 What's the word? What's the word? What's the word? What a day of basketball. Yes, I'm rocking the Atlanta Hawks shirt if Fili would have won this game I would have put on a Philly shirt too. So y'all know I didn't care who won, but I'm so excited, bro We had an amazing game one in the Western Conference, which we'll get to later But I want to talk about this game seven because it lived up to all of the hype to back to that game Sevens that live up to the hype that is unheard of I cannot believe the Atlanta Hawks did what they just did They started off this season 14 and 20 they got Lloyd Pierce out of here His his first assistant was Nate McMillan It's always a bit weird when you're a head coach and your first assistant is a guy that is known as a head coach I bet I bet the Indiana Pacers would love to have him right now They got rid of him for another Nate and then that Nick got fired and this Nate is in the conference finals Maybe Miller had always been a coach It's like hey, he's good enough to raise your ceiling to make the playoffs But once you get to the playoffs it's kind of a done deal narrative done He he co he has coached his butt off you could be the biggest Atlanta Hawks fit in the absolute world 34 games to the season y'all are 14 to 20 right? That's mathematically right yet. Yeah There's no way you believe that this team was gonna make it to the conference finals There's no way you would have believed that and here they are now They dealt with a lot of injuries throughout the season players in and out of the line of Chris Where is Chris? I missed even if Chris doesn't 100% healthy You don't put him in a rotation, but you get I'm saying, you know This is a team that coming into the season if you listen to our podcast You know that a few of us on the panel were high on them, but I don't think any of us even saw this Right you bring in Galanari. I think at the time I was like Galanari That was a great pickup But maybe you paid a little bit too much for God is what 32 33 years old I guess it don't matter at this point He just had one of the bigger games he saw the switch of the smaller defender on him He was running the three for the first time since he was in and the New York Nick's Jersey It's like you never left you saw this mismatch. He put up 17 points right here Then they had to by dynamite say, you know by dynamite start You thought he was going to Milwaukee and he's like no, I'm going to Atlanta. That was a W I was in love with the Rondo sign even though they traded him away for Lou Williams who had been pretty solid throughout the series and then like I said Chris Dunn I thought it was a good pickup too because they needed perimeter They needed a defense more than anything in the world, right? So I was higher in their offseason, but I wasn't high to think that they gonna be in a conference finals I'm thinking they gonna make the playoffs They're in the conference Finals and not even just that we're in a game 7 on the road and my star player the guy that was getting buckets for us All series long shot 5 for 23 and we still won against the one seed as a five shout out to To wait with red mama red velvet the man had the best game was NBA career I know it won his career high, but I mean, you know This is the biggest stakes moment of his entire career and he came through better than anybody John Collins, what a magnificent game, bro The fact that John Collins is low-key turning into a two-way player is something I don't think any of us really saw we saw early this career Oh, he can get us buckets, but we ain't know about that defensive side of the ball. Here he is Click a Pella. It's hard to guard Joel and B But I think he did best of any guy we've seen guard Joel and B since like the Marcus all Marcus all era a few years ago by Dimes Navigate game, but like bro, I Cannot believe they are here if Trey young. I think Trey young went into the fourth quarter He was like one of 14 or something like that at one point And I mean he had a couple big buckets Obviously if he's drawn fouls, he's gonna make those free throws and they win this game, bro This season has been crazy Like I know injuries play a big part of this entire season fold unfolding the way it has And nobody wants injuries, but I love that it is this has been one of the most unpredictable seasons of all time The five seed who wasn't in the playoffs two months into the season is in the conference finals Do you hear that it is insanity now? How do they match up against the Bucks? We'll see how about that. We'll leave it at that. We'll see cuz I I guess I've been underestimating this team all season long And maybe that's good for them. They want to be the underdog They want to be the underdog They I don't know if they were an underdog is to next but I know a lot of people pick the next to win that series They get easy. They of course a the underdog is to one seed It's not it wasn't easy, but they did it So maybe they definitely gonna be the underdog because the Bucks going into even before they