00:00I like, I think we're in a unique time right now where we don't have, I don't think there
00:06is a player that has huge pressure to win a championship right now.
00:14Like, cause any of the, any of the players that you would think, I think either already
00:18have a title or their teams just aren't, aren't good enough.
00:26And there is a built in excuse for you to think like Wimby right now.
00:29I think there's a built in excuse that this is your first post season and you're young.
00:35Like, I don't, I don't think he has the pressure now in two years, maybe he will.
00:40I don't think he has a pressure.
00:42I don't think Shea Gildress, Alexander, go ahead and say it Tyler.
00:45I don't think Shea has a, has a, you got it?
00:49SGA baby.
00:50There you go.
00:50SGA baby.
00:51I don't think he has the pressure.
00:52They just want it.
00:53I don't think Jokic has a pressure.
00:54He is one, one Boston Tatum's injured.
00:58Nobody believes in the Knicks for real like that.
01:00The Pistons, this is their first year.
01:02Cade Cunningham.
01:03This is, they're, they're in a boat to me like the Spurs.
01:06This is their first year.
01:07Like, even like I would have said a Luca, but Luca's injured.
01:11And I just don't, I think it's very clear.
01:14People don't believe the Lakers, even if they were completely healthier on the same level
01:18as the Thunder.
01:19So I don't think there's pressure there.
01:20There may not be title pressure, but there's, you talking about with Luca there or, yeah,
01:27no, I, I, no, I think, I think there is time.
01:29I think that if he were healthy, I think there'd be title pressure with Luca.
01:31I mean, you got LeBron, you got Reeves who nobody thought was going to be what he is,
01:34but it is, he is not, now, now it's one thing I'd agree with you.
01:37Nobody's going to pick them as a favorite, but I think if he were healthy, it's one more
01:40year of his career where he doesn't reach the pinnacle.
01:43I think there is pressure there, but there's a built-in excuse.
01:45I'm just saying, there's a, there's a, yeah, I think, I think the one, the one guy that
01:50I would say, maybe not championship pressure, but, but pressure to maybe meet some expectations,
01:58exceed some expectations in the playoffs, Anthony Edwards, is that fair?
02:02Maybe.
02:02I mean, there was a time when he was taking this thing over.
02:05That would be the closest, but the only thing is, I think there is a built-in excuse that,
02:10yeah, we love Ant, but he ain't, they ain't better than the Spurs.
02:13The Spurs, or they ain't better than the Thunder, right?
02:16Like, this is, and I don't think people believe he's the best player in the sport.
02:21Yeah.
02:22Like, right now, like, I don't even know, so that's probably, that's a, that's a good
02:26one.
02:26Him and Luka haven't won titles or thought to be really good.
02:29I think there's a good one.
02:30I don't think that someone just texted in and said James Harden.
02:33James Harden's, like, he's, he's eight, he's passed his prime.
02:36Hell, he's the, he's the third best player on his own team.
02:39So I don't think James, there was a time where James fit that.
02:42There was a time where they, someone said SGA has to prove last year wasn't a fluke.
02:49Yeah, but, but I still don't think that that's big time.
02:52It's different than I ain't never done it.
02:54Yeah.
02:54Then you just, I think there was big pressure on him last year.
02:57You're the MVP.
02:58I think that's why to me with this unique season being that way, I think Kevin Durant has the
03:05most pressure of anybody.
03:06Ooh, that's a good one.
03:07I think Kevin Durant, and really it is just over the next week plus.
03:15Tyler, Clint, Kevin cannot lose this series.
03:21Like we, we, we talk about team sport and everything, but we know basketball is, there's a lot of
03:25individual space of how we look at people, how we talk about players.
03:30And the Kevin Durant will never live this now.
03:35If they lose to the Lakers, if they lose to the 41 year old LeBron James, and they just
03:42came, JJ Reddick guys came out yesterday and said, Bronny is going to have a role in the
03:46playoffs.
