Gil's Arena - Tyrese Haliburton's BIG SHOT Blows Up Gil's Arena!!

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

Tyrese Haliburton's BIG SHOT Blows Up Gil's Arena as Gilbert Arenas & The Gil's Arena Crew react to Tyrese Haliburton continuing his revenge tour after being called the most overrated player in the NBA by sinking a clutch shot in the NBA Playoffs to give his Indiana Pacers the Game 2 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. They break down what this stunning comeback means for the rest of the season and debate if the Cavs are cooked after injuries to Evan Mobley & Darius Garland have left Donovan Mitchell fighting on his own. They then react to the Golden State Warriors pulling off a Game One win against the Minnesota Timberwolves series despite Steph Curry going down with a multi-game injury. They discuss what this injury means to the series moving forward and debate if Playoff Jimmy Butler & the red hot Buddy Hield can carry this squad and outplay Anthony Edwards. Finally, they react to the media circus surrounding James Harden after the Los Angeles Clippers exit from the NBA Playoffs and debate if it's fair to call him the biggest playoff choker in NBA History before, giving Gregg Popovich his flowers after the legendary head coach announced his retirement from coaching. Please give us a like and subscribe!!! Gil's Arena Crew - Gilbert Arenas Josiah Johnson, Rashad McCants, & Kenyon Martin Sign up for Underdog Fantasy HERE with promo code GIL and get up to $1000 in Bonus Credits and A FREE Pick: https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-gil's-arena Fetch a FREE Jumpstart Trial Bag for your Dog today, just cover shipping! Go to https://RuffGreens.com and use code ARENA. Use our code for 10% off your next SeatGeek order https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/ARENA10 Sponsored by SeatGeek. Restrictions apply. Max $20 discount Join the Playback chat to interact with Gil and Josiah https://www.playback.tv/gilbertarenas SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAvjYgmwadC682OoC4Cc6TQ Join the Underdog discord for access to exclusive giveaways and promos! https://discord.gg/underdog 0:00:00 2 Min Countdown 0:02:00 Show Start 0:07:42 Can The Warriors Survive Without Steph 0:34:26 Kuminga Is Showing Us The Business of Basketball 0:52:13 Jimmy Butler's Return To Minnesota 1:06:46 The Wolves CAN'T Buy A Bucket 1:18:55 Haliburton's BIG BALLS Shot 1:45:32 Kenyon LOSES IT On The Cavs For Missing Games 1:54:13 Are The Cavs Cooked? 2:06:52 Is James Harden The Biggest Choker In Sports? 2:39:00 MostlyFans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Tyrese Halliburton came through with another playoff game winner to give the Pacers a 2-0 lead over the injury-plagued Cavs. Is the East's top seed officially cooked? Despite losing Steph Curry with a hamstring injury in the first half, the Warriors embarrassed the Wolves in their second round opener. Will the Dubs keep cooking without Chef Curry? They got playoff Jimmy Splash Buddy doing their thing. Steph might be a little shaky, man. We're going to see. He might be out for at least a week.

Don't miss game two for sure. See how the Dubs will respond. And James Harden has been feeling the heat since his poor performance in the Clippers' Game 7 loss. But does he really deserve to be called a playoff choker? They've been going at him. We're going to discuss it on the show. But before we get into all that, as always, the show is brought to you by Underdog. Go ahead and download the app.

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Use promo code GIL. Get up to $1,000 in bonus cash plus a special pick. And if you can't watch the show live with us on YouTube, we got audio versions available on Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts. Gil, already exiting the arena. We've only been on for a couple minutes. Oh, shit. This boy is crazy. We will wait to see if Gil returns.

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He got to always show love to his sponsors. But while Gil handles what he got to handle, let's get into it. So the Warriors and Wolves met in Minnesota Tuesday night for their second round opener. I don't know who more pity with it, him or James. The fact that James folds the top of his socks down. Just keep your hand over it, Gilford. It's crazy.

Make sure you get all your money. So they going to give it to him? You going to get a call? You're fine. Get a payback. So what you think the uniform he playing in is? That's the only exception. So it's the same thing.

Public appearances, don't you put them socks on. It's the game uniform. It's the game. They provide them. They fold that shit. The team provide them. You know what I'm saying? But the team provide them so there's nothing you can do about it. There's nothing you can do about it.

Oh, there we go. And it matches too. I know. And it matches too. I know, right? And it matches. You ready? You good to go? Uh-huh. Almost got caught slipping. Uh-huh.

Like I said, Warriors and Wolves met in Minnesota Tuesday night for their second round opener in a battle between the West's sixth and seventh seeds. So a couple years ago, Ant-Man had this to say when asked which team he wanted to see in the playoffs. I want to play the which team he wanted to see in the playoffs. I want to play the Warriors. I want to get to the Warriors. Wherever they at, I want to get to them. That's why the Warriors. I mean, because J-Mon talked so much trash.

That's pretty much the only reason. So Ant-Man finally got his wish. Warriors won the season series going 3-1 with all those games coming before the Jimmy Butler trade. Wolves were riding high after their first round upset of the Lakers, clinching the series with a game 5 win despite an off-shooting night, which saw them go 7-47 from 3. It was more of the

same in this game as the Wolves couldn't buy a bucket from deep, making history in the process while tricking off a golden opportunity to get a win with the Warriors missing their Batman. Let's take a look at some of the highlights. So Draymond Green continued to be an offensive threat in this game, knocking down four of his first five three-point attempts, coming through with 16 points in the half. Dray finished the game with 18 points, eight rebounds, and six assists on six of 13 shootings. So we see Steph

Curry in the game right there, had 13 points, but only played 30 minutes. Here's why Steph suffered a left hamstring strain in the second quarter. He was hobbled on this play. Had to take himself out of the game and go to the locker room. Did not return. But the Wolves failed to capitalize on the Warriors being without their Batman that we see right there. And of course, now he'll miss at least a week. He's definitely going to be out for game two. But like I said, Warriors failed to take advantage, including a stretch where they missed 11 straight shots,

allowing the Warriors to go on a 17-0 run to take a 13-point lead into the break. Minnesota only managed to score 31 points in the first half, going 0 for 15 from three, shooting an underwhelming 32% from the field. The 31 points is the fewest the Warriors have allowed in the game in franchise history. The Warriors picked up right where they left off in the third quarter, going on an 11-4 run to start the period, leading by as much as 23 in the game. After dropping 33 points in the Dubs' Game 7 win over the Rockets, Buddy Hill came through again when his team needed him the most.

So after causing the delay at the beginning of the game for wearing the wrong shorts, Splash Buddy started 0-7 from the field, became all strong, scoring 22 of his team-high 24 points in the second half, including 16 in third quarter, also had eight rebounds and three assists. Playoff Jimmy did his thing as well in his return to his old stomping grounds, nearly dropping a triple-double with 20 points, 11 rebounds, and eight assists. And after going 0-8 in the first half with just one point, Anthony Edwards found his rhythm, leading the Wolves with 23 points along with 14 rebounds and 3 steals.

Ant-Man scored 13 of that 23 in the fourth quarter, but was 1 of 5 from deep in the game. Julius Randle had 18 and 6. Nas Reed had 19 and 5 off the bench in 34 minutes. So Wolves went on a run late to cut the deficit, but that's as close as they would get as the Warriors supporting cast held it down with Steph out of the game. So Warriors shot 43% from three in the game. They were 18-42.

Wolves 5-29 from three in the game, just 17% on the night. Warriors got their fourth straight win over the Wolves this season, first in the Jimmy Butler era. After the game, Steve Kerr offered this update on Steph Curry's hamstring injury. Day to day, he'll get an MRI tomorrow. Did you talk to him?

Yeah, I talked to him at halftime. He's obviously crushed, but the guys picked him up and played a great game. Obviously, we're, concerned about Steph, but it's part of the game. You just, guys get hurt and you move on. Our guys did a great job of moving on and getting a great win, you know, 48 hours after a game seven road win. It's an amazing group of guys.

These guys are, they compete and they're together. We've been the best defense in the league since the Jimmy trade. And that's what's keeping us afloat right now. We're definitely game planning for him to not be available on Thursday. But we don't know yet. But with a hamstring, it's hard to imagine that he would play Thursday. So earlier today, it was confirmed that Steph will indeed miss game two, possibly more games with Sean's reporting Curry is expected to miss

at least a week. So he could have potential to miss two or three more games in this series. Steph's first time missing a playoff game since 2018. The Warriors 7-5 this season without Steph. Got the game one win with Steph only playing 13 minutes. But how concerned should the Warriors be with Steph Curry's left

hamstring strain moving forward in this series? That was a mouthful. That was a mouthful. That's what she said. Do my hosting. Yeah, so they was 3-1 against Minnesota with Steph, no Jimmy. No Jimmy, Jimmy Butler tried. Now they 1-0

with basically no Steph, but Jimmy. Yep. Minnesota can't beat them. Mm. That's what I just gathered from everything that's regular season to now. First game on the road, them now, first game on the road,

them dudes coming off playing on the road, game seven, intense environment, having to just leave there and they come in your floor and get one without their best player completing the game. They only got 13 points. Yeah, I don't think Minnesota can beat them. Shai, do you agree with Kenyon? The Wolves cannot beat the Warriors, even without Steph Curry missing some extended time? No, I think this extended time means something more than the Steph

without Jimmy, the 3-1. You got to look at the Warriors' momentum since Game 7 and then coming in here. There's nothing that they need to let up on, even without Steph. I think the emergence of Buddy Heald is what we need to talk about. I think when I mentioned it the first time, it was when his back was against the wall, and people think that game was like one of those coming out games.

And really, it was his I'm shooting regardless game. This was, if we lose this game. Game seven, right. If we lose this game going into free agency, I went down shooting. Because I didn't get the chance before. And this is a win or go home game. So if I'm hitting, I could take us over the top. And I think that once he did that, Steve Kerr changed his lineup. This is a win or go home game. So if I'm hitting, I could take us over the top.

And I think that once he did that, Steve Kerr changed his lineup. Jimmy Butler found a new friend. They funny. Found a new friend. That moment. They wasn't fucking with each other. Maybe it's a joke. Now they get it.

Now he need him out there. Jimmy can't play effectively without Buddy out there because Buddy's going to shoot that bitch when he passes to him. So, Warriors have Buddy Hill to at least 2027 when he has a player option, but got him under contract for the next couple seasons. So, I'm glad you're talking about Buddy. So, he was 0 for 7, right? 0 for 7 to start the game. The third quarter when he got hot, the bucket that went in for him didn't count. The first one, it was an offensive foul offensive foul I think on Gary Payton. It was a moving screen,

but he shot the three in and went in. There you go. I said, oh, there it is. He said it too. I didn't shoot the motherfucker, but I knew it was all net. The motherfucker looked. The very next one he shot went in and out.

Boom. Now he made the next one. The next one went in and out. Boom. And now he made the next one. The next one went in and out. And he was on from there. I'm like, yeah, he finna have a hell of a third quarter. He gonna have a hell of a series. Yeah, but, yeah. So we talked about, buddy, game seven at 33 points.

The two games prior to that, four combined points. He had zero game six, four in game five. But starting to find his groove. Starting to find his groove. You got to let it fly. Shoot or shoot. Shoot or shoot. Now Steve Kerr has to trust him to do what he was doing last night. Shoot it. Steve Kerr needs to

play Looney and Draymond together or Draymond and Quentin Post together with Rudy Gobert out there, right? He got to match the minutes with him so Draymond can't waste fouls. On Rudy.

On Rudy. Like, you got to put him on McDaniel. You got to put him on Julius Randle. He has a different matchup, right? You need somebody else to wrestle with Rudy, right? Then you got to get him out of the game. Then you goup, right? You need somebody else to wrestle with Rudy, right? Then when you got to get him out of the game, then you go small, right? Then you do.

Then you coach like you did in the fourth quarter. You had to get him, they had to get him out of the game. But yeah, you got to have somebody else out there wrestling with him. Went above 14 in six minutes out here, which is... Yeah, so you need to put him out there a little more because he spreads the floor.

Rudy can't sag off him like he was trying Draymond. Yeah. That's for damn sure. Yeah, it was slow close outs. We can't allow Draymond to make four threes and five threes in the first half again, right? Yeah, that too. Because he didn't in the second half. He was shooting that motherfucker.

Yeah. He ended up, started four or five, ended four or ten. Yeah, so he shot six and in the second half, I'm like, and you know it's coming though. But you know it's coming because it's like. Do we live with it? That's the question. Do we live with him potentially making four in the first half and trying to get hot for the rest of the game?

Yeah, so I would. Like you said, Quentin Post only played six minutes and not scoring the game, but was plus 14 in his time on the court. Yeah, but you got to put him because he spaces the floor and Rudy has to guard him out there. So that way Buddy's getting off, Jimmy's getting off so he's not just standing by the rim like he can be if Draymond's out there.

What was the reason behind the Timberwolves' lack of like they couldn't catch up, couldn't get over the hump, they couldn't get stops, they couldn't make up. They couldn't get over the hump. They couldn't get stops. They couldn't make shots. Ant looked different to me this series.

Was it the layoff? How long of a layoff did they have? They went at the end of the series with the Lakers last Wednesday, if I'm not mistaken. It should have been good. I think he'll bounce back this next game, but it just looked like he was, all their shots were hard,

like hard bricks, him and Walker and all the hard bricks. And it's like, y'all either nervous. Whatever it is, defense travels. So yeah, whatever it is,

defense travels. yeah. Now I go to state going to play with house money in game two dog. And that defense is going to turn up even more because they believe in it. They're going to make it even tougher. We know Steph out there, they know they got to rely on their defense and extra plays, 50-50 balls. Like, all those things matter

because you don't have this equalizer out there anymore, and Steph. So, game, yeah, they playing with house money, man. It's just like, they... Warriors got to hit shots. So, 0-11 game five from three against the Warriors. I mean, man. Warriors got to hit shots. So 0 for 11 game five from three against the Warriors. I mean, against the Lakers, excuse me.

Came back one for five in this game. So one for 16 in his last two games from three. But let's keep it on the Warriors side, Gil. How concerned should the Warriors be with Steph's injury and how impressive was it to see this team respond, supporting Cass, guys having to fill different roles, Jimmy having to become Batman, Buddy having to go from Alfred to Robin or Batman in his own mind to get this win.

I mean, the fact that they stayed together to get this win, I mean, you know, the 17-0 run actually helped them because they fell apart in the fourth quarter. Because as hot as Draymond was in that second, in the fourth, they could have lost the game

because they rely, I think they shot six straight threes and Draymond took, what, three of them? Yeah. They were not close. The Warriors should be concerned. I mean, you know, and, you know, you think you can play without Steph when you realize that a week is three games for them. So, for the most part, he's going to miss three games.

They'll try to put him in second game of the, when they get back to the Warriors. So, game four. But, I mean, he's probably going to be hobbly. I think the next four games are every other day and then they'll have a break from like Wednesday to Sunday between five and six. You know, and from history it's shown

that whenever Steph is not playing Draymond goes down his rabbit hole trying to get his ass kicked out the game. So you usually lose two players when you lose. Is that regular season, though? That's everything. Whenever?

I mean, you know, obviously we only go regular season because Steph ain't missed a game since 2018. Yeah. You know, but for the most part, anytime Steph is not playing, it seems as if Draymond just loses his cool. Yeah. You know, so it's really going to be on if he can keep his cool in this game or in this series to have, you know, at least a chance. You know.

I mean, you have Ant-Man who's playing with, you know, how Kerr from USA, FIBA, trying to make him come off the bench, draft day, Wolves, you know, in this series. They got more to play for. And I don't see how Golden State, knowing that, I mean, he didn't even look like he was happy. Like, it looked like he was like, yeah, you know, we're going to try to keep Bursch together. So we'll see how, if Wolves jump on him early in game two, it'll be a blowout. I don't think so, man.

Listen, I think this man finna get outcoached over there, bro. Bitchy. I really think... Since them threes, they was just jacking up like that. But that ain't on him. That's on them. Seven for 40.

That was a game five for 29 in this game. Five for 29? Yeah, if I'm not mistaken. To me, it's like your focus should not be on when you get an extra possession, jacking up a fucking three. You're wasting possessions. Yeah, but you can tell him during the timeout. He can tell him, listen, it's not going in right now.

Let's get to the basket. But he shouldn't have to tell Anthony Elberstein. He shouldn't have to tell a shooter it's not going in, right? Anthony can't put the pressure like he did in the fourth. Can't wait to the fourth to do that. Yeah. He came by the second half, but he started going to the basket, so he understood.

