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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for April 7, 2026. I'm Dave DeFore here with Zena Keda. Coming up, the Nuggets had a big comeback. The Knicks finally get a big win. And Jared Weiss is here to talk about Victor Womenyama's rib injury. Good morning everybody. What is up, Xena? How are you doing?
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I'm wonderful. I'm hanging out with Remy right here.
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Yeah, we got a little dog action.
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We got it. Let's do it.
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This is the dog pod today. Speaking of dogs. Hey.
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Yes.
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Can we move. Can we move the national title game out of a football stadium? These guys could not shoot last night.
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It was. They were dog tired.
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Yeah. Shout out to the Michigan Wolverines for winning that game. They. They. They made fewer. Seven fewer threes.
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Yeah.
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Than. Than Yukon. And they somehow still won the game. Atrocious shooting, but again, man, arenas are hard to shoot in Xena. I, I don't know. I. I prefer women's college basketball. I think we've talked about this. Four quarters makes a big difference style of play. Just the way that it moves, man. It was. That was a tough watch.
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I'll have to say though. UConn, Wolverine, like Yukon, Michigan, they did keep it closer than.
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Yeah.
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We saw with ucla, South Carolina. That doesn't mean the basketball was necessarily better from the winning.
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Yukon did almost come back there at the end and you know, then they went for two down four. So bad coaching decision there by the Yukon Huskies.
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Anyway, I really do want to give you credit for that transition though. I mean.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, thank you.
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Well, let's talk about the Knicks. The Knicks beat the hawks last night 108105 and we almost got overtime. CJ McCollum hit a three quarter court heave that if he could have gotten it off a tenth of a second sooner would have set the game to overtime. But the Knicks came back in this game and it was because Jalen Brunson had a ridiculous fourth quarter. Continues to be clutch. And what happened in this game, Xena, was that Nikhil Alexander Walker had a great two way game. And we'll get to that. But he was, he was actually dominating at the point of attack on Jalen Brunson. And then that fourth quarter came and I thought the Knicks did a really good job of mixing things up. And they kept Nikhil Alexander Walker away from the play. And so they were able to get pretty much anybody they wanted to come up and guard Brunson. And Brunson took advantage. This is the stuff that I like to see out of the Knicks. I think that their crunch time offense is good, but I still am worried about the other three and a half quarters of the game.
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I mean, yeah, that's the problem. There's a great stat the NBC put up in terms of the offensive rating of the knicks in the first quarter. Being out in middle of the pack 15 in the NBA. And then you get to the fourth quarter and they're number one in offensive rating. Like, I mean it's, it's crazy. But this is what Jalen Brunson does. He does pick it up. He does find a way to steady his team by being able to be that outlet pass. And whether he's taking the shots or setting up folks like Ogn and Obiwan to take those corner shots, he is that guy that closes things out. I am a. I'm concerned of the longevity of this. How can you keep this up? When you get into the playoffs? There's another team we're going to talk about that keeps me on my toes around. How can you keep these kind of clutch game, clutch performances and it being a necessity as opposed to just an element of your game. It's a necessity of your game. That concerns me. But ultimately I want to give credit to Jalen Brunson for that fourth quarter performance and we know he can do it. But if people have been like, oh God, it's been a long season now I'm going to turn into the playoffs. I'm going to tune in to what's been going on. You got a perfect performance out of Nikhil Alexander Walker.
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Yeah.
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And I think he is a person that we have to give a lot of credit to for that Jalen Brunson performance because he was putting on a show all night long. Seven made three pointers, 36 points. His third highest performance in terms of points scored this season. He was clutch throughout the game.
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Right.
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And that's the difference. The Knicks need to be clutched throughout the game, not just at the end.
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Yeah. It did feel like every single time he, they needed to hit a shot that he was able to do that for them. Nikhil, he had 36 points. We've been talking about the MVP race. How about the MIP race? I'm pretty sure that Nikhil. Well, not anymore. I think he locked it up last night like this was a marquee game against the Knicks and I mean he was just absolutely on fire. This would be a really fun playoff series. There's still a chance that, that we could get it. You know, if The Knicks drop to four, or if they say three, and somehow the Hawks wind up six. Although it does feel like the Hawks are going to be in, in the five seed. This was the Knicks best win since they beat the Nuggets on March 6th. You know, and so I, I thought it was good.
