NBA Finals Preview: The Road to the Finals for the Celtics and Mavs
The Young Man and the Three
ThreeFourTwo Productions | Wondery
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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This is a bonus episode of The Old Man and the Three brought to you by BMW.
On this episode of The Old Man and The Three, JJ Redick and Tommy Alter preview the 2024 NBA Finals between the Dallas Mavericks (Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving) and the Boston Celtics (Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown). They discuss how the Mavs turned their season around at the trade deadlines, how the Kyrie Irving trade paid off, and the list of things that went right this season. They also talk about the Celtics past success and how that plays into their current expectations the roles of each player on the Celtics, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Old Man of the Three is presented by BMW. |
| 0:03.6 | Don't settle for good when you can have the ultimate, BMW, the ultimate driving machine. |
| 0:11.6 | This road to the finals bonus episode is presented by BMW, the ultimate driving machine |
| 0:18.7 | Tommy. |
| 0:19.7 | We are finally here. |
| 0:20.7 | It has been a long NBA season and awesome NBA season. You think about all the different |
| 0:27.2 | moments from the playoffs, from the regular season. They've all gotten us to this point, which is a Boston Celtics, Dallas Mavericks, |
| 0:35.4 | NBA finals matchup. I want to talk the road to the finals for both of these |
| 0:41.0 | teams, which team do you want to start with? |
| 0:44.0 | I want to start with Dallas, because this is a question I was thinking about earlier this morning |
| 0:48.0 | I was going to ask you, |
| 0:49.0 | at what point in this season, and you've said to me off-air air you've said to me in March or |
| 0:54.9 | whatever you like this team can go to the finals but at what point specifically in the |
| 0:58.8 | season were you like oh I actually think that this is a possibility. |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah, all right. |
| 1:04.0 | So I'll tell you this, I remember a game we did in Miami, watching them play that game in person, confirmed everything I had felt in watching them |
| 1:22.4 | in film preparing for that game and everything I had |
| 1:25.0 | seen in watching them in film preparing for that game and everything I'd seen in watching them over the month of March. |
| 1:29.0 | And that was they have like a real identity built around an offense where they give the keys to their two stars. |
| 1:38.8 | The role players don't have any sort of issue with touches, shots, whatever. |
| 1:45.0 | It's like, we know our role, we're gonna buy in, |
| 1:47.8 | and then they had a real, really incredible defense. |
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