What was down, what was down, like 15 at that point? Yeah, he understood the severity of it, okay, it's not going in now, I need to get to the basket. Ain't nobody stopped me from getting to the basket yet. So, I think Steve Kerr, he going to come out and he going to try to prove, like, he might come out attacking from the beginning, right? Just like Donovan Mitchell did. Like, when making threes game before, let me get to the basket.

Like, he was one for whatever from three, let me get to the basket. So, I think it's going to be that from Anthony Elkis. Like, we need a win. So... I'm Finch. Do I change my defensive strategy? You have to, because Steph's not out there. Right. Remember how their offense

is going to play different. Their offense is going to play different, because he's not doing the tight curls. We're not chasing anybody over the screen. And I hope them dudes don't come out there and relax, knowing that Steph's not out there. Just play the second half. I mean, how they played in the second half. Switching everything.

They did go to state in the second half. It's just that big-ass lead they got in that second quarter. I did. But in the second half, you know, the Wolves won that game in the second half. Well, unfortunately for them. I mean, if, you know, you just relax off of Draymond Green knowing that he don't have that handoff. He don't have Steph coming off.

You don't have a fast, quick shooter. Like you said, Wolves won the second half. It was 47-45 in the second half with the Wolves shooting as bad as they did. So there should be some room for it. I would like to put it on the timer. They got them buddy here to get that thing off pretty fast, man. I ain't got no time to wait. There's a difference between, you know, a catch and shoot like, uh,

like clay versus somebody who created his own shot. Like when Steph creates his shot, he's a danger with the ball dribbling moving, but he'll can't dribble. Like not at all. No, not at all. I messed up. Like I said, we don't want him dribbling, moving. But he can't dribble like that. Not at all, no. Not at all. And I messed up. We don't want him dribbling that time. That's his one-two to the basket, buddy. So, Will's 31 points in the first half, 57 points second half.

Warriors have 55 points in the second half. So, plus two, but like you said, with all those issues. Steve Kerr asked about missing Steph first time since 2018, pointed out that in that time they had all NBA players, Kevin Durant, guys doing their thing. Do not have that on this roster. But they do have playoff Jimmy and Splash Buddy, who did a great job of filling Steph's shoes. They have 44 points combined in the game.

Duo was in good spirits after the game, like we pointed out. They got a love-hate relationship. Despite some confusion on how their roles changed without Chef Curry, and who was to blame for Buddy wearing the wrong shorts at the start of the game. Draymond declared that tonight Jimmy became Batman, and Buddy went from Alfred to Robin. Do you guys have any comments on that declaration? No.

I'll start out. I'll start out. No, no, no, no. I'm Batman today. I saved the day he's still robin all right well i'm still robin yes uh and steph still batman and uh buttered is still who he is how many butters so he he had another good game man except for that stupid thing you did at the beginning of the game when you didn't have on the right shorts.

It's not real Robin and or Batman-like. Buddy, what happened with the wardrobe malfunction? Jimmy switched it out. It was Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy switched it out, and that's what happened. So I was looking for my shorts, and I thought it was the right one. He said, yo, put these on. It was the right one.

That's what you're going with. Yeah, I, put these on. It was the right one. That's what you're going with. Yeah, I'm going with it. It was Jimmy's fault. So, after the game, Draymond had this to say about the Warriors potentially having to play without Steph and what playoff Jimmy brings to the table. But we know what Jimmy's capable of. Jimmy's capable of carrying the team. He carried the team

to a finals twice. So, we won't panic. We'll figure out what that means we have best coaching staff in the nba we know they'll put us in a good spot and let us know what our offense looks like without steph if we have to go on without them but we got full confidence in the guys that are on this team that we can make plays we can make, and we know we got a guy that can make that first domino fall, and Jimmy, so

we'll be all right. So Steve Kerr said Warriors would have today off, no films, giving the team a complete day off with all the travel in the game seven. Coaches would game plan, strategize how to approach game two, but how much faith should the Warriors have in playoff Jimmy and Splash Buddy to hold it down

for Steph while he's out with the hamstring strain? They're going to compete, man. They beat them by, what, one point? Plus two in the second half? Yeah, plus two. 57-55. All right. Cool.

Cool. If I'm Warriors, I'm not concerned. Of course we're going to miss Steph. We need him. He's our, he is who he is. But they're going to game plan it. I believe in their coaching staff. Like Draymond was saying, I believe in their coaching staff.

They've been there. To Gil's point, Draymond stays in it, keeps his head together and his antics under wrap, which I think he understands. Well, I hope he understands the severity of it. I would hope that he did. But, no, it's a very winnable game, man. It is very winnable and very feasible for them to go back home 2-0.

So, you're playing with house money and cut it out. Stupid young boy. What's going on, Gil? No, he's busy. But yeah, no, they're playing on house money, man. So I think it's a very wonderful game going into game two.

They're going to game plan this thing out. And, yeah. Share with the class, Gilbert. No, no, no. I mean, you know, it seemed like, you know, when we're struggling shooting-wise because they have a team that matched them in athleticism, right? You know, you're getting to shots. You're switching out.

You got people that can move with you. And I just think it's an adjustment, know that you know both teams gotta have so you know you know the first the first five minutes of game two is going to be very important you know just like any any round right the easiest the easiest game that we all say as players is the game one as a road team is kind of the easiest because, you know, usually that home team plays too tight, right? Especially if they're not like them dudes, right? There's only a few teams that just like, yeah, all right, this is, you know,

easy for us. But, you know, usually the home team is a little tighter and, you know, the road team is coming in like, yo, we don't supposed to win it, so let's just go out there and just, you know, see what we can do. You know, first five minutes, we'll see. And to your point, the heavens bid,

we get game one, right? Yeah, we play well. We get game one. But you know how it always is. You get game one with no strategy. Just go out there and play. Yeah.

And then when you get game one, you really try to win game two. Absolutely. You're overcoaching shit. Yeah, you're done to win game two you overcoach and shit but they need to overcoach now they ain't got that guy so if Steph is still out there to your point it's easy for them to come out there

more like ok we can to Minnesota point they finna come out here oh yeah they gonna be on 10 they gonna have to be on 10. They're going to have to be on 10. Yeah.

So, playing with house money, man. Like, every bill, we get this one. Like, we get this one. If you get this one, the home crowd can win at least one. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's going to be loud. It's going to be loud. It's San Francisco.

You know what I mean? It ain't Oakland. If it was out, listen,, it's going to be loud. It's going to be loud in San Francisco. You know what I mean? It ain't Oakland. If Minnesota was going to Oracle, oh, my God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I said. It is San Francisco. If it was Oracle. If they was going to Oracle, it'll be an issue.

So, Sean, how much faith do the Warriors have in playoff Jimmy? Obviously, like Draymond said, led the Heat to two finals with a very subpar roster of my conventional standards. But Buddy Hill playing at this level now, 33 games, 724 game one. But no stuff for an extended period of time. It puts Jimmy back in that same situation with Miami where he's back in that, you know, you have to prove it. Prove you're worth the money.

Prove you're worth Jimmy Butler's status, you know, Batman status. You know, that Robin label, I think he likes it because it's comfortable. He don't have to do much. But now he's going to have to figure out what to do now since he's going to be the center of attention. I now he's going to have to figure out what to do now since he's going to be the center of attention. I think he's going to want to pass more. Jimmy likes to do that since that's what he liked in Miami. When he needed to score, he did, but he wanted to get guys involved early so he didn't have to depend on them getting in the way late.

If Buddy Hill can stay locked in, if Vujinski can hit shots, I think Kaminga's opportunity is up next right now. I think he's now got the opportunity because he can't play good with Steph. Some guys just don't fucking play good with Steph. And I think that's the clash with Kaminga. He wants the ball when Steph's in the game and the system's geared around Steph. So now he has the opportunity to get in there and slash, get the ball now. Jimmy will give him the ball.

That slash will help Buddy space out. They'll be able to make this a series. I'm hoping Minnesota figures it out. I really do because they got the grit to do it, but they still playing like they're teenagers. So, Kamega, seven points, 13 minutes in the game. Can I ask y'all a question? If you was – how would you guard the screen with Mike Conley in it?

With Mike – If Mike Conley – Old school go under on him. I thought I was – Two points. I thought I was bugging. Two points. He is non-existent out there. I thought I was bugging. I is non-existent out there.

I thought I was bugging. I'm still thinking the way we... Are you pushing the big under two? Either way it goes. Stay attached to one. Is him and Rudy? Yes. Stay attached to one.

Just make it easier. Because it's not like he's... If he stop behind him, if he can make six of them, then we should. But other than that. Because it's not like he's... If he stopped behind the mother and can make six of them, then we should. If he's shooting six, that means everything he's doing. I mean, it's...

McDaniels ain't... Julius Rondo ain't making plays. So who's better to play at that one spot? Him or Walker? I think Walker gives more production. Mike ain't giving us nothing. He taller.

He steady. He plays defense, too. But Mike Conley is. Conley is just a state player. He ain't going to turn the ball over. He ain't going to do what the game's playing. He ain't going to deviate. He ain't going to go on a tangent and come down to three possessions. He going to play safe.

It's going to be safe. Yeah. One shot. One pass shot. We need attack. We need attack. We're behind. I dig it.

Can't play safe. You know what I'm saying? Now we're at 0-1, and the way we play, the production you gave us, it's like, bro, you have to turn it up. Everybody has to. Nasri, you got to turn it up when you come in. You know what I'm saying? It's like we can't afford for nobody to look back and be like,

damn, I should have did this better. Oh, man. So let's talk Warriors a little more. You talked about Jonathan Kaminga out of the rotation. We talked about the situation with his contract. Warriors playing with his money. Now Warriors got their backs against the wall. No Steph.

Do you expect to see Kaminga get some more run? You think money changes? Well, he was the 11th person off the bench. I mean, the 7th or 6th person off the bench. The 6th person off the bench yesterday. He had played 10 guys and then looked over at that bitch and was like, shit, Steph's not over there. Because Steph realized he wasn't over there and was like, you, you, you, you.

They're talking to stay ready. He said he don't need to be told to stay ready. He's going to be ready. We've seen, you know, how this has affected his confidence. But now he's in a position where, hey, I got to. Don't talk back. You need somebody to go get you a bucket, man. He going to play hard.

Kids, when they tell you to be ready, don't say I'm ready. Just shake your head. Just shake your head. They don't want to hear you say shit back hopefully he gets some extended run and he plays well in his minutes and he's gonna get about 15 16 you know what you know it's a blowout if he scored like three straight I'll pull his ass out no they're not good like thing you're not going to do is you're not going to make me look stupid. Still? What?

No second. You're not going to let me look stupid. You're going to sacrifice the win? You know how it is. We're down by 20. All right, put everybody in. Everybody going to go in but one person. But what if he's playing well throughout the game, though?

You know they're going to sub him. Yeah, like 18, 18, 18, 7, 8. You don't think he can play his way back to the road treasure? 18, 8, 3 assists, a steal, 2 blocks, 8. And what's going to happen? The first question they're going to ask if he averaged, he did that. So Steve Curry, you don't think

he ain't getting another Jason Tatum question. Nah, nah, your ass is going to sit right over there. Next to me. I don't think Kameka got that kind of confidence right now to even go off for that. Yeah, he do. You get 18? It's rage. Against them? It's rage. Against them? Yeah, it's rage.

Oh, right now he know he ain't playing Steph, he might be. That's what I'm saying. You gotta watch the layup line. Turnovers, though. They gonna force. He trying. Let another motherfucker go down. Look, if Steve not telling him, go get it, he's in there cautious. He's tiptoeing.

I'm not thinking he's going to be aggressive unless Steve's like, look, I need you to. If Steve ain't on that, he in there like looking every time. Every time. Every dead ball, he over there like. No, well, guess what? You got me? Shut up. On that dead ball, he might be looking.

But when he out there there when that bitch is moving when he trying to get it he getting to his man trust me so hey one thing you ain't got to worry about with him Steph ain't out there now so he ain't got to listen that's not yet it's Pazinski's system now

Pazinski's the next one in line listen Kameka you thought it was you. You got a long line. Moody in front of you, bro. Moody is in front of you, bro. So relax. I'm just telling you.

You got to tiptoe around this bitch, man. It's crazy. We watching the business of basketball. In real time. And no one says nothing. Nobody has said a fucking word. He's sitting over there in purgatory I know exactly what he's sitting there

no one's saying nothing to him they don't really fuck with him nobody is acknowledging the fact that this man that they are they won first round series of course as long as they're winning he's not going to say anything because it makes him look stupid

that's why I said if you're his agent, you kind of failed him. Because you've been in the business long enough to know this was going to happen. You've been in it long enough. You've had clients that's probably been through the same thing. You turn down the house's money. You know what they're going to do. After fucking three games of boom, boom, boom. You know what?

Hey, you know what? I just talked to my client. We're going to accept this deal. Right? You know, because you know, the one thing they do have control of is putting your ass in that game. And they've shown it.

Now, what you think you're worth one one year eight million one of them you got to go back and do the same thing huh that nate robertson deal man that is a super low ball unless another team offers which they're gonna let somebody else offer you some money off of these stats we're're just going to match it. It will play you next year. Or unless some team can't pay you on its potential, what they know. James Harden? Do the James Harden of Houston feel?

Yes, absolutely. Unless the team is willing to do that. I think the agent is banking on that. Right. I think the agent is banking on the James Harden. Somebody overpaying him or somebody paying him out of what Golden State is willing to pay. If we like, all right, look, he's worth... What was he asking for? $130-something?

I think $135, $155 million. If somebody's like, yeah, you know what? We think he's worth it. We're going to give him $155. Then it's like, cool. Right? But if he don't get no offer... That's the sabotage shit. Because we've seen his potential

up until the point that he got the offer. We've seen it. And they was banking on him. They was like, yeah, we like him. He's the future. And then next thing you know. Think about it. You the future.

And now I'm bitching you because you won't sign that contract. Crazy. Shout out to your credit, though. You told him run. Get out. Get out. Burn and building. Get out of there because they're going to put it on you.

And when they put it on you and you ain't got leverage because all you got is potential they can't iron that potential out and put some mustard on it and say yeah he don't listen when I tell him to do this he don't hustle and practice he always talking back now you're going into

the motherfucking market with no tires but based on what he's previously done in his career, does that give him any leeway? What's his averages? At this point, all you're doing is hoping like you're literally hoping that you've made or your age

has made enough relationships where they look past what God has said is the truth. I think they have. 16-5 last year, 15-5 this year in the regular season. This is great. So he's going to be 24 minutes per game.

He's going to still be, what, four-year, five-year, 135? And if he gets it, who did it? Aiton, right? Go get the money. You go get the money, I'm going to match it. I'll match it. Right, so Golden State is going to match it. He's like 4-for-72, I want to say, with the pay for signing.

So all you have to do, if you're a team that got money and you want them, you do what they did with us for Jared Jeffries. Front load the fuck out of that first year. Front load the first year where it puts the other team over the cap. Right? Because you got so much money in your cap and he said, oh yeah, we're going to give you $130,000. But that first year, sit there.

Aiden had the four-year $133,000 that the Pacers gave him and the Suns ended up matching that. Some teams, it's like just being smart, right? If I know if the first year starts off at $25,000, you know how it scales up, $25,000, $35 know how it scales up 25 35 40 i'll go backwards on it right if i got the the salary you know the cap i'm like all right yo the first year gonna start at 50 so i know your team can't afford you then it goes 45 35 25

you know they did that with uh uh uh jeremy lyn land right with um new york front load that first year knowing new york can't match it they can match the contract but they can't match that first year deal or part of the contract so we'll see it'll be interesting man but you know this with steph being out if i'm him i'm gonna be sitting here like come on dream on do you do you get get in foul trouble. Get fined. Get kicked out because now they are forced to play me. And you go out there and just play basketball.

How much did they offer Kaminga? There was reports of somewhere in the $130, $155 range. How much did they give Jimmy? Two for like $110, $111 or something like that. Two-year for $110. Two for $110. So that's four-year. $200.

$220. What was his deal? What was Kaminga's? Two year for 110. Two for 110. So that's four year, 200. 220. What was his deal? What was Kaminga's? Four year? Four year, 135. That would be somewhere in the 135. That's worth the report. I was...

So do you replace Jimmy with Kaminga? No. No. Do you keep them both? I'm thinking about Kaminga as kind of not, he can't beat Draymond, but he's in that four, that four, he's in the four position. What is Moody? You got Moody, Jimmy, and Kaminga.

All of the guards. You got Moody, Jimmy, and Kaminga. You got Moody, Jimmy, and Kaminga. But those are guards. Kaminga's like a 3-4. Like, you can put him at the 4 and he can be like, alright. Kaminga, Jimmy, the same. No. Kaminga not says

no. Jimmy comes in, says yes. We get Kaminga up out of here. So they got Moody three-year, $39 million extension, which starts next season. Mm. Man, they... And boy, was Fijinsky...

