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Well, well, well,

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the nil suddenly

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look mortal and Anthony Edwards

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appears to be immortal, and

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we've got a ton of great playoff basketball

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to discuss with our very own super producer

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podcaster Churtless Jerry Davis.

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On today's episode, I'm Miles

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Gray and I'm Jack O'Brien and

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this is magic

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three.

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Got it that?

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Luka doncic it's ten

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o k. There you go

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be driving spinning.

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The block's got it with five?

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Who's gonna try another three? Mister?

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Look on James to

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be honest, what the tas? Look out little

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shirt time? What you got?

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Yes?

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First episode? Free?

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Yeah I am free Mile.

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Oh yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, freedom for you, Yes

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you are, Yes,

1:02

And welcome Tobari, Welcome

1:06

to the couchment this week.

1:08

Yeah, hey, what do you want to watch today?

1:10

Should we?

1:11

Let's let's turn on the I guess well, as

1:13

we record this, Oklahoma City and the

1:15

MAVs are having their first game

1:18

series. I mean, yeah, they were two

1:20

and two against each other during the regular season

1:23

and split games on each court, so, you know, seemingly

1:26

very even. But I'm wondering. I

1:28

know we were talking a little bit before what we think of

1:30

this matchup. Jack, You're definitely incentivized.

1:33

To I'm incentivized for the

1:36

Oklahoma City Thunder. Yes,

1:40

he's incentivized. That's all you need,

1:42

folks.

1:42

And you know, I'm just as Just watching

1:45

the MAVs close out their series of the Clippers, I was.

1:47

Like, yeah, they might they might have something there too.

1:49

The MAVs are the hot pick, They're the sexy

1:51

pick among pickers.

1:54

They are they the favorite? They're not

1:56

the favorite, I don't think, but I think it's

1:58

very close.

2:00

Yeah, that's what it feels like. Jabari,

2:02

how are you looking at the series? You are you leaning

2:04

one way? I mean I think earlier I was saying, I

2:07

I think I like the Mavericks.

2:09

But let me tell you why.

2:10

First, I believe that

2:12

because of what is happening in hip hop, Canadian

2:15

players are wobbling right now.

2:17

So Lou Dort, I

2:20

mean, yeah.

2:21

That matchup with Luca could look cool, But I

2:23

believe you're born in Montreal. Shake Gills is Alexander,

2:26

I believe you're also Canadian.

2:28

I don't know.

2:28

I don't like their

2:30

spirit. I mean, look what happened to Jamal.

2:33

You know Jamal Murray has also we'll

2:35

get to that series in a second. But that is my hair

2:38

brained theory that has no science

2:40

behind it. It's pure conjecture and

2:42

it's responsible.

2:43

It just feels so scientific.

2:47

Science's advanced science. It's called

2:49

West Coast science, you know what I mean. This

2:52

is where where aggrieved

2:54

West Coasters can find someone to take out

2:56

their collective frustration on.

2:57

But yeah, I don't know. I mean I think I think it could

2:59

be really close. I just personally my

3:02

my fa the Mavericks because of the second

3:04

Like, I'm just glad

3:07

that the Nuggets Wolves series

3:10

didn't like start the day that we were

3:12

about to record something, so I wasn't

3:15

like on there, you know, making any

3:17

predictions because like

3:19

that, I think we're learning it's so matchup

3:22

based, right, like what

3:24

happens, And I mean, I just the

3:27

thing I'm saying about the Nuggets and Wolves is obviously I would

3:29

have picked that the Wolves would win the first two the

3:32

second game by twenty to

3:34

thirty points on the road, because I

3:37

just wouldn't want people It just sounds like a

3:39

lot of pressure because then everybody would assume that

3:41

like I'm the Nostradamis

3:44

of the.

3:44

NBA exactly, And after the shellacking

3:47

the Lakers got, I would have projected that Jamal

3:49

Murray would be a minus thirty eight in

3:51

the series.

3:52

Yeah, I would have predicted that.

3:54

I would have because but to

3:56

Jack's point, you're one hundred percent right.

3:57

It's all matchup based, like we can look at, we can

3:59

look get and and truthfully, we can pretty

4:02

much throw out what took place in a regular season because

4:04

you're not catching teams on the you know, back

4:06

end of a you know, three games out of four

4:08

days and things of that nature.

4:10

You know, everybody's going to be ready.

4:12

When I look at the Mavericks and okay, see

4:15

my heart, uh you know, actually

4:17

I'll start with my head. My head tells me the Mavericks is going to

4:19

take this because I you know, like when

4:21

I think of two teams are somewhat evenly

4:24

matched, I look for who's the best player in the

4:26

series, and I've got that as and I've got

4:28

that as Luca. No disrespect to Shay, you know, he had

4:30

an MVP type you know season

4:32

this year, but I would still give that advantage to

4:34

Luca.

4:35

So really what it boils down to is, you know, who are

4:37

the other guys that.

