Sixers Force Game 7, Knicks KO Hawks, Jaden McDaniels Cashes Every Check

Summary

No Dunks Podcast Summary

Episode: Sixers Force Game 7, Knicks KO Hawks, Jaden McDaniels Cashes Every Check
Date: May 1, 2026
Hosts: Jay Skeets, Tas Melis, T.R. “TK” Mayo, JD (Super Producer)

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Overview

In this episode of No Dunks, the crew dives into three huge NBA playoff stories:

1. The Philadelphia 76ers force a shocking Game 7 versus the Celtics.
2. The New York Knicks obliterate the Hawks and take control of the Eastern Conference narrative.
3. Jaden McDaniels leads a decimated Timberwolves squad to an upset of the reigning champion Nuggets.

Other topics include memorable quotes from the series, a skirmish in the Knicks-Hawks game, playoff underdog momentum shifts, worst-of-the-week nominees, and rapid-fire fun featuring everything from sick t-shirts to Kentucky Derby picks.

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Sixers Stun Celtics: Game 7 Bound

[02:51–19:22]

Key Discussion Points

• Tyrese Maxey’s Ascendance
  • Maxey drops 30 points, 5 assists; his relentless attack and versatility break Boston's defense.
  • “Tyrese Maxey, the stirrer of the drink… He just goes, goes, goes, goes, goes.” – TK [03:29]
  • Philly exploiting Boston’s defensive drop coverage and Maxey’s shooting/movement.
• Paul George Steps Up
  • Outplays Tatum and Brown on both ends; five threes in Game 6.
  • “He did look the part of a max player that they gave him that $200 million deal.” – Skeets [11:18]
• Philly’s Defensive Adjustments
  • Perimeter defenders like Kelly Oubre, VJ Edgecombe chip in, especially on Jaylen Brown. Celtics held to under 30% from three in losses.
  • “In isolation, they’re doing a great job...nurse’s plan of forcing them inside as much as possible.” – Skeets [06:13]
• Celtics Offensive Struggles
  • Boston flounders when three-point shots don't fall; “Every Celtics loss definitely feels the same.” – TK [07:14]
  • Jayson Tatum’s late benching for apparent calf tightness, but expected to play Game 7.
• Game 7 Outlook
  • Hosts debate the favorite; Celtics have home court, but Sixers have momentum.
  • “It's Maxi’s time…I'm going with the Sixers.” – TK [14:35]
  • “If I’m picking a team I’m still taking the Celtics at home.” – Tas [14:11]

Notable Quote

“It’s wild to think, yeah, he got to take the drugs for like two thirds of the season and then he got to rest for the last third of the season. It’s perfect.”
– TK (about Paul George’s suspension and playoff return) [11:20]

Memorable Moments

• Philly crowds with sarcastic “We Want Boston!” chants [12:16]
• Joel Embiid’s wild celebrations: Val Venis moves, push-ups after dodging a body [16:26]

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Knicks Humiliate Hawks; Are Now "Team to Beat" in the East

[22:07–38:10]

Key Discussion Points

• Historic Blowout
  • Knicks lead by as much as 61; “Knicks go on a 14-0 run...90 run…16-0 run...another 10-0...get to 72-22.” – Skeets [22:40]
  • “Wait a second, it’s 36-15. That’s not a good start...then you play one 7-minute (pickup) game and it was like 55-7.” – TK [23:52]
• OG Anunoby’s Stardom
  • Dominant two-way play all series; 61% FG, 57% 3P in the series.
  • “If you had to pick one of the Knicks players to give the first star to...this guy is on another level right now.” – Skeets [24:12]
• New Knicks Offense
  • Mike Brown’s scheme: Towns at top as a passer, cutting offense triggers huge runs.
• Skirmish: Dyson Daniels vs. Mitchell Robinson
  • Ejections after near-brawl; both players go into stands.
  • “That was the ideal way to fight in the playoffs...super confident...that trickles down to everyone else.” – Tas [27:14]
  • Hosts agree Robinson shouldn't be suspended for Game 1.
• Knicks as Finals Favorite
  • Least injured and with best continuity.
  • “Absolute disappointment if they do NOT go to the Eastern Conference...finals. This is theirs for the taking.” – Skeets [28:57]
• Eastern Conference Landscape
  • Celtics vulnerable, Pistons struggling, Cavs not dominant.
  • “These first two weeks couldn’t have worked out better for them in the postseason.” – Tas [30:35]
  • Consequences for Knicks if they don’t reach finals: “I’m convinced if they don’t get to the finals, they definitely tear it down.” – Tas [32:22]

Notable Quote

“The swag surf… they were down like 50 and you’re trying to get the crowd to do the swag surf. Oh my god, that’s so sad.”
– Skeets [35:45]

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Wolves Eliminate Nuggets: Jaden McDaniels Cashes EVERY Check

[41:02–52:16]

Key Discussion Points

• Jaden McDaniels’ Breakout
  • 32 points/10+ rebounds, clamps Jamal Murray all series.
  • “Jaden McDaniels was awesome… had Jamal Murray in jail...and that was maybe the second-best side of the ball for Jaden.” – TK [42:04]
• Shorthanded Timberwolves Rally
  • Missing main guards (Ant, Dosunmu, DiVincenzo), Wolves still dominate.
  • Wolves out-rebound, out-hustle Nuggets – 94 shots to Denver’s 74.
• Defensive Masterclass
  • Wolves hold the league’s best offense under 100 three times.
  • “Timberwolves defense: McDaniels and Rudy Gobert absolutely disrupt the Nuggets’ rhythm, especially Murray and Jokic.” – Skeets [46:04]
• Rudy Gobert’s Crowning Moment?
  • “Frame this series... This is Rudy Gobert’s crowning achievement... he took Jokic out of the game.” – TK [47:17]
  • Offense: 10 pts, 13 reb, 8 ast (nearly “mini Jokic”) [48:41]
• Denver’s Offseason Questions
  • Jokic: “We’re far away from contention.” [46:22]
  • Likely moves: Aaron Gordon a potential trade piece; roster questions linger.
• Minnesota’s Next Test
  • Spurs and Wemby’s defense loom; Wolves embrace underdog role.

Notable Quote

“The Nuggets were the best offense in the league, let’s not forget, all season long. And they were held to under 100 points three times in this series. That is unbelievable.”
– Skeets [44:43]

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Fun Segments and Offbeat Moments

Notable Tangents and Rapid Fire

[61:02–98:56]

• “Worst of the Week” Nominees:

  • Vijay Edgecombe not winking at the camera [61:02].
  • Blazers’ new owner Tom Dundon's cost-cutting and disrespecting coach Tiago Splitter [66:14].
  • Fans complaining about podcast ads – “36 ads in a free show” [72:47].
  • Frank Isola dissing Kenny Beecham on radio [76:44].

• Popcorn Bucket, Shirt, & Kentucky Derby Questions:

  • JD’s “surrender the booty” pirate shirt [87:48].
  • Popcorn bucket wish list: Mandalorian helmet, bowling ball (Big Lebowski tribute), a purse (Devil Wears Prada 2 tie-in) [89:03].
  • Kentucky Derby picks: Chief Wallaby, So Happy, Renegade [93:45].

• Silly Baseball Mascot Race Conversation

  • Extended riff on Braves’ “The Freeze” race and MLB mascot races [63:07].

• Knicks vs. Celtics/Sixers Preview

  • Who would be favored, can anyone stop OG Anunoby? [34:10–35:31]

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Most Memorable Quotes

• “He did look the part of a max player... you start to wonder if the 25 game suspension for flunking the drug test was the best thing to ever happen to Paul George and the Sixers this year.” – Skeets [11:18]
• “Absolute disappointment if [the Knicks] do not go to the Eastern Conference Finals… This is theirs for the taking.” – Skeets [28:57]
• “Frame this series… This is Rudy Gobert’s crowning achievement. He took Jokic out of the game.” – TK [47:17]
• “The horses don’t matter. It’s the jockeys.” – Skeets, joking on Derby picks [95:59]
• “The best ability is availability... for horses, too.” – Tas [96:19]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [02:51] — Sixers force Game 7 vs Celtics; in-depth analysis
• [22:07] — Knicks obliterate Hawks, spark playoff optimism for NY
• [27:02] — Daniels-Robinson brawl; playoff suspensions discussed
• [41:02] — Wolves upset Nuggets on Jaden McDaniels’ heroics
• [61:02] — Worst of the Week: Edgecombe/camera, Blazers cost-cutting, fan ad complaints
• [85:13] — Rapid fire: suckiest shirts, popcorn bucket ideas, Kentucky Derby picks

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Tone & Style

• Conversational, loose, and rapid-fire – the hosts riff off each other and freely jump into playful tangents.
• Plenty of NBA “sickos” deep-dive: details on offensive schemes, role players’ value (Kelly Oubre, OG Anunoby, TJ Shannon Jr.), and crowd atmosphere.
• Frequent jokes, banter, and cultural references (sketchers shoes, Major League movie, Survivor show tie-ins).
• A sense of community with listeners—acknowledging YouTube comments, Substack shout-outs, and listener sponsorship.

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Closing

The No Dunks crew gave fast-paced, in-depth, and humorous analysis of the NBA playoffs' biggest swings and stories. From Philly’s resurgence, the Knicks' historic beatdown, to a Cinderella Wolves run, the episode captures the energy and unpredictability of the 2026 postseason, while also keeping things light with classic No Dunks nonsense.

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[Jay Skeets]

Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the no Dunks podcast presented by FanDuel. It's Friday, May 1, 2026. This is the Drop. I'm Jay Skeets here in the classic factory and alongside me as always, Tas Millis.

[Tas Millis]

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[Jay Skeets]

my top shot hot boy, T.R.

[T.R. Mayo]

kirby Mayo.

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Mayo. And over yonder, making the magic happen, super producer jd.

[Tas Millis]

Hello.

[Jay Skeets]

There he is. Here we are. Hello to everybody on YouTube. Hit the like button. Subscribe podcast listeners. Five star ratings and reviews on today's drop. We got some worst of the week nominees.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, we got some Goodies.

[Jay Skeets]

We got wo boy of the night. We got some rapid fire fun. But first JD Hit the clip.

[Tas Millis]

We going to game seven, baby.

[Jay Skeets]

Game seven. Game seven. That's right. We got at least one Game seven after the Sixers led by Tyrese Maxey. Good game from Paul George. Joel Embiid as well. They get the Game 6 win and they force Game 7 versus the Boston Celtics in a 27 matchup.

[Tas Millis]

Respect.

[Jay Skeets]

Wasn't long ago that we thought the influence was a wrap when The Boston went up 3:1. But here we go. They win the last two and we have a game seven. Let's break it down. Takeaways from a very strong game six performance from Philly.

[T.R. Mayo]

Where to start?

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

Tyrese Maxey, the stirrer of the drink. Yeah, I think he's got to be the man. 30 points last night. Five assists as well. He's just able to do everything against this Celtics team. He's such a tough player for them to guard because they love the deep drop. So when he's handling the ball with Embiid, the pull up jumper is going to be there. But when Embiid has the ball and maybe he draws a double team max, he's a really good off ball player. He can just space to the corner. You got to worry about him as a three point shooter. That gives Paul George a little bit more room to operate as well. The quick guards can give the Celtics problems. They don't have like a necess, like a, like a speedster, I don't think. Definitely not on Maxi's level. And the guy just goes, goes, goes, goes, goes. He's got tricky finishes inside. He's got pull up threes. He's got catch and shoot threes. He's got a floater in the mid range. He was driving for the Sixers. I thought last night you throw it in the Embiid factor. He really gives the Celtics center some problems. I think they're finding out that the kata vuch Garza platter isn't as appetizing during the postseason and playoff p has showed up and played awesome in this series. He outplayed two all NBA guys in Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown last night. So crazy that the Sixers have been able to flip this. Bringing Embiid back and having him look terrible in that game for apparently the smartest thing they could have done. Get all the rust off you right now. We're going to go forward with a team. They seem to have all of the momentum here.

[Tas Millis]

Right.

[T.R. Mayo]

And they seem to understand the way they want to attack the Celtics more than the Celtics understand how they want to attack the Sixers.

[Tas Millis]

And the Sixers defense really stood out to me. Paul George was so good, I was calling him Pauly D in this one because across the board, every single player on there, especially the wings, going from sideline to sideline, covering everything, whether it was Kelly Oubre doing a really good job on Jaylen Brown or VJ Edgecomb coming to chip in, or Paul George or Justin Edwards off the bench, I thought they were just so good. And so Tyrese Maxey, when he was lined up even. Even his size, I think everybody was covering so much space, and he didn't have to go out and do everything offensively because how much Everybody contributed offensively. A five starter scoring 14 points. I don't think he wasted a lot of energy on. On the offensive end where he was trying new things as well. I know Nick Nurse was getting him to either either flip that screen for him or just go away for the screen. So he wasn't just dropping into a deep three. He was feeling it out. But I thought the defense doing so well behind him got him going just everywhere, everywhere. So I didn't know where to start in this game. I just thought that that effort. They look like, as you said, they've got the momentum going to Game seven. I wouldn't be surprised if they could do it in Boston.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, maybe. They seem to have found a formula for success against them, like you guys are going through here. More shots, fewer turnovers, take care of the glass. That's a huge part. I think the Celtics had one offensive rebound through the first half of this game. That's huge. And they're just doing a tremendous job. Philly is, as you guys are noting here on the Jays on Tatum and Brown, you know, the. In isolation, doing a great job and nurses plan of forcing them inside as much as possible and take away all the shooters or stay attached to the shooters, at least out there, as much as you can to reduce how many they get up. And obviously don't give them clean looks here like the numbers are pretty wild when it comes to the three games Boston has won, they shoot well from three in the three games they've lost. Now they're shooting under 30% from three. There's been a trend from Missoula Ball in the postseason. It really has. When they shoot above 40% from 3, they basically win. And when they don't and they struggle, it's more of like a 50, 50 club, if not obviously worse when they're

[Tas Millis]

like sub 30% and they're reducing the number of threes. Big part of it that the Celtics are sh.

