one of my favorite players in the league
is a one-time all-star
drew holiday one-time all-star he's a
really good defensive player
he scores about 18 19 points a game good
three-point shooter
just a good basketball player and if if
i'm talking about a top 25 or even the
top 30 list
drew holiday is not going to make your
top 30 list but he's
a fantastic player and that just tells
you the depth
and strength of the nba and it tells you
why i'm so excited about what the
milwaukee bucks did
late last night they upgraded
they upgraded the roster and mike
they gave up a lot you know i like drew
holiday i don't know if i like drew
holiday so much that i gave up
uh three first-round picks for him oh
yeah you do but this is
this tells you where they are right this
is this is what they need to do
so trying to it's you know what it is it
is
it's over it's overspending
because you think that investment is
coming back to you anyway oh yeah i'll
pay this right now because it'll be
worth it when we win a championship
well it's worth it because of the mvp
that's what i thought you were about
that's what i thought you're picking up
on like you didn't you didn't trade for
a drew holiday
you traded to keep giannis attention
correct so you you didn't trade
for bogdan bagnatovic you traded to keep
giannis attempted kunpo
happy to get him to sign this super max
extension
and if he if for some strange reason
look i'm assuming
that bucks management who's very who has
a an extremely close relationship
with jana sentence a personal
relationship given how he's grown up in
that organization
that crosses beyond your typical
management uh employee
connection from what i understand i'm
assuming that there was some
understanding
between the parties that hey are you
going to sign this super max
because if you are we're going to be
super aggressive in surrounding you
with the shooting that you need uh and
and and
and correcting the deficiency that was
so pronounced in the postseason
and i'm sure he's like yeah i'm in do
your thing okay cool
so then they go out and they're being a
team of their word
they go out and they be they're
aggressive and getting drew holiday from
the pelicans who i do want to talk about
the pelicans later on
and bogdanovic in the signing trade from
the kings
but even if for some strange reason
that's not the
understanding even if giannis did not
make a commitment even if there isn't a
handshake agreement
that he's going to sign his supermax
extension
when you have a window with a guy like
that you go all
in and that's what you just saw a second
ago you got an opportunity around a
two-time mvp
to win a championship even if this
doesn't come
with the commitment from him you still
make this move
for a guy like your holiday and you know
what i like about love
holidays he may not be like a top 30
type guy or whatever you know what he is
man
he's your favorite player's favorite
player because every story i read
referenced i think it was both i think
it was katie trying to think who else it
was they both went on jj redick's
podcast
might have been it might have been steph
i don't remember who it was but they
both said that the best
defender perimeter defending the league
is drew holiday he's made all nba teams
he's the best of perimeter defender in
the league and a lot of players
estimation
okay so you upgraded from eric bledsoe
which is saying something
you upgrade from eric bledsoe on a
defensive end very rarely can you make a
trade that upgrades you at both ends
he's not only a better defender
but he's a better shooter a better
catch-and-shoot three-point shooter a
better car he's never better
one guard he's just a he's a good point
guard
let me ask you this and this is how this
is the broken way i look at trades and
you tell me
uh if this is if this is crazy or not
but any time i go into a trade i'm
looking at i'm
trying to evaluate a trade the one i
don't ask
who who got the best player because
sometimes you can get the best player
in the trade and lose the trade we know
that
uh from your favorite player in boston
uh
kendrick perkins kendrick perkins was
traded i know i know sarcasm uh when
kendrick perkins was traded to oklahoma
city
the celtics got jeff green in return
jeff green averaged more points than
kendrick perkins he was a higher draft
pick than kendrick perkins he had a
longer career
than kendrick perkins still playing
still a productive player but that trade
hurt the celtics even though jeff green
theoretically is a better basketball
player than kendrick perkins but
i don't look at who got the best player
i look at
what hurts the most and if i look at
milwaukee
they lost george hill they lost three
first-round picks that doesn't hurt at
all because you don't even know who
those guys are they might
be a star especially as giannis
especially if jana stays
they should be late for trump's yeah
uh uh dissenzo like all those guys good
uh ilya silva good players but
i'm not my heart's not hurting if i'm
milwaukee i'm like i'm not no i'm not
paying i'm not losing sleep i'm
wrestling over this
there was no one they traded that they
had to wrestle over and
looking from afar i don't know if they
actually did but they shouldn't have
so no they not only did they
uh make a great trade to keep giannis in
place
theoretically keep rihanna's in place
they didn't give up so much
that it's gonna hurt them it's really
going forward and i think you can't
overpay you can't overpaid to keep janus
happy or to keep him as a casemate one
more thing this is gonna sound this is
gonna sound a little
crazy because i know how professional
i was gonna say professional athletes
let me switch it i know how a lot of
professional coaches
think athletes will agree with me
coaches won't agree with me milwaukee
bucks
have the best regular secret regular
season record in the nba
this year they don't have to do that
don't i would say
don't do that don't go all out
play all out in the regular season
because
that doesn't tend to work out for mike
buldenholzer teams
he's done that in atlanta he didn't have
the horses
and they got overwhelmed by the
cavaliers they were the number one seed
lebron and the cavaliers just swept them
out of the playoffs
they did that last year and that was a
great achievement for them
i know they were interrupted by covid
they came back they were overwhelmed in
the playoffs by milwaukee i mean by
miami
that's not the point regular season is
not the point i think mike buttonholzer
is a great regular season coach but you
don't need to be a great regular season
coach
what you need to do is start to start to
make some moves
in the postseason in the last two post
seasons everybody is focused on giannis
and he's he bears some brunt of it but i
think the approach
the approach of the coaching staff has
to be tweaked
a little bit because they haven't seen
prepared for the postseason two years in
a row
