¶ NBA Playoffs Predictions and Excitement
just two Murph's talking hoops . The journey to June has made it to what I like to call the real NBA season . That's right , folks , it is not the beginning of April , it's April 20th . But the playoffs they have started today .
It's the beginning of April . It's the NBA . You're right , you're right .
It is on . We have finally made it to the season . We've been waiting for the playoffs . I know , as a Celtics fan , it feels like it's been months before we had anything to play for . But , coach , we're here .
How good is the deal , man ? We're back J2M's back baby , Just two Murph's talking hoops .
And we finally have something to talk about . All this buildup all year . We are here . I mean , there's so much to talk about , but we got to come out right out of the gates with this . It would obviously not be the NBA playoffs without the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics matching up .
Oh yeah , I forgot .
And it's happening . We found out , we found out .
Just tell him what I before you . Tell him what I text you . I am trusty sidekick coach Murr Podcast P cozy P prediction P cause there's so many P's . Podcast Paul , my elder brother , we are the Murphy Brothers and here we are , at Just Two Murphs Talking Hoops . We love this journey . Thank you for listening . We're on YouTube .
It's our second YouTube video together . On our channel , please subscribe . We've got to get all that stuff out of the way . Let's have some fun , paul . We really on our channel , please subscribe . We got to get all that stuff out of the way and just let's just have some fun , paul . Yeah , we really have no right script .
Paul and I , we we talk and text , uh , and we bond together . We do this once a month .
This is our brother time , but we did it once a month during the regular season , but now that we're in the playoffs , we get on when we get on .
Remember and since everybody and their mother has a podcast , now you might as well have one too , because my relationship , our relationship , is better now Like we have . Isn't this great ? We were talking about it yesterday . It's our , it's blossomed , our relationship , and just this dream that we're literally living .
You know and I was just talking for a go on trying to grow . I'd be trying to grow and get likes and subscribers and all that . Just , you always hear these success stories about people just letting , not caring about that anymore . They're going through that grind like burton just popped in my head .
The burton snowboard guy watched the documentary and he was trying to get it . I'm trying to get the boards out , and then he's just like I'm done , I'm just gonna make boards for fun , for the love of , for people , and all of a sudden , the only thing that you need to to think about right now is getting wacky sorry , I had my rant . Now I'm done .
Back to the solstice .
You bring me back , paul well , what I was going to say is the only thing that you got to think about right now is being wacky and weird , because that's what's happening .
We're here like the little professor JT says zany time , oh , and I'm not going to pick my ears so much I was . I was our first YouTube video last time . I don't care , I'm carefree , just try to let go and not think about that . But I'm like you're picking my ear and it was a little too . It's good , it's a good , look man .
But then you get to see yourself . You're like , oh goodness , but that's process like podcast . P trust the process . He says right . So so happy april 20th , on saturday day , one of the playoffs . So paul was right , this is the beginning of april playoffs game one .
go ahead , p take us we have the , the play-in game or the play-in tournament whatever you want to call it behind us , because that's all that is . That's just a play-in tournament . The teams have been decided . We got our eight seeds .
So , yes , yesterday was great Cause we found out Miami's playing the one seed , which is Boston , and then later I don't know if you caught it or not , but my boy , murphy , the third , knocking down shots for the Pelicans .
I'm repeating that , so of course I caught it .
Murphy the third they were six , you know paul , yeah , I am paul .
Ignatius murphy is a third , the third podcast , paul . We just we let the whole name out . So anyway , what ?
happened for the kids , the , the kings lost to the pelicans six times in a row this year . Oh and six .
So there you go , man the pelicans are now playing okc um but , before we get in and talk about our Celtics , because obviously we're wearing our green and I had to put on my legend shirt because if we're going to get ready for a real good run to June we've got to have Larry present . We'll get there . We'll get there , but before we jumped , on today .
I love your legend shirt the bird's in the back here . Not planned , nothing's planned here .
But here's the deal . As much as we want to talk green , when I looked at the matchups because we're going to stay in the first round We'll do a little predictions now , like we've done all year . Now that we're in the playoffs , we'll do some of that .
But first round , if you look at all the matchups that are exciting and the things I want to talk about right now , it's all out of the west . There might be one in the east that we'll get to , but let's just start with what happened with the pelicans pelicans playing okc . That's an 8-1 seed . That's going to be a fun matchup .
We got tonight we got lakers nugs . That's the two seat against the seven seat . That's going to be a great matchup . We got Clippers Mavs . How cool is that ? That's going to be a battle .
You know I've been talking about the Clippers and Mavs , especially the Clippers Dude . It's awesome If you're a real NBA fan , like us , a basketball fan , get the stuff out of the way . There's a lot of hate on the NBA . Just have fun . It's so entertaining .
