A Night of Basketball Surprises

Skin breaks down the thrilling Celtics vs. Knicks game, with Jalen Brunson's stellar performance leading the Knicks to an overtime victory. They also discuss the implications of the Mavericks' past decisions and what could have been if they had built around Brunson.A deep dive into Nikola Jokic's incredible 40-point, 22-rebound, 5-assist game, and the dramatic finish of the Oklahoma City vs. Denver matchup.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now let's cool around the sports. Kat fun tweets as
all the sports Yes, no you don't.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
I've got it today, KT, because I want a basketball
nerd out. Uh. I don't know if you guys sat
around and actually watched basketball last night. Uh, you probably
saw the highlights. But let me say I had every
intention last night of starting the studio, and the basketball
was too good.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
I don't know if you're aware of this, but this
is just close.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
The Celtics got up twenty and Jalen Brunson led them
back and just danced. I mean, he danced at the
Fleet Center, put on a show, and they brought him
back and they won in overtime. And I was watching
Jalen Brunson, Ben and thinking about what you brought up
the other day. What if they'd said, all right, we're

(00:52):
gonna build around Jalen Brunson, And what could they have
gotten for Luka Doncic back then? In what shape would
the Mavericks have been in?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Now? It's there's pain around every corner for a MAVs
sand right now. And at least Luca's out of the playoffs.
That's a good thing. But yeah, they had done that,
I mean cause you just hear what it would take
to get Giannis. Yeah, you hear about these packages.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
And and by the way, you could have gotten even
in the off season, you could have gotten Jalen Brunton
at like twenty five a year, which is right now.
I mean, you can make an argument right now that
he's the best end of game player in the NBA.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, he's the best closer. Yeah, And dude, he was
pretty good defensively on Tatum as well, and he was
never The Celtics settled a lot. They were shooting a
lot of jumpers.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Did you see how many Okay, in the third quarter,
did you see this? Yeah, they had twenty shots from
the field. Nineteen of them were three point attempts.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, they were shooting a lot of threes, and they
were shooting them early in the shot clock two, which
is they were settling. It's like they didn't dig that game.
Very seriously, no, and it's.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
It's highly entertaining because now you have the knicks up
on the Celtics and we'll get to the Oklahoma City
game in just one second. But again, my daughter's boyfriend
asked me last night about Jalen Brunson and he was like,
does that, you know, hurt you? And I'm like, no,
what hurts me is that they didn't get anything for him.

(02:12):
But nobody in the NBA thought Jalen Brunson was this
other than his dad. And if you want proof of that,
show me how many teams offered him a contract in
free agency. There was one. It was the New York Knicks,
and they got him at about ten million dollars below
market value. And they got him because they believed in
him in a way that nobody else did. And you

(02:32):
give Jalen Bruntson credit for turning himself into that player.
Second round pick, second round pick. All right, did you
guys see the end of the Oklahoma City Denver game? Yes? Yes,
it was unbelievable. I can't I still can't believe Denver
won that game. Dude, I could not believe they won
that game. And Jokic had a forty point, twenty rebound,

(02:54):
five assist game. He had a little bit more than that.
Only five guys have ever done that in playoff history.
There actually four, three guys have done it. One guy
did it twice. Wilt Chamberline. It turned it on with
thirteen seconds left. Did you really that just gotten back
from centers. They were down, They were down ten or
twelve about halfway through the fourth and just grinded their

(03:14):
way back. And we can talk about the way that
Oklahoma City managed that. Did that strike you one way
or the other? With them fouling so early, making guys
shoot free throws.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, interesting, They're like, hey, let's see if they can
win it at the line. That was painful.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
And then they lost because their own guys couldn't keep
up with the pressure and Chet Holmgren missed too. And
I couldn't believe Russell Westbrook in his building or his
old building. I thought for sure he was gonna take
it himself. He made the right reading when Aaron Gordon
shot that was like, what are you doing? And then
it went in because.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
All he needed too dude, He's and Westbrook's played so well,
and the whole talker and their team was, oh my god,
their coach kisses his ass too much. Have you seen?

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Do you know who their coach is now? Adalman? Right? Right?
He is not a commanding presence, right, I mean impressed
that he's coaching an NBA team right now. It's like
a guy wandered in from the accounting department.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
All right, there you have it. There's a round of
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