The Deep 3 Podcast - We Need To Talk About Kevin Durant | Ep. 36
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So it is Thursday, May 11th, 9.18 p.m. Pacific time.
And as we're recording this, the Phoenix Suns just got their season ended in the most embarrassing fashion for the second year in a row by the hands of a European star.
What are y'all thinking right now?
They're getting a back blown out right now.
Straight back shots to the liver.
Like, it's insane right now.
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
Oh, my God.
That's tough.
for those who somehow don't know,
the Phoenix Suns just lost game five
to, or game six, I'm sorry, to the Nuggets.
They were down by 30 at halftime,
and I don't even know what the final score is
because we're recording it's in the fourth quarter
because that much real blowout.
And it is just the most embarrassing loss
of a second year in a row.
Essentially the same thing that happened in them last year
when they lost to the Mavericks in the conference finals
or in the second round.
I can't get anything right.
Basically, this team is on fraud watch.
Oh, no, no, no.
Every seven, he cut the lead to 27.
They are not on fraud watch.
They are not on fraud watch.
They are fraudulent
For sure
They are they're fraudulent
And I don't even
I don't even know if it's like
This is back to back years
That you have come out
With your season on the line
At home
And you get embarrassed like this
This is just a part of your DNA
So I don't even know
I don't I don't know if we can call them fraudulent
This is
This is who they are
This is
You're right at a certain point
People tell you who they are
And you got to listen
Exactly
Yeah
Oh
No they're done
They're done
I told you guys
I think that the championship window is closed
I think that it's done
I do I do
I think
again
DeAndre Aitin is walking out the door
before anybody else does tonight
and he's on his flight to Cancun before
everybody else
Chris Paul is going to age
even more over the offseason
and it's going to get even worse
than what he was this entire season
and the same thing
that you saw this year
is the same thing that happens like clockwork
he's going to get hurt in the playoffs
you cannot trust him so what are you going to do
when Chris Paul's hurt again
when Kevin Durant is hurt again
and when Devin Booker's not making 80% of his shots
you are going to get folded up and packed up
in the second round every single year
they're done they're done
man listen I have a lot to say about this topic
before we go to that and we just like
obliterate this organization from the top down
I will say Devin Booker proved that he might
be pushing like top 10 player status this series
he like you said
when Devin Boker's not making all the shots
that's because he made all the shots
this series he was incredible
so before we say all the negative stuff
let's go and put that out there
respect
respect for him
everybody else
listen here
Kevin Durant
is under the biggest
microscope I have ever put on Kevin Durant right now
he's a suspect
of what did you see
fraud watch
that's what he's suspect with the fraud watch
this man Kevin Durant
last year
listen I don't like to get super hyperbolic
and in the moment like this
But last year, he got swept out of the first round by the Celtics.
This year, look at those box scores and just the boxers.
Even if he didn't watch the games, this was not a good series by Kevin Durant.
And if you watch the games, he was incredibly passive.
He was Devin Booker's sidekick, which is okay because Devin Booker's a lead ball handler.
But Kevin Durant was straight up not good in almost every facet of the game this series.
I don't know what this says about him, but it says something.
It says that he's not.
I feel like coming into the playoffs, even though they can.
was hurt, there was a legitimate argument for the way that he was playing on both ends of the
floor that he could probably be maybe the best player in the world. Like if, like if you really
wanted to make that argument, there were ways around it to where you can do that. I think that he
was comfortably in this like four-man tie for second. That's over. That's over. That's over. There's,
there's better players than he is. In this game alone, I'm looking at the box score right now. He hasn't
even attempted a three and I think that that's that's crazy right that's like regular season jimmy
butler type stuff where i'm just i'm just not going to do it and it's listen if you're not
chucking threes when you're down by 30 i don't know when a better time to do that is and see i don't
even care about that earlier in the series he was chucking a lot of threes and not making them
and it was like he got scared his shot selection because you know he's automatic in the mid-range
and it seemed like it seemed like he was in his head this series
which is like he was very passive
in a way we don't usually see from Kevin Durant
Like yeah Kevin Durant
He's always a guy that flows within the flow of the offense
And can kind of like
He'll go six minutes
Without taking a shot and frustrate people
But that happened way more than usual this series
And we didn't see the positive swings
That you normally see
There was a couple of games
Where him and Kevin Durant
Him and Devin Booker
Had like a million points each
Because they had a will their team to victory
That was impressive
But around that
Those beginning of the series and end the series
Not encouraging
Yeah absolutely
it's like it's like you just start slowly just like deteriorating in front of our eyes and it's just sad you know
yeah he's had like literally his NBA career over the last two years has been the definition
of a roller coaster I haven't seen in there have so many highs and so many lows it's such a short
amount of time you know like you went from NBA fans saying oh he's like
like a half two sides up from winning the NBA championship a couple years ago to
getting swept and also going out in an embarrassing fashion for the second straight year
except this town this time in the second round so now it's like hey man listen life is tough
when step curry is not next to you all right oh my good life is life is tough it's complicated
it's not that simple right like on one hand he has been highly unfortunate with his co-stars
from the Kyrie situation
to James Hardin's leg falling off
to Chris Paul falling off
Kevin DeAndre Aden missed his game
Like he has been highly unfortunate
With those around him
But listen you made the bet on Kyrie
Who was inconsistent
To put it lightly
You made the bet on Chris Paul
And Devin Booker
Half of which is old as fuck
Like he's
He made his bed
And now he's laying in it
Like it's exactly what you expect
It's happened
Like Donovan said
This is going to happen
Every year of Chris Paul
Because it's happened
Every year for the last five years
It's not surprising
That's crazy
I don't know what he did
What what type of karma bad juju he has
Chris Paul is the unluckiest person in the league
That's ridiculous
Yeah
I can't think about Chris Paul though
At least he broke his
Addiction that he had about going to the finals
That shit is not happening ever again
Two years free
For those who don't know after
After 2021
In interview Chris Paul was like
I'm addicted to going to the finals
It hasn't been back soon
That man is so
Yeah, so forth as fuck.
I'm joking.
I'm mostly joking with all the hyperbole about Kevin Rand
being a fraud and all this,
but like there is a lot to unpack with his son's team right now.
Like you said, you think their championship window is closed.
Yes.
I don't think I'm going to go there.
But I don't know, before I get to that, Mo, what do you think?
What's your big takeaway about this team without the jokes?
My big takeaway without this team is like,
there's something serious internally that needs to be reworked and I'm looking at
Monty Williams and it's about that time it's that season NBA where like coaches who
got an embarrassing fashion especially Monty Williams right now like of course
you're using two stars or whatnot but like it's okay to lose but not in this fashion it's
never okay to lose in this yeah on your home court too back to back years home court
back to back years that just can't happen bro so I'm looking at you
part exactly that's a challenging part um and it's tough because you know he's like a good coach
and he's helped like revive a lot of the things that they've had going on but whatever it is
in this locker room like i don't know there's just so much there there's just so much there
to unpacked but with this game specifically you lost to it first was luka last year they only
scored 27 points
at halftime
to
Dallas was 57
and now they scored
only 51 to
oh my god
to their 85
so you want
okay
yeah
80 points in our first half is
crazy
yeah it is terrible
it is terrible
they went out sad
that's all you said
they went out sad again
yeah
I know like you say it's tricky
because like I struggle to like
logically unpack this
because on one hand
they were down to
starters and they're not a deep team they have four really good starters and a bunch of
mid so if you lose half those really good starters you're not going to beat the best team in the
conference so like absolutely i don't want to act like they said a chance tonight because they didn't
we all knew that they were fucking cooked like roasted what was really wrong with dandre a
what did he do he has a rib contusion yeah what did you hit real hard the ribs and it hurts
to reach up and limit your mobility you know it's kind of hard to play through that oh okay
I didn't know he was playing hard enough to get hitting the ribs okay
Cool.
Yeah, I guess it's fucking hell.
Everyone's joking saying like, oh, they're better off with that.
I don't give more Londale minutes.
But when you have six above average players, maybe, when you're down, just losing any
of them and forcing more bad players to pull more minutes is never good, even if that good
player is being disappointing.
So how do we parse this with the routine that was down two stars, or two starters, and
had no chance of being this team, but also it was incredibly embarrassing and there wasn't
a lot of encouraging science for the future besides
Devon Booker being a god.
Like, what do we take away from this?
You know, like it's like the jokes are the jokes,
but like I don't know what to learn about this team
from the series.
The takeaway is that
I think like last year,
last year you look at their exit
and it's like, okay, like obviously
it's embarrassing that should have happened,
but they're coming back, you trade for Kevin Durant.
There's still a pathway forward.
Like Moe said, there's a lot
that has to be reworked.
And I think that obviously, like, not tearing the whole thing down to rebuild, that's not the answer here.
But you're going to have to be some foundational changes, whether that is trading Aiton, whether that is firing Monty Williams.
You're going to need one or maybe two big splashes because the way that the sun's got here, even before Kevin Durant, they had a lot of good depth, right?
Devin Booker is Devin Booker.
you have Chris Paul that's able to orchestrate the offense.
And now when you have the high-end talent of KD,
you have the high-end talent of Booker who ascended to another level this entire series.
Oh, yeah.
All playoffs.
Right.
But you don't have that,
you don't have that depth around them.
You have to figure out how to retool.
And the way that they can do that,
considering that they traded all of their draft capital to get Kevin Durant
is by moving DeAndre Ait,
who is their best, you know,
he's the best asset on the market.
What top of asset is he now?
How much is he worth?
I mean, listen, I don't know.
I don't know.
I think it's good.
I don't know.
But like at the same time, like, if I know that my star player or the guy who I want to be like a foundational piece of my organization, if I see him acting like this in a place like this, you know, where he's not asked to do the superstar things that he thinks he can do, but just the minimal things, how much are you really willing to invest in a player?
Well, so it's going to be.
So, okay.
First, Donovan, I agree.
I think the takeaway is
this team has to retool in some way
and I agree it's Aiden.
So I'm saying that, Mo, if you, as a Hawks fan,
if they were to offer Aiton and whatever else,
Clinton is gone. Clint is gone.
Clint is gone.
Clint and John Collins. Would you do it?
Clinton and John Collins?
For Aiton and somebody else?
For the team that I have,
I don't know because Trey Young
is a particular point guard
who doesn't necessarily,
he needs a lot of threat.
And Aiden's not down on this basis.
I got you.
So it'll be tough.
But something like that.
Imagine whatever the team is.
I'm looking around the league right now.
Charlotte Hornets.
They have young big, so maybe not them, but something of the sort.
There's going to a downgrade at center who's still usable plus a wing for Ait.
I think that's the path forward.
Because as doom and gloom as this isn't as embarrassing as a loss this is,
I don't think they fire Monty Williams.
He's a great coach.
Their players really respect them.
You can't fire him because you had two starters out, you know?
And they're playing the best team, so you weren't going to win.
and if you go outside you go outside
but they weren't expected to win really
I mean they had a chance but it's not shocking they lose
but with that being the case
you still have KD and Booker for the next three years
that alone is a very strong foundation
that's KD plus Kyrie but to a higher level
they had the middle of exception to sign us
another wing to replace the J. Crowder hole
can they move Chris Paul?
No I don't think Chris Paul is movable
okay well to keep him then and he just plays a smaller
and smaller roles but yeah
You have to keep him on there.
So you get rid of him.
Let's say they do a sign and trade with the Raptors
and get back Yacopoldo and Gary Trent,
who are free agents.
I don't even think that's possible.
But something like that.
So you have Chris Paul,
Devin Booker, Kevin Durant,
Wing,
Yacopoel, or Gary Trent,
Yacopold.
Does that team inspire you at all going to next year
with a full season to rebuild
around these two stars?
Not at all.
Not at all?
A little bit more.
I think a little, yeah, definitely.
I'm on the completely different end of you, Donovan.
Me too.
Why do you say not at all?
I think it's a good starting five, but if you're looking at everything that they had today,
and obviously, like, people would slide down in the, in the depth chart if you got those guys.
But they're playing guys, they're playing Bismack.
In 2023, Bismack Biombo's out here getting minutes.
And you got Bismack Bianbo, Terrence Ross, Tori Craig, T.J. Warren, and Damien Lee.
like their bench is trash and then campaign
campaign decided to have the game of his life tonight when it didn't matter
like if if campaign did regular campaign things they would probably be down by 40 right now
but he had he was he's 12 of 16 what the heck he's 12 of 16 from the floor
campaign had 31 points tonight he was cooking he was cooking no no he was it's ridiculous
but like campaign does not inspire me on a day-to-day basis right landry sham it and all these
other guys, the bench still doesn't inspire me to, if we're talking about championship, and if
you have Kevin Durant and Devin Booker, that's, that's the goal. But you also need a bench in
order to get there, and I don't see it with, with the moves that you guys made. Yeah, but also
I keep mine, they're going to get ring chasers and, like, decent veterans on minimum. So, like,
they're going to have a chance to rebuild with that in mind. You know, it's always much easier
to rebuild the summer than it is at the trade deadline after making a big move like that. So,
even if it's not like flashy names you got to assume they're going to fit better
around a team that knows they need wings to compensate for losing the two they lost or really three
they lost the deadline to get Kevin ran in the door so some benefit of the doubt needs to be
applied there but I got to think about how much I don't know I just I just don't see it
yeah okay when you say don't see it are you saying you don't see them being like a top-end
contender because they're going to be a good team obviously with Kevin Durant and
Devin Booker like that's not really debate that'll be a five seat there'd be four or five
C.
