Basketball's Brutal Truth Serum: Why Some Teams Fold Under Pressure

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Thursday different type of podcast.
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We have so much to get into.
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This is frontrunner podcast collective.
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I am your humble host, vince.
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Today's show is jam packed eight seeds in the eastern conference and what they meant to what is going on.
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We will get into some breakdowns between like players and some of the strategies and what have you.
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But before we get into all of this, the one thing that we have to 100% recognize when we get to the playoffs is that the team with the most poise, the team with the most answers, the team that boys, the team with the most answers, the team that seems to be able to problem solve on the fly without panicking, is probably going to be able.
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That just did not weather storms very well and we got to go to california state capitol and we're going to start start talking about the sacramento king.
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That's not a course correction, this is that's an autopsy.
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Meanwhile, chicago bulls pulled the same stunt we've seen every year drop enough hope to keep fans tuned in.
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Oh, josh giddy is playing well.
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Oh, matas buzellas is starting to play well.
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We're starting to see a form of a promising team.
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And then you go get dog walked by the miami heat, who we have been basically calling the zombie heat for multiple years.
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And here they are again, listening to this like damn again.
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You're not alone.
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We've seen this movie before the twist one team actually changed their ending, the other still rebooting the same tired franchise script.
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We're gonna go back a little bit as well.
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We're gonna talk about how we're gonna go back a little bit as well.
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We're gonna talk about how this started with mike brown.
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Mike brown gets fired in the season.
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We see it.
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Darian fox said oh yo, I'm gonna break wide too.
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Go ahead and trade me.
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I've seen like four or five coaches come through here.
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Prime wants to play on successful teams, teams that have pedigrees.
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Now you would think to yourself this disintegration can't get any worse.
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Well, there is talk that jeremy lamb, ex-sacramento king, had the ear of the owner because he was dating the daughter.
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Then that seemed to quell.
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Then we get doug christie, the higher interim hire.
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But all reports are is that the job has been basically held for doug christie for like the last two coaches, and they just been looking for a reason on sacramento king understands the heartbeat of that situation.
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I got no problem with this so far.
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Now, what you get back in return.
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What you get back in return now because of the fact that you are handcuffed because darian fox says, hey, I don't want to be here anymore.
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You get zach levine back now.
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Winning he has not exuded winning wherever he is gone.
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And that takes us here because dallas came in and put in a full quarter long whooping on them.
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First quarter up for deep, pj washington was out there.
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Dominant short roll reads brandon williams, who is the guy that they had been waiting for.
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He was on the 10-day contract but because they had had so much mismanagement in their cap, they were so up against the cap they had to wait to sign him.
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So the amount of days in the NBA they calculate okay, this is how much money you have left to sign, because, remember, he was playing great for them.
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And then, if you're thinking, wasn't this the B team a year ago?
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Yeah, that team is gone.
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What's left is a group that has bad vibes and now doesn't have a president of player personnel.
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Monty Williams was fired literally ten minutes after the buzzer sound.
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The Rosen couldn't create for anyone else but himself, and then, when the buzzer hit, I don't know how long that went on.
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So we're going to have to go ahead and do it right back.
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So if you're thinking, wasn't the game team?
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This was the game team a year ago.
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Yeah, that team is gone, built for adversity, and you know what the playoffs do.
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They test yourself and before they can even get to the playoffs, 10 turnovers in one quarter.
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Sabonis couldn't defend.
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He's not a rim protector.
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Derozan couldn't create for anyone else because he is a independent front offices.
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Don't fire guys that fast unless the decision was already made.
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The horn didn't cause mcnerr's exit, it just gave them cover.
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Given the fact that this was the same team that fired mike brown and then didn't hold him, does any of this surprise you at all?
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What happened with them now?
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Uh, here's the other part that I want to get into.
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Here's the other part that I want to get into.
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Vivek Ranadive is the Sacramento Kings governor.
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His own.
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The Sacramento Kings for a while bought him from the Maloose.
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Everybody understands what happened there now, 16 years.
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So four president, all be it with trading, probably the best piece as far as talent you had in Tyrese Halliburton, because remember Tyrese and De'Aaron Fox were sharing the backcourt.
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One of them had to go.
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They decided to trade Tyrese Halliburton.
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I didn't like the idea then.
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Now D'Amanis brought them some if you want to call it stability.
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He brought them a sturdiness.
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He brought them a no-nonsense mentality and he was going to extract every piece of talent out of going to mail it in ever.
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He has just got, he has just got.
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If you don't pair Demantis wellness correctly with somebody who can protect the rim, you're gonna have an issue the whole entire time.
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That's been the issue with him since he's entered the league.
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It is just a fact.
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Sacramento struggled to find somebody you could pair with him that could protect the rim.
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Keegan Murray was definitely not the answer, definitely not the answer, not because of the fact that he just couldn't do it.
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Here's a team that what have you made?
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A couple decisions the de montes, sabonis extension with retention.
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I think they could have won another year, but who knows how sabonis would have felt within that year.
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I think communication could have been laid.
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But the problem is is that when monty mcnair is dealing with ronald dv as an owner, this guy changes his mind like people change their underwear.
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You know, one day it's up, one day is down, one day is blue, one day is green.
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We never know.
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So franchise or okay.
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So monty mcnair fired your franchise guy is in san antonio mcnair fired.
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Your franchise guy is in san antonio.
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You traded a young guy for demontis sabonis who did bring you respectability, but that was only.
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That was about the level he was going to be able to get you.
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You were going to need to surround when you had deer and fox and sabonis.
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You were going to have to surround them with more talent.
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You were going to have to surround them with more talent.
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You were going to have to get a rim protector, which you never did.
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And now we're here.
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Where do Sacramento go from here?
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Here's the thing that I do want to say.
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He's blown out multiple decision makers as far as talent evaluation evaluators.
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The list of coaches is ridiculous at this point.
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He's paying coaches that have been coached for him in like three, four years multiple.
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You have some talent on the team, but you don't have the high, high end talent that you need to really compete in nba standards.
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Right, it's pretty good, but still here is a fan base that's absolutely loyal.
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When they are legitimately a team that is, uh, in the playoff mix.
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That fan base and that building is absolutely electric.
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I thought the light, the beam thing was kind of corny.
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I love.
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I love anything that's gonna help fans.
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You know, support their team, rock for their team.
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And now I'm looking at this situation and what do you tell the sacramento kings fans?
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They don't want to hear that the kings are gonna kang.
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They don't want to hear that anymore.
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They want to hear real answers.
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They want to hear truth.
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At this point, my suggestion is to tear it down because clearly the bill wasn't sustainable and it wasn't sustainable to compete in this high octane west that we got going on right now.
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A couple years ago, you caught a wave of good fortune.
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You weren't hurt.
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Other teams were.
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Other teams were going through identity crisis, things of that nature.
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You had a really favorable seed and then you got your teeth kicked in.
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Now, at that point, you decided kumbaya, all of these type of things.
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I get it, but the talent in the west got better.
