Club Shay Shay - Nightcap Hour 1: Wemby Turns Into An ALIEN & DOMINATES Timberwolves + Knicks BOUNCE BACK vs Sixers in Game 2

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

Shannon Sharpe, Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson, Iso Joe Johnson and Cedric Maxwell react to Wemby and the Spurs dominating the Timberwolves, Knicks beat Sixers without Embiid Download the PrizePicks app today and use code SHANNON to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup! https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/NIGHTCAP   00:00 - Introduction03:52 - Spurs beat Wolves33:45 - Knicks beat 76ers (Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.) #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Oh, he was reportedly involved in the film session after the game won loss. Spurs beat writer Matthew Tynin reported. Joe, we're going to go to you first, and then we go to you, Brad. The Spurs, how are they able to get on the track and make it look so easy tonight? Hey, when you think about it, fellas, it's like a wounded dog, bro.

You corner a wounded dog. Hell, he got to fight you. He got to bite back. You know, I think the Spurs were wounded and they knew it. You know, by giving up game one, you could tell by the thrust that they play with today, meaning I think Wimby is the catalyst.

You know what I mean? By him playing with force offensively, not just when he got the ball, but when shots go up and he's able to get in there and initiate contact, get tip backs, get tip out to where they get extra possessions, that works in their favor a lot. So I think with him understanding, you know, the game and how everybody's going to be physical with him, you know, he's starting to adjust. And I think as the playoffs goes along, you know, he'll continue to adjust and get better. But I just thought the Spurs wanted it more.

The T-Wools came. They did what they wanted to do. they want to win one game fellas they got one game now they just got to take care of home well I believe that one of the things that happened is that the spurs hadn't put their toes really in the water yet Joe you know how it is when you go into playoffs you guys know what it is

you go one step and you go deeper and then by the time you get deeper in the water like man this is different the spurs the first couple times they play you know it's a different environment but as you go deeper in the playoffs every shot every rebound counts and they weren't used to that.

Then my other, they're like, oh, they snap back in and they're just a better team. They're a better team right now to Minnesota. But because they're a young team, I think it was a little stage fright. You know, when you get up there, you know, I don't care who you are. We've all seen guys who are great players in this league kind of get there. They're like, damn, Joe, here, you take this ball. I don't want to shoot this ball. Yeah, yeah.

So I think that Wemby has to take charge of his team, get them on his back, all those young players, because they're young, they have to get together, and just play with force. If they play with force, they're going to win the basketball game. They're going to win that. Absolutely, absolutely. When I look at this team, when I look at Minnesota, I think Wemby's scoring in these playoffs is more important than his defense because they're a different team when he scores.

Yeah. We've seen him get 15, 16 rebounds. We saw him have a triple double with blocks and rebounds. But when he scores, they're different team. They're almost unbeatable. Because now you've got seven guys and double figure. Everybody's shooting at a percentage. And now you have to worry about him.

Now he's going to, because Rudy just can't let him shoot, sit open threes. Right, right. He just can't. Right. Because the other night, remember, he was over. Yeah. Didn't even come close to make him one. O's, he said he's got to look, if Rudy don't leave him unattended,

he's got to make three or four of those to make him come out and say, okay, okay, you want to sit back there and think I ain't gonna shoot it. I'm gonna shoot it. Make him come out. He's gonna get his blocks. And even if he didn't get blocks, you saw a couple of times, guys had it

and they short are like, uh-uh, uh-uh. Yeah, yeah. Because I know you're gonna, you're about to throw it up out of here. And I don't want that to happen. But I just thought the way, the way he played tonight, scoring the basketball early,

and he did a great job because I watching him warm up, you saw Bismarck Biombo. He was pushing, hey, this is what you're gonna face in the game. Yeah. They're not gonna call this. Maybe they called it in the regular season, but they're not going to call this in the postseason.

I thought he did a great job of anchoring himself down. I thought he did a great job of spinning off, getting to the rim. Ocho, you watched this game. Yeah. The other night, Minnesota win. Yeah. And they looked good. And they had a shot.

Even the Spurs, as bad as they played, still had a shot, Joe, to win the game. Dill Harper had a three-point shot at the buzzer. Yeah. That would have won the game. But they blow them out tonight by 38. Ocho, what did you like about what you saw from San Antonio? And now, even though Minnesota, tied it up, they're going back home, they steal home court.

How do they consolidate it and make sure they get that first win back in Minnesota? Listen, Wimby was a difference, huh? Wemme was a difference. I thought the wolves would have took the formula that they did in the first game and use it exactly the same way in this game. I think one of the few problems that you did have the day is actually when you're not, I'm just calling it the alien, the alien getting goddamn, um, what's, uh, what's tall buddy name?

Getting him out there and got them got them space. Uh, Rudy. You got no last-oldy gobert. Oh, yeah, getting Rudy ass out there in space. No one, for one, he got him at his mercy. And this, he went 0 for eight last game. This game, he was two for seven from three. But he had, what he had?

What he had? What he had? What he had about goddamn 19 points. 18, 15. Hey, brother, brother, Castle? Yeah. Boy, hey, he got a middle edge over everybody, boy. Hey.

That's the way he play. He's so aggressive. He's so aggressive on offense. He's so aggressive on defense. I just, I wanted to be a little more cautious. He gets himself in foul trouble, a little too, soon, a little too soon. Outside of that, man, them got them, the Spurs look like a completely different team. Up by 30? By 30? I'm like, what the hell? What the hell did the

do the wolves not do this game that they did the first game? Made shots. Yeah, the Spurs then make shots that first game. Y'all know, man, it's a huge difference, you know, especially for young teams. If they make shots, they just play a little damn harder. That's just how I go, bro. You know what I mean? And the Spurs is still a very young team. And everything revolves around Wimby. I agree with you. When Wimby plays good like this, I think offensively it helps out because it opens up the floor a lot more and he's a lot more dangerous. And you start to take your focus off some of those guys around him. And he's a hell of a playmaker, man. That's 7-5, the way he handles the ball and passes and make plays. But defensively, if he locks in like this,

plays with that aggression and that thrust that is going to take to continue to advance. bro, they're going to be dangerous. I think what's yet to be seen is how great can they be on the road. That dude you're talking about now, Wemby, he's a generational player. And we have, we look at players and I've said this all my time around. We've seen the league change. We saw it change with Walt Chamberlain. And then we saw it change.

