April 28, 2025 • 33 mins
On today's episode, Jason reacts to the Lakers dropping a pivotal Game 4 in Minnesota and breaks down how the Timberwolves provide a terrible matchup for Los Angeles. Jason gives his thoughts on why Giannis' future in Milwaukee may be in doubt after Damian Lillard faces another terrible injury as the Bucks fade from contention. Jason believes the Knicks could make a surprise Finals run out of the East. Plus, Jason dives in to Shedeur Sanders' eventful weekend and explains why his eventual 5th round selection with the Browns just makes matters worse for his NFL future.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What is up, Vamp. It's me Jason McIntyre Straight Fire
for Monday, April twenty eighth. What Nelly. That was a
hell of a sports weekend, wasn't it. My gosh, the
NFL draft should do her Sanders a prank call. I
have some good prank call stories I might tell later on,
(00:34):
but I have to obviously obviously, and you could tell
the tone of my voice changed dramatically. Start with the
Los Angeles Lakers losing another gut punch to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
By the way, I did not know this was a thing,
but my daughter was doing homework watching the Lakers with me,
and she notices I didn't notice it because I'm, you know,
(00:56):
tunnel vision on the game and the stats. She goes,
why do I keep hearing a wolve howl? What is
the howling? And I guess, And I then listened for
and I guess. The Minnesota Timberwolves in the stadium in
the arena play wolves like frequently. And I was like, oh,
that's an interesting little note. I don't even know where
to begin with this game, other than the fact that
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right out the gate the Lakers are down three to one,
and I'm the idiot who doesn't think this series is over.
I'm gonna be honest, these last two games to me
have been coin tosses. I watched Game three intimately, I
was disappointed down the stretch. I mean again, this was
like a tie game Game three on Friday night, with
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like what two minutes left, three minutes left, whatever it was,
and then Anthony Edwards sits a three, Austin Reeves misses
a three. I think Ruy was the other guy who
missed a three, and then it was bing bang boom,
and then yeah, that was it. But it was a
close game right till the end fourth quarter. Lakers melted.
So then you get Sunday's Game four, and the Lakers
largest lead was twelve. They were the better team for
(02:02):
much of the game, but Minnesota kept fighting back. Their
largest lead was four. They won the game by three
on a free throw on some controversial free throws by
Anthony Edwards, but also nas Reed made a big three,
Dante DiVincenzo had a huge and one, and ultimately Lakers
just kind of sort of wilted there down in the stretch. Now,
(02:22):
it's understandable because as everybody's having a big hullabaloo about
JJ Redick didn't sub anyone in in the entire second half.
He played his horses. The strategy worked, period, hard stop.
It worked. The Lakers were the better team in the
third quarter. They didn't blow the lead like they had
in the third quarter of the multiple games this series.
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They've just gotten waxed in the third quarter for some reason.
And the Lakers were doing great and actually in this
game throughout, winning throughout. After Lebron had a phenomenal and
I'm just talking an unbelievable block of Devincenzo and they
come down the other end and I believe it was
(03:04):
let me is he here? So Lebron blocks Evencenzo and
then Dorian Phinney Smith makes the three. Lakers are up
by two with ninety seconds left. Ninety seconds Lakers up
by two after they had just been down by four,
and I was like, oh, there's gonna be a cup pin.
I mean, the game was phenomenal. It was a coin toss.
And again I'm not gonna bash JJ Reddick, all these
people saying you got to so the Lakers bench has
(03:25):
been getting murdered in this series, Okay, that's the facts.
We like Vincent. I like gay Vincent. I thought he
showed well in Game two. I'm sorry, guys, the rest
of the bench, it's just not delivering. Obviously, Vanderbilt is limited.
He just commits fouls, get three bounds of defense. They're
not gonna guard him. He can't sit in the dunker's bot.
He's not a rim protector. Is he their best bet
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against Anthony Edwards? Maybe Anthony Edwards is freaking amazing. Jordan Goodwin,
who nobody had heard of before this year, is you know,
a tenth guy on your roster, not like an eight
or nine. I'm sorry, that's just the facts. And they
didn't even play Dalton connect He's barely getting in the game.
Jackson Hayes played four minutes, like I think he started
(04:09):
the game and that was it. Picks up two fouls,
scores on a dunk, and then never seen again. The
Lakers just listen. They just got Luca in February. Okay,
he was injured at the time. They almost wung a
deal for Mark Williams. Would he be making a difference here.
I like to think so, but I'm not certain. I'm
not one hundred percent certain. Luca definitely needs a lob
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threat because if you notice what the Wolves were doing,
they're hard doubling Luca out at half court. Luca killed
him last year in the series when he was with
the MAVs, and so they're like, screw that, We're just
gonna hard double Luca and play four on three. So
in the second quarter that worked. Austin Reeves got in
foul trouble. Third foul is so controversial, dumb, that Rudy
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Gobert thing. And then when the Lakers are doing that
and they're getting the ball to Goodwin and Vanderbilt, they're
not threats. Timberwolves don't have to worry about them. Gabe Vincent,
he's in for thirteen minutes, missus his two threes. That's
like me playing in a high level basketball game. I'm
gonna come in, Jay Back, you gotta hit your shots.
I miss him, all right, you go to the bench,
you know. So second half, Austin Reeves is in mostly
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in the third quarter, and that Lucas strategy for Minnesota
backfired because now it's Ruey was set in the screen.
They get it to Ruey and it's a four on
three and they're finding Austin Reeves in the corner. He
hit three threes in the third. Ruey had a phenomenal
game with twenty three points. He was excellent. I mean,
think about this. The Lakers made nineteen or forty seven threes.
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The Wolves only made fourteen to thirty six. The Lakers
had five times three fifteen more points on three pointers
and still lost the game. So I've broken this series
down where I think three. I basically think three things
are why the Timberwolves are up three to one. Number
one has to be offensive rebounds. It is unbelievable how
the Lakers just cannot and I get it, no center,
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but just continuously if there's a loose ball under the hoop,
I feel like Minnesota's getting it. That's just how it's going.
They had eighteen offensive boards that resulted in ten more
shot attempts. When you're shooting forty percent, you gotta make
four of those extra ten shots. And the other thing
is with no Lakers rim protector, they're just attacking relentlessly.
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Minnesota sat thirty three free throws. They made twenty six,
which is more than the Lakers attempted. Okay, Lebron was
awesome from the free throw line fifteen of eighteen. But
Minnesota's just get into the line and well, actually four things.
So number one, the offensive glass is just killing the Lakers.
There's no easy solution to that. You can't just say
try harder. I mean, their Lakers are outsized, they're out quicked.
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Lebron is old Luca is Luca had one rebound playing
forty six minutes. Not great, not great at all. Lebron
had twelve rebounds, heroic stuff. Rui's not like a quick,
dynamic athlete. And Dorian Finney Smith tries hard, but again
he's going up against like long dude, Jaden McDaniels, Anthony Edwards,
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Rudy Gobert had seven offensive rebounds, Anthony Edwards had four.
Like they're just crashing so freaking hard, it's tough. And
then number two, obviously is when they get Ruby Rudy
out of the game and he only played twenty six minutes.
Everybody's attacking, just hardcore attack their in and there's no
Wally there. You're gonna get foul or you're gonna make
a layup. Right, So number three the third reason I
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think the Lakers are losing. And again I know you're
gonna say, Jay, you got to you gotta crush the Lakers.
