Nuggets vs Timberwolves: Game 7

[00:00:00] The Blucifer Brothers are back. We are happy and kind of sad about what just happened.

[00:00:05] But then we're also happy because last night the Avs won, but we're sad that they lost both games at home.

[00:00:11] It's been a roller coaster of emotions. Dan, play that funky music.

[00:00:20] All right guys, it's a loss but a win if that feels right to say.

[00:00:27] When we last came to you the Nuggets were down 0-2. So much has happened since then that it kind of feels wild.

[00:00:35] So we're coming to you off of a 40 point loss again and so it's weird to say it feels like

[00:00:41] a victory but Ryan, it kind of feels like a victory that we're getting to game seven.

[00:00:45] If you told me when we were down 0-2 the Nuggets get to game seven, I'd have just been like,

[00:00:51] oh well, however we get there is great with me.

[00:00:56] So Nuggets went down big, the Avs bounced back. We're going to talk about all of it more.

[00:01:03] But Ryan, first initial reactions to the week that was.

[00:01:10] When did you realize that the Nuggets were locked in again and we're going to play well?

[00:01:17] Because I didn't believe after game three. Like game three I was like, oh the Wolves no

[00:01:22] showed. I was like that's cool that we showed up with intensity but they showed up with none.

[00:01:26] Yeah, I believed after game three but it's funny because it's weird to think that I

[00:01:38] sort of always assumed that this was going to go seven games.

[00:01:46] But how we got here, I think I picked the Nuggets in six because I'm a homer but I kind

[00:01:53] of always thought it was seven so how we got here is insane but the fact that we're here is

[00:02:00] the least surprising thing potentially ever. Jokic is unbelievable. I'm potentially more

[00:02:09] concerned about the supporting cast than I was after our last game which is evident by our,

[00:02:16] I'm trying to look right now, garbage time screws it up but I think we had two real-time

[00:02:21] bench points in the entire game so that's a little frustrating to just no show there on the

[00:02:27] bench. But I do think you're right in that this loss and I think we'll get into this a little

[00:02:33] bit more, this loss doesn't feel as bad as game two and to be honest like I think

[00:02:42] we would probably agree at this point that these are the best two teams in the West

[00:02:46] and so if you lose to a team in seven, like I will be so mad a week

[00:02:55] and I probably won't watch the rest of the playoffs but I will be proud of how the team

[00:03:05] responded. Like those two games at home, I mean that game five was some of the most fun

[00:03:11] basketball I've seen maybe like I think that might, I don't know where it ranks in our,

[00:03:17] we should do this, maybe this is an off-season pod but ranking our live experiences at Nuggets

[00:03:24] Games, but that one's up there for me. I mean that was just, it was fun as hell and

[00:03:31] Jokic was otherworldly. Yeah it just feels good to have responded so I think that's my

[00:03:38] overall takeaway from the week that was. I also think we're probably winning game seven

[00:03:45] but this is a really good team and Anthony Edwards could go for 60 and if

[00:03:51] you know they find the horseshoe that was firmly planted in that side, their buttholes

[00:03:57] planted there again on Sunday in ball arena then maybe they might win because they had some

[00:04:03] shooting that was not the season averages let's say. Yeah it's a thing that I think

[00:04:15] doesn't maybe get talked about enough and the increase in blowouts in the NBA.

[00:04:19] It is so much easier to jack a three when you're up 20. There is no pressure on you

[00:04:25] compared to when you're down seven and you're on the road and you know if you miss this

[00:04:31] they're going the other way, the crowd's gonna go crazy. Percentages naturally go up

[00:04:36] and the other team later in the game, the Nuggets knew especially mid third quarter on,

[00:04:45] it was like we have to get unreasonably hot from three to get back in this.

[00:04:49] We also weren't shooting well to begin with though.

[00:04:52] I do want to highlight that and that was I think the point you were getting at.

[00:04:56] I feel like our process was fine tonight. I feel like we got wide open threes, I feel like

[00:05:02] the Wolves said hey um that beating that Jokic gave us when we tried to not double,

[00:05:10] not gonna do that. We are coming with two and to Finch's credit I think if you're gonna come

[00:05:17] with two against Jokic it's gotta be at home because these Nuggets shooters in ball arena,

[00:05:25] if you give them those looks, Jokic tonight made some filthy passes that he made one that was

[00:05:33] cross court that the Wolves literally he got them to think he was passing it to AG,

[00:05:39] then they thought he was throwing it to the corner and I have no idea how he saw him.

