 What's the word y'all welcome back um What a day what a game? I know Adam Silver is sitting in his office or I guess at home because it's super late And he's super happy and super upset with himself man super happy because the playing was a success We had battle after battle down to the wire and so many of these games But upset with himself because he has Steph Curry and LeBron in the playoffs and the side of he wanted to be extra And one of them didn't make it man be sure to leave a like subscribe if you are new my allergies have been kicking my butt all day long So excuse me if my voice sounds a little bit different. Let's talk about This game. Oh my god. Was it a banger? So you remember in the last episode we were talking about Lakers versus Warriors I made it a very prominent point That the Warriors had no business being competitive against the Lakers because they don't have that much talent and well It was showcased on national TV again today that they just don't have enough talent to be as good And I mean this is why when Steph Curry didn't play last season They were the worst team in the league and now, you know, they're fighting for a playoff spot But they had to run what's technically eight deep But they put Michael Molder in the game and the team the opposite team went on a huge run So they run in seven deep and a few of these seven just feel like they were just running and doing cardio It was the Steph Curry show which is always great. It's unfortunate Just a fan that likes viewing the game that Steph Curry season in today But I'm super happy to see the Memphis Grizzlies get into the playoffs and we'll talk about that in a second So Steph Curry show the Draymond Green defensive clinic again He hit a three and you would have thought he had never hit a three before in his life And I had to think That's kind of true at the same, you know, like he was so amped up at this one three and it was it was a timely three I'll give him that but he was so amped up on that one He ends with the triple-double But I know that don't matter to him because they didn't get this win That was it and I know Wiggins ended with 22 you like Kenny Wiggins ended with 22 Honestly, his defense was good today on the other side, bro That's 22 don't mean nothing to me because there are a few plays down the stretch where you like wigs, bro Wigs bro, and I swear to God. I'll be feeling like the Wiggins be getting picked on But he makes it about like he does it for like last episode when we were talking about them versus the Lakers I gave Wiggs a lot of love because he played great defense on LeBron. He has some big shots He did this and that But as many times as he does that he has two times as many moments where you're like, bro What are you doing late in the fourth quarter? The Warriors are trying to come back and make this run at one point The Grizzlies in the fourth quarter had a 96 97% chance of winning according to like y'all know that meter by win probability And then the Warriors came back but in that comeback Wiggins had an open layup and he smoked it Okay, no big deal get back on defense and then we get to the shot I don't know how many people are talking about shot because again the game just ended John Moran is on my screen right now I'm doing a post game interview. I wish I was listening, but I'm not I don't know how many people are talking about this shot But it was the most ugly shot the most like where's your IQ shot? I've seen in a very long time Situational look it's I think at this point. They're down by like two. I have to go back and rewatch They're down by like two If I'm not mistaken Grayson Allen just hit his second straight three and overtime He ain't even really played in the third or fourth quarter, but he comes over time hit two big threes We'll talk again. We'll mention and talk about the Memphis Grizzly side of things in the second Wiggins comes down court Don't get step if Steph Curry or Dre Mont doesn't touch the ball in a possession I'm just automatically assuming that it's gonna end in a bad shot and it did this may hit the opposite side of the Backboard Want to open three and you're like, yeah It's over it. It's like where is the mindset that I have to take this shot? Six seconds into the possession without Steph or Dre Mont setting up any kind of set You know what I'm saying? It's just oh, that's just that right there that right there really hurt that right there really hurt I'm Jordan pool. I know Jordan pool ended up with one of the most costly turnovers of the game I'm laid down a stretch, but he was amazing for them. Like he was the third best player for the team today Just just he you you can tell that he's been working under Steph Curry a lot this season and they were talking about on the Broadcast I didn't really realize that he was in a G. Lee bubble and the fact that he went from the G. Lee bubble to playing like crunch time Minutes and a winner go home since situation is a testament to how hard he has worked this season But you can tell he's been working a lot with Steph Curry because he does not stop moving There were a couple possessions in this game where he got the ball gave it back to Dre Mont cut back door Got the ball back look for somebody else jumped up in the air made another pass You can tell he has been working with stuff on that off ball movement and movement within things I think he's gonna play a crucial part to their team next season And they got some decisions to make this off season because well if I want to go back to earlier in the season