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I understand you wanted to resign everybody when you got to the playoffs and had the high seat, but at this point it was a bad roll of the dice and you crapped out.
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Now let's move along to another team that is also just as dreadful, and that is your Chicago Bulls.
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What are we doing here?
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Okay, so, because at this point.
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I bought in a little bit too.
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I'm not okay.
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Okay, I love they.
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They they drew me in chicago, drew me again in again.
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Who's zealous playing when he wasn't playing early in the season?
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I love that.
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I love the development of josh giddy.
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We find out I think it was pretty interesting that we find out from shams, like right before the game play through the situation, but we just want to let you know that he has a torn tendon in his hand.
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He's gonna play through it.
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I love what Kobe white has been doing, but the one thing that we had been always talking about is that the paying Patrick Williams fan and there's no shade to Nikola Vucevic at this point is still your playoff five in 2025.
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Your front office either hates you or hasn't watched their own tape.
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They keep dancing around the decision that everyone else can see this roster has a.
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There's no shade to nikola vucevic, but if he is your five in 2025, your front office either hates you or hasn't watched their own tape.
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They keep dancing around.
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This decision that everyone else can see is that their front line is flawed, and it's been flawed for a while, every season.
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Reinsdorf was trying to get you here.
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He's trying to get you to the plan.
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So you get that.
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One last gate.
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Reinsdorf is a money-making machine.
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That's what he cares about.
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That's all he has cared about.
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This whole situation when they traded Levine, it seemed like it sparked the chance of opportunity to continue to kind of deconstruct this team so you can go ahead, go through the rebuild and then come out with high level talent on the back end.
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I thought that was a whole point of getting the pig back from Sacramento.
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I, that's what I that's what I thought.
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You don't trade, you booch, you keep them, you keep power through this bad boy front court productivity and it's the.
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It's every time, every time.
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Just wait, just trust, just watch, and they always lay an egg at the end.
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Kobe white can't be your best scorer.
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I love kobe white, but he can't be your best scorer.
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Giddy is a really good playmaker.
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I understand that he had the hand injury that probably really curtailed his production, even though he did play well in that game a I don't know really good.
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He turns out to be better than you know.
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Nine other lottery picks or whatever, and you got a diamond in the rough.
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You hope for that.
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Mattis booze ellis is a good find.
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Where they got him.
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What was it 11.
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Booze ellis is a good find.
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Where they got him?
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What was it 11.
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So there's still hope out there.
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I just feel bad for chicago bulls fans because boy reinsdorf can get that gate.
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He will.
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He will get that gate no matter what happens.
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So in the great words of rnb, 90s r&b group portrait, here we go again.
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You know, here we go again.
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Now let's put a bow on this.
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Let's talk about sacramento.
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So let's put a bow on this and talk to continue to happen with this freezing on this fine, fine piece of machinery.
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Monty McNair, build a team that peaked early.
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No defensive anchors, not a really didn't have a second creator amongst them.
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Malik Monk is better suited coming off the bench, and their star five, who is a walking playoff liability.
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Get you 18 boards and regular season games, and sometimes he makes the all-star game.
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Once Mike Ramos will keep DeRozan, sabonis and Levine that's going to be the question for the next person.
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I'm not going to pitch a hole.
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We'll see what they actually build in the offseason.
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They have to go for a teardown and we'll see and actually build in the offseason.
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Uh it, they have to go for a teardown and we'll see and here's the other team, chicago you gotta pay giddy right.
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You gotta pay him for the performance that he put together in the second half of the season.
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Kobe white is extension eligible.
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What is he going to get?
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Because you got him on the cheaper contract when you signed him.
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And then Booch and Patrick.
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Well, douglas, he's in no doubt he can as far as rim protection is concerned.
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As far as being stout defender in the paint, you can't do it.
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He's not quick enough to get out and stop shooters in the short corner.
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So what can he do defensively?
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But be a sib.
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So then, offensively, he has to be off the charts now.
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Vucevic is a really good offensive center, but I don't think he's a very impactful offensive hub type of guy.
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And if you're going to be that bad on defense, you need to be instrumental, instrumental, impactful on offense.
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The the bulls got embarrassed.
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I know it didn't happen on Tuesday, but you know TNT likes to play games on Tuesday.
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There's quite a kind of pain when your team knows it isn't working, but they keep selling you hope and there's a power in the front office that's saying no more.
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So who would rather you root for?
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The team that fired the gm or the one that's faking playoff potential, let us know.
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Hit us up on twitter or x at frontrunner pc, or also hit rare up his area up at raya underscore bunch, frpc.
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We will be looking for your comments and if they're good, we'll read them on the air.
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So keep that in mind as well.
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Serea, hit me with this.
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You keep calling it a process.
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Okay, let's get to some other teams that we kind of looked at now.
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A couple nights ago there was a game.
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A couple nights ago there was a game and in that game we had all the feels Because the playoff atmosphere Was deep.
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You know what I'm saying.
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Everything was thick in the air, everything was lovely.
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People were tuned in and locked To this basketball game.
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We stay in California and we go the chase center.
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Golden state didn't just out talent memphis, they out value the moment.
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They close hard on bane this memphis still trying to find trailer.
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Because this is the thing that we will continue to talk about with job josh.
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A josh says that he gets picked on.
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No, if you're great, then we expect greatness.
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If you're that guy, then we expect performances that back up that guy type mentality.
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Grizzlies had 27 turnovers.
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That equaled 27 points for the Golden State Warriors.
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The Warriors had half that number and then Memphis scored 12 points on those turnovers.
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And that's the difference.
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Memphis plays all fives and golden state played for survival to the game deliberate shoulders, relaxed, eyes, sharp.
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He wasn't trying to heat up, he was trying to close doors.
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Now, zach edie zach edie has 17 rebounds, which is awesome.
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Zack Eady Zack Eady has 17 rebounds, which is awesome.
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I want to help this situation.
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He also got Rotated off the floor In the second half Because Golden State Game plan for him Ghost Screamy Butler Dragging him out 25 feet and then just taking him to the hole and getting fouled almost every single time with the slowest pump fake known to mankind, and people continue to fall for it.
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If your scheme only works when the other's playing fair, you don't have a scheme, you have a simulation.
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John's still one of the three most exposed explosive point guards in the NBA, but in this game he was playing.
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He was playing like trying to be.
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By the way, you're the coach on the floor for the team that fired their head coach with nine games left to go.
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So you really got.
00:24:18.366 --> 00:24:24.949
You really got to buckle up and lock in when these type of situations happen.
00:24:27.561 --> 00:24:28.884
John had 22 points.
00:24:28.884 --> 00:24:31.372
He had five turnovers and three assists.
00:24:31.372 --> 00:24:32.615
So he had 5 turnovers and 3 assists.
00:24:32.615 --> 00:24:34.740
So he had more turnovers than assists.
00:24:34.740 --> 00:24:39.021
He had no control over the final 6 minutes.
00:24:39.021 --> 00:24:45.079
Now he did hurt his ankle, sprained it very badly.
00:24:46.375 --> 00:24:52.744
That game, bane was absolutely hot.