4:38

Are going to make the difference. I mean, you pretty much know you

4:40

expect, you know what to expect out of Kyrie

4:43

and Shaye. But I'm looking at guys like Jalen

4:45

Williams and PJ. Washington as X factors

4:47

in this matchup, like truly, and I know that's

4:49

not you know, groundbreaking analysis, but you

4:51

know, this feels like the matchup that someone

4:54

like that is going to swing it.

4:55

I like Jalen Williams in that matchup between

4:57

those two. I don't know, man, Loud Lou

5:01

dort Lou, don't I like

5:03

him. I'm feeling good. I'm

5:05

feeling good about the Okay. See, I

5:07

think you know, I think it's I don't think it's very

5:10

clear.

5:10

I think at this point, I'm just gonna rely on my

5:12

West Coast biases to take me away

5:14

to a place called uh inaccuracy

5:17

and pure emotion.

5:19

We'll see, we'll see how its. So you're riding

5:21

with Mavericks over

5:23

okay. See because of the Kendrick Drake

5:26

beef. Yes, yes, oh, purely be

5:28

purely based off of that.

5:29

I'm taking energy from a completely unrelated

5:32

industry and field and transposing

5:34

it onto the NBA and saying this is

5:37

what the universe.

5:38

This is how the universe is bending currently. It

5:41

feels like these are both two teams that their

5:44

main their achilles heel is they don't have enough

5:46

size, but the fact that they're going against

5:48

each other gives them one more round where

5:51

they can, you know, look like normal

5:53

NBA teams. And then who knows,

5:56

but the Wolves and the Nuggets are seen.

6:00

Those guys. Those guys are big big,

6:03

Those guys big, real big. Yeah.

6:06

Oh well, so growing big up there

6:08

in Minnesota. Oh yeah, they

6:10

do, they do. Do

6:14

they even have one player that's a local? I'm not even

6:16

sure. Oh yeah, definitely every

6:18

NBA team. I assume all their players are

6:20

local.

6:22

Yeah yeah,

6:26

Oh, I mean that people always do lists like that,

6:28

were like who wins team l A, team like Bay

6:30

Area.

6:31

L A would dominate. I mean,

6:33

it's crazy. We were just looking because I was trying

6:36

to, you know, in preparation for the eulogy

6:39

for my sexers. I was looking at Melton

6:42

and I was like, oh, he also from

6:44

l A, from the great Los Angeles. Shut

6:47

up. This series could go any direction.

6:50

I'm totally not I

6:52

don't feel confident in any of my picks other

6:55

than that it would be cool if ok see one.

6:56

Okay, so then you're saying and so moving

6:59

on because I think whoever goes on to face the

7:01

winner of this next series, it's going to be very

7:03

difficult.

7:04

Yeah, but he seems feel

7:07

like beyond the Celtics, they would

7:09

be the favorite to win

7:11

the title. Whoever wins this next series.

7:14

NuGet Timberwolves, Timberwolves.

7:16

Yeah. So game one and

7:19

man, it

7:22

was like, wow, this is going to be a

7:24

war.

7:25

Yeah.

7:26

Yeah, complete total dominant. What do you put

7:28

it, like forty three points? Yeah, it

7:31

was obscene. It was obscene

7:33

to watch. And you know, Jabari we were talking

7:35

a little bit before. I was like, I'm

7:37

not that it's any kind of flash in the pan moment.

7:40

I'm like, is he just on a hot streak or is

7:42

this Anthony Edwards proclaiming to the

7:44

world that he is in fact

7:46

here and he is ready to just

7:49

be that guy again.

7:51

You're right, we were talking about it. I think he's absolutely

7:53

here. You know. Now he'll

7:55

go out in game three and of course have a you.

7:57

Know, have a bad game, and people will listen and say like, oh, well,

7:59

those guys on mad Lucius didn't know what the hell they were

8:01

talking about.

8:01

But they don't. Nobody cares. Nobody

8:04

cares about the show. We're

8:08

pretty clear about the fact that we're he did, so you don't

8:11

have to worry. You're you're in with the dumb dumbs

8:13

Jabbari. Nobody don't bet

8:15

your money on our picks except for check except

8:18

for yeah, except for my off season picks

8:20

based on seeing a single highlight of

8:22

chet. Yeah, I

8:24

don't want to play money.

8:26

I do think that Minnesota has figured

8:28

out this. You know this mix. I mean even

8:30

in Game two they didn't even have go Beer in the mix.

8:32

You know.

8:33

I know that he was criticized

8:35

for missing a game again, people will say

8:38

whatever, but you know what, family first, and I get it.

8:40

Plus, hey, look their defense got even better

8:42

without them.

8:43

So yeah, yeah, Gilbert

8:46

is like that kid's going to be there when you get done.

8:53

Hey, look, I've had two children being

8:56

there for the childbirth is over

8:59

ray. Hey

9:01

man, I think that's cool that he was able to do

9:04

that.