Then we saw Steph Curry change the game. Now, this big damn seven-footer, he changed everything in the game. And, Kenney, you're talking about something. Yeah, it'd be good from the score. But when you close the basket like that, I don't get damn what you do. When you make it so tough that every time you turn around, all you see is this guy,

I'm sure if I was right now one of the Temple Woods, as I'm going to say like you, O'She, I'm seeing that man my goddamn dreams right now. Every time, I feel like he opened the door at my house. I was like, damn, he let me in. So I think that that's the thing when you talk about him scored, but his mainstay needs to be and continues to be that he is the defender that he is because Shannon, as you said, when he starts blocking shots and you start going to the whole,

man, you're looking for him. And very seldom we've seen this in this league that a guy can play on both ends well, but he dominates as well as Lajuan. And I thought Lajuan was the best I've ever seen. And dominate on both ends of the floor. He dominates even better than Elijah Juan. I played with Elijah Juan one year, but Elijah won dominated the game better than anybody.

Wimpy is going to take that over. It's going to be crazy. The reason why I said, because here's the thing, he doesn't even have to try in defenses there. You know how some guys just have that, like, I ain't even really trying to score the basketball, and they can score, Jordan can score in the sleep. Kobe could score in the sleep.

There are certain guys that even on a bad night, they're going to hit you for 28. And you mess around and you piss them off, and you look slow on your rotation, they're going to get 40. That's Wimby. Hello. He's going to alter shot.

He's probably never going to. I mean, think about it. He only played, what, how many minutes he played tonight? He played 26 minutes. It had two blocks. If he plays 30, anything over 30 minutes, he's going to have three to four block shots.

That's without even trying, just because he's seven, five. And some people are going to be foolish enough. Oh, I ain't afraid of you. What? I still ain't afraid. Okay, baby. Hey, you take it. And when he scores, look at when he started to score,

how to lane and how the basket open up for everybody else. Castle, look at what Castle had. He was 16 and 21. Boussel, uh, uh, uh, the sale didn't shoot the ball very well, but Darren Fox was five or 10. Champany got hot in that third quarter and started knocking out three. So everybody, everybody got hot and the ball just,

the floor just opens up. Yeah. If Wimby does what he does offensively, they're going to be a very, very hard team for the Timberwolf. And the Timberwood is going to have to play damn near perfect. They're going to really have to play perfect because it's going to be hard because to stay in front of those guys. And they got so many guys,

the difference is going to have to be Jew Randall because he's the one that has the advantage. Yeah. Hey, I agree with you on that. I think, you know, obviously, with Wimby playing pretty good offensively, the other guy that's more importantly for San Antonio is Dian Fox. Because he is one guy who has the ball a lot, but I know they got McDaniels on it,

but he can create and make plays. And when he asserts himself like he did, I know he went five for 10 and had 16 points, but that's better than going three for 14. You know, they need that efficiency from him, okay, Ocho. Castle, I don't necessarily worry about. I feel like his defense kind of thrives so much that it kind of gets him going offensively

because he gets wide open shots, slashing, getting to the basket. He's so crafty. I just think San Antonio have so many guys that if all of them play well like they played tonight, which they ain't got to be great, just play well. They always going to have a great chance of winning.

Versus a Minnesota, they're going to need somebody to explode every night for them to have a chance to win. You know, when I think about it, too, Uncle Joe and Bread, and I look at this series, right? And Wembe being the one difference maker, obviously having a supporting cast that can also play well.

I think the person for the wolves that needs to make it happen every single night for this series to go in their favor would be the most ideal candidate that nobody else wants to be. And that would be Rudy Gobert. He has to be, he has no choice but to be the difference maker and make it as difficult as he can for Wemby. I know, listen, you don't want him down there in the block. You have no choice but to press him on the perimeter. Even if you can't move, somebody got to come help. Somebody got to do something.

Hey, hey, Joe, it's all about matchups, right? Yeah. The only weak link. The only weak link is Rudy. The problem you had, oh, Joe, Rudy Gobert and Wimbienaima, they move totally different. Even though they both seven-footers, Wendy moved like a guard or a small four. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

He moved like an old-school big, yeah, yeah, hey, hey, hey. Hey, them slow feet don't eat, bro. You know what I don't. Like, for real. So I think that's challenging for Rudy the guard out there on a perimeter like that. Now, inside the paint, he could try to make it difficult. Yeah. You know, but for the most part, he's going to be at a mismatch almost every game, man,

especially if Wimby making shots. Yeah. See, I believe you're right because you look at the last series that we're in. And when he had to go against the Joker, he has a big size, the long arms and get up. Jokker has slow feet. Joe's feet are like my feet right now. I'm stepping a damn. He can't jump over phone.

He ain't going to buy him. So Rudy didn't have to worry about that. But as when you start talking about Wimby, Wimby's like the damn roadrunner. You don't know. He's looking, and the worst thing about it to me, Joe, is that when I think about

Rudy essentially introduce this guy to the NBA. Yeah. I don't like that. I don't like giving a guy my damn secrets. I don't believe in that, Shannon. Oh, Joe, when you play against the guy all the time, and you're like, oh, okay, boy, this is cool.

Let's do this, let's do that. Didn't I meet you in a real game? No, man, I need to be able to your ass. I need to do something nasty to you. And I've seen both of you guys, Ocho, I've seen you play like that, and I've seen Joe, Joe, even as much as you like Paul Pierce, when you're not Paul, when you got Paul Pierce for that cross-old driver and gotten down to his damn knees, that damn down.

