The Warriors
are your title favorite. You're betting favorites for next
season. The Celtics are second and your Brooklyn Nets are
our third rough series. Overall we've come a long way
feels like forever ago.
That we were bickering about the best player in the series
in general and the best player in the series so far. No, I'd
have my
Tatum win the opposite direction. He again that
conversation he did.
Or more specifically. He threw that conversation away.
Sorry. Sorry. I don't mean to pile on. That's good. I do not
mean to follow. But I mean, honestly talked about we talked
about how these guys are different. Don't say what they
can't do, you know, they use, they use criticism to fuel
them.
He on being a gymnast summer
and he's gonna be working on his passing in his playmaking.
I mean
emailed Oka, turned him in jail and brown for that matter and
some more of a playmaker this. He's yeah. And they
had ever been and they start measuring it. Still runs was
worth in that area.
Room for growth in that area. They couldn't do it. They
couldn't do it like, through 47 games. They were 23 and 24. You
guys noticed that you've heard it many times.
And part of it was they were,
they were trying to do what
email you do. Co wanted them to and it was a different way. It
was different way to play. It was a different different layer
different Channel and they just couldn't get there and it was
an evolution.
Jason Tate only got here. You think I'll be back?
I think. Do I think they'll be back?
Yeah, I think They'll be back, I do
Jason, Statham actually evolved
throughout the season and throughout this series.
So his turnovers everybody talks about the turnovers
set, a finals record for most turnovers.
Also in the playoffs,
it's said a postseason record for most turnovers like
a hundred turn over here.
So we finish this postseason
with the most turnovers,
the most points
and the most assist.
So we talked about the turnovers but the points and
assist
are there too, he played a lot of basketball, and the and give
the give the Warriors credit for some of his problems.
Some of his problems.
Some of his problems were
the Warriors just kind of hedging their bets. It's
an okay.
Yeah, Jason Tatum
they don't really have a true point guard,
you know, my all respect to Marcus Smart, they don't have a true
quarterback at point guard, maybe we Neither but we got
Steph, Curry Game Changer and we got Draymond
who's kind of like a point guard big man.
But the Celtics don't have anybody who just calm them down
so if they're going to put the ball in Tatum's hands. Yes we
know his assist have gone up
but he's not that guy and if we just crowd him who's going to
kill us?
Who's there. Klay Thompson.
Al Horford could get hot.
We can live with that.
Jalen Brown
good. Three-point shooter Grant Williams good. Three-point
shooter in the regular season. Not a factor in this. It Derek
White Streaky. So they really
they did a great job of saying 88mm, is going to be the center
of everything we do and we've got frustrate the hell out of
them and they did. So he took a lot of criticism some of its
deserved
but some of it is some of the criticism for Jason Statham is
really a criticism of the roster construction
of the Celtics or the lack of maturity. On the Celtics, they
didn't know what to do. Once their leader. Once their
leading scorer, kind of got put an idol,
they didn't know how to bail him out.
Okay, lack of maturity
like of
poor Rock.
That's not a poor rasa construction but just say
Personnel because I mean it's good enough roster that a lot
of people thought they were more talented than the Warriors
coming into this series or even going out of this series. They
were more talented team for whatever
that's worth. So I don't want to say they were poorly
constructed and it's not exported exploiting a flaw if
somebody lies so deposition see some of their deficits
that that came back to bite him in this matchup.
The thing I didn't hear you say
which a lot of people say don't
is calling calling Jason, Statham a ten-man data. I won't
go that I won't go there. See, I won't say that. He has no
heart, I'm not going there
because I think he I think he does have heart
and we talked we spent the last 30 minutes of my Magic Johnson
one that long ago. He was trying to Johnson. I know
I just saw like all
but it honestly, Michael, I don't let it fluster me or
frustrating
to me but it's a Rite of Passage. But don't let it get
to you do because all the great ones got to go through it.
That's right. All the great ones, your question Bobby, all
the great ones, Bobby, Blue Bland you got to go through it
to get to it. That's right. Come on
now that all the great ones dance for s***.
Michael Jordan you can get his but he can't make his teammates
better, you know, Kobe Bryant. I can't can't win. Without
Shaq, you know, just at Magic, tragic Johnson, all of them.
Step one here, definitely. For last night was still hearing
stuff from people you want
to You're a great stat. I just thought about this
was looking it up the other day and the last 30 years
and the last 30 years. So Jason Tatum is 24 years old
and a last 30 years
players who profile like Jason. Tatum lead dog on
a championship team. I'm saying it that way because there are
some you can you can look at this
stat pretty closely and you can say what about that guy? What
about that guy? But I'm saying lead, dog, the face of
a franchise on a championship Contender.
Only two guys in the Last 30 years.
How one have won championships
at the age of 24 are younger, but that profile. Tim Duncan.
Yeah.
And night lockout year, 1999,
he had David Robinson.