found out affiliate Was gonna win or Atlanta gonna win the Bucks were the favorite to win a championship after the game against the Brooklyn That so we'll see how that goes As much as we want to give a lot of praise to the Atlanta Hawks Let's talk about the team that they beat because what an all-time fumble of the back Before the playoffs started I went on to the podcast and I'm always gonna reference the podcast because hey That's what we talk about basketball for two hours a week at the very minimum And you should go subscribe to that channel because we're doing big things over there more than podcasts anyway And I was like out of all of the top seats the one sees the two sees the three seeds on each conference The seventy stitches has the have the easiest the absolute easiest path to the conference finals think about it If the Bucks wanted to be in the conference fighters they had to go through Miami and this is before we found out The Miami may not have been as nice as we thought but like at one point It was like a coin flip between Miami and Milwaukee and people were like man Milwaukee They could have tanked their way to avoid Miami. It didn't matter I mean walking Milwaukee took care of that and then they had to go against Brooklyn in the second round Those are supposedly two dog fights The Brooklyn that's what I had to go through Milwaukee dog fight The 76 had to go through the 80 who to end up being I forget Washington. That was easy And then I had to go against either the mix or the Atlanta Hawks and they are the favorite They should have been the favorite because they were the better Maybe not anymore. They were supposed to be the better team And they fumbled the bag Absolutely fumbled the bag and listen. It's time for it. It's time for it. It's time for it I haven't been one of these guys to jump on the Ben Simmons back, but oh my god I just saw statistic that this man had 17 points or a 19 points total in the last with four games There is a play and I think everybody saw this play. He gets it on the lower right block He's got a small lift that he do a nice move spin move He's under the basket for a dunk for a layup And he passes it to Matisse Dibble who's two two inches away from him Matisse gets fouled Then Matisse misses a free throw that guaranteed two points were gone because Ben Simmons didn't want to just go straight up and at the end of the day This is more than anything A mental battle between Ben Simmons and himself It is and I don't like being the guy I don't like being a guy to talk about the psyche of an NBA player because I've never been in the NBA I'll never I'll never be in the NBA I don't know what's going through the mind of these players they're playing But it's hard to watch Ben Simmons this whole series long He I think at one game where he was really solid this whole series long Watched the way he's moving on the offensive side of the ball and not think that this man got the basketball version of the yips He's going to the free throw line his head You know that free throw that free throw clip of um of wiggins at the line and he shoots the free throw And he immediately closes eyes. He's like damn That's how Ben Simmons was performing from the free throw line Oh this man is trying so hard not to get fouled that he passed the ball to a guy that was one inch away So he could get fouled Four shot attempts and I think two of those who are like duck impasses from Seth Curry Insanity Ben Defense great. They had a good scheme against trey young and it mattered because y'all let the red heck here Tell you up They had a great defensive scheme against trey young and after game one Ben Simmons went to the podium He's like I won trey and I think for the most part he did solid trey young is a hard guy to Hard guy to guard so Ben Simmons defensively we know he can do that But you're not on the court just to be a defensive guy. He couldn't even play the last minutes of a game seven He has max money on the country It's crazy It's crazy that we go through this This series Joel and B was a monster all series long, right? A absolute monster He had some some mental errors late in the game that cost him for sure The golinar was still that led to a basket. He had eight turnovers. Which is unacceptable But I mean like hey, if nobody else want the ball, I guess he got to do these type of things, right? There's no reason for this series to be over And their second best player as a team was Seth Curry. Who's making like eight million dollars? You have two other max players on your roster told me he ended with 24 points on 24 shots Ben Simmons, we just talked about there's no reason why Seth Curry Seth Curry Wardale's brother Should be your second best player in a in a series. That's I don't know. I don't know Danny Green went down an injury Is that the reason no It sucks But the Andre Hunter is a bigger part of the Atlanta Hawks game than Danny Green is a part of the Philadelphia 76er scheme if you ask me Darryl Morey Has some decisions to make Big decisions to make