense with Anthony Edwards,
I think is probably I don't know where Kendrick Perkins
was talking about or where his points were, but yeah,
I think when you factor in the fact that Ant
plays actual defense and he can probably average the same
amount of points that Luca can.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Well, that's the thing is he hasn't shown he can
average the amount of points as Luca can, and he's
never where been close to the passer Luca's been, so
Lucas is he hasn't been in this series. But Luca
is the more well rounded.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
Better as series, right, all.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Right, And so there's just but it is listen, the
playoffs in the games and the results have to matter,
and so like that is that like he is making
a claim and we'll see how far he can push
this thing.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
All right, Let's move on to Dame.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
So Dame unfortunately went down with a non contact injury
a few days ago. He tore his achilles in game four.
You said that it was likely the last time we
see Dame play like Dame, and you also said this
is probably the last time we see Giannis as a buck.
Your thoughts, Yeah, I I hate.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
This so much for Damian Lillard, and you know he
he he came back faster from and it killed sorry
from blood clots than anyone ever and that I don't
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really understand how he did it. And obviously blood clots
are not related to a torn achilles However, him being
out and not being able to train and do their
play for a month a month and then jumping into
playoff basketball. Did that contribute I would have to imagine
it at least could have. And so you just feel
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truly sick to your stomach that this guy did everything
he could to come back as early as possible and
now and it was to get this playoff run. And
now he didn't get this playoff run, and he's not
gonna have next year's playoff run, and he might not
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have any more playoff runs. So I mean that is
a true cruel, cruel turn of events for a great
dude and a great player. Yeah, I mean you just
hate it. You hate every piece of it. And you
know he has I'm sure so.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Many what ifs in his head.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
What if he had just stayed in Portland and just
been the legend there forever. It's not like, you know,
well if I had done that, I wouldn't have gotten
these great playoff runs that those never happened.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
So you, oh, you said that, Dame said, like, what
if I'd never left Portland? And you're saying, honest might.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
No, no, no, no, what I'm saying. I'm just talking about
from Dame. I'll get to Giannis in a minute. What
I'm saying for Dame is he's just thinking, like I'm
sure he has a lot of like, man, what have
I never left? I left Portland, which I didn't really
want to do because I wanted to compete for a championship.
I won zero playoff series in Milwaukee. I would you
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know what I mean? Like that that didn't happen. I'm
sure he's also thinking, what if they had just traded
me where I wanted to be traded to Miami and
it was me and Jimmy Butler and bam.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
You know what would that have looked like?
Speaker 2 (45:26):
And so it's a cruel not final chapter, but close
to a final chapter for Dame and then for Yannis.
I I don't see how Yannis can stay. And the
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Bucks are in such a weird spot because they don't
control any of their own picks the next six years,
so they can't tank, They have no cap space to
improve the team, they don't have any young players that
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you're just super excited about, and so it's gonna be
fake trade season with Giannis. And there's two demands that
I made that are really interesting. One is to the Rockets,
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where you get Hngoon Reed Shepherd, who is a top
five pick who doesn't play. Jack Landale. He doesn't play
because he doesn't defend, but he was top by picking
this year's draft, so he's valuable Jack Landale for salary filler.
And then four draft picks, two of which are super valuable,
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the Phoenix twenty seven and twenty nine first and the
Houston twenty eight and thirty first. That if you're Milwaukee,
because keep in mind, you can't tank, so Shingoon makes
it so you don't tank. You have those picks to
start getting the young players. That to me is a unique,
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an interesting one. And then the other one if you
just want to go pure young you there is a
trade with the Spurs where you offer them Giannis so
Jannis and Wimber together, which is terrifying for the league,
and they give up Barnes for the salary Kelden Johnson,
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Rookie of the Year Stefan Castle, and then a litany
of picks, the Atlanta and first round pick in twenty
twenty seven, the Chicago first round pick in twenty twenty seven,
the Boston first round pick in twenty twenty eight, the
Dallas first round pick in twenty thirty, which could be
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super valuable, and the Minnesota first round pick in twenty thirty,
which is okay, And I like, those are.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
Real trades and.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
I'm interested if they would they would be interested in
any of those the are there any other fake trades
you want to ask me about?
Speaker 3 (48:22):
Yeah, there's what about okay? See, I mean they have picks,
and they can obviously trade good players. So you see
that working out.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Here's the thing for okay, se First of all, they
might win the title this year. If they do that,
I can't imagine.
Speaker 3 (48:42):
That in this scenario, if they fell off, if they
came up short, if.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
They Okay, so they came up short, do they?