[Jay Skeets]

That's the formula. It's working right now.

[Tas Millis]

Get him off the line.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah, every Celtics loss definitely feels the same. It's like, yeah, if you make shots, you're probably going to win. But I credit the Sixers a lot and I think Embiid is a huge factor here. Like, it's a no fly zone inside right now for the Celtics. They're not getting layups either. So the defenders on the perimeter are able to stay attached to Tatum, to Brown, to Pritchard, to White. They're not getting as good a looks as they got during the regular season as they got during the first half of this series as well. And like, that's kind of an indictment, I think on the Celtics, just get Embiid moving, get him moving side to side, like involve him in more and more actions. Maybe they don't want to do that because then it's like, okay, we're putting Keita or Vuch into the play when we could have other guys handling the ball. But they got to get that guy moving because he's not good side to side, but he's humongous. He takes up a ton of space inside. So Celtics aren't able to score in the interior and it leads to kind of one on one chucking on the outside. And you got to give credit to all of the wing defenders for the Sixers, like Kelly Oubre, I think, has been really, really great, especially last night. He's got two face hair, red on one side, black on the other. He is a two faced player, but when he's good, he's pretty good. Yeah, the defense on Jaylen Brown was solid. Like Jaylen Brown. He's got a little bit of length on Jaylen Brown and he's got enough strength that Brown can't like bump him off and shoot over the top. I think Brown's kind of just struggling from the mid range as well, but Kelly's making it tough.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, I don't know if this is something to worry about on the Celtics side, but Jalen Brow doesn't feel like he's getting the shots that he wants. He said quote after game, I think we're playing into their hands a little bit. I definitely think even myself, the type of shots, the type of things they want us to do, that's not what we've been doing all year. I, I, I don't know if that's the case, really. It's him not getting to his spots. Kelly Bray doing a really good job. Even when Tyrese Maxey, a matchup that Jalen Brown clearly wants, he was doing a good job of bodying him as much as possible to push him out as much as possible. So they're doing a great job of everything and reducing, yeah, the three point shots, the rebound, grabbing more than half the rebounds. They've done that for two games in a row as they've won both games and reducing the number of threes that the Celtics are taking in general just because their defense is flying around. In game five, it was just 44% of their shots were coming from three. Went up a little bit in game six, but well under 50% in game four when they were splashing, it was 61%. So that's. It's a credit to all their guys. All their guys contributing everywhere. Like Embiid said after the game, they got great players. We all got to contribute, basically saying, you know, anointing Tatum and Brown and so Embiid was working his ass off defensively, and I thought it was different for him at the beginning of the game. Offensively, they just weren't going to him. And I think that proved to be a good sign. I think they should go to Keita more on for the Celtics to try and get some fouls.

[T.R. Mayo]

Every time that Embiid touches the ball is the problem.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

Foul festival.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, but get some dunks for him. I, I would say, but either way to get him be moving as much as possible, because that's what I expected in this game, to see him move laterally more and more. But he did his. He. He did his job.

[Jay Skeets]

There's no doubt Kelly O' Brie Jr. Probably involved in the play of the game too, when he had the block on Jalen Brown. And then I guess it was Maxi scooped it up, threw it to Paul George, who in one clean motion threw the behind the back dime to VJ Edgecomb for the dunk. And the place was going nuts.

[T.R. Mayo]

I guess it was after Embiid found it behind the backgrave behind the back as well. The Showtime Sixers came out.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, back to back possessions immediately after that. So what a stretch there. And that got the lead up to 15 after the VJ dunk. And then they held on. I mean, it got. It got a little dicey for a second when Missoula sort of waved the white flag pretty early in the fourth quarter. They're down big and goes to the bench unit. And they ripped off like a 100110 run. Suddenly it's like it's a game again. But Philly sort of obviously took control in the end and force a game seven. Paul George, just back to him. Huge game six. He did look the part of a max player that they gave him that $200 million deal. You start to wonder if the 25 game suspension for flunking the drug test was the best thing to ever happen to Paul George and the Sixers this year.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah, easily.

[Jay Skeets]

It's wild to think, yeah, he got

[T.R. Mayo]

to take the drugs for like two thirds of the season and then he got to rest for the last third of the season. It's perfect.

[Jay Skeets]

And he was huge. Eight of 17, five threes, and he's 19 of 35 from beyond the arc here over this last little stretch. So on fire there. And at times has definitely outplayed or at least played to the same abilities of your all Stars. All NBA guys. Like you said. Trey in Tater Brown, you're getting this from PG right now.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, everywhere. Beyond the arc, too. Doing a good job of using that slide step. When they come at him and they close out on him to get to the corners. He is peak Paul right now.

[T.R. Mayo]

I mean, yeah, Playoff Pete dead.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, they keep on going to the playoff Pete. I mean, they keep saying it on the broadcast. Number one. He's not a number one guy anymore.

[Jay Skeets]

Right.

[Tas Millis]

I kind of find it a little. A little bit of a stretch.

[T.R. Mayo]

That was playoff P last night.

[Tas Millis]

She was damn good.

[T.R. Mayo]

It was awesome.

[Tas Millis]

He was on both sides, man.

[Jay Skeets]

What else from this one and this? Obviously, game seven on the weekend, I guess. Saturday night they go game seven in Boston. Now you sort of like maybe got us here, TK because you're like, oh, boy, this would be classic Sixers. You know, either they lose game six after fighting back, which they don't. And Maxi backed up his talk. Remember I said this guy, he really wanted to win one for the Philly crowd there. And they. They got the chance going again, sort of the sarcastic, you know, we want Boston chance. But then you're like, well, if they win game six, what would be the worst thing for the Sixers? Well, just to get blown out into Game 7 in Boston. Still in play, of course.

[T.R. Mayo]

Certainly possible.

[Jay Skeets]

But they're playing so much better than they had at the start of the series.

[T.R. Mayo]

They've got all the momentum. Like I said earlier, there's, I guess like a minor question about Jayson Tatum. He got pulled with four minutes left in the third quarter. Game got out of hand. All the starters were pulled, so he never came back. But apparently he's dealing with a left calf something or another. Some sort of tightness, some sort of stiffness. Would you rather your calf be stiff or tight?

[Tas Millis]

Wow. Stiff. I think I feel, mentally, I feel like I could loosen that up. Yeah, I sort of agree type tight. Sounds like more. More of the calf strains that are going around the league. Yeah, like they could last for a while.

[Jay Skeets]

I think he's playing and by all accounts, the stuff they were saying after the game is like.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah, he was downplaying it for sure.

[Tas Millis]

This is non Achilles leg if that

[T.R. Mayo]

means non Achilles leg. I mean, you gotta look at the way the Sixers got, I think six points from their bench last night. Their guys could maybe go 48 minutes. And I'm also questioning a lot of the bench guys for the Celtics at this point. Like, we probably don't need to see Vuch again.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, man. I mean, Maxi will be upset because every time he sees Vucci. Oh, that's a bucket.

[T.R. Mayo]

But they don't have good options. It doesn't feel like right now. So it definitely feels like a toss up to me.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, same, same. As far as Vucc goes, Drummondale played him in this game. They're absolutely rolling into game seven. But you know, if I'm picking a team, I'm still taking the Celtics at home.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, wow. Okay.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, if you have to pick one. But yeah, it is a coin flip.

[Jay Skeets]

Sure enough. Do we even know the time yet for this game on Saturday?

[T.R. Mayo]

I think it's 7:30.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay. That one's locked in. I guess they were still waiting at the time of the game ending the TBD at first, but they said 7:30.

[T.R. Mayo]

Okay for now.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, it makes sense. It would be one of the earlier ones on Saturday.

[T.R. Mayo]

I think it should favor the Celtics. Like they're due for a bounce back. Good offensive performance, but I'm going with the Sixers.

[Jay Skeets]

Wow.

[T.R. Mayo]

It's Maxi's time.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah, I like it. I don't know. This is a tough one. I need the Mr. Beast coin flip here. No, I need a. I need a Mr. Beast logo on one side and the torches on the other. I don't know. I don't know.

[Tas Millis]

I mean, there.

[Jay Skeets]

I think I'm cheering for Philly though.

[Tas Millis]

You're right.

[Jay Skeets]

Like, I sort of like it. I mean, this is Bead coming back here and shaking off the Russ and Paul George. Obviously going back to looking a little bit more like Paul George when He took on LeBron way back in the day, like decade ago. Maxi a superstar. Yeah.

[Tas Millis]

I mean, it's been a while.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Pretty fun here.

[Tas Millis]

Who outside of Boston fans is cheering for Boston? Yeah, it feels like the underdog here. Yeah, I would be. I'm definitely on their side. I'm sure the Celtics are sort of thinking what you said Tyrese Maxey was thinking going back to Philly in Game 6. Hey, we haven't played a good game in a while, and they did win in Boston, but, you know, we lost game two, we lost game five, so here we are, baby. We got to play better. Those guys, I think will definitely put. I mean, the same houser, missed shots, everything. They're just. Philly is doing an incredible job of getting into everybody there.

[Jay Skeets]

I no doubt believe Tatum and Brown are going to bring a better effort in, in game seven, but I feel like they're going to need somebody else to. To join the club there. And I have very little confidence right now in a lot of these other guys, be it White. You know, even Pritchard is really struggling. He had. He's had a game or two here in the series, but not really. Who's coming along for the ride with those guys. They're going to. They're going to apply their force to game seven. They have before. They've been through a million of these. But yeah, scared about the big speed. You know, Kiss just foul. Trouble with Embiid. Vuch gets lit up. So where do you go? Do you go. I mean, it sounds insane taking on an Embiid Sixers team, but like going more Tatum 5 and try and just outsplash them like that.

[Tas Millis]

More Shiremen even, just to go smaller, just to get him. But he is a very.

[T.R. Mayo]

See what Maz does make him work, I guess. You know, the defense would be Embiid having to chase everybody around on the offensive end. That's how you defend against Embiid. Speaking of Embiid, he got an and one in the first quarter on Keda. And then I think he hit a Val Venus. He was doing this like to the bench and all. The bench was going with the arms up as well.

[Tas Millis]

Wow.

[Jay Skeets]

And he's so. He's moved from the DX chop to the Val Venus.

[T.R. Mayo]

You can't chop, but you can still show off your crotch.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Tas Millis]

It was all.

[Jay Skeets]

Also, we got to see him bust out the push ups. At one point after he like, he dodged a falling body that was like, you know, coming his way. He jumped over it, but right into. Right into some push ups. I Thought good form tests.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Nice for a big guy like him.

[Tas Millis]

Great form, nice tucked elbows. I didn't notice that. I. That wasn't the time where he fell and we could see his sketchers, was it? Because that's what I started Googling back to the sketchers. NBA players were in Skechers og Anunoby sketchers.

[T.R. Mayo]

He's a sketcher.

[Tas Millis]

They're nice. They're the nicest ones of all of them.

[Jay Skeets]

Sure.

[Tas Millis]

Wow. Sorry.

[T.R. Mayo]

Are they relaxed fit? That was always the funniest thing to me. How can you make a relaxed fit shoe?

[Tas Millis]

Those are like as the slip on ones, not the basketball.

[T.R. Mayo]

Those ones are tight. But I know Mark Cuban used to wear relaxed fit Skechers.

[Tas Millis]

That is hilarious. A middle aged man walk. Walking around shoe that you never have to tie. It's a slip on.

[Jay Skeets]

My mom could not stop talking about how great Skechers were these not these slip in sketches.

[Tas Millis]

Oh really?

[Jay Skeets]

Oh my God. She just got a pair. Loves them. Loves them. She mentioned them like eight times. She was here. She was here for a week.

[T.R. Mayo]

Check the sketch.

[Tas Millis]

People like just slipping on a shoe. It is. You know, it's weird. It's. It's kind of like veering into a. A new balance basketball shoe world. The Skechers basketball shoe world. It's.

[T.R. Mayo]

It's weird.

[Tas Millis]

But the OJN and OBI Wan, the RFKX rain.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh my God. You really were doing research last year.

[Tas Millis]

That's the only range. That's the only one.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, they're working for him, that's for sure.

[T.R. Mayo]

I mean, pretty solid games for all the sketcher boys. Julius Randall's a sketcher guy as well.

[Tas Millis]

Oh yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

They got the win. Yeah, they got the win. Yeah.

[Tas Millis]

Oh, wow. So yeah, didn't hate him. I am, I am interested to see how small Joe Missoula does go against the. The Embiid lineups because there are. They're already grabbing more than half the rebounds, so why not? Yeah, I mean it sounds a little crazy, but they do need to get more threes up and want to get more threes up and get those guys, the Shireman's, the Housers, the Pritchards into their role.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, that's. I mean it feels like at this point of the series it is on Missoula and the Celtics. They need to adapt here and need to try something else. Unless they just keep going. It's okay, we'll hit threes. But you're being run off the line and they are taking them away. Part of nurse's game plan. And it is working here, the last little bit. So, yeah, let's see what he does here in Game seven, if anything. Any other notes? Any other random notes? Nope. All right, that's it for me. Game seven, baby. Nice to have a Zaza clip here, big time.