this offseason and Darryl more is a mad man. Shout out to Darryl. I love Darryl Darryl, I know you're gonna be super busy this offseason I would love to have you on the show Please come on to the show. It can be virtual If you're in new york or you're in la at any time, we got both sets now, by the way Pull up, please. I would love to talk um And and hopefully we don't get you fine because of like tampering stuff because That that happens pretty often and Darryl would just be tweeting. He ain't really thinking. Okay. Anyway When he got this job immediately people were like, oh, what is he gonna do between Joe? Well and Ben Simmons because I think we all can agree On paper even on paper and in the games you see this these two guys don't fit together They just don't they just don't this is where the process this is where the these are the small Downsides of the process We're like, yeah, I'm gonna draft the best guy available every single time And sometimes the best guy available ain't the ain't the best guy for what our team needs Drafting Ben Simmons where you drafted Ben Simmons for the most part seems like it's gonna be okay Maybe I mean maybe the mental gifts have been Simmons is so bad that he may not turn into an all-star player ever again Anyway, you draft him you draft Joe. Well, and you've got two all-star caliber players at least that's what you think But they don't work well together They're kind of like contradicting pieces on your team and when Darryl more he got this job immediately us fans like Ooh, if anybody gonna make a big decision, it's gonna be Darryl Then we get to the we get to the the trade that not even a trade that lab We get to the hardened news and from all accounts the trade between Ben Simmons For James Harden was practically done, but they didn't want to give up Taris maxi And boy And boy, I know James Harden was injured for this playoff run and they're he's also out It's a domino thing, right? If he's in Philly, he probably doesn't mess up his hamster. Who knows who knows? But boy, um with that been maximizing the Ben Simmons value I made a tweet three days ago when game six I ended like Ben Simmons's value as in is an all-time All-time low the lowest it has ever been in his career You can't look at what he did in this playoff series and be like, yeah We still want to potentially give up a superstar player to get the younger Ben Simmons It's hard, bro Ben said like like I I believe that Ben Simmons just played his last game in the Philadelphia 76 of jersey But I think Darryl would be kind of crazy to sell low on Ben Simmons Because I think we can all see it, right? We know what he could be Maybe there's a GM out there still willing to give up great pieces Because they believe that they can get this man to a psychologist or a sports psychiatrist. I don't know But we know what he can be He just hasn't been that when you need to know most last year. He didn't plan to play off the year before They played in playoffs and it was bad You know this year God awful They got a lot of decisions to make because even even Toby Toby had an amazing season for his standards, right? um He was even in some all-star conversations But in this series, I'm trying to pull up the numbers He had a he had a couple really nice games in this series. He averaged 18 points per game 51 percent shooting. Oh, okay Maybe I was underrating. Um, how good Tobias was on this but Ben Simmons's numbers are the one that is so crazy to me Um, he shot 61 percent from the field. That's amazing. He shot 32 percent from the free throw line 10 points Eight assists six rebounds seems cool. Do you remember that you're paying this guy max money for the next three years? Maybe it's even four years and the fact that to the last two games He couldn't play in the last couple minutes because they were afraid for him to get fouled and he was afraid to be fouled that that Tyrese maxi who was 20 years old and the biggest lights ever Has to be in a closeout game because my second star my max player can't play right now Like it's it's kind of insane, bro It really really is insane So Philly has a lot to do and if I'm a if I'm a gm And I know that the the selling price on Ben Simmons is at an all-time low What what's the tic-tac thing you got the card you know, we are banging it on the table. Yes Because I don't I don't I don't think that Ben Simmons is done. I don't think it's over way I don't think Ben Simmons is just going to be A max guy a max contract guy. That's an average starter I think a change of scenery could really improve Ben Simmons And if I'm Joel and bead I'm walking into Daryl more his office. It's like I'm done three years. I know last year again. He didn't play in the playoffs three years. I'm done Hey, give me somebody that can they can create for himself Ben Simmons can create for others. Yeah, like a lot of assists today. It doesn't matter He can create for others. Give me somebody that can create for themselves. Please. I'm begging you Daryl or Would this be a curveball if