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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Thursday afternoon. We've got more basketball tonight, and we assume
that the Timberwolves and the Warriors will be about the
same game that we saw last night from Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
In Denver.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Oklahoma City just woke up last night, played like we
know they're capable of playing.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I think they're going to still win this series.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I think they'll win at least one, if not two
games in Denver, and I think this is a five
to seven game series, like a top before. I don't
think Denver loses the game six at home. But I
think that the thunder are that much better and they
played like it last night. But we all know that
Steph Curry is not going to play in this game,
and I don't think he's going to play for the
rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
They're saying a week, But I think Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
If Minnesota plays the way it should and plays with
not only the aggression but has the you know, just
kind of stays focused, they should beat a Golden State
team that Steph Curry for any way they want. I
understand Buddy Healed and Jimmy Butler having fantastic playoffs runs,
(01:12):
but they're not Steph Curry and Steve Kerr pointed out
today that's just like Tim Duncan and San Antonio, and
just like Michael and Chicago. Those were his comparisons. This
success is all because of Steph Curry, and now they've
got to figure out a way to play without him,
and I don't think they're going to be able to.
I think Pajetski's a good player, not a great player.
(01:33):
I think post is kind of a waste of time
and just got somebody to fill in. Kaminga is not
going to see the floor unless he absolutely has to,
and they're forced to play him and Draymond Green may
score thirty or zero, So you never know what you're
going to get there in terms of point production to
replace what Steph has.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, and Steph came out today and you know, he
didn't put it. They didn't really put a timetable on
it either, because obviously this is the first time that
he's ever experienced any thing like this, So they're in
a very unusual situation that they've never Steph's never had
this happen. He doesn't know how much he can give
(02:10):
it as far as what could his possible threshold of
pain be, you know, because obviously there are some guys that, hey,
if they have a particular strain or something, it could
just be you're not going to make it worse.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's just going to be a tall You can make
it worse with a hamstring.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Nuck was talking about that yesterday, that if your hips
are tight and you make the wrong cut, you could
tear it even further than that.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And he's playing at warp speed.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So that's something to keep an eye on and something
I just I thought Minnesota would win the first two
games anyway. I thought Minnesota played like they didn't care.
In the first game. They didn't come out with any enthusiasm,
they didn't come out with any kind of structure in
their in their mind, and then after the game their
guys are laughing about it. I think there's going to
be an attitude adjustment between Tuesday and night and tonight,
(02:57):
and I expect Minnesota to play very much like Oklahoma
City last night.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I expect I was gonna say, Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I expand expect Anthony Edwards to probably drop no minimum,
no less than thirty tonight.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And then we also mentioned this earlier. Both Chris Finch
and Steve Kerr don't like the physicality that the playoffs
have been and they've been very vocal about it. Well,
Steve Kerr played in an era and listen. I like
Steve Kerr. I think Steve Kerr is a great human
being and a really good coach. But I don't like
basketball where we don't get to play defense and there's
no challenges to this. And the NBA has appealed to
(03:32):
the players in the regular season to where we get
a lot of bad basketball, we get a lot of
good but we get some good basketball in the regular season,
and every now and then you'll turn on a game
and go wow. I was entertained by that. But I
don't care if unless you just want to watch a
three point contest, where these games are where the losing
team scores one hundred and thirty or more and still loses.
(03:54):
To me, is it's just not basketball. It's just not
something that is fun to watch. I like to see
the strategies of the game. I like to see somebody actually,
you know, making a play, uh, getting open moving without
the basketball.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
You can call it old school if you want to,
but dribble, dribble, dribble, backup, shoot a three, or throw
it in the corner and shoot a three, or pull
up and shoot a transition three. Even when it goes in,
I expect them to make it. They're pros. I want
to see something. I want to see some contention. And
if you can tend players, they're gonna they're gonna have
a hard time or a harder time making points. They're
still going to score over one hundred points in most games.
(04:33):
But one hundred and ten to one hundred and eight
is a good game. One hundred and fifty seven to
one to fifty two is not. And I just we're
so caught up. Well, we've got to have offense. Baseball
change it's rules for offense. Football's changed its rules for offense.