It's not really about the Lakers. It's more I mean,
the Lakers bench hasn't delivered. But Minnesota is just a
really good matchup for the Lakers. They're the one team
like honestly, Minnesota matches up better with the Lakers than
Okase does because of their size and length. Okay See
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would not I don't think play heart and Stein and
chet Homeward. I think the Lakers would murder them. They
did murder them a couple of weeks ago in Minnesota
in okay See. I know it was a regular season game,
but they don't have the quickness and that Lakers would
just bomb threes on them, the way the Lakers bomb
threes in the third quarter on Sunday and took that lead,
getting it up to ten and then twelve. The problem
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becomes was when they match the Lakers in size, they
pull Rudy off the court. Rudy, by the way, minus
eleven in twenty six minutes. Meanwhile, nas Red comes in,
he could defect, defend, he can rim protect and oh,
by the way, he can hit a three. I mean,
Lakers didn't play any bench guys in the second half.
Minnesota got buckets in the final two minutes from Nas
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Reed and Dante DiVincenzo. Like that's significant, Like that matters
having a bench. I too have to mention, Julius Randall
is playing ridiculous out of his fricking mind, folks. I
had to look this up so we all know. Julius Randall, Right,
he was drafted by the Lakers, right. I like Julius
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Randall from Kentucky, drafted by the Lakers, played for by Nicks.
A good player, seems like a good guy, great guy
in the community. Julius Randall is not a three point shooter. Okay,
his career, in fifteen career playoff games, he's at twenty
eight percent on threes. That's not good. Twenty eight percent
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three three point shooter. Honestly, when Randall earlier in the
series was shooting threes, I'm like, I just let him
take that. He's likely going to miss. He's twenty eight
percent for his career. Now, if you want to say, well, Jay,
what about the regular season? We could do that too,
pro Basketball Reference or Basketball Reference. I guess it's not pro.
Let's see here, Julius Randall, this season from three, he
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shot thirty four percent from three this season, that stuffing
special thirty four percent. Well, get that up in this
series shooting threes, Julius Randall forty five percent. He's having
an out of body experience from three, Like I you
know that's that was not factored in coming in the series. Yeah,
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Julius Randad's gonna drop. Is going to average twenty two
a game and just bury threes at forty five percent.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Clip.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I didn't expect that. But the final reason, you know,
Anthony Edwards is freaking amazing. Anytime the Lakers stretch that
lead and Edwards was just like, I got this and
he's pretty freaking unguardible. Guys, I don't know what you do.
I was saying, try Vanderbilt in the second quarter. Goodwin
had no chance. I mean, nobody really has a chance.
(10:17):
Ant's handles and finishing around the rim are ridiculous. He
led the league in three point makes, shot five of
ten from deep on Sunday fourteen of seventeen at the line,
finished with forty three nine and six, had one turnover
in forty four minutes. I don't I want to make
a case for Anthony Edwards is a top five guy
in the league. I don't know, what do you do,
(10:40):
Like it's Yannis yo kich I put Luca in there, SGA,
I mean Jason Tatum. I don't know. Is Anthony Edwards it?
Maybe he has to be, because I'm being honest. Nobody
can stop him going to the basket. Nobody. You can't
stay in front of him. He's just an animal. And
you know, and the Lakers go zone, and the zone
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has given Minnesota problems. Ant, you know, was patient and
then hit threes, and you know, I don't know if
the Lake can go more zone. I don't I don't
know what you do for Ant. It's not like you
can wear him down, right. He is a machine. He's like,
what twenty twenty five years old, he's twenty three. My gosh,
he's twenty three years old. Like the one thing I
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and I'm a big Anthony Edwards saying you could look
it up like two years ago, I said he was
the best in game dunker in NBA history, and all
these people got mad at me. Michael Jordan Dominique, No, no, no,
Anthony Edwards has the best collection of dunks in game
the in NBA history. He's detonating on folks left and right.
He's I mean, Anthony Edwards is unbelievable. Now, I know
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Lakers fans aren't going to want to hear this. I
do believe he's been the best player in the series.
Above Lebron and above Luca. Lebron has been phenomenal. Listen man,
He had three in three steals in three blocks to
go at twenty seven to twelve and eight, played forty
six minutes at the age of forty. How he had
a thing left in the tank? I have no idea.
Now to the final minute where he had a rough turnover.
(12:08):
Although I thought Luca got tripped, Luca went down in
the back court, lose the ball out of bounds, still
Lakers ball, and on the inbounds it was in a tough,
terrible spot. They Lebron kind of throws the pass away
and then of course Lebron had the foul on Anthony Edwards.
That being said, folks, this isn't quite NFL levels of
what is a catch. But I need to ask you
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is hand part of the ball because in this series,
I was at Game two and there was a shot
attempt and you could see it and it was reviewed.
But we're in the stadium looking at the big screen
and the camera show, Oh, he got him on the hand,
but hand the referees announced, Yeah, hand is part of
the ball, so it was it was not a foul
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and are not a penalty? And this is the wrong, Like,
if hand is part of the ball, then why was
the Anthony Edwards thing two free throws? It should not
have been. It should have been Lakers ball. That being said,
let me go back a little. Here's the only reason
that was reviewable. In a wacky sequence. So Anthony Edwards
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loses it out of bounds. Everybody's like, holy shit, Oh
my gosh, Lakers ball. Lakers call timeout. They got one
time out left, let's set up a play. Nine seconds left.
According to the rules, the Wolves can challenge within thirty
seconds of the timeout, so because the timeout was taken,
they could challenge. They challenged the Anthony Edwards lost the
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ball out of bounds. Everybody at home is like, oh,
that's Lakers ball. What are they doing? What are they doing?
I'm getting texts? Why are they reviewing this? And the
final view, the hawk angle from above shows Lebron got
his hand. That's undeniable, but his hand was on the ball,
and if you get hand, is that part of the
ball or is that only shooting? I don't know. I
don't know the answer anyways. So instead of Lakers ball,
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nine seconds left, down one, Anthony Edwards two free throws.
So now they're up three and the Lakers are out
of timeouts. Just super duper unlucky. Still an Austin Reeves
got a good clean look from the corner. I felt
like the Lakers were going to win that game. I
was nervous, and I know you can ask, why are
you nervous it's a first round game. Well, guys, let's
(14:16):
be real. Part of this industry. You stick your neck
out on the line to make predictions, and you obviously
want to be right. I've been calling Lakers in the
conference finals, NBA Finals for weeks. Felt great about it,
great coming into the series, and I don't feel great
about it now. But that's only part of the reason.
The other part is, honestly, it's easy to talk about
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the Lakers. They're the villains in the NBA right now.
Everybody hates them outside of LA and you know Laker
fans around the nation. But you asked like a casual
NBA fan, they don't like the Lakers. Lucas a whiner,
Lebron as a flopper. There is disdain for these Lakers.
The people are rooting against them, and as a result,
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I think they're great for content and podcasts and TV
and radio and talking to friends. And yeah, my buddy's
got season tickets. I don't mind going to the games either.
So Game seven, should we get there, is next Sunday,
six days away. And it's funny because my buddy with
the season tickets. His son says, hey, Dad, well, mom's
(15:22):
scheduled that meeting. You know whatever, This I'm not gonna
get into, but a school thing for Sunday in the afternoon.
