Speaker 1: The NBA Finals continue to deliver elevated heartbeats and getting
Speaker 1: us out of our seats with every game and where
Speaker 1: talk about it all not but I you know, got
Speaker 1: the momentum out. I'm like, I'm about to spin a bar,
Speaker 1: but I can't get very far. But don't worry about that,
Speaker 1: because we have a very special guest co host up
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals file and producer of some show called
Speaker 1: Miles and Jackot Matt Boostie's Jabari Davis. I'm Miles Gray
Speaker 1: and I'm Jack O'Brien and this is Miles and Jack
Speaker 1: got boost heer Berg con Jabari's face as we're doing
Speaker 1: that intro when he realizes that this is what he
Speaker 1: has chosen to do for a living, is to be
Speaker 1: involved with two clowns. I do always like to look
Speaker 1: at the guests face while we're doing that. It's like
Speaker 1: the a k. S on our show Daily Zeitgeist, where
Speaker 1: you're fun to be like, oh wait, what what is happening?
Speaker 1: Why am I here? But it's also fun to watch
Speaker 1: the producer's face because they are also tied to this.
Speaker 1: People are either instantly panicked or immediately get that as
Speaker 1: a joke, and it's it's either or, and I love
Speaker 1: that about the Jabari. How you feeling about the finals?
Speaker 1: We got what we just had game five as of
Speaker 1: this recording, game six coming up. When you hear this
Speaker 1: to day Thursday, Um, let's see. So we gotta cover three,
Speaker 1: four and five basically since our last episode three four
Speaker 1: or five? Yeah, why was six afraid of five? Because
Speaker 1: three four five doesn't work for them? Series of numbers?
Speaker 1: More five? There it is. I don't think we're going
Speaker 1: to a Game eight, but I do think we might
Speaker 1: be going to a Game seven. That would be predict
Speaker 1: I think, yeah. I feel like off the strength of
Speaker 1: these last three games, it feels like that is very,
Speaker 1: very possible. So the Celtics in six, first theory that
Speaker 1: you had, when did that change became impossible? That changed
Speaker 1: with about three minutes left to go in the game.
Speaker 1: I continue to be all right, So I don't think
Speaker 1: I'm alone in this. I continue to feel like when
Speaker 1: the Celtics are at their high point, it's better than
Speaker 1: any team I've seen in the NBA. This whole season
Speaker 1: is like that because of how dominant they are on
Speaker 1: defense and how much they're flowing on offense. Like I'm
Speaker 1: in various NBA text threads, and like most of them
Speaker 1: were only lit up when the Celtics went from down
Speaker 1: twelve at the half too down two within like it
Speaker 1: was literally less than two minutes. Like, so I don't
Speaker 1: know that is still my big takeaway is every time
Speaker 1: they lose, I'm just a little bit confused, Like I'm
Speaker 1: glad I do not that because man, like they just
Speaker 1: looked so good when they have it go. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: came into the series is thinking that like, if both
Speaker 1: teams were at their best, that the Warriors probably you know,
Speaker 1: like he had the edge. But you know, of course,
Speaker 1: anytime you know you have not necessarily two completely opposing teams,
Speaker 1: but two teams with you know, somewhat different styles, obviously,
Speaker 1: whoever is able to you know, impose their will more
Speaker 1: and you know whatever, let's see if we can if
Speaker 1: I can work in eight or nine more um uh
Speaker 1: generic genericastems related to the NBA. But honestly, you know,
Speaker 1: I felt like, you know, the team that imposed their
Speaker 1: will was going to be the one that you know,
Speaker 1: came out victorious. But also yeah, that too, when you know,
Speaker 1: like stop turning the ball over again. You know we're
Speaker 1: but what I but I actually agree with you, jack Um.
Speaker 1: When we've seen both of their best, it still feels
Speaker 1: like the Celtics are the better team. Yeah, Like because
Speaker 1: like you were saying right like in your text, like,
Speaker 1: I guess we'll talk about you know, that third quarter
Speaker 1: in Game five, which typically has been the Warriors quarter
Speaker 1: in this series, when you said you're getting texts of
Speaker 1: people like whoa Celtics. I feel like that's how the
Speaker 1: Warriors felt to like playing against it, Like they were
Speaker 1: like WHOA what they can we get one shot off? Please? Maybe?
Speaker 1: And it felt like then they were like just resorting
Speaker 1: to try and shoot their way out of it to
Speaker 1: no avail. And I was like, this is not a
Speaker 1: This is not a good situation for the Warriors if
Speaker 1: they can't figure it out. Yeah, Steph didn't have it
Speaker 1: going from deep, but yeah, I mean overall impressions from
Speaker 1: Games three through five, you know, Game three Celtics one.