It's so exciting right now , especially being in the Green Nation , but all around , anyway , continue to win four games a day . Right now , the Magic it's 35 . Orlando Magic versus Cleveland Cavaliers 46 .
Yeah , yeah yeah , we'll get there , but Cleveland Cavaliers 46 .
Yeah , yeah , yeah .
We'll get there . But the other matchup that I'm excited about , it's actually happening later today Again in the West . Everything I mentioned in the West Suns , wolves , wolves . That might be one of the better matchups right there .
Prediction P . Prediction P said Timberwolves . That was a very Listen . It was really easy for me to . I I was great with my nicks , call and everything . And I I called the nicks and at the very beginning I sent paul that it was in october .
I called you're like what's your blood , your dark horse , what's that team all the way to june and I'm like the nicks and look what they've done . But you called timberwolves and okc and I'm like being first . I'm like wow , that's what's exciting , because we have a new face , we have this ant character .
We're all loving and embracing right that's gonna be a good matchup just keeps growing . And then shay , and oh , these young guys , boy , they can , and so we have a whole new gen . It's the end of the of this as era , right , the lebron era , and it's time for a new face soon it's cool .
So here's a question right out of the gates staying in the west , we're not even in the east yet . Out of all those matchups I mentioned , yep , what's gonna , who's gonna be the upset ? Not all these top seeds are gonna get out of the first round , coach . Remember last year the miami heat beat the number one bucks I'm gonna .
I'm off my rails .
You know that so who is it ? Are the lakers gonna beat the nugs ?
so good , paul , you know what ? Yes , whoa , yeah , here we go , boom . So let's do it . Check , check , check , microphone check , because I'm on the calendar here we'll be seeing each other . We'll do it in early may . We're gonna be because we're on tomorrow . So it's tomorrow , baby verse heat . All right , let me stay on get there .
So hard for me to stay on track just romance , insane , right nowane right now .
It's a playoff . It's wacky and weird .
I love a wacky wheel Back to the Lakers and nugs . Yes , because we knew they squeaked in LA .
¶ NBA Playoff Matchup Predictions
Oh no , by the way , folks , this is real time on YouTube . That's not a good sign . Oh wait , does something fall , fall .
Oh yes , it's a great sign . It just made it . Yes , I missed it . My eyes were down . See what happens . Hand down , man down . You got to keep your head up . You got to keep your eyes up on the ball . You can't be dribbling down here . Coach Murph was dribbling down here .
All right . Sorry , I didn't even see it fall .
That's a great sign . Don't look at it as a bad sign , because now you had to go fix who . You had to give him a little help who . Who was up ?
there hanging . You don't know who that is Dude .
Jason Tatum .
Thank you .
What are the odds that you have a hanging shirt ? I got this hanging from my ceiling . It took me like 10 minutes . I had to nail it . I was having technical difficulties . It was hilarious . Pogast Paul has given me a thumbs down . I didn't even do that . That's awesome .
We got some weird juju going on . It is getting so wacky and weird right now . Who was that ? Someone just gave us a thumbs down . Was that one of our listeners ?
Yeah , let's just say , that was one .
Was that ?
Ted that , yeah , let's just say , that was what , was that , ted ? Anyway ?
that's gonna be cool when we're on real time like that . That's enough . That's enough , wow , okay , we gotta reel it in here . No , no , no .
Back to lakers nugs but anyway , we had paul has . I didn't know he's gonna have a t-shirt of just jason tate , in the back black t , number zero , and I got mine hanging here . All that weird stuff just happened because this man is going to kill it great production here on just humor , stocking who ?
Know we're the best dude zero turnovers back to Lakers Nugs back to Lakers . Here we go . We're having fun . Man who cares ? We're the best dude . All right , so we're going to go . I don't have to go in details , let's just do the calls . I'm going lakers , are you going nuggs ? Let's just make the let's make these predictions , wow .
So what about suns wolves ?
well about you . You got to do the predictions now and then I'll go back the nugs are going to take that down the line yeah , good , so I was against you that , but I just was saying they squeaked in and this is lebron's last year . Nobody , I don't feel like anybody's talking about ad . What he's doing , he's been doing work and he's healthy .
He's one of the most dangerous players in the nba , if not , I can't , I stop myself . I'm saying it . Not better than the joker , but he's right there with the joker . If anybody is with him , who is it ? Ad ? He's the only . He's the one right next . Yeah , so there you go in the rest of the team . We got this kid we got I am him . What do they say ?
I'm him . What do they do ? I hate that oh , austin reeves . I hate when people say that . I hate when people say , on god , I'm like oh god , austin reeves has grown into another place , so they have that , the triple fat , and they have other players , they , they got , they got the whole squad there . Man , what else do you want to talk ?
about . I'm actually excited when I think about um upset 8 30 PM .
Sorry to cut you off .
