No, no, come on, come on, Brock of the Boston Celtics gonna win and hold them.
I'm a Celtics hater. I've been accused of it, but damn do they look good. But emy Udoka looks like he should have won Coach of the Year. Guys who were just useless are incredibly useful now, like Grant Williams al Horford coming out of the grave showing up scoring thirty. Grant Williams hit three seven threes in Game seven against the defending champs. I'm not sure he had seven threes all year. Last year, a Key was basically a random role player with Aaron Nesmith. Him and Aaron Nesmith were
on the same level. And yes, I know the Bucks were missing Chris Middleton, but I don't even know if it would have mattered that much. The Celtics were missing time Lord most of the time. They missed Marcus Smart For a game that they won, the Celtics just went out there and out schemed Bud. Bud is trash, isn'ty. He is a trash trash, trash trash coach, and because he won it all, he gets to stick around. We're
talking spaceball again, folks, lots of length. Grant Williams, who can shoot the three, he can space the floor, he can defend. He's got a booty, he's got quads, he's got hammies, and he can defend Yiannis al Horford doing the same damn thing. You can't move me off my spot, y Honest, I can bam on you too. He can shoot threes as well. Like I said, he had thirty points on the road in Game four. He may just coaching his ass off. The teams that win without good coaching.
Looking at you books, there's teams like them, and then there's teams that had elite roster that nobody could figure out how to use, like the Celtics. Brad Stevens very clearly didn't know what he was doing, because this is a team that now feels like it's gonna win at all, and the roster's largely the same from last year. Celtics were twenty twenty, twenty five and twenty five this year.
This year twenty five and twenty five, five hundred squabbling people calling each other out in public, emy Udoka saying they're soft, saying they don't pass the ball, saying they're whack, just literally been like, Holy he is ripping them up, Marcus Smart saying Jalen Brown doesn't pass anybody the ball. They're losing big leads after big leads. Last year, I think they gave up like seventeen fourth quarter leads that
were over ten points. Now they're the most dangerous team in basketball that you feel like even if they're down ten, they can win games. And the funny thing about the Game seven is that e May and Jason Kidd both ran circles around Monty Williams and Mike Budenholzer and who both were in the finals last year. Really quickly about Bud, what were you doing putting Grayson Allen and George Hill
out there? Like everyone on Twitter, this is like so many dumb people on Twitter, but everyone agrees that that had no It was indefensible. Like you need to be you need to be circy in Game of Thrones, like where we cut all your hair off and we make you walk naked through the street, where we say shame, shame, Like that's what Bud did. Like that's what you need to do. We need to get you down to the Deer Park and we need to like treat you like
a Handmaid, you know what I mean. And for MANI, you can't follow behind by thirty without making radical changes. You just like I don't even know the coaching. The people tell me the coaching doesn't matter in the NBA, like where are you now? Where are you now? Coaching is important and the Celtics are now dangerous because they've got a good coach. Quick little preview before we go of the two conference final series. Let's go to the East first, Boston versus Miami. This is why I think
Boston can win it all. Just a battle of very very good defenses. Really really gonna be a tough matchup on bam Adebayo. You see what they did to Robin Williams. Robin Williams, Robin Thick, Nope, not Robin Thick, Nope, not even Robin brook Lopez. PJ. Tucker's gonna have to play small ball. He's gonna have to play the five, he's gonna have to shoot threes, He's gonna have to defend everyone. Jimmy Butler obviously is a good defender, but they have nobody down on the stretch who can get you an
ISO basketball. Whereas the Boston Celtics feel like They've got a few. They've got Tatum, They've got Brown, they even had Marcus Martin a little bit. Who's doing it too. I think it's gonna be a very difficult series for the Heat. I mean, the Celtics found a way to neutralize and shut down Kyrie and kd to the most prolific scorers of all time. Then they didn't shut him down, but they found a way to significantly limit Jannis in many games, not every game, but many games. I think
he had three games under thirty. And Miami is nowhere even close offensively to those two teams. Like, who is the best scorer on the Miami Heat? Is it Tyler Hero? Is it Jimmy Butler? That goes not even the same planet as Joannis Akadi and Kyrie, not even the same stratosphere. It's gonna be trouble, trouble, trouble. Kyle Lowry's nowhere to be found. Tyler Hero's been up and down, Duncan Robinson's
on a milk cart and can't play defense. Jimmy Butler, yeah he could, he had two forty point games, but like, we know what it's like when you just defend him like crazy. We know what he's like in the fourth. I promise you, folks, prediction time, Jimmy Butler is gonna have some late game situations where he's gonna have the ball, and I tell you it's not gonna go in. The ball is not going in. The Heat are gonna also make it tough on the Boston Celtics with their defense.