Speaker 1: Obviously Jalen Brown seven teen points in the first quarter.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, like they just they look really
Speaker 1: really good when when they got it going. But I
Speaker 1: think my my big takeaway or like my you know,
Speaker 1: what's dope? Or did you see that or whatever? We
Speaker 1: we have, uh decided to call that was Steph going
Speaker 1: for forty three. But even even that, I remember Jack
Speaker 1: and Gundhi being like what he is doing right now
Speaker 1: is like carrying a team, you know, like you can
Speaker 1: talk about the Splash Brothers and all that stuff, but
Speaker 1: like this team has some major flaws and Steph is
Speaker 1: like really carrying them the way Lebron carried some of
Speaker 1: those Cleveland teams. And that felt right to me, Like
Speaker 1: it feels like the Celtics and they still might win
Speaker 1: the series, but not in six, which is a tragedy
Speaker 1: because I really wanted to be right. I'll say this
Speaker 1: about that game from staff, It's not fair. And when
Speaker 1: I say it's not fair, and I'm talking about like
Speaker 1: the general narrative when it comes to you know, his
Speaker 1: his career, you know where it's oh he's never had that,
Speaker 1: you know, that pivotal series or that incredible moment or game. Well,
Speaker 1: we got that, you know in Boston Garden On, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously on the road in a pivotal situation where you know,
Speaker 1: if they go down three one, I'm not saying I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it's over because obviously you know they were
Speaker 1: involved in a final series where you know, obviously it
Speaker 1: was not over, you know, at three one, but I
Speaker 1: I will honestly say, I think I think it's done
Speaker 1: in five if they had lost that game. So you know,
Speaker 1: he he met the moment was absolutely incredible and to
Speaker 1: your point, was absolutely you know, not just carrying but
Speaker 1: very clearly covering for you know, significant holes that honestly
Speaker 1: I didn't that I didn't necessarily anticipate heading into the series. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I mean, I think, yeah, game four depends if though,
Speaker 1: if the Warriors end up winning this series. I feel
Speaker 1: like we're gonna look at game four as the absolute
Speaker 1: turning point because, like you're saying, that's the three Like
Speaker 1: three one, that's a difficult situation to be in. He
Speaker 1: found an extra gear to prevent that, and then they
Speaker 1: go on to win Game five, and then that's the
Speaker 1: first time the Celtics I believe, have lost back to
Speaker 1: back in the playoffs this year. So they're also a
Speaker 1: new territory to where they're like, look, we can go
Speaker 1: back and forth with you to a certain point, but this,
Speaker 1: you know, coming off think back to the the game four
Speaker 1: and five, you're like, well, now it's a little different,
Speaker 1: but all that to say, I don't I feel like
Speaker 1: the Celtics will find it within themselves to to avoid
Speaker 1: going out in six. You think that when we look
Speaker 1: back at that game four and we're looking at the
Speaker 1: performance of Steph Curry, like, so one of the things
Speaker 1: that's gonna strike us as like how far he was
Speaker 1: shooting from, Like he was really shooting from very far,
Speaker 1: like the three point line. You get three points because
Speaker 1: it's like far away from the basket. But then like
Speaker 1: some of those was like even you know, really really far,
Speaker 1: like really far from the basket. Those are like some
Speaker 1: pretty far ones. I would say, yeah, that's what I
Speaker 1: was thinking, Like I was, I was trying to say that,
Speaker 1: but I don't think I put it as well as you.
Speaker 1: And those shots are far too Gary, Sayton pops it away,
Speaker 1: Sayton the elite defender off the bench. Curry steps back three,
Speaker 1: Potter step cry first three three. Sorry not a long
Speaker 1: distance shot that Steph Curry long distance Three's at a
Speaker 1: five point lady for the Warriors. And speaking of far,
Speaker 1: it's interesting he wasn't the only one that you know,
Speaker 1: was shooting it from far. Yeah, that's a really good point.
Speaker 1: Game five. Jordan Pool got in on the action, Jordan
Speaker 1: Pool buzzer beaters, Like, is it the same with you
Speaker 1: guys that the first thing you remember hearing his name
Speaker 1: is when he was a freshman at Michigan hitting that
Speaker 1: buzzer beater to keep them alive in the second round.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that? I didn't know. Actually, nah, so
Speaker 1: I was ignorant. Yeah he was. I think he was
Speaker 1: a freshman. I remember he was like the most notable
Speaker 1: prior to that, other than like being a pretty good shooter,
Speaker 1: most notable for having the shortest shorts in the n
Speaker 1: C Double A tournament. And he hit a go ahead
Speaker 1: buzzer beater I think for Michigan a year that they
Speaker 1: made a deep run. Yeah, I'm trying to I'm trying
Speaker 1: to find a tweet, but I'll just paraphrase it. I'm
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys saw it. Somebody said,
Speaker 1: Jordan Pool, please, Like it's the students versus fact game
Speaker 1: in in in the finals, and he plays with that
Speaker 1: type of confidence And that's not a knock, that's not it.
Speaker 1: That's not a dism any way. But he plays with
Speaker 1: that type of confidence out there and it's it's kind
Speaker 1: of amazing. Yeah, it does feel it's so self assured
Speaker 1: that you almost can't believe it. Because even when he
Speaker 1: took this shot, I was like, yeah, he might make that,
Speaker 1: and he didn't. I was like, oh okay, so uh
Speaker 1: students faculty, I get that joke, but he did. Which
Speaker 1: team is he on? He when they when people say
Speaker 1: he looks like he's student faculty, like he's on the
Speaker 1: student side, and he's just like breaking old people's ankles
Speaker 1: type thing. Basically, either either that or that faculty member
Speaker 1: that actually that actually hoot, that's just haunted to destroy lives,
Speaker 1: right right right. He's like, I don't think of making
Speaker 1: fun of my sneakers earlier. Awesome, I got something for
Speaker 1: you wing tips. Yeah yeah, yeah, put these pro wings on.
Speaker 1: See what you got then? But yeah it should We
Speaker 1: just play that clip of the that third quarter buzzer
Speaker 1: beater off of rebound wagons, got three seconds, You got
Speaker 1: a shottle? What gets the polo gets it all the time? Thanks.
Speaker 1: It was the bank. I think the confidence. He was
Speaker 1: just like I could bank this one in. Guys. I
Speaker 1: know this might sound crazy. I think if he doesn't
Speaker 1: make that shot, they don't win. Mhm. I recognize there
Speaker 1: are folks that they get annoyed by even the mere
Speaker 1: mention of momentum in sports. No, but and I get it.
Speaker 1: I respect folks. You know, if if you're you know,
Speaker 1: a numbers person, it exists for me, It exists for me.
Speaker 1: I think that that absolutely, you know, pushed him with
Speaker 1: the numbers only go so far, and you have to
Speaker 1: actually count in like the the psychological energy and like
Speaker 1: like sort of intangible quality of winning. That just kind
Speaker 1: of that's why we watched sports, because if it was
Speaker 1: overly logical, there wouldn't be any excitement. How much was
Speaker 1: that shot worth? That was worth really far? Okay it
Speaker 1: was far far one from all right. I don't think
Speaker 1: you're Bari knows that squad was a far pointer. Do
Speaker 1: you want me to tell them where it wasn't wrong?
Speaker 1: When Jack go on mute room did mute that? I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: But yeah, we like to do far shots a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, we like teams that do far shots. I
Speaker 1: think it feels like a new way of playing. It
Speaker 1: did feel like Jordan Pool shut up all those text
Speaker 1: changes that were like here come the Celtics and then
Speaker 1: you know, talking about our time talking about miles here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we haven't acknowledged that, but my so Miles, we have
Speaker 1: the three of us have a text thread and Jabari
Speaker 1: is the one who always opens it up. And this
Speaker 1: was the first time that Myles was like the Celtics No,
Speaker 1: I said, Doubs are shoot shook because if again, like
Speaker 1: we're talking about when we talk about what makes the
Speaker 1: Celtics feel so like, there's another level. It's because they're
Speaker 1: also like messing with your your head when you're playing
Speaker 1: against it, because you almost like lose your belief in yourself.
