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Sbar Henny
Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. Coming up, big game last night. Jimmy Butler showed up big time playoff. Jimmy wins the game. Anthony Slater's here to talk about it. S. And I break down the Cav and Thunder sweeps to see who was more dominant in the first round. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, fellas. Anthony Slater hanging out late after the warriors pick up a big win in game four to go up three one. Anthony, I think we saw a playoff, Jimmy, between the clutch free throws and the clutch rebound, they were probably glad to have him out there last night.
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Unknown
Yeah, it was a great day to be Jimmy Butler for not only, obviously, they won the game and he had a flying rebound, 27 points, 12 free throws. But in front of me right now, I'm seeing a replay of the Heat game, and currently they're. The Cavaliers are up 38 to 12. And I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna call Jimmy Butler a petty individual, you know, but I. I have an inkling that he may have enjoyed both NBA playoff games tonight, if you know what I mean. But, yeah, it's 40 12, the Cavaliers, by the way, at this point in this replay. But yeah, I mean, Jimmy Butler to me, like he said. I talked to him just a little bit at his locker postgame. He talked about how painful the injury was. Steve Kerr saying he probably would have missed one to two weeks. Jimmy kind of confirmed that, like, if it season. And he kind of tried to play game three, but admitted that, like, it was. It was a good decision and he would have like, basically been waddling on the court if they had allowed him to play game three. And tonight he mentioned he's like, look at me running in the first three quarters. He said, remember when he had the chase down hard foul on Dylan Brooks, he was like, go rewatch that play. I'm scooting up the court because he said not only did he fall hard on the, you know, kind of his ass, I guess, can I say that on this podcast? But yeah, his, like, hip kind of like tailbone area kind of came up. And it's made it really hard for him to, like, lift his left leg as he's running. I guess he loosened up in the fourth. He was really good in the fourth. The five free throws that clinched the game, right? He gets fouled on a pretty bad. Dylan Bryce Corn foul in the corner for three. And then the rebound was. A lot of people were talking about post game. Draymond Green gets to stop on Sengu late. But Adams has know he's muscling great position. Yeah, he does. Adams gets that rebound if there's, you know, 99% of wings in the league are. Are the one protecting the corner, Jimmy Butler.
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Sbar Henny
Jimmy Butler got it off the rim. Yeah, I mean, I, I, your video, actually, if you guys look on social media, on Anthony's social media, you, you posted a great angle of it. And Jimmy Butler reads the, reads the play. As soon as the shot goes up, he breaks to the rim and he literally grabs the, the rebound at the basket. I mean, it just, if he's, if he's a half second late, Stephen Adams gets that back probably with the put.
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Unknown
Back and Rockets are one with five seconds left. I agree. Instead he gets the foul, hits both free throws. Of course, again, 12, 12 from the line in it, right. In a series, by the way, that you could say maybe he's partly decided at the line. Houston's missed now at this point, probably it was 35 free throws in the series at one point. 12.
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Sbar Henny
I know they missed 12 last night.
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Unknown
Yeah, 12 in a, in a one possession game. They missed 12 free throws. I mean like. And again, that's partly who you're dealing with, right? This is a lower skilled, kind of like offensively deficient, tough team that I think, you know, we are seeing their flaws in this first round series and we are thinking we are seeing the things they need to go into the off season and potentially try to correct.
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Well, it felt like a lot of the decision making from the Rocket side of things was a little uneven in the fourth quarter. You think about the challenge on that Jimmy Butler foul. Some of the double big lineups going back and forth between Shen and Adams, which was working, I thought, against the, the warriors that size. What do you think from, from seeing it live, were there any major mistakes from the Rockets that jumped out to you where it's like, that's the game other than the free throws, obviously, you.
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Know, taking Stephen Adams out with like, what was it, four and a half, five minutes left because the warriors started hacking and they're making it clear, Steven, you know, we're talking about free throw misses. I think he's 46% from the line. They hacked him twice to get all the way up to the bonus with Looney. Put Looney in and he made Udoka, took him out and you know, I get it, right? You don't want all your offensive possessions to suddenly be Steven Adams free throws. But he was so good leading up to that. Protecting the rim, unlike I've seen him since.