i i hear you i hear you and i do think
that there are ways to approach the
regular season both from a coaching
uh and a personnel standpoint to better
prepare yourself i said did i say
approach to post season excuse me
approach the regular season
to better prepare yourself for the
postseason maybe pace yourself whatever
don't prioritize the regular season at
the expense of the postseason i hear you
no but i i think i think it could be i
think you can do both things i think you
can
have the best record be the best team
naturally
if that's where this starting lineup of
death that's a hell of a starting lineup
middleton middleton lopez giannis
drew holiday damn okay so
look they can have they could be the
best regular season team in the eastern
conference
and still get through in the playoffs to
the finals finally
because i don't know that it was so much
of a lack of adjustments
i just don't know if they had the pieces
like they do now i mean they went
these trades were strokes of genius
on the part of the bucks to be able to
get this kind of shooting
to complement the player that giannis is
there are no excuses so even if they do
go all out to have the best record in in
the uh
conference which which way there's value
to that though there's value there
because
if for some reason you get to the
conference finals and you are pushed to
a game seven
you know or before you want to have home
court i mean listen this year in a
bubble
throw out home court obviously you want
to have homecoming let's not act like
you don't want to go there again do you
no i don't but i'm saying let's not act
like it doesn't matter in a
well normal non-coveted want to have
home court advantage but i do understand
what you're saying
it's not the end-all be-all for them to
be the best regular season team but i
think they addressed their postseason
shortcomings
with the moves that they made last night
and potentially we'll make in the future
although it's gonna be hard or
challenging at least
to put depth around this lineup but if
they're healthy find me a better lineup
i mean you already got the conference
champions here
who do you see challenging them in the
eastern conference as presently
constituted
brooklyn well i'm sorry that's presently
constituted okay
but wait but that's why brooklyn's got
to make this move that's what i was
saying
earlier they got to get james harden now
because katie and kyrie
ain't enough to mess with the bucks
given what they just did
and i do have i do have a couple of
nagging questions about brooklyn that
aren't hating that aren't hating you're
going to think i'm hating
uh no cap ain't hating
i'm trying to get it i just don't like
it let's make it part of it
keep yeah i'm trying i just don't i
don't know if it works for us
i don't know if it works for two old i
don't know dudes and glasses
no it works for him it works for the
kids it doesn't work
because two old dudes and glasses in
their living rooms
in their living rooms because you know
because we sound like
we might we might as well have bluetooth
devices in our ear because we sound like
we're trying to be cool we start saying
no cap
like we're ruining it for the kids if we
start saying you go out tonight
when you go out tonight i want you to be
respectful of your curfew
11 o'clock no cap
it's awful this is awful but uh
talking about what are they talking
about you're about you about to
you about to uh you bought me all caps i
was gonna say on this there's something
there's something about hating there's
just there's some things
about brooklyn that i do have some
concerns about i'll talk about it later
but before i get there i want to say
miami serious contender we know that
jimmy butler and and jimmy butler and
friends because i think tyler hero's
going to improve
i think bam adebayo is still an
ascending player so there's a lot of
improvement there
and boston played miami in the
conference final
and this is why you use the phrase
stroke of genius
when you're talking about milwaukee
acquiring drew holiday you know who love
him some drew holiday danny kenny ainge
so what do they do now crying he was
trying to get drew holiday because
this is and it's it's amazing how a fit
it's all a fit you've
michael you're you're a boss you put
your you're not only a co-executive
producer but
away from here uh in your other
money-making ventures
i mean you're running companies right
you you know what it's like to build a
team
and sometimes you have the stars in
place
you already have a star in place but
then there's that piece
that just makes your team come together
and nobody is saying
this is a superstar but it's somebody in
your organization
that just glues everybody together and
makes it work
well drew would have been boston had had
acquired
jrue holiday and moved on
from kimball walker which was rumored so
you bring it in it was a representative
holiday
that danny ainge was trying to get
kendall walker up out of there to get a
pick
yeah to go to go get drunk trying to get
picks trying to get pics
it could because new orleans new orleans
general manager
david griffin the guy who gave him his
first shot
in the nba one of his major shots in the
nba was danny ainge danny ainge was in
phoenix
david griffin was a video coordinator
ange and griffin used to talk all the
time
and age would say this guy's a video
coordinator but he's one of the smartest
people in the organization so they kept
in touch so he's got a good relationship
with griffin and he knew what griffin
wanted maybe griffin probably told him
hey man
it's all good but i need those picks and
he couldn't get it
you imagine if you get an upgrade you
get a defensive upgrade and a play
making upgrade
if you have holiday over kemba walker
and then another rumor was
miles turner for gordon hayward who by
the end of this show is going to
announce whether he's opting in or
opting out
from the celtics so you improve at the
five you improve at the one
you're right there but now what they did
now you're looking at milwaukee
you're looking up in milwaukee and
probably brooklyn
yeah you're looking at milwaukee my i
still you're looking up at miami
milwaukee probably brooklyn and the
eastern conference contenders since
we're just talking about people that's
got to adjust
in this arms race daryl moore got to get
got to get on it
because you know philly
i mean i like i like philly did a lot to
upgrade their front office but but doc
we know doc can only do so much okay i i
love the doc rivers higher i love daryl
this is where daryl mori
has got to work some of that magic that
he worked in houston
uh you know to turn water into wine when
it comes to tinkering with the roster
and so i would love to see
brooklyn i've seen i'd love to see
philadelphia get aggressive
with ben's offer ben simmons for james
harden
you know like make houston take you
seriously
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