03:48This is, this is where, this is where, this is where the Lakers are right now that he is
03:53going to have a role.
03:55Kevin, you thought it was bad and he's had to deal with him going to golden state, winning
04:01his titles like that, leaving OKC.
04:03If he loses to this team that he is, his team clearly is better.
04:08And then specifically to the player who's on the other side, he'll never live.
04:14And his son and his son.
04:15Sure.
04:16He'll never, he'll never.
04:17This is a different thing.
04:18If Luca was there or something, but if like, if he, like the whole deal has been like,
04:23hey man, yeah, you beat LeBron twice in the finals, but you also had Steph, Clay and
04:27Draymond to go with you.
04:29You couldn't beat him without him.
04:30If he loses this year, as I did, I wrote this down and I'd pick my top eight players in
04:36the series.
04:36I got Duran is the best player.
04:38LeBron is the, as, as next.
04:40And then the next four are, are rockets.
04:45So they got five of your top six.
04:47Yes.
04:47And then I'm throwing Deandre eight in the bowl, a bone.
04:51And then I think Tari Eason is probably better than Rui and Marcus smart.
04:56So I, I, I have them having six of the eight top players in this series.
05:01He cannot lose to LeBron at 41 in this.
05:03What is this?
05:04Cannot.
05:05What are the, what are the, the, the rockets?
05:07What are the odds?
05:07Last I saw to win the series.
05:10If I'm wrong, Todd, I think it was, they were minus seven 50.
05:14Yeah.
05:15That'd be a tough pill to swallow.
05:16I mean, you are clearly, you are clearly the favorite.
05:18And then you go out there and lose the skeleton crew Lakers that just
05:21happened to consist of LeBron and his son.
05:24But I, I honest, I think this would, and maybe I'm over the top.
05:27I think this would be a, a big legacy hit to KB if he lost this.
05:33And I, and listen, it does not, it'll get real loud.
05:35I don't care.
05:36I don't care if he ever sturdient game in the series.
05:39Like he can't, I got it at minus 600 now to win the series.
05:44Oh, is it dropped?
05:44Is it dropped out?
05:45Like it was minus, it was minus seven 50 on Monday.
05:48Yeah.
05:49That's still an absurd amount of, of favoritism, if you will.
05:53Yeah.
05:54I had a text line coming in.
05:55LeBron has more wins in the playoffs than the entire Rockets franchise.
05:59Whatever this dude, this version of him and the players that he has rolling with
06:04him cannot beat this Rockets team.
06:07It can't, it just cannot have been, or KD will never live it.
06:11I think if KD didn't have, like, if he just was a part of a, uh, a super team in
06:23one as
06:26part of a super, not to mention that he actually joined a team that had already, had already,
06:30you know what I mean?
06:30Like if, if he was part of a group that got together the way that D Wade and LeBron and
06:35they all went on in one, I think he would still catch hell if he lost this series, but
06:40being, being like being the guy that joined that went and went, beat LeBron and all of
06:45the, all of the context around it, like it's going to get, it'll, it'll definitely tarnish
06:49his, his legacy.
06:51I think it would, I think the leadership stuff will get louder than it's ever been.
06:55Oh yes.
06:56Especially against, it would be different if he was going against Anthony Edwards.
07:01Sure.
07:01Agreed.
07:02It's LeBron.
07:03It's, it's, it's, it's the skeleton crew.
07:04Like if you ask, if you, there's some people like, who is, who is KD's rival?
07:09Like it's probably more LeBron cause Steph was on his team.
07:13Right.
07:13In this, like it's Steph, LeBron, KD are the three big, big stars and great players
07:19of this particular generation.
07:22And it's already talked like you had to get help and those two had to join each
07:27other to beat, to beat LeBron's team.
07:30If he can't, if he can't beat the 41 year old LeBron, when he clearly has the
07:37better help, which that's why I don't believe, I don't believe.