Did they re-sign him? I think he's still... He's in his second, third year? He's on that rookie deal. Yeah, he's got another year. And he'll have a team option in 26-27. Mm. So they got him.

I don't know, man. Eh. I don't know. That looked nasty for Kaminga, man. He's like a Jalen Brown. Just not that smart yet. Right? He's just like... You can see the young in you, but

because you're young, you still have real upside on your value. I can see why they offered him 135. I'm going to be honest. What's the most you go with him? They didn't let him play enough, man. I'm going to be honest.

I ain't really got to see his game. They didn't really put shackles on him. But we got the average 16 last year, 15 this year. While we're fucking him. While we're out here doing what we're doing to him, he's still out here averaging. Think about his game expanding, though. Think about how much he hasn't even been able to show

how much better I've gotten over. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's the hard part. It's like, damn, we don't even know how good he is right now. A team probably looking at that. He's still young. He's fucking 22 years old. We don't know if he can shoot it like that.

He ain't even getting lots of nothing. We know. There's fucking 22 years old. We don't know if he can shoot it like that. He ain't even get lots of nothing. We know. There's enough tape out there on him. That's what I'm saying. There's enough tape from rookie year to now.

I'm talking about just this year. Just his growth from how many games has he played this year? Did you check how many games can make this play? He's played 47

out of all the games. Average 15. Now, damn. He's averaging 15. He play half the games average 15 now damn he's averaging 15 he played half the games it's nasty so we don't even know what his real game

what's his minutes like 24 minutes per game yeah we know so he's playing two quarters and averaging 15 two quarters

so come on man we know what that is yeah I was there I was doing the same weekend 36 is pretty 36 is 22 a game. So, guess what?

Somebody going to offer him that back. Somebody going to offer him that back. I think... He's 22 years old. You know what? If you look at it like this, if I'm his agent, I'll be calling Golden State and say,

you know what? No matter what you do, he's going to get paid because I'm smart enough to still get around what you're doing. So, you might as well just go in and start making him happy because at this point, he don't want back. You're talking about a guy who's per

36 is 22 and 7. You're 32 and 7 and I'm going to go what he looked like as a starter. Ah, yeah. And in this situation, right, he missed games, right? And knowing the situation that they have me in, I'm not rushing back if I'm him.

I'm making sure I'm all the way right before I come back, right? I mean, he's still 22. I'm making sure I'm all the way healthy before I come back because y'all have been fucking playing this game. I'm making sure I'm right. So when I do play, when you call my number, I'm healthy. I have no ailments. I have nothing lingering.

So I can go out and produce like I need to in order to help my future because I don't, I'm trying to put on. What are you willing to sign him for? If you're who? Anybody? Yeah. I'll give him 150. Easy, right?

Easy. Yeah. For 150? Easy. And I was thinking the same thing. I'm like, just knowing what he's capable of and he's proven, like, how they're playing you, we can see that they're fucking you. And you're still averaging 15? Go ask other gyms. It's not like they're saying, all right, go can see that they're fucking you. And you're still averaging 15. It's not like they're saying,

all right, go out there and do what you do. They're not doing that. They're handicapping them at every chance they get. He's averaging 15. 150 easy. Teams see that. GMs see that. Other people see that.

Other people that watch games, that pay attention, watching this shit, knowing when this boy is out there, when they game... So this is the thing, right? If you're game planning against the Golden State Warriors, right?

No matter if they've been not playing him or playing him, you have to include him at some point because you know when he's out there, he's still averaging 15 points. So he's a wild card. So you still have to, we don't know if he's going to play or not, guys. Just in case. Just in case. Kaminga is XYZ 1, 2, 3. So you still have to include him in't know if he's going to play or not, guys, but just in case, Kaminga is X, Y, Z,

1, 2, 3, here we go, and so you still have to include him in the scouting report, so other teams know that, right? They're watching film, they watch film, and like, damn, why they, hey, you're sitting around assistant coach or head coach with the other team, like, why the fuck they ain't playing Kaminga? Did you see what this boy doing with the outside, like,

man, they run... What about 2 for 80? You see what this boy doing with the out the night man. They want what about two for 80? I'm talking to Ray somewhere nice. Don't lock him down so he can get his market back. If I'm if you're them, I'm the agent. I'm looking for two for 80 deal instead of a four for two for 80 option for first.

Yeah. So instead of instead of that long- to me that's long term back would go to state i don't know because they can just yeah no i'm not going back there no not to go back i'm saying if somebody else either if i go to a contending team you need that security that's what i'm saying if you get that security i need that but if i'm going somewhere you just throwing me somewhere and they're going to match it two for 80, I need that. Four years and playing time? Two years, yeah. Four years, playing time, fourth year team, fourth year play option?

You want to do a play option in the second year? You have to. A two-year deal? Then they'll do a four-year deal option after two? After two years, option after two. Just to see? Got to. You got to.

Yeah, you can do that. Sure the fuck you want if you're in control. No values up after the second year? I need them three guaranteed. And if I'm going somewhere and I know what I'm playing, if I'm going somewhere and I know he's going to play, right? I know he's going to get the per 30, so he's going to be out there and there's a plan for him to be out there and playing.

Yeah, I'm going to go. I'm going to take the 150, bro. Do they even do team options still after your second deal? Oh, I mean, I know. I mean, I know. Rookie deals, yeah. I don't know if it's team. I think it's players. It just depends.

I know it's usually players. I remember there was years. It just depends on age. We got a seven-year deal, and then we're going to do team option, player option, team option. I don't know if we got the team option with the Rockets with his deal he signed. Yeah, mine was...

You got a team option this summer. Mine was seven and player option. Yeah, player option. After what, six? Six. Our old rookie deal was three years. It was a five-year deal for rookies, basically. So three years guaranteed.

The fourth year was the team option. Fifth year, play option. When the Nets took my fourth-year team option, I told them, yeah, you can go ahead and that fifth year ain't even a thing. Go ahead and get that shit off the book now. Yeah, but that was seven year deals back then. Seven year deals, dog. Seven years, dog.

Crazy. I was in Denver for seven years off of one deal, bro. Seven years. Come in here to the Phoenix. They need help. Mm. No, they got too much money over there. They don't got no bread over there. Who are they going to get rid of?

They're going to have to move. They're going to move them. They're going to move KD? No, Brad. But who? Brad is going to go to any veteran. At this point in Brad's career, it's a veteran

team. You're would love the Warriors. Yeah. I mean, you already have... I mean, you can go to Warriors, but Warriors, Denver, Milwaukee. It's only veteran teams that they can use him. He can't go to a young team.

Like, I can't build around you. I got to... I would want... Who GM, man, got a fucking impossible job on his hand in Phoenix. Everybody's taking that, man, listen, good luck.

You got one move, you got two, and one ain't going nowhere. Devin Book ain't going nowhere. You got one movable piece. One movable piece. One movable piece. So, okay.

Because the other dude still got a no trade clause. So therefore, you got one movable piece over there. And ain't because, so no. So we asked the chat, should the Warriors play Kaminga? 84% of the chat says yes. Let's talk Jimmy real quick. 84?

84% said yes. Let's talk playoff Jimmy. The rest of them motherfuckers must be from Minnesota. Jimmy Butler spent parts of two seasons with the Wolves. They're going with Team Kerr. Yeah, buddy. So Jimmy Butler spent parts of two seasons with the Wolves before a rip of the team led to his trade to the Sixers. During the game, he received boos from the crowd.

It was his first game back playing in Minnesota since November of 2021 when he was with with the heat he's been pretty much booed every time he's come back through there but hasn't played there in over four years this was his reaction to the boos after the game response that doesn't bother me um but people do have to wash their mouth you know it's cool with the boos and all that stuff but you calling people out of their names and all of that stuff which i can hear what they say you want me to repeat it yeah no i'm not gonna repeat it it's not good uh that that that's unnecessary the boos i get it i understand let's just give it a day uh yeah watch your mouth thanks little bro uh Wolves fans reconsider Poking the bear that is playoff Jimmy

No It don't matter I don't think it's Add no fuel to his fire Shit Got enough motivation Steph being out trust me Isn't it crazy how like Like Jimmy can go to a team

And then Find a best friend. Yes. That's the difference. That's the difference. You would think that these motherfuckers been on the same team forever. Forever. Listen, he didn't have no friend like that on Miami. He was hanging

by himself, chilling, doing his own thing. Too fast. Too fast. It's just weird though. It's like... I've never heard Buddy talk. Yeah, Buddy a cool motherfucker, man. Like, I've texted with him. I forgot he's foreign.

Bahamian. Yeah. Bahamas. From Bahamas. Yeah, that's why I'm like, he's started talking. I'm like, that's a boy. That's a boy. I know that.

That's Kyle Jones. I know that culture. He got a mix. He got a mixture. Island and nigga. He got a little bit of both. Island. So Buddy has been a shooter since he's been labeled as a shooter.

People forget when he was at Oklahoma, man. Buddy was a bucket. He was almost National Player of the Year all come on man, but it was a bucket He was almost national player to you, right? But it was a bucket monster like buddy determined like 37 like buddy was putting that thing in the best of multiple Looks and putting the ball on the deck and all that so he's capable So he showed yesterday with the one the left hand didn't touch him in all way the hot load it. Let's say he's capable and I went all the way, the high flow. Listen, he's capable. And I like what they, yeah, he just got to believe he's going to make the next one, like he do, but their relationship is, the fact before this, Jim was telling them not to dribble and shit like that.

Shit is hilarious, man, that they have that, and they going at it back and forth on the bench, but he said it's all about winning. Yeah, so that's what you respect, like shit like that, right? that they have that and they going at it back and forth on the bench but he said it's all about winning and yeah, so that's what you respect. Like, shit like that, right?

Jimmy and Draymond could say something to one another that probably somebody else can't say in the moment and it's not going to get misconstrued on. No, we are the wind,

dog. Yeah. Like, they are two prime examples to deal with each other that put your feelings in your pocket listen what the fuck I'm telling you Yeah, right. They are you know the best during the game, but no you know Damn damn the four-letter words. I just say it all exclude them Like people be so caught up in the four letter. I use seven four letter words. Yeah. I did. I had to

get your attention. You had to know I was serious, right? Bitch, I had to get the rebound. It's both sides though. Both sides. Because the other side doesn't know. Them fuckers called you a bitch ass nigga. I didn't mean it. I was just saying.

Get the rebound. I didn't mean it. You're not going to cross the line. Fuck the rebound. I'm not going to cross the line when I say it. I ain't going to cross the line when I receive it. Like, all right, my nigga, you good? But it's still personalities. Like, I know when he gets mad, his language, he says whatever.

What is he saying? Oh, I got to get back on track. Just get the game. It's not like we yelling on like people think when you think about two people yelling, it's never about like you ain't passed me the ball type of shit.

It's like you missed your assignment, motherfucker. And he's trying to explain that it wasn't my assignment. It was this person. It's always actually in the sense of trying to win and we think you fucking up the game plan not not always only with the niggas that's wanting to win only motherfuckers that want to win and act like that man that's it that other shit no listen that's what i'm saying it's the dude is trying

to relay the message like look i'm about to say some shit to you but i'm consciously like i know if i say this shit to him like i'm about to say some shit to you but I'm consciously like I know if I say this shit to him like I'm about to he not gonna receive it like a championship mentality you ain't winning then if you gotta you gotta like be like hey look big Al man you got to pass that motherfucker man you know what I'm saying we open

alright alright man alright some people ain't like that Twan Walker hey Twan hey you know I was open man shit I'm open too Man, shit, I'm open too. What are you talking about? I'm open. You see what you did with it? I trust my shot more than yours.

Hit the side of the backboard. And you hear that shit? You hear that shit? You're like, well, I'm going to shoot it when I get it then, goddamn. Oh, yeah. See, that's, yeah. I ain't never. See, then you got to do.

You ain't never, yeah. See, you do that with me then on my team. I see you do that with one of your teammates on my team yes you gotta say what the fuck is wrong with you dog he ain't passing to me we're not finna do that in here say something to him man now i gotta tell you worry about you like larry like larry lar Like, Larry Hughes never said much. Like, rarely.

Yeah. Right? So, no matter how many times I shot in a row, if he be like, yo, come on, dog. A little bit too many times. You might be right. There you go. That motherfucker quit the A, man.

Listen, if you going to call motherfuckers out on defense and say they can't shoot, man, you better start guarding them. Yeah. All right, my bad. Yeah, it's that. It's that message from somebody who you like, yeah, because he don't say, and when he do, he like, I pride away. When he do, he know he said something.

He meant that. Yeah, he meant that. Pride away. I'm going to swing it around. Everybody open around here. Yeah, man. It's been a while since we all here. This is the third quarter.

That's the motherfucking ceiling shot, my man. I ain't even touched that bitch in a while. Come on, girl. You don't like to know what that leather feel like. Man, I haven't been in this bitch five minutes. I got a little sweat and I ain't touched that bitch. You need to know that little ass rap. Let me take it out.

Let me take that bitch out. And I'll turn that bitch a hundred times, too. But for a free throw line, walk in. Yeah, let me go hand touch that bitch. Come on, man. Shit. Now, when you think about it, there's some funny conversations that I'd be happy to do in the game, dog. If you really, if everybody had to, if it was like that, that brew mic and they just record everything, that's missing, dog.

It is. Let me touch that. Let me see that. Let me see that. Come on, dog. It is. Let me see that. Let me see that. Come on, bro. Let me see that bitch. Ain't nobody passing it to me but you, ref. So the thing is, hey, me and you on the free throw line, we're on opposite teams. I could be talking, hey, this motherfucker right here ain't passing the goddamn ball.

Yeah, yeah. Ooh, he ain't passing the ball. What the fuck you guarding me for right now? This nigga ain't go pass that. Hey, listen, hey, dog, on the free throw line, he be like, yo, yeah. Hey, man, relax. Hey, what you guarding me so hard for?

He ain't pass this bitch all four. So the other person can hear it? No, no, no. You just talking about that. I'm saying, my guard, you doing it all the time. What you doing all this for, dog? Read the room, J-Mon.

Read the room. That's it, right? That's it, bro. I'm in the corner every time. For once, I'm definitely not going in the free throw now. I ain't touched that bitch. Damn that offensive rebound. The game can be on the line.

Hey, man. Hey, easy, killer. Easy, bro. Easy. I ain't going nowhere. I ain't going. I'm definitely not going in right now. I just checked in, killer. Easy, bro. Easy. I ain't going nowhere. I'm definitely not going in right now. I just checked in, bro.

Been in the office, fucking just do whatever it is. Ain't touch that bitch in nine minutes. I'm not feeling it. It ain't coming his way, killer. Yeah. Don't you see? I come up here to catch the ball.

You know I'm finna swing it, though. You denying me for it. What you denying me for? I'm finna swing it. I got it. I got it. Man, I ain't doing the ball in 10 denies, bro. You keep denying me.

No, I'm saying this is niggas playing your heart. You just with your arms up. Come on, bro. It's the suckest. Come on. Really? And then look at the ref. That should be funny out there, man.

Conversations, man. Like dead ass. But if you can't have it in winning time, right? And this is what these dudes are playing for NBA championship right now. If we're in it right now, these games should be intense. They should be intense from the beginning. It shouldn't be a lead up.

The intensity should be that from game one on. But game one, you got to sit fit in that process for the most part, but you should want to win at all costs, right? And we in this thing together, we're supposed to be in this foxhole together. We're supposed to be about this common goal of winning. I don't have time to be worried about how you feel, man.

I really don't. And on that note, when have playoff games not meant something to these players, dog? Are you feeling that right now? Yeah, dudes sitting out of playoff games, dog?

I'm good for... Because you can't play the next game on my team, dog. I feel a way about you. I Question you as a teammate. I really quit if we if I like you or not now I like we could have been you sit out of play and you think you're gonna play the next game and play hard and come And play full strength. Nah, man. That ain't that ain't cool, but you sit out for you should better be broke You got it. Yes, dog. You gotta show me what step just What you sit out for? You should better be broke. Yes, dog. You got to show me what Steph just did. You got to come up. I got to see it.

You can't finish the game with me and not play the next game. No, you finish that one. I expect you in the next one, man. You just can't show up and talk about my calf hurt. Who? What? You better go put your motherfucking uniform on, bro.

Yep. Come out here and be a decoy. I'm not rolling with that. And in the calves case of the day, though, we lost game one. I'd be damned if DeAndre Hunt and motherfucking Evan Mobley not playing if I'm motherfucking on that team, dog. Yeah. I would be damned.