That's going to be your boy. But you win in it. So that's what I look at. He's giving them the keys to how to beat him. And that is unfair when you think about guys you have to play against. Yeah. If you look at San Antonio, they're one of the few teams. Every guy with the exceptional cornet that plays can attack you.

Yeah. Every guy other than cornet that plays can attack you. Yes. And that's a rarity that everybody that you see out there can put the ball on the floor and get to a rim. You look at Champanyi, you look at Wemiyama, you look at Fox Vassel, Castle, you look at Harrison Barnes, you look at Keldon Johnson. You look at Dillon Harper. All of those guys, go to sleep if you want to and see what happened. Yeah.

And they're looking. Keldon Johnson was looking to get to the rim. Yeah. All the guy come in, looking to get to the rim. They put a lot of pressure on you. You got to be constantly, you got to be on high alert. every how did they get beat then

the first game how did they send them how did send Antonio they shot the ball they shot horrible horrible hold on they shot real bad and I don't think they were desperate neither

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On the game from the first quarter, meaning playing with a great. playing like they didn't want to lose. That's how, so for me, the first game, that's how they lost. Whether they took the Timber Woods for granted or not. But when you think about it, Corvette may not go at you, but in 13 minutes, you give me three blocks. Oh, yeah. Hey, he ain't no slouch out there now.

No, no, no, no, no. No, no. He's a vital part to what they do, too, because when Wimby goes out and he's in, yeah, he ain't no damn whimby, but he'll rent protect him. Yeah. protected and he is a score. He played with the Celtics a couple

years ago and I got a chance to see it, talk to him. That's exactly what he just wants to play his role. And Shannon, you say that about him? When he came in the league, he was a three point threat. But now he knows his damn job. He's like, he ain't coming.

Nope, I ain't shooting. I passed over you. Hard to run to the basket and know your damn role. So when guys know that rolls in this league, that to me is so important when you think about who you are as a player if you are a score you got to be a score if you're

a defender you got to defend the basketball but when you start varying now to do shit that you ain't normally doing then you yeah O'Chry you're just out there you know damn they say you probably make your pancakes next thing and no you damn make a hot dog I want some of their pancakes

I'm going to be my cake I don't need you going to do in that. Brad you said something very interesting you say know your role knowing your role is one thing. Accepting your role is something entirely different. Because there are a lot of guys that you know all of a sudden we hire

cashiers and tell us and that guy wanted to be the CEO. He wanted to be the chief loan officer. That ain't what we hired you to do. We got people for those roles. We need you to feel this role. So knowing your role. Let me ask you this. I'm going to ask Ocho this. Ocho, who is it?

Is it more the players that get a guy in this role or is it the coach? Which one would you I say it's more, it's more the players. I mean, it's more the players. The player define whatever role they, they, they, they can do. You know, once you, once you show that in practice, you know, then therefore the coach had no choice but to put you as said role unless the person in front of you is that much

better, like that much special. That is different, but you set the role on what you can and can do and that all start in practice. But you know, yeah, you're coming at, yeah, hey, excuse me, if I'm, excuse me, if I'm wrong but you come in there thinking you know I'm scoring 20 30 at night and you get in practice and you look like dog water I mean it is what it is but bread you know the thing is is that everybody we've seen guys in practice like damn and then he gets to the game I want you to do what you was doing in practice that's what I need you to do right now but they can you see how you put it

on a one two and you took the basket yeah one two pull up whatever you did in practice whatever you ate that morning before you came to practice and did that. But that's why they call some of those guys practice players. You see a guy you play against all the time. Larry Bird, all the guys I knew back then, we'd have someone behind you and this guy scoring like him. And then you look at him going, I know, goddamn where are you going to shoot it in the game?

You're going to pass the damn ball. You ain't even looking. You're scared to pee out there. You don't know what you got to do. So I think that's the difference when you think about players of who they are and what they do, you know, of knowing roles. I think players sometimes define their roles, their fellow players roles better than them because players, Joe, you've gone to players before and said, man, you need to give me damn ten rebounds tonight. Or, you know, you need box that box this motherfucker out right now or something. So I think it runs, especially if you have veteran players.

And that's why I think the air box is so smart. And that's the guy, I think to me, it's a key because he's a veteran player who is holding the ball and is commanding their attention. Right. And he don't overexert himself neither. You know what I mean? Meaning, excuse me, he could come out. He could come out and probably, you know, go at his man a lot more than what he's doing. But he plays great within that system, keeping everybody involved.

Because there's one thing that we know young guys, when they feel involved and feel a part of it, they play a little extra harder, man. You know what I mean? Now, there will be games and there will be times coming down the stretch. Well, Fox's going to have to come through, especially on the road because he's been in those situations. And that's why I say he's the second most valuable guy for the Spurs. If he plays well, because they're going to need his ass on the road to come through late game.

Watch. But didn't Michael do that, though? Didn't Michael Jordan do that? He made sure that everybody else was involved in the game early so that you know later in the game that now I'm not afraid to touch the ball. And that's one of the things I look at different. I didn't see that when Kobe played. Kobe was like, it's about me.

You got you guys, follow me here. Don't be trying to do nothing else. But Michael, Michael said. But you need veteran players for that, though, Brad. Because if you think about who hit the big shot, Steve Kerr, John Paxson. Now you're asking young player Joe coming in first, second year, in the lead, and LeBron passed him the ball. Steph Curry passed them the ball

or one of these proven veteran players they're like, no, bro, I thought I thought I was just wanted to be on the team with you. You're supposed to shoot that shot. Don't keep me that ball. No, that didn't want to ask for. That ball. It's like that in football.

More times than not, the quarterback's going to go to the pool. That ball goes back to you faster than you passed. They get, they get, they're catching and they thrown it back to you before they go, oh, way, do they? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. When he gets late game, it's show.

It's sure who won't and who don't. Hey, hey, you got guys, they try to get as far as hell as away from that ball as they can. Yeah, I'm going to go way over here in the corner. Oh, I've been in the huddle. Hey, you open? No, I ain't open. Go watch the film.