Joel pulled out the free me Hey Hey, I've seen crazier things in the NBA I've seen crazier things in the NBA, bro back to it shout out to your lanahawks I forgot I had a whole nother game to even talk about. I'm so so in love with The way this ended, you know, let's go to the other side of the conference Game one of the conference finals. Devin Booker puts up his first career triple double Who would have thought that that when I saw that come up. I was so surprised He ain't never got a triple double before I feel like he has but I guess not and it happened at a big stage You're you're missing your your leader your point guard and you they they basically moved him over to lead ball handling He had been doing this for the last couple seasons for sure But 40 11 13 in the best part two turnovers Two of them things Killed the game. Um, this is going to be an amazing series Um, mckelbridge the homie mckelbridge has played amazingly two blocks One of them was like 40 seconds left in a close game on paul george. Beautiful. Um catching lobs hitting shots as poised It can be great defense camera paint starting in the conference finals game. I can't believe that James james jones James jones James jones just won executive of the year or gm of the year Whatever you want to call it and they were talking about when he when he drafted cam johnson because you remember Kobe why he had that cam johnson just got drafted number. Yeah, yeah And this is a prime example of drafting for what you need and not for what other people tell you you should do Because I mean there's there's a million mock drafts that are out there. They're like, no We need cam johnson. Who's the oldest guy in the draft? We need him and he just had a big game 12 points. Good defense some rebounds two steals amazing for them. Um, um, Tori craig When each one more plays a minute and that was so surprised But then I realized of course chris paul being out they need another guard Tori craig comes in hits a couple big three immediately comes to the court hits a three top to keep hope and they win this game But the determined fact of course You got the 40 points for debba booker. You don't win this game without debba booker but deandre adam Deandre adam is different than poor zingas. He is different than rudigo bear and I mean That he is agile enough to be able to play the perimeter defense Poor zingas couldn't do that. So going small against him Magnificent rudigo bear couldn't do that They let taris man draw 40 because he couldn't play the perimeter Deandre adam can he's faster. He's more athletic than any of those guys and I think he's He's a better positional Defensive player because of it And that might be the determined factor now by any nobody by no means that the clippers play a bad game PG 13 was was hot Um, Reggie jackson continued his thing and taris man I was a little disappointed in the fact that taris man only shot Four shots, especially since he was three from three from three and he just came off a 40 piece Basically, I would have loved for him to get more involved in the offense But hey a boogie plants a minutes was cool But the only thing about boogie even though he had a great offensive great offensive game Is that they threw him in his pick and roll and he didn't know what to do You know not not that he didn't know what to do He just can't keep up with a deandre a didn't pick a roll or even with the dario sergeant pick and roll That's the only downside of playing boogie defensively He ain't that and and tyron lue has shown us over the last couple couple series They're like we cool with losing two in a row It shouldn't be that you should never want to be down on two But this is where they thrive it might take a few games for tyron lue to make those adjustments Like hey zubat said to play 18 minutes a day. Um, um, the market said to play 12 13 minutes a day because of how good deandre aden was just completely mixed up the scheme for the clippers and it might take them a few games This is by any means the series is not over But i'm excited for what i saw from him because i do believe this could be a seven to go to the conference finals Chris paul is on tiktok dancing with his kids and we like bro Please get healthy get those having many negative tests in the row so we can see you back on the court He was out there. Hey, i'm okay. Chris. Chris got a little bit of moves Um, but i'm excited to see i think mighty williams coast a really good game all things consider But i'm expecting tyron lue to come back in game three because he waits to game three With some major adjustments to make things better because if you remember the clippers The the clippers just played like two nights ago. So um, you know fatigue Potentially they played a game seven a few nights ago not just any game a game seven a few nights ago So fatigue might have played a part here. Um, so i'm excited to see I'm excited to see what happens. Let me know what you think. Uh, this is a 20 minute video. Great. All right. Well, see you guys soon. Bye