What time is the game? And he's like his dad
was basically like, well that's not that doesn't impact me. Sorry,
you know sorry. I was like, oh, DIM's on the ticket.
I was kind of joking around, but like, come on,
who doesn't want the Lakers to advance? Like I like
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Anthony Edwards as much as the next guy, but yeah,
I want the Lakers to advance. I want the Warriors
to advance. So I'm rooting for the Lakers obviously. Uh.
I mean, I don't feel like I need to spend
time Pacers win. They're up three to one. Day Lillard
appears to have pop his achilles, which is just terrible news.
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I feel off of for day. Man it I don't
even know what to say. It's just sucks. By all accounts,
Dame Lord is the nicest guy. He's a pretty talented
player who's a Hall of Fame lock and has been
an awesome part of the league for over a decade.
I'll never forget rolling up to my gym, I think
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this might have been pre COVID, and I'm walking through
the parking lot and I look up and this guy's
walking holding a basketball with a trainer, and I'm like, shit,
is that Dame Lillard? And as he gets closer, it
is him, and I just I'm like, Dame, what up?
I'm not just I'm not afraid to talk to these guys.
And I at the time was wearing Dame lillard sneakers,
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not on me, but they were in my bag. And
he was like, the nicest guy, easy, got a root
for work ethic. You go, hey, if you want a
Dame Lillard video, go on YouTube after you've done this
podcast and look up Dame Lillard pre draft workout. It
is legendary. It was one of those workout three, like, Oh,
this guy's gonna make it for sure. So I'm rooting
for Dame Lillard. Bummer about the Bucks. I think we'll
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talk about Giannis a lot this summer. Feels like he's
I mean, Dame Lillard. That Achilles injury is going to
be at least ten months, so you won't see him
till like the All Star break. Maybe in Milwaukee. They
don't have a path to get better. Kind of feels
like it's over. Boston beats Orlando, Orlando's fighting hard, Boston wins,
Tatum goes off, blah blah blah. But I do need
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to talk about my other favorite team in the NBA.
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All right, let's get to Nick's ninety four Pistons ninety three.
Nix went into the weekend right tied at one. Everybody's nervous.
They get the I'll say lucky, fortunate win one eighteen one, sixteen,
the questionable over and back and then comes Sunday's game.
Pistons hell bent on tying it up, and I thought
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the Knicks were toast down. Knicks were down four with
one forty left. The Pistons had just scored on four
straight possessions. Nicks kind of looked tired. Bunsen had the
hobbled ankle. He was keeping him inte offensively, but it
was like, geez, Nicks are in deep trouble. And then,
of all the unlikely guys to bail them out, it
was the much maligned Carl Anthony Towns who hits a
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Larry bird ish fade away over the backboard swish, an
improbable shot, and two compound matters. At the other end
of the court, Kate Cunningham comes down, Middy spins in
and out toilet bowl action. I was like, oh my goodness,
Nick's got lucky shot, clock winding down. Who delivers once again?
The new guy, Carl Anthony Towns from They were calling
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it twenty seven feet, It looked like thirty to me,
but Kat splashes a three. It was the game winner.
You didn't have a great game, twenty seven points on
twenty three shots, but scored five their final five points.
And then of course, the Knicks survived the chaotic final
sequence when Josh Hart was battling for the rebound. It
scores out to Hardaway in the corner, and then Heart
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gets out to try to avoid the foul pretty clearly
gets them with somebody, although Hardaway leaned into it. No whistle.
I'm watching the game screaming, oh my gosh, you're whistle.
You look. Knicks players were looking around. Everybody was like,
I was just waiting for the whistle. It never came.
Pistons were irate, understandably, and the Knicks survived to go
up three to one. Boy, this series has had now,
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I mean again, remember the Pistons I believe have led
in three of the four games heading into the fourth.
The Knicks in those three I think are three and
Ozero Game one of course, the huge twenty one nothing run,
and then the last two games the Knicks survived, this
one shrouded in controversy. And you know Game three, the
over and BacT that wasn't called. That was kind of
questionable as well. But I don't know, guys, I thought
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the Knicks really battled here. The three pointers are the difference.
Detroit just can't shoot the Pistons offseason needs are obvious.
They had two guys who could make threes, Tim Hardaway
four of thirteen and Malik Beas degree of nine. Everyone
else oh for seven Like Caate cunning him does not
quite have a three in his bag on Star Thompson
definitely does not. Tobias Harris is just so feast or
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famine and he didn't make one. Cad again twenty five,
ten and ten. It was like, oh, triple double, first
since Isaiah Thomas for the Pistons in the playoffs. Okay,
Grady also had seven turnovers, missed all his three twenty
three shot attempts, but ultimately this came down to one
questionable play. And I gotta think the Knicks feel phenomenal
about getting out of this series alive, with Bridges at
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Nananobe going a combined six for twenty five on Sunday,
heart committing what appeared to be a foul at the end,
and Brunson wasn't great twenty six shots, Towns twenty three
shots like their bench gave them nothing five points from
the bench. That's it, man, These Knicks are just a
heart attack watching them in action. They will advance to
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face Boston with one more victory, and I don't think
many are giving them a chance in that series, and
that's kind of understandable. But I'll just say this, everybody
loved the Lakers, Okay everybody. I don't know if any
one person out there picked the Wolves outside of Minnesota,
and they're now up three to one. I just wonder,
do we see everybody pick the Celtics and then the
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Knicks kind of pull off a major surprise? And I
asked that because just remember historically in recent years, the
team that wins the championship doesn't advance back to the
even the conference finals. Remember the Nuggets last year they
ran out of gas. This Boston team feels like they're
built a little different. Tatum's health looks like it's back.
They have the best bench of anybody in the league.
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I think, just a slight nod over the Pacers, led
by six Man of the Year Peyton Pritchard. So I
don't know, but Orlando would through moments where they look good,
and the Knicks can be a better three point shooting team.
They're definitely a better rebounding team than Orlando, So I
don't know. Knicks still have work to do. Detroit's not done,
and as we've seen in the last what fifteen years,
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three one leads are not always safe, so it's not over.
But I am feeling good about my knicks.
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Now, I do have all week to talk about the
NFL Draft, and obviously NBA playoffs were so thrilling on
Sunday that I went heavy on them. But I do
need to address some Shador Sanders stuff. His fall was
like nothing I've ever seen before. This was the most
precipitous fall in NFL draft history. That's undeniable. Guys. You
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can say what you want, like, nobody on planet Earth
expected Shaduur Sanders to go fifth round. I mean, guys,
everybody and their mom. Any analyst you talked to had Shador.
If it wasn't top twenty, Melkiper, it was top thirty,
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maybe it was top forty or fifty, but nobody had
him outside the top one hundred. Nobody who analyzes NFL
draft stuff, nobody, not one person. So then it becomes
in a weird I don't know, it was just a
weird moment. It started to become a racial thing. Oh
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this is racial. They're black bawling shaduor Sanders, And I'm like,
I don't buy that at all. I mean, how could
it be racial when the first quarterback taken was black
in cam Ward? This isn't racial. It's just people grasping
its straws and angry. Okay, No, there was not collusion
among NFL owners. The most logical explanation is that Shadure
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Sanders went into some of these pre draft meetings with
teams and nuked himself. You know whether it was And
again I'm just guessing here, but Chadour rolls into the meeting.