9:04

I missed the birth of my son to go

9:06

get a basketball autocraft by skip

9:08

skip to Malu at foot Action UH

9:11

in downtown LA.

9:12

And it was it was worth it. Yeah, it

9:14

was worth it. It was a headache. Was there too.

9:16

AO all the A one people, I was like, I told I

9:18

told my partner, I was like, I gotta get down there.

9:20

But one was like, a wow,

9:22

the Wolves are here. They're like serious,

9:25

They're going to be able to make this a series

9:28

with a team that I think a lot of people were

9:30

probably expecting. Not me, obviously, I knew that

9:32

they were gonna win both the first two games, but a lot of

9:34

people were expecting Nuggets five,

9:37

like five games. Nuggets in five, maybe

9:40

Nuggets in six would have been generous.

9:43

Game one were like, wow, ant

9:46

is here. The Wolves are serious.

9:50

After that game, I don't know anybody

9:52

who was prepared for Game two,

9:55

just being pure Dominash.

9:58

Yeah, and they're just absolutely

10:01

I don't know. I did not, And you could tell

10:03

that the Nuggets felt it early on, like they

10:06

just looked dejected. Coach Malone

10:09

was on his mind. Yeah,

10:11

he lost himself in the moment the

10:13

music. Yeah, you

10:17

know, we were saying his on off numbers

10:20

weren't great. Well, you have to keep in mind,

10:22

when he's off, he's still contributing

10:25

by throwing heatpacks onto the court. So

10:27

that's wild.

10:29

What kind of what kind of reverberations

10:32

do you think that's going to have, Like what's the worst sort

10:35

of penalty.

10:36

That he could face? I think a suspension?

10:40

How many? Probably

10:42

one? Yeah?

10:45

Yeah, because he threw a talel and a heat pack.

10:48

It's like the talent didn't reach its intended

10:50

destination and the heat pack didn't either. But

10:52

that does not seem like that ends

10:54

well considering that the league is looking into

10:57

that.

10:57

It did make me, uh

11:00

kind of realized that if I was an NBA

11:02

player, I would be doing stuff like that all the time.

11:06

Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah of

11:09

the thing where he's filled the

11:11

drink to like stop, yeah,

11:13

and like it. When that happened, I

11:15

also was like, man, how do they

11:17

not do this every time? Like because

11:20

I'm such a like you

11:22

know, I scream things

11:24

like when I'm in my home, Like when

11:27

when that shot went up from heart to

11:29

like beat the sixth way, it was

11:31

tie game. Heart gets an open look. He's

11:33

been killing us all series. We

11:36

had like friends staying with us. They're

11:38

in the kitchen. I'm in the other room

11:41

and I'm just like no, no, no, no, Like

11:44

they like came in to check on me. Yeah,

11:46

they thought you were like you caught fire or something.

11:50

My kids are coming in being like, what is

11:52

wrong is Max? No,

11:55

No, we're fine. It's fine.

11:58

It's we're fine. We're

12:00

fine. It's it's it is what it was. But yeah,

12:03

I mean again like Cat nas

12:05

Reid, My goodness.

12:08

Look, Kat is playing

12:11

much better than I ever thought. Like

12:14

Game one he was really strong

12:16

like that, you know, there's the cat things that where

12:19

he has like lapses here and there, but

12:22

just much better offensively

12:24

than I thought I would see in a playoff series.

12:27

And then Game two he is even better.

12:29

Yeah, you know what this running from Cat reminds

12:31

me of honestly, twenty twenty Anthony

12:33

Davis win Final. He was no

12:35

longer on his own team, no longer having to carry

12:37

the load, no longer having to be the guy in

12:40

every way, and you just focus on playing

12:42

basketball and suddenly he, you know, you be, put

12:44

up his statistical best, best

12:47

year of his career. I'm not necessarily

12:49

saying the Cat's going to do that, but to you know, to

12:51

your point, he looks like he's at peace.

12:53

He looks like he's just playing at ease. And that's

12:55

a dangerous that's a scary thing if you're if you're

12:57

facing these Simberwolves.

13:00

Former UK Wildcats with

13:02

a prominent eyebrow, you know, like

13:05

exactly, it's all there, It's

13:07

all there. I would say, I would

13:09

say that this is more out of the blue. Anthony

13:12

Davis was always thought to be, like have the

13:14

potential to be one of the better players in the league,

13:16

like prior prior to that run. Sure, maybe

13:19

maybe I've just been an underestimating cat, but

13:21

uh yeah, this has been fun

13:24

and it really does seem to come back

13:26

to Anthony Edwards.

13:28

Uh just nobody

13:32

saw this coming for him, this long after

13:34

e R's run ended. I'm

13:37

gonna doctor joke for as long

13:39

as he is in the NBA.