We see more scoring and hockey, uh we eat. We
make golf courses easy so somebody can shoot thirty under par.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I want to.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I want this to be the US Open. Let's make
it tough, and that's the way.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I know that players probably don't like it because they're
not used to and they're afraid they're gonna get hurt.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well, you know, make some.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Adjustments on that and get ready for playoff basketball, because
I don't want to see a constant trip to the
free throw line and zero attempt to guard the people
that you're trying to be.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You think that Adam Silver is sitting in his office somewhere,
not only watching the Celtics game and just going, oh,
thank god, they're missing all these threes because now I
don't have to try to figure out something to do
to limit three point shots.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, you're never going to be able to do that anyway.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And the fact that we're seeing the physicality in the playoffs,
he's probably sitting there thinking, huh, and you Mike have
been talking about there needs to be more physicality, I'm sure,
and it's actually entertaining.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yes, it's entertaining to war.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Well, Adam Silver probably has the iHeartRadio app, the free
radio app, and he's probably listening.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
He probably is. So I.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Just I think that I have watched almost every playoff
basketball game that except the ones that fall on Saturday afternoons,
since the playoffs started, and it's entertaining basketball, and I
look forward to watching the next one now. I don't
expect the Warriors to give up much of a fight tonight,
and I expect Indiana to beat Cleveland now and get
(06:15):
that series over a lot quicker than it was. But
you know, we don't know because in Indiana may have
a bad home game and Cleveland may return the favor
for a couple of games. But at least we know
we know that the game is going to probably be,
unless it goes to overtime, a defensive minded game, and
the Cleveland especially, it's going to have to work hard
(06:36):
on defense because a lot of their offense is on
the bench in street clothes. So we're gonna see what
we look forward to this. If the if the Pacers
and Caves were playing a game on Tuesday night in January,
he might if you if you like basketball, it'd be good,
but it's not. You're You're You might get a playoff
type game, but you also might get one where neither
(06:57):
team tries like you.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
You can make the argument in both ways as far
as yes, watching the Celtics miss forty five threes is
ugly basketball, but andy besides last night's game with the
Thunder and Nuggets, every game so far, it seems like
it's coming down to if not the last shot or
the last two or three possessions, and if it was
(07:20):
the other way around.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
As far as if they're making thirty threes. Everybody's tuning out.
This is great basketball to watch. It's entertaining in.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
The late in the late seventies, early eighties, and this
was way before you were born, but you had they
changed a rule because the Lakers, well Lakers didn't do this,
but the Sixers did this with Doctor J. They'd put
four guys on one side of the floor and they
would isolate Doctor J.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And back then there was no zones. You had to
play a manda man.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And if you weren't within a certain distance of your player,
it was considered a legal defense. So if I put
four guys above the three point line on the left
side of the court, I put Doctor J on the
right side, and he's just going one on one with
whoever's guarding him. Doctor J won that battle more often
than not, and it was terrible basketball. So they made
a rule change to where you couldn't have you had
(08:11):
to have the court balanced. You had to have at
least two guys, you know, kind of cut down the
center of the lane and two guys two of your
players had to be in that lane or it was
considered a legal offense. It was rarely in force, but
they it stopped the Iso ball. I didn't know that,
and they did it. That was That's the way the
Sixers tried to play. Every time they thought that Doctor
(08:32):
J had a mismatch.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Well, look at Barkley. They craft ribble in the lane. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Because of Barkley, they have the five second back down rule. Yeah,
because that dribble craft ribble that was at times. Yeah,
that became boring, ugly basketball to watch.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I don't care if a team shoots sixty threes, I'm
not That's not my my issue. But can you do
it with motion? And can you do it with with
some theater? And can you do it while you're guarded,
not everybody standing in one place. One guy dribbled for
fifteen seconds and back up and launch a three.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah that's not exciting. Yeah, nice, you can go watch.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Go watch that at a pickup game at the lie
or at your at your favorite gym.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah. Not taking two dribbles across half court and then
Peyton Pritchard Jackson's.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I'm fine with that too.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
If he makes it, especially if he turns around and
puts his finger up before the ball gets in the
in the goal because he knows he made it.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I'm okay with that, because that can be exciting. But
I'd rather watch the Home Globe trot as.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
If I'm going to do that, I'll go, I'll go
pay money to go watch the They never lose.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I did lose once allegedly.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
All right, coming up next, well, coming up in the
five o'clock hour, I'm gonna talk about George Pickens and
the potential that is there for him. And then Nico
Harrison's in the news again. We'll tell you what he
did today and did he do the right or wrong thing?
