The Rich Eisen Show Basketball Podcast #21. Ja Morant dominating, Ja or Luka, 76ers-Heat, Celtics-Bucks, Giannis not in his prime yet, HBO's Winning Time episode #9
The Rich Eisen Show
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4.3 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, what's up, everybody? Welcome back. It's the Rich Eisen show basketball podcast. |
| 0:09.7 | We are in the thick of it. Round two is going strong East and West Conference semi-finals. |
| 0:15.9 | Let's just get right into it, guys, because last night, John Morant, we had been talking |
| 0:19.6 | about him kind of throughout the year. Adam TJ, what's up, fellas? We've been talking |
| 0:26.7 | about John Morant, and having a great year. He had a great, you know, borderline kind |
| 0:31.8 | of MVP type year, but then he missed a lot of time. And TJ, as you pointed out, the Grizzlies |
| 0:37.6 | were something like 17 and two or something. Oh, no, they were like 22 and three or something. |
| 0:42.1 | Yeah, they had a phenomenal record kind of without him, which, which hurt his case. He's |
| 0:45.8 | probably not going to finish in the top five, but he is raising his level and his superstar |
| 0:52.4 | status. He was most improved player in the league this year, which something, you know, a lot |
| 0:57.4 | of guys will bronc kind of tweeted last night took Umbridge with because he was already considered |
| 1:03.0 | a great player, and then he's having a great year. But, you know, I think he kind of went |
| 1:07.3 | from good to great, which, you know, you do improve in a sense there in that. But last night, |
| 1:13.4 | what John Morant did last night, to even the series against Golden State, it's the stuff |
| 1:18.0 | of legends. It's the time you become an all time, all time great. You do it in the playoff. |
| 1:23.5 | You do it when the whole basketball watching world is, is tuning in. And to throw in 47, |
| 1:31.0 | he did it way down the stretch. We saw how he closed out the Timberwolves. I just can't say enough |
| 1:37.7 | about him. It's so fun to watch. And the league is in such good hands with all these young players. |
| 1:43.4 | Adam, what did you see from John last night? Are you like me? Are you superstar status? |
| 1:47.5 | Is he top 10 now? Yeah, John has arrived on the national level. You know, Memphis throughout |
| 1:53.0 | the season, they didn't get too much shine. They weren't really known in terms of a TV audience, |
| 1:58.6 | not a lot of people watch them. And he's had to show in a big playoff game that he is that guy. |
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