13:42

For our younger listeners, they're like, what

13:44

are they Okay, he's

13:47

got like Michael Jordan in two years and I'm

13:49

still gonna be making Anthony Edwards from E R

13:51

T from R. They Yeah,

13:56

it's a I'm he's like

13:58

he's doing he's doing the MJS shrug, he's

14:00

flexing on the crowd.

14:02

He's just got, he's got. I'm

14:04

absolutely uh invested

14:07

in in him right now. Like I just and

14:09

by that as a Laker fan, I mean like, come home, Anthony,

14:12

come home.

14:14

He's not He's not from LA right you

14:17

just mean come home in terms of every

14:19

great player. And the best

14:23

thing I saw about him was somebody who went to high

14:25

school with him was like, you never saw

14:27

him walking through the hallway without

14:29

a different beautiful woman under

14:32

each arm or I guess girls once its high school.

14:34

But yeah, yeah, that's Christmas.

14:37

He's got he's got the riz

14:40

as we don't really as we say

14:43

as old people who try to sound like young people,

14:45

say this.

14:46

Somewhat to that point, I feel like we spent

14:48

the year asking, you know, openly,

14:51

like, okay, we got to kind of having a change in of the guard.

14:53

Who's going to be the face of the league. We you know, we threw

14:55

a bunch of names out there, and Anthony Edwards

14:57

just told you all.

14:58

No, it's me.

14:59

Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

15:03

Just also that the defense and gin I just as

15:05

someone who watched that Lakers series, I'm like, wow,

15:07

So that's what it looks like when players buy into what

15:10

the coach is saying, yeah and like

15:13

really executing to the letter of the law.

15:15

That then I'm like, okay, so I'm taking notes. Uh,

15:18

they have a coach that is yeah they

15:20

are Yeah, And again, like to your point about the twenty

15:22

twenty Lakers. They're defending Jokic

15:25

like the twenty twenty Lakers too, which

15:28

somehow the Lakers of now couldn't

15:30

remember that. That's well, I mean, I guess

15:32

Darbnham couldn't remember. Yeah,

15:35

exactly.

15:36

Yeah. We just we're lacking.

15:38

We're lacking the depth, we're lacking the size. It's

15:41

all the scheme is.

15:43

With the Lakers, it was Dwight javail on

15:46

Jokic with a d helping, And with

15:49

the Wolves it's Cat and nas on ball

15:51

with Golbert helping.

15:53

Yeah, and even when even when Gobert

15:56

was out, it's like they still this is my

15:58

thing, do you I part of me to

16:00

just center the Lakers again asparta.

16:02

Yeah, was like how do we make this about the Lakers?

16:05

Yeah?

16:05

Absolutely, yeah, And I will tell you why.

16:07

I believe that they had to, Like by

16:09

beating the Lakers, it psychologically

16:12

set them up to say, because we were

16:14

the last stop for them to go to the finals last year,

16:16

and I think they were like, we've overcome this team,

16:18

and I we're probably in a good place. I

16:20

don't because some people are like, oh, they're just washed.

16:22

It's like the NFL or you know, you like the one

16:25

team next one years. You doesn't have

16:27

it together the next season.

16:28

But I don't know.

16:29

It just seems there's like a level of frustration

16:31

that you're seeing from the Nuggets that feels.

16:34

Like a bit I don't know, like they

16:37

were really expecting things. You're

16:39

expecting it to go the other way. It

16:42

also just seems like Murray is a step

16:45

slow. He's very frustrated, and

16:48

we really see a massive

16:50

difference in this team, like

16:52

anding Yokichen and everything when

16:55

he's not like it.

16:58

Just that is the thing that unlocked everything,

17:00

which I guess we knew that about

17:03

the NBA, Like having somebody who is a

17:05

knockdown shooter who can get his own

17:07

shot and

17:10

knockdown ridiculous shots is a shot

17:13

making is the name of the game? Is the thing

17:15

that I say, because I'm really smart,

17:20

I disagree.

17:20

I think it all boils down to how many Canadians

17:23

you have on your team. That's right, and that's my own analysis,

17:26

and that's called West West.

17:27

Y'all all right, should we go to a break and come

17:29

back with the new the

17:31

hottest segment in basketball podcasting

17:34

in Memoriam Dearly.

17:46

And we're back, and

17:48

it's time to send

17:50

a few more teams to the

17:52

big court in the sky.

17:54

Yeah, made Park.

17:59

I think now, although each team fought

18:01

valiantly, we're going to need the

18:04

Clippers to step right up first

18:07

the low Clipper Nation. So

18:10

I mean it feels like the Clippers remain on an endless

18:12

time loop that consists of off season

18:15

positivity, optimism, media

18:18

and fans alike a great run

18:20

in December or January, only to wind.

18:22

Up in the same position each postseason.

18:25

Put Simply building around

18:27

several players that have routinely been injured

18:30

at the end of the year might not be

18:32

the best of options.