[00:05:43] I thought he was stuck in the air and just F'd and he put it perfect across the court

[00:05:48] opposite wing to Porter and hit him in the hands and he just got to step into a jumper

[00:05:53] and he bricked the hell out of it. Porter bricked another one, Justin Holliday bricked

[00:05:58] three on one possession that Jokic got all the offensive rebounds and then just put it in the foul trouble.

[00:06:05] Yeah so there's a um I guess there's a calmness from this game but also a nervousness

[00:06:13] in terms of now it's March Madness right? Now it's oh you shot like crap again,

[00:06:19] you go home right? There's no more like wow this was that. The other big thing I wanted to talk about

[00:06:30] is the adjustment that the Wolves made that I thought was both smart and I thought the Nuggets

[00:06:39] in real time gave it to them a little bit easy but you saw them hunting for switches not for

[00:06:47] ant because they were like well if we bring a screen they want to double them anyway we're

[00:06:51] just helping right? And now we've got Rudy Gobert's goofy giraffe legs freaking not right

[00:06:58] next to the rim to dunk it and not even that's a guarantee but they started posting

[00:07:05] Nas Reed and Townes and they would get them cross-switched. We saw KCP and Murray in that

[00:07:10] a lot. First things first great adjustment by Finch I think we got to give him credit

[00:07:19] and two I don't think we have to give up that switch that easily I think we can hard hard hedge

[00:07:27] and say we would love to have Townes make decisions, we would love to have Nas Reed make

[00:07:32] decisions for your offense with the ball but not on a switch and then two is that if they

[00:07:40] do get the switch sometimes because sometimes you're going to get stuck we need our guards to talk

[00:07:45] to Nikola Jokic. Nikola Jokic can do them all the tell them the heinous things that guards do to

[00:07:51] him when they get switched on to him because we didn't see a lot of like KCP and Murray

[00:07:58] getting down getting under doing the annoying shit that guards can do when they get switched

[00:08:03] onto Biggs because you can basically do anything that's not violation of international law.

[00:08:08] Hold on I do want to say though that the hand check and all that stuff is great but where

[00:08:17] Kat was getting the ball is almost like the high post and he was back to the basket when

[00:08:22] he got the ball like it was a post entry kind of pass but because he's such a Kat

[00:08:29] he's standing in the high post and so to me it's like just get the guard off of it

[00:08:34] give him the space because I would much rather he shoot that floater than Biggie get up into him

[00:08:39] and like give him space to use his body. I agree with you but like I do think that those

[00:08:45] guards can give him a little bit of space and then you can allow that hedge to get back

[00:08:50] and Jokic to rotate over and it's not this Jamal Murray running to the other side of the

[00:08:56] court action we saw three times. Like I just can't stand that shit like we can't be asking

[00:09:02] Jamal to do that. Yeah no I don't think we can ask him to do that but I mean also to your point

[00:09:10] I guess to me it's now become apparent that the Nuggets I think the Wolves have realized

[00:09:22] that the Go Bear Anthony Edwards pick and roll which was a staple of their offense for obvious

[00:09:30] reasons during a lot that is actually not their best matchup. It brings Jokic to the ball he's

[00:09:36] unbelievably smart he has really quick hands he's got I think he's averaging three steals

[00:09:41] in this series or something like that it's kind of wild and they're saying you know who we

[00:09:46] actually want to be the last man rotating to the corner Nikola Jokic we would like him to

[00:09:53] have to have two feet in the paint to help and then sprint out to our corner shooter.

[00:10:00] Jokic has a lot of strengths in his game sprinting to the corner shooter is not one of them

[00:10:05] and not where we want him so I agree with you I think the Nuggets were a little lazy defensively

[00:10:11] tonight in terms of they didn't force the Timberwolves to make hard decisions like game

[00:10:17] five the Timberwolves forced Jokic to make hard shots and hard decisions he just made all of

[00:10:23] them right but their defense wasn't so poor that it was you know like we just let Murray and KCP

[00:10:30] get switched and then we let him take one power dribble towards the basket and be seven foot

[00:10:36] and shoot over someone who is not seven feet at the rim so I think that was the a really

[00:10:45] good adjustment but I do think there are answers for it for the Nuggets both effort-wise and