Is he wearing earbuds? Does he have a Hamra crew
in tow? Is he acting entitled? This is obvious stuff
that could appear to be legit for Shadoor, Like he
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just rolled in like he was the man, and that
led people to put bump him down their boards. Well,
the problem is there was only like a five sixty
market max for Shadoor Sanders. That's it. And at that point,
if you're like the Rams, do you say, oh, do
we want to get in the Shadeur business. And I
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don't know that the Rams would even discuss it. I'm
just guessing, but it's like, hey, yeah, I don't really
want to be fielding questions. If Stafford has a three
interception game, is it Shadoor Sanders time? Is Dion going
to be putting stuff out on social media? Give my
kid a chance? I don't know. I mean, this is
a guy who said he was going to steer his
kid to certain teams. He didn't want his team his
(24:50):
kid going to certain organizations. He's said that he's on record,
So then it becomes, well, geez, the risk reward if
we don't think he's a potential starter for us acted
like a jerk in our meetings. Is he gonna be
a hold the clipboard kind of backup quarterback? Could he
do that in Jacksonville? Could he do that in Philadelphia?
(25:12):
I have no idea. The Jets clearly were like, no, thanks,
Justin Fields is our guy. We're gonna see it through.
We don't even know shd or Sanders. So this is
where it gets weird. So Dylan Gabriel was awesome at Oregon. Okay,
really really talented quarterback he had a great college football career,
broke the record for most starts and total touchdowns. I
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like Dylan Gabriel as a college football quarterback. The fact
that the Cleveland Browns took a quarterback who's from Hawaii,
Okay and five foot eleven and they took him third round.
A quarterback from Hawaii who has played at UCF, Oklahoma
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and Oregon is now going to go to the Mistake
by the Lake and play for the Browns. I do not,
in any circumstance under what I just have no clue
what's going on there. How does that make any sense
in the world. Not only did they draft Dillan Gabled
in the third round, then they took Shadeur in the
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fifth round. So riddle me this. This is a team
that gave up a fifth round prick for Kenny Pickett.
They have Deshaun Watson, who obviously is done in Cleveland,
but he's still on the roster and he's getting paid,
and they got Joe Flacco. Shadure comes on as their
fifth quarterback. Okay, maybe they decide they're gonna cut Deshaun
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Watson and just absorb the Caphit that's possible. They don't
want the drama. We don't want any thought that he's
coming back. We're done with. Maybe they do that and
then you have four Otherwise they're going to go into
camp with five quarterbacks. Folks, most teams, if you look
at their who's act if usually it's two quarterbacks, then
there's inactive. I mean, is Shadur going to be? I
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don't forget about any numbers that he could post this year.
I would set how many games he starts at half
a game?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Now?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Would you could do that now? But let's see what
happens in the preseason. But like I, maybe they think
he's only a developmental guy. But to take Dylan Gabriel
ahead of him after getting Kenny Pickett and Joe Flakel,
I don't. Usually the Browns are smart. I have no
clue what they did in this draft. Now. I did
like the Harrold fan and pick. I like the Mason
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Graham pick. And some people did make an interesting comment
the Browns have been getting destroyed all weekend just for ineptitude.
What if instead of taking an off ball linebacker Schweinzteiger
from UCLA, what if they took Shador there? Would that
have been a more acceptable draft, then they probably don't
take Dylan Gabriel. I don't know the answer to that.
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I thought they won the Travis Hunter deal. I just
didn't understand the Dylan Gabriel and Shador standers. Now quickly
on the prank call. I made a lot of prank
calls when I was a kid. Everybody did, Okay, there was,
but when I did it, there was no cell phones. Okay,
and well there was, I guess now there weren't technically
cell phones, but it was you know, the days were
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there wasn't even caller ID. Old heads know what I'm
about to say. But you would have to do something
called Star sixty nine and you would then call back
the number that called you, like that was a thing. Okay.
Then came caller ID, and then there was a way
to block your number from showing up on caller ID.
I forget what that was. But anybody who knows it's
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had a sleepover when they were in middle school or
high school and made a prank call knows what I'm
talking about. Okay, So it's like I get prank calls.
I totally understand that calling random numbers. I guess I
can say this because it happened so long ago. So
there is this former wrestler. His name was Big John Studd.
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He was a WWF wrestler. He lived in our area.
And now I never saw him in our area once,
but he lived in our area, and growing up, everybody
like knew who he was, and you know, he was
kind of famous in our area. But I never saw
him once in person. I don't know how, but of course,
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you know, people find out, oh, this is just Big
John Studd, this is his real name, and then this
is his number, and so you know, okay, so we
be at sleepboards. Oh let's prank call Big John Studd.
So we'd call him up and people like, WHOA do
the Rick Flair yell or do the Macho man ultimate.
We would just do that and laugh and hang up,
like I'm sure he got that a million times right.
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It's just a prank call. I mean, if he was
getting inducted into the Wrestling Hall of Fame and had
a I would not be like, let me prank Big
John stud on his Hall of Fame election night and
get a good chuckle out of it. The idea that
somebody would think, hey, let me prank called Dion on
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draft night and pretend like I'm a front office about
the drift. Let me do that. That's a funny idea. Like, Man,
I was a kid, I did a lot of dumb stuff.
Something would have jumped out of Dude, that is not
a cool thing to do. That's not funny. Had Dion
Sun had a lot going on here and Shadur this
was a big night, I wouldn't be surprised with it.
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A Netflix documentary released about leading up to the draft,
I would not be shocked. I mean, look at the
camera crews falling this guy around, and I just thought
it was weak that they would do that prank call.
And of course, not only are they dumb, but they're
really stupid to then try to put it online in
some capacity to because you need to flex. It's like, hey, Jay,
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did you really go to Japan? If you didn't post
any photos or video, Like, did you really do? Because
if you don't put something online, it's like did it
really happen? That's like the idea now of these young, dumb,
idiot kids. And so these kids put it online and
instantly everybody's like, yeah, that's the Uh. The defensive coordinator's
son from the Falcons and he got out in like
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two seconds. Now he did apologize. I don't you just
tell me how believable this is? So the defensive coordator
had his iPad laying around and it had Shador Sanders's
phone number on it. Does that sound believable remotely? I mean, yes,
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Have I had my phone and my kids figured out
my password and got in and went on and played
games on the phone. Sure, Have they gone on the
phone and like gone on Instagram and done what looked
around or whatever? Sure? But would they go on the
phone and get like not that he's would they get
Cowherd's number in prank call um or something?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I just I don't understand how his iPad was just
laying around and Chador's number was just there, Like none
of that really adds up to me. But again, it's
a former Jet guy, Obrick, who was a defensive coordinator.
I don't know. Something just smells a little rotten there.
And I didn't even know the Falcons were serious about
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taking Shador. They had Michael Pennox, well, they have Kirk Cousins. Really,
Chador was on their list to the point that he
gave them his cell phone number. I don't know. Seems
strange anyways, li'sen. I guess we'll see you. I thought
Shador was worthy of going three to the Giants. They
traded back for Jackson Dart, then De Browns took Dylan Gabriel,
and then nobody else. Raiders didn't want Shador. It's just
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very bizarre in a weird way. Guys, I'm rooting for
Shador Sanders. I don't know what's gonna happen, Probably not
in Cleveland. I'll have to be at his next stop.