He was 22
and Dwyane. Wade. 2006. He was 24. Yeah, check. Yeah,
yeah, like no in 30 years, right. This is the League. This
is how it works. And shame on me
again for thinking, That. Hey,
we're Disney
for prize money. We can cut the line. The Fastpass. We're gonna
cut the
now. You ain't cutting the line.
Sit down there, get back there.
You got to go through this
kind of the bron James. Yeah, asking about 2011, Michael
didn't do it. Ask ask him to go. But in terms of like
the criticism of like oh you ain't got no heart. Oh you ain't
that. You ain't a dog.
Oh you ain't that guy, right? I mean or
hell. As he honest,
you know? I know y'all
don't like this.
But not just doing great what they heard on the way
they all were told that they what they never could be or
couldn't be or what, they weren't until they did it
all of them again, Steph
Steph. Just now shutting people up today
after all that he's done.
You always going to have people
that find ways to tear you down and and I used some of
the media
love you guys. They always the media. Is the media know, it'd
be random people. Anna mask people on Twitter,
ain't got s*** going for themselves.
I can't, hey, nothing, nothing their lives, they work. Sammy,
they worse than us,
you know, why they worse than us? Because they get to throw
stones and hide their hand. They ain't got there, I ain't
nobody ain't all YouTube or the internet or they nobody pulling
up there. Freezing, cold takes to say, oh, you remember when
you got no,
they ain't at the podium or their aunt. The Press covers
ain't got to let these deals in the face. They get to say hi
trash. They were and then went in Jersey when he won
the championship but I digress.
The only reason I hesitate to think of the Celtics are going
to get back
is because
and it goes to show you just how hard it is to do with what
LeBron did for a decade Street with the Warriors who doesn't
keep going. That's keep getting there. It's just, it's hard to
keep their right as you only get one chance at this.
It's sometimes you only get one shot. So don't miss your chance.
You know. Like sometimes you don't get a shot at all. It's
Jason. Statham better than Paul. George.
Yeah, I don't think so. You don't do they? No
I'm not. I
mean now I don't mean right now. I mean like Paul George at
his Peak at the peak of Paul George powers, like India,
Nepal. George I think story or even or even Clippers Paul
George that very at various. Yeah, I don't think so
I don't call Jordan Superior defensive player to Jason
Statham reeling
defensively. Mr. Inslee. I promised irritating mr.
Analytics. Haven't you studied the Ana? The analytics. A
different. Are you kidding me? Are you about to
Ash analytics and say
that they got it wrong.
Analytics bug, Jason Taylor this year.
This year. Yes. Paul George. And I'm talking about I'll do
my part
in the league. I'm not comparing this. You should have
been defeated in Indiana citizen to fit in here over
Marcus Smart
Way. No, I'm not even talk of the CO2,
that's my fault. It's my fault.
I asked for that
Paul. George never got past. LeBron is what I'm saying, right?
Okay, Paul George, George still ain't got to the finals. Who
stayed unbeaten? Got to the fire who's Tatum how to get by.
Yanis is yes daddy hat that he has an upset but that he has
it. He who
knows?
But he's gotten Bobby, did he has now? But it doesn't mean he
will for years to come. I would say, I buy my, the seven-game
series
with the reason I done.
Please don't laugh
but Durant's not done,
the Nets still exists. Okay,
so my point is, there are no guarantees that no, just
because
just because they're young
and talented and and have a bright future, Sure,
doesn't mean that things are going to break, right? I'm not
here to be a Debbie Downer doesn't mean things are going
to break, right? And if they're going to get pissed, just
because you're young with the hole with your whole career
here, can't say nothing that will
depress them more than
what they're already feeling today. After
being up at, it's one of
just and this is why
the posted one. This is why I got to remember that. Posted
that posted going forward, series Dynamics. Okay.
Today is Friday. Okay, today is Friday one week ago, Michael
Smith The one week ago,
the Boston Celtics
had a 2-1 lead on the
warrior week ago
with the ball and a five-point lead in five minutes to go and
game for
that was there that was their Peak
five minutes ago,
five-point lead, got the ball,
they lose the ball. Of course, there you go.
Let's keep that going,
they lose the ball,
they lose the lead,
they lose that game
and they never they didn't win again.
So didn't I? And again
yeah, it did not look like a kind of series
was somebody was go win. Three straight let alone three
straight three straight. Like I mean this all the things that
we thought going in during the series it's like,
and you know what, we'd be remiss. We talked about Clays
miraculous comeback. We talked about clay
and the competitor that he is probably.
I'm not saying he's the best. Number two,
In NBA history but he's the most ideal wingman. Like, is
there a better sidekick in terms of just like
understanding who you are?
Right, because they,
he's one of the greatest shows of all time in his own right
game. Six Clay is a thing
the performances that he's had and yet there is no
there he right. No books and doing no podcast 20 years from
now about y'all was so infatuated with Steph Curry
until I ain't get my just do clean doing that. Yeah that's
what I'm saying. Like
right way is It is incredible and everybody loves them some
clay. Holy Cannoli, what a story. What an inspirational
story?