[Tas Millis]

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[Jay Skeets]

Knicks beating the Hawks. Saddest caca of all time. Wow, this was wild. The Knicks finished off the Hawks a record performance in Game 6 last night. It was 40 to 15 after the first quarter. That included a 9, 0 Atlanta run in the early minutes of the game. They had the lead where the place was buzzing, the fortress was hot there for three or four minutes and then it was over. Ziller noted this in his newsletter this morning. I have to share it with you. The TikTok of the first half. It's just wild Hawks. Like I said, they're up 11, 9 four minutes into the game.

[T.R. Mayo]

Feeling good.

[Jay Skeets]

Knicks go on a 140 run. Okay, a lot of those were turnovers in transition. Atlanta scored a bucket. New York goes on a 90 run. Atlanta scores a bucket. New York goes on a 16 to 0 run. Atlanta hit attack and a three. New York goes on a 12 oh run. Atlanta hit a three. New York goes on another 100 run. That's how we get to 72, 22. When you add it all up at that point, the worst thing Atlanta could do in this game was score because it was then giving up a 10 plus oh run. Yeah, stop scoring. Crazy. Crazy. They led by as many 61 points. So I don't know what takeaways you have from this one, Trey, but we had some great performances from a lot of Knicks guys. Of course.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah, I mean, I don't have a lot of takeaways about the game. It wasn't much of a game. Like I saw some of the write ups saying that the Knicks went on a 60 to an 11 run. You're not supposed to be able to put that big of a number into a run. Like 30 is ridiculous in these magic games. And we're talking like a 30 to 1 run, right? 33 to 260 is an entire half of basketball. And you know, Skeets, we were playing pickup last night. This game was over by our third pickup game. Yeah. And we start at seven.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, it was.

[T.R. Mayo]

Wait a second, it's 36 to 15. That's not a good start. Maybe, maybe things will turn around here. The second quarter and then you play one seven minute game and it was like 55 to 7.

[Jay Skeets]

I was gonna say that was my favorite part. You would go play one 7 minute pickup game and every time you came back somebody was going, you're not gonna believe the score now. What? Hold on. What?

[T.R. Mayo]

That was crazy.

[Jay Skeets]

So it made for a fun watch going home knowing. Okay, well I'm not watching all the entirety of this one, but let's watch what happens here in the first quarter. And again started great for Atlanta and then just got a control. But OG Anunoby, I thought was this like if you had to pick one of the Knicks players to give like the first star to him for this game and all series. This guy is on another level right now as a two way player. Yeah, superstar.

[Tas Millis]

And I think it starts from the Mike Brown change of putting Cat up top. Being that passer. He is a pillar. Just standing and passing over everybody. 3 assists to OG Anunobi in this one because everybody's cutting, everybody's moving. Mikel Bridges had a good game.

[Jay Skeets]

He sure did. Well, I was wondering did he know he was drafted in the first round of the most disappointing players in the playoffs so far.

[Tas Millis]

But it's contagious to start cutting around Cat and OG OG was hitting shots that OG shouldn't even be taken. You know, the one off one leg just letting her fly. But everybody moving around him, you know, after it was. It was game four where we started to have Cat up top. He had six assists OG in that game. He's at 10, six and 10 the last three games. So those guys, mainly OG and Mikel Bridges, obviously Josh Hart's gonna move. They're all moving. So they're. This is an all. It's a different offense watching this thing happen. They get to rest for whoever they play in round two. So they're gonna go back to that and they're gonna be fresh cutting around Cat.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah, it's Mike Brown just keeping that in his pocket the entire season. Cause there were so many question the entire year of the Knicks, like why can't they get Towns involved in these plays? Why can't they let him create some kind of stuff? You flashback to the way Mike Brown's teams played in Sacramento. That's the Monte Sabonis basketball. Catch the ball at the elbow or maybe at the top of the key find cutters. You're drawing out the smallest big man in the playoffs in on Yaka Kongwu. So there's nobody left there. And once they did that, it was just like back cut Central for OG and Anobi. He shot 61% this series and 57% from three.

[Jay Skeets]

Man. Man was dominated and was awesome on the other side of the ball where he's one of the elite defenders in this Game on the perimeter. So great, great stuff from him. Five minutes remaining in the first half. OG actually at the free throw line. Dyson Daniels, Mitchell Robinson get locked up, tangled up. Dyson Daniels throwing a bow underneath the sort of the armpit there to Mitch Robinson sort of yanking back. And all hell broke loose after that. Those two really wanted at each other. Fight spilled over sort of into the front row. Both guys ejected. You know, look, Daniel's. You can understand why he was frustrated. Your team is literally getting waxed by 50s. Like, I don't want to play in this anymore, so I'll start some here. But Mitchell Rumsey was fired up. You don't see him like that, where he was trying to get back at him.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Sort of had stopped and then they both sort of tried to go at each other again.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. And Mike Breen on the call who calls Nick's games said, whoa, having been with this guy all season, I never see him do this kind of thing.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Millis]

But I think that's the ideal way to fight in the playoffs. I mean, he literally didn't raise his arms. He just went at Dyson Daniels with his huge body, not worried about anything being thrown at his face. He's just super confident. So that's the way to fight. And that confident obviously trickles down to everybody else. Like they're just super confident. And I think that's how you. How you scrap. Although Dyson Daniels was a bad game. They all had bad games.

[Jay Skeets]

Geez, who had a good game?

[T.R. Mayo]

Nobody had. Nobody had a good game.

[Tas Millis]

Nobody had a good game. But Dyson got blocked once by Cat inside. Then he went to his three point shooting. His only take or his only shot attempt inside was that one where he was blocked. So just one two point shot in this one. The rest in three point land where he doesn't shoot all that well. So just a bad game for him. And to kill Alexander Walker. What a night to get the most improved player trophy handed to you pre game. And then having more turnover than buckets.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, that's the Knicks defense, the active hands, man, they felt like especially of course, in the first half of this game. First quarter felt like a steal. Every second possession was a steal, like poked away and then they're going the other way and scoring. So it got out of hand in a hurry. I saw the Athletic had a headline this morning that asks, is the Eastern Conference the Knicks to lose? That feels like, yeah, right at this point. Right. Because of what's going on in the rest of the conference. Sixers are back in their series. I mean the Celtics have blown a 31 lead. Now need a game 7 to even advance if they can. Sixers are better with Embiid if they get the upset, but we. It's tough to trust the health of that squad moving forward. Always is with Embiid. Top seeded Pistons, they got to win two more here still to get past the Magic and the Cavs and Raptor. I mean Cavs have not looked dominant against the Raptors. Raptors scrappy bunch, but obviously, you know, not exceptionally talented on the offense. And so yeah, like to me this is like an absolute disappointment for the Knicks if they do not go to the Eastern Conference, excuse me, to the finals. This is theirs for the taking. Has to be.

[T.R. Mayo]

It's definitely, it's definitely theirs for the taking. They are the team that has had like the least changeover at all this year, right? I guess the Pistons. The Pistons had a lot of changeover. They had an awesome season, but they're struggling right now. The Celtics had to deal with three starters going out. Luke Cornett going out, Tatum coming back late. The Cavs made a huge trade bringing in James Harden, not to mention the Schroeder and Ellis trades as well. The Knicks basically ran things back. They added Jose Alvarado. He's been solid for them in a couple of spot minutes here. So they've got the continuity. They went to the conference finals last year and fired their coaches that we need to make the finals. I was surprised. FanDuel has them third in the east right now. Celtics plus 185, Cavs 260, Knicks 280. So I mean basically the. The same as the Cavs.

[Jay Skeets]

Wow. Yeah, that is a little surprised. Shocking.

[T.R. Mayo]

They dominated this series like the Hawks. Credit to them. They won the two games that they needed to win. Of course, the ones that were close. But that was the Knicks blowing a lead and the Knicks almost coming back and stealing game four. What was that game three as well? The other ones were. I mean what is the point differential in this series ends up? I'm sure they're plus 100, so.

[Jay Skeets]

Plus 105 or something.

[T.R. Mayo]

Exactly.

[Jay Skeets]

Stupid. I think it's a record for a six game series.

[T.R. Mayo]

So they, they botched two games.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

And so, you know, if you're, if you're a Knicks fan, you're saying we went 6, 0 this series. I guess I do think they probably have looked the best in the east. But their losses looked ugly and stupid too.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. They are the favorite to get to the NBA Finals and this first Two weeks couldn't have worked out better for them in the postseason because Detroit goes down 31 in their series now still have to get there. And Boston also didn't take care of business. They lost game two. It seemed like, okay, they got this thing. They're up 3:1 in that series. Still haven't done it. So they were the favorite in my eyes to come out. Yeah, the Pistons should have been up there as well, but now they're not. So, yeah, these first two weeks have worked out perfectly for a Knicks team that expects in their locker room to get to the NBA Finals. Their owner expects them to get to the NBA Finals or else they're going to tear it down. So this has worked out perfectly. They are the favorite, I think, at this point right here, right now. I mean, when they get to the play, the Celtics, if it ends up being the Celtics, wouldn't be surprising to see the Celtics beat them. But they are playing their best ball, and the other top two teams ahead of them have not played their best ball.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. James Edwards III wrote, we're at a point where it feels as if New York is its own worst enemy. And even that logic is starting to feel shaky. The individual talent has always been there, but now it's starting to look like a team, a real team here. And Mike Brown is definitely, as we talked about with the offense, thinking a lot more cohesive and using Cat a lot more and getting him involved. And then, like, we didn't even mention Brunson, who had a pretty damn good series overall as well. But you always got the rock in him to get you across the finish line if you need that. So, yeah, to me, absolute failure if they do not get there at this point with how they look compared to all the other teams. And like, yeah, you might say, well, the Hawks are not that great. Yeah, I had the Knicks winning in five. They should have, in my opinion, at least one of those two games at the end that they lost by one point. But all these other teams look, you know, beatable. And right now, with the way the Knicks are playing as a team, holy crap.

[Tas Millis]

I'm convinced if they don't get to the Finals, they definitely tear it down. There's no question. Trey had the idea that if, even if they get to the Finals but don't win the championship.

[Jay Skeets]

Right.

[Tas Millis]

That they tear it down.

[T.R. Mayo]

Well, I mean, tear it down is a question because, like, the tear it down is getting Giannis. Right.

[Jay Skeets]

Like, I think that's what.

[T.R. Mayo]

That's the move they're thinking about.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, but I, I still don't think even if they get to the Finals, which is an accomplishment, that they go get Giannis because they got to the finals. But that's the, that's the bench. Yeah, we shall see. They got to get there first. They still do.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah, exactly.

[Jay Skeets]

Right.

[Tas Millis]

It's not done.

[Jay Skeets]

That's true.

[T.R. Mayo]

Do you think any, Any concern that Mitchell Robinson could see be suspended for game one? This was a big skirmish. Like, your guy Brent fell down. Barnacie was on the ground.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, Barnacie was down.

[T.R. Mayo]

Mike. Mike Brown was on the ground as well. Holding his glasses. Yeah, a few times. I'm like, did he take off his glasses before he got into the mix? No, it was after. He had to scramble and grab him on the ground, but he was holding on tight. This was like, into the first row of the stands, like I thought. Valid ejection. The game is over. They don't want guys fighting. I don't think Robinson should be suspended, but undeniably he was in the stands touching referees, and he never stopped.

[Jay Skeets]

True. Yeah, he kept going. Was his the worst problem or the worst thing he did? But in his defense, or at least I think the league would look at it like this. He did not start that.

[T.R. Mayo]

No, he didn't.

[Jay Skeets]

That was Dyson Daniels. That was.

[T.R. Mayo]

He gave him a nut.

[Tas Millis]

He gave him a Yank.

[T.R. Mayo]

He gave him an Owen.

[Jay Skeets]

Exactly. First off, the elbow is one thing, but okay, you know, they're going to throw elbows in a postseason. But then when he yanked, that's what really pissed off Mitch Robinson. You could pull my shoulder out. So, like, he didn't really start it, and then he did not throw anything that I could tell. Like, no punches. Not really. Really. Not even any shoves. It was more just let me get at him. And like you said, he's just chested up to him.

[T.R. Mayo]

So menacing out there.

[Jay Skeets]

I don't, I don't think so. And I. And from what I haven't seen, like, a lot of people going, oh, he's, he deserves a game. It doesn't feel that way. So I think he'll be there for game one against either the Celtics or Sixers.

[Tas Millis]

No suspension. I don't think you're right. It escalated. It was bad. But again, literally, it's like he had his arms tied to his legs. So I feel like I, I, I start to go back to the, the Charlotte Detroit fight earlier this year with Musa Diabate and Jalen Duran, and here comes Isaiah Stewart.

[Jay Skeets]

But that was more of a fight.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. There was Some fisticuffs. There was guys leaving the bench, but it's also from the other side. It's also not surprising or wouldn't be surprising to see a guy get suspended for one game even. But I. I don't think so. I mean, Dyson Daniels doesn't have to be suspended next season that it feels like it's done. They're waiting, so I don't know. It's less of a story as their

[Jay Skeets]

scarier moment was when Mitchell Robinson hurt his ankle. I was like, oh, my God, what have I done? I just said yesterday, oh, everybody stop talking about Mitchell Robinson. It was funny Cooks when he looks the most dominant is when he gets hurt. And, like, sure, he came up hobbling, but he returned. He returned and got into a skirmish and then got tossed. So that was probably good for the Knicks as well.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. And they get multiple days off here.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Millis]

Waiting.