Speaker 1: So to see them begging, they're trying to beg to
Speaker 1: get a shot off, you know, some kind of offense going,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, they've psychologically capitulated. But
Speaker 1: to that end, like yeah, it was it. Then they
Speaker 1: kind of found it within themselves to kind of keep
Speaker 1: climbing back and that's why, Yeah, I think that that
Speaker 1: Pool three does help really punctuate the thing, like it
Speaker 1: put the lid back on it, saying that that that
Speaker 1: that that not okay, we'll let you have your fun,
Speaker 1: but the lid is back on. Who was very rude
Speaker 1: of the Celtics. For the Celtics were being very rude
Speaker 1: in that third quarter not letting them shoot, which is
Speaker 1: definitely like what they want to do as a basketball team.
Speaker 1: They're very good at it. And that text heread right
Speaker 1: is me saying doves are shuck. Then Jabar says this
Speaker 1: is usually their quarter, so this is surprising to say
Speaker 1: the least. I say, yeah, no one has heart right now,
Speaker 1: and then I said, okay, maybe they got some and
Speaker 1: this is I was put to bed. So I'm I'm
Speaker 1: this is my only interaction with the game other than
Speaker 1: a bunch of other text residents like Celtics, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: the Celtics. Uh. And so I I was assuming the
Speaker 1: Celtics were up ten again, and um, it was a
Speaker 1: real it was real back and forth. That third quarter
Speaker 1: was um intense, Yeah, because they were really sparring like
Speaker 1: as they were, you know, trading basket after basket. And
Speaker 1: again that's also what inspired Jabari to say we might
Speaker 1: get one of those all time finishes from this one.
Speaker 1: Not that it was down to the wire, but the
Speaker 1: winners found their winning spirit and you know, got the
Speaker 1: job done and had more points and put the ball
Speaker 1: in the basket. Wiggins, we gotta talk Wiggins. For a
Speaker 1: number of reasons. That Pool three was off a Wiggins
Speaker 1: rebound twenty nine rebounds in games four and five, Like
Speaker 1: it was just like he was like, oh, okay, you
Speaker 1: want me to rebound, all right, I will be a
Speaker 1: dominant rebounder. Like he's got twenty nine boards, like you said,
Speaker 1: and those are rebounds that feel like he is taking
Speaker 1: them from what would have been like offensive boards or
Speaker 1: you know, taking them from the Celtics, like he really
Speaker 1: is coming in, flying in from out of nowhere and
Speaker 1: just grabbing the ball with extreme prejudice. One of the
Speaker 1: things that I over the course of of of hosting
Speaker 1: Finals File, one of the things that I've really appreciated
Speaker 1: is I now kind of watched the you know, watch
Speaker 1: the game a little bit differently than I did before
Speaker 1: in that I yes, I'm I I love watching the
Speaker 1: you know, like the main guys. I love you know
Speaker 1: that when Tatum's going off, you know, which obviously hasn't
Speaker 1: necessarily been in this series, but but when he does,
Speaker 1: it's fantastic. I love watching Steph do hisnam like I like,
Speaker 1: like I mentioned, I agree with you, Jack, you know,
Speaker 1: Game four is you know, was absolutely a performance for
Speaker 1: the Ages, but it is the in between guys and
Speaker 1: and I'm hesitant to call him the other guys or
Speaker 1: like or you know, sound dismissive in any way. But
Speaker 1: the guys like Andrew Wiggins, the guys like Kevon Looney,
Speaker 1: you know, like it on the flip side obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: the Horfors, the Marcus Smarts more often than not. I
Speaker 1: genuinely believe that those are the different makers in a series,
Speaker 1: you know, like like whether it's in punctuation, like you know,
Speaker 1: like a final shot at the buzzer, or those those
Speaker 1: specific you know, winning time plays like grabbing, snatching rebounds,
Speaker 1: you know, from off the top of the backboard, or
Speaker 1: you know, in the middle of traffic, or you know,
Speaker 1: like you know, as you mentioned um Miles, how not
Speaker 1: only you know, not only does you know Wiggins grab
Speaker 1: that one board, but he's the one that also finds
Speaker 1: an open Jordan pool for that long shot. Again, like,
Speaker 1: I genuinely believe that, like if the Doubs end up
Speaker 1: winning this, you know, we can look back at all
Speaker 1: of those types of contributions really quick, real quick. I
Speaker 1: just have to put out a theory I have here,
Speaker 1: a right you you name dropped the other guys and
Speaker 1: winning time. Do you have a deal with Adam McKay.
Speaker 1: Are you doing, Yeah, listen, I don't have one, but
Speaker 1: I'm as you guys know so much sense. I'm a
Speaker 1: speaking to speaking into existence type person. And if a
Speaker 1: Adam baby listen, if you need somebody for these next
Speaker 1: couple of series, the next couple of seasons, I'm and
Speaker 1: tell me about how like you've gotten really close with
Speaker 1: a big shot Bob Robert Rory. Then now you feel
Speaker 1: like you said step brothers. Hey, you know, and I
Speaker 1: mean I get it. Man. Cozy enough to basketball players
Speaker 1: is a vice of yours. But you know, I know
Speaker 1: how they used to talk about you when you were
Speaker 1: playing in high school. They called you the big short.
Speaker 1: They did call me the big short. Actually yeah, and
Speaker 1: when you went up to dunk it, they said, don't
Speaker 1: look up. All right, y'all. I that's been our time.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much listening, mad Boost. Let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break. We'll come back and talk about some of
Speaker 1: Adam McKay is more under underrated films SNL sketch and
Speaker 1: we're back and ye, let the idiots do their thing.
Speaker 1: Is I think Jabari has that written next to his computer.
Speaker 1: I don't know what y'ally are talking about. But okay,
Speaker 1: so we're just gonna waste everyone's time. Huh, all right,
Speaker 1: funniest clip that we found Talladega Nights. Sorry, film a
Speaker 1: funniest clip we found, and Jabari just queues up a
Speaker 1: Talladega Nights clip. Um, all right, Oh, I didn't bring
Speaker 1: up my my clip because we're actually just talking Wiggins
Speaker 1: and hell, he's the anchorman. See lost the thread. Um
Speaker 1: gotta just there was this dunk. Uh, just my man
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins, this is in the end of the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter about to left, just brings it up the court
Speaker 1: and just finishes. Golden stake Clay, he's bringing us up.