00:24:52.744 --> 00:24:55.650
He was efficient, he was doing his thing.
00:24:55.650 --> 00:25:09.144
That should have been Josh's cue to let's feed Bane, let's continue to feed him, let's continue to ride the hot hand until it stops producing.
00:25:09.144 --> 00:25:13.546
But he did not do that because john needed to win the game.
00:25:13.546 --> 00:25:21.186
So one ankle jaw, not using bane, not using jaron jackson jr.
00:25:22.028 --> 00:25:22.769
And here we are.
00:25:22.769 --> 00:25:29.484
For your trouble, you get to play the dallas mavericks.
00:25:29.484 --> 00:25:32.467
For your trouble, you get to play the Dallas Mavericks.
00:25:32.467 --> 00:25:34.234
I bet you they value the basketball.
00:25:34.234 --> 00:25:41.355
Their head coach will make them value the basketball.
00:25:41.355 --> 00:25:46.934
Late game offense is not.
00:25:46.934 --> 00:25:57.980
They have Ja trying to detonate every possession with no co-pilot because he's not trusting them.
00:25:57.980 --> 00:26:06.675
Jaron jackson jr was driving to the rim prior to jaw not being in the lineup.
00:26:06.675 --> 00:26:13.455
Does anybody remember last year when jaron jackson jr wasn't settling for threes?
00:26:13.455 --> 00:26:18.246
He was getting to the rim, he was playmaking short.
00:26:18.246 --> 00:26:20.128
Does any of this ring a bell?
00:26:20.128 --> 00:26:23.159
Where was that guy last?
00:26:23.159 --> 00:26:29.146
Last, in a couple days up against dallas in the FedEx World.
00:26:29.146 --> 00:26:37.932
Anthony Davis is going to do that for sure.
00:26:37.932 --> 00:26:46.265
So good luck to Memphis and playing against the Dallas Mavericks, we need to give Jimmy Butler his flowers.
00:26:46.555 --> 00:26:52.325
Playoff, jimmy, even though we're in, the play-in has been activated.
00:26:52.325 --> 00:26:54.147
You know why.
00:26:54.147 --> 00:26:54.608
I know that.
00:26:54.608 --> 00:27:02.545
38 points, 12 free throws, 6 assists.
00:27:02.545 --> 00:27:21.394
The way he plays, he wasn't flashy, he wasn't fast, he wasn't flashy, he wasn't fast, but he knows where to put pressure points and where to go ahead and stick his hand in there.
00:27:21.394 --> 00:27:35.076
His rotations were crisp, he knew when to go ahead.
00:27:35.076 --> 00:27:36.117
Out backpedals, gets a foul.
00:27:36.117 --> 00:27:38.301
Next play Draymond ghost screen, screen, skip to.
00:27:38.301 --> 00:27:38.682
Moody hits a three.
00:27:38.682 --> 00:27:40.505
Jimmy didn't score 38 points.
00:27:40.505 --> 00:27:51.087
He dissected the game with 38 blades because it was like see Jimmy things on the stage that Jimmy likes to do them on, which is on national TV.
00:27:51.087 --> 00:27:54.855
It was pure Jimmy.
00:27:59.002 --> 00:28:05.079
Let's get some front-office analysis, shall we on our guys here through this game.
00:28:05.079 --> 00:28:16.616
Jaw is still electric, but he needs a secondary creator that he can trust.
00:28:16.616 --> 00:28:18.439
But bane is to the guys that I talked to.
00:28:18.439 --> 00:28:20.359
Bane is a elite.
00:28:20.359 --> 00:28:23.382
Third needs more pace in the office.
00:28:23.382 --> 00:28:40.923
You need a switchable four to make him, to make him viable, and I don't know about anybody here, but don't give me this mess about jaron jackson jr being a.
00:28:40.923 --> 00:28:42.847
I'll give him an all defensive team.
00:28:42.847 --> 00:28:47.882
Maybe I have to look at it, but, dude, what the hell was that?
00:28:52.347 --> 00:28:55.813
Now the big question from memphis is did your core max out?
00:28:55.813 --> 00:28:58.258
Do you want to be sacramento?
00:28:58.258 --> 00:29:00.523
Do you want to be chicago?
00:29:00.523 --> 00:29:05.175
Is that they have players that they can go ahead and trade.
00:29:05.175 --> 00:29:07.402
They have ancillary pieces they can go ahead trade.
00:29:07.402 --> 00:29:12.240
So it's not like the cupboard is bare now.
00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:17.551
Golden state they out here, they the seven seed.
00:29:17.551 --> 00:29:18.634
They gonna play houston.
00:29:18.634 --> 00:29:23.326
We will talk about that and I will tell you when we will talk about that.
00:29:23.326 --> 00:29:31.970
I'm gonna say this right now mem, memphis did not lose this game because of youth.
00:29:31.970 --> 00:29:38.388
They lost this game because they value the ball, like it was January.
00:29:38.388 --> 00:29:48.921
They value the ball and I might have some travel this time of year.
00:29:48.921 --> 00:29:55.656
Barcelona sounds excellent this time of year.
00:29:55.656 --> 00:29:57.319
Barcelona sounds excellent this time of year.
00:29:57.319 --> 00:30:12.096
Maybe the travel agents were on that DM thread saying, hey, we got some real good prices to get you out to Jamaica because they didn't look real interesting in playing.
00:30:18.088 --> 00:30:23.336
The plan doesn't crown anyone, but it reveals who treats the moment like it matters.
00:30:23.336 --> 00:30:29.084
Memphis played the game, golden State played the ending first.
00:30:29.084 --> 00:30:37.919
Let's move along, cuz we got some other teams to get to Orlando game.
00:30:37.919 --> 00:30:42.165
We did anybody catch that?
00:30:42.165 --> 00:30:46.317
If you did, you are sicko like me.
00:30:46.317 --> 00:30:50.488
If you, if you caught that game, you're sicko just like I am.
00:30:50.488 --> 00:30:56.298
They said vince, you don't know.
00:30:56.298 --> 00:30:57.182
You don't know ball.
00:30:57.182 --> 00:30:58.546
Dog, you don't know ball.
00:31:01.335 --> 00:31:25.258
Okay, carl anthony scored 26 points on 10 of 17 shooting last night or two nights ago, four or nine from the finger and swirled it around for as many replays as I've ever seen anybody do this dude.
00:31:25.258 --> 00:31:31.976
Every time there was a questionable play he was throwing the finger up like let's go, I want to replay on that.
00:31:31.976 --> 00:31:33.900
Like dog, you ain't got no replays left.
00:31:33.900 --> 00:31:35.462
Like we still want to replay.
00:31:35.462 --> 00:31:38.308
He was into it.
00:31:38.308 --> 00:31:44.920
But let's be super clear, look really under control.
00:31:45.381 --> 00:31:58.112
He looked like, since he cut the dreads and stuff like that, my man was punishing Atlanta's switches and flat pick and roll coverages.
00:31:58.112 --> 00:32:00.663
He didn't force any shots.
