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00:00All right, no big deal. Just got to win four or five.
00:05That's all, right?
00:06That's all you got to do against Detroit Pistons.
00:08Come home, just take care of you.
00:10Andy Baskin is in for Ken Carvin.
00:11The series is over, isn't it?
00:14It's almost over. It feels that way.
00:16You're not ready to say it's over after watching that?
00:18I don't know. You watch his team.
00:20You look at who they have on the floor.
00:22You're like, why is his team not winning?
00:24And then all of a sudden...
00:25I saw why they weren't winning.
00:27I saw James Harden looking like he's 75 years old.
00:31It's a pretty easy answer.
00:32How many more minutes does he need to play?
00:34I mean, he's the only guy you can leave out on the floor
00:35that can run the offense,
00:37but then everything else is running
00:39when he gets inside the paint.
00:40That's the problem.
00:41Andy, the series is over, right?
00:43I'm not going to say it's over, but it's...
00:45What's the hesitation?
00:46Because it's four out of five.
00:48It's basketball.
00:49They come back here.
00:50They win two.
00:51Now all of a sudden you're tied at two.
00:52It's a best of three.
00:53Win two?
00:54Wait, give me the formula for the wins
00:56after what you've seen so far in the two games.
00:58How about play more quarters like you did in the third quarter
01:00and you don't turn the ball over?
01:03Stop turning the ball over.
01:05It's just like...
01:06And then, can they shoot that bad from three again
01:09in the fourth quarter?
01:11So they were 7-32.
01:12They were brutal in the fourth quarter.
01:13Brutal.
01:14Yeah, they were 7-32 in this game.
01:16You can't find any numbers that show that this team, statistically, right?
01:24Statistically, from beyond the arc, they...
01:26I poured through the numbers on this.
01:28They have been so bad at open threes in the Toronto series.
01:33They're actually the worst of all the NBA playoff teams
01:36when it comes to open threes.
01:38So, you know, after the game, they'll probably say,
01:40no, we created good shots.
01:41And I think they're actually getting better shots in this series
01:44than they were against Toronto.
01:45But, in the end, you mentioned turnovers.
01:47They actually only had one more turnover for the game
01:50than the Pistons did.
01:52But they put themselves in such a hole in the first half
01:56by turning the ball over.
01:57That first quarter was pathetic.
01:59Yeah, there was...
02:00There were like seven trips where they...
02:02Yeah.
02:02Four turnovers in less than four minutes.
02:04I mean, what was the game plan?
02:06And none of the...
02:06By the way, none of those were hard.
02:07I remember that sequence.
02:08None of them were hardened.
02:09So that's where you knew.
02:11You're like, well, eventually Harden's going to turn the ball over.
02:13And he did.
02:14He did, as you saw it, you know, in the final stretch of the game
02:17when you were looking at a desperate situation.
02:20So they lose 107-97.
02:24So, Donovan Mitchell, he scored 31.
02:28It was not the most efficient 31 in the world.
02:31But I watched that game, and I saw Donovan
02:34and the way he moved on defense.
02:35And I'm like, man, it feels to me like,
02:40offensively, that might be as good as it gets in the series.
02:42And they still lost the game.
02:43I think he can be better.
02:44I mean, he was two of nine from three.
02:47And Andy, I feel like he's a one-way player.
02:49I feel like he is offense only.
02:52And when he has bad trips on offense, he's compounding it
02:55because there's a cut-up of him on defense.
02:58If this were a TV show, I would go to the green screen
03:04and show you the lack of effort for him on defense.
03:07And the thing is, Donovan has to make up for how bad James Harden is.
03:11And when none of that is happening,
03:13and your backcourt is struggling the way they are,
03:15and Evan Mobley, did he finish the game?
03:17Is this a typo that he finished the game with nine points
03:22and one rebound?
03:24Is that a typo?
03:25That cannot be –
03:26That's the real stat line.