Speaker 1: He's on smart defensive Player of the Year for Mr White.
Speaker 1: You almost blew his head band off and that put
Speaker 1: him up fifteen with two minutes ago. And that was
Speaker 1: the first time I felt like the Warriors lead was safe.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, and yeah exactly because I think also the
Speaker 1: manner of it, like you could even tell from the
Speaker 1: Celtics after that, they're just like, oh, that was We're
Speaker 1: not playing defense anymore. I guess that was mathematically correct
Speaker 1: that it shouldn't have felt safe because they did come
Speaker 1: back from twelve, so they made up ten points in
Speaker 1: uh in two minutes at the beginning of the third.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, I'm still very impressed with the
Speaker 1: Celtics defense for the most part, but wiggins defense on
Speaker 1: Tatum has been just wild. And again this is this
Speaker 1: is the stuff. Like one of our reasons for doing
Speaker 1: this podcast is like a lot of the coverage will
Speaker 1: talk about things like it's a done deal and we
Speaker 1: know because they added this player that like they are
Speaker 1: a top three team, And first of all, like for
Speaker 1: anybody in the NBA media to be acting like anything
Speaker 1: as a done deal when like the the people like
Speaker 1: they've been picking the nets in the Lakers for the
Speaker 1: past like two seasons. But also just like I don't know,
Speaker 1: like with nobody had Wiggins even like heading into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: nobody thought Wiggins was going to be like the second
Speaker 1: best player on the Warriors in the finals. But man,
Speaker 1: he is bawling on both ends of the court. He
Speaker 1: has like turned into a dominant rebounder. And he was
Speaker 1: like hitting some shots that made me stand up last night,
Speaker 1: Like he was really hitting some like hard shots. Tatum
Speaker 1: had four air balls the second half of Game five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when three of those were because Andrew Wiggins was on him,
Speaker 1: and I think that was that was Game one too
Speaker 1: where or yeah, it wasn't it when we first saw like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, Andrew Wiggins can cause problems because game won
Speaker 1: the Celtics one, despite the fact that Tatum had an
Speaker 1: off night. Yeah, And I'm not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 1: I just appreciate. I appreciate stories like that, you know,
Speaker 1: like you know, much like you guys, I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: love all the hot takes. I don't necessarily know they're
Speaker 1: not for me. I recognize that your thing, that's you know,
Speaker 1: that's fine. But one of the things, you know, I
Speaker 1: would even acknowledge is I didn't see this type of
Speaker 1: you know, like you know, mid career, you know, arc
Speaker 1: for your for Wiggans, especially after he came out, and
Speaker 1: you know, it was I won't even say disappointed. It
Speaker 1: simply didn't land the way that you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of us anticipated. But honestly, it's a testament to him,
Speaker 1: it's a testament to his professionalism. Um. But also sometimes
Speaker 1: it would point out sometimes you just need to be
Speaker 1: in the right situation. Now. Of course, it's of course
Speaker 1: it's a lot easier to play with you know future
Speaker 1: Hall of Famers and you know, and look good, but
Speaker 1: not everybody you know will take advantage of the opportunity
Speaker 1: in the way that he has. So it's it's really
Speaker 1: it's really been great to see. Has anybody done the
Speaker 1: story about like, did he just decide to get a
Speaker 1: lot stronger um because he looks it doesn't it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like all of a sudden he has like a
Speaker 1: different body, and it's probably just like I'm remembering him
Speaker 1: from when he was younger and playing with the wolves,
Speaker 1: but like, all of a sudden, he seems like a
Speaker 1: big man, Like he's like just banging around in there
Speaker 1: and really filled out. It's clearly worked on his body,
Speaker 1: like like jokes aside, he has clearly worked on that
Speaker 1: body and and it and it shows, you know, whether
Speaker 1: that's a testament to the conditioning team up there or
Speaker 1: I think what Jack is trying to fit discern is
Speaker 1: whether or not that's him going to the gym or
Speaker 1: he just decided that if he was just like did
Speaker 1: somebody make him angry? And he was like, oh, there's
Speaker 1: this thing I say about when people make me angry
Speaker 1: and whether or not they're gonna like me, and Uh,
Speaker 1: it's not they're not going to and then he got
Speaker 1: like instead of five times as big, like stronger, it's
Speaker 1: just a good It looks sounds like it looks like
Speaker 1: the Warriors are a good place to be, you know,
Speaker 1: if you're a young developing player, because you have generous,
Speaker 1: like you're saying, future Hall of famers who are from
Speaker 1: from my perspective, seemed quite generous and willing to work
Speaker 1: with these younger players and like give them the space
Speaker 1: to develop and also you know, uh, transmit their wisdom
Speaker 1: to them too. And yeah, it feels like just like
Speaker 1: you're saying, it's a good probably the best situation for
Speaker 1: him specifically, right, my four year old is rooting for
Speaker 1: the Celtics. So we are a household divided because his
Speaker 1: favorite color is green. Um so do it? So where
Speaker 1: is he going to live? But also, funny moment, there
Speaker 1: was a there was a nice moment in the pregame
Speaker 1: press conferences Steph Curry hearing Marcus Thompson of the athletics
Speaker 1: phone going off in the middle of it, and it
Speaker 1: was just it was like, like, well, none of those
Speaker 1: nice moments between athletes and journalists. And this clip takes
Speaker 1: place over what between Game three and Game four? Right,
Speaker 1: the first one before game three where he goes off,
Speaker 1: the phone goes off, and Steph remembers from the Game
Speaker 1: four press conference as well. So, Marcus Thompson, unbelievable what
Speaker 1: I'm calling you. It's like when you're in church and
Speaker 1: like the past is giving a sermon and you over
Speaker 1: there with your phone. I like to begin by repenting
Speaker 1: for my first conference. Thence steps very generous, like, I
Speaker 1: don't know why this keeps going off. It's my daughter.
Speaker 1: She needs to stop. It is Marcus Thompson. Different game stuff.
Speaker 1: You've been driving a lot, got him called back. Repeat
Speaker 1: what you're saying, got him great moment. Good job, good job,
Speaker 1: good job, good job stuff. I hope you're happy. Wow, Steph,
Speaker 1: you embarrassed me. We're just trying to do not being
Speaker 1: able to take it at all. You know, my daughter
Speaker 1: was actually locked out of the house and it was raining. Okay, Wow, Stef,
Speaker 1: you want to take that again? You want to? I
Speaker 1: would have played it. That's how I don't really lifted
Speaker 1: on him. I get I get it, I get it. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: one of the great superstars any history. Just everything, great love, love.
