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Speaker 1 (00:09):
It's Andy Everage show on the ticket. Let's talk more
NBA playoffs. Let's start with the Denver the Denvers and
the Clippers last night. I think this is a series.
It's gonna go seven games. Both of these teams are
very equally matched. As I said earlier, I think Kawhi
Leonard has slammed down a little bit. He looks uh,
he looks good, and obviously last night he was on fire,
(00:30):
especially well the first half and second half for that matter.
I still think Denver's the overall better team, but the
Clippers have both harden And and Leonard that can go
for a lot of points in a hurry. Yeah, not
that Jokich and Murray can't. I just think this is
a really good series. It's I would expect that to
(00:51):
be to tow two.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
After the two.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Games in the in Clipperland, I would expect whoever wins
Game five to probably win the series game. I think
this is going to be the best of all the
playoff series in the first round.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And that's that's kind of where we're at right now.
But I'm looking at this as a as an epic series.
Last night, I guess game was great and so are,
so are the I.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Think the rest of them will be.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Well, I mean, if it's how can you get any
better than what it was from game one? You go
into overtime and you're and maybe you think, Okay, somebody's
gonna get blown out in the next one, and it's no.
It basically goes down to the to the last second
as well. But yeah, I agree with you that out
of all of the matchups, I think this is the
(01:37):
one that's probably going to be most likely to go
seven games and should be the most entertaining, because, yes,
when Number two decides, hey I'm gonna actually try tonight,
he's he's he's one of the best players on the court.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
He's one of the best players in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, he is a top five player in the world
when he is when he's normal kawhiyeh. And I again,
I don't have any issue with him wanting to go
to to Los Angeles so he can be back home
near his friends. I wish that would have been the
way he would have portrayed it when he orchestrated the
trade to Toronto.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And then obviously to sign with the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
He wants to be in Southern California and if it
were the Clippers of the Lakers, that's where he wanted
to be. But Kawhi Leonard is a really good player.
He just doesn't play enough games in order to be
all NBA, to be an MVP candidate. If he played
seventy five games a year, he'd probably averaged thirty five
a night and people would be talking about him in
(02:38):
the same breath they are this year with Shay and
Joker's he's that good of a player and he is
in that ELK. I think he's better than Giannis. I
think he's better than Anthony Edwards. I think he's better
than everybody in the league except those two guys plus Luca,
and on certain nights he's as good as they are.
But he just doesn't do what he did last night
(02:59):
every night because more often than not he's taken a
taking a rest on the bench.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Well, he's better in the aspect of he's he's when
he decides he wants to play on any given night,
one hundred percent. He is arguably the best two way
player in the league when he decides. Because that was
always the biggest thing when he was here is a
lot of people were talking about you know, obviously with
Lebron James, oh well, Lebron James was MVP candidate and
(03:27):
Number two wasn't given those props because he was number two.
But if you look at it from the overall aspect
back when he was here, he was the best two
way player at the time of when we still played defense.
And that's the thing too now is if you're playing
defense and in the way that the referees are ruling
(03:50):
these games, it's almost impossible.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
But except in the playoffs. Except in the.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Playoffs, and that's where you get to see the actual
overall talent of number two when he decides, Hey, I
think I'll decide to play today.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
So yeah, that's something that Reggie Miller was discussing last night,
is that they're allowing players to have physicality that they
do not allow in the regular season. And I guess
to a certain extent, you have to understand that because
if you allow that much physicality for eighty two games,
you may not have anybody left by the time you
get to April, and you probably can't handle that abuse.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Every night.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
You're gonna have more injuries or certainly more nights where
players feel sore enough to set out games, so the
NBA may be protecting it.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I like these games that are.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
One oh four to one oh eight to one twenty
to one sixteen. I don't want to see a game
that's one fifty seven to one forty two in a
regular season, regular game, and not at overtime. You play
three or four overtimes and you get to that number,
that's fine. But when you're when the two teams together
are collectively scoring two hundred and seventy five to three
hundred points at some point in time, that's not really basketball.
(04:59):
That's just to pick up in the street, and we're
having a good time pretending to guard each other. And
so I want to I want to see more of this.
This is what NBA basketball is about. Tough, tough, but
you go on the lane, you're gonna get you're gonna
get hit, you might get called for a foul, you
might not. But we need certainly more of that. And
I really like the this this series to go seven.
