The Rich Eisen Show Basketball Podcast #26. Celtics-Warriors NBA Finals Game 3, Klay vs. Fans, Predictions

Hey, what's up everybody? Brockman here.

It's the Rich Eisen Show Basketball Podcast. It's June the 9th. Nice. And I'm here with Adam and TJ. What's up fellas? It took me a second to get that.

Oh, like 6-9. I get it. That's what you're saying.

We're all adults here. What's up everybody? Yo, game three last night at the NBA Finals. Chris, you have the biggest shooting dream right now. Unbelievable. Did you guys watch the game last night? I knew there was a game on. Hey, did you watch the game last night? You heard about it? You heard what happened? Adam, why are you cussing on the pod though? Who won that?

We can cuss occasionally. What's up? Yeah, I'm riding pretty high.

Last night was awesome. Warriors did their third quarter thing again. I don't know why this keeps happening. Boston just forgets how to play basketball in the third quarter. Yeah, what is it with that? I don't really understand. Let's touch that later on when they're up.

Keep going. I honestly had no idea, but then the Celtics did their fourth quarter thing, which is absolutely dominate, lock down defense, hit some threes and put this game away. I mean, they were up comfortably pretty much the whole game until the Warriors went on their third quarter one, erased an 18 point deficit, took a brief one point lead before Boston kind of regrouped and ended that third quarter with a few buckets and a couple free throws and was able to kind of withstand.

It's funny, I followed Jamal Crawford on Twitter and he was talking about how the response is to the response. That's what's going to decide this game. So Boston was comfortably ahead and you knew a warrior response was coming, right? They were going to get it together. They were going to do one of those psycho eight points and 30 second run can never know lead safe with these guys. Really?

No lead is safe. They can score 10 points like that. They had that controversial seven point possession midway through the third quarter on the Al Horford foul and then got a crazy desperation bucket by Otto Porter and then suddenly they're winning.

And then the response to the response in Boston was able to respond. They didn't wilt under that, you know, the cave, the avalanche of points that the Warriors threw on him. And then they took it in the fourth quarter and it was a pretty comfortable win thereafter. Golden State waved the white flag with about two minutes left and Boston went by 16. How did you guys see last night go? Do you think it's over? Do you think we come back to Boston?

What would you guys think of last night, Adam? So as you know, I've been underestimating the Celtics the entire every step of the way, every single round, every single step of the way I have been doubting this team and I will admit I have been wrong and I am wrong right now. I predicted the Warriors at the start of the series to win into me. Clearly it looks right now that the Celtics are the better team. They just are a better team. Their defense is amazing. So I haven't seen great defense like this that I can remember from, from an Eastern conference team really since, since those early Detroit, early 2000 piston teams.

That's what this reminds me of. This team has a bunch of dogs on that roster. Yeah. That team had, had great defensive players at every position. And this team is similar to that where you have smart, who's a great defender at guard. Jalen Brown was defending his butt off last night. He was, he made Seth Curry scored a bunch of points, but he made him work for it. Yeah.

They were really hard to come by. He made him work for it. And then of course you have Robert Williams, who's just the force in the paint. So this Celtics team, and then you have Horford, you have so much depth. The defense is just amazing.

It's just better than I even thought it would ever be. And to me right now, they have to be the favorites going forward. This team just is firing on all cylinders.

They believe in their coach, their coach believes in them, but here's the thing. Golden state will give them everything. Oh, they're not just going to roll.

They're not going to roll over game. Game four is going to be a fight for the Celtics because golden say is in desperation mode. At this point, if they're down three to one, it's pretty much over. So the real test will be Friday. That's going to be the real test for the series.

Yeah. TJ, what'd you think last night? I just felt like right now it would be easy to say that this series is kind of over based upon what we saw last night. But like you just said, Adam and Chris earlier, no lead is safe with Golden State and no game is safe. Like so right now, if I were to, I don't know, lose Internet connection and go to a deserted island for like a week and I come back and the first thing I asked was like, who won the NBA title?