00:32:00.663 --> 00:32:10.442
He used movement, tempo changes and jab steps to get where he wanted to go and he was aggressive, but he was decisive.
00:32:10.442 --> 00:32:16.123
At the same time, there was a Intentionality to the aggressiveness.
00:32:16.123 --> 00:32:23.541
It was kind of like looking at a running back that sees the hole, sticks his foot in the ground and just attacks the hole.
00:32:23.541 --> 00:32:29.244
And that's what Cole Anthony did Against the Atlanta Hawks.
00:32:29.244 --> 00:32:33.022
The reason why he did that of trey young.
00:32:34.286 --> 00:32:52.192
Now, trey young, 28 points, 11 of 12 free throws to assist, 8 of 21 shooting and he was ejected in the fourth quarter because he just keep the villain when he can't risk.
00:32:52.192 --> 00:32:57.281
Mastermind, devious dude, it's hard.
00:32:57.281 --> 00:33:00.686
It's hard for him to assist.
00:33:00.686 --> 00:33:05.903
Now, a lot of this was because nobody was hitting shots for atlanta.
00:33:05.903 --> 00:33:07.707
It was a tough deal.
00:33:07.707 --> 00:33:13.425
Orlando, with their length, took his floater spots away.
00:33:13.425 --> 00:33:21.195
Four switches gave him no clear reads because of the fact that he's so diminutive.
00:33:21.195 --> 00:33:30.431
He had a bad shooting night that led to an emotional meltdown under.
00:33:30.431 --> 00:33:40.145
You know, if you want to call it finality, got kicked out, it looked loud, he'll give it up.
00:33:40.145 --> 00:33:46.219
Some of the people that uh, guarded trey young, 6-7.
00:33:46.439 --> 00:33:50.905
Anthony black, shaded screens, angles and forced early pickups.
00:33:50.905 --> 00:34:07.277
Franz and Paulo switched one through four, walled off the wings While Jonathan Isaac and Wendell Carter Jr dropped deep enough to deny lives but fast enough to contest floaters.
00:34:07.277 --> 00:34:20.726
Isaac was so long that even when Trey got to supposedly the spot that he was looking at, jonathan Isaac, it was absolutely just a clinic on defense.
00:34:20.726 --> 00:34:26.905
This is what Jamal Mosley does and he's really getting to me.
00:34:26.905 --> 00:34:31.146
He's getting everything out of this team that he possibly can get.
00:34:33.215 --> 00:34:36.465
Remember no Suggs.
00:34:36.465 --> 00:34:40.141
No, jalen Suggs, he will not be back.
00:34:40.141 --> 00:34:53.847
He is more right now pressing matters to deal with because he was at the WNBA draft with his girlfriend, hayley von lip.
00:34:53.847 --> 00:35:02.355
Okay, listen, when your girl is going first round, round, round, shots out to our guy jalen sucks.
00:35:02.355 --> 00:35:06.222
We see you player, we see what you got going on.
00:35:06.222 --> 00:35:12.994
Okay, like I say, it was the defensive clinic.
00:35:12.994 --> 00:35:18.367
By the magic they closed the vision creation to be had.
00:35:18.367 --> 00:35:26.400
Okay, dyson Daniels wasn't as fluid as he was before step back.
00:35:26.420 --> 00:35:29.405
Threes over, flaunt over, franz were missed.
00:35:29.405 --> 00:35:50.186
Force passes to the corner, turnover, draw, foul attempts, no whistle argue, no call technical then, oh, a lot of this goes away when Jalen Johnson gives back and you know you have more diversity in the offense.
00:35:50.186 --> 00:35:53.021
He was frustrated, most definitely.
00:35:53.021 --> 00:35:57.894
But I wonder if Trey Young has played his last game as an Atlanta Hawk.
00:35:57.894 --> 00:36:01.998
Let's get to Orlando a little bit.
00:36:01.998 --> 00:36:05.561
I love that Anthony Black's game.
00:36:05.561 --> 00:36:08.164
Uh, franz Wagner and lax again.
00:36:08.164 --> 00:36:10.567
Uh, franz wagner and paulo banquero.
00:36:10.567 --> 00:36:15.992
Uh, paulo struggled but franz, you know, held it down.
00:36:15.992 --> 00:36:21.664
You know saying I like that part and rissa shea for atlanta.
00:36:21.664 --> 00:36:26.858
He looked raw but you could see some of the glimpses there and they were.
00:36:26.858 --> 00:36:37.074
They were hurting without Jalen Johnson To not just diversify the offense but give Orlando something else to think about.
00:36:37.074 --> 00:36:37.496
That.
00:36:37.496 --> 00:36:42.181
They clearly just locked on to Trey and said that's all we got to deal with.
00:36:42.181 --> 00:36:50.063
So now let's get to our next.
00:36:55.875 --> 00:36:58.340
It's a real interesting series that's about to go down and I want to preview it with you.
00:36:58.340 --> 00:37:05.699
The last time these two teams met, houston beat golden state 112 to 101.
00:37:05.699 --> 00:37:09.206
Steph curry was held to 11 points on blank.
00:37:09.206 --> 00:37:20.599
Today, steph, everywhere he went on the court, he was the actual make no mistake about it.
00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:34.179
I mean at every point, pin down and relocation, he had a six foot seven shadow with spring-loaded hips and anticipation.
00:37:34.179 --> 00:37:47.235
A man didn't chase, he waits, he recovers, he mirrors, he pounces, he guards stuff like a guy who already watched his second and third options.
00:37:47.235 --> 00:37:56.679
It was the first time in years I used to have steph rush in his rhythm 100.
00:37:59.161 --> 00:38:18.244
But I do think that amen thompson provides a lot of difficulty and steph will have to be on that, like he gonna have to be on real, on some real sniper type stuff when he goes up against the Houston Rockets this time.
00:38:18.244 --> 00:38:32.306
And remember, it's not just gonna be Amy Thompson, it's gonna be Dylan Brooks there, somehow, some way VanVleet, eason, since of the world.
00:38:32.306 --> 00:38:34.030
If there's a switch, there's a Joe Barry Brooks.
00:38:34.030 --> 00:38:35.434
They're somehow someway Van Vliet, easton, eastons of the world.
00:38:35.434 --> 00:38:40.315
If there's a switch, there's a Jabari Smith waiting for you.
00:38:40.315 --> 00:38:45.873
The link never ends with the Houston Rockets.
00:38:45.873 --> 00:38:51.914
They'll shade them high on screen.
00:38:51.914 --> 00:38:52.978
Discipline defensive team and they.
00:38:52.978 --> 00:38:54.643
This is a real drag to play.
00:38:56.789 --> 00:38:58.835
Now some of the keys to the series.
00:38:58.835 --> 00:39:04.539
Personally, I think Shingun versus Draymond Steph.
00:39:04.539 --> 00:39:16.630
Short roll reads, shingun reads shangoon can't hedge high and elbow triggers to test his reaction in time and space.
00:39:16.630 --> 00:39:20.601
This is going to be the challenge in this series.