But I tell you what, these guys are sharing the ball really well. Like Jason Tatum might be unguardable right now, six ten, six eleven. Just I don't think he hit the rim in the last two games of that series. It was just just all net things. You see him, He's shooting from thirty and you're like, yep, that's it, that's going in. He's just shooting over everyone. He's doing
what Kevin Durant does. No one can stop him. And I like Boston's chances with Tatum and Brown and Smarts and Horford and Grant Williams over the Heat's options in Tyler Hero and Jimmy Butler and Gabe Vincent. I think Boston and six it might not even go that far. Honestly, it might not even get to six out West. Let's go out West. This one's fun. This one's super fun. Maz facing the Warriors. Normally you see a Game seven
that leaves the winning teams just completely gassed for Game one. No, sir, no, sir. H Luca didn't even play in the third and fourth quarter of that last game seven. Mas basically had an off day. They were done. That was like a scrimmage, that was a walkthrough Game seven. The game was so out of reach. They were up I didn't even say this. They were up forty five points at one point. They were up almost almost a fifty piece on the a
team that just went to the finals. Everything that the MAVs did to Utah and Phoenix is something I think they're gonna try to do again against Golden State. I think it's gonna be a war of small ball. I think it's gonna be Luca bullying people. I don't know who's guarding Luca. That's gonna be fascinating. Who will it be? Is that Clay? Is it gonna be Draymond? How? What
are they gonna do try to do to Luca? We heard also J Kidd is now challenging Luca to be not a defensive liability, to try to be as close to Lebron James as a player as he can. That is terrifying. Luca can score in ways that Steph can't, which we'll talk about in a different episode, because I've got so much to say about the point guard position it's not even funny. But I don't have time for
this right now. Luca probably has a better outside shot than almost anyone but Steph right now, definitely a better outside shot than Chris Paul, better outside shot than Jaw Like John Morant doesn't have the type of outside shot that Luca does. The perimeter offense of the Maps is much better in the half court than the memphisis. This is a team Memphis was a team that they probably should have put the bed put Golden State to bed in five. So there's a lot of people saying Golden
State's gonna have it easy. There's not gonna be easy, folks. The big thing I think that Golden State has going for them is not only do they have championship pedigree and experience, they've been there before. They've got three guys that are very very connected in Clay Draymond and Steph. They also have another score in Jordan Poole and also by the way. We need to just quickly discuss it, because I didn't. Andrew Wiggins played the best basketball of
his life. I've never seen like playoff. Wiggins is the stuff of legends. It's just bricks on bricks on bricks on bricks, and he hit every clutch shot in Game six against the Grizzlies. I don't even know what to say. Rip to the Grizzlies. Such a fun team. Gonna be a game of streaks, Gonna be a game of runs. Both teams play elite defense, probably to be a game of unders, truthfully, but also they could score so fast, so I don't even know if you touch it. My prediction, Oh,
because I have to do it. I have to do it. Mad's and seven. Oh my god. Let's see some real quick questions before we get up out of here, real quick, all right. Question one, I haven't seen these questions at all, so I'm answering off the cuff first time. Tias Jones says he thinks he's a starter in the NBA. Can you build a winning team around Tias Jones. Tias Jones says he's six feet but he's probably five to eleven, Like,
let's be honest. So Tias Jones says he wants to be a starter, which means he's probably gone from Memphis because Jaws the starter. Right. He averaged nine too and four in about twenty minutes per game we gave him all throughout this season. He's got the best assisted turnover ratio in the NBA, best protector of the ball in the league, which means a ton. In the playoffs, Uh, when Jah went out, he averaged sixteen six and seven in thirty four minutes and averaged just one turnover per
game in that time. Pretty insane considering how good Golden State's defense is. So yeah, I think he's a starter. Can you build a championship roster around a guy like that? You're gonna need a lot of good wings. You're gonna need in this new quote unquote space ball evolution that we're getting, You're gonna need guys who can shoot threes, who can defend, who are six to seven. You need