Either answer you give me is not going to be a surprise at this point. But I'll say this holding Golden State and I realized the game got out of hand near the end of it, but holding them to only 11 points in the fourth quarter, it was definitely like Golden State kind of got to the point where they knew early that, all right, this game's over. We got no chance to win, especially Steph goes down, Horford lands on them. And I think at that point they kind of just took out the white flag and just wove and started to wave it because almost like they kind of exhausted all their energy to get back in the game.

You know, you said no lead is too safe. It was 18 points and it easily could have went to 30. But it went in the other direction where they just bang, bang, bang. All of a sudden it was like three straight threes, a couple free throws. And you're like, man, it's a six point game. Oh, my God, they have the lead.

What just happened? And also, you know, look, 31 out of Steph, 25 out of Clay, she's talking 56 points there, plus another 20 or 18 out of Wiggins. You would assume that Golden State is going to win a game like that all day every day.

And it didn't happen. And I feel like Golden State is getting more lip from Draymond Green right now than anything else. It's just like the amount of arguing and complaining that Draymond does. And I realize, like, what he does for the team usually and understand that that's how he becomes fiery and gets his team up. But you have to also kind of look at this from a human aspect. Like, if you're a ref and you're constantly getting chewed out by this one guy, no matter what anyone tells you, when the time comes to blow the whistle and there might be a 50 50 as a ref after this guy keeps mouthing off, there's a chance that maybe you're going to like call the game a little bit different for the Celtics. Now, you know, it's just kind of like a thought of mine, and I'm not sure it's really how the refs work, but I think we three of us can kind of agree that, yeah, human nature would tell you that, like, if you're just going to keep trash talking me, if there's like a call that could go either way, you're not going to get it from me. And I don't know if Draymond's antics are helping his team at this point, because when you put up two and four and three and you're the loudest person on the court and you foul out and you foul out, you know, but again, I understand how good Draymond is. I understand how important he is to this team and his offense. But man, just, you know, other thing ESPN is getting into this thing with the JJ and Stephen about, you know, eighties, nineties players who's tougher, who does more complaining, who's flopping this and that.

And, you know, I'll look back. JJ's trying to say that, you know, players, they get a bad rap, which they do a little bit, but I swear, man, I don't ever recall like Michael Jordan just straight up either flopping or straight up just yelling and complaining and arguing the entire Rashid Wallace was one of the most boisterous players of all time. Draymond makes him look like a mute.

Like, so I don't really get to me. I understand that, you know, you're trying to sell a call, you know, a guy got your back in and in the post and you want to try to get a foul, especially if maybe he has three or four fouls or you're trying to get that second foul early. But what really gets me is the complaining after calls. Luca does it all the time. Jason Tatum does it. It's the thing I kind of hate most about Tatum's game. He doesn't really get respect at the rim.

He doesn't really get any calls. I complained about that on Twitter, like this guy's first team all NBA and he can't get an end one to save his life. It's ridiculous.

Looking for every single like every time he misses a shot, he's kind of doing this and looking at it. That drives me insane. I hate that Chris and Luca, too, and two of my favorite players, you know, in the game right now. And Chris, not to know, did they do that in the 80s and 90s? I was like Larry Bird complaining.

I don't remember that. You can even look at the great some of the two of the greatest players that we've ever seen. Kobe, Tim Duncan. Apparently, according to those two, they never committed a foul in their 40 plus years. Tim Duncan always had to look like always had to look like what, you know, Lob City Clippers.

That was my one thing about Blake Griffin. I was like, please, bro, you got to stop with the complaint because the amount of time you take the complaint, guess what? The other teams run in the break and your man's leading that break. Now we've given up an easy to all the time. I guess the strategy strategy can pay off or it can be horribly wrong for the player who does it, because eventually if you can if you complain a little, maybe they'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Too much doing it. If you keep doing it, then eventually they will get annoyed and they'll say, yeah, I'm not listening to you anymore.

And actually, I'm gonna go against you because you're bothering me. Exactly what I just say. Like I just I get amazed. Like I see guys getting ticked up and we do all the time for like dumb stuff. Then you got this guy whose mouth literally never shuts and he's always like two feet from the ref and he's always yelling and I'm like, how does this guy not getting ousted out of this game? And I guess in the point I'm glad because, you know, you really, really should have to do something bad to get tossed out of a game.