00:39:20.601 --> 00:39:23.306
Can you play shangoon off the court?
00:39:23.306 --> 00:39:24.755
Because that's their size.
00:39:24.755 --> 00:39:31.047
Now they also like to go ahead and throw stepven adams in there and run a double big lineup.
00:39:31.047 --> 00:39:32.918
That's been highly productive.
00:39:32.918 --> 00:39:38.228
Now they have not used it a ton this year, but when they used it it has.
00:39:41.958 --> 00:39:46.224
I'm looking forward to just some of the the chess pieces that go on in this series.
00:39:46.224 --> 00:40:06.199
Now, like jaylen green versus the warriors, wing depth golden state is going to rotate moody pauzinski and butler on to jaylen green, no doubt they'll top lock dhos and force him downhill into hell.
00:40:06.199 --> 00:40:13.090
Now green earns free throws and avoids highlight traps.
00:40:13.090 --> 00:40:24.458
Houston can be really scary in this series now because they're going to need his offense, because he's the only one that can really independently go out and get his bucket.
00:40:24.458 --> 00:40:35.041
Now can van vliet kind of steady the ship and kind of match not match Steph, but match the energy of Steph kind of?
00:40:35.041 --> 00:40:42.061
And what I mean by that is just basically being the veteran ball handler Against the.
00:40:42.061 --> 00:40:59.523
You know, that kind of Calms down the youth Fred is not going to wow you, but if he controls the pace Against the warriors they might have a shot.
00:40:59.523 --> 00:41:07.041
So the other piece of this situation is Will Jonathan.
00:41:07.041 --> 00:41:11.452
So the other piece of this situation is will Jonathan?
00:41:11.472 --> 00:41:18.610
He didn't play in the Clipper game, he did not play against the Memphis Grizzlies.
00:41:18.610 --> 00:41:25.347
It was a DMP coaching decision and no drama.
00:41:25.347 --> 00:41:26.748
No, out, curse it.
00:41:26.748 --> 00:41:32.121
He doesn't like the spacing when coming is in there with jimmy and draymond.
00:41:32.121 --> 00:41:35.206
Not, not any minutes whatsoever.
00:41:35.766 --> 00:41:43.487
Steve kerr, the most athletic dude you got on your squad, you cannot get him any minutes whatsoever.
00:41:43.487 --> 00:41:49.500
The only dude that can like provide some kind of weak side rim protection.
00:41:49.500 --> 00:41:51.405
He can't get no burn.
00:41:51.405 --> 00:41:54.012
Get him any burn whatsoever.
00:41:54.012 --> 00:41:54.291
Huh.
00:41:54.291 --> 00:42:11.134
So jonathan kaminga not playing the last two games, it's not a punishment.
00:42:11.134 --> 00:42:20.733
I just want to know what it's going to look like at the end of the year, because at this point I don't know.
00:42:20.733 --> 00:42:21.836
I mean, you got to.
00:42:21.836 --> 00:42:28.391
You should play him against the Houston Rockets.
00:42:28.391 --> 00:42:34.228
He is an athletic guy who can help match some of the athleticism that Houston has.
00:42:34.228 --> 00:42:42.626
Now you're telling me that he's lost on defense and switches and what.
00:42:42.626 --> 00:42:45.889
How you and he doesn't bring me to swallow.
00:42:45.889 --> 00:42:49.576
That's gonna be real hard for me to swallow that.
00:42:49.576 --> 00:42:57.860
You're gonna tell me that this guy can't provide any, any production for you in a playoff rotation against houston.
00:42:57.860 --> 00:43:05.228
When he's this athletic, it's just is that we need to pay attention to.
00:43:09.152 --> 00:43:13.735
Turnover ratio for the Houston Rockets is 17.6%.
00:43:13.735 --> 00:43:21.106
Bench net rating I'm in, plus Eason, plus 6.8.
00:43:21.106 --> 00:43:28.255
Defensive field goal versus third and fourth options.
00:43:28.255 --> 00:43:40.219
Top 10 versus good golden state warrior corner juggernaut when it comes to this, and this is why we made amen thompson our defensive play.
00:43:40.219 --> 00:43:43.744
That's what we do.
00:43:43.744 --> 00:43:51.311
Curry's on off net is a positive 11.3.
00:43:51.311 --> 00:43:52.193
It will.
00:43:52.193 --> 00:44:15.327
Here's the thing jimmy's appearance and jimmy's uh um, in a sense stay in this rotation has kind of stabilized that time when curry is off the court he's able to get them into good offense and you don't have the just the nadir that you used to have when uh, steph would leave the game.
00:44:15.327 --> 00:44:19.916
Corner three rate 32 percent.
00:44:19.916 --> 00:44:25.570
Jimmy butler and draymond's net rating is a positive 14.1.
00:44:25.570 --> 00:44:28.134
That's their closing duo.
00:44:28.134 --> 00:44:36.333
We will see how it fares against the just ginormous houston rockets.
00:44:36.333 --> 00:44:44.510
If you are staunch houston rockets fan, you already know these things.
00:44:44.510 --> 00:44:48.882
Staunch Houston Rockets fan, you already know these things.
00:44:48.902 --> 00:44:52.748
I'm in Thompson's ability to disrupt stuff without fouling key.
00:44:52.748 --> 00:44:57.940
Can shangoon stay playable in four quarters?
00:44:57.940 --> 00:45:18.661
Another key Jalen Greens.
00:45:18.661 --> 00:45:28.818
And can the vet in Fred Van Vliet be the steadying force for the Houston Rockets so they can control their possessions?
00:45:28.818 --> 00:45:30.579
One you don't want to bust your turn up Stuff now.
00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:31.802
If go state wins.
00:45:31.802 --> 00:45:47.889
Steph warps Ammons rhythm and with off-ball decoys Jimmy Butler gets downhill consistent, consistently for four quarters and gets fouled, puts pressure on the paint.
00:45:47.889 --> 00:45:49.315
Moody and pods are hitting their shots.
00:45:49.315 --> 00:45:51.242
They have to hit.
00:45:51.242 --> 00:45:54.452
Draymond protects.
00:45:54.452 --> 00:46:05.931
Now draymond's not reluctance but his uh, his ability to shoot corner threes.
00:46:05.931 --> 00:46:08.561
Of late it's been real good, I loved it.
00:46:08.561 --> 00:46:12.889
He's gonna have to continue that because they are going to leave him.
00:46:12.889 --> 00:46:19.650
If they can take the, if they can take the rockets into deep water, they should be able to drown them.
00:46:23.860 --> 00:46:30.014
Um, if they go down to zip and go in houston, this series is over.
00:46:30.014 --> 00:46:38.699
It will be houston's youth and energy against golden states just efficient.
00:46:38.699 --> 00:46:44.050
It's about tempo reads, matchup, clarity.
00:46:44.050 --> 00:46:52.389
It's the kind of series that where a six-minute, a man run or a red corner, three changes everything.
00:46:52.389 --> 00:47:00.153
Don't be shocked if Kaminga reappears, and I will say this I would pick Golden State.
