1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,480 Welcome in to the newest edition of the Justin Tom Sports podcast. 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:05,640 I am your host, Justin Jackson. 3 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:09,440 And this week's episode, we'll be discussing game two of the NBA finals. 4 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,280 It's our instant reaction episode. 5 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:13,640 We will also have Jax's hot take. 6 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:17,600 Now, as always, don't forget to like, grade, and subscribe to the Justin Tom Sports podcast 7 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,720 on iTunes, Spotify, or if you get your podcast. 8 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:25,120 And don't forget to follow the social media handle at JTimesports for all of your breaking 9 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:26,680 news and updates. 10 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:30,560 Now, as always, don't forget to sit back and get ready to learn something. 11 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:29,680 We even tweeting on Twitter, you can meet us in the spaces. 12 00:01:29,680 --> 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show will 43 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:51,040 come out. 44 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:52,800 So this comes out at nine. 45 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:57,720 The YouTube show is already out, but I'll post it on the socials at about 10. 46 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:59,600 So about an hour later. 47 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:05,080 So make sure you guys definitely get on the YouTube show as well. 48 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:11,640 But with all that housekeeping out of the way, the Boston Celtics take game two, 105-98, 49 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:13,120 taking a commanding to a lead. 50 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:14,720 They hold serve at home. 51 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:21,000 We spoke about it in the last series, we talked about basketball, the old adage in and around 52 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,160 the NBA is a series has to start till somebody loses at home. 53 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,000 So in theory, this series hasn't started yet. 54 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:30,440 If you're a Maverick supporter, like myself, the series hasn't started yet. 55 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,400 However, my Mavs and six pick looks very grim. 56 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:37,640 I'm going to be honest with you, that looks over because it would take the Mavs winning 57 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:38,640 four straight. 58 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:44,560 Pretty much that prediction hinged on the Mavs honestly winning this game. 59 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:50,360 Because I spoke about it, man, Boston was going to have a bad shooting night. 60 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,520 Dallas had to take advantage of it and they didn't. 61 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,560 But this was Boston's others win you game. 62 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:02,280 So Boston in my prediction level has already used two of their wins because I said, oh, 63 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:04,280 okay, two of their ways they can win. 64 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:08,320 They had a crazy shooting night in game one, their others won game two. 65 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,280 This was a Drew Holiday kind of game. 66 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:13,000 This was a Derek White kind of game. 67 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,200 Brown did what Brown expected to do. 68 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:20,040 Tatum had another off night, but Drew Holiday really stepped up and won this game, almost 69 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,960 cancelling Luca by himself in terms of points and rebounds. 70 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:27,000 If that can happen, Boston's going to win this series pretty easily. 71 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,960 But this is others going to win this game. 72 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,960 So Dallas hasn't had the shooter's hit. 73 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,080 Dallas hasn't had their real players go off. 74 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:38,640 Dallas hasn't had what Luca just said, I'm going off tonight. 75 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:40,320 It looked like he's going to do it early. 76 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:44,720 He cooled off in the second half, but what Luca gets one of those 40, 15 and 14 games 77 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,000 and there's nothing you can do about it. 78 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,280 Ky Reed's still off. 79 00:05:48,280 --> 00:05:50,760 So Dallas has a lot of ways to win this. 80 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:56,040 If I'm Dallas, I'm annoyed I didn't win this game. 81 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,840 But I'm going to Dallas saying, okay, look, they held serve at home. 82 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:00,840 We do the same. 83 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:03,400 We send it back to Boston and it's 2-2. 84 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,520 It's a new series, best of three. 85 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:08,760 You know, so that'd be my mindset if I'm the Dallas Mavericks. 86 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,160 Let's get into this box score a little bit. 87 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:16,520 Drew Holliday was the MVP for the Celtics after Jalen Brown was MVP of game one. 88 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:18,080 Drew Holliday is MVP of game two. 89 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:24,200 He finishes with 26 points, 11 rebounds on 11 and 14 shooting incredibly efficient night. 90 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:26,160 It's not even Conway did no defensive end. 91 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:27,160 He had a couple of huge steals. 92 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,880 He had a couple of huge defensive possessions that won't show up in the box score. 93 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,480 You had Jalen Brown with 21 and seven. 94 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,880 Again, what Jalen Brown's supposed to do, he's a great two way player. 95 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:38,920 He's one of the best two way players in basketball. 96 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:42,560 I'm glad he's actually getting his recognition and his just do for what he's been doing our 97 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:44,440 regular season. 98 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:48,640 I'm glad he's been able to showcase the fact that he is truly one of the best two way players 99 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:49,640 in basketball. 100 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:52,560 There was a lot of jokes about him when he got made, where he made his money. 101 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:53,880 I made it myself. 102 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:54,880 Jalen Brown don't go with left. 103 00:06:54,880 --> 00:07:00,200 I still don't recall seeing him go left in this series, but what he does on a defensive 104 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:05,120 end and his consistent production on the offensive end, he's a super nice player, no doubt about 105 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:06,120 it. 106 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:11,000 Derek White pitched in 18 points, not the most efficient night from Derek White. 107 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,000 However, he had the huge block on PJ Washington coming down. 108 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,920 Now it should have been a foul. 109 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:23,240 We have looked back at the replay and that was clearly Jalen Brown pushing PJ Washington 110 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:27,040 with the full extension of the arm in the back before Washington even jumps. 