[Jay Skeets]

Anything else from this one? My only other note is we saw probably the saddest swag surf of all time.

[Tas Millis]

Oh. Oh, wow. Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

That's between the third and fourth quarter.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, it is.

[T.R. Mayo]

And they did it well.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, I know. It's on. It's on schedule, man.

[T.R. Mayo]

Like, what are you supposed to do?

[Jay Skeets]

They were down like 50, and you're trying to get the crowd to do the swag. Oh, my God, that's so sad. Wow. Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

I guess Quinn Sn. Or did Quinn Snyder have to do an interview? Like, that's what I'm saying. Like, what do you. What do you say to your team at halftime when you're down by 50?

[Jay Skeets]

Say we.

[T.R. Mayo]

Let's give them something to cheer about out there.

[Jay Skeets]

We had a good year, guys.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

And they did. I don't know if we want to do the postmortem on the Hawks right now. Could save it, but, look, they turned their season around, obviously, with the big trades and took two games against a team that we're saying, look, they look like the favorites to win the east, so no shame in that.

[Tas Millis]

No.

[Jay Skeets]

But need size. And I like that least with the. Jalen Johnson, his first playoff series as the number one guy. Yeah, it ended on a sour note. But, you know, you got to take this as a growing experience here. And that's what he said after. Right. This is a big learning experience. And we'll go from here. Take your lumps and get better, which he has to in postseason, at least because he was minimized big time.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yes, he was.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. Yeah. Good. 21 from Jalen Johnson in this one. And Nikhil Alexander Walker, unfortunately, they needed they needed Jock Lando. That would have been nice to have

[T.R. Mayo]

him not have made a difference at all.

[Jay Skeets]

It would have lost by 18.

[Tas Millis]

Come on. They needed.

[T.R. Mayo]

They need a starting center. Yeah, like a congu is a great player. He had an awesome season. He should have been in the mix for most improved player. He can shoot threes now, but he's not a real starting center. Not for a playoff team.

[Tas Millis]

Right. They. Yeah. I mean, I just wanted Jock Landale out there to throw some size in against Mitchell Robinson. I think it would have helped the offensive rebounds. But I also just wanted to transition to young Jock. Another jock. He performed at halftime, right?

[Jay Skeets]

Did he?

[Tas Millis]

I think so.

[Jay Skeets]

Last night?

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, I think so.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Millis]

Unless I'm mistaken. Anyway, they couldn't turn around the. The swag surf. That's. I mean, they turned around the season, but they couldn't turn around the swag surf. How could they possibly do that? It was sad.

[Jay Skeets]

No one was on their aame last night for Atlanta. Even the game ops. Did you see the one play in the first half? They had the lights going.

[T.R. Mayo]

Oh, no.

[Jay Skeets]

Like during game action. Like the strobe lights were going on the court. They quickly turned them off. It's like, damn, nobody's on their A game tonight. All right, so congrats to the Knicks. They move on and we'll wait to see who they play. Obviously in the 27 matchup, Celtics or Sixers?

[Tas Millis]

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[Jay Skeets]

the Wolves beating the Nuggets in six games. Wow. Jayden McDaniel's awesome performance on both ends. What he did in putting the handcuffs on Jamal Murray in game six and throughout the series for a second time now and scoring over 30 points and grabbing over 10 boards. 11098 Wolves take care of the Nuggets here despite you know what, hours before the game, losing another star guard in Iowa Desuma, who had a 43 point game in this series. He's out to no ant, no divincenzo. It was looking like here you go Denver. Here is a maybe a free pass to at least a game seven if not moving to the second round and instead Minnesota came out and took care of business.

[T.R. Mayo]

It was also a hot start for the Nuggets, but the Timberwolves and their fans, they were not going to give up easily because the Timberwolves got right back into it, gained the lead right back and the place was going insane. And then the game continued and fans never went away. Timberwolves never went away. I think a new quiet Leonard just dropped.

[Tas Millis]

Ooh. Whoa.

[T.R. Mayo]

Jaden McDaniels was awesome.

[Jay Skeets]

He was.

[Tas Millis]

Last night he was.

[T.R. Mayo]

He had Jamal Murray in Jail blocking his shot, not even letting him get shots up. Murray looked so uncomfortable. And that was maybe the second best side of the ball for Jaden McDaniels last night. Going for 32 on 25 shots. Like they're missing so many guys, they need somebody to create from the perimeter. I didn't think it felt natural all the time, but he bailed them out of so many possessions when they absolutely needed 12 points in the fourth quarter to close the door. When he hit that final jumper over Jamal Murray and then just stood there, that was tough guy.

[Jay Skeets]

Talked a big game in this series and he backed it up.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. And I liked how he didn't just come out shooting in this game. He was doing the defending. You only had 10 shots in the first half and then took over more so in the second half. Kudos to that guy, to that entire team. Because, yes, he was definitely rattling Jamal Murray. Jamal Murray is just a little reluctant to go at him. It seemed. I mean, from the get go, he allowed Jaden McDaniels to. To recover and get into space. Jaden was in his head. And it came down to the final few minutes when Jamal Murray Rattled a 3 with 4 minutes left. Rattled in and out, and then he got past McDaniels, but there was a hesitation there and Rudy was able to recover to block him. So back to back possessions, where. In a game where Jamal Murray didn't perform like he can perform against Shane McDaniels, but Jay McDaniels had him. He'd had him locked up. I don't know if I can call him Kawhi Leonard to see him have a game like this that Jaden McDaniels. Should they trade Anthony Edwards, just let Jaden McD run and be their number one guy.

[T.R. Mayo]

Well, it's pretty smart that they didn't trade Jaden McDaniels. They were thinking about it.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

Kevin Durant, who's not playing.

[Tas Millis]

This is Anthony Edwards. Definitely the peak that he asks of Jaden McDaniels every single time. We need you, man. We need you offensively. And he literally was patient again. Zero turnovers on 25 shots. Yeah, this was an incredible game. And then to have TJ Shannon come in there. The Nuggets weren't performing defensively a lot. To see this guy and his athleticism be able to just slice down the lane, whether it was a free throw that the Nuggets were taking at the other end and he was able to just go cut all the way to the rim or an after timeout play. That was. It was horrendous to see that from the Nuggets side, but the Timberwolves deserve everything. They took 94 shots in this game, while the. The Nuggets took 74 shots in this game. That tells you everything. Yeah, it's all rebounds. They. They rebounded 38% of their misses. That was a team that wanted it way more. So that's the story right there. Team that definitely wanted it.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, the Nuggets were the best offense in the league, let's not forget, all season long. And they were held to under 100 points three times in this series. That is unbelievable. And Finch went big here in game six with the. All the big boys there. And then obviously had Taran Shannon Jr attacking, attacking, attacking that inept defense on Denver. Way he's going left.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah, guess what? He's going left. Somebody tell Jamal Murray.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, you know, obviously it feels like the Nuggets are just not a good team without Aaron Gordon. That's what I started, like, wondering, like, when he's not out there. They are very beatable. But yeah, 24 points for Shannon Jr. 9 to 10, 9 to 20 overall. And had this huge three point play too, when it was still a close game. Down the stretches, Denver's trying to get us to game seven with like 145 to go. He capitalized on that six board. Solid defense from him, too. But this was. McDaniels owns Jamal Murray. Like, this is now the second playoff series where he's done this. He shot Jamal Murray. Shot 35% from the field and 21, 26% from deep. Excuse me. This series, Jamal Murray was amazing all year long. Obviously first time all star. Incredible. But McDaniels did this two years ago to Jamal Murray, too. He gets in his head. The length and speed and smarts defensively. Like, Jamal Murray was missing a lot of bunnies. And you're like, well, just finish those bunnies. He's missing them because of the defender, because he's rushed, because he doesn't know where he is because he's not in the rhythm.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, the rhythm. No doubt, no doubt.

[Jay Skeets]

It's the same for. And I know Yoko shot a better game. Sick. But that's what Gobert did to Jokic all series, too. That's why it's not just like, oh, these guys are just missing shots. No, they're missing shots because of the defense of these two guys in particular. McDaniels and Rudy Gobert. Sure they are. They are.

[T.R. Mayo]

Well, of course, of course.

[Tas Millis]

Jamal Murray missed shots yesterday because Jane McDaniels was into him. And you go watch every single shot from Jokic from all these six games. Yeah, he was rattled. He came out and said post series, I think we are far away from contention.

[T.R. Mayo]

He's right.

[Tas Millis]

I mean, yeah, they, it would help Aaron Gordon and Peyton Watson out there as their athleticism to defend a guy like freaking TJ Shannon cutting down the lane or to be able to match up against Jaden McDaniels. But Jamal Murray couldn't get into his flow with that monstrous body of Nikola jokicing off Jada McDaniels. I mean, there's space there to, to be able to just ready to go and fire up when he gets around that pick. But he allowed Jaden McDaniels to recover in that space. He never got into a flow. And yeah, McDaniels was definitely in his head. I think more so than Rudy was in Jokic's head. But we'll never see the inside of Jokic's head. I mean, he, he always also just doesn't believe in his team. Also the injuries and Ruigo Bear did a very good job.

[T.R. Mayo]

You should frame this series. I don't know if you can frame an entire six game series, but this is Rudy Gobert's crowning achievement. He's got multiple defensive players of the year and this is going to be the best thing for his legacy because he took Jokic out of the game. We're talking about injuries for sure, Gordon and Watson, but Murray and Jokic weren't good enough in this series. And I think it's mostly because of the defense from McDaniels and from Rudy Gobert. I keep thinking of that game too. Fourth quarter, Jokic went 1 for 7. Completely ran out of steam. The next game, a 7 for 26. Next game, 8 of 22. That was the whole series. He figured Dobert out a little bit more as the series went on. Really slow start, really slow first half or at least a playmaking first half for Jokic last night. Then he took over in the third quarter and played the entire third quarter, played the entire fourth quarter and ran out of steam again. This is the worst series of Jokic's prime for sure. This is like his LeBron 2011 finals.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, that game too, where he played 1 for 1 for 7 and was just, you know, tired, rolled, ran out of steam. I mean, it's hard to just say how Rudy hit him and banged him and was into his head for the first three quarters. To me, watching him miss those Shots and miss every single three. And it's. He also just stunk and just. And he wasn't good. Simple as that.

[T.R. Mayo]

So you're saying more of a choke than Gilbert coming through?

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

Either way.

[Tas Millis]

In part. Either way. Extremely bad. Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

I think we're discrediting. Discrediting a little bit what Rudy did offensively in the series, too.

[T.R. Mayo]

He was not a zero.

[Jay Skeets]

He was not a zero.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Last night he has 10, 13, and eight assists. He's basically doing like a mini Jokic.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, he.

[Jay Skeets]

He was good.

[Tas Millis]

No, the 10 assists, was it eight?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Millis]

Oh, I thought he got up to 10.

[Jay Skeets]

10, 13 and eight.

[Tas Millis]

Oh, my bad. It felt like 10. If this dude is making fancy passes, it's over. And it's not dribbling into his crotch like he did earlier in this. In this series or game one that they lost. He went behind the back when Bruce Brown ran that thing the other way in the fourth quarter. No, I don't know if it's his crowning achievement, but I can't think of another better one. You know, when they came back in

[T.R. Mayo]

that game, playoff talk is this guy gets played off the court every playoffs.

[Tas Millis]

Sure.

[T.R. Mayo]

Luka Doncic hitting a three in his face and getting screamed at. Terrence Mann driving in from the corner, this was the complete opposite of that. He wanted the best offensive player in the game and held him to a bad series.

[Tas Millis]

For Jokic, it's fair. It's fair. When they knocked off the reigning champs in 24 in game seven, when they came back from 20 points down in Denver's arena. That, as a team, I think, is more of a crowning achievement to me than this because they went to the conference finals that year. But as far as Rudy goes, it's probably going to be this one because how bad Jokic was.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, Rudy now has to go from guarding Nicola Jokic to Wemby or at least, you know, in that series against the Spurs. Holy crap. So hope you got a little left in the tank here.

[T.R. Mayo]

Been watching him his whole life.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Hey, man. And I'm with you to go back to the crowd, Trey, like the target center crowd understood the assignment last night, and we talked about, like, this. They have to win the Game six here. It's like, don't try and do what you did a couple years ago where you want a Game seven on the road, especially down all these guys and down Ant and all that. I think it's unlikely. It felt like they knew. They knew from the jump. We got to win this game and we're short all these guys and we got to do our help them out. Obviously, energetically. They were awesome. That was a loud, loud building from as far as the playoffs have gone. To me that was one of the louder crowds through the broadcast.

[T.R. Mayo]

They were very loud.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. So they got it done and they will now take on the San Antonio Spurs. So we'll have to preview that early next week, I guess.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. No Dante and obviously no Anthony Edwards. I assume I.O. comes back, but I know T.J. shannon. This is one game his first playoff start was really good at. This is what they wanted when they let Shea Gil. Just Alexander go to Atlanta for him.

[T.R. Mayo]

Alexander Walker.

[Tas Millis]

I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. An SGA and an naw.

[Jay Skeets]

Crazy move, right?