[00:10:51] scheme-wise that I'm not as concerned about it but I thought that was really smart by Finch

[00:10:57] to say hey even with Conley back which people are losing their mind about on Twitter

[00:11:02] tonight like see this what a shooter does I'm like they're not playing through Conley

[00:11:07] I'm like they are playing through their bigs and if Mike Conley is the reason they win this

[00:11:14] series like okay that's just dumb like that's not the reason

[00:11:23] I just think it boils down to Jamal Murray and the bench and if Jamal Murray and the bench show

[00:11:33] up we're gonna win game seven and if Jamal Murray and the bench don't show up we won't

[00:11:37] win game seven and it's sort of stupid that it's that simple but it is that simple and honestly

[00:11:46] one of the two can show up and be covered by Michael Porter Jr or Aaron Gordon or whatever

[00:11:52] but like that's obviously a lower odds proposition than just Jamal Murray being better

[00:12:01] because he was atrocious tonight like really I just don't I you know at a certain point

[00:12:08] I don't know whether his elbow seemingly got hit like early on in the game and I don't know

[00:12:13] whether it just affected him the rest of the way but he was terrible and kept shooting and

[00:12:21] it's just like when we don't have that flow going you want somebody to sort of be able to

[00:12:27] slow the game down a little bit and it felt like we were continually rushing which was what we did

[00:12:32] in those first two games you're just rushed the whole time and nobody's really playing in the

[00:12:37] flow and it's Jamal's job to make sure that that happens even when he's not taking the ball

[00:12:43] like you still have to be able to run that action with Jokic and until that action happens

[00:12:49] maybe just don't do anything like uh just I I like that that point from you I hadn't

[00:12:56] considered that as much but as you were talking it it really rung true with me of

[00:13:03] just because you are open for three does not mean that if you have shot like shit

[00:13:09] you should take that three it's hey like I am fine with Jamal Murray taking threes I'm fine

[00:13:16] with Justin Holliday taking threes I'm fine with Porter taking threes and there is a fine

[00:13:20] balance between why are you out there if you're not going to shoot and like at home I 100%

[00:13:27] want them to but in the flow of a game the way that game was going especially when that game got

[00:13:35] down to 11 if I am Reggie Jackson I'm saying Jokic is getting a post-touch every time here

[00:13:44] we're not shooting a quick three it may be there 100% but we are gonna make them you

[00:13:51] know get into a rock fight with us here and be very discouraged because we are gonna get you

[00:13:57] know whatever and the threes that the Nuggets missed tonight were just like step into them so

[00:14:04] on the one hand you can't get much better shots every NBA player says like the when you

[00:14:09] get to step into it get your feet set look at the basket that is the most cash three in

[00:14:14] the league for a shooter and they were bad tonight in that so I did want to I know it's

[00:14:24] a little bit old news now with this game but I you already talked about it a little bit but

[00:14:30] how good is Nicola Yoke trying he is I mean I don't think it was that close already

[00:14:42] but I he's by far my favorite Denver athlete ever there's no like it doesn't matter if he

[00:14:52] even wins another championship the way that he carries himself the way that he acts on and

[00:14:56] off the floor you can't ask for anything more and then his last five seasons so since 2019-2020

[00:15:06] he is averaging 28 points 12 rebounds and seven assists in 65 playoff games we're not talking

[00:15:15] we're talking about almost an entire season of basketball where he's averaging 28 points 12

[00:15:22] and seven and everybody wants to talk about Joelle Embiid everybody wants to talk about

[00:15:28] Luca everybody wants to talk about you know all these great players but the fact that he

[00:15:38] got to cement himself as the the best player in the league and by far the best player in the

[00:15:45] world this series I feel like he finally kind of got most of mainstream media to be like okay

[00:15:54] like he basically had to take down what people were comparing to Michael Jordan before they

[00:16:00] were willing to admit he was good at basketball and might have deserved an MVP but I'm happy

[00:16:06] that most people are there now and I'm thrilled that we get to continue to watch him play for our

[00:16:13] team because you really cannot like no matter what happens on Sunday you cannot ask for a

[00:16:19] better person to root for for the next eight years of their career hopefully and yeah hopefully

[00:16:26] we don't piss him off and just get a couple more chips like I don't think he I don't think

[00:16:31] he cares that much like you know as long as we don't as long as we don't do anything that's like