111 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:28,400 Derek White gets the block. 112 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:34,280 Well, Derek White tips it first and then Jalen Brown swipes it all the way across with the 113 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:38,320 Mavs that point down five with about 40 seconds left. 114 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:40,360 40 to 50 seconds left. 115 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:46,280 So if the Mavs get that dunk or get that foul, they're down three with 40 something seconds 116 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,480 left, let's just say. 117 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,560 And who knows what happens after that. 118 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:57,400 It's kind of, remember the Kyrie Irving shot we discussed in game one, the Mavs were up, 119 00:07:57,400 --> 00:07:58,400 were down eight. 120 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,160 They had charged back from 29 down. 121 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:03,160 They were down eight. 122 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:07,040 Kyrie has an open shot, one of those above the break wing threes. 123 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:08,240 He shoots it. 124 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:09,240 He misses it. 125 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:10,240 Boston hits it fast. 126 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:12,280 Six to eight on run. 127 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,720 They go 14, 16 points and they're never threatened again. 128 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:17,520 Similar, right? 129 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:21,880 But a lot later in the game, of course, Washington dunks that. 130 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:24,080 They're down three with 40 something seconds left. 131 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,040 If you're thinking in your head, okay, I'm gonna get two possessions at this. 132 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:28,280 We get a couple of stops. 133 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:31,440 We get a stop where we could be shooting the tie of the game. 134 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:36,360 You know, and then who knows what happens over the last 30 seconds. 135 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:37,800 Just supposed to what actually happened. 136 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:39,200 Washington gets blocked. 137 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:40,440 The foul is not called. 138 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:42,760 Boston comes down, I believe hits a three. 139 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,200 Now they're up eight with 30 seconds left and the game's over. 140 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,840 So it's one of those moments, another one of those swing moments that Dallas had in 141 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,160 this series. 142 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:54,360 But if you're the Mavericks, man, I'm confident. 143 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:58,160 Take out the first quarter of game one, right? 144 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:04,440 You lost the last seven quarters by combined nine points. 145 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:05,440 You're in this. 146 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:11,480 of the highlights. 147 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:06,440 You're in this series if you're Dallas. 148 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:10,040 But before I go too far into that, let's get back into this box score. 149 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:13,920 Let's go to the Dallas Mavericks now. 150 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:19,920 Luke Kudoncic with 32, 11 and 11 on 12 of 21 shooting. 151 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:26,400 Kyrie Irving, another poor night, 16 points, two rebounds, six assists on seven of 18 shooting. 152 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:28,400 Didn't make a basket, I remember. 153 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:33,240 To be honest, that was one he went down the right side of the court, picked it up, put 154 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:34,920 it behind his head and got a layup. 155 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,880 He goes back to back layups in kind of crazy fashion. 156 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,400 But other than that, didn't make a shot. 157 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:42,880 I remember finally got to the free throw line in this series. 158 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:44,360 I think it was in the second or third quarter. 159 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:48,080 He finally took the free throw line for the first time in the series. 160 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:51,640 So that was a decent sign, but he's got to make his shots. 161 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:55,040 He has not beaten the Boston Celtics since he left Boston. 162 00:09:55,040 --> 00:10:01,520 He's 0 and 12 now and 0 and 7 in the Garden. 163 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:03,960 Obviously playing the Celtics in the finals, that has to change. 164 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:09,480 I think going home, getting the support of his home fans, he kind of, I thought, I think 165 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:14,480 tried to taunt the Celtics into the Celtics faith for into booing him harder. 166 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:16,600 But I think he was expecting that. 167 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,560 I spoke about it on the podcast for days ago. 168 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:25,440 I think he was expecting to be more taunted than he was. 169 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:26,960 And I think that affected him. 170 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:31,080 I think he came out looking for a heavyweight battle and they weren't coming as hard as 171 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:32,080 I thought they were. 172 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:33,240 So he taunted them in the first quarter. 173 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:34,240 They booed him heavy. 174 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:38,320 He made more shots and then the booing kind of cooled off and he started missing. 175 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:44,120 So I truly think, and it sounds a little off, but I truly think that he is expecting this 176 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:49,880 heavyweight titan of opposition from the Boston Celtics faithful. 177 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,120 And when he got it, he makes the shot. 178 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:55,680 When he doesn't get it, when he doesn't get it, he shots off. 179 00:10:55,680 --> 00:10:56,720 He's missing. 180 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:58,160 He's almost like shaking his head. 181 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:00,160 Like, I know what I want to happen. 182 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:04,480 I know what I'm prepared for mentally and they're not giving it to me. 183 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:05,760 And so that's something to watch there. 184 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:09,120 I think he'll do better at home. 185 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:13,760 Now they, I'm sure they flew out of Boston tonight on a private jet. 186 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:15,280 They flew straight down to Dallas. 187 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:18,080 They sleep in their own beds tonight. 188 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:22,000 And they're in their own beds tonight, Sunday night, Monday night. 