The volume. Hi, everybody, instant reaction. I decided to do this instant reaction. And the Celtics heat game, there's still a couple of minutes remaining. There were warning signs now, I you know, I just thought there was such a talent disparity with Boston and Miami. But remember during the Atlanta series with the Celtics, and remember Quinn Snyder got hired by Atlanta by the Hawks in late February. All Right, so he's implementing a system in season. That's not easy.
Quinn Snyder's an excellent coach, right, we know that he got worn out of Utah. They didn't get tired of him. He got tired of them. He didn't think he could compete at the highest levels. So he had Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobairt didn't get along. There was infighting, and he just said I'm done. But if you go back to Game three of that series, Atlanta scored one hundred and thirty points on these Celtics. Game four, Atlanta scored one hundred twenty one. Game five they scored one hundred
and nineteen. Game six, one hundred and twenty. Remember during that series, we kept saying boy, Atlanta's getting a lot of good looks. Quinn Snyder in that series got buried in game one, started making adjustments as an excellent coach. That was a very competitive six game series, and Game six the Celtics won that one twenty eight one twenty. Remember that game though, it was in doubt with about three and a half minutes to go, and then you
look at Philadelphia. Good God, the Sixers have to be humiliated. I mean, the Celtics disposed of them in Game six and seven, but now you look at it and think, boy, Philadelphia, they got real issues. Mike Budenholzer won one game against Miami. So first of all, my takeaway is before we bury the Celtics, I've had six or seven doctors in my life. I had a bad doctor, and think of what you have to go through to get licensed to be a doctor. We've had bad pilots, bad doctors, bad lawyers. I've had
a bad lawyer years ago. Think what you have to go through to be a lawyer. There's a lot of average coaches in the NBA, and we've seen Eric Spolstra expose them right. Coaches like Doc Rivers who are more culture based, not really adjustment Maven's and I think Joe Missoula for the Celtics is completely over his head. You know, a good coach will find your weaknesses. You know, they'll attack your weakest defender. They'll find mismatches throughout the course
of a series or a game and attack. Attack forced you to make a chess move. Joe Mizzoula doesn't. I feel like Joe Mizzoula is playing defense against Eric Spolstra. I think the Heat were aggressive, They're attacking, They're creating mismatched situations. It feels like I really felt about eight minutes into this game. I think the Boston players don't buy into Joe Miszula. So it's easy today, Let's trade everybody. It happens. You got to get rid of the coach.
You can't go from last year's Celtics team defensively to this mess. Atlanta scored one hundred and twenty plus, they got rid of their coach. Of Philadelphia an uneven team with you know, Harden. Every other game is awful. Maxi is ascending, but he's not there as a two. Tobias Harris is an overpaid three, probably a four, and Embiid was banged up. They took the Celtics seven. So listen, man, there is a gap between Eric Spolstra and the rest of the Eastern coaches, and you are seeing it, and
so I think you just have to move on. Remember the Arizona Cardinal Steve Wilkes one year boom Cleveland Browns Freddie Kitchens didn't give him very long. You got into that situation you had to hire a new coach because the previous coach, who you really liked, a defensive specialist, a stickler for details, got you to the finals where you really outplayed the Warriors in the finals two to three games. Jason Tatum was banged up and kind of fell apart. That was a well coached series. You just
ran out of gas against the Warriors last year. This team's poorly coached defense is a mess with the same dudes mostly from last year. So do I think the Celtics, because they underachieved, have to tweak beyond that? I think the Tatum Brown thing is never going to be ideal. Should be noted d Wade and Lebron were not a
perfect fit. There's been all sorts of great fits stocked in them alone without titles and weird fits d Wade and Lebron kind of the same player, neither a great limit player, both can drive and score, both physical, both defend, both really strong for their size. That wasn't perfect. They made it work, so you don't have to be ideal. Not everybody's going to be Jokich and Jamal Murray this year where the big, the perimeter player, both of the
chip on their shoulder, both in their athletic prime. You know, I feel like you know Jalen Brown and Tatum you get your wings. Marcus Smart's not your classic point guard. He's a defensive guard. I think they have to not reboot, but slightly reconstruct this team. I feel too often it takes them a while to get into a play. Too much dribbling takes them a while to get into a play. I wish they had somebody that could just a confident floor leader that could hit threes. Jordan Poole won't happen,
but throw it out there. They need somebody with confidence that can shoot the big three. You could have somebody that doesn't have to be a great defender. Because Robert Williams is Tatum, is Brown, is Marcus Smart is Al Horford's not but you don't need a great defender. Give me somebody who's confident, who can hit a three. I don't care if they make mistakes. That's why I've mentioned Jordan Poole. This team needs somebody to get the Celtics into the play. I don't trust them in tight games.