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. They thought Terence Rob Dillingham and Jalen Clark would sort of work as a. A three headed replacement for Nikhil Notche. And in a way you watch this and you could say, well, he's super athletic. And they got rid of Rob Dillingham to trade for. I would assume so it's totally different now. But this was. Yeah, his a great performance. Will he have to start immediately? That would stink for to not have IO out there. The guy they traded Rob Dillingham for. It would suck. That would suck.

[Jay Skeets]

It's gonna be a rude awakening, I will say, going from playing Denver who do not have a great defense to then playing the spurs who have the greatest defensive player we maybe have ever seen and really good perimeter defenders as well. It's just going to be like, whoa. Be alarming, I think to go from playing Denver to San Antonio.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah, they're going to be like they got a guy challenging shots at the rim.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Millis]

What?

[Jay Skeets]

That's going to be strange.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

We just played six games with that never happening. But that will be a change.

[Jay Skeets]

The underdog for sure. Any other notes from this one? Yeah, I like talking about Mike Conley. He played pretty well.

[T.R. Mayo]

I thought Mike Conley had a solid game. He was going nuts when he thought he had that block in the fourth quarter. He's like flexing to the crowd. I was like, this would be awesome. Time for Mike Conley to get his first technical. Like he gets a taunting technical for blocking a shot, but like credit to that guy getting dusted off. Chris Finch said it's a crime against humanity that he can't play Mike Conley. But the dude's struggling. He's at the end of his career, but when called upon he did just enough hit a few shots. I thought that was pretty sweet for him. So yeah, he's getting his, what, 1000th career playoff start, and Taran Shannon Jr gets his first one. That's crazy.

[Jay Skeets]

Wow.

[T.R. Mayo]

I also like when they were like, chris Finch is basically playing point guard for the Timberwolves right now because they had no playmakers out there, and it was like, they're running a weird three big lineup because, like, those are the healthiest guys. They got Randall, Reed and Gobert. So they're like, yeah, Chris Finch is calling the plays. He's saying, tara Shannon, go stand over there. Go do this, go do that, go to that. That's pretty sweet.

[Tas Millis]

And they didn't even have Kyle Anderson out there who had an illness. You know, he would be out there. They're making slow mo passes out there to try and start things up. But seeing Dante DiVincenzo, to me, I think that's admirable. To see a guy come out after having surgery, being there with his leg up. Obviously, the team's playing hard for him, but just being there, period, I would not want to show my face at all. I'd be at home and Achilles surgery. The guy is there three days later at three and a half.

[Jay Skeets]

They all wore his jersey.

[Tas Millis]

They all wore his jersey. It was pretty cool.

[T.R. Mayo]

A lot of different styles of jersey. How would you wear it?

[Jay Skeets]

It. How would I wear it?

[T.R. Mayo]

Nazri's like, Nazri just carried his in.

[Tas Millis]

No.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, I would wear it. I wouldn't do that. What's the point?

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, I wouldn't do the. The Rudy Gold Bear just wore it normally. Right. I think you got to wear reverse

[T.R. Mayo]

Julie Randall, I think, on the front.

[Tas Millis]

Exactly.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. I think you want to rock it that way.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

At least he's got a memorable number. So if you just rock, you know, you just see the zero, you know, it's him.

[Tas Millis]

Turn it around.

[Jay Skeets]

A lot of people, including ourselves, pick Denver in this series. Nuggets to advance. You know, Nuggets in five, Nuggets in six, some Nuggets in seven. All that. That's going to be, I think, the same here in a San Antonio, Minnesota series. I think you're going to see a lot of spurs in 5, 6, or 7. And I bring that up because it feels like this is the one team maybe here in the. In the Wolves, that because of the injuries, are going to be able to lean into the underdog, and nobody believes in us, and we're going to be always picked against in every series, and, you know, trying to use that as the bulletin board material. Finch went so far to say after this, like. And we took this matchup personally because he was trying to say Denver actually picked us as an opponent, which he's, like, rewriting history at the end of the regular season because they were trying to actually lose games to get into the four. Five. I'm talking about Denver here. But then they won against okc, remember? And all this, like, I think they were actually trying to avoid Minnesota, but couldn't. So whatever Finch has got to do, he's got to do. They wanted us. Oh, my God, let's go get them. But we'll see what he comes up with. He conjures for. Against the spurs as sort of motivation.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah, but certainly Finch must have been saying something similar, like, they wanted us. Let's show them what they got. And it inspired the team because after the series, Jamal Murray was basically the same. He's like, yeah, they take it really personally playing us. We need to do that. And you can't deny that it mostly felt like that. This series, the Wolves playing with the chip on their shoulder and the Nuggets being like, we can always beat these

[Jay Skeets]

guys a little bit. Yeah. This team was built to beat the Nuggets is the best part by the guy that built the Nuggets. So, you know, now. Now, if anything, it's like, hey, Denver, you got to figure out how to beat Minnesota because you're struggling against them in postseason matchups, even with all the injuries and both sides were injured. I mean, look, you know, I still think it's a crazier injury for the Wolves to lose and. And divincenzo.

[Tas Millis]

Absolutely.

[Jay Skeets]

Then Gordon and Watson. But again, AG is very, very important to the Nuggets success, especially just being a guy that actually plays defense and is in a liability offense. Yeah. Yeah. So good stuff from Minnesota. Congrats to Joe. Mandy texted us right away with a screen grab of all those Nuggets selections. It wasn't ours, but it was the ESPN one.

[T.R. Mayo]

No, but.

[Jay Skeets]

But he was saying, you suckers did it, too.

[T.R. Mayo]

He's right. We did.

[Jay Skeets]

We all.

[T.R. Mayo]

We all picked the Nuggets. One of us, at the very least, should have swerved and taken the Wolves because they play the Nuggets well. But, I mean, to Joe's credit, we all picked the Nuggets. He said Wolves in three right away.

[Jay Skeets]

All right. You got to. A big part of that was definitely Denver winning their last 12 games of the regular season. They looked. They were playing their best basketball. They were. So that was a big part of my thinking, and truthfully, not thinking you could figure out and slow down Jamal Murray and Jokic the two man game enough.

[T.R. Mayo]

And they did.

[Jay Skeets]

They did. Yeah, they did. So credit to them. Credit Joe Mandy as the Nuggets window closed.

[T.R. Mayo]

That's a lot of the talk today. They just lost to a decimated Minnesota team who is not considered the top of the conference.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think as soon as Jokic says, you know, we're far from a contention team, their front office has to get rid of their old guys, especially Aaron Gordon's legs. Hamstrings were bad last year in the postseason, but he hung on by a threat. And so that's the worry if you were going to rely on Aaron Gordon. And now you've got Peyton Watson, who could have been the Aaron Gordon replacement going into free agency, but they probably don't want to pay him. There's lots of money on the books with Jokic, Murray, Ton going to Cam Johnson. You signed Christian Brown. There's lots of money that they've locked up. So I don't know if they can or want to sign Payton Watson, but I think it's trying to find a team. Taking Aaron Gordon, most likely.

[Jay Skeets]

Wow.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

More so than Cam Johnson. Well, I mean, that's, that's the thing. They're gonna have to pay to get off of Cam Johnson, but they probably should to be able to resign Watson, though. Look, Cam Johnson played pretty well last night.

[Tas Millis]

Last night was his best game, there's no doubt.

[T.R. Mayo]

And he was good in game five. So, like, he got better as the

[Tas Millis]

series got on, but also battled injury this season. You know, if that's the thing where you didn't get into the flow.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah. But also, like, Watson is a better defender and athlete than he is, and that stuck out the most to me was the lack of defense. And they just look so slow compared to Minnesota.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. When, when they were. When Jokic was out, Peyton Watson stepped up, up in a monstrous way. I'm sure we could have. If we're, you know, exaggerating the headlines in one of our shows, we could have said that guy is the new Kawhi Leonard, you know, or, or something to that effect, because he was really good and then he's out. And so I thought, okay, here's a team that would be willing to pay him as a restricted free agent a heck of a lot more than the Nuggets were, like the Lakers, because they always enter the conversation. But there could be a team out there that could do that. But they need him. They desperately need them. But this was all about the Wolves, Joe, Mandy, Hanif, Abdurraqib, who came on our show once upon a time, all those. Yeah, they did it. They did it and the whole house, as you said, the arena. They love the rivalry, man. They just love that rivalry more so than the Nuggets did.

[Jay Skeets]

And I guess the Nuggets are lucky they're in Denver and not Serbia because Jokic said if they were in Serbia, they'd all be fired.

[T.R. Mayo]

We'd all be said he wants to

[Jay Skeets]

be a Nugget for life. He didn't blame David Adelman either. He's like, he's not out there not grabbing rebounds and not playing defense. So we'll see. But we'll talk about some of these teams that get eliminated as we move forward here and we have less games and more time to talk about them. So fun action last night. Let's take a break and then we'll get into worst of the week. FanDuel customers can bet $5 and you can get 250 in bonus bets if your first bet wins. That's right. Turn five bucks into 250 in bonus bets just for getting started. And when every possession matters in the playoffs, FanDuel makes it easy to to get closer to the action. From player props on your favorite stars to all the tools you need to back them up, FanDuel puts player research right at your fingertips so you can check stats and trends and matchups all in one place. All in the app there. Make your picks with confidence, baby.

[Tas Millis]

Confidence.

[Jay Skeets]

It's everything you need. All in one app, so don't miss your shot. Head to FanDuel.com podcast to get started. FanDuel play your game. I should say congratulations to you on picking the Nixon 6. You got that one right. I had Nick Nixon 5, you had Nixon 6, you had Nixon 7, so

[Tas Millis]

you got that one right. Do I get an award for saying the one team that could make my pick look stupid was Minnesota? I didn't. You did say that, but it's not.

[Jay Skeets]

We were talking about of all of our predictions, which one are you? Like, oh, I would wish I could change that one or I should have changed that one. You did say that one.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, I said it. That's not picking them. That's disrespectful. Hey, the Wolves deserve it. I wonder. I wonder if that's. That's gotta be the one that's the most everybody else picked the Nuggets, right? As you said, wasn't a lot of

[Jay Skeets]

Wolves picks, that's for sure.

[T.R. Mayo]

Lakers, Rockets Was heavy. Rockets as well.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

It ain't over till it's over.

[Jay Skeets]

That's not over, baby. It's not over. Okay, let's get to worst of the week.

[Tas Millis]

Ladies and gentlemen, the worst of the week. First of three nominees. Vijay Edgecombe. He didn't wink at the camera. He winked at his teammate.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, you know.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, I know. I know you're hurt, Skeets, because you really like that moment in Game 2 when he was 30 points, 10 boards. He was awesome. And it looked like he looked at a camera across the floor as well. YouTube. Yeah. Looked at us. It sounds like me talking about Zion Williamson. Preseason when I believed in Zion because he was, like, talking to me. It looks like he's looking right at the camera. Looking right at you. But apparently it was to Tyrese Maxey. As he said one of his teammates, at least he didn't even really remember. He's like, yeah, I think it was Maxi.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. I knew in my heart all along he wasn't winking at the camera because there was like, somebody broke it down where the camera was actually located. Yeah. Yeah. And it was so 123ft away.

[T.R. Mayo]

And you don't know which one is active.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. And so he wasn't doing that. He never was. But it just the perfect sight line to make it look like he was. But you should. He should have said he was.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Was.

[Jay Skeets]

Come on, man. Vijay, come on.

[T.R. Mayo]

He's too honest. Like, you want to do the dunk contest? He's like, no, no. And then later he's like, oh, maybe I will. Guess what? He didn't. So, yeah, he's telling the truth here. So I guess credit to the director.

[Jay Skeets]

Hell yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah. Great call for that shot.

[Jay Skeets]

Great call for that shot. Great. Great job by the cameraman. Or woman, too. Whoever got zoomed.

[T.R. Mayo]

Oh, Larry's got pj.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

Go to Larry.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Millis]

Is that a Larry French shout out?

[T.R. Mayo]

He's the only cameraman I know.

[Jay Skeets]

That's not true. Shout out to Rick. Shout out to Todd. Of course. Shout out to.

[Tas Millis]

To.

[T.R. Mayo]

Of Marcus. For us, too.

[Tas Millis]

I went to the Braves game yesterday. I didn't know if Todd was on camera somewhere, but I did see an Instagram photo of him just taking a photo of himself at the Brave Stadium yesterday. It's just a. I don't know why Todd just picked a photo of just him looking like. Just me looking at the camera. I don't think that's a great photo, Todd. And where were you? I was looking for you.

[Jay Skeets]

Hey, who won the race yesterday? At the Braves game.

[Tas Millis]

Game.

[Jay Skeets]

The Tool Race.

[Tas Millis]

Oh, yeah, I tuned out it right at the beginning of the Tool race. Said, oh, tool race is going on.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[Tas Millis]

I tuned it.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, I was most excited for the tour.

[Tas Millis]

Sorry about that.

[Jay Skeets]

What's that?

[T.R. Mayo]

What's the fast guy's name?

[Jay Skeets]

Well, that's the. The Freeze.

[T.R. Mayo]

The Freeze.

[Jay Skeets]

The Freeze.

[T.R. Mayo]

But I don't have every game.

[Jay Skeets]

They don't do it.

[Tas Millis]

They don't do it. Any game he's done.

[Jay Skeets]

That was a guy where they would get like a normal man.

[T.R. Mayo]

They hired a new guy, too.

[Jay Skeets]

I thought they did too, but I

[Tas Millis]

feel like they do the normal. Another race that you see quite often in baseball stadiums where you go and pick up the base and then run the other way back to the. And you have to do it in 30 seconds. You have back to the warning track kind of thing.

