It's game five of the Western Conference finals. The Warriors are back home in the friendly confines of Chase Center looking to close out the Dallas Maverick. Stub Nation. You're hoping for that. And I have one of the brightest minds when it comes to basketball, Mark Jones, play-by-play broadcaster for ESPN and play-by-play broadcaster for the Sacramento Kings. He's going to join me to talk about the Golden State Warriors. And if they make the finals, he'll talk about their opponent who's been covering extensively

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Sir, it is always such a pleasure to have you on the program.

You mentioned that even though you're covering the Heat Celtic series doing play-by-play for ESPN radio

with the great Doris Burke, you've been watching this series as well. Give us your thoughts

so far. Has it surprised you? Has it gone the way you expected? What are your thoughts on the series

as we approach game five? Yeah, I'm kind of thinking that this is going to chalk the way that I

thought it might.

You know, I figured Dallas would be able to get a game somewhere along the line because, you know, when you get to this point, you've proven that you're one of the elite teams in the NBA.

But it's the gentleman's sweep, I think, coming up a little bit later, winning in five games.

The thing that really Cyrus jumps off the page for me in this series is just how well Mike Brown has skiing defensively for Dallas,

you know, throwing a bunch of different looks at the Mavericks, being able to slow Luca down. I mean, you can point

to the fact, yeah, he had 40 in the last game or whatever, but those were all empty calories,

as far as I'm concerned. They were not 40 impactful points. You look as absurd as that sounds.

I think if you look at the job that Andrew wiggins has done that's

another one of the major storylines for me his length his ability to play on the ground stay on

the ground move his feet stay in front of luka and and make luka think you can see

luka donchich thinking out there You can feel him thinking out there.

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