00:47:00.153 --> 00:47:12.628
I think they have just a more offensive answers than Houston does see to allow the young players to kind of play free, and if they can play free they'll be alright.
00:47:12.628 --> 00:47:17.625
Close their warriors.
00:47:18.748 --> 00:47:34.536
Right as Memphis was cutting a 20-point lead down to one, he landed on buddy heels foot, limped off and came back, but he was not the same, hence the hero ball that commenced at that point.
00:47:34.536 --> 00:47:44.364
He still finished with 22 points, but just seven in the second half and the game was in the games most important possessions.
00:47:44.364 --> 00:47:49.646
Memphis designed a decoy to set for him.
00:47:49.646 --> 00:47:52.650
He couldn't even hit free throws.
00:47:52.650 --> 00:47:57.268
He couldn't even stay in front of Gary Payton either.
00:47:57.268 --> 00:47:59.447
That was hard to watch.
00:47:59.447 --> 00:48:03.360
Job was compromised.
00:48:04.864 --> 00:48:06.648
Now I'm not going to sit here and say, oh, that's his foot.
00:48:06.648 --> 00:48:07.246
No, listen, you land on somebody's foot, what can you do?
00:48:07.246 --> 00:48:07.554
Jaw was compromised.
00:48:07.554 --> 00:48:07.942
Now I'm not gonna sit here and say all this is well.
00:48:07.942 --> 00:48:09.753
No, listen, you land on somebody's foot.
00:48:09.753 --> 00:48:10.474
What can you do?
00:48:10.474 --> 00:48:15.039
What depend on your teammates?
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:23.248
Man, don't bring, bring in another shooter.
00:48:23.248 --> 00:48:24.413
You're not gonna be able to.
00:48:24.413 --> 00:48:27.202
You know, shoot the ball or whatever, cuz your ankle.
00:48:27.202 --> 00:48:32.351
Now here's a.
00:48:32.351 --> 00:48:33.273
Here's a.
00:48:33.273 --> 00:48:37.302
Here's a quote from Jah I'm playing.
00:48:37.302 --> 00:48:39.929
That's basically the answer I'm giving.
00:48:39.929 --> 00:48:41.072
I'm giving.
00:48:41.072 --> 00:48:44.081
That was John Moran post game.
00:48:46.980 --> 00:48:49.969
Nobody has ever questioned Ja's toughness.
00:48:49.969 --> 00:48:54.510
Nobody has ever questioned Ja's like listen, I can rise to the moment.
00:48:54.510 --> 00:49:03.882
Our question has always been with Ja is decision making on and off the court and how seriously are you going to take this?
00:49:03.882 --> 00:49:12.860
This is what lay it.
00:49:12.860 --> 00:49:25.652
You know you're already up against it because of Jalen Wells' injury that was so sick to hear and also we are just wishing that man well and also losing Brandon Clark to a season-ending injury as well.
00:49:25.652 --> 00:49:32.646
Also losing Brandon Clark to a season-ending injury as well.
00:49:32.646 --> 00:49:34.731
You get Jaron and Bane playing 39 minutes each.
00:49:34.731 --> 00:49:39.842
Those guys you know when you had depth, these guys playing 31 minutes.
00:49:39.842 --> 00:49:45.731
And now you got John John Moran's ankle.
00:49:45.891 --> 00:49:57.123
Now Scottie Pippen jr can be a viable pseudo Tyus Jones type of guard for the Memphis Grizzlies.
00:49:57.123 --> 00:49:59.146
He's still young.
00:49:59.146 --> 00:50:03.088
Some campaign killers during the third quarter.
00:50:03.088 --> 00:50:11.856
Now he had to fly home and basically rest up.
00:50:11.856 --> 00:50:17.030
You just hope that you know, with the treatment, whatever case may be, he can get that ankle loose.
00:50:17.030 --> 00:50:22.206
We'll see what happens in uh pre-game and we'll see what goes on from there.
00:50:22.206 --> 00:50:25.489
But if jock can't play, dallas is gonna smoke them.
00:50:28.454 --> 00:50:31.286
Now let's talk about the guy who was really doing it.
00:50:31.286 --> 00:50:32.429
Big desert bang.
00:50:32.429 --> 00:50:33.271
This is our guy.
00:50:33.271 --> 00:50:38.635
You know how much I love desert bank 30 points, five of eight from three.
00:50:38.635 --> 00:50:41.282
Elite movement shooter.
00:50:41.282 --> 00:50:50.255
Still not a pressure creator, but if you need some shots, that's your guy.
00:50:50.255 --> 00:51:07.751
Now we are going to get to atlanta and what we saw there um, here's a team, that man, they are about to play the miami heat and this might be a wrap for them too.
00:51:07.751 --> 00:51:23.092
We saw what trey young did all his, and anytime you can get your dude into playoff situations, it's a good situation then we welcome in the miami heat and heat culture.
00:51:23.092 --> 00:51:24.273
So we'll see how that goes.
00:51:25.304 --> 00:51:27.679
Talk about the new orleans pelicans.
00:51:27.679 --> 00:51:31.065
Real quick, they're not in the playoffs but we need to bring this up.
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So the new orleans pelicans this week they fired david griffin.
00:51:37.885 --> 00:51:41.394
He's out people around the league.
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You got to go get analytical people.
00:51:43.621 --> 00:51:48.358
She won and again, dumars didn't come out of thin air.
00:51:48.358 --> 00:51:49.802
It came from gail benson.
00:51:49.802 --> 00:51:53.809
Gail hires people.
00:51:53.809 --> 00:52:00.242
She knows people that with ties to the saints, to the pelicans, it doesn't matter.
00:52:00.242 --> 00:52:05.913
She's running a family business model in a league run by wall street killers.
00:52:05.913 --> 00:52:21.106
Now, a family business model in a league run by wall street killers now, and what we just watched was not an executive search firing griffin on monday morning and then announcing dumar on do mars by wednesday afternoon.
00:52:21.126 --> 00:52:22.186
This is not due diligence.
00:52:22.186 --> 00:52:31.101
This is called your cousin from the group chat and asking him you know amazon hiring homie.
00:52:31.101 --> 00:52:34.306
You know you need to go ahead and give some work.
00:52:34.306 --> 00:52:37.952
My god, all right.
00:52:37.952 --> 00:52:42.786
So we've been here before, um, with gail.
00:52:42.786 --> 00:52:46.273
She's loyal to the soil and this is what she's doing.
00:52:46.273 --> 00:52:57.782
She wanted to do this prior, but now I will say this about our guy, david Griffin does he, does he deserve more?
00:52:57.782 --> 00:52:59.923
Yeah and no.
00:52:59.923 --> 00:53:03.027
So you miss four post.
00:53:03.027 --> 00:53:05.711
No playoff series wins.
00:53:05.711 --> 00:53:28.159
You drafted well Some of the trades I was a little iffy on, but you drafted really, really well Some of the trades I understood, but I didn't like some of the execution.
00:53:30.340 --> 00:53:34.711
What this really comes down to is if you got what you needed out of ingram and what you needed to get out of zion.
