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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Tatum’s 50 and PGA Picks With Joe House, Plus Dirk Nowitzki on Jokic, Luka, 2011, and Much More

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.430.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Joe House to discuss the Wizards’ loss to the Celtics in the play-in tournament, Jayson Tatum’s 50-point game, the anticipated Lakers-Warriors matchup, most fun play-in tournament outcomes, the upcoming PGA championship, and more (2:30). Then Bill talks with NBA champion Dirk Nowitzki about NBA playoffs stories, the 2011 NBA Champion Dallas Mavericks, Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic, Brooklyn Nets head coach Steve Nash, and much more (50:30). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Dirk Nowitzki, Joe House Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:17.4

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0:27.0

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0:43.0

So there you go. Coming up, Joe Hassan, I'm going to talk about day one of the playing games, we're going to do some PGA championship bets and a whole bunch more taping this that part late night. And then

0:53.8

Derktowickie Hall Famer, one of my favorites came out for an hour to talk basketball and Luca and 2011 and a whole bunch of other things. So good podcast ahead. First, our friends from ProJep.

1:24.8

All right. We are taping this at his 830 Pacific time on Tuesday night. Just watch both playing games.

1:33.6

We're a little lacking. I still like the playing concept. We're not here with drunk house. We're here with soberhouse. Joe House is here. His team just rolled over to my team, which is really bad because my team has spent most of the season rolling over. But the Celtics advance. They beat the Wizards. Jason Tatum.

1:51.3

50 points. You and I both had bets. There were fandal odds. Different ones. It was it was points rebounds and assists was like 45. His point total straight up. I think was 32 32 and a half. I jumped on that. You jumped on points rebounds.

2:06.3

The bottom line is the Wizards had nobody to guard Jason Tatum. So you had to outscore us and you have Westbrook. We'll get into that. I don't know what happened with him. And then Biel. He was 10 for 25. He was, I would say 65% of a normal Bradley Biel. And that was the real reason you lost. You didn't have the guy to match.

2:27.6

Jason Tatum on a hot night. I think if you're healthy, it's a little bit of a different game. But what were you expecting going into this? Because you knew you had Biel at like two thirds.

2:36.6

Well, that that's the whole breakdown. That's the whole analysis. As you mentioned, the pregame is Tatum's the best guy on the floor. So the Celtics best chance to win is Tatum taking over the game.

2:51.6

There's no doubt for sure 100% Wizards cannot stop Tatum. I bet both that the over on the point total over 32 and a half. And I jumped away in on the over for. I think it was 45 and a half on combined points rebounds and assists.

3:08.6

Absolutely. Giant winners. But you know, the thing that was going to offset the impact of Tatum was going to be the combination of Westbrook and Biel and something's wrong with Westbrook.

3:22.6

So it's like the 65% of Biel is maybe the ceiling with the hurt hamstring. So it means lots of pressure on Westbrook to deliver what he'd been doing over the past six weeks, which is a combination of him scoring his own points and getting, you know, 12 to 15 assists. And that just didn't happen.

3:45.6

He had 14 rebounds. Only had five assists. He was six for 18, 0 for four from three, eight from the line, but didn't didn't have the usual kind of menacing angry over competitive spirit. I had two different friends who don't know each other.

4:00.6

Text to be there in the game and asked is Westbrook kind of trying to steer this so he gets to be in the one eight matchup against the sixers like half joking, but I was like, oh, maybe that's it. Maybe he's not sick or injured.

4:15.6

He just doesn't want to play Brooklyn because he knows they would get their ass kicked by Brooklyn. It was a weird game because as you said, Westbrook was a man out of mission for two and a half months here.

4:24.6

I assume he had the flu or he had something wrong or something I think that because he didn't look like himself with that said, what the hell is Scott Brooks doing?

4:35.6

Hey, welcome to the Scott Brooks experience, baby. This is Scott Brooks in prime time for the whole country to see any minute that Alex Len plays in a professional basketball game is a lost minute.

4:51.6

There's no explanation for Alex Len being on a basketball court in a game of any significance or consequence whatsoever. He played.

5:01.6

I think he played 12 minutes and was minus 15. What was it? Tell me yeah, 12 minutes two for eight minus 15 and Lopez who just for Lopez and is Smith always killed the Celtics. I have no idea why.

5:15.6

Lopez only played 16 minutes. I have no idea why he didn't play like 35. Then is Smith. He actually wrote a little bit. He played 26. He had 17 and eight. There was a stat that the Celtics were only one of three teams that is Schmidt averages double figures against.

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