I got something to say to you and you individually and the group. What was that injury? I don't know. Don't give a fuck. You finished game one. Did they both finish game one? Hunter Wrist, I want to say Hunter Wrist. One in the ankle. Moby Ankle, Miles Turner.

But we're going to talk Cavs. That shit, dawg. That shit. dog. That shit is weird and weak. I'm going to tell you what it's supposed to look like. Yeah. Man, listen, bro. You could have just said that, girl. You could have just said that. You get that Toradol shot right in the ass.

Toradol right in that cheek, man. Look at this motherfucker walking by. Hey, man, come on, God. That's what you're supposed to hear. You're going to train the room with your ass out. Because it's sore, it's just going, it's sore. You had a hard time keeping me out of a regular season game when I played.

You had a hard time keeping me out of a fucking regular season game. Wrap that motherfucker up. Hey, three title loss, two Advils. There's been no, I don't want to keep harping on it. We're going to talk about it. No, no, set, man played me seven minutes and I lost my shit. Because imagine, I want to play.

So these dudes sitting out of playoff games, man, that's supposed to be meaningful? And we're supposed to be in this shit together and I'm supposed to trust you from this point on? No, I question you. Especially if you're talking about playing the next one. We're going to get into that in just a moment. We're going to talk Wolves real quick. But before we do, sometimes in life, you want to about playing the next one we're gonna get into that in just a moment uh we're gonna talk wolves real quick but before we do uh sometimes in life you want to get

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Like, really, dude? So, no, they love it, man. And they got like little treats that they go crazy for. So, no, it's... For sure. From my groomer's mouth, like, what have you been doing different?

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Okay, that's what was in the back. I was wondering what was in the back. And you know, we don't touch your property here. We just allow you to go get it. I seen everybody had their little name on it. Kenyon. Yeah, I ain't been there. Like I said, I ain't.

It was like Kenyon. It was Lexi. Like, where mine at? Then I opened it up. I was like, oh, I ain't got no goddamn dog. said, I ain't. It was like Kenyon. It was Lexi. Where mine at? Then I opened it up. I was like, oh, I ain't got no goddamn dog. Yeah, you ain't got no dog. I ain't got no dog. So I got a little Frenchie.

He brown. Yeah, he get to it, too. So we talked about dogs. Let's talk about some wolves. Wolves are one of the top teams in the league beyond the arc during the regular season, but have struggled as of late with their three ball. Ant-Man had this reaction when finding out just how bad their three-point shooting has been

in the past two games. Shooting for you, we just got the numbers that you guys going 12 for 76 over the last two games is the worst three-point shooting in the history of the NBA playoffs. And for a team that was fourth in three-point percentage and fifth, I think, in three-pointers made. 12 for 70, guys. fourth and three point percentage and fifth I think pointers made.

12 for 70. How do you even make sense of it? You know that's how it go. You know what I'm saying? You have stretches where you shoot the ball really really well and you have stretches where you shoot the ball really really bad. You just hope the good outweigh the bad. I'm not going to say it's going bad

for us right now. We just didn't shoot it well tonight. I'm not going to say it's going bad for us right now. We just didn't shoot it well tonight. I'm not really worried about the last series or whatever that was. That was a month ago if you ask me. Tonight we didn't shoot the ball well, but tonight is over. Next game we'll shoot the ball really well. That series was less than a week ago, sir. We remember.

Talking about current playoff teams, what can Minnesota do to fix their recent shooting struggles from deep? Nothing. Shoot the next one. Well, shit, that's all you – because you ain't going north, the bitch is going to go in unless you shoot it. So, hey. 100% of the shots. Hey, 100% you grab it.

So, hey, it's the only way you're going to find out, bro. So, the guy that's shooting is part of the game, right? It's part of the game. All right, so let's see y'all go out and add another 40 on to that total. Yeah. Because you're going to shoot 40 of them. So, let's go add another 40. Let's make it 130, 110.

You're going to shoot 40 to 50 and see how many you make, right? A true shooter mentality. Man, the start of five only made one. And that was him. A lot of bricks. And one for five. Five for 29 in the game, over 15 and a half? Only because I watched old school basketball

and I played in an era where, you know, corner dudes only got certain shots, right? They only got certain shots. They just wasn't allowed to just free shoot shit, right? It just like, unless you was like the sixth man

or just a pure shooter, you wasn't just allowed to just, you open, you just get to fling that bitch. Right? You know what I mean? Free shoot. Yeah, yeah. You just say, this just ain't no free shoot. So, watching the game,

and let's just say I just missed two shots, and option two just missed two threes you you you coming off the bench and you get a wide open shot you don't shoot that shot no no no that's not a free shot for you motherfucker i don't give a fuck what you think you about to do and that's's what it be. It just seems like they have no concept that we have just missed 10 in a row. And I just checked in. Yeah, I just checked in.

Y'all done missed 10. Let me go ahead and shoot my shit. Mine's going in. No, motherfucking pump fake guns. You're not understanding the reason why that happened because there ain't no plays being ran. Think about it. When we had the plays being ran,

your play, you shot three in a row. But it's because you came back off the downstream. You cheated. You came back, shot that three. You got a bunch of your shots in the offense. It ain't like you chucking. Kenyon the second option. He getting all his shit in the offense.

I come in. If I get that bitch and just shoot it like we just coming down fast break and just in the fast break And yeah, take me out. Yeah, but but there ain't no structure now. This is what I'm saying There ain't no structure. So a corner nigga now coming in the game and shooting it. It's normal It's because there ain't no game and ain't nobody ain't no play a young fella. He called for that I'm really curious and play. A young fella, he called forwards out. I'm really curious in talking

to somebody who really believe in analytics and actually having a conversation with you're shooting 35 plus threes a game and you can't break a hundred

and you're telling me that's the way to play? Huh? Score 89 points. You're scoring 89 to 99. Like you're shooting all these threes but can't break a hundred points. No shot blockers. Today, there's a reason that the scoring, like the way you guys pretend that the three in the layup is this important thing and you're using it.

You would think the scoring is at least one fucking 50 at this point in time. Sixties had no threes. They averaged about 120. And you're telling me you're shooting 50, 60 threes and you're talking about scores 105. And I'm just, we old school just hating. Motherfucker, Detroit Pistons didn't have no fucking real score, and they scoring the same as y'all.

We saying, oh, we're about to play this thing. We're about to, this is about to be motherfucking boring basketball. They're about to defend this shit out of us. It's going to be hard. We got to execute. We still scored 80. Yeah. Y'all like this motherfucker doing this shit. Half course swinging shot

shot. 89 points. The fuck? 47-3. If you took this style and you played against the back pistons or y'all wasn't 18, y'all scored 45 points. Y'all look like WNBA out of this bitch.

A very good league. No offense, no what's the name? He's talking about just, we can switch out everything and contain, and y'all think y'all about to just do some side step threes against everybody? Y'all scored 45 fucking points. Jab step three. Jab step three with the side step on the... What? I mean, you can put me, J-Kid, Carey, RJ, me and Rodney Rogers, whoever, and I'm playing

the five and good fucking luck. Switching it, digga? Good luck. And we played with more shot blockers. So think about the twos that we were forced to take because we wasn't shooting a lot of threes. So it was long twos. You got to run motherfuckers around, try to double pick down. Man, ain't none of that, though.

Ain't no shot blockers in the league now. There's no reason for you to take a bunch of threes because ain't nobody at the rim. So what's the illusion that's stopping you from getting to the rim? That is what you got, what? Four, five shot blockers in the NBA? Maybe. That you would call, like, real shot blockers? Mobley, Wimby, Rudy.

On a team that had one and a half. Kessler in fucking Utah. You got, like, Wimby, Miles, five, six, six shot, who you would consider rim protectors, shot blockers in this NBA this fucking 30 teams I mean, how many did you have on your team alone in Denver? Oh three? Yes. Yeah, we're short. Yeah To niggas started a really bird man. It was really for me They charge take her man. And then they never in potatoes. He's charged taking good way. Yeah

Absolutely real but that's a that's another form of real protection. I don't know if you guys know that or not. Yeah, yeah. If you're going there, that motherfucker really, really did it. He's taking charges. Him, Eddie, Nahara,

both taking charges. We blocked the shot. Me, Bird, missing, MC missing it. Charge. Yeah, we had, yeah. Yeah, for sure. Like, it's just. None of for sure. Like, it's just –

None of that now. Like, I'm just sitting here looking like – Yeah. If I'm sitting here running an offense and we have – I got five shooters now, it's just going to be – like, I'm going to be like, yo, we're going to shoot under 23s. We're going to shoot under 23s. We're going to shoot under 23s. And that's the game plan. Because I know how the game is played.

The people who are going to be shooting the threes ain't the niggas I want shooting the threes. Yep. And they're going to be happy shooting them shit. Right, I'm not going to be like, you sitting here, swing, swing. We already know the worst shooter is going to be in the corner back when we played.

Yep. We want to swing, swing, swing. Give it to him. Yeah. Groove Bowen. You better dribble it out. Yeah. Harkin Stein, you better.

Everything that was so funny is Harkin Stein is the only person I like. When he get, I don't give a fuck where he get the ball. He don't look at the rim. No, he trying to pass that bitch. He get the ball. He can be right over that motherfucker. Uh-uh. Where you at, Shane?

Get that. What number two at? What number two at? What number two at? I like you. I don't want it. I like you versus you over here chucking the three. You don't want me to want chucking the three.

You get him, motherfucker, in that goddamn, that painted area, float you. Float you. Yeah. He got that, though. Float you. That's what Zubac got now. Yeah. Float you.

Float you. Float you. So MSA. And Brendan Haywood took 10 shots huh if he what 10 shots yo no Brendan Haywood you can throw him the ball on the block with offensive rebounds. If he has 10 shots in the game, great. We're going to be like, hey, you got off the day. He's going to hit 60%. You know what I'm just saying?

If he got 10, you're going to be like, oh, you got off the day. Oh, you got 10 points. He's like, four to seven. Yeah, yeah. Not even that. Or you throw it to him. Five. Five.

He's going to get his jump. You're going to throw it to him early. He's going to boom, boom. We're going to start with Brandon. We're going to start to him. Five. Five. Five. He's going to get his jump. You're going to throw it to him. He's going to boom, boom. We're going to start with Brandon. We're going to start to him. Yeah. Throw it to him early. Start the game. You might want to turn for him.

First two possessions. Right? First two. Yeah. Go to him. Turn five. Turn five. Turn five.

We're going to do it three times straight. Three times straight. You're going to shoot one. The other one, you better hesitate. Come on. You better hesitate. You better not shoot all three. You're like, oh. Unless you shoot two in a row. We ain't call you a play just for you to shoot the ball. The other way you better hesitate. Come on

Now we'll see you alone the way Shooting guard cuz he gonna come off the most with your yeah. You better turn fight that shooting guard because he going to come off the first one. He going to brush. He going to tight curve trying to brush. Yeah, yeah. And that second one came right behind him. He don't want to really

hit you. He trying to get the open. I got you open first. I got it. I got it. I got you open first. Now it's your time to get me open.

Right? I used to do that shit. Hey, man, on the third, on the third, the shooting guard might say, hey, set the flex. Set the flex. Yeah, yeah, yeah. On the third, the shoot guard might say, hey, set the flash, set the flash, set the flash.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Set the fucking flash. He didn't curl the buck choke, man. Curled it, got the shot. Oh, my God. Now this selfish motherfucker wants the third one, too. Like, damn, we know you a shoot guard. No, no, no.

This Gil, though. Gil throwing the ball in. He see both of us having fun. He just automatically, he just goes, I'm going to get you the rest of the juice here. That's some funny shit because we know exactly. Turn five three times. The first one is true gargantuan.

He's going to do exactly what he's supposed to do. That second turn five, it's really he trying to get this little. I did my job the last time. If he don't try to get the flare he gonna move slow so his man can kind of like

help a little bit so he don't get the ball I don't get it you don't get it I don't get it you don't get it you better shoot it

man don't pass it to him either shoot it alright well let's keep things moving let's switch over to the Eastern Conference. Pacers pulled up to Cleveland, stole game one thanks to a solid performance

from Tyrese Halliburton, a big run in the fourth quarter. Indiana shot 53% from the field and 53% from three in that win, while the Cavs made a season-low nine threes, shooting just 24% from three. Back to the three-point conversation. But Cavs' injury woes were magnified in game two. So they're already down Darius Garland. Cleveland would also be without defensive player of the year,

Evan Mobley and DeAndre Hunter in this one. Donovan Mitchell put the team on his back, but Hallie put the Cavs in a pack. Let's take a look at the highlights. That's a bar, Joe. Thank you. I'll try. On a catch.

Cavs jumped out to a 17-point lead in the first quarter, outscoring the Pacers 32-15. Donovan Mitchell came through with one of the best performances of his career, leading the Cavs with out to a 17 point lead in the first quarter outscoring the Pacers 32-15 Donovan Mitchell came through with one of the best performances of his career leading the Cavs with 48 points, 9 assists, 5 rebounds and 4 steals Spider was 15-30 from the field, 17-21 from the line

second time he's eclipsed a 40 point mark in a playoff game since joining the Cavs Cavs led by as much as 20 points midway through the third quarter but the Pacers came storming back but let's give Spider some love Cavs led by as much as 20 points midway through the third quarter. But the Pacers came storming back. But let's give Spider some love. With the bounce, too.

Doing the thing. And ah! Right there on Siakam. Got him going. Like I said, Cavs led by as much as 20 points midway through the third quarter. But the Pacers came storming back. Aaron Neesmith and Miles Turner led the team in scoring with both dropping 23 points. Neesmith hit five of his eight three-point attempts, while Turner added eight rebounds in five blocks.

Tyrese Halliburton came on late in this game after a slow start. He had 19 points, nine rebounds and four assists. Pascal Siakam had 12 and six boards on five of eight shooting. Benedict Mather had a playoff career high, 19 points off the bench. So, you know, I thought they were going to win this thing. I talk big in the group chat. Everybody watch the game. Shout out Shug. Hey, it had to be you, Shug.

Hey, it had to be you. Hey, it had to be you. But the Cavs were up. Who's they? There's only one Cav. No, no, no. It's two. But it felt like multiple. It's two. It's two. It felt like multiple. He was quiet all night, too. He went to bed early and everything.

He sure does a word of wisdom. He didn't say nothing to nobody. So Cavs were up. He still got a little residue right now. He still got his earplugs and everything. The Cavs were up 7 with 48 seconds remaining in the game. Appeared to be on the way to tying the series. Pacers had other plans.

So Siaka missed that dunk after he missed a pair of free throws. Aaron Neesmith came and got the putback dunk. Donovan Mitchell got shaken up on the play, leaving the game briefly. So after Mitchell got whistled for an offensive foul to give the Pacers the ball back, Siakam got an easy layup to cut the deficit to three. And on the ensuing Cavs

possession, Andrew Neffrat strolled an inbound pass. Tyrese Halliburton was fouled as he drove to the basket. Halliburton made the first free throw to make it a two-point game, but missed the second one, then proceeded to get his own rebound, pull the ball out beyond the arc, and then do this. Oop, step back, barrier three. Ty Jerome's grill for game. He's capping off an 8-0 Pacers run to take a 2-0 series lead.

They told Hallie his daddy could not come to the game and this is how he responded. They said his pops at Applebee's holding the towel watching on the big screen. Did not get to be in attendance, but Halliburton scored 11 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter. This was the Pacers' second

crazy late game run in the last week. Had an 8-0 run in overtime against the Bucks to clinch their first round series. Highly hit the game winner over Giannis in that one as well. So since 1998, NBA teams have won just three of 1,640 games when trailing by seven or more in the final

minute of the fourth quarter or overtime in a playoff game. Pacers are responsible for two of those three games. They've done so in the last week. So what does this fourth quarter comeback say about the Pacers, and what does it say about the Cavs? Indiana playing with house money going in. Oh, my God, they got a free room right now.

And over until it's over. Good luck. the words I said a week ago was I gotta eat those because I talk shit about Fort Cleveland and wow. It is Cleveland, King.

No, but still, they shit the bed at home. Mm-hmm. Right? Mm-hmm. You fight for home court all season, do all that shit in the regular season to get to this point?

I guess we'll talk about the guys not playing. No, no, no, that's an excuse. You know that's an excuse. They got to have that. I fucked... You got to have that in the team. It's the two starters, DeAndre Hunter, Darius Garland.

Like, Darius Garland not playing? Okay, that's been the thing. Brain left head. You have to have it. Like, there's Garland. Without Kyrie, without Kevin Love, you know, without this person, we would have been this. We would have never gotten this. You know, it's always something. No, yeah, it's...