[00:16:38] I don't know we can't trade Vodko I guess that'd be the one we better get his approval if we

[00:16:42] trade Vodko. Yeah yeah yeah that sounds right. Speaking of the mainstream media I agree with

[00:16:51] you it was very funny to watch everyone walk back some takes shall we say and the but the other part

[00:17:02] has been that's been hilarious is there's been two things that the mainstream media has done

[00:17:08] that has driven me crazy is they've continued to play this narrative that pretends like this

[00:17:16] is the first time this core has been battle tested and I'm like we were down three one twice

[00:17:22] in the bubble holy shit we were the first team in history to ever fucking do that

[00:17:27] Jamal Murray was on the team Michael Porter was on the team Nicole Yogiats was on the fucking team

[00:17:32] I couldn't who was it? It's not like oh they were young they were on the bench

[00:17:37] they fucking were the stars! It's the same core it's literally the same core it's the same

[00:17:44] group of guys who has been here the whole time. Did anyone look at this and go well Will Martin was there then or he had

[00:17:51] the potential to be because he wasn't there because he was injured but yeah it drives me crazy

[00:17:57] and the second thing is this part doesn't make me mad I mean none of it makes me mad it's it's

[00:18:01] fine but the other part that is very funny to me is all of them just now discovering that

[00:18:09] Jokic has never played with anyone who's won a single award within the four years within four

[00:18:15] years even of playing with him like they're like oh we'll give them within four like say they

[00:18:21] traded for someone good nah nah probably not yeah it's it's so dumb it's so dumb how good

[00:18:30] he is Ryan. Look at Bruce Brown look at Bruce Brown everybody was like oh the Nuggets can't

[00:18:39] afford to lose Bruce Brown you know who didn't want Bruce Brown the fucking Pacers who were

[00:18:45] probably going to be playing the Celtics at the Eastern Conference Finals they traded his ass

[00:18:52] because he couldn't play on their team that's how good Nicole Jokic is at basketball like

[00:18:58] Bruce Brown got his ass shipped to Toronto and then I think traded again so it's you know we

[00:19:07] can't take for granted how good he is and I think Aaron Gordon is I don't know if you did end up

[00:19:14] reading that Ringer piece yet but it really I mean he is the epitome of what you need to do

[00:19:23] if you're Nicole Jokic's teammate which is just be thankful like Aaron Gordon is talented as

[00:19:29] hell and he is a really good basketball player he was he was unbelievable on the magic like

[00:19:34] he was good in his own right people were he was an over he was an under qualified one he's an

[00:19:40] overqualified two on like a decent team and he's an unbelievable three for a title contender

[00:19:47] he just happens to arguably be our four at least in terms of offensive threat but he

[00:19:55] is just like I don't care player this playoffs he's been our second best player

[00:20:00] oh 100% I want to read you this that you're not going to like it but

[00:20:05] Jamal Murray's true shooting this postseason is down to 45.8 that's one of the 10 worst

[00:20:10] playoff marks in the entire three-point era out of 569 players with at least 200 shots

[00:20:16] Aaron Gordon has been our second best but you did bring up something with Aaron Gordon

[00:20:20] that also is wild to me and I think it's part of the stupid way that we talk about the NBA

[00:20:27] where people are like you're either a championship team or you suck right like

[00:20:34] Aaron Gordon as a very young player put the magic in the playoffs

[00:20:38] Kyle fucking love the mellow ball and they've never sniffed the playoffs we would have we

[00:20:43] love all these young players and Aaron Gordon now granted did he get his ass

[00:20:47] beaten the bubble by the Bucks yes yes he did okay was good oh it wasn't the Bucks

[00:20:54] because that was the one where Lowry gave him his hotel no I'm just saying

[00:21:01] I love this point it's such it's so important because if you're a mid market team I mean we

[00:21:07] as nuggets fans know like we loved Lenis Claeser back in the day we couldn't get

[00:21:13] enough of him all you want is somebody to root for and like that that Aaron Gordon is

[00:21:20] a perfect player to root for he's gonna he had unbelievable dunks in Orlando he was dropping 25

[00:21:26] he was winning slam dunk competitions and then he came to the nuggets and was like yo I'll do

[00:21:32] whatever you need me to do man don't worry about it huh he first he was like how much

[00:21:41] weed is legal like is there a limit to the weed it's well technically yes technically yes

