The Deep 3 Podcast - Reacting To Your 2026 NBA Playoffs Hot Takes | TD3 Clips

Episode Date: May 19, 2026

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I ask you guys on a community post to give us your best NBA playoff related hot takes, things that you guys have learned in this playoff series and that you want to apply to your hottest take. We're going to react to them. Give you a W or an L. Okay. Beesoles, what is up first? Let's test your reading skills again. All right, here we go.

Whether you like it or not, Che is on pace to be in goat convoes if he wins finals MVP and MVP again and back-to-back years. Goat convos. Now, being a goat is like impossible, but is he in top five guard of all-time convos? if he wins the finals again? Surely. Yes. Absolutely. Top five.

He's probably already have top five combos now. Is he going to be in top three convos if he wins again? Okay. Guard combos is tough. Top three guard combos. So top three guards would be

Jordan Kobe and then it's Wade Jerry West. Probably Jordan Magic. Oh, yeah. Just guard. So basically this is he going to be in Kobe combos if he wins again. I'm tired.

Kobe step combos. I'm tired, man. But yes. He would be on, he would be on. pace to be there. I do think that at this moment, if you put him over one of those two,

I do think you are being premature. Yeah. Because Steph does have four, like I already saw it this, this weekend of somebody had said like Shay over these last three years was better than Steph at his peak from like 2015 to 2017, 2018, whatever. Yeah, yeah.

And I mean, I felt, shut up. Can we pot? No. No, we can't pot? Okay. I disagree very, very heavily, but... Very heavily. I disagree, but like not that heavily.

I actually do think... I think the level that that step was at was different. I think the gap between... And it's different because LeBron was also at his peak, so it's like, oh, you were never the best guy. But I do think that the gap between Steph and number three at his peak is bigger than the gap between Shea and the second best guy right now. But that's the state of the NBA at that point of time. I agree that 2016 stuff is a better player,

the more impactful player, all this stuff. I agree. Those aren't big margins, especially if Shea goes back to back. I'm not going to say that I heavily disagree. It's crazy to say Shay's on the same level. Yeah. It'll be a combo.

Specifically, I think what makes it even more interesting convo is like how Shea does it specifically in this like very retro-feeling way and how he like literally walks down his opponents. That's just not a part Steph game. He does things completely different, but you can do it. Obviously, we know it. But it's a different level of, like, closing, you know?

So I don't know if I agree because, like, yeah, you're right, like four championships and how Steph literally reigned the entire league and just, like, helped work crochet so many different offenses. It's just, it's hard to, it's hard to injure those carnivals. But you can do it. This is also, again, based on the idea, if he goes back to back championship-wise. So we're going to be feeling differently if we see him hoist another ring. Right now it feels crazy to say he's better than Prime Steph.

But if we see him go back to back, let me see he went through Victory Woman Yama, probably beat the fuck out of the Knicks because if you got through Victor Woman Yama, he's not going to have any type of issues with Kat. We're going to feel differently. You said goat conversations. We're not going to go there.

But like second tier goat guards, if we add a little bit of realism to your take, I'm with you. Now, if he does it again next year. Oh, that's different. That's different. Three peeting in the parody era? Yeah.

Three peeding with three MVPs in a row. Woo! Yeah, that's scary. That'd be crazy. Yeah, get Kobe out of here. Respectfully. It's always Kobe. It's always COVID.

Fuck magic. Nobody knows any other basketball players when it comes to comparison. It would be like not a conversation though if Jay wins a bit of two. Not a conversation. Yeah, we can stop the conversations. No, for sure. If what happened. If Shane three MPs.

Oh, three MbPs. Okay. Yeah, we can't stop the Kobe conversation. No, they're literally modern-day Michael Jordan. No exaggeration. Yokic is a luckier version of Westbrook and Hardin. Yo, what type of a hating shit is this? People didn't wait for half a decade to get this on.

He was like, he's seen as this like nerdy, analytical, white golden child that is above criticism. As soon as he finally is down, people are getting their fucking licks in. Yeah, this is an L take because it's not even, I'm not going to lie. This is funny. I was about to say it's not funny. It is. Lucky a version of Russ and Hardin as if those guys have been like had to go through the, had the worst scenario situations. Oh my God, you decided to have K.

