Game 1 Finals Recap | Giannis Returns, CP3 Shreds Bucks Defense, The Perfect Anthem

No Dunks

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🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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On Wed.'s ep. of No Dunks, the guys discuss Chris Paul leading the Suns to an NBA Finals Game 1 win, how Giannis looked after returning from injury, why the Suns' pick-and-roll game might be impossible to stop, Ayton's two-way dominance, unheralded roleplayers, and why Holiday needs to play infinitely better. That, plus up or down on Judith Hill's national anthem, Silver saying the play-in tournament is here to stay, Kevin Love getting a Team USA spot, and more. Subscribe to No Dunks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/NoDunksInc

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0:00.0	Good Good. Good morning, Swin'UKW!
0:26.7	And welcome to the No Dunks podcast on the Athletic Network.
0:30.2	It's Wednesday, July 7th.
0:32.7	I'm Jay Skeets.
0:33.3	Rolling with a homie, Tass Melis.
0:35.3	What's up, everybody?
0:36.4	Got my Top Shot Hot Boy, Trey Kirby. Hey-yo. Hey, yo. The International Man of Mystery, taking it to the Max, Leellis. Friends. Finally, making the magic happen. It's JD. Hello. There he is. Here we are. Shout out to the stream team joining us live right now on YouTube. We see you. Please smash that like button. Leave your comments below the video. And if you haven't already subscribed to No Dunks on YouTube, keep sending in your questions and comments for the next beach step in podcast. Email them in. Best way to do it. No Dunks at theathletic.com. And finally, go grab your no dunks merch over at no dunks.com. All right, right into it here. We got the up-down report a little bit later. But NBA finals, game one recap, that's what we're doing. CP3 carries the suns pass. Yonis, yes, he's back, baby. and the Bucks in the NBA finals opener, Tass.
1:29.9	Get us started.
1:30.7	What was a big takeaway from that game one, Phoenix Sun's victory?
1:34.1	First thing to take away is that basketball is freaking amazing.
1:38.1	Second thing to take away is that if the Bucks didn't have Yanis Tets to Kupo in this series,
1:43.1	would have been a quick win for the Phoenix Suns.
1:45.3	And it was great to see Yannis back looking freaking great.
1:50.7	So the Sun's got to feel good about winning game one.
1:53.2	But at the same time, the fact that Yannis came in there
1:56.9	and looked pretty freaking normal after hyper extending his knee. We all saw that incredible
2:03.3	block that everybody started comparing to LeBron's chase down block in game seven of the Warriors
2:08.2	finals. What was more impressive to me was the way he looked like the strongest, toughest
2:14.3	player on the floor at times pushing the son's biggest biggest player, D'Andre, 8, and away
2:18.9	from the hoop in that first half when he had that push off, get off me, two-hand jam.
2:24.8	They won the minutes that Yanis Stet de Kupo was on the floor, surprisingly.
2:28.3	Milwaukee Bucks did.
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