It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast on the Mike Francesa channel,

on the BetRivers Network, on YouTube, on this Wednesday morning as we delve into the NBA playoffs.

Now, listen, these playing games, like last night, although the Memphis game came down to the finish,

and it was amazing if you were up watching it, which I was, that they could not inbound the ball.

I mean, think about it.

Think about everything you go through in the season.

And then not being able down three five point four

seconds left you are still in it you've overcome everything you had overcome in the game

the ankle stuff with morant and everything else.

You're down three.

You don't know if Golden State's going to get a chance to foul.

Now, you know, you're not going to just run an indiscriminate foul because if you do

when someone gets the shot up, you can lose the game.

So you're going to get a shot here to tie the game, and they can't, they get a five count.

I mean, inconceivable to me that how many times you go through any NBA players' playbook,

you'll see V-O-B plays diagrams which is baseline out of bounds side out of

bounds this was a side out of bounds situation 5.4 left they can't get the ball in bounds they have to

foul curry uh he got the ball both times when he had to get the ball. He was ridiculous down the stretch of the game.

You know, Butler was unconscious doing what he did.

And then late in the game, Curry goes off.

And then, of course, if you foul him, you know, it's automatic.

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