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Rob, you mentioned it the Lakers in

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our What a game? What

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a night of basketball? The Knicks game was

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terrific, Knicks Philadelphia

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and.

4:05

Then the nightcap ninety

4:09

It was a great game.

4:10

I ain't I'm just gonna keep

4:13

it real. One oh one ninety

4:15

nine Denver beats the Lakers

4:17

on a buzzer beater by

4:20

Jamal Crawford the twenty

4:23

foot now of seventeen feet whatever.

4:25

It was step back in

4:28

the right.

4:28

Corner over the seventh foot or

4:31

Anthony Davis, who actually played good defense

4:33

on that play.

4:34

But uh, Rob, what were

4:36

your thoughts?

4:37

I mean, the Lakers led by twenty,

4:40

and I'm just gonna real quick.

4:41

Because I want to hear your thoughts real quick.

4:45

Rob.

4:46

There was not a moment in that game,

4:49

even when the Lakers were up twenty, that

4:52

I felt Denver was out of it. I'm

4:55

not saying I actually did think they were going

4:57

to be gonna come back and win. But

4:59

I'm not gonna like I was confident, Oh, they're

5:01

definitely winning, But I knew they

5:04

had a chance, and

5:07

I thought they'd be able to.

5:11

Pull it off if they got it closed down stairs.

5:13

I never felt, oh, twenty points, it's over,

5:16

and sure enough it wasn't.

5:17

Rob, But what were your thoughts?

5:20

I thought Lebron made a huge mistake at

5:22

the end of the game, just one

5:25

you just cannot do. Or

5:27

you take a task, well, you take a shot with eleven

5:30

too much time left on the clock, and I know

5:32

the guy fell down in front of him, But

5:34

Chris can take that. That last shot

5:37

has to be with two seconds to go, either

5:40

you win the game or you go on overtime.

5:42

You can't give them the ball back in that spot.

5:45

There was too much time like that's

5:48

just that's winning basketball, like

5:50

you cannot if you're Lebron and

5:52

I get it.

5:53

You gotta open look, Chris Man.

5:56

Is it an open look?

5:57

Yeah, but if you miss it, which he did,

5:59

this is what opened the door. But

6:01

if you wait until

6:04

two seconds or to go, either

6:07

you make.

6:07

Going overtime and losing overtime.

6:09

No, you either make the shot, but you don't give them

6:11

the ball to lose. Is what I'm

6:13

saying.

6:14

You have to You have to you take

6:16

the shot, or you go to the basket,

6:18

whatever you want to do to try to score right,

6:21

or you're going to

6:23

overtime and try to win it there.

6:25

You can't give them the ball back. It's all I'm

6:27

saying.

6:27

Once the shot clock is the shot clock was

6:29

fourteen seconds, they can't get the

6:32

ball.

6:32

They shouldn't get the ball back.

6:33

I hear you.

6:34

But again, you're going in the overtime,

6:37

so you you could

6:39

have lost in overtime. He had

6:42

a great look, he

6:44

just didn't hit it. I

6:46

mean, you're not gonna get a better look than that. And

6:50

he had been hot. Lebron

6:54

was great in the fourth quarter. And

6:57

it's interesting because I

6:59

thought, and I talked

7:01

about this yesterday, how was.

7:03

He going to play?

7:05

I mean, he knew he played well, but what was

7:07

going to be his strategy in

7:09

game two?

7:11

I'm sorry.

7:11

Game one, we

7:13

saw that his strategy was to punch the

7:16

Nuggets in the face, go

7:19

all out at the beginning,

7:22

and see if he could build his team a lead

7:25

and they can hold on in the end. But

7:29

he was gassed at the end of the game

7:31

and had nothing left in the tank in the fourth

7:34

quarter and they lost. So

7:36

last night in game two, he comes out

7:38

differently. He gets

7:41

everybody involved early. Di'angelo

7:45

Russell finally shows up. That

7:47

was one good sign for the Lakers. Hit

7:50

seven threes. They're

7:52

up twenty in

7:54

the third quarter, up

7:56

ten going into the fourth

7:58

quarter.

8:01

And he was great.

8:02

He had he had energy left because he didn't

8:04

have to, you know, exert himself

8:07

too much in the first

8:09

few quarters, and

8:11

so he had everything left in the fourth.