[00:21:48] Aaron but it's more than you will need the limit is more than what you would need

[00:21:55] don't take that as a challenge Aaron um I hope he does can I can I give you a take

[00:22:04] that uh and we can kind of close this nuggets and get into the abs a little bit here

[00:22:11] but can I give you a take that I'm working on shall we say uh because

[00:22:17] I've been percolating on that Jamal Murray uh thing so I think you brought up a good point

[00:22:24] where you were like hey it's Murray the bench but we can kind of have one of those two be

[00:22:30] really good at home right I almost feel better that Jamal Murray is going to lose his goddamn

[00:22:37] mind in game seven because he's played so shitty like it almost makes me feel like

[00:22:46] we're gonna have one of those like yokage comes out settles us down sets the tone

[00:22:53] but we're gonna get a Murray flurry at home and I would almost guarantee I'm guaranteeing it Ryan

[00:23:03] we will see a Jamal Murray he will score eight at least points in a row by himself

[00:23:14] in game seven Jamal I believe in you all right I think him and Porter have both have this history

[00:23:22] of they do sometimes lay hooking goose eggs but they always go and say sorry to Mike Malone

[00:23:30] Mike Malone makes it a point to bring up in the press conference that they apologize to

[00:23:34] him like a little bitch it's a power move Mike just likes to talk to him about it I

[00:23:39] think they put I think they joke about it in the locker room yeah well that's what they have to

[00:23:44] call him after he tells everyone that they apologize I don't disagree with you I don't

[00:23:50] disagree with you but what I will say is that I'm so sick of doing this I'm so sick of

[00:23:59] having to be here and yokage putting up a pretty good game and getting zero fucking help

[00:24:07] so yes I agree with you that that will probably happen but I do wish that it would have happened

[00:24:14] in game six because this game could have this was right this was right for the taking and we

[00:24:20] just kind of well and it was 11-2 and we missed a bunch of open shots and there's a

[00:24:28] world in which you just hit those threes and the timber will go what is Mike Malone speaking

[00:24:35] of Michael Malone what's he doing on that 20 to nothing run like do you have a thumb up your

[00:24:41] ass like what what is happening in your brain where you're watching a 20 to zero run happen

[00:24:48] you're the king of rage timeouts and you're not like no I'm not gonna take a timeout

[00:24:56] I mean I think uh I mean he did burn one when they got uh it was of course after an

[00:25:02] offensive rebound you know those piss him off um but so he did take one about midway through the

[00:25:09] run um take another one oh I agree you know me I'm I'm with it it's the first half like

[00:25:16] you have to be and honestly though we kept trying to come back too like we did make runs

[00:25:23] we got it to 15 we'd get it to 15 and you're like oh okay maybe and then they

[00:25:28] Anthony Edwards would come down and hit a three you're like okay this is why we can't get down by

[00:25:33] fucking 25 like you you can't let Anthony Edwards get that freedom so yeah um that would that's

[00:25:41] another good point to bring up you can't get down against this wolves team the way they play

[00:25:45] defense it's it's too good um all right let's close it up game seven predictions Ryan I have

[00:25:54] nuggets 90 wolves 80 I think it's going to be a hideous pass that is hitting us

[00:26:01] but holes are tight always remember the bubbles game seven against the jazz those teams have been

[00:26:06] flame throwing shish kebabing each other and it was ugly as shit I think this was going to

[00:26:12] be ugly I I trust Nikola Jokic late game execution the wolves do not forget they were

[00:26:19] the worst crunch time offense in the NBA in the regular season that's not to say they can't get

[00:26:26] good shots we're in march madness now this is a one game thing but they haven't shown the

[00:26:34] ability to go and get those stops um and to um execute on the other end so I think that some

[00:26:42] improved shooting from the nuggets I also think there's a world in which the wolves if the

[00:26:48] wolves come out with that same thing I think we hit and I think if you hit early a ball

[00:26:56] I think there's a world in which just like we can't get down 20 they can't get down 20

[00:27:02] because they can't score enough it's the opposite problems they can slow us down enough

[00:27:08] to drag us into the mud where 20 is too much and we will keep scoring enough I'm gonna

[00:27:14] gonna go straight home or on it I'm taking nuggets by 18 or more

[00:27:22] I would love that I think it's one of those games where we don't ever really get down by