Speaker 2 (48:51):
So they're not trading shit, right, So I'm just trying
to see how they could make the salaries work. I
guess they could because Hartenstein makes twenty eight million. I'm
just trying to put it together on the fly. If
you traded them Hartenstein.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
And Chet to go and.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
Let me find one more guy that you would have
like would if you traded him Hartenstein, Chet and Isaiah.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
Joe That that makes the salaries work.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
And then they have the picks okac has Is in
twenty twenty six, Houston's and the Clippers in twenty twenty
seven their own, and Dallas in twenty twenty eight Denver
Denver's pick, and then they have their own picks the
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rest of the way, so they don't have have great picks.
We thought that Clippers pick would be unbelievable. Do they
have swaps? I thought they had swaps with the Clippers
and let me look that up real quick, future draft
picks Clippers.
Speaker 1 (50:20):
So or no, I don't, so let me see.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
They so outgoing draft picks for the I should have
done the Thunder, but so I don't think that maybe
those picks went elsewhere. Sorry, this is not good podcasting,
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but I just incoming picks.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
So they Yeah, they can swap.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
With the Clippers in twenty twenty seven, they can swap
with Dallas in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (50:59):
Uh, and I think.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
That's where that the Paul George trade and all that
stuff ends. But Chat would be a real piece. Obviously,
Hartenstein's a real piece. So yeah, I don't think the
Thunder gonna make that move. Maybe I'm wrong. I think
Houston or San Antonio are the more likely outcomes there
all right, we're gonna do this. I guess we're gonna
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try to do some shadoor Thursday because we don't have
time for it here, because I do want to I
want to have some fun, and I also want to
talk about the Saquon thing. So let's just skip ahead
to the saque thing, because this is very simple and
I I don't know why people. I do know why
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people are being disingenuous about this, but it's annoying, so
let me do so if people don't know.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
Obviously, the Eagles were at the White House yesterday.
Speaker 2 (51:56):
Sidebar that for a moment prior to that, sake was
chilling with the president and golfing with him. He then
tweeted the following, Okay, and we can lol. Some people
are really upset because I played golf and flew to
the White House with the all caps president. Maybe I
just respect the office. Not a hard concept to understand.
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Just golfed with Obama not too long ago and look
forward to finishing my round with Trump.
Speaker 1 (52:24):
Now you get out my.
Speaker 2 (52:25):
Mentions with all this politics and have an amazing day
laughing emoji. Okay, I'm gonna give Saquon the benefit of
the doubt. That he's smarter than that.
Speaker 1 (52:34):
And this is if you have the intellectual capacity to
listen to this in a non partisan manner, I think
I think you will.
Speaker 2 (52:45):
Agree with what I'm saying. The reason I said I
think I thought he was smarter than that is very simple.
Choosing to spend time with the world's most famous politician
and then being like, why y'all talk in politics here
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is stupid.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
It's dumb behavior.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
And if you were photographed hanging out with Bobby Flay
and then we're like, hey, why, people drop in recipes
in my mentions, like hey man, this is like this
is what it is, So like the whole where's this
(53:35):
coming from? Guy in the banana costume?
Speaker 1 (53:40):
Who did this? Buddy?
Speaker 2 (53:43):
You're golfing with the world's most famous politician. So there's
that piece of it. Okay, it's not an unfair ask
or an unfair assumption, whatever it is. Now here is
the slightly more complicated but not actually complicated piece of this.
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I do think that athletes get put in tricky spots
when it comes to we've won the championship, We've been
invited to the White House, because they are then without
(54:28):
opting into it, being forced to make what will for
many people be a political choice, just the again Obama
Trump president. I obviously do not view them the same,
but I understand the way I feel about one and
feel about the other. Some people listening feel the exact
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same way, but in the one.
Speaker 1 (54:50):
Hundred and eighty degrees. So just stick with me here
for a moment. Guys, when it comes to my team's
been invited to the White House.
Speaker 2 (55:02):
And I disagree with everything the president represents, you're putting
a weird spot because if you show up, some people
will use that against you. And if you don't show up,
as Jalen Hurts is learning right now, some people will
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use that against you.
Speaker 1 (55:23):
And you didn't ask to go.
Speaker 2 (55:26):
You're like, I just practiced hard and got great at
the sport, my team won a championship, and now I'm
I'm making I'm being forced to make a decision either way.
I empathize with guys in that spot, truly, okay, and
I am everyone's got to make their own decision. But
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I feel badly when folks who truly want nothing to
and I get let me, I'll back up even further.