He's wide-ass open. Bro, I thought you said it was open. We could have threw you the ball. What do you mean you weren't open? Because everybody does it. Everybody thinks they want that pressure. They want the pressure if they make the play. But if they don't make the play,

that criticism that's going to come from the fans, the criticism of your teammates looking at you sideways, knowing you had an opportunity. Everybody can't handle a drop pass that change of possession or a drop pass and all of a sudden you don't convert and now all of a sudden you lose the ball game. You don't, everybody can't handle that. Everybody thinks they can handle it.

Oh, man, I've been a big time player all my life, yeah, but you've made those plays. Now you get on the biggest of stages and you don't make that play. Do you still have the work? do you still have the intestinal fortitude to overcome a drop, overcome an assignment in the most crucial of situations. Everybody can't handle those situations. Here's the thing that really happens in a basketball game and a football game,

and all these games. In a basketball game in particular, if you, if you're a player, you can hide from the ball. If you're an offensive player, you can add like this, you can grab the guy and say,

I'm being covered. Don't guys do that. I've seen it on a tape. got like, you're going to grab the other guy and ran behind him. So you can't get the ball. So you can be on the floor. Greatness to me is I saw it with Larry Bird, the greatness that he wanted the ball. Magic wanted to go.

Those dudes won't run away from the ball. But I've seen a lot of times in games where I've seen great players getting position where that man, I don't want that ball, man. Don't give me the ball. I know I'm getting paid to get it. I don't want that damn ball. Not right now. But can you be great when greatness is required?

Because we've seen guys hit shot. Joe, Ocho, we've seen guys. Look at the guys making one head catches in the first quarter. Like, oh, boy, you just got right there, Ocho. Good God. He's doing it like this here, taking him off his shoe tops. Now we're getting the fourth quarter. We need it.

Ball hit him. Boop, woo. Hey, damn. Bro, you just took one of your shoe tops from 25 yards away. Not about 10 yards away. And you damn. You throw the ball up in the stage. Wait, what are you doing? Are you a juggler?

Are you a juggler? That's what they be doing. I was like, bro. Hey, Brad, and Joe, I used to tell him, you still only get one catch. I don't give a damn how many times you bobble it and catch it? That's still one catch. Yeah.

So you bobbled it three, four, five times. That ain't five catches, bro. That's one catch. Yeah. Hey, look at it. When you think about it, hell, them first three damn quarters, it ain't no damn pressure out there.

And all. Exactly. Their pressure coming there. four quarter under five minutes, a minute left on the clock. It's a neck and neck game, and we need a big player. Big shot. You're scared. I know exactly what you do.

Hey, A, uncle, Joe and Brett, it's only a select few that are built mentally for those moments. I mean, every sport, basketball, basketball, baseball, football, it doesn't matter what it is. It's all about moments, and there are a select few of certain players that can live with having wins and losses on their shoulders. You know, I don't know. I'm a name a player, and this is pretty good. I'm a name a player because he's one of my favorite teammates.

It was Kevin McHale. Kevin McHale, the greatest players have to play the game. We were watching a tape one time after the game was over, and he had missed some free throws. We looked at his damn knees, and this knee stopped buck him and went if you ready to shoot the free throws. What the hell? And you can ask him today.

He'll laugh if you ever see him anytime, But that day, he didn't want it. He didn't want it. He's one of the greatest players ever to play the game. So I don't care who you are. I always say this, pressure bus pipes, buddy. I don't care what you are. You can think that you want it.

You can act like you want it. But when the time comes, buddy, as Ocho is saying, only a few select players and women, men, whatever it is, boxers, whatever, want to step up and take that position. Hey, hey, bread. Yeah, pressure does bust pipes, but it also makes dime, baby. You got some cats, you got some cats that'll look that moment right in the eye and be ready for it.

Whether we can practice it a thousand damn times in the backyard of our houses, kids, you know, count it down. Five, four, three, putting yourself under that type of pressure. Yeah, it's different when you got 30, 40,000 fans screaming. But some guys, man, they're very comfortable in those situations. And you can tell, for instance. when I watch the pistons play, you go look at Kay, bro. Hey, hey, when he gets thick, Kay running to the ball. Hey, hey, give me the ball.

Get your ass out of the way. You know what I mean? I enjoy watching stuff like that because you see so many guys who are great and they will run from that moment. You know what I mean? So I understand what you're saying. But you know, sometimes that what we think of diamonds is just broken glass that's been buried for about 20 years.

And when you get up and watch, and you wash all that dirt off in bread guys, They're a number of a piece of broken damn glass that's been buried for 20 to 30 years. That's all it is. We understand that pressure made divers, but sometimes you ain't dug up nothing with a piece of broken glass

and you have to see it for your damn self. There was one number of the Pepsi bottle down there with broken all of us. That's all it was, fellow. That's all it was. And I think the thing is that in pro sports, especially like basketball and football, you're so wide open.

It's there for everybody. it to see. So if I throw you the ball and you drop it in a crucial situation, who we blame it on? Right. The ball hit you in the hands. Yeah. Brad, you got the shot right there and you go into the basket and then you dribble the ball out of bounds. All of a, you do something,

you do something crazy with everybody don't want to take that shot. They want to take it if it goes in. Yes, they hold it up there. Yeah. But that ball come up short or you airball it. Now all of a sudden, people looking at you crazy. now you might show you. Yeah, I saw my man,

a guy I won against and loved him to death, well, I ate him, actually. James Worthy. James Worthy threw the ball. The Lakers were ahead, two games, one game to nothing. They had the ball, they gave it to James in the back court, and he didn't want to get filed. So he threw the ball up.

Gerald Henderson stole it. James Worthy laid on and said, hey, I didn't want that ball. I didn't want to get filed. He's working on the top players. to ever play the game. So, you know, as much as I hate him, but I still got to give him his credit

all that he played with the fakers. I still got to give him his credit as, you know, he was, but that particular time, he didn't want that ball. He didn't, he did not want it. And that's the thing about great players' greatness. Moments will always elevate and you will know who you are as a player.