So you're saying there's nothing that they can do to, like, raise their ceiling for real.
I mean, they have to make, they have to make, like, a lot of lives.
They're going to have to play 2K over the summer to make the kinds of moves to get back to
where they want to.
And I, even if you don't win, because I did not expect them to win tonight, right, for the obvious
reasons, right?
No, no Paul, no Aitin, obviously, like you, I expect you guys to lose by double digits.
it's the effort level that's really concerning
and it's back to back years
and it's like you guys
it looks like you guys quit at home
in back to back years
and I can't get behind that with you guys
see the question I have
is this relatable to the last year
because on paper it's two blowout losses
like it's clearly a link there
but the circumstances are materially very different
you know what I mean like last year they were fully healthy
and just got pissed on
this year they don't have those two stars
KD's a new denominator there
There's like
Not the same circumstance you know
But like it's a it's a little bit of both
I think they still would lose
But it's their loss is just like on crack
It's straight up amplified now that
Aiden's not here and CP3
CP3 is not there
But even then it's like
I'm just gonna say no like it's it's a bad loss
But it just looks even worse that like
There's so much shorter on the talent
And the things and
now like who's the backup
it's just a lot
how many bad losses can you take though
before you just start looking at them
and you're like guys like what's happening
what's going on
things of what is happening
like it's weird as fuck isn't it
like it's basically like
they're a good team that is
relatively good at handling adversity
they're not usually pushovers
but when it comes to getting closed down
in these series they just turn it off
like as a whole
top down no matter what players are on the court
isn't that weird
Like it's not even a lot to take from that like it's there's no precedent for a team like that
I don't under I don't understand it
It's fold under pressure but this is very specific type of pressure
It's weird, right? Like it's all I can say is like the more I think about it like no
It's just happened. It's very abnormal
Good if y'all were the Brooklyn Nets and if it's your line again
You guys should know where I'm going with this and you know if you dangled
DeAndre Aiden for Nick Claxton and they have hello wings let's say during
Dorney Finney Smith
Would you accept that if you're the Nets?
Claxton and Finney Smith
That specific combo player doesn't move me
For a fit next to Kevin Durant
I love what Claxon did this year
But you know what maybe
Maybe I don't know
Finney Smith is currently on fraud watch too
Because he was so good next to Luca
And playing on that team that had no creators
Of him to play off of he was really bad at the Nets
But maybe no maybe he's a tough player
thrives next to stars so if it's the finney smith that we got next to lucca maybe but tbd yeah i think
honestly that that's an a real on it that's a real honest option that you have there um because
player like dorian phiney smith junior like you just need a team with either a main creator or
multiple creators to free you up because that's just not his bag that's not his DNA to do anything
remotely close to anything on the ball and as for nick claxon like he'll do
all the things that DeAndre Ayan complains about doing as well.
Yeah, yeah.
So that helps a lot.
I do have worries about,
like he's just not as big of a body as John D'Henian.
I want to pick.
Boards will not come as easy,
but I would love that.
I'd want to pick back too, I think.
I think you're going to pick there.
Maybe you give them sham or something that it's cool.
But I don't know.
There's a lot to unpack.
We're going to be unpacking this sudden thing for like the rest of summer,
trying to figure what's next for them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think we should talk about the nuggets at least a little bit,
because we're just glossing over the fact
we're acting like the Sons beat themselves
when really what just happened
is we saw, I think
Nicole Eau could solidify himself as
not a defensive liability,
not a regularism player, but
a legitimate playoff riser who is maybe
the best player in the NBA who just packed up a team
everyone thought was going to make the finals.
Now he's here. He's here. He finished with a 30 point
triple double again and it's just like
I think that the
Nuggets right now are the clear favorites
to win the championship.
got to be i think that they i think that right now they i think they they're my pick going
going into into the final four i would i would pick them and i think that they're going to walk away
champions it's just they they look so connected and everything that they do every pass
seems so crisp and with yokic at the helm of everything and he's just dishing and dime
there's just some reason that he just makes we're psych like like what like how do you even think
about doing that
before it happened
it's just it's so crisp
in everything that he does.
He's cut from the same
IQ cloth as LeBron James
like they're there's only two people in the league
that see things on that level
and operate on that level
with a passer and a score
where they control every single thing
that happens on the court
and bend defenses to their will
and are impossible to guard because of that
they're in the league of their own I think
I think he's legitimately one
the best offensive players we've ever seen
he's different
he's different
like what are you
Mo, where do you rank him right now off of this series?
Like, off your gut reaction, is he the best player to leave you?
A couple of months ago, I said that I think this dude, I might be the best player in the NBA.
And, uh, like this.
You standing on it?
Yeah, I kind of do stand on it.
I didn't want to because Yonis is Yonis and that's just hard.
But like, it's one A, one B for me.
Like, with just how the amount of control that Yokic has on the offensive side of the ball,
Yonis doesn't, I don't want to say it doesn't sniff that, but like, it's levels to this.
There's levels to this, you know?
And not only is, when Yolkich is on the court, not only is he like an obvious threat to give
you 30 and 35 and 12 and 15 and all that crazy shit, well, like, everyone else is on, is a threat
as well, and everyone else moves different with off the ball alongside Yolkich.
And he just manipulates the defense into anything.
There's no real defense for him.
Your best bet is, like, physicality and exactly what the Lakers did back three years ago now, you know?
Yeah.
And so the only way to defend him is if you have one of the greatest defensive players of all time and Anthony Davis,
who was uniquely physically positioned to defend Yokic one-on-one.
That's very specific circumstance.
The one way you could slow him down a little bit.
Yes, and when 80s not playing, you have to have some like Dwight Howard along with Joy Howard fucking throw Joel McGee on there who's actually usable and shit back.
It's like they had a bunch of trees in this NBA team.
today, no team has that.
And it still went seven with a prime
LeBron, not prime, but with a damn near prime
LeBron James, it still went to seven.
Yeah, exactly.
This man is different.
The fact that the narrative earlier in the season
was that he doesn't deserve MVP because he hasn't done
shit in the playoffs, when he was playing
with Campazo?
Compazo?
He couldn't be the Warriors with Campazo
and we were acting like it was a fucking travesty.
What the fuck were we talking about?
Kendrick Perkins is going to jail.
Yeah, it was the nastiest narrative work
I've seen in a very, very long time.
They did all that just to go.
It's generational.
The narrative work was generational.
I can't believe it, man.
So, no, they're great.
You told us, you think the nuggets are your favorites
from the finals right now.
Do you agree with that, Mo?
Do I think the nuggets are the favorites
to win the finals?
Me personally, they haven't shown us
any reason to not pick them as the favorites.
Like, our biggest are by far the biggest worry for them.
This entire postseason in the Western Conference has been the team like the Golden State.
I'm not going to say my bad.
Team like the Phoenix Suns because we thought that they were going to have Nicole
which in a torture chamber and a pickerone and all that stuff.
It turns out like none of that shit really came true.
Dude held his own and he was able to do triple times the damage on the offensive end.
And that just leads me to believe like from start at the very start of the season, 20 games and 60 games.
to now we're like, I don't know, 80, 85 games in the NBA season.
Like, they still should be the favorites.
End to end, they've been the best team in the conference.
Like, there's a low there where they kind of took the foot off the gas
that are losing games and we all convinced ourselves that, like,
including me, that the suns were the team to beat
and that the nuggets were just, like, showing their true colors,
when really it was just regular season malaise
that we see contenders do all the time.
Like you said, there's no reason to not pick them.
The only reason I'm holding a little bit of trepidation is because I think
even though they're the better team on paper than the Lakers,
the Lakers have those specific matchup advantages that you can see that being the reason
that the lesser team knocks them off.
But if the Warriors eliminate the Lakers tomorrow or on Sunday when Game 7 happens,
then I think the Nuggets walked to the finals.
They're going to stomp out the Warriors.
Absolutely, in my opinion.
Yeah.
And that was a good point that you said we thought those sons would expose them
because if the sons of Devin Booker and Kevin Durant couldn't expose Yokic's defense,
nobody can yeah you expect do you expect me to honestly believe that jordan pool
or revive himself from the dead and dance on that man or whatever like i just can't see
it bro i just cannot see it i don't believe in austin reese to go ahead and like put
nicole even though he's really good i don't believe in that i don't believe in deanser russell
i don't believe in any of these people of katy and i believe in ad i believe in a d to kick
ass if he's oh yeah 80 80s different different conversation different conversation talking about
Just like all the guards trying to punish the Koli Okets or not.
For sure.
Yeah.
So let's use it.
So the Nuggets are clearly the favorites at the West right now.
Let's talk about the favorites at the East because the whole playoffs has basically been the Celtics.
And the other game that happened right before this one when we reacted to live was Celtics versus 76ers,
which was a crazy game where it looked like the 76ers were on the brink of eliminating the Boston Celtics in game six.
And then we saw the most, just a mid-off.
of both teams tried not to win
and the 76 is doing their thing
and finding a way to grab
they grabbed a loss from the
what's the word they
they grabbed a loss from the jaws of defeat
or something like that or they grabbed defeat
from the jaws of victory they somehow find a way
to lose even though it was a very winnable game
what do y'all think about
these two teams right now? I mean
this is classic
James Hardin and Doc Rivers
like what else can you say Donovan is
on you've seen this from like two miles
away like they're they're just a match made in heaven doc rivers is literally made NBA history
tonight he lost his 32nd elimination game ever that's historic no one's like and we've never
seen anyone like him super talented shout to him how do you do this I don't know you have
James Martin Tyrese maxie joelin beating you somehow like destroy this mess this up so
he's like Donovan please tell me why this is it like a generational seller what happened
I, okay, I've been telling you guys all season that I don't believe in the Sixers.
It's nice like this.
And it's nice like with James Hardin.
And y'all try to pressure me the other day, try to apologize to James Hardin.
And I said, wait for it.
I said, let me see it for two games in a row.
Let me see it in an elimination game.
And here you are up three, two, at home.
And James Hardin, four for 16.
over six from three
this is ridiculous
this is ridiculous
five turnovers tonight
James Hardin was
was awful tonight
and you know who else was awful
who for most of the game
oh Jason Tatum
yeah
the last six minutes
we will get to God
we will we will get to
because that was
that was one of the craziest things
I've ever seen right
but for the Sixers
I can't
I can't trust them
I think that they are going to get
destroyed in game seven
I have no faith in them
I can't wait for that conversation
I think that is
oh I mean somebody's getting
Doc's getting fired
either Maxie or Hardin is gone
they can't run this back
they can't they can't do this right
it's the same thing with the suns in that
if for multiple years
your season kind of ends
and it's funny because we're going to talk
for the next two days
about about
about the Sixers
as if they lost their season
because nobody believes that they are going to go into Boston for a second straight time
and win that game.
They're done.
They're done.
And for Joelle and Bede, you got your MVP, right?
You cried to shams about your MVP and you ended up getting it.
Congratulations to you.
You need to figure out what to do because this can't keep happening.
That game, and we'll switch to the Celtics right here like Isaac was saying,
Jason Tatum had one point for like 30.
minutes he had three points he had three points through three quarters and you guys he was facing
some generational slander on Twitter and y'all were and they were still within striking range
they should have been up by two three points three you guys are uh no no it's a but it's a bummish
performance from from the 76ers you know it's crazy I came I was ready to get some slander off
on Jason Tatum because I've always been not a hater
of Jason Tatum, but not quite a believer.
I was always thinking people were huff him
a little too much and not focusing on his flaws
enough. But then earlier this season,
he was so good to start the air. So it's hot shooting that
everybody in the comments convinced me that
he was officially a top seven player or whatever.
Like, I didn't give him respect, and I did.
I was such a bitch for that.
I never believed it. I've always thought this
motherfucker was inconsistent and
probably a top 10 player.
I never thought he was pushing top five.
I just said that I felt like I should.
I was capping.
You need Devin Booker any day over Jason Tatum now, man.
Listen, that's a conversation.
And I was ready to get three points and three quarters.
I was like, I'm about to get this off.
But in the last seven minutes, he just makes three threes and like two other two-pointers
and goes crazy when it matters most.
And like, what do you take from that?
Someone who's so inconsistent and has been all year, but when it counts, they just, he shows up.
Like, I don't know.
Don't feel good.
If this is, this is the epitome of what the Boston Celtics postseason has.
looked like the entire time you should not be going against you should not be
going total toe-to-toe with the Atlanta Hawks for six games you know I love this
team but let's be real they're serious flaws and yeah you don't you don't lose
in Boston bro but you lose because someone like Jason Tain it was not up to Pete
not up to speed and up to far with it when it comes to his consistency and
whatnot so bro like if someone like this team is gonna have the this this
amount of inconsistency and it well
all he has his inconsistencies like
Jim Brown is not doing
Gillen Brown type things or has a ball on his hand
and is moping around and whatnot like
it's hard to win I don't trust this team
whatsoever they should lose but the sixes
are just bigger losers that's all it is
and it's so weird
because on paper
this team is incredible they check every
box you would want there's a reason we saw them
as an early title favorites are in this season like
they were running away from the league
but they've just slowly fallen apart over time
for what seems to be purely purely
intangible reasons. Like, on the court, there is the part about the lineup for Robert Williams
and Al Horford not being what it was last year. Robert Williams hasn't been that good this year.