189 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,360 I mean, they're in their own beds for a week. 190 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:27,720 They like, they don't have to leave Dallas again. 191 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:32,200 Truly through this Sunday night, Monday night. 192 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:34,480 So tonight they're in their own beds. 193 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:36,840 Monday night and Tuesday night are non-finals games. 194 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:38,680 They play Wednesday and game three. 195 00:11:38,680 --> 00:11:43,080 They have one night Thursday and then they play a game, game four Friday. 196 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:46,960 So I'm saying they send the series back to Boston. 197 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:48,640 I think two, two. 198 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:50,360 They send the series back to Boston. 199 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,600 They get on a plane either Friday night or Saturday morning. 200 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,720 And you know, they're in their own beds for five days. 201 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:57,720 That's huge. 202 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:58,720 That's a recharge. 203 00:11:58,720 --> 00:11:59,800 That's you're doing your routine. 204 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:00,960 You're with your nutritionist. 205 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:02,520 You're with your families. 206 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:04,800 You're with your private facility. 207 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:05,800 You're in it. 208 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:07,760 Like everything is set up for you. 209 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:09,120 So that's big. 210 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:16,400 I think a huge advantage so that Dallas may have a legitimate shot at winning this series 211 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:17,400 overall. 212 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:22,200 I think it's going to take seven games now to do it. 213 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:27,840 And then to close out the box score, PJ Washington, 17 and seven. 214 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:32,920 Two things I want to, three things I want to point out in terms of team stats that I 215 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:33,920 thought were huge. 216 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,240 From the free throw line, Dallas was 16 and 24. 217 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:38,960 Boston was 19 or 20. 218 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,600 Boston only made three more free throws, but they shot at a much higher percentage. 219 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,120 Boston shot at 95%. 220 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:47,200 The Mavericks shot at 75%. 221 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:52,320 The Mavericks are routinely one of the worst free throw shooting teams in the league. 222 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:56,280 They are the worst free throw shooting team in the playoffs. 223 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:58,720 And they reared its ugly head tonight. 224 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,880 In halftime they went in down four and they'd missed five free throws. 225 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,200 This game, you lose the game by seven, you miss eight free throws. 226 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:06,040 Do I expect you to make every single free throw? 227 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:07,040 No. 228 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:09,720 Do I expect you to make 20 or 24 to make 20, 21 of them? 229 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:10,720 Yes. 230 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:11,720 But let's think about this. 231 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:13,920 Let's say they make 20 of them. 232 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:18,440 It's 105, 102. 233 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:21,520 Who knows throughout the course of a game, like halftime, instead of missing four, they 234 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:22,520 only miss one. 235 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:23,520 They go into halftime tie. 236 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:24,520 You know what I'm saying? 237 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:26,040 Who knows what kind of momentum shift. 238 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:30,160 Maybe Peyton Pritchard doesn't hit that crazy three at the end of the half or end of the 239 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:31,160 third quarter. 240 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:32,640 Like all these different swings. 241 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:39,840 Come to free throw line, one of the three point line, Boston shot bad 10 to 34. 242 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:41,240 That's under 30%. 243 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:45,520 That's something that will not happen for them very often. 244 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:48,920 Dallas found a way to shoot worse than they did in game one. 245 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,880 They shot six of 26. 246 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,160 So again, you lose three point line by 12. 247 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:55,820 You lose the game by seven. 248 00:13:55,820 --> 00:13:59,600 So you lost the free throw line by three, get three point line by 12. 249 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:03,960 The rebounds of game are fairly even, points out turnover plus nine Celtics. 250 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:10,800 So you lose three major by score categories by 24, 25 points. 251 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:14,240 You lose the game by seven. 252 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:17,800 So if you're the Mavericks, man, you're going home and they can clean the turnovers up. 253 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:21,040 You have to hit more threes. 254 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:26,440 But Boston is doing a very, very good job at not giving up the corner three. 255 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:33,240 Again, before I dive too far into that, Lucas spoke about after the game, he blamed himself. 256 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:34,720 He was clearly frustrated on the court. 257 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,360 Looked like what his teammates put in himself. 258 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:43,080 He said that he blamed himself for the careless turnovers and missed free throws while they 259 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:44,080 lost the game. 260 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,680 So Lucas took the blame, as most superstars tend to do. 261 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,920 They take a brunt of the blame, even when it's not their fault. 262 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,680 So Lucas shouldered it in the post game press conference. 263 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:58,960 I expect him to be better, you know, he'll be 38 and 10 the first time, 32, 11, 11 the 264 00:14:58,960 --> 00:14:59,960 second time. 265 00:14:59,960 --> 00:15:00,960 I expect him to be better. 266 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:02,440 By better, I mean more efficient. 267 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:06,480 If he's going to take 21 shots, I expect 14 of them to go down. 268 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:12,200 Now two more shots to go down is a big deal, but if they're threes, it's six more points. 269 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:13,560 And I expect his turnovers to be lower. 270 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:18,800 I expect those to at least be shots on the rim, which is something that Dallas desperately 271 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:24,680 needs is a way to get shots on the rim. 272 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:26,800 But so let's talk about this game. 273 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:28,520 Let's talk about the game itself. 