8:13

Hit two threes, hit a great

8:16

three point play, got a steal and

8:18

a dunk, Like the

8:20

only thing he did was miss

8:24

and open wide open. I mean, you don't

8:26

get any more open in that wide

8:28

open three pointer top of the key.

8:31

He missed it.

8:33

Denver comes down about fourteen seconds

8:35

left when he took the shot, and they

8:37

get a last shot.

8:38

But I disagree with Rob. I understand

8:40

Rob's logic.

8:41

Robin is having some technical difficulties,

8:43

so he he is off right now.

8:45

No I'm here. Oh I can hear you're

8:47

not on the zoom.

8:49

Okay, I get your logic.

8:52

The bottom line is they they gotta win

8:54

it in overtime anyway, So I you

8:56

know.

8:56

I talked to a few basketball coaches today

8:58

and people they all said, you just can't

9:00

that, that just can't. It's gotta be game

9:03

winner, Chris, where they don't get the

9:05

ball back or you push

9:07

it to overtime.

9:08

I'm just saying that, that's all.

9:09

That was my first thing. You gotta beat him

9:11

in overtime.

9:12

And I get it.

9:13

Asked I get it thirty nine years old,

9:15

Like, yeah, I mean that's a it's

9:17

not a bad take, you know what I mean,

9:19

because it's certainly merit to it.

9:22

But the bottom

9:24

line is it's it's

9:26

just like if.

9:27

You're you know in football,

9:30

if you're down

9:32

one and at the end

9:34

of the game and you can kick the extra point and

9:36

tie it and go into overtime, or

9:39

you can go for two and go for the win. You

9:42

know, a lot of time teams say

9:44

on the road, we'll go for the win, and

9:47

because you gotta beat them in overtime

9:49

if you don't beat them in regulations.

9:51

So all the momentum

9:53

was with Denver.

9:54

They had outscored the Lakers by

9:56

twenty two points in the final twenty

9:58

two minutes. So I,

10:01

like I said, I if it would have been a rushed,

10:04

contested shot.

10:06

Fine, but dude

10:08

was open. He just missed and rob.

10:11

That was one of the big keys

10:14

was that Denver.

10:17

Was clutch.

10:19

And the Lakers weren't. And the Lakers weren't horrible

10:21

in the clutch.

10:22

They they made three of their last six

10:24

shots. Denver made seven

10:26

of its last seven. In

10:29

the fourth quarter, Denver shot sixty five the

10:32

Lakers shot forty four percent.

10:34

I just don't know how the Lakers are gonna win a game.

10:37

Anthony Davis played terrific.

10:39

I know in the second half they went away from Aaron Gordon

10:42

shutting okay in the second half like

10:44

non existent. But here's the other Delo

10:46

plays this fantastic game, you still don't

10:49

win, Like like is he gonna shoot any

10:51

can he shoot any better than that?

10:52

I mean, there was your opportunity.

10:54

And that's why I keep saying when you look at that game,

10:57

Chris, that that's a game you

11:00

just don't want to allow them

11:02

to beat you the way that they did. And that's

11:04

that's all I'm saying.

11:06

I get it.

11:07

It was an open look, but it just didn't make sense

11:10

to potentially give them the ball back.

11:12

And the last thing you wanted

11:15

was for them to get the ball back with a tie game.

11:17

And have a chance to beat you. And that's what happened.

11:19

And now it's what is it ten in.

11:21

A row or what ten in a row

11:24

in a row?

11:25

And I don't know if the Lakers. I

11:27

know, going home, people think, oh, they'll go home. They were

11:29

so close in both get they were cloud close in two

11:32

games on the road last year and still

11:34

went home and lost two. Oh No, I don't know if they

11:36

can win a game. I don't know if they can win again.

11:38

That's the question. And obviously it's got to be game

11:40

three.

11:41

If they lose game three, then

11:44

I mean would they try to go

11:46

out on their sword and have a little bit of pride?

11:49

Yeah, of course, But so what I

11:51

mean, it's you're human, Rob. You're

11:54

down three to zero to a team that's beating you

11:56

eleven straight games. If indeed

11:58

that happens on Thursday, and

12:01

it's human nature Rob to.

12:03

Just you know, you

12:05

know it's over.