They started against the night to mix it up and it worked. They won. But that hasn't been
the, you know, just like cheat code it was last season. But outside of that, everything else about
the scene has been great. But they just keep getting worse and worse as time goes on between
October and now. Like, I don't know if it's just me, but this team feels destined to implode soon.
I feel we've been counting down for the past two years, but like, they can only,
deal with this for so much longer. Yeah, for sure, for sure. And I mean, there was all the talk
when Jalen Brown was doing, you know, some like press run. And all the talk after that was like,
oh, does Jalen Brown even want to be here? Like, are they going to move on from Jalen Brown? And then now,
now that he's made all NBA and there's that, you know, massive contract on the table, now they
have to make a decision on whether or not they want to like commit to to Jalen moving forward.
And you talk about the intangibles. This is who the, even in their finals run last,
last year this is who the Celtics have been right like they had they faced a buck's team
without chris middleton and went to a game seven with them because they couldn't win back-to-back
games ever they went in the in the series against against the heap before jimmy butler shot
they blew a 13 point fourth quarter lead in game seven in two minutes in two minutes and if and if
Jimmy's shot goes in.
This is like the biggest fumble of all time.
Like this is who they've been throughout this entire era.
And they've for, and even pre-tatum, like the one year that Isaiah Thomas was there and he was hitting, they've always been good enough or they've always been really, really good, just not good enough.
And I think until they get a legitimate top five player on their team, they're not going to exceed that.
So this is as close as it gets.
Like, you know, it's pretty hard to get better than Tatum.
They're not available.
No, it's hard, right?
But listen, everybody doesn't win a championship every year, right?
But you're going to have to get one of those guys
or Tatum is actually going to have to elevate,
but I don't think that they have it.
I'm starting to think it's more about they need a guy next to Tatum
who complements him a little more than Jalen in terms of,
you know, for years before last year,
everyone was talking about they need a playmaker,
they need a real point guard.
And then Mark Smart took a playmaking leap.
and Jalen Brown took a ball handling a leap a little bit
and they made the final so that kind of like shut that down
but I think as a whole as an NBA community
we let the results distract us in the process a little bit there
I do so think they need a better on-ball creator
just because like you said they managed to not show against the Miami Heat
they managed to beat a hobbled bucks
made us think that that flaw doesn't exist anymore
when really you just can't get too wrapped up in results
because crazy shit happens
Jalen Brown is a great player
but he doesn't compliment Jason Tatum's weaknesses at all
and I think for a player like Tatum who's amazing
but has those flaws in his game
like his predictability with the ball in his hands
he's gonna become a better playmaker
but he's not an elite playmaker that makes other people better
you need someone who can fill that role
just like Chris Milton feels that role for Janus
even though Janus is way better
yeah
I can tell what it looked like I don't know
I don't know I don't know what type of player is
up for grabs
the guy I can think of is like oh he was up for grabs
I'll fucking love him, really against anyone, Damio, or, like, of course, no brainer.
Yeah, no brainer.
But, like, and that's interesting because, like, do you, if you are the boss of Celtics,
and when you, if you do fail the season again, and as time goes on, you know, they're going
to have to extend Jaylon Brown also, like, are you willing to invest?
I saw some crazy number in order to keep retaining them, both they'd have to pay, like,
$613 million
Over five years
One of y'all can leave
One of y'all can leave
That money's not coming out of my account
The thing is
They're gonna pay them
Because they're gonna be over the
salary cap anyways
It's a crazy number
But the cap's going up
It doesn't really matter
That's crazy
It just sounds crazy
Because they're not used these numbers yet
But
They're not gonna get rid of Jalen
By their own accord
When you have two young
Homebred stars
You don't get rid of them right
But unless one of them wants out
That's what I'm saying
If Jalen decides you want out
wants an opportunity and it's tired of the scrutiny and like we've heard him kind of allude to in
the media i think it might be a blessing in disguise like they're going to be sad about it but like
it might work out in the long run but then also like when if you go back to like what you said
when it comes to them needing a lead ball handler or at least someone whatever it looks like
who excels of what tatum doesn't excel at just a solely like compliment him in his game like
i look at someone like malcolm brogden you know they got him for a reason he's been absolutely
like perfect for him you know he's everything that you wanted and then some six man
of the year type beat and honestly like I don't know I at this point I'm not thinking
like Malcolm Brogman you call him Malcolm Brogden a tight beat
I'm crying that's funny but like you go what can you do like what
can at this point do you try to like elevate Malcolm Brogden and rework
your entire starting lineup
with involving him
but if you put him in there
do you like demote Marcus Smart
or just push him to just like
I don't know it's just a lot going on with that team
yeah I don't think Malcolm Brogden is the answer there
I just think he's not that caliber of player
but I see what you mean like I mean
if maybe the world ends with them having to move on
from Marcus Smart who is incredible
and is their vocal leader in a locker room
but yeah maybe you need someone that's a better fit there
even though he has a great fit
so that's I don't think I'd want to do that
But you're right
Something has to give
Like if Jalen Brown
Were to want to leave
Like I don't know
There's not like
A comparable star
Available to market
You know
Jaunte Murray
You are a Boston Celtic
Listen
If Trey Young was on the way out
Then maybe
Maybe we'd have a conversation
Let's relax
But like
Imagine if
Who's a comparable player
To Jalen Brown's stature
But imagine that a dares
Garland instead of Jalen
Brown
A realized prime Garland
You know who's maybe
Maybe Garland's a little bit worse than Jalen Brown at the moment,
but, you know, that fit in these offensive sets
where the team just stagnates out
because Jason Tatum is trying to create
and he's incredibly predictable with the stepbacks
and can't really create for others.
Imagine if you had a truly dynamic guard
who can score and pass, creating those shots,
and kicking out to Tatum who can attack with an advantage.
Like, it's a very different team.
I think, I think, like, yes,
it would be nice if you had, like, a legitimate point guard
who can create but also a lot of this falls on tatum has to become a better playmaker in order in order
for them to take the the next step if you're going to have like that amount of usage and you're
going to be the the number one guy you have to be able to actually like create some stuff and not just
and not just like you know we talk we talk a lot when we talk about try young and how he's like
a reactive pastor and he's not necessarily like setting people up to you know directing traffic like
Yeah.
And obviously, we're not expecting Tatum to become Luca or anything like that.
But you're going to have to start making reads and start and start dictating a lot of things.
I think he's going to have to take another step.
And I think it, I think even with the Celtics core right now, he, the onus is on him.
It's on, it's on Tatum.
If they run everything back next year, the number one thing that they are going to need to take that next step is that he's going to have to create more for
the people and he's going to have to create more for jalen brown and so i think i think that they
can run this back they can potentially get even better and maybe fix some of those intangible
things but if he's going to be the guy with the high high usage like that he's going to have to
create you're right and i think that's the problem is that currently the way this team is constructed
he has to do that it's on his shoulders and i feel like that's just shoving a square peg in a round
hole we had this conversation with luka we had this conversation with luca a little bit ago where we're
like this team should stop trying to give him another ball handler to have star power and just give
him a second star that fits him better finding him a paul george you can play off ball i'm starting to fill
the way with jason tatum where we can keep talking about him making a playmaking leap but not every
big forward has to be a point forward like his game could be score the ball and play good defense
and do a little bit of playmaking so he's not michael for junior but he doesn't got to be
lebron james you know like not everybody that's not his bag like mo said yeah similar to what like
a lot of people expected
Janus to be a lot of people like
oh it handles not not as nice
ah jump shot not this and that
Mitch just go ahead and put shooting around him
and have people do
excel at things that he doesn't excel at
and it's just like simple as that
before the Boston Celtics is not as simple as that
because they're already a like
they're an elite team
but they're an elite team with minor flaws
and in order to fix those minor flaws
you might have to make seismic moves
and those seismic moves can either
A, implode on your face, or be, like, obviously, like, work out.
And the only teams, in my mind, now that I did a quick scan, that might make sense,
is like, oh, do you want to try to, like, gamble and put money on Fred Van Vleet from the Toronto Raptors?
I don't think that's a good return because I think Jalen Brown is, like, levels ahead of Fred Van Gogh.
Oh, God, no.
If it's for Jalen Brown, fuck no.
No, no.
Yeah, exactly, you know?
And then if not Daniel Brown, then, like, you'd have to be blessed to receive someone like
dameyler who fixes every single problem imaginable for that team yeah so if damy loo request
trade jaylon brown is the best that the trailblages could do so that would be a godsend for both
sides uh but yeah i just think that it's weird they're untrustworthy you just can't trust them
yeah they're a high variance team because if you don't have elite playmaking and you rely on
shooting you're a very high variance team just inherently and time is ticking alhorford's knees are
gonna be rubble soon
Robert Williams's needs might be rubble soon
that man is not standing the test of time
yeah yes
I just yeah like I keep thinking about
what Donovan was saying he was so spot on
with like the way this team's instructed
it's gonna come down to can Jason Tate
make these leaps and I just like
hate the mindset of teams which maybe
they're backed into this so they don't have a choice but
the idea of star player
has to mold his game
to elevate the weaknesses of this roster
I hate that.
I feel like you should elevate the weaknesses
your roster to fit the start player
to optimize what he can do.
That's fair.
That's fair.
And I'm going to let you know.
When you are paying somebody $300 million,
you better do absolutely everything.
Like, and obviously people have strengths
and people have weaknesses.
But once you get that price tag,
and like you said,
we're not used to seeing these numbers
in basketball yet.
And so when you look up and Jason
Tatum is making $350 million
and you're like,
you can't get four assists tonight?
Like, what's going on here?
But he can't do that.
I'm throwing out of the number.
But like, you know what I'm saying?
Like, I'm going to need you to run a picker row
every once in a while.
Like that's that, like, is that type of stuff
that's going to make people upset?
What's the ceiling of that?
Because like, he's done that in the past year and a half.
They made the finals last year,
became the top year team because he made somewhat of a
playmaking lead.
He's a very decent playmaker.
What's the ceiling of?
How much can you ask for him?
He's never going to be a great playmaker.
Like, he can't just force himself to get good at that.
You know what I mean?
He doesn't have that vision.
Like, what's the point where, at what point do you stop asking for that
because it's unrealistic and you just build around that reality?
I mean, it's now.
Like, I think now, especially whether they win or lose, I'll say this,
championship aside, you're going to have to reevaluate what you have.
And especially with the contracts coming up,
you're going to have to decide what direction you want your franchise to go.
Are you going to keep Tatum and Brown?
Are you just keeping Tatum?
Are you going to be crazy and keep Brown?
Like there's a lot of decisions that have to be made and with those come, you know,
the basketball aspect of it.
I think I think Boston has to figure out what to do to maximize Jason Tatum because he's the he's the one, right?
I think he's the one that everybody loves and everyone has the hopes and aspirations for.
So he's going to be there.
And so at that point
Once you pay him to $3.50
It is in your best interest to do everything you can
To make sure that he looks the best
And surround him with things that help him
You know the crazy part of this is
We're talking like they lost
They can still make the finals
They can still win the title
Which isn't the way of winning though
Yeah, isn't to say we shouldn't be saying this
Yeah, isn't to say we shouldn't be saying this
Because the point is that they're just so unreliable
That they could make the finals
Or they could come out and lose by 20
to the Sixers in game seven
like just no way to know that that won't happen that won't yeah you're right but you know what
i'm saying there's no way to know if they're going to peter out or make it to the finals at that point
who knows 100% which is just the uncertainty is a problem at a certain point man it just sucks
that you'd have to pick and choose between i don't want to say people have been always right about y'all
you have to pick either jaylum brown or jason 10 i've always hated that and i felt like there are
ways around that and like it feels like almost it almost feels like the Boston Celtics they'd done
the absolute best that you could possibly do to try to fill out fill in those gaps in those
holes by bringing in someone like Derek White by bringing in someone like Malcolm Bruggan he went
out on him one sixth minute of the year Derek White looks so much better in the playoffs so it's
like what else and if I agree with both of you like you do try to cater like I just said you do
try to cater your entire team towards the star player and make his job as easy as possible
in order to elevate him to success but at the same time it's like dude i done as much as i can
it possible like i'm capped out i bring in i brought in x-y-n-z dude and you're still not performing so
at that point like you either like play the waiting game and just hope that one of these years
will be your years like like we all think like we all said and agreed earlier like you can't win a championship
every year to that or you be extreme out from what i view i would view it as like being impatient
and trade away jeline brown for a potential asset that may be out there who knows what it is
it's really dependent on that but i think it's just a waiting game at the end of the day for sure
it's no rush like their worst case scenario is run it back with your two young stars like they're in a
decent spot regardless they're not just like they're sub 27 like they're still they're
still in their primes have a good six seven years of prime left in them so like there's a lot of
time so like if the worst case scenario is running back with these guys and try to get lucky one
these years that's better than most teams it's just like for a team that is in that point already
you want to be a way to meet that next leap and maybe there just is no leap you made they got to just
be who they are yeah exactly lebrani would have his first championship until it was like 27 years old
and that's like the case for most of these teams now if we're like Tatum's like 29
and we're still talking about the exact same thing.
