#119: Kidd out-coaches Monty & the Playoff MVP
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Thinking Basketball
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🗓️ 17 May 2022
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We look ahead to the Conference Finals, but first looking back to the Mavs and Celtics victories, Phoenix's inability to adjust to Dallas's counters, the importance of having multiple creators on the floor in the playoffs against these defensive tactics, and the Playoff MVP of the first 2 rounds. Signup with the code THINKING BASKETBALL at sportsbusinessclassroom.com for $300. With Cody Houdek @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball
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| 0:00.0 | Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben. |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome back to the Conference. |
| 0:05.0 | My name is Ben. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome back to the conference finals. We've made it. |
| 0:16.7 | Cody, it was a scintillating and sensational conference semi-finals. We just wrapped up over the weekend we're recording this on Monday |
| 0:25.8 | so yesterday we had two game sevens two other series wrapped up in six games last week the final four is set and before we get to your emotional |
| 0:35.9 | state after the Milwaukee Bucks valiantly went down in seven games against the Boston Celtics. We'll talk a little bit about those series and look forward. I just want a level set for everyone listening right now that the |
| 0:50.5 | 2022 NBA champion will either be the or once again the Golden State Warriors |
| 1:03.7 | kind of an incredible thing that I don't think we're going to internalize |
| 1:07.8 | until we get closer to the finals. |
| 1:09.4 | It's not going to be the Lakers, it's not going to be the Super Team Clippers, it's not going to be your |
| 1:14.0 | box repeating again, it's not going to be the Super Team Brooklyn Nets. |
| 1:17.6 | Am I forgetting any other, other, the Philadelphia 76ers with Hardin and Bead, it's not going to be any of those teams |
| 1:24.0 | it's going to be the Celtics heat mabs or warriors yeah that's pretty incredible and I think the one thing that didn't |
| 1:32.3 | disappoint that I've been thinking about for the last like five months now is like these |
| 1:37.4 | Semi-finals are going to be incredible like you looked at the top eight standings like there's no way that this shakes out in a disappointing fashion and it it it lift up to it it lift up to its own hype |
| 1:46.8 | so I'm really excited that we got to see that and I really wonder if you were to like take all of the bets like |
| 1:51.6 | mid-season for who's gonna win the championship like what all of the bets like mid-season for who is going to win the |
| 1:53.0 | championship like what slice of the pie included these four teams like is it even |
| 1:56.9 | 50% of all bets included these four I'd be really interested to see that yeah that's a good |
| 2:01.9 | point the the narrative machine is going to be |
| 2:04.8 | working overtime in a few weeks because as we've discussed many times and my work |
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