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May 17, 2024 • 37 mins

The Truth Lounge is back. Paul Pierce and Jason Crowe react Timberwolves game 6 win and preview game 7. Plus, they preview upcoming game 6's between the Knicks & Pacers and the Mavs & Thunder. They duo also debates who the best player has been in the playoffs: Jokic or Bunson?

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
What's up, Gang, Welcome to the Truth Lounge, your boy,
Pete Pierce, Jay Crow in the house. The Conference finals
out here, Boston Celtics. Congratulations, the first team to advance
for the third time in three years. I truly believe
this is their year. And you know, hey, everybody's talking like, oh,

(00:31):
you know, they ain't playing nobody anybody injured, so we
only can play who we put in front of us.
But like, Jay, what's your thoughts on you know, how
the Celtics been playing and how this has been playing
out so far? You know what I'm saying, Like, well.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
You know, before we get to that, I got something
for you a year ago, last summer, you sent me
to Peer for you to go receive a prestigious honor
the likes of Marcus Johnson, Reggie Miller, all the grades
from Southern California in the newly opened Southern California Hall

(01:05):
of Fame. And I was honored to be able to
to be able to receive this and your honor. That
night we crown you.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Now this Southern.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
California, Southern California, Yeah, this Southern California high school accolades.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
I got to Inglewood Jersey On.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
We're going back home to represent and restore ordered it.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
In California Basketball Hall of Fame.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Hall of Fame Michael Cooper Byron Scott. I mean, we historians,
we looked up to these guys. We looked up to
these guys, and we were always we always imagined ourselves
walking in their shoes. And your legacy is a great woman.
I know you're a real humble guy. I mean high school.

(01:47):
I didn't make the college and the levels levels is covered,
all levels cover.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh yeah, hold on, hold on, before we even get
into this, man, hold on, I want to congratulate your dog. Officially,
as of today be announced the head high school basketball
coach for our alma mater, Inglewood High School. Yes, Drake,
coach junior will be transferring there and listen, it's time

(02:16):
to get it back. Popping may need to do the congratulation. Coach.
The Wood is excited. I'm excited. I know big things
is to come in and I know to see that
Inglewood is excited. Man, So congrats on that.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Appreciate you. Appreciate you. Yeah, but check it out to
get back to the NBA to your Celtics.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Celtics dog, what no but what is giving you think?

Speaker 3 (02:36):
You said? People are saying, now you know what's going on.
They getting it that they got a cupcake schedule. They
sliding by, they electric sliding. Now are they preparing? When
y'all won a championship, y'all was, y'all was fighting. So
when y'all got to that final battle to see the monsters,
y'all was ready. How do you feel about Boston not

(02:59):
being prepared to deal when you have these other these
other the other side the West, they battling. Okay, it's
a battle. Okay, there's no battle over adjustment. It's no adjustment.
Your role players haven't been under fire. There hasn't been nothing.
They lost a game, but it's like it's like a

(03:20):
little nobody believe they get a close out game. I
mean the other team, I mean they had me and
my little sister out there.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
I get it. I get it that a lot of
these teams missing their stars. No Jimmy Butler and then
Donovan mitchells.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Vert, no Jared Allen.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
You close out, hey, what you want them to do?
They only can play who's in front of them. But
the good thing is they took care of business.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
What you do are you want ones right now trying
to like, what are they doing and stay sharp and
get prepared.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
There's no adject they haven't do. How do they feel?

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well?

Speaker 2 (03:53):
They've been through adversity and they lose one at home
into Cleveland. It's like the word about the end they
showed you.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
That's not concerning that they're having like they're giving up
historical Shoot.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
I'm gonna tell you the most concerting thing is, I
will tell you the only concern is, for sure, hold on, dog,
these knicks that man, come on, these damn knits and
nax is in here. No look at though, for real though.