(05:21):
I picked Denver in seven because they have home court advantage,
But if if we go back and forth with a
split in Los Angeles, I'll still be on the on
that boat. The other game we touched on in the
first segment was the Knicks game, and Jalen Brunson is
really good and occasionally he gets some help from others,
but he's he's got He's the guy, and there's too
(05:42):
much that's been placed on him. You need to do
more than just have Jalen Brunson. And that comes back
to the fact that Thibodeau does not like to play
deeper into his bench. Now, I wonder if he doesn't
like to play deeper into the bench because he just
wants to have an eight man rotation, or if he
doesn't trust nine through thirteen on the bench. And if
he doesn't trust nine through thirteen on the bench, then
(06:04):
get him some players that he can trust at least
to give you fifteen minutes a night, twelve minutes a night,
so your guys aren't expended as as exhausted and expends
so much energy during the regular season.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, you know, I would say coming off the bench wise,
maybe their most impactful guy could be like a Miles McBride,
who was the only guy who scored off the bench
of eight points. But other than that, you know, you
have Mitchell Robinson who's more of a defensive guy. Doesn't
score any points whatsoever. But when I just you can't
(06:41):
let Jalen Brunson be the guy on every single night
that you're expecting. Hey, we need you to save us,
and if you don't, we're going to lose basketball games
on most nights. Mkil Bridges, you know, is a very
good player. Nineteen points last night. Karl Anthony Towns kind
of did what Karl Anthony Towns does, kind of disappears
(07:03):
in the playoffs a little bit. You know, it played
thirty three minutes and only scores ten points. It's like,
you're Karl Anthony Towns, I need you to score more
than ten points.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Man. All right.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Coming up in the next segment, we're going to switch
to the NFL Draft, which is coming up on Thursday night.
We'll talk about the Giants dilemma at the number three pick.
I don't think it should be much of a dilemma,
but they apparently do. We're going to get into that conversation.
The Cowboys say they're considering a substantial trade. We'll get
to that coming up in a bit, and we'll get
(07:33):
into other things in the five o'clock hour as well.
It's four twenty eight. It's the Andy Everette Show on
the ticket
It's Andy Everage show on the ticket. Let's talk more
NBA playoffs. Let's start with the Denver the Denvers and
the Clippers last night. I think this is a series.
It's gonna go seven games. Both of these teams are
very equally matched. As I said earlier, I think Kawhi
Leonard has slammed down a little bit. He looks uh,
he looks good, and obviously last night he was on fire,
(00:30):
especially well the first half and second half for that matter.
I still think Denver's the overall better team, but the
Clippers have both harden And and Leonard that can go
for a lot of points in a hurry. Yeah, not
that Jokich and Murray can't. I just think this is
a really good series. It's I would expect that to
(00:51):
be to tow two.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
After the two.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Games in the in Clipperland, I would expect whoever wins
Game five to probably win the series game. I think
this is going to be the best of all the
playoff series in the first round.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And that's that's kind of where we're at right now.
But I'm looking at this as a as an epic series.
Last night, I guess game was great and so are,
so are the I.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Think the rest of them will be.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Well, I mean, if it's how can you get any
better than what it was from game one? You go
into overtime and you're and maybe you think, Okay, somebody's
gonna get blown out in the next one, and it's no.
It basically goes down to the to the last second
as well. But yeah, I agree with you that out
of all of the matchups, I think this is the
(01:37):
one that's probably going to be most likely to go
seven games and should be the most entertaining, because, yes,
when Number two decides, hey I'm gonna actually try tonight,
he's he's he's one of the best players on the court.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
He's one of the best players in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, he is a top five player in the world
when he is when he's normal kawhiyeh. And I again,
I don't have any issue with him wanting to go
to to Los Angeles so he can be back home
near his friends. I wish that would have been the
way he would have portrayed it when he orchestrated the
trade to Toronto.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And then obviously to sign with the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
He wants to be in Southern California and if it
were the Clippers of the Lakers, that's where he wanted
to be. But Kawhi Leonard is a really good player.
He just doesn't play enough games in order to be
all NBA, to be an MVP candidate. If he played
seventy five games a year, he'd probably averaged thirty five
a night and people would be talking about him in
(02:38):
the same breath they are this year with Shay and
Joker's he's that good of a player and he is
in that ELK. I think he's better than Giannis. I
think he's better than Anthony Edwards. I think he's better
than everybody in the league except those two guys plus Luca,
and on certain nights he's as good as they are.