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Massive.
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I covered him in Oklahoma City like a decade ago. And then yeah, obviously the rebounding, the toughness, all that. So I mean, maybe that's a mistake. You could look at. You mentioned the challenge. I think sometimes the, the ability to challenge really tests like the, the patience of coaches and like, you know, the cautionary. Because, you know, and again, I. It's not like we. You can then look at a call that wasn't made in the last three seconds and say, oh, what if they had a challenge? So maybe that didn't kill him. How about just the foul by Bill and Brooks? That's a mistake. Like, that was like, that's. Jimmy Butler didn't want to take that shot. It was like three on the shot clock. It was. It was like a prayer. And he wasn't going to make it the game. Like, Houston might win if Dylan Brooks doesn't commit that foul.
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Sbar Henny
Well, Houston might win if Dylan Brooks isn't on the court at all that last night. Because, I mean, it seems like not only did he get Draymond going, he got Jimmy. Jimmy Butler going by. By talking to him at the free throw line. I mean, the hard foul that Jimmy Butler delivered, by the way, textbook playoff foul. No wind up whatsoever. And Jimmy Butler's super nice to the ref, so they're not even going to review that. But Dylan Brooks gets Jimmy Butler fired up. That big foul on Jimmy Butler down the street.
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Unknown
Jimmy Butler is really nice to the Raps. It's funny. That's one of the things I've noticed.
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Sbar Henny
And go look at how few technical fouls he's had over the course of his career.
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Unknown
Purposeful.
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Sbar Henny
Never been a Jeff.
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Unknown
It is. It is. So Dylan Brooks has also actually been pretty good on the floor of this series. I think he should get some credit. Like, like the warriors, like, view him as a shooter they need to get out on. He's not the guy, right back in the Memphis series, he's the guy that used to be funneling the ball through. That's no longer the case. He's actually. I actually think he's played well. But yes. Got Draymond Green going. And Jimmy Butler even just said post game. Get me on record, I don't like Dylan Brooks because somebody. You know how Dylan Brooks laughed when Jimmy Butler was like curling some insult somebody. It was. It was presented to Jimmy Butler in postgame, like, look like you two were having fun out there. And he's like, no, no, no, no, no. Like, he. I think he respects the competitive level of Dylan Brooks, but he's like, that was not fun. And I do not like Dylan Brooks. Get that on record. So maybe, I don't know, you know how like, like competitive championship level Athletes, Sure.
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It's like, yeah, sure.
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Dylan Brooks is the reason you got going. Like, no, Game four is the reason you got going. Like, you need to win this. Jimmy Butler, you're 35. You do not have a championship at this stage of your career. Like, this is your moment. That's why he played well.
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Sbar Henny
This is the last ride, right?
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Unknown
Well, it's. It's two or three years they believe, you know, they think they can win next year. Honestly, I think I'd say in this Jimmy Butler era, which we can now call this, like, last stage of the Warriors, I think they've always viewed the second season when they can maybe make some roster tweaks this summer. Yeah. As the. The one to go after. I say that while also knowing the fact that they chased themselves all the way up to the seven seed and got the pass that they got, which is a very beatable Houston team at the 2. And then, you know, probably the Wolves in the next round, if they advance. Like, this might be the year, even if the roster maybe is not as sharpened as they want it to be.
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25 and 8 when Jimmy Butler is in the lineup. So that is a pretty good proof of concept for next season if they want to roll with it. Another guy who was massive in this game was Brandon Pajimski. Huge rebound, massive shot making for him to come out with this type of game. I mean, it's. He's been pretty good all series for them, I feel, stepping into that role. But would you. What do you see from.
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You know, he ate some really bad seafood in Houston before game two.
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Yeah.