It shows you how good Donovan Mitchell is and how good the Cavs regular season was. I mean, when he has to do it all. 48. You know what I mean? Like I think we said it yesterday. He's going to have to score about 40.

And, you know, the fact that they double-teamed him and he did. 48, nine assists, five rebounds. three but but as i said right and it just shows you that seven from three it shows you that he it's been so good he's had so much of a team team effort you know getting these wins there's games where he didn't even play and they blowing teams out or coming back and winning. How much he sacrificed for, you know, the success. And, you know, it's kind of, it kind of sucks that you did all that sacrificing all year long to get into the playoffs

and just be like, damn. This is when y'all want to get hurt? This is like the worst time to get hurt. But you hurt. I know. You're injured. That's the thing. It's the difference.

You can play. You can walk. You can play, motherfucker. I like what Rick doing with them, though, because every year, except for Mather in the last year, they've been readily available in the playoffs. And to be able to execute the way that they do, I don't think it mattered whether those other guys were in the game or not.

I think that the game is the game when you talk about X and O's and who we got, who you got. And our adjustments is going to be based on who's playing well for y'all, and y'all's adjustments are the same for us. So if we got Holly doing what he do. If we got Turner doing what he need to do, see outcome, all our guys playing the way they need to play.

Those guys are playing the way they need to play. We just seen a bench play. We just seen Ty Jerome and Stru at a full capacity, man. Indiana's at them. They, they, they know they can't guard.

We're going to attack these guys. Ty Jerome, Stru going at him. So all game long, Struis, we're going at them. So all game long, you look at Tyrese Halliburton, he don't got no fear. He already know. Late game, give me the ball. Late game, give me the ball. I got it.

And he's trying to create this maturity about him for his team that can really follow him now. Because the coach is really the leader right now. Rick got them really rolling. But Tyrese is trying to get that. Like, let me take these guys with me. It's the playoffs, right? It is the playoffs. Can you go back and play the clips when Max Struess drove to the basket?

For the dunk? Yeah. I thought that was a whole black man. He looked good right there, didn't he? That man looked different. So, I'm taking Miles Turner off the shot blocking list we just named. Yep. He supposed to beat that.

Five blocks in the game. Give a fuck. Nah, I see him. I see him. Did he have five? Five blocks in the game. Lined him up. Yeah, he did.

Yeah, you were supposed to. I didn't know that was Miles down there. Put him on his shit. I didn't know Miles was right there. You were supposed to go for this one. I didn't know it was him. You see that coming. Miles Turner was the one that let him go dunk the motherfucker.

Damn. The five I played with and against. Oh, you got to go. In the playoffs, you're going to be looking up motherfuckers trying to, hey, you're going to have to limp to the free throw line. Two free throws. Either they're going to block it or they're going to file the shit out you. Mm-hmm.

Theo Riley is going to get that every time. He's pinning that shit on the glass. You can't be God rest his... Pinning that. Two hands. Bob Scott is pinning that. Man, Theo Radcliffe. Shout out to Theo, bro.

God damn. Got a foil? Pinning that. He's going to get that. Long ass arms. He's jumping into you. He's going to try to get that. Ben Wallace is getting that. Eating that. He jumping into you. He gonna try to get that Been while it's getting that eating and right you got that clip

How long effort in the clip right now as we say in the world? That's the best part about defense to me. Oh, you could double time this go get that Did you see no no that was it? That was the one, the first one. Did you see Miles do this? Miles was like this. That too. Keep going. You see him coming and you move? Keep going. This next one.

Yeah, no, that ain't it. No, that's Thomas Bryant. There you go. Right there. Slow that one down. Oh, this one. Go for it. Play it.

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You ain't. He would have got put in the basket. Yeah, he's, yeah. Because where Donovan put the ball, he would have got put in the basket. Yeah, that's just. He's too late. He's going to the side where he jumped. He's late. He's going. He's late. Yeah, he's, yeah. Yeah, heovan put the ball, he got put in the basket. Yeah, that's just. He's too late. He's going to the side where he jumped. He late going.

He late. Yeah, he, yeah. Yeah, he late. He late now. Too late. Oh, that's not the one, though. That's not the one. It's the second one.

That was the first one. That was the first one. I'm talking about Max Struess joining. Let me see. What, Max Struess? Yeah. You keep going. Yeah, but what I'm saying, we shot blocked it up.

We played in the league against and with. But there wasn't no, especially in the playoffs, man. They're going to jump into your body. No, no, no. Go back. We're going to jump into your body. When Donovan's going toward, if that ball touches left hand at any point. Look at it.

Look. Miles right there. Hell no. Miles is at the block. He could have moved over. Yeah, once Donovan do that right there and that motherfucker hit that left hand and he moving. Right. That's Pogo jumping.

And he still ain't moved. Him, Vince, Anthony Edwards. Anthony Edwards, Ja Morant. I'm no, no, no, Vince, Anthony Edwards, John Moran, I'm the new, new, new, new. He weighed you. No, no, no, no, no. Gerald Green.

The only person, yeah, you got shot blockers and somebody who got some heavy weight where you can't jump through them. Yeah, you got dudes, but most real shot blockers see them coming, they gonna stand right in front of the rim. And wait. And they're going to jump right in front.

And trust me. Go to the back. Keep playing it, pal. Let me go forward. This is right here. Oh, there go miles right there oh yeah that's london he didn't do nothing i've gotten leveled trying to

do this dunk right here i've been trying to do this dunk for a long time you're gonna hit your back in the playoffs man he didn't even yeah jump right listen dog he would have been looking up, catching his breath. Yeah. He jumped off two.

He ain't got... He jumped off two. He ain't got no landing, nothing that's going to keep him on his feet right now. Because he... Yeah, because he ain't got that... Jump right into his body. You ain't got that knee with you. Not at all.

Oh, I'm jumping right into your body, dog. You ain't got the knee. Yeah. I'm jumping... Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. I was about to try to jump for that one. I believe I can fly.

Andre Miller would have definitely tried to block that motherfucker. I smashed Andre before. He tried to block my shit. I smashed Andre. He tried everybody. Got a whole 32-inch vertical. He was mad. He was trying to block every time.

Andre tried to block that, dog. Hell, yeah. Oh, he can't get nothing. He going to try that. He don going to try to block that, dog. Hell yeah. Oh, he can't get nothing. He's going to try that. He don't care. He don't care. He'll jump with his two hands, too. And close his eyes, too.

He's like, yeah, I almost got it. Yeah, Dre Miller tried to get that. Because he jumped off. If you would have done one of these. That's a different story. It's a whole different story. All right, well, let's go back to that. But that's Max Struess, though.

It ain't like motherfucking Zach Levine taking off one. Yeah. If Zach Levine gets to that motherfucker, now you better get the hell out of the way. That ain't really look like Max Struess right there. I don't know who that look like right there. He would have got his ass put on the ground. He jumped outside the block.

Where he jumped from, where he would have been looking up from. God damn, man. That didn't get tapped into his 2K abilities. That was a 2K package dunk. Somebody would have jumped going for the ball. Listen, Shaquille O'Neal. Max Drew's walking to the locker room right now because he can't listen.

Look, this right stick, this is all right stick. This is when you got the ball going on a fast break. If that's Shaquille O'Neal standing where Miles Turner is right now. Right stick backwards. Right stick backwards. Right here. Right stick backwards. Ah!

He going to jump into his body. Then they do the replay. Shaq going to turn his way. That side. Yeah, that side. Oh, that? Yeah, that one? He going to turn his way.

Oh, yeah, you going to sub out after that. And, yeah, he going to go to the side. Shaq do that shit on purpose. I hate that shit. Yeah. I would have pulled a right. Floater. No, I couldn't do the floater. No, I'm saying, but you that shit. I would have pulled a right. Floater. I couldn't do the floater.

You know what I'm saying? But you couldn't. I couldn't do the floater. Go get that, big fella. All right, so let's talk a little bit about how he had this to say about delivering another game winner in these playoffs. I'm at peace. I'm at peace. I'm at peace with my game.

You know, understanding that I'm trusting these moments. I have all the confidence in the world to make these shots. You know, my teammates and my coach staff give me that confidence and, you know, just trying to make plays out there. So I think it's safe to say that we can officially call Halliburton a playoff riser, has his game frequently elevated to the next level during the postseason. What changes about Tyrese Halliburton's

game in the playoffs? More people watching. That is accurate. Because he plays in Indiana and that's all. He's still high assists, low turnover. Big playmaker during the regular season.

Plays fast. Clutch buckets. All of those things existed during the regular season, and it's the same thing now. Every game that he plays is on national television. Everybody got to get league pass. They're playing the number one seed now, so it's really helping. He's been that.

His daddy probably helped him a little bit getting in trouble. Told his daddy he could not come to the game. Road or home. Clean sweep. Trying to stand on the road, but at home. road or home clean sweet I understand on the road but at home I mean at home you're not

you're not gonna tell him what the fuck to do yeah you can't tell my dad I'll put him in the suite at worst case scenario he'll be in the suite right worst case scenario

in the game seven at home I'm putting him on the floor yeah worst case scenario with the towel make you think about him I'm just doing an interview after a game. What's up, Pops? Put him in the suite. Nobody got to know you're there.

So, Pops, you got that towel. Wave that towel, baby. You got the suite elevator. Take him up the suite. Put him in the suite, man. You got Donovan Mitchell towels now. I mean, last year he averaged 21 and 11. 20 and 11. Playoffs? Come on, yeah. He's been doing year he averaged 21 and 11, 20 and 11. I mean, playoffs. Come on here.

The dude is really he's been doing what he's really doing. He's just sitting in Indiana. Yeah, that's all. So there's only one person in

Indiana that's famous. Who is that person? White lady. Kim Clark. Kim Clark. She extended

into Indiana. Everybody else. You live in Indiana. We can make that excuse. But, you know, Kim Clarkness she extended Indiana everybody else you live in Indiana we can make that excuse but you know he's been good right he's you know you get called overrated in the NBA by NBA players you're good right they just don't like your personality for some reason you must

you talk too much shit for you know your number so they call you overrated but you know it's just that his game is nasty You talk too much shit for your number, so they call you overrated. It's just that his game is nasty. It's nasty when they don't like your jump shot. They don't like your jumper. It's whatever. He looks like this.

Hey, Nick already proved. His voice changes when he talks and he don't know it. That's overrated. He looks, yeah, he got the good hair. You know the type of snow bunny he got, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's envied. Yeah.

Heavily. Same shit people used to say about the dude Kevin Martin and all that shit. Yes. All that, it's just. The first thing I told him when I worked out with him in Vegas, I said, bro, you remind me a lot of K-Mart, bro. Hey, watch your mouth. But I. You're not going to call him that.

Kevin Martin. Yeah. Kev Mart. Kevin Martin. Not going to do that. Kev Mart. But I said to him, I was like, I hope that they don't give you too much too fast because he was unorthodox. And I knew he was going to get in there and shine the way that they didn't expect him to.

So when he went from sack to Indy, they gave him a lot fast where everybody didn't get a chance to adjust to his game. So now it's still weird and they're like man he's still getting that off god damn he had 15 19 assists how and then after the uh in-season tournament the first one we had when he played well got hurt set him back now he's doubting himself if he could still play at that level now he's back here again the hardest in season tournament nba history i like i like what he's back here again. The hardest in-season tournament in NBA history. I like what he's doing. I hope he keeps this shit going

because two game winners, you chopping off motherfuckers' heads that you looked up to. You don't know who was on that overrated list. Who said you was overrated? Imagine when they tell me because I already put the inquiry in. I need to know.

Somebody got to leave the voters. If you just think about history, whoever gets the label, it never... He's going to be on the list next year. For sure. Let's say he

has 25 and 13. He's going to be number one over Ray. He's going to be top dollar overrated. He's going to be top dollar double down. How addicted these motherfuckers are. They had Giannis on the MVP list and on the overrated list. That's crazy. Who's doing this? Let's stop this

stupid. On the MVP list and he's third on the MVP list and you got him on the overrated list. Who raised you? So let's go back. Come on, man. Let's go back to Hallie.

Come on, son. So after hitting the game winner. Come on, son. So after hitting the game winner, Hallie pulled out the big ball, Sally. Let's take a look. Let's take a look at the video. If we can, please, pal. Sure.

So there's a look at the clip. Shout out to Nick Van Axel, man. The originator. Major League, too. Pedro Serrano. I think Nick probably did it first. The Lakers.

So here is the game winner. You have no map. Reach, I teach, young fella. Here is the celebration. You have no map. Boop. Reach I teach, young fella. And here is the celebration. I don't know what was it. Always shoot a three on the road. Never reach right here.

You got here. Stay. Nama. Dummy. Hey. Dummy. That's what you do when you reach. Here is the dance.

Ah. Ha. When I get home. Ha. Ha. Ah, when I get home. I got six of them wasted. Yo. Shout out Tyrese. People on how quick we process shit. To be in the moment to know that yeah this is 50,000 so

he was asked about doing the celebration Newton or Fulwell a fine was coming with and this is what he said I've been waiting for that I've been waiting for that man it was just right in the moment it was right in the moment

yeah man I've been waiting for that I'll take that fine gladly. So, obviously, Hallie, been feeling some type of way since being named NBA's most overrated player. We talked about it. Anonymous poll, I think that's what probably stings the most. People aren't even putting their name on it, getting free and clear to vote. They take the list serious, man. People commenting on it, also not putting their name on those comments.

His peers, allegedly. All guards. Yeah. How, but the player that is his peers, allegedly. All guards. Yeah, that is. How many people was on that list? I think like 150, 140 or something like that voted for him. Why not do the whole league? But it's a lot more players in the league. But a lot of guys are like, man, I'm not doing that.

Relishing the opportunity. You probably came to some guy. Guys are like, I'm not feeling that out, man. They looked at it. I'm not. No, they didn't. They looked at it. A lot of guys didn't waste their time.

Who was on the list, though? It must. I guarantee Nicola didn't filling that out. My I'm not. I didn't. They looked at it. It was on the list. It must. I guarantee you, Nicole, I didn't feel that much. I can't feel that. But they looked at it. Look at this. Who's on here this year? No.

Does it have names already? Yeah. Or do you? Yeah. Yeah, they got names. That's the bull. I'm not even right in. No.

Niggas can't remember niggas, man. Yeah. Niggas can't remember niggas. They. Niggas can't remember niggas. They already got it. Fuck remember. Damn, how to spell it, motherfucker. Who is this? Who is this?

The boy that played for Memphis. The boy that played for Memphis. The one that saw the fucking dunk dunk. Him. Him. Fuck him. Fuck him. So they already pre, they already putting it. Someone's already putting a list together.

Who's the arrogant motherfuckers in the league we don't like? Who walks in here? We need the list. We need the list. Oh, I'm fine. We need the list to see how many names to see who's really on it. There's no way there's a list of all of everybody. I can get my hand on it.

There's no way there's a list of every player. And I'm not going to ask KJ just so y'all know. They already have. I'm not going to ask him. They already have. I've got multiple people that I wasn't even thinking of. I know how much you think. KJ, who you vote for?

I'm not going to ask you for the list. I'm not damn sure I'm going to go ask him who he voted for. Because I already know how he thinks. Me and him talk basketball all the fucking time. I know how he feel about guys. Hey, listen. Trust me when I say if I know how he feel, good, bad, and indifferent, I know his thought process

because me and him think a lot of life right man so I'm gonna get my hands on if there's an actual paper that has it I'm gonna get my hands over it's an email I'm gonna get my hands let me get my hands on yes because there's no way you putting there's no way no NBA player today back then is sitting there going through all these names to find out who's overrated. Whoever's putting the list out from the NBA From the Athletic. They did the anonymous player poll. From who?

The Athletic publication. They already have it narrowed down to top five. Yes, absolutely. So you're just picking from the top five? There's no order, but you know, alphabetical order. You don't feel like scrolling down. You get to the H's. They already have it to a top five.

Those athletic reporters are going to the league asking guys, who do you think? And then they're collecting all of those questions. They're doing it themselves. I'm telling you. They're like, yo, who do you think is one of the guys who is good, but he thinks he's better than what he is? Listen, what it is, I'm going to tell you what what it is the guys that's playing the men is not answering these

questions no the sixth man is not answering these questions they asking the guy that's fucking 13th 14th on them and they going on the conversation that's being had within the locker room yes right that consensus and it's what we talked about, like, this motherfucker, we're going to shut this motherfucker down. This motherfucker has to think he all that. He ain't all that. We're going to show him tonight. And the 13th motherfucker going back and telling the person at the athletic, like, I heard him say it.