Oh, yeah, that's wrapped.
That's a shit, sale.
You should have wrapped that up a few years ago, for sure.
You know, so I think it's just a waiting game,
and it sucks.
It's like there's such a huge tease.
Like, we know what they can be,
and they show it here and there,
but then they just revert to just, like, bastard activity.
Yeah.
It just noise everyone.
Yeah, man.
We're going to have a lot of talking about this team next episode,
depending on how the series ends.
So we'll leave it there.
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So I think we should launch this second half of the pot off by talking about the series that people are probably waiting for us to talk about, Lakers versus Warriors.
Let's do it.
Yeah.
So for everyone who doesn't know, we're going to game six now.
The Lakers are up 3-2 after taking a 3-1 lead in game four.
And game five was kind of a mixed bag.
I feel like the Lakers obviously lost.
Are you all feeling encouraged for the Warriors or are you still thinking Lakers are going to win in game six?
once whoever finds that goddamn corgi
and like unalives it
then I'll feel better
yeah
yeah
that corgi
that corgi has the keys
that corgi has the keys
yeah man
yeah so we haven't talked about it
since after game two
and after game two
was when the warriors
like destroy the Lakers
and it was like oh shit
or was that game three
no I was game two
okay game two
everyone was kind of like
oh whoa oh oh did
the Warriors kind of figured
his Lakers thing out
or they were getting back to back to normal and you know the leakers proceeded to win game three
and four in pretty easy fashion in crypto so at that point they were up three one and i think
everyone was kind of like this is the end of the warriors dynasty did that change for you after this
last game are you feeling like the warriors can come back and take it in the seven i do i i and i feel
this i feel this way with both of these series with like with the leger series and with the nick
series but it's like now that you've gotten back to a game six right
Like coming back 3-1, it's always like, okay, let's take one game at the time.
You don't have to win three in a row.
Really, it's can you get to game six?
Because after game, like, game seven is so unpredictable and anything can happen.
And it's literally like a one-game scenario.
So if you can get back to, I guess, in this case, back to L.A.,
I think they have a chance.
And like, there hasn't been anything on either side that has made me feel extremely confident.
Like, I don't feel great about the lake.
I don't feel great about the Warriors in any situation.
And so if the Warriors, who honestly played a very good game in Game 4,
it was just the ridiculous shot selection, turnovers in the last three minutes of the game.
Yeah, Jordan Pool disaster class.
If you cannot be stupid for three minutes at the end of the game,
you're going to have a chance to get back to San Francisco in Game 7.
So I kind of think the Warriors can do this.
I think they can pull it off.
I think they can win it.
What about you, Mo?
Where are you standing after this last game?
I still think, like, I think my predictions were, like, pretty much in the air.
I didn't, I genuinely didn't know who would win.
I wanted to lean towards the Lakers, but I didn't fully trust them.
But I almost leaned towards the Lakers as it's like, bro, like, last game, I missed half and half of it.
Like, I feel like during the second quarter, woke up, like, towards the end of the fourth.
And I'm like, yo, how did Dremont Green score 20 points?
How was the last time he did that in a playoff game, especially.
I don't remember.
Closeout game, Dremont is real, though.
It was just the other night.
He had 21, just the other night.
Really?
Did he?
Yeah, he did.
Yeah, yeah, I remember now.
He's done it twice this series.
He's, listen, he's like, he's low-key been on go mode.
Like, he's.
Drey-1 on-go mode.
He's been here.
He's been here.
He's been scoring.
Yeah.
But them, I mean,
If Dremont continue the top of things that he's been going,
Clay has been having like a super up and down series.
Jordan Poole is just complete cheeks, buns, two cans of bounce that ass.
Any whatever verbiage you want to throw in there, he's that, that bad.
So I think I trust in the Lakers to close this out.
They have two chances to go ahead and end this series.
And I have a hard time believing that, like, you know,
LeBron wouldn't be able to do this,
and AD won't be able to do this and whoever steps up, whether it be Austin Reeves or
Rihamira, Dennis Trotor, or DeNor Russell, who's been so bad, like he's been so bad as
of late, but this is just who he is.
One of those games in crypto, though, he went nuts.
Remember he started the game scoring the first 12 points of the game?
Yeah.
And then the past two games has been relatively quiet from him, so.
But that's kind of what you expect from Dilo, right?
Like, I think the reason that he is trade so often and isn't a, you know, high quality
player of high values because he's inconsistent and you can never know what you're going to get.
he's basically a flashy role player
and role players are role players
because they're inconsistent
sounds just like Jordan pool
that's not totally surprising
listen at this point
he might be the very very rich man's
Jordan pool which is unexpected
that's tough
what do you think about this year's going forward
I think the Lakers are going to win
in game six
I think
when Lakers don't have 3-1
nobody should have expected
the Lakers to win it in 5
is the Warriors at home
the dynasty with their backsings the wall
they were going to come out and win that game
there was no part of me
believe the Lakers were going to win in Golden State to close it out
I think one
there's a reason we've never seen this team lose before
the finals they are incredibly hard
to beat and teams have
desperation at that point we saw the same thing happen to
the Grizzly series into Lakers they came out in game
five and beat the shit at the Lakers
and then Lakers close it out in six
I think this is that same story
as far as like how the Warriors won
one
the pace was crazy last game and they kind of just ran
down the Lakers throat.
And it seems like they figured out a way to not neutralize Anthony Davis, but not let him
dominate the game on defense.
They're putting him in a lot of pick and roll action so he can't be the help defender
just destroying everything at the rim.
They're making him guard on the perimeter so he can't block those shots.
Yeah.
That part scares me because the Lakers can't figure out a way to not let them do that.
Game 6 is going to be incredibly difficult.
But if Darbrenham comes back and he finds his own adjustment to that, we see the
defensively dominant AD again at home where they're going to get the whistle.
everything know they're the home court advantage
I see the Lakers winning in six
yeah I can agree with that
I can that's fair that's fair
I disagree I think
the main reason why I disagree is
I'm wondering which one of the
role players for for the Lakers
is going to step up like
they got bailed out they got the Lani Walker game
that they needed right you're getting out
I mean no like Laniwarker
bail out it's death
okay
it's the truth
Lonnie Walker has not played
at all for like for weeks now and that's deaf you have good players waiting to come in when
needed okay anyway so you get bailed out you get bailed out by Lonnie Walker having the best
quarter of his career and and again you need that in playoff series right i understand that
that that happens from time to time but you already have that Austin reaps has not been
great in this series de angelo russell has been very inconsistent
dennis shrewder also is going to you know probably uh need to have like a great game
I'm wondering, once you look down the line, which one of those guys is going to be the one to step up and kind of help the lake and like push the Lakers forward, right?
And so I don't think, I know you're at home and you can kind of like expect for role players to play better at home.
But I think that the Warriors are rolling right now.
And especially what really encouraged me that they will be able to compete and win this game was Draymond's aggressiveness.
I think the fact that with the pace that they, that you mentioned, if they're going up and down and
Dremont is getting the ball deep in the paint, he's getting a guard on him, he's getting either
Reeves or shoulder on him, and he's making quick moves, getting to the free throw line.
And he's also like getting the warriors to the line and combating, you know, the Lakers whistle.
I think that helps step out a lot.
And it takes, you know what I'm saying?
Like it takes a lot of pressure off of him.
He doesn't have to score 40 every night.
It also takes a lot of pressure off of Clay.
Now, Clay doesn't have to drop seven threes for them to be competitive.
I think we're going to see a little bit of that aggressive Draymond in game six.
Counterpoint.
What's up?
Draymond can't do that because the Lakers are going to shoot 30 free throws again at home.
Because they're going to get that home team whistle.
It's just like the Warriors got the home team whistle this last game.
That only can happen if the Lakers are missing shots consistently and Dremont can get the rebounds and go.
When the game's going to be slowed down every five seconds because AD LeBron reused D lowered drawing whistles,
it's going to be hard for Jemone to do that.
counterpoint to your counterpoint to my counterpoint
They were creating fast breaks a lot
Off of made baskets and off of fritos
And there were a lot of times with the ball would go through
And instantly they would have somebody at the at the baseline
And try and push
So I think that they're going to be able to manufacture
A couple of fast breaks
So even if even if the fritos do happen for the Lakers
Which it obviously will that whistle is going to be there
The wars are they have a game plan in place
To create speed and pace for that.
themselves. Yeah, that's fair. I think from the Lakers perspective, you know, I talked about how
the figuring out a way to make 80 dominant again on defense is a hard adjustment that I don't know
if they can make. The adjustment I am positive they can make that they're going to take away
from this game is that get back in transition defense and don't let them get in fast breaks.
That's like the easiest thing that every team takes away in the playoffs. Pace never wins in
the playoffs, like historically. So that's like the one thing that I am very confident that
Darwin-Hams would make sure that doesn't happen. Like don't let them do fast breaks off of makes.
That's such an easy adjustment.
you know what i'm not confident in you put it on draymond i'm more so i'm just thinking about
clay thompson and the wild inconsistency that he has like two days ago two games ago
he shot the fuck out of them in the foot like he was with the lakers it felt like it at least
he's like he told his hey yo dad watch this this is for you shot them out of the game and so
far in this series he's averaging like 17 points on 38% shooting from the field he's
averaging more turnovers than assist it's like if you the warriors are going to do this they need
whatever game six clay is they need that playing at yeah the best level if they really want to
pull this off and he's been wildly inconsistent you know and i it's game six it's game six
so game six clay is about to show up i love how every role player we talk about on the warriors
outside of step curry we're talking about they're inconsistent because that's really the story of the
series like we're talking about a lot of this in lakers perspective
and like things they're doing to adjust to what golden state's doing
because a lot of times with any series golden state style of play is so unique
they feel like the driver of every series
but they've been the reason that they're not winning these games
like they're doing lots of things right but jordan pool crap
clay thompson crap half the time draymond ctee half the time
we're talking about these scoring games he's been playing brain dead a lot of these games too
like he's been also inconsistent like we're having moses moody hit big threes his last game
can you rely on moses moody's shootouts every single game no like there's so many dice rolls
with the lakers i mean with the warriors across their entire roster yeah exactly i feel like
for the warriors everything has to go right like step as great as he plays like he just simply
can't do it alone um and no player in the history of the NBA has a has been able to do that
and so now i'm just sitting here thinking to myself like because the wars just have a very short least
of mistakes and the Lakers can make mistakes
because they have fucking AD and LeBron
James on their team. Isn't that crazy?
The LeBron hasn't been, yeah, exactly.
I know. Like, if you were to say this a couple weeks ago
or a couple months ago, like, everything I would have
to go right, but they can miss up, you know, because
they're just incredibly deep. A lot of people
don't want to give, like, a Lakers, like, you
Donovan don't want to give them credit.
But if there's any other, what do you mean?
Just, hey, shut up. Let me get my narrative.
You're in the same shit, man.
Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey, I was not
hating, all right?
I was not hating.
I was deceived by Nonovan.
I was influenced.
Exactly.
Can't wait until the Lakers blow the sleeve.
I can't wait.
But if you're right though, you're 100% right.
It's weird that the Warriors are a team that everything has to go right for.
That's so facts.
It's last game.
They hit seven threes in the first quarter, right by 15.
Quarter ended, they were up by three.
Like, they hit seven threes, and the Lakers still came back and weathered the storm.
Granted that, you know, in the second quarter, we saw them blow the game open.
But they have to have these really hot stretches where the pace is perfect.
The Lakers' offense isn't good.
The defense is working well for the Warriors.
They're hitting all their jump shots.
We're having Moses Moody hit threes.
We're relying on inconsistent role players to be consistent.
Like, everything needs to click for three straight games for the Warriors.
Dude, two games ago, the Lakers, part of the Lakers game plan was to leave Andrew Wiggins open,
who is not like Ben Simmons from the three-point line or anything like that.