00:53:34.711 --> 00:53:39.141
The biggest l is identity some guys returning from injury.
00:53:39.141 --> 00:53:46.954
You got one dude that's returning from, hopefully like, uh, weight watchers or whatever.
00:53:46.954 --> 00:53:50.498
Are we sending zion to some kind of camp?
00:53:50.498 --> 00:53:51.480
I don't know.
00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:59.793
Is he going back to donkey where they can feed him like proper food?
00:53:59.793 --> 00:54:00.894
I don't know.
00:54:00.894 --> 00:54:05.449
That dude needs to stay in shape or they need to trade him.
00:54:05.449 --> 00:54:10.838
They need to figure that one out and Joe Dumars gets it's alignment.
00:54:12.612 --> 00:54:15.059
Here's the quiet part that nobody's saying out loud.
00:54:15.059 --> 00:54:18.505
This isn't just Griffin being gone.
00:54:18.505 --> 00:54:23.789
This is about Zion and maybe not being the guy.
00:54:23.789 --> 00:54:32.896
This is about decisions like Dyson Daniels being traded for DeJounte Murray.
00:54:32.896 --> 00:54:34.659
I love DeJounte Murray.
00:54:34.659 --> 00:54:37.105
I don't know if he's a lead guard.
00:54:37.105 --> 00:54:43.184
I don't know if he's the guard that you need around Zion.
00:54:44.346 --> 00:54:47.471
And then it comes down to this summer.
00:54:47.471 --> 00:54:56.146
Is there a decision made or is there a mandate made to zion, bro?
00:54:56.146 --> 00:55:03.824
And if you ask, don't, we gonna trade you and we gonna try to trade you to like a euro league team.
00:55:03.824 --> 00:55:07.391
We I don't know if it's in our bylaws to do so.
00:55:07.391 --> 00:55:14.385
Utah, zion and Utah.
00:55:14.385 --> 00:55:20.331
They don't drink beer in Utah, right, something I don't know.
00:55:20.331 --> 00:55:24.449
Coffee's outlawed in Utah.
00:55:24.449 --> 00:55:34.384
Who knows, man, but I will say this somebody had to fall and David Griffin was going to make this fall.
00:55:34.384 --> 00:55:37.753
You know, that was just what it was going to be.
00:55:39.382 --> 00:55:44.599
Dumar says his vision is a disciplined team built on toughness and smarts.
00:55:44.599 --> 00:55:48.831
Uh, smart decision making with no excuses.
00:55:48.831 --> 00:55:56.565
Mindset you're going to hold zion accountable.
00:55:56.565 --> 00:56:05.815
No excuses means that your frugal nature as a franchise will upgrade.
00:56:05.815 --> 00:56:12.572
Maybe the worst, maybe on this team, maybe a year or two long.
00:56:12.572 --> 00:56:21.489
So my question is when you talk about no excuses, are you gonna then hold miss benson accountable?
00:56:21.489 --> 00:56:33.427
Miss Benson accountable for hiring with her heart instead of her head, because the fans in the bayou deserve better.
00:56:36.335 --> 00:56:43.525
Have a team that reflects the city's energy tough, resilient, hungry.
00:56:43.525 --> 00:56:49.733
A team, a town that's not high energy.
00:56:49.733 --> 00:56:51.996
It's a football town.
00:56:51.996 --> 00:57:16.849
New orleans cares about the saints and lsu football and sometimes, if two lane is halfway good, we care about Tulane L Benson, who owns the Saints and cares about the Saints, priority number one, nfl, always king, right.
00:57:16.849 --> 00:57:33.762
So either you fix this issue, stop giving me rhetoric about being accountable or whatever, and start taking some hard looks in the mirror.
00:57:33.762 --> 00:57:38.090
New orleans, memphis, atlanta.
00:57:38.090 --> 00:57:41.074
Things need to change.
00:57:42.780 --> 00:57:52.708
Speaking of change, you understand front offices and what makes them tick and how do you develop and what players and what are you looking for to develop?
00:57:52.708 --> 00:58:01.206
I look at this situation in Phoenix and we don't have to go back very far.
00:58:01.206 --> 00:58:14.307
This was a team that was in the finals against the Milwaukee Bucks and if Giannis, that series looks a whole lot different.
00:58:14.307 --> 00:58:21.023
And who is left from that team?
00:58:21.023 --> 00:58:24.420
Devin Booker.
00:58:24.420 --> 00:58:30.210
I understand the go all in for KD.
00:58:30.210 --> 00:58:32.293
I completely understand.
00:58:32.293 --> 00:58:35.844
He is a absolute freak of nature.
00:58:35.844 --> 00:58:38.007
He's an alien, he's a 101.
00:58:39.909 --> 00:58:49.005
But when you gave up all the draft picks and then gave up Michael uh, mik McKell bridges and Cam Johnson, that was a derelict of duty.
00:58:49.005 --> 00:59:05.304
And I don't care you, you sounded like some for like a thousand dollars on the slot machine and then you're gonna take the thousand dollars and go to the craps table, dog, get your ass out the casino and take your thousand dollars and go home.
00:59:05.304 --> 00:59:08.389
You didn't do that.
00:59:08.389 --> 00:59:10.454
You double down on stupid.
00:59:10.454 --> 00:59:12.063
You got bradley bill.
00:59:12.063 --> 00:59:13.768
Oh, what could happen here?
00:59:13.768 --> 00:59:17.659
What could possibly go wrong bringing bradley bill in?
00:59:17.659 --> 00:59:19.242
He's a shooter.
00:59:19.242 --> 00:59:21.125
He'll provide space.
00:59:21.125 --> 00:59:22.746
Oh, hold on.
00:59:22.746 --> 00:59:24.849
Did you watch any of the tape?
00:59:24.849 --> 00:59:28.996
He likes to perform a high volume dudes.
00:59:28.996 --> 00:59:31.626
Devin Booker works in the mid-range.
00:59:31.626 --> 00:59:34.661
Kevin Durant's like to work in the mid-range.
00:59:34.661 --> 00:59:37.465
Where does Bradley bill like to work?
00:59:37.465 --> 00:59:40.130
Oh, the mid-range.
00:59:40.130 --> 00:59:44.342
So you got three of the same kind.
00:59:44.342 --> 00:59:45.505
They're just different sizes.
00:59:45.505 --> 00:59:56.125
They are no diversity at all in the offense whatsoever.
00:59:56.125 --> 00:59:57.349
And then you're gonna go sit here and fire coach.
00:59:57.349 --> 01:00:03.864
After coach frank vogel won a damn championship he brought at least some defensive chops to your team he gets fired.
01:00:04.666 --> 01:00:10.722
Or you tell the phoenix suns fans that you're trying to win multiple championships.
01:00:10.722 --> 01:00:24.851
The first thing that you need to do is understand that you've made a mistake and to rectify that mistake you have to trade deviner.
01:00:24.851 --> 01:00:50.967
You have to tear it down, be humble and understand that sometimes you can be smart in the industry that you dominated in, but you are Not Intellectually capable Of handling the day to day operations of an NBA franchise.