[00:27:28] more than six or lead by more than six for the first half and then this just the faucet

[00:27:35] turns off on some of their shooting and I think it it turns off in a big way I think

[00:27:42] might drop a 50 bomb on our head but they're still gonna lose by 20 so see you later

[00:27:49] yeah I uh yeah I actually hope we never fucking see this guy again can I just say that as a

[00:27:56] true goodbye to Minnesota like I basically despise I actually think that Karl Anthony Towns is my

[00:28:05] least favorite player in the NBA right now and that includes Patrick Beverly which is really

[00:28:09] saying something for me I just can't stand him the way that he would he held this three

[00:28:17] that he almost wedged it and he held his form up I'm like that's me at the rec center like

[00:28:24] what the hell is going on if if anybody did that at the rec center I'd immediately make fun

[00:28:30] I can't believe that anybody like an NBA player did that on national television

[00:28:39] no big holds their form up like after misses like Karl Anthony Towns he's revolutionized it

[00:28:46] I can't stand him so I would love that but I do I do love Anthony Edwards I guess to get back

[00:28:53] to my original point like he's he is he is un-fucking-believable and I think uh

[00:29:04] the way he's sort of executed he had individually has executed has been impressive

[00:29:09] and you can tell he's just tired sometimes and just like literally has to take a playoff

[00:29:15] and then cat'll do something stupid and then take a foul on the other end and he's kind of

[00:29:19] like well I hit a ridiculous three in KCP's eye and then you did that so thanks buddy

[00:29:29] yeah it I would love it if we could keep any pro Timberwolves talk until after the series

[00:29:39] that was a little too lovey-dovey I didn't like it so I will just say Rudy

[00:29:46] it's not we we we it's you you you okay um nugs at seven it's our prediction here uh

[00:29:56] it's um yeah I just trust this team uh I was like the athletic there I was dropping the

[00:30:02] obituary piece just the game even even days before the game seven actually happened I was

[00:30:09] saying like oh Anthony Edwards actually really hated playing with Carl Anthony Downs that's

[00:30:15] what I thought it that's what Sam Amick is gonna Sam Amick is gonna say he'd be open to trading

[00:30:21] both of them he's fine with trading both of them actually oh you know it you have to trade

[00:30:26] go bear I mean they're gonna trade one of them but uh we'll see the uh unless they win

[00:30:34] the title in which case they probably won't they are not which is why I'm so glad that we

[00:30:40] will be in the arena live um for you here with Blues for Brothers because uh

[00:30:47] an annoying fan base on Twitter already in the Boston Celtics fan base is going to be rooting

[00:30:55] their asses off for the Timberwolves they are gonna be they're gonna be trying to get if

[00:31:01] it's obvious we're gonna win they're gonna try to get our guys suspended retroactively

[00:31:05] for a heating pad coming near uh the can we talk about the underneath no I don't want to get

[00:31:11] sidetracked on it but can we say Kyle Anderson spilled water on the side by

[00:31:16] suspending for this game KCP actually slipped on it uh so instead of a suspension I'm calling

[00:31:24] for Kyle Anderson to have to play at least 35 minutes in game seven that's his punishment he

[00:31:31] has to be out there they have no choice uh because he's been terrible this series um all right

[00:31:36] getting into the man what a roller coaster with these two teams I was coming into this

[00:31:42] podcast I was so prepared for it to be like the abs obituary and just like joy for the

[00:31:47] nuggets but instead it's a little bit of a sobering moment still celebratory with the

[00:31:51] nuggets but uh the ass dug deep um it was one one coming back um we talked about it being

[00:31:59] concerned of like hey we haven't led in these first two games I know it feels good to split

[00:32:04] but are the stars gonna turn this on and then I think it's important to note that

[00:32:17] the avs stars have not looked like stars in this series yet like they haven't they

[00:32:24] haven't popped off the screen they haven't um you know jumped out in ways that they

[00:32:32] have in previous playoffs even when we were losing like games or you know whatever there

[00:32:38] would be you know once a game where I would just go holy shit we have Nathan McKinnon on

[00:32:43] our team like and it feels like whatever strategy kind of slowing it down uglien it up

[00:32:51] we haven't been able to get momentum and speed going into the zone for him and so we haven't

[00:32:56] had those mckinnon games so it was awesome because with the season on the line