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And said, basically, I had to go 72 hours without eating again. It was that bad. Tried to play game two. One of the weirder moments of the series was Jimmy Butler comes down on that wild foul, like, really nasty fall, obviously. And I went to the back, right. You know, especially how the Houston arena set up. And I'm sitting there trying to watch Jimmy Butler stretch it out. He goes to the X ray room. He's walking at, like, point one miles an hour, waddling. And like, that's the. It feels like the warriors entire season is, like, resting on what's going on in this tunnel. All their doctors and trainers are coming through. And Brandon Pajemski suddenly looks like, you know, he's ghost white and he's coming back. Followed by one of their kind of like, middle or tier trainers. Because everybody else was worried about Jimmy Butler, and I was like, oh, man, Pajemsky looks horrible. And it was like nobody cared at the Time because it was like Jim, Jimmy Butler, like, did he just break his hip? But that was like lost in, in the game two loss. Was like Pajemski was good in game one, really good. Has been their fourth best player for two months now. And then was like horrific in game two because he was just like really ill. He, he went 05 shooting. I don't think he hit rim on the five shots and then was benched down the stretch. You know, he took ivy at halftime, tried to play. Anyway, to your point, like he's, he. He said he felt a little better in game three. Right. I mean everybody's been through a sickness like that where, okay, two days later, you're not as. I don't feel as horrible as I did it. Like you're not 100. All right. I just went 72 hours without eating. I've now ate for 24 hours, but I'm not quite myself tonight. He looked like himself again. And what did he finish with? 28. That's huge. There are completely different team when he's playing like that.
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Pre game Sushi, not the Houston seafood.
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Sbar Henny
Not in Houston.
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Dave DuFour
Don't do it in Houston.
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Sbar Henny
Yeah, I mean, you know, respectfully, it's not that far from the ocean. It's funny to, to be talking about a big warriors playoff win and to spend 10 minutes without talking about Steph Curry. The Rockets did a really good job of just limiting his shots and making him work to, to get open. I mean it wasn't even like he necessarily had like a bad game. The Rockets game plan really just took him out of it, you know, you worried at all? Like did they figure something out now the warriors have to sweat this in game five? Or is this one of those ones that's going to happen every now and then?
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Unknown
Well, I'll say a few things. He had a really bad stretch. I would say that late second quarter after all, like just the dust ups and mix ups. They threw four straight pick six turnovers to put Houston up 5750 at half. And Steph was bad during that stretch. I would in no way say Houston has figured anything out. Now they did do more double big. They did a zone with the double big. They've got a lot of long athletes. Like it's they're here. You know, Houston's here for a reason. They won 52 games. They're two seed. We clearly see it's not their half court offense or their star perimeter scoring. So they're play calling. They're very difficult to, to deal with. For Steph Curry now he's found ways and found, you know, cracks and, you know, success in this series. So, you know, again, I'm not like, he'll probably have a productive game five, game six, whatever. As far as game five is concerned, like the Warriors, I would favor Houston. The warriors show this in the championship season. They get up three, one.
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Oh, okay.
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They get up not for the series, but for game five. Right. Y'all remember the Memphis series, which, by the way, there's been a lot of on the ground from the warriors and from people around comparing this Houston series to the 22 second round Memphis series. Really physical, bruising, young team that just want, you know, Dylan Brooks heavily involved. And that series was a game one, warriors win in Memphis. Game two loss, come home, squeak two by go up three one, go to Houston and get blown out like the Heat got blown out tonight. Right. I think they were down 55 in that game. And then come home for game six and close it out. So if. If this is going to continue on that Memphis formula. That's what I'm thinking. Do y'all remember who was the head coach of the warriors for Game 6 to close out the Memphis cruise? Not Steve Kerr.
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Was it J. Kenny? Yeah, maybe Kenny.
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Sbar Henny
Mike Brown. Oh, my gosh.
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Unknown
Yes.
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Oh, my goodness.