18:34

Any notes on that eulogy, get

18:36

that? Yeah, I mean I wouldn't know anything

18:38

about building a team around

18:40

several players that have routinely been injured at the

18:42

end of the year. So yeah, I

18:44

just I can't do anything but sit here and feel

18:47

sorry for Clippers fans. Yeah that

18:50

must stink. Yeah. No, I

18:53

did not appreciate the way Kawhi just

18:56

decided to spite me and not play

18:58

well in the playoffs. After I you heard what you said,

19:00

you heard My big pre playoffs

19:03

note was watch out for the Kauhi guy.

19:05

Yeah, last year, you know he was a little

19:07

bit hurt. He's best player in the league for

19:10

two games. It's uh, I

19:12

don't know. I wanted to see them do well. I

19:15

was pulling for the Clippers and

19:18

they once again, you

19:20

know, it's just a it's

19:23

not they didn't match up well. But uh,

19:26

I don't I don't think they were beating many people. They

19:28

It seems like not a hopeful

19:31

situation for this too, thought

19:33

Jack.

19:34

I think what you're the words you're looking for is

19:36

clips, going clip and see

19:38

you guys next year for the same exact thing.

19:40

Wow.

19:42

Yeah, those

19:45

weren't what I was trying to say, but go ahead,

19:47

Well it felt like it. It felt like that's where I was going.

19:50

Lakers fans, That's

19:53

what That was a lot.

19:54

That was a lot, uh

19:57

Jack? Would you like to step up to the lectern? Not

20:02

really, but okay. The Philadelphia

20:04

seventy six ers, speaking

20:07

of teams built

20:09

around players who are routinely injured, at the end

20:11

of the year, we have reached the time

20:13

of the year where I can officially

20:17

take a deep breath and contemplate

20:20

whether I want to take

20:23

this ride ever again with

20:25

these Sixers.

20:27

You do.

20:27

We found we found our other star in

20:30

Tyrese Maxey. But maybe

20:33

it's time to tear it all down around

20:35

MBT M Maxi and rework the supporting

20:37

cast yet again, I've seen the list of people

20:39

who are going to be available. I don't know if

20:42

that makes sense. Maybe

20:44

it's time to tear it all down around

20:46

Maxi only oh oh,

20:48

send the big fella wherever

20:51

he'd like to go. So it's

20:53

I wish I could say it was a fun ride, but yeah,

20:56

it was more of the same

20:59

and a little bit good pointing.

21:01

Yeah, rest peach Jabari any

21:04

other comments for these Philadelphians.

21:07

I can't, I can't like pour this on

21:09

no man, I feels

21:12

mans I do not even just yet.

21:14

I got Buddy on I got Buddy on Twitter. It's

21:16

saying the same thing.

21:17

He every year tells me this is

21:19

their year, and every year I have to tell

21:21

them it's not going to be.

21:22

But I'll see you at the end.

21:23

Yeah no, but see this time

21:26

Embiid was hurt. If he was not hurt

21:28

this time, then we would have been we

21:30

would have won the championship exactly. Mm

21:33

hmm.

21:33

Yeah.

21:34

Yeah, I don't know, Like I

21:36

think it might be time to experiment with

21:39

radical things like maybe he doesn't play

21:41

for the first half of the season

21:44

or the first half of games. I

21:46

don't know. This schedule does not work,

21:48

it turns out. But he's he's

21:51

great. I appreciate the opportunity

21:53

to get to root for him. It's just

21:56

the playoff frustration feels

22:00

like it's not going any

22:03

anywhere for a while.

22:05

Absolutely well. That

22:07

brings us to the Orlando Magic. And we

22:09

wanted to give Orlando's offense the benefit

22:11

of the doubt after their shooters caught

22:14

fire following Game two. But

22:17

just when they needed to seal the deal, their

22:19

trio of Paolo France and

22:21

Suggs combined to go just thirteen

22:24

of sixty four in an elimination game

22:26

in which they had an eighteen point lead at

22:28

one point.

22:29

Tragic stuff.

22:30

And now come to Klay Thompson or

22:32

Bradley Beal, rumors that are likely

22:35

to be a large part of this summer's discussion.

22:38

And I may already be exhausted by

22:40

them. But thank

22:42

you, or you gave us something,

22:44

You gave us something that was It was a good It was a good

22:46

run.

22:47

It was a good run.

22:47

I gotta say. By the way he mentions like Paolo

22:50

Franz Suggs combination is

22:53

like like ninety percent of those makes

22:55

were Paolo, Like the front

22:58

Suggs combination was yeah,

23:00

yeah, well that was really

23:03

dire when you get down to that met

23:06

I enjoyed watching the magic. They are like a

23:10

you know, they're just a very unique

23:13

team. It was almost like watching a different

23:15

sport when they're out there, because

23:17

their offense is yeah,

23:21

their offenses as we've described, their defense

23:23

is a weapon, like their defense is their

23:25

offense. There they get turnovers

23:28

in ways that I've not seen NBA

23:31

teams get turnovers, just like ripping

23:33

you right when you come across the court. Apparently

23:35

Sugs is even better than this usually and

23:38

was like a little bit hampered by injuries.