The upset that I'm looking at again . We're staying in the West . Here is Pelicans thunder . I think the Pelicans as much as I've loved my OKC . I called them to be right there till the end . I didn't call them to be the 1C , but to be up there . They've never been in the playoffs , they've never been challenged . I think the Pelicans take down OKC .
They've never been challenged .
That's if Zion comes back .
That's a crazy upset . If Zion comes back , it's not that crazy because both teams are so inexperienced . It's all about experience . In the playoffs . It doesn't matter how good you are . Like you said , it's real time now . Like I said about the Bulls , it was funny . I was like Paul , no by 20 .
I was being crazy saying the Bulls are going to beat the Heat by 20 . But the Bulls played an amazing game , game before you know . The whole team rocked . But but they should . They told cho-chop against the heat and like it could go any way . When it comes to players , it doesn't matter . You got to have more experience so either team can win that .
They're both young , okc and both dangerous I .
I should have put a foot , I should have put a footnote on that one , though , that's if zion comes back I don't know how it is .
I don't know how bad his injury it doesn't matter , though , because they can't just do it with the two . They're not deep enough . Okc is not deep enough , so that's a good . I like that call , though , because I because the pelicans are a great team too , man . So what else we got ?
and the other matchup in the west . That man , man , this is going to be a war . Mavericks Clippers , who's going to come out of that one ?
That's what I love the most , because I love Luka . Who doesn't love Luka ? I love Kyrie too , like I've had a love-hate relationship with Kyrie , I think a lot of us do . But I'm not hating on Kyrie anymore because I don't know , on kairi anymore , because I don't know , I just got to that place . I don't know if you , you are now . He's a player man .
He is one of the most he's , that he's they talk about . He's as one of the best of all time already . His dribbling , his scoring , his I don't know man , I just they're , they're dangerous .
They're dangerous but they're not I mean bottom line , taking out project . Uh predictions , I'm picking dallas .
What's that picking dallas you're ?
going dallas in that one , yeah , bottom line taking out predictions .
I'm picking Dallas . What's that Picking Dallas ? You're going Dallas in that one . Yeah , because they're going to get over this hump . They're clicking more . I see more Luka and him clicking . They're not deep enough . I want to go say Clippers , because I called them in the West from the beginning , remember . But I'm going Dallas on that one . I love that matchup .
That's my favorite one because the the you know . So all out of all of them . But you know , lakers nugs come on tonight at 8 30 pm , eastern that's incredible .
Either way , predictions or not , like I just mentioned , you look at these matchups in the west . It it's going to be a bloodbath man Like these teams . Whoever comes out of the West , they're going to earn it .
Yeah , and like you said yesterday , like this is where we're going to see the real basketball now , better basketball where it's better defense , less threes , like you were saying . I think we're going to see more , who knows , because it's a three , but we're just going to see a better defensive game overall which is going to generate a better game period .
It's going to look and I hopefully see some , and the officials are on point . They find that good common ground because we've been so high and low with that back and forth . That's been the whole thing . I hope the playoffs they just let them play . You know , yeah , like you were saying , too much criticism , we can't stop nitpicking .
We gotta stop nitpicking everything , you know , because that's one way . Oh , the call . I should have made a call . That's like always swinging pendulums , life . We live in the NBA . Just not nitpick at all , just let it be . You know , because it was . They are having bad calls always . They always were .
You know , anyway , all right on to the , on to the east on to the east it's today , so thank you , nba schedule . Because of you , I'm going to be feeling very cozy , because I'm going to be waking up in my jammies , my celtics jammies , because here in the pacific time the celtics are playing at 10 am .
So I'm going to have my coffee , I'm going to get cozy , I'm going to wear my jammies and I'm going to settle in to like I , like I mentioned from the top , I'm listening .
I'm going to settle in . I'm going to put my bottoms on . I'm only wearing my boxers right now , there you go because I'm going to settle into sorry folks , I'll show off my biceps , but not the bottoms the Miami put the shorts on Paul , we're good the Miami Boston matchup . I am so excited that you called it hardcore . I was wrong .
Coach was wrong humble pie , you were right . It hardcore . I was wrong . Coach was wrong Humble pie . You were right about the heat . I was right about the bowls . I thought that was . I thought there was like no Jimmy , no way . But they showed up .
If we're expecting this Celtics team , which I know we are to make a long run into June . What a better way to start than to cleanse your soul . That's right . You got to remember how it all ended for them . Last year we were down oh three as a reminder everybody . Oh three to the heat . We came back and almost made history . We won three in a row .
We had a whole podcast on it . The coach and I were excited . We got to game seven in the garden home crowd and we laid an egg so it could totally .
and this couldn't be scripted even better , man , like they always say , like they say , this couldn't be scripted better , because if the bull , we did play the bulls , it wouldn't be as right fulfilling you can't ? We'd go look back oh , we didn't get by the , so we get now , we crush the heat .