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Raymond Ritter came in pregame and and said Steve care has Covid and Mike Brown will be the head coach tonight. Mike Brown is like has an. You know, he has an undefeated record as a playoff head coach of the warriors. He went like 12, 0 and Steve career back. Anyway, sorry, I took you guys pretty good.
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Sbar Henny
That's a good trivia bit. No, I forgot completely. I mean, I just memory hold that whole championship run to a certain degree. Anthony, go and read Anthony over at the Athletic. Thanks for hanging out. Staying up late for us guys. Stick around after the break. S and I are going to debate who's been more dominant so far, the Thunder or the Cavs. Anthony.
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Unknown
I'm going to go with Cavs because I'm looking up right now, it's 4919 right now. Industry.
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It's a good pick.
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Sbar Henny
In the other game last night.
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Unknown
Can you call it a game?
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Sbar Henny
The Cavs played a game. The Miami Heat just decided not to show up.
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Unknown
The.
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Sbar Henny
The Cavs were completely locked in from the jump. They won the game 138 to 83. Just. Oh, man, they won the series in a sweep by 122 points. And that is the most lopsided playoff series in NBA history. It was very impressive. Obviously, the Thunder also swept the Grizzlies. Although the last couple games, you know, I think not closer. Yeah, a little closer for the Thunder. I begs the question. S. I mean, these were the two best teams all year, man. I think, you know, they. They coasted through. Through their playoff series to a certain degree. I mean, again, the Thunder did. Did have some adversity, but the Cavs definitely didn't. Thunder had to play a tougher opponent. Like the Grizzlies are not as bad as the Miami Heat.
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Unknown
They are not the Miami Heat. No.
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Sbar Henny
Right.
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Unknown
Yeah, that is true.
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Sbar Henny
Who had the most impressive sweep to you?
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Unknown
Wow. Well, you could argue this a couple different ways. You could say, look, the Oklahoma City Thunder had a 29 point comeback, one of the best comebacks in playoff history. That in itself is impressive. The bit the best halftime comeback ever.
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Sbar Henny
Right? Yeah.
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Unknown
That is an impressive thing to do.
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Sbar Henny
Now, which is a very old reference, but wow.
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Unknown
All right. And they did it. Obviously. The caveat of John Morant and all that type of stuff. That is one impressive part to this also. I don't think they had the best SGA series.
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Sbar Henny
Like no.
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Unknown
SGA was kind of.
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Sbar Henny
Did he even really pop off for one?
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Unknown
He had. The final game was the most impressive game that he had in game four.
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He.
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He really cooked and it obviously sent the Grizzlies home. But for the most part, not a great series from. From sga. And they still handled business.
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Sbar Henny
Right.
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Unknown
So you can argue one side that way from the cab side. Darius Garland didn't play for two of these games, right?
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Yeah.
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They basically just walked out there in Miami and dominated. Wasn't even a chance. There was bickering and smack talking and trash talking between Tyler Hero and Darius Garland. Didn't even matter.
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Sbar Henny
For no reason.
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Unknown
Yeah, for no reason. It wasn't even a conversation. It was like they were trying to stir up something. Nothing could even remotely be stirred up. I'm going to say it's the Cavs. The Cavs did have the better sweep just because of how absolutely dominant they were. You think about Ty Jerome, who basically put up 22, six and five in this series through four games. Wildly impressive. And that's from your six, man. That's a guy who's coming off the bench for you, putting up, you know, all star levelish numbers through four games. I. I think it's the Cavs, but in terms of looking forward, I have a question for you. I'll throw a question back.
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Sbar Henny
Okay.
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Unknown
Okay.
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All right.
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I like it from both of these teams, which I Think there's a likely chance both of them make a pretty decent run here. We see them for at least one more round. We'll see.
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Sbar Henny
We're going to see them in the next round. They've made it.
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Unknown
Yeah, true. Who is the most important player now? This is different than best player, right? Who is their most important player?
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Sbar Henny
Yeah, I mean I like obviously like Shay Gilgis Alexander is the most important player.
