What happened with Kevin Durant?

If you're aware, I don't know if you're aware, uh, Hurricanes, uh, won last night in overtime, ended the series. I know Brendan Whitted is aware because I saw him tweeted. Yeah.

He tweeted about it. Yes. Yes. Yes.

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I'd say it's still one of my favorite bits in the history of Saturday Night Live. All right. So I have a question for you.

Yes, sir. If in a game of consequence where you lose and your season ends and you're at home and in two consecutive years, it is over before we get to the second half, what are we doing? Uh, LA I thought last year was bad. They were, the Phoenix Suns were down 57 27 at the half at home in game seven to the Dallas Mavericks. This time they allowed 81 one first half point 57 27 is bad. It ain't as bad as 81 51.

And I don't even think it's close. What do you say about that? Uh, well, obviously no Paul, no aid, like they're down, right? Like they, they, they didn't have all, all their horses. They had jock Landale kidding, but no, but it's a team that was built like the two games that they wanted that series book in direct average, like 80 points behind to get like, that's not sustainable. It's just not a sustainable model.

That's not sustainable model. And I, I was like, I was impressed by books run. He had a great run, was the best player in the playoffs, but like, it can't just be him. Yeah. Like there's, there was no counter. There's, there's no counter. And that's the thing. Like we've seen counters for even from great teams, go to state, their counter is, Hey, we're going to put a step more in the pick and roll.

Uh, we'll, we'll only have, we'll, we'll, we'll separate out the minutes for loony and, and Draymond. So again, more shooters on the floor, like there has to be a counter. There's no counter to like, Hey, y'all have to be great all the time.

And that was that I, that it just wasn't, it wasn't the same. Right. But it still doesn't explain 81 points. They like, yeah, they scored 51. Like if you score 51 and a half, all right, you might not be winning, but okay.

You'll probably be within 10 or 15, 30 down. I just can't fathom. Yeah. It's weird that that's happened twice.

Right. That's weird. Like that's an anomaly.

We don't, we don't really associate great players with having that sort of a performance. And books been on the tail of that twice. I, I don't want to, I can't, I'm not making leaps about him or anything like that, but it's, it's weird though. It is like, I just remember watching the giant black. It's weird that it's happened twice.

Like this is kind of at home. Yeah. Like I think Monty Williams is a good coach at some point that comes back to him though.

Doesn't it? Let me, let me, let me say this, right? I hope Phoenix does nothing with him.

Let him coach. I'll say this. And I don't, for one, the ownership change at that was something, right? Like your, your owner changing in the way that it did. Right.

Like that's, that's important. But I also, and I thought about this with Aten for a while, cause Aten didn't really look like himself even when he was playing. And we all know they were kind of playing in his face a little bit with his money, right? Like you, you, you, you, you decided to like not resign him and just like wait until someone else at the last minute was going, okay, we'll make a free, the Pacers make this offer.

Everyone knows they're going to match it, but they didn't, weren't, weren't active about that. And like, he didn't look like himself. And now maybe, maybe that's going to be hurt. I don't know. But I would, I did wonder like, you don't like, cause he was a, he was a force for them when they made that run to the five, like he was a force. And then this year it just kind of felt like he was, it was kind of like, and then it did feel a little bit, one, two, three, Cancun by half time. I'm sorry.

That's great. Phoenix's big mistake was not signing him first and then including him in the deal to the nets for Durant. Cause essentially he was on the training block, right? The reason they didn't want to resign him is because once they resigned him, they wouldn't be able to make these moves and do these things.

So essentially what you're saying to me is if you're, if you're eight and you're like, okay, well, you want to make a move with me as a trading piece. And he sat there for like a year and change. And like, that's not how you really treat like a foundational player, right?

Like that's but he's not a foundational player. We will agree. Correct. The new Chevy Silverado HD puts you in command own strength with its enhanced available Duramax 6.6 liter turbo diesel V8 on the lake with its available advanced towing technology and own technology with an available 13.4 inch diagonal touch screen. The new Chevy Silverado HD own work own play own life. Learn more at chevy.com.

Find new roads, Chevrolet. Okay. Okay. I mean, no, I mean, they don't think so. Like the more we think, right.

They didn't think so. I agree with you. I agree with them then. I don't think he's a foundational piece.

But that's, I mean, my standards for that are probably solidly higher. So, so, so the thing is, like, it worked with when they had Chris Paul playing at Chris Paul levels, right? Because essentially what he, what he operated out of in that office was off of the pick and roll. But if you got Devin and, and, and KD as the only ball handlers, those are scores. I know that definitely, like, I think he averaged like six or seven assists a game for the, but like, he's not, that's not what his does. He's a scorer. And so if you have somebody that only operates off of getting fed and you have two scorers that are doing the predominantly the ball handling, everyone else gets affected.

It worked for him when it was Johnson and bridge and Crowder. And it's just, Oh, those guys are just going to be spaced. They're they're just, they're just going to take up space. They're going to be shooters.

