“Timberwolves Took Their Soul, Knicks in Trouble & Lakers vs Rockets Felt Rigged

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The playoffs are heating up and things just took a wild turn. The Timberwolves came in and took the heart of the Nuggets, showing exactly what playoff intensity really looks like. Are the champs in trouble or is this just a wake up call?

The Knicks are starting to feel the pressure and it’s not looking good. Injuries, inconsistency, and tough matchups are exposing real issues. Can they respond or is this the beginning of the end?

And then there’s the Lakers vs Rockets game… something about it just didn’t sit right. Was it just a bad loss or did it feel a little off? We’re breaking it all down.

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SPEAKER_02 0:00

The Nuggets are in trouble. The Knicks are in trouble. Cleveland are in trouble. The playoffs is a lot of trouble. And we're going to talk about today on a real hooper show. I'm your boy Sean Shagamis. I got my guy here, E. What's good with you, my boy? What's good, bro? Your boy Jokic ain't showing up, huh? Come on, bro. He ain't showing up. I told you. I told you. When those lights come on in this time, it's going to be, listen, the playoffs is different, bro. It's a different energy right now, man. And here's the thing. Here's the thing about the playoffs, bro. It's about who got the most heart. It's about who listen. We can look at the stat line right now and Nicole Yoke is averaging 25 points, 14 rebounds, and seven assists. He's having a great, he's having a decent playoff series on paper. But when you looking at them, when you're looking at them games, it don't look like 25 points. It don't look like 14 rebounds. Right now you're shooting 39% from the field, 18% from three-pointers. Jaden McDaniel said it. All we're going to do is go at the bad defenders. And I was expecting the nuggets to step it up. I was expecting them to come out and just start balling. And just start, listen, you want to disrespect us like that? Let me show y'all. We ain't bad defenders. Y'all locking up. And what they do, E, they lose worse than before. Come on, it ain't nothing to say right now, bro. And listen, y'all want to blame Nicole Jokic. Nicole Jokic ain't the only one to blame. Jamal Murray, the same thing. Jamal Murray shooting 30%, 37% from the field, 26% from the three-point line. Come on, man. Like, I told, and here's the thing. At one point, I did think to myself, all right, cool. They might win this game. Anthony Edwards goes down. Dante DiVincenzo goes down. Now, y'all lose my more. Y'all let somebody come off the bench and give y'all 43? Y'all let somebody come off the bench and give y'all 43. Let me go, let me get his name right. I don't want to, I don't want to butcher his name. I don't want to butcher his name, though. But let's be clear. How you say his name? Dumasimo?

SPEAKER_00 2:24

DeSumo.

SPEAKER_02 2:25

DeSumo? De sumo come off the bench and give y'all 43 points, bro. Like, come on, man. Like, like, what do you think? You think it's over for him?

SPEAKER_00 2:35

I think it's over. Oh, man. I think it's over for the niggas. It's not looking good. They've come back down from 3-1 before. But this series is looking scary, bro.

SPEAKER_02 2:46

Now, the only way they come back is they take advantage of Anthony Edwards being out.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 2:52

They take advantage of Anthony Edwards being out. Make guys do things that they don't normally do. Make Rudy Gobert start shooting. Make him start shooting. Rudy Gobert had four points last game, but 15 rebounds. Less rebounds, more shots from Rudy Gobert.

SPEAKER_00 3:08

Yeah, Rudy Gobert looking different, bro. He's looking different.

SPEAKER_02 3:11

He's looking like he deserved them four defensive players of the year, huh? Y'all talking about he robbed you. No, he looked like he deserved that. Here's what I said. Jaden McDaniels is averaging 15 points this series. That's one point above his uh season average. Make him be a scorer. He's shooting 9% from the three. Make him shoot a three. Make him shoot a three. I think if the Denver Nuggets want to come back, I believe they gotta make guys uncomfortable. And sometimes to make guys uncomfortable, you gotta make them do things they don't want to do. The Knicks is also in trouble, E. The Knicks is in trouble too. The series is tied up to two, right? The series is tied up too. And I said this before. I like when Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson, he's sharing a ball more. Like the speculation is can they win with a can they win with a with a short guard? Can a basketball, can an NBA team win with a small guard? And I don't think so. I don't think an NBA team can win with a small guard unless everyone else on this team is flourishing. If he's gonna have 28, he needs to have two more people with 20 and 25. It can't be 28 and a big drop-off after that. And I think the Knicks is in the same position it was in last year. The Knicks didn't really have, they didn't really have uh a deep bench. They got the same, they got the same production. And not only that, Mikhail Bridges, where you at, my boy? Mikhail Bridges has zero points in game two. Like, what are we doing? I don't keep listening I don't care about you being an Iron Man. I don't care about how many games you play. You play 6,000 games in a row. That's cool and all. Respect. Definitely respect. But come on, bro. Come on. We can't be serious, though. We can't be on the court for 23 minutes and give us zero points. Not us. I'm not a Knicks fan, to be honest with you. I'm not a Knicks fan. But the Hawks, I like the way the Hawks is playing. I do like the way the Hawks is playing because they're playing, they're giving you a balanced attack. They're giving you a balanced attack. So the Hawks is playing really good. Um, and I feel like you know, you know the dangerous thing about the Hawks right now, E?