274 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:33,080 First of all, I want to give Dallas Mavericks credit for coming out strong. 275 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:39,240 They came out really, really strong and I think they were mad at themselves for not 276 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:44,440 coming out with any real intensity in game one, because again, the substance one game 277 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,600 won quarter one by 17. 278 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:52,040 This time the gap was not, I think that was actually led after the first quarter this 279 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:53,040 time. 280 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:55,720 You know, they came out with a very strong mentality. 281 00:15:55,720 --> 00:16:01,080 They came out confidently shooting those above the break threes until I think Derek Jones 282 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:05,480 aired ball one and then like no one was willing to shoot them again. 283 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:09,360 So if I'm the Dallas Mavericks training people, it's all we're doing. 284 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:14,480 We're shooting above the break threes because Boston's refusing to give that corner up 285 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:16,560 and that was affecting Lucas assist numbers. 286 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:22,480 He had 11 tonight, but he could easily had 17 or 18 because he's kicking to the corner 287 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:24,840 instinctively and Boston sitting there. 288 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:28,800 So now they're rotating the pass around, you're getting guys in positions that they're not 289 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:29,800 used to shooting from. 290 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:36,200 Like I said, that above the break three Boston is not willing to give it up at all. 291 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:40,680 And that corner three rather, Boston willing to give them the above the break three or 292 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:42,520 that wing three. 293 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:48,400 And so that is strongly affecting the Dallas Mavericks offensively. 294 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,680 And they're also cutting off that lob that Luca loves so much as well. 295 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:53,640 So that's taking Derek Lively out the game. 296 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:58,240 That's taking Daniel Gaffer out of the game offensively because they're just used to sitting 297 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:00,080 there getting lobs from Luca. 298 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:01,080 Boston is doing it. 299 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,160 Boston is doing everything they can. 300 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:05,160 They're guarding that baseline. 301 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,400 Basically, they're cutting off the lob and they're cutting off the corner three. 302 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:15,040 If you want to operate on the wing, they're letting you right now because Boston has just 303 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:17,600 decided look, this is the area to willing to give up. 304 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:20,000 We're not willing to give you anything on the baseline area. 305 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:24,360 You're going to have to get your from the mid range and from the from the wing. 306 00:17:24,360 --> 00:17:28,800 So kudos to Boston there for having a pretty good strategy. 307 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:29,800 And it's working. 308 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:36,160 I said, anytime you can have a guy in Jason Tatum shoot six of 22 and win the game, that's 309 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:37,160 big. 310 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:44,960 So actually, in this postseason, the Celtics are six and oh, when Tatum shoots below 40%. 311 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:51,360 So they've all all playoffs been able to overcome Tatum nearly did Tatum did, however, nearly 312 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:52,680 have a triple double. 313 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:56,520 He had 18 points, nine rebounds and 11 assists, I believe. 314 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:58,680 So he was kind of a playmaker. 315 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:06,080 But he still again shot the ball very poorly, only to be outdone by Kyrie Irving shooting. 316 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:11,400 Like at least Tatum gave you 11 assists and nine boards or 12 assists and nine boards. 317 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:12,400 I'm sorry. 318 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,640 Kyrie gave you 16, two and six on seven of 18. 319 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:20,480 Now he technically shot the ball better than Tatum, but Tatum had a couple more three, 320 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:23,600 couple more free throws and he gave you like I said, 12 assists. 321 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:25,720 Do I expect Kyrie Irving to get nine rebounds? 322 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:26,720 No. 323 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:29,880 Do I expect Kyrie Irving that if he's going to shoot as poorly as he is to try to figure 324 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,080 out how to facilitate an offense? 325 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:33,200 Absolutely. 326 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,560 He's got to do something, man. 327 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:37,600 Lucas out there, like I said, frustrated. 328 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:45,480 It's like I can go ballistic and it doesn't matter because there's no one helping me. 329 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:50,280 Is this the kind of series that'll make a guy like Luca reconsider staying in Dallas? 330 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:51,560 Of course not. 331 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:55,960 Getting to the NBA final secured Luca Dodgers on a five year super max in a Dallas Mavericks 332 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:56,960 uniform, right? 333 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:02,080 That was decided the second the Mavericks made the finals. 334 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:07,800 However, what it does make a guy like Luca reconsider is his loyalty to his teammates. 335 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,160 Is he going to try to get rid of Kyrie Irving? 336 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:11,160 Of course not. 337 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:13,320 Is he going to look for people who can do things? 338 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:14,320 Yes. 339 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:20,960 It kind of, their team building reminds me of a young LeBron James in Cleveland where 340 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:25,320 you had LeBron who is the ultimate do everything. 341 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,960 He's the ultimate Swiss army knife. 342 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:33,320 So like Lucas, the ultimate charming knife, you get them a guy who can go a little bit. 343 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:35,200 They had Antoine Jamison. 344 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:39,480 They had a Mo Williams who went on an all star team in Cleveland. 345 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,840 Of course Dallas has had Jaylen Brunson. 346 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:47,160 Now they, of course they upgraded Jaylen Brunson into Kyrie Irving. 347 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:53,000 You had running Dunk Bigs and then you had specialists. 