a six' five shooting. Guard you need a six seven to, Three you need a six, eight six nine, Four and he needed a six ten six eleven to five and probably a seven footer just to kind of space things. Out that's does he go to The. Knicks what do they need to? Do they've Got Mitchell robinson out. There my guess is. No BUT i really Like Tias. JONES i don't even know what to make of this new these new styles of THE nba that's evolving throughout like minute to. Minute this is this is what we call
a developing. Situation so my first gut instinct is. Noe looking, back who was the worst free agent signing of the twenty twenty one. Season, man there's been. SOME i mean the best one that comes to mind is Probably fourgnier four, yea four, years seventy eight million dollars. GOOD i, Mean boston just dodge, stuff. Bullet didn't they have to give a lot away For evan two like they got a tpe. Exception but LIKE i think they gave up multiple picks
For Evan. Fournier let me see real, quick BECAUSE i, said this is. Cold this is me? Cold yeah, Too celtic Send knicks two draft picks In Evan fournier sign in trade yash, yuck. Yucky so that's. Bad The knicks, knew they knew when they Chose Evan fournier Over Reggie. Blocked that was a BAD i mean pretty. Fast he was a huge. Disappointment he doesn't play any. Defense he's so. Streaky the only time he's elite is in the in The olympics In, france not even In like it's Like
Rudy gobert and. Him come, On Kemba walker really bad, too two years eighteen, million that was. DESTINED i mean Both nick. Signings tibbs never wanted. Him he's not. Healthy he just doesn't play. Defense he's a negative a million when he's on the. Court, GOD i Love kempba, too and it's LIKE i Love, kempa but he's a. Shell that was. Bad Taylor Horton tucker pretty bad. Too three years thirty. Million, oh he could Had Kyle, lowry, which by the, way probably not good now in, HINDSIGHT i
don't even. Know. Man they turned Down Kenrick williams And Mike. MUSKALA i mean Just Ugh Duncan robinson five years ninety, million no playing? Time now five years ninety? Million COULD i get some of? That LIKE i want to be able to get paid ninety million to do, Nothing like you just go to, practice LIKE i would do. PREP i would create research documents for the, league like do stuff you, know, like, Hey Tyler, hero this is your, Assignment like there's some film for, You, like let me
put play in the like. TEAM i would Do scout team for ninety, million hands down the worst money spent in the off. Season Jesus. Christ Zach collins three, years twenty two and a half. MILLION i could have told The spurs that wasn't gonna, work but Any blazer fan knew that wasn't gonna. Work this guy is. Nobody, god The spurs are having a, bad bad couple of. Years Josh, Primo what a scrub at? Twelve that's just a ricochet. Shot has nothing to do with the free agent. Signings moving,
on next, contract next. Question Marcus smart recently said we go AS i. Go are you? Serious this is a real. Quote i'm the heart and soul of the. Team my teammates tell me that all the. TIME i try to be that for. Them the ENERGY i bring is. CONTAGIOUS i try to bring that every. Game are you Ready trista to admit you're wrong About Marcus? Smart? Wow Uh, GOD i just don't want. TO i really don't want. To, YES i GUESS i. AM i GUESS i am THE i didn't know That The Green lantern was the review
in In. Boston BUT i think that's a sick nickname For Marcus. Smart NOW i think we need to call him The Green lantern the super. Villain wasn't The Green lantern a? Villain good? Guy good? Guy he's a super. Superhero he played what what his? Name he was IN dc, Right Ryan reynolds played. HIM i Think Marcus smart would with his green, hair would be a tremendous green. Lantern like what a name for someone who's the heart and the SOUL i light up this. Place So i'm deflecting
the answer IS i? GUESS i. GUESS i hate. It this is one of those times where it just feel like the take went so. Wrong he's a chucker, though, though isn't he like and a? Flopper but it's. True the team feeds off of, him and they are about to win a championship With Marcus smart as our point guard and he's not even like a true point. Guard so good for. Him, yes, TikTok Yes, TWITTER i was. WRONG i was wrong About Marcus, smart AND i won't ever say it. Again so this is the last time
That i'm going to bring this. Up you, guys don't get in my mentions. Again all, right that's all the time that we have for this heat check. Whatever so that's all the. Time we'll be back. Whenever that question. Sucked that was a terrible. Question whoever wrote, THAT i don't even know where you found that. Quote seems like fake news to. Me, anyway we'll be back Probably wednesday Or.
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