Some people say that about Hardin. CP3 has a team. I mean, Hardin's really. only unlucky because he's been in this era, you know? That's the only thing. But outside of that, like... See, that's the point that they make. That's the point they're making is that that Yokes never had it against the Warriors.

He never had a face off against Kevin Durant, Dremont Green, stuff, Kerry, Clay Thompson, Nick Adow at the same time. Okay. I guess. He can't even get there because he's losing to the Timberwolves. The playoffs shit still was there no matter what for Hardin. That shit is traveling. That's just time traveling.

It's always going to be there. Yeah. It's just 28. It's funny eight. LTAG, but funny hate. Funny hate. Yeah. Again, people are going to get the Licks in right now

because that was the time that they can finally have some criticism of Yokage because they weren't allowed to for so many years. Go for it. It's understandable hate in this moment. You can just say anything, right? Go, lick. Come on. You got the summer to be a dick.

It's fine. All right, next. This is the next, this is the next, this is the next shot at winning it all for at least a decade. Very true. Probably more than a decade. Yeah.

You guys have, this is the best opportunity in 25 years. You guys later you're trading everything for this moment right here. This might be the best opportunity in 50 years. Like this might be the best day passes in the 70s. No. You might have a better chance to win this.

They were in game seven of the finals than 94. Yeah. What was that? That's 35 years? Yeah. This is the best chance of 35 years. Yeah. So this is true.

It's not a crazy hot take. This is the best shot. They can't mess this up. What are you going to do if they lose if they lose the calves? What is going to be your course of action to cope with that? I don't know, man. Yo. I'm going to be a dangerous man.

Yo. I might commit some crimes. I don't know. What type of crimes are we talking? Anything on the table. You're just going to picking shoes out of a hat? Yeah. Might be lording one day.

Might be jaywalking the next day. Might be aggravated assault the next day. Grand larceny. Grand larceny. I'm playing in the heist. Go make a TikTok out of this. Yeah. Spend the will these.

All right. Next. Brunton is a top four offensive player in the league up there with Lucaset and Yokic. Hmm. Top four. This is a good take. I like this. Let's do it.

It's really fierce. I do not. He's not number four, but I respect the glazes. Who you put in above? Ant. When he's healthy, obviously,

he's come off two-week knee injuries. Anthony Edwards, for one. Is Steph Curry still a better officer player? I don't know, but right now I'm going to say Brunson is. Yeah.

Fuck it. Yeah. He's going to stop you? Ooh. Is he better offensive player than Webby? Yes. Okay. It wasn't that.

Yeah, I agree. Yes. Healthy zero. Come on, man. Yeah, he's driven. Healthy zero. Yes, he is. Yeah, he is for sure.

What is healthy zero going to look like again? I guess healthy zero does that mean previous before injury zero? Yeah, let's just even assume that, yeah. Yes. Sure. Yeah, yeah. The defense is wise. He was dropping 40 on his head when he was healthy.

Clutch shots coming back down from 20. You know firsthand about that. You know what Brunson can do. No, no, I respect Brunson. Once again, my point from last week since, everybody's better until it's time to be better. My point from last week comes. You got to stop parody, Matt. Everybody says it.

There's not a lot of your point anymore. I'm telling him what I said last week. That's all I'm saying. That's it. Okay. Obviously, everybody can say that. My point still stands because I did make it last week. Be what's the next take?

Regardless of origin. Tell me, tell me, talk about, wait. No, I do have a question. I'm crying. If anybody says something, there's 10 million podcasts out there. I'm sure somebody else has said something similar to the things that we have said. It can,

because I'm saying it, because we're saying it on this specific show, is that no longer our point? It still is your point. Correct. No one's taking it away from you. You literally just tried to take it away. I didn't know why I said we got to stop using that phrasing.

I do this at all time. Every stand base uses it now. I wasn't about you being allowed to say it. I was joking that everybody has parroted about their favorite player. Everybody's better than blink. It's all time you better than blink. It wasn't about you.