07:43This will, will occur.
07:45But I was just looking like, man, it doesn't really seem like nobody has
07:47pressure this year.
07:49Like to where, to where they'll get crushed.
07:51If they look the only, the only person that I think just gets absolutely
07:56because LeBron, LeBron's not getting crushed.
07:59He'll get, he'll get praised if they win two games.
08:01If they win a game.
08:05Oh, Hey boy, you are down on LeBron.
08:07I think LeBron can get one.
08:08I think LeBron can single hand.
08:09I'm not down on LeBron.
08:10I just, I mean, LeBron's 41 with these jokers.
08:12Yeah.
08:13But Ron, you, I mean, you know, I hope I'm wrong.
08:16No, no.
08:17Look, I hope I'm wrong, but I just got a feeling that these games are going to be
08:20a game late.
08:21And then, and then it's, that's even bigger.
08:24If he, if it, if it happens to where they get into these games and it's late
08:30and, and the Lakers are staying with them, or even as you were like, pull some of them
08:35out, come on, man, like that is like, I mean, I, like, I feel like Katie is going to go,
08:43go off and the Rockets will.
08:45Cause I just don't think they have anybody that can handle any of them.
08:48And over and over time, the Rockets, you know, their, their talents just going to play
08:52through.
08:53But well, what would you say, Ron, if they don't win comfortably in five Durant's going
08:57to catch heat?
08:59Is that fair?
09:00If they don't know, I'm not saying they got to, but if it's, if it is a, where the Rockets
09:05are better.
09:05And then they just took an extra game to five to get it done.
09:08That's fine.
09:08Yeah.
09:08You're right.
09:09If this is a, if this is six or seven, I think people are going to say stuff now it'll
09:14go away because they play the next round.
09:16Sure.
09:16But if they lose, Oh my God, like he, like, I think people will take him out of being
09:22a top 20 player all time.
09:24I think they will drop how they view him.
09:26I think it's a little over the top.
09:27You need to move it.
09:28They'd be that crazy.
09:28Like, it would, would, would be, but, but if that were to happen, Ooh.
09:32Yeah.
09:32He's got, he's got the, uh, the, uh, the most pressure, uh, fellas.
09:36Uh, what do you think the NBA is trying to help the Lakers with how long this series could
09:41be?
09:41I don't know if they're trying to listen, the NBA can't help them.
09:44Well, shouldn't be able to help the Lakers enough unless they're going to add players
09:48to them.
09:50Like, I don't get it.
09:52It should not feel like they kind of just gave Luca to them somehow, but, but yeah,
09:57like, I mean, unless over the next several days, like I don't care how much rest they
10:02get, like they could play, they could play game one today.
10:05Didn't take a break off all week.
10:07Game two, they still got nobody that should be able to handle a men that should be able
10:13to handle all of those dudes.
10:15Like guys, we're going to have Bronny James out there on, on Reed Shepard.
10:19Not ready for this.
10:21Like that's if I mean, well, you know what, if you doka allows it, there's going to be,
10:25uh, Reed Shepard out there against Bronny James.
10:27All this, like there, there should be a couple of just ass kickings in the series, like this
10:33thing.
10:33Like, I mean, I'm just, you start, go, go over there, Tyler.
10:37I did.
10:37I suggest some of you go over there and look at that Lakers roster and then start thinking
10:41about the minutes that LeBron's not on the court.
10:44Obviously he's 41.
10:45So he can't just go.
10:46Yeah.
10:46Just think about those minutes.
10:48Oh, who's who they're putting together out there.
10:51You look at it.
10:51I mean, it should be a slow climb to a double digit win, comfortable double digit win for
10:55four straight games.
10:56Yep.
10:57Just a slow climb.
10:58Absolutely.
10:59Like how, how is, I mean, did you see, did you see what the thunder did?
11:09We went in and got dinner.
11:10It was.
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