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Unknown
Right.
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Sbar Henny
Like we all know this. Yeah, but we know Donald Mitchell down for me. For the Thunder, I think it's Chet Holmgren and for the Cavs, I think it's Evan Mobley. I think those are the guys that are going to have to have big time offensive series in going forward because it's going to be harder for Donovan Mitchell. You know, let's see how Darius Garland looks. I mean, I'm assuming he's going to be fine for, for the next round. It's going to be harder for Mitchell, it's going to be harder for Shay. I mean we know what they're going to do, right? We saw this last year and last year I thought it was going to be Jalen Williams, you know, that would step up for. Ok, but so far, just what I've seen here the last few weeks, I really think it's, it's Chet. I think Chad is the guy that's going to be the X factor or whatever moniker we want to give that player, but the guy who's going to have to perform. What, what about for you? Did I just steal both you guys?
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Unknown
So I'll play devil's advocate here because I, I do agree with those picks. Those are fine picks. I think I would go with Darius Garland and Jalen Williams. So like I said, Shay didn't have the greatest first round series, but you know who did? J Dub. J Dub was awesome in round one. Very, very ass was great. Settling into those mid range shots, creating his own shot. I thought the chemistry between him and Hartenstein and those bench units looked really, really good. So he's important because he keeps them afloat offensively when Shay's off the floor. And I agree that to a certain extent Chet does the same. That offensive pairing with him and Hartenstein makes sense. But to me, I think J Dub, the, the ceiling as a score is higher, especially right now. So he can get to a level that I don't think Che can. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And like he can create off the bounce a little bit more. So I'd say J Dub and then for Garland it's how much are teams Going to hunt you out on the defensive end because if there is one, we and weak link is a tough way to call it. But look, you're in the playoffs, you're going to get targeted. You know, we saw Jalen Green in this Rockets warriors game get targeted. So how are you able to stay on the floor defensively when it's the Pacers or in the Celtics games or series moving forward, can those guys target you and get you off the floor? That's the big question I have with Darius Garland.
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Sbar Henny
Yeah, I mean, again, none of these teams are perfect, but I know I do very good.
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Unknown
Incredible.
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Sbar Henny
I do think Oklahoma City, I mean especially the energy that they've. They've come out with in pretty much every game. Looking ahead to tomorrow, we've got some series that are 3:1. Obviously Bucks Pacers, you know, with the, the Damian Lillard injury has kind of lost the juice. The Pacer up 3:1. The Knicks going back to the Garden with a 3:1 lead on the Pistons. The, the Celtics up 3:1 going back to the Garden. Wait a second over Orlando and, and then we've got Clippers and Nuggets, which is 2:2 and, and probably like I, I think the series of the first round so far when you consider how.
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Unknown
Absolutely.
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Sbar Henny
I mean, yeah, it, it doesn't get any closer than the buzzer beater from Aaron Gordon the other night. Let's talk about the three ones. I mean, which one of these three ones do you. You think they're all done?
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Unknown
I think Bucks Pacers for sure is done. And again, really, really unfortunate situation with Damian Lillard. Hopefully he's back spirits high and all that because it's just tough to see him go out like that. Right. But I do think that series is over and I think Indiana ends up winning this pretty comfortably in Indy. I, the only team that I see extending their series tonight or in on Tuesday would be the Knicks and the Pistons. I think the Pistons can steal a game here in MSG and send it back to game six. Especially with the way the, that game ended with the officiating and the, the physicality. I think the Pistons come out hungry. I think they can, they can extend the series, but I think Boston finishes them off and I think Indiana finishes.
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Sbar Henny
Boston needs to finish him off.
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Unknown
Actually. Yes.
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Sbar Henny
I think that of the three, Boston probably needs it the worst just because of the injuries. You know, Drew Holiday's probably not going to play in this game. Jason Tatum's banged up. We, we've been talking about Jaylen Brown's knee for the last few weeks. Although, you know, it hasn't really slowed him down all that much in, in the playoffs. But yeah, I, I think, you know, Boston last year, they had a, an amazing run and it, I think health was such a key component of that run.