It was about the mass use of that phrase. Certain people think I've made the phrase, let's pod. No. I did not make that up. Now, fuck that. It's hard to keep on saying. All right.

Next take. Stefan Castle is a future top 10 player. He's so cool. He's so cool. Stefan's stuff. You know, so cool. I'm with that. If you're going to put him in top 10 talk, just because he's cool.

Okay. Fair enough. Fair enough. I can't argue with you. You're saying that he's top 10 in the world because of a cool factor. What am I going to pull out? Anti-cool statistics? Wait, what cool is he, though?

Like, I mean, what is it? What do you need to be a top 10 cool player in the league? You got to be tough? I don't know. Yeah. It's not something you really like described. You just feel it? I don't think he has that potential.

You don't feel it? No. You don't feel Stefan like that? He's not like that. He's not cool like that. He's cool as fuck. but not top ten blue he's cool drives a hellcat you know

you know a little bit about his cool more than I do he does a hell cat yeah I mean did you not see that video where like Wemby was in like a big ass spinner and shit nope yeah nah all those first players driving by he was in his hell cat he was way too big for that motherfucker you're tapped in off of he's tapped he is off of cool alone I do think so I'm saying he's not right no but I do I do think he's tapped enough to know he's not cool enough to know he's not cool

he's a tattered he's cool I'm not a hater what you are a hater I love Stefan Castle. Top 10 cool is crazy as fucking. No. Like from aesthetic standpoint, too? Yes. All he said,

he's not hot enough? No. He's a top ten hater. From a cool factor and from an aesthetic factor, I do think that the top ten in that specific range is, it changes so often. And that's something that like, what about his game screams cool? What can he like? He's a good, he's a good defender. He's a good defender.

He gets into altercations. No one ever says they defend. cool in their goddamn life. He defense cool. He does. What about his defense? He's a very physical defender. Yeah, he's physical.

That's the answer. He's very physical. He's not weak. And he's donex with the authority. You get a lot of cool points by not being weak. Well, this is a league hating that I go on. I think he has the potential. I think I think Stefan Castle has the potential to be a top 10 cool player in the NBA.

I do think that that's on the board for him. I don't know. Maybe your top 10 coolest players in league right now. Go ahead. 10 coolest players in the league right now. Okay. Obviously, Shea's there. Anthony Edwards been there.

I'm going to go ahead and vote for Yannis, even though he had an off year. For you, I'll go ahead and say Jalen Duren because he was mentioned way too much. Jim Dern is not cool in the castle. He is not. Listen, man. Jim Duren might not be top 25 cool.

He's not top 50 cool. What are you talking about? He was that cool. You keep saying, y'all, it's him. All right. No one is. It's your list. It's your list.

Sorry, sorry. Cool factor with another conversation with JD. Scratch J.D. Number four, I could say, Cooper Flag. Cool as fuck. Cool. All right.

Yeah. Hell yeah. High fire. That shit is cool. That shit is cool. That shit is cool. That shit. Salmala Castle can jump.

Dunc contest point out by the way. La Melleball. Cool. Cool as fuck, bro. You're not 11. No. He's cool as hell. He's still cool.

He's entertaining as hell as well. Grown ass man. Thinking Levelobillbo is cool. So I'm saying. I mean, Tyrese, cool as fuck. Okay.

Yeah. Castle's cooler. Brunson, cool, little dude. Love it. That's eight right there. I don't find Brunson cool. I find him respectable. I don't know if I'm cool.

He's cool, man. He's cool. Wembe, cool, is course. And courage are forever going to be cool. All those guys are cool, undisputely, way cooler. There's no world where Tyreys Maxie is way cooler. This is Defon Castle. What about you?

I actually don't even know. Listen, why? In this specific moment, I actually don't know if Janus is cooler. I mean, it's hard for him to be cool. Just in general. Like right now, I don't think Janis is top 10 cool. Peak for peak This stupid fucking conversation

Peak for peak I'm saying in this moment In this moment He's getting tilted Yeah in this in this moment Yannis is not top ten cool Yonnas doesn't cool at all At all and he's he's on the

He's on the deep fire right now Cool So I have fucking take off Yonis Put Luke in there Cool as fuck Fair I'm just saying he has the potential

Next question He's up there So bad take The era of parody shit is so over Spurs and Thunder about to run the league for years. Maybe. Yeah, maybe we're about to enter the two super team era.