Speaker 1: The addition of like, all right, so I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: putting up forty three in the finals game, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna like look really nice while I'm doing it. Like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna like be smiling and just seem like a
Speaker 1: nice person while I'm doing it. That's kind of cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think it's kind of neat. That's
Speaker 1: my that's my take. I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 1: What what I love most about Steff, and I'm not
Speaker 1: taking anything away from you know, prior or past superstars,
Speaker 1: is that he's kind of a psychle on the court,
Speaker 1: but also one of the nicest guys off the court,
Speaker 1: like a Miles's point, you know, he's he's giving, like
Speaker 1: in those situations and you know, yeah, you don't necessarily people. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I think also too, just like I think just being
Speaker 1: in comedy, you're you're really aware when people are generous
Speaker 1: with their laughter, because that's like a really big part
Speaker 1: of like having a good exchange with somebody. Like there
Speaker 1: are people who don't laugh at all that stuff, and
Speaker 1: you're like, whoa that stingey with your laughter, But there's
Speaker 1: like a generosity to it that I'm like, see because
Speaker 1: by doing that you're extending m hmm, yeah, especially growing
Speaker 1: up being one of the best basketball players in the world. Like,
Speaker 1: I feel like you're instincts could go in the direction
Speaker 1: of being like dismissing something like where you have to
Speaker 1: have the last one and like you're trying to one
Speaker 1: up everyone all the time, because that's just how the
Speaker 1: dynamic can be because you're gravitationally, you know, a neutron
Speaker 1: star in every room that you've been in your whole life.
Speaker 1: And for him to just be nice, um, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Shall we uh do some little rapid fire questions.
Speaker 1: I think we should do some big rapid fire questions.
Speaker 1: This is a segment that was invented by Jabari, but
Speaker 1: we haven't seen how he holds up under the rapid
Speaker 1: fire of their questioning gun. Yeah, okay, let's start. Hold on,
Speaker 1: let me do that. Whoa wow, hold on think Hey,
Speaker 1: that's my line take him away toys. You know, honestly,
Speaker 1: I actually apologize for that because normally I'm muted in
Speaker 1: this That is where I'm saying, you gave me a
Speaker 1: moment to be Chief Wigham there, so I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Start the claw Miles has pissed Jabari Jabari. You can
Speaker 1: have any three throwback jerseys. Which three are you choosing?
Speaker 1: All right, I gotta go old school. But if he
Speaker 1: was just totally stumped, yeah, right off the bat. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. I want an old,
Speaker 1: old school nine eight seven Lakers jersey. Okay, big l
Speaker 1: whether it's a magic you know, Kareem big game, Michael Cooper?
Speaker 1: All right, you know what, let me get Michael Cooper. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know defensive player Michael Cooper. Yea, sir uh Okay.
Speaker 1: The abdual Jabbar version of this very jersey to my
Speaker 1: second grade career day plus you should have because I
Speaker 1: wanted to be a Kareem abdul Jabbar when I grew up,
Speaker 1: in to a large extent, the Airplane actor, the guy
Speaker 1: from Airplane. Yeah, he actually played a little ball pretty good. Okay. Nice.
Speaker 1: He's a great author too, there shoulders. Yeah, okay, so
Speaker 1: that's one eighty eight nuggets. Do you guys remember the
Speaker 1: old and I wanted to be a fat leaver jersey,
Speaker 1: like the blue with the you know, with the you
Speaker 1: know you with with the logo underneath. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: want one of those? Okay, And honestly, just because as
Speaker 1: a kid, I should like love the fact that his
Speaker 1: nickname was fat, Like I was like Fat leaver Man.
Speaker 1: That's just amazing. And then idiot Nuggets is rainbow stripe horizontal? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks like it's got a little of that eighties logo,
Speaker 1: like eighties um design kind of vibes. Yeah, because it
Speaker 1: looks like it's like an eight bit like computer. It's
Speaker 1: like super block. The city looks like it could be
Speaker 1: going by in the background on like you know a
Speaker 1: video game, like a driving game that you're playing that
Speaker 1: is like very low five right exactly, it's like going
Speaker 1: by the Rainbow City. Okay, that's too. Brack is jogging
Speaker 1: by it on the training thing from Tyson punch Out. Alright, fantastic, alright,
Speaker 1: world go on, but I'm with you. Oh four black
Speaker 1: kg Oh yeah that that that that black Tea Wolves
Speaker 1: jersey back in the day for any black jersey. M okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that one was pretty That one was pretty hard, as
Speaker 1: we say in the West Coast. And to be clear,
Speaker 1: it is specifically because Wesley Snipe told me to always
Speaker 1: been on black there. Yeah, tree words, Drew words, Okay,
Speaker 1: that wasn't quite rapid, but we still let's stay on pace.
Speaker 1: The clock is still ticking. Can barely keep my dang
Speaker 1: hat on. This thing's so quick, al right. The question
Speaker 1: that I feel like it's gonna stump you ice Cube Jabari,
Speaker 1: as you may know, has the Big Three. Tracy McGrady
Speaker 1: has recently introduced his one's Basketball league. Is that one
Speaker 1: on one we're just fact check, consult with my producer
Speaker 1: real quick. Is that one on one, one on one league?
Speaker 1: That's the guests to hold on it's one on one back.
Speaker 1: So what would your alternative basketball idea consists of? I
Speaker 1: want the dunk contest, but I want somebody underneath trying
Speaker 1: to block it. I'll line them up. Rudy Gobert, you
Speaker 1: say that you could shut check down, get get underneath
Speaker 1: the rim. We we we saw it like an NHL
Speaker 1: hockey shootout. Yes, basically that where it's like, all right,
Speaker 1: you got the ball, there's the rim, what's good what
Speaker 1: you got and none of these like five and six
Speaker 1: and seven attempts, you get one try if you miss
Speaker 1: your out next up. So basically we get mixed with
Speaker 1: the dunk contest mixed with knockout that's what I would like.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I like that because, yeah, we see a
Speaker 1: lot of the game of basketball being played, but what
Speaker 1: about all the other ways we play basketball, like as
Speaker 1: kids and younger people like shock out one uh, lower
Speaker 1: the hoop to eight feet two one three on two
Speaker 1: fast break drills from practice. That's like instant torture drama.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, I like, especially especially if your coach as
Speaker 1: you continuing to be in the drill, like none of
Speaker 1: us saying hey, you gotta learn uh, next up, the
Speaker 1: clock is still taking. You're on a game show Jabari
Speaker 1: with one million dollars on the line, and you can
Speaker 1: call anyone to help you answer an MBA trivia question.