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It's a quality win because Atlanta is a quality team. And last night, and this is the thing that's so scary about Atlanta, is that at any given point you don't know whose team it is, whether it's J, you know, it's Jalen Johnson's, but he can play like a default role where he finds and sets his teammate up. And the likes of Nikhil Alexander Walken could go off, CJ McCollum can go off, his ISO game can go off. Dyson Daniels, of course, he's a defensive stopper, but he can have his moments as well. Like there's, at any given point, the athleticism of this team just morphs throughout the, and the, the ball is hot for whoever's got the opportunity to touch it. And that's what's exciting about Atlanta. And I think that that's what makes them so exciting, right? The potential of going up against the New York Knicks. Because those two teams, you never really know what you'll get out of them on any of the night.
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And the Hawks athleticism, right, like it does put, put the Knicks to the test quite a bit. The Nuggets, they pick up a win in overtime against the Blazers. And if you're just box score checking, it's like, oh, okay, it's a Monday night game. Overtime. No, the Nuggets came back from down 18. Xena and I were discussing, oh no, we're gonna have to hammer the Nuggets. They've been playing so well. They just got this big win over the spurs and, and then they blew it. But then they come back, they go on a 24 to eight run in the fourth. And they do it in the way that, that they just always do it. And it's Jamal Murray, it's Nicola Jokic and Aaron Gordon hitting threes from the corner, cutting in for dunks. Aaron Gordon sends the game into overtime essentially on his own. This is, Look, I don't want to talk about being down 18 because this is a veteran team. They can do this, okay? And it's a regular season game. And by the way, the Blazers shot the lights out. They set a team record with 25 made threes. They were 25 of 52 from three nights like that. You're usually going to lose if you're the the other team. So give them credit for coming back and getting the win. But the thing for me, Xena, that stands out about this game. And then if we go back to Saturday's game against the spurs, the Nuggets are fully healthy except for Peyton Watson, but they've got their starting five. We are seeing what their playoff crunch time, not only their rotation lineup look like minus Peyton Watson, but but what their schemes look like. And I think that they are as playoff ready as anybody right now on the offensive and the defensive end. Jokic actually is playing defense now. I mean we talked about this a little bit after the game on Saturday. He had six, five steals and a couple of blocks. But more so than that was actually a presence at the rim. Even though like only two blocks. But he was playing around the basket and actually protecting the rim quite a bit. So I've been really impressed with this Xena. I think they're ready for the playoffs.
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What do you think? I mean you call out a really great point. Nikola Jokic is playing his best defense of the season. He seems really locked in. I mean I made a joke with you while we were watching of like oh, you know, Nikola Jokic heard about the, the 65 game rule with Wemby. We're going to touch on that with Jared. But he was like, oh wait, is this. There's a potential here. I could potentially get this. But you're, you're absolutely right and are so many different moments throughout the game that you realize that level of comfort and familiarity is such a boon for Denver. Like even the, the last play of the game regular, the regulation time before they went to overtime, setting up the last clock. You know, Jamal Murray has the ball in hand and they're trying to get like a high ball pick and roll with him and Jokic. And the timing of the first like of Jamal coming off was like for the handoff was too early and you could just see them kind of wait. And even the announcers were like now go. And they did like, it was like. It was like clockwork that they knew exactly when they need to go to get that last 10 seconds and they almost got it. Of course Jokic missed a rare bunny that he typically does not. But they end up winning it in clutch. For me, the biggest concern with Denver since March 1st. So over the course of the years they've played over 40 clutch games. That's remember, let's just remind our folks that are listening how many games are in the season Dave.
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82.
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82 over 40. I think they have 41 and this might be 42 clutch games. Okay. That's a lot on the body that you're not only playing the full exertion of a game, you're probably going hard as hell in the fourth trying to win the game. And whether you win in that, that fourth quarter or you have to go to overtime, it's like that's a lot on the body. But I, I look at particularly this lead up to the playoffs. Since March 1, the Nuggets have played 19 games. They have played 12 clutch games in 19 games. That's a lot like you're supposed to be chilling, trying to like, you know, getting some sort of like comfort with how you're closing out games and, and building up leads so that your, your starters can sit that, find a way to get some rotations for the guys that are supposed to help you in the playoffs and see who can get those rotational minutes. Nope, nope. You're getting an exciting game every time you tune into the Nuggets right now. And I don't know if that's great for them going into the playoffs, but
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you know, it's working though. They're winning and, and by the way,
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record in these last 18 games, like, they're, they're great, they're doing great.