[Jay Skeets]

The one here in Atlanta. That wasn't the one.

[Tas Millis]

That was a great one. That was a great one.

[Jay Skeets]

Get somebody from the crowd, have them line up on the warning track at a certain part. And they got. It got like a 10 second head start or whatever it was. You go and try and get to the finish line. And then they had a professional track athlete called the Freeze. He's like dressed in like a cool, like speed suit. Like almost like a speed skating suit. And then he would obviously always hunt them down and beat them. Most of the time I think he was defeated. Oh, he was once or twice.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

He's lost a few times. He's still around, but he doesn't race every game.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[T.R. Mayo]

He's load managing.

[Jay Skeets]

And then. And the Tool race. I'm talking about big mascots, Home Depot. There's a bucket, there's a drill, there's a paintbrush and a hammer. Yeah, yeah. And shenanigans happen.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Bucket usually comes through, I feel like. But he's having a good year.

[T.R. Mayo]

The Bucket's playing.

[Jay Skeets]

But the Bucket does things like he gets to the finish line and then he like turns around. He's like, I'm gonna go beat up on the Hammer Summer. You know, you're like, ah, just get the win, man. Puts it in jeopardy.

[T.R. Mayo]

I mean. But you can't deny the Bucket versus Hammer feud that's been plaguing us for generations.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, you're right.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. And then there's that other one in Milwaukee. We had somebody come on our show. Come on. No, Bunce. Who participated. Chris Kirschner participated in that sausage race.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, that's.

[Tas Millis]

He was the Italian. The Italian sausage. I guess it's called Brad the brat. Brad first, hot dog, Polish, Italian, and chorizo. I guess they have five.

[Jay Skeets]

Wow.

[Tas Millis]

Wow. Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

So then they do the presidents in Washington. Yeah, There's a lot of these versions.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Millis]

But those are actual races. Like the sausage is actually run, you

[Jay Skeets]

know, these are bits, planned bits like the Home Depot ones. The Home Depot tools are planned bits.

[Tas Millis]

No doubt.

[Jay Skeets]

They're talking about it. All right, all right. Hey, here we go. Drill, you're going to do this. You're going to trip hammer, you know, bucket, you're going to come back, get in and fight. Yeah.

[Tas Millis]

I don't know about all the sausage races. I don't know every single sausage in his history. His or her history could be women. I don't know them. But I do know in that particular one, Chris Kirschner.

[Jay Skeets]

It was a race.

[Tas Millis]

He had to give it.

[Jay Skeets]

It was a race. It's like, all right, let's see who's got it.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

And I hope to do that, man.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. There was applications or there was the position for freeze it.

[T.R. Mayo]

You could have been the freeze.

[Jay Skeets]

Yes, I'm that fast.

[Tas Millis]

We shared it.

[Jay Skeets]

I'd like to think I could give this freeze a go, but. Yeah, I don't know those guys. That guy's fast.

[Tas Millis]

He was getting beat, though. She was also a trap. She beat him. There was somebody. She. I don't know her name, but she. She. I would just want to give credit to a one who kicked his ass.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, yeah.

[Tas Millis]

Two years ago, I think.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah. There's been some big losses.

[Tas Millis]

There's been some big losses.

[Jay Skeets]

I'm not giving credit to people beating him. They get like a 10 second head start on the guy.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

It's amazing. He beats basically everybody 99 of the time.

[T.R. Mayo]

You think somebody should be bold enough to challenge him.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

We're going for pink slips.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, exactly.

[T.R. Mayo]

Just me versus you. Oh, that would be starting line to starting line.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. You just keep getting like you're the new freeze.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah. Beat the freeze.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

And you get to stay on top.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

Freeze of the hill.

[Tas Millis]

That's the thing that.

[Jay Skeets]

Holy shit. What a tangent.

[Tas Millis]

We do a show every day.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yes.

[Tas Millis]

We don't do shows on Saturday, Sunday. So we can give people six extra minutes of freeze it talk. The freeze. It also allowed people, you know, that head start. So he was kind of slowing it down at the beginning of his. Of his run because he was allowing the person. He thought, he's a showman, man.

[Jay Skeets]

He's a showman. I guess he knows, like, all right. I could See this person, I can, I don't need to come out guns blazing to catch them. But sometimes he did, I think.

[Tas Millis]

New Blazers owner Tom Dunton, he's also a showman. We've talked about, we've talked about him. He's cost cutting all over the place. You know, two way players can't travel in the playoffs. Massage therapists had to check out of their hotels on time. Get out of here. Wanted to pay their head coach Thiago Splitter way less. The reports were that he wanted to pay him in range of 1 to 1.5 million. We talked about that, but that's almost assistant level money. Then we got this report from Evan Cidery this week. He said the Trailblazers are widely expected to move on from Splitter. Dundon is not willing to increase Splitter's current salary. Portland is trying to find a new head coach who will accept being the lowest paid in the NBA as a cost cutting measure. Now that's just a report. And then an anonymous source said this to Jason Quick of the athletic quote, the amount of disrespect towards Splitter that's going on is beyond description. It's like every day a new name is coming up. It's the most vicious thing I've encountered in 30 plus years. Now from the other side, what has Tom done since we started talking about this? Well, he did send two way players to game five in San Antonio. So yeah, basically it's Chris Youngblood, Jason Kent, Caleb Love, just get on the team playing. These are not as.

[Jay Skeets]

He had some, he had some Delta Sky Miles wanted to use.

[Tas Millis]

No, no, this is a commercial. It's not a commercial flight man. Just get on the plane. Yeah, he had to pay for their hotels. Oh, so that cost, that cost money. And, and lots of reports showing that this owner who is also owner of the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes is a sort of middle of the pack team salary in hockey. So you know all that coming together is apparently he's starting to. Well either listen to all these people who are extremely angry that he's cost cutting. Can we get our guy Denny Abdia, his therapist in his. Give him his session when he wants to have his session. That kind of thing was happening and the amount of disrespect for these two way players who weren't there. So there's that just to throw that all out there.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay. The coaching thing is the biggest concern. It is all the other stuff, you know, we have some fun with it but look it's his, his team. He's going to do what he wants to do and cut where he wants to cut. But, like, it's like the one thing in the NBA where you can. There's no rules, really. Right. Like, you can pay a coach $30 million per year or a million dollars per year, but. But generally you're gonna. Usually the more you pay, probably the better coaches you're gonna get. Not all. Not always the case, but, you know, Splitter just being lowballed like this is not great.

[Tas Millis]

Not a good look and a disservice in the eyes of his players, I'm sure.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, that's the thing.

[Tas Millis]

Who. Like this guy. And as Matisse, Thibel also said, he said, you know how on the court at the end of a shot clock, you throw the guy the ball. It's kind of like giving him a grenade, you know, shoot it. That's exactly what Thiago Splitter had to go through Matipa style making the grenade comparison. So, yeah, if you're going to lowball him that hard, literally into assistant dollars level, then that's a negative in the eyes of, number one, his players that played for him, but number two, prospective free agents. And so the timing of this is the strange thing. Why do this now?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Millis]

Why make all these cuts now? So that's where we are. It's not done.

[T.R. Mayo]

It's not done, Dom.

[Tas Millis]

That's not done. Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

I hate to take this back when

[Tas Millis]

I say that Tom Dunton. I don't know if it's a Tom Dundon or. Anyway, go on. Baseball.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, yeah, the only good thing to maybe come from this is we might have a NBA version of Major League, the movie from the 80s.

[T.R. Mayo]

Oh, cool. Right?

[Jay Skeets]

I mean, that was sort of the premise of. What I remember was like the owner, the woman took over from her deceased husband or dad or something like that, and then wanted, like, there was a clause, like if they were really bad, that she could get him out of Cleveland.

[Tas Millis]

That's right.

[Jay Skeets]

And move them to Miami. There's some similarities here. Like this cost cutting. That's true. Tom Dundon's trying to do. But the Indians were great. Cleveland Indians at the time. They were great with wild things. Yeah. They played pretty well. This will work out for the Blazers.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Or at least a script will be written about that. Yeah.

[Tas Millis]

I don't. Have there been any rumors of him moving the team? No, no. Okay. Just making sure. Because those things.

[Jay Skeets]

Just saying if we're writing the script, I think we got to put that in, but.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, yeah, I hear you. I Hear. I hear you. Yeah. And he hasn't moved to Carolina Hurricanes who are doing well.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah, they seem to be actually very good.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, they're very good.

[T.R. Mayo]

Maybe this guy knows what he's doing.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, exactly.

[T.R. Mayo]

That's what Adam Silver wins in the NHL this season. Oh, they've made the playoffs four straight years, it looks like.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, conference finals. Tom Dundon hires Lou Brown as head coach. Remember him? The manager in Major League?

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, that was his name.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Yeah. Big old mustache. Oh, you're cramping.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, okay.

[Tas Millis]

I didn't know if that was a Lou Brown person.

[Jay Skeets]

To Lou Brown. Look at this guy. Oh, wow. Look at them.

[Tas Millis]

Oh, my goodness.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, yeah. Where is it? Hammy. Oh, boy. It's a hammy. Boy.

[Tas Millis]

I thought that was.

[Jay Skeets]

Get some water in this guy.

[T.R. Mayo]

So much water.

[Jay Skeets]

So much water.

[Tas Millis]

Water. The water doesn't do it.

[Jay Skeets]

Eh, electrolytes. The water does not do it.

[Tas Millis]

That's what I've heard. Okay.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, we got it. Worst of the week.

[T.R. Mayo]

I'm just. I'm just. I'm leaning back.

[Tas Millis]

You just got to lean it back.

[T.R. Mayo]

I gotta have straight legs.

[Jay Skeets]

Wow. I gotta have straight Fat Joe style.

[T.R. Mayo]

I'm Kevin Durant on Fred Van Vleet's podcast for the rest of this episode.

[Jay Skeets]

That's maybe why he was cramping.

[Tas Millis]

I thought this was a Bobby Euchre.

[Jay Skeets]

No, I did think he was doing a Lou Brown impersonation for a second. I was like, wow, that's a weird impersonation.

[Tas Millis]

Just chilling. But then the. The teeth started a little bit. Okay, third nominee here, the no Dunks fan who complained about ads on YouTube. What? It especially irked our man JD who saw this and said, hey, you're getting a free show now. The comment was, yeah, quote, great episode. I think I was super distracted with the over 36 ads. I had what insane amount of ads for 1 hour and 28 minutes. Hope you all got a nice payday off that spoiler.

[Jay Skeets]

We did not.

[Tas Millis]

36 AD sounds like a lot of ads.

[Jay Skeets]

I mean, I hope that's an exaggeration.

[Tas Millis]

Hold on.

[JD (Super Producer)]

How is that an exaggeration? 36 ads.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Okay. In 90 minutes of content.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, that's a lot of ads. J.D. i think he was exactly.

[JD (Super Producer)]

No, it is. It is not a lot of. That's a normal amount of ads.

[Jay Skeets]

I watch YouTube all the time. I'm not.

[JD (Super Producer)]

I don't remember Survivor.

[Jay Skeets]

Yes.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Okay. It's. We watched. Well, they're usually 90 minutes.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, I know. When they're on, they're Called commercials. Yes.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah, there's. There's a half hour of ads.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Literally a half hour of ads.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Divide that by two. If there are 30 second ads, that's 60 ads. Right. Okay, so 36 for 90 minute show is nothing for a fucking free show.

[Tas Millis]

Right, right. That's all.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, I got you.

[Tas Millis]

And I don't care.

[T.R. Mayo]

I.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Look, I don't like ads either, but I also like having lights on in

[T.R. Mayo]

here, you know, I do like that.

[JD (Super Producer)]

It's nice. It's nice.

[Jay Skeets]

Hey, don't say that. Our lights have been pretty good for the last.

[JD (Super Producer)]

They've been pretty good.

[Jay Skeets]

They haven't been shorting out.

[Tas Millis]

No. Yeah, yeah, new ads. New lights, baby. If the ads are paying for the new lights.

[Jay Skeets]

I hear you, man.

[Tas Millis]

I guess also the 36 ads, not to get into the nitty gritty here, but they're probably short ads. You know, we get on YouTube. You could skip. It's a five seconder.

[JD (Super Producer)]

That's a great point task. You can skip them.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah. The fact that it's annoying

[JD (Super Producer)]

again, I, I hate ads more than anything. But you know, if you're not gonna pay for the show, then you're gonna have to put up with ads. That's it.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, look, we get a lot of blowback on Spotify too with the ads, like off the top of the show and I guess inserted and at the end. But yeah, we have to make a living. And if you want, and I try and say this as much as possible, if you want ad free episodes of our show, you can get them for $5 a month by joining our substack. I'm just saying. And they're emailed. The show is emailed to you soon after it's posted, like pretty quick. So that is one avenue. If you don't like the ads and none of us do or there's too many for you or whatever, consider that supports the show.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah, it does. And it is ad free. But it's only the audio version.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you. I gotcha.

[JD (Super Producer)]

But you know, we do the show live, so it's harder to turn it around. I mean, we could do it, but something to explore. Something to explore.

[Tas Millis]

Well, DD Vilsh base, as your name is here on YouTube. Thanks for watching,

[Jay Skeets]

but here's your worst of the week.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, I didn't include this just so he could mention our substack, but you know.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, I was always mentioning the substack.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, no, you do, you do. Yeah, for sure. But anyways, hope those ads were Good.

[T.R. Mayo]

Do you want to know how much we made on that episode?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, sure.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, Yeah, I do.