Speaker 1: Who are you calling besides yourself? Because if this was me,
Speaker 1: I would be calling you. But who would you call?
Speaker 1: That's who do the Ghostbusters called besides the two of you.
Speaker 1: Let's see, don't come wow, you know what you got jokes? Now,
Speaker 1: this is this is kind of cheating. But Robert Keith
Speaker 1: Ory should introduce you to my good friend Robert or um, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh you know him, you introduced. He's kind of the
Speaker 1: reason we met. Oh that's nice. Yeah, he's a good guy.
Speaker 1: He too would get along. Why is he just it's
Speaker 1: it's everything encyclopedic with him or what he's pretty I
Speaker 1: mean he for what however he did it. I don't
Speaker 1: know whether he really researched or you know, he just
Speaker 1: knew it. But each final series that we went through,
Speaker 1: it pretty much was you know, he was breaking down
Speaker 1: the second quarter of the game, blah blah blah, and
Speaker 1: I'm just like, oh, let me go to my notes,
Speaker 1: let me go to YouTube. That's one of my favorite,
Speaker 1: like the this happens with movies to where you like
Speaker 1: find out that an actor or a director like watches
Speaker 1: every movie knows every like piece of like you know,
Speaker 1: fans service the information about it and like that. That
Speaker 1: just add something like he, I don't know, there's a
Speaker 1: there's a genius there. He must know. He must have
Speaker 1: figured something out because, like we said, his ability to
Speaker 1: be in the exact right spot at the exact right
Speaker 1: time and know exactly what was about to happen before
Speaker 1: anybody else, Uh, you know, it takes a lot of
Speaker 1: lass study. Alright, Bari go to arena or a ballpark, meal,
Speaker 1: flash snack. I'm I'm pretty trash, so it's always gonna
Speaker 1: be nachos whatever, the biggest nachos. You know, it's the
Speaker 1: cheesier the better them. Give me some chicken on them,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah that's fine too, you know, pulled pork.
Speaker 1: You know. Hey, we're in business. Oh so you get
Speaker 1: you get those big nachos at Staples. Absolutely, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Blank dot com arena m hm soon soon to be
Speaker 1: nameless arena. What do they serve them in? Because I
Speaker 1: know Dodger Stadium serves them in a batting helmet. It's
Speaker 1: it's just in't a big plastic right, So they don't
Speaker 1: like give you shocks shoe or something full of nana. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of nacho. It's about the amount of
Speaker 1: nachos because they're intimidating. When you see people walking around
Speaker 1: the arena like that in the crypto dot com Arena
Speaker 1: or whatever we call it. Um, I'm always like, I
Speaker 1: always see it. I'm like, I could never finish that.
Speaker 1: I go with the Roseby sandwich. Not mad at that.
Speaker 1: What about you, Jack? Hold on, we'll ask the questions here,
Speaker 1: but yeah, how about you Jack? If you guys had
Speaker 1: hot dogs? Okay, my favorite my favorite meat is hot dog.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite animal? Hot dog. I like their bones,
Speaker 1: um Jabari, what's the best basketball movie ever? You know,
Speaker 1: people get on these types of shows and lie all
Speaker 1: the time and mentioned things like Hoosiers or mentioned things
Speaker 1: like no, the answer is white Man can't jump. Anybody
Speaker 1: that has anything else to say otherwise, you know, you
Speaker 1: know that's fine, because let's be real, it's just my
Speaker 1: trash opinion. But White Man is still the one that
Speaker 1: It's still the one that I watched more often than that.
Speaker 1: I like that you are not only claiming that that
Speaker 1: is the best past Well movie ever, like with with Authority,
Speaker 1: which I don't I happen to. You know, I think
Speaker 1: that's probably in the right. You're also claiming that anybody
Speaker 1: who says it's not as lying is knowingly lie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what they're doing. That is exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 1: It's called jack glory. Come on now, Coach Carter was cool.
Speaker 1: I'd rather watch Sunset Parked in a lot of the
Speaker 1: ones that I mean, Sunset Park What time is that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get live? How to represent the um basketball?
Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore and you get to name a coach as well?
Speaker 1: How many faces on Rushmore? Four faces? We're gonna do
Speaker 1: four players and then um, a coach is the statue
Speaker 1: of liberty standing next to them, uh, for the for
Speaker 1: this hypothetical scenario. So I'll just be straight up, there's
Speaker 1: no way to narrow it down the four. So I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna go with my four favorite players of all time.
Speaker 1: That's the best magic Johnson Seaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley m hm.
Speaker 1: And it's so tough to leave the h If I
Speaker 1: leave one of them off, give me Kobe, okay, And
Speaker 1: I want I want them. I don't want them coach
Speaker 1: by Phil, I want them coach by Ryles. You are doing,
Speaker 1: you are doing, we are we We already wrapped up
Speaker 1: the series early, doesn't matter. Three hour practices, let's go. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So I noticed you left Fat Lever off. Sorry Fat, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Okay, Well there's the one the next that's
Speaker 1: the one that honestly, that's the one where I was like,
Speaker 1: I can't leave kream off. But yeah, well it's about
Speaker 1: favorite players. And I think when people hear those kinds
Speaker 1: of questions, we don't have to treat it as if well,
Speaker 1: whoever he doesn't name is dead, like I like, if
Speaker 1: you're not in my FOURD You're terrible. No, like you could.
Speaker 1: I could probably have given you thirty of those. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're like songs, you know, they're they're different to every person.