It's always hard to say because windows are so small these days. One injury can change things. There's so many other good teams waiting. But if you tell me that they're the two top teams in the West for like five three years, which is really what an era is these days, eras are getting smaller and smaller. I believe you. If the next five finals feature one of these two teams and they win three of them,

that's not crazy to me. Yeah, we say this a lot of like, oh, the dynasty is here. I'll talk to me in three years. and then I'll finally be okay saying like oh yeah the era the era parody is over i feel more more look okay than ever like saying that because what okay c proved to be and then i feel like outside of again like unless like wendy has the most catastrophic injury ever that de rose is compared which i'm praying that we all pray that never happens like i don't see a word and where this is not true at all like over the last few years we this hasn't been able to be true because of course like teams we haven't

seem like a generational player outside of me like yonis and yokech have the opportunity to do so but even then they're co-stars all the guys in their team are like at the peak of their career they've been traded for and all that have had major injuries meanwhile the spurs it's clear as hell okay c's clear as hell yeah jada has injuries here and there but he's their like third best player and he's not really like monuments to what they do i could see this being true yeah all area of parody means is people don't go back to back yeah okayc might go back to back now the spurs is If you tell me the OKC goes back to back now and the Spurs go back to back in the next two years, that's not shocking at all. This is a good prediction that the era of parody isn't going to be quite as parodyful as we think it is now.

Yeah. If you told me like for the next five years, both of these teams are going to go back and forth winning championships, I'll believe it. Yeah. Okay. Next. Oh my God. Beesols has been a great role player even with his flaws. You perfect.

What the hell? Thank you. Thank you. I expect he'll work on his reading and shot during the offseason. and take the next level to a leap as I'm struggling to read. Once Mo gets healthy again and especially if the cats take another leap,

TD3 will be a real contender out east especially with the changes to the lottery. Okay, hold on. If I get healthy again and the cats take another leap, what the fuck do you know about the cats and what the fuck do you know about my health? I had an eye abrasion a couple weeks ago, right?

Exactly. You had eye abrased you couldn't see and you took a rock out of your ear that was there for years. Not a rock! Holy fuck! Rock is crazy. It was a fucking like, it looks like an earbud, god damn.

That's worse. Myrude, you're an earbud that was there for years and your eye got fucked up. You've been doing, you've been going through it. Yeah. You've been nerfed. Yeah. Listen, it's not like a torn ACL, but it's a little hamstring here, right? Little one game.

I should say my eye was irritating and how to use the eye drop again. Again, you're not fully healthy. When'd you get fully healthy? Maybe it was on to something. And the cats got up in the middle leap. Like, they're not at their prime yet. Yeah. what is like the cats being at their prime look like

having more cat can they like get to bro more cat stripes is like eight months old that's true stripes can't get he's 19 bro like he can grow into a much better yeah he can grow into a much better player but a lock in the great lock in is around the corner for stripes if we send stripes to work out with akim in the off season

and stripes comes back with a post game body will be t come on Yeah. Come on. IQ off the radar. It's trying to got athleticism. It's a little dumb sometimes. His first step is ridiculous.

They really are young guns. Yeah, literally, you're right. Castle and Harper. He's got Dylan Harper. All right. Next. Wembe is a top five center of all time. Let's say he wins a championship.

Does he immediately become top five center of all time? Let's entertain that scenario when she beats the thunder and then beats the Knicks. Who are the five best centers of all? Kareem, Bill, Shaq. Hakeem. Hakeem and Alma. And the wilt. And Yokit slash wilt.

Let's say wilt. Is there a world he knocks out one of those old timers? Not yet, but he's on track. He's on track. He's on track. He's on track. Yeah, it's on track in a way that we know was going to happen barring injury.