But at the same point, it's like, dude, you're not helping yourself. I was actually bummed that he fouled out because, you know, as a Celtics fan, him being on the court is good for my team. He's been so terrible.

We were talking about this earlier. I want to bring this up from Stat News. So so far, Draymond Green in this finals, he has as many files as points. He has more technical files than three pointers. He has more turnovers than baskets.

So those stats are mind blowing. I need him to stay on the floor. Yeah, I need him out there. And we've talked about that, that he's regressed as a player in terms of his offense. If you remember those finals against Cleveland four or five, six years ago, he would hit threes.

He would hit shots. He doesn't even look for a shot anymore. He's so unconfident in the shot right now. And it's so smart of Boston just to leave him wide open and oh, man, just the disrespect.

They're showing his game. You know, guys are 10, 12 feet off of him. Just do whatever you want. You're not going to get a dunk. You're not going to get a layup.

But if you want to shoot a jumper, be my guest by all means. Yeah, it's funny. He's only 32 years old. I always think of him as maybe an older player, but his offense is just completely left his game.

It's really interesting to see the development. Well, I mean, also, I remember Draymond never was really an offensive force. He was better back in the day, but like his his game is more about like the offense running through him, his defense. Remember, he he's going to be an all of them because he was a lockdown defender, not because he was a great scorer. He was a great facilitator.

But like, you're not seeing that stuff either. So, Adam, you know, to Adam's point during the run there, he averaged 12, 14, 10, 11. You know, he was getting points and he could score. Yeah, but that's not a great score. But it's better than scoring like two points. But I'm saying like Draymond Green was never on the court because he was a scorer.

You might get a random but but like I'm saying 10, 12, that's about as great as you were going to get at him. It was everything else that he brought to the game, which made him elite at what he did and nothing. None of that's being shown now. He's got, what, 15 points in three games, I think. Yeah. Yeah.

He found out. I mean, he was terrible. He was, you know, but obviously they need him to produce.

Yeah. Be a factor if they're going to get back. They've got if you get two more Draymond Green games like this and the season's over, he's got to step up.

He's got to be the force. And again, we're not looking for a 20 point Draymond Green game. That's not what you need. But yeah, Adam, 12, 15.

You're right. He needs, you know, 10 rebounds, you know, six to 10 assists. He he's got to plug in the gaps everywhere else and that's just not what he's been doing this whole series. You guys think Jason Tatum is injured because he was doing that thing again at the beginning of the game last night where he was kind of holding his shoulder. He's definitely like game three against Miami with this. They just called a stinger. Yeah.

Well, Mr. Miyagi had to come out and do his work to get the thing is working again. He'll shoot something and look way off of like, man, his shoulders got to be messed up and then he'll shoot on that. You know, I mean, I'll get to the lane.

I'll take a hit. I think it's yeah, I'm just wondering if what's going to come out after the finals? Like, did he dislocate it and they popped it back into place? Is it, you know, does he have a stinger?

Is it a deep bone? Something's definitely there's something wrong. There's something wrong for sure.

We'll find out more after the season's over. But the fact that he's playing through this shows that he's a tough competitor, that there's obviously something wrong. But occasionally, you know, he'll feel it. But then, like you said, he's still scoring, you know, 20, 30 points a game and in hitting big shots. So it doesn't seem to be affecting him that much, actually.

Yeah, it's kind of crazy. I mean, he's still averaging. He's still averaging 25 a game in the series. He's actually been a great distributor, 13 assists in Game one, nine assists in the win last night.

We just further see his maturation and kind of development as a superstar. But and like we pointed out last week or maybe it was on the big show in the last two series, he had bad, very bad game threes. He started off game one kind of bad. And we were like, well, maybe he got the bad game out of the way. It seems as though he did, because this game three was totally different. Remember, last two game threes, he had 20 points combined. So you know that this guy's just 28 and game 28 and game to 26, six and nine.

Nice. In game three last night. And when I was going to say, TJ, is that kind of the key for this Boston is Jalen Brown getting off to a hot start.

We saw it again last night. He had a great first quarter. He had a monster first half. And I kind of think if if we're looking at who's the MVP for Boston now through three games and a two one lead, I kind of think it's Jalen Brown.

