The Deep 3 Podcast - 1 Reason Every NBA Contender Can Win The Finals | TD3 Clips

Episode Date: March 26, 2026

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I think there are currently 10 contenders in the NBA that can realistically win the NBA championship this season. About six out west, four out east. I'm going to name each one. You tell me the argument for them winning the finals. Give me one reason they can win the chip this year. Just one? Okay.

If you want to give me a few, you can, I won't stop you. But one core argument for them. First off, Oklahoma City Thunder. They're like that. Shea, that's the only reason. Defense. Lightning strikes twice. They were that good last year.

they're that good again. The one reason would be J-Dub gets healthy. And we know what they can do, they can do it again. Caruso starts to score 20. That's what it takes. It takes a role player exploding for you. Yeah. There's not much needs to be said for them.

They've proven they're that great. They just do it again. Yeah. Pretty obvious. San Antonio Spurs. What needs to happen for them in the finals? Give me one good argument. Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper's shooting slash or treatment as non-shooters turns into

a strength for them. And they actually turn up and they knock down timely threes and the spacing and the youth and the experience doesn't come to fruition or the lack there doesn't come to fruition like everybody says.

Yeah, and Wemby's defense in a playoff setting is truly game breaking. That's the real one reason. Yeah, they need to have the guards be able to shoot. That's clearly like one of the contributing factors that needs to happen for four rounds. If there's one reason they win the finals,

that's because Wembe elevates the best player in the world. Whenever we talk about the Spurs, we never mentioned Aaron Fox. Not much to mention. He's just Aaron Vox. Yeah, not much to mention. Like, I'm not even blaming us. It's just, like, tough.

Yeah, because I think he's just like, we just know who he is. He's a reliable, going to be a good second option for them. We'll have his down night shooting-wise. We'll, like, he'll give them the guard defense and slashing. They need to kind of keep their half-war offensive flow. There's so many young swing factors that he's kind of just like pencil them in for his 20 and six. Yeah. It could be a good thing.

Probably is. Oh, yeah, it's an essential thing for sure. But yeah, if there's one reason they can win, it's because Wembe becomes clear best in the world caliber player that he's on equal footing with Shea with Yokic because the defense is that dominant in the playoffs. Yeah, I agree. Detroit Pistons. Why can they win the finals?

They in the East. They'll get there. So they have 50% chance. Yeah. The one reason they can win? Somebody got to do it. Yeah. Somebody's got to make it.

Yeah. They can get there. That really is the one reason, though, because like if they were in the West, we wouldn't be talking about them as like true, true contenders. It would be great team ahead of schedule. They're so close. They're so close. Get a little bit better offensively.

but in the Eastern Conference anything can happen Yeah Outside of that though I think obviously their defense is ridiculous And they've been skating by On not having good spacing By having elite cutters

Sartops is so important to this team So yeah Smart very smart offensively But really it's driven by the positioning They're in the East Bray K go stupid K is tough You'd have to explode

He'd have to take another like massively He has to average 40 in the 5th because like he's down because like he's probably gonna play about 30 he's got to barely quick in 25 right now you might have to he's gonna have to he's gonna have to or it's either that or danis jenkins is gonna have to give him 25 and no hell yeah i mean their defense is gonna carry them far but yeah we we need to see some like unexpected shooting and scoring next the cage to that to happen yeah or you don't get the shooting and scoring and cage is go dummy on some

06 way type shit I love Cade I don't know view him as a player that has that type of I'm not expecting that type of run as a real

I know that's why you're not expecting to win the title okay Boston Celtics ooh if they win

the finals Tatum Tatum's fully back okay at least 90% back yes the one reason they can win the finals

Tatum's unprecedented Achilles recovery who's to say how unprecedented is going to be maybe the playoffs come around

in the next six weeks he gets back to NBA level. Modern medicine. Modern medicine. That's the reason they can win the finals. Yeah. Yeah.

This is going to take. Angelin Brown still continues to like average 30 alongside him. That'd be tough. That'll be insane. You're asking for your top two players to average like 55 together? Damn. Well. 60 together?

Might be what it takes. Is Gin and Brown still averaging 30? 28. 27. Yeah. Important distinction. 27. It's an important distinction there.

Let's be back to you. Correct. Don't look at the true shooting percentage. He's MVP. Stephen A. Smith said so. New York next. Big cats on. Big cats on.

Yes, sir, yes, sir. Path to finals victory. Big cat. Jalen Brown is God or Jalen Brunsson's God. Like that's a historic run. Yeah, the one reason they could win is, honestly, we've seen them rise before. We see them beat...