12:07

And if you win and you're down

12:09

three to one, now you're going to Denver where

12:12

you haven't won, or Lebron hasn't won.

12:14

I don't think since twenty twenty like

12:18

they're cooked.

12:20

It might be a gentleman's sweep or

12:23

it might just be a plain old soweep.

12:26

But the Lakers, either way you cut it, are

12:29

in trouble. So do

12:31

you place blame.

12:33

For the loss on Lebron or

12:37

you're.

12:37

Just saying I just said I have

12:39

shot that. Yeah, that's just a bad, bad

12:41

way to end the game. I mean, I'm not saying that

12:44

because there's no I mean, he could have done that in Jamal

12:46

Murray could have missed a shot.

12:47

Okay, you go to overtime.

12:48

I'm not saying that, but that

12:50

just wasn't the way because Lebron obviously

12:52

could have missed a shot, and yes, they could have lost in overtime,

12:55

but you don't want to give the ball back. And

12:58

that's my only point. I

13:00

I get it. The defender fell

13:02

down and it's wide open,

13:04

and it looks like how all I do is put

13:07

up, put up a shot and win the

13:09

game or whatever, But it just it

13:11

backfired on him.

13:13

Yeah, and look, it was a great

13:15

play by Murray because Anthony

13:17

Davis's defense was great. You're

13:20

seven foot, you stay in front of him,

13:22

you force him to take a fade

13:24

away jumper. And

13:27

Murray didn't even see the ball going to basket.

13:30

That's how difficult of a shot it was for him.

13:32

But give him credit.

13:33

Man.

13:33

He was clutched.

13:34

Six points in the first three quarters,

13:36

fourteen in the fourth. And

13:39

that was, like I said, Denver was clutch

13:42

and the Lakers were not, or Denver

13:44

was great, missed thirteen

13:46

of his first he was off, and that's that's

13:49

the way that killed you.

13:50

If you're the Lakers, that you you didn't win that game

13:53

where he was so off.

13:55

He hasn't been on the whole series, right,

13:57

I mean, he was great in the fourth, and he was clutch

14:00

in Game one as well. That's what he does.

14:03

But he's shooting thirty below forty

14:05

percent for the series. He's shooting

14:07

below thirty percent from three, so

14:10

that's not going to continue. So

14:13

that's the thing you you don't Jamal

14:15

Murray hasn't been hot yet, you know that's

14:18

coming. And Ad

14:21

was fantastic thirty two points,

14:23

eleven rebounds. I know he faded in

14:25

the second half, but I think Aaron Gordon

14:28

beat him up.

14:28

Well.

14:29

Lebron was really good

14:32

all night and great in the fourth.

14:34

D Lo hit seven threes. Rob

14:38

they made five more three.

14:39

Pointers than the Nuggets. Nuggets shot

14:41

twenty three percent from three. That's usually a

14:43

death now and still beat him and

14:46

we're down by twenty and

14:50

you and then you couldn't hold it. So

14:52

yeah, they look they

14:55

can put up a tough face

14:58

and they should, but

15:00

they're human and this

15:03

team just has their number.

15:04

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15:06

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16:17

Who's to blame for

16:20

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16:22

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16:25

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16:26

Next?

16:27

Eight seven seven ninety.

16:31

All right, let's get to it. Nick

16:35

in New York. You're on the odd couple of Fox Sports

16:37

Radio. What's up? Nick?

16:40

Hey, how you guys doing. It's not our it's not your

16:42

show, it's our show, it's it's my favorite show.

16:44

My man. We appreciate you Nick all

16:46

the time.

16:47

Of course, Tom I was gonna say, Lebron

16:50

you can't blame him for being that tired at the end of when

16:52

it was ninety nine ninety or yeah, when Jamal

16:54

Murray tied the game up, Lebron

16:56

looks bluggleish, like he barely jumped at that shot.

16:59

But the other part two is when Lebron made

17:01

that guy fall, he gave him

17:03

that stare down like that he

17:06

he crossed him off, that he got him down, and then he shot

17:08

the three. You can't be doing that in the playoffs

17:10

in my opinion, and I could be wrong, but

17:13

he was looking for like that game winner moment

17:16

when you know you just got to shoot the shot or

17:18

if you don't make it, you're gonna get criticized because

17:20

there was too much time left on for them to come back down

17:23

and score. Well, yeah, show can't

17:25

wait to hear.