Speaker 1: All right, UM, let's take a quick break. We'll come
Speaker 1: back to wrap this thing out and talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about our good friend Robert dor Oh you know
Speaker 1: Robert do Yeah, great, great guy. I love him. And
Speaker 1: we're back. Um. Robert Ory, friend of the podcast, was
Speaker 1: kind enough to offer you as a guest on this
Speaker 1: podcast and said, Wow, we would love to talk to
Speaker 1: your cot. I'm explaining, Tavari, you have the distinct honor
Speaker 1: to produce co host this show another fellow sister show
Speaker 1: on the NBA uh slate here uh Finals File with
Speaker 1: none other than our good friend, as we said, Robert Dory,
Speaker 1: big shot bob um, none other than um. And I
Speaker 1: just I think one of the things when I remember
Speaker 1: when you first told me you were even doing this,
Speaker 1: I was like what I'm not? I was like, can't
Speaker 1: you do Matt Boosts? And I'll do I'll talk to him,
Speaker 1: but there couldn't be someone better to speak with Robert
Speaker 1: Dory because like, just like you're saying, you would call
Speaker 1: him for trivia. We look at you as someone with
Speaker 1: a just an unbelievable amount of NBA knowledge and context history.
Speaker 1: So for you working with Robert Ory, like, first of all,
Speaker 1: how do you even how does that affect how you
Speaker 1: even view like an analyzing basketball when you're bouncing ideas
Speaker 1: off another like a champion like our friend of Robert Ry.
Speaker 1: One of the things I appreciate most from him is
Speaker 1: that he you know, he doesn't suffer fools, and he's
Speaker 1: not going to just you know, like go along with
Speaker 1: it simply because you know, like oh, you know we're friends. No,
Speaker 1: he will let you know right away. No, that's a
Speaker 1: very foolish way to look at it. That or or
Speaker 1: or you're just giving a hot take or you know,
Speaker 1: or stay off, you know, stay off of those debate shows.
Speaker 1: What he has done is basically just made me look
Speaker 1: at it as a simple game of basketball. Is as
Speaker 1: opposed to like trying to you know, come up you
Speaker 1: reinvent the wheel or come up with something you know,
Speaker 1: like you know something you know, some crazy way to
Speaker 1: describe it. Uh, He's a very basically just you know,
Speaker 1: back to basics. We all you know, we all you know,
Speaker 1: pick the ball. Up at one point. You know, we
Speaker 1: all shot it, we all ribbled, we all understand these things.
Speaker 1: And like he and basically given the way that his
Speaker 1: career with I think that actually plays into it. It's
Speaker 1: not that he's like, oh, well, like don't pay attention
Speaker 1: to the main guys, but he really really likes to
Speaker 1: pay attention to the other guys on the court, or
Speaker 1: the guys in particular that well, you know, can come
Speaker 1: off the bench in a moment, you know, like you know,
Speaker 1: like a game five of two thousand five and you
Speaker 1: know put up twenty one second half points, you know,
Speaker 1: second half and overtime points, right, just more of an
Speaker 1: appreciation for detail. Do you want to tell people, like
Speaker 1: what the what's the premise of the show. It's that
Speaker 1: each episode you're covering a different finals. So every each
Speaker 1: week we cover the finals, we give you to two
Speaker 1: episodes per uh per per series. Uh. And it's basically
Speaker 1: just a basketball nerd, you know. And and I you know,
Speaker 1: like I say it, honestly, that's what I am. I'm
Speaker 1: a guy that came up watching the game. And coincidentally,
Speaker 1: this is a coincidence, Robert Orry was one of my
Speaker 1: favorite players as well, Like because I always had an
Speaker 1: appreciation for a guy that can do the things that
Speaker 1: he did. But you know, you know, and this is
Speaker 1: a call back to when you had Robert Ory on
Speaker 1: the on the show, just like it was no big deal.
Speaker 1: Like it was just no big deal, you know, knocking
Speaker 1: down what, you know, some of the greatest shots in
Speaker 1: finals history, like it was nothing. Um but yeah, but
Speaker 1: the premises, we we break down a series each week, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, diving into diving into the matchup beforehand, then
Speaker 1: breaking down each game. Uh. We have a you know
Speaker 1: finals file awards where Robert you know, Robert Ory will
Speaker 1: give his breakdown of the awards. Sometimes he goes with
Speaker 1: who won the m v P or the the general awards.
Speaker 1: Sometimes he says, what nope, that was a total mistake,
Speaker 1: and you know it throws out a surprise. But it
Speaker 1: has been a It truly has been a fun experience
Speaker 1: because you know, like I said, if there's anybody that
Speaker 1: you're gonna talk about the NBA Finals with that's not
Speaker 1: named Michael Jordan's Honestly, Robert Ory is not a bad
Speaker 1: you know, not a bad second out. Yeah, got some
Speaker 1: good cameos, Like he's all over the place, It's like
Speaker 1: Forrest Gump of the Finals, what's the what's the best
Speaker 1: thing you learned that you're allowed to talk about from
Speaker 1: Because they've been a couple of things we've talked about
Speaker 1: off Mike that we're very compelling. Also, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: not things that we're talking about on Mike, um, but
Speaker 1: hit us with the best thing. The best thing is
Speaker 1: that knowing just how deep the eighties rivalry hatred you
Speaker 1: know still runs, Big Game James was kind enough to
Speaker 1: join us for to break down the series. Obviously it's
Speaker 1: Lakers versus Celtics. The Lakers, you know, work up, you know,
Speaker 1: by significant amounts in the first four games, ended up
Speaker 1: you know, dropping two of those games, and you know
Speaker 1: in somewhat tragic fashion. Uh, and then I will ultimately
Speaker 1: end up losing that series. But Big Game James, you know,
Speaker 1: he comes on with us. You know, I'm asking him,
Speaker 1: you know, the generic questions, and I finally thought about it.
Speaker 1: I was like, so, you know, basically what happened on
Speaker 1: that play where you push Cedric you know, Cedric Maxwell
Speaker 1: into the stands and I'm thinking he's gonna give a
Speaker 1: generic answer like the you know, media frame the answer,
Speaker 1: and he just he just lets it. Let you know,
Speaker 1: he lets it be known that not only does he
Speaker 1: still hate the Celtics, but any of them can still
Speaker 1: get it. Uh we we we ended up having the
Speaker 1: cutting room floor some of some of the conversation, but
Speaker 1: just knowing like like, how seriously and obviously he's not
Speaker 1: truly you know, wanting to fight, you know, but that
Speaker 1: that competitive exactly, you know how true their competitive nature is.
Speaker 1: And of the you know finals that you've covered so far,
Speaker 1: is there a favorite series that you've talked about or
Speaker 1: is there one that you wish you could talk about.