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And as it sits right now, they are the three seed. They, they move up half a game on the Lakers. So if the playoffs started tomorrow, they'd be playing the Timberwolves, which I do not think that they actually want. So we got to watch this because I wouldn't put it past, I don't know, I don't think that they'll actually do this. But if you're thinking about your playoff matchups, like do you want to go through Minnesota and then have to play the spurs and, or would you rather have maybe the Rockets, maybe the Lakers, depending on how things shake out, four or five? Now I'm not saying that they're going to play with the seedings. I don't think that they're good enough to actually do that. I think they need to just win out and make sure that they can be home court advantage in the playoffs, but it is something to watch.
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They barely closing out games. They ain't got time to be thinking about their sch.
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Yeah, that's right. Tan Kamara was too much for him last night. And hey, before we, before we go to break, Chicago Bulls have made a change in the front office, which I think a lot of Bulls fans have Just been waiting for for a long time. The Bulls have fired VP of basketball operations Arturis Carnis Sovas and GM Mark Eversley. Listen, they had won 500 season in the last six years, one playoff appearance. They've been perennial playing. They just had another terrible trade deadline. Like the Alex Caruso trade comes up constantly. But anything that where you're sending Kobe White away and you just get really nothing for him, I think is a huge problem. Especially when you look and you send them to a perfect place like the Hornets should have given up maybe something for him. They. They've not been good at their job. And I think moving on from them, the Jaden Ivy thing seems to be to have been the nail in the coffin.
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Yeah.
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I also I wonder if maybe Michael Malone getting hired by UNC and Billy Donovan now going to stick around with the Bulls, maybe that allowed them to go ahead and say, hey, we can shake things up. I know the Bulls do not like to make changes, period. But this is one that was long overdue. This front office has not done a good job of getting talent, of develop, of making sure that there's a development path for the talent or even just getting assets for the talent that they do have when they send them away. And so I don't know, those three things seem pretty important to that job. Zena.
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Yeah, absolutely. And you want to be able to show some sort of work for, you know, get some sort of value for the work that you've put in over the last few years. Like the Bulls have not been relevant since Derrick Rose. That is over a decade of, in a culture. And this is the worst part, a culture of mediocrity. Like you, you look at Chicago and like we make the joke about, oh, the play in Chicago, like even before the play in was a thing we think about Chicago like a play in team, right? Like that they're just right on the cusp. They're right in the bubble. And I really think it really goes back to. We can look at a ton of different things, but the win now strategy that they had with DeMar DeRozan and Zach Lavigne, rather than like truly doing a full rebuild, I think got them a little bit of false confidence. Right. Because they made the playoffs 22, 23
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or something like that, or 21, 22. One of those.
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21, 20, 22. And after that it, they just fell apart. And there was too much money tied up in injury, injured players and older players and players that weren't winning. And this most recent trade away with Vucevic like, and KO White like you're not getting anything back. Like expiring contracts, second round picks. That's. That's not a haul. That's not, that's not, that's not what you want to show when the teacher says, show me your work. How'd you get here? It's like, that's not where you want to end up on, you know, as your final landing spot. And so it feels like, yes, there is shake up coming. Let's stop being mediocre. Let's stop being the joke of the Eastern Conference. With a brand like we have the Chicago Bulls, we should be perennial. Correct. We should be a market team.
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That is a perennial high mediocre floor. Right. Like it's, it's a play in floors. The ninth seat floor and then the ceiling is eight. There is just nowhere to go up. And so, you know, I guess now is the time, you know, they're going to get someone in there. I guess they'll have to bottom out. I don't know. But it's a shame that Chicago Bulls are not a good basketball team that's run well and that's competitive.
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Yeah.
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I mean, again, that's where Michael Jordan played. This should be one of the most popular and famous teams in the world. And for some reason this ownership, I think is the next thing that should change. Anyway, guys, stick around because after the break we got Jared Weiss talk about the spurs and Wimby still being eligible for postseason awards. The spurs won their 60th game of the season last night, although Victor Wimanyama missed over half of it with an apparent rib injury. Our man Jared Weiss is in the building as he usually is. How's it going, buddy?