What do you think about that, Adam? Yes, it's tough to say, but yeah, I'd probably go with Jalen Brown. Yeah, he's he's the ignition for that offense. He sets the tone. So everybody was saying, obviously, if Boston would win the series that it would be taken for MVP.

But yeah, I agree with you. I think it's Jalen Brown right now. He's been he's been incredibly important for that team.

And it feels like wherever he goes, they go. So if he doesn't have a good game, it's it's tough for them to win. So yeah, I'd say he's probably the MVP right now.

Yeah. And kind of to what Brian Windhorst said to just protecting the ball, the turnovers, you know, they got off to a slow start turnover wise last night. I think they had six in the first quarter and they finished with only 12 in the entire game, just one in the fourth, just protecting the basketball, too. And I don't know if you guys saw this stat, too, last night. ESPN stats and info had this one. Jalen Brown, Tatum and Marcus Smart first trio to each have twenty five and five in a finals game since Kareem Magic and Michael Cooper in 1984.

That's amazing. Yeah. So Boston's kind of doing it with their new big three, you know, and clearly also in this series, you have the two you have you have Jalen Brown and Tatum as the two stars and for the Warriors, I guess it'd be Stephen Clay. But the third guy, Marcus Smart is definitely out playing Jordan Poole right now.

Right. And Poole has not been good at all in the series. He's not playing that many minutes because they can't really have like three guards on the court at the same time because of Boston's lineup of death. They can't really do it. Boston's too long on the perimeter.

You know, all these guys are smart as six four. And that's something that I underestimated going into the series, how they couldn't really play that lineup because of how good Boston's defense is. Jordan Poole needs to break out at least score twenty five a twenty five point game game for or they're going to be in trouble. He he was so good in those first two series against Denver and Memphis and he's just kind of faded. And he's I think you have like 10 points last game. He's just hasn't yet 10 points in 17 9 0.

He's got to be scoring the 20s for them for them to win. And the other big thing that come out last night, T.J., let's talk about this for a little bit. Draymond mentioned it and then Clay talked about it to even Steve Kerr mentioned it as well. The Boston crowd. What do you guys think of the crowd last night? Them chanting F.U.

Draymond and all kinds of other stuff to play. Was that a big deal to you? How are you seeing that situation? See, I personally like yesterday I was I was watching a game in Santa Monica at Stella Bear with our with our buddy Ben Lyons. So we should have got him in here. Yeah, I think. Yeah, right. But I didn't think about that till just now. But so we don't hear the game because you're here in bar.

You're here in atmosphere. They've got the by the way, whoever deejays is still a bear, by the way. I mean, it's all hip, like 90s hip hop hits. It's it's amazing.

If you ever go there, you're just going to hire them for your wedding or bar mitzvah. I'm telling you. But so, yeah. So the whole crowd thing, I couldn't hear the game at all.

So I didn't know about any of this until late last night in this morning. So it's kind of hard for me to really say. But yeah, I mean, if I arena full of people are telling you to go after yourself. But again, sometimes certain people bring that upon themselves, too. So, you know, I guess for some people, it motivates and fuels them. For some people that can, you know, it'll shake you.

You'll get shook. So I guess it just depends on the player. But again, I can't really say last night in specific because all I could really hear was, you know, bar sounds. But do you think the Warriors just kind of bringing it up? Is that are they making excuses because they lost like if they had won the game? Do you think we would have heard, oh, the crowd was chatting F you at me, blah, blah, blah?

Yeah, I think you would have because then they would have flipped it into. Yeah, that motivated. Yeah, yeah, for sure. So, you know, maybe one of you guys because you actually got to hear the game and you what do you think? Could you pick up on the funny thing is I didn't never heard it either. I just because I was watching.

It was a superstition thing. I had it on the second TV on mute because I didn't want to hear. I really just didn't want to hear Jackson and Van Gundy. Honestly, I saw that Mike Breen was back. He had missed the first two games with covid. Happy that he was back on the call, but I honestly just didn't want to hear any of the BS during the broadcast. I just wanted to watch the game.

I've been there. So I had the Red Sox because they're playing Anaheim. So it was a late start by the Red Sox on the big TV. And I had the Celtics on this psychotic on the muted TV. That's absolutely insane, Chris.