[Jay Skeets]

Because it's going to be embarrassingly long.

[T.R. Mayo]

We made the nicest number you could possibly.

[Jay Skeets]

We made 69 cents.

[Tas Millis]

No, no.

[T.R. Mayo]

Oh, well, yes, but more as well.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[T.R. Mayo]

We made $369.69.69.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, geez, we're rich.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

All right.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Nice.

[Tas Millis]

Wow.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, good. I'm glad we had 36 ads in it. Let's crank it up.

[T.R. Mayo]

Double it.

[Jay Skeets]

Let's double it, baby. All right. Those are the worst of the week.

[Tas Millis]

Those are the worst. Worst of the week nominees.

[Jay Skeets]

What about Frank aola? Yeah, what about Frank? Come on, man. Yeah, doing our guy Kenny beach him dirty like that?

[Tas Millis]

No, I would never do that.

[Jay Skeets]

Not you. I said he was.

[Tas Millis]

Oh, yes, yes. Listen, I. I listened to Kofi's breakdown of Frank Isola versus Kenny Beachum. Yeah, I got my fix. Okay. So I didn't want to. Didn't want to throw him in there because it's. It's just, it's a lot. I mean, we can't talk about something for five minutes? Like what were we going to talk about? A race at the Brave Stadium with the freeze it guy for five minutes? Listen, Frank, guys just not in tune with what's going on in current media. Simple as that.

[Jay Skeets]

Honestly, it was the best thing. I hate to say it, but it was actually the best thing to happen for Kenny's promotion of his show. Frank Asola saying what he said with celebrity saying, hey, hey, hey, man, come on, relax, man. I always say that because then Kenny clipped it, put it out and had a bunch of people. I'm going, oh, Kenny's got a new show on SiriusXM. That's cool. Yeah, it was basically like a wrestler promo heel turn. Now, I don't know if Frank was actually purposely doing that. Think so. He was more pissed off that his producer was saying, hey, promote this show. Which is also cutting into our show.

[T.R. Mayo]

Pretty Crazy Mondays just got better cuz we cut an hour of Frank Sola. Can you read this, Frank? That's a savage, funny, savage ad read though. Celebrating good in my book. I like this guy. He gets it. He's great on broadcasts. It's just crazy that that sort of thing still happens in 2026. Like new media is old media at this point.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, I'm with you.

[Tas Millis]

Yes. Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay. I just want to slip that.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, that felt. That felt genuine from Frank I saw. I don't think he was promo.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, that's his. I mean, his character, his personality is like that. Yes, he is like that for sure. I'm not condoning it, but yeah, felt real.

[Tas Millis]

I like Michelle Beetle upset about losing her hour to Stephen A. Smith last year.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, right.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, right. I felt real. Real.

[T.R. Mayo]

I forgot about that.

[Jay Skeets]

I did forget about that.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

Nobody's taking our hour well.

[Jay Skeets]

The ads are.

[T.R. Mayo]

The ads are, but I mean, we made $69.69. Can you imagine making $69.69?

[Jay Skeets]

Here's a quick ad about a copper bracelet.

[Tas Millis]

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[JD (Super Producer)]

Mm, yeah, but I'm not itching to

[Tas Millis]

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[Tas Millis]

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[Jay Skeets]

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[Jay Skeets]

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[T.R. Mayo]

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[Jay Skeets]

I don't even think I'm eligible to

[T.R. Mayo]

vote for this guy.

[Jay Skeets]

Why am I doing of the night? Here's another ad. These are the good ads because it's sponsored by Vince AKA Captain Jazz in the Stream team in honor of Vince's son, Vince writes I actually subscribed to your sub stack from the delivery room when he was born a few months ago. It was the night of the Spurs Thunder NBA Cup. My wife was sleeping just before he was born the next morning and I couldn't rest with it being my first kid. So I tuned in to hear Trey's thoughts on my spurs from the shed. That was the nice the the live from the shed about the Spurs. As a result, you are all very connected to his birth, his son's birth in my mind. Unfortunately, when he was only three weeks old, he had to spend a week with him. He had. We had to spend a week with him in the ICU and your podcast truly helped keep me sane during that very scary time. Thankfully he has made a full recovery and has just started at Normal daycare. If you want to support the organization that helped save Vi's life, Children's Hospital of Richmond, that link will be in the show notes. If it's already not there, it's already there. So go help out. That that's great. That's a good one. Captain Jazz. Thank you for sponsoring. We love it. OG Anunoby gets woah 29 points as the Knicks destroyed the Hawks. OG shot 11 of 14 from the field, 4 of 6 from deep, seven boards, four steals, one block. He did all of that in 27 minutes because that game was over in a hurry. OG man, I gotta say TAs Yep, I feel like a proud father watching OG Anunoby cook right now. Being Raptors fans, obviously.

[Tas Millis]

Yes, it's cool.

[Jay Skeets]

I like it.

[Tas Millis]

I agree. And also extremely healthy. That was the one little ridicule of him when he was traded away by the experts in Toronto. Well, he doesn't play all the games. Well, he's. Is he the healthiest of all the Knicks? I don't know how you comp. Compare health, but he is super, super ready to play every single game, every single possession. Is it trickling down to Mikel Bridges now? Maybe his play. I mean, Mikhail Bridges also plays every game.

[T.R. Mayo]

He's the healthiest, Nick.

[Tas Millis]

He's. That's a good way to put it. Yeah. Yeah. But the best skill is not availability. Can we.

[T.R. Mayo]

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[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, I almost. I almost got upset with how long this was until you read it and you go, that's nice.

[T.R. Mayo]

Beautiful.

[Tas Millis]

Yes, yes.

[T.R. Mayo]

And Cap and Jazz is here in the stream. Hey, we love that. We love vi Our guy vi our

[Jay Skeets]

guy Vi for sure. Okay, a little more substack here. It's been a long time since we had a substack founding member to thank, and we do today thank Devin Arnold. Salute to you, good sir. Now, I said, Hey, $5 a month gets you ad free episodes, but you want to be a founding member. You want really, really level up and help your boys out. You get the shout out, you get the T shirt. And we really appreciate it. So thank you, Devin Arnold.

[Tas Millis]

Thank you, Devin.

[Jay Skeets]

Thank you, thank you. Thanks, Devin. Okay, before we go with the drop here, rapid fire fun. Trey, you've got the questions. Are you going to be able to manage your way through these with that cramp?

[T.R. Mayo]

I'm feeling good. This might be my new style.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah, just.

[T.R. Mayo]

We got a long extender arm. I'm laid back with my mind on my money. My money on my rapid fire. Questions. The first one, the Amazon Crew Crew had some fun with Zach Lowe earlier this week with Blake Griffin clowning on him for wearing what Blake called a glowing LED shirt.

[Tas Millis]

Right, right.

[T.R. Mayo]

Zach got more aid.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, he did.

[T.R. Mayo]

It'll happen to you. Tight pattern, interferes with the camera.

[Tas Millis]

Yep, yep.

[T.R. Mayo]

Guys, what's a shirt that you wear? That sucks.

[Jay Skeets]

I love all my shirts. So this was very difficult. So. So I. I came about this a different way in the late 90s, so. Well, before I knew both of you guys actually, I was like Tasso and J.D. i don't even think you ever saw me wear this shirt. I wore a you suck blow me shirt a lot.

[Tas Millis]

Oh, Here it is.

[Jay Skeets]

And I found it. I don't have it anymore. I used to wear this shirt a lot in the 90s. This graphic tee for the podcast listener. It's the classic vacuum and then the floor fan, and one saying, you suck, the other saying, blow me. Ha ha. So that's good. Yeah. And in seeing this and doing a little research, I was like, oh, I might buy this shirt. Yeah. Honestly, I was like, I really like the colors of this shirt. So stupid. I don't know what happened to it. I feel like I left it at a cottage or something or. I don't know. It just disappeared. Somebody probably stole it from me.

[T.R. Mayo]

I've always admired your ability to just abandon an art article of clothing. I know. Just leave it behind.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. It is just stuff. I got enough shirts, but I do miss that one.

[T.R. Mayo]

Got enough. And you love them all.

[Jay Skeets]

It's impressive.

[T.R. Mayo]

Tas, what's a shirt you wear that sucks?

[Tas Millis]

My Smurf's shirt. It's got armpit stains, and I can't get rid of the armpit stains. But, you know, I argue that the stains are sort of part of Smurfs Village kind of, you know, somehow. Well, they're yellowy. It's got some yellow in sort of.

[Jay Skeets]

I guess it does.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. I'm not going to show you, like, skits. You showed the. The fans in the vacuum. I'm not going to show it to you because it's kind of gross to see no pit stains, But I can't let it go.

[T.R. Mayo]

Can't let it go. Have you had it for a long time?

[Tas Millis]

No.

[T.R. Mayo]

No. Oh, these are fresh.

[Tas Millis]

Fresh pit stains.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, so they garg us.

[Tas Millis]

Smell the cargo. Smell. Nice. Nice.

[T.R. Mayo]

That's pretty good. That almost made me cramp up. It was so good, I flexed my leg.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, no.

[T.R. Mayo]

J.D. what's your suckiest shirt?

[JD (Super Producer)]

Well, I do love most of my shirts. I got a lot of bad ones. This shirt is one that I picked up at Frenchies for all our notes. Nova Scotia people. It's a thrift shop, basically. And this is it. It's a pie, sort of a pirate shirt, and it's got a skull with patch over its eye, pirate hat, Jolly Rogers around, and it says, surrender the booty.

[Jay Skeets]

Right.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Little double entendre there. Obviously tasteless. Yes. The problem with the shadow shirt is I got it at Frenchies, so it's one of those things where it's. It's $4. I'm going to pick it up, and I'm going to grow into it. As in it's a large and I'm an xl, so it now belongs to my wow. Lincoln wearing T shirt.

[Tas Millis]

That's why you get ads DVD RL for that. Nice zoom on.

[Jay Skeets]

Thank you. It's a cool shirt. He rocks it.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Well, yeah, he's. He pulls it off.

[Jay Skeets]

Pulls off all those.

[T.R. Mayo]

Surrender the booty. Love a shirt with a pun on it.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yes.

[T.R. Mayo]

AMC is releasing a Papa Shot popcorn bucket for the 30 year anniversary of the original Space Jam a little bit later this month. I'll be there.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. You're going to go? Yeah. Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

I think Space Jam is longer than I remember, but it's maybe only like night.

[Jay Skeets]

90 minutes. Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

I bet it's gonna be fun to see again. The girls like it.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay. Okay.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

So, fellas, I need you to describe a popcorn bucket that you would buy.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, the Mandalorian and Grogu drops soon, right? Three weeks. I want to say it's like mid late May, so, you know, I didn't overthink this. Give me Mando's silver helmet.

[T.R. Mayo]

Sure.

[Jay Skeets]

Take it off his head, flip it upside down. You got a popcorn bucket.

[T.R. Mayo]

Realistic, like he's.

[Jay Skeets]

That's a cool helmet. It's a cool look. I don't particularly love the Mandalorian, the series. I fell off. I watched it at the beginning. It fell off. But I'll see this, I guess. But I always like the helmet. So it'll be a cool popcorn helmet.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah, the helmets. One of the sweetest things. I haven't watched a single episode of the Mandalorian, but I still want to see this in theaters because there's a Star wars movie in theaters. High five. You feeling jd?

[JD (Super Producer)]

Very, very lukewarm on this.

[Jay Skeets]

No, I would say the trailers do not. Wow.

[JD (Super Producer)]

I. I do like Jon Favreau as a director. So we'll see, we'll see, we'll see. Ash is excited about it.

[Tas Millis]

No way.

[Jay Skeets]

What?

[JD (Super Producer)]

So. Which is infectious. A little bit, you know?

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[JD (Super Producer)]

So. I mean, I'm gonna go see it, obviously, so.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, we'll see.

[T.R. Mayo]

See you there, there, bucket.

[Tas Millis]

Me, I need a bowling ball. As a bucket. Like just a full on bowling ball. Great thing about a bowling ball, you can't put it down because it's round. It's. It's not a typical. Typical bucket. So. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that.

[Jay Skeets]

Maybe. I don't know what anniversary we're at with the Big Lebowski, but that would

[T.R. Mayo]

be a good soon.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Millis]

There was some chatter about watching. I don't know if it's the anniversary but some chatter in my head house about watching the Big Lebowski. That's what got me thinking about having a bowling ball you can never put down. Just put it under your arm, get ready to go.

[T.R. Mayo]

That's good.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. Because you can't screw up the look of a bowling ball. You can screw up these big buckets, but a bowling ball. Safe.

[Jay Skeets]

Would the. The lid attach then?

[Tas Millis]

Like, that's a great question.

[Jay Skeets]

I mean, because. Yeah, it's got to be. Get your hand into it. Unless you're putting your hand through the little three holes to try and get one kernel out of this really big hole.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Holes.

[Tas Millis]

We're gonna try and work with that.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. See what happens. But I think it'll be a screw off.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

Screw off. J.D. what's your bucket?

[JD (Super Producer)]

I'm on my way to the movies right after this show.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, yeah? What are you seeing?

[JD (Super Producer)]

I'm seeing the Devil wears Prada, too.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, wow.

[Tas Millis]

High heel.

[Jay Skeets]

High heel popcorn bucket.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Oh, well, that would be kind of gross. No. A shoe.

[Jay Skeets]

Not if you're Rex Ryan.

[Tas Millis]

Damn.