17:25

What you guys got to say.

17:26

Thank you, Nick?

17:28

Yeah, I look, I mean

17:32

I don't know if looking down wasn't

17:35

an issue. Did that throw lebron off?

17:37

I don't know.

17:38

The look was per You couldn't ask for a better look,

17:40

and my thing is you weren't gonna get a better looking overtime.

17:44

That's a great look. You're

17:46

holding on for dear life against this team.

17:49

Win it in regulation.

17:50

He took a shot, they missed. You

17:52

know, it's as simple as that.

17:54

Yeah, I'm just

17:57

it's like we talk about all the time.

17:59

It's all kinds of games where you give

18:01

the ball back.

18:02

When the Falcons didn't use their

18:04

time against Tom

18:06

Brady, they were taking the staff Chris

18:09

with twenty seconds left on the play clock, Like

18:11

you could go No, I'm just saying you could go back and

18:13

look at those things and just say, like what are you doing?

18:15

Like there's certain things you need to do

18:18

to not hurt yourself at the end, and

18:20

they didn't do it.

18:21

Trent in San Antonio,

18:23

you're in the couple of Fox Sports Radio.

18:25

What's up, Trent?

18:27

Thanks for taking my call. Okay,

18:29

So Game one, the

18:31

Nuggets out shot the Lake. They took almost

18:34

thirty more shots, yeah, than the

18:36

Lakers, and then in Game two they took

18:38

ten more shots in the Lakers and one by two,

18:40

Yes, a game win a shot. I think this is about

18:42

offense. I think the Lakers need

18:45

to take more shots and they need to turn

18:47

the ball over less. I think it's an offensive thing.

18:49

And so when I'm looking down the

18:52

score chart, the others are just not

18:54

matching the others from

18:56

Denver, and I thought, I think.

18:57

It's just I mean, d Loo was

19:00

that's great now, MPJ, Michael

19:02

Porter Junior has been phenomenal. But

19:04

what you're saying, I think what that

19:06

boils down to. I mean,

19:08

typically that's something where you look

19:11

at the offensive rebounds, you

19:13

know, and Denver has been better

19:15

on the boards. Game two, they have nine offensive

19:18

rebounds. The Lakers have four. A

19:21

prime example was the shot by MPJ

19:23

that tied it right with a minute fifteen left.

19:27

When Aaron Gordon tracks down the kind.

19:30

Of the you know, Yogic was

19:32

trying to draw a foul on a shot, so he throws

19:35

up like a bad three pointer. Aaron

19:37

Gordon out hustles Austin, reeves

19:39

to the ball and throws it to

19:41

MPJ and he hits the three

19:44

pointer to tie it with

19:46

the minute fifteen left. That's just an example, like,

19:48

that's how you get so many more shots than

19:51

your opponent is you hit the offensive

19:53

glass. And so I

19:55

don't I mean that's how you get more

19:57

shots.

19:58

I just when you look at the Lakekers and like some

20:00

of the performances of A D and D

20:03

Low and Lebron and you

20:05

can't win.

20:06

Oh, I just I just know you're right. I

20:08

mean, they can't carry four

20:10

from those games.

20:11

Can't.

20:11

How much is ad gonna score sixty

20:14

four points for you to be able to win the game. I mean,

20:16

I don't know numbers she has to put up to.

20:19

The point of the caller.

20:20

In game one where they did, Denver did

20:22

take about thirty more shots than the Lakers,

20:25

or twenty more shots, twenty three more to be

20:27

exact.

20:29

They have fifteen offensive rebounds, the

20:31

Lakers had six.

20:32

Right, that's a show.

20:33

That's the difference.

20:34

That's And if you make put half of those

20:36

back, Chris, and put half not even all of

20:39

them, not gonna put them all back, You put

20:41

half of them back, that it's huge. Marty

20:44

in Kentucky, you're in the odd couple of Fox Sports

20:46

Radio. While Marty, what's up, Buddy,

20:49

What's up?

20:49

Fails?

20:50

What Up?