But man, what a wild weekend.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
All right?
Speaker 2 (32:57):
We got big week ahead fired up tomorrow
This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What is up, Vamp. It's me Jason McIntyre Straight Fire
for Monday, April twenty eighth. What Nelly. That was a
hell of a sports weekend, wasn't it. My gosh, the
NFL draft should do her Sanders a prank call. I
have some good prank call stories I might tell later on,
(00:34):
but I have to obviously obviously, and you could tell
the tone of my voice changed dramatically. Start with the
Los Angeles Lakers losing another gut punch to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
By the way, I did not know this was a thing,
but my daughter was doing homework watching the Lakers with me,
and she notices I didn't notice it because I'm, you know,
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tunnel vision on the game and the stats. She goes,
why do I keep hearing a wolve howl? What is
the howling? And I guess, And I then listened for
and I guess. The Minnesota Timberwolves in the stadium in
the arena play wolves like frequently. And I was like, oh,
that's an interesting little note. I don't even know where
to begin with this game, other than the fact that
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right out the gate the Lakers are down three to one,
and I'm the idiot who doesn't think this series is over.
I'm gonna be honest, these last two games to me
have been coin tosses. I watched Game three intimately, I
was disappointed down the stretch. I mean again, this was
like a tie game Game three on Friday night, with
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like what two minutes left, three minutes left, whatever it was,
and then Anthony Edwards sits a three, Austin Reeves misses
a three. I think Ruy was the other guy who
missed a three, and then it was bing bang boom,
and then yeah, that was it. But it was a
close game right till the end fourth quarter. Lakers melted.
So then you get Sunday's Game four, and the Lakers
largest lead was twelve. They were the better team for
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much of the game, but Minnesota kept fighting back. Their
largest lead was four. They won the game by three
on a free throw on some controversial free throws by
Anthony Edwards, but also nas Reed made a big three,
Dante DiVincenzo had a huge and one, and ultimately Lakers
just kind of sort of wilted there down in the stretch. Now,
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it's understandable because as everybody's having a big hullabaloo about
JJ Redick didn't sub anyone in in the entire second half.
He played his horses. The strategy worked, period, hard stop.
It worked. The Lakers were the better team in the
third quarter. They didn't blow the lead like they had
in the third quarter of the multiple games this series.
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They've just gotten waxed in the third quarter for some reason.
And the Lakers were doing great and actually in this
game throughout, winning throughout. After Lebron had a phenomenal and
I'm just talking an unbelievable block of Devincenzo and they
come down the other end and I believe it was
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let me is he here? So Lebron blocks Evencenzo and
then Dorian Phinney Smith makes the three. Lakers are up
by two with ninety seconds left. Ninety seconds Lakers up
by two after they had just been down by four,
and I was like, oh, there's gonna be a cup pin.
I mean, the game was phenomenal. It was a coin toss.
And again I'm not gonna bash JJ Reddick, all these
people saying you got to so the Lakers bench has
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been getting murdered in this series, Okay, that's the facts.
We like Vincent. I like gay Vincent. I thought he
showed well in Game two. I'm sorry, guys, the rest
of the bench, it's just not delivering. Obviously, Vanderbilt is limited.
He just commits fouls, get three bounds of defense. They're
not gonna guard him. He can't sit in the dunker's bot.
He's not a rim protector. Is he their best bet
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against Anthony Edwards? Maybe Anthony Edwards is freaking amazing. Jordan Goodwin,
who nobody had heard of before this year, is you know,
a tenth guy on your roster, not like an eight
or nine. I'm sorry, that's just the facts. And they
didn't even play Dalton connect He's barely getting in the game.
Jackson Hayes played four minutes, like I think he started
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the game and that was it. Picks up two fouls,
scores on a dunk, and then never seen again. The
Lakers just listen. They just got Luca in February. Okay,
he was injured at the time. They almost wung a
deal for Mark Williams. Would he be making a difference here.
I like to think so, but I'm not certain. I'm
not one hundred percent certain. Luca definitely needs a lob
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threat because if you notice what the Wolves were doing,
they're hard doubling Luca out at half court. Luca killed
him last year in the series when he was with
the MAVs, and so they're like, screw that, We're just
gonna hard double Luca and play four on three. So
in the second quarter that worked. Austin Reeves got in
foul trouble. Third foul is so controversial, dumb, that Rudy
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Gobert thing. And then when the Lakers are doing that
and they're getting the ball to Goodwin and Vanderbilt, they're
not threats. Timberwolves don't have to worry about them. Gabe Vincent,
he's in for thirteen minutes, missus his two threes. That's
like me playing in a high level basketball game. I'm
gonna come in, Jay Back, you gotta hit your shots.
I miss him, all right, you go to the bench,
you know. So second half, Austin Reeves is in mostly
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in the third quarter, and that Lucas strategy for Minnesota
backfired because now it's Ruey was set in the screen.
They get it to Ruey and it's a four on
three and they're finding Austin Reeves in the corner. He
hit three threes in the third. Ruey had a phenomenal
game with twenty three points. He was excellent. I mean,
think about this. The Lakers made nineteen or forty seven threes.
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The Wolves only made fourteen to thirty six. The Lakers
had five times three fifteen more points on three pointers
and still lost the game. So I've broken this series
down where I think three. I basically think three things
are why the Timberwolves are up three to one. Number
one has to be offensive rebounds. It is unbelievable how
the Lakers just cannot and I get it, no center,
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but just continuously if there's a loose ball under the hoop,
I feel like Minnesota's getting it. That's just how it's going.
They had eighteen offensive boards that resulted in ten more
shot attempts. When you're shooting forty percent, you gotta make
four of those extra ten shots. And the other thing
is with no Lakers rim protector, they're just attacking relentlessly.
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Minnesota sat thirty three free throws. They made twenty six,
which is more than the Lakers attempted. Okay, Lebron was
awesome from the free throw line fifteen of eighteen. But
Minnesota's just get into the line and well, actually four things.
So number one, the offensive glass is just killing the Lakers.
There's no easy solution to that. You can't just say
try harder. I mean, their Lakers are outsized, they're out quicked.
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Lebron is old Luca is Luca had one rebound playing
forty six minutes. Not great, not great at all. Lebron
had twelve rebounds, heroic stuff. Rui's not like a quick,
dynamic athlete. And Dorian Finney Smith tries hard, but again
he's going up against like long dude, Jaden McDaniels, Anthony Edwards,
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Rudy Gobert had seven offensive rebounds, Anthony Edwards had four.
Like they're just crashing so freaking hard, it's tough. And
then number two, obviously is when they get Ruby Rudy
out of the game and he only played twenty six minutes.
Everybody's attacking, just hardcore attack their in and there's no
Wally there. You're gonna get foul or you're gonna make
a layup. Right, So number three the third reason I
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think the Lakers are losing. And again I know you're
gonna say, Jay, you got to you gotta crush the Lakers.
