- Props to the Miami Heat!
- How good are the Pelicans with a healthy Zion?
- Joel Embiid looks to be effective but out of shape
- Lakers shoot a lot of free throws!
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[00:19:30] I haven't seen evidence, but then again, I haven't seen evidence of anybody stopping Jokic.
[00:19:36] He gets what he wants and he does what he wants.
[00:19:39] And I'm kidding.
[00:19:40] Obviously there is no stopping Jokic.
[00:19:42] They're going to try multiple bodies.
[00:19:43] They're going to push him.
[00:19:44] They're going to try and get him into foul trouble.
[00:19:47] And at the end of the day, it's not going to work and he's going to average a triple
[00:19:50] double.
[00:19:51] If they're in a game and they get to the fourth quarter, my thoughts would be
[00:19:59] to put Davis on.
[00:20:01] That's your best bet, undeniable, because he's a great defender.
[00:20:05] He's long.
[00:20:06] It's hard to get over him.
[00:20:08] That's undeniably your best bet.
[00:20:10] And Davis, but Davis' history against big men who can score is not great.
[00:20:17] That's the other piece that goes into it.
[00:20:20] I asked you earlier, guys, is there any scenario where the Heat can beat the Celtics?
[00:20:24] And there is, and it's pretty one in a million.
[00:20:27] I think with the Lakers and the Nuggets, it's even harder than that.
[00:20:34] Let me call this out and then we'll end this for the day.
[00:20:36] Zion?
[00:20:37] I wanted to say something about that.
[00:20:39] I want to say something about that.
[00:20:42] If I'm the Lakers, I'm going to try to do, first of all, you want to steal the
[00:20:49] first one, but I'm going to try to do something that I don't think we've done
[00:20:55] all year that we have in our pocket, or if we've done it, we haven't done it
[00:21:00] against Denver and not that often.
[00:21:03] But I'm going to try to set them back.
[00:21:05] The only way you're going to, I think, shut them down is when they're
[00:21:10] confused on what to do.
[00:21:12] And that means you've got to try something different than what is there
[00:21:16] always. And if you can and you can set them back long enough, you might
[00:21:20] be able to make a game of it.
[00:21:22] And also, if you do it early, the reason I say get the first one early,
[00:21:26] because that could carry over.
[00:21:28] Your team now believes they can win.
[00:21:30] Yeah. That would be my thinking.
[00:21:33] And the only flaw in that plan is I think that would impact Oklahoma
[00:21:37] City, Minnesota, an inexperienced team.
[00:21:41] The Denver Nuggets, if they lose the first game, they're just going to
[00:21:44] get mad.
[00:21:45] No, no, it's not about the Denver Nuggets getting mad.
[00:21:48] It's about all of a sudden.
[00:21:51] Let's be honest. We're all humans.
[00:21:52] You think the Lakers, every Laker believes deep in his heart he's going
[00:21:56] to win this game.
[00:21:57] I got you.
[00:21:58] And that's what I'm saying.
[00:22:00] Hey, look.
[00:22:01] And then all of a sudden, like anything else, if you watch the
[00:22:04] Celtics when they're hot early, it's just everybody's hot.
[00:22:09] Yeah. Yeah, I get that.
[00:22:10] Everybody's going to buy it in.
[00:22:13] If it's going to happen, the Lakers need game one.
[00:22:16] Yeah, I agree.
[00:22:17] I agree, because that makes also Denver reexamine what they're doing.
[00:22:22] Fair enough.
[00:22:23] We're going to end with this.
[00:22:24] You called out the conspiracy theorists.
[00:22:27] This number is pretty shocking to me.
[00:22:28] I'm looking at Lakers-Pelicans, that game where Zion went off.
[00:22:31] He had 40 points, only took one three pointer.
[00:22:34] So the majority of those points were just he was just bulldozing
[00:22:39] to the rim.
[00:22:40] He got to the line nine times.
[00:22:43] Both Anthony Davis and LeBron James got more free throws than Zion.
[00:22:47] So conspiracy theorists do with that what you will.
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