03:29That happened in a playoff game.
03:32Yes.
03:32In your coveted Eastern Conference semifinal game two.
03:38So, Donovan, I think something's off.
03:40Where was Max Drews last night?
03:42He was what Max Drews is.
03:44I kind of said this during the game.
03:45He was due for a bad shooting night.
03:48And what was he, one for six from three-point range?
03:50Three points last night.
03:52Three points.
03:53Did I say that again?
03:53Three points.
03:57You look through that box score last night, and it's just –
04:00I could watch Jalen Tyson play all day, though.
04:03I love the way he plays.
04:04That guy's – I mean, he's just – he's – they only got 22 –
04:08I mean, he got 22 minutes.
04:09He only had 11 in game one.
04:11And he's just aggressive.
04:13He works hard.
04:14He never stops.
04:15Or does it just – does it look that way?
04:17Does it look that way, Andy?
04:18Obviously, because nobody else is doing anything.
04:21Detroit has like 20 of Jalen Tysons, and you've got one.
04:26And people are clamoring for him to start next game.
04:28Is that going to change your fortunes?
04:30He has seven points in two games.
04:32Jeff wanted Struce to start yesterday over Dean Wade.
04:35Again, if you've got Dean Wade – he's playing in the fourth quarter yesterday.
04:40And I'm going, what, really?
04:41Because we've got to get some points here.
04:43We've got to get some points.
04:45Wade ended up with eight last night.
04:47Three for six from the field.
04:48Two for –
04:49All right, do you want me to – do you want me to take a big picture of this?
04:51Here's the – let me give you the one problem I have.
04:53How are you not ready?
04:55How are you not ready again?
04:57Like, they look like crap in the beginning of the game.
05:00They weren't ready.
05:02They come out, they score that first three-pointer, and you're like, okay,
05:04maybe things have changed.
05:06Maybe they're organized.
05:07Maybe they're ready.
05:07Maybe they weren't prepared for the beginning of the game again.
05:11And you go into – like, let's push the ball.
05:14No one's in foul trouble in the beginning of the game.
05:16All you've got to do is play your game and just play even basketball.
05:20Those turnovers, again, and I know the way it came out at the end of the game
05:24where Detroit was close and the Cavs were neck and neck in turnovers,
05:29you can't put yourself in a hole every game.
05:31I don't know how this team is going to win four out of five games.
05:34I want to be optimistic.
05:35I don't want to dump all over them.
05:38I don't want to start talking about what the roster is going to look like next year.
05:41But, I mean, this is the most overpriced team maybe in Cleveland sports history,
05:46that's for sure.
05:46They have been outscored in the first quarter,
05:49and especially because this was the attention to detail.
05:51This was one of the big coaching points.
05:53If you listen to the guys after game one, they've been outscored 62 to 39.
06:00They've been outscored by 23 points in the first quarter in these two games.
06:03If you go the rest of the way, they're winning the series, right?
06:06If you go second, third, fourth in both games, the Cavs have outscored the Pistons,
06:11but they're down 23 in the first quarter.
06:13You're in a hole.
06:14How are you not ready?
06:16Especially after game one and what we watched in Toronto.
06:19How are you not ready to play basketball?
06:22Because they weren't ready yesterday.
06:24And it just, is it nerves?
06:26I don't think that that arena is so intimidating.
06:29No, I don't think it's nerves.
06:29I was talking to folks that went up there for game one.
06:32They were saying, late arriving crowd.
06:34Like, they weren't really into it in the beginning of the game.
06:37You know, yeah.
06:38How about Dan Gilbert yesterday?
06:39He bussed 500 people to the game.
06:42He paid for the whole way.
06:44500.
06:44I was getting a text from my buddy Dustin, who was at the game and was living large.
06:50And basically, anybody that was there before the game,
06:52there was basically a pep rally before both games.
06:54And various members of the Cavs brass got on the mic and they were letting him know.