[00:33:03] 9, Kale mccarth took over that game and he was filthy and that's why when you're the avs

[00:33:12] very similar to yokichmuri no matter how bad the situation gets you go we have mckinnon

[00:33:18] and mccarth you don't Valerie Natchewskian you don't Natchewsk that's no Natchewskian no um

[00:33:28] you talk about unbelievably bad timing like he was at the skate around in the morning all

[00:33:34] the media guys were saying like and if you're him you have to know you just peed cocaine out

[00:33:42] of your penis like how positive do you have to be for them to suspend you you know the nhl wants

[00:33:49] to sit on that well like the crazy part too is that like he had to be doing lines in front of

[00:33:54] the guy testing him yeah like what are we doing you basically have to be to test positive for

[00:33:59] cocaine too like what are you doing dude it was unreal but we digress um so also maybe just

[00:34:10] i hope he gets the help he needs yes yes big help he needs guys the bluecephor brothers as

[00:34:17] a podcast hope that Valerie gets everybody everybody gets the help they need and lives

[00:34:22] their best life uh besides uh carl anthony towns rudy gobert um and they uh they don't need our

[00:34:30] curse they just are gonna do that by themselves they're gonna screw that up all on their own

[00:34:36] all right the point i wanted to get back to though our stars have to be stars

[00:34:41] and if this unlocks mccarr or you know mckinnon gets to see one go in

[00:34:54] daddy are those buttholes gonna get tight in dallas and they are loose down there so that's

[00:35:00] something it's like the big san antonio women that charles is always talking about what he

[00:35:06] doesn't know about that the bluecephor brothers have inside information on is there are loose

[00:35:11] buttholes flappy buttholes down in dallas um it's not any body type thing not anything shaming

[00:35:17] we have inside information on this we have probes in there right that's what we spent our

[00:35:23] podcast budget on is we just have tiny probes in there and honestly they're having trouble

[00:35:28] staying in um so yeah i hope they're expandable it sounds like yeah we haven't

[00:35:33] gotten good info on the stars or scouting ahead for the mavericks we thought it was

[00:35:38] an investment but my goodness are those loosey goosey out there um but those falling out in

[00:35:44] the street oh my gosh it's hot dog they're branded though they we've gotten a lot of follows and

[00:35:53] i'll obviously i hope you subscribe to the pod five stars five stars yeah i mean you're not

[00:35:58] enjoying this part um when you realize you discovered the pod through a keister drone

[00:36:03] um but stick with us you know it's gonna be fine well it didn't you didn't even

[00:36:07] they are literally you didn't even feel it and it was for science so don't worry about it yeah

[00:36:13] those probes are laying on the streets of dallas like a ticker tape parade all right that

[00:36:18] the ass are gonna throw after we beat them just kidding i don't think we're actually gonna win

[00:36:23] but you know i got gotten the probe rhythm um but you know this dallas team hasn't been

[00:36:31] through all of the wars to game seven at home against the guy who's gonna win the most valuable

[00:36:39] player in hockey and kayle mccarr i wouldn't feel great about it if i was dallas i kind of

[00:36:45] i guess i'd feel 10 less confident than i probably do as a nuggets fan right where it's

[00:36:51] like anything gonna happen it's one game i think we'll win we're at home but i wish we didn't

[00:36:58] have to go to game seven so what's kind of been your takeaways on how they've been able

[00:37:04] to slow down the abs and do you think the abs can break out at home and put a little

[00:37:08] pressure on them is this going seven i hope so um i you asked my biggest takeaway and i

[00:37:17] think i would go to the other side of the ice i'd talk about georgie i mean he's been

[00:37:22] unbelievable he is the only reason we've stayed in this series is because he's been standing on

[00:37:31] his head so i uh i think that the abs do have a lot of offensive talent so ideally that they

[00:37:42] they should be able to um generate some opportunities here especially at home but

[00:37:50] they've honestly put like shit at home so it really it makes me nervous uh i hate the stars

[00:37:59] too uh just something about dallas in general i you talk about inside info i did have to

[00:38:06] spend a week there if you want a little story time we're only 40 minutes in i could do a

[00:38:10] little story time so when i was at oklahoma we were going to the usa cross country

[00:38:16] championships and there was supposed to be this ice storm in norman and so we had to drive down

[00:38:22] to dallas to try to avoid this ice storm uh which didn't work the ice storm hit dallas too