Yes. So who you like, Joe, who you like for game three? You like the Timber Woods going back home to be in their building crowd's going to be crazy. They did what they wanted to do. It had to been great to get two games, but you got one. You stole, you snatched home court. Now can you consolidate it, game three,

to really put the pressure on this young Spurs team. Yeah, I like the Timberwolves going back home, game three. Man, like I always tell you out, and bridge, you know this. In the NBA, bro, it's a fine line between winning and losing, especially in the postseason. One minute, you can feel like you got it under control. The next damn, it's hard for us to even get a one.

win. We got to try to find a way to get a win. So I'm not going to put too much on this win from the Spurs. I just thought they were the more desperate team, but I think it's going to be some trying to be some trying to get a win. It's hard playing in that arena, bro. And if Minnesota can, some way somehow miraculously get a little more healthier before game three, because that's the biggest, that's the biggest thing for Minnesota. And man ain't healthy here. You can see that I.O. tried to get, he gave it a go, but, man, you got to get these guys. They, they they got to get healthy. But I think regardless of that,

it's going to be hard for them spurs to win. I go, I'm going the opposite way. I'm thinking the Spurs going in that game, and they win that game by 20. And the third game, and the reason I say that is because I just don't believe in Minnesota. I don't think they believe in themselves enough right now

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Oh, what is. Dang. Thanks to a 108, 102 victory. Jalen Brunson was Jalen Brunson when he needed to be Jalenbrunson. They had three guys with at least 20 points. O.G. Alanova still playing unbelievable basketball. He had 24 parts. Kat had two with a double double, 20 and 10.

McKell Bridges had 18, 9 or 13 from the floor. And Jalen Brunson struggled with a shot, but when he needed to be great, when he needed to make shot after shot after shot, in the last two minutes, they put the ball in his hand and he delivered. Uh, Ocho. Yeah. Hold on.

Let's see, Paul George, Andrew Drummond, Kelly Ubre, Tirese, Max, Edgecom. I'm listening to somebody. Who you're missing? Paul George. Andrew. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And B was hurt. His knee.

Oh, wow. What you mean? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. He wasn't available. Hey, you go. Hey, listen. I know.

I know we talked about that. We talked about that. We know. I understand. I told you how specialty was when he did play. That was my feedback, right? We played nine games. The 76ers played nine games.

He's missed four. Okay. In the post season. Hey, let's stay on. Hey, hold on. Let's stay on track and let's focus. Go ahead. We got the next one.

Go ahead. Let me get you together. Hey, Joe. Yeah. Because you was with Unk, too, talk about Kat couldn't do nothing with God damn Andre Drummond and got them in B. So he gave him Bid that worked the first game.

And then he had Drummond this game. Boy, what cat looked like tonight, Joe? He looked good, Joe. I can't hear you. He said what time for me. He looked good, brother. Matter of fact, he didn't live by the three. He had one of them.

He was one for one from three. But we got his points at, Joe, into what? And from free throws? You got shot nine free throws. Yeah, how did he get to the free throw line by doing what? He being aggressive. Thank you. Huh?

I told you, I told you I talked the cat before this goddamn series. I told him. You heard what Uncle Joe said? Go out to him show them boys you could do it, boy. You hear me? Don't let him make you one. dimensional and he's showing you he could do it you guys you guys for getting

something here uh mr big hat himself that guy i would hate to buy him a hat but brunson god damn he comes he's starting throwing their head around and hitting you god you know they always get people with throwing their elbows and stuff that wouldn't mean his head and the more people than not seen

you know in the long time but he gets it done and i'm just i'm amazed you know you think about trades how Dallas missed out and they had him and Luca in the back court together inside to make a decision and let that boy go to New York and he's

exactly what he has the spirit in him he that dude right there's a leader that that's the leader of that when he plays that way everybody else follows suit man we can talk about cat cat can do what I want to do

but I was I really picked Philly I thought Philly would play much better because I thought M.B. The way they played against the Celtics and way Paul George got back in that machine and went back about 10 years, I thought that the 76 is going to give them a fit.

Hold on, Brett. Don't feel bad because them two right there? Hold on. Right there by your side. They picked Philly too. Hey, hold on. They picked Philly too. When you look at it, they are a way different team when they play without M.B. There's more, space, the pace is a lot faster, and they're less predictable. Yes, Maxie is the head of the snake by him putting pressure on that defense,

attacking in the pick and roll. See, when Embed is there, the lane is always clogged because his big ass ain't really, he ain't leaving the paint unless he said to pick and roll because he won the ball every time. Y'all know it? Yes, all. You know it. So he ain't sacrificing just to be on the three to where Max can have these lanes, where Edgecom can have these lanes.

And I also think without Embed playing, the psyche of the guys, especially Paul George, you know, they know they have to assert themselves a lot earlier in the game. If you see Paul George came out cooking with grease. He wasn't playing tonight. You know what I mean? Like he was getting right to it. I just think they're less predictable like this. They're a lot faster.