07:00And, of course, I was getting a text from Dustin going,
07:02oh, they're 100% winning this game.
07:04There's no chance they come out and fall flat.
07:07And then they get outscored 25 to 18 in the first.
07:10I will say this for Dan Gilbert.
07:11I mean, he doesn't hesitate to spend money ever.
07:14You know, when they were in the NBA Finals and they would fly back and forth to Oakland,
07:19San Francisco, Bay Area, whatever you want to call it.
07:21I mean, he was paying for those flights to go.
07:23He was taking – I mean, it wasn't like he was taking the front office and all the scouts.
07:28Dude, he was taking the guys that pop popcorn, the folks that work in the suites,
07:33like your neighbors, like people that we know.
07:36Like, those folks were getting to hop on a plane and go watch the NBA Finals.
07:41Yesterday, they did it on a bus.
07:42Well, they will not be going to the – he will not be taking anybody to the Eastern Conference Finals
07:45right now the way it's looking in this series, down two games to one.
07:48Oh, uncle.
07:49Man.
07:51Obviously, again, second straight, just total non-entity James Harden.
07:56And here's the thing.
07:58It's one thing to have bad games because you're just not being able to shoot.
08:01I mean, he looks like he can't play.
08:03He looks like he can't physically be on the floor.
08:06I did not expect him, especially the Toronto Series.
08:09I thought he was fine over the course of seven games.
08:11I thought he was a plus player for them.
08:13I thought he helped them.
08:14You know, I had said that, man, Darius would have really been suffocated by the size of Toronto.
08:21And then I don't know if it's the short turnaround, the fact that we've already played two games since that
08:26game seven.
08:28But James looks like he can't physically even be on the floor in this series.
08:33And yet, they have to play him.
08:35He played 37 minutes last night.
08:37Yeah, he and Mitchell.
08:38Because why do they have to play him?
08:39I know people are probably screaming at their radio right now.
08:41Anthony, why in the world after James, who's dribbling and falling down?
08:46And, you know, he only had four turnovers in this game, probably because he just didn't want the ball as
08:51much.
08:51I know he only got two shots in the fourth quarter of this game or the second half of this
08:56game.
08:57Yeah, Kenny had some comments on that.
08:59I don't think he wants the ball.
09:01I think he looks at those defenders and says, all my tricks have basically washed up.
09:09Like Detroit physically can take me, steer me wherever they want on the floor.
09:14And none of the foul baiting stuff is really working.
09:17I know he drew five fouls in the first half.
09:19And that was about the only good thing I could say about James Harden is he drew some of them
09:23fouls.
09:24And one of them was another almost turnover.
09:27And then they shoved him, you know, back behind half court.
09:30But, like, they are not worried about James Harden in this series at all.
09:33So, here's the other question.
09:35If Harden's got the ball, how is that affecting Evan Mobley?
09:37Like, is that taking Mobley?
09:39Do you understand what I'm saying?
09:40Does Mobley want the ball?
09:41Well, I don't know.
09:42One rebound yesterday on top of everything else.
09:45I don't know.
09:45I thought Jared Allen played well last night.
09:47You know, 31 minutes, 22 points.
09:50There were little things here that you were like, okay, I just don't know how this team wins four out
09:56of five.
09:56That's the hard reality of what you're looking at.
09:59You can only play one game at a time.
10:00But, I mean, I'm looking at the whole pie, and the pie does not look good.
10:04Jeff Thomas said 7% of teams that are down 0-2 come back to win a series.
10:117%.
10:11Now, then again, we were a franchise that came back from 3-1 in the NBA Finals.
10:14So, anything can happen.
10:16But you're looking at the body language of these guys.
10:18Guys, you're watching them really, really, I'm telling you.
10:21I'll show you during the break.
10:23Dean Wade was about, there was a staggered set that they ran Detroit.
10:28And Dean Wade was trailing, and it's an obvious switch off.