Should Giannis say he don't like motherfucking Dame or he don't like when they wasn't playing together. Right, right, right. Shit like that, right? Yes. So obviously, Hallie been feeling some type of way since being named NBA's most overrated player. During game two, Cavs fans could be heard chanting overrated at him

during the game. So after the game, he had this response. Yeah, that one was unexpected. I didn't know we had beef, but yeah, I guess that, I mean, good for them. And that came out of nowhere, but it's just I think now that that label's there, they're all going to be every time we play somebody. Every time on the road, they'll probably follow me until the next poll comes out and then we'll see if I'm number one again.

But, you know, for me, I just control what I can, man. And, yeah, I mean, overrate that. Hallie getting busy on the court and in Burger King bathrooms. Good to see Hallie talking his shit after getting disrespected by his peers. He ain't got to say nothing, for one. Two, the fact that he's addressing that route he's taking. But his play, like, ain't nothing better

than, man, than going out and putting foot to ass, man. Right? You can talk all the shit you want, overrate this, you can do all that. Cool, but I just got two in y'all building, and this might be the last time y'all see y'all team this season.

So, sorry fellas. Sorry. But we're truth tellers in here and this might be the last time y'all see y'all team here. So, like you said, overrate that. Two people on the damn average is a double-double.

24-11 and then, was it 20-18-9. That's what overrated is. So during the game, they were chanting overrated. Donovan Mitchell told him to chill out on it.

I would too. Stop coming back with Muppet and hitting shots. But let's talk about Spider. Delivered when his team needed him the most. Down three players, including two starters.

48 points. Not enough to get the win. How much credit does Anand Mitchell deserve for putting the team on his back, even though the Cavs lost this game? No credit, Shai? I see you looking at me like that. 48-piece? The sentence didn't make sense. Hmm.

A loss is a loss. If I'm Donovan, don't give a fuck about those 48. We lost. Don't even matter. Two games we lost don't even matter two games we don't even matter what the fuck I just did if I'm him

right if I'm him to your point absolutely damn what I just did it ain't even about I'm just gonna show up regardless

I'm fucking here to win I'm trying to win. Yeah, that's what you want. You own that 100%. I'm on it. I'm standing on it. What y'all niggas doing? I could have used 10 more points.

Y'all niggas both 20 each. I am dead ass serious, man. No, fuck that Gil give him 50% he's saying vote for him at 50% fuck that Gil listen you you right

you not gonna fill the way Twan and motherfucking Karan don't play you got damn right you gonna fill the way there was a reason we only played 9-10 years there was a reason that these n nine, ten years. There was a reason that these niggas at 37 can average 29 still. We worried about it today though. Because we

going out there and they told us hey, your 50% is better than this 100% and we're like you motherfucking right. You ain't got to tell you that. So we out there sitting there running around and motherfuckers coming at us and we out there sitting here running around and motherfuckers coming at us. And we out there.

We out there being decoys. But it's the energy. We can't play for the rest of the series because we jeopardize this game. Well, let's work. We'll cross that bridge. We don't cross the goddamn bridge. No, we just lost. I can't make my goddamn need to die.

Had we won game one. Uh- dance. Had we won game one. Uh-huh. Had we won game one. That would be cool. It would be cool if we won game one. No, it wouldn't be cool. Fuck cool.

No, it wouldn't be. No, because you get one game to rest. We won. If we're going, I'd be like, you sure? Right?

Uh-huh. If we won game one, I'm actually for sure. Uh-huh. We lost game one, I'm asking if you're sure. We lost game one? I can't. I can't. I can't. There's nothing you can say. If you walked off the floor

game one, though, and you walked home, you got your ass in your car, not an ambulance. He'd go to the hospital. Guess what me and Donald Mitchell is expecting? I'm expecting you to

motherfucking like you just stated, drop him, tore it all shot, which cheek you want. Tore it all shot in your cheek. And you walk into the arena, you ain't in no boot. You ain't in no boot on the way to the arena.

You ain't in no cast on the way to the arena. But one thing we know, you're getting there three hours before the game anyway. So you might as well come in on the end of three hours before. Let me add one more thing to your regimen. Facts. By time 730 kick in, I need you at 430. By 730, hey, guess what? at 430. By 730, guess what? You can run through this goddamn wall head first.

I can feel my limbs. I've been there. Did I? Listen, 50% game two, 25% game three. Cool, we on the road. Missing game four. Or I can miss game two be a hundred game

three. How you go a hundred? Huh? How you go from 50 to now see? See now you loose and now you really losing me. Couple more days. Couple more days. You gotta go 75. Yeah. Hey.

Shot a toy dog can't get you to 80. It can get you to 80. Shot a toy dog can't get you to 80? Hey, shot a door dog can't get you to 80? It can get you to 80. What's up? Shot a door dog can't get you to 80? No, no, no. It makes me feel 100, but I'm still 50. But at the third game, you're down to 0-2. But I'm back to 100.

Well, what is it now? It's too late. It's too late. I can tell you this. No. I got hit by that motherfucker that's still playing in year 22. Ran into me back then. Hurt my wrist.

Huh? There was nothing wrong with me. All he did was hit my wrist. Ran into a... Oh, shit. Finished the game. Went all the shit... We normal.

Went back to the hotel. I didn't even know I still had this. That's all, don't worry. Just take a tour at all in the morning. All right. I took the tour at all. In the morning? No, no, morning, just let's see how it feels. Okay, I can't move it. Game day.

Bent over. Oh shit, I'm good. After the game, couldn't feel my knee. Oh shit, I'm good. After the game, couldn't feel my knee. Oh no, you couldn't feel nothing. My knee done. How your knee done? I hyperextended it.

I forgot I had an injury and I was protected in game one and two. Yeah, that toe-dome made me feel. It made me believe that I could two. Yeah. That toy dog made me feel they made me believe that I could fly. Yeah. Surgery. I done hyperextended it. Now I'm out.

The rest of the year. I'm sorry. I'm just saying. So I believe, hey listen, before the drugs how does your body feel? How does your body feel before the drugs kick in that's how I'm going off of I'm iffy with it

I think they soft as newborn baby shit newborn not even toddler they soft as it's lasted a couple years and we was crash dummies we was crash dummies and we crashed out I'm cool with it, man. My teammates never questioned me, bro.

True, true. Newborn, baby. That's all. You know what's funny? I give a fuck about that. It seems like. I give a fuck about that. I guess that's more important to us.

It's more that our teammates. Our teammates value us at a different frequency than these years. You imagine that motherfucker would look at me if I don't go out there and go out to him dunking? Yeah. Bro. Huh? How that motherfucker would look at, like... Cal McHale said to me,

you can't make the club if you're in the tub. I didn't know what the fuck that meant. He said this shit randomly. That's real bossing. Old school bossing. Hey, two bosses. Walk in there and see your ass with the leg up

and doing this and say, hey, what you doing? Motherfucker. Yeah, man. Oh, yeah, you can't make the club in the club. Cold tub. No, no, we don't play that. And once he said that to me, that made me look at everybody else looking like, yeah, you can't make the club. Cold tub. No, no, we don't play that. And once he said that to me, that made me look at everybody else looking like, yeah, man, come on out here. If you ain't injured, you ain't got no surgery.

It's the playoff. Cavs down 0-2 going to Indiana for two games. I just. They down 0-2 going to Indiana for man. Going to Indiana for two more games. They ain't been in the playoffs yet. Clean sweep. They ain't playing in that field house yet. With them people?

They don't understand the level of loud that's about to be in there, man. If they going in there and how they went into game two, they going into game three like that, it's about to be in there, man. If they going in there and it's how they went into game two, they going into game three like that, it's about to be 3-0. If they can somehow get everybody to play, then, bruh. And Indiana going up on that motherfucker, they up 25 to motherfucking six before you go in there. Oh, wait. Yeah, but, you know, the thing Cavs do have,

when they're fully healthy, they have two dudes that can offensively just say, fuck it, I can take the game over. Indiana's playing real team basketball. Cavs play team basketball, but they do have two dudes that can do their own thing, right? It's a big event. Indiana don't have a 50 point dude in them. Right. So if they're playing bad, they're

playing bad because they're all relying like like Hallie had, I think going in them and almost going in the half. He only had one assist. Yeah. Right. Because people wasn't hitting shots. Right. Because that's what he relies on. If they don't have no assist on Cleveland, that means Donovan

Mitchell said, fuck all y'all. Yeah. You know what I mean? So, I still do believe in Cavs if everybody's healthy. Okay. If they going in,

it's just basically Donovan Mitchell, it's all right, D, hey, this is the bubble again. So when you're playing against Denver, it's the bubble. You're going to have 55.

Yes. But it's going to be a hard 55 because you look tired out that motherfucker. He got the ball at half court. This motherfucker did this, dog. The guy came up for a pick and he looked like it was about to double. He was like, fuck you, motherfucker. Hi, motherfucker.

I was like, damn, man. Coach, this call is tired, man. This motherfucker gone. So you're saying they can only win when Garland comes back? Yeah. Yes. Or the other two. Mobley is three of them.

If they have Garland, I'm giving it to the Cavs. Because now you got two of your guys. It's like old Portland with Dame and McCullough. I can go to war with you. But no Hunter, no Mobley. They lost with Hunter and Mobley. If I don't have Garland, at least give me Mobley.

At least give me Mobley because I still got my foreman that's going to be at the end. He's going to play some defense. If I don't have Mobley, Hunter, you got to give me 20,000. $25,000.

That's what I'm saying. Because they got dudes on there that can put the ball in the basket. Like, I'm not going to lie. They bench squad. They bench squad can fucking put the ball in the basket. And he ain't worried about that eight-man rotation shit. He playing everybody. Like, I know they sitting there like, man, Austin Reed is the best third option.

Hey, hold on, y'all. They got people that can put the ball in the basket. One had a really bad game. Jerome. Ty Jerome, yeah. He had a horrible game, but he plays weird. Yeah. He has a weird game.

So, you know, I don't think he going to play bad game three. A decent game from him puts them over the edge. You know how it is on the road, though. Two points, one for 14. I'm not sold. He's going to keep putting them up. I'm not sold on Indiana winning

game three. I'm not sold on Indiana game three. It's more their crowd that I'm worried about not the team itself because there's nobody I like. It's team basketball. It's not a takeover. When they're playing the last five

minutes, it's like, who's getting the ball? I disagree. I disagree. That's what I'm saying. That's what they go to. He ain't a Brunson out this month. He ain't somebody we're going to be like, oh, shit, let's load up. We're going to be like, all right, let's – is he on fire or not?

That's not their game, though. I know. Their game is not half court. They do not want to play half court. They want to push and pace, and they want to drag. Drag it, drag it, and then mouse-torn. What does he want to do? Dribble, fucking handoff, slide off for the little jumper. So, what

they're doing this fucking cleaving up is the dribble handoff where you got to keep guarding and switching, keep guarding and switching. Then, you got Halliburton getting his switch off. Then, they making a play. That's what's leaving Ty Jerome really vulnerable, and then he's putting more effort on trying to score

because he's not supposed to be out there to do that right now. So now he's out there shooting one for 14, and he's supposed to be facilitating. But now you've got the other two guys that are out to facilitate too. Now you're just looking at Struess and Okoro and Wade. Now we're looking at Cleveland like,

was they benched really like that though? Or did they just play well as a team and i'm looking at indiana like they have a better team than cleveland top to bottom top to bottom they have a better team they just play a different style everybody knows their role though delivers in their role and they don't have no superstars to be able to say what you said which is if we got both of these we know we can get it. But if we got one, is our role player strong enough to get these role players out of here? I don't think so.

I mean, Cleveland has the better team, top to bottom. I mean, you know, you're talking about like, they literally had a fucking meltdown in the fourth quarter. Other than that, they was whooping Indiana's ass. Indiana was playing bad.

From tip-off to the damn top of the fourth, it was an ass-whooping. And if you look at the last five minutes, it literally was just Donovan Mitchell trying to make every play. And I understand that you have it on a heater, but you really burned yourself out. Yes. You know, trying to keep this lead and you can't count. You missing this shot.

This man is missing. And you know how it gets, right? Because when you're tired, the offensive foul, this turnover here. Like, it was. We didn't score in the last two minutes. It's like. It was. It was.

We had. Was it 117? Instead of trusting somebody. Right. It was for the the last two minutes they didn't score one bucket. All that had to happen. 119, 112, and then a patient went on. Yes, 119, we stayed 119 for the whole time because we giving the ball to the man who's taking over the game and... Dead tight.

Dead tight. But he went at half court and was like, alright, let's go. Ain't that the difference? Because Indiana don't have to rely on one person to do that. Dead tight. Dead tight. But he went at half court and was like, all right, let's go. Ain't that the difference? Because Indiana don't have to rely on one person to do that. They actually have a system where everybody can get off. And then what happens late is, right, we know the ball going. We're preserved, and I'm preserved. No, no, no, no, no.

So we know the ball going. So now we could be extra aggressive on him to get them turnovers, knock the ball out of bounds, all that shit. We know the ball going. So now we could be extra aggressive on him to get them turnover, knock the ball out of bounds, all that shit, right? We know the ball going. Y'all forced him trying to get him the ball because he got it going. He got 38 at this point.

So we know the ball. We're all trying to get with the ball. So we just going to be extra aggressive and try to take him away as much as possible when the game is on the line. Yep. It's just, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, you're up 2-0, you, you know, the game one, you won that

one. Game two, everything went right for you, everything went wrong for them. Like, offense, rebound, you get it back, hit the three, like, you know what I mean? So, it's, they, they was whooping your ass. It was one of those, like, round one, like, yo, throw in the towel, come on, throw the towel in, you know, throw the motherfucking towel in and boom yeah oh shit but you talking about something that's expected that's right that's expected though right all your teeth knocked out motherfucking you can't see shit yeah that's what indiana looked like

leaving that game so it's expected right that was cleveland is expected to win yeah even first game they was expected to win they lost game. Game two, expected to win. You lose again. So now going into game three, you were the lead dog. Now you're the underdog. How? When you got a team that's supposed to be less than you, they're underperforming.

You got a guy scoring 48-50. Why is this basic-ass Indiana Hoosiers team a threat at all? Because team ball is supreme king in playoff basketball. When you talk about closing, he has to become a star now. Calabria has to become a star. It's easy to say that. They're missing four main players or three are you missing three main players on your team like you know i mean if if any was missing siakam miles and mac come on they trash right i mean so it's easy for us to say

you know the underdog that the one team is missing a bunch of players that actually are key players Like if we're talking about number the six man seven man eight man Cool, but you missing your second best player who runs the team your third best player and your best player That's coming off the bench as a second average in 18. That's your whole team. That's basketball But I can't give, I'm not giving Indiana credit like they out here dominating. No, no, no. But you up too old, and I know you walking home like,

hell yeah. I'd rather be up too old talking about, fuck yeah, better than one and one. Hey, walking out there, mother, ooh, got away with it. Hey, ooh, got one. But if they go down, if we got key players that they got that goes down and we don't take advantage of that, bro, we even more trashed.

Like, we can't allow that. If we can sweep these motherfuckers while they're down, man, take advantage of that. Because when I saw it, I'm like, damn, they down. So I'm looking at it. So I missed, like, the first half of the game. So I'm like, when I saw the score in the first half, I'm like, damn, no Hunter, no fucking Mobley, no. And y'all down, Indiana, they really didn't pack this shit in

for the game. That was my thought process. I'm like, oh, but. It was bad. They just kept chipping away. It was 97 to 80. I went to sleep. Woke up. I'm like, this ain't even a game. Woke up to Holly hitting the game

winner. Surprise. And the whole house was quiet. That was a cush nap. It was, for sure. If you Indiana Woke up, what the fuck? Who's cheering? If you Indiana your game

plan should, yo, we playing game three like we're down 0-2. You better. Do not play game, do not play game three like you up 2-0. Mm-mm. Because you won,

but you, you, you not, especially if everybody come back. They have something in their favor. The guy that's the head coach

has an NBA championship. Yeah. Yeah. Shout out to the math, Rick. Yeah. Rick Carly coach has an NBA championship. Yeah. Shout out to the math, Rick. Yeah. Rick Carlyle has an NBA championship. He know what he doing over there. Yeah, no, no, yeah. They beat y'all King.

Yep. Facts. Look here. Y'all King. Who? Eddie. He was down in the way. Y'all King.

Girl, no more. He beat his King. Oh, that's fine. That's fine. That's fine. That's fine. Don't. No'all can't. Girl, no more. He beat his king. Oh, he ain't your king no more? That's fine. Don't. No, he wasn't. No, no. He didn't play for the Lakers then when he was on that side.