Before jay's wiseman went down. He didn't look so great with the team You can make an argument that next year he'll be better with a little bit more Because I guess I guess he played a single digit amount of college games then got suspended There was no summer league straight into if i'm not mistaken. He was injured for pre-season So he just came into the NBA with like no experience I could see year number two him being significantly better But I can also see a world with a golden state where is look at Steph Curry getting older Look at Draymond Green getting older. Look at Clay Thompson coming off another significant injury And see the pieces and that that pick that might convey from the Minnesota Tim Wolves and look at james wiseman as a piece I mean like we might Want to go out there and do something about it And not to mention they got the salary calf fellow with andrew wiggins. So Wiggins wiseman a pick could potentially get you a player if a team a good a good player Is on the market this off season which we don't know at this point because things just happen like that I can see a world where they like, you know what? Let's just buy in to this this last one last one last dance With the golden state warrior dynasty, but to see this Steph Curry We won't see Steph Curry play basketball for the next couple months Um and no playoffs this year It's this kind of say I would have loved to see them matched up against the utah jazz because Steph Curry's the type of guy that can make some things happen I mean, hey, we believe on the court, you know, they were trying to make that eighth put eight c push again Um, but they ended up losing this game You know what and though this was close it didn't feel like they deserved to win this game Memphis played better Um, the golden state warriors were about as sloppy as can get when it come when it came to the basketball And I'm giving a lot of credit to the Memphis grizzly because they they did their scouting port They knew what type of stuff they were trying to run. John Morant was in the passing lanes Dylan Brooks was amazing defensively. Um, and the worst turned the ball over too many times Missed too many open shots Very very simple stuff there and just made some bonehead plagues down down the line. Let's talk about Memphis I've said this on my on this show. I've set this on my podcast. I've set this on my youtube channel I am extremely jealous of the Memphis grizzlies as a bulls fan as a fan of a team that's been trying to rebuild for the last Four or five years. I am extremely. I mean extremely jealous of what the Memphis grizzlies are building or have built so far Memphis grizzlies went two years or so with the tank Obviously they lucked out dramatically with getting John Morant because they weren't projected to get the second overall pick They jumped up in the lottery but good things happen to good people All right, but it's not just about getting John Morant because obviously John Morant is a bona fide stud He's going to be a superstar in his league. We all couldn't agree on that But it's like what what do you do after that? You know because getting a player every like teams get players all the time Teams jump up in the lottery all the time to get a player But it's about building the team around that player that the Memphis grizzlies has done amazingly Kyle Anderson Jonas Valinatunis are the oldest guys on this teams and you would consider them vets But they're not even that old eat themselves. You know what I'm saying, but they play with this boys Kyle Anderson has always been When he was with the Spurs everybody knows slow mo You know, he he very rarely makes mistakes and even this year I know he didn't have an amazing game today offensively Even this year he's been coming a more and more complete from shooting the ball And I heard on the broadcast a couple the last time when they were running against the The Spurs that he had a surgery on his shoulder that helped his jump shooting yadda yadda yadda He's great. Jonas Valinatunis is other than John Morant. It's probably their most impactful player And he didn't even get no burn until the third and the fourth quarter because he was in foul trouble And some of those fouls may have been uh somewhat questionable Adam silver making a call that he needed Steph Curry and whatever whatever Jonas Valatunis didn't even play the game that you want Jonas Valinatunis to play Then he have a 2020 game And now he very rarely played and they still Got the W because the things that they have put around John Morant when I was on JJ Reddick's podcast We talked for like five minutes about the Memphis Grizzlies because they have so many players We talk about next man up mentality with a lot of different teams a lot of different organizations more like um The Toronto Raptors have always had that DNA. Oh man, my guy is out. Okay. Somebody else the Delon right is coming in because DeMarco Rosen is out yadda yadda Memphis is this right now Jonas Valatunis Jiren Jackson jr. Your two bigs go out because of foul trouble and because jiren Wasn't really having a great game Foul trouble and guess what didn't really matter Xavier Tillman a rookie comes in and plays the biggest minutes The biggest game of his NBA career He was everywhere and everybody's gonna talk about the shot. He in the corner, which which is an amazing shot But deeper than that he was everywhere The amount of times I feel like he was just in the play for offensive rebound That he made not have got the offensive rebound, but he was the catalyst