10:32He's passing the switch off to Donovan Mitchell.
10:36And Donovan does not, you want to talk about the, whatever the antithesis of fighting through a screen is?
10:41And Dean Wade slumps his shoulders over and is basically like, well, we're just giving up here?
10:48And that's to Donovan Mitchell.
10:50And I'm telling you, I know the minute this series ends, we're going to hear about a surgery coming up
10:55for Donovan or something.
10:57Do you think he's hurt?
10:58Yeah.
10:58Well, I 100% think he's hurt.
11:00Yeah, something doesn't seem right there.
11:02Yeah.
11:02Still has 31 points for being hurt, if that's true.
11:05And Donovan is still very crafty, but you can see, he is not getting to the basket.
11:10He was asked about it last night.
11:11Here you go.
11:12Hey, Donovan, what were you playing through in the second half there?
11:15Playing through?
11:15Yeah, what were you playing through?
11:17Nothing.
11:17Looked like you were a little hobbled.
11:19Nope.
11:20Yeah.
11:22I don't believe you.
11:23Yeah, I don't believe him either.
11:24I mean, I also put up on X last night, I put up a highlight of him sprinting, quote, back
11:32on defense.
11:33And he is moving his arms.
11:35He's doing the thing in high school where someone who's been yelled by the coach, yelled at, like, you've got
11:41to get back.
11:42You've got to show some hustle.
11:44And the arms are moving at a faster rate than the legs are.
11:49And I'm like, oh, he's messed up.
11:51Like, because he can do side to side the little things.
11:55Like, all right, I can challenge, I can test.
11:58I see he's got his right foot forward.
12:00I'm going to, because I'm Donovan Mitchell.
12:01I've got a full bag of things I can do.
12:03But outside of that, he looks like he's not, for the how many straight year, is not going to be
12:10able to get past the second run.
12:12And I'm not talking because they can't win the series.
12:14I'm talking about he looks like he's going to be on fumes again.
12:17And he only played 37 minutes.
12:20So we monitored this in game one.
12:23Like, how many minutes could Donovan Mitchell go?
12:25And in the first game, he went 35.
12:27Cade went 42.
12:28In this game, guess what?
12:30Cade went 42.
12:31He went 37.
12:33So Tobias Harris and Cade Cunningham have played more minutes in this series than Donovan Mitchell.
12:38And when you look at what else the Cavs have, and you're getting nothing out of James Harden,
12:44why is Donovan only playing that many minutes?
12:46It's because he can't.
12:47He can't physically play any more minutes.
12:50If that doesn't tell you that he is banged up, which fans don't want to hear, fans don't care,
12:55because they're being told you have to write another check for $70 million a year for Donovan Mitchell.
13:00And it's going to be yet another year where he doesn't get out of the second round.
13:04There's a lot of bad options following this.
13:07Trading Darius Garland.
13:09Here's the only place where I'll say maybe you're not right,
13:12because if you think that, like, you're getting energy minutes from Tyson
13:16or you're getting energy minutes from Schroeder, that you might have the opportunity
13:22to try to save him a minute or two.
13:24I mean, that's really what you're talking about there, right?
13:27You're talking about the difference between playing...
13:29I'm saying superstars play 40 minutes in the playoffs,
13:31especially when the season's on the line, and they look like they're in an impossible spot.
13:36But if they're down, right, and they're trying to come back,
13:38and you have other guards in the game, and they're helping you get back into the game,
13:42even though Donovan Mitchell's a superstar, right?
13:44Even if you know this and you're coming back, why would you take those guys off the floor?
13:49Do you understand?
13:50If they're...
13:51Like, they had success in certain points in the games.
13:53Well, I can tell you.
13:53I can tell you.
13:54I mean, they're role players who are probably incapable of being able to deliver that...
13:59Yeah, but you're talking about one or two minutes here.
14:02I think...
14:03I can't say there were a minute pick of over three minutes.