(04:25):
But the only concern that I'm gonna be realistic is
how they play at home. I just feel like it
just the presence at home ain't been there every night,
you know what I'm saying. Like over the last few
years they have five hundred team a little over five
hundred team at home in the playoffs. So that's the
one concern I will say. You know, they haven't lost

(04:47):
this year on the road. They've been a pretty good
role team, which kind of like balances at that out,
but like they gotta be better at home because if
you get to the finals, you know, like they did
a couple of years goal where they lost at home
to the Golden State Warriors. If they just win their
home games, they win it all that year because they
went to go to State one and go to State

(05:09):
they know they can win on the road, but they
got to be a more dominant home team. So like
the goal right now should be like they shouldn't lose
another home game the rest of the playoffs. They lost
four home games all year during the season, and already
through what ten games, they've lost two they lost through
so through four games? How many how many they play

(05:32):
at home? They play like six home games so far,
So now they like, what four and two at home?
Four and two at home? So that's the only concern now,
if they can get back on track at home, I
have no issues with them.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
That's the only come So their depth, if somebody gets
in foul trouble.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
They're shown they could be deep. I mean, we're about
as deep as any team in the league. We don't
even have porzingis hopefully he starts to regain some Hell.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Now, you're for it. Now you're forcing Horford into playing
thirty eight minutes thirty seven minutes every night. Hours are
out there. Those guys, those guys can step up. Yeah,
they got guys, but with those guys don't have I think.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
That was necessarily because because of who Cleveland had to Bobby.
You know, he was a presence down there, and so
you know, you want to play Horford a little more
now then if we play the Knicks being, if we play.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Being, if you play Indiana, you don't want to deal
with this.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
What you're doing it is your best hold.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
You really praying that Indiana win. That's why you out
here going like that. You praying that Indiana win.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
I am praying that Indiana win because.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Indiana gonna blow it up.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Right, Indiana will be a better test for the Celtics
than not depleted Knicks team.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Brunson ain't depleted. I mean he's worth five men. They
should give him five his contract when he goes back
in there, he lucky. He ain't will Chamberlain that era
before the salary cap I walk in there like look
half a billion or I'm not showing up.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
He's dude, the work.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
He put in right now, the second best player. If
don't know byam he's what he's the second best player
in the playoffs right now?

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Listen, yes, dog, yeah, listen.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
What you mean he's the second best player under who.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
You just said he was the best player last I
was on the show.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
So what did he do? So he made carry? Ain't
dropping forty? He said, what did he do to diminish
his ranking?

Speaker 2 (07:41):
No, it ain't nothing he did. It's something that joker
doing out here. When you when you was getting rolled
off and you lost the first two games at home
and everybody was writing you off, and then you go
over there receive your MVP trophy and I ain't been
seeing nothing but buckets, and you doing it against the
defensive player of the year, and you doing it against
the high the highest rate of d defense.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
I can't league, but I'm saying these guys is one
and one. You can't put drop un Brunton. He's out
here carrying a team like I've never seen before. And
his who's carried a team like this? No, no, no, he
had Defensive Star Wars, he had his start in unit.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Asked me who was carrying a team?

Speaker 3 (08:19):
He had Matumbo, he had GE's with him.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
He had Eric snow Bro, Eric snow Aaron m you're
taking you're taking of the year. No, no, no, but
you're taking six man of the You're taking Heart over Aaron, right, yeah,
the way you're playing right now, yep, yep, and you're
taking I'm only taking home, taking over snow.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
You know while you're taking them. This is the point
guard for those guys. This is there. Say no, they
don't play that good without him.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
He makes him go. You see how they rot.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
You see how they get behind him after the game
is over and they go get stand behind.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
You just saying, who carried a team like.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
I've never seen nothing. Do you see the energy he
got going right now?

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Do you see how they get behind him after the gas?

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Is a good guy. I love I love what he's doing.
He killing. What do you killing? My hots off to him.
He is really making.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
That what I said, guy is killing when we talked
about that, he's killing.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
He's killing. He's killing, he's killing, He's killing.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
This is what killing?

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Now, that's killing? Killer?

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
No, he the second best.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Player though before a Joker, you diminished.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
I mean diminishing. That's saying a lot. But you still
got Luka in the playoffs. You still got Kyrie, you
got Tatum, you got Anthony Edwards. And for me to
be saying he's second, that's saying a lot. That ain't
that ain't that ain't discrediting him. That's saying a lot
when you look at everybody who's still in the playoff Joker,
Joker didn't have three monumental performances that got them not

(09:49):
only back in the series, but looking like they most
likely gonna win.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
A Joker the greatest center ever. No, you don't want
to get that shock this Rather, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
He's not the greatest.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
He ain't gonna this me. I ain't nobody you say
it on here. He's gonna get that shack disk track
coming soon.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
ITunes be taking shop here.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
You think you could deal with my money? He didn't
want that shack this track.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Get the Joker. The Joker's out here, unreal, everybody, I've
never seen it. I can't say he's not the MVP.
You had Gilbert to do a whole show on it. Dog,
have you ever seen forty and thirteen with no turnovers
from a big on your big screen?