He's not the worst three-point shooter, but then again, he's not the absolute best.
he's a guardable person
and their game plan wants to leave him open
and he like, I don't want to say he shot them out the game
but he just was playing right
into the Lakers' hands and then
this last game that happened last night
there was a complete opposite shot 40%
from three so
everything went right for him
Yeah man it's
It's interesting because
Like you're saying
Wiggins, the game they had AD guarding Wiggins
So he could help off him and they tried to
You know negate the Warriors putting him in pick and roll actions
and it didn't work in game five
because Wiggins was him
like his ability to crash the boards
and use his verticality at the room
to get rebounds and putbacks
it was crazy
so to give the Warriors credit
Steve Kerr's making hell of adjustments
every single time the Warriors have a move
Steve Kerr is doing his job like
we're really seeing a coaching duel right now
between these two coaches
so which one do you want to bet on
you want to be on Darwin Ham or Steve Kerr
probably Steve Kerr
so that's tough
I'm taking Steve Kerr
I would be easy
yeah I definitely go with Steve Kerr
because I mean the track record and history is there and I think he makes I don't question a lot of things that he does something sure every coach questionable but I think he's warriors fans question the fuck out of him I know it's also he's Hitler it's so stupid it's so dumb it's half on Steve Kerr but like Moe was saying guys just have to make shots and Clay Thompson you have to show up like Clay Thompson of the last three games and this is from game three four and then five 15 points nine points ten points
damn please please you are you're about to be disowned by the splash brothers like you're
you're not doing your job if he can have if he can have 17 can if he can have 17 points
that would be good enough for step curry to to you know create as much offense as possible
and get the words over the hump they're going to need somebody else to be this to be the second
star somebody else has to score 20 you hope that it's clay and that and that his threes can kind
space the floor out you know create driving lanes for everybody else but i don't know but at the
same time like step curry might be the best step curry that we've seen since 2016 so he's been
incredible you know so i i still want to bet on him and i still trust him and that game step had
that game step had 12 assists i was just watching that like can you fucking believe there's a
narrative when people talk about all-time players that step isn't a point guard or isn't a good
passer just because he plays in this
curses system that doesn't make him
spam picking rolls like it's such a casual
take it's so stupid
lazy he could average if
if he was if you put Mike
replace James Hardin
with Steph Curry back in those
like heavy spam pick and roll
days one-on-one basketball days
good grief dude he's averaging easily
like 35 and 12
for sure
yeah and people are just don't know what they're looking at
like I was saying Warriors fans love to
hates Steve Kerr and think they need to fire him.
He's never lost before the finals in the entirety of his coaching career.
Like, you guys are fucking idiots missing the forest for the trees.
He's literally one of the greatest coaches of all time.
And they just, it just shows you that there's a weird thing right now on Twitter
where every fan base hates their coach and thinks every coach is bad.
Like if you look, if you just want on Lakers Twitter,
you would think Darvinham is the worst first year coach of all time.
Meanwhile, he's in a coaching duel with Steve Kerr and winning a lot of these matchups.
people just don't know how to evaluate coaching at all yeah exactly and like we've seen so often like
a lot of teams have major disappointment and so far through step through steve cur's like track
record he hasn't had that playoff now of course having the team that he does have like helps
a hell of a lot but there's ways that you can mismanage the fuck out of your talent ask mike ludenosa
that's a prime example even him though he got fired two years after winning a championship like
The narratives around coaching
You're so crazy
They had to make a change
Granted the team fell apart
You can't roll that team back
Just chemistry wise
Something has to give
But like the leash on coaches
And the evaluation of coaches
Is this weird these days
Is this with the 90s
He would have been
Had a job security
For 10 years after that
Oh absolutely
He wouldn't have to worry about
Which granted
That's probably the other end of spectrum
That's too much
But it's just
We're definitely in a weird
situation for coaches
Yeah
I would hate to be a coach
In this day and age
It was crazy
JJ Reddick might be a coach
Random side note
That's crazy
That's crazy
So one other thing I just realized
By the time the next episode comes out
This series is going to be over
So let's get our final predictions in there
I'm saying it now
The Lakers are going to win in Game 6
And they're going to end the Warriors Dynasty
We're going to see this team blow up this summer
And Game 6 will be the last game
You see Draymond Green, Clay Thompson and Curry
All play together with the Golden State uniform
Okay
Donovan, what's your prediction?
Warriors in seven
I think
I think if it gets back to San Francisco
I would be shocked if the Lakers won
in San Francisco
I would be shocked if they won there
and I feel encouraged
I feel like they're one
they're one good performance away
from getting back to game seven
and I think that they have it in them
so I'll take the words in seven
yeah
I'm most confident in my prediction
so I get that
yeah exactly i if it does end up going back to the warriors in game seven then there's zero
chance to the lakers one in my opinion i just don't see it happening whatsoever but um with that
being said i will say that the lakers probably do have this in six i just don't imagine a world
and where like lebron is not giving a hundred and ten percent of his efforts rather than like
80 to sometimes 70 what i see in the playoffs like how he has whenever he's been at like the
warriors home for for the most part i would say so i got the lakers in six it's just no way i just
don't i just do not see the lakers going back over there and winning at that point we're going
to see another like three one lead blown and narrative twitter is going to be so nasty yep
let me tell you the script and tell you exactly what's going to happen first half of the game
you're going to see lebron do the same thing he was doing for the whole playoffs he's in a coast playoff
ball run in transition but let the other guards cook second half if that game was remotely
close. He is spamming pick and rolls
and he's using the energy he's been saving
and it's going to look like classic LeBron
versus the Warriors. He's putting Steph Curry in a pick and roll
putting Jordan Poole in a pick and roll every single
play and he's going to be the post
nonstop. They're going to see
they're not going to let AD get stuck on the perimeter anymore.
I trust the dog. You're wrong.
They're not going to let AD get stuck on the perimeter anymore.
We're going to see him go back to being a defensive presence
and probably instead of trapping on these
screens where he's switching on to Steph Curry
they're going to do more of a drop and ignore Gary Payton
and then he's going to go back to dominating the rim
and the Lakers are going to win by 15.
15.
I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
I think that I didn't see your action.
No, the Lakers are going to win his game and it's the end of the Warriors.
Wow, yeah, I need to see Seth Curry unload the clip.
He's been unloading the clip the entire time
and as long as him and his other splash, bro,
who might get his car revokes, Clay Thompson,
if he shows up, then your prediction might be.
looking bleak.
They're putting
Clay's game
put him to the orphanage.
Oh, man.
Yeah, man.
I hope it don't look dumb
because this very well
could end in Warriors and Seven
and I won't not be surprised
but you're just going to put it in the air now.
All playoffs I keep
try not to pick the Lakers every time
just like avoid my fandom
being too biased but
just lean into it at this point
they're going to win.
You're too far gone.
I keep tip of telling it's like
oh, I don't know the Warriors I win
the Lakers are going to win.
Own it, respect it,
and put it on your chest.
And speaking of fandom, I guess, is this a good time to transition to whatever Donovan team is doing the playoffs?
That's a segue.
That's a segue.
That's a segue, Mo.
Donovan, tell us about Knicks versus Heath.
Tell us about the series.
Oh, yeah, the Knicks are going to win in seven.
Oh, okay.
The Knicks will win in in seven.
Both of these three-one leaves are going down.
And I have some shame.
I felt.
No, no, not even.
And I'll tell you why.
game five was going to be the hardest game in my opinion to get i actually think it might
it might have been harder than game six um to get i don't feel even as like even though
that they were down through one i don't feel that the nicks have been significantly outplayed
by miami i don't think that the heat have looked great at all in this series i think that i think
the shooting has been kind of erratic for miami as well if you look at it
look at at like all of the stats the nix have outrebounded them they have the same amount of
steals per game point six uh differential in terms of of blocks the field goal percentage about
the same three point percentage about the same what's been the difference has been literally
heat culture the he have they've gotten every they've gotten every single loose ball they've hustled
they've hustled more they've been able to to get more of like the timely plays and and in this
series, you could talk about all the X's and O's. I don't think that that's what's happening
here. This series is very, very, like, dirty and muddy, and it's just, like, slow. It's a rock
fight, like, just the entire time. And there's a couple plays that decide the game. I think that
the Knicks got their swagger back in game five. And, like, first off, the play Quentin Grimes
made, where he gets body checked by Bam at a bio, hurts his leg, and his head. And his
hobbling over to guard Jimmy Butler
and then steals the ball from Jimmy Butler
like that those are
the types of plays that in the first four games
were going Miami's way and you saw it in
game five go the Knicks way. I think they can take
that into game six and if you get
a game seven in Madison Square Guard it
Jalen Brunson also felt
unlocked in game five
right the ISO stuff was working again
you get back to game seven I think
that the Knicks are winning because again
I don't think that the heat have played well
enough for me to definitively say, oh, yeah, they're going to win this game. They haven't played
well. They've just been, they've played better, but not well. So I think New York, I think New York
has a chance. I think that they got it. This past game was a quintessential Tom Tibido game.
You talk about Jalen Brunson being unlocked. I fucking hope he is. He played 48 minutes.
He better be unlocked. Two guys, two guys, two guys, him and Quentin Grimes both played 48 minutes.
48 minutes. And listen, RJ Barrett had 26 points. He shot the ball 17 times.
Can you rely on that?
Probably not, but that's what you need in these type of games.
You need world players to explode.
And if you look across the aisle,
Jimmy Butler shot 12 times, 19 points.
We're going to need to see him have his version
of what Jalen Brunson and RJ Barrett just did,
where they just unload the clip and play all game.
They need that from Jimmy Butler.
And I know he's hobbled isn't 100%,
but we're going to need one of those old-fashioned bubble.
We get the pictures of Jimmy Butler,
bent over tired because he's giving his heart out.
He needs to do that this game.
It's not what work, though.
It's not going to work.
I think, like, listen, also, Duncan Robinson came alive in game five.
Him and Caleb Martin both came alive from three towards the end of that game.
I don't trust both of them to be on from three.
Like, that's not happening again.
And so I don't see a way where Miami, like, blows this game wide open.
Obviously, if they win, I'm not going to be shocked, right?
Like I said, they've been able to, to continue.
controlled the pace, it's felt like they've been in control a majority of the series, and
it felt like New York has been kind of fighting uphill. But the Knicks, the Knicks are here and
they have something. And Julius Randall also had a, he also, he had a very good second half
of the game. And there's a lot of offensive momentum for, for the Knicks that they didn't have in
the first three games. I think that they can carry it over to Miami. Mo, how do you feel about
Julius Randall right now.
13 mom and
great.
Oh my God.
I mean
I, not great.
I purposely, to be quite honest with y'all,
I purposely avoided watching that game
because I thought it was just going to be like
why are you laughing at you, man?
Anyways, I thought I was just going to be
a wash and
I remember yesterday I was in
a town in Georgia and
I was walking past by bars
and stuff like that and I saw the game was
was like a, it was not close whatsoever by Miami.
Yeah, I was outside.
I just got some ice cream, man, not outside like that.
And, uh, I come back home and I see that the game is like 106, 107.
And I'm like, what is going on here?
Why are the New York Knicks up by this much?
And I started to, I hopped on Twitter and I started to see all the minutes that
Jalen Brunson was playing and stuff like that.
So overall, like, I don't feel good.
about the Knicks.
I don't feel good about Julius Randall for, like,
one of the reasons, of course, like,
he's coming back from injury and blah, blah, blah, blah.
But, like, more so, I just don't trust the Knicks
because if this dude is supposed to be,
if not the best and the second best player on your team or whatever,
and he's saying this up that he said a couple nights ago.
Maybe I did light a fire fire under him.
I'm like, divert to y'all from what you guys saw.
But I just still don't trust them, bro.
For the little that I saw, I still don't trust them.
I think there's no reason to trust him you're right like it is those cars are j barry can shoot 25 for 25 from the field i'm not trusting him still and that's fine and that's valid
listen that that's a that's a hundred percent fair and you cannot trust him but rj since game three of the cavs series has been a completely different player than what he was in the first two the first two he was complete trash and he has turned he's turned it around he's been a very very good player he's he's driving
driving to the basket very very strong he's putting a lot of pressure on on the heat's room defense
and on top of that the nix also have another level to go josh hart has been he's been a little bit
inconsistent he's been in foul trouble right there's been nine minutes is best yeah there's been
there's been foul trouble it's been a little bit of injury right left over from the from the cab series
like as he just said he only played nine minutes if he plays 15 17 minutes in game six you're
going to get a little bit more more defense he's a he's a he's a great connection
he can knock down shots we've seen him do it time and time again i think the nicks have another
level that they can go in terms of like their desperation mode on the road and like that the game
four game four when they went down three one that that game was 100% lost because they just
couldn't figure out how to rebound and they they didn't know how to how to rebound and the three
point shots weren't falling.
Man.
That's kind of moved a little bit closer to the other end of the spectrum, where they figured
out a little bit more how to rebound last game.
A couple more shots fell in game five.
And as you keep progressing, right, you're going to be able to keep the game close,
be in a one possession game.
And I think that they, I think that they have it.
Like, I, I would not be shocked at the Knicks.
I don't, I didn't realize how bad, like, New York's.
bench has been non-existent yeah like literally like non-existent and i don't really
i mean this is like a top tom tibital special like you said and maybe it's like set up that way
for that but um i don't know in a playoff game like this like you said like jimmy baller only
you took 12 shots like when you go back to miami that is not happening he's getting up at least
24 shots so yeah i think we're gonna see we're going to see the game of jimmy's life in game sex
I think whether make or miss he is shooting that motherfucker
he's going to be shooting a lot of shots
and typically he doesn't have big cold street games
just a style of play he doesn't take a lot of threes and a lot of deep shots
like he's pretty rare he shoots inefficiently at a high volume
so I'm gonna put my faith in Jimmy Butler closing it out
but like you said it's such a rock fight that like you
it's hard to predict this series either way
I'm taking Nixon 7 I can't
I also can't think straight when I'm watching this series
So, like, I'm taking the Knicks in seven.
I cannot disrespect the Knicks.
The last time I did that, they whipped the Cavs' ass in five games.
And I and literally almost everyone else was just about wrong.
So I can't fault you for that.
I'm still taking Miami in six, regardless of the fact,
just because I just think that the heat culture and they have more depth
and Jimmy Butler is going to have a Hemie Butler type of game once again.
And, yeah, that's the way I'm leaning.