14:05Andy, there were...
14:06I will.
14:06There were minutes in the fourth quarter where Donovan was on the bench,
14:10and the Cavs looked kind of aimless, and you need your superstar out there
14:16because the guy next to him, James Harden, is giving you zilch.
14:21So what are you getting from Mobley?
14:22Like, that's the other thing, too.
14:23You're not getting...
14:24That's part of the issue.
14:25Like, to me, when you start talking about the future here,
14:28it's the Mobley part of it that makes me think,
14:31I don't know, maybe Evan isn't long for this team.
14:33I think it's the game three.
14:34I will be there, although my wife did text me from upstairs.
14:39In the final minute of the game, are you still going to game three?
14:43I'm kind of on your wife's side at this point.
14:45How would you not go to game three if you had tickets?
14:47Yeah, I do wonder about that because technically it's like,
14:49all right, you handle your business as home.
14:50That's what you said in the opening segment.
14:51I've lost all faith.
14:52I mean, any of the faith...
14:54Really? I'll take your tickets.
14:55You got tickets?
14:56I'll take them off your hands.
14:57I'll go.
14:58Baskin, I see where you sit at some of the Cavs games.
15:00That's true.
15:00I don't think you want my tickets.
15:01Oh, how bad are yours?
15:02I think if people knew or had a chance to have your tickets,
15:05even the biggest hater, even Nick Wilson would want to go to the game
15:09if he had a chance to sit where you sit at some of these games.
15:11I can tell you, I'm blessed.
15:12I'm blessed to have good friends.
15:13I can tell you that.
15:14Every once in a while, I find myself sitting down there.
15:16So you heard Kenny Atkinson there,
15:18and I think people would argue that's two shots too many for James Harden
15:23when he's saying, well, the Hall of Famer only got two shots in the second half.
15:27Well, he's not a Hall of Famer, and I thought in the first series against Toronto.
15:31Harden only took two shots in the second half.
15:32Is that right?
15:33And then had that turnover with 45 seconds left.
15:37Now, I would say the one thing that Harden has been doing is drawing fouls, right?
15:43So even if he's not making his shots,
15:46you should at least try to get him in there to see if he can create some foul problems
15:50for Detroit.
15:51How about the one time he got pushed at half court,
15:53and I was like, a little bit of flop.
15:56Very easily.
15:57I thought they were hacking him all over the place there in some of those sequences,
16:01but in the end, it's playoff basketball,
16:03and you have to be able to handle that physicality.
16:07And James, you can look at it.
16:08He does not want to get any further than about six feet from the basket,
16:13and he'll start to retreat, and he coughed it up a couple of times because of that.
16:18He kind of aimlessly threw one to a cutter.
16:20That wound up as a turnover in the first half
16:23where old James Harden would have easily raised up and been able to finish.
16:27So they have completely neutralized a lot of his tricks.
16:31You've got to help me with one play, both guys.
16:33Owen, I'll help you with this, too.
16:34Do you guys remember in the fourth quarter,
16:36Mitchell took a three-point shot and got fouled in the fourth quarter?
16:41Do you guys remember that?
16:42It was late.
16:43It was one of the free throws, and I was like,
16:44he was outside the arc.
16:46Why didn't he get three free throws?
16:48Maybe I'm wrong.
16:49I'll go back and look at it again.
16:50Was that the one?
16:50Did they call it on the floor?
16:52I think they called it on the floor.
16:53So they were in the bonus, and so it was just two free throws.
16:55Okay, okay.
16:55That's why I couldn't tell.
16:56And I was like, I don't understand.
16:58He's outside the arc.
16:59That was kind of a lame call.
17:01No, I mean, I thought the first game,
17:04I thought they got totally homered by the officials.
17:06This, I mean, you're 7-32.
17:08You did go to the free throw line actually seven more times in the Pistons.
17:12Donovan finally got to the foul line.