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Howdy. My ribs are okay. Not Wendy's.
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How's Wimy's?
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I think he seemed fine. Like I saw, I talked to him after the game. He seemed totally normal. He does not seem like someone who's out for the season. I think, I think it will probably play at these last two game or last three games to qualify for the awards. I think he'll be fine, but I don't know yet.
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Okay, well, good to know. Listen, they, they pick up a win over the Sixers. 115, 102. I was anticipating it more to see Embiid against Victor Wyama. And I mean the, the, the difference between the two, especially on the defensive end to me were just night and day. Like Embiid essentially looks like he can't guard right now. And I thought the spurs did a really Good job of taking advantage of that with their guard play. I mean, this is why I'm kind of high on them going into the playoffs. They've just got so many guys. How the heck did this team get to 60 wins this season? Wasn't that supposed to be like a year or two down the line, bro?
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I, I don't know. I, I don't think anybody has any idea how this happened because one of the things that they were reflecting upon tonight was that they were hoping to get into the playoffs. Like that was their stated goal. Victor was the one that said we want the six seed. And now I think he, he had the number six, right. I think he was just applying the number incorrectly. It was 60 wins is what they were looking for, clearly. So, you know, the big thing for them is obviously Wemby has had a pretty transformative season, I guess. Pretty transformative, right? He just turned into the best player in the world maybe. But also like Steph Castle has really made the leap to all star. Dylan Harper has had a huge leap in the second half. Him and Castle are both shooting like 40% from the field in the second half of the. I'm sorry, not from the field. From three. Like they're shooting lights out. Dylan Harper shooting like 70% at the rim in the last few months. Like he's actually like one of the best finishers in the league. Castle is a triple double machine. He had his, it was his fifth triple double of the season. Like he's six in the league and triple doubles in his second year. The guy. These guys have all developed and turned into really well rounded players like Champagne, Devin Fissell have been really good in the starting lineup. You know, those were two guys coming to the seat. People weren't sure how they were going to fit into the team's plans for the future. And like Fissell has lived up to being like one of the highest paid players on the team. He's been a very good two way player for them. Schumpetti just broke the franchise three point shooting record. Kelvin Johnson, favorite to win sixth man of the year coming off the bench. Like every single player on this team I think has exceeded expectations.
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And you haven't even mentioned the veterans Dear and Fox and Harrison Barnes that.
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Oh yeah, those guys, yeah, you know those guys.
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The guys that are going to probably be the only, you know, bearers of experience as they head to the playoffs and they prepare for, for the next stage. But Dave and I and S, we talked about that Spurs Nuggets game matchup. You Know, of course, this game against the Pistons, they take care of business, even with Wemby going down. That game was a really great indication of what the spurs could do in the playoffs. How much are. Are we concerned about Wemby's health going into the playoffs, how that might impact what they look like? Any thoughts of what Wemby's absence could do? Yeah, I mean, potential accident.
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Yeah. This is a rib contusion. I would expect him to play through it because he cares a lot about these awards. I'm expecting him to play through it, but obviously, if they tell him, listen, man, we don't want you breaking your rib. We don't want you having a really bad edema, and then you're in pain for the first round, and then it doesn't really get a chance to heal. Like, the eye on the prize is very clear for this team. They want a championship. So I expect that. When you consider he only needs to play one more game, though, he can wait, I guess, until Sunday and take basically a week off and. And then they have another week off after that because of the play in tournament. Like, he has plenty of time to heal up. But with Victor, I mean, he picks up bumps and bruises. He rolls his ankle, like, 180 degrees and then, like, hobbles off and then is fine 20 seconds later. Like, this guy, as much as people are worried his health and he has missed games, he has been relatively indestructible considering, like, how much he hyperextends his ankles and, like, hurts his knees and, like, all this kind of stuff. The beating that he's taking is. He's got a lot more physical. I'm not too concerned about whether he can get healthy. Obviously. I'm concerned about how does he handle getting to the conference finals, maybe even the finals. And most players are really injured at that point. And just look at the beating that Jokic has taken in the postseason every single year. This guy is covered in scars. He's covered in blood every single time. And he plays 45 minutes a night. He plays Wilt Chamberlain level numbers. Like, that's. That's the thing that Victor hasn't had to do this year is he hasn't had to play. Like, he's only averaging 29 minutes a game, which would probably be like, 31 to 32 maybe if he wasn't hurting on the minutes restrictions so much of the season in the first half. But like, Victor, even playing 32, the leap to playing, like, 38 minutes a game, that's a huge leap right While most of the other MVP level players, they might have to go up like 10% a minute, sound like 20% of minutes. So that, that's the thing I'm worried about with Victor. More so is just like, how does he, how does he hold up over the course of a month and a half of what's going to be way more intense, physical basketball than what they've seen for the most part over these last few months. And we saw in that Denver game he stepped up to the challenge, but then at the same time he did look a little gas at the very end there.