SPEAKER_01 5:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:48

Is that they don't have nothing to lose. Right? If they walk away from this, from this series, they lose it. Nobody's gonna batter eye. Nobody like, yo, CJ McCullen should take over. He's a better player than Jalen Brunson. Nope. They thought he was old, they thought he was washed. Now he's looking like, yo, give me the basketball in the clash.

unknown 6:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:11

Nikel Alexander Walker just got the most improved player of the year. He comes in, he's he's he's coming in, got half awards, came from uh um the Timberwolves. He don't got nothing to lose, but they ain't playing. They ain't playing like it. They ain't playing like they got they look like they want to get past this round. I mean, look at guys like uh Jonathan Kaminga, dogs. One of these games he had 21 points. Last game he had 10 points. He had 10 points coming off the bench. I mean, they did, they did lose the last game, but they still battle. I like I like this team. I don't I don't think the Knicks make it, if they make it to the finals, everybody think they're gonna make it to the finals.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

The Knicks?

SPEAKER_02 6:55

The the conference finals.

SPEAKER_00 6:56

Oh, conference finals for the Knicks?

SPEAKER_02 6:58

Yeah, they think they're gonna make it to the conference finals. I don't think they, if they make it there, they're gonna be a rough one.

SPEAKER_01 7:03

You think so?

SPEAKER_02 7:04

It's gonna be a rough one, bro. I don't I just don't I just don't think they got enough horses, man. They don't got enough horses. I mean, Carnegie Towns got gonna have his 20. OG gonna have his 16 to 22 points. He's playing well. But then, you know, this is to me, the last game was their best game.

SPEAKER_00 7:23

The Knicks, for sure. The last game was the Knicks' best game.

SPEAKER_02 7:27

That was their best game. And Jalen Brunson had 19 points. He had 19 points.

SPEAKER_00 7:32

I mean, yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 7:34

He had 19 points. He had 19 points. It wasn't his best game. He had six turnovers. But again, OG was flowing. 22 points, 10 rebounds. Um uh Car Anthony Towns had a triple-double. Car Anthony Towns had 20 points, 10 and 10. I think, I think if you give Jalen Brunson the same 19 points, not 18 shots, and then you give and you give him eight assists, eight or nine assists, plus maybe maybe two turnovers. I give them some grace. They they win this, they win this series by a long shot.

SPEAKER_01 8:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:11

Then we're talking about, then the next series, Pistons and Orlando. Pistons, listen, man, I said this early on this year. Sometimes the lights get too bright. Sometimes the lights get too bright. There are teams, we've seen this happen with Cleveland a couple years ago. Cleveland was number one, and then boom, the playoffs came, the lights too bright. The lights too bright for them. I mean, Orlando, everyone thought Orlando was gonna have a better season than what they did. I think that Orlando is actually playing the way people expected him to play during the season. They're showing a lot of versatility on when it comes to the offensive end as well as the defensive end. The Pistons thought they was gonna come in and just bully him. Orlando, like, nah, we're not, we just not, you're not bullying us, bro. And we have skill. And we have more players than you that can score. The last game they played, right? You follow me, E? Yep. The last game they played, Orlando had five starters scoring over 15 points. 15 points or more. Two of those guys scored 25 points. Two of those guys, as in Paulo Panchero and um Desmond Bain. Now listen, I don't know about you, Ian, but I think Desmond Bain is probably the most shocking player of the playoffs right now.

SPEAKER_00 9:37

Shocking? Nah, nah.

SPEAKER_02 9:39

Dog, he's balling. Like I'm talking about, I'm not talking about his points. I'm talking about the times of it, the timely shots, the the defensive pressure on the ball. Desmond Bain is hooping right now.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

But he's been doing this, so it's not like a shot, though.

SPEAKER_02 9:56

It's not a sh, listen. You you think France Wagner is gonna come in there and do it and pay that role. You think Paul Benchel, when I say a shot, Desmond Bain is the difference maker right now.

SPEAKER_00 10:09

He's for sure gonna be a difference maker for that team, for that alone team, particular team. He's for sure gonna be that that scoring points that that they're gonna need. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 10:19

You ain't you weren't expecting that. I think he's the the difference maker. The problem with Detroit is this you got Tobias Harris scoring 23. That's the problem. No, I'm joking. I missed the y'all listen. I never I'm gonna never forgive Tobias Harris for what he did with the Sixers, bro. I ain't never gonna forgive Tobias Harris for that. But I mean, you got K Cutterhand with 27 and Tobias Harris with 23 last game. Um, Duncan Robertson, Duncan Robinson had 10 points. Uh Osher Thompson, how do you say his name?

SPEAKER_01 10:55

Asar.