17:14I was hoping he'd had one of his mythical 20 free throw attempt games.
17:18He ended up, when all was said and done, with nine free throws.
17:22Make that, yeah, nine free throws.
17:24He was 7-9 from the charity stripe.
17:26And this one had nothing to do with the officials.
17:28Here's the other thing, too.
17:29I'm seeing a lot of guys get whacked in the head.
17:32Like last night's game, I was seeing guys getting,
17:34somebody took a shot, and then the arm came through
17:36and just blew somebody up in the face.
17:39And I'm like, how do you not call that?
17:41Well, I think even when you look back to the Raptors series,
17:43and in the two games of this series,
17:45I think Cavs opponents are seeing this on tape and going,
17:48until it gets called, we're going to keep doing it.
17:50Oh, I totally agree with you.
17:51And it's not getting called the way that I,
17:55obviously Cavs fans want it to be called, right?
17:57Well, remember Toronto, Toronto in the opening quarter,
18:01there were multiple games where they had seven or eight fouls.
18:05And basically it was, yeah, we are going to set the tone
18:08that we are going to be physical.
18:09And yeah, we, we might get some fouls.
18:11We might pick up some foul trouble here and there,
18:15but in the end, this is going to benefit us
18:16because the officials can't call it the whole game.
18:18And I feel like Detroit very similarly,
18:20like they have no problem being very handsy,
18:23being very physical, but we don't have,
18:25we don't have a way to combat it.
18:27And now that it's a 2-0 series,
18:30like if you're Detroit, why stop now, right?
18:33Even if it costs you a game, why stop now?
18:36Well, they also think they're in the heads
18:37and they probably are, right?
18:39They're in the heads of the Cavs and they know.
18:41Barely from body language wise.
18:42Yeah, they know the Cavs don't have a lot
18:46in the way of answers to what they're doing.
18:48Now with all that said, like, yes,
18:49the Cavs have gotten back into these games.
18:51They've expended energy to do it.
18:53But isn't that the NBA?
18:54Isn't that the script?
18:55Let's be honest.
18:56I mean, I'm watching these games
18:59and I'm going, we know the script.
19:00I've seen this before.
19:00I just watched this in game one.
19:02You're going to fall behind early.
19:03You're going to turn the ball over.
19:05Next thing you know, you're going to be back.
19:06Ooh, you might even take a little bit of a lead
19:08and then home team takes off and wins.
19:10Now, if you're not hitting buckets, that's on you.
19:13Like the first game,
19:14I was a little irritated with the officials
19:15because I look at officials like this,
19:17especially at any level, in any sport,
19:19your main job is to keep players safe
19:22and your secondary job is to keep the game moving forward.
19:25And then anything that happens after that is good news.
19:28It's just you've done your job.
19:29I think that's what the officials' job.
19:32Make sure nobody gets killed.
19:34Keep people safe, especially at younger ages.
19:36And then, you know, keep the game moving forward.
19:39I don't know.
19:40I just, I don't want to talk about refereeing
19:43and I don't want to look at game one.
19:46I honestly did not think it was a factor yesterday.
19:48I didn't either.
19:48But no, it wasn't.
19:50I don't think it was.
19:51So they are trying to figure out, you know,
19:54answers wherever they can.
19:56And, you know, we're sitting here debating
19:57whether or not James Harden should have gotten more shots
20:00in the fourth quarter.
20:02And it just harkens back to an issue I have
20:06with this team in general with how they're playing right now.
20:09You see Detroit.
20:11They mismatch hunted the entire fourth quarter.
20:15When that game got close.
20:17Yeah, they did.
20:17They said, all right, where is Donovan?
20:19Where is James?
20:21When Tobias Harris with his size
20:23and Kate Cunningham with his size,
20:24they have aggressively sought out
20:27and destroyed those matchups.
20:29And that is playoff basketball.
20:31We can talk about running actions, running sets,
20:34all the X's and O's.