Tyree Salibur is not there. That's why. Yeah, no Tyre's Halibor and demons. Aaron D. Smith will not break your heart. And we've seen you play at the highest level before because we know what Jalen Brunson led half court offense is capable of. Do we feel good about the wing players at this moment? No. You know what that's what it is?

Miquel really got to show his value for what they gave up for him. Makele has a plug for Mekale. McHale Bridges on the court and not Donovan's moon. It's so trenches. That video was hilarious. I didn't say this. I can do that. I can do that.

I can give the next five. the fucking basketball in his hand and I don't know whose jersey that is that you have. So it's like Michael Bridges right now. Just music so don't play it. Copyright. POV.

Mikhail Bridges in March 2036. See, Macal Bridge doesn't remember who he is. I'm taking my profile picture. It is? He thought that shit was so fast. I'm crying. I thought this was pretty funny.

He thought this was tough, man. I'm crying. And now it's been used to be a weapon against my favorite team. Well, it's only because you also look like McElichers. It's a double-edged sword here. I legit, I legit don't. I don't look like McElchers. Okay.

Bees-old. Have you seen like the one-to-one face comparisons? Stop it. This is racism. No, no, no. I don't look like McHale. It's not racism. It's face blindness, of anything.

Brother, you do look like McHale. You look vaguely like McHale. You don't actually look at McHale. Like, if there's a look like, like contest you wouldn't win but at first glance you have the right skin tone hair and beard to the way the way people have said it and head shape i would want to win the lookalike contest now you wouldn't win you'd be on the finalist you'd be top like 10 but then they'd be like nah top 10 yeah i can't be the look like well there's probably 10 lookalikes in new york mckell bridges

you have a lot of lookalikes you have a very like archetypical archetypical face y'all said he looks there's a lot of you he does what you said what y'all said uh he looks like the comedian we watch Oh yeah, he looked just like him. What was the guy's name? Ian Lara. Yeah, he looks just like. Yeah, he looks just like Ian Laura. We went to a comedy show for Donovan's birthday, and he didn't know he was, I didn't know he was taking me to see his twin.

It was crazy as fuck. Yeah. No, that's you. That's crazy as fuck. Put some veneers on you? Yeah. That's true twin. That's crazy.

Show twin. That's crazy as well. Similar eyebrows. Yeah. That's probably the best one, actually, of all the lookalikes. That's the best one. by far. It's crazy.

Cleveland Cavaliers. James Tartan defies his entire life story. Rewrites his legacy in one year. Yes. What? Caz winning finals? Your Christ is back, man. Jesus is such the fucking earth, bro.

The chosen one has come back and he's chosen the Cleveland Cavaliers as his favorite children. What? Ever Mowbly. Make that leap, man. That's not happening. I know. That's crazy.

Not winning. Yeah, I don't really have a good reason. Yeah, it's so hard to see Mowgli taking that next, next step. That's day mere possible. I know. In the postseason? That's too tough. Los Angeles Lakers.

What is one reason they can win? Luca has to be that guy. Luke is that guy. That's the reason. He's good enough to take you to a finals. We've seen him before. Is he good enough to win you a finals? Yes, actually.

On one side, that's where the winners are. Exactly. If he gets out of the winner's bracket and faces whatever pumpkins come out of the east, yes he's good enough to win and we're saying he got past the spurs and the thunder yes he can beat the nix

I'm not a lot pumpkins is bad let's just say let's say that we get a magical run and we get Celtics lakers in the finals okay no Celtics have a lucre number

my bad if you lose to Tatum on one Achilles oh the Celtics are the one team that have the perfect they have like seven great Luga defenders

so the Celtics are a tough matchup anybody else though bring me those pistons right now bring me those nicks right now if we get out the West I'm not worried outside the Celtics. Yeah.

Bring me those cabs right now. Bring me that. Give me their heads on a stick. Give me Evan Moby. Bring him here. Yeah, the obvious reason is they have one of the best players in the world. And if they get LeBron and Reeves clicking at the right time, their offense can be overpowering.

And you can have a magical run off of really great offense for two months. You trust Reeves translating in the playoffs? Yeah. I trust him as well as any other like low tier all-star guy, like, psychic. It's overblown that like, oh, he does bat against elite defenses. So do most players in the NBA that aren't. MVP level. Yeah.