Oh, I'm a Laker fan. He came to that purple. No clutch checks for you. Yeah, there was no. I did not like that motherfucker in Miami or Cleveland. Well, Rip Carlisle had. I was with you motherfuckers back then. That's the same motherfucker that tapped me on my shoulder.

Fuck him. Shit, I was with Dallas. Hell yeah, Caron beat that motherfucker. Uh-huh. I remember that. Deshaun Stevenson had the shirt on. Give me one of them motherfuckers. He did say, whoever played for the Lakers, that's your fault.

Fuck you motherfuckers. I dig it. But, yeah, no, Rick Carlisle, man, has that ear. He has the pulse of that team, I believe, to get them not to buy in until we're up 2-0 thing, going home, to not to relax in this environment. Come out, we got them down. We're going to be more aggressive defensively. We're going to be more tuned in to the come out. We got him down. We're going to be more aggressive defensively.

We're going to be more tuned into the game plan. We're going to play even faster now that we're at home. And I think that's what he telling them. So at home crowd. Yeah, there's nothing like it. There's nothing like it. I've been game for them been in that situation, man. We went to Detroit. They had the home. We won the first two. And it's like, let's go home and end this thing, man. Yeah, they not. You know what I mean? They not. But it's that, though.

We play fast. It was that. We're going to play fast and we're going to defend, right? But y'all was dominant. Like, there's certain teams. Like, if you Cleveland being down 0-2 going into the home, that's, you know, you're not. That's not a real big fear for you.

I think it should be. Right? Like, your team, right, there's certain teams you'd be like, god damn, we dropped two to them, we in trouble. Because we not beating them on their home court. Like, if Denver wins this next game, you going to Denver, you're like, yeah, we

getting swept. Yeah, yeah. Ain't no way we getting two here. Ain't no way we getting two. Not in a row. I understand what you're saying. Absolutely. So last team to go down 0-2 at home and win a playoff series was the 2021 Clippers in the first round versus the Mavs. Clippers went on to make a conference finals that year. But let's... Hey, what?

No. Last team to go down 0-2 at home. I heard you say Clippers. Anything including the Clippers. You're like, it got foggy. It got foggy. Well, it's about to get a little more foggy. Yeah, 2021 Clippers. 2021.

It's about to get a little more foggy. Oh, that was baby Luka, right? Luka Brunson, maybe. Yeah, that was the babies. Okay. A little more Clippers talk. So, after Clippers were eliminated by the Nuggets in Game 7, James Harden took a lot of criticism for his poor performance in the game.

Nick Wright had said this on a recent episode of First Things First. He is, inarguably, sorry, the biggest choker in modern sports history. And I know that's something that feels like so hot takey and Gianna, don't don't caption that because it feels almost too clickbaity. Yeah, but it's just true. If choking exists in sports, it is exemplified by his full resume, by the way. And you sometimes don't like when I do this, but you can go back to Arizona State and watch the NCAA tournament. Like, sometimes it's just who you are.

So Wright offered these stats of Harden in the playoffs compared to LeBron, Steph, and KD to support his claim. So career playoff games with under four field goals made. Harden has 35, LeBron has five, Steph has three, KD has two. Career playoff games with under five field goals made. Harden has 35. LeBron has five. Steph has three. KD has two. Career playoff games with under five field goals made. Harden is at 55.

LeBron has nine. Steph has eight. KD has two. In career playoff games with as least as many or more turnovers as made field goals, Harden has 42.

LeBron has 17. Steph has 13. KD has seven. So, Gil, is it fair to call James Harden the biggest choker in modern sports history? No. I hate when they do stuff like that because they don't. It's like you know what you're looking for to paint the picture you want to paint,

but you don't look at it all, right? You're talking about, he's at 55? Of five field goals or fewer. In the playoffs. In the playoffs. So you're going to count him, to make the point, you're going to count him in his first three years at OKC as a six-man. Right?

So you're going to have majority of that I'm pretty sure was in there, right? And I'm pretty sure when he became a second, third option after he left Houston, you're going to count those. If you're going to make this and compare him to LeBron James, who's been a number one option this whole time, Steph, who's been a number one option, Katie, who's been a number one option, then you can only technically use his Houston years

to really see what it means. Which would be 11 as a Houston Rocket. You got out of the 55. He did 11 years with Houston? No, 11 games. 11 games with Houston. Playoff game.

Playoff game. Only. Yes. 28 of it came when he was an OKC coming off the bench. Obviously, you're not going to. You know what I mean? So it's like you're ingenuine when you do that.

You know what you're looking for. But hold on. We know he's not coming off the bench as a bench guy because he's playing starter minutes as a sixth man. So even in the fourth quarter, in playoff game. If he's there. Even if he's there. Like, he wasn't the main option, so he's not getting his shots.

But he's still getting his shots but he's still getting his shots like regular season wait talking about his regular season shots though if he's getting them shots but even though you're talking about guy who averaged 16 so how many how many made buckets is he getting in the playoffs as a third option right that's why i said those first three years yes out of the 55 is 28 of those when he went to houston his houston years is only 11 right then you got to take in after that how many turned into wins and losses he's 28 for 27 so it's not like he because you're not going to factor in like even though he only had less than four but we know james harden how many is free throws? Right?

So, yeah, he might have had four made buckets, but you know he was a free throw king. Yeah, no, definitely. So some of those is 27 points still. They never said how many points he had. You know what I mean? So I just don't like when they do that to say he's not clutch, right? His record, I had to go to his record.

I'm going to see what his record is. 28 and 27. So to go to his record. I'm going to see what his record is. 28 and 27. So he has a winning record. Technically 27 and 27 because, you know, one game he got in and got hurt. It was the Brooklyn Nets. When he came in, got hurt that series. So it really is 20.

So he's 50%. And wins and losses. Wins and losses. So it really is 20. So he's 50%. And wins and losses. Wins and losses. So it's 27 and 27. So if you're going to do what you're... Yeah, if you're going to tell this... If you're going to put this narrative out there, which Nick is right,

is not going to do, and none of these guys are going to tell the whole story. Like, you just broke it down, like, the years in Houston, the years in OKC, the years in Brooklyn, the years, what is this win-loss percentage in these games? So they're not going to tell the totality of it, right? It was just one of those things where you put it out there. Because I know for some reason in closed-out games or just play,

sometimes he turns into a point guard point guard. Yeah, 13 assists. Which we'd be like, yeah. Right? So, like, let's see how that pans out. So, it's like when he does do this, his assists go up. You know what I mean? They don't look at that.

They don't look at that. How many free throws? Like, that's what I said. If you look at some of those motherfucker averaged a double double in most of them because

he's gonna get 20 free throws he's 14 for 14 from the free throw line he should he shot 20 free throws you know what I mean so it's it says

James Harden played 85 playoff games for Houston just Houston between 2013 and 2020 um Houston, just Houston, between 2013 and 2020. It has all his regular stats, which is 28 a game, nine Mayfield goals.

But the notable series of him not scoring is the same as what Kenya's saying the game sevens they don't have the complete stat for how many games he would have done that it's 28, 11 16, whatever it is anytime we want to come up with a narrative

and we're going to look up we want numbers to support our narrative, we could go look that up and just, so it doesn't like. And that's why I said I wanted to see like because you know, when you listen to you know, like the ESPNs

and those guys they only look for the stats that match what they're trying to say. Right? So that's why I said. So I'm listening to what you're saying. I'm like, man, 55 games? When you think about James Harden, right, we think about OKC, but we don't think about OKC.

No, we think about Houston. Houston. So I'm like, I don't really believe that this motherfucker has 55 games in Houston. So I went through every year. Yeah, but you're going to do that. You're going to do that. The average person that listens to Nick and ESPN and all these people that do that, they got the TV on, there's background noise most of the time.

They get ready for work and they hear these stats. They go to the office. They go to work. They go to these places and they regurgitate this shit to their coworkers that didn't get to watch it or heard it or they did and it's a topic of conversation now, it's a thing. And that thing travels to the barbershop on Saturday morning

or to the picnic or the family function or the gathering and now James, oh you see, James Hardenen fucking terrible basketball player did you hear what he said how the fuck you get to that so it's this is what Nick is saying 85 playoff games with Houston

total 52 and 43 55 of those 55 out of the 85 55 out of his 85. No, no, no. Fifty-five out of his whole career. Not Houston. Yes, not Houston.

Yeah. Fifty-five out of his whole career is four fewer. But that's 32% of his total playoff appearances. And majority of his seasons were played with Houston. And he only has 11 in Houston. Only 11 games fit the criteria of what Nick was saying. 28 came as a third option coming off the bench. So 28, so out of 55, 28 is here.

So this is what he said. 11 is in Houston. He was there for seven years. Where? He was in Houston for seven years. And you had 11 games. 11 games. And important closeout games. Remember, years and you had 11 games. 11 games. An important closeout game. So remember

these are the last two games of the series No, he just said the playoffs. He didn't have the playoffs. What I'm saying is the last games that were important for James to perform where he needed, this is the argument that's the total argument is

closeout six games, six games, seven, James don't show up. For those seven years, the statistics show for those 11 games, those are the important games that James didn't show up. But those 11 are not actually close out games. It's all the playoffs games in Houston

that he's played. So out of 85 games he played, only 11 games he had only four or below, or below five field goals made. But it doesn't take in how many free throws he shot or they won that game. No, it doesn't. But he's talking about choking. Because they don't care.

They don't care if they don't care. But he calls them a choker, and his record is 28 and 27 in those games. Well, he's calling them a choker because we're giving you praise for being this guy. No, because he wants clickbait. He wants clickbait. Because that's what it is. Because we're talking about it now. We're going to keep it real, though.

James has choked over and over again in the position as the star in the playoffs to get him over the – he's him over. He's choked. He's choked. But that's what I'm saying. It's what are we remembering? Yeah, what are we remembering? We're depending on James to get it done. We never said this when he was at Houston.

We can name two series as a Houston Rocket where we were like, okay, he didn't show up. When he was with Brooklyn, it wasn't on him. When he was with Philly, it wasn't on him.

No, but he's still a part of it. Those are counting. Those are 16 games. Let's talk about the fact that man didn't make the playoffs every year. 16 seasons, made the playoffs every year. If you want to put some shit out there, let the fact the man didn't make the playoffs every year. 16 seasons, made the playoffs every single year. If you want to put some shit out there, right? Let's talk about he didn't make the playoffs every single year he's been in the NBA.

That's good. I'm a truth teller and all that shit. You're a Hall of Famer. He is, but it ain't all on. It's a team. We expect these guys. We know James is the team. What did he say?

What did James come out and say? I am a system. I am the system. I get that, but the system don't work, so you need a team, nigga. Right. So therefore. If we need a team and the system ain't working, that means somebody been choking. No, you're the choker.

You're the number one option. That's what I'm saying. When he's the number one option, he has 11 games that didn't go that well for him for that stat. But you don't take in that maybe they won those games still. You're not taking it in so you're calling him a choker.

Of the 11 games that you speak of, how many of them did you win? I would bank on it. I would bank on it. Don't bet your eyebrows. I don't know the stats So it's a blind bet It's about your eyebrows

Nah It's a blind bet I bet the percentages Is way in my favor For sure You want to bet your eyebrows That they ain't go 0 for 11 You going to bet too

That they didn't go 0 for 11 No that's not That's not real Okay I definitely Will go with that bet Nah That's not a real bet They probably lost

They probably won one Yeah that's all I need My favorite shit You said they lost all of them. I said they at least got one. So Nick said that he choked, man. I think everybody feel the same way, man. Ain't nobody playing him off

the hook with that, man. Who else supposed to get? If he didn't choke, who did? Man, I hear you. Yes. If he didn't choke, who is Nick supposed to be talking about? But you ain't telling the whole story, though. It ain't no whole story to tell. Yes, it is. James Hart was driving

the truck. This man said he was not one time did he mention that the man was 50% or that he had a win or a loss. It don't matter because James Hart is driving the truck. Why does it matter? We're talking about wins and losses. No, we're not talking about wins and losses. We're talking about choke artists. He never said nothing about wins and losses. But we're talking about what you're talking about. We're talking about choke artists. He never said nothing about wins and losses. But we're talking about what you're talking about.

We're talking about him driving the truck. That's what you're talking about, all right? We're talking about driving the truck. Damn with Nick talking about it. All right, so what's he talking about me? Look, I'm talking about this man. No, he's driving the truck. I just got one question for you.

And you crash. I got a question for you. When you crash, you the driver, do we care about whether you was texting or whether a nigga bumped you? We don't care, nigga. You crashed. You got to pay for this now. I have a question. That's it. Does winning matter to you? Five and crashed. You got to pay for this now. I have a question.

That's it. Does winning matter to you? Five and six. Yes, it matters. Five and six. Five and six. Three double doubles. OK.

20, 11, 24, 11. Damn, I wanted you to take that. So he made five. He won five games. He won five, lost six. Lost six. Then three of the games. He was 20.

He was cutting his motherfucking eyebrows off. No, you would have been. You would have been cutting his motherfucking eyebrows off. No, you would have been. You would have been cutting his motherfucking eyebrows off. No, you would have been cutting yours off. I bet the percentage. No, you said zero. I said I bet the percentage. You said zero.

Is that not what he said? But that's what I'm saying. He said he 0-4-11. He didn't win none. No, I said at least one. Because that's what I'm saying. You're not like you're doing a four and under, four for seven, but he got 20 free throws.

Like, you know what I mean? That's why I say this. You're not bringing in all the stats to make this claim. So when people hear 55 compared to Steph and LeBron, well, LeBron's been number one option, right? He's been the focal point. Steph's been the focal point, right? Only when KD come, but he's still averaging 20-something. Well, he was the third.

I said, knowing him, they're probably adding his rookie season where he averaged nine, so he didn't even get four attempts, especially in the playoffs. So I said, I'm pretty sure. And then when I counted, out of the 55, 28 is OKC as a six, man. That's like saying, you know. It made the playoffs with Ricky. He probably damn sure didn't get a lot of looks.

No. It's not about that. It is Ricky, you're a damn sure he probably damn sure didn't get a lot of love. No, it's not about that. It's about adding it. You have to, you're adding it. But Jesus, y'all was not listening to me. You're adding James Harden is what nigga saying is James

Harden. Did it again? Did what? Show. She had 13 assists. Did they win? No, that's a joke.

But was seven points, 13 assists. That's not what we need. They weren't supposed to win, but that's what you but was seven points 13 assists that's not what we they weren't supposed to win but that's what you're adding you're you're using him as the second if you're really thinking about it right they wasn't supposed to win even if you got a game seven on the road option why you're not using kawaii i'm saying because he showed up not enough to win yeah it is enough to win but you're not supposed to win though he, it is enough to win. But you're not supposed to win, though. He did his averages. Technically, you on the road in a game seven,

the home team wins half or many percent of those games, right? Fight back. But you're not supposed to win. Go down fighting, though. Go down fighting. But don't. The games at home, you had game seven in Houston. Okay, I'll give you that.

Okay. If you want to put those, okay, I'll give you that. Okay. If you want to put those, okay, I'll give you that. We have the momentum against this team. We need you to show up. You shit the bed. And the guy showed up and he said what everybody else is doing. No, no, but you can say, yo, he shit the bed in

the game where they needed him to perform. But don't go on here trying to, you're trying to over, you're over doing it with a whole bunch of fluff stuff that's not telling the whole story. Has it happened before? This game? No, this situation.

James Harden not showing up when he's supposed to. Has it happened before? Yes. Has it happened more than twice? Yes. Alright, so Nick has a right to. No, you don't have a right to say 50 fucking 5. No. But it is 55. No, you can't say 55. It's not. And then you compare him to say that. No, you don't have a right to say 50-fucking-5. No. It is 55. You can't say 55. It's not. And then you compare him to people that's never been third option.

So you hold it. Somebody that's a rookie. Rashad? Yeah, that's still cool. He was still James Harden. No, you can't. He wasn't James Harden. He had no fucking beard then.

Go look at him. But was he not good? It was like my. What did he average? He was still coming in. He averaged 10. Nine. 10 to 10 a game? Nine. So he was? It was still coming in. What did he average? Nine. Ten to ten a game?

Nine. So he was nine. Nine. Did they go to the playoffs that night? Yes. Nine. He was off the bench. Twenty-eight of these, 55 is his first three years. But look.

He's not even the number one option. He ain't even the second option. Y'all are paying attention to the 55 and not the 11. That's what y'all are doing. No. No. Use 11. Okay.

So we used 11 out of the seven years. You did not show up. And how many LeBron? You have choked. How many LeBron? How? Hold on, let me pull it up. Because there is 11 times we can choose from.