Wow. I know Sarah was like, you don't want to put the Celtics on the big TV. I was like, no, I was like, we're playing. We're playing well. We're winning right now. I'll leave it on the little TV. I don't want to jinx it.

The superstition thing is fascinating. You think every little move actually matters. Not in my head. In reality, it matters. Yes.

Reality. It really. So, Adam, what did you think?

Is it a big deal? I love it when they started chanting and I love Draymond to begin with. But when they started chanting F you dream, it's awesome. This was audible.

You could pick this up. OK, got you. Yeah, you got it.

Definitely on the broadcast. It's fantastic. I think he's a full fledged heel. They're going against him. I just love it. It's there's something old school about it.

It's one of the NBA. Expect the game is starting at 9 p.m. on Boston. Those guys have been drinking since 11. Yeah, since 11 a.m. Nobody went to work.

If they went, they got out early and they started losing. If you watch Paul Pierce's Instagram walking through the streets of downtown Boston, everybody was drinking, chanting his name like I knew this was going to be a crazy shit face. It was amazing. I knew this is going to be a crazy spectacle.

You're in Boston, one of the biggest drinking cities in the world, starting at a game at 9 p.m. Of course, stuff's going to happen. And I love it, though. I think it adds to the drama. I think it's exciting.

I hope they swear to more and I hope Golden State comes back at them. By the way, it's fun. You thought Wednesday was bad. What do you think Friday is going to be like a Friday in Boston? Everyone's calling out sick. It's going to be even worse.

Nobody's nobody's working that it's going to be 20 times worse. And I love the Boston crowds. I think I think they have one of the best great energy. Yeah. One of the best home court advantages in the NBA, for sure.

And so, yeah, I think it's intriguing rather than watching this at whatever stadium where it's not as loud. And and it's. I know some people will be like, oh, you can't have the kids listening to this. It's like, grow up.

Your kids have been hearing swears since they were born. It was funny, like Draymond Green's wife. Did you see her? Her Instagram story has kind of been going around the Twitter. She wrote this big thing and a story complaining about it and specifically mentioned the kids.

And then Draymond, their son, was sitting next to him in the post game when he was like, oh, I played like S like, what are we doing? That's nonsense. Kids, kids have access to the Internet when they're seven. And we're scared that they're going to hear the word the F word. Oh, my God.

Oh, they can. I immediately thought of two things when I when I saw all of this kind of commotion because I was watching the post game and all those guys were talking about on the post game. I thought of a I thought of loser mentality. It's just something you say after a loss because you're you know, you're frustrated. Maybe you didn't play well.

You're disappointed. So you're just like, oh, well, this happened and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then and then I thought of this has been going on for such a long time. Remember when J.J. Redick was a duke?

Mm hmm. And they would go to Maryland. It was so loud. The F.U. J.J. during the ESPN broadcast, they like they couldn't do anything because if they tried to mute it, they would mute the mics of their broadcast.

Tufa would be having a panic attack in terms of the sound in the back. The F.U. J.J.'s during his era was so loud at NC State at Maryland. Like this has been going on for so long.

And we talked about in the big show today, like the F.U. Trays during last year's playoffs, like, you know, just Clay and Draymond don't really have the ability to shut them up kind of anymore. I mean, Clay had a really good game. I mean, Clay does. There's not much Drake can do. Like, he can't step back and hit a 35 footer like Clay can.

No. And so, you know, Trae Young kind of shut up the New York fan. So Mike, you know, Wilbon thinks that my bad. That's what you said. Dre and Clay, you said you're talking about Trey.

My bad. You know, Wilbon thinks the Golden State's going to win game four. I'm not really sure.

I have no idea. I was surprised that he said it. He still sees this as kind of an even series, which goes back to what you said, TJ, about if you were just to awake me in two weeks ago, who won the finals? Oh, so and so. So one in seven games.

OK, that sounds about right. Also, like we keep saying, though, with their pedigree, with their experience and with those shooters, I mean, you just no matter how bad Golden State plays in the game, the only thing that can truly stop them is an injury. And, you know, I don't know how you guys felt. But when Steph was laying on his back, I was. But I feel that way whether you're on my team or not. I hate to see anyone get hurt, but especially not like a goat.