I get folks that are saying, no, you have an
obligation in this moment to stand up for what you
believe in is Folks that think there's a crisis, all
of it. I get all that, and we can have
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those discussions at a different time. It's not what I'm
trying to do right now. What I'm trying to do
right now is make a very specific point, and the
specific point the only way to make it is if
we just treat all presidencies equal. And I understand that's
not how people feel about any presidency. Okay, and I
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feel particularly this one, but I know a lot of
you guys watching felt like the eight years under Obama
were damn tyranny.
Speaker 1 (56:43):
So like, again, agree to disagree on that stuff. Stick
with me.
Speaker 2 (56:46):
On an intellectual level, the White House visit stuff puts
guys in a tough spot.
Speaker 1 (56:53):
They didn kN opped into. This was not that.
Speaker 2 (57:02):
Choosing opting into in your personal time, striking up a
personal relationship with the sitting president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (57:19):
Is a political decision, flatly.
Speaker 2 (57:25):
And when you opt into that arena, folks are going
to assume that you either share some values or whatever
they think is the most objectionable thing about that politician,
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that you don't have the same issue with that they do,
which is objectively likely true. The folks that thought Obama
was the Antichrist cannot believe Saquon Barkley would golf with him.
Saquon Barkley, I assume knew that chose to do it anyway.
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And the folks that believe the current president is a
dictator in waiting or wants to be and thinks that
anything other than hardcore disavowal is a endorsement, those folks
(58:33):
certainly would not golf with him. Saquan is saying, That's
not how I feel. Obviously, as of this moment, we
still have free speech in this country, freedom of political expression.
He's allowed to think or feel whatever he wants. What
you can't do is then play the woe is me?
(58:56):
Why is everyone acting like this is a big deal?
Gotta be smarter than that, And Saquan's a smart guy,
and so.
Speaker 1 (59:08):
I I was.
Speaker 2 (59:15):
Disappointed at the where's this coming from? Why are you
guys being ridiculous tweet?
Speaker 1 (59:30):
When it was.
Speaker 2 (59:33):
Totally fair, in my opinion, for folks to see anyone
that you are not part of your job, not being
made to do, not part of team building, that you
are opting to spend five hours of your personal time
with hobnobbing on the golf course. That folks might then
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think you are endorsing that person to a degree, which
obviously you are allowed to do. To act shocked by
that reaction, it's either naive, disingenuous, or dumb.
Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
And I don't know which one you want to be.
Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Now to what people come here for? One hundred men
versus one gorilla demonse? Finally, snap judgment, because I don't
think this is a hard question.
Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
I think it's one hundred men easily. But that's what
I've been telling. That's my take on I think I
think fifty.
Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
Probably demonse easily. Yeah's one hundred men.
Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
Here's the thing now, I thought van Lathan had the
funniest content on this, and I didn't even consume the content.
I just saw the tweet. But I'm gonna van Lathan
had a whiteboard.
Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
Have you seen this, demanse Uh, I've not seen it.
Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
I'm texting it to you right now. I'm gonna text
it to our group chat. I don't know if we
can put it up there or not.
Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
I should have told the producers before.
Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
But he's holding a whiteboard, shout out Van Lathan, who
I don't know but does good stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
So there it is. He's holding a white It.
Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
Says one hundred versus gorilla, and then parenthetical wild average
size six feet, four hundred pounds, brolic all underlined. It
then has a picture of the gorilla and it would
appear he has circled its weak spots, head, skull, brain, throat, neck, chest, heart, lungs, knees,
(01:01:43):
and it looks like it's got his fingers. So he
has broken this down into five waves. Wave one meat
sacks parenthetical Vince will forks three hundred poundersynthetical bloody mess.
Wave two runners parenthetical Noah Lyles's uh sidebar disorient him.
(01:02:11):
Wave three light brutes for arm kicking. Wave four heavy
brutes for sapping the energy parenthetical Aaron Donald. Wave five
finishers vital striking throat neck parenthetical John Jones. Then at
the bottom in a box, some will die.
Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
And so here's.
Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
The deal, and this is and Van nailed it. And
this is why this conversation is so ridiculous if it
is understood, guys, the first and hit he had a
real strategy. I don't even think you need a real
strategy that would be the best way to.
Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
Go about it.
Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
But if the if you have one hundred adult men
and everyone understands it's like the old World War One
movies where deserters will be shot. You can only go
in one direction, and the guys at the front understand
(01:03:23):
I'm probably dying. This thing is not that difficult if
the every like the it just the overwhelming numbers of
it make it so clear to where if truly no
one abandoned ship on this this can be done in
relative quick order because of the overall weight and mass.