SPEAKER_02 10:56

Asar Thompson, that's right. Asara Thompson, uh, one of the twins, he has 17 points. He has 17 points. Everyone else from the bench on is eight or less. Eight or less. You're not gonna beat a team like this. You're not gonna be the team that's had five guys, every every guy in the starting lineup is uh had 15 points or more, or 14 points or more. Now, the reason why I say that is because real hoopers understand this. When you have guys in a starting lineup that's dropping those type of numbers, you don't know who, you don't know who to guard. You don't know who to guard tough. You don't know who to pressure. Everybody balling. When you got when you have guys on the court that won't shoot the three like Asar Thompson, you can back off a little bit. You can sag off him. Yeah, Jalen Duran ain't gonna shoot that three. We can drop drop on him. So when you think about it, you go here, you go here to the Orlando, everybody trying to get money. Everyone trying to get money, so it's gonna be it's gonna be a harder matchup. And speaking of another hard matchup, speaking of another hard matchup, OKC and the Suns. We're gonna take it to the West. OKC to the Suns, bro. Now, who you like in that series? You said the Suns is gonna win that series, too, Ski.

SPEAKER_01 12:24

Never said that.

SPEAKER_02 12:24

E said, listen, hey, scores. E said the Suns is gonna win this series. And he's tripping right now. Hey, I need to charge it. Let me not charge him. Fuck this up. Let me make sure that maybe I'll make sure we I keep the power here, man. Forgive me, fellas. Forgive me, scores. This reach over there. Oh no. There you go. So, like I was saying though, right? We have the the OKC Thunder mopping the Suns right now. My boy, my boy uh E said they was gonna win it. Highly doubt it right now. And here's the and here's the reality of it. The these games that they're playing, right, is not even close. Right? Like the first in game one, 84 to 119, one game two, 107 to 120, one uh game three, 109 to 121. All in favor of OKC. Now, here's the reason why they're not even close. Obviously, a score. But if you watch these games, these are garbage points they're getting at the end. These are garbage points. If teams are scoring 119 points in a playoffs, you're not stopping no one, man. You're not stopping anyone. Then they got Dylan Brooks scoring 33 points a game, or 30 points a game. 30, he had 30 uh the game before last, and he had 33 points the last game. Fool's goal. Fool's goal. If you if you the OKC Thunder, who you want beating you? Dylan Brooks? Or Dylan Brooks or uh Devin Booker? Who do you want beating you? Who you want? You want Dylan Brooks. You know why? Because Dylan Brooks is getting a lot of his points in the ISO. If Dylan, listen, I'd rather see Dylan Brooks score 20 points, 23 points, and eight of those points come from deflections and steals. I'd rather see him disrupt more. I'd rather see that. Devin Booker go, if Devin Booker get 33, it's gonna be a quick 33. It's gonna be coming off screens, it's gonna reserve his energy. I don't want to see Dylan Brooks getting these points, bro. It's not gonna help them win. But even it really does, to be honest, to be honest, I'm gonna be real with you, man. It don't really matter. They're not gonna win this series anyway. I come up with the best scheme in my head. The Suns is not gonna win this. Because here's why. Their best player is not better than the OKC best player.

SPEAKER_00 15:22

You don't think Devin Booker's better than Shay?

SPEAKER_02 15:24

No, I don't think Devin Booker is better than Shay. And Devin Booker's not playing like the best player right now. I mean, the last game, this last game, he played Devin Booker at 16 points on 16 shots. He's not playing like the best player right now. So for me, um, your best player is not better than my best player. So so don't same thing with Devin. But your best player's not better than my best player. Your 33 points, not as good as my 33 points. Just what it is. Shea had 42 points on 18 shots. You see the difference there?

unknown 16:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:03

Dylan Brooks had 33 on 21 shots. Still a good night, 50%. 50%, but he gave him 42. 42 with eight assists. Eight assists, three turnovers. That's the only that's the only hang up I have on this game. And then then you go down the line, 15, 13, 8, 6, like these guys is making sure Shake uh SGA eat. Dylan Brooks, you you just stopping the ball, the ball flowing. He started all these all these husky, all these husky ass crossovers. Uh I don't like it.

SPEAKER_00 16:37

What's your reaction to uh that Caruso tech? I think it was game three, where you told the ref to take him up. Well, you told the ref to tech up Devin Booker. You seen that clip?

SPEAKER_02 16:48

No, I didn't see it.

SPEAKER_00 16:49

Uh it was a play. I forgot what the play was, but in the background, you see Caruso telling the ref to uh give him a tech.

SPEAKER_02 16:56

He told he told who to give him a tech.

SPEAKER_00 16:58

The Caruso, he was saying, yo, that's a tech. The ref gave Devin Booker a tech. Uh so you know saying, but okay, see, they've been in the fire a little bit for all these um, for what's it was foul baiting, foul grift thing.