Three of these guys doesn't work so well when book and KV are now doing all the volume. Yeah. And also the new owner didn't draw a charge last night. That hurt. That was fantastic though. I got it. I got it. Gosh, what an embarrassing flop. I was like, well, good.

Brendan, what it is with us here. As we talk a little NBA playoffs about tonight game, what game six in LA warriors and Lakers. This is my read on this is to me, if you, if the warriors are going to win in LA, this is the way it has to be. Don't let Reeves, D'Angelo, Russell, don't let those guys get theirs because if they get theirs, then LeBron and AD, they don't have to get too much offensively because to me, the trick about the Lakers has been those two guys on the defensive end. And if they can expend all of their energy defensively and get whatever there is left over offensively, that's when the Lakers have you it's when the other guys get scoring. So if I'm the warriors, those are the guys I am not going to let beat me. How about this game six at home up three, two before, and if you lose, you, you, you go to game seven in, in, in the other place.

Yeah. Slippery slope game. There it is.

It's a slippery slope game. Cause I don't think, I don't think they win in, uh, uh, in golden state. If they lose this game, bet against, bet against LeBron at your own peril.

Well, we haven't seen that LeBron. That's the thing. He's saving it yet. He's been saving it.

Today will be a fantastic day, by the way, by the way, it will be a fantastic day to, to, to, to pull that out. He can't do it the same way he did all the time. Right? Like as we get older, I mean, no, this is in particular, I can't do it on that.

Like you used to, you know, I give you solid 15. They have, they have pills for that. They do. I've heard they have pills for that. So, but I'm not sure that he could get away with it.

That's your new ad spot. So, but here's the thing. I think I'm not sure LeBron really has more than a couple of those and he'll need them in. We're just in the conference semi-final. We, we're not even the halfway mark yet. So I think he's trying to conserve whatever he can as we go further.

He'll pull it out in game seven, pardon that, if he has to. I've lost control of this. So now you're making me laugh here. Now you're making me laugh. You're supposed to react that way.

So, so I think it's there. And I think if it comes down to game seven, I think if the Lakers can play that way, but I do think that if the Warriors, they've got to, they can't let those other guys go nuts. I, and I actually think they should be using more of Kevin Looney than, than like, how do you go, how do you go through the first series getting 23 rebounds in a game? Like you had 20 rebounds three times in the last series in the win over Sacramento.

How do you do that? And now you're barely playing. I don't even understand. Conversation is Draymond Green's offensive regression, right? So at the end of the game four where they're running that hammer play, it's a fake dribble handoff and he, and he goes downhill and no one reacted.

Like you got six one Schroeder on you. You're going like you have, there was Mooney in the strong side corner. You have Wiggins and clay running their action off ball to the, you know, the screen to get clay free. Lebron sniffs it out completely. He knew the place. He called it out. He knew it. He could, he knew, he knew a cult switched this and then Wiggins tries to dive. The second option on that play is Wiggins dive into the cup. Like, no, nah, bro.

Cause you can tell where he's like, he puts his arm around him and he tries to move him. I mean, that's what happens when you're dealing with a PhD. But no one reacts to green going downhill because everyone knows he's not going to shoot. That's the problem. Like you like that's, that's an issue. Like, I know he's going to be a free agent next summer.

Like, Oh yeah, this is like, that's a problem. He's not in offensively. This was a dude that do a 30 burger with a triple double in game seven of that series that they lost to Cleveland. He was that sort of offensive player. And he's just a show of himself now.

It's not the same. I got, we have like a minute left, so we'll just, this will give the East their due. The Knicks heat series is over tonight. Jalen Brunson had to play 48 minutes for them to win game, what, five at home.

They're going to lose tonight in Miami. Yes. Yeah. You mentioned Monty Williams by the way, it might be time for Tom Thibodeau. Like Tom Thibodeau did his job. He got them, he made the Knicks credible again.

So yeah, now Tom Thibodeau can go. And do you like Philly or Boston in Boston in game seven? I love it so much. Tatum, Embiid, Harden, Brown, all of it. Like give me all of it.

Hook it to my veins. I think the 76ers are going to win. I like, I think they've been, they've been better than I thought they were going to be.

They got too hard in games. They need an Embiid game. They need one just stellar performance from your MVP. I wish they would have won it last night, but I think, I think it's going to, I think, I think Philly wins.

I think Philly's the tougher team. Tatum was over 10 in the first half and scored 16 points in the fourth quarter. Like he was over 10. At least, at least he was still shooting.

At least he was still shooting. Brendan Whitted at HU, at HU Cocells. The new Chevy Silverado HD puts you in command. Own strength with its enhanced available Duramax 6.6 liter turbo diesel V8. Own the lake with its available advanced towing technology. And own technology with an available 13.4 inch diagonal touchscreen. The new Chevy Silverado HD. Own work, own play, own life. Learn more at chevy.com. Find new roads. Chevrolet.