But then they'll be like oh , I didn't have by the , so we get now , we crush the heat . But then there'll be like , oh , I didn't have Jimmy , who cares though ? We just take down the heat , tyler , they played well .
Well , I got to say I'm not playing this game this year . Yes , I will be cozy and I'm going to enjoy myself , but I'm not going to be morning getting excited about the playoffs saying , oh yeah , we're gonna sweep the heat . They stink playing that game . I've done this is the third year in row of this team . I respect this team . They deserve their respect .
Coach spo versus coach joe this is a big test for coach joe .
We're growing , we are growing .
But listen , let's not underestimate . Like you just said , they don't have jimmy buckets . But you know what ? Last year jimmy didn't even play .
Obviously he played well it wasn't even him that was dominating . Yeah , that's right
¶ Playoff Predictions and Team Chemistry
it was . Remember , strauss . Who else was killing us ?
no , who's uh strauss is gone , but the other guy that played that plays for them right now . That has the brain .
He did work on us yeah what's his name um ?
oh , the captain morgan's no , no , no , no , no , no , no , no , no . That's the rookie We'll get . No , the guy from last year that was knocking down .
Captain Jackson Bauer crushed it .
No , no , he was the MVP for the series last year and he didn't do anything in the finals . He showed up against the Celtics . What's his name ?
Ted , no , I'm looking it up .
If this guy shows up again , what's his name ? He's like a cheerleader .
He's not on the squad anymore .
All right , give me , we have to okay real time we got to get the roster .
Hold on , was it last year's roster ?
In this year . He's on this year's team .
Oh , just the roster , it's easy . I'm just forgetting , dude , I got too much going on , so I got right here , boss , we got , like I said , jack Quez Jr . We joke Because he looks like a pirate . That was Paul's call .
No , no , the guy that was the MVP For the Eastern Conference Finals , martin . There you go , caleb Martin .
He was the .
Eastern Conference Finals MVP Last year .
This bum Sorry .
Ted . So I mean , I bring that up because you just said it , coach , it's the playoffs . This is a different season . Yes , the Celtics had a record-breaking year . They won 64 games One of the top Celtics teams in history , by the way .
I think it's like the third best record-wise Celtics team ever .
Okay , but that's fine .
I got stuff for you for later .
Miami plays defense , so I do not think this is going to be a sweep . No , I think he plays defense , so I do not think this is going to be a sweep .
No , I think we're going to win in five games . That's , that's my prediction . We're so like I was just thinking about the , the weather around here , how we feel like I gotta get over it . As you're speaking , I was like I I this is what I said to you too . I'm like , if this isn't a year , I'm done . This is it , I'm done . That's gonna stop .
That's nonsense . That's that's , that's the . You know , that's the general pop , jason tatum , falling down . He's just , he's just falling down . Baby , he can't do it on his own , he needs his squad . So , on that note , look behind me . I've been hiding what's ? It's backwards , but it says unity , like rick james unity , you can't jason can't do it alone .
no , no , no , no . But he , I , I agree we are a team , we have amazing players . Porzingis is going to be a difference maker , but this man , when you say growth , he's our star , he's our guy . I just want him . And , by the way , it's not 40 points a game , it's the rebounds , it's the assists , it's everything else that he's been doing this year .
It's not jacking up threes , jason Taylor . See this picture , the reason why I put this up there . It kept falling down . I want to see more of this going to the who we love .
He does I mean , we don't even have to see more of it . He does that now like that's what we see . We've been seeing , that's what we wanted to see a few years ago . Right , we're always like I want to see more of that , but we are . He was driving hard to the rack much better he's a spiritual warrior man . That's what it is .
He's a warrior , he's got and they're all . It's all just coming together . There's no injuries , Like it's all there . No zing , no ring drew , they're all there . And do not forget Derek White , God , he's such an essential part of that team you know it's going to be so much fun to watch we talked about paul mccas .
Paul and all the special little little terms he's . He's like trade of destiny . How many years ago did you say that ? This talk about growth ? He I'm so happy for that hit man so humble . We have the squad dude and al big , al keep man . Look at Peyton Pritchard . I was like I knew he could do what he can do . He's coming up . Hey , will the Wise .
How do you feel about Peyton Pritchard ? If you're listening , you better be listening .
Prolific P .
Bet you feel a little bit better , don't you ? Because we have the best chemistry in the league . Everybody's scared of us , is scared of us , and it's because they're having fun and they have that . That . That second unit man , that's that . That bench was a lot , it's a lot of fun . You know who they are name up again .
I I was so excited last night when I found out our opponent . This is the way it was meant to be and to be able to start it off cozy in my jammies , for it to be Miami Again we got to cleanse the system . We have to get Lash . Let's get it right out of the system right away . This was the team we needed to start off with . We had no idea .