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Yeah, I mean, listen, but he has shown that he can hit that 40 minute mark and I, I, you know, we haven't seen it very much. I think he's maybe done it like three or four times. 38, 39 minutes.
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That Denver game was the only 40 minute game of the season.
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So 38, 39 minutes a couple times before that one. I, I'm not that concerned about it just because playoff. I do think playoff rest will factor in. You know, there's less travel, which I think is probably much harder on him than, than even the average seven footer. Right.
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It's been hard on me, honestly. So I can't wait for less travel. Okay.
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So I, I want to swing.
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I've been on like 12 cities in the last three weeks. Like, we just.
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You're on the way.
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They're just looking forward to like being in one. Yeah, I think they're looking forward to being in one place for more than like three days at a time. That will do wonders for him.
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Yeah, look, this team won 34 games last year. Mitch Johnson took over after five games from Greg Popovich, which maybe is like, that's maybe the hardest coach in NBA history anyone's ever had to live up to. Right. The greatest coach in NBA history. And you have to take over this team with Victor Wenmanyama. The future of, of the sport. And they, they go 32 and 45 under Ms. Johnson last year. This year they've won their 60th game. They're probably going to win a few more this week. I assume we'll see about that Sunday game against the Nuggets. I think Mitch Johnson should be getting a lot of buzz for coach of the year. I understand that he has a lot of talent, but I think that he has pushed the right buttons all season long. You talked about Kelton Johnson, six man of the year. He was guarding Jokic in that game against the Nuggets and holding up, saw him guard Embiid last night. I mean, these are things that I don't know if he was able to do a year, year and a half ago benching Harrison Barnes. Mitch Johnson able to push buttons with veterans and with. With the young guys alike. I think it takes a lot of guts to coach like he's coached this season. With a team this talented. What do you think about Mitch Johnson and his. His case for coach of the Year?
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Well, you keep saying this team is so talented. Again, they were projected to win, like, 43 games at the beginning of the season. They're going to exceed their win, their win projection by almost 20, which. Who else is going to do that? Probably Missoula is going to come close to that. And as far as coach of the year is concerned, like, think it's Joe Missoula. Just because, like, that Celtics team took what looked like a huge step backwards and he somehow kept them afloat. And now look at them. They might end up.
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He also might coach more than any other coach in the NBA when it comes to actually, like, coaching each. Each possession.
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So, yeah, he's an elite coach, very clearly. Yeah. But Mitch.
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Oh, go ahead.
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I would say Mitch is great. Whatever. He's a great coach. Clearly. He's had a great year. They all are. Continue.
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I want to take this question a different route instead of just looking at the coaches and look at the front offices, because actually both the Celtics and the spurs could give you evidence of, like, the best or greatest single season rebuilds in history. Like, this is. You were not expecting these, these rosters to come together so well and coalesce so well and be able to perform in that level. Like, as you guys think about teams that have rebuilt in the course of a season with. Between the Celtics and the spurs, who's done it better?
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I mean, I think the Celtics had a much harder job doing it on the fly. The spurs, like, you know, they've. They've had some really good lottery luck here the last few years, Jared. And then the, the dear and Fox trade is really the cherry on top that I think is push. Pushing this team over the top.