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Now you're jumping on Joker now, so like you just
jumped off Bruns and then you jumped.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
On I don't like how you have brunsing up. I
got them both one. These guys are the guys.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
That can only be one one.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
All right, well, I'm going with Brunson.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
I'm going with the little guy who got these guys.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
He's walking around in New York.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
In New York, I mean, you can make it in
New York, you can make it anywhere. I've never seen
nobody captivate a crowd. He is the game's greatest showman.
Right now, he's box office. He's twenty thousand of pop
pull up.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
What are you talking about? This is crazy right now.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
I can't wait till the bubble burst in New York.
I can't wait.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Jesus.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
This, this this ride that we've been going on with
them been as good. It's exciting, and the crowd is good.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Listen. I counted them out too. They were down to
say last leg bro. They looked at this depleted. They
lost Game three. I said, if they got game three,
they was up double figures in the second half. They're
supposed to close it out. They lost Game three. That
game four, they look exhausted. They come back to the
garden with a just a herculean performance. Brunton is out

(11:39):
there looking around the other team. See right now what
he got. He's looking at you like, do you you
better not come over here and try to who they
bet not seeing you over here? But do you He
got dudes going, he got hard believing he's something.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
He got.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
He got Devin Chenso it don't matter who you give me.
It don't matter who you get.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
You're taking him over Kyrie. I don't hear nothing.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
It's nothing to be saying.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
It's a no brainer to me. Right now.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Kyrie was on the Knicks, that wouldn't be happening.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
No way.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
We've never seen this.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Have you ever seen this? Kyrie is amazing. I don't
want to downplay car Kyrie. He's he's your all time phase,
a guy's guy. But what I'm saying, what we've seen
that a brunching right now, it's his time.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
A guy's guy.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah, I mean we everybody love Kyrie.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Man, Come on, a.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Hooper, you got no ditty.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
I guess no, it ain't that. I'm just he's a guy.
I never heard that he's a guy's guy.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, because he's a guy that we love, even though
he's not a claim to the fullest that he deserves. Right,
He's always somebody who we're gonna you you he's a
people's champ, right, he's a people's champ. He's he ky.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
What are you taking him on? Are you taking over
Jamal Murray?

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Okay, you just said he's number two, saying.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
If he's under, he's under Murray.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
No, I'm just saying, I like Murray over right now.
Or has sewn to be clutched.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Sean and he don't want to know what these boys did.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
The same thing that Brunston did. He did it in
the bubble.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
This ain't the bubble, this isn't oh.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
And then after the bubble he.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Came you saying Murray is oh, you taking Murray right now?

Speaker 2 (13:28):
I'm still taking Murray right now because he got he's
more proven. Yeah, I know, Jamal got two game winners,
two game winners.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Brunson is electrifying, and.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Bronson is amazing. He's he's cracking recognized game, no doubt
about it. Brunson is killing. But I'm just taking the
door who wonted?

Speaker 3 (13:49):
And then I appreciate you, DoD because I saw the tape.
We got the jersey going, it's official, and I saw
the dinner, the dinner in Beverly Hills that we agreed to.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
So, no, we got the series. Not over, bro, the
series ain't Oh the series?

Speaker 3 (14:05):
That was the first round. You said they wouldn't got
the first round. You had a no, but we said
that was your hot take. Yeah, they wouldn't got the
first round.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Well definitely. Well, well they a't gonna get out the
second round.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
There you keep You just said he's better than you.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Gotta put the jersey on again. They get off the
second round.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
You gotta put the jersey over next time with some tights.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
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got to rank. If we ranked the top five players
in the playoffs right now, who is it?

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Brunson and.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Jokic two, that's two in order.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
I got them too. I don't, man, I take them
too right now. I'm gonna go next. Let me let
me see, I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go to
mister consistency and Shae in there.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
He's gonna keep dropping thirty every night, no sweat, like,
he don't even sweat to get thirty.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
I'm gonna go with him. Damn, I'm gonna throw Anthony
Edwards in there. I know he had the best game before,
but he's a problem. He's a problem. He's taking this
franchise where it needs to be. He's doing this thing.
And uh, the last guy I will put in there
would be uh, I would go throw Tatum in there.