20:35My whole life, playoff basketball has
20:37root out a weakness, a vulnerability, and expose it.
20:41And they were able to do it fairly easily.
20:43My question is, what in the world could the Cavs even do
20:47to counter that when we're on offense?
20:49Who can create a mismatch?
20:51Because on paper, yeah, your two Hall of Famers,
20:54Donovan Mitchell and James Harden,
20:56that's two guards that should be able to get here and there,
20:59get to the basket, get to the foul line.
21:01Well, they can't do it in this series.
21:03So where is your mismatch?
21:05Evan Mobley, not really a mismatch.
21:08There were times they had Jared Allen, you know, picked up.
21:12He had Duncan Robinson on his back.
21:14They went to him.
21:14He got a bucket.
21:15But are you relying on that in the fourth quarter of a tight game?
21:19So I think that underscores one of the larger issues in this series
21:23is if your guys can't create an advantage
21:26and can't take advantage of that, then what do you have?
21:29What tools do you actually have in a close game?
21:32Other than Harden and Mitchell is what you're saying.
21:34No, I'm saying they are part of the inability
21:37to create the big downhill mismatch.
21:40You know, part of it is, hey, Donovan Mitchell can draw double teams,
21:44can draw triple teams, free up other guys.
21:47Have you really seen that version of Donovan Mitchell in this series?
21:49The other part is that we haven't seen them take a –
21:52they've had – what's their biggest lead in this?
21:54Three?
21:56What's the biggest lead they've had?
21:57They've been playing from behind, it feels like, the entire playoffs.
21:59Oh, yeah.
21:59Might be three, yeah.
22:01So, and the other part of it is, too,
22:02if you can't take a bigger lead than three,
22:05how about just get up eight, right?
22:07Just one time, get up eight, I think you can get more into your offense.
22:10You can't – you can take a little bit more chances when you're up.
22:14But I just – they seem locked into that –
22:17when they get into that half-court offense, you're right.
22:20There's no one's – no one's cutting loose.
22:22No one's getting open.
22:23And now they're – like, in the beginning, when Harden first got here,
22:27didn't it feel like the ball was moving all over the place?
22:29Oh, yeah.
22:29And that they were able to establish some of that stuff.
22:31Harden was great in the regular season.
22:33But now they just –
22:34And it's a very –
22:34So is that JB?
22:36Like, JB knows the x-rays, right?
22:38JB knows what your x-rays look like,
22:40and he's going to exploit you left and right.
22:43Their defense has – they only scored 97 points last night.
22:46Like, if you don't get to 100 in an NBA playoff game,
22:49you're not winning.
22:51Point blank.
22:52Doesn't matter.
22:53Go back and look at the games that they won against Toronto.
22:55What – 114.
22:56They're above that every game.
22:59I think a big part of the inability to actually get a lead
23:04or sustain a lead is you watch all these teams in the playoffs.
23:09Like, they can go on a spurt because they can turn their defense into offense.
23:12And even when the Cavs are able to turn over,
23:17whether it was Toronto or Detroit, there's no breakout.
23:21There's no three-on-one.
23:22There's no easy leak ahead and a bucket to get that spurt going.
23:27And again, fast break points yesterday.
23:29Four.
23:30The Cavs ended up with four.
23:31Ugh.
23:32Now, you did a better job.
23:33You didn't give up nearly as many as you did in game one to the Pistons.
23:36They had 13 fast break points.
23:38But you just have no way to get the easy basket.
23:41And so much of in the playoffs, like,
23:44you're not going to get as many opportunities to get out and run.
23:46But when you do, you have to cash in.
23:48And how many times did I see either Donovan or James
23:51where they might have had a glimmer of hope with a numbers edge, a power play.
23:56I'll speak your language, Andy Baskin, a power play.
23:59And how many of those just ended up with dribbling the ball back out
24:02to the three-point line and there goes the edge.
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