SPEAKER_02 17:11

Oh no, they're shooting a lot of free throws. You know what I'm saying? They're shooting a lot of free throws. But here's the thing, though, bro. I don't mind it as much as people may want to think. I don't, I really don't mind it. And the reason why I don't really mind it is because you can't beat other professionals, mano on mano. You gotta have strategy. You gotta, you gotta have a strategy involved if you think, if you're gonna want to, if you want to win a championship. And that's their strategy. They strategy is get fouls and get to the line and hit shots. They still gotta hit the free throws. Still gotta hit the free throws. So when I when I look at the last game, right, I'm looking at the team stats of the last game right now. And I mean, free throws, they had the same amount. Actually, the Suns shot just as actually Suns shot more free throws than them, right? Suns shot 23 free throws, um, OKC shot 21 free throws. Uh, Suns was 87% from free from the free throw line, and then the OKC was 90%. So, again, it's not really a thing of, oh, they they being cheated or things ain't working out in their way. It's a thing of your team is just not better than mine. Your players is not better than mine. I'm glad you won the play in, though. You know what I'm saying? Let's talk about the Raptors and the uh um Cleveland Cavaliers. Like, again, this this to me, this can go either way. This series can go either way for me. I wouldn't be surprised if the Raptors sneak out. Because I've been telling my man Edis all year. I don't trust the team that's led by Donovan Mitchell.

SPEAKER_01 19:02

Tough, bro.

SPEAKER_02 19:03

I don't trust the team that's led by Donovan Mitchell, bro. Every time he gets in this, in these in these positions, bro, pause, is he freezes up. Last game, 20 points on 24 shots. The game before that, 15 points on 16 shots. I don't like it. I'm always nervous when it comes down. And same thing with uh, same thing with James Harden. And the reason why I'm nervous about James Harden, because James Harden game is a very predictable game. James Harden plays in front of the defense the entire time. He plays in front of the defense the entire time. He's no baseline, he's no fast break, he's no post guy, he's in front of the defense the entire time. And then when he are when he is hitting shots or shooting shots, they're all contested. Last game he had 19 points on 14 shots. It's not too bad, but again, eight assists, seven turnovers. Eight assists, seven turnovers. Donovan Mitchell, same thing. Three assists, four turnovers. Like, every time he gets in this position to win uh uh to take a team to the next level, freezes up. Right now the series is 2-2. And another team that does not have nothing to lose. The Raptors were not supposed to be here, but and this ain't no, and this ain't a promotion of a Deborah Cox song. They wasn't supposed to be this far. We didn't see Toronto Raptors the number four. They where they came in, number four? Uh fifth, fourth, fifth all year, all year? Yeah, fame on, man. And then Scotty Barnes, he just relentless. You go look at Scotty Barnes, he's going to the basket all day. All day. And someone, and here's another guy who people are not gonna talk about. Jamal. Jamal Sheet from um, is it Shed or Sheet? Shed.

SPEAKER_00 21:10

I'll go Shedd.

SPEAKER_02 21:11

Yeah, Jamal Shedd. So I'm I I butchered name, so forgive me. Uh Jamal Shedd played for the University of Houston. But he had two points last game. You might be looking at the stats right now, like, oh, he only had two points. Go look at the game. A defensive menace disrupting everything. Found out this, you know, you know, he's 6'1, 6'1, 6'2, right?

SPEAKER_01 21:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:35

You know he plays center in high school? He plays center in high school. So he ain't scared to get dirty. He ain't he's not scared to get busy when it comes to uh uh playing down low. You see, I was watching the game earlier. He kept getting the ball off the rebound, go a crazy outlet pass to uh his boy Murray Boyle. That's another guy. Another guy came in, came in, got his minutes, and got paid. You're talking about a guy who came off the bench, had 15 points in 27 minutes. 15 points in 77 minutes, shot 5 for 11, and got 10 rebounds. Double double off the bench. This is what I'm saying, man. What happened to Evan Mobley? Wasn't Evan Mobley like the most improved player a couple years ago? Wasn't he a defensive player or something like that? He wasn't a something type, but he's an all-star.

SPEAKER_00 22:32

Yeah, he's I know he's an all-star for a fact.