So you're seeing him. He's just laying there and you're like, oh, man, as soon as you try to die for a ball, there's always that risk. There's all you cannot. It's almost not worth it at this point for somebody like him to die for a ball.

Yeah, but you can't. That's like Brockman's thing. Like, you can't die for the end zone, but it's just like and when in your mind, you're always taught to go one hundred ten percent and that because guess what happens?

You don't go for the ball. And then you've got a Cam Newton situation where 10 years later, people are still complaining that you didn't die for the ball and possibly pop your shoulder out, you know. So yeah. So you know, it's just you can't take that away from a competitor, especially if you've got that fire.

But like I said, if I've got Steph and I've got Clay, I'm never out of a game and I'm never out of a series. And I kind of feel like, yeah, they've won a road game in twenty four consecutive series. I don't see that changing. I feel like they're going to get one next game. Yeah. So Shams tweeted a couple hours ago that optimism for Curry status for Game four doesn't look like he needs an MRI avoided a major issue with his left foot.

So we'll see what the update is later today after they have practice. But yeah, that was really scary. Any time you see a kind of a pig pile like that and you know, these are big, huge guys and Steph's not a huge guy, you know, not a huge guy compared to them. Yeah.

But, you know, diving around like that and a guy who's kind of had an injury like that earlier this year, you know, smart, you know, quote, you know, air quotes, his Achilles heel are his ankles. So that's, you know, when that happens, you're kind of like, oh, man, because, you know, you just want to see both teams at equal strength. And that way there's no doubt. There's no question when this is all said and done. But Chris, be honest, when when that happened, you were actually praying for Steph Curry to be hurt.

Let's be real. No, I don't think so. I don't think so. I think at that point the game was kind of over. Right.

It was pretty it was kind of. Yeah. I think I was towards the end of the fourth quarter. Yeah. It was like a 10 point game at that point. No, I mean, Steph was awesome last night.

Yeah. I mean, I still can't believe that, you know, Boston is one of those switch everything on defense. I still can't believe we're going under screens on him and just kind of horrible and just giving him open threes like I'm not understanding that strategy. It's just because another mental thing, because I think every shot he takes is going in.

Yeah. Like every single one at the point now when he misses, I'm like, really? I'm like, wow, he missed. I'm shocked. But also you. Yeah, you probably should go under 99 percent of screens except for when it's that guy, except when number 30 has the ball.

Don't do it. And by the way, Clay hasn't played in three years and still doesn't look like himself. I still think every time he shoots the ball, it's going in. Like, why are we giving these guys open threes?

That's the only downside. The only criticism for Boston's defense is is just playing playing down on that on that pick and roll. If Horford and Williams can step up on that, then that's a huge, huge improvement. And I don't see how Boston Stevens could get any better if they do that. Yeah, that's that's the only weakness I've seen so far.

Yeah. And one positive, too, like when Boston kind of wins these games, they're making 18, 19, 20 threes. They're really out shooting the other team from outside. You know, last night, Golden State had more threes than Boston. They outshot them 15, 13, three point range going to claim Steph had 11 of those. But Boston was able to really play great defense. I mean, to hold the Warriors to 100 points. Yeah.

Geez, you'll take that every time, right? You do something drastic for the Warriors like play Kuminga more, maybe have him. I'm surprised. I'm surprised he didn't play my guarding Tatum or Brown for at least a certain amount of time. I don't understand that you got five or six, you know, got fouls. Use them, man. Like that guy.

That guy can play music. So you think the Warriors are that kind of we need to do whatever it takes? Yeah, I think it's gotten to that point where they need to do something to stop Brown and Tatum. And and I know Kuminga is young.

He's whatever, 19, 20 years old, but I think he's athletic enough where he can at least make it difficult for those guys. It's certain periods in the game. Well, be elites has been getting some minutes where he hasn't really played this whole postseason and he's played, you know, not much, but 10, 12 minutes. The last couple of I noticed Iguodala played the first game. Hasn't really played any at all.

So I don't know what the deal is with that. Peyton's a good defender. Did Peyton play last night? He played 25 last night.

I'm sorry. Not last night. You didn't play 25.