But he just doesn't do what he did last night
(02:59):
every night because more often than not he's taken a
taking a rest on the bench.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Well, he's better in the aspect of he's he's when
he decides he wants to play on any given night,
one hundred percent. He is arguably the best two way
player in the league when he decides. Because that was
always the biggest thing when he was here is a
lot of people were talking about you know, obviously with
Lebron James, oh well, Lebron James was MVP candidate and
(03:27):
Number two wasn't given those props because he was number two.
But if you look at it from the overall aspect
back when he was here, he was the best two
way player at the time of when we still played defense.
And that's the thing too now is if you're playing
defense and in the way that the referees are ruling
(03:50):
these games, it's almost impossible.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
But except in the playoffs. Except in the.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Playoffs, and that's where you get to see the actual
overall talent of number two when he decides, Hey, I
think I'll decide to play today.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
So yeah, that's something that Reggie Miller was discussing last night,
is that they're allowing players to have physicality that they
do not allow in the regular season. And I guess
to a certain extent, you have to understand that because
if you allow that much physicality for eighty two games,
you may not have anybody left by the time you
get to April, and you probably can't handle that abuse.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Every night.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
You're gonna have more injuries or certainly more nights where
players feel sore enough to set out games, so the
NBA may be protecting it.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I like these games that are.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
One oh four to one oh eight to one twenty
to one sixteen. I don't want to see a game
that's one fifty seven to one forty two in a
regular season, regular game, and not at overtime. You play
three or four overtimes and you get to that number,
that's fine. But when you're when the two teams together
are collectively scoring two hundred and seventy five to three
hundred points at some point in time, that's not really basketball.
(04:59):
That's just to pick up in the street, and we're
having a good time pretending to guard each other. And
so I want to I want to see more of this.
This is what NBA basketball is about. Tough, tough, but
you go on the lane, you're gonna get you're gonna
get hit, you might get called for a foul, you
might not. But we need certainly more of that. And
I really like the this this series to go seven.
(05:21):
I picked Denver in seven because they have home court advantage,
But if if we go back and forth with a
split in Los Angeles, I'll still be on the on
that boat. The other game we touched on in the
first segment was the Knicks game, and Jalen Brunson is
really good and occasionally he gets some help from others,
but he's he's got He's the guy, and there's too
(05:42):
much that's been placed on him. You need to do
more than just have Jalen Brunson. And that comes back
to the fact that Thibodeau does not like to play
deeper into his bench. Now, I wonder if he doesn't
like to play deeper into the bench because he just
wants to have an eight man rotation, or if he
doesn't trust nine through thirteen on the bench. And if
he doesn't trust nine through thirteen on the bench, then
(06:04):
get him some players that he can trust at least
to give you fifteen minutes a night, twelve minutes a night,
so your guys aren't expended as as exhausted and expends
so much energy during the regular season.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, you know, I would say coming off the bench wise,
maybe their most impactful guy could be like a Miles McBride,
who was the only guy who scored off the bench
of eight points. But other than that, you know, you
have Mitchell Robinson who's more of a defensive guy. Doesn't
score any points whatsoever. But when I just you can't
(06:41):
let Jalen Brunson be the guy on every single night
that you're expecting. Hey, we need you to save us,
and if you don't, we're going to lose basketball games
on most nights. Mkil Bridges, you know, is a very
good player. Nineteen points last night. Karl Anthony Towns kind
of did what Karl Anthony Towns does, kind of disappears
(07:03):
in the playoffs a little bit. You know, it played
thirty three minutes and only scores ten points. It's like,
you're Karl Anthony Towns, I need you to score more
than ten points.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Man. All right.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Coming up in the next segment, we're going to switch
to the NFL Draft, which is coming up on Thursday night.
We'll talk about the Giants dilemma at the number three pick.
I don't think it should be much of a dilemma,
but they apparently do. We're going to get into that conversation.
The Cowboys say they're considering a substantial trade. We'll get
to that coming up in a bit, and we'll get
(07:33):
into other things in the five o'clock hour as well.
It's four twenty eight. It's the Andy Everette Show on
the ticket
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