I want a little bit of war . I wanted them to be challenged a little bit . We need that . But this is going to be absolutely crucial for their run to june , if it's going to happen , because they got to get over the miami mental hump , for whatever reason , they had this miami thing , miami mental hump , nice , miami , miami mental hump , and you get it .
I always lump them into the uh , gold state . And they got over that , didn't they gold state ? Was that another hump too ? It's like what are you doing ? Yeah , they got over that , didn't that gold state ? Was that another hunt too ? It's like what are you doing ? Yeah , they got over that , didn't that , yeah , this year and listen .
They look great against them in the regular season , but this is the playoffs man , so it's going to be good . So we got to have a healthy respect .
Ted's miami heat are back , no expectations . They've helped us develop this like , yeah it's been . I'm thankful now for this journey of life . We're going through the highs , so it's gonna be great and we'll probably .
I'm even thinking with this pod we might even check in weekly man ah , I like that , we will . We're just gonna go with the flow , man , because yeah , after like yeah because , because it starts tomorrow with the cics , that's Sunday and that's what we were doing anyway we were doing a couple of weeks .
We don't even put out content . People talk to me about the show and stuff and they're like pump out more content , bro . I'm like that's the problem . This is like a send-off thing . I'm going to be short and sweet , but it's not about pumping out all this content right , trying to do 10 things on a list , one or two things , multitask , that's great .
But now we got so much to talk about .
We do . We have more to talk about . It's less stressful too , dude . It's like we're like it was awesome during the pandemic because we were in quarantine , so we just do whatever . But I like once a week how you're feeling . That's cool , cause it's the playoffs and it's just going to be cool .
And so again Sunday . Tomorrow is game one , then we have game two Wednesday . Game three is Saturday . So memory , I don't know . We'll figure it out , maybe we get on . It's going to figure itself out as it will , as it always does , but we'll see .
The pod calls us right , so that's where this has taken me right as we grow and just just tell me this at least , coach , that when we get on , if we do next week that we're not down , oh , three again , because I can't go .
That's a hundred percent not happening like I can guarantee that without zing , like they their second unit completely play . That was so cool to see . Sweet killing it way to go , sweet and just the whole line you gotta remember last year .
I think they're crushing it , I feel you . But you gotta remember last year when we matched up to against miami these conference finals . We got on this podcast before the series .
We're like it's gonna be a sweep , we're gonna win in five , we're talking all that's why we don't , and we went down oh three it was awful so I guess the good news is it doesn't even matter .
I can't even . It's a whole different identity . Like you keep saying every do . We don't have to go there anymore .
We've talked about well , you gotta remember last year's team too . They didn't win any games at home . I want to see that change this year , because their home record this year was like off the charts . They were making history even when they were losing .
What was the stat when they lost ? Oh yeah , no free throws ever in a game . Do you see that ? You ?
said that's this year's team , so I know , but they were saying they're making history every game , even when they lose .
They I was crazy and there was only one free throw in that game . Yeah , that's not a good stat .
I don't like no but that was history on both . There was only one free throw in that game . Yeah , that's not a good stat . I don't like that .
No , but that was history on both sides . It was one free throw , but it doesn't matter , so I'm going to go back to it's halftime right now . Real time game one Magic Cavs 53 Cavs 41 Magic .
The Cavs are looking strong , but that's who we're going to play next . The winner of Cavs Magic .
People don't talk about them enough .
Who do you want to match up against , assuming we beat Miami ?
But they're having Mobley and Mitchell . Man , who do you want the ?
Celtics to play in round two , if we get there .
Round two . No , no , no , it's going to be Cleveland .
Nope , nope , nope , I want talking to talk about these two teams , cleveland in I'll talk about them , but I'm not talking about round .
All right , that's , that's a that's bad .
All right , full audio .
You know that we're staying right here right now .
Staying in the moment . That's magic .
I'll just go into the four games . We have one live game going on right now , and then there's 3.30 later . Today is the Suns-Timberwolves . I'll call the Magic . Alright , go ahead , magic Cavs , you go first . Who's going to win this series ?
The Cavs no one's taking down Spider .
Okay , bob , I feel the same way .
Spider .
But you know they're crushing them anyway . That's easy Suns-Timberwolves Tough one Got to go .
I'm going . We were on the West , we're staying on the East . Now I know it's just the four games . I get it . I'll stop .
Those are just the four games going on yeah , yeah , yeah .
I want to stay in the East now .
Stay in the Sixers .
Knicks are at 6 pm . All the matchups that are really cool in the first round or in the West , except this one . This one is going to be electric .
I'm going to be working on my fitness . I'm going to put my phone on and just watch NBA and go marathon .
What a cool series .
I'm running at least six miles . I'm going to watch Suns and Timbies . I'm going to watch Sixers and Knicks . I'm probably to watch sons and Timbies . I'm going to watch seven , six years and next , and then I'm probably going to be go bed . But sleep , sleep , I get . I get up early . Coach .
