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00:00How do you think these 7-8s are going to go on Tuesday?
00:04Just as far as the Clippers are concerned, I agree with you, Scott.
00:06I've been talking a lot about them lately.
00:08The numbers are starting to come down a little bit.
00:10It's unfortunate.
00:11We could have got 20-1 a couple of days ago,
00:13but now that they've avoided the play and has fallen to 14-1.
00:17Listen, Oklahoma City, very good basketball team, younger team.
00:22They're not just SGA, but I think SGA is going to have a hard time
00:25carrying them through three playoff series against these heavyweights.
00:30In the NBA playoffs, and there's no value with them at minus 140 to win the West.
00:34Lakers are good.
00:35Let's be real.
00:35The Lakers are dangerous, but the Lakers have their flaws as well, Scott.
00:40They're plus 550.
00:41Warriors are plus 750 to win the West.
00:44The Nuggets are 10-1.
00:45Where I'm going with this is, I love this Clipper team.
00:47As you stated, Scott, Kawhi Leonard is healthy right now.
00:50James Harden, crazy to say this,
00:52but James Harden is probably the most underrated player in the league right now.
00:55The mad ass.
00:56Yeah, seriously, Scott.
00:58For a guy who's been around forever, oh, Harden, this.
01:00Yeah, people aren't paying attention.
01:01This guy's been playing awesome basketball for the Clippers, guys.
01:05When everyone's out, he carries the team.
01:07When everyone's in, he plays with them.
01:09Like, you can't criticize the guy.
01:11The guy's playing amazing basketball with the Clippers.
01:13Norman Powell's an assassin now.
01:16When he's healthy, he's out there.
01:17This guy does.
01:18He used to tease us with the Raptors, Scott.
01:21I always knew.
01:22I said earlier, young in his career, I said, this guy could be DeMar DeRozan.
01:26People are like, oh, no, he's not as talented as DeMar DeRozan.
01:28I said, he could be DeMar DeRozan.
01:30Right?
01:30He could score 20, 25 a night in the NBA.
01:32Norman Powell.
01:33He could.
01:34Earlier in his career, you know, he didn't.
01:36Yeah, and now he does.
01:37But, like, took him years to get there.
01:40But it got there for him.
01:42Right.
01:42Dude, you got Zubac.
01:43You got a great coach in Lube.
01:45They play defense.
01:46They got all kinds of ballers.
01:49They play defense, guys.
01:50And I love what Kawhi said.
01:51Because when Kawhi got there originally, I remember he got mad once.
01:55And he told him, you don't just flick the switch, guys, in the playoffs.
01:58He goes, it starts in practices.
02:00Like, you got really, like, you guys just don't know how to win, do you?
02:04And I saw Kawhi yesterday after the game going, he goes, for the last five,
02:08six weeks, we've been dialed in like a playoff team.
02:10We're ready to go.
02:12And Kawhi doesn't, like, you know what I mean?
02:13He doesn't talk much.
02:14But you just feel it.
02:15Like, he was like, this is a team.
02:18His game is so pure.
02:19When he's healthy, he's so good.
02:21I think they're going to be tough.
02:22They got such tough matchups, though.
02:24They got to go through everybody.
02:25That 4-5 is always so difficult, Scott.
02:28I think they can get it done against the Nugs.
02:29But remember last week I told you when they fired Malone,
02:32I didn't have a problem with it.
02:34I said they were going to fire him anyways,
02:36and they knew they were going to fire him,
02:38short of them winning the title.
02:39And I don't think they thought they were going to win the title.
02:41But they actually have gotten that little shot in the arm, right?
02:44You know, they have.
02:45You're right.
02:45There was friction there.
02:47Like, they are happier now going in, and they openly talk about it.
02:51Like, you know what I mean?
02:52They're open about, yeah, you know what?
02:54We feel good about it.
02:55I think it helps that that kid was around his dad for his whole life,
02:58and his dad was a real pro basketball coach.
03:02He's just kicking back.
03:03Jokic is taking over the huddle, Scott.
03:05You see Jokic busting off the board.
03:07Give him the reins.
03:08Yeah, it's like, Nicola, you want to talk to the team?
03:11You talk to the team.
03:11You want the board?
03:12You take the board.
03:13Exactly.
03:13Keep your player happy.
03:15Keep your stars happy going into the playoffs here.
03:17Hell of a matchup against the Clippers.
03:19So I love this Clipper team.
03:20But, man, what a tough matchup against Denver.
03:22But I think they can get it done, Scott, as plus-140 series underdogs.
03:26I think it's going to be amazing.
03:27So you still haven't told me.
03:29Who do you like?
03:29So tomorrow.
03:30Hawks, Magic, and Grizzlies, and Warriors.
03:33You know what?
03:33I'm going to go with the home teams here tomorrow.
03:37I'm not in love with the five, but you know what?
03:40That 217 feels a little light to me, actually.
03:42I think Atlanta and Orlando can get there.
03:44But I'll lay the five.
03:45I like Orlando to win, Scott.
03:46And I'm not a big Grizzly guy.
03:49I think it's going to implode on them.
03:51Like you, I'm sick of John Moran.
03:53I want to like the kid.
03:54The kid's, like, perpetually 16 years old, bro.
03:56Like, you're not in a two-pack video, John.
03:59Like, you know what I mean?
04:00You're not a gangster.
04:00You're an NBA player.
04:02Like, live your own life, bro.
04:03Stop trying to be something you're not.
04:05It just gets tiresome and annoying.
04:08And, you know, you got playoff Jimmy coming up here right now.
04:10The Warriors are another tough one, Scott.
04:12They're not going to be an easy out in the playoffs.
04:13You're not going to be an easy out in the playoffs.
04:14You're not going to be an easy out in the playoffs.
04:15You're not going to be an easy out in the playoffs.
04:16You're not going to be an easy out in the playoffs.
04:17You're not going to be an easy out in the playoffs.
04:18You're not going to be an easy out in the playoffs.
04:19You're not going to be an easy out in the playoffs.
04:20You're not going to be an easy out in the playoffs.
04:21You're not going to be an easy out in the playoffs.
04:22You're not going to be an easy out in the playoffs.
04:23You're not going to be an easy out in the playoffs.
04:24You're not going to be an easy out in the playoffs.
04:25You're not going to be an easy out in the playoffs.