So it's like we have to wait to say it, but like you're on the way. Yeah. Who would be the one he knocks out though? You just take the cop out and say one of the 60s guys? No, I will, yes and no. It's not going to be Bill, but like. The real convo then is Hakeem. Is he, if he was the championship this year,

is he on track to be better than the team? Honestly, Jokic. For me, I think it would be Yokic or, or Will. That's crazy. That's crazy. When you win in championship,

you're first in the playoffs. It was like, Convojured to run to playoffrey right away. Yeah. This is year three. Yeah. But he has to win the championship first. Right now he's not top five center of all time.

So it'll take. We'll be creative and say if he wins, is it possible to he'll one day get there. We've got to slow down on that talk. I'll hype up Wimby. Maybe he's having a top 30 peak of all time already, but top five center of all time you can't go that far

Yes I'm going to give it I'll take for now Or now this is year three That's crazy It's crazy Next

Dylan Harper and AJ Mitchell have earned starting roles They definitely played well enough The question is What are their teams prepared to do about it Who are they prepared To ship off for it

Because you can't start Harper Fox and Castle No You can start AJ Mitchell Will Doort You just bench them Yeah that's fine

You'd have JDA be your wingstopper Yeah for OKC It's not more more so an issue at all. For the Spurs, yeah, uncomfortable conversations have to be had.

What if he's okay just being the six man for like the first three years of his career? He's just Mono. That'll be cool as fuck. That'd be tough. Yeah.

Why can't that be Deeran, though? The Aaron is $60 million. Politics. And Deeran's a better like awful player so we can be. Damn politics. It is always politics.

Literally. God damn it. But, okay, yeah. They have earned certain rules. Yeah, it's not a hot take. Yeah. They'll be starting on so many. so many, well, AJ's

already starting, but Harper will be starting with so many teams. As a very, very big AJ Mitchell fan, could he take the Kings to 35 wins by himself? He's fucking Superman? That's dog shit, bro. What? No, he's human.

He's human. What? No. Would you want him to go to the Kings if it meant they... Fuck no. Dude. If he had his opportunity, like, if If you had two options and it's like, this guy has an opportunity to reach his full potential. Can I ask a follow question? Whatever you think, but he has to go to the Kings to try and do it.

Can I ask a follow question? Please. Do you fucking hate AJ Mitchell? Do you think he belongs in hell? That's what you're saying right now. He's been real disrespectful to AJ right now. Let's go the next question. Piss me off.

What seems do you want to be? Pissing me off. Next. Scotty Barnes will be in top ten convos next year. Hell no. Hell no. Hell no. I'm going to say the W take because I want this to happen.

Top 20, top 15. You tell me he's the 15 best player in the league for the next three years. I can get behind that. Cool. Top 10 talk is real hard to break into. If he like carries on what he did in the playoffs when he comes to the office of scoring stuff and the jump shooting that he was able to display display better than what he did in the playoff in the regular season, I can see the conversations forming and being a real thing.

That means you're getting to Cade, Jalen Brunson, D. Mitch, that level of talks. He can get into D. Mitch talks. Well, that's more about D. D. Mitch fought off. You get old. Not all, yeah, but, you know, he hit him in his 30s. Yeah. Do you see Scotty Barnes and Kate talks?

No. That's tough. It's really hard. Okay. Especially if the pistons go out and actually get somebody else so that Kade can be just, like, regular. Yeah. So that he could be like every other side where there's somebody else who can dribble for 10 minutes a game. I think he'll stay around that range.

I think the defense makes it tough to talk about because I think he still is one of the better defenders in the world. Scottie Barnes. And if he comes into the year, averaging like 23, eight, and like seven or something like that, which he pretty much did this playoff series, you can only keep him off for so long. That's the top 15 player for sure. Yeah.

Top 10. Jamal Murray deserve more blame than Yokic for the Nuggets collapse. I can't say more blame. Equal blame? Yes. Jamal Murray deserves to be equally as slandered. People just don't care about him as much, whereas they love to slander Yokich right now.

But Jamal Murray, multiple times, Jamie Gowness has walked through those doors and made him look like a pumpkin-shaped man. Let's just not play Minnesota and he might be okay. Yeah, it might be. It's not play OKC. Let's not play Minnesota. Let's not play any good defense.