(17:28):
We can't just pooh pool Tatum right now. You know, Uh,
Luca Lucas. Luca's doing this thing. Let's not knock him.
But he's had a couple of confidence issues so far. Look,
I don't like how he's I don't like his demeanor.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
So Shae, okay, so you got Brunson joker Shae.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yeah, no, order, No give me an order, Okay.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
My order, order, my orders, Joker Brunson. Uh, I guess
I gotta go with uh. I gotta go with Luca Donkis.
After that, that triple double, that triple double on the road,
with the series shifting, stealing back that home game. Now
they got a chance to go home, close it out.

(18:14):
I gotta go with Luca Donkins start Tatum, he's starting
to pick it up, and then Brown Tatum, and I
got Brown dent Tatum right now because I think Brown
has been a little more consistent.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Right here, man, I'm going now, fans here, it is
what it is.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Edwards Ards Edwards, the last three, the last two games,
ain't gave me the forty four.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
The game before that.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
On like sixty shooting.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Nah, he had forty four game lost.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Yeah, you can't put Tatum.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
They lost three straight. That his fault. The last gets
trending down. Though.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
The last two he won.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
They played great defense, and he's coaching adjustments. Okay, the
last they made their adjustment.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
And they gotta make theirs.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
They running too many picking rolls.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
The lost three and the lost three.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Crawford, this you two, you're doing great job on the
mic man.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, Crawford. I like Crawford.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
He's given great analysis.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah, he's on the sideline reporting toys, given a good game.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
That's give him.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
Let's give him his proples.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
He's so sorry, so let's let's go back. So the
top five, we got Joker, Brunson, I said, Luca, Donkics,
Brown and Tatum then Edwards because bro, then I can't
give you. Y'all lost three string. I got shake Gil,
just shake Gil just four, and then I got Brown

(19:46):
Tatum five to six. No, they got one and then
Tatum is six. But he's trending up. He's trending enough.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Though.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
We got the game rolling right now Denver Rusus Minnesota
looking to close it out. But tomorrow we got Knicks Pacers.
What's your expectations of this game? Pacers haven't lost that home.
Knicks just one by thirty, Pacers won by thirty the
game before that. So what you what you seeing it

(20:17):
from this this potential close out by the next you
think it goes to seven or what you're thinking right now?
Because I don't think. I don't know, I don't I
don't see the Pacers losing that home. You're talking all
this bruntsing, Yeah, you're talking all like, what are you
gonna do? What is gonna is he gonna show up
in Indiana?

Speaker 3 (20:33):
You're gonna do what you do? They got the thing
I like about this game for the Knicks. They got
they got two days rest. They playing that that that's important.
They got to travel day. They got a day to
go shoot, get their legs. Do they do they recovery,
get back out there, get their rhythm, and get ready
to go and close this deal out.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
I got the Knicks in six.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
You got the Knicks winning in Indiana.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
In Indiana, I'm looking for tickets right now so.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
I can wear this jersey. Were you about to go there?
H yeah, I'm going to Indiana tonight. So I'm looking
for tickets to that game right there. That that energy
is probably crazy. I'm looking forward to see I can
grab me a all.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Right, well, I got Pacers extending this to seven.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
I'm losing in the garden, going.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
To the Garden, and then it's gonna be a bad
summer for the New York Knicks fans. It's not gonna
be They're gonna be all man, that's gonna be the
saddest down today.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Sixth Stream.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Did what they had to do. I mean, I'm rolling
with the heart and desire.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
But yeah they right now.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
All right, So we're over here watching Joker right now.
And I was talking to Tick the other day. Don
We was talking about uh performances when you got your
m v P trophy on the court. You know, they
announce it, but you know, it's an emotion all night
when they when they finally give you the m v
P trophy and you standing in front of your home crowd,

(21:53):
you're raising it up to the crowd. I was just
wondering who had the best m v P N performance
all time because that night Joker went for like forty
and thirteen. I was like thinking, like, damn, it's kind
of tough on you those emotions. And it was pivotal too.
It was two to two swing game and he hit