And the game seems a lot more fun for those guys without Embed. Now, I'm not saying they better without MB, but I'm just saying they play games to where they look pretty damn good. Look, I mean, hell, they're. ain't lose by 30. They were winning at the end of the third quarter, fellas, going into the fourth quarter. They were winning late in the ballgame until I thought they started taking some ill-advised threes. I didn't think those threes that they were taking, Joe, I didn't think they were necessary. I thought

they could have got a better shot than what they were getting. Yeah, because you're right, because the Knicks didn't have any rim protectors. There's nobody at the rim. So you should have been attacking if you were the 76th's attacking the rim, and they didn't do it. You played. You played. into the hands of what the Knicks are. And now that the Knicks have got you down to O'O and they're going to your building,

man, it's going to be rough because you're going to have Ocho and everybody else going to be sitting in the damn front row and they're really yelling, the damn Nick fans. Well, I mean, some of the most arrogant asses out of the scene, they come to your building, man, and they're going to turn your building now. So if you're the 70s, you better make sure NB is. there you get him on the box and let him be it we can talk about it but when he's dominant he's the horse in there then everything else to me you might not get as many shots but boy he was

so dominant against the Celtics it out i had damn nightmares over there i wanted to come i wanted to come off the damn bitch and guard and and i ain't played in the damn 30 years i'm like shit let me add him bread what if you had what if you only got an opportunity to eat if Joel and B played in an NBA game, people are going to thank you on that Zimpic. You'll be scared of the move. Hey, but, but, uh, even with that, right? Even Joe, if you look at the 76ers a day

and you look at them offensively and how free-flowing everybody was, free-flowing, up and down, and trills and not having to wait, lane not clogged up, Maxie and PG, willing to assert themselves whenever they wanted to because they didn't have to facilitate to MB, but then look about it,

when Embed does play and how we can dominate the game down in the paint. You can pick and choose when you want to go as far as PG and goddamn max it goes. But then today, today you got no presence down there. You have no often to threaten drumming because that's not what he does. I think the thing is, though, Ocho, if you look at game one, Joe and I thought they went to be too early too often. And it threw everybody off kilter. Right, right.

Yeah, it'd have been great to have him in a situation tonight, so now we don't have to force threes. We got a big guy down on the box, and now if you have to come help, he can kick and get you a wide open three. I thought they were taking threes with hands in their face. Yeah. Paul George had it going,

and I think the thing is what happens is sometimes is that you make a three, or you make a couple of threes early Joe and Brad, is that you think the three going to be there late in the ball game. And so you take some unnecessarily. Yeah. That's the problem. And see, my thing is,

and I've never said that Joe L&B wasn't great, but it's going to be hard to win a championship with him because you don't know how available he's going to be and how often he'll be available. Because here we are doing it again tonight. You're like, oh, man, we got an opportunity to get this back. Joel and B is out with multiple injuries. Yeah.

O.G left this game late in the ball game, Joe. Yeah. Brett, OG left. He's going to be huge. If he can't play, now that swings back because he's been unbelievable. He's been their second best player. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Hey, and then when you think about it, if, I think if, if Embed is going to be out, you know, these guys, I'm not sure if he's going to come back for game three or not. But I like drumming.

I love Bono coming off the bench, fellas, the energy and effort that he plays with. Yes. You know, even if he's a few times he got beat, he had two blocks. He coming from behind flas for that thing. You hear me? Yep.

Starting the fast break. I love. the high pace that Philly plays with. My only problem is I think they got it going so good the first three quarters that when they got late in the stretch, they were tired, you know, Uncle Joe and Bray. I thought they all got a little tired and fatigue, which is why they settled for a lot of them bad shots that ultimately, you know, got them put away. See, that's what Joel and B gives you the ability that when you need a basket,

he can get his big ass on that damn post, and now he draws attention against the self-exemptive. during this series he played that were going to him. He was making correct reads. He was passing off. Ubray had dunks. He played like a master in that. Maybe because the Celtics didn't want competing that way.

But I thought, and we talk about the game. See, if you are a coach and you just beat the Celtics the way you did by Joel M.B., you ain't changing what you did. You're going to go and see if you can put Embedon on the box and see if he can get going.

But we know in the NBA and also football, all these other sports, the series change from game to game because it's all about matchups. And if you don't change your matchups, I mean, if they don't win this third game in Philly, go, yeah, you'll get your damn broom. Some play, O-Chel.

We'll be down there sweeping. Because that's going to be over quick. Hey, think about this, though. When you think about NB can he play the role Ant Man's playing? Do y'all think he can play that role? Well, coming off the bench?

Yeah, listen, listen, Ocho. I mean, damn, you already hurt. You know, you're only going to give us real limited minutes. I'm talking about effective minutes. Come out, play limited minutes off the bench and then the fourth when we really need you, maybe you got a little something in the tank.

It takes a different type of guy, a different type of star, bro, to be able to do what Ant Man is doing, coming off that bench, excepting that role and not overdoing. that's all on it. Yeah, but the thing about when you get a drilling B,

when he warms up, you guys know right now if you warm up with a damn horse, you let him go over there and sit down, he's going to be cold as hell. You can't expect him to start going well in the third and four quarter. So when the guy like that warms up,

it's like they were saying to me, or what do you think that when Jason Tatum comes back, you're going to bring him off the bench? I said, no. He don't warmed up. He warmed up. and did all these drills and all this stuff. Yeah, you put him in the game and let him play. Joel and Bede is the same way.

Now, what you can do, Joe, I think you start him, and then you start limiting those minutes, and you take him down some, and then you have him more fresh for the fourth quarter. I would like to do that, but I don't think he's going to be able to get started, be cold, and then come off, and then get some things going into the fourth quarter.

I don't think he can do that. No. I mean, you look at Philly, they only played eight guys. PG, play 43 minutes. Ure, 40 minutes, maxi, 47 minutes, edge come 40 minutes. So I can see, Joe, at the end of the game, them legs heavy. Yeah. The game was played with up.

At first, the game was up and down. Mm-hmm. And then it kind of slowed down. But the problem is if we get in B, y'all know the first four or five touches, y'all know where the ball going. He going to touch it. Yeah. Yeah, but you're going to stop him, though.

That's the thing. Are you going to stop? Well, the thing, it ain't even about stopping them because it's just going to kind of, it's going to clog up the paint or it's going to have everybody else around them kind of stale. They don't play with their

same type of enthusiasm. They don't play. Hey, hey, when the coach draw the players up in the hood of the first three, four plays going to MB. Hey, hey, guys just out there. They ain't even, you know what I mean? It's a big difference, bro. Hey, but look, I like the kid, Barlow, who came off the bench for Philly.