This is Jamal Murray. Let's not play San Antonio. Yeah. Let's play a bunch of shitty teams and maybe Jamal Murray will have a fucking lightning fest. Oh, but you can play the Lakers though. Exactly.

Let him cook against Dilo and he'll get back to the finals. Playoff riser, by the way. 35% from the deal. Are we holding his playoff rising chain up? Bro, that's just dead as fuck. Is dead? Hell yeah, it's dead. Is D. Mitch is dead?

Or is it? It's dead. I hate playoff rising chains in general. I'm sick of that term, honestly. We throw it around too loosely. I think that turn it only deserves to belong to players who aren't that important in the regular season. But in the playoffs, they're like a major difference. Like Mitchell Robertson, for instance.

Unless you're Jimmy Butler, I don't want to hear anything about Playoff Rising anymore. He's the only true playoff rising. For real. I ain't going on. All right. Next. The Celtics don't need to make any offseason moves. can run it back and will perform better

next year. Hot take, the Celtics should do nothing. Do you agree, Beasles? Fuck, no. Something got a shake. Please, please, we cannot run it back. This is how dynasties end. Well, it never said. You got one chip.

Wrong turn. This is how championship windows. Yeah. And so dynasties don't form. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, you know, they could run it back and have better. They could get out of the first round for sure. But if you're trying to compete with OKC and the Spurs long

term just running it back isn't it going to make you a tier one team for sure kata is not your savior not your savior but yeah when you have to go to the other side of the league is chat on the other side it's will be on the other side and you're standing there where kata that's that's not going to work it's not going to fly there's a clear savior i don't think he also might not be a savior yonis i don't think that guarantee yonis is probably a savior not going to lie i don't know if it turns of extending the championship window competing with San Antonio and OKC for the next two to Taylor.

That's kind of a savior. And we know this team is the most equipped team to work the margins and get cheap players and deal with that second nape in reality. Janus is probably a savior or some sort. First round again. With Janus and Tatum, that'd be shocking. But, you know, we've seen a lot of shocking shit with Janus in the past five years. Yeah.

Fair. Yonis has so much work to do to reclaim his status in the league now, man. He does. but also he's kind of just stamped. If he just like is irrelevant for the rest of his career, it would be unfortunate. He won't climb to those ranks who wanted to see him yet. But he shouldn't be so irrelevant so fast, you know. Yeah, yeah.

Unfortunate stuff happens in every era. Yeah. Indrease pile up. His fault. Hashtag his fault. Don't hyper extend your knee every year, idiot. It's your fault. No, be a man and ask for the trade and get out of there.

All right. By the end of his career, Dylan Harper will be known as the best rim finisher of all time. Oh, does Dylan and Harper have best guard rim finisher below the rim specifically too? Because he's not like athletic guy like that potential. I don't think that's crazy. He didn't even say guard though. Yeah, but no, I'm not. I'm adding to some realism.

He's not Michael Jordan. He's better than shack at the roof. But like could he be the best below the rim guard finisher like layup package and those Kyrie conversations for people? That's not ridiculous. Yeah, I could believe that for sure. How he ushers and literally like thrust himself into the rim contorts his body. And he's like a supreme athlete in his.

in a different way. Yeah, for sure. I think I can believe this. No, it's doing a lot of projection, but that's what we're here to do today. And if you're going to throw, you're going to call your shot on an all-time trait, that's a good one to call your shot on.

I'm trying to think who, like, the top five in this category is. Because it's like, it's, Rhinfishers for guards? Yeah. Kyrie, Steph. Steph's not top five, Grimfinisher. Che?

Steph. No, Steph is not a top five. He's a great. Lee underrated, not top five. Loki. No, not Loki. No, he's, he's, he's, Steph flavor package is

It's underrated It's very good It's forever underrated Not top five Like he's not He's not Derek Rose It's prime With a smoked rose

I don't even know Who the top five are for real Westbrook He's more above the room Yeah I mean Kyrie, Derek Rose Shea

statistically Lucas up there It gets there a different way Yeah Yeah probably Lucas in that conversation Than like somebody old Like Penny Jerry West

What type of guys For their time We're insane To get into the rim But modern day It's Kyrie is Derek Rose, it's Luca and it's Shea. So this is really, can you be a better rim finisher than Kyrie?