(22:16):
him with the forty piece and I just want to think,
who you think? And I got a list of some,
you know, pretty notable games when they receive a MVP trophy.
So one it's in two thousand and one. Allen Iverson
in game five versus to Run on the Eastern Conference
semi final had fifty two points.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yeah, that's my favorite.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
They won by thirty three. That's my game five. Yeah,
that's my favorite. That was a great all right, hold on,
hold on, let me run them down. Let me run
them down though. Look listen, Jordan ninety eight, Game two
of the Eastern Conference Finals, forty one in the win.
Then you had Jordan again, Eastern Conference Finals Game two
in ninety six versus the Magic thirty five points in

(22:55):
the win. And then let's see, we have Lebron Lebron
twenty twelve, Game one of the Eastern Conference Finals versus
the Pacers. He had thirty two, fifteen and five. So
which one of the performances? Joker to me, he had
forty one seven thirteen assists with zero turnovers to take

(23:16):
a three to two. Oh man, that's ridiculous. That's ridiculous
to me. That's the best. I got the trophy, VP,
hold it up in front of the crowd. Then I
come out here and give you the forty one piece
right to delight. Ooh against the defensive player of the year. Ooh,
that's cold right there, cold I got the trophy is

(23:37):
sitting right here now. I'm about to come out here
and bust somebody. Assaul whoa, whoa, you know, I'm just saying, though,
you get the EVP tropes, you come out here and like, yeah,
I am the best player forty come get this forty
one seven to thirteen, zero turnovers. But then, like you said,

(23:58):
I ever sent, Well.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yeah that's what I'm going I like that. I like
that Yokis performance. I watched it from start to finish.
It was dominant. He did his thing. But I'm gonna
go with Iverson just because I just remember that era
and that series was one of my favorite series. Yeah,
and the little guy, like the little Guy came and
took the trophy at home. He was doing this all game.

(24:25):
He dropped fifty two on thirty three VP night. Come on, man,
it's a and I just wish I was in town
for the party that night. You know, it was turned up.
You know, Iverson was in Houston's First back in the
day and yeah at home. Come on, who wouldn't want
to be in Philly that night. All you need is
the roots performing after that or something. Mic mill is

(24:46):
too young, Iverson, baby, All right.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
We're about to get We're about to tune back into this, uh,
this Denver game as it's going on right now. We'll
react to it after, so we'll get back with y'all
after the game. We're back at the truth flowns, y'all.
So middle of the game score right now, it's not
looking good. Minnesota's up about twenty five, So it looks
like we're going to a game seven in Denver. I mean,

(25:13):
this is what you play all year for to have
these opportunities. So what's your thoughts? What you think about
a game seven and Den?

Speaker 3 (25:19):
Shout out to ad Man and these boys for extending
the series. Though this looks like that's what they're doing.
They're playing well. They could have dropped it. They lost
three straight, they came home, had to inspire performance.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
This is looking like a Pride game though.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
Right now they're doing an excellent job on Jamal Murray,
the key to the series. In game seven going back home,
will Jamal Murray have one of those games that he's
accustomed to having that we know him for or not.
I know, Anthony Edward's gonna show up. I know your
joker are gonna show up. But it's car Ansney.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Towns and are Murray Mury?

Speaker 3 (25:57):
Those are my guys are with a guy like Jay
McDaniel's playing phenomenal tonight, he's gonna get his twenty. He's
efficient like but the Karisney Towns Jamal Murray thing is
the thing for me.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
All right, Well, I got Denver in the game seven
at home. It's gonna be tough and than the win.
They got championship experience. I like when Minnesota and Steph
State the leaps they taken this year. So uh but
we'll see. But on the side note, we got Dallas
versus oh Man, this resilient OKC team. But Luca, I