Okay.
Before we move on at TikTok time, real quick,
let's talk about the all-N-B-A teams that has got released.
Oh, yeah, let's see it.
Because it's an interesting philosophic with a bait to be had here.
So, for all-D-Zee, the third team,
all-three all-N-B-A teams are put out.
100 voters gave their votes, and this is how it went.
Third team is Damien Lillard,
who is outside the playing race,
Dierrin Fox, LeBron James,
Julius Randall, DeMontas-Sabonis.
Pretty shock, right?
I think Damien Lillard probably deserves it,
even though his team is pissed because he was so good.
Yeah, arguably the best team of his career.
I don't even think it's arguable.
I think it was definitely.
Second team.
Stefan Curry, who's there because he missed a lot of games?
Donovan Mitchell.
Jimmy Butler,
Nicola Yokic, Jalen Brown.
I thought Donovan Mitchell would be first team,
so it's a bit surprising to see him second team.
Also a little bit surprising is Jimmy Butler's second team.
He didn't have the best regular season in the world.
And he wasn't even an All-Star
A good amount of time as well
Yeah, he wasn't even an all-star
Yeah
Wasn't even an all
Oh my God, bro
But whatever
This Jimmy Butler
No one's in a throw fit
LeBron probably would have been there
If he didn't miss time
So be it
First team
Because he said
Donovan Mitchell wasn't there
Despite being the third seed
And having the best season
Of his career
First team is
Luca Donchich
Joel Embed
Jason Tatum
Yannis
And Shay Gildas Alexander
Shout out Shay man
That is crazy
Shout out of Shane
Shout I said I say I love I love say I'm a big fan
I probably I would want to give him my vote
I probably would not have voted him though for first team
Me neither but I love him so I'll let it slide but yeah I definitely would have voted Donovan
Mitchell considering his team was a three seed and he was incredible but as a Shea lover
I'll let it happen yeah I think Shay like I don't know it's
off for debate as to like who had a better season I think like
because Donovan had so much more
a lot of help on his team
and the things that he needed to orchestrate
like his stats are not going to be
just naturally that impressive
but overall when it comes to like just overall
season he dropped like 71 points
this season this season he did he had so many
classics this season so many moments
and yeah I understand
I love that they're giving Shay respect
but this is this is messed up
this is criminal
this is offensive
I don't know if I'm going that far
But it is weird because
You know
It's been a precedent for years
That team success matters in all NBA
Just like it wasn't MVP in All-Stars
And we're seeing it kind of go away a little bit
Because people are learning that
It's a team sport
And you should probably reward individual dominance
Even if their team sucks around them
And it holds them back
But it's strange that both first team guards
It didn't make the playoffs at all
One didn't make the fucking play in
But he was so stupendous
sure, Luca can still be there, he's Luca.
A little bit can be 13,
Luca can be first team. I guess I get it.
But shaving there, also not making the playoffs is interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You kind of have to put Demits there.
Or J-L-Brown, maybe.
No, I would.
First team?
First team, no.
I mean, he was a 27-point-per-game score on the one-seed,
or two-seat actually at by the end.
Like, it wouldn't have been shocking.
It's kind of the same situation as,
Donovan Mitchell
I would not consider
Jaylen Brown to having
one of the two best guard seasons
in the league. Me neither. Me neither, but
you know what I'm just saying they're arguing if you had?
Am I doing that? Also, what we're on the subject?
Andy Davis
right? Kind of kind of stuff like
he played the same amount of game. He played one more
game than LeBron
and there's a lot of people on
this list that didn't play a lot of games
or that missed a lot of games this season
and throughout the entire year
all of us were saying
that Anthony Davis was having
like a career year
and kind of look like him
it's kind of interesting
that he was left off
I don't think it's interesting
because it's not surprising
because I hate people
like all the media of the media
but like the media
weirdly hates Anthony Davis
like y'all saw the NBA on TNT last night
and ESPN this morning
they were straight laughing at him
for having a concussion
or having a fear of concussion
yeah like the narratives around him
and the way we talk about him
in his body is so weird that people have like such a disdain for him for getting hurt so often
that it doesn't surprise me he wasn't even an all-star which is crazy yeah what do you guys think
about john not making the list it makes sense it's a blanket blanket rule no blickies
so it's how it goes no i mean i i i could it was going to be him or diaron fox for the last
spot and i think everyone respects the shit out of fox this year like they were never going to give
it they're never going to take them off
And Fox, again, was not waving a gun on IG Live.
So, like, he's going to get that.
Yeah.
Yeah, because we're talking about missed games.
Jaws' missed games were a lot more hold against themable than somebody else's
misgames.
Like, twisting your ankle is one thing.
Doing what Jod did is a whole different issue.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
But, I mean, when it comes to a first team, I mean, just to make an all-MBA team from
you guys' perspective there's when it comes to things like this or just most NBA awards all
we can go by is like what has been done in the past and how players got rewarded and why they're
there all we can just look at is their track record in history so for you guys your own personal
opinion you know so like what by what has been done in the past like what qualifies a player to be
all NBA it's I look at as a comedy I look at team success a little more in this than like
all star or whatever because I
I feel like it's a combination of individual excellence.
Like you have to be impactful and productive.
Like, I'd say 65% that 35% team success.
So it matters more how good the player is,
but team success is like how you differentiate it
because there's a lot of players that average 30 these days,
a lot of players that put up numbers.
So I think like impact to winning is a qualifier there.
I like the team success aspect in this one as well
just because with at the All-Star break,
and even though that the break is like,
60 games into the season you still have a final stretch right and so this one is kind of all-encompassing
right you can have you can flip the switch at any any given time and so it it takes into account
every every game rather than just like a portion of the season so that's why i like team success
here um so like that's why and also with the playing a lot of these teams are a game half a game
behind the eight seed so like in under the old rules they would be
in the playoffs right or like they would be right around it so it's not it's not egregious that
somebody on the on the 10th seed is on first team all NBA because listen the thunder they did
win a playing game right they were on the verge of going to the playoffs before they got you know
smoked by minnesota but like so i'm okay with shay there i would have honestly more of a disagreement
with luca being there over over dmit yeah but he's lucca but listen there's several guys that we
can look at it and like uh but like it's him they didn't make the play in and they traded for
kairi irving and they it was luca and kairi irving and they missed the playing and they got worse
they got worse and they were in there whenever they made the trade that's a crazy part they fell out
so that's that's where my biggest gripe on first team would be and he's the one that i would
a hundred percent replace overshay okay but you still have my all NBA though right yeah yeah
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
Yeah, he's still one of the 15 best players, like, in the league.
Isn't it crazy that in five years of his career, Lucas had four first-team all-N-B-A's.
That is insane.
First-team all-N-A's.
God.
And also crazy?
The last five straight years, Yannis has been there, and he's gotten 100% of the votes
every single time.
Not a single voter in five years has put Yonis below first team.
Man, that's ridiculous.
That is ridiculous to think about.
Look at the media.
Doing a wreck for once.
Yeah, shout out to them.
Shout out to them.
My only thing.
Like, my only thing, like, I don't know.
I sit there and I'm listening to you guys and how you value team success and I can agree with that 100%.
But my brain tells me like, okay, team success, blah, blah, blah, blah, I see Jimmy Butler there.
Why is he there?
Why isn't someone like Dr. Holiday there?
Like, I'd rather put Dr. Holliday because he was an all-star.
He played more games.
I think Jimmy Butler put up the better counting stats,
but it's not by like a huge landslide at all.
Drew Holiday basically put up 25 and 7 a game on great efficiency, you know?
So it's like, and he was like the number one seed.
So what are we doing here?
Yeah, I wouldn't have put Jimmy Butler high either.
I probably would have put LeBron over him.
Like LeBron this time and it's easy to think about LeBron now is like not all NBA caliber
because we're seeing going to be slow and injured in the playoffs playing the foot injury.
But early season, LeBron before he hurt his foot, was incredible.
he was averaging 30 like i can't see a justification for putting jimmy above him
yeah this stuff needs to be
NBA needs to start stripping votes and giving him to people like us that's what I say
yeah did you see mark Jackson is the person who didn't have luca on his MVP ballot at all
he wasn't top five oh really oh no look i'm not luca no yokech oh kish jockish oh
mark jackson wow yeah one person didn't have yokish on there and it was mark jack
he's thinking his coaching opportunities man i think i think i think last
not or whatever he said it said some idiot didn't have
Nicole Yolkic's top five in their hilarious shot that's ridiculous
that's crazy he had Donovan Mitchell in there number five but not that's ridiculous
and then he had Shea in there too or on my tripon I don't know is a she
I don't know yeah it was some nasty stuff yeah I think it was in Bid Janice
Luca Shea and Donovan Mitchell that is crazy you put someone who didn't even make
the playoffs and terrible ballot terrible it was horrible yeah man
This ass was not paying attention
Yeah, nah
You must have done that by accident
All right man
I think we can move on
TikTok time
Let's do it
Let's get into it
Let's get this
First thing we're going to do
As always
We're going to start off with the draft
You guys know the rules
And this time
We're going to do players
Who didn't go to college
So that could mean
Straight at a high school
G league or international players
So I think last time
I had second pick
So I go first
Mo second
Donovan third
All right
That's the order
I bet
So
Sit up in my chair
Let's draft NBA
Lineups with players
Who didn't go to college
Or I gotta say only
Let's draft NBA lineups
With only players
Who didn't go to college
First pick
Obviously I got LeBron James
Okay
I knew you were gonna go there
As you should
That's predictable
That's a great pick
Second pick
again predictable but i respect it okay all right we're going to double up here with my first pick
give me kevin garnett okay and with my second pick give me tracy mcgrady oh that's a nasty bucket
getter combination okay oh man give me nicola yokech oh okay i gotta get him off of isaac's hands
Yeah, I for sure would have picked them
Yeah
Kobe and Yokish is a very complimentary duo
I like that
I fucking love it
Okay, so now it's my turn again
I'm gonna
I'm gonna reach a little bit
Because there's not a lot of point guards on this list
Give me Luca Donchich
I knew it, of course
Yep
And they give me Yonis on the Cumpo
Oh
Yonis did not go to college
That's nice
That's nice
Bro is in Greece
Cool
I love that
I love that
Okay so
you got Janice
Give me
Give me Kevin Garnett
Give me the big tickets
I got him
Keep up
You were not
Who did you get attention
I got Kevin Garnett
With my first pick
Who was your second pick
Tracea McGrady
I thought
Oh no
I'm gonna gouge my eyes out bro
He was not listening
I was listening
I was listening
All right cool
All right it's okay
It's okay
So I got
Kobe and I got
Yolk it.
Still, I'm gonna rock out.
For my third pick
in this draft,
uh,
someone who didn't go to college.
Damn.
Ah,
fucking hate that I didn't pick up, bro.
Shit.
I did not do prep.
Yeah, I know.
I was blown up the toilet before this.
Oh, my God.
Oh, man.
Okay.
Go ahead and
give me,
Steve Nash for my point guard.
Steve Nash went to college.
He did? What college to go to?
We see Santa Barbara.
Oh my God. Are you serious?
Something like that.
Yes. No, no, he went to college.
Bro, kill me now.
Okay.
Let me restart that.
Yeah, I know, I know. I know.
Y'all are going to hate me.
You have five seconds.
Okay, go ahead.
Before we assign a thing.
Okay, go ahead.
For my other spot, give me, um,
Give me Manu
Give me Manu
Yeah, there we go
Give me Manu
That's tough
That's tough
That's tough
Because that was my next pick
So now I have to re-evaluate
Okay
Uh-oh
All right
Let's figure this out
Let's figure this out
On the fly
Y'all got
Backup plans to your backup plans
That's why we take forever
So
Okay
With my next pick
At my center
Give me Dwight Howard
Damn
I was gonna pick him next
Give me Dwight Howard
and then I'm going to need somebody
to run the point unconventional
but give me Lou Williams
Six man at Lou
Will Gwynette County legend I like it
I think there's a lot of better options for point guards out there
But okay
Yeah none of my business though
Professional score
Listen we're just bucket getters
That's all we do
No defense on this side
Nice
So I got a big man and two ball handlers right now
I need someone who doesn't really need the rock
But can do something with it
Give me Moses Malone
That's my center
Wait, wait
Was it in my turn?
No
Oh yeah
I just your turn
It is
Wow
Damn
Got him
Stupid
Oh okay
Yeah I'm gonna go ahead
And do it
Payback so bitch
Give me Moses Malone
I got backups
I'll be fine
I know you are backups
Go ahead
All right
So I need a big
Next to Janice
I just played you
The biggest mind games
I need to
big next to Janus. I can space the floor. Give me Dirk
Niviski. That's fine.
Pussy. That's perfectly fine.
And then I probably need another shooter
since I got the ball handlers.
Let's rush the floor. Give me Pajosayakovich.
That's good. That's good.
Okay, cool. So I got
Manu, Kobe,
Moses, Nicola, and I need another wing.
And that shouldn't be... You got the slowest front court of all time?
that shouldn't be that shouldn't be too hard to find for my wing go ahead for my wing go
ahead and give me don't do it don't you dare shit he's gonna do it I'm not gonna do it I'm not gonna do it I'm not
gonna do it give me okay for the vibes give me Andre carolinko okay okay so you have
Carolinko, Moses, and Yokic, you have no footspeed on that team.