23:41

They were fun. It was like I love

23:43

having a team that has a super specific

23:46

identity in the playoffs

23:48

like along the Way. And I actually

23:51

would have liked to see them go against the Celtics

23:53

because I think they would have made the Celtics somewhat

23:55

uncomfortable and made

23:57

it at least, like, I don't know, painful for

24:00

the Celtics to roll on for

24:02

the Eastern Conference.

24:03

I don't want this to sound disrespectful, you know,

24:05

because I'm not in any way saying they're like a high

24:07

school level team. But to you know, to the point

24:09

you just made about their defense, it seems as

24:11

though, you know, you remember, like a great high

24:13

school defense, how we can impact the game.

24:15

It felt more like that. Yeah, honestly,

24:18

if you give them just a couple.

24:19

More competent offensive players, I think the match are

24:21

going to be right in the mix next year. Maybe

24:23

not you know, title contenders, but you know, still

24:26

be top of the Eastern Conference and pushing

24:29

teams.

24:29

But Clay and Bradley Beal are not it.

24:31

I don't know. I don't know who we're looking at

24:34

here. That's the I gotta I gotta

24:36

take another look at these free agents

24:38

and off season tradeables

24:40

and you know, signables, because that

24:43

wouldn't do it, I don't think, and.

24:44

I don't mean to be disrespectful, but I

24:47

have to go, and I hate

24:49

to do that in the most professional way in the middle of

24:51

the podcast recording, but thank you,

24:54

this is not a bit I do have to run because I have

24:56

a family gathering that I got to get to. But

24:59

I will be back next to and I

25:01

you're you're in good hands with Jack and Jabbari.

25:04

The stuff we're gonna say about you after

25:06

you're gone. Believe

25:12

stuff? Is he for real? His camera is

25:14

still on. He's just back there, Taco

25:17

Bell. He's trying

25:19

to do that. Baby is going to be there

25:21

tomorrow. Miles family.

25:24

I turned out, I go, but my camera's on. I'm

25:26

just rehearsing a TikTok dance. I'm trying to get down

25:28

really good.

25:31

All right, y'all, let's see, all right, my

25:34

Miles Jabari. Time

25:36

has come to talk about the Bucks. Milwaukee

25:39

a technical hometown.

25:41

Even though I grew up in Los Angeles, I was born in Milwaukee.

25:43

There you go. So do you want to take this one?

25:46

Sure? The Bucks?

25:48

What more can I say? Wouldn't wish the

25:50

job on anybody? I mean except

25:52

Doc Rivers.

25:53

He's the one guy would wish his job on.

25:56

Well, he's a hero, he is. I

25:59

mean, it was brave. It was brave when

26:01

he came through and took that job

26:04

over.

26:04

Are they still giving out like purple? No?

26:06

No, I don't think the military can

26:09

technically give it to him, but it's definitely

26:11

I'm just gonna say it was under discussion

26:14

in the Pentagon.

26:15

I can see why. I mean, you know, Milwaukee they

26:17

still have.

26:18

They still got Yannis and Dame under contract, But

26:20

no word on the whether the travel party

26:23

or the team managers or any of the you know, just

26:25

just driver, yeah, bus driver, anybody

26:27

else, anyone can get it. When it comes to Doc Rivers,

26:30

no word on whether they're you know, what their future

26:33

holds. And you know, it's

26:35

interesting because you know, before the show you talked about

26:37

you asked whether Doc was coming back, And

26:40

the more I think about it, it's like, well, what the hell else

26:42

is he gonna do?

26:43

Yeah, he'll be back and we'll be right here again next

26:45

year, and.

26:46

We'll be right here feeling sorry for him again.

26:48

I mean, having to coach yannas

26:52

Jannis, like it's

26:54

not even how you pronounced g yeah,

26:57

yeah, yeah, what. Yeah,

27:00

It'll be interesting to see what happens to

27:02

them, Johanna's Dame, and then

27:05

who knows after that. But yeah,

27:07

I mean, Darryl Morey was like, it's

27:09

going to be a teardown around MBT M MAXI

27:11

basically at his postseason press

27:13

conference, and Doc has said

27:16

the same thing about the support

27:18

staff and the bus drivers and

27:21

everything else.

27:21

And that's why I'm going to

27:23

buy yourself more time. Yeah, walk and tear

27:26

it down. You're automatically given another

27:28

year or two.

27:29

Yeah, all right, Eastern Conference

27:31

Celtics, Calves. I don't have a ton

27:34

of hope that this one's going to be super competitive.

27:36

Any glimmers of hope here.