(26:34):
feel like every single time when it's back against the
wall where he don't play well, he come with this
big performance.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Yeah, had a big one last week and he.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Come with a triple thirty point triple double. Now you
got him in a close out situations where he can
advance to the conference finals. What's your thoughts on that?
You think you think Dallas gonna get there? You think, Okay,
so he's done, They're going to Dallas. I mean they
can't afford to get back to Okay. See for Game seven,
I think.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
No, I think I think this is where Dallas closes
it out. I had Kyrie as my guy for that.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
I know what Kyrie like Like the last three games. Look,
ain't that ain't the Kyrie.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
I know he going back home game six.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
I think they I think Kyrie got to give a
Kyrie game for them to like close this out.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
He got to He's got to have a good fourth quarter.
He's got to do That's what he's been doing in
this series when they win, except for the last game.
He's got to have a big fourth quarter.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
I want to look, three games, three games, he's got you.
I'm Kyrie, like he got you, like under twenty points,
Like I need to see him in like the twenty.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Four it's gonna be a thirty point game to the
fourth quarter. So Game seven for sure, and then we
got these playoffs. Is they're going down right now? Besides
the fact that Boston they was able to, you know,
basically just get there on the magic carpate ride.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
What you mean, like like they were favorited every series
even if those teams was healthy. That's the crazy part.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Man, Let's just knock it off.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
They played without their a guys, you.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Play without Donovan Mitchell and Jimmy Butler.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
In order to win a championship. And I'm gonna say
this now, and I'm gonna say it as long as
I live. You gotta be good and lucky. They got
lucky not having Jimmy Butler. They got lucky Donovan Mitchell
not out there, you know. But a lot a lot
of championship teams on the road to their championship have
been lucky. Certain things, Certain elements have happened to where

(28:33):
it was like, oh, Durant getting hurt rest Toronto, Toronto
wins if he's If he's not hurt, they don't win
the championship. I don't think you know what I'm saying.
So that was part of it. So that's part of it.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
So what's what I'm saying. That's that magic carpor ride.
They showed up with no Donovan Mitchell. That looked good.
Thing like, oh we're good. Yeah, yeah, we're good.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
So now we'll See's what I'm saying. They gonna be there.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
But now in the West, you gotta gaunt live because
these series are still hanging in the balance. They're hanging
in the balance, and these teams is battling. So I'm
gonna go ahead and go with Denver in Dallas Conference finals.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
That's my conference finals.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
That's gonna be a good one. You got two of
the top five players in the league, to of the
most the biggest stat stuffers, to the biggest stat stuffers.
You don't see even though he got the MVP and
starts is healthy. Yeah, yep, so I like that match up.
But a lot of things going into the weekend, Lakers
still without a coach, a lot of rumors floating out

(29:35):
there that they might be JJ Reddick. Sam Cassell's name
has been mentioned.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Uh, coach from the Hornets, from.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
The Hornets, what's hey, hey, hey, lord, hey lord? What's
his name?

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Lord?

Speaker 3 (29:52):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Jason Farrega.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
Now, I think out of those candidates, the only guy
you can legitimately try out there is Sam Canseil.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
No, I'm not wishing that on him.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
I am.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
I don't want to deserve it. No, he don't deserve it.
But that's a job to it's gonna be too much.
You don't want to take that job as your first
head coach. Yeah, based on the situation that they in
right now.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
It is a making This is a making job. So
now nobody can't say nothing. He gonna go out there,
he's gonna get Lebron, He's gonna.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Tell you should have just kept him.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
No, no, no, we're going with Sam. We didn't keep him.
We're going with Sam. Sam got a different personality, it's
a different personality. He's ready to lead these guys. But Rega,
I just think he haven't won enough. So Lebron's gonna
come in there, like you know what I mean. I
think Sam being a guy that's an older mentor type
of level guy with a mentality to look at Lebron

(30:47):
and say, look, man, I believe, like Tylu, Sam is
in that mode that somebody that can get Lebron to understand.
I don't think Lebron. I don't think Brega has that
person I might be wrong, but it's just what I'm saying.
I think Sam is ready for this, and I think
this don't hurt him. I think I think he comes
in here and he and he able to do his

(31:07):
thing and establish himself as an NBA head coach, and
this is his opportunity. And I think he's the most
deserving guy.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
I think I think Sam is deserving of a coaching job.
But I'm just I'm just I personally don't like this
job for him.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, I know a stability everybody rocking Lebron get fired. Yeah, exactly,
but I just think I just think that he got
to step in there, and I think that's cool. Like
if that's the narrative that he got fired rocking Lebron,
I don't think he's His respect around the league is
good enough, but I think he's the guy that kind
of sold this up because in two more years, Lebron's

(31:42):
gonna be on his way out, so you're gonna be
ready to roll with Sam going forward anyway. You got
a short window to win with these guys. You're not
gonna fire the next coach with Lebron leaving anyway. So
that's why I think it's good time in Corn, all.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
Right, you got I really don't know. This is a
tough one for me. What makes most sense as far
as a coach for the Lakers. You would have thought
like maybe Phil Handy would have moved into that spot
after you let go a hand But it looks like
they let go off a lot of the coaching staff.