20:52

I think this is gonna make it maybe

20:54

the third time in all these years that I agreed

20:56

with robbing Baketball. I

20:59

think a hund shot was a very

21:02

poor decision making. I think

21:04

you got a way till four or

21:06

three seconds. Sometimes you take it

21:08

with four so you're so your team has a chance

21:11

for an offensive rebound. But with thirteen

21:14

you not only do you miss or you're getting a

21:16

team a chance to win the game, but you're

21:18

you're adding pressure to the shot because if

21:20

you miss the shot, you're you're

21:22

giving a team a chance to win

21:25

the game.

21:25

And Jamal Murray.

21:26

Gets to take what I consider it to

21:28

me when it's last second and is

21:30

a tie game, I don't consider.

21:31

That a pressure shot.

21:34

Marty one.

21:34

I'm with you one hundred percent, because

21:37

you know, no matter what, you're not losing.

21:39

It's not a pressure shot.

21:41

Well, whether it's pressure or not, it's

21:43

still a tough shot.

21:44

No, that's not.

21:47

I'm just saying pressure or not, it's a tough shot,

21:49

but.

21:49

It's not a pressure shot because you're not.

21:51

Going to lose on that. You know Ad was

21:53

guarding. That's a tough shot to make.

21:54

But no, but your logic is sound,

21:57

rob I mean, there's no doubt about it. The logic is sound

21:59

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22:25

Renaissance Man from Salim?

22:28

What's up man?

22:29

What's happening? Brothers? Y'all doing?

22:30

Man?

22:30

What's up?

22:31

Good?

22:32

I'm we're doing better than you because you're a Lakers.

22:34

Are than Did

22:37

you throw up in your mouth? Lost on you?

22:39

Before you jump on me, let me just

22:41

be open and honest. Last

22:44

night was tough for me. It was emotionally,

22:47

physically, mentally just draining

22:50

for me. And I did not have a good evening,

22:52

just so you know. So now go ahead, carry on,

22:54

gentlemen.

22:56

Well, Rob has an interesting Rob

22:59

tell him your thoughts on the end of the

23:01

game.

23:01

I just didn't like and epom

23:03

I get it?

23:04

Uh?

23:06

The defender? Who was that?

23:08

By Lebron shot Ken Davis caw Yeah,

23:10

KCP.

23:11

He fell down. Lebron had a wide open look.

23:14

But three but right.

23:16

But but my issue is there's

23:18

too much time on the clock.

23:20

When the score is tied.

23:22

You got to take it down to about two or three

23:24

or three or four seconds whatever one You wanted

23:26

to maybe have a put back on a misshot,

23:28

but you can't allow them to get the ball back

23:30

because if you're the Lakers, you're either gonna

23:33

win it right with a shot with three seconds

23:35

left or whatever, or you're

23:38

going to go to overtime. But what with eleven

23:40

or twelve seconds left? It just

23:43

opened the door for them. What did you think of

23:45

that last you know sequence by Lebron?

23:48

I hated the shot. That's the easy

23:50

way out that I'm tired.

23:53

What I do know, as he

23:56

had just hit two threes.

23:58

I understand it as

24:00

the game goes along, right,

24:03

it's a tie if you if

24:05

you're down by two and you

24:07

take that, okay, you're trying to win it on the

24:09

road. But if the game is tied,

24:12

you put the pressure on them.

24:15

You don't bail them out. You

24:17

have to take it to them.

24:19

So you didn't like him taking a three.

24:22

No, I didn't want that three.

24:23

I did not want that three.

24:25

I wanted him to go to hoop. The defender fail down.

24:28

I wanted him to go to the hoop. Put

24:30

him in in a situation where he can

24:32

get to the line if he doesn't make the layup.

24:34

That's the problem I have. Okay, I

24:37

didn't.

24:37

Play, and you know what it could have been? Yeah,

24:39

that's fair.

24:40

He obviously you played, you

24:42

know, fifteen seasons. I believe in the NFL.

24:46

I don't know if you were ever in a situation where

24:48

a team beat you something like

24:50

ten straight you know the equivalent.

24:53

And even from this has been in lesson

24:55

was on the Lions when they lost all those games?

24:57

Go ahead?

24:58

No, I wasn't.

24:59

I wasn't even I

25:01

was not part of that.

25:02

Okay, that

25:04

team to point team

25:07

like how And I know

25:09

they put on the tough face, and I know they're professional

25:11

athletes.