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Yeah, I, I would say the Celtics. I'll give a little bit more credit to Missoula just because he's taking guys that weren't in rotations or were like, late draft picks, and you turn them all into viable rotation players or G leaders. Yeah. And, like, look at, look at the season Nemish Cade is having. Like, statistically, he's like the fifth best center in the NBA defensively. And, like, he Was not that good defensively like a year ago. And Cornette beat him out for the rotation because Cornette was a better decision maker and defender like with, with the Spurs. Obviously Mitch Johnson's having a great year, but Brian Wright in that front office deserves credit. This is, this design of this roster is incredible. It really is. And the reason why they deserve so much credit is, and I'm sure this is just because it just happened this way. But like, they built a rotation of three point guards that all project to be all stars or already currently all stars and none of them are knockdown shooters. None of them have been knocked down shooters or at least project that way. Fox has had some good shooting years. I think this year's been a pretty solid shooting year for them. Castle and Harper were like terrible shooters coming into the season and they're both shooting over 40% in the last few months. They've really come around. Fox has had a good year, but like him in his front office, they understood that you don't need the typical coming over a pick and roll last three point guard to play with Weinbanyama. What you need are guys that can really get into the paint and they can shrink the floor down and they can play over the top. And all three of those guys are elite floater level players. All three of them are elite getting into the paint and they are all being able to find Wemby. And Wemby gets like eight points a night on just. They throw it up and he just runs hard, man.
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He just put it in the area.
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They are just. They always have two point guards on the floor at all times that can completely carve the defense apart. And then all they got to do is throw the ball up in the air. They can close their eyes and start as they can and it will somehow land in Miami's hands. And if not, Champagne Barnes fell. Keldon Johnson, one of those guys is wide open and that they have made a living off of that type of play this year. It was a great stylistic, you know, kind of foresight from their front office and Johnson and his staff have just done a great job of using it.
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Wemby still does a move in every game that kind of breaks my brain. Last night he was guarded on the post by Kelly Oubre, which of course, you know, hey, look, that's a mismatch. I expected him to just turn and shoot over him. Nah, spin move dunk. Just put him in an absolute blender. He's seven and a half feet tall. I do not expect him to be moving this way heading into the playoffs. Like we talked about his minute load, we talked about his health. What are they going to do in the first round to make sure that not only is he getting the touches that he needs to keep him going but that they get him out as soon as they can and so that he's ready for that second round. Is it a lot more Cornet? Is it Kelton Johnson playing some five or does it depend on who they wind up getting coming out of the play?
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I guess if it's Phoenix or LA or really ALL or Portland, like those are all three teams that play with a seven footer out there a lot of the time. So I mean it's, they're going to be able to keep Cornette in the rotation. I think Cornette has been good enough this year. He's had a good year that they're not going to take him out of the rotation matchup purposes but they've been doing a lot of Keldon Johnson at the 5, a lot of Carter Bryant at the 5. So we will probably see that if they have to go too small or just you know, of course if Wemby gets hurt at all and has to miss, you know, parts of games but like they'll probably stick with that nine man rotation that they've had going. I don't think they need to change that much unless things get really tight. They don't, they don't have to play Wemby 38 minutes a night if they're winning by 14 points. So you can stick to playing him 32 and trust in Luke Cornett. Lucornet's had a really good year and that's part of the why Wemby doesn't have to play a ton of minutes is they got a really good backup. They knew that that was their priority. They need a backup that's reliable, that can play somewhat a similar style. He's not quite the same as Wemby, but he can, he can at least fit into the offense in a similar way a lot of the time and like that gives them the confidence to let Wemby get full rotations of rest and keep them fresh and like that. That approach has worked so well for them this year. Yeah.
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A
Anything we should be watching this week thinking about the playoffs with the Spurs?
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C
Well, probably not their games because they're probably going to be boring at this point but I, I would just go back and rewatch that Denver game. I need to like I rewatched the, the fifth, the fourth quarter in overtime. I want to rewatch that whole thing. That was. That was one of the best games I've been to all year. That's one of the best games I've been to in five years.
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A
Yeah, it was.
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C
It was pretty great. It was spectacular, everybody. I'll never forget that shot. That shot over Wemby was just unforgettable.
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A
Incredible, man. Jared Weiss, everybody. Go and read him. One of the best doing what he does. Thank you, Jared, for hanging out. Thanks to Zena K. I'm Dave Duford. This is Ben the NBA Daily. Thanks for waking up with us. Thanks for listening. Make sure you hit the subscribe or follow button so you never miss an episode. If you enjoyed it, drop a like, leave a rating or let us know in the comments. Thank you guys for waking up with us.