The big guy, I thought he played, great. And I like Bona. It ain't like they ain't got big. He's hair. You got drumming too. But I just think with M.B. Man, you can't bog him down with 35. Yeah, that's really the key. That you cannot make him play

for you. If you can make him play someplace around 25 minutes, 28 minutes, I think that's when you get the maximum from him. Anything over that, I think, Joel NB. And because look, he's been out of basketball. He's been away for it. But

long the time. I'm shocked that he came back and was able to play because I, we've all had, I had a hernia operation. It told me not to laugh, not the move, don't do shit for it too much.

And I'm like, and I'm like, he had this operation and he's playing the NBA game. I was shocked to see him out there. And to be as effective as he was, I was shocked. I was shocked.

And think about how many minutes he had to play in that Celtics game. They redlined him. He played 40 plus because they didn't have no choice. And then to flip it around on a day later, when you've been out the amount of time that he's been out and you know his conditioning. And see, that's when guys get hurt.

When you get fatigued, that's when guys get hurt. Yeah. Yeah, that's why I say you got to find a way to kind of minimize his minutes. Now, his ass ain't going to be happy because y'all know the stars in this league. They don't like sitting down. You know, they ain't down.

They don't like when you. you cut their minute, especially if they kind of got a little back and forth with somebody on the other team. You know what I mean? So he ain't going to be fine with just playing in three, four minutes spurs here. He's going to be pissed off. But you're going to need that, bro, to keep him fresh in that fourth quarter versus, you know, bogging him down.

And then when you get to the fourth, you wonder why he's tired, why he walking down the court. I just think without him on the floor, man, the energy and the pace is so much more faster for the sixes. and you can tell the guys really enjoy playing that way. Hell, the game's fun. We all touching the ball, penetrate, kick, pop to pop, popping, and hopping around the horn. We all shooting three.

Yeah, it's fun like that. Birch is coming down every damn trip, Brad. You know, damn, we're just throwing it down at a big fella. I hope he passed it out of me. I mean, I'll ask you guys a question. And Jalen Brown talked about it. He put it on his podcast. He said, he said,

Joel Embed is one of the best players in the NBA. He said he's a damn flopper. And I was like, yeah, because every time he gets around the hole, I ain't never seen a big guy go down that many times. I'll get him over there. I ain't never seen him. I mean, a guy who weighed, half his way, he comes and bumping to Joel and B. Choling B just go flying backwards, man.

So the NBA already said, hey, we're going to find you for flopping. They ain't flying a movie. Oh, wow. Thank you, Shannon. Thank you. So you're saying the refereeing changes during the playoffs. Yeah, they let them play. It ain't happening.

Oh, yeah. But I thought the Knicks, look, when OG was great all night, McKell Bridges made some big shots, but you know what it is. It's Brunson. They're going to put, and I thought, I thought Edgecom did a great job. He had 26 points, Joe, but it took him 21 shots.

21 shots again. I can live with Joe. I can live with that. I can live with that. Man, taking 21 shots to get 26 points. Yeah. Now, you would like to see him, okay, you're going to get 26. Let's get the 26 before the last two minutes,

because I don't need you to get four, six of those points in the last two minutes of the ball game. Right. Because that's when he kills you. You've done a great job on this man the entire night. I agree. But when he got to have a basket, when he got to make a play,

he's going to draw the contact or get to the line, or he going to put the ball in the, who is really that simple. There's a region, didn't he win the Clutch Award this year or did Shay won it? But I think he won it last year. I think Shade might have won it. Yeah.

But that's why he's always in the running for clutch, clutch player because the last five minutes of the ball game, when the ball game is close, he's the final way to get the ball in the basket. He's going to accept that challenge and he's going to take on that challenge. And for me, man, the Knicks probably, obviously, they third most important player or one of the most, it's O-G, bro. Yeah. OG has been playing out of his damn mind.

Out of it. This entire postseason. I mean, I'm not going to lie, it seems like every time he shoot that shit going in. You know what I mean? And he just make winning plays, bro. He makes winning, he play hard and shit on defense. And offensively, he got enough to where he could get you 25 a night in the postseason.

20 to 25 a night. And he's been doing that on a consistent basis. The way he's been shooting the three-person. point of obviously he was two for seven the night but he's been shooting over 50% from three fellas yeah yep like the man is playing out of his mind bro yeah and i thought i thought like when the six had an opportunity to really open it up he make a three yeah he get he get go he get go he go into the basket and he finishes at the rim i was like well damn philly i like philly oh philip about to go up they get a basket here they're going to go up nine 10 maybe even 11 points and all

a sudden ogy come down he hit a three all of a sudden he make an out of a three all of a sudden he make an outstanding defensive play and they could go down and score on the other end. He's been playing winning basketball. That's what they got him for. They got him in New York because they wanted to deal with those twins up in Boston, JT and J.B. Yeah. They said, we got to have somebody that has the physicality,

has the quickness to stay with him and can maybe offset. Now, he ain't going to outscore JT because we know JT can go get 50. We saw him in a game seven, go get 51. So we know he can put the ball in the bucket. And now J.B. has taken even another step. Probably gonna be looking to get his own team, Brad. Oh, he might well come on back.

He might well come on home then. Hey, hey, Brad, we're home at, Joe. Hey, Brad, you know how that go? Brad, you know how that go? You get a little taste of player. Hey, it's your team. You get as many shots as you want. You get to shoot it whenever you want.

Man, hey, I've been the MVP running. They ain't never put me no MVP running, bread. Hey, they say I want the top, oh, I want the top 10 players. okay, I like with that sound, Brad. Hold on. Hey, can you still be that if you lead a team that you own? Now, you got to understand. As great as you are, it's because your supporting cast is there too now.

Well, he, he carried these guys. He carried them. He carried them. He is the MVP finals already. He was almost, he was for the top. He was the last one of the top seven guys in the NBA this year. In the NBA here, yeah. I just don't think the Celtics are going to want to do that.