25:12

And obviously Lebron has come back from

25:14

a three to one.

25:15

Deficit before, But how

25:17

tough is that to lose?

25:19

And then on top of that, the way they lost

25:22

last night after leading by twenty, how

25:24

tough is that mentally for a team

25:26

to overcome when this

25:28

team is just beating you up ten straight times?

25:31

Mentally, just the

25:34

doubt creeps in your mind. You look out

25:36

d lo play, you look out a d play, You

25:38

look out Lebron. They did everything

25:41

right, they did everything

25:43

right, and they still

25:45

lost to a team that they haven't beat

25:48

in nine previous times

25:50

until last night. And so subconsciously

25:53

it wears on you. Right now, you

25:55

can say, well, we're coming home. We look

25:57

they've beatn you at home too. Right, when

26:01

you're in a situation as an athlete and you don't

26:04

know what the answer is to

26:06

the test you keep taking and failing, that

26:09

will drive you crazy, right,

26:11

and that'll have you being out of character.

26:13

And that's the that's the scary thing for me, Like,

26:16

I don't want guys playing

26:18

out of character. Right, if

26:20

you just continue to play

26:23

like you played right and down

26:25

the stretch, have more gas in the tank. Need

26:27

more from Rory, I know he's he's switching

26:30

off on on

26:32

on on your kidchen. You

26:34

just need more, Okay, guys,

26:37

just gotta give more. That's it. And

26:39

as a professional athlete making ten twenty

26:41

thirty million dollars a year, you gotta

26:43

take it personal. It is personal. If

26:46

LA doesn't get these two games, burn

26:48

the whole team down.

26:50

Oh, two. They just better hope

26:52

to get one so they can avoid this.

26:54

They can't go back.

26:55

I mean, but this is over.

26:57

I'm out

27:00

of five times it's just not gonna.

27:02

Happen, or it's just.

27:03

Now they gotta get too.

27:04

You're right if you're talking about winning, we just talking.

27:06

About you gotta get two. Yeah, because

27:09

you not just do that. Like if you're

27:11

as great a player as Lebron James

27:14

is right, go conversation. You

27:16

ain't no saving face, right,

27:19

So you gotta you this is

27:21

your legacy. This

27:23

is your legacy, and

27:25

you gotta stamp it. Just

27:27

like you went up against the seventy

27:30

two, seventy three wins, seventy four win Warriors,

27:33

whatever they won, seventy three wins, and

27:35

you won that championship. That is

27:37

a stamp in your legacy passport.

27:40

You got to do this. You

27:42

can't keep getting swept out of the playoffs by

27:44

the same team and you're supposed to be one

27:47

of the great. It's not supposed to happen.

27:49

See if we want to also ask you about

27:51

the Clippers and the job they did on Dallas

27:54

shop.

27:55

Shock, were you with that?

27:56

No?

27:57

You know, no Kawhi and

27:59

they're up by thirty points in the first half

28:01

against you know, Luca and

28:03

Kyrie, who people were ranting and raving about

28:05

like they're the most dangerous team in the playoffs.

28:08

Yeah, I think I think they exposed

28:10

Dallas for number one, not taking them

28:12

serious, right, not having Kawhi

28:14

Dallas thought they were gonna.

28:15

Come in and none, no, no agrees, right.

28:18

And but the thing that I love what the Clippers

28:20

did is they went inside out. They went

28:22

through Zuba. They recognized,

28:24

which they very rarely do. They recognized

28:27

that Dallas didn't have any bigs that can keep

28:29

him from underneath the basket. So the

28:32

first few possessions they went down and set the

28:34

tone there, which completely opened

28:36

up the perimeter shooting. I love the

28:40

way they approached that game because

28:42

it's true to what basketball

28:44

is inside out. Nowadays it's more outside

28:47

in. But if you have a big presence,

28:49

then you feed him and you let them go to you

28:51

let him go to work until they adjust and

28:53

start doubling. Then it's just catching shooting

28:56

out there for everybody else.

28:57

Chris Miller I talk about Tyleru all

28:59

the time. We think he's a fantastic.

29:01

Coach, tremendous coach, the best coach

29:03

in the league.

29:04

Well, I got news for you if

29:07

the well, the Lakers are losing this

29:09

series.