348 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:58,680 You had guys who were basically waiting to be spoon fed opportunities from the do everything 349 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,960 Swiss army knife and it didn't work. 350 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:02,960 LeBron was going to Miami. 351 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:03,960 Blah, blah, blah, blah. 352 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:07,960 You know, the rest of the history. 353 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:13,120 I think Luca and the Mavis realized like they need more than just specialists out there. 354 00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:17,840 They need more multitude players, especially on the wings. 355 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:19,320 They need help there desperately. 356 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:24,960 I don't think they're anywhere near the second tax apron so they have an opportunity to wiggle 357 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:25,960 in free agency. 358 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:31,240 A lot of teams won't, they'll be stuck around that second tax apron, especially contenders. 359 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:36,400 So Dallas has an opportunity to try and wiggle their way into some more people because Luca 360 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:37,400 is beat up. 361 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:41,120 I mean, he's getting wrapped like a football player before the game. 362 00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:47,040 I mean, ice wrapped and trying to massage stuff out and all kinds of stuff, trying to 363 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,600 get that body ready to go. 364 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:55,640 And he goes and puts out another great performance and it's all for not due to his teammates 365 00:20:55,640 --> 00:21:02,320 lack of ability to A score and B create opportunities for themselves to score. 366 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:06,720 So that is what's going down in Dallas. 367 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:12,280 But like my original point, if I'm in Dallas, my average man, I'm, I'm, I'm not happy because 368 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:17,480 I felt like I should be one to one, but I am okay. 369 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,440 I didn't get smoked off the floor again. 370 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,000 I could end game one. 371 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,000 And I can tell myself it should be one to one. 372 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,720 It's frustrating, but it's okay because it should be one one. 373 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:34,840 I go back to Dallas saying, okay, Kyrie is not going to shoot this bad at home. 374 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:40,240 We're going to be able to create some of those chances for those below the, with those corner 375 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:41,240 threes. 376 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:46,160 If not, as a contingency player, we're going to work on the above, above the break threes. 377 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,400 We're going to work on these wing threes cause they're going to give them to you. 378 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,720 You got to have the ability to make it. 379 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,920 I'm thinking that my free throw shooting gets better at home. 380 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:58,200 I'm thinking that my role players play better at home with Dante Exum, a PJ Washington, 381 00:21:58,200 --> 00:21:59,200 a Jayden Hardy. 382 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:01,520 If I'm the, that's how I'm feeling right now. 383 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:08,600 If I'm the Dallas Mavericks, I don't love it, but my message to the team is we do what 384 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:09,600 they did. 385 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:15,160 We go back to Boston to, to it's a best of three for the NBA championship. 386 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,520 So that is definitely my outlook. 387 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:22,440 If I'm the Mavericks and if you're a Boston man, you're two wins away. 388 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,120 You're two wins away from Celtic immortality. 389 00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:30,160 We speak a lot about, you know, this is the quest for banner 18 for Boston. 390 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:39,120 It's 11 of them and I'm missing some titles, but 11 of them came from Bill Russell. 391 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:41,760 Lay Bird has three. 392 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,000 So that's 14. 393 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,120 I am missing some titles. 394 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:50,240 Where did the other titles at? 395 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:54,640 Oh, I think Bill Walton is responsible for, no, that's one of Lay Bird's three. 396 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:59,120 Yeah, Lay Bird has three, Bill Russell has 11, that's 14. 397 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:01,400 Paul Pierce has one, that's 15. 398 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,320 Where are the other two rings? 399 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:05,320 Whatever. 400 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:13,440 Anyway, um, anyway, regardless, you're a, you're a Boston legend. 401 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:18,560 I mean, you're up there immediately with Russell Celtics, Burs Celtics, the big three 402 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,520 air in Boston, you know, the Celtics, like that's what's on the line. 403 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,840 If you're Boston, you're two wins away. 404 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:27,680 You have five games to win two. 405 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:33,360 Um, that is a great spot to be in. 406 00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:34,760 If you are the Celtics. 407 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:35,760 Okay. 408 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:36,760 I'm actually Googling it. 409 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:42,640 So both the Lakers and the Celtics have only won two in the seventies. 410 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:49,920 Cause these are all Bill Russell's titles from 1957 to 1969. 411 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:50,920 That's Bill Russell. 412 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:51,920 Okay. 413 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,800 So they won two in the seventies that I didn't remember. 414 00:23:54,800 --> 00:24:00,760 Um, and then of course, Lay Bird's three in the eighties and then Paul Pierce is one 415 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:01,760 in 2008. 416 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,880 And then of course the Lakers have 17 as well. 417 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:11,160 Uh, they dominated the league before Russell and then they picked up five from Magic and 418 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,080 five from Gobi. 419 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:17,680 Um, so that's how those two got their championships. 420 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:23,800 Anyway, um, so the situation is like that in Boston. 421 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,640 You're trying to put a banner number 18. 422 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:29,960 You're trying to be the team that went in front of the Lakers. 423 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,120 Both you and the Lakers have 17. 424 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:35,560 Um, so you're trying to be the team that pushed in front of the Lakers. 425 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:39,920 Um, you're trying to enter that level of Celtic immortality joining a great history 426 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:41,680 of the Celtics winning titles. 427 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,160 I think Jason Kidd, speaking on the coaches really quickly. 