27:38

Jabari, Honestly no, like I would

27:41

like to lie to you and say that, yeah, I could see the Calves,

27:43

you know, pulling this off. And while I'm not going to say

27:45

they're going to get swept or anything like that, because you know they

27:48

they are. You know, when they get it going,

27:50

they can be effective. I just can't

27:52

see them winning, you know, four out of seven against

27:54

his team, not you know, high level analysis.

27:57

One team's just better than the other.

27:59

And even with porzingis probably

28:02

or likely out for this round, I

28:04

still.

28:04

Look at what Boston has and I just don't see

28:06

you away from Yeah.

28:07

Yeah, So I think everybody's kind

28:09

of counting the Celtics,

28:12

like just putting the Celtics in the finals,

28:14

and the other series Knicks

28:17

Pacers, I don't know, Like again,

28:19

I don't foresee either of these

28:21

teams able to defeat the Celtics.

28:24

The Knicks are tough, at

28:26

least of the remaining teams in the Eastern

28:28

Conference. I feel like the Knicks probably

28:30

have the best chance.

28:31

What do you think, I think that's gonna be the best series,

28:34

like of the Eastern Conference as Celtics and Knicks.

28:36

Yeah, so we will eagerly

28:39

await that, assuming that the

28:41

Knicks are able to win three more.

28:43

They did win Game one. Jalen

28:45

Brunson fourth straight

28:47

forty point performance by a

28:50

six foot guard

28:53

Ishah yeah, six foot ish

28:55

guard is unbelievable. Like his

28:57

ability to the

29:00

ball in is truly I

29:02

mean he's the man and then yeah, the villanova

29:05

like Josh Hart Evencenzo thing.

29:07

It's really wild because like

29:10

I remember watching them in school and being

29:12

like, man, these guys are good. Like I feel

29:14

like Brunson was one of those. I remember having

29:16

this with Embiid two where like Brunson looked

29:19

awesome in college, but like he didn't

29:21

necessarily look like a pro, you know, because

29:23

he's a little bit smaller and it's

29:26

not like blinding speed or anything like

29:28

that. And I remember having

29:30

that with embiid where like watching the Wigans

29:32

game where it was like Wiggans versus

29:34

Jabbari, like that that game is like

29:36

these are the guys who are gonna be the best and

29:39

like watching him being like embiid

29:41

is gonna be incredible, right,

29:43

and everyone's like yeah, I mean maybe, but

29:46

yeah, I don't know it. It's

29:49

like the thing that you always imagine,

29:51

like a good college team. It's like all these guys

29:53

are gonna stay together in the pros. They're

29:55

gonna be best friend. But it's like somehow

29:57

working for them. It's a fun story.

30:00

Team chemistry is a real thing, and when you have effective

30:03

guys that are you know, also friends,

30:06

yeah we are.

30:07

Yeah, it was never going to work out

30:09

for me and my buddies, but we thought

30:11

it would. All right, should

30:13

we go to one more break and then come back

30:15

and do the rapid fire. There's

30:18

one question on here. I really like, all right,

30:20

we'll be right back, and

30:29

we're back, and oh,

30:32

super producer Jabbari, you have entered the

30:34

rapid fire round of questioning and

30:39

we're just gonna do one question because we

30:41

we've answered all these other questions. We

30:44

had a guest bail last second,

30:47

so just a little peak behind the curtain. So

30:49

that's what's what's going on here. We're not

30:51

going to say names, but we are going to

30:54

do a single rapid fire

30:56

round of questioning question that

30:58

I liked so much. It comes from our

31:00

discord from Charlie Xavier

31:03

on the discord or Charlie

31:05

Javieer, depending on how accurately

31:08

you want me to pronounce it. But the question is,

31:12

so, the Tom Brady roast just happened as

31:15

we're recording. This a big success for

31:17

a lot of people, and Charlie's

31:19

wondering Lebron is the obvious

31:21

choice. Shack is a roast regular, but

31:24

with the release of the Tom Brady Roast, I'm wondering

31:26

if we're going to see more live athlete

31:28

roasts on Netflix and what NBA stars

31:31

they would want to target. Just tossing this

31:33

out because it might make a good lightening round

31:35

question someday. What player would

31:37

you want to see a roast of? Charlie

31:40

today? Is that day? It's a good

31:42

lightning round question right now,

31:45

Well done, very

31:47

good question. So Lebron

31:49

is the obvious choice and feels like the one

31:52

that we would be most likely to get. Lebron

31:55

or staph Yes, and

31:57

those would both be bad.

32:00

Yeah, because you know nobody wants to say

32:02

anything about like an old timer.

32:04

You know you're roasting a brand.

32:06

Yeah, unless it's Shack, because folks for whatever,

32:09

well for a lot of different reasons, feel like, yeah, I can give

32:11

him the business. Yeah, but you know, all

32:14

a guy like that, it's like, yeah, what are you gonna say? Hey,

32:16

family guy? Hey, you

32:19

know you look like you have a healthy family.

32:21

Cool. Yeah.