And have that moniker. You have to be insane to take that moniker away from Kyrie. I don't know if that's going to happen. Luke if was like cheating, he's fucking 6-7. It's so tough to like... Yeah, I'm looking at that. You don't have bounce. That's a knock.

You're 6-7. You should be dunking. He should be slamming it. He used to. Start doing some plios, man. We always say used to. He dung once a year. We compiled.

at all. Look how I used to fly. He used to fly, man. Once every nine months. Yes. Now it's once every 13 months. Oh, no. What a big difference.

It is. It is. It is. It is. The carried job by Cade this playoffs is damn near similar to LeBron in 2018. Disrespectful to LeBron. Gleaze.

Everyone's change. That's crazy. No, it's not that crazy. In terms of. Yo, his lungs LeBron had healthy lungs. Cates Carrey job is nowhere near as crazy as LeBron's. They got pushed to 7 in round one.

To the magic. This is not LeBron. Who lost fraud. But who can we compare Kate's carry job to? Well, actually, hold on. The Pacers did go to seven against the Pacers in, in 2018. And with the Celtics. Who was round two?

Round two. They swept Toronto in 2018. That's so crazy. You had to go to seven with the baby Celtics, but you swept Toronto. DeMarre should be ashamed. that drink this is real why did I think you go lit us a ring

fuck I understand this only through the lens of like you're asked to do everything for your team again fuck that this is so funny because with LeBron stuff it's like personal I feel like you wrong me as a friend

on the DeMar disc on National Treasures he was just saying straight NBA Twitter slander talking points it's kind of the same thing though because DeMar was also had like the pop out sure sure but like he was talking about

LeBron's not trustworthy he's supposed to be a brother and shit DeMar he was just like jumper trash Hill defense trash, not a passer. Kauai better. Well, he can't say that about Brian. Yeah, I know.

But he just did like the same talking points that like we would do. We're talking about DeVar not being good enough. It was so NBA Twitter coded. Don't ask about 23 and me, man. Come on. Yeah. That man loves a pun. I love puns.

Co-Wai that I think you can win me a ring. All right. This guy loves puns. That's good. You call it puns. I call it wordplay. You know what I'm saying? Tough.

You look up the definition of pun. It is wordplay. He loves the word pun so much. Had to look up its origin. You call me big pun. Mm. Okay, next thing. Unless they trade for Yannis,

the Tim Rulas do not make the conference finals again for the next five years. A lot can happen. You've seen crazier things. Facts. They have to get them about the paint. But I do think they need someone like Yonis. Whether it be honest,

unless they trade for somebody large, something that's like a needle mover. I don't think they can just assume they'll continue to get back. I think the Julius Randall thing isn't working super well. The point guard thing is gone. Michael Connolly that couldn't replace him. I don't really see a path unless they make a big move. Yeah, Dante has one Achilles now, which makes everything so much worse.

They have to get rid of Randall this offseason. He can't come back. We can close the book on the cat trade, right? Now? I feel like we've closed the book three times. we've got back and forth because I think earlier maybe earlier this is that

I feel like we closed the book and was like yeah the Timbles got it who I feel like most of that the Timbles got what most been the main one to decide the cat trade back and forth though yeah

Mo keeps deciding the cat trade I've never given a fuck about Julie's random versus cat conversation going into the playoffs who did you think won the trade what this year's wayoffs yeah uh man

oh maybe only because I never really spoke on it like that for this year's way else, but going into it, I guess you could say like the Knicks because they're the most up and they're still around. But I think a backdoor sneaky thing about this that people tend to forget is like cap reasons. The Knicks are going to be in fucking hell.

The Timberwolves are not going to be in hell at all. Great. I love their cap flexibility getting them out of here in the second round. That's why the yonest thing is like so impending, you know. Is that meme of the rockerset using cap flexibility? Exactly. Literally. Big cap room coming to the rescue in the second round to win the series.

