Chaos in Minny, MVP Narrative Switch, Winning Without Stars + Tatum's Rise & Bucks Trouble
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🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Rundown:
Memphis and Minnesota is chaos
Favorite things: Rudy Gobert bee sting "There’s a few things. It’s good for the environment, it’s good for the landscape, the flowers, the fruits. And I love honey, so I always wanted to have my own. It’s great. Sometimes there’s some casualties."
Draymond passing the ball off guys heads
Mutual respect in the playoffs Dallas/Phoenix similarities and differences winning without their stars
Matchups
Players who have changed our perspectives
Tatum is a dude
Jalen Brunson broke Utah’s defense
Herb Jones may have breakout potential
Brandon Ingram as a number 1 option
Can you trust D’Angelo Russell?
Donovan Mitchell was bad Steph back?
Jaren Jackson is a foul machine
KAT complains too much
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show Monday through on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:12.4 | This is Nerdrish, you wrote, with your host Dave Dufour. |
| 0:16.0 | With Mo DeKiel. |
| 0:17.2 | Are you ready to be entertained? |
| 0:19.0 | And Seth Part Now. |
| 0:28.5 | Hello and welcome to the Athletic Ghibia show. |
| 0:30.4 | It's Friday. |
| 0:33.3 | I'm Dave DeFlor, and that means it's NERder. |
| 0:38.6 | She wrote, those voices that you heard on the other side, that's Seth and Mo. up guys welcome back what's up Dave I can't contain my side is I can't contain myself I know we've been |
| 0:45.1 | laughing too hard in the pre-show we're too ready um man the playoff the first round almost over |
| 0:51.0 | the nerder series of course which has been the dumbest series to watch |
| 0:55.1 | the only one that's still left hey look have you guys seen two dumber teams play against |
| 1:01.0 | each other and and had it be this fun is hmmmphis hasn't struck me as a as a dumb team all |
| 1:10.1 | year i think that they are they've gotten sucked into the vortex of Minnesota. |
| 1:16.3 | It's chaos. |
| 1:16.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.9 | Yes and no. |
| 1:20.3 | The Jaron Jackson foul issue has always been a thing and that's just kind of got highlighted |
| 1:25.9 | by adding more stupidity to the other side of the |
| 1:28.8 | Can I drop my stat again here? |
| 1:29.7 | I've tweeted about this. |
| 1:32.6 | I'm recognizing the reasons why Memphis doesn't want to play Stephen Adams in this series. |
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