Speaker 1: I'll give you both of those. So two thousand was
Speaker 1: my favorite one specifically because I came of age obviously
Speaker 1: watching that team up Pilson personal. I went to Game
Speaker 1: two of those finals. Um, yeah who play? Who won
Speaker 1: that one? It was the Lakers and you know the Pacers, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, you see Jafar and I'd be like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be the Pistons exactly. And then
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong that I could have given you
Speaker 1: another one because was also absolute be fantastic. I had
Speaker 1: actually forgotten how great of a series that was. It's
Speaker 1: a series where you've got prime Jordan, Prime Barkley, you know,
Speaker 1: hall of famers all over the court. You get a
Speaker 1: triple overtime game in there, you get a showdown game
Speaker 1: where both guys go over forty points. It was that
Speaker 1: was fantastic. But if my if I'm answering, honestly, it's
Speaker 1: two thousand again because like I said, I witnessed it
Speaker 1: up close and personal. But to be able to get
Speaker 1: you know, actual insight from someone that you know played
Speaker 1: in the series, yeah, you know, you know, had you
Speaker 1: made a couple of you know, significant shots, especially in
Speaker 1: the Western Conference finals. You know, in Game seven of
Speaker 1: those Western Conference Finals, that was my favorite one, the
Speaker 1: one that I wish that we had been able to
Speaker 1: do and that I hope ultimately we are able to do.
Speaker 1: It was a two thousand one series, and you guys
Speaker 1: know why m hmm two thousand one. Now I'm not familiar,
Speaker 1: but okay, um, don't remember that team? I mean anyway, wait,
Speaker 1: know its a sixers, Um so who who the oh
Speaker 1: the seventies six ers? That's that's two thousand one doesn't
Speaker 1: ring a bellas a year. So whether whether or not
Speaker 1: you covered it, you want to cover it. You've talked
Speaker 1: a lot about your appreciation for the other guys who
Speaker 1: are anchorman for their team and make people say don't
Speaker 1: look up because they're right down here on the court. Um,
Speaker 1: is there a underrated performance in in the finals, whether
Speaker 1: it's one that you've covered or not that like you
Speaker 1: just feel like people have slept on. Like I think
Speaker 1: of Jimmy Butler and the Bubble. Some of his games
Speaker 1: were absolutely next level, like Herculean. I think people remember
Speaker 1: like how tired he was by the end, but like
Speaker 1: that was noteworthy because what he was doing on the
Speaker 1: court was absurd. But like, who are some of your
Speaker 1: underrated performances that you think people should talk more about.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lead in with one that seems like I'm
Speaker 1: being funny, but I'm not. Austin Crozier in the two
Speaker 1: thousand finals was absolutely spectacular. Thank you. I right, somebody
Speaker 1: needed to say it, and I'm happy to be the one. No,
Speaker 1: Austin Crowzer really was fantastic and end up you know,
Speaker 1: getting paid as a result of it in those two
Speaker 1: thousand finals. But uh, um, the microwave so obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: like I was a kid in I watched the series,
Speaker 1: but I didn't have it under a true understanding for
Speaker 1: what I was watching. H the microwave. Vinnie Johnson was
Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic in that series. Um, But what what also
Speaker 1: leads me to I had no idea that Bill Lambier
Speaker 1: could could shoot it so well from deep because, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, I always just saw him as
Speaker 1: a bruiser. In one game of those finals, he makes
Speaker 1: either six or eight threes, like like he he was
Speaker 1: going off. It was actually one of the games that
Speaker 1: they know that the only game that they lost in
Speaker 1: the series. But yeah, no, um, I love you know
Speaker 1: your standout performances. Again, of course we know Jordan was
Speaker 1: in uble in ninety three and we can go, you
Speaker 1: know with the bigger guys. But that's why I let
Speaker 1: in with awesome Crozier, because you know what, sometimes the
Speaker 1: other guys need that love, not to men. Robert Ory
Speaker 1: played that entire series after Game one with a hairline
Speaker 1: fractury in his back. What oh man, what a time,
Speaker 1: what a time back in those days? All right? And
Speaker 1: last last question, am I am I wrong in thinking
Speaker 1: like this is unique? I probably am. I think we
Speaker 1: tend to remember the finals based on like who want
Speaker 1: it right, and so like we might miss out on
Speaker 1: some amazing performances by the team that didn't end up
Speaker 1: pulling it through. But like, do you feel like this
Speaker 1: year's Finals is unique in the sense that like the
Speaker 1: Celtics are like it had. Do you have another example
Speaker 1: of a team where like the team that is winning
Speaker 1: the series doesn't seem like they have the highest high
Speaker 1: point you know what I mean? Yeah, you know, that's
Speaker 1: a tough one. It's a really good question that, Um,
Speaker 1: it's tough. For whatever reason, twenty eleven still stands out
Speaker 1: to me in that and that's not and that's not
Speaker 1: taking anything away from that Maverick squad because they were
Speaker 1: you know, they were fantastic when they needed to be.
Speaker 1: But you know, given the way that those fourth quarters
Speaker 1: went for Lebron obviously, you know I would usually hesitate
Speaker 1: to bring that up, but hey, I feel like he's
Speaker 1: made up for that, you know, since then. But given
Speaker 1: the way that he's had a pretty good run. Yeah right, yeah,
Speaker 1: you heard, you heard of him. Yeah yeah, But there
Speaker 1: were those flashes in that series of like what Miami
Speaker 1: was about to do exactly, and for whatever reason they were,
Speaker 1: they weren't able to put it together enough and you know,
Speaker 1: end up losing that series, even though you know on
Speaker 1: paper you definitely definitely would have all gone into that
Speaker 1: series saying like, Okay, they're expected to win it, right well, Jabari,
Speaker 1: such a pleasure having you on, uh your own show. Uh,
Speaker 1: Miles and Jacko, thank you for coming on the Friends
Speaker 1: of Robert Ry podcast. Thank you for having me, guys,
Speaker 1: I really do appreciate it. All right. So by the
Speaker 1: time you listen to this game six might be in
Speaker 1: the books, the season might be in the books. Next
Speaker 1: week's episode, we will know who won, and uh we'll
Speaker 1: have more on that, then more Adam McKay plug, more
Speaker 1: cramming in things about how shots were from so far.
Speaker 1: We will be back next week, so we'll talk to
Speaker 1: you then and keep your eyes trained on the final
Speaker 1: Bye bye