Check a game to play 25. He played 11 minutes last night. Otto Porter got more minutes than auto digits. Yeah, you got some run. Yeah. Kuminga needs to get in there. At least play 15 minutes a game.

So some for defensive purposes only I really believe that. All right. Prediction time. We're not by the time we're back on the air. So game four is Friday night in Boston. Game five Monday in San Francisco. We'll be back with you guys next Wednesday.

What is this series at when we return on this program in six days? Adam? Oh my God. Don't do this to me. This is this is why I don't bet Chris. No, no. I know why you don't bet. I am on a separate thread with you where we talk a lot about betting.

You are terrible. No, you have been wrong this whole NBA playoff guy who said that the Warriors would make the finals. It wasn't you guys.

That's true. But I call that from the start in there. Okay. You did call that. But every other series you were just I've been off in this playoffs way off.

All right. When we come back in six days, is it over? Or is it to two? Because that's only game five. But it could be over.

It could be. No, it's not over. There's I can't see Golden State losing the next two games in a row. I just can't see them losing in five games.

Man, I will say three to Boston or three to Golden State. Or is it over? Well, the question was, is the series still going on? The series is going on. All right.

Then that's going on. I'm going to say three to two Golden State or three to two Boston, three to two Boston, three to Boston, three to Boston going into the game six to Boston next week, going and going back to Boston for game six to call. Yeah, yeah. Man, I would love to be at that game.

T.J., what do you think? I mean, as far as who's up, I'm not sure. I definitely believe going into game six. I mean, obviously, series not going to be over. I guess six would be Thursday. Six would be Thursday.

Yes. So we talk will be will we be previewing game six in Boston? Well, we're definitely previewing game six. The series will not be over as to who will have the lead that who has a chance to close it out. And that I I'm really not sure, man.

I'm really not sure. But I do know that this ain't going to be over by the next time we speak, folks, that I'm getting convinced. But if I've got to say, then I'll say three to Boston heading into.

Game six, I kind of agree with you. Here's the question I have for both of you. Here's the question I have for both of you. If Boston wins game for Monday night is in San Francisco, do I go to the game on Monday? Yes. Do I make a baller trip up to the bay? Absolutely. Get a ticket for like 700 bucks. Day flight up. That's absolutely. You think so?

The thing is, I don't think he'll win. But you have to go. I have to just be in the building. You have to be in the building for a potential championship winning game and a 45 minute flight.

I know it'll be expensive, but I mean, it's so quick. People listening, if they don't really understand how quick the flight is to San Francisco, it's literally like an hour. It's an eight hour drive, though, right? The flight. But it's a one hour flight.

You could be back to work the next day. Oh, yeah. I mean, actually, I could literally just baller chip show ends. I fly up like John Salle. We're breaking news. John Salle is guest hosting on Monday because Rich has a graduation for Zander.

So John Salle is hosting on Monday with us. So it's like, do the show with Sally. Get off. Get all friggin hyped. Fly to San Francisco.

Go to the game. See, here's what you got to do. And we do the show with Sally. We talk him into getting the P.J. Oh, my God.

Fine up. That's how we do it. You're talking a long, long time. Sally, he's got that that 20 year NBA career money going on. You know what I'm saying?

So that's just something to think of. The move. We talk Sally and go into it. And then, by the way, then like Sally, he's got I got four four seats. You guys want to come?

Then suddenly we were sitting on the floor. Hey, you know what I say? I think we're over John Salle. But he played in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if he has private jet money. He's a great guy.

You better check the John Salle contract. You know what I say? It's all good when your feet are on the wood. So I'll take four. See, I don't care. I'd be in the building. A three one Monday. I baller trip to San Francisco. Absolutely. Yeah.

You get to go to. Have you ever been to a finals game before? Have I ever been to a finals game before?

No. I went to in 2018 when the Red Sox won the World Series. They wanted to hear in Dodger Stadium. I was at that game. So that was kind of the only championship thing that I've seen. I've been to NBA playoff games, not for not a final. I mean, I've been to Super Bowls. That's it. I've been to a Super Bowl, but not I mean, I went to a Patriots suitable, but they lost the one the one one of the one times they lost. You have to go.