I miss that . Lakers nugs Huh .
Lakers nugs , but I'm not going to stay up the whole thing , yeah .
Yeah , yeah , you got to get your sleep for your .
You never know , though , I might be just on some juice , maybe I'll just get another espresso , but I'm going to watch a little bit of the Lakers . It's 8.30 . It's early , so I'll watch like 9.30 . If I watch the first half , well , no , I don't know , I might just be too amped up . We'll see . I'll text you . I know you're watching that whole game , paul .
And now that I think about it , even though I just did this whole rant on the West Coast being the best matchups round one , this might be the best matchup of the entire round one 76ers .
Knicks .
Knicks dude . Two cities one hour away from each other Knicks .
I call that man , I love that team Brunson , all these stars that have rose up , like so many of them this year .
Think about the fan base though .
Jay Jalen , like all these young guys and mid-20 guys , we're seeing a whole new rising of stars .
Think about that fan base Like if you're in Philadelphia it's an hour drive to watch the Knicks .
Those are hardcore cities , man , this is and they , and philly needs it , uncle nino I hope you're listening . Good luck , dude .
¶ Eastern Conference Finals Predictions
I got the next on that , though . Oh , I have to , because I got it from the beginning . I in october 2023 and pre-season , if you go back before this youtube stuff I I had no idea about that . Paul just created Pretty cool Paul , like I say , faces for TV , not just radio or a pod . I said Knicks , I have to stick with them , man .
They're going to get through this first round .
I do believe , and you're probably going to agree , whoever comes out of this series is going to the Eastern Conference Finals .
We got to see that . I want to see either one . I'm happy with seeing either one of those teams .
Wouldn't you say Whoever wins , this is going to the Eastern Conference Finals ?
Yep .
You feel that way ?
Yep , totally , totally .
Because I haven't even brought up Bucs Pacers yet .
I know it paces , yet I know it's so weird , why . And then we just we watch right over the bucks . We can't do that , not this I can't . Why do we always do that ? Bucks pacers , paces are , box are winning that I'm sorry , paces aren't winning that .
Oh , you know , yannis is out right , I know , but not still picking him I know , but is that that I misread ?
I think if it was for the whole season of the rest of the playoffs not the whole series , but he'll be out the first few games yeah , yeah , that's what I thought . I thought I was . I thought I misread it and said it was for the whole the rest of the season no , no no , but he'll be out the first few games . That's why they're gonna win .
They're gonna stop it up and win he's gonna get in there game three all right , wow , I just don't think howaburton's your guy .
He was , he wasn't .
Just , I'm telling you , he was only my guy during the play , the play , the play , uh , the preseason so you're telling me that experience we talked about this early on in the season that experience that those kids got in the in-season tournament him doing this to dame it's bad time al , but they fizzled out .
You know that . Listen , they got it Without the Greek . They're looking like they're going to win that , but no , that's not going to happen . Excuse me , I mean preseason , the tournament , the first year tournament where they did .
Just a little stats for you . You do realize that since Doc has taken over the bucks they're under 500 and their offense has been worse under doc rivers than it was with ad and griffith . Yeah , I know that whole I don't know , the doc thing is a little weird . I love you , doc .
I love you but I , I just have a gut feeling . The pacers aren't gonna blow it . Man , all right , you're going bucks . I don't know why I just go with my gut dude .
So you're going Bucs Knicks the next round , because I don't think .
The Greeks are going to come back , man , the Greeks , they're Greek man . We're not giving him Because they won already . He's still here , man , they're still , and they have a squad . They're deeper than the Greeks .
I'm not going to get into it , but I just have a feeling that Bucs are going to win , that the Pacers are going to fizzle out , just like the season they did for the NBA the Cup it was so exciting and awesome for the league and Halliburton and all that , but not yet . They're not yet .
No , you know that they're not if they get by this , where are they going after that ? You're not going anywhere after that . You know the Pacers are going deep . Dude Enough said .
A lot of people , when I say a lot of all the , all the experts out there are picking Celtics Sixers Eastern conference finals right now , picking Celtics Sixers Eastern Conference Finals right now .
That's if there's a healthy Embiid Say that against Celtics Sixers .
Eastern Conference Finals .
Yeah , I'm hearing that noise .
That's if it , but Embiid's not healthy right now . It's always about Embiid man that dude , I thought he was going to be healthy going to the playoffs , he got hurt again .
And like it's unbelievable's unbelievable , like , honestly , it's every single year yep , but it's not as bad . He's not going to be out the whole time .
Right same with greek , you could see , and that and that's another reason why bringing it back to our green . How can we not ? That's another reason why I feel so good about our squad , because I know we've been sitting on here and well , as long as they don't have injuries , well , here's the thing .
Everybody can say that that is what we've been sitting on here , and well , as long as they don't have injuries .
well , here's the thing .