That's next, It's the Andy Everage Show. On the tickets
Thursday afternoon. We've got more basketball tonight, and we assume
that the Timberwolves and the Warriors will be about the
same game that we saw last night from Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
In Denver.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Oklahoma City just woke up last night, played like we
know they're capable of playing.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I think they're going to still win this series.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I think they'll win at least one, if not two
games in Denver, and I think this is a five
to seven game series, like a top before. I don't
think Denver loses the game six at home. But I
think that the thunder are that much better and they
played like it last night. But we all know that
Steph Curry is not going to play in this game,
and I don't think he's going to play for the
rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
They're saying a week, But I think Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
If Minnesota plays the way it should and plays with
not only the aggression but has the you know, just
kind of stays focused, they should beat a Golden State
team that Steph Curry for any way they want. I
understand Buddy Healed and Jimmy Butler having fantastic playoffs runs,
(01:12):
but they're not Steph Curry and Steve Kerr pointed out
today that's just like Tim Duncan and San Antonio, and
just like Michael and Chicago. Those were his comparisons. This
success is all because of Steph Curry, and now they've
got to figure out a way to play without him,
and I don't think they're going to be able to.
I think Pajetski's a good player, not a great player.
(01:33):
I think post is kind of a waste of time
and just got somebody to fill in. Kaminga is not
going to see the floor unless he absolutely has to,
and they're forced to play him and Draymond Green may
score thirty or zero, So you never know what you're
going to get there in terms of point production to
replace what Steph has.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, and Steph came out today and you know, he
didn't put it. They didn't really put a timetable on
it either, because obviously this is the first time that
he's ever experienced any thing like this, So they're in
a very unusual situation that they've never Steph's never had
this happen. He doesn't know how much he can give
(02:10):
it as far as what could his possible threshold of
pain be, you know, because obviously there are some guys that, hey,
if they have a particular strain or something, it could
just be you're not going to make it worse.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's just going to be a tall You can make
it worse with a hamstring.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Nuck was talking about that yesterday, that if your hips
are tight and you make the wrong cut, you could
tear it even further than that.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And he's playing at warp speed.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So that's something to keep an eye on and something
I just I thought Minnesota would win the first two
games anyway. I thought Minnesota played like they didn't care.
In the first game. They didn't come out with any enthusiasm,
they didn't come out with any kind of structure in
their in their mind, and then after the game their
guys are laughing about it. I think there's going to
be an attitude adjustment between Tuesday and night and tonight,
(02:57):
and I expect Minnesota to play very much like Oklahoma
City last night.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I expect I was gonna say, Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I expand expect Anthony Edwards to probably drop no minimum,
no less than thirty tonight.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And then we also mentioned this earlier. Both Chris Finch
and Steve Kerr don't like the physicality that the playoffs
have been and they've been very vocal about it. Well,
Steve Kerr played in an era and listen. I like
Steve Kerr. I think Steve Kerr is a great human
being and a really good coach. But I don't like
basketball where we don't get to play defense and there's
no challenges to this. And the NBA has appealed to
(03:32):
the players in the regular season to where we get
a lot of bad basketball, we get a lot of
good but we get some good basketball in the regular season,
and every now and then you'll turn on a game
and go wow. I was entertained by that. But I
don't care if unless you just want to watch a
three point contest, where these games are where the losing
team scores one hundred and thirty or more and still loses.
(03:54):
To me, is it's just not basketball. It's just not
something that is fun to watch. I like to see
the strategies of the game. I like to see somebody actually,
you know, making a play, uh, getting open moving without
the basketball.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
You can call it old school if you want to,
but dribble, dribble, dribble, backup, shoot a three, or throw
it in the corner and shoot a three, or pull
up and shoot a transition three. Even when it goes in,
I expect them to make it. They're pros. I want
to see something. I want to see some contention. And
if you can tend players, they're gonna they're gonna have
a hard time or a harder time making points. They're
still going to score over one hundred points in most games.
(04:33):
But one hundred and ten to one hundred and eight
is a good game. One hundred and fifty seven to
one to fifty two is not. And I just we're
so caught up. Well, we've got to have offense. Baseball
change it's rules for offense. Football's changed its rules for offense.