Yeah. I mean, talk to Bob Menary, Bill Simmons, talk to talk to one of the Boston people, get them to get them to hook you up. John Salle, like we said, what if I go up there and then they lose? Then I have to come back to the show on Tuesday and hear you guys talk about how I'm the mush again. But what if they win?

If they win, I'm going to be so obnoxious. One of the greatest nights are we still are we still drunk on the flight? But do I talk someone into going with me? That's an expensive talk.

Yeah. Like I said, John Salle is your best bet. Or call it Bill Burr or somebody, you know, I don't really know. But I would know if I will see the Bulls. Let's get through tomorrow. Let's get through tomorrow first. Let's get it.

I kind of agree with TJ. I think I think Boston does win tomorrow. And then I think Golden State wins game five and then Boston closes it out. Game six. Yeah, that's what I guess that's kind of what tomorrow will be very hard for the Celtics because they're not like said, you're not going to roll over. But is Steph going to be 100 percent? I kind of think he will be. But if he's not, you will know right away. Yeah, for sure. We'll know right away.

And then that game could get ugly quick. I really thought you were going to say something there, but you just not it. You know, this is a podcast, Adam. We must speak. Let's get out of here.

Well, no, no, no. Before we go, let's talk about something real quick. You always do that. I'm ready to leave. And you're like, hold on. You just arbitrarily sometimes decide that we're leaving. But we've already been going on for almost 30, 40 minutes. That's fine.

We've got to give the people what they want. Let's talk. Hustle, because, yeah, next week, are you going to see it? I'm going to watch it tomorrow.

Sarah's going to San Diego for to work. OK, I'm going to watch it tomorrow night. Then we'll wait after the finals game on to watch it tomorrow night. Do what I did. Watch it before the finals. It got me so hyped for basketball.

I watched it like I'm literally not going to have time. OK. Yeah, I forgot. You got daddy duty and stuff at home all day. He's pooping on floors. Oh, my goodness. So we're potty training. But we watched this video and they call it potty learning. And I was just like, I roll.

But a lot of the stuff they were talking about really made sense. So we're doing it's like super intense. I mean, if people are dads out there, parents in which most people listening and super intense, three straight days, no diaper. So they literally just walk around and poop everywhere. Oh, you put pants on also like everywhere.

Here's the thing. He's super good about the pee. He knows like, Daddy, I got to go potty. Boom.

Runs to the bathroom. We got a little, you know, mini commode. Yeah.

Yes. This morning Sarah sends me a picture. Giant dump right in the middle of the room. She's like, she's like, that's what I get for going to get dressed. He was just like heck with it.

He's super good with the people. It's a different sensation, obviously, like I know when I have to go pee and it was different feeling. He doesn't understand the feeling yet. He's kind of got the pee thing down because like before we get in the pool, he'll like pee in the yard. And so he knows that feeling. He learns the poo feeling by the time he goes in the pool. Jesus.

You don't want that. I mean, remember that wasn't that the worst thing in the summer back in the day when you'd be in a pool and all of a sudden you have to evacuate and it says no, sir, no, no, no. It was like, it's like duty. So anyway, we're doing that super intense started today.

It's today, Friday, Saturday. It's like, Oh my God, I'm going to, I'm going to be solo. And you're going to say you're going to be case. So I'm going to be solo Friday potty learning with a finals game going on.

Like what am I what am I supposed to do? Page might be pulling on the floor. Chris might be pulling on the floor. A lot of crying and pooping going on in that house. So much happening. All right. Great way to end the show. We're going to talk hustle next week.

I've seen it by then. And I miss winning time. Hopefully we'll hopefully we'll get ready for another duck boat parade. I'm so conflicted with Adam.

I don't know what I want. All right, everybody. Enjoy the NBA finals. It's been so awesome so far. Let's keep it going. Add some likes and comments also in the, on the YouTube channel on Twitter.

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This is all he has. Come on, guys. Come on. Not many people can pull this sweater off of my big head and thick neck.

Giant monitors blocking. All right, everybody. We appreciate you and Mr. Rogers can pull that sweater off. We appreciate you. Enjoy the NBA finals. Adam, TJ. Great job. See you guys next week.