[00:38:31] it was terrible there there as well uh but it was one of the worst experiences of my life

[00:38:39] it is just a sprawling metropolis it's one of those places where like dallas fort worth

[00:38:45] you think of them you know people say it together but it's sort of like phoenix and scotsdale

[00:38:50] where you don't realize until you're there that it's the same town it's like saying denver and

[00:38:56] highlands ranch but if highlands ranch was way bigger so anyways uh we had rolling blackouts

[00:39:06] uh we had to move like three separate times in hotels uh

[00:39:15] the other guy on the trip got food poisoning our assistant coach was leaving for another job so

[00:39:22] he just did not give a shit uh and then we got to san diego and i made a world championship

[00:39:29] to well this has been our hockey breakdown corner with ryan he's

[00:39:37] dallas biggest takeaways from the series every time and uh what i've heard from him there is

[00:39:44] more icing more icing is what we need out there uh because it's it storms with icing

[00:39:52] and the officials need to keep an eye on it it's what i heard i think our guys are getting

[00:39:56] a little too comfortable at home because dallas is so terrible and then they're so

[00:40:02] shocked by how bad dallas is compared to denver they they're kind of off their game you know

[00:40:09] it yeah it tracks honestly um yeah okay so final predictions here in this series

[00:40:16] um is it going i'm going stars in seven oh um i think we get the one at home i don't think

[00:40:25] i don't think nobody beats us three times in a row at home

[00:40:33] uh i'll go absinthe seven i'm a homer why not let's go ryan if our weekend ends with two

[00:40:42] games seven wins i'm gonna live forever you know what time this sunday like they can't be

[00:40:49] simultaneous right we don't know no uh we don't know yet because i think they're waiting until

[00:40:55] tomorrow to see if uh indy can force that to seven because then i think the nicks would be

[00:41:00] more likely to take that early slot that like 130 abc and we'd take the 6 p.m as long as

[00:41:09] it's not 8 30 i mean i suppose there's a world in which also they oh my god what if

[00:41:20] they have luca and okc i mean we might play at 11 a.m on nba tv jesus christ not really everyone

[00:41:28] calm down um but that is kind of i mean it's an awesome day of basketball but it's kind of

[00:41:36] stressful for the nba to figure out the like scheduling of it well let's think about this

[00:41:41] so the actually the east coast game would probably be first uh because that's a one p.m

[00:41:47] that's one p.m tip local uh and then it would probably be okc and then it'd be

[00:41:54] us because that's geographically how like a four and a seven instead of uh because

[00:42:01] oh boom essential time oh yeah you're right you're right okay it's not as bad as i thought

[00:42:07] but i was just thinking two west coast teams that i was or two western conference series

[00:42:12] we might be a seven o'clock bit but that'd be great um i mean it'd be terrible because i have

[00:42:18] to sit in it all day um but yeah uh all right i think this does it uh real quick you can only

[00:42:28] give one word would you rather see dallas or okc okay let's say it on three oh dallas

[00:42:42] 100 um all right this has been i'm just scared of luka dude that that left-handed

[00:42:49] floater is going to live in my dreams for too long yeah if you uh if you believe all the

[00:42:55] reports that luka's camp is clearly leaking um he gets out of bed in traction uh every day

[00:43:02] and uh other things the mainstream media has forgotten is uh no one shoots a lower percentage

[00:43:08] with aaron gordon guarding them than luka donchich so uh get ready to go um from heaven to hell

[00:43:16] uh and i don't want jamal murray to have to um go from goddamn jaden mcdaniels to that menace

[00:43:25] lou dort uh that feels like a good way to get him to retire from the mba because that's cruel

[00:43:30] and unusual to put a man through that after playing right into your right i'm just uh that

[00:43:35] kairi shop will live in my head for too long so you're right and that's why it took me so long

[00:43:41] but i'm just i'm the top tier talent like kairi and luka obviously i'd put sga and then i'm

[00:43:51] putting kairi and luka or luka kairi and then i'm putting whoever else on the thunder

[00:43:57] so that's what made me say that but you are right that uh it is probably a better matchup

[00:44:03] for us despite the top two being all right well i hope you're right and i hope we get to talk about

[00:44:12] the afts western conference matchup as well going forward so go afts go nuggets thanks

[00:44:18] for listening like and subscribe super producer dan excellent work as always we'll see you next

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