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Unknown
It always is.
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It.
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It always is in every.
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Yeah.
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Sbar Henny
And it feels like they're starting this out, you know, a little bit stuck in the mud because of, of some injury stuff. So, yeah, I think they need to close it out. Let's talk Clippers and Nuggets before we get out of here, because again, this is the most compelling series. I mean, it's this or maybe Rockets, warriors before, before last night's game, but Clippers, Nuggets. I don't know what to think about the Nuggets because I, I thought we were all going to be talking about how they were done and what happens this summer, what happens next. And they managed to win this game and now they're going back to Denver where that's a tough place to play, you know, and, and you're going from, from the beach straight there. I don't know how you feel about the Clippers.
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Unknown
I was going to throw it back at you.
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I was going to ask you who you think.
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Sbar Henny
I'll tell you, the way I think this is going to play out, I, I think the, the Clippers are gonna lose to the Nuggets in Denver. I just think when you lose a game like that, especially after the comeback, right, like the, the emotional roller coaster that you got to go through and, you know, you're watching that film and you're saying, oh, well, we didn't lose it necessarily on this last second play. You know, we lost it here, we lost it here. And I just think it's come. It's tough to come back from, but I do think, I think this is going to go seven.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Sbar Henny
And I think the Clippers just have, you know, more legs. I mean, like, you look at the game the other night and they, the Nuggets are forced to play everybody for, for the, you know, majority of the second half of the game. They just don't have the guys. You know, Michael Porter Jr. Took an amazing game from him, took one of the best games I've seen from Christian Brown two way games. And they win it on, you know, on the closest buzzer beater I've ever seen in my life. So, yeah, I just think that when it push comes to shove, like Jokic is, the Clippers have more human. I just think that the Clippers have More? Yeah.
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Unknown
I mean, how many more times are you going to replicate the formula that you did in game four where you played all these guys, massive minutes? And to your point, Michael Porter junior's shoulder, Russell Westbrook, the ankle situation. I will say, I think the wild card here for Denver is Jamal Murray hasn't really had one of those games, you know, and he usually has at least one of those types of games. So maybe that ends up swinging the series in favor of Denver if he just goes ballistic for like a 35, 40 point night, which he's capable of doing. So I think that's, that's the one key that's kind of like the swing factor here for Denver. But the other thing is pace, right? Every game, whatever team has won has dictated the pace, has won the turnover battle, has won the offensive rebounding battle. So whatever team ends up doing that through the next three games, because I do agree with you, it'll go seven, they'll end up winning the series. I think the Clippers have more, more legs. That's undoubtedly true, but I mean, the Nuggets have the best player in the world, man. You know, I can't discount.
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Sbar Henny
I will say this, though. The Clippers have the guy in, in Evita Zubac who guards him.
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Unknown
Who can guard him.
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Sbar Henny
Yeah, and this is, we're saying this on the heels of a. Well, what a Jokic have. 36, 20 and eight, you know, the other night. So I mean, take that with a grain of salt. But I mean this is. I, I think the Clippers are very well suited to, to be able to, to take Jokic out of it a little bit.
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Unknown
Can raise to that level too, which is just another.
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Sbar Henny
I mean, James Harden, I, I like he had a bad Game four and I just, I don't know if, if he's going to be that bad again, you know, if he, if he's just has an average game that, you know, the Clippers are, are more in it when they start to come back.
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Unknown
So the Nuggets played so desperate in game four and it continue to do that through three more games in the series.
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Sbar Henny
Five guys. Yeah, exactly the hardest part. All right, that's going to do it for the show, folks. Enjoy the games tonight. Thanks to Anthony Slater for joining us and staying up late after the warriors game for Sbar Henny. I'm Dave Duor and this is Ben the NBA Daily. Thanks for waking up with us.
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