428 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,240 Well, I think Jason Kidd had a much better game plan. 429 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:53,960 Um, I think also Boston missed a lot of open three they normally make, but Hey, it's a 430 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:54,960 make or miss Lee. 431 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:55,960 I think, like I said, I think J.K. 432 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:56,960 Had a great game plan. 433 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,040 I wonder what his counter would have been. 434 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:04,720 Has Boston started making threes because Boston made 10 and two of them were a Derek, sorry, 435 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:11,760 three of them were a Derek white in the shot clock over somebody from 30 feet Peyton Pritchard 436 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:15,360 banking in a half court shot at the end of third quarter. 437 00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:19,960 And then some like crazy out of bounds three, somebody hit something that was like two or 438 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:24,560 three of them right there that, you know, it's not a normally successful, it was a great 439 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:28,540 successful game plan in terms of how they wanted them to shoot the three knowing that 440 00:25:28,540 --> 00:25:33,160 Boston's gonna shoot it, but you have to dictate to the Celtics how you want them to shoot 441 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:34,160 it. 442 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,560 And then Joe Missoula kept his team calm. 443 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,240 I think all the time option there appropriate. 444 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:43,760 He has that offense humming when they go five out and you know, the rotation starts off 445 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,520 a driving kick and it's just ball flying everywhere to open three. 446 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,320 It is beautiful to watch. 447 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,320 So credit to both coaches. 448 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:53,320 Tatum has stepped up. 449 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,080 Kyrie really has stepped up. 450 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:59,040 I'm not a fan of the math, so even have a shot. 451 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:05,200 So game three is off Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday night. 452 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,400 So the game three is Wednesday night. 453 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,520 Absolutely huge for the Dallas Mavericks. 454 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:14,120 Of course, no teams ever come out from 3-0 in any series. 455 00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:21,820 So Dallas is a must win game three do or die, put up or shut up level of pressure in game 456 00:26:21,820 --> 00:26:24,120 three for the Dallas Mavericks. 457 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:28,400 To be honest, the next two LeBron's only want to come from three, one in the finals. 458 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:36,640 Like the next two games are direly important to the franchise to win these two games. 459 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:37,640 So at least get it back. 460 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:45,960 I said to a new series to to heading into Boston for game five. 461 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:47,840 But that is all I have on this topic. 462 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:52,920 Next we're going to shift to Jack's high take, which is going to be the team USA Olympic 463 00:26:52,920 --> 00:27:15,120 team left off the wrong guard and it's not Katelyn Clark. 464 00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:20,880 Welcome back into the show. 465 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:30,240 And the WNBA has found a way to consistently give us storylines, right? 466 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:35,760 Consistently give us things to talk about, give us hot take moments. 467 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:41,480 So of course, the the big thing that's going around and I want to definitely give my opinion 468 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:50,080 on is the big thing going around is Katelyn Clark was left off of team USA. 469 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:58,440 The team USA Olympic team that is headed to Paris to represent team USA to try and continue 470 00:27:58,440 --> 00:27:59,440 the women's dominance. 471 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:04,000 I believe they've won every gold since 1996 when they put their version of the dream team 472 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:08,320 together like Rebecca Logo, Dawn Staley, that team I think it was on Martin. 473 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,640 Like they were like legit superstars. 474 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:16,400 They had been playing overseas in other areas and this is the first time they come together 475 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:17,400 in 96. 476 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,840 The WNBA was starting in 97. 477 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:24,800 So it was big to have those them all together, right? 478 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:29,840 You're thinking I'm thinking like think what the MLS did after the World Cup. 479 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:34,640 They had the World Cup and then MLS starts the next year and MLS takes off. 480 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,320 That's how happened to the WNBA. 481 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,440 Their arcs are almost incredibly similar. 482 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,840 They started off really, really hot following in the national competition and then they 483 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,920 kind of die off and now they're getting superstars and they're getting stars and they're getting 484 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:48,960 rebranded, etc. 485 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:56,320 The WNBA, however, they pretty much are the Olympic team and the 12 names for the Olympic 486 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,240 team have been released. 487 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,160 They are as followed. 488 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:05,880 Asia Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces, Brianna Stewart of the New York Liberty, Diana Tarassi 489 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,520 of the Phoenix Mercury, Brittany Grana of the Phoenix Mercury, Alyssa Thomas of the 490 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:14,640 Connecticut Sun, Nafisa Collier of the Minnesota Lynx, Jewel Lloyd of the Seattle Storm, Las 491 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:22,240 Vegas Aces Kelsey Plum, Las Vegas Aces Jackie Young, New York Liberty's Sabrina Yanescu, 492 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:27,760 Las Vegas Aces Chelsea Gray, and Phoenix Mercury's Kalia Copper. 493 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:35,360 Now one name that I did not say that has caused a lot of controversy has been, of course, 494 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:39,520 you guessed it, Kaitlyn Clark. 495 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:43,120 Her fans have done a lot. 496 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:44,960 She has done a lot. 497 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:48,240 Regarding this election, there's been multiple news articles written about it. 498 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:58,760 There has been, it's on ESPN all over it, CNBC World News, it's been on ABC, people 499 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,880 are writing think pieces, people are claiming racism, people are claiming jealousy. 