29:09

So when they lose or damn I mean

29:11

you procssed, Yeah,

29:15

yeah.

29:15

Yeah, I am. It's over man.

29:18

Look I know you a fan, you don't see.

29:21

No, it's just truth. They're

29:24

gonna go.

29:24

I think they might.

29:25

Go after Tylo. I hope,

29:27

so I think they might. I think.

29:29

I mean they

29:32

swung and miss in the beginning them right,

29:35

yea, they low ball them. Now

29:37

low ball and coach with a championship in his

29:39

back pocket.

29:41

No, they made a mistake. But I think and

29:43

I don't know that they'll get rid of Darving. I think,

29:46

you know, they clearly scapegoed him a lot.

29:48

I don't think he's you know, the problem

29:51

necessarily, but I think

29:53

that they might. And there's people around

29:55

the league that feel that they they're probably

29:57

gonna go after Tyl Lou if you know, if

29:59

the Hippers finish,

30:02

if they lose early, or even if

30:04

they don't and the Lakers

30:06

lose early, they will go after Tyler

30:08

quickly. On Minnesota Phoenix. Phoenix

30:12

beat them three times in the regular season

30:14

by double figures each time, and

30:16

then Minnesota comes and puts it on them

30:18

in game one.

30:20

Who do you like in this series?

30:22

Because this is a really it seems like feels like

30:24

it evenly matched one.

30:26

Well it is.

30:27

But I like Minnesota. I like Minnesota because of their

30:29

size, Rudy Gobert, who could possibly be

30:31

the defensive player of the year, and Anthony

30:33

Edwards is electrifying getting called

30:35

Anthony Towns back when they did and

30:37

him getting that back acclimated the plane.

30:40

They're just too big. They're too big. You know.

30:43

Phoenix already had an issue with

30:45

size in terms of protecting the

30:47

rim and rebounding. So

30:49

now unless Devin Booker and kd

30:53

are lights out, which that's

30:56

not going to happen. We don't know where Bradley

30:58

Bill is. It just doesn't not a good matchup

31:00

for him.

31:01

Yeah, it looked like that after game one.

31:04

We'll see what they do tonight. All right,

31:06

that's our man, Eve from Salim. Great

31:08

stuff.

31:08

Man.

31:09

See I.

31:11

Told Rob g you could talk basketball.

31:14

He don't believe you playing

31:16

with me?

31:19

All right, man, Peace more, I couple

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32:27

All right, checkle City. Two and one. Last

32:29

night the Lakers game was the.

32:31

Only game I did not get right. But

32:34

uh two and one postseason, here

32:36

we go again. Best bet taking

32:38

the Paters plus one and a half.

32:40

No Joannice in Milwaukee.

32:43

Excuse me, Patris

32:45

plus one and a half. Going with the t Wolves

32:48

minus two and a half. They put it

32:50

on the Suns in Game one. I know the Suns will

32:52

be back much stronger.

32:54

Excuse me, I don't know what's going on

32:56

here, and I got.

32:58

The Clippers Pepper or something around.

33:00

No, just I've been going through it.

33:02

Chris Clippers minus one and a half at

33:04

home game two. Uh,

33:07

that's one of the I questioned this one, thinking

33:10

the Mavericks gonna have to play better bounce

33:12

back. Uh, but I'm gonna go with the Clippers

33:15

minus one and a half, t Wolves minus

33:17

two and a half and the Pacers

33:19

plus one and a half in Milwaukee. And

33:21

remember, wow, I'm not telling

33:24

you who to bet on.

33:25

I'm telling you who I bet on. Gig

33:28

yup.

33:28

Yeah, I'm not choking on this one. Were

33:31

you eating dinner with

33:34

now?

33:36

No?

33:36

No, no, I just I've been I've been going

33:38

I think I have allergies. I don't think it's a

33:40

cold or anything. I've just been having like a

33:42

nasal thing going on.

33:44

Okay, okay, all

33:46

right, it is the eye couple of Christ and

33:48

Rob. Did you see now this game

33:51

just started the Timberwolves and

33:53

the Suns.

33:55

Sons down oh one? Uh

33:59

to the t Wolf t wos A.