It's not really about the Lakers. It's more I mean,
the Lakers bench hasn't delivered. But Minnesota is just a
really good matchup for the Lakers. They're the one team
like honestly, Minnesota matches up better with the Lakers than
Okase does because of their size and length. Okay See
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would not I don't think play heart and Stein and
chet Homeward. I think the Lakers would murder them. They
did murder them a couple of weeks ago in Minnesota
in okay See. I know it was a regular season game,
but they don't have the quickness and that Lakers would
just bomb threes on them, the way the Lakers bomb
threes in the third quarter on Sunday and took that lead,
getting it up to ten and then twelve. The problem
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becomes was when they match the Lakers in size, they
pull Rudy off the court. Rudy, by the way, minus
eleven in twenty six minutes. Meanwhile, nas Red comes in,
he could defect, defend, he can rim protect and oh,
by the way, he can hit a three. I mean,
Lakers didn't play any bench guys in the second half.
Minnesota got buckets in the final two minutes from Nas
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Reed and Dante DiVincenzo. Like that's significant, Like that matters
having a bench. I too have to mention, Julius Randall
is playing ridiculous out of his fricking mind, folks. I
had to look this up so we all know. Julius Randall, Right,
he was drafted by the Lakers, right. I like Julius
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Randall from Kentucky, drafted by the Lakers, played for by Nicks.
A good player, seems like a good guy, great guy
in the community. Julius Randall is not a three point shooter. Okay,
his career, in fifteen career playoff games, he's at twenty
eight percent on threes. That's not good. Twenty eight percent
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three three point shooter. Honestly, when Randall earlier in the
series was shooting threes, I'm like, I just let him
take that. He's likely going to miss. He's twenty eight
percent for his career. Now, if you want to say, well, Jay,
what about the regular season? We could do that too,
pro Basketball Reference or Basketball Reference. I guess it's not pro.
Let's see here, Julius Randall, this season from three, he
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shot thirty four percent from three this season, that stuffing
special thirty four percent. Well, get that up in this
series shooting threes, Julius Randall forty five percent. He's having
an out of body experience from three, Like I you
know that's that was not factored in coming in the series. Yeah,
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Julius Randad's gonna drop. Is going to average twenty two
a game and just bury threes at forty five percent.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Clip.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I didn't expect that. But the final reason, you know,
Anthony Edwards is freaking amazing. Anytime the Lakers stretch that
lead and Edwards was just like, I got this and
he's pretty freaking unguardible. Guys, I don't know what you do.
I was saying, try Vanderbilt in the second quarter. Goodwin
had no chance. I mean, nobody really has a chance.
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Ant's handles and finishing around the rim are ridiculous. He
led the league in three point makes, shot five of
ten from deep on Sunday fourteen of seventeen at the line,
finished with forty three nine and six, had one turnover
in forty four minutes. I don't I want to make
a case for Anthony Edwards is a top five guy
in the league. I don't know, what do you do,
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Like it's Yannis yo kich I put Luca in there, SGA,
I mean Jason Tatum. I don't know. Is Anthony Edwards it?
Maybe he has to be, because I'm being honest. Nobody
can stop him going to the basket. Nobody. You can't
stay in front of him. He's just an animal. And
you know, and the Lakers go zone, and the zone
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has given Minnesota problems. Ant, you know, was patient and
then hit threes, and you know, I don't know if
the Lake can go more zone. I don't I don't
know what you do for Ant. It's not like you
can wear him down, right. He is a machine. He's like,
what twenty twenty five years old, he's twenty three. My gosh,
he's twenty three years old. Like the one thing I
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and I'm a big Anthony Edwards saying you could look
it up like two years ago, I said he was
the best in game dunker in NBA history, and all
these people got mad at me. Michael Jordan Dominique, No, no, no,
Anthony Edwards has the best collection of dunks in game
the in NBA history. He's detonating on folks left and right.
He's I mean, Anthony Edwards is unbelievable. Now, I know
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Lakers fans aren't going to want to hear this. I
do believe he's been the best player in the series.
Above Lebron and above Luca. Lebron has been phenomenal. Listen man,
He had three in three steals in three blocks to
go at twenty seven to twelve and eight, played forty
six minutes at the age of forty. How he had
a thing left in the tank? I have no idea.
Now to the final minute where he had a rough turnover.
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Although I thought Luca got tripped, Luca went down in
the back court, lose the ball out of bounds, still
Lakers ball, and on the inbounds it was in a tough,
terrible spot. They Lebron kind of throws the pass away
and then of course Lebron had the foul on Anthony Edwards.
That being said, folks, this isn't quite NFL levels of
what is a catch. But I need to ask you
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is hand part of the ball because in this series,
I was at Game two and there was a shot
attempt and you could see it and it was reviewed.
But we're in the stadium looking at the big screen
and the camera show, Oh, he got him on the hand,
but hand the referees announced, Yeah, hand is part of
the ball, so it was it was not a foul
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and are not a penalty? And this is the wrong, Like,
if hand is part of the ball, then why was
the Anthony Edwards thing two free throws? It should not
have been. It should have been Lakers ball. That being said,
let me go back a little. Here's the only reason
that was reviewable. In a wacky sequence. So Anthony Edwards
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loses it out of bounds. Everybody's like, holy shit, Oh
my gosh, Lakers ball. Lakers call timeout. They got one
time out left, let's set up a play. Nine seconds left.
According to the rules, the Wolves can challenge within thirty
seconds of the timeout, so because the timeout was taken,
they could challenge. They challenged the Anthony Edwards lost the
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ball out of bounds. Everybody at home is like, oh,
that's Lakers ball. What are they doing? What are they doing?
I'm getting texts? Why are they reviewing this? And the
final view, the hawk angle from above shows Lebron got
his hand. That's undeniable, but his hand was on the ball,
and if you get hand, is that part of the
ball or is that only shooting? I don't know. I
don't know the answer anyways. So instead of Lakers ball,
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nine seconds left, down one, Anthony Edwards two free throws.
So now they're up three and the Lakers are out
of timeouts. Just super duper unlucky. Still an Austin Reeves
got a good clean look from the corner. I felt
like the Lakers were going to win that game. I
was nervous, and I know you can ask, why are
you nervous it's a first round game. Well, guys, let's
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be real. Part of this industry. You stick your neck
out on the line to make predictions, and you obviously
want to be right. I've been calling Lakers in the
conference finals, NBA Finals for weeks. Felt great about it,
great coming into the series, and I don't feel great
about it now. But that's only part of the reason.
The other part is, honestly, it's easy to talk about
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the Lakers. They're the villains in the NBA right now.
Everybody hates them outside of LA and you know Laker
fans around the nation. But you asked like a casual
NBA fan, they don't like the Lakers. Lucas a whiner,
Lebron as a flopper. There is disdain for these Lakers.
The people are rooting against them, and as a result,
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I think they're great for content and podcasts and TV
and radio and talking to friends. And yeah, my buddy's
got season tickets. I don't mind going to the games either.
So Game seven, should we get there, is next Sunday,
six days away. And it's funny because my buddy with
the season tickets. His son says, hey, Dad, well, mom's
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scheduled that meeting. You know whatever, This I'm not gonna
get into, but a school thing for Sunday in the afternoon.
What time is the game? And he's like his dad
was basically like, well that's not that doesn't impact me. Sorry,
you know sorry. I was like, oh, DIM's on the ticket.
I was kind of joking around, but like, come on,
who doesn't want the Lakers to advance? Like I like
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Anthony Edwards as much as the next guy, but yeah,
I want the Lakers to advance. I want the Warriors
to advance. So I'm rooting for the Lakers obviously. Uh.