It's the ugly answer, but it's the truth. Not even cap room. Flexibility. It's ideas. Not apron paying. Yeah. All right. Jalen Williams gets traded when it comes to, when it comes to extend A.J. Mitchell's contract.

Skip the word there. Jalen Williams gets traded when it comes time to extend A.J. Mitchell's contract. You got to punch him to be. Yeah. Yeah, I was disrespectful. It's cool, but I did skip a word. Or two, maybe. I don't know.

No, but that was why I said, you missed the spot. Literally. It's that wild? I don't think it's that wild. There's somebody misses the spot. They missed the spot. It's just an observation. I didn't say, fucking, get the spot better.

Would you say that to your barber? If you missed the spot. If you missed the spot. If you're missing spots. God. There you go. You sell. disrespect.

I'm on your side. barber again if he misses a spot. Is it crazy to say that should trade J. Dub to make financial flexibility and empower AJ Mitchell? In this moment, I can see why people are saying that because A.J. Mitchell is ascending because we haven't seen J. Dub in the playoffs and Chet has been playing very well. So there's an idea of like you can get off of him. You can still be flexible.

AJ Mitchell's contract is still, you know, one of the best contracts in the league. I think they need the trio of Shade, J. Dub, and Chet and you move everything else around there. Shout to AJ Mitchell and his ascension. They can find out other pieces around AJ Mitchell. You said it real well.

I can see why people are saying this right now. That means you can identify the reason. And the reason it is these motherfuckers are bored and they haven't seen Jad up played a while and needs something to say because everybody always talks about this boogie man that's coming for the thunder with the second apron.

They are fine. They can have all three of them and be totally okay. all you do is ship Lou Dort to Shanghai and they'll be all right financially. He's going to be in Sacramento. Good. God, you always want to put someone in Sacramento. They got to get good.

They got to get good. He's done it. They've got to get good. I'm starting to feel bad for them. God. J.J. Reddick deserves to be considered at the bare minimum top 10 coach, if not top five, if not a top five one moving forward, Mrs. Spockett. This is so funny because like when you read this, you would think, oh my God, did these

guys like push okay c to like six or seven games i think i swept and belting he made shea have two slightly so far games in a row and it's like oh he locked him up i know but i do think j j redick is a great coach top ten's cool top five is probably doing a bit much he's not proven enough yet but i think time and time and time again he's shown him and his staff can do great defensive game plans to put his team in the right position now is a supporting cast around him good enough for any type of outcome win-wise to have come with that? No. But I do believe that we've seen enough that if he had one of the best teams in the league, they'd be a contender every year.

Yeah, he's definitely beaten the, he's just a podcast or allegations. They give him a good enough roster, they'll be in the mix every year and he won't, he won't let his team down. 100%. I think when it comes to, like, new coaches coming into the league and having certain expectations placed on you, no one's had a harder time than DJ Reddick because you're telling me, okay, you come into the year, randomly hired as a coach, you're starting the season with two years last year like deloszer point guard and you have anthony davis shit changes real quick now you have no bigs and you got luka who's not necessarily in the best lucas shape

a r's there lebron there you're trying to figure shit out make shit work and you get slapped in the playoffs now this year too okay you're very you're playing like luka heavy ball you're trying to figure shit out marcus marks here you're trying to like give him a chance to do all this there's so many moving parts and i think at the end of every conversation things end up over always looking better than they should have been. Yeah. It's a process of it. Would you rather have two forwards you don't trust

or one big man that you don't like? Because they had all three. Like they had, they had. And so I'm trying to figure out what version of the Lakers would be slightly better for JJ Ready for them to actually have confidence in a roster moving forward

because, like, especially last year when it really was like Jackson and Hayes or nobody at the big position. And now obviously like it's Aiden and Hayes, but you still don't super like love Aiton. Yeah. But would you rather deal with that or deal with two forwards where every time they're on the floor, you're like, oh, what are you doing? Who are you referencing? La Ravia and Ruion defense.

Oof. You get a Vando. None of the above. Give me some good players, please.