Nine. We got 11 times to be like. This man didn't show up 11 different times, bro. No, no, no. You see how it, if you say LeBron has nine and James Haddon has 11, don't seem too bad. Yes. You say 55 to 11, you're like, oh shit, this motherfucker out here just. 55 to nine.

Wait, what? What? 11 to nine, you're like, okay, shit, it happens. 55 to nine. At nine. So you guys are talking about the severity of the choke instead of just the choke itself? No.

No, we're not, no. So you're admitting that he has choked? No, I'm not. I mean, shit, who hasn't? It happens. All right. To me, it's like, if you just choke, man, you got to be able to bounce back from that shit.

Hey, guess what? I don't think he's ever admitted. Hey, one thing, he ain't like these motherfuckers out here now. At least he fucking playing. Gil, difference of Harden, 173 career playoff games. LeBron, 290. Hey, hey, hey. What if I did this?

My new is a choker. My new Ginobili chokes so much. His rookie year, when he went to the playoffs and won a championship, in that playoffs, he didn't have more than five buckets 22 times. He never had his own team. He was a six man. Never had it. Just like James Harden.

You're adding the same shit. So if I added this man's first couple years to his resume, how bad can I make? Like, it's 22 times just in the one year and he's a championship a champion coming off the bench you're not gonna make fucking five baskets as a sixer if you give Ginobili a team for 11 games he's gonna he's gonna show up

he might be five and six five and six he might have 11 games as well you don't know that but that's what I'm saying 28 of them is he's a third option and then the other and then 16 of them as well. You don't know that. You don't know that. But that's what I'm saying. 28 of them is he's a third option. And then 16 of them, he's fucking a second, third option too.

But look, you went from fighting with the Houston, I want James going 29 shots. Man, you gotta go down like this, James. And I'm looking at this, James, and how we fighting against saving this James who didn't shoot enough like the last. Well, James is not the number one option on this team. Yes, he's not.

On this Clipper team, he's not the number one option. Can he shoot 20? Can he, but he's not the number one option. You just said he was the number one option, right? No, I didn't. In Houston, he was the number one option. That's what you're saying, right? OKC wasn't the number one option.

Houston, he was the number one option. Here, he's not the number one option. So can he not shoot more than 10 shots? He's not the number one option. He was the number one option. Here, he's not the number one option. So can he not shoot more than 10 shots? He's not the number one option. Can he not shoot more than 10 shots? If he was the number one option, he could. Yeah, he can. No, no.

He can, yes. The problem is not he can't, but you can't. They all can. You can't just, you can't. Now y'all reaching. No, you can't use when he's a third option in two scenarios. Ain't no options, man. Yes.

Ain't no options. Nobody can shoot as many shots as he wants. You just said he's the number one option. That is Kawhi Leonard and James Harden on the same team. You just said he's the number one option. James Harden is the point guard. I can do what I want. I've been doing it all season.

Kawhi's the number one option. Why do I wait until the last game of the season to take, what, eight shots? Kawhi's the number one option. That one game, cool. You can't say the man's career. You're using career. You're saying he is a career choker. He's pointing out he's done it again.

No, you're saying he's a career choker, not he's done it again. He's done it again, has no number on it. He's done it again. We can be like, yep, the motherfucker's done it again. It does have a number. You say 55. You make me say, wait, hold on. The number's five out of six.

That's the number. Five games he won. Five, six games he lost out of the 11. He said 55. He didn't say 11. He said 55. I know what he's saying. I'm going off of what he said.

I'm talking about what he meant. No, no, no. No, it's not what you meant. He said what he said. No, no, no, no, no. But we want to talk over the fact that the truth of what he said. I'm talking about what he meant. No, no, no. Fuck what he meant. He said what he said. No, no, no, no, no. But we want to talk over the fact that the truth of what he said. What's the truth of what he said? Hell no, God.

We're not going to make him. He stressed it. No, he stressed it. No, he stressed it. But did he say any truth in it? No. This goddamn boy just said. Was there any truth in it?

No, truth is the truth. So he hasn't choked. There's no truth to it because it's incomplete. So there's no truth to his chokes. You said career. No. No, you said the truth. So he hasn't choked. There's no truth to it because it's incomplete. So there's no truth to his choker. No, you said career choker. Not a couple years choker. You said career choker. You even used college.

You said you should have used elementary school. How the fuck we supposed? You used it so I have to go look through his whole career. And see if he showed up. Did he show up here? Hardest credit, he did perform in the CIF championship game against Mater Dei. I was there in the pond. I'm just saying,

if someone is playing bad, if he just said, hey, the motherfucker for the last couple years ain't showed up in closeout games, we're going to be like, hey, yes. I agree. Biggest choker in modern sports. That's what I'm saying.

Modern sports? Modern sports? Come on, man. His whole career? He's like, yo, I know this is, yeah, it's a stretch, big, crazy take. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But look at the resume. And we looked at the resume and we're like, the resume just say 55 games. Look at how many times he's been here and didn't deliver. That's all it is. But as I said,

he don't know how to articulate what the point is. No, he knows how to... He ain't a sports guy. He don't know... He ain't a... He's a fan. He don't know what he's saying. He's a fucking journalist.

He's a journalist. But everybody who watches the game knows, like, what is he really saying? Did this man say that journalists don't know how to articulate... He's saying James Harden showed up and scored seven points, 13 rebounds in a closeout game. He did not deliver, and he should be held accountable. Why couldn't he just say that? Because he's not me. Oh, okay. He's not me. I did not deliver and he should be held accountable. Why couldn't he just say that? Because he not me. He not me.

I did his job. I said better than him. Don't throw in extra shit that I'm going motherfucking go. He don't know what he said. He don't know what I'm talking about. And I'm going to go.

Like, have you know, if I said it, I laid down so many, the whole thing. This is how many games they won with it. This is how many triple doubles he had with it.

This is how, these years won with it. This is how many triple doubles he had with it. This is how these years you got 28 in OKC as a bench player, 11 as a superstar, and 16 as a second, third option, trying to figure out what you're doing. Figure it. Come on, man. You can't label it like that. Because you're comparing him to two people that's never been second options, that's never came off the bench, that's never been third options.

I don't even know why he didn't throw Katie up in that motherfucker. You might as well throw Giannis up in there just to add extra. She could have threw Jokic up in that bitch just to throw extra, just to make it seem a little bit better. And that's what you're doing. You could have just made your point and say, hey, man, motherfucker just choked again. Yeah, he didn't do that. He didn't do a great job at that. I agree.

And I don't even know, is it choking or is it just, I don't even know what to call it. Like, taking eight shots, is that, it's a form of, it's a, as a score, it's a form of,

it's a form of choking. Say it, say it all. it's a form of say it. Say it all. It's a form of He don't want to say it so bad. Say it. What it is, right? For people that watch

James Harden play basketball, it's a terrible fucking look. Yes. Right? For you to only shoot the ball a fucking seven times. It's that. It's that.

Right? We like, what the fuck are you doing, James? We know you got 13 assists. Cool, James. But motherfucker, we saw you have a 60 point triple double. Triple double. Right. Yeah. So for everybody in the world, like the fuck you doing, James? Again. Again. Right. But that's my. Yes. I'm not going to put the fact that the man, I'm not going to call him in. It's not. It's extreme.

For us, it's like, what the fuck you doing, James? Right? Same thing with LeBron. You don't shoot the ball in the fourth quarter. We got to hold him accountable. Mr. Frito, Russ, kick the bitch out of the bat. What the fuck you doing? Again, Russ? Again, James?

That's what I'm saying. Fuck Nick. Fuck Nick don't know what he's talking about. Hoopers is watching this shit and you only take seven shots in game, seven on the road? What the fuck you doing, James? That's my thing. You know what I start looking at?

I'm with you. I start looking like... It's the difference between it's like he's too smart for a game plan. And too good. So what ends up happening is like

Giannis, game seven, we all said it. Muffin gonna have about 30 or 20, right? Kobe game seven, we know what he gonna do. Kobe game seven, we know what he gonna do. Jordan game seven, we know what he gonna do. Nikola Jokic? We know what he gonna do. Fuck his name?

We know what he gonna do. James is, turns into what the defense gives me is what I'm gonna take. If you gonna double me, I'm gonna get off of it. I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna let the game come to me. If you're going to double me, I'm going to get off of it. I'm going to do this. I'm going to let the game come to me. You're not going to attack the game. Game seven is not the time to come. No, no, no,

no, no, no, no. Game seven is when you say, hey, ain't no tomorrow. Not you, motherfucker. That's what the game seven is. The game seven is not you let the game come to me. The game seven is the game seven is not is not you let the game come to me the game seven is where you become mvp you supposed to come in you become you show motherfuckers why

you don't why i got that goddamn trophy at home okay well i've been first team year in year out mvp this is what we expect from you. And when you don't do it, we like... Because I can tell you this. As a game playing against James Harden, closeout game. All I'm going to do is this.

When he gets the ball, double him. When he's getting ready to get on the ice hole, run at him. Because I know he's going to turn into, the ice hole run at him because i know he's gonna turn into i'm gonna make the right play yeah the problem you know it's like yo james listen on this court right now besides yokich your prop shit you're probably the most dangerous person with the ball you and Jokic can argue who is everyone afraid of isolation we know who you're the world knows what you do on isolation so I don't need you to be aggressive so I'm gonna I'm gonna show you we're gonna double you we're gonna go and make

you pass it to Powell I'm gonna fuck about what Powell's gonna do I don't care about what Zubac Zubac's having to create. But Zubac is not going to have 50. He's not going to put my team in foul trouble. He's not going to do that. So I'll let you throw to Powell and Powell want to shoot a bunch of motherfucking high jumping ass threes and

cool. You know, Jones want to jump into it. Cool. I know there's no one else on this roster capable enough to put me in foul trouble, get people fouled out, put fucking 40 free throws up. Only you and Jokic is capable of doing that. And I know if you get doubled,

you're going to play the right way. So my game plan for James Harden in closeout game is hey, show him we're going to double. We want him to have 20 assists. Fuck that. And that's why we know, like, that's why in game seven I was like, okay, let me see how many assists he averages.

He's averaging 12 in those closeout games. The games everybody's like he's not playing very well. He's averaging 12 assists. That's the game plan in the game. So that's the game plan in game seven. Yeah, game seven. Ring his ass. Let's take him out.

Let's make him a pass. Let's make him a facilitator. Right? Let's make, yeah. That's the way I would fucking do it. People that, yeah. I would approach it like that in game one. And that's what I'm looking at.

That's what y'all waiting on. That's what y'all waiting on. If we know he's going to behave like that in game seven, I'm approaching it like that in game one. The fuck are y'all? Huh? Oh, he don't want it? He don't want it.

Well, he ain't going to try to go buy nobody. Man, he don't. It's like sometimes a game plan for a coach, a good coach, sometimes, like I remember when Shaq said this about Jeff Vanff van gundy no saying van gundy when he says big games he overcoaches he gets nervous he don't trust nobody first one to call a timeout like you can it could be 16-0 they scored two baskets in the road timeout timeout timeout sub everybody like he gets like there's a thing that happens against certain Games like them them big national TV games you be sitting law man. It's my fuck about the We're about to be a shoot around seven hours, right? We're gonna be detailed in the mother. He don't like and I think he

overthinks Those games but fuck over there drinking my Atlanta and Pepto the stomach fucking both double fisted over there drinking Mylanta and Pepto together. The stomach fucking buster. Just double fisted over there. Drinking tea. It happens man. It's more mental than it is reality because you can't say he's a choker when we watch

what he does. Fucking 60-20-20. So the expectation is therefore. with it. Hit game winners. So the expectation is therefore, like we expect you to be this person, right? That's what everybody expects in the sports world, right?

So when you don't, it's a letdown. It's a disappointment. Hey, Steph, the year you motherfucker go what is you about? 38? 39% from three? You go one, you go any of these years coming up shooting 32%, you fell off. Oh, this motherfucker can't shoot.

It's Reggie Miller. That's what happens. I had a nasty words agenda, but I decided not to push it. Yeah, you was trying. I'm trying to be a better man. Do it. Do it. Do it.

Do it. Do it. Do it. I'm not going to allow it. Do it. Do it. Do it. No, don't. Do it. Do it. I'm not going to allow it. Do it. I'm here. I said it on Playback last night. I said Kenya would not allow it.

Hey, me and Shaw are here. Do it, Joe. I need Kenya to off the couch. We ain't going to allow it. You know what, Joe? I'm going to ask you. We're going to ask you, Joe. Okay, let me.

I just asked you. Let me hear this. Do we think the Golden State Warriors is better without Steph Curry? That 17-0 run. Do we think? I saw your face when I said that Minnesota can't beat them. I saw your face earlier. Do we think that Golden State is just better without Steph Curry?

The ball moves better without Steph Curry? Is Steph holding Buddy Hill back? Is he holding Buddy Hill back? Is he holding Buddy Hill back? That is diabolical. That is diabolical. That is a new moment. Come on. That is starting.

And Kaminga. Get to the Lakers. Get to the Lakers. Wait, watch your Lakers. Hey, let them win games too. Y'all can definitely start now. I think they're a better team without Steph. They win game two.

We can run a little wrong. I think they're a better team without Steph. They win game two. Hey, no bullshit. Every time that shit happens, I don't give a fuck how hurt the superstar was. He came back within the five days of that article. You better.

The captain's back. On that note, let's move on to Mostly Fans presented by Underdog. Who the fuck was that? Nasty agenda pusher. I was dead. I was dead. Motherfucker. Knee swollen.

Dragging that motherfucker. Just draining before the game. Just draining. They look mighty good in game one. No, I'm just kidding. We got a question from underdog user Bigger Bodega. There's a Big Bodega already. Now this is a Bigger Bodega.

Celtics missed 45 threes in game one. How many will they miss tonight? 47. Nah, they're going to hit tonight. Yeah. I took all them motherfuckers on them. Take the hires on all the threes. I took it last time, and I thought they was all going to hit,

and they all missed. You got a double up? They definitely going to hit. I got Al Horford scoring more than 10. I got Drew scoring more than 10. It's just one of them things where them motherfuckers about to set a date. They set a record for most misses. Most points.

Most points in the game. For sure. Fucking Derek White-Eyes. He's going to have 10 threes and shit. The one and only K-Mark. No other K-Marks on the clock. I took the white boy, white boy. You're not in my presence.

You're not around, but Celtics miss 45 threes game. How many will they miss tonight? Oh, shit. 25, 30. Man, 30. They're going to shoot 60 a game. They're going to shoot that.

So they're going to. Record for most made threes in a playoff game is 25. Do we think? They can. They go forever. I'm going to take the under. You're going to take the under? Whoa.

25 threes? 25 made? That's four threes for everybody? I'm taking the under. Four threes for all seven? I'm taking the under. I'm taking the under.

Nah, that might be that might be fees. Only because they set a record and we laughing at them. Yeah. They might get 26 tonight. 25 in the playoff game.

Playoff game. Listen, dog. Somebody get more than five. I said it the other day, man. We was in here talking about playoff strategy and coaching and effort and game planning and attention to detail, right? They're not, man, the contested threes, get a hand up, no open looks. They're not making 25 threes against the Knicks, man.

The Knicks are going to contest all the motherfuckers. They're going to make a ball fine. If Al Horford make fucking seven threes, great. They don't let Pritchard get off. None of them, Hauser, none of them. They're making Jalen Brown a three-point shooter because they don't think he can. Jason Tatum, all them sidesteps.

They know, go get you a layup, get tough. They're not making 25 threes. Run them off the line. Run them off all that. I think they're going to have 13 at half. Once you get 13 at half, you've got to go for it. We will find out tonight.

Run them off the line. Their first five shots are going to be threes. They come out the game shooting threes for some reason. Heat check. Shooting them and making them is too... They work in a group. It's like if the light skin wasn't making it, I'm going to They come out the game shooting threes for some reason. Heat check. Immediately. Shooting them and making them is too. Yeah.

Totally. But you know. Especially when they contest. They work in a group. It's like if the light skin one make it, I'm going to make it. It's like. Especially when they contest. If Jason Tatum making it, right.

He's like. He's all. Yeah. And I mean. It's like the light, the white. Right. They make it. They make it.

Drew shoot them. They make Al Horford shoot them. They making Jalen Brown shoot them. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we will find out tonight. That's the game plan. We will find out tonight in game two. I'm telling you.

Gil, you'll be on playback. Are you doing both games tonight? I know we're doing the Thunder Nuggets. I think I'm going to come in because I'll be needing a nap to have that extra energy. Yes, you do. As we all do. As we all do. I'll wake up on a Red Bull.

I just realized that. I drink coffee and a Celsius at 6am delicious beverage then I crash in a Red Bull then I crash and then I wake up so maybe about 4 I can come in at the end pull up to playback tonight

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