I mean, I don't feel like I need to spend
time Pacers win. They're up three to one. Day Lillard
appears to have pop his achilles, which is just terrible news.
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I feel off of for day. Man it I don't
even know what to say. It's just sucks. By all accounts,
Dame Lord is the nicest guy. He's a pretty talented
player who's a Hall of Fame lock and has been
an awesome part of the league for over a decade.
I'll never forget rolling up to my gym, I think
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this might have been pre COVID, and I'm walking through
the parking lot and I look up and this guy's
walking holding a basketball with a trainer, and I'm like, shit,
is that Dame Lillard? And as he gets closer, it
is him, and I just I'm like, Dame, what up?
I'm not just I'm not afraid to talk to these guys.
And I at the time was wearing Dame lillard sneakers,
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not on me, but they were in my bag. And
he was like, the nicest guy, easy, got a root
for work ethic. You go, hey, if you want a
Dame Lillard video, go on YouTube after you've done this
podcast and look up Dame Lillard pre draft workout. It
is legendary. It was one of those workout three, like, Oh,
this guy's gonna make it for sure. So I'm rooting
for Dame Lillard. Bummer about the Bucks. I think we'll
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talk about Giannis a lot this summer. Feels like he's
I mean, Dame Lillard. That Achilles injury is going to
be at least ten months, so you won't see him
till like the All Star break. Maybe in Milwaukee. They
don't have a path to get better. Kind of feels
like it's over. Boston beats Orlando, Orlando's fighting hard, Boston wins,
Tatum goes off, blah blah blah. But I do need
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to talk about my other favorite team in the NBA.
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All right, let's get to Nick's ninety four Pistons ninety three.
Nix went into the weekend right tied at one. Everybody's nervous.
They get the I'll say lucky, fortunate win one eighteen one, sixteen,
the questionable over and back and then comes Sunday's game.
Pistons hell bent on tying it up, and I thought
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the Knicks were toast down. Knicks were down four with
one forty left. The Pistons had just scored on four
straight possessions. Nicks kind of looked tired. Bunsen had the
hobbled ankle. He was keeping him inte offensively, but it
was like, geez, Nicks are in deep trouble. And then,
of all the unlikely guys to bail them out, it
was the much maligned Carl Anthony Towns who hits a
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Larry bird ish fade away over the backboard swish, an
improbable shot, and two compound matters. At the other end
of the court, Kate Cunningham comes down, Middy spins in
and out toilet bowl action. I was like, oh my goodness,
Nick's got lucky shot, clock winding down. Who delivers once again?
The new guy, Carl Anthony Towns from They were calling
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it twenty seven feet, It looked like thirty to me,
but Kat splashes a three. It was the game winner.
You didn't have a great game, twenty seven points on
twenty three shots, but scored five their final five points.
And then of course, the Knicks survived the chaotic final
sequence when Josh Hart was battling for the rebound. It
scores out to Hardaway in the corner, and then Heart
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gets out to try to avoid the foul pretty clearly
gets them with somebody, although Hardaway leaned into it. No whistle.
I'm watching the game screaming, oh my gosh, you're whistle.
You look. Knicks players were looking around. Everybody was like,
I was just waiting for the whistle. It never came.
Pistons were irate, understandably, and the Knicks survived to go
up three to one. Boy, this series has had now,
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I mean again, remember the Pistons I believe have led
in three of the four games heading into the fourth.
The Knicks in those three I think are three and
Ozero Game one of course, the huge twenty one nothing run,
and then the last two games the Knicks survived, this
one shrouded in controversy. And you know Game three, the
over and BacT that wasn't called. That was kind of
questionable as well. But I don't know, guys, I thought
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the Knicks really battled here. The three pointers are the difference.
Detroit just can't shoot the Pistons offseason needs are obvious.
They had two guys who could make threes, Tim Hardaway
four of thirteen and Malik Beas degree of nine. Everyone
else oh for seven Like Caate cunning him does not
quite have a three in his bag on Star Thompson
definitely does not. Tobias Harris is just so feast or
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famine and he didn't make one. Cad again twenty five,
ten and ten. It was like, oh, triple double, first
since Isaiah Thomas for the Pistons in the playoffs. Okay,
Grady also had seven turnovers, missed all his three twenty
three shot attempts, but ultimately this came down to one
questionable play. And I gotta think the Knicks feel phenomenal
about getting out of this series alive, with Bridges at
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Nananobe going a combined six for twenty five on Sunday,
heart committing what appeared to be a foul at the end,
and Brunson wasn't great twenty six shots, Towns twenty three
shots like their bench gave them nothing five points from
the bench. That's it, man, These Knicks are just a
heart attack watching them in action. They will advance to
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face Boston with one more victory, and I don't think
many are giving them a chance in that series, and
that's kind of understandable. But I'll just say this, everybody
loved the Lakers, Okay everybody. I don't know if any
one person out there picked the Wolves outside of Minnesota,
and they're now up three to one. I just wonder,
do we see everybody pick the Celtics and then the
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Knicks kind of pull off a major surprise? And I
asked that because just remember historically in recent years, the
team that wins the championship doesn't advance back to the
even the conference finals. Remember the Nuggets last year they
ran out of gas. This Boston team feels like they're
built a little different. Tatum's health looks like it's back.
They have the best bench of anybody in the league.
(21:41):
I think, just a slight nod over the Pacers, led
by six Man of the Year Peyton Pritchard. So I
don't know, but Orlando would through moments where they look good,
and the Knicks can be a better three point shooting team.
They're definitely a better rebounding team than Orlando, So I
don't know. Knicks still have work to do. Detroit's not done,
and as we've seen in the last what fifteen years,
(22:01):
three one leads are not always safe, so it's not over.
But I am feeling good about my knicks.
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Now, I do have all week to talk about the
NFL Draft, and obviously NBA playoffs were so thrilling on
Sunday that I went heavy on them. But I do
need to address some Shador Sanders stuff. His fall was
like nothing I've ever seen before. This was the most
precipitous fall in NFL draft history. That's undeniable. Guys. You
(22:40):
can say what you want, like, nobody on planet Earth
expected Shaduur Sanders to go fifth round. I mean, guys,
everybody and their mom. Any analyst you talked to had Shador.
If it wasn't top twenty, Melkiper, it was top thirty,
(23:00):
maybe it was top forty or fifty, but nobody had
him outside the top one hundred. Nobody who analyzes NFL
draft stuff, nobody, not one person. So then it becomes
in a weird I don't know, it was just a
weird moment. It started to become a racial thing. Oh
(23:20):
this is racial. They're black bawling shaduor Sanders, And I'm like,
I don't buy that at all. I mean, how could
it be racial when the first quarterback taken was black
in cam Ward? This isn't racial. It's just people grasping
its straws and angry. Okay, No, there was not collusion
among NFL owners. The most logical explanation is that Shadure
(23:46):
Sanders went into some of these pre draft meetings with
teams and nuked himself. You know whether it was And
again I'm just guessing here, but Chadour rolls into the meeting.