(01:03:49):
The reason is such a unique and fun topic is
while one hundred humans is obviously the right answer from
any sinem emulation standpoint or any standpoint where you get
the fake theoretical world that no one abandoned ship, in reality,
(01:04:13):
no one hundred humans versus one gorilla would end shortly
like this. The first couple guys get an arm ripped off,
three of your first wave feints, another couple wet themselves
(01:04:33):
or defecate on themselves. A few start trying to actually
team up with the gorilla where you're like pushing him
into them, and then you have mutiny, Mayheim disorientation, and
what you end up with is like six or seven
dead guys, some injuries, and guys faking their death and
(01:04:56):
people scattered running everywhere. That's how it really goes.
Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
But if you're.
Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
Asking if you can guarantee everyone is locked in on
the goal, you can take the gorilla out quickly and honestly.
Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
If you attack simultaneously minimal death. The problem is.
Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
Who's going to be the guy that's like, all right,
short straw, here, I guess not only am I dying,
but I'm dying at the hands of a gorilla, and
so that's the I. I don't think this is a debate.
I know I'm right, and that's how it would go. So,
(01:05:48):
as the kids say, find you a podcast that can
do both some very smart non political political commentary and
then the only true breakdown using real world factors of
one gorilla versus one hundred men.
Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
This one.
Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
I wouldn't think I would like it either, However I
found it so it was a fun thought exercise. I
also loved when Dragonfly Jones and le Jethro Jenkins Great
Pod used to be on the volume.
Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
When they did their beast Bracket. Did you ever see that?
Speaker 3 (01:06:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
So let me let me try to pull it up real.
Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
Quick, one hundred men versus a grizzly bear, though it's
just slightly more complicated.
Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
More complicated because I don't know where the vulnerabilities are
and because the grizzly bear has a lot more.
Speaker 1 (01:06:56):
One shot kills.
Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
Yeah, so like the the gorilla doesn't have a lot
of like I mean, obviously can.
Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
Strength, and they don't really use their teeth.
Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
Bears are right, but the polar bears got such a wingspan. Again,
if the polar bear knew what was up, that's the
other piece of this. If the like, if the polar
bear knows I got a hundred guys coming at me eventually,
and like he's trained for this, he can almost just
do like a spinning fist with his claws and no
(01:07:32):
one can ever touch him. That could be a thousand men,
it wouldn't matter because he's so big and can just
one shot.
Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
Kill you with the faws.
Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
Gorilla's three sixty as well too. I don't know if
like they're actually more equipped to do it three sixty.
Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
Yes, but they don't.
Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
But again, the three sixty ends usually with like a
brutal punch in that hand, not all disembowelment and so
uh okay. Paul just texted in the beast bracket was
the idea behind the beast bracket was all of these
(01:08:08):
things demons have. It's the same weight. So one bison
versus ten kangaroos. Two tigers against five humans. That's two tigers,
you know, like the the final four got you down to.
There's fifty Tasmanian devils against twenty five bobcats. Four lions
(01:08:31):
against fifty foxes and they seated them accordingly. Three silver
back guerrillas against two hundred roosters, like these are the things.
But I think the final four for this ended up
being two tigers against one polar bear.
Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
Who you got two tigers against a polar bear. I'll
go with the I'll go with the polar bear me too.
Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
Other side of the bracket, eight jaguars against four lions, well,
hold on Sweet sixteen matchup. Four lions against ten wolves.
I don't know wolfs four lives, yeah, but I think
eight jaguars, I'm not sure, all right. I think this
was the toughest one. Two Grizzlies against three Silverbacks.
Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
I'm taking the Grizzlies. The coats on the Grizzlies are
just impenetrable and the yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
All right, by the way, the shout out Dragonfly Jones,
Jethrow Jenkins, great job, that's content from them.
Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
A year ago.
Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
I was super into that. I really enjoyed that bracket thing. Yeah, no,
it was great.
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What are the games tonight. The big game tonight is
Clippers Nugets, So I don't think we're gonna do an
emergency pod tomorrow. Uh we could, but I think the
Knicks take care of the Pistons. I think the Pacers
take care of the Bucks. I think the Celtics take
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care of the Magic and Clippers Nuggets should be a
great game. But it's a game five, so we're gonna
have more time for that on Thursday, and then Wednesday night.
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Wednesday, by the way, your sister's twentieth birthday to Monday twenty. Yeah, Warriors,
Rockets and Timberwolves Lakers, which should be great. Appreciate everybody listening.
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