Everybody can say that that is what we've been saying over and over no , but with our team , if someone goes down it's not great , but we still have a great chance . These other teams , when one of their stars goes down , they got nobody , Nobody right , we have a second unit .
That being said , anybody else is in the league , that's the whole thing , and they're having fun . It's the chemistry . It goes back all the way to the core of sports and from novice to pro , they have their chemistry and energy . They're like one unit , one beating heart . They're having fun too , man , and just they've . They've nailed it , they're there .
I've never seen such a solid squad before Ever . And on that note , we've got to get right into the quiz , hi . I was trying to find a good segue , but there is none , it's just going right into it . This year the Boston Celtics have their best record . In what season , If you guess ? It's not this year .
No .
I know that If you can guess this year's 19-something you know the season with a record of how many games Go for it , paul , you get three chances 68 wins was their best year . Come on now Podcast . Paul baby , not many people know that .
If you guess the year right now , I'm gonna lose it . Um , I'm probably gonna get this one wrong , but I have to throw it out there just because I'm wearing the shirt 1986 I should have gave you a clue , but what ? Year were you born ? What year were you born ? 1972 . See this is interesting .
Does that make you feel good , Juju Wow ? My brother was born in 72
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. And I was like , doing this my stuff , because I'm doing my stuff , getting ready for the quiz and doing my final quiz I want to do . I was like , what should I do for a quiz ? I do this . Oh , I want to do something about who we haven't talked about yet . Pause on the quiz , presidents , aka quote unquote the press . Brad , can we give like ?
oh yeah executive of the year , of course , beyond that for me , I'm not going to go further into it , but the moves he made this year , yeah , and the moves he's been making , he needed to be in the upper room and he's a great leader . Oh yeah , and he's been amazing .
So the 68 wins , though , is the 17 .
1972 . And I was like , wait , wait , wait . When did Bill Russell stop ? I was like , was that the end of Bill .
Exactly Good real point 69 .
But who was on that team ?
podcast oh , big Red , dave Cowens . Yup Ding , but who is on that team ?
podcast big red , dave cowens so he's crushing this random trivia quiz this week jojo white coach's quiz . It's all just trivia , really , jojo white .
Yep , ding , ding ding you can name a couple . Havel check was still playing , so john havel check ding , ding , ding .
We need to start .
You just keep going , but there's , but oh , I know a guy that was a head coach , uh , with the warriors years ago . Uh , what the hell is his name ? Uh , uh , don . Um , you got it . I'm gonna give you a ding . Hey , what's his last name ?
nelson don I just had to give him none , yeah yeah , yeah , yeah , do you get that do we get that there's a few others right now . All I had to give was paul , was the yes , sir , you're nailing all of them and you're answering the question before I asked it . It's getting to another place for prediction p .
I can't really get on a few of these quizzes yeah , I know you were started doing the second question and you're just nailing them up , can you ? If you do one more , you are officially the best , one of the best fans , if not the best subjects fan .
That I personally know best fan , let's go you might be number one anyway , but like I'm a murph , you are are but no , no , no , you're podcast P you are , you are Palmer .
Cozy . Huh , I'm cozy , so you got . Do you say cozy ?
Wait , what I said , I'm cozy , you are cozy P , I think my cozy it's like 19 . That was back with him , all right . What's the question ?
No one more , bro , you got .
I didn't know any of these names . I knew the Chaney Don .
Chaney , I blew it .
Did you say Don Chaney ? You didn't . No , you said Dave Cowens , though you said John Havlicek . You said JoJo White .
You said Don Nelson .
These other names are tough .
I know who's on there still . Is Tommy still playing , Tommy Heinsohn's still playing right .
Oh , I wouldn't give it . No , you can't take it . Oh , you can't take it , he's a coach .
Yeah , yeah yeah , he was the head coach . Yeah he was the coach .
Tommy Point Paul . Gaspar was just about to say coach , when I had no idea he was coaching , then , yeah , does that ? That gives you another I ? That's not it , though , if you have to name another player but you're not going to name another player . It's fine , you're not gonna . It's cool , let's . I'll give you a first name , hank .
If you last name I don't know Finkel .
Yeah , I'm not kidding .
Steve Cooper , kuburski , mark minor , tom sanders , paul silence . Oh , I don't know . Yeah , and then here's another name art williams . Okay , so like .
But you just nailed that you're still 68 wins for that team yep , now , that's that . Just , that's just going to the little well , I can tell you who had the second most wins I went into how many wins .
What are the most of all time . You know what they are the two teams . Everybody does .
Yeah , the Bulls 72 wins and the Warriors .
Yeah , that's simple so . I went into more at 60 , and I'm just going to keep it simple , but you know what On that Warriors team ?