500 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:08,360 There's a report that no one else talked about that it was two players, two unnamed 501 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:15,320 players on the roster said that her millions of fans would be distracting to the team USA 502 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,480 and that's why she got left off. 503 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:22,720 It's been a ton of discourse surrounding this that everybody feels she should have 504 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:23,720 been on it. 505 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:29,360 There's people even comparing it to Rebecca Lobo being on the team in 96. 506 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:36,280 Because traditionally the men's side has had one rookie or one incoming rookie because 507 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:41,600 the men's side is during the summer, not in the middle of the season, for the WUATB 508 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,480 to have one rookie. 509 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:47,360 The men's side traditionally had one rookie or one college player. 510 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:53,760 This was done because prior to 1992, the Olympic team was always college case, they were all 511 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:54,760 amateurs. 512 00:30:54,760 --> 00:31:03,080 In 92, however, those amateurs who would have made that team became the select team, which 513 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:08,520 the US select team was like the practice squad players or the junior team. 514 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:12,360 Of course, whoever is your Dan Hurley's and stuff were on the select team. 515 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,920 That select team would have been the Olympic team any other year until they changed it 516 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:21,280 after getting tired of losing. 517 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:26,640 The dream team started with Christian Leitner in 1996, believe. 518 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,920 Well Shaq was supposed to be on that team. 519 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,360 That team wasn't as good as it should have been. 520 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:35,720 They would have been 12 for 12 on Hall of Famers individually, but Christian Leitner 521 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:36,960 didn't make the Hall of Fame individually. 522 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,480 He's the only player on the dream team not to be in the Hall of Fame. 523 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:40,480 It should have been Shaq. 524 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,800 Neither he nor they are. 525 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,800 So on and so forth, the tradition carried. 526 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,600 There's always usually an incoming freshman. 527 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,520 Like I said, Christian Leitner was on the dream team. 528 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:58,960 Anthony Davis was on the 2012, not the dream team part two, they were on the 2012 Redeen 529 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:06,400 team or the 2012 team was their name for it. 530 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,720 That was Anthony Davis on that team. 531 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:14,560 That is traditionally kind of as a pay homage to the amateurism days. 532 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,720 That's what the tradition was. 533 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:23,840 With Kayla Clark, many people assumed since she was at Iowa when this topic first came 534 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:27,680 up, she was a shoe in for the Olympic team. 535 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,640 And even to the point where it's like people thought she was going to tear up the WNBA 536 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,200 a lot more than she is. 537 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:38,280 People just knew she was a shoe in for the Olympic team. 538 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,200 They thought that of course she'd be on the team. 539 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,320 Like who else would be on the team like Asia Wilson, Kayla Clark. 540 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,280 Thought those two names were going to be on the team. 541 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,560 Clark due to her ability and her fan base. 542 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:56,800 Even people like Colin Carhart said, wow, major gaffe basically by the female Olympic 543 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:01,200 team, by the female Olympic committee for not putting Kayla Clark on if for no other 544 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:02,720 reason than the ratings. 545 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:08,440 Because you knew that if she was on the team and she played five minutes, they were going 546 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:14,320 to rate out the roof because everybody was going to watch just to watch her play. 547 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:15,320 Right? 548 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,640 Good, bad, ugly and different. 549 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:18,640 She's a lightning rod. 550 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:23,160 Her like they said millions of fans were going to tune in for the sole purpose of watching 551 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:24,160 her play. 552 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,200 But she didn't make it. 553 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:33,800 Most people are pointing to Diana Taurasi as the spot that Caitlin should have had. 554 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:35,400 Diana's numbers admittedly aren't all that impressive. 555 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:39,920 We talked about last episode, she's averaging or talk about my YouTube show, which will 556 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,040 also be out when you guys hear this today. 557 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,160 So we'll have back to back YouTube stuff. 558 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:49,040 We talked about on the YouTube show as well. 559 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:53,800 But Diana Taurasi admittedly is having a not as productive year. 560 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,720 She's averaging 16, four and one with a half the steel. 561 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:02,920 Caitlin Clark's averaging is basically 17, five, six with a steel and a half. 562 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:10,880 Diana Taurasi is shooting 37% from the field, including 36 from three. 563 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:15,120 84, 85 free throw line with 1.4 turnovers. 564 00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:21,560 Caitlin Clark is shooting 37% from the field, 32% from three with 5.6 turnovers. 565 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,240 She's more of a turnover machine. 566 00:34:24,240 --> 00:34:26,120 Efficiency wise, they're about the same. 567 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:31,360 Caitlin's doing a little bit more in terms of rebounding and assists. 568 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,240 So that's the spot most people are pointing at. 569 00:34:34,240 --> 00:34:37,760 Caitlin Clark should have been on inside Diana Taurasi. 570 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:41,320 I say if they're the spot, it's Chelsea Gray. 571 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:48,320 Chelsea Gray has not played all season and she has a spot. 572 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:54,360 If you were going to point to a spot that's open, it would be Chelsea Gray. 573 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:59,240 Because again, in 2024, she has not played due to a lower leg injury. 574 00:34:59,240 --> 00:35:02,360 So she still ultimately may not go. 575 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:06,280 And again, if there's a spot to complain about, it's Chelsea Gray, who hasn't played 576 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:07,860 all season. 577 00:35:07,860 --> 00:35:14,080 But a lot of this, before I get into the other thing, there is a guard who was snubbed though. 