32:21

Yeah, it just feels like it wouldn't

32:24

be that fun. But then again, Tom Brady

32:26

didn't seem like it would have been that fun, and they

32:28

just I think they like gave

32:30

three subjects that were off limits and

32:33

then just went to town

32:35

just body shots on everything else. So

32:39

maybe it would be fun no matter who we pick. Charles

32:42

Barkley, I feel like, would

32:44

also be sort of an obvious pick in

32:46

the same vein as Shack, being

32:48

kind of a roast regular. Who are you thinking

32:51

I'm.

32:51

Gonna steal Miles's answer? And you know what, since he's not

32:53

here, that's what you get, Miles.

32:55

Yeah, that's what you get. Miles. Nice. Try should

32:57

have stuck around.

32:58

I want give me Draymond and

33:01

you know what, I'm gonna be careful here. But for

33:04

one, I think he would be a good sport about

33:06

it and.

33:06

Really get into it. But then there's also

33:09

the flip side. What if he's not. They give me that

33:11

too. Yeah, we've seen what he

33:13

can do. It's gonna be entertaining, you know either way.

33:15

Yeah, I think I would enjoy that. I

33:18

think, I mean, if you could get Jordan,

33:21

which you can't, but that would

33:23

be interesting. We know,

33:26

we saw the last Dance. We know that

33:29

he takes things personally

33:32

that are not remotely insulting

33:35

to anyone besides him, So it

33:37

would be I feel like we would watch a

33:39

man walk out of a room with like a

33:42

list of thirty lives to ruin. But

33:44

I don't know. I think that would be a lot of fun personally.

33:47

Mike would take his boot cuts off to expose

33:50

some fresh sports yeah,

33:53

and say, everybody line up, let's go.

33:55

I would just want to see them roast his wardrobe

33:58

like that would be just fun enough on

34:00

its tone. All right, Jabari,

34:02

we did it. We we rapid fired

34:05

one question. We're at

34:07

the end of the show. We are ready,

34:11

So I guess we didn't do picks on

34:13

the on the series. But who do you

34:15

like? MAVs? Okay, See, like I.

34:17

Said, my heart, shoot, my head is telling

34:20

me the MAVs. But I'm gonna go with my heart here

34:22

and you want to know why I am a shameless

34:24

corporate shill. Yeah, and it benefits

34:27

this show if OKAC continues to be successful.

34:30

Yeah that's right, let me get okay, see in

34:32

that series.

34:33

Yeah, so it's pretty pretty straightforward.

34:36

Do you like the Wolves? Do you think the Wolves are gonna do it?

34:38

And I will admit I did not have them before the

34:40

series.

34:40

Now that we've seen two games, yes, you know, I've

34:43

seen what they did on the road in those two games,

34:45

really setting the tone.

34:46

I believe the Wolves are gonna take that.

34:48

Yeah, okay, we're both

34:51

aligned there, Nicks over Pacers.

34:54

Nick's over Pacers. I hope it's a good series. I

34:56

hope it's a better series, and I'm anticipating this for some

34:59

reason. This just feel this feels like one of those four

35:01

to one, maybe four two, you know, Nick

35:03

series. But I would definitely take you know, a seven

35:05

gamer that would be fantastic.

35:07

Still got the Knicks.

35:08

Yeah, I think this is one where I might

35:10

have picked the Pacers before game one,

35:13

and I might still. I'm gonna pick the Pacers

35:16

just to go wild, even though

35:18

they're down one to oh at the stage.

35:20

I just I think they

35:23

have a lot of offensive firepower. Unfortunately,

35:26

I think they're gonna be an easier team for

35:28

the Celtics to play, but I do

35:30

think that they have a pretty good shot in that series. And

35:33

then I'm going Calves over Celton

35:35

now Celtics.

35:38

I was like, well that that is definitely one

35:41

and you know what, all of you know what? We

35:44

do have someone else and shout out to this guy forgot

35:46

his name off Ham, but he's in our discord.

35:47

He picked Calves in.

35:49

Five calves and five calves

35:52

and five why.

35:55

You know, not at that level with him,

35:58

but I appreciate his confident.

36:00

I mean, a man after my own heart

36:04

or a woman I don't know. All right, that

36:06

is going to do it. For this episode of Miles

36:09

and Jack got mad Boosties Jabari, Where can people

36:11

find you? Follow you all that good stuff?

36:12

I'm easy at Jabari Davis NBA. Make

36:15

sure you follow Miles at Miles of Gray.

36:18

Uh huh. You can follow me on Twitter at

36:20

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36:23

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36:25

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36:27

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36:30

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36:32

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36:34

now join the conversation on discord

36:37

You can submit questions for the Rapid Fire

36:39

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36:44

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36:47

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36:49

Round of Questioning. All that good stuff.

36:52

That is another one in the books.

36:54

Haha ah he

36:57

said we couldn't do it, but that's episode

37:00

one twelve where the players dwell, you know, there

37:02

we go, bye bye,