The Bucks' Adjustments, Kawhi Leonard Speculation, and Late First-Round Sleepers

The Mismatch

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🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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KOC and Verno start by discussing the adjustments the Bucks have made to tie the series (1:25). Then they discuss why they think Giannis doesn't appear to get the same hype from his peers that other players get (23:30). Then they talk about Kawhi Leonard's future with Clippers after his knee injury and rumored unhappy experience with the Clippers medical staff (42:18). They wrap up by talking about a couple of potential late first-round prospects in Ayo Dosunmu and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl (49:10). Check out The Ringer's NBA Draft Guide. Hosts: Chris Vernon and Kevin O’Connor Production Assistant: Isaiah Blakely Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Nobody knows what's going on, but if you watch the Olympics, we just turn on our TVs and become obsessed with sports
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0:12.5	I'm your host Roger Sherman. Each day during the Tokyo Olympics, I'll tell you about a different sport, athlete or storyline
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0:26.6	So you know exactly how to watch the Olympics
0:42.6	Welcome to the mismatch. I'm Chris Vernon. Join me. See does every Friday from the Ringer.com
0:46.9	It's Kevin O'Connor aka Kevin Obama Kevin O'Connor aka Kevin O' Climor Kevin O'Cannabis Kevin O'Candyland
0:52.6	Kevin O'Camera Kevin O'Killian
0:55.3	Hello, Bruno. What up? How you doing? We have a very good MBA finals going on. Yeah, we do.
1:03.2	Two two. Yeah, I'm actually glad that this is one of the only pods that we have done that is not a instant reaction show.
1:14.7	So we've had a little time to think about what we've witnessed through the first four games of the series.
1:21.3	And one of my first thoughts was it was one of the pods last week. I believe it was after game two.
1:28.6	And I said, we're going to be careful this time because we know the way this goes.
1:34.4	They're going to walk into a hornet's nest in Milwaukee. Milwaukee very well may play very well.
1:39.6	Drew holiday won't be like this. Chris Middleton won't be like this.
1:43.5	But then everybody's going to turn and as soon as they win a couple games, going to be like,
1:47.2	oh, is Milwaukee figured him out now and what's wrong with this guy and what's wrong with this guy?
1:53.2	And that's just the nature of reacting to a game at a time that being said, after four games with the
2:03.9	way that they played out. And we got a very, very close one last night. I don't have,
2:12.7	I mean, this doesn't, this doesn't make for a great opinion based stuff, but I don't have some
2:18.1	intensely strong opinion on who has the advantage right now within the series. And I think if we
2:26.8	would have done the pod last night, it's more likely that we would have been all in on Milwaukee
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