behind the offensive rebound. It's crazy Those are the type of things that I'm jealous about the Memphis Grizzlies because yes You hit the John Morant pick But you also hit the Desmond Bay pick the Xavier and Henry pick the D. Anthony Milton signing or was it a trade? I don't remember the trade for Grayson Allen Grayson now is a part of the Mike Holly training and people are like Oh, he's just a throw in he hit two of the biggest shots of the game. He was four for five from three He made the most out of his minutes and I'm actually surprised looking at this It felt like um the Anthony Melton played more minutes than just nine and a half But only nine and a half minutes They played amazing and John Morant doing what he did him hitting five threes isn't same Again teams for the next couple years of his career teams I'm gonna allow him to shoot but if he's doing it like this it may not be the next couple years You know what I'm saying if I'm I know he's not hitting five He probably won't hit five threes at all in the potential seven game series with the Utah Jazz But if he continues to put that work in and just becomes a respectable three-point shooter This man John Morant can go from oh He's he's a really good young point guard in the league that we see can be successful To this is the guy if he could just become an adequate three-point shooter and now Dillon Brooks We talked about the last episode Dillon Brooks always you know what you're getting from defensively He's gonna clamp up but you always question what you're getting from offensively today was not an offensive day at all But his defense is there I want when I was doing my all defensive team picks He was on the shortlist But his defense is a lot different than some of the other guys that I put on my list Because if I want one player to lock up one player Dillon Brooks is on my shortlist of defenders When it comes to one-on-one defense I want Dillon Brooks in everybody's jersey But some of the other players that I actually put on my all defensive scene may have been you know better help defenders yadda yadda yadda But one-on-one defensive players Dillon Brooks is that guy Donovan Mitch was coming back from an injury and we don't talk about these series and now my nose is starting to get itchy We're gonna talk about these series Um Donovan Mitch was coming back from injury He's gonna have his hands full In this series because Dillon Brooks is gonna be all in that jersey 100% all in that jersey and I going into this I know that um brandon clark didn't play last game And I had to do some research because I was like, oh, is brandon clark injured. Is he injured right now? Turns out he's not he just completely fell out of rotation and I can't I can't get mad at coach Coach taylor jinkins because the guy that was in the rotation had the biggest moments of the game You know and zavier henry. Um, so I can't get mad about that. Is it zavier zavier? And I went to school with a guy. His name is spelled exactly like this, but he pronounced the x it was xavier xavier um So brandon clark after an amazing ricky season is completely out of the rotation, which I guess is I guess is okay if the guy they're replacing you is just better Um, and again, they didn't even get a good game from valentunas They didn't get a game from jaren They didn't even get a good game from cow anderson and they beat this team now I'm gonna admit I I'm still picking like uton five maybe uton five But I'm so happy that One of the youngest teams in the league Made the playoffs because it gives hope it gives hope for some of the other young teams that like bro We don't necessarily need a super superstar player to be competitive and to make the playoffs It's a little bit different than last year. Remember last year when the season got put on hold The miffus grizzlies was in the eight spot Get put on hold And then they go to the bubble and because jaren gets down with an injury this and that they fall completely out and now It's the reverse They jumped up into the playoffs and here they are What a game adam silver congratulations. The the play-in is here to stay I don't know how we get these type of production production as far as um great games and somebody's like nah That was a good test, but we're not coming back to it. You know what i'm saying Uh, what what a great game. What a great great game. We'll see steve curry again next year He'll be an MVP conversation again next year and the team will be better next year I'm confident in that But i'm excited to see playoff start tomorrow. It's a bit weird because I have things planned on my agenda So I might miss some of the games It's not like me to say that those words together, but it is what it is. Let me know what you think about this game. Um taylor jinkins And taylor jinkins I almost cost him the entire game when jordan pool drew a foul that wasn't a foul and taylor jinkins had the challenge But didn't use it If they would have lost that game in regulation Oh my god, I would have been upset Ups upset with him. You know what i'm saying Because he held on to it for the entire game. He didn't use it at all And I know he was probably afraid to lose his time out But they had to at the time I don't know. I I would love to hear a post game interview about why he did. I mean it didn't matter But you probably don't go to overtime at all if you challenge that call because it's not a foul. It's not offensive at that moment Um, anyway, hopefully enjoy leave a like subscribe go watch called game and I'll see y'all soon peace