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Okay, let's go. Yeah, my day. My day. Yeah, my day. Welcome to part of my take presented by Draft Kings, the crown is yours today is Friday May 8th. And boys, I think the Lakers are in a lot of trouble. We just watched the end of this game. The thunder are so goddamn good. Credit to the Lakers for being up at half, but that third quarter, they just shade and even play basically in the third quarter. You got that technical. They just ratchet it up the defense and defense leading to offense. Jared McCain just whapping threes

would never have traded that guy. I don't know, PFT, like that. We said this before, it's not shocking because it's like, we knew the thunder were that much better than the Lakers, but when we had a half time when the Lakers were up, one, you're like, oh, maybe, I don't know. Nope, nope, 18 point win. The thunder are so goddamn good. they can do it.

They have guys after guys after guys.

They just basically when they need to get going,

they'll throw the throw the torture chamber at you the throw crew So at you they'll get it going on the defensive end then get it going on the offensive end and there's nothing you can do about it They were cruising congratulations to the Lakers for for winning a half though I feel like that might be as good as it gets. It doesn't look like Lucas coming back. It was, even when the Lakers were up momentarily, it felt like they were getting every single break. Everything was going their way. And then, yeah, they're just too deep. The Thunder's way, way, way too deep. Chad had a monster night on defense. Cruiser always just scrappy playing great defense and, there's really nothing that they could do. Right. The link is done. It's like they should be allowed to give up. I would not hold it against LeBron's legacy if he did the fake injury right now. Yeah. I mean, it's like you just look at what the thunder can do where they just have so many good players. And Shay, S.J. has not had an SGA type game yet where he's, you know, making everything in sight and scoring 35 points, but it doesn't matter because in walks, Jared McCain and Kason Wallace and they go, I think they went five or six for eight from three. Like it's just how do you stop that when you have that many guys on the bench that can give you good minutes and their defense is always so connected and they play so well and harass everyone and everything feels difficult. I just, yeah, the thunder are just that good. I am also, this is the part of the playoffs where people start complaining about flopping all that stuff. I'm not going to, I'm just going to respect the thunder greatness because that's what I feel

like when I'm watching this team.

I get it.

There's some things that you might not like. If you're watching this team play defense and then have have guy after guy hit big shot, you have to take a step back and be like that. They're just a great, great basketball team and there's not a lot of answers for a team

like the Lakers who are under manned and injured and they just don't have enough. I mean, yeah, tonight they didn't need to flop. The flops weren't necessary. It was just good basketball. They just dominated with good basketball. Had a lot of guys off the bench scoring points. So you mentioned Jared McCain. That guy's really good. Really good. That guy. That's a guy you don't let out the building. If you get him

in inside your building, agreed. A great, a great, a lot of down guy. And if you do get him out, you get a King's ransom form, which I'm sure I'm sure Philadelphia got a decent amount of picks for him. Yeah. Jared McCain and AOE. That's what you got to say about the trades that happen in what?

Oh, you want me to say it again?

I'll.

Yeah.

We didn't say his name right, but you know what I was. Yeah, dude, the polls were trying to lose. So you just trade young guys who can go for 43 in a playoff game. Well, he was gonna, he was gonna be a free agent. I mean, the polls are, the polls are not coming. Why Why are you making about the bulls are non-conventional? You're trying to talk on me. You did the exact same thing. No, the bulls are non-competitive franchise that is a joke of a franchise run by absolute morons and fools. The six are trying to win a title and they have a envy. No, no one say He just thought the fear of a came to a good team. Really good tonight and he was a guy that should have been a rookie of the year.

Just don't throw stones at class houses.

I'm not. No one saying that. I just thought the fear of came to a good team. Really good tonight.

And he was a guy that should have been a rookie of the year. Just don't throw stones at the glasses. I'm not. We also got four second round picks for it. Dummy. We got four picks total. What picks? A first and then two and three seconds. I would rather have four seconds personally. That way you can focus all your scouts on second-round talent as opposed to having Like now you're spread all over the board you have to have guys that are scouting top 10 picks do that's this is a reach max I look and I Yes, it is because the the situations are completely different in the fact that Jared McCain could help the sixers right this second. I know they were trying to tank and trying to finally lose and try to clean house and everything. I'll defend you, you said it at the time, you're like, why did the Sixers make this trade? Because the Sixers needed to make this trade. No Philly fans wanted to make this trade. Nick Nurse wouldn't play him in the first half of the year and nobody knew why. He would get like six minutes of game for a team that had no bench. Like, I get there was a lot of guards that were like, there was a log jam at guards and it was tough to get through minutes around. But if a guy is that good, like, if the thunder can find minutes for him, the Philadelphia fucking 76ers can find minutes for him. Agreed. And right now we're going with a seven man lineup at best. And we have no scoring off the bench. We have one guy you can score off the bench. Yeah. Quentin Grimes is the only guy you can score off the bench. And it's like once every three games he gives us something. Jared McCain's coming in here. The past two games, he's been, it's frustrating.

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