Yeah, yeah.
My team is running up and down the court.
Okay, listen, all of my defense is in, is in my four and my five.
Because at my three, give me Rashar Lewis.
Okay.
I like that.
Shooter.
That's all right.
You got some slow teams.
Yonis and LeBron running up and down, up and down, up and down.
All right, let's see them with our teams.
I have LeBron at point guard.
Luca at Shooting Guard, Pasha at Small Forward, Dirk at Power Forward, and Janice at the center.
Oh, yeah, you have the perfect team.
All right.
I got Manu at point guard, Kobe at the two, AK-47 at the three.
Then I have Nicole Yolkich and Moses Malone.
You got the slowest team of all time.
Yeah, my team is slow, but we're going to give you them slow buckets that will irritate your soul.
I got
Lou Williams
Tracy McGrady
Why y'all laughing
I don't appreciate this
I don't appreciate that
We act like Lou Williams is not a professional
score
We act like Lou Williams isn't him
You know
Two girls one time Lou Will
That's him
That's him
He's that guy
You can have him
Okay
Lemon Pepper Lou
Let me
Okay
I have Lou Williams
Trace McGrady
Rishal Lewis
Kevin Garnett
And Dwight Howard
again
rim defense
incredible
all I'm saying is
if you didn't pick Lou Williams
you could have had a lamello ball
or Tony Parker
I think I would take
Lou over
oh you're
you're an answer for that
you don't mean that
you don't mean that
he doesn't believe that
put your ego down man
you say it with a straight face
dude
oh you don't
I'm Lou
I just realized
everybody in the comment
Pause our video.
Go watch Prime Blue Williams
Highlights right now
to remind y'all
What this guy is like
Prime Blue Williams is a bucket
I think Prime Blue Williams
Is a small lamello ball
That can't pass
No
So he's not a mellow ball
At all
Just like Isaiah Thomas
That's what he is
Y'all are disres
Y'all are disrespectful
Y'all are disrespectful
Let's move on to the next video
The next thing we're going to do
is another tier list like always
and we're going to do a tier list
of MVP seasons
okay so this should be interesting
so yeah it's an individual player
and individual seasons
and we got to put them in the tier list
so
nice slurping there
bro his soups have been gigantic
this episode
man it's taking big gulps
let's put these NBA MVP seasons
into a tier list
first off
2016 Steph Curry
S tier
easy as never seen before
you may be the best
offensive season of all time it's up there
arguably for sure
how about
2017 Russell Westbrook
that's an 8 tier
that's an 8 tier
don't yeah I think 8 tier
okay cool I thought you were
immacculent
during the last game of the season
I think he secured like the triple
double record knocked out the
Denver Nuggets from like playoff
contention and also he had the game winner
like yeah along with that
In terms of the storyline, just amazing.
In terms of just, like, impressive performances and doing the most with the least,
it's got to be up there.
But he's just not as good as the top tier guys like Steph,
so he can't be in that top, top tier, but he's damn there.
I know.
But as time goes on, if you really look at Russell Russell's play style,
career high for the 3-point percentage,
and also the team around him, bro, he was playing, his front court, nasty.
Victor Lidepo, pre-All-Star.
That was the second best player.
He was him back then.
Maybe he was minimizing him.
I don't know.
Maybe we shouldn't have had Sub bonus in the corner.
All right.
All right.
Spot up shooter sub bonus?
I don't know.
Ew.
That's Billy Donald's fault.
Or Scott Burch's house.
Whoever.
All right.
Next up.
2011 Derek Rose.
That's a B, I want to say, but A's the lives were immaculate.
It's B.
I don't know.
Youngest, youngest doesn't mean he was a better player.
One seed?
Yeah, but we're talking about him.
Impressiveness, though.
Listen, he was the one seat in a LeBron-led conference.
66 wins?
When his second best player was Joe Keem Noah?
I'm not saying he's C or D, but...
You all dang?
Carlos Boozer.
If you stack his production up next to the other...
Tage Gibson.
Come on, here.
Come on now.
Where are you?
I'm going to be.
I want to say A, but realistically speaking...
Kirk Heinrich?
Not better than MVP.
P. Russ. So he
his seasons equates to that. Definitely
B. B it is.
The vibes are. Mike Don Levy?
Guys, what are you doing? This is a great year.
It is. It's an MVP season. He deserves it.
B is not D.
I disagree.
2023, Joelle and Bede.
Do I want to say B or C?
It can't be higher than B. I think B's okay.
I kind of want to say
Listen, Joelle's going to hit me
This is a C
Yeah
This is an MVP
Won by
False Kendrick Perkins
Narratives
And an attempt to start
The Race War
It's a C
It's a C
I can't support it
I can't do this
You know
It's definitely worthy of an MVP
Like he does 100% deserves it
But compare it to other
MVP's not that impressive
So I can rock with C
Yeah absolutely
it wasn't hands down and also it felt really forced it wasn't like a wash oh he's definitely the MVP it felt like here yeah you can have it don't bother me anymore type of yeah the rest of these aren't debatable there was he was they were cleared the MVP and this is obviously debatable season easily next last one 2012 lebron james
oh 2012 lebron james is the s s tier that's for sure all of you could pay any of lebron's years in miami even the ones he did
didn't win MVP, and they would still be
S-tier MVP years.
Yeah.
God, that's crazy.
I said Steph Curry might be the best offensive season ever.
This is 2012 the Brown might be the best player ever, individual season ever.
It's ridiculous.
That shit was never seen before.
What he was doing back then?
God, man.
And y'all were too busy hating on him.
Shame on you.
That's the tier list.
People can be real mad about some of those.
I know.
The D-Rose, people are going to slaughter you for that.
Let them.
All right.
next thing we're going to do you guys are going to have to guess these NBA teams base
off their starting fives points per game so I'm going to go ahead right now and I'm going to text
you some numbers points per games and you guys are going to have to tell me who this team is
hopefully it doesn't take all year if you guys get the text
no I think I got that good Wi-Fi this time can you guess these NBA teams by their
starting five's points per game first off this one point guard 19 points shooting
guard 17 small forward 15 points
Power 4, 24 points.
Ooh.
And center 13 points.
It's a very well-rounded.
Wait, is this, this year?
This is the Toronto Raptors.
Well, that was fucking easy.
Yeah, that's the Toronto Raptors.
It had to be.
It had to be.
Look at that.
Look at that.
Yeah, it had to be.
I thought the addition of Yakupoto
would throw you off
because he wasn't always a starter at center.
Yeah.
I didn't know he had a average 13.
That's kind of crazy.
Shout to Jakob.
Jake Puddle.
Jake Puddle.
how about this one wait mode don't say nothing hasn't come in yet
hopefully we're always doing with this man's Wi-Fi I know listen one day I'm
gonna get good Wi-Fi
I got it I got it for the audio and visit video listeners
this is point guard 29 points shooting guard 22 small forward 17 power forward 8
and center 7 this has to be the warriors
you sure about that has to be that's pretty that's pretty definitive language over there
ah it might be actually i think so i'm gonna take the warriors yeah okay well it's the warriors
so i guess you're right there you go there you go if it wasn't the words i'm gonna say is this
the grisleys but yes who was dillenbrook averaging 17 nah that was the biggest tell
yeah eight and seven that that luni draymond pairing woke up feeling dangerous every night
yeah eight seven is so stark row that's crazy
All right, what about this third one?
How about this one?
I don't know what it is.
It really doesn't matter where I'm at.
All right, we're good, we're good.
All right, so point guard, 24 points, shooting guard, 11 points, small 4, 20 points, power 4, 25 points, and center, 7 points.
This is a little bit harder.
Definitely a little harder than the first two.
Yeah, definitely a little harder.
this is a man this point guard small for it and power forward thing is kind of dangerous
it's weird because i want to say i want to say the um the bucks but i just because it's like
the one three four but it doesn't fit there right janus is yonis is closer to 30 yeah it's
definitely not the bucks um a lot of like a lot of teams had three three points scores like
I mean you think of like the Washington withers who had three three 20 points scores
There's there's no way there's no way if the if this was the wizard's team there's no way they're there as bad as as they were
Imagine Monty Morris starting point guard 24 points per game
This can't be that yeah not the center is really the center is by far the worst player though on this team
I mean on the start worst score all right let me see this what
So 24 points per game and 25.
So this is a big.
Is this the New York Knicks?
This is the New York Knicks.
Wow.
Wait.
There you go.
Who average?
No way he averts 20 a game.
Don't say so.
Average 20.
He averaged 20?
Shut your mouth.
I think so, yeah.
Shut your mouth.
Oh my God.
No, listen.
To be fair, it was the most inconsistent 20 you were ever seen your life.
It's crazy.
That 20 threw me off, bro.
I thought this was a nice team.
technically is 19.6 but we'll give it to him
all right 20 let's call it 20 damn that's crazy
shot to Mitchell robinson sorry for this lander
how about this team
that's the Philadelphia 76 is right there gosh yeah
that 33 set out MVP joel
you got three points per game
yeah PJ Tucker's crazy
three points a game
washed up yeah I remember another team
team. Can you think of another team has ever had a starter scored 10 times as much as another
starter? That's crazy. That's insane. Yo, that's 11 times. 11 times as much. Wow.
This man is historic. This man is historic. One of the greatest of all times to not,
this man is historic, one of the greatest of all time to not put the ball in the basket.
He's a straight cardio. Dynamic duo. Straight cardio.
Yeah. Shout to Tyree. 20 a game is smooth.
All right, next one.
We got a little more even.
You got it, Donovan?
Yeah.
Talk me through your thoughts.
Okay.
Point guard, 26 points per game.
Shooting guard 20, small 420, power 420, power 413, and center 12.
Small 415, this is, misspoke.
Ooh, small 415, power 413, center 12.
So how are we feeling about this?
I could say this is Trey Young.
and the Atlanta Hawks
I feel like
Trace scored a little bit more
but I'm gonna defer to you
and you're in your Hawks fandom
we'll go with the Atlanta Hawks
Lock it in
Correct
Yeah
Yeah
I could tell
The way it started to trickle down
Makes sense
Yeah
Every position gets worse and worse
Yeah exactly
This is the Hawks
I know my team
I know mid when I see it
This man's a mid magician
Yeah
Alright, less one.
You got it, Donovan?
Yeah, I got it, I got it.
Point guard 25 points per game, shooting guard, 15, small forward, 13, power forward 15, and center is 19.
Now, this is tough.
So this point guard is averaging 25 points per game in the center.
It's getting up a smooth 19, damn near 20.
19 is close to 20 correct
yeah
okay
is this
this is Tirees Halliburton
and the Indiana Pacers
is this not
I thought they were much better
Tyreys is not in 25 for sure
Tyreys is closer to 2021
yeah
I thought he was like that
he failed me so for that 25
1 from game mark
there's a lot of point guards
I'd be scoring like this
yeah exactly
There's a lot of point guards.
What point guard?
Damn, 25 points.
There was a lot.
It's a lot.
I'm not sure.
Okay.
Let's start to think.
Let's start to think.
So in the West, I don't think it could be anybody in the Pacific Division because we already
got the Warriors.
Oh, wait.
Oh, no.
This is the Sacramento Kings.
This is Beam Team.
Oh, nice.
You saved that.
You saved us with that one.
I wouldn't have never a guess, bro.
And I'm just about to cross.
The bonus average only 19.
Wow.
Interesting.
Yeah, because you average like eight assists per game.
I thought it was more like 17 or something like that.
But cool.
Stop man.
Awesome.
Beam.
All right.
So that's that segment.
Next thing we're going to do,
we're going to do another type of draft that we started last week
where we draft players based off traits.
This time we're going to do point guards only.
Okay.
So if you didn't see the last episode how it works is
instead of drafting one through five,
like drafting a team,
We draft body, shooting, finishing, passing, and defense until we build a perfect player.
So last time I had the first pick, so I have third now.
Who was second last time?
I think that was Donovan.
Yeah, so Donovan's first, most second, I'm third.
Let's build the perfect NBA point guards.
Donovan, you go first.
The best trait.
Give me Steph Curry's shooting.
Yeah, it's going to be the first pick in all these.
You're all doing for that, bro.
Okay, Steph Curry shooting.
Give me the second best shooter in the league, Damien Loader's shooting.
After that, there's a gap.
Oh, okay, okay.
Damn.
Give me Marcus Smart's defense.
Okay.
Fraud.
Continue.
And then the next one,
I think I can go a lot of ways with this.
Give me Lamello's body.
Oh, okay, ankles.
Let's go.
I got a 6-7 lockdown.
He's not slow.
Yeah, yeah, he's not slow, but
What's your word?
Okay, okay
What'd you got?