We see more scoring and hockey, uh we eat. We
make golf courses easy so somebody can shoot thirty under par.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I want to.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I want this to be the US Open. Let's make
it tough, and that's the way.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I know that players probably don't like it because they're
not used to and they're afraid they're gonna get hurt.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well, you know, make some.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Adjustments on that and get ready for playoff basketball, because
I don't want to see a constant trip to the
free throw line and zero attempt to guard the people
that you're trying to be.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You think that Adam Silver is sitting in his office somewhere,
not only watching the Celtics game and just going, oh,
thank god, they're missing all these threes because now I
don't have to try to figure out something to do
to limit three point shots.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, you're never going to be able to do that anyway.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And the fact that we're seeing the physicality in the playoffs,
he's probably sitting there thinking, huh, and you Mike have
been talking about there needs to be more physicality, I'm sure,
and it's actually entertaining.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yes, it's entertaining to war.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Well, Adam Silver probably has the iHeartRadio app, the free
radio app, and he's probably listening.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
He probably is. So I.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Just I think that I have watched almost every playoff
basketball game that except the ones that fall on Saturday afternoons,
since the playoffs started, and it's entertaining basketball, and I
look forward to watching the next one now. I don't
expect the Warriors to give up much of a fight tonight,
and I expect Indiana to beat Cleveland now and get
(06:15):
that series over a lot quicker than it was. But
you know, we don't know because in Indiana may have
a bad home game and Cleveland may return the favor
for a couple of games. But at least we know
we know that the game is going to probably be,
unless it goes to overtime, a defensive minded game, and
the Cleveland especially, it's going to have to work hard
(06:36):
on defense because a lot of their offense is on
the bench in street clothes. So we're gonna see what
we look forward to this. If the if the Pacers
and Caves were playing a game on Tuesday night in January,
he might if you if you like basketball, it'd be good,
but it's not. You're You're You might get a playoff
type game, but you also might get one where neither
(06:57):
team tries like you.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
You can make the argument in both ways as far
as yes, watching the Celtics miss forty five threes is
ugly basketball, but andy besides last night's game with the
Thunder and Nuggets, every game so far, it seems like
it's coming down to if not the last shot or
the last two or three possessions, and if it was
(07:20):
the other way around.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
As far as if they're making thirty threes. Everybody's tuning out.
This is great basketball to watch. It's entertaining in.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
The late in the late seventies, early eighties, and this
was way before you were born, but you had they
changed a rule because the Lakers, well Lakers didn't do this,
but the Sixers did this with Doctor J. They'd put
four guys on one side of the floor and they
would isolate Doctor J.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And back then there was no zones. You had to
play a manda man.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And if you weren't within a certain distance of your player,
it was considered a legal defense. So if I put
four guys above the three point line on the left
side of the court, I put Doctor J on the
right side, and he's just going one on one with
whoever's guarding him. Doctor J won that battle more often
than not, and it was terrible basketball. So they made
a rule change to where you couldn't have you had
(08:11):
to have the court balanced. You had to have at
least two guys, you know, kind of cut down the
center of the lane and two guys two of your
players had to be in that lane or it was
considered a legal offense. It was rarely in force, but
they it stopped the Iso ball. I didn't know that,
and they did it. That was That's the way the
Sixers tried to play. Every time they thought that Doctor
(08:32):
J had a mismatch.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Well, look at Barkley. They craft ribble in the lane. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Because of Barkley, they have the five second back down rule. Yeah,
because that dribble craft ribble that was at times. Yeah,
that became boring, ugly basketball to watch.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I don't care if a team shoots sixty threes, I'm
not That's not my my issue. But can you do
it with motion? And can you do it with with
some theater? And can you do it while you're guarded,
not everybody standing in one place. One guy dribbled for
fifteen seconds and back up and launch a three.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah that's not exciting. Yeah, nice, you can go watch.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Go watch that at a pickup game at the lie
or at your at your favorite gym.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah. Not taking two dribbles across half court and then
Peyton Pritchard Jackson's.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I'm fine with that too.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
If he makes it, especially if he turns around and
puts his finger up before the ball gets in the
in the goal because he knows he made it.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I'm okay with that, because that can be exciting. But
I'd rather watch the Home Globe trot as.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
If I'm going to do that, I'll go, I'll go
pay money to go watch the They never lose.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I did lose once allegedly.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
All right, coming up next, well, coming up in the
five o'clock hour, I'm gonna talk about George Pickens and
the potential that is there for him. And then Nico
Harrison's in the news again. We'll tell you what he
did today and did he do the right or wrong thing?
That's next, It's the Andy Everage Show. On the tickets
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