(32:16):
So this is a tough one because you gotta ask
usself a few questions, is this a coach that's gonna
lead us to the championship? But then the Lakers gotta
be real what they said are y'all a championship team.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
We got two top ten players, we gotta be That's
usually the formula if you got two top ten players.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
But why they consistently planning the play in.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Consistently consistently playing the plan.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Right, that's not a championship team. Bro.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Well, they gonna have their excuses, injuries, things of that nature,
not having the same lineup, and they're gonna have to
shift the roster. They're gonna have to do some other
things too, right, They're gonna have to do that. I
just think Ham got an unfair shake. But at the
end of the day, they're gonna point to the fact
that they at every game and loss, so he had

(33:03):
a chance. I mean, you feel bad for coaches like
Darvin Ham, a great dude, but but I think the
Lakers window is depending on what moves they make, what
moves they make in its off seat.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
Man. To be honest with you, I really don't even
think this is really about a championship, No worry. This
is about putting on a good show. Because if we're
talking about this sounds like a script to me. This
really sounded like a script to me. If we're talking
about all think about this they hired JJ Reddick, draft
bronni or sign. I mean, does this sound like something

(33:37):
that's like we're trying to move in a direction to
win a championship or it just sound like we're trying
to put on a show.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
What you said, they'll make they I mean, they'll make.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
They claim look like I'm just keeping it one hundred.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
They make their claim.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
It's like they're more.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Interested on entertainment, Like because if you do that, that's
gonna sell tickets. That's gonna sell out. That's gonna that's
gonna keep keep people talking about it in the blogs.
That's gonna keep people in social media talking about what's
going on. Like every day, it's gonna be either good
or bad.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
Body said, just make Lebron the coach.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
I mean Byron Scott said that Inglewood.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Make Lebron just turning into soul.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Just make Lebron the coach. Stop looking at your search, Lebron,
get it behind, do the bill, do to Bill Russell,
grab the clipboard on timeouts. It's it's doable. I mean,
you got your show where you're talking basketball.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Just you predict as a coach.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Lebron James, draft your son. You running the organization anyways.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
Clutch sports, right should call the Los Angeles clutch sports
what it should be called. Let Lebron run the team,
let them coach the team, draft both his sons, do
whatever you need to do.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
And I'm taking John Murray over over Brunson. You so
caught up in the hold on, hold on, hold on,
You so caught up in a moment. You you a
prisoner of the moment. Because what we're seeing, like the

(35:14):
last two.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
Weeks, have you said, let's look at it, let's look
at Joa Moran doing this.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
What's going on right now?

Speaker 2 (35:20):
If it don't lead to winning the championship, We're gonna
to win the championship. I'm just saying, we're gonna forget.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
What is John Moran done over Jayalen Bruns and this
season individual season.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Numbers when he came back.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
This guy got nobody healthy from the start line to
start the season.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
It's nobody out there. It's him.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Come on, man, It's like Lona Richie and the Commodore
is at this point, he's playing with his boy from Villanova.
He's rolling. We ain't seen nothing like this. He got
the garden on fire. Can't compare this to know Ja Moran,
John is great. You taking, I'm taking I'm taking Jayalen
bruns over Jaman.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
Yes, that's what do you It's crazy? Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
You're not watching the games.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Lord, all right, look, you got Nick closing out. I
got Indiana extending the series. What you want to bet?
I got it going seven. I got Indiana at home.
Who you got? You got Nick? You're gonna probably go
to the game Indiana at home. You going to the game,
You're gonna be wearing your brunts and jersey. So what
you let's bet fifty. Let's put twenty five push ups

(36:26):
on truth. Flown on truth, twenty five push ups?

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Yeah, you need that.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
It's gonna help you, all right.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
Got to do it right during the show, during the show. Yeah,
all right, that's a bet.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Jen Brunson may coming through for me. Man, So all right,
game check this out.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
By the time you see this, I'm telling y'all, Nix
is gonna be heading to a game seven. By the
time you see this, Dallas would have already clinched and
been in the Western Conference Finals. But if I'm wrong,
we'll be back next week, so I could clean it up.
That's the true Bloune baby, Let's go.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
In Los Angeles

Speaker 3 (37:12):
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