SPEAKER_02 22:34

You talk about eight points in 32 minutes. What are we doing out here? Four for 11? Only shot, only made uh four shots? O for three, nine rebounds. Same thing with Jared Allen. Wasn't he a defensive player? Wasn't he an all-star? Three points, 27 minutes. Get these guys, man. Pack them up, man. I'm moving for the Raptors, bro. The six guy. What's good? Come on, man. Then we then we gotta swing it. Then the next thing, listen, I'm I'm sad about this series. It's Boston versus Sixers. Listen, bro. You got M B return. I don't give a sh listen. I don't like MB returning right now. I gotta be real with you. I said this early on in the year. Mbi slowed things up. Mbi played the this game, uh, this last game, the first eight points went to MB. The first eight points went to MB, right? You think, oh man, it's gonna be a good game. But I don't like when Embiid is there because look at the contribution from everyone else. VJ Edge Cone has six points. You don't know, bro. We need to play fast. We need to we need to constantly be keep our foot on the gas. Embiid had 26 points on 21 shots. He had 10 rebounds and six assists. On paper, that sounds great. That looks great. But when you watch the game, when you watch the game, you you'll see them use Embiid as a screen, and then they're now holding the ball, stopping the ball, waiting to get Embiid involved. That's not how a guy like Maxie flourished. Maxie had 22 points. Then you take it to Paul George. Paul George has 16 points on 13 shots. Everything he does is ISO. He stops the basketball. Dog, I said this early on in the year. Get your butt in the corner, bro. He was three from three. He was three from three this game. You could have been five from five. You just be a corner boy. Three and D guy. You're not going to be able to beat the Boston Celtics with everybody putting the ball on the ground. Joel and B, same thing. He trying to clink flat flat ass shot at the free throw line. Same thing with Paul George. Huh. Jabby, jabby, head fake, Jack. Come on, man. All these rhythm players. Let DJ Edgecomb and Maxie loose. I think, I think Joel MB should be playing like, what's my guy's name? Um, Bono. He should be playing like Bono.

SPEAKER_00 25:32

Ain't no way you're playing like Bono, bro.

SPEAKER_02 25:34

Dog. Drive opposite side of the block. We dish it off to you. Dunk something. Yeah, you're not even. Dunk something. Or give me Andre Drummond. Go ahead and hit that little three you do in the corner once in a while. Once in a while, though. We got M B be shooting six threes. All flat. All flat, like the wings at the goddamn wing stop, bro. Come on, man.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

See, I feel you about MB, but Paul George, I still feel like y'all could use Paul George, though. We can use him in a corner. You don't think, you don't think he'll be useful with you don't think his ISO game will be useful.

SPEAKER_02 26:16

No, listen, let me tell you something, bro. As much as we want to believe this stuff, if LeBron James gotta be the third option, what do you think Paul George should be?

SPEAKER_01 26:24

Okay, fair enough.

SPEAKER_02 26:26

Come on, man. I I love KD, but KD don't need to be the first option, or at least he don't need to be the only option on scoring. I think he needs someone else to help him.

SPEAKER_01 26:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 26:39

I mean, you're talking about, listen, man, this how this is how good the Boston Celtics is. The Boston Celtics lost a best player this year and still was number two.

SPEAKER_01 26:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:50

Jason, not Jason Tatum, uh Jalen Brown was an MVP candidate. MVP candidate, bro. He had 20 points tonight. However, they were some tough 20 points. They were some big baskets. Jason Tatum had 30, right? But that smoke and mirrors, too. That 30 came at the end. That 12 of 13 points came at the end when the game was already out of reach. Peyton Pritcher came off the bench, gave him 32.

SPEAKER_00 27:17

I'm not gonna lie, the game was out of reach sometime in the third quarter. Yeah, facts.

SPEAKER_02 27:22

No, that's facts. Peyton Pritcher had 32 points off the bench, bro. You can't have that. Six for 12 from three, 50%? Can't have that. But everyone gets on the the Boston Celsius for shooting threes. They shot 53 threes last game, right? In comparison to in comparison to the Sixers, 33s. Sixers only shot 33s, they shot 53 threes. They made 24 of those threes. That's 45%. The Sixers shot 9 for 30. 9 for 30, 30%, bro. So here's my thing with the Celtics shooting threes. I don't mind it. You know why? Because they play hard. They'll get you, they'll get you offensive rebounds. They all play in defense. Go look at the way they play defense. They all play in defense the same way from number from the first guy, from the first guy on the team. Let me see how many people they played. They played, what's this? They played 14 guys tonight. They played 14 guys and they all played on one accord. That's the difference, man. That's the biggest difference. And then, not only that, these guys are gonna get you extra possessions. They're not tripping that they're not playing the whole game. They come in there, they're gonna get you extra possessions. Can't be mad at that. They on the offensive rebounds, they have 14 offensive rebounds to the Sixers 6. They had 37 rebounds to the Sixers 24. Out rebound. They're just playing hard. So go ahead, shoot 63s next time. Shoot 63s. But my thing with the Sixers, man, we got to get Joel and B out of the out of the driver's seat. We got to get him out of the driver's seat, bro. I just don't like it. I don't think, I think you with Joel and B with Joel and B in the driver's seat, bro, is like driving a car with four flats. You know what I'm saying? It ain't going that far. But back over to the West, let's talk about the Spurs in Portland, man. Spurs is handled business tonight. I don't think Portland had a chance to get out of this anyway. I think this is one of them things, like I said, this is a great for your resume. When I say great for the resume, I mean the no one thought the Blazers were going to get this far. Chauncey Billis with the gambling thing, right? We didn't think, we didn't, we thought it was over. Damon Lillard didn't play this year. Drew Holiday came in later this year. We all thought it was over. And then boom. They make a run. Then who does this guy, Denny Avia? Then Denny Avia comes in. He starts balling. So I'm happy to see. I'm really happy to see that the Portland Trailblazers is doing good, but it's not going to be Wimby, bro.

unknown 30:31

Nah.