I don't trust them sometimes. I feel like they're just missing their quarterback. They've got multiple wide receivers, they don't have a quarterback, and I don't like Tatum in that role, and I mostly don't love Jalen Brown in that role. I don't think you have to make sweeping changes, but I'd rework the point guard space for them. You know, as far as the Miami Heat go, I have no problem with the Miami Heat Denver Nuggets final. It will not rate from a TV perspective. You know Denver and Miami.
Miami's got a great brand, Denver doesn't. I think it'll be a fascinating series. I think the size, length and offensive excellence of Denver is going to and I think they're well coached. It could be a lot for Miami to handle. Miami's doing a lot of this on coaching and self belief. They're not this good But when you have massive coaching mismatches, this is what a series looks like. I mean, Eric Spolstra against Mike Budenholzer, it's a mismatch.
Eric Spolstra against Joe Missoula, it's a mismatch. I remember when Nick Saban got to the SEC. You know, Nick Smart. Nick Saban in recent years didn't get dumb. He's just facing better coaches. Lane Kiffin's now in there, Kirby Smart's now in there. Some of the bigger programs have really bright young coaches. It's not like Nick Saban can't coach. He got dumber. He's got worse players. He just had Bryce Young. He's got great quarterback play, star receiver, stars everywhere.
But when he walked into that conference, I mean there was a bunch of C and D level coaches and Nick Saban walked all over them. And I think, I think Eric Spolstra and his staff look around and it's really jv. I mean, Tibbs is all about defense and effort. Budenholzer, you know, couldn't figure out some basic late game situational coaching. Missoula is completely over his skis. So this is a lot of coaching and self belief. I don't think you
blow the Celtics up. I think you fire the coach, get a new guy, and figure out the defense with the better coach will be fine. It's got good length. You have a lot of guys in their prime. I mean your stars, Tatum and Jaylen Brown, Marcus Smart, all good defenders, all plus defenders. That's not the issue. Got to get a real coach, give me a floor. General just it just seems too hard too often for them. Offensively. Miami's going to go on an underdog to Denver. They
should put a great story. There's a reason they call it heat culture. We see this all the time in sports and it all so can I throw this out there. It validates Lebron James going to Miami. It does make me question why he ever left. I think Lebron didn't like to be the NBA's villain, so he went back to Cleveland. But I absolutely believe if he stays, he wins titles. Probably not. The following year Dwayne Wade was aging. They had to make some moves. Chris Bosh not long
after that had a health issue, a medical issue. But it really does make you look at Lebron going to Miami and Lebron's made really good business decisions in his career. You choose Spolstra, you choose d Wade, you choose pat Riley. Look at what they're doing. I mean this is I don't remember ever seeing a favorite Boston go into a series and get humiliated. I couldn't take the last time a favorite open a series at home and lost both games.
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The game Time app the fastest growing sports app in the United States use the code Colin C l N. All right, So the Lakers may salvage a game against the Nuggets, but the Nuggets are longer, they're more dynamic, they have more good shot makers. Just think about it this way, generally speaking, generally, if you have a competent coach, the Celtics don't. Darvin Ham's a competent coach. If you have a competent coach, whatever teams stars or in their
prime is a big advantage. Jamal Murray's in his prime, Jokic in his prime, Michael Porter in his prime, Lebron's four years pasted it, and ad in my opinion, has several good years left. But I think because of his early injuries, he's you're either pre prime, prime or post prime. He's post prime, he just entered post. Austin Reeves is limited athletically. D'Angelo Russell is a bounce around the league guy. Talented, but you saw in this series he's a bounce around
the league guy. There's a reason the Warriors gave up on him, the Lakers did, the t Wolves did, and the Lakers will again. He's a bounce around the league guy. Immature, not consistent. I don't think he's a terribly smart basketball player on the floor. He doesn't play smart basketball. Lebron demands that, so but it is interesting. I mean, Denver's a better team with more shot makers. Let's just right there.