Congratulations Before we do the quiz . If you look at our advanced stats , as they say , we have better stats or the same type of stats as that Warriors team that almost won as many as the Bulls .
So do you know what we land ?
I don't think they won the championship we land .
I don't like that . Where do we land in the ? I just put my five up . We're fifth this year . This is this year's fifth on the list of best of all .
I know who's number two , who what year on the list of best of all . I know who's number two .
Who ? What year ? 2008 , yep . So there you go , man . There's a list of five . We'll move on from there , getting a little crazy with that , but I just want to get some green , some love , and I was going to do another one , but we're gonna , it's not . I'm not feeling all right quiz . We'll move on to something else . What are you thinking ?
question yes , sir back to miami and boston . We can't help ourselves .
Yeah , is Jimmy coming back in this series . That's something I didn't even look up yet because I don't know how bad .
It's Jimmy Butler . I know we're sitting here going , oh , this is great , we got this . Yeah , yeah , yeah , good job . No playoffs , jimmy , way to get us back on the rails .
Bro , you're always good at getting this train back on track , don't ?
play off , jimmy , we got this .
Oh , it's only a knee injury . That's the thing , mcl , they said he's out for a week . No , MCL is not . You can tear MCL and play through it . Man , that's all the tough they used to play through it .
We're going to have to monitor that , folks .
He's going to be back . I'm looking at it now . All right , it's just a knee injury . They don't say if it's torn .
They said he was out for weeks , but you just never know on that stuff , right ?
Ooh , they're nailing him right now in the news , An aging star with his knee . Oh my goodness . Oh yeah , Terryier out with neck injury but .
I will say this if this is last year's being . They're being very mysterious exactly so again it's going to get weird , wacky and weird , like usual , but he's trained as mcl .
It's probably a minor strain . That's what I'm saying , that's what I'm going to guess , right now , that's all I'm getting , so we'll see him , you think yeah , that would be got to we got to like game five .
Come on , let's see playoff jimmy if we go up .
I'm not saying sweep , we're up two , we're already up . I'm not gonna where they were up three and us . I'm not going there , I'm not .
Here's the difference with this year's squad .
I would like to see him jimmy buckets in there , because we want that .
We definitely want it . Yeah , and red flags last year right .
Yeah .
Remember we would lose games when the star player was out . It was like clockwork Whenever a star player was out . Last year , last year we'd lose the game by like 20 points , 30 points , like what the hell ? Because we weren't up for the game .
This year's team if there's one strength , yeah , they've had a few of these losses to like really good teams , but the below 500 of the teams that you should kind of like put your guard down on , they never did that this year oh , so it was a big bad habit .
They fixed this all their bad habits .
Really , for me they should not have their guard , because Jimmy's out , but I'm sorry for what the heat did to you last year . If you're not mentally prepared for this series , you've been better not be overlooking the heat . I'd be shocked , because that would be the only reason we lose this series is they're not .
They're not taking the heat seriously , and they did that last year . Yep , it's on , so that's you know that we could cover a lot more , but let's just that's it . Yeah , because that's it .
See you next week . Yeah , all over the place they were excited .
We're very excited yeah , it was because the real season is starting and it's okay to be excited I mean the production got a little weird . Tatum fell down the wall .
Oh no , no , there's signs , signs , everywhere there's signs .
It's okay . We got a thumbs down from the- .
Look what happens , remember that guest was out there you fall down , you get back up , you fall down , you get back up the mysterious guest jumped on our YouTube , gave us a thumbs down .
It's okay .
You hit a thumbs down .
No , I did not do that .
Oh , then I did it . I probably did it because I'm an idiot .
No , it was a mysterious guest .
I'm still impressed with how I got this to hang from my ceiling , so anyway it was probably Ted let's wrap it up Unless you got something else to talk about .
That's it , man . Take us out of here .
Yeah .
Let's get ready for the playoffs man .
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So there's nothing more to say besides when we get a little send off .
Yeah , send us out , like you always do , man .
I think there's something else we need to talk about . There's something I Nah , we're done . Yeah , we're done . We're done . What else do I want to say ? No , there is something I forgot , but it doesn't matter . Save it for next pod . We'll save it . Yeah , it'll come to me later , but you know , my calendar over here says rule your own roost .
When do you ever see that ? I flip my calendar today and I get a little saying Rule your own roost . I love that . Just little sayings like this , but keeping it simple , being carefree today . You know , be carefree and calm , as Paul and I were saying just today . Just today , have some fun . You know , look what we're doing here .
We're having a couple big kids having fun . Let's go . Tatum , that's not falling down . Unity . You can't say I got a whole bunch of stuff under here , but it all comes down to you think I don't get surprises . Peace , love , sign them up all in the Green Machine . See you soon , guys .
It is time . Just two murphs , folks . Enjoy the beginning of the playoffs . We'll be back on once . This train keeps rolling , but until then we're out of here , bye .