SPEAKER_02 30:32

I mean, Wimby had what, 27 points tonight?

SPEAKER_00 30:35

I believe so.

SPEAKER_02 30:35

He had 27 points. Uh, De'Aaron Fox had 28 points tonight. You're just not going. I mean, and then it's just the gravity that they have, man. The gravity that, the gravity that um, what's my boy's name? Uh Wimby has on the court is insane. The pace of the game, they just move in the basketball fast. And then they scoring in the paint at will. Spurs have 52 points in the paint to the Blazers 38 points. Well, you do you think, E, do you think the Spurs, I'm excuse me, that's Spurs, Blazers have a chance?

SPEAKER_00 31:10

Nah, bro.

SPEAKER_02 31:11

I you all, bro, come on, bro.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

But I never thought they had a chance, bro.

SPEAKER_02 31:14

You said they had a chance. No, I said they're gonna steal that.

SPEAKER_00 31:16

Y'all eat cap it. No, no, no, no. I said they're gonna still one or two games, bro.

SPEAKER_02 31:19

They got one. You think they wanna get another one?

SPEAKER_00 31:22

Nah, they're going back to San Antonio. It ends in five, bro.

SPEAKER_02 31:26

Is it five?

SPEAKER_00 31:27

Yeah, it ends in five, bro.

SPEAKER_02 31:29

Uh, it's in five. So, now here's another thing, too, about the Blazers. Here's what the Blazers gotta do better next year. I mean, ain't nothing they can do this year. They might, if they sneak one game in, great. But here's another thing they gotta do better. The Blazers, y'all gotta stop shooting so many damn threes, bro. I mean, this last game, right, they shot 31 threes and made 10 of them. 31%. You're not gonna win this game. You're not gonna win, you're not gonna win a lot of games like that. You're just not. And y'all need three points. Everybody gotta stop. The Blazers, one of them teams that we argue about. Yo, they everybody gotta stop mimicking the old Warriors. They won of them. But shout out to the Blazers, man. They had a great year. Um, I'm I'm gonna chalk it up for them. I'm gonna chalk it up for them, bro. You know what I mean? We gotta be honest about it. And then last, lastly, man, the Lakers.

SPEAKER_00 32:27

Oh, yeah, the best series, bro.

SPEAKER_02 32:30

You think this is the best series, Lakers and Rockets? They dropped the ball tonight. I know it. I know they do. They definitely dropped the ball tonight, my boy.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

Disappointing. But we got them all.

SPEAKER_02 32:38

Houston Rockets win this 115 and 96. Now, I ain't gonna lie to you guys. I save this for last for a reason. Because I say this for last for a reason, man. Um, this is what makes the NBA look rigged. This is what makes the NBA look rigged, man. The Lakers is down 20 points in the playoffs with seven minutes to go. At what point do you put the bench in? JJ Reddick empties his bench out at seven minutes. 20-pointly. We we we know it's the NBA, bro. We watched the Lakers come back the game before. Six points in 25 seconds. Six points in 25 seconds. Let's say that's done again, right? Now you're down 14 in 25 seconds. Give him another, give, give him another 25. I mean, this is obviously the perfect scenario. This is obviously the perfect scenario. Then you do it again, all right. Now you're down eight. Do it again. That's this say this say you just let three minutes, four, just let three minutes of that happen. You back in the league. But y'all got we got Bronny in there, no disrespect to Bronny. Shout out, Bronny, man. And we we done at seven. Come on, man.

SPEAKER_00 34:09

I see what you're saying. I see what you're saying. But can't it just be a thing where it's like, nah. Yeah, but nah. Let's let Brian rest up. We got game five back out.

SPEAKER_02 34:22

No, it's the playoffs. How about we let Brian rest up when we win? You win the series tonight and you rest it. Who the next who your next group? OKC? OKC. Yeah, bro. You you because listen, OKC got a great chance of sweeping the Suns. No.

SPEAKER_00 34:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 34:40

You don't want OKC resting longer than you. I see what you're saying. You don't want them resting longer than you.

SPEAKER_00 34:46

But the game was already out of out of reach, out of reach. It's not a good thing.

SPEAKER_02 34:50

20 points is not out of reach in the instance.

SPEAKER_00 34:53

Because you gotta get stops and you gotta be able to stop. It ain't hard.

SPEAKER_02 34:56

It ain't hard. You gotta think Amon Thompson, Amon Thompson had 23 points with no threes. Yeah. With no threes. That's that's that's the guy you gotta stop right there.

SPEAKER_00 35:06

But we and we were showing that we're not stopping him tonight.

SPEAKER_02 35:10

Bro, y'all, yeah, they just had bad matchups on him tonight, bro. Tyree Eason, 20 points.

SPEAKER_00 35:17

That's what I'm saying. But he had a good game.