578 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:20,600 Well, let's say that my original point is a lot of this was decided in the training 579 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:24,200 camp that Caitlin Clark herself said she wasn't going to. 580 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,920 Because it fell on the same timeframe of the Final Four. 581 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:31,440 She said when they were in Elite Eight, when she was named to the training camp roster, 582 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:36,040 she was given an invite basically to Team USA camp, which the men's side didn't have 583 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:37,040 this year. 584 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:38,840 Strangely, they just kind of picked 12 people. 585 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:43,240 And Kyrie spoke about that like, no, you used to have to go to the camp and earn your spot. 586 00:35:43,240 --> 00:35:45,440 Or at least show up. 587 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,160 They just picked 12 guys this year for the men's Olympic team. 588 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,240 So hey, maybe that's the new wave. 589 00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:52,680 But the female side still had the camp. 590 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,960 And it was during the time of the Final Four. 591 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:57,360 The days weren't exact. 592 00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:02,000 But I think it was like, if the Final Four game was on a Thursday, the Team USA camp 593 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,480 was like Friday and Saturday, or Saturday and Sunday. 594 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,920 And then the Final Four was on Monday, whatever. 595 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,720 Whatever the case was, it fell around the same time period. 596 00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:12,920 Caitlin said, I'm not going to go. 597 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:18,320 Because again, it falls in the same time period as the Final Four. 598 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,960 You know, I'm going to do the Final Four. 599 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,440 Hey, no harm, no foul, right? 600 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,240 But it's kind of hard. 601 00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:35,040 It's a little hard for you to then go overweight this person on the team. 602 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:39,360 It's like not going to an interview, expecting to get the job. 603 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,960 That's not how it works. 604 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:43,240 It's not going to happen that way, right? 605 00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:46,360 Especially with the level of talent in the world. 606 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,560 Luca doesn't have to go to Iowa for Slovenia. 607 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,040 Who else would be on the team? 608 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:54,960 Caitlin has a lot of people in front of her that could be on the team. 609 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:56,680 And so she didn't go to Team USA camp. 610 00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,080 She hadn't really spoken about it. 611 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,600 Obviously she didn't make a backdoor deal. 612 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,160 She's not on the team. 613 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:03,360 Sucks. 614 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,360 But there is a person in the WNBA who has a gripe. 615 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:07,800 A guard. 616 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:12,160 Who has a gripe for not being on Team USA. 617 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:13,800 And it is not Caitlin Clark. 618 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,280 It is Erika Gumbuale. 619 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:17,280 She has a case. 620 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:25,080 And I think if Jackie Young doesn't go, I'm hoping. 621 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:32,240 I'm hoping that Team USA doesn't just capitulate to the fans and say give Caitlin Clark Chelsea 622 00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:33,800 Gray's injury spot. 623 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,480 Because Caitlin's already said it's something for her to work for. 624 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,920 She's also in the position. 625 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:39,920 She'll say no. 626 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,280 Like I don't want to like, no, I want to earn it. 627 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:43,520 I want to just give it to me. 628 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:44,600 So she might say no. 629 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,960 But I'm hoping that they don't offer it to her if Chelsea Gray can't go. 630 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,600 Because again, she hasn't played all season. 631 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,560 So if she can't go, I'm hoping they don't just offer it to her. 632 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:59,200 Almost like I said, it's a capitulation to the fans. 633 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,120 Because the person who should have had that spot to Erika Gumbuale. 634 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:09,560 And remember, Caitlin Clark's numbers, 17, 5, 6, and 1 and 1 half steals. 635 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:19,400 Erika Gumbuale is averaging 27, 4 rebounds, 5 assists, and getting 3.1 steals a game. 636 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:25,400 Shooting about the same in terms of percentages, 36 and 30 instead of 35 and 28. 637 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:29,000 She's shooting 95% from the free throw line. 638 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:30,000 Turnovers are up. 639 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,160 She's got the high uses this year. 640 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,480 But yeah, that's who has the case. 641 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,000 The case is Erika Gumbuale. 642 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:42,800 So if there is a person that is going to get that spot, like I said, Chelsea Gray, I think 643 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,920 get the spot that may come available due to injury. 644 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:53,880 I think it should be, correction, I know it should be Erika Gumbuale, not Caitlin Clark. 645 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,520 But that is all I have for you guys today. 646 00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:58,680 I hope you guys enjoyed this show. 647 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:05,160 Again, the goal is to do, sorry, we are going to do an audio show after every single NBA 648 00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,760 Finals game. 649 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,960 The plan is to have a couple of YouTube shows during the Finals as well. 650 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:11,960 And then it'll be a break. 651 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:13,720 We'll talk about that later. 652 00:39:13,720 --> 00:39:21,560 But we'll have an audio show from me the day after every Finals game. 653 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,480 Instant reactions to it. 654 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:27,640 And then of course we'll have our summer break after the Finals. 655 00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:29,080 But that is all I have for you guys today. 656 00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,400 Don't forget to like, rate and subscribe to the podcast wherever you get your podcasts. 657 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:36,520 And don't forget to follow at JTimesports for your breaking news and updates. 658 00:39:36,520 --> 00:40:04,880 As always, this is your host, Justin Jackson, signing out.