Is he wearing earbuds? Does he have a Hamra crew
in tow? Is he acting entitled? This is obvious stuff
that could appear to be legit for Shadoor, Like he
(24:07):
just rolled in like he was the man, and that
led people to put bump him down their boards. Well,
the problem is there was only like a five sixty
market max for Shadoor Sanders. That's it. And at that point,
if you're like the Rams, do you say, oh, do
we want to get in the Shadeur business. And I
(24:30):
don't know that the Rams would even discuss it. I'm
just guessing, but it's like, hey, yeah, I don't really
want to be fielding questions. If Stafford has a three
interception game, is it Shadoor Sanders time? Is Dion going
to be putting stuff out on social media? Give my
kid a chance? I don't know. I mean, this is
a guy who said he was going to steer his
kid to certain teams. He didn't want his team his
(24:50):
kid going to certain organizations. He's said that he's on record,
So then it becomes, well, geez, the risk reward if
we don't think he's a potential starter for us acted
like a jerk in our meetings. Is he gonna be
a hold the clipboard kind of backup quarterback? Could he
do that in Jacksonville? Could he do that in Philadelphia?
(25:12):
I have no idea. The Jets clearly were like, no, thanks,
Justin Fields is our guy. We're gonna see it through.
We don't even know shd or Sanders. So this is
where it gets weird. So Dylan Gabriel was awesome at Oregon. Okay,
really really talented quarterback he had a great college football career,
broke the record for most starts and total touchdowns. I
(25:37):
like Dylan Gabriel as a college football quarterback. The fact
that the Cleveland Browns took a quarterback who's from Hawaii,
Okay and five foot eleven and they took him third round.
A quarterback from Hawaii who has played at UCF, Oklahoma
(25:59):
and Oregon is now going to go to the Mistake
by the Lake and play for the Browns. I do not,
in any circumstance under what I just have no clue
what's going on there. How does that make any sense
in the world. Not only did they draft Dillan Gabled
in the third round, then they took Shadeur in the
(26:21):
fifth round. So riddle me this. This is a team
that gave up a fifth round prick for Kenny Pickett.
They have Deshaun Watson, who obviously is done in Cleveland,
but he's still on the roster and he's getting paid,
and they got Joe Flacco. Shadure comes on as their
fifth quarterback. Okay, maybe they decide they're gonna cut Deshaun
(26:44):
Watson and just absorb the Caphit that's possible. They don't
want the drama. We don't want any thought that he's
coming back. We're done with. Maybe they do that and
then you have four Otherwise they're going to go into
camp with five quarterbacks. Folks, most teams, if you look
at their who's act if usually it's two quarterbacks, then
there's inactive. I mean, is Shadur going to be? I
(27:08):
don't forget about any numbers that he could post this year.
I would set how many games he starts at half
a game?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Now?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Would you could do that now? But let's see what
happens in the preseason. But like I, maybe they think
he's only a developmental guy. But to take Dylan Gabriel
ahead of him after getting Kenny Pickett and Joe Flakel,
I don't. Usually the Browns are smart. I have no
clue what they did in this draft. Now. I did
like the Harrold fan and pick. I like the Mason
(27:38):
Graham pick. And some people did make an interesting comment
the Browns have been getting destroyed all weekend just for ineptitude.
What if instead of taking an off ball linebacker Schweinzteiger
from UCLA, what if they took Shador there? Would that
have been a more acceptable draft, then they probably don't
take Dylan Gabriel. I don't know the answer to that.
(28:01):
I thought they won the Travis Hunter deal. I just
didn't understand the Dylan Gabriel and Shador standers. Now quickly
on the prank call. I made a lot of prank
calls when I was a kid. Everybody did, Okay, there was,
but when I did it, there was no cell phones. Okay,
and well there was, I guess now there weren't technically
cell phones, but it was you know, the days were
(28:25):
there wasn't even caller ID. Old heads know what I'm
about to say. But you would have to do something
called Star sixty nine and you would then call back
the number that called you, like that was a thing. Okay.
Then came caller ID, and then there was a way
to block your number from showing up on caller ID.
I forget what that was. But anybody who knows it's
(28:45):
had a sleepover when they were in middle school or
high school and made a prank call knows what I'm
talking about. Okay, So it's like I get prank calls.
I totally understand that calling random numbers. I guess I
can say this because it happened so long ago. So
there is this former wrestler. His name was Big John Studd.
(29:07):
He was a WWF wrestler. He lived in our area.
And now I never saw him in our area once,
but he lived in our area, and growing up, everybody
like knew who he was, and you know, he was
kind of famous in our area. But I never saw
him once in person. I don't know how, but of course,
(29:29):
you know, people find out, oh, this is just Big
John Studd, this is his real name, and then this
is his number, and so you know, okay, so we
be at sleepboards. Oh let's prank call Big John Studd.
So we'd call him up and people like, WHOA do
the Rick Flair yell or do the Macho man ultimate.
We would just do that and laugh and hang up,
like I'm sure he got that a million times right.
(29:51):
It's just a prank call. I mean, if he was
getting inducted into the Wrestling Hall of Fame and had
a I would not be like, let me prank Big
John stud on his Hall of Fame election night and
get a good chuckle out of it. The idea that
somebody would think, hey, let me prank called Dion on
(30:13):
draft night and pretend like I'm a front office about
the drift. Let me do that. That's a funny idea. Like, Man,
I was a kid, I did a lot of dumb stuff.
Something would have jumped out of Dude, that is not
a cool thing to do. That's not funny. Had Dion
Sun had a lot going on here and Shadur this
was a big night, I wouldn't be surprised with it.
(30:34):
A Netflix documentary released about leading up to the draft,
I would not be shocked. I mean, look at the
camera crews falling this guy around, and I just thought
it was weak that they would do that prank call.
And of course, not only are they dumb, but they're
really stupid to then try to put it online in
some capacity to because you need to flex. It's like, hey, Jay,
(30:56):
did you really go to Japan? If you didn't post
any photos or video, Like, did you really do? Because
if you don't put something online, it's like did it
really happen? That's like the idea now of these young, dumb,
idiot kids. And so these kids put it online and
instantly everybody's like, yeah, that's the Uh. The defensive coordinator's
son from the Falcons and he got out in like
(31:17):
two seconds. Now he did apologize. I don't you just
tell me how believable this is? So the defensive coordator
had his iPad laying around and it had Shador Sanders's
phone number on it. Does that sound believable remotely? I mean, yes,
(31:39):
Have I had my phone and my kids figured out
my password and got in and went on and played
games on the phone. Sure, Have they gone on the
phone and like gone on Instagram and done what looked
around or whatever? Sure? But would they go on the
phone and get like not that he's would they get
Cowherd's number in prank call um or something?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I just I don't understand how his iPad was just
laying around and Chador's number was just there, Like none
of that really adds up to me. But again, it's
a former Jet guy, Obrick, who was a defensive coordinator.
I don't know. Something just smells a little rotten there.
And I didn't even know the Falcons were serious about
(32:24):
taking Shador. They had Michael Pennox, well, they have Kirk Cousins. Really,
Chador was on their list to the point that he
gave them his cell phone number. I don't know. Seems
strange anyways, li'sen. I guess we'll see you. I thought
Shador was worthy of going three to the Giants. They
traded back for Jackson Dart, then De Browns took Dylan Gabriel,
and then nobody else. Raiders didn't want Shador. It's just
(32:47):
very bizarre in a weird way. Guys, I'm rooting for
Shador Sanders. I don't know what's gonna happen, Probably not
in Cleveland. I'll have to be at his next stop.
But man, what a wild weekend.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
All right?
Speaker 2 (32:57):
We got big week ahead fired up tomorrow
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