SPEAKER_02 35:20

He had a really good game. Two for five from three, seven for ten from the field. He had a good game. I give him that. Amad Thompson, though, bro, he was 10 for 16 to 23 points, my G. Jabari Smith, four for 15. You stopping that. Sangoon, Sangoon had 19 points on 12 shots. You stopping that. He only had six rebounds. You stopping that. But we're gonna stop him in seven minutes, though. We can stop him in seven. You did it in 25 seconds. It in 25 seconds. But I understand there's a such thing as rhythm of the game. I understand it's rhythm of the game. So at the end of the day, I give him the benefit of the doubt. But listen, if this game go to six games. If this game go to this series go to seven games, six games, I'm telling you, bro. I'm telling you, it's rigged. Ain't no way the Lakers is up 3-1. Yeah. And they go back to Houston. It can't go back to Houston. They go back to Houston, it's gonna get silly. But what you so what do you think the Lakers need to do?

SPEAKER_00 36:28

To win the series?

SPEAKER_02 36:29

To take it home, bro.

SPEAKER_00 36:30

Hey, bro, I'm not an analyst, bro. So those are questions I should be asking you, bro.

SPEAKER_02 36:34

Go ahead. Well shoot, ask me, man. I'm telling you, they I'm gonna tell you the first thing I'm gonna say is LeBron can't have 10. No, yeah. He can't have 10, bro. 10, that's a fact. Ten and eight turnovers. That's a fact. Brian, everybody knows LeBron, my guy. But eight turnovers is insane, bro. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Eight turnovers and nine assists. Like, dog, this is my thing. I was watching LeBron turnovers a couple days ago, right? And I don't know. I just think I don't want to make no excuses for him. But he's throwing some lazy passes. Like he's trying to like thread the needle. Like he still thinks he's on a playground or something. Like every turnover is like, like when he had one turnover, the game they won against Houston, where it was an inbound play. It was an inbound play to Marcus Smart. And he just like rolled it. Like he just kind of like threw it on the ground. Like it wasn't even like a real bounce pass. I don't even want to give it, I don't want to say it was a bounce pass, bro. It was like, huh, man, go ahead and take it. In a clutch. This is how you're getting these turnovers. Eight, eight turnovers. He'll be trying to drive, no look. Remember, I told you about my teammate Scotty, no look.

SPEAKER_01 37:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:52

Everything was a no-look for this guy. Yeah. It'd be a simple perimeter pass. Yeah. We just swinging the ball from the perimeter. We just run in the zone. We just run in the zone off uh zone offense.

unknown 38:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:05

Right next to you. Handoffs. How you how you a no-look at a handoff? Come on, bro. I mean, that's our show for the day, man.

SPEAKER_00 38:13

Before we get out of here, bro. What you feel about Jan McDaniel's comments to the Nuggets?

SPEAKER_02 38:19

I told you they took his heart. They took the that comment took their heart. I told you. I thought they was gonna come back. You gotta respond to that.

SPEAKER_01 38:27

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:28

You gotta stand on business about that. You just can't let somebody tell you, say, oh yeah, you don't got no, yeah, they're all bad defenders. And they come out and look like bad defenders. Like what? Like, hi, listen. That's it, that's so disrespectful. How you come out, how you say, yeah, they got all bad defenders, we gotta go at all of them. And then you actually show that they bad defenders by somebody. Uh what's it what's my boy David Gay? Io DeSumo. Or I how you say it?

SPEAKER_00 38:56

I IO the Sumo.

SPEAKER_02 38:58

IO the Sumo. How you let Io de Sumo come and give you 43 points in 42 minutes. Yeah, yeah. You are that is a bad. People probably wasn't even paying it. I don't mind. Io De Sim the Sumo, he had 12, he had he was 12 for 12 from the free throw line, 5 for 5 from the three-point line. Come on, gang.

SPEAKER_00 39:21

How about how about the end of the game scuffle in game four? Good question. How do you feel about you know what I'm saying? Players making the last layup in the game zero, bro. You don't care about that?

SPEAKER_02 39:33

I mean, no, personally, I don't care. Like, I never felt like if somebody dunked that shit, yeah, and they beat us by 20. I never felt like, yo, what's up, bro? What you trying to do? Embarrass us? We already lost by 20.

SPEAKER_00 39:45

But isn't it kind of disrespectful though?

SPEAKER_02 39:47

It is disrespectful in a traditional sense. Yeah. But it's not like Joker ran the fastest. That's the fastest I seen Joker run just to just to grab, just just to check uh Jaden McDaniels, bro.

SPEAKER_00 40:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:03

You know what I mean? So I I I get it. Traditionally, nah. But you know what it is, though? This is the second time I think uh Nicola Jokic had a problem with this before.

SPEAKER_00 40:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:14

Right? So it might mean more to him and his country.

SPEAKER_01 40:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:18

You know what I mean? Like, like there are, like, I've seen American players do this before too. They snap.

SPEAKER_01 40:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:24

But I really don't see like guys having a habit of feeling like this. Yeah. You know what I mean? But I think, listen, I just think Nicole Jokic, I just think he's, they in his head.