They have their down games against the best teams that does that happen. Fares. That's cool. So he will suck. I'm sure he'll have some bad games. Yeah,

just like Kyrie Irving dead on the way of the finals. That happens. That's tough. If he didn't have bad games, they'd be in the finals probably. He's just a top 10 player. We just got three superstars.

That's what we were saying. Come on. We were having crazy compliments about Austin earlier in the years. They were true. Yeah, we're true. Don't feel bad, by it. Still not that far off.

Clearly they were false. Well, he's probably playing closer. He's close to our top 30 player, which is what I'm describing. He's a guy who's like going to have some off nights. Denver Nuggets. Why can they win the finals? They lock in. Oh, yeah, they lock in and Cam Johnson is fully integrated on this team.

Oh, health. They all stay healthy, first and foremost, too. Well, it's going to take a little bit more, though. Their defense just turns around. So Nicole starts doing ladder drills. Start getting his feet quick. Yeah, but it's not what needs to happen. It's what's one reason they can win.

as currently constructed. They can win. Yeah, their defense turns around completely, honestly. Their offense is perfectly fine. I mean, because Yokin is Yolkich. Yeah, it's because their offense is so dynamite end of the game that maybe the defense doesn't matter

that you can get a perfect Yokich run and hope that, like, they have in past years, they flip a switch and are just good enough defensively while still not being good, that Yokish is just like the ultimate cheat code. Yeah. Yeah, he can go 60, 20 and 20 when you need him to. And you know what he can do like twice in a row.

That's great. If you really need it. Yeah. Catch him on a good day. horses just won he's up 250 okay 60 20 20 I'm back to back to baby

that's too much for me man too much I mean why can the Houston Rockets win the finals one reason the Houston Rockets won the finals I don't know if there is

one one argument for the Rockets to win the finals you asked Kevin Durant is because he thinks that he's God they got God mode in their team

I don't know what's one outstanding trait about them that could do Because they're tough and they can fight. Okay. They can get your best player suspended by sicking them, and Tom's not going to go punch them.

KD doesn't get double team the whole playoffs. Yeah, that people just decide they want to take it easy on them. Yeah. We'll chill on KD today. We got you. He's old. We can't do that. They really have no sense.

They really got no reason to do it. I'm triple teaming him. 80 feet away. Now what? The Rockets would be equally as surprising to me as the patients were last year winning the finals. Yeah. I would be floored if they win the finals.

Yeah. That would be more. Damn. My picture sucks at the beginning of last year. And it would still be more surprising. I'm fully out on the Rockets winning the title. Same. Okay.

Last team, 10th contender. Minnesota Timberwolves. What is one reason they can win the finals? They got that guy. It's like continues to ascend. You've gone there, you've gone real close twice in a row. Stans the reason you make it there this time. Yeah, Julius Rayno fully locks in.

All the role players are consistent. Rudy Gobert, 2020. games and close out games. All right. He did it last year. The hockey way. What? He's just hungry.

Why'd you say the Occup way? I said Rudy Goberg against his 20-20 games, man, the Ockyway. The Ocuh, what does that mean? He means whatever you wanted to mean, man. You know, that's the dude of the New York deli who just is, can I have with the Okiwacki? No, I know.

I know that guy. He's just saying bus words. He's just hungry, right? He's just pressing emo. What the heck? The Okiway. He keeps calling them hungry. Bro, Bishol's don't be on his

bees and cues. He'd be skipping breakfast, right? He'd be skipping breakfast. Two months. Yes. Do you eat breakfast today? Be honest. No, I had a Celsius this morning.

Exactly. That's what I'm talking about, man. You don't be on your bees and cues. You got to do it right. I could have a Celsius and breakfast. Yeah. Me had a Celsius and a smoothie. You got to have both.

But you got to have the Celsius. Two liquids for? Oh, it's like a protein smoothie. It's pretty thick. Yeah, that's fine. There's a scoop of protein powder, a bunch of cheese. It's pretty thick. thick. It's a bowl.

What did you say? Cheez seeds. Oh, I thought you said cheese. I thought I said cheese. He looked floored. He was like, wait, what you said? Yeah, and I was like, cheese. I was going on.

Cheese are Celsius in a protein shape. That's a mad, Oxy breakfast. I was shocked. No, that is the definition of hockey. I was shocked. Can I get a bacon, a nigga cheese on a cinnamon roll. Come on, no. What are you doing it?

On a fruity pebbles center Oh Come on, dog What are we doing? So no reason For the temperals fucking Hell no They got it

Sure They got it They got it