You can blame it on Lebron, but if you look at Lebron's points, rebounds, and assists per game in this series, it's on Larry Bird's career average in the postseason. It's not Lebron. Yes, he's shooting way too many threes late in the game. That's to conserve energy. But he you know, he's giving you about twenty three points, you know, tenn assists, nine rebounds. That's not the issue. The issue is the further you go in the postseason in the NBA, often
your your role players shrink. And that's why I bring this up. Are you going to run it back? Lebron's going to be older, AD's off his best year. You're going to pay Austin Reeves all that money he was sort of exposed. You're getting rid of D'Angelo Russell obviously, Malik Beasley. I mean, you know you're moving off certain guys, but you know, when I suggest that, I'm not sure I'm not sure what you do with Lebron and a D. I mean this, they overachieved. If the Celtics are underachieving,
the Lakers are overachieving. I mean, this really is when I know it, Laker fans want to point fingers at Darvin Hamm or Lebron James. Your best player shows up every other game offensively ad Lebron's thirty eight years old can be brilliant in spurts, but disappears. Austin Reeves is undrafted. He is what he is, athletically good three point shooter in the series, but he is what he is. And DiAngelo Russell's a flake. That's the team. I mean. Ruey Hachama is not going to take and carry and be
essential to win a championship. Keep him fine. It's like KCP KCP never afraid to take a big shot. I love him. You can win with him, you can win without him. I feel the same way with Ruey. Win with him when without him he's not essential. They'll probably keep him good. Lank can hit a three. This team doesn't have a lot of guys they hit the three.
Reeves Ruey can hit threes. Lebron certainly can't. But you know, I said this all year, I didn't see this as a championship team and getting probably swept or a gentleman's sweep. They're not a championship team. They're not close to Denver. I don't think they're close to Miami. They probably could beat Boston right now because of their coaching inn amptitude. But remember, the Lakers did get a little break because both of the Memphis Grizzlies bigs, Brendan Clark and Steven Adams,
were hurt. They faced a very immature team that had had Jah Morant turmoil and chaos, and it was missing their two bigs. It was a small, immature Grizzlies team. Then they face the Warriors, a very small, steph reliant Warriors team that Steve Kerr noted they weren't a championship team this year. They had one of the league's worst road records, and then all of a sudden, they faced
a big, athletic, long Nuggets team. And they're not getting any of those free, cheap gimmes they got against the Grizzlies and the Warriors when they'd score eight to ten points per game just on size and length and tipping it around, volleyballing it around. They're not getting that against Denver. They have to earn their points, and it's a low ceiling offense. On the nights that Anthony Davis is engaged, it can be really strong. He's that's every other night.
So I don't know when I suggest you know this is the moment to move off AD. He stayed healthy, He's relevant. He was against Memphis and Golden State absolutely utterly dominant. He's got value. Going to cross your fingers and bring it back to me. Rob pulling the jam deserves a ton of credit, and I'd said this throughout the season. He made the Lakers better. He made the Lakers good, he didn't make them great. There's only so
much you can do. With the trade deadline. He got rid of toxicity with Westbrook that immediately became a better defensive team. And the guys that should have been taking the shots, Lebron, Anthony Davis, Ruey, Austin Reeves were taking the shots. He used length, Ruy and Vanderbilt Jared Vanderbilt to his advantage. I thought he was a good adjuster game to game. Not maybe as good in game, but game to game he made nice adjustments. They're fine with
Darvin Ham, but you know you bring it back. You know the Warriors are going to make a big move. Denver's not going anywhere. There's a lot of talk now about the Dallas Mavericks getting DeAndre Ayton. Phoenix is going to make moves Memphis. You'll get a better version of Memphis next year. Whatever Memphis is, I'll probably have Steven Adams back. So I think these are legitimate questions, Whereas with the Celtics, I think it's a new coach issue.
I'd like to see another point guard. With the Lakers, there's a real argument this team overachieved. The West was weird and wonky. They may want to they might want they may want to take a big, big swing here. I don't think it's crazy. You're gonna run it back. Lebron's not getting younger Anthony Davis. This is what he is now, great every other game. Austin Reeves is not getting more athletic and more dynamic shoots, good threes, creates contact.
Nice players should be the fifth best starter, maybe fourth, on a championship level team. I'd take a big swing if I was the Lakers, big brand, big swing, all right, instant reaction, fun stuff over the weekend. Back on FS one tomorrow with Jay Mac Premiere Radio. Two best players in this series have been Jamal Murray and Jokic, and they're both in their athletic prime. It's just not that complicated the Volume. Make sure to check out The Draymond
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