34:02

Twenty five Yeah, and Anthony

34:05

Edwards, one of the young rising

34:07

stars in the NBA. Rob scored

34:09

thirty three points. He was talking trash

34:11

to Kevin Durant. Now it's in good fun,

34:14

or at least you know, he respects Durant.

34:16

It's not that he doesn't like. He says

34:19

Durant's his goat.

34:20

Now.

34:20

I don't know if that means just his favorite player

34:22

or the best average.

34:24

That's what it means, right.

34:26

Yeah, his favorite player probably, rob

34:29

g is that did you think you meant his

34:31

favorite player or that he thinks duran

34:33

is actually the best player ever.

34:36

I actually think that he thinks Durant is the greatest

34:38

player ever.

34:39

Oh wow.

34:40

And the reason being is that nowadays,

34:43

and this is more prevalent in the current young

34:45

crop of NBA players, they

34:48

don't seem as.

34:50

Driven as like the it's.

34:52

Got to be championships.

34:53

It's hey, this guy has the most complete

34:55

bad, right, And that's why Paul

34:58

George's was so highly thought of, Kyrie

35:00

Irving as highly thought of, Kevin Durant as highly

35:02

thought of, because you know, as

35:04

great as Lebron is, his bag is nowhere near as

35:06

deep as those guys.

35:08

No, No, he'll

35:10

just dunk you into the back exactly right,

35:14

or or make it great that

35:17

David Robinson, Yeah, I mean

35:19

that's my thing, Robin. We'll get into this later,

35:22

but quickly. Who

35:24

had you know more quote unquote skills.

35:26

I guess David Robinson A shack. Okay,

35:29

David Robinson, I still would take give

35:31

me shock, thank you all day he was.

35:33

I don't care if he.

35:34

Runs the same drop step dunk every

35:36

single time.

35:37

You can't stop it.

35:38

Can't stop it. It's like the Kareem

35:40

skyhook. Go ahead, give me that shot, you

35:43

can. I've been waiting. I will watch Kareem's

35:45

career. I was waiting for somebody to block it. I

35:48

didn't see it. Did you see it?

35:50

You?

35:50

Rob?

35:51

It is especially later in

35:53

his career, maybe over the second half of his career,

35:56

it's hard to find that Kareem taking

35:58

another shot other.

35:59

Than that sho No what your other

36:01

shot is going to make?

36:03

I mean, you're right, like, come on, what

36:05

are we talking about? But anyway, Rob,

36:07

I don't know.

36:08

Did you see the clip of Anthony Edwards talking

36:10

trash to KD and KD laughing?

36:14

Yes, I don't know where you're at. You might disagree

36:16

with me. I don't like that response

36:19

from KD. And I'm not saying it's the biggest thing

36:21

in the world, but this

36:24

is not the family barbecue.

36:28

I'm your uncle, and you're the up

36:30

and coming young teenager talking trash

36:32

to me on as we're shooting in the driveway

36:35

and I'm laughing.

36:36

This is the Playoffs.

36:39

You're beating us by sixteen and

36:42

you talking trash to me.

36:43

I'm like young and I'm about to school

36:46

you.

36:48

I don't like it.

36:50

Here's your issue. Here's my issue with what your

36:52

take is. This

36:54

is who these guys are. Chris, they vacation

36:56

together, they hang out together.

36:59

Well, I don't know about him.

37:00

I mean, I'm just talking about general in

37:02

general.

37:03

And that's a big issue of it, is that

37:05

everything's a big party and

37:08

everybody's cool, and everybody's.

37:10

This and that.

37:11

Like I agree with you, like like there's

37:13

no no, I'm not entertaining

37:15

that down sixteen Get out of my face

37:17

right

37:20

like you got you got chocolate milk on

37:22

your breath, Get.

37:23

Out of my frost about

37:25

Yes, I'm totally with you.

37:27

I mean, and Rob Isaiah

37:30

Thomas and Magic Johnson, we know we're

37:32

bosom buddies. When they got

37:34

into the finals and Magic

37:37

had what do you throwing elbow?

37:38

Isaiah?

37:40

Right right?

37:42

Oh okay, and I look it ruined their friendship.

37:45

But still I'm just saying you

37:48

compete. We

37:50

competing.

37:51

Don't be talking to you.

37:52

Talking to me, boy

37:54

I was winning championships when you were in junior

37:57

high school.

37:58

You better learn some manners the night