01:00:50.967 --> 01:01:10.420
If your owner wants to play fantasy basketball and make trades and do all this stuff on his own and you're just kind of there, kind of as like a help guide through the processes I am sure that's not what James Jones signed up for.
01:01:10.420 --> 01:01:20.907
Do you finally relent and understand that this is done, ski?
01:01:20.907 --> 01:01:39.184
Do you finally relent and understand we're wrong 450 million over the salary cap and you got 36 wins out of it.
01:01:39.184 --> 01:02:07.056
If you had shareholders in the company that made you all these billions of dollars, they would look at you right now and say this is not a good return on my investment and I want out now or just continue to sell to the fans that you know exactly what the hell you're doing today.
01:02:07.056 --> 01:02:09.827
It's like a business that he just acquired at auction.
01:02:09.827 --> 01:02:16.539
He tore down to the floorboard, slapped some new paint on it and thought the champagne would pour itself.
01:02:19.824 --> 01:02:21.164
Durant is a hired gun.
01:02:21.164 --> 01:02:27.070
He doesn't provide any playmaking anymore.
01:02:27.070 --> 01:02:28.994
He's not consistent.
01:02:28.994 --> 01:02:31.056
He's 37 years old.
01:02:31.056 --> 01:02:32.521
He can get you 30 points.
01:02:32.521 --> 01:02:34.021
That's about it.
01:02:34.021 --> 01:02:37.025
Think about this.
01:02:38.007 --> 01:02:40.610
May of 2023 monty williams is fired.
01:02:40.610 --> 01:02:45.155
June of 2023 Bradley Beal arrives in Phoenix.
01:02:45.155 --> 01:02:46.456
It's a new day and age.
01:02:46.456 --> 01:02:48.657
April of 2024.
01:02:48.657 --> 01:02:54.579
The chairs of coaches doesn't breed continuity.
01:02:54.579 --> 01:03:06.903
How can you have any loyalty with inside your organization when, every second of the day, we think we, oh, this could be it, this could be it?
01:03:06.903 --> 01:03:13.106
And then it leads me to devin booker, 27.
01:03:13.106 --> 01:03:16.130
He's been in phoenix his whole career.
01:03:16.130 --> 01:03:18.574
He's seen all the whole way.
01:03:18.574 --> 01:03:24.485
He did it again with KD.
01:03:24.485 --> 01:03:33.739
You brought in KD about Devin Booker.
01:03:33.739 --> 01:03:40.012
Right, I thought it was so.
01:03:40.012 --> 01:03:51.681
Devin Booker is the last man standing and he romanticizes Kobe Bryant and he wants to be a long-standing member of the phoenix suns.
01:03:51.681 --> 01:04:03.423
But I wonder, once he sees the return for kevin durant, will devin booker's thought process, thought process, change?
01:04:03.423 --> 01:04:08.014
Because who's making that decision?
01:04:08.014 --> 01:04:10.659
Is it James Jones?
01:04:10.659 --> 01:04:24.190
The veteran player talent evaluator is well, he wants you to be like oh my god, you acquired this.
01:04:24.190 --> 01:04:25.333
Oh, this is great.
01:04:25.333 --> 01:04:29.983
I don't know if it fits your team whatsoever, but this is great.
01:04:29.983 --> 01:04:34.492
Look at this brand recognition phoenix.
01:04:38.340 --> 01:04:44.373
Their season played out like a bravo reality show with no reunion episode.
01:04:44.373 --> 01:04:52.527
Show with no reunion episode.
01:04:52.527 --> 01:04:54.900
Kd was the big name guest star, bill was the surprise arrival.
01:04:54.900 --> 01:05:01.556
Ishpia was the flashy new producer who kept changing the format.
01:05:01.556 --> 01:05:02.239
And then there's Devin Booker.
01:05:02.239 --> 01:05:07.626
He was loyal, contested, trying to win the game while the rules kept shifting.
01:05:07.626 --> 01:05:16.849
You had kd, when he was playing, literally yelling at mike budenhoser and asking him what the hell are we running?
01:05:16.849 --> 01:05:22.846
And let's run something else like not two or three times a game.
01:05:22.846 --> 01:05:25.349
I heard it on good authority.
01:05:25.349 --> 01:05:29.943
It was every time up and down the court, up and down the court.
01:05:29.943 --> 01:05:40.025
He's giving mike bootenhoser, his coach, the side eye after he's missed a defensive rotation, looking at him going like what are we doing here?
01:05:40.025 --> 01:05:52.317
And your last real tangible asset is loyal to the soil and supposedly doesn't want to leave.
01:05:52.317 --> 01:05:54.820
But we will see.
01:05:54.820 --> 01:06:05.416
Once the return for kd comes back we'll see how much devin booker wants to be loyal.
01:06:05.416 --> 01:06:13.001
Devin Booker wants to be loyal.
01:06:13.041 --> 01:06:14.603
You can't build culture with chaos.
01:06:14.603 --> 01:06:29.818
You can't buy credibility with cap space and you can't keep your stars if your foundation is cracked, the season for got exposed and this all tangled taking into the playoffs.
01:06:29.818 --> 01:06:44.951
I know Adam Silver is extremely excited about this development that we will have Steph Curry playing the Houston Rockets and Emei Adoka will cuss out Steph Curry and it will be great for TV ratings.
01:06:44.951 --> 01:06:55.036
Memphis gets one more shot, one more chance at glory to keep their playoff hopes alive.
01:06:55.036 --> 01:07:20.795
Against the Dallas Mavericks, orlando is trying to reclaim its early season status and build up their courage to go up to boston to face the defending champions, and atlanta is led by a 90s r b singing.
01:07:20.795 --> 01:07:27.889
But he gets one more crack as well.
01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:32.945
In games are basketball's lie detector.
01:07:32.945 --> 01:07:37.494
If your culture ain't real, the moment exposes you.
01:07:37.494 --> 01:07:40.503
Okay, that's what we're talking about here.
01:07:40.503 --> 01:07:45.588
You either get real with yourself or you get played out.
01:07:45.588 --> 01:07:53.257
So surround yourself with people who lift you up, push you forward and remind you who you are.
01:07:53.257 --> 01:08:07.891
And if you got folks like that, celebrate them, text them, hug them, let them know that they matter, because growth is different when you're surrounded by love, support and real ones.
01:08:07.891 --> 01:08:12.632
And if you're building that circle, well, you can start right here.
01:08:12.632 --> 01:08:14.300
With front runner podcast collective.
01:08:14.300 --> 01:08:20.872
We always got a seat here for you always and, with that being said, we out of here.
01:08:20.872 --> 01:08:29.529
I want to thank my producer, my producing and excited about that.
01:08:29.529 --> 01:08:39.202
But y'all, take care, have a good one and, uh, we'll be back on on tomorrow.
01:08:39.202 --> 01:08:40.805
Yeah, we'll be back, yeah for sure.
01:08:40.805 --> 01:08:41.926
Deuce.