All right, so it's my turn
Cool
So for
Go ahead and give me
Drew Holiday defense
Okay, I should have picked him over smart
I like that
Yeah, Drew Holiday defense for sure
Hmm, okay
I'm trying to think
We're talking point guards
Give me Drew Holliday's body
Oh wait he's off the board
Oh no you already said that
Where the rules were they're going
You already said that
I mean he can't take a player's
I literally can't pick it
Okay
I want to see you guys in it
I want a bitching a plane
All right
Give me
Hmm
Give me
Trey Young's handles
There's no handles
I forget the
I forget the categories
Body shooting
finishing
finishing passing a defense
Okay
Oh give me Kyrie finishing
Fuck I was a bit Kyrie shooting
Yeah
All right
Damn
Give me Kyrie finishing
And oh that screwed me
This is
This is tough
This tough
Because I want to pick this guy
But his body
Fails him a lot
But if we're going
No injuries
Give me Ben Simmons
Give me Ben Simmons' body.
Ben Simmons can't move anymore.
That's a horrible pick.
Bro, he's got the back of an 80-year-old.
I said-Bred Simmons dribbles like my grandma.
Listen, we'll put somebody else's handles on him, right?
But we're just talking 6-10.
Barring injury.
That's not going to make him move?
That back's right for real.
Barring injury, I will take.
Either way, he can finish like Kareen, he can shoot like Step Curry.
He can't finish like anybody anymore.
I just told you.
I just picked Kari's.
finishing.
Oh, that's a later.
Watch, when I put this into 2K, I'm beating you all on part.
I'm winning.
All right.
Go ahead.
Give me, so I have Day Miller shooting, Drew Holiday Defense.
Give me John Morant's finishing.
Oh, I was going to pick that next.
Yeah.
Okay.
Give me James Harden passing, first of all.
And then give me Shea Gildes-Alexander's finishing.
Nice.
Give me the better pass.
That's, oh, that's very debatable.
Give me the better passer, Luca Donchich.
Okay.
And that's, yeah, so that's my pick.
Ooh, now, now all I have left is athleticism slash body.
I thought Luke was already picked.
I don't know why I know that.
Damn.
You're not slipping.
Hold it.
Okay.
So I got, I got Bentham's body, Steph Curry shooting,
uh, Kyrie finishing.
Give me Tyrese Hallibur in passing.
I love that.
that oh that's a great pick that's a really good pick and give me does he if he still counts
give me dejante murray defense i think we think we can't him as a shooting guard after this
year are we are we counting him as a shooting guard i think i guess we have to yeah i think he was
labeled as a shooting guard okay i should check that okay give me give me davion mitchell's
defense i love okay that's a good i like that's a good
I love that.
That boy's a tough defender.
Off night.
Okay.
Okay, cool.
So all I have left is body and athleticism.
This is tough.
Because y'all got the good ones outside of Ben Simmons.
Who's body you want?
Relax.
Relax.
Whose body do I want?
I'm going to pick the better 6-7 guard.
guards body and athleticism first off uh kate cunningham okay okay okay okay not bad last pick
give me Seth Curry's shooting let me say it again last big give me Seth Curry's
shooting one of the better shooters in the NBA for show so who do I got I got
Lamello's body James Hardin's passing Seth Curry shooting Shays finishing and Marcus Smart
defense. Nice. Okay. I have Ben Simmons body, Steph Curry shooting, Kyrie finishing, Tyrese Halliburton
passing, and Davion Mitchell defense. Nice. I got Drew Holliday defense. Damien Lillard
shooting. And then I have, uh, whose body do I have? Oh, Kate Cunningham body. Uh, what are the
other ones again? I got shooting. Uh, Luca Donch is passing. And then, um,
Dude, my CTE is kicking in heavy.
I can't remember anything.
Yeah, I can't remember anything.
Let's move on.
Yeah, move on.
I won.
That's all we need to know.
Okay.
Next TikTok we're going to do.
We're going to talk about NBA all decades teams and which ones would be better.
So I'm going to send you guys a couple of these teams real quick that are from the official NBA all decades teams that were released a couple years ago.
So I'll just say the hook.
which NBA all decades team would win in it
which NBA all decades team would win
the 2010s or the 90s
Wardell Curry the second
you think I'm passing up on that man
along with LeBron
KD
the weakest point in this is Marcus Hall
he would be fried
he would be disastrous
alongside a key
I don't think he would a market
he didn't win a defensive player of the year right
yeah yeah
was a great defender like i mean he's i'm gonna go 20s brown though he's stolen from brown
i i'm going 20 tens yeah i'm gonna go 20 tens too just because just because john stockton
yeah he's getting cooked yeah john stockton and malone hardin's gonna obliterate him
yeah malone is getting put through the blender bro this is he don't say the chance i think about
the malone has to run back and forth with the court guarding kd on the perimeter no chance
the ball movement for this team is going
is insane, bro.
They're not going to be able
to keep up or catch up.
Barclay and MJ are going to be cool.
And Barclay is small forward.
This team does not have good defense
despite having Hakeem at the center.
Like, they're going to be slow.
Yeah, absolutely, bro.
Right off the court.
Not even close.
Modern supremacy.
It is funny that I give Jordan any mind.
Do you mention Michael Jordan?
Yeah, I know.
I mean, we already know what he's going to do.
Like, no one really talks about.
I'll join this team.
Yeah, Jordan and Bron are going to get there.
So it's really about everybody outside of them.
Yeah, exactly.
And I think everyone, I mean, outside of Hakeem is like an extra step.
Obviously, Akeem and like MJ, of course.
But everyone else is like an extra step ahead of everyone.
Yeah.
Okay.
So next one is the 80s versus the 2000s.
The 80s.
This one's a lot closer, I think.
Yeah.
Closer.
I think I'm taking the 80s.
Really?
Is that easy?
I think I'm going to take the 80s.
Magic.
Magic can dominate Steve Nass.
He's going back him down all day.
Larry Bird,
Larry Bird and Dr. Jay.
Them two on the fast break is going to be nasty.
That's going to be a very underrated fast break combo.
And this 2000 team is slow?
Dirk at the three?
Who's he going to guard?
I almost immediately think like...
You probably guard Dirk.
I mean, Bird.
bro yeah it has to be bird but you got tim duncan and dr jay like that foot speed
difference is crazy i know and mj and jordan arguably the two best players out of like their
entire these two entire teams and if you have the two best players along with like dirk playing
defense it's not looking bright yeah i'm going to i'm going 80s you're right you're right
80s for sure yeah yeah they screwed this two thousand team about putting dirk at small for
forward like that's great he is he's out of position against these really really fast guys
in the other team?
Deep fried.
That's what you did.
But is
is 2000s Kobe?
How close to 2000s Kobe
to 80s Jordan?
It was pre-prime Jordan.
Even then,
I think like
still 80s Jordan is still there.
Young Jordan was putting up
his most points of his career.
Didn't you ever 36 like a third year?
Yeah, something like that.
36 or 37?
Yeah, he was different.
And had a deep.
P-O-Y?
Still.
What he said?
And he had a D-P-O-Y in the 80s?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, what?
Damn, young Jordan might be locking up Kobe.
I don't know.
Yeah, exactly.
He was different.
The team was...
Steve Nash is wildly out of place in these lineups.
Steve Nash is getting fried.
I know.
I immediately see him and I'm like,
who is he supposed to guard?
What is he supposed to do on defense?
He might have to save his energy
and just, like,
twiddle his thumbs until it's offensive time.
He must be he might as well coach him.
this team and they play four on five will they be a good coach team no they'd be the
worst coach team yeah there's bad option versus bad option yeah it's a lose my boy
all right last thing we got before we get out of here it's a long episode donovan i think you
have another conspiracy video for us yes sir i got you i got you we did we did this like a month
ago now where we reacted in to mba conspiracy theories and whether we think they're true or not
We've got another round of them.
All right.
All right.
Are good?
Yeah.
Mo out there.
Mo out there with the big old.
Put that fucking cup down.
I know.
There was nothing in there.
I was like these.
I'm so down bad.
Nuisance.
So the hook is,
are these NBA conspiracy theories factor cap?
All right.
Let's go.
Are these NBA conspiracy theories fact or cap?
All right.
Okay.
KD joined the Warriors just to slow down Under Armour's growth.
that's insane hating are you serious
yeah
Nike sent oh he's a Nike sleeper agent that's crazy
the thing is that Nike sent
KD to slow down Steph Curry
and under armor
oh take the shine away back to their athlete
who was like they probably also
thought LeBron was going to be aging out of it soon and he need Katie
to go to the forefront that is genius
I hope that's true
I gotta be cap though there's no way
Katie would do that yeah
I was cap for sure but that's some big brain Nike
shit that they're probably like thinking about in the moment they're glad it happened yeah and he did just
get a lifetime contract and i don't know if kd shoes are worth a lifetime contract so
maybe there was some under the table type deal yeah maybe he paid it forward oh he paid it forward
he paid it forward by making that move and now they're rewarding him the back he did steal the shine
this might be fact low key okay okay yeah let's say fact i love it next one draymond was suspended in
2016 purely for ratings
No cap that man is a dick puncher through and through he's doing his whole life
They couldn't stand for that cap
It's it's cap it's cap also in the same playoffs
He kicked Stephen Adams in the nuts like you can't tell you
That's what he does you can't let him go unchecked
Yeah
What was that
I want to say sack he doesn't want to punch
Oh
Oh, my God, bro, that's crazy.
Yeah, Jamon Green's fouling highlights are easily better than any defensive player in the NFL, bro.
All right.
It has a hit stick.
Next one.
Jimmy Butler is Michael Jordan's son.
Ooh, you know, I love this one.
This is my favorite one.
Yeah, it's got to be fact.
Got to be.
Fact.
Jimmy's different.
Jimmy's never met his dad.
That's all I'll say.
Isn't that a thing?
Yeah, yeah, that's what he's based around.
There's a hole there to be filled by a certain legendary NBA player.
It makes sense.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
It makes sense because obviously background, stature-wise, obviously, like, Jimmy doesn't have the athleticism.
Almost nobody does that MJ's had.
This has to be fact, though.
Mentality, it's in the bloodline.
Okay.
Show me the birth certificate.
Yeah, exactly.
All right, all right.
Next one.
It's obviously a cap, but it'd be funny.
Next one.
Blake Griffin's slam dunk contest was rigged by Kia.
Oh, it's a car thing?
Yeah.
Wait.
How was it rigged?
I'm missing on on this one.
Kia had a new car coming out and they told Blake Griffin to jump over the hood.
And if he did it, they would give him the slam dunk contest, the championship.
They're in a cahoots of the NBA?
Yeah.
I want to say fact because that dunk was so unimpressive for the hype it got.
but
dunk contest judges
are notoriously
unreliable
and bad at their jobs
so maybe they were just like
ooh car is shiny
and they gave him a tent
yeah
now this is this is fact
this is fact
the NBA is about its dollars
and Kia
Kia got in on it
this is this is fact
I can see it
that is a fraudulent
slam dunk contest championship
I won't say I love it
I feel like next year
we're going to see Hamadu Diyalu
jump over a Tso watch
and win it
so
I can see that
jump over
He's going to have that thing on.
He's going to have like 10 watches on this.
He's going to have like 10 watches on this.
And he's going to look at the time.
It's going to be egregious.
They're going to have somebody to play some live and air,
Fandul.
Yeah.
Crazy.
All right.
Next, next one.
Paul Pierce actually sharded himself instead of getting hurt in the 2008 finals.
100% facts.
I will live and die by this one.
Paul Pierce shit his pants and he will not admit it.
Every time he's asked on TV, he'll swear it.
down through and through, but we all know it's true.
Yeah, exactly, bro.
Why not keep it real?
We all have those moments where we just got to lie our way out to the situation to go use
the bathroom.
Fact!
I don't know who, where was that play?
What city was that in?
What city was that game in?
It was in Boston.
I was in Boston.
Okay, it was in Boston?
Yeah.
I just know every Boston celebrity on the side of the court.
Matt Damon can smell Paul Pierce from across the court.
I know for a fact was the thing.
Crazy.
last one this is this one is actually kind of my personal favorite the denver nuggets signed dionj
jordan just so that yoke just on-off numbers look better oh they're pushing the agenda this is crazy
that's crazy light years thinking i love this they pushed for his MVP so hard that they said
give us the worst player in the league we're going to skew these numbers ourselves
And it looks, and the little guys cooked up in the office and was like him, DeAndre Jordan ain't done none since 2016.
It was like that scene in Moneyball.
We had Jonah Hill on looking at a spreadsheet.
Deandre Jordan, he's the worst player in the NBA.
We need them.
I would say fact because it's funny.
But I'm going to say cap because there's been four GMs in the past few years that have been tricked into thinking they need DeAndre Jordan on the roster.
So I think he just has like, the real conspiracy theory is,
Gianja Jordan has information on somebody in the league office,
and they're mandating him to have a job.
Damn,
he just can't be a good guy.
Maybe he's a vibes.
He's a amazing guy.
Gives the greatest high-fives ever, bro.
Exactly.
He's a good.
No,
this is Paola.
He has to be a good card player.
That's the only thing I could think of.
He has photos of somebody.
He has to be killing them Burey tables.
Now, he convinced K.D., Kyrie,
Nicole Yolkitch, all these stars.
LeBron.
God, man, it's insane.
The lake.
Baker signed him.
Crazy.
He has information.
Crazy.
He's an informant.
Yeah.
All right.
That was it.
That's the end of my list.
This man is Snowden.
Fire.
All right.
Well, that's the end of the show.
If you're still here, comment, why does Jean-J Jordan have a job?
God.
Wild.
Oh.
All right.
Peace.
See you later.