[JD (Super Producer)]

But I. I am hoping to grab one of these. It's a. It's a purse.

[Jay Skeets]

Jeez. That's even better.

[T.R. Mayo]

That is pretty nice. It's pretty cool.

[Jay Skeets]

Wait, this is real?

[Tas Millis]

This is real.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, I didn't.

[T.R. Mayo]

That's a real one.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, that is. That's cool.

[JD (Super Producer)]

I wonder how big it is.

[Jay Skeets]

Wonder how much it costs.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah. These things are. Cost, like $45, man.

[Jay Skeets]

Or $50. I feel like they go for.

[T.R. Mayo]

Have you bought any JD Like a collectible?

[Tas Millis]

Never.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Never.

[Jay Skeets]

Same. No, same.

[Tas Millis]

I do. And I bring my own popcorn just to save a couple bucks. Like the actual popcorn that's in you.

[Jay Skeets]

You buy the souvenir, but bring a bag of popcorn and then put it in.

[Tas Millis]

Save $1.99 or whatever.

[Jay Skeets]

I'm not even sure that's a good question. Would they. I guess they would. I was going to say no. Would they allow you to even buy said souvenir popcorn bucket without the popcorn in it?

[JD (Super Producer)]

They would allow value, but it would be the same price.

[Jay Skeets]

I know. That's what I'm saying.

[Tas Millis]

Exactly.

[Jay Skeets]

People do. For sure. Because they probably sell them on people. Like.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

I wonder if there's a limited amount you can buy. Yeah, maybe. Can I just go up and say, I will take all of your Devil Wears Prada to souvenir popcorn buckets? I'll take the whole thing, freak.

[JD (Super Producer)]

You pay the piper. You pick the tune, freak.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yes, but you have to eat all the popcorn.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, wow. They.

[T.R. Mayo]

They gotta have some sort of regulations against that for resellers.

[Tas Millis]

That's what I think online.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Yeah. It's just plastic, though.

[T.R. Mayo]

Just. Just plastic.

[Tas Millis]

Is that leather? That. That one looks leathery.

[Jay Skeets]

Don't get butter on that.

[T.R. Mayo]

Jesus.

[Jay Skeets]

Buttery leather.

[T.R. Mayo]

The Run for the Roses. The most exciting two minutes in sports. The fastest two minutes in sports. The greatest two minutes in sports. That's right. The 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby is this Saturday, and I need to know who's gonna win. Fellas, give me your Kentucky Derby pick.

[Jay Skeets]

I'm telling you right now, Chief Wallaby. Chief is winning the Kentucky Derby. Veteran jockey on the back of that horse. Eight to one odds, I believe. Or it was. I think it's in the 12th spot. I like the positioning on the track. Chief Wallaby for the win this weekend.

[T.R. Mayo]

Chief Wallaby. Great.

[Tas Millis]

Might not even be a horse. Might just be a Wallaby. Go, bud. They're pretty fast. You think a Wallaby's faster than a horse?

[Jay Skeets]

No. No, I don't.

[Tas Millis]

Wallabies are fast. That's right. No, they're not. Yeah, I will. I think mine's gonna lose, so I'm going with so Happy. Because at the end of it, I'll still be happy.

[T.R. Mayo]

I'm still happy.

[Tas Millis]

Just keep on saying we got the.

[Jay Skeets]

What's the odds on so happy Long shot.

[T.R. Mayo]

How do you read these?

[Jay Skeets]

What do you mean?

[JD (Super Producer)]

I got 15 to 1.

[Jay Skeets]

15 to 1's not brutal.

[Tas Millis]

No, but. Yeah. Wallaby's 5 to 1. You said.

[Jay Skeets]

No, Chief Wallaby was 8 to 1.

[Tas Millis]

Oh, okay.

[Jay Skeets]

It was. Yeah. It is. It is.

[Tas Millis]

So we've never been. We've never been to close by Kentucky.

[Jay Skeets]

Hold on. So happy. 15 to 1. I didn't see so happy for a second.

[Tas Millis]

Okay, good luck.

[Jay Skeets]

J.D. who you taking, man?

[JD (Super Producer)]

Do they all go at the same time?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah,

[T.R. Mayo]

it's like, qualified.

[Jay Skeets]

It's a big gate. Big gate. Yeah. It's like, you know, positioning is important.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Oh, hold on. There's 19 horses. We got a scratch.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, I thought there was 23 horses. I thought.

[Tas Millis]

Oh, wow.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay. Maybe there's some scratches out of date.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Okay, well, I'm gonna go off this list anyways. Let me. I'm gonna take the favorite. Renegade.

[Jay Skeets]

Renegade. Four to one.

[Tas Millis]

Four.

[Jay Skeets]

I don't think the Renegades are. Sorry. I don't think the favorites done well in the last couple. Kentucky Derby.

[Tas Millis]

This.

[Jay Skeets]

This is the year for they're due. Okay. I just want to tell you more about Chief Wallaby. Junior Alvarado is The jockey trainer, Bill Mott. If those names sound familiar, that's because they were the duo that took Sovereignty to the win last year. Year at the Derby in Belmont.

[T.R. Mayo]

Oh, yeah. I mean, I remember all those names.

[Jay Skeets]

Yes.

[T.R. Mayo]

Sovereignty. I knew Sovereignty won last year.

[Jay Skeets]

Here, here's. Here's the dirty secret in horse racing no one wants to talk about.

[T.R. Mayo]

It's all the same.

[Jay Skeets]

The horses don't matter. The horses don't matter. It's the jockeys.

[T.R. Mayo]

He thinks about the jockey.

[Jay Skeets]

I am literally talking up my ass right now. But I also.

[T.R. Mayo]

That sounds good to me.

[Jay Skeets]

The best availability. No, wait. The best. The best ability is availability for horses, too.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

For horses too.

[Tas Millis]

Yes.

[T.R. Mayo]

Hey, you can't win if you don't.

[Jay Skeets]

You got to be on the line. You got to be on the line to win the Roses. That's the same. Very true.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. Why isn't the one that won last year available? Like why they can't win two years in a row. They're just too much tired.

[T.R. Mayo]

There are like age limits.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

I think they're three years and under or something like that. And then after that they become an old decrepit horse and they just get to go studio.

[Jay Skeets]

Here's a trivia question from our group of friends who always made sure to watch the Kentucky Derby with their dad.

[T.R. Mayo]

Atlanta friends. No, no, Toronto friends.

[Jay Skeets]

He Toronto friend. But Joel McMillan, he seemed like a guy who Kentucky Derby, him and his pops.

[T.R. Mayo]

A guy that would like a horse.

[Tas Millis]

Yes.

[Jay Skeets]

It's over in a hurry. It is.

[T.R. Mayo]

It's crazy. It's a two minute race, but like the Kentucky Derby extravaganza. I mean, you got to watch for three hours and they'll never tell you when the race is going to happen. And then like suddenly like, oh, they're at the gates. Time to race.

[Jay Skeets]

There's like big races on the Friday night.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

You know. Yeah.

[Tas Millis]

It's two full minutes. Is it a lap and a quarter

[Jay Skeets]

or something or isn't it a mile and a quarter? I think it is. I think that's right.

[T.R. Mayo]

Mile and a quarter lap, huh? Give me wonder, Dean.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah. 20 to 1.

[Jay Skeets]

Wow.

[T.R. Mayo]

Looks like perhaps a Japanese backed horse. I don't know.

[Tas Millis]

Okay, how do you know?

[T.R. Mayo]

I'm just looking at the. The jockey and the trainer names.

[Tas Millis]

Oh, okay.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. If we had a horse together as no dunks, what would we call it? And let's say we can't call it no Dunks. That would be good branding.

[Tas Millis]

It would be.

[Jay Skeets]

But would we just go, no dun the horse. The wedgie Whisperer or something like that.

[T.R. Mayo]

Or Wedgie would have to be involved.

[Jay Skeets]

I think so. And we would, like, put the underwear on our horse and, like, ride it up.

[T.R. Mayo]

It's a crack. The only horse wearing underwear. We've never seen this before.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. Be tough, though. I mean, because the hair. The hair is going to cover it. It's not ideal.

[Jay Skeets]

You mean like the tail? We'd shave it off. We'd take it off. It's our horse. We can do whatever we want. Are you riding?

[T.R. Mayo]

You jockeying? I guess.

[Jay Skeets]

It must fall.

[T.R. Mayo]

You're probably too big.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, I am way too big. I'm not that tiny. Jesus. I'm like twice the size of these guys.

[T.R. Mayo]

You're like Mr. Beast to Jeff Probst.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, man. Aren't they like four, like, 85 pounds, these guys? And women, like, they're tiny.

[Tas Millis]

I think we should be the first team to not have a jockey on the horse. Just let it go.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Let it go.

[Tas Millis]

See what happens.

[T.R. Mayo]

Test your theory. Is it about the horse or the jockey? Yeah, it's true.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. That's a bad idea. I'm telling you, it's important.

[Tas Millis]

Like a carrot to its head. Just go.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay. All right. That's rapid fire. Not so rapid. That's a crazy episode of the Drop. Hopefully you didn't get 36 ads in this one, but if you did, come on over to substack and get ad free episodes. Link in the show notes. Three more game sixes on tonight. Orlando, Cleveland and the Lakers all trying to close it out. Three other teams trying to give us a game seven, baby on Sunday. You said, you know, we only go five days a week.

[Tas Millis]

Week.

[Jay Skeets]

But we got enough likes on this. We might have a weekend podcast brewing here for some of these games tonight in particular. So that's up to you.

[T.R. Mayo]

That's up to you.

[Jay Skeets]

Bring the lights, bring the shares, bring the comments. And maybe, maybe, maybe, depending on how these games go tonight, we might have a little podcast Saturday morning. That's all I'm going to say. Yeah, little tease.

[Tas Millis]

What about you? Going to set a number on the likes or just.

[T.R. Mayo]

Nope.

[Tas Millis]

Just like it.

[Jay Skeets]

Nope, nope. It's all going to be depending on how I feel. And, you know, we get 1 million likes. I'll do something on the Kentucky Derby. I'll go live for the Kentucky Derby and I'll wear a hat. Big old hat. I am wearing a hat right now, but I'll wear a crazy hat.

[T.R. Mayo]

Derby.

[Jay Skeets]

That's not a derby hat. You get laughed out of the. Out of the padding.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Stand.

[T.R. Mayo]

Okay. The paddock.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. You ever been to a horse race? Like a track?

[Tas Millis]

Yes, yes.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yes.

[Jay Skeets]

It's fun as hell.

[Tas Millis]

It is fun.

[Jay Skeets]

It is fun. Fun day out. We should go. There's got to be one.

[Tas Millis]

There was some Chitter chatter about an us going to a Kentucky Derby. Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Yes, we should.

[Tas Millis]

You know, Fanduel sponsors the show. I'm sure they've money involved in horse ride because it was through. Not Fanduel, but a previous.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh.

[Tas Millis]

If you remember.

[Jay Skeets]

I remember.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah, I remember. And we never went. That's a mere how many hours away.

[T.R. Mayo]

Can't be far.

[Jay Skeets]

No, it's not far.

[Tas Millis]

And they do it on a Saturday. It feels like a Sunday race to me.

[Jay Skeets]

I don't know why. Oh, the Derby. Yeah. Now people were getting excited, I guess. Cole, who's a longtime fan, he'd been saying for weeks that Nuggets Wolves was going to go to seven games because that would have meant the Kentucky Derby would have been on the same day as Game seven with Nicola. Nicola Jokic playing.

[T.R. Mayo]

He would have been distracted.

[Jay Skeets]

He would have been distracted.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Or he would have been inspired. I guess. You could flip it around. Sure.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

So. But not happening because the Wolves took care of business.

[T.R. Mayo]

Yeah. He was probably happy. It's like, well, I mean, bummer we lost, but at least it is a Kentucky Derby.

[Jay Skeets]

Imagine he had said that. At least I get to watch the Kentucky Derby without the distraction of a Game seven on my mind. Yeah. Good for you, Jokic. All right, we will see you guys maybe at some point this weekend. That's up to you. If not Monday morning here in the classic factory. Until then, Clipper Bros, you heard it here first.

[T.R. Mayo]

Have a great time. Turn up. Love you guys. Awesome.

[Tas Millis]

Thanks for joining us. And remember, I have to squeeze in something about you leaning back in your chair.

[T.R. Mayo]

Okay.

[Tas Millis]

So I saw Ash sent us a slack message to say Shoulder Lean is by Young dro.

[Jay Skeets]

I know, I know.

[Tas Millis]

Yeah.

[T.R. Mayo]

I'm not trying to.

[Jay Skeets]

I know.

[T.R. Mayo]

I feel so bad.

[Tas Millis]

Instead of Young Jock, this is what I said, right?

[T.R. Mayo]

Young Jockets going down.

[Tas Millis]

But I did say I could have made a mistake, too. I said Young Jock perform yesterday at the halftime show.

[Jay Skeets]

But I think you might have the.

[Tas Millis]

Not seeing any. I'm not seeing any reports.

[Jay Skeets]

Also, he's not that excited about Mando Ash report. Yeah. Oh, that's not good.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Right?

[Tas Millis]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, yeah, right. That's what he's saying. Right. All right, J.D. enjoy an Hathaway. I hope she still has it. And. And we'll see you guys on the weekend or Monday. Embrace the day people

[Tas Millis]

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[Tas Millis]

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[Tas Millis]

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[Jay Skeets]

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[Tas Millis]

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[Jay Skeets]

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[Tas Millis]

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