I keep hearing about, well, maybe they make a trade and to get Janus, you know, send, you know, him to Milwaukee, and you get Janus with J.T. Jalen Brown is a beast man. He's an intellectually smart player. He is probably the best, he said, I'm the best two-way player right now in the game. And when he defends like that, this is how bad it was. Boston, that was so bad that they had J.B. Garden, Embeded on the post. I'm like, what the hell y'all doing? I'll win you about by 75 pounds. So you asked him a lot of that dude, and you wanted him to carry the weight. But I don't know. It's going to be interesting

to see what happened with all these teams right now, with all these different players that we talk about. And I mean, even to the point where I think about, this Steph Curry, does he finish right now and go to the state? If you're goals, the state. We look at all these great players. He ain't got no chance to win it than go to the state right now. No, no, they don't win. Do you waste these last three years, three,

four years by him staying where he's at? Or do you make a move right now? And Joe, please don't tell me about them Atlanta Hawks down there after what they... Come on. I never seen the first grade team play like that. Bread, bread, bread, come on, Brett. Bray, you got a chill. Listen,

if you mean to tell me, we can go get Jalen Brown and bring them on home? You mean it's, I bet you that, I bet that shit won't happen no mom. Yeah. Hey, Jay, you're gonna get you all over there. Yo, how did they get beat by damn 65 poised without somebody fighting?

I didn't understand that. We, hey, hey, we try to start a fight. You see, we had big robin. Yeah, they tried to start one. They had big Robinson and in the fool Nelson. We're about to put him to sleep. You can't put nobody in the full Nelson after you down by 60. You can't.

You get him. I've never seen. I'm looking at the scores going. I saw 50-something to 14. Next thing I know, there was 70-something. And then I looked at the hell. I'm like, they only scored 30. They had 39 points.

And the Knicks had damn 96. I was like, are they still playing out there? Or is it just, what the hell happened down there? I got to get on Dominique's ass when I said, you know, he's always talking noise to me. Yeah, he's lena hoax. Man, those damn hoax, man. And then we'll know about some scarecrows at the end of the day. Oh, man.

Come on. Come on, you saw the game. You saw the game. Am I missing something? Am I telling you something? We were bad, we were bad.

We were bad. You know when that thing go bad, and sometimes, especially in basketball, when that thing starts, when that one push and a 10-point lead goes to 25 and the next thing you know you look up is 45, it's over.

65. It was that damn 65. You don't go from 10 to 65 like that, Shannon. But you go from 20 to 30, but they don't go from damn 10 to 65. Bread, the score was 5119. So what you're going to do about that? You think you're coming back on 5119 and scoring 83 to 36 at the half? Man, you might as well get you a hot dog some popcorn and just get fooled.

And relax. You by the way, just get the locker room, hey, man, go get me in the pool of hot dog. Man, get my bags right now so we can get on the father here. That was, that's a little disappointing thing I've seen so far this year. And I thought the Hawks were going to play well against the Nick, at least push them. But when they lost that game like that, I mean, it was, that was crazy.

Well, look, I didn't think they'd get beat like that. But if you notice, the games that they won, they were nip and tuck. The games that the Knicks won, they were by 20. You remember when they went back for game five, and the Knicks blew them out by 30. Yeah. They come back home and they get beat by 50. But you remember in game one, they got beat bad.

Yeah. I give you that, Shannon, but I'm still trying to do that damn math that you gave me a minute ago. You down by 10 and then you down 60. You know, the mouth don't work like that, man. No, but you know what? The thing is, Brad, you know the NBA is about runs. And now with that three-point shot, you get down 10,

and the next thing you know, you're down 19 because they don't hit three-threes in a row on you. Now you're down 10, now you're down 19, you look it up. And now you turn the ball over because you're trying to do something. And before you know it, that thing gets, it don't take long. Brad, you remember these games? And now with the three-point shot, Brad, when y'all got a team down 20 points, these team won't coming back.

You get down 20-25 points in the first quarter, you next day you know, you're tired at the half. These guys shoot that three balls so well, Now, if you're shooting the three ball well, but if you're not shooting it well and you get down by 10-15, you're about to get blown out the building. It's going to be hell.

And that's what happened to y'all. Because y'all, I don't understand. I'm trying to figure out, y'all had a chance to take the lead with a two. Why the hell y'all shoot five straight, six straight threes late in that ball game like that, I'll answer that, because that's who they are. That's their identity.

You don't change. It's like if you go to, If you go to the prom, Shatner, and you take this one pretty girl, but you see another girl over there, and you try to go get her ass, and then your girlfriend find out that you own her, then next thing you know, you're going home, you know, you're going to your hand with Mr. Fist.

That's where you're going back. Because you ain't no more happening. But they were eight. But the girl I brought, she wasn't acting right, no, Brad, what you want me to do? But they were. The three wasn't falling. So you better go take you some tools.

They are a three-boy shooting team. The only person that they had, that could go to the hoop at that particular time was Jalen Brown. When you missed Jason Tatham, Jason Tatham was huge because Jason Tatham had enough size to kind of get to the free throw line. That's why he kept taking the threes. And I was, look, Peyton, would you live?

I think I could live with Peyton Pritchard shooting the three all by himself in the corner. And he just missed it. So I'm dumbfounded because I still think the Celtics should be playing right now to Knicks. I'm really sick about all that. This game tonight was unbelievable. He had 25 lead changes,

the most of the playoff game in 11 years. He had 14 ties, and they're the team led by more than seven points tonight. It came down to the end, and this is what you want to see. Hopefully we get some games like this tomorrow. It ain't no guarantee. And that's what the Knicks does.

The Knicks get you in a close ball game, and they put the ball in one of the best clutch players that's in the NBA, and he finished you off. Wait a minute. You think that, I got to make sure I get this straight. You think that the Lakers, the fakers, is going to get close to O KC tomorrow? Is that what you saying? Absolutely. I said, I'm...

Oh, oh, you. Probably not. Considering Shea, this was the first game that Shea had. He scored under 20 in a year, and they still lost by 18. I'm not, I'm not the most confident, man. I'm not the most confident man. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite.

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