SPEAKER_00 40:37

You think they're in it?

SPEAKER_02 40:38

I think they in his head.

SPEAKER_00 40:39

I think it's just a bad look.

SPEAKER_02 40:41

I think I think they're in his head, bro. He's shooting 38% from the field. Rudy Goldberg is giving them problems. Every chance they get, they drive him to the basket. Yeah. He can't stop nothing. He can't jump over over uh he can't drop over phone books, bro.

SPEAKER_00 40:58

You think if they if the Nuggets end up losing the series, is this an embarrassing loss? Like, is this like a stain? This is this a stain in his record? Is this a stain to the type of player that he is when we talk about all-time center, all-time debates?

SPEAKER_02 41:14

Oh, it's definitely a stain.

SPEAKER_00 41:16

It's a stain.

SPEAKER_02 41:17

It's definitely a stain. You you getting shut. First off, I can Shaq had to handle Hakeem Alajwan. Yeah. A person who led a team to the championship twice and won. Defensive player of the year, MVP. That's a player player, right? You getting shut down by Rudy Goburr, who's scoring four points again.

SPEAKER_00 41:43

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. He's a four-time defense.

SPEAKER_02 41:46

He's the four-time defensive player. But listen, bro. He's not no slouch. He ain't no slouch. He ain't no slouch. But but it ain't no, it ain't no worries on the other's end.

SPEAKER_01 41:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 42:00

It ain't no worries on the other end, so he ain't exhausted. He ain't like, damn, bro, this boy. Every time he gets the ball, he he posted me up. Nah. Then you shoot in threes. He got your heart.

SPEAKER_00 42:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:13

They got your heart. 18% from the three-point line. You got your heart now, bro. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:17

Now going back to that little scuffle, right? When Yokos ran up on Jaden McDaniels, and Jaden McDaniels grabbed his jersey. Like, as a as a yeah, how do you feel about that interaction? You know what I'm saying? As a what? As a hooper, as a competitor, as a man. As a man, yeah, I ain't gonna hold you.

SPEAKER_02 42:38

Jaden McDaniels did look a little nerdy, look scared. He looks scared.

SPEAKER_00 42:41

Grabbing the jersey, I feel like I feel like it's a bad look on Jokic.

SPEAKER_02 42:44

Nah, nah. You think so? I think I think it was uh first off, first off.

SPEAKER_00 42:52

Like you run into someone, I I to me, like someone someone runs up on you, someone you run up to someone, right? And they grab you and they grab you by your t-shirt. Or vice versa, either way. Someone someone runs up on you and you grab them by your t-shirt. You grabbing them by your t-shirt like like you try to switch.

SPEAKER_02 43:14

But I can't even, I can't even uh like he ran, he running up, he charging at me like that.

SPEAKER_00 43:21

But but you brought check hooking. That's what I'm saying, though.

SPEAKER_02 43:24

Yeah, yeah, he drabbed because out of fear, like, oh, oh, hold up, hold up. You taking it too far. And then he and then he walked him down. He walked them down into the in into the out of bounds. Yeah, yeah. He walked like you at least gotta hold your ground. Like, yo, hold up, man. And let you gotta hold your ground until the team comes. Yeah, you can't let a it was like old ladies behind him and shit. It was ladies behind. Oh, oh wait, wait, wait, they in the air. Like, nah, bro. He was a little nervous on that one.

SPEAKER_00 43:52

You think it's I feel like Jeremy Dell's he he kept kept the same. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 43:58

Nah, he Jaden McDaniel should have held his. Ground.

SPEAKER_00 44:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 44:01

Stay keep your feet planted in the in the ground, bro. Okay, first. You know what I mean? Like, yo, what's up? And then let it tussle. Yeah, okay. Let it tussle. Let him tussle with you. Let him throw the punch. Cause then he's out next game.

SPEAKER_00 44:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:13

Forget it. You you already know. Uh, what's it the A or the sumo? You know he can get you 43. You already know he we good there.

SPEAKER_01 44:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:25

You still got Julius Randle. Julius Randle ain't no slouch. You're gonna come out and get you 32.

unknown 44:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:32

He's gonna love a game like that. You had Michael Conley come off the bench. You can know he's a solid point guard. Go ahead. Go ahead and make that move.

SPEAKER_01 44:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:41

Go ahead, hold your ground. Let uh Jokic tussle with you. Y'all fall on the stands. Ah let let Jokic throw the punch.

SPEAKER_01 44:51

Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 44:53

Game. What is it? What are they in? Game five next? Game five. Game five, y'all. Y'all take it home. Y'all get to relax. Who they play if they if they beat this game?

SPEAKER_00 45:01

They play Spurs? The Spurs.

SPEAKER_02 45:05

Yeah, you don't want the Spurs to rest for too long either. So, yeah, man. Any